I see where you're going, but I think the public availability of voting records should be obligatory.
You see, It'll make it easier for my plan, Operation Coyote, where we teleport Acme Anvils directly over the heads of republicans, to come to frutation. So, no worries.
I switched to Comcast after a few years of DSL over Qwests' network (using a local ISP as an ISP), and there's no fuggun' way I'm going back. Out of the two broadband solutions in Denver, Comcast is the least evil of the two. I'd go with speakeasy, but then I'd still be dealing with Qwest for the loop--nuhuh ain't gonna happen. On the whole, I'm plenty happy with Comcast. I bet many other people are in the same situation.
It's easy to stand on a soapbox and proselytise. Just sayin'
3200 Watts for 120 Terra bytes - that's like two hand-held hair dryers!
Or 28,000 kWh per year, i.e. $2800 at $0.10 per kWh (not sure what the going rate is nowadays).
In other words, if you have the money to afford 120 terabytes of storage, let alone the need to have and use that storage, you can probably afford to pay for the electricity to run it.
And as a bonus, you could lease the exhaust from your 120 terabyte storage system to a nearby hair salon so you can kill two birds with one stone.
The cool thing is that the remote has a speaker and the vibrator thing, which they discuss on some of the videos about it. For example when you use the bow, a string stretching sound comes from the remote, and when you release, the speaker in the remote in combination with the stereo sound source make it sound like the arrow leaves your hand, flies to the target and hits. If done correctly, it will be pretty cool.
Much could be done in regards to this, though of course, it's never going to supply resistance unless we figure out a way to manipulate mass instantaneously.
Personally, I think wrestling would be far more entertaining if it were more men vaporizing eachother with plasma rifles, and less, well, wrestling. I mean, flying hair, teeth and eyeballs are far less homoerotic than having a bunch of big hairy men in tights trying to come out on top.
"The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system."
I say we take off and nuke 'em all from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Hey! That's my idea for people who drive wile talking on a cell phone, damnit! You just can't go around stealing other people's ideas so you can go twist them to fit some other problem! I mean, you know what happened the last time someone used a cotton jin to do something it wasn't meant to do? I'll tell you this, it was a tragic day that five men including Burt Reynolds, a goat, a family of opossums, and a small town in Arkansas will NEVER forget!
I'm sorry? Using "ultra-high frequency communications" would serve no purpose as an application to cell communication, unless you cherish the idea of cell companies needing to put a tower every few hundred yards, having your phone put out enough radiation to cook your brains, having your signal blocked by a little bit of rain, and not being able to use your phone whilst inside buildings with walls thicker than cellophane.
Cellphones use the frequencies they use not because it's the best that technology can do, they use those frequencies because it's the most practical way to do it.
"- WIFI map retrieval: ability to acquire and store map data to memory stick over WIFI - Linux/Cygwin script is also provided to generate a map of given size and detail for a given location."
Ostensibly, I'd say this means that, first of all, the program can connect to google maps directly from WiFi, download maps and handle the rest on the fly, this might be good if you had cellphone internet service. Secondly, it appears that there's a script that can download maps from Google's server, and store them on memory stick so they can be accessed when the device can't connect to the net.
You know, all they need to do is swallow a freaking half-pound of plastic explosives and the required detonator with a timer or optional radio trigger. Unlike most mules, anyone smuggling a bomb on board a plane with their person probably dosen't expect they're about coming back, and they haven't started to x-ray passengers yet.
Sure, the terrorists are going to hide their suicide bombs in toothpaste and hair gel. Right. If they really want to get a bomb on a plane they'll find a way, and it's a good bet that it's probably not going to come in a tube o Preparation H.
Yes, I do, in fact. Out of the 50 or so movies I've copied in the last year, maybe three were under 4.5G total disc size (all old Jackie Chan movies, IIRC), and they didn't need to be recompressed or edited to fit on a single layer DVD-R. Sure, like you say most DVDs include filler and extras that don't merit copying, but the vast majority of disks I have still require recompression even after you strip all of that crap and any secondary languages, menus, even intro scenes, the works.
