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Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?
« Last post by CWuestefeld on August 02, 2008, 06:08 PM »Splurge on paint brushes. The amount of time you spend picking the hairs out when they fall from the cheap brushes just isn't worth it.
My wife is good enough to skimp on purses. I had a coworker who was saving her money for a $900 purse. There's no way that purse is 30x better in any concrete measurement compared to my wife's $30 purse.
In fact, anything vaguely related to clothing should be skimped on, IMHO.
If your truck uses regular 87-octane, then by all means use that. Using high-octane fuel in an engine that doesn't require it is absolutely a waste of money. However, if your car (like mine) wants high-octane, you'll get better performance (including better gas mileage) if you use it. You can generally use a lower-octane fuel because the engine management system will sense the early detonation that the low-octane allows, but it handles it by inhibiting any timing advance, which lowers the efficiency of the engine. Of course it depends on the numbers of your specific situation, but you're likely not saving any money this way.
My wife is good enough to skimp on purses. I had a coworker who was saving her money for a $900 purse. There's no way that purse is 30x better in any concrete measurement compared to my wife's $30 purse.
In fact, anything vaguely related to clothing should be skimped on, IMHO.
Skimp (avoid really); Paying people for anything I can do myself; Home, Auto, or Appliance repairs. My dad taught me years ago to be (mostly) self sufficient e.g. I can fix damn near anything so I'm not shelling out $$$ to keep my stuff working.Disagree. I think you're better off using that time to do what you do best. If you can earn more in that time, it'll pay for the worker (in economic circles this is known as the law of comparatitive advantage http://en.wikipedia....omparative_advantage)-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2008, 12:52 PM)
Side note: I skimp on gas and only get regular for my (truck) Dodge Dakota which has a 5.9 (360ci) engine (avg 10mpg). But I splurge on (my baby) 1987 Harley Davidson FLHTP and get premium only. The scoot will go from 0 to 60 in under 4 sec... & still gets 50+ mpg ...Ya just gota love her...-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2008, 12:52 PM)
If your truck uses regular 87-octane, then by all means use that. Using high-octane fuel in an engine that doesn't require it is absolutely a waste of money. However, if your car (like mine) wants high-octane, you'll get better performance (including better gas mileage) if you use it. You can generally use a lower-octane fuel because the engine management system will sense the early detonation that the low-octane allows, but it handles it by inhibiting any timing advance, which lowers the efficiency of the engine. Of course it depends on the numbers of your specific situation, but you're likely not saving any money this way.
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I'm not aware of any non-free version. I thought that Nero Recode is essentially what DVDShrink would have evolved into as commercial software, being written (afaik) by the same guy. DVDShrink hasn't been revved in quite some time.