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It seems to vary enormously. Fats at times, really really sluggish at others. Time of day seems to not matter.

Over at SR, MaxtorScsi siad in a thread that it takes two years from the time a drive is dreamed up to actual production. Mickey read that and responded like he did here (1 year). Maybe Mickey works for WD :lol: ?

First off, I've been out of action (as far as SF is concerned) for ~24 hours :( Honold, this post is mainly addressed to you. This is a heated and sensitive topic. With heated arguments. It's a debate on points. We seemed to have totally different perspectives on certain issues, and I was...

honold said Really? Even with the absolute, total and complete supriority Israel has WRT to weapons, the power they wield in the region and the ultra-liberal/casual use of force?? How long do you think it'd take them if they wanted to break up a crowd of unarmed Palestinians??? You must be...

honold wrote: The way you handle a civil protest is to disperse the crowd first. Do your dirty work (bull-dozing) when you're sure no civilian is around. Whether the girl fell or not, whether it's her fault for being there or not, is immaterial. The bulldozer driver should have stopped, turned...

Sorry, Coug, whether you killed one or two, you're still a killer. Fushigi, my habits mostly match yours (mousing/typing), except that I only mouse with my left hand when my right is dead beat. A gal that used to work with me (circa 1993) had a severe case of RSI. She used to use a large...

Thanks for the info, Bozo.

Sure I'll use that word. 1. I'm not in medical school 2. I have not and don't plan to "live in sin" 3. I'm not a lesbian 4. I'm not attracted to 300lb people I used the word gallant in the old-fashioned sense of a knight in shining armour coming to the rescue. Where is it written that knights...

At the time Israel was created, weren't the Palestinians promised their own country? IIRC, Britain was the main negotiator / arbitrator during those events. Everybody has conveniently forgotten about those poor people who had lived in that area for so many hundreds of years. As jtr1962 pointed...

The gallant Merc rides to the rescue! Deleting my cookie seems to have done the trick; hopefully I'll stay fixed (err, I don't mean in that sense, ok). Thanks, Merc! You're the best! :)))

Even since the change in forums, my auto login won't stick, and I can't see which posts have changed since my last visit. I've muckesd with my profile enough. Help, p-l-e-a-s-e?? TIA :rabbit:

What both of you said echoes my own sentiments. You might know that an American college girl who had gone there to see things for herself was mowed down and killed by an Israeli tank. Right in front of other people. This was not an accident; she was protesting and stood her ground when the tank...

http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news150/news150.htm#2475

Methinks some of you are jumping the gun without knowing more. Ford wouldn't have signed on if implementation would have been difficult / not worthwhile.

Coug: In addition to opticaldrivicide, you are now guilty of rodenticide. Fushigi: I think it's really cool to be ambidextrous! Do you ever find yourself clicking non-existent buttons with the wrong hand?

Helloooo there, and thanks for posting. Yes, I agree fuel-cell is where it's at. A decade or so down the road. In the interim, hybrid solutions are better than status quo, no?

Thanks for that right-click tip; I didn't know that. Learn something new everyday. I cleared my browser cache and came back here; sure enough, the pic is gone.

Aha! I cut and paste the URl in my browser, saw the graphic on DSL reports, hit the back button on my browser, and can now see the same pic in the "Better Pic" post made by clocker. I'll bet if I clear my browser cache and come back to this thread the pic will be gone.

Doug: I still don't see 'em. I can't even see the URL when I mouse over the "pic"; there's just a placewholder there for me. Thanks for pasting the URL in your response, though.

Somehow "Firewire Dildo" doesn't sound too comfortable......now USB dildo has a nice, mysterious ring to it.

Methinks you're in good company, plump one. I can't see no pictures either.

Awright, 1-of-9, I'll back off. Hoping and dreaming ain't against the law, AFAIK.

Oh, poop. I was hoping somebody could corroborate the tall performance claims Intel makes on their website for IAA.

While the silicon may be slower, they're faster because they do things in parallel (array).

USB powered beverage warmer---now there's an idea worth looking into....

Here.

I tried to post in the Computer forum, and got a "Page cannot be found" after I hit the submit button. Same thing happened last night, about 9:30 pm PST. Tracing route to storageforum.net [207.99.69.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.2.1 2 15 ms 16...