Maybe you've had good luck picking movies that don't need the second layer, but most mainstream movies that I have aren't as compressed as some of the earlier disks were... Most are 5-7.5 GB in size, with the extra languages stripped, which only buys 300-400MB per Dolby Digital 5.1 language anyway (if there's a DTS track, I keep it), maybe 200MB for plain old stereo.. They probably do it because it incontinences rippers just a teeny bit more than it would otherwise, or they really are trying to make the movies look a bit better. I can certainly tell the difference between a rip and the original if it needed even a bit of extra compression, but I do it because I'd rather have friends and family tear up the copy instead, so it works out.
I don't know what crack you're smoking, but just about every DVD from a major studio I've played is in fact double layer, and most of that space is used. This is even true of very old discs!
The bargin bin movies you find at Wal-Mart are usually single layer and fill the 4.5GB, true... However, saying that very few DVDs are both double layer, and use the full space alloted is complete BS. It's more like most, or close to nearly all as the situation is today.
So, Mr. Bush - Al-Quaeda are adherents of this philosophy?Fascism is a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. [wikipedia.org]
Yeah. Ever been to an Islamic state? I hate to side with Bushy on anything, but that satement is basically correct. As an example, look at Hezbollah after they got political power in Lebanon. Corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, and anti-liberalism are all pretty common place things there. The one exception is that many of the basic public services were taken over by Hezbollah: Trash removal, water and sanitation, hospitals and health services, schooling, etc were made better because of the party, that has the slightest hint of socialism, to me. If the weren't for their negatives, the'd be a really compelling force. Then again, the US echos true on some of those statements, less so than just a few little months ago however, as does most of the Islamic world.
That satement is more accurate than it is wrong, relative to the West.
Kevlar material is hardly puncture resistant. A medium strength man can thrust a knife right through the average kevlar vest with little problem, and an arrow (with a normal head) that has the same kinetic energy as a.45 ACP round is much more of a threat than the bullet to an armor wearer. Kevlar when used on a vest is at best "bullet resistant" against bullets that aren't so pointy or high supersonic...
Also, AFAIK, kevlar wasn't developed to make tires more puncture resistant; it was developed to make tires stronger. I don't know of any passenger car tires that are kevlar belted, but I understand that some of the performance tires around have some kevlar on the sidewalls to increase strength. I do know that kevlar belting has found limited use in off-road race tires, motorbike tires, and bicycle tires... I think I read somewhere that they found that kevlar belting didn't have the longevity required by the average road car, and that it affected gas mileage negatively.
There simply isn't an adequate analogy for this situation, as nothing else is like an unsecured access point. Please stop comparing them as such.
So, there's these two princesses back in opposite castles and both are really hot and everyone wants to hit it like there was no tomorrow. One's a complete nymphomaniac and a slut besides that; in other words, she she's ready to screw leprotic beggers at the drop of a hat, and to top it off her castle has a neon sign 500 feet in the air that says "Princess love you long time".
The other princess has a chastity belt and and a sign on her skirt that says "Keepeth out or we'll catapulteth your balls into the next county", and the castle has a bunch of armored cavalry frothing at the mouth to protect her magesty's state of integrity.
Yeah, you're right in a way. Those rewards come out of the percentage that merchants are charged, and they may be tapping the monthly bills people pay, also... But it doesn't matter where the money is coming from. The thing is, our rates haven't gone up because of the rewards programs... The rates haven't changed for a couple decades or so, therefore it can be taken to say that the rewards programs aren't costing us any more, because we aren't paying any more. Sure, if they wanted to charge me 2.2% and forget the rewards programs and other bullshit, that'd be plenty fine by me... However, you can be assured that the result certainly wouldn't be that I could go out and buy another new 911 Carrera, if you get my drift.:)
Anyway, there hasn't been a wholesaler I've worked with that has been so paranoid to the point that they won't just invoice me so we can cut a check for our order later... But then again, I've had prior relationships with those companies, with steadily growing bills that back that business up. I guess if I were dealing in huge volumes with weekly orders of tens of thousands of dollars, I might expect that they would want to see some evidence that I have the means... But in that event we'd have to works something out I expect.
I don't think that credit cards are used so much in a business-to-business manner, unless you count CostCo, or Sam's, that is... But I don't really consider either a true wholesaler; for example, I can be pretty sure that I won't encounter mothers with crying babies trying to buy five gallons of kosher dill pickles and Häagen-Dazs at my other wholesalers. Anyway, if there were a VISA tax on every transaction, like you say, we'd be up the proverbial shit creek without a paddle. No argument there, like they say there's a tool for every purpose.
