You get to sell tickets.

The name is somewhat missleading, you aren't sponsoring a 'valve' but instead your logo covering portion of an image of the valves used... I would much rather be part of it if the sponsorship was tied to an actual valve, however I understand how that would be less for them.

What they are currently 'selling' is 1,000,000 pixels at 0.1£ per pixel, minimum donation of 100 pixels (10£). So in the end they would be getting 1,000,000£ minus paypal costs.

If you could be a sponsor to the upkeep of a physical valve the corresponding cost would be 400£ per valve. Truth be told, I'd be interested in doing that as an annual contribution, especially if there was some sort of physical plaque somewhere on site stating who was sponsoring the project and how many valves they sponsored.

The "Experimental" tag is applied to anything except for vanilla factory builds, even changing engine from factory default usually ends up with an "experimental" sign on the aircraft. The tag does not reflect on it's safety. They do have a higher incidence of accidents then factory, but that seems to be attributed to second owners rather than builders, and very rarely to the aircraft itself.

Platteville, WI

Active quarry right next to the movie theater... every once in a while they decide to help out with special effects. :)

Wow, how many points wrong can you get...

Actually I give up, you have so much wrong about firewire that it's pointless to correct you point for point...

The reason Firewire is more expensive is that it's a system that requires some processing on both sides, any device that plugs into firewire has to have sufficient smarts to know what it needs in order to operate, USB on the other hand is a dumb protocol, all the processing is handled on the Host (PC) side, and all the devices plugged into it need very little smarts, this directly effects chip/design costs of peripherals. Firewire was actually designed with the concept that a scanner with a firewire port and a printer with a firewire port could be connected together and pictures printed without using computer resources.

USB also has the limitation of regimented and inflexible bandwidth (at least as of USBv2, v3 might change that). Which means while USB 2 may have 480mb of 'bandwidth' only a small chunk of that is usable by any one device, Firewire however is flexible, not only can it portion the bandwidth to the devices need but it can also use "Isochronous" (regular dedicated) bandwidth, allowing high-priority/bandwidth systems to transfer information, such as video/audio streams and critical systems (some internal aircraft systems use 1394 bus).

You want lots of high-speed external storage access, check some benchmarks, firewire will beat out USB for real-world performance, even though they are fairly matched just reading spec numbers.

Firewire is both faster and better than USB, however it's more expensive in both hardware and design/implementation, which is why USB has won that fight, the majority of people are all about cheep, not better.

Maybe it took so long to get through because the Apple people kept having it crash on them.

I experienced my first crash using the Google+ app for 2 min... I mean... I know Google is the "Beta" Company but come on now! Between the few friends I have on Google+ with iPhones, and myself, I think we've racked up maybe 10 to 15 crashes on the first afternoon of use. We've also experienced issues with it properly updating comments and such.

Hopefully they will get crackin and improve the stability quickly.

Hard linking of files yes, but hard linking of directories no.

This is important for Time Machine space saving because instead a directory full of hard links to files it's one hard link to the directory. Each link takes a bit of space, dropping several thousand of them saves a lot of space on the backup drive without losing any information.

Thanks for the invite!

BTW, how do I invite my friends, just add them to a circle?