Richard Dysart, who starred in ‘L.A. Law,’ dies at 86 | Metric Wood Screws

After going through three months of bullshit involving one GTX 285 and two 8800GTs both coughing up black screens due to shoddy engineering and shoddy driver development, plus an HP laptop with an nVidia GPU taking a shit barely a year prior, I want to see nVidia fail, but for some very specific and legitimate reasons. As in I generally can’t understand how hype and brand loyalty can sustain a company through multiple fuckups with nobody to blame but themselves. Even the Republican Party has fallen on hard

The Robertson screw offers the distinct advantage of reduced screwdriver slippage. Also known as the “square recess screw,” this screw head was developed in the early 1900s by a Canadian inventor who was tired of damaging slotted screws every time the screwdriver tip slipped out of the slot. Though a great improvement, it didn’t catch on in the US until power drills began being used as screwdrivers. Today, the Robertson screw, which ranges in recess size from 1/16” to 3/16”, is extensively used in construction and remodeling projects. You can find manual and ratcheting square recess screwdrivers, but the Robertson screw is most often inserted and removed using a power drill. One of the most common uses for the Robertson screw is in the installation of subflooring, which goes a lot quicker if you use a power drill and a Robertson screw bit.

THERE IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN THE BREMBO BRAKES ON THE KTM 350SXF AND HUSKY FC350 TO ANYTHING THAT COMES STOCK ON A JAPANESE-BUILT BIKE. Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki seem to have taken a trip in the Hot Tub Time Machine to get the brakes for their bikes. How could they not compare what they have to what Brembo has and not have alarms go off at Nissin. Brembo’s brakes are incredible. Nissin brakes are something Barney Rubble would use. But, when analyzing the Brembos on a Husky and the Brembos on a KTM, the differences come down to the brake rotors. The rotors on the KTM 350SXF are from Braking. They are light and thin. The Husky’s GSK rotors are more durable. They are thicker and heavier. We guess Husqvarna felt that the sturdier GSK rotors were better for Husky’s offroad bikes.

Instaphone and Paktel competed fairly evenly, with brand marketing reflecting the Mobile Party Pays (MPP) regime of the 1990s. As MPP involved paying for calls made and received, the mobile phone was largely perceived and marketed as a corporate or ‘VIP’ communication tool. When Mobilink entered the market in 1994 with their GSM service, the nature of telecom branding changed. Emphasis was on the ‘status’ and ‘exclusivity’ of belonging to a particular mobile network. This was most notable in the branding of Mobilink’s post-paid offering called Indigo – a stylish, sophisticated and successful venture, which easily allowed Mobilink to become the market leader.

Extrusions range from 20 millimeters square to 160 by 320 millimeters, and come in five versions, called lines. Each line is numbered according to its slot width in millimeters. Lines 5 and 6 are economical extrusions designed especially for testing equipment and for the electronics industry. Line 8 profiles can withstand tensile loading of up to 5,000 newtons, making them robust enough for a wide range of applications.

A single line communicated the idea with a visual that captured a moment in this man’s life. Incredibly brave, if you ask me. Today, you would get a display of Photoshop skills and a scrimmage of words to convey every single possible reason to buy the product.

A local Calgary business has been offering plastics recycling to customers across the City for decades. Now, Friendly Earth Environmental is working with autobody shops across the province to recycle plastic car bumpers.

I worked for a couple of years for Sui Gas Transmission Company and then moved to Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL). The idea of doing something of my own appealed to me and I thought about advertising because there were many non-graduates in the profession. My brother Mazhar was a friend of S.H. Hashmi and was working at Orient Advertising. Truth be told, neither Mazhar nor Hashmi were very well versed in advertising at that point.

Bradford SpacerX is a patented roof spacer system for concealed fixed metal roofs. SpacerX improves speed of construction by allowing the spacer and the concealed fixed roof clip to be assembled with around half the number of fasteners, and is the fastest roof spacer for concealed fixed metal roofs. 

Anyone care to explain what the heck we’re looking at in this picture? I see what looks like a poor video capture of a couple of video cards, but I can’t make out anything relevant.

I want to paint the interior of my house this spring. I’ve noticed that there are several very obvious drywall nail pops, most frequently occurring where the ceiling meets the walls. Have you addressed this issue in the past?

Why some screwdrivers stink up your whole toolbox:http://dwarmstr.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-toolboxes-and-tool-handles-stink.html