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“So I notice that this doesn't include the upholstery attachment, which can run $50-75 dollars. You need one of those to get at the corners and edges of your carpet, or to use the Rug Doctor to clean your car interior. Something to consider. On the plus side, a full 5 year warranty is equal to that given on a new Rug Doctor, so that's excellent news.”
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Rug Doctor Mighty Pro X3
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a month ago
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“You're mixing your "conductive" definitions. Aluminum is a good conductor of heat. That doesn't have anything at all to do with determining if something will work on an induction stove, which works via electromagnetic induction. That means the pans must contain enough ferrous (attracted to a magnet) material to become part of the electromagnetic field that the induction coil is generating. Aluminum, copper, and glass contain no measurable traces of magnetically motivated iron at all. They don't work on an induction stovetop. At all.”
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T-Fal 18-Piece Non-stick Cookware Set
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6 months ago
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“Don't buy these if you are "on a budget." Or for any reason, for that matter. Buy these if you like the idea of buying a new set of pans every year and giving away a crappy set to someone else for free. If you have 60 dollars to spend on cookware, buy these things instead: • $20 - cast iron skillet
• $10 - A cheap-o stamped stock pot from anywhere
• $20 - A decent 2-3 quart anodized or stainless steel pan with a tempered glass lid (no plastic) and a long steel handle
• $5 - a couple of bamboo cooking utensils
• $2 - a slotted metal spoon
• $3 - a celebratory beer, for not buying a bunch of crappy stamped Chinese junk and some awkward, useless plastic utensils with which to slowly poison your family.”
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T-Fal 18-Piece Non-stick Cookware Set
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6 months ago
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“You'll save a ton on diapers—These things will hold a lot of poop.”
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Halo 100% Cotton SleepSack Wearable Blanket
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8 months ago
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“Can I use this to clean my carpets?”
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Sunbeam Garment Steamer
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9 months ago
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“Looks to me like you wrote that post with an iPad, using its stellar Auto-Correct functionality. Everyone is so quick to say how not-the-same this is from the Sell-off version, but I'm pretty sure you can get a 3G wireless thingie for less than the difference, and $130 for a 4-5 dollar 3G chip on a refurbished computer is a terrible "deal" by any stretch of the imagination. Just wait until Friday when the 2.0 is available, and this woot is going to look like the rip-off it is. For another 50 bucks, you get twice the speed and two cameras, and lose the 3G, which ships with exactly zero service. I mean, a Kindle 3G has FREE FOR LIFE 3G and they only charge you 50 bucks extra over the base price. I've already spend more than $50 worth of 3G bandwidth if you add it up based on the ATT iPad 3G rates. The Kindle is not an iPad, but 3G is 3G, and being able to use google maps when you're lost in the middle of nowhere on a device that has no service contract and no fees of any kind after purchase is worth more than all the angry birds in the world.”
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Apple iPad 16GB 3G + Wi-Fi
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a year ago
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“I am 6'2" and have issues with kicking stroller wheels, but the basic Maclaren is angled in such a way that I have never kicked the wheels or frame while walking. So this is a slightly cheaper, heavier version of the same thing.”
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Cybex 2010 Topaz Stroller
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a year ago
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“Sure you can test it. It just takes a while. Take a bunch of bacteria, all the same exact species. Direct asexual clones, if possible. Let them reproduce in an ideal environment. Trillions of them. Then split them in half. Introduce some of them to a cold environment, and some to a warm environment. Keep separating the temperatures between the two until they are quite different. Every time you lower/raise the temp. in a group, you end up killing off more and more of them. Some will, if evolution works, be more cold, or warm-tolerant in each batch. The tiny, minimal differences between them and their asexually identical brothers and sisters (these are called genetic mutations) will start to happen. Remember, we're talking about trillions of copies. Computers, which deal in electrons and 1/0 binary language have errors every now and then. So does DNA. Add some radiation to each one, just to speed things up. Some of those heat/cold tolerant bacteria will then, in theory, stand a better chance of surviving, and they will thrive in relation to their siblings. Eventually, all of them will be this new version. This is why invasive species are such a problem. A handful of the bacteria will become the kudzu of their batch. Then you raise/lower the temperature more. Maybe this takes 10 years. Maybe 100. You have millions of generations of bacteria being "born," reproducing, and dying. Eventually, after enough generations, you've created a bacteria that is different enough, both genetically and physiologically, that it isn't really the same as the original bacteria, and it is even more dissimilar to its opposite-trough counterpart. In some species, generations come and go in a matter of hours. Here's an experiment that's recently passed the 50,000 generations mark. http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/ We've done unintentional "experiments" that lend strong evidence for evolution, too. You've heard of hospital superbugs, right?”
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Story of Noah’s Ark for Nintendo DS
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a year ago
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“You sound like the kind of guy who can't tell the difference between Camera RAW files and .jpg images. Sorry, but first off, he wasn't even talking about WAV files, and as a "producer" you would know that WAV is 10 mb per minute, even if it's recording dead air (assuming Audio CD 44.1khz and 16 bit stereo). He's just talking about higher-quality MP3 files, which can easily end up being 10 mb for a 4-5 minute song. I don't know who these producers are you know, but starting from some random MP3 is absurd. Even something as pedestrian and accessible to the beginning "producer" as GarageBand uses uncompressed, or at the very least, losslessly compressed audio tracks, and only converts to AAC or MP3 or WMA or some other lossy format as a convenient final output if you want to have such a thing. Digital music stores (iTMS, AmazonMP3, etc) will not accept anything other than uncompressed WAV files in their music ingestion systems, which they will then internally convert to their house-standard format. Most people can't hear a difference between a really good mp3 and the WAV file it came from. But to use an MP3 in any kind of studio environment, knowing that it's going to be converted to WAV or some other raw format, and then messed with, and then converted back into an MP3 at some point...that's just irresponsible and lazy. Anyone with any respect for their craft, and for good sound quality, would avoid this as a matter of course. Even the idea of using an MP3 as a starting point (except in an experimental way, or to intentionally make their music sound compressed and flat and trashy) is probably beyond most producers' day-to-day concept of acceptable practice. /soapbox”
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Apple 8GB iPod Touch with Retina Display & Facetime (Current Generation)
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a year ago
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“No you haven't. This wasn't even available for sale until this past fall.”
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Apple 8GB iPod Touch with Retina Display & Facetime (Current Generation)
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