The Voodoo Rush predates both the Voodoo 2 and the Banshee card. FYI.

Incorrect.

The Voodoo Rush and Voodoo Banshee were both single card solutions that pre-date the Voodoo 3. I've had all three.

Is Australia not a free market? If people are willing to pay the premium price, then Apple has priced appropriately!

Lots of Australian Whining. Why don't you guys try making your own shit domestically? Or buy items abroad and import them?

Oh, it's a pain and expensive to import stuff? No kidding.

I think you're confused as to what a "right" is.

It doesn't mean it's given to you. It means you are given the opportunity to pursue it without undue harassment by the Gov. In a sense, things that are rights can also be a privilege if there is an associated cost. Really, all rights, natural and otherwise come at a cost. Even freedom is directly free, but in indirectly has a cost in that at some point you have to fight for it.

I personally think this is bad news bears all around. The infrastructure is already spread thin - at least judging by my internet speeds and costs. Last thing we need is a flux of new subscribers that are low-income (read: jobless or underemployed) who have all the time in the world to suck up my precious bandwidth.

If people want internet, they can work for it just like I have to. It's not a necessity to survive. Last thing these people need is another incentive not to succeed.

Flex Fuel vehicles already monitor this with a fuel composition sensor. It measures Ethanol content from 0-100% with a variable frequency between 50-150Hz, and Fuel temp with a pulse-width between 1 and 5ms.

Too bad it costs at least $400 or it'd be fun to play with.

Good one but in truth virtually nobody complains at the actual checkpoint, to TSA people. I fly a lot more than most people, generally at least twice a month. My experience is in general everybody falls in line, does what they are told and gets the hell out of there as fast as possible. Rare is the case when somebody is outwardly angry. Even people who have to dump out entire bags of over 3.4oz size toiletries do so with a smile and only complain once they've made it through.

So yes, somebody who is bitching and moaning is going to stick out.

A reptile is a type of animal. WTF, did I just get baited?

I still say Gee-You-Eye. And I still say Ess-Cee-Ess-Eye instead of Scuzzy.

I'm an ultra-geek I guess.

While not in 1U format or a lot of off the shelf NAS boxes use ARM. My LG N2R1 NAS has a 800MHz Marvell 88F6192 and runs Lenny. I won't be surprised to see some NanoITX boards out running similar hardware. Plus, I've been very impressed with how many Debian packages are available for ARMEL. While not perfect, it's the most useful Linux server I've ever had.

You are missing a big point here. Saying somebody is a pedophile or rapist in ANY public forum whether it be the internet or a posting on the bulletin board at the local grocery store, is a VERY serious accusation that can cause lasting repercussions for the person. If that person happens to be a teacher it makes it greatly more amplified. The internet hasn't changed that, just made it easier to spread the word.

Something else the internet does is remove a lot of plausible deniability. If you scribble it on a bathroom stall wall, it's much less likely to come back to bite you - and is also less likely to be taken seriously because well, it's anonymous. If you post it on your password protected facebook wall? Prepare for the pain train.

While I'm generally on the side of freedom of speech and lack of censorship on the internet, there are still some lines that can be crossed. This is one of them. And these kids need a lesson in what not to say to blow off steam about a teacher or your school.

Actually sure an F-18 could do it either.

But a top fuel drag car can easily do it without breaking a sweat.

Not that it changes your comments merit much.

There is a name for this phenomenon, and it was once a primary part of 'network' communication in the United States. Sneakernet.

If my Core 2 Duo machines are working fine on OSX and Windows 7 now, what benefit will I gain if it's twice as fast? Why that arbitrary number?

The days of the average person noticing a huge difference between upgrades is behind us at least for now. While I'd love something faster for encoding, that impulse to buy something new goes away the second the encoding task is done. Kinda like masturbating and when you're done you're like, "Whew, glad I didn't do anything rash!"

An experienced user might also have a NAS box that takes care of that issue. And they would also use a backup solution for important stuff. This really isn't a big problem for 99.9% of computer users.

An eSATA port that I suspect goes unused, no infact, unnoticed in 99% of all cases. I'm a Slashdot reading supergeek and even I have never in the years I've owned it used the eSATA port on my laptop. With a NAS box (which does also have sSATA) and a couple high speed USB external drives that are ubiquitously compatible I do okay. Sure every once in a while the speed would be nice but I digress...

Similarly, I suspect 99% of all shipped prebuilt name-brand desktops also never see a third SATA device in their useful lifetimes.

The simple fact is the majority of computer consumers never upgrade their hardware, they just buy a new system in a few years when the old one 'breaks'. Now the kid that ends up with the second hand hardware is a different story, but by then, who cares?

Sometimes it's hard for geeks to realize they are far in the minority...