http://www.metawatch.com/

And honestly I love it.

I basically got it because I would often miss texts and calls coming from my iPhone because I tend to leave it on vibrate. I sometimes don't feel it going off in my pocket and if it is in my coat or bag I won't get the message until way to late. I see posts out there that tend to be pretty contemptuous along the lines of "Oh poor hipster, it's just too damned difficult to get your phone out...", and honestly yes...yes it is if you don't carry the phone in your friggin' pocket. The key here is the simplicity of the display. The watch itself is a little clunky and complex and the button arrangement takes some getting use to. The display however is pretty clean and simple, and the watch does not try to do any aside from be another way to get basic info to your eyeballs.

Which just proves your ignorance, Social Security comes from a separate bucket than 'Federal Income Taxes'. While you can take the whole of Domestic Spending and lump them into one thing and claim 'see how much we spend' it's not really fair. Social Security is taxed separately on payroll and does not come out of the general fund. It also does not figure into the general budget. You want to have a discussion about SS security and it's associated wotes, fine, but it should not be part of the budget debate because honestly it does not figure.

I have Ubuntu and Win 7 dual booted and I have been finding myself on Win 7 more and more. It has came down to the fact that I have two kids, a wife, a job, and a house. I just don't have the time to keep dicking with config files on Ubuntu to make things happen on the machine. Don't get me started on tweaking WINE.

Video conferencing is for two parties to voice chat, video chat, and share data, etc for a set period of time. I think what you really should think about is a webcam streaming service. There are many sites out there that allow you to embed a live feed from a webcam in a webpage for a small fee. A lot of them will provide the page and give you direct URL and provide the local client software to stream the feed to the web page. You get one for your computer, your wife gets one for the home PC. You watch their page and they watch yours. All of this is designed to run full time as long as the PC is on, can be set to start at boot up, will save your settings and logon info etc. That way you have an always on solution. I don't remember the service I used to use. A quick look at google got me to ustream.com

Which is dumb because you just move the bottleneck to the system bus or network card

Ummmm...they say that they have been waiting for Live Migration....I would say that prior to this feature being released it is safe to say that Hyper-V was not meeting their needs. I believe the author's point was that it appeared that Nissan upper management may have rammed Hyper-v through because they got a 'sweet deal' from MS, rather than buying a more expensive product that had the features they originally wanted.

In the post the writer states that SATA drives
have a URE rate of approx. 12 Terabytes. I would think that the URE rate applies to a single drive. Meaning that on any given drive you can expect for every 12 TB you will get an error. The key here is *for any given drive*. Therefore isn't it erroneous to apply that error rate across multiple drives? Every drive resets the chances back to 12 TB limit. Since drives are still limited to about 1-2 TB in size I would think this issue is years off. When drives are 12 TB then there will be issues.

Can someone tell me if I am wrong?