And always plenty of money to blow shit up in far away countries.

Monsters, once created, seldom die easy.

* Rolls d20 *

Ooh, sorry, you're still a virgin.

AD&D: Treasures of Tarmin on arguably the worst system ever, the Mattel Aquarius. Played the hell out that one.

I doubt it's too slow, in fact it's likely very fast, and the BIOS issue is no doubt very real, but hardly the first time it's been an issue (and hardly unforseen by BIOS makers). It may be the case that the firmware might not be up to speed with respect to things like TCQ and the like (which seagate has had major issues with in the recent past). So in an effort to get this thing to market as quickly as possible, they could be papering over those problems with USB allright as their external controller can just dance around any problems in the drives firmware. I'd just note that external SATA is _not_ an option, although that proves nothing.

I would advise some caution if attempting to use this drive internally.

Linux Weekly News perhaps? http://lwn.net/

> Fortunately, that quarter of a tank will still get us as far as we need to go and then some.

And where is it that we're going?

Wanting to control the lives of others is selfish. To live unfettered from the personal whims of others is not selfish -- it's called freedom.

Same. Loki Linux version. I'd really love to see a sequel to that game, although I'm not sure how it could be improved much. I suppose improved AI and graphics would be nice. They'd probably just dumb it down and simplify it though.

Now we can build Gatling Lasers on our units, and we're one step closer to Fusion Power!

About as realistic as all the photoshopped girls.

It could also be the outright theft too. My in-laws are Chinease and not once have they managed to visit without something going missing in their (security) checked luggage. You can bet the government paid thieves at O'hare International would be living large in the event of an Olympics there. The IOC made a good call in my opinion.

Let me know when they have 5U 24 hot-swap drive cardboard rackmount cases. :-) Seriously though, this might be a good idea, I don't know. I do know no one reuses their cases anymore, but maybe a handful of people who know how to put a machine together, and only then if the machine isn't destined to be hand-me-down or somesuch. Just thinking of all the worthless-when-they-were-new E-machines out there makes me think it might just be a really good idea. As far as getting it wet goes, just paint it, which you'd probably want to do anyway just to make it presentable.

They can carry disease, although rats are more dangerous in that respect. Mice may just look enough like rats to trigger the same response.

If I've got my maths right, that only works out to about 250 picobalmers, which is only about a quarter of a thrown chair. That's poor design if you ask me.