If indeed the IHS is effective, one would think the mfrs would make the IHS out of metal with a really low thermal resistance??

$90 + shipping for a 2-port USB (1.1 probably) hub. Maybe they first send out some dope to the dope who'd buy it. Was the hellow a play on meow? :wink:

Listen, .Nut, I always thought Guerilla was a Spanish Gorilla! :wink:

Thaks Blake, buck. Buck, you didn't give your opinionon the product, and recommendation as to using / not using it........

Anybody use it? (I know most people here are AMD types) Does it break anything? Does it actually do anything useful? The Inquirer has a news item raving about it. I can't test/use it - I'm still chugging along on good ol 440BX, but some people I know may benefit from it, but I can't go...

But really, what good does it do for people buying just the processor? You'd have to go thru hell to return it after you've stuck it in a motherboard and found out that it doesn't run at the claimed speed. It's not like the proc is DOA; it works, doesn't it?

Splash, yes all this is old news. That "flywheel stores energy" concept had some serious money behind it too; one of the founders of Compaq (forget his name) put oodles of his money; his brother, who was a scientist with many patents was also involved. In the end, the dangers outweighed the...

Gas/electric and Gas/hydraulic hybrids are one way to address your concerns. SHEP ic claimed to be superior to Gas/Electric in many ways. What amazes me is nobody has commented on this thread other than you. If the claims are indeed true, this is big news. Where are the car buffs? e-dawg...

Forgot to add: uses an Ifield Pump/Motor (IPM) "the most efficient hydraulic pump/motor available". I presume people in the hydraulics field should have heard about the IPM then.

Came across some info about SHEP Technologies (http://www.shepinc.com/). Stored Hydraulic Energy Propulsion. Developed by an independent inventor, Ford is apparently deep into this technology. Claims of 32% better acceleration, 38% better mileage, 51% less pollution, brake maintenance down by...

The "40K STR" and "20K STR" confuse me. What are we referring to? Surely not transfer rates? Can't be MTBF's either. So where is the "safety" or "reliability" data listed? :cry:

Well, I guess I'm wrong. I remember reading in a couple of places that Silicon Image was SiiG. :oops:

Regarding the difference in performance between the SiiG and Promise (that's all it always is, right? a promise to perform, one that is never kept??), I remember reading somewhere that the Siig was native SATA while all other cards were PATA with built-in PATA to SATA converters. If this is...

I feel your pain. I recently upgraded someone's HP Pavilion 6912. Added more RAM, and formatted the disk (it had WinME) and installed W2kPro on it. Guess I was lucky; didn't have a single glitch. I would have shot the bloddy thing if it had given me the problems you experienced.

The problem is that all of the SATA adapters available so far have two connectors (drives) only (AFAIK). I'd have preferred four. SCSI looks more attractive from that standpoint. WRT the drive itself, I think a 50% premium over the street price of the urrent sweet spot would have been perfect...

That was interesting! But either that web site or a link in it screwed up IE, and I had to "End Process" IE from the Task Mangler. Anyway, there's a heck of a lot of 'hype' on Colossal's web site. I sincerely hope it's all true. Many times I dream that somebody is able to get cold fusion...

Cisco will operate Linksys as a division and will continue to sell its products under the Linksys brand name Most of the general public probably won't have a clue, and probably won't give a damn, buying the product that the "advisor" at Best Buy or Circuit City or CompUSA or Fry's told them to...

Here: http://news.com.com/2100-1035-993457.html?tag=fd_top Sheesh, I've been reading too many of Tea's posts.

Those exotic limos come with a staff of two: you can't get inside without their help. When you get horizontal, they'll shove you in (unless you're a little person and can walk in without doubling over or leaving your upper body behind). Adcadet, 'ow 'bout a quaint hoss & buggy? (I'm cheating...

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That was hilarious, thanks Jake!

I came very very close to buying a W8500 when they first came out. Tons of room, cleverly designed. I chickened out because they a) are big and b) cost too much (for me). Bought a couple of Antec SX-1030s instead. After some surgery with a Dremel, am quite happy with them.

And you have mail!