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When I was interviewing for a job with a NASA contractor a few months ago, I was reading an annual statement from NASA about commercial products that they helped to innovate or develop. One of them was this. It's an additive for paint that provides some insulation against heat/cold loss. (Here...

The subject says it all. Every year I get totally frustrated by those companies who seem to intentionally wait until the very end of January to send out their W2s and 1099s. (For those not in the U.S., a W2 is the statement that is sent by employers with salary and tax information for the...

Courtesy of CNN Personally, I think that this is a really cool way of watching our DVD collection for times like when we travel. I'm sure that Hollywood's lawyers are already gearing up for a lawsuit.

(I am not submitting this as an official HTF review; however, since I can find no review I decided to give my own personal review. If the admins want to make this an official review, I can modify it later to reflect the same look and feel of other reviews.) I have been a George Carlin fan...

I realize that the Wilhelm scream has become a bit of a staple in the movie industry, but it's use, or overuse IMHO, is really starting to grate on my nerves. I know of at least one instance in "The Two Towers", and I heard it no less than twice in "Return of the King". Then of course we have...

I've been tossing around the idea of an adequate tape backup for about 70 GB of data, but good DLT and DDS-4 drives are bank-breakers (not to mention the cost of the tapes) if you're not an IT shop with a nice budget. So, I'm looking for a more cost-effective solution like a RAID 1 card that...

My house was built in the 1950s, so the fireplace has a design where area surrounding the actual fire area is hollow. The idea is that the fire heats up the surrounding hollow area from which the air is expected to be brought back into the room. The design has a wide, short vent above the...

I'm looking for a PC-based solution to back up my DVD projects and final DVD images that I need to retain. Whereas I have no real problems with going SCSI, I have to get an IDE card anyway, probably ATA-133. (Don't know that I'm willing to jump to serial-ATA at this point.) In total, I'm...

If any of you own or were thinking of getting a Belkin router -- don't. A part of the story from CNet :

I'm trying ("trying" being the key word) to convert some of my laserdiscs to DVD-R, but I want to keep the original audio and commentary tracks intact. To that end, I'm using Pinnacle Impression-DVD Pro. This program is one of the most user-UNfriendliest tools I have ever worked with...

Here a partially-legal/partially-philosophical question. We all know that TV stations have implanted their logo somewhere on the screen, supposedly to make it easy to figure out which channel it is when surfing. (I don't buy that analogy 100%, but I'll let that slide for now.) I know that...

I personally couldn't care less, but I'm sure that some of the "80's flicks" fans will be interested...until you read the last paragraph. As reported on CNN Headline News Entertainment Report, there is a "Sixteen Candles" sequel in the works. The brief statement is that the movie will be...

I'm pretty good with math, but I'll be damned if I can come up with the correct formula for how they figure this out. Any mathematicians out there? http://digicc.com/fido/ The damn thing got me three for three, so there must be some solid number manipulation going on behind it.

I just saw on Headline News that Fox is currently working on a script and that Bruce Willis has agreed to come back as John McClane. IMDb also has something on this as well, although I haven't been able to find any other source or the actual statement by Fox. The title at this point is "Die...

I was at a potential employer's location yesterday (actually, they WILL be my employer if I get my Dept. of Defense clearance :emoji_thumbsup: ) and I saw one of the most incredible screensavers. It was running on a Dell laptop, and was clearly running DirectX or OpenGL. The whole screensaver...

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I did a search, but most of the issues that came up dealt with S-Video vs. component. This one, however, is with S-Video vs. composite. A friend of mine e-mailed this to me, but I don't have an answer.

http://magnatune.com/ Look at what makes them different from the major labels!

I'm currently converting my five-video Danger Mouse series to DVD-R. The first tape that I converted required no fudging of the capture setting. The second tape was unbearably bright where I have to reduce not only the brightness but the contract as well to get the glare down to an acceptable...

I just needed to say that this is pretty cool. I won't watch movies on it since they're most likely going to be butchered pan-and-scan versions, but they're offering a lot of "cable favorites" programming for free. I just watched three episodes of "Ground Force" followed by three of the six...

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/200...=home&SEC=news Yes, there are drawbacks, such as increased bureaucracy, difficulty in enforcement, and that not every spammer will be fined; but the concept of "if you spam, you're in trouble, bar none" is one that needs to be accepted across the board...

My daughter has recently taken a very strong liking to "Tom and Jerry" (thankfully), and of course two of the classics are Academy Award-winning "The Cat Concerto" and "A Mouse in Manhattan." Does any one know which musical pieces were performed in those cartoons?

I just got a demo DVD from Suncoast that includes the first two episodes of season two of "24". It also includes a coupon for up to $10 off the purchase of the first two seasons of "24". I never watched "24" or really had any desire to do so, but now I have two full episodes that I can watch...

The BBC is reporting that British moviegoers have voted the following years as the "Golden Years" for movies: 1. 1939 2. 1974 3. 1946 4. 1941 5. 1957 and 1971 (joint) Here is the original article. I don't know that I agree or disagree, but I figured that some of you would be...

I asked this in another thread that I started a while ago about the best method to VHS-based DVDs in. For VHS tapes I use half-D1 MPEG-2 and the resulting quality is gorgeous -- well, as gorgeous as VHS can be. Here's the twist. I've been starting to change my focus to recording favorite...

I'm just wondering if anyone has seen this. For the past two years with my DVR-A03, I've been making my DVDs by creating a DVD folder then using the included Prassi/Veritas PrimoDVD to transfer the DVD directory structure to the DVD-R. It's worked flawlessly and I've made zero coasters with...

Being ... er ... "between jobs", I'm looking to improve my employment status. As a UNIX/Solaris administrator, things are pretty light in this area, hence why I'm "between jobs". :) There are a large number of Solaris positions in Maryland and the DC area, but a huge number of them require...

We have numerous computers throughout the house, but my wife is notorious for turning on one particular PC, using it for about 10 minuets, and then leaving it on - sometimes for days - without touching it again. (She then complains about the electricity bill. :rolleyes:) I have had nothing...

I'm redoing the one room in my house and I want to put up some of my movie posters and other movie memorabilia such as that. The cheapest that I've seen movie poster frames is around $20 each or more. I've seen poster frames on-line for less than $15 each, some even less than $10; but sometimes...