Idea: Every week JarJar gets killed through his own stupidity, much like Kenny on South Park.....

I just built this last week:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancod/3679263377/

8 x 1TB drives: $712
PSU: $92
Case: $29
RAM: $34
CPU/MOBO: $131
Intel RAID card: $275
Cache/Battery: $112

Total: $1385 (all items free shipping)

Don't know how you're going to get $1000 for 10TB and have it be worth a shit.

10 or a million, it's the same content douchebag. Public speaking is a forte of those in this position and while it takes some work, "months" is insane, not to mention sacrificing personal health and holidays with family. All I'm saying he's not demoing table-top fusion that he needs to write a masters thesis on, they're refreshes of flippin' iPods and PeeCees that he sells to the masses that, in general, would buy his feces in a bag if he offered it up.

And I got modded troll - for a brief instant in time I forgot why I never post up here....

Seriously - months to prepare? I've seen massive numbers of keynotes in my day, and while they're impressive speeches, they're just that. Why would anyone need more than a couple weeks for this, much less a techno-weenie like Jobs? I've given a talk to 1,400 with a week to take over someone else's content....

...perhaps he'll demo the iVagina?

2 Worst MoBos I ever owned: Abit and Abit

You seem to have missed the point of COTS entirely. And you're way off the mark on the price differential - unless you're talking about an 8 CPU "supercomputer".

The whole reason HPTC bled down to COTS product was the outrageous costs of more proprietary hardware AND the fact that COTS product performance and reliability were on a massive upswing.

I work with LOTS of customers using HPTC - and very, very few of them are still running a single application. It's the nature of growth & development - there are older apps and there are newer apps.

There's a 235 node 10G InfiniBand connected HP-based supercomputer humming right behind me as I type this....

Could you be any more wrong?

I'm not a MAC owner, but I do know that it's the only platform that can "run all three" - Windoze, Linux, and Mac OS. Seems quite the logical choice for a developer.....

Toyauto is getting exactly what they wanted - attention. Corporate trolling at its finest.

Move along, nothing to see here...

My guess is $28,000.00 for the complete camera

Yet another camera mere mortals can't afford. Next.

Um, then what? The police get to just confiscate your car because some "magic box" says so?

No, they investigate it as normal, which may or may not include confiscating your car if there is sufficient evidence. Are you purposely thick?

If you weren't using a telephoto lens or a telescope or something else to magnify the image, then it probably wasn't the actual disc you were resolving. It was probably just the excess light from Mars "bleeding" onto adjacent detectors on the surface of the camera's CCD. Or maybe the camera had trouble focusing?

For comparison, I have a 2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, and when I hook it up to my 3.5" newtonian telescope, the disc is still tiny. You really need a telescope or a serious telephoto lens to be able to resolve the disc.

Actually, I was in an Electronics Boutique about two weeks ago attempting to play with the demo unit when it completely locked up. When I hit the reset button (which is quite prominently placed on the front of the kiosk) I got an error quite similar to the one shown on HardOCP. My friends andI had quite a laugh, and left without wanting to buy an XBOX. It is NOT an urban myth.