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You are right, of course, which was their intention. They aren't selling you a movie, they are selling you a disk with the movie as garbled as possible. That chart looks a lot better when step 1 involves removing the protection...

Yeah, a new tripod and all associated gear is also on "the list". Unfortunately, "a house" is now in front of everything else on "the list".

Speaking of bottlenecks...

Changing topic slightly. I find that the things that are far away that I would want to photograph are things that tend to move (birds, cars, people). This lends itself to hand-held shots (as tracking is required). Hand-holding at even 480mm (35mm eq) is near impossible in anything but bright...

The 5DI still costs considerably more, so I would expect it to. IIRC, the FF sensor helps as well.

That would probably be my threshold as well. I'm 6'2", and my wife is 5'10".

I have 1.5TB of SSDs....that is pretty crazy, too ;)

Yup.

Yup, all blank except the Vertex (OS). My 16/32/64GB drives are out at the moment, but I'll try to test them when they get back.

All is well in the Google world.

Interesting results...

Looks like it could be an hour or more.

All my Google Apps accounts are down at the moment, and have been for about 10 minutes so far. This is the first outage I've noticed.

If someone can propose a decent performance test, I'll be happy to benchmark mine against it...

Here is an interesting tip. Women don't think of it like that. If they do, it's in a paranoid/weird way. Comparing notes with my wife after we were dating, the first couple months of my maneuverings/tactics were completely undetected by her. From her point of view, we were friends and "just...

Sweet. The only times I've driven 1000+ miles to be with a female-type person who wasn't my grandmother were certainly dates.

Thanks for the link. Looks good. The ISO12800 test shot is noisy, but at least it has ISO12800. And I wouldn't need to ditch all my -S lenses.

I just noticed it yesterday, when I sent 3Ware an e-mail and it went to 3waresales@lsi.com.

The reviews seem to imply that the C1 is OEM packaged.

It isn't known for speed, and I haven't benchmarked them, but I'm fond of the OCZ Diesel. Just bought a pair of 16GB ones for on-the-road photo backup.

Well, at least they have figured out supply and demand. All we can do is curse Intel until they get the supply thing figured out.

That's nothing, the 160GB drive is now at $900. With the 250GB Vertex at $725, there is no valid reason to buy Intel at the moment.

I'm ready to buy a pair of 160GB G2s as soon as they are available. I look forward to testing them against my 128GB Vertex drives in RAID-0.

Thanks LiamC. Another great article that took lil'ol'me more than an hour to digest.

I actually spent a couple hours reading about fonts at one point, and learned quite a bit. I then went back to using Tahoma for everything.

Michael Jackson was a nut, and they always find ways to fuck up. Asking things of your doctor that aren't recommended is #1 on that list.

Guess I should start saving up for L-series glass, then. Or should I be looking to Nikon, too? The mucking about with the 5DII is annoying, but I don't have the money for it at the moment anyway.

I would agree with Pradeep. Best doctors and hospitals, but that has very little to do with "health care".

You don't want to be carrying around BD disks while traveling anyway. Just rip it to the hard drive and save your battery.

Um....no....it wasn't. Thanks. (I'm in Vegas, things are weird here.)

I think Stereodude has the right approach. When I didn't have insurance, when the secretary asked for my insurance information, my response was "I have cash". That usually worked.

That is very healthy performance, Stereodude.

I think I have an 8506 I could compare it to when I get back...

Looks like a poor RAID-5 implementation to me. My 9650SE-16 does much better writes.

Batteries.com usually offers both OEM and their own brand. Theirs is usually cheaper with higher capacity.

They just aren't pricing them high enough...

I think you are drawing a line that doesn't exist. A lot of HBO is just soft-core kiddie-porn. Granted, there is a lot of bad porn out there, and because there is so little press/review of the material, you don't know what you are getting. I have seen many porn movies that have better plot...

Never used them. I'm sticking with web apps from the major players at the moment.

Just for he record, Verizon's two data plans are 5GB or 500MB/mo. At least that's what my account rep is giving me.

I use RAID primarily because it makes a large amount of contiguous space available for easy file management. Some redundancy/availability is nice, and the speed boost is always appreciated, but it just makes file management easier.

The trip to the Grand Canyon was cut short when it passed 121F at the Hoover Dam. We had switched to a Jaguar to save money, and it sucked.

That does suck.

Biggest issue so far. When they are stacked, the foot of one aligns perfectly with the power-button of the next. Once you go over thirty high, the weight alone is enough to power the bottom one on. With just a pair, attempting to turn on the top one does them both.

n00b boyfriend (YouTube video, gaming humor)

I now have (literally) a stack of 30 of these sitting on my desk. At $60/mo each, I can practically see the dollar bills pouring into them.

How exactly did you figure this? Not actually a fan...

SW3 would do a good job of giving you usage of the whole network. In fact, there is even a VM'ed version that you could run on another machine, provided it had 2 NICs.

Which one is that?

I already have three screens, does that mean I'll need five? I only check on the stocks every 30 minutes or so when I'm in the office, and twice a day if I'm out.

We have now found an actual use for those crazy "laptops" made by Alienware and the like. Though I would probably use a decked-out shuttle box for the task instead. Certainly not a task for a netbook, though.