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[CTznOfTime]

OEM BMW ZHP Weighted "short" Shift Knob

I got the 5 speed:

https://store.nexternal.com/bimmerworl/images/BMW ZHP 500.jpg

Feels beautiful !!

 

[///M-Spec]

^ I had a ZHP. Great knob. Much better than 'stock'.


M

 

[CTznOfTime]

^ I had a ZHP. Great knob. Much better than 'stock'.


M

BEAUTIFUL S4 you have ! 👍

edit: it's funny how you still have the "M" as your avatar even though you have gone to the Quattro Ringo ...

 

[///M-Spec]

Thanks!

Well, I kept the name because I've been here too long to change it. And besides, I doubt the Z4 is going to be the last M I'll ever own.


M

 

[Dougboy]

Sigma 18-50 f/2.8. The nikon version with HSM

 

[F1GTR]

I had that lens. Then it got stolen.

 

[CTznOfTime]

how does one steal a lens???

I am not trying to be one of the stealers...
but to know how to prevent it ...if ever...

 

[Azuremen]

Thanks!

Well, I kept the name because I've been here too long to change it. And besides, I doubt the Z4 is going to be the last M I'll ever own.


M

Well, yeah, because you VAG products will burst into flames one day Then you'll have to go back to something with 100% less spontaneous combustion.

 

[boiltheocean]

how does one steal a lens???

I am not trying to be one of the stealers...
but to know how to prevent it ...if ever...

It was most likely on the camera which I presume was stolen at the same time.

 

[Tommi]

My latest purchases in the last week or so:
Muse - The Resistance

Sennheiser CX 300-II Ear Canal Phones

LG KP500 Mobile Phone

 

[Bram Turismo]

It's been years since I've listened to the Foo Fighters. I'm not really a fan of their latest work, but it's great to listen to the old school songs like Monkey Wrench, Learn to fly, break out once again.

On that, XP got replaced with Mac at home:

Amazing combo, and incredibly cheap as well compared to other Mac computers. The thing is hardly the size of an external hard drive, rooms 500Gb of hard drive space, and is incredibly fast for the size. There was no need for a new screen since our Medion screen still is in mint condition.

My dad also got one of these at the same time:

And I got this:

 

[boiltheocean]

Welcome to the Mac crew Bram. It's awesome.

 

[Zmann42087]

Welcome to the Mac crew Bram. It's awesome.

Indeed, sir.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Welcome to the Mac crew Bram. It's awesome.

It's brilliant stuff. The whole OS is so much more user-friendly. Next year we are going to draw structures and designs in AutoCAD, so I am looking into an Apple mini myself for next year. Either that or the current Mini goes to me, and dad buys an Apple iMac or a Mac Pro. I definitly can see that happening since dad has become a Mac freak.

The thing I love most is the magic mouse. No buttons, yet it is so easy to use, the scrolling is awesome, you can zoom in or rotate and pan the view when viewing an image. All by the simple touch of your finger, epicness.

 

[Aldo]

Two fantastic games! Picked up Madden for £9 preowned from Game and got Dirt 2 with some HMV vouchers + some cash I got for my birthday.
EDIT: I apoligise for teh massiveness of the pics, im on my ps3 and cant do much about it

 

[Azuremen]

It's brilliant stuff. The whole OS is so much more user-friendly. Next year we are going to draw structures and designs in AutoCAD, so I am looking into an Apple mini myself for next year. Either that or the current Mini goes to me, and dad buys an Apple iMac or a Mac Pro. I definitly can see that happening since dad has become a Mac freak.

I'd advise against this, though now sure how much AutoCAD has to render. The lack of discrete graphics in the Mac Mini, combined with AutoCAD traditionally being a PC program, would make me very hesitant. Of course, this is my opinion from working with Solidworks and the system specs required to actually do rendering on the fly.

 

[TB]

Next year we are going to draw structures and designs in AutoCAD, so I am looking into an Apple mini myself for next year.

I'd advise against this, though now sure how much AutoCAD has to render. The lack of discrete graphics in the Mac Mini, combined with AutoCAD traditionally being a PC program, would make me very hesitant. Of course, this is my opinion from working with Solidworks and the system specs required to actually do rendering on the fly.

I've been using AutoCAD in it's various forms ('00, '00i, '04, '06-'10, and Revit '08-'10) and I haven't done much rendering except for as a novelty, never for actual work. 3-D, yes, but not rendering. Even so, the minimum requirements for AutoCAD, like everything else, just keeps going up, but they still aren't terribly high (XP Pro, 1.6GHz P4, 2Gb RAM). Revit, on the other hand is incredibly memory and processor intensive. There is no way I'd want to work on a machine sporting the minimums for that. I might be a bit biased as the Revit file I'm working on at present is around 500 megs. Comparable AutoCAD files would be more in the 5 meg range.

