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I'm a big fan of the LX3. The silver one ls less popular and $100 less. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CCNDK4/

Those are photos of genuine watches. Caveat Emptor. And no, I won't email you. We're a community here, not an answering service.

Yeah, I said it first. Firsties! Dibs! Bagsies!

I've just archived 100GB of photos off my HDD as I only had 2GB free. I need the 320GB I've got. I shoot in RAW with a 10mp camera, and I take a lot of photos. Besides, the donkey porn you lent me is on an external drive.

Cost, and the fact I can only fit one drive in a MacBook. Realistically, I can either buy a 256GB SSD for

Answered next door, but here's the answer for the record: Those are for the 45.5mm, but 42184ST is the part you want.

ETA will still sell complete movements to anyone. It's ebauches they'll stop selling.

What's DCC? Some CAD thing? Do you mean digital content creation? Autocad works very well on VMWare/Parallels, as does 3DSMax. Maya is OSX-native. Still, if you're at the bleeding edge, you're better off on a Windows PC.

It'll get to the point it doesn't matter. We're not there yet, but I can see the day coming.

Yet never Abby. Mmm ... Abby.

Ploprofs are another that's been in demand since forever.

Nicely done!

In case I've forgotten, I'd like to thank the likes of Ubi (a Radiomir crystal two years ago), Chieftang (A crystal and an o-ring), Justasgood (stuff), Vlydog (you know what), Reg (more stuff) and many, many more in this community for their unending generosity.

I like this advice. Unfortunately, I can't follow it myself as I need gigabytes over speed.

Have you bought it yet?

An unusual choice for me today. Having been bitten with mods/repairs recently (thanks, Ubi) I decided to pull this one out of the drawer and have another go at fixing it before selling it as parts. It's nearly working properly, and now just needs adjusting for beat-rate as I'm pretty sure that's an issue with it. It's not keeping the best of time and the jitters on the second hand may be drag, they may be low-power from bad timing. I've got graphite ready for a further fix if needed. No new photos, I'm afraid.

Doesn't matter, as long as the camera doesn't move.

Very nice. The pics are a bit big, but worth the effort reducing them to size.

Crap, mine are broken too. Oh, poo.

That's a Microsoft issue. DX isn't open to license. Will OpenGL and OpenCL do? PS2? What that intentional? Yes, Apple make two-button mice.

Seriously, take it.

A BOB strap would do. http://www.waccex.de/catalog/index.php?cPath=149

It's not quite ignorance is bliss, as I consider myself quite knowledgeable on PC internals (I built my first Pentium 2 machine back in the 90s, used a pencil on my AMDs until the AXIA-Y came out, overclocked TBirds, Semprons, etc., balancing the voltage and clocks) but there came a point where I simply didn't want to have to open my PC a few times a week. Coupled with the fact my job went from managing 200 desktops to managing ultra-stable servers, I just found the Mac was a simpler solution that didn't demand TLC to get on with the job at hand. Coupled with the constant expenditure for the latest and greatest, the "building your own is cheaper" fallacy became apparent after a while. I switched to console gaming around the same time when I realised getting the OCed rig to perform 2fps more was the game I was playing, and not the actual game. When you load 3dmark more than Grand Prix Legends (or UT, Q4, etc) then you know it's time to change the paradigm. Also, you don't hear about many Windows laptop users complaining about the lack of ability to overclock their CPU or swap out the GPU, do you. Like I say, chopping PCs was a phase. I hope many people out there still enjoy it, but I feel I've outgrown it.

It's a discussion that's been going on since the 19th century about the nature of art. A pile of bricks on a building site is a pile of bricks. A pile of bricks in an art gallery is art. http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/historyhtml/people_public.htm http://www.tommyuk.dk/writing/hypeart/gallery2.htm If you're walking through the Subway, you're simply not in the frame of mind to appreciate the best violinist in the world. You're, by definition, on your way somewhere, and if someone tried to stop you to give you money, you'd probably ignore them and walk on. Would you rather see him perform in the acoustic perfection of a music hall, knowing everyone around you is going to STFU and appreciate it, or would you rather be made late for work and put up with the acoustics of a subway and the pitter-patter of the clodhoppers of your fellow commuters? If you want to hear him, you're going to pay $100.

I've used http://lmgtfy.com/ for a while. It's an excellent resource.