Uhhh... yes it does. The merchant gets to pay VISA say 4% for the priviledge of letting you pay later and get 1% back. Guess what, the merchant you bought from had to raise prices 5% or even more in order to afford allowing you to make purchases with VISA.
I'm sorry, my business has a merchant account, and that's not the way it works.
VISA, MasterCard take $0.32 and 3.2% out of any transaction (except refunds, obviously) that I send through my machine. It dosen't matter what card my clients hand me, they ALWAYS get thirty-two cents and 3.2 percent... But then I have a good account privider.
AFAIK, all of those rewards programs come directly out of the profits that the bank gets, and not out of the pockets of merchants, I've never heard otherwise. The amount of sales I get simply because spontaneous people have a card but don't have cash more than makes up for the fact that I have to fork over a few bucks. It's the cost of business, and compared to my other costs, it's negligible.
American Express, and Discover, on the other hand, they do take 5% or so, but everyone that has one of those cards also have a Visa, so that's why it's not worth if to deal with them... Plus, I've heard that both card companies are bigger buttheads, despite the fact that they cost more. Not worth it.
I'm pro-choice all the way, man.. And I don't draw the line of "viable life" upon the exit of the womb! I mean, could that be any more arbitrary? Of course not.
Personally, I'm all for legislation that legalizes retroactive abortions, up to about age 23 or so... And should such a law come to pass I already have a list of several deserving candidates!
Then they do a triple take when I tell them that Los Angeles is east of Reno.
However, that's almost understandable. To most people in the world, Nevada contains nothing more than the Las Vegas strip, the Hoover Dam and Area 51... And everyone knows those are east of Los Angeles.
There are other factors to consider as well- my canon 10D has a 9 shot buffer for RAW shots, and some sort of in-between buffer for writing them to the card. I used to hit the end of the buffer all the time, because I never noticed that it wouldn't process the buffer while the shutter was held half-down in the focus position. Talk about a design flaw- but knowing that, I kept my finger off the shutter button whenever possible if the buffer had anything in it (displayed in the viewfinder) and the problem disappeared.
Hrm... I've heard about that. I don't think that my 20D does this, but they may have fixed that in the 20D, or my setup causes it not to happen. You might try changing the auto focus button to the * button in the custom function menu, this way the auto focus is separate from the shutter button. The combo of exposure metering and auto focus might be too much for the camera to juggle. Anyway, I changed the location of the auto focus button a while ago and I find it to be much handier located on the * button.
For one, you don't have to worry about AF while you're focusing manually (you can use AF to ballpark and quickly adjust manually), and you don't have to worry about AF screwing your focus if you let up on the shutter accidentally. Secondly, I get fewer unintentional exposures from being excited or shooting from a bumpy ride. I also have it so that the big wheel is dedicated to changing the AF sensor location. I've found that I do much less fiddling and more getting good shots.
I totally agree with you on the other stuff, those photo tanks are especially nice. It doesn't take too long to fill up a 2GB card when shooting raw (2GB the largest card I use for the reasons you point out), so I find that keeping 3 cards in rotation till I can use the tank to download them is especially handy. Other than that, I think I'm gonna need a bigger disk or a RAID (yes, with backups) to keep all of my photos, as it seems that I don't like to delete anything at all since I don't have to worry about filling up a couple cards! So, the RAWs aren't bad (7MB), but TIFFs from raws for a 20D eat 24MB each! Ouch!
Gas? No. You can go anywhere and get premium gas...
Oil? Now that's a different story! Yeah, you gotta use Ferrari oil, at $70 bucks a quart, if you like your warranty... So happens that the oil is Ferrari red, too. Go figure.
Externally, newer high speed CF cards support PIO mode 3 which supports around 11MB/s (iirc). Since the external interface is much faster than the numbers they publish (the highet read speed being 8.1MB/s) we have to conclude that the limitation is on the other side of the memory controller. The limiting factor in the future will be what modes your camera and reader support, assuming you intend to use these huge flash drives in a camera. My 20D wants one. I heard it say so.
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I see where you're going, but I think the public availability of voting records should be obligatory.
You see, It'll make it easier for my plan, Operation Coyote, where we teleport Acme Anvils directly over the heads of republicans, to come to frutation. So, no worries.
