I have been running Linux mdadm RAID 5 for years using onboard IDE & SATA and completely different drives (some combination of 300, 500, 500, TB drives all from different manufacturers) and have never had a problem due to differences in drives. General performance is "good," I don't have the numbers offhand but when I was testing it was comparable to ideal configurations with these drives. For the average uses, there's no need to go out of your way.

RAID5 has a nice side effect; if you need to send a drive in for replacement, you don't need to worry about snooping of your data. Not sure how this applies to RAID1.

I have not studied philosophy (or computer science), but from my research, ontologies (which I am trying to apply in social organizations, and also the basis of the semantic web) are where philosophy and computer science most concretely are looking for the same answers. But philosophy itself is more of a notion of a methodical exploration of any topic, that includes all of science. I was waiting to spring that one on the anon troll but never got the chance. ;)

Anyway, I haven't come across William James, but will check him out, he sounds like my kinda guy. You may like Artaud.

Yes, they are a lot simpler, like say sending a bunch of guys with guns to solve another country's problem ("Mission Accomplished!"). But despite some inevitable dead ends (or at least ends no one can really do anything with, that are part of discovery), philosophy is still very much a vital concept, especially when combined with topics such as computer science.

You are right, mr anonymous, the comic book approach with black and white good and evil characters is much better than an analytical approach to being and relations.

That all sounds very rah rah, but please do contrast your caped and cloaked "superheroes" with philosophers, who try to lay out the biggest problems people face, and the most significant of whom come from outside the US. (I'm not going to try to explain manga here).

US dominance in technology and business comes from the ashes of WW II, where the rest of the world was in ruins, particularly Russia after losing millions to Germany.

This is not an anti US tirade, just trying to bring some balance...

If your using tables for layout, that's a terrible practice that was deprecated a long time ago, for very good reasons. Tables are for tabular data, get it? Someone using a screen reader has to listen to a lot of crap that has nothing to do with tabular data to access your badly designed sites, and all kinds of other devices can't interpret your site with any meaning.

Learn how to use modern HTML.

Someone in Sun, recognizing what a crock it is, immediately called their efforts "Web N+0" shortly after Web 2.0 was coined.

My feeling is that "Web 2.0" was a giant waste of time distraction, and "we" should have kept on with what xml is doing at a high level. But people got put off by cooperating.