Thanks for the tip. My girlfriend watches a lot of our TV show content and stuff, though, and doesn't want to deal with an extra step where we don't have to (i.e. bringing the iPad into the equation where you could just use the remote to navigate the ATV).

I gave up and converted all my media to an iTunes-friendly MP4 format. The Airplay capabilities of the iPad to stream media to the Apple TV (once I jailbroke the iPad so I could enable Airplay on all of the video apps) mean that I can throw just about anything I want onto the big screen simply and easily.

I think one of the important things in all of this, though, is to avoid accruing a lot of "permanent" expenses during the salary climb. I make a lot more money now, but I have only incrementally more fixed bills. I could drive a BMW if I wanted to, but I don't. I could live in a more luxurious home, but I don't.

If you are living in an area where a reasonable home is $100k, then I have to suggest that you could probably make some lifestyle choices that would allow you to save up to make some investments on your salary. I'm paying for two people on a similar amount of money and can pretty easily put away $1000/month with…

I agree, perspective is a funny thing. When I started out, I was happy when I jumped from $12 to $15/hour, and a $40k/year job seemed like a pretty tremendous amount of money.

Individually, $75k is a pretty happy place. Right now, I'm around that range but the household is a bit shy of $100k for two adults (girlfriend in grad school). We are not financially stressed and have the luxury of taking a nice vacation every year, but if we averaged $75k each, it would essentially remove all of the…

If your network cable is a "straight through" cable (i.e. same pinout at both ends), it's unlikely that the cable is the problem.

"Thickness" of the cable is far more likely to vary based on the jacketing the vendor used than any relevant or functional thickness change, like the gauge of the wire.

I agree, but while an appraiser won't value a house too high, the reality is that an appraiser has no vested interest in getting to the lowest price (unlike the buyer or the agents). So, sure, you can get hurt by a valuation but it's also not uncommon for an appraiser to value a house higher than what the market will…

It's amazing how much people get caught up in stuff that's easily fixed. Aside from things like countertops, a surprising number of people have trouble even overlooking wall colors or furniture.

Did you really just say the research isn't accurate because two people who are genetically similar both got Parkinson's?

Maybe some of us have priorities or preferences outside of "get married" or "have kids"?

I've done this twice, one of them to my current girlfriend of almost 9 years. So that was successful.

I have tried to leave reviews more as of late, because I feel as if the quality of online reviews is going down.

I don't think this is for people who don't want to buy spare batteries.

I understand, and that's why I said that I wasn't questioning why Lifehacker was posting this.

It's always a little amazing to me how many "hacks" posted on this site are little more than forcing yourself to exercise self control. Not that Lifehacker shouldn't publish them, more that I can't believe people have so little ability to control themselves.

Well... it depends.

There's some discussion over whether bokeh actually refers to defocused points of light, or just the general defocused area... but to a certain extent, that's a moot point since if you can see anything in the background, by definition those are defocused areas of light (camera sensor captures light, right?).

Um, yay?