I switched to Comcast after a few years of DSL over Qwests' network (using a local ISP as an ISP), and there's no fuggun' way I'm going back. Out of the two broadband solutions in Denver, Comcast is the least evil of the two. I'd go with speakeasy, but then I'd still be dealing with Qwest for the loop--nuhuh ain't gonna happen. On the whole, I'm plenty happy with Comcast. I bet many other people are in the same situation.
It's easy to stand on a soapbox and proselytise. Just sayin'
3200 Watts for 120 Terra bytes - that's like two hand-held hair dryers!
Or 28,000 kWh per year, i.e. $2800 at $0.10 per kWh (not sure what the going rate is nowadays).
In other words, if you have the money to afford 120 terabytes of storage, let alone the need to have and use that storage, you can probably afford to pay for the electricity to run it.
And as a bonus, you could lease the exhaust from your 120 terabyte storage system to a nearby hair salon so you can kill two birds with one stone.
The cool thing is that the remote has a speaker and the vibrator thing, which they discuss on some of the videos about it. For example when you use the bow, a string stretching sound comes from the remote, and when you release, the speaker in the remote in combination with the stereo sound source make it sound like the arrow leaves your hand, flies to the target and hits. If done correctly, it will be pretty cool.
Much could be done in regards to this, though of course, it's never going to supply resistance unless we figure out a way to manipulate mass instantaneously.
Personally, I think wrestling would be far more entertaining if it were more men vaporizing eachother with plasma rifles, and less, well, wrestling. I mean, flying hair, teeth and eyeballs are far less homoerotic than having a bunch of big hairy men in tights trying to come out on top.
"The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system."
I say we take off and nuke 'em all from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Hey! That's my idea for people who drive wile talking on a cell phone, damnit! You just can't go around stealing other people's ideas so you can go twist them to fit some other problem! I mean, you know what happened the last time someone used a cotton jin to do something it wasn't meant to do? I'll tell you this, it was a tragic day that five men including Burt Reynolds, a goat, a family of opossums, and a small town in Arkansas will NEVER forget!
I'm sorry? Using "ultra-high frequency communications" would serve no purpose as an application to cell communication, unless you cherish the idea of cell companies needing to put a tower every few hundred yards, having your phone put out enough radiation to cook your brains, having your signal blocked by a little bit of rain, and not being able to use your phone whilst inside buildings with walls thicker than cellophane.
Cellphones use the frequencies they use not because it's the best that technology can do, they use those frequencies because it's the most practical way to do it.
Quoth the article:
"- WIFI map retrieval: ability to acquire and store map data to memory stick over WIFI
- Linux/Cygwin script is also provided to generate a map of given size and detail for a given location."
Ostensibly, I'd say this means that, first of all, the program can connect to google maps directly from WiFi, download maps and handle the rest on the fly, this might be good if you had cellphone internet service. Secondly, it appears that there's a script that can download maps from Google's server, and store them on memory stick so they can be accessed when the device can't connect to the net.
I think it's a neat hack.
You know, all they need to do is swallow a freaking half-pound of plastic explosives and the required detonator with a timer or optional radio trigger. Unlike most mules, anyone smuggling a bomb on board a plane with their person probably dosen't expect they're about coming back, and they haven't started to x-ray passengers yet.
Sure, the terrorists are going to hide their suicide bombs in toothpaste and hair gel. Right. If they really want to get a bomb on a plane they'll find a way, and it's a good bet that it's probably not going to come in a tube o Preparation H.
Damn, and I was just thinking the exact same thing like 15 minutes ago.
You don't routinely copy disks do you?
Yes, I do, in fact. Out of the 50 or so movies I've copied in the last year, maybe three were under 4.5G total disc size (all old Jackie Chan movies, IIRC), and they didn't need to be recompressed or edited to fit on a single layer DVD-R. Sure, like you say most DVDs include filler and extras that don't merit copying, but the vast majority of disks I have still require recompression even after you strip all of that crap and any secondary languages, menus, even intro scenes, the works.
Maybe you've had good luck picking movies that don't need the second layer, but most mainstream movies that I have aren't as compressed as some of the earlier disks were... Most are 5-7.5 GB in size, with the extra languages stripped, which only buys 300-400MB per Dolby Digital 5.1 language anyway (if there's a DTS track, I keep it), maybe 200MB for plain old stereo.. They probably do it because it incontinences rippers just a teeny bit more than it would otherwise, or they really are trying to make the movies look a bit better. I can certainly tell the difference between a rip and the original if it needed even a bit of extra compression, but I do it because I'd rather have friends and family tear up the copy instead, so it works out.
