Since they seem to spend so much time in the desert, this should work out fine.

Just to go one further: a phobia can often manifest itself as avoidance. Not just of cockroaches, per se, but one might avoid places they believe could contain a cockroach. Depending on severity, it could cripple one's ability to function normally.

No cop has ever (and likely never will) "risked his life to protect me" unless he happens to be my uncle. In fact, it's been repeatedly confirmed as a matter of law that they are not -- and cannot be -- EXPECTED to do so. It's "not their job."

Then you are one of the folks who didn't get bitten by the issues with them. The past two releases have had wireless issues with Network Manager, and I've had Pulseaudio issues since they introduced it.

The more they put "vision" ahead of "practicality," as in "making the damn thing work," the fewer people will go with them. They are not Apple, and they need to lose the delusion that they are.

Anyone whose first reaction to the above post was "that's insightful", you have some reading to do. If you read it and your first thought was "Whoosh", you can keep your geek card. (Insightful can be your second thought, of course).

Anyone in the first group, go read Hitchhiker's Guide please.

"No Liberty without Representation!"

"Live Free or Die!"

"Remember the Alamo!"

Slogans is how the gestalt of democracy works. You hear the slogan, compare its implied argument towards your understanding of the facts, and either cheer or boo. This is not new, and I suspect if the ancient greeks and romans had better record-keeping (and movable type), you'd be able to find similar slogans as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

[McCarthy is dragging yet another random name from the List, when Head Counsel for the Army Joseph Welch responds.]

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think that I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. "

When McCarthy tried to go on the attack once more, Welch stepped in again and famously rebuked:

" Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

McCarthy had none. Apparently, neither do you.

Truck owners have been dealing with IFTA for a long time.

You mean it's bloated. I'm using Chromium now and it's faster, uses less memory, and has all the truly important functionality with few extensions. Firefox incorporated stuff that should have been plugins, in fact, stuff that used to be plugins, like a sidebar and dictionaries with syntax underlining. Except, of course, chromium has that stuff, and it's still smaller and faster.

I have no loyalty to software. I see no reason why I should have any. Chromium is superior and available under the same license. That's enough for me!

Although Atoms already have the GPU on-die nowadays...

Wow, that's a LOT of features. But I love this part...

Currently the code is in an early implementation phase, and not all of these have yet been implemented.

They even forgot to mention these other interesting Btrfs features that make it WAY better than all of the other file systems:

Solar powered journaling
Quantum string mirroring
Automated backup cameras
Continuous vacuum suction with no loss of data
and it's high in Omega-3 fatty acids.

"Far" left/right is most likely an overstatement, though (or so I would hope...)

Inquiring mind wants to know what book that might be... (hey, a mind from somewhat different culture, with some number of great books you might have never heard about! ;p )

More than that, you might not need even 7200 RPM drives. There are large capacity "green line" drives from some manufacturers, 5400 RPM, that might be perfectly enough.

I'm sure other posters will have much better recommendations as to how the overall setup should look like, but for whatever it's worth from me - stay away from consumer NAS solutions, they have usually quite small transfers (and I guess its important to you, with files being rather big). Large tower with plenty of space inside + Atom motherboard should be enough, otoh (as long as that Atom board has enough SATA ports...)

That's still very US centric. Apple has "mindshare" lately, it seems. And only 2% of total mobile phone sales, 15% on "smartphone" sales (with Nokia having half of that, and 37% of the total)

Behind Nokia there is Samsung with 20% (in a year, large part of their phones will suddenly be "smartphones"), LG 11%, SE & Motorola 5% both, (who knows how many more here, between 5 and 2%)