giorgio

Do all links to the bay not work, or is it just the format?

link test:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=260153270906

Forget all the 7750 chronos of course

Hands down, the best rep for under $200:

http://www.silix-prime.com/product.asp?id=1755

thanks for that giorgio how you getting on with the watch ?

Not getting a lot of wrist time, but I have 20 watches already, and they're all having trouble competing with the TT BCE and my (new) daily beater the horrible Colt II automatic that Josh and Andrew sell.

I got my Carrera from Silix. I'm very happy with it and the prices are good (especially if you want the rubber strap, 'cause they have that one for like $200). The only problem with Silix is their service is hit 'n miss. Some people get their watch in a wekk, and others (yours truly) have to wait 28 days between payment and delivery (actual shipping time was 9 days, took 3 weeks to send the watch). If you order from TT, think of the extra cost as "express delivery".

I just got a package from one of the dealers here and he had the tracking number written on the package INSIDE the envelope in black marker. The tracking info showed that it was posted 2 days after I got the number so I think they somehow can get a number before they ship an item (maybe they have electronic scale and software from the shipping company and get a number before the item is picked up?)

In search function enter just "Carrera SS Bracelet" or "How to adjust Carrera SS Bracelet"......all is answered.

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Thanks, that helped. I was getting hundreds of results and my eyes are burning from trying to sift through all the posts thinking maybe someone asked and answered in the middle of a review or something.

Try the search engine for this site, there are a number of posts and explanations on how to get the links out of a Carrera Bracelet.

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Then I must be blind. Of course searching for "Tag Heuer Carrera remove link size bracelet" both here and on google has been rather difficult, and there's no post here called "how to resize your carrera bracelet"

But thanks.

Is there a trick to this? I looked at the pins and can't figure out which way they come out. Neither end looks split, and there are no arrows like there is on most pinned bands. Any help is appreciated.

I'm not sure that a correctly printed subdial and proper crownguards will make that watch. You'll still have the issue of the appearance of a second hand that doesn't function, a constantly running stopwatch, and an extra hand that doesn't do anything. I can't imagine the demand for such a thing would warrant its production.

A gen dial wouldn't solve any spacing issues, the gen uses a 7750 (not sure if it is slightly different) so the sub dials will be positioned the same as the rep.

I think he means the issue with the rings being to thick and touching the 12 and 6 markers where on the gen there's a little space between the rings and the markers.

What I really want to know is, by when we might expect to see a good replication of this watch? By, say, 1st of the year, you think?

If, by good replication you mean running seconds at 6:00 with a chronograph and a countdown timer that's programmed using a rotating bezel complication that's integrated into the movement, I'm going to guess: never.

Some dealers have different versions of the 6 o'clock sub-dial, but are are misprinted either a 1-31 month/calendar or 1-24 day/calendar. The crown guards are also way off; ironic for a Rolex replica, these aren't thick enough. Neither one of these flaws allow this piece to be believable.

...at least the new version has (1) a complication and (2) a connection to yachting

This is what makes this watch completely unrepable:

"oh is that the new Yachtmaster? Cool! How does it work?"

The movement is probably too much for our friendly Chinese engineering squad.

My grandmother was going on about foreign developers setting the fires last month, and I thought she was just going crazy. Seems like there might actually be something to that angle. I hope it's not true and they can get this under control before there are more casualties.

You mean Q-tips? I think guys use those too.

You actualy want one of these?

How is this performed? All I see is:

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nglayout.debug.enable_xbl_forms

Right click, new, integer.

nglayout.initialpaint.delay

set value to 0 (zero)

Speaking about SLOW FEELING... Absolutely nothing feels slower than a Mac.

Sorry, but if it takes 2-3 seconds for a Firefox window to open on a BRAND NEW Mac, this is just SLOW. And Yes, I have enough RAM etc.

Windows XP has a MUCH MUCH MUCH faster feeling. I cant say about Vista, cause I havnt had it on MY iMac so far.

Funny thing, we did a little experiment in Psych about perception. I chose my area of (in)expertise, computers. We found that how long it took for the computer to complete a task had no bearing on the users' perception of speed. The determining factor, rather, was how long it took for something to happen. So if it takes 2 seconds for a window to fully load, but nothing happens in the interim, people perceive it as being slow. Whereas if after 0.75 seconds there is a splash screen that lasts for 0.75 seconds, and the window takes a full second after that to load fully, people reported that it "felt" faster than the first one. As long as it looked like the computer was doing something, people were less impatient.

Bzzzzt. The Pentium (from the Pentium Pro onwards) has a 36-bit memory bus. This is how Linux can address over 4GB on an i686 system.

Hmm, I forgot about the paging address extensions, so I stand corrected. But that means that you need an OS that supports PAE (such, as you pointed out, linux), and hardware that supports this also (not very many motherboards). But if you're motherboard supports more than 4 x 1GB ram, and you have more than 4 GB of ram, then you either already know this or have too much money.

