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Things NASA has done that are interesting to kids since I was a kid. 1. Challenger accident - It is a tragedy, and they didn't mean to do it, but it got my attention (I was 6) and showed that they were doing dangerous stuff. Made me want to be an astronaut. 2. Hubble launch - Some pretty...

I guess I've become excessively sensitive to spin. If someone isn't comfortable enough with their position to lay the facts out cleanly, perhaps their facts aren't as solid as they are representing? I'm not saying that is the case here, I believe most of what she says to be fundamentally true...

I got the HT-R540 about a year ago and am very happy with it. Though I wouldn't buy a receiver without 2 HDMI inputs anymore. It is the big thing and I suspect will continue to be for some time to come. $1800 is a great price for that TV, though I still think a home theater should have at least...

I made it to "natural resource exploitation" at about 2:24. I understand being mad that corporations are threated like people, but when oil is treated like people, that is a bit much. I agree with 100% of what is said in the thread, but crazy hippie lady is a bit too crazy.

That is far too idealist, Merc. It's a lovely idea and all, and if it worked like that consistently, I would be all for it. But it just doesn't. Things that would help? 1. Transparency 2. Limited terms in any public office - eliminate the "career politician" 3. Limit governments power

As cool as people going into space is, it isn't nearly as cool or amazing as it was decades ago. I'm not saying that they aren't doing neat stuff, or making progress. I'm just saying that they need to take amazing to the next level to get some fresh attention. A moon base would do it, or a trip...

(Paraphrasing Merc) Government is an amoral being that has more rights than an actual human being in our legal system and serve no other purpose than to enrich the tiny number of people who are in a position of power. Government can act outside the best interests and welfare of the majority of...

Everything in society is practiced for profit. Everyone in society wants to profit from their labors. That is why we labor. Saying people shouldn't profit from medicine is crazy. Saying who should profit is the key. Right now the money goes to insurance bureaucracies and lawyers. How do we get...

I do buy new speakers more often than that, but they have a long hand-me-down chain. They never make it to the dump. From my living room to my bedroom to the kitchen to my parents livingroom to their bedroom to my bathroom, and from there on to their friends or a lucky client's office. Good...

What do you think of the leaked specs on the X300? Sounds like an Air clone...

Looks interesting. I'll try and have a look.

No Dunkin Donuts here, Olga misses them from when she lived in Boston. We have the local chain "Happy Donuts", but it isn't the same.

Wow, I think I disagree with everyone on some pretty fundamental levels...let me step in and make an uneducated stab at it. The problem we have is that smart (sometimes corrupt) people are finding more and more interesting ways to take money from dumb (sometimes innocent) people. A politician...

I know. And I'd have to swap out the touchpad for one with 2 buttons. But if (when?) Dell ships their MacBook Air clone, I might buy one. The size is nice, and the weight is nice, but it really does just look sexy. Industrial design is a good thing.

The move itself would not do it, no. Of course the change would have to be from you. But the change is much easier in a more conducive environment. If I lived where it snowed I wouldn't go out, either. If all the women around me were stupid I wouldn't talk to them, and if they were only...

Yeah, that counts. Mine is all in my workstation, and it's not on all the time.

I was at the beach today, it was a bit nipply - 67F...Seriously, if you like boobies that much, you need to be in California.

I have an OSX instance in a VM that I use for tech support. I would likely pay for Mac laptop hardware if they didn't charge so damn much; I don't want the OS!

I can give you shorter, but coherency is not guaranteed.

It's OK, Tea. If you are really good, Tannin might give you a birthday for your birthday...erm, nevermind.

Heh. I recieved so much help so quickly I actually felt a bit guilty. All I've been doing since is reading and re-reading the code so I know what it actually does and why it is done that way. Once I have that down, I get to play with taking stuff from arrays and sticking it into the database. A...

