Far from it, mid-engined cars are designed to put more weight on the rear wheels, with better cornering being just one of the benefits. The Porsche Carrera GT (like many 911-based cars over the last oh...5 DECADES) simply has an obscene amount of horsepower to go with the mid-engine benefits. My old FIAT X1/9 cornered better than a Corvette circa 1990s, but with only 75bhp I never had the problems these overpowered cars exhibit.

Anyone who drives one of the Porsche 911 derivatives (or several alternatives in the same broad price range) without taking enhanced driving instruction is just another example of the "too much money, not enough brains" crowd, and quite often also a winner of the Darwin Award.

Linux was released in 1991. Windows began in 1985. Neither more than superficially resembles its current implementation, either visually or when you drill down to the code, but Windows is older. Also, Android does not run on Linux, it IS Linux, one of many distributions or "distros" of Linux.

Seems you are more similar to Steve Jobs, with his wonderful Reality Distortion Field.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it is theoretically possible to recover everything ever written to a drive, and practically possible to recover from 3 to 5 previous writes. It just requires hideously expensive and sensitive equipment, with the price going up significantly the further back you want to go. A recovery that goes beyond what the average software recover utility can do generally costs $3-5k or so, as it can require connecting a special controller to the drive or removing the disc from the drive in a cleanroom. There is only one way to guarantee that a drive is never going to be recoverable, destroy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcT_AvCRgT8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXh6RVTuq0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe8fOCWL2sU (just a few examples)

The RIAA and other such bodies like to quote statistics indicating what piracy cost their industry in whatever given period of time they are touting at the time, but in reality it's 100% BS. People who pirate wouldn't have bought it in the first place, nor would they if they were reliably prevented from pirating, so this mythical dollar figure is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

This is not just government, this is humanity in general. Only a small percentage of people strive for excellence.

The rest just grab for whatever gives us the most for the least amount of money. This is why VHS won out over Betamax, AC over DC, and so many other inferior products are scattered all over the landscape (and landfills) of the modern world.

You are still talking about a lot of data, and personally I don't want anything my livelihood relies on to be floating around outside my (closed) network, where potentially anyone could get ahold of it.

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I wouldn't care to rely on any government to [fail to] do something I can do [rather well] myself.

Too bad they killed the Canadian Avro Arrow due to a weak Prime Minister (like all our Progressive Conservative PMs) at the time, in the face of American pressure to bury it so their inferior designs would not be shown for the failures they were. It would still be a superior jet fighter today, and would not require $44,000 to fly one single mission like the F-22.

Just goes to show that stupid laws and anal retentive cops with nothing better to do on any given evening are a universal, global phenomenon.

Download finishes 15 seconds later? Try minutes to hours later when it gets really congested, that is if it finishes at all rather than aborting due to packet loss.

I have yet to see anything better than this for a brobdignagian computer screen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=047K74N0UQM

Now that you can get an emulator for practically anything*, there isn't much of a point to messing around with these old systems (I'll admit I've done it a-plenty in the past for various reasons).

*seriously, I finally after years am able to play Master of Magic again with almost perfect audio (which I haven't been able to do before) using DOSbox 0.73, and I can play old NES games on of all things, my iPod Touch. Yes, nostalgic games are my only use for old systems/emulators.

Have you eliminated every other possible factor? After all, if your database is on a SAN, it is completely unaffected by the VM running on the machine that accesses the SAN.

It could be that you need to optimize either your SAN configuration or your database access configuration, or even possibly be your indexes (this being said not knowing your experience level in database management and index optimization).

Seems you missed the relevant point, which is *which* systems he was referring to when he said "Designing these systems is a serious challenge."

Out of context arguments are fail in any field, much less IT. There are a lot more Systems Administrators around (indeed, we are a dime a dozen in this day of cert mill tech colleges) than tightly focused experts who perform a very specific function (and get paid much higher salaries for it, because there are relatively few people capable of performing these functions).

Not only can SAP can be run using Citrix with Linux clients, there is also a native SAP R/3 client for Linux.

Please discontinue disseminating disinformation.
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