Even though, I'd still go with a PC. I don't doubt that Macs are great for graphic designers, but in my classrooms and all the Architects and Engineers offices that I've been in, and that's a lot, I have yet to see a single Mac.

 

[Azuremen]

Even though, I'd still go with a PC. I don't doubt that Macs are great for graphic designers, but in my classrooms and all the Architects and Engineers offices that I've been in, and that's a lot, I have yet to see a single Mac.

Macs are even losing the edge in design. Maya is usually out on PCs first, and Photoshop had 64-bit support in Windows before OS X.

 

[Eric.]

It's brilliant stuff. The whole OS is so much more user-friendly. Next year we are going to draw structures and designs in AutoCAD, so I am looking into an Apple mini myself for next year. Either that or the current Mini goes to me, and dad buys an Apple iMac or a Mac Pro. I definitly can see that happening since dad has become a Mac freak.

The thing I love most is the magic mouse. No buttons, yet it is so easy to use, the scrolling is awesome, you can zoom in or rotate and pan the view when viewing an image. All by the simple touch of your finger, epicness.

Oh for God's sake don't go buying a Mac Pro for home use...Those should only ever be used by people who can name programs that use eight cores. iMac or Macbook Pro would be fine. Hell, get both for the price of a single processor Mac Pro...

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Just bought the Mad Caddies second album Duck and Cover. So awesome so far.

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

What are you guys talking about? The magic mouse is pathetic. If you spend the same amount of money ($69) you can buy a logitech mouse with many buttons that are configurable! The scrolling is the exact same as a regular mouse, so is the clicking, logitech's hyper scrolling is what the magic mouse has copied saying it with big words like momentum to dumb consumers. The two finger swiping can be done with a scroll key which can move left to right which can be bought on many mice these days. You can zoom with a $69 dollar mouse like my brother's logitech which has buttons on the side. Also the control- scroll function can also be done on a PC. Also, you can customize you mouse on a PC even if you have a regular $1 mouse!

 

[Azuremen]

What are you guys talking about? The magic mouse is pathetic. If you spend the same amount of money ($69) you can buy a logitech mouse with many buttons that are configurable! The scrolling is the exact same as a regular mouse, so is the clicking, logitech's hyper scrolling is what the magic mouse has copied saying it with big words like momentum to dumb consumers. The two finger swiping can be done with a scroll key which can move left to right which can be bought on many mice these days. You can zoom with a $69 dollar mouse like my brother's logitech which has buttons on the side. Also the control- scroll function can also be done on a PC. Also, you can customize you mouse on a PC even if you have a regular $1 mouse!

Not to be an ass or anything, but you sound kind of like a typical PC ass when you say these things.

Have you worked with a multi touch capable device?

 

[Casio]

As someone who has used the Magic Mouse it's not that great, gestures on a trackpad are pretty good and useful, on a mouse, not so much.

 

[opendriver]

Sailor Jerry spiced rum 1.75L

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

Not to be an ass or anything, but you sound kind of like a typical PC ass when you say these things.

Have you worked with a multi touch capable device?

Yes I have worked with a tablet PC. My bro owns one. Its the HP TX2000.

 

[Keef]

I've also worked with tablet PCs and lots of new touchy-feely phones and whatnot, and nobody makes better touch devices than Apple. Like, by miles.

 

[Prosthetic]

I've also worked with tablet PCs and lots of new touchy-feely phones and whatnot, and nobody makes better touch devices than Apple. Like, by miles.

The only thing I find that Apple does so much better is the iPod (older ones not the new ones that hold next to nothing)

But I find there advertisement of it hilarious.. They say that there 60gb one can hold 15,000 songs... Yet, I have 14,199 songs but its 94.18gb... 15,000 my ass.. maybe 15,000 one and two minute songs...

 

[F1GTR]

The only thing I find that Apple does so much better is the iPod (older ones not the new ones that hold next to nothing)

But I find there advertisement of it hilarious.. They say that there 60gb one can hold 15,000 songs... Yet, I have 14,199 songs but its 94.18gb... 15,000 my ass.. maybe 15,000 one and two minute songs...

Bitrate.

 

[TB]

maybe 15,000 one and two minute songs...

4 minute AAC's at 128 Kb.

 

[Eric.]

4 minute AAC's at 128 Kb.

And before someone tries it, no you're not going to tell any difference.