Great rant, Merc. This is the reason I don't do HP anymore. I downloaded the "basic printer driver" for a networked multifunction Officejet yesterday. It was 38MB, for the "basic" one! And it was a FEAD thing that took 10 minutes to execute on a new but basic PC! When it was done, it went away...

Looks like it half-works in Vista. The command is taken, and they are in the list afterwards, but they aren't grayed out. Since I don't remember exactly what I have in there these days, I'll let it ride.

I'd never heard of it, either. But it's easy and free. Shrug.

I would prefer fatty finned copper heatsinks, but I've never seen one.

Nothing. Power, Audio, Video, and 1 USB. They do sell a USB NIC, a USB modem, and a USB DVD-RW. To be honest, I don't even hook up my laptop to a wired NIC if I leave it at my desk, no that isn't that big a deal.

Even I would be hard-pressed to recommend this card for a RAID-1 array.

Yup, all cache set to maximum. I have the on-card battery and a UPS on the system, so I don't worry too much. But the test was over 300GB, so most of it was from disk.

Results from BST, default install and I just picked a temp folder in my nearly full array and hit "run". I was using the machine the whole time, and there were only 360GB of free space, so it's on the slowest parts of the drives. Write: Blocks: 1448757 Total: 353.7GB Max/s: 254.9MB/s Avg/s...

Looks like a used 1Ds body is going for about $1200 on eBay.

I got that according to the title, he wants a lens for flowers. And he mentioned in there somewhere about taking pictures of food at restaurants. And it looks like he already purchased a T&S lens, but doesn't have a body to go with it. And instead of getting a body, he's making additional...

Awesome. And over my head.

I remember Terminator 2 on Laserdisk on a rich friends parents system. It was awesome, but I was 13, so many things were awesome.

I'm running a RAID-5 of 10 750GB drives on a 9650-16ML, Writes and Reads are a bit under 200MB/s. I suspect it is limited by my target array (RAID-0 of Raptors). If you tell me what tests you are running and how to run them, I'd be happy to give you some comparable numbers.

I'm really liking my Razer Copperhead. Not a cheap mouse, but not too many bells and whistles, either. It just does the things a mouse is supposed to do really, really well. 1000Hz and 2000dpi just makes everything more smooth.

Wow, that is a poor result. I don't have an answer off the top of my head, but the first thing I would do is look in their configuration to see if caching or DNS are disabled. The next thing I would do is call them; the advantage of paying this kind of money (my controller was ~$1200) is that...

Everyone's been paying out everyone to use everything. Is would/should be a scandal but it seems everyone is guilty and no one is making a big deal out of it.

I think it was John Stewart who said "stereotypes: they may not be accurate, but they sure save time."

Neat utility, but only for PnS, not dSLR.

BlueRay is the only one with burning capabilities IIRC.

That would be great. I have a box full of 80-320GB drives in the closet that I didn't count either.

The conclusion I keep coming to on these things is that no matter what the policy is, it won't work well and will cost a lot. I had this pointed out to me at dinner the other day when I was advocating a less invasive foreign policy (pardon the pun). The other person pointed out, and rightly so...

Online storage please. Not counting tapes or hard drives that sit in your safe.

How much additional tax, Merc?

It's clearly built to be disposable, but isn't priced that way. I wonder which will change.

Actually, not having any moving parts at all in the same room is the quietest. Another advantage of cracking.

My desktop's only delay is when it decides to spin up the array at random (like, while opening Firefox, which is not installed on the array). This delay is particularly noticeable because the RAID card is set to only spin up one drive per second, which makes the entire delay ~15 seconds.

It is damn sexy. But SSD is the only way to go, and $3000+ is a lot for a laptop.

I don't want to burn a copy, I just want to play the main film at full resolution from my hard drive. If I can remove the DRM, I'll certainly do so. That is that I would consider a crack.

The only crashes I get are BSODs when I close a corrupted video stream in Media Player Classic. I understand that the file is messed up, but the OS should be able to recover better than that.