This is my issue. He can't guarantee authenticity.

Fine, whatever. But he knows what he paid for it.

I don't think it is fine. I always hate this story. If you have an $18000 watch, you know whether it's genuine or not. Even if it's a gift. Your GF buys you an AP ROO for your birthday, if she's driving a Bentley GT, it's real, Honda Civic, rep. No guarantee means "I guarantee it's fake".

Ebay doesn't allow disclaimers anyway, even though they seem to ignore complaints about fake watches most of the time, they usually will pull an auction that has a disclaimer if someone complains, but we'll see.

Ebay has a contact block. I can't tell them to file a PP claim.

This one is bothering me. Seems like they don't want people being warned and certainly don't want to have to hire a staff to authenticate auctions so caveat emptor really applies to Ebay purchases.

What I meant was, even if you could get your hands on a dial from a super avenger, and it fit properly (subdial spacing, case size and depth) the movement would be a dead giveaway, as would the brushed case baracelet (though you could polish them), and the hands (they would be silver on the SA). The Super avenger isn't one of the more popular reps so they can be had pretty cheap, so for the trouble you'd go through to get this to look more like a Super Avenger, you might as well just buy one.

Also it's really stupid that windos doesn't use RAM above 4 GB, only if you are using NT or 64bit windows,

It's not a windows problem, it's an X86 issue.

32 bit bus. ₂³²=4 294 967 296

4 294 967 296 / (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = 4 GB

Preventing users without administrative authoritiy from installing software that requires administrative privilege (UAC) is a security feature. If you're browsing pr0n on the web and you get these prompts - you know something's up. It lowers risk factors. The prompts make you aware that something's happeening. This greatly reduces the chances of rogue appz (virus and trojans) from installing themselves on your system without permission.They may be obtrusive, but if you are the admin on your system and do everything correctly you shouldn't need to see them all the time - and won't.

The Phishing filters in IE work well (I tried resopnding to a "your Paypal account has been compromized" email, and was warned about the website when I clicked on it).

The big one is the Bitlocker volume encryption. This is what I was referring to as secure. It prevents people from modifying your data offline (i.e. using a boot disk to bypass the features made available by the operating system to access your data by encrypting the entire volume. It doesn't pretend to do this, it does.

I won't touch DRM because I am in agreement with you there.

Also, on this new Dual Processor (Intel) the machine boots up in 22 seconds. Yes, you read that right, 22 SECONDS! Start your Dell up (any pc with Windows XX), grab a beer, talk to the wife and maybe when you finish doing all of that your Dell, et al, MIGHT be fully booted.

The biggest problem with PC's boot time isn't Windows, but rather the bloatware they come shipped with. Try formatting a PC and installing only the OS. A lot of appz load themselves in startup unnecessarily so you have to figure out what they are and disable them (obviously not user friendly). I'll admit that even my PC doesn't boot in 22 seconds, but it's not 2 minutes either.

I can only reccomend to buy a refurbished (cos cheaper and same warranty) mac book pro - better than anything. Had myself asus, toshiba, acer and dell.

(or macbook if budget is tight).

Macbooks are much more time efficient and use the memory much better. Also tons of very good free apps for mac.

Deskopwise imac is cool but limited to 2Gig memory so eather a quadcore mac pro or a quad core intel (1/2 of a cost)....

Vista is not really good btw. : lot of problems with compatibility...

Although Vista does have its compatibility issues, it is actually an outstanding OS. The security features are great, as well as its memory utilization. The main problem is that it has evolved beyond the current hardware specs, so it will feel slow to anyone who has gotten used to running XP on anything over 2ghz - especially with multiple cores.

I always suggest to friends that they buy refurbished PC's because they can get a lot more system for less money, but only because components are very cheap, so if something fails it can quickly and easily be replaced (like lego). Laptops on the other hand scare me. Much more costly to fix, and not user serviceable. One has to keep in mind that refurbished means something failed out of the box. Manufacturers sometimes cheat and correct these issues by disabling features and lowering timings and operating specs.

I don't know anyone that's willingly switched to Vista and stayed there, for what it's worth.

I agree, neither do I.

Doesn't your Win XP only register 2,94GB of RAM, Giorgio?

BTW I read somewhere that the Core 2 Duo outperforms the first Core Duo with 20-30%.

No, in XP, if you have over 2 gigs of ram it's better to disable the swap file, since the memory limit is 4gb, with no swap file windows uses all 4 gigs. It still doesn't show all because of the memory mapped devices occupying that address space (around 500MB) making it unavailable for RAM.

Definitely Mac. That is, unless you like error messages.

I haven't seen an error message since WinME (on my computer, anyway)

...I don't know a single person who's switched to Apple and ever gone back.

I don't know a single person who's switched to Apple.