No match there. Like most of the poster's have said, Top Gear is entertaining, but the three buffoons on this program are definitely mental midgets who will do anything - short of suicide - to get ratings. Scratch that part about suicide - they have tried that too. Take Top Gear for what it is: entertainment and nothing else. It is definitely not a car enthusiast show.

Sounds like a rocket with wheels on it. Hardly qualifies as a "car" IMHO.

MORON!

Uh, yes. Gamers are willing to drop 6 or 7 big ones for a good card or even more if they get two to run in parallel. Actually, I would say that $250 is probably the low end of mid-range.

I always thought that the signs were applicable to your birth date. Has everyone changed their original birth date? I doubt it. So, if you were born an Aries, you are still an Aries and always will be an Aries. The new charts only apply to new births IMHO.

Uh, no, not really. It really is pretty easy.

Sign me up.

Seriously, what is the big deal? I think it would be cool to see some of the old actors animated to do new movies. Steve McQueen racing around San Francisco in a new Mustang would be a hoot.

Have we forgotten that one of the first things the airlines did was to re-enforce the cockpit doors and establish rules that no one - absolute no one - goes in there while the plane is in flight?

Also remember that there is probably a U.S. Marshall on-board most flights. Your chances of flying into a building are probably lower today than pre 911. And that's without the misguided TSA agent looking for your balls.

Uh, I don't think so. I believe that most people will still use NAT even in their home environments so the ISPs are still going to only see one connection to the Firewall/router.

I'm an avid gamer and a Vietnam vet. I play COD (all PC versions) and some Battlefield games from EA. I have, but do not play Battlefield Vietnam. I tried it and wasn't comfortable.

We have a few 100 TBs of SAN storage in our hospital. Some people would consider having the storage laid out as RAID 10 on each array and the production data base software mirrored across 3 arrays to be wasteful. Not really. Recently we had one of the data centers shutdown when maintenance was doing a generator test and forgot to put the generator in by-pass. The entire data center went dark, but the Epic application continued to run because of the mirroring done between data centers.

It took some time to clean up the mess that was caused, but the data base never went down.

As to the third mirror, we use that for nightly backups. The database is frozen in time, the mirror snapped off and moved to a different server. We backup the data base to tape, refresh a SUP{port} instance, and run integrity checks on the mirror. Once everything has completed, we bring the mirror (storage) back over to the production server and resync the volumes.

All in all, I'd say we have an HA solution that is pretty much bullet proof. It takes a lot of storage, but it gets the job done. As to waste, very little is actually wasted.

Damn, I knew there was a reason I was thinking of moving to Texas.

I have had a problem for years with nVIDIA cards overheating. So, I have the profile setup to run the fans as max speed. Makes the system a little noisy, but then again, when a grenade goes off in your face, the fan noise is not an issue.

I run the Epic servers at 85% CPU and nearly 100% memory. However, having said that, I must admit that Epic runs on AIX 5.3 on a p570 server. I would NEVER try to run my Windows system at those levels. At 50% CPU and memory, Windoze (I have XP for stuff that needs windoze) starts to have really issues.

Not all round pegs will fit in square holes.