Very interesting, very interesting... but.... what the heal is that 'fule' you refer to that can be made from wind energy?

Not true... the previous post does mention a Hummer... not a monster truck I agree, but definitely a larger vehicle... give the guy some credit, he was not entirely wrong in his comment.

I don't think the OP believes only Windows 7 is the only OS that supports soft RAID, but rather he just built a new system and is contemplating on the best solution to add RAID to his system... his question is not "what operating system should I use" but "what raid solution should I use on my Windows 7 system".

Well then I hope she gets AIDS... or Cancer... oh well, both.
Or better yet, I hope she swims in the Amazon and get a Candiru! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru)

Hmmm... interesting, maybe if it generated enough current it could actually travel through time instead of just telling time? Brilliant!

Yes... but a scrapper that scrapes bugs off the flypaper would also scrape the glue off the fly paper, rendering it pretty useless, right?

I seriously doubt that... we live in a digital world where nothing is lost anymore. Granted, it may take some work for you to decode (or find a decoder) for a given file format (software), but the algorithm will never be lost. It is well documented, and available on the Internet, therefore if the need arises, someone can easily write a piece of software to decode it visualize, or write another piece of software to convert to a more "modern" format. Now, if the internet ever goes away.... then we are in trouble.

Wait... what? So you are telling me that you would rather use a media format that is guaranteed not to to last over a couple of hundred of years (if that) over one that could easily last forever, or for as long as we can decode it (read:forever) ?

I will grant you that taking your film to professional labs will greatly increase the longevity of your pictures, along with the cost of getting them processed, but even those labs have quotas to meet, and will cut corners when they are overloaded. This is coming from someone who used to work in a professional photo lab in college, so yes, you can take my word for it.

Now, let's assume that you have a great professional photo lab, which you can afford, and use NASA-like technology to process your film to make sure the water is pure and all chemicals have been properly removed from your originals, and only employs professional photo processors. Can you guarantee that the place where you will store your originals will not degrade their quality? Most people can not. As a matter of fact, for the most part, people won't even keep their negatives after they get their prints done.

Now, granted, there is the whole disaster scenario. But do you truly believe that digital copies are more at risk of being lost due to disaster than hard copies? Also keep in mind that digital copies can be copied with no loss in quality, and stored in a safe place (backup facility for instance), while hard copies cannot be copied without loss of quality, and are a lot more expensive to both copy and keep in a safe (archival) facility.

I used to be a huge supporter of film, and fought digital for a long long time... but now I have two kids, and I worry about my family pictures a lot more than I used to. Also I like that I can shoot away hundreds of pictures not having to worry about: a) running out of film; b) cost of processing all those prints. As soon as I get home the pictures get copied from my notebook to my server and then replicated to a remote computer. My pictures are pretty much safe forever now, even though chances are no one other than my wife and I (and our parents) will ever care to look at them and they will probably end up lost in cyber-space one day after we are gone.

I think the point made on the previous post is that you need to know what you are installing... I have plenty of applications from companies that are unknown by me, I do however do a bit of research before installing anything -- and yes, even from well known vendors -- there is usually pretty good information available online that can hint you as to what something available online for download is legit. And if you don't find anything... just be safe and leave it alone.

It seems most people in here really are in a crusade to prove how great their primitive ways really are... or merely want to show off. I love Linux and there are plenty of things that I can accomplish a lot faster by going to shell than going through all of the menus and options.
However I do believe that unless you are just writing small scripts, for serious development environment, and IDE will greatly increase your productivity, specially if you understand what the IDE is doing for you. A good IDE (IDE != Editor) will improve your abilities to write readable code, test, find bugs, refactor, ..... and yes that can all be accomplished through the shell/by writing your own scripts, but why? Do you really have something to prove?