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Not unlimited food. Just adequate to meet demand while maintaining a reasonable profit margin. With the recent hike in food prices (partly due to it's new multi-use capability), new supply is scrambling to come on-line (even in 3rd world nations). After the market has a chance to adjust to this...

Open to suggestions.

Assuming an unlimited supply of food, what do you do about the pollution? About urban sprawl's effect on natural habitats? Traffic? The common denominator is people.

It isn't a terrible idea. The fact that supply is really short, causing demand (and price) to increase is a separate issue (and potentially a temporary one). It would be a terrible idea if we assumed that supply for energy will never be satisfied, therefore the price of food would continue to...

Sources for info and discussion: Wikipedia: Population Growth US Census Bureau: International Database With all the talk of global warming and food shortages, I have yet to hear talk of this as the source of our problems, but I suspect that it is. Even if we are able to cut our emissions per...

Prices simply aren't high enough to cause a change in behavior yet. Algae seems to be technically the best source for bio-fuel, but I'm afraid that the political capital of places like Iowa (where massive amounts of corn are grown) will cause this to be the source of choice for the foreseeable...

I'm adding a new drive to my data array using online capacity expansion. According to it's current progress (at 2%), it will take 12.5 days to complete. I should have added 2 drives.

Tea, Tannin, and Merc being missing really slows the place down as well. I do miss them.

I've been trying to get work. Not having work and needing it keeps me more busy than having work.

Haha.

I'm really enjoying "Assassin's Creed" despite it's obvious console heritage. It is the spiritual successor to the "Thief" series, IMHO.

So you are saying you have too much gear, but not the right gear? If anything gets too "not right", you can just pass it over here ;-)

You are listing average rotational latency, I was listing maximum. To accomplish a full revolution in 0.1ms requires 600k RPM. I do cede that the average is a more useful value.

I'm running the MSD-6000 series. (MSD-SATA6035-016) Difference? I didn't really look. My thoughts were that: 1) They all have the insane access time that I wanted 2) I was going to use at least 3 in RAID-0, so STR would be fine regardless

That is something that I've been thinking of as well. Olga's been trying to get me on an EKG for months. It would be pretty simple to have a program on your computer that sent something if you didn't use it for 2-ish days, but how long would it be before someone turned off your computer? I have...

Not necessarily a lost customer. Once I can double my capacity for the same price, I'll buy again. If they can get the transfer rates to ~200MB/s per drive that would tempt me as well. Hell, I'm likely to add another drive to my array for more capacity sooner than that. I would have liked to...

<doing maths> 600,000 RPM would do the trick, if you could get seek time to zero.

Yup. I went from Raptors in RAID-0 to SSDs in RAID-0 and the difference was night-and-day. There is just no way a spinning drive will compete with a 0.1ms access time. Edit: I wonder what RPM would manage a rotational latency of 0.1ms.

I read that, too. But it just won't. It got to the drive selection, I was able to choose the SSDs and format, but the "OK" button would not allow me to proceed.

Can I tempt you for just over $1000?

If you are willing to pay $300 and only need 16GB, get an SSD. A warning, though, Vista won't install on even a 48GB drive.

Nope, it isn't. But it is a description of the product, and I trust the quantifiable numbers. It is good enough to keep SSDs out of my high-end builds for a while longer.

Because it would get spanked. I didn't read a single negative thing about the drive in the whole review.

I thought that it could.

I think the VelociRaptor will keep SSDs out of the mainstream for a bit longer. 300GB Capacity <10W power consumption 6.9ms access time

Composite. Or a mirror. Edit: I would be interested in seeing that picture, too.

I've been hooked on the BBC show "Grand Designs" for about 3 months now (I have all 8 seasons). Since we do want to build a house at some point; I've been busy designing stuff.

I'm beating Test Drive: Unlimited again. The only objectives left to complete are to drive every road and to log 5,000 miles (yes, I've already done this once).

That is my first instinct, but I'm trying to be financially responsible. I do want it before we go to Moscow in a month. Besides the speed and length, are there other quantifiable/tangible differences?

Because I can search by the data in Flickr and on my local machine? I would actually also like the camera to embed gps data as well. Of course, I understand the need/desire to not share this information with everyone all the time, but for many of my images (wildlife, landscapes, etc) it would...

Great Picture I'm trying to decide between the Sigma 10-20 and the Canon 10-22. I know the Canon has a larger range and is faster, but it costs 30% more.

I had a conversation with my grandmother quite a while ago. She started the conversation, and in it specified exact performance guidelines that she wanted to maintain for the rest of her life. She asked me to "take care of it" should she fall outside of those guidelines. I agreed. She isn't...

No idea. (pui)

He is alright as of about a week ago.

I've been in and out all day. Having issues with the turn-up on a T-1 that is a couple hundred miles away, dealing with configuring a PIX firewall (PITA), and re-creating the mysteriously removed MX records from a domain on Network Solutions.

IMHO, The better details are usually in the shadows.

It looks to be a straight DR issue to me, I would have certainly taken it to -1 at least.

Around here we also have a local wireless company, almost DSL speeds for %125 the cost.

That would be a great sales trick? "Want the best camera? You actually need to buy two!"

...and it is much, much faster just surfing around and posting crap.

It downloaded here at pretty much my maximum DL speed (~11 seconds @ 500KB/s)

Cool. I'm down to 32GB free on my array, time for another disk...

Sounds great. I hope you are feeling better.

I'll be in and out for the next few days, but I could beat it up if you like.

10 inches? Dude....

But on a hardened XP system, there was a significant degree of granularity to the controls and security. If program x was poorly written and required access to system file y, you could change just that bit. With UAC it is either on or off.

At last they succeeded at something....

...without cracking the protection, which is also possible.

I've thought about that a few times. A couple from tango are on a Fulbright to Stanford, when they return to Melbourne I might pay a visit.