I'm cooking some chicken breast in it now for dinner tomorrow. 150 degrees for an hour. Hope they come out perfectly. This is my first time with chicken in this cooker.
I'm cooking some chicken breast in it now for dinner tomorrow. 150 degrees for an hour. Hope they come out perfectly. This is my first time with chicken in this cooker.Kinda wish I had one, but yeah, I'd probably not really use it much.
Was looking at em awhile back myself.
Surface Book, bought about a month ago. Base model (integrated graphics, not the NVIDIA version) and still $1,500.
I feel a little guilty because I haven't owned a laptop pricier than $500 in the past. Not that I've ever been a major, regular laptop user, but it's also more expensive than my desktop ($800 when I first built it, but upgraded a few parts and currently has a FX-8350 with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and a R9 270).
I'm building a higher spec desktop that will be maybe $2,000 in parts total, but building it myself (including the case) I don't think I'll feel as guilty... it feels like work and an investment of time rather than splurging.
7 years strong with mini upgrades here and there. :thumbsup:
Yeah, I got almost no bang for my buck on zip drives and disks. I upgraded the first drive got basically nothing out of the second, plus I bought a bunch of blanks, and yes, they were so trouble prone, such a pain. They became totally obsolete seemingly overnight. This was back around 1998, I'm thinking.1) A Zip drive and a bundle of 10 Zip disks. These were a lifesaver for about a year (so I don't regret buying the drive). But then shortly later rewritable CD disks and then a bit later USB drives came out. The Zip disks were so expensive and so prone to becoming bricks, that I should have just bought one Zip disk.
Yes, 1GB HDs were about $1000 back in 1998 or so. I had something like a 250MB Maxtor that started going bad prematurely and I got an RMA and paid them an extra $100 for a drive that was a little larger.That's right - a single gigabyte; something that they give away on freebie flash drives these days... it would have cost $1000 back then for that much memory.
My Kindle 3 was a pain in terms of battery, but worse was the struggle to get adequate lighting. I bought several light accessories. Feh.Kindle - Read about 10 books on it, got tired of it running out of juice despite me never using it.
Amazon lets you download all your Kindle titles to your computer for access there. You can also add PDFs to your Kindle. IMO it's easier, a lot easier to read on a Kindle than on a computer screen, at least in terms of books. PDFs are probably often better accessed on a computer using a PDF reader. I have only put PDFs on my Kindle a time or two.^^^I think there's a Kindle website now where you can read all your Amazon Kindle purchases. Wonder if it works for library rentals. Would totally prefer reading off my desktop monitor split-screen than holding a separate device.
Yup. Paperwhite or Voyager.Meh, a Kindle wins over any other display type for reading. E-ink is amazing.
If I recall, hard drive prices were in the neighborhood of $1.00 per megabyte.
In hindsight, I can't tell if it was worth it.
1) A Zip drive and a bundle of 10 Zip disks. These were a lifesaver for about a year (so I don't regret buying the drive). But then shortly later rewritable CD disks and then a bit later USB drives came out. The Zip disks were so expensive and so prone to becoming bricks, that I should have just bought one Zip disk.
2) My Lenovo Q190 HTPC. I really like the thing, but I waited too long. Lenovo came out with a different flavor of it every week (varying hard drive size, CPU, etc). I waited and waited until a model that come out with a Blu-Ray drive, fast CPU, and low price. That took about 4 months of waiting. The problem is, a week before it arrived, Microsoft started charging $100 for Windows Media Center. So, I never bought Windows Media Center and have to keep an entire Windows 7 computer running to record TV. Then I just stream it to my HTPC. It is really a clumsy method of doing things. Luckily, Windows 10 can play Media Center files recorded on a different computer (other Windows versions would garble the screen image for copyright issues). But if only I hadn't waited so long, then I could have a great HTPC instead of needing 2 computers. And I've never yet purchased a Blu-Ray movie, so the wait was not even needed.
LOL I still have one somewhere, IIRC I got one for under 2 bills new so I don't share your pain.spending nearly a grand for this piece of s***
$2k+ for a Packard Bell Pentium 60 system with win 3.11 from Sears.
$199 each for 4mb memory sticks to go in it.
$99 for Netscape Navigator after someone told me about this new thing called the "Internet."
Playing MechWarrior2 and Diablo on it = priceless.
You must have started late. My first 20Meg hard drive was $379 + shipping ($400 total). $20.00 per MEG!
Very few things I don't regret buying one time or another during the last few years. HTPC build with extenders is about the only thing I don't regret and that's only because I wanted to tell TWC to shove their boxes up their ass (now if I could only get something else to tell TWC to shove everything up their ass).
The ipad air 2. Saw a guy using it for a presentation once and was enamored by it. I'm not an Apple fan and this is the only Apple product I own. What do I use it for? - Fallout shelter. -_-
I don't really feel guilty, just a couple things I wouldn't have bought knowing what I do now.
The Nook was the eink device that cut prices and finally made e-readers worth trying without burning too much money. I tried to convince myself for a while that Nook was the better option because they were the first at so many things... but I eventually went Kindle and regretted bothering with the Nook at all