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I'm actually back to practical-land WRT vehicles...considering a Toyota Yaris and a Hyundai Genesis.

Gotcha, thanks e_dawg. I suspected as much, but I still haven't found any one-size-fits-all processing. If I were doing a shoot where I actually wanted lots of images as a result, I can see it being useful. As it stands, I mostly just pick the best example and work on it. If it could run the...

I'm glad I could amuse ;) But seriously, for batch processing a bunch of happy-snaps, I use Canon's Digital Photo Professional. For complex jobs with detail work I use PS CS3, for HDR screwing about I use Photomatix, and for massive stitching jobs I use PTGui. Is Lightroom better at any of these...

I decided to take a look at Lightroom 2. I pointed it at my photo collection, and after taking 30 minutes to look at them (not move, just look), it now takes several GB of RAM just sitting there. What does this program do again?

Nice rig. My only issue would be my distaste for ASUS boards, but it should be darn quick.

Great, I was getting ready to complain about no posts in 17 hours, when I was relieved to see a post! When I read the post it is about the expectation that I will complain about no posts in 17 hours. Crap.

I read somewhere that the weight savings put into the Tahoe Hybrid (in order to fit the motors and batteries) could have caused the efficiency increase on it's own. Instead, they but them in, just so they could make up for themselves. Stupid.

More good stuff. Thanks.

Great info, thanks Mercutio!

That would be me. ;) But I was picking on a typo; you had said mamory.

No kidding. It looks like that will be me real soon. I'm just hoping that I can work with our vendors/controller to get things rolling soon.

I signed up in early 1999, and had been lurking before that. I'd rather not compare ;)

China was much better than Russia, and either beat India by a mile. Of course, you can pay a lot in the right places and get great food just about anywhere, but I try to eat where the locals eat when I travel.

There are automated asset tracking tools, but they are difficult to modify if the facts don't agree with the...erm...reality of the situation. This is a private, non-union, non-financial company with no board and no real responsibility to maintain a certain standard. I start on the first, and am...

I hadn't remembered all those names, Eric ;)

One of the things I get to do as IT Manager is document everything. Does anyone have a template that they like? A format? Does anyone see the need to include system specs for workstations? How about including every software license? How far is too far?

Me too.

That is why this particular device taps directly into the PCI-E slot, bypassing the slower interfaces. They also aren't really selling with access time or STR in mind, but with number of IOPS available. I still don't think they will be getting anywhere that the commodity stuff won't very soon.

I agree, but my point is that this technology will not be the super-high performance for long enough. The commodity storage is increasing in performance so quickly, that this will be overshadowed long before it is profitable. OT: Sweet, this is post #111111

Yep, I remember hearing about them about a year ago. They are going the wrong way, IMHO. Commodity storage will get really close really soon, and then they will have nothing.

Well, I signed a paper last night, so soon I too will be a working stiff. It actually feels pretty good ;) Thanks for everyone's help.

Ouch. That seems like it would kill one of these cards in a hurry.

I've noticed some performance differences in systems that all scored 5.9 (the maximum). It's a shame they don't have the scoring go higher...

The thermal stresses are less if the thing stays pegged 100% of the time.

Actually, my next car will have...300HP. Specifically because I make left turns (across traffic) on to and off of a 70MPH freeway at an uncontrolled intersection. That 300HP will be really nice for 0.1% of the time. Same as the quad-core when I first sit down and launch Photoshop, DPP...

I'm pretty sure I want the 100-400, as it is the longest zoom lens available and is said to perform well along the whole range. I'd imagine that it will be used mostly for wildlife photography. Naturally something faster and even longer would be nice, but everything faster that is even near...

Big advantage of a wider lens? It makes the hike look much longer. This was only about 3 miles each way.

If buildings and other structures are to be rated effectively, there needs to be a way to describe the full range. Doesn't the amount of energy increase with the square of the wind speed?

My entire domain is dumped to a single mailbox (anything@ddrueding.com goes to me). I deal with less than one spam a week, and I can't remember the last false positive. Google rocks.

Newegg is still my main supplier, but I have used Directron as well with good results. ZipZoomFly is also a major reseller.

There was an article featured at Slashdot a while ago where they showed that e-mail addresses that started near the beginning of the alphabet received more spam than those that started near the end of the alphabet. Least affected were those starting with numbers.

I'm with Bozo on this. Even for the most mundane office uses you are asking your CPU to perform a series of tasks with long waiting periods in between. Everyone can use the extra power to complete those tasks faster, it's just a matter of knowing the experience can be better.

That is the hope. It seems imminent, and I'm hoping to have that be my second body. Having two different crop factors should give a smaller lens collection more variety. At the same time, my EF-S lenses will be less useful, and I'm looking for a new set that will take over where my 10-22 and...

It had about 4 layers, but the part that really slowed it down was the 32-bit per pixel thing. Once I got it down to 16-bit, it sped up dramatically. I've since altered my workflow to perform the tone mapping earlier in the process; it seems much faster to tone map the whole thing and crop after...

If I do end up getting a 5DII, I'll need a new set of lenses to go with it. Looking for a 3-lens set that covers the range and isn't too expensive, I've come up with this: EF 17-40mm f/4L USM EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM I'm a little concerned about the lack of...

Yup. And we were there ;) It's hard to keep anything going for a decade...

It requires Java (not JavaScript).

I'm happy enough where I am, but thanks for letting me know there is another option.

Assuming there is another one available. My complex doesn't have any CAT-3 or -5 wiring anymore, the only cable is coax, that means Comcast. They even offered a package deal with VoIP, but I'd rather give money to Vonage.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it was disk limited. Quad core at 3.6Ghz isn't "slow" yet.

;) Thanks guys.

Nice find Mark, that is good stuff.

Ah, well, Happy Belated!

You know you are in trouble when a simple crop command brings up a very slow progress bar (2 minutes?). The image is only about 30MP, I think it's the 32-bit part that is dragging it down...

I just found out I share birthdays with John McCain. I liked it better when the important things were Hurricane Katrina and Judgment Day.

I like NOD32, and install it on every machine that I work on, but I don't have any AV on mine. Of course, if anything goes wrong I thoroughly deserve it.

Nice ;) I have bricks for just about every machine out there. The ones with the standard barrel connector are easy, and every once in a while a laptop is a write-off and I keep the power adapter.

Joe, if you use IE, you deserve what you get. Really, you do know better. I have never, ever, seen one of these pop-ups, because I only use Firefox.

I'm almost ready! Announce the sucker now so they will be available when I want to buy (late December).

That does look like fun. I'd need a larger indoor space to really play with it, but at $30 each, I could see having two and doing battles ;)