if you're lucky your headphones will break near the plug. I had a pair of Bose earbuds that broke right up next to the casing on the bud itself - no fixing that. And I treated those things like a glass baby.

that seems like a pretty good advantage to living on the west coast. I know it would be a lot easier to dvr a 4:30 game than it would be to stay up for those 10:30 games or record it and get up at 3am to watch it before everyone at work ruins it.

as some people pointed out, your local NHL team is blacked out on gamecenter and if your team's game is nationally televised on NBC Sport Network or just regular ol' NBC, it will be blacked out on gamecenter and after round 1 of the playoffs all games are exclusively on the NBC family of networks. So as much as I've…

you're right. It didn't click that you're using the actual physical catalog.

but they don't know the size of your room. How can the app tell how big your room is? If we know the couch is 6 feet wide that's great. But when we go to place it in the room - am I zoomed in? am I pointing the phone/tablet at a 12 foot wall or a 25 foot wall? Are my windows 3 feet tall or 5 feet tall? There's…

but you need something for scale. If there was something in the room of a pre-determined size the app could use that to decide how big the ikea bookshelf or couch should be.

they just need an AR card or something similar in order to get the scale correct. That's kind of the biggest point of doing something like this. It really doesn't matter what a king size bed frame will look like in my hallway if it won't fit in it.

watching netflix huh? ;)

yeah, although if you're going to spend a lot of time downtown in a place like Chicago, you might be better off not having to worry about what to do with a car. If you're doing touristy stuff you can probably get away without a car.

Detroit to Chicago(Midway) $233 was the cheapest round-trip fare for the middle of August. Mileage by car = 269 miles *2 = 538. Assuming you're driving a big comfortable vehicle that gets 15 miles to the gallon at $3.80/gallon =$136. That's assuming you get a ride to the airport in Detroit and don't have to pay…

I would almost always rather drive than fly. If you're flying more than 500 miles it's going to basically take the whole day anyway once you factor in airport, parking and security hassles. On top of that if you don't live close to your departure airport you have to factor that in - it's even worse if the airport is…

Re: patience From a Windows POV write caching should be automatically disabled on removable USB drives. You can check by going in to device manager and under "disk drives" expand to find your USB drive (make sure it is plugged in) right-click on it and click "properties" then click the "policies" tab and under…

I'm always at work, so they don't get to spend any time with me

Is there not an app that will change your mac address? If you could change your mac address at specified or random intervals, you could still use wifi but not have to worry about these kinds of things.

correct me if I'm wrong, but when an SSD does actually fail, it fails to WRITE not READ, so there really is no downside to having an SSD other than $/GB which is becoming less of an issue as prices fall and capacities rise.

as a headshaver I like the Gilette Fusion Proglide. One of the nicest things is the little razor on the edge works great for getting the stubborn hairs on the top side of where your ear attaches to your head. They're expensive, but I use mine for a long time before changing blades

Every month she needs to clean out the Clog Catcher .... For the most part this simply involves washing the device.

thank you. It would seem to make more sense to hold on to that $10/month and have your own insurance fund. Assuming you can wait more than 6 months for your next phone.

I thought I read/heard somewhere that it was $x/month for the privilege of being in this program, but now I don't see anything about that. Am I wrong?

am I the only one who hovered over the image expecting alt-text?