I don't know what crack you're smoking, but just about every DVD from a major studio I've played is in fact double layer, and most of that space is used. This is even true of very old discs!
The bargin bin movies you find at Wal-Mart are usually single layer and fill the 4.5GB, true... However, saying that very few DVDs are both double layer, and use the full space alloted is complete BS. It's more like most, or close to nearly all as the situation is today.
So, Mr. Bush - Al-Quaeda are adherents of this philosophy?Fascism is a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. [wikipedia.org]
Yeah. Ever been to an Islamic state? I hate to side with Bushy on anything, but that satement is basically correct. As an example, look at Hezbollah after they got political power in Lebanon. Corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, and anti-liberalism are all pretty common place things there. The one exception is that many of the basic public services were taken over by Hezbollah: Trash removal, water and sanitation, hospitals and health services, schooling, etc were made better because of the party, that has the slightest hint of socialism, to me. If the weren't for their negatives, the'd be a really compelling force. Then again, the US echos true on some of those statements, less so than just a few little months ago however, as does most of the Islamic world.
That satement is more accurate than it is wrong, relative to the West.
Kevlar material is hardly puncture resistant. A medium strength man can thrust a knife right through the average kevlar vest with little problem, and an arrow (with a normal head) that has the same kinetic energy as a .45 ACP round is much more of a threat than the bullet to an armor wearer. Kevlar when used on a vest is at best "bullet resistant" against bullets that aren't so pointy or high supersonic...
Also, AFAIK, kevlar wasn't developed to make tires more puncture resistant; it was developed to make tires stronger. I don't know of any passenger car tires that are kevlar belted, but I understand that some of the performance tires around have some kevlar on the sidewalls to increase strength. I do know that kevlar belting has found limited use in off-road race tires, motorbike tires, and bicycle tires... I think I read somewhere that they found that kevlar belting didn't have the longevity required by the average road car, and that it affected gas mileage negatively.
knock knock knock smack smack smack knock knock knock
It looks like you're calling for help.
Would you like help?
* Telegraph CQD RAPE RAPE STOP NEED HELP PDQ STOP
* Just signal your distress without help
There simply isn't an adequate analogy for this situation, as nothing else is like an unsecured access point. Please stop comparing them as such.
So, there's these two princesses back in opposite castles and both are really hot and everyone wants to hit it like there was no tomorrow. One's a complete nymphomaniac and a slut besides that; in other words, she she's ready to screw leprotic beggers at the drop of a hat, and to top it off her castle has a neon sign 500 feet in the air that says "Princess love you long time".
The other princess has a chastity belt and and a sign on her skirt that says "Keepeth out or we'll catapulteth your balls into the next county", and the castle has a bunch of armored cavalry frothing at the mouth to protect her magesty's state of integrity.
What was I getting around to? Ahh, fuck it.
Oh, I see. They're going to give the internet a tubal ligation!!
That's kind of drastic, I think. I mean, the internet might stand a visit to the colonics clinic, that we know...
On the other hand, maybe a tubal ligation would prevent the birth of Skynet?
If you've played Battletoads...
Motherfucking Battletoads! *weeps*
(I mean, I beat friggin Ikari Warriors, it's not like I don't have the patience of Job)
Yeah, you're right in a way. Those rewards come out of the percentage that merchants are charged, and they may be tapping the monthly bills people pay, also... But it doesn't matter where the money is coming from. The thing is, our rates haven't gone up because of the rewards programs... The rates haven't changed for a couple decades or so, therefore it can be taken to say that the rewards programs aren't costing us any more, because we aren't paying any more. Sure, if they wanted to charge me 2.2% and forget the rewards programs and other bullshit, that'd be plenty fine by me... However, you can be assured that the result certainly wouldn't be that I could go out and buy another new 911 Carrera, if you get my drift. :)
Anyway, there hasn't been a wholesaler I've worked with that has been so paranoid to the point that they won't just invoice me so we can cut a check for our order later... But then again, I've had prior relationships with those companies, with steadily growing bills that back that business up. I guess if I were dealing in huge volumes with weekly orders of tens of thousands of dollars, I might expect that they would want to see some evidence that I have the means... But in that event we'd have to works something out I expect.
I don't think that credit cards are used so much in a business-to-business manner, unless you count CostCo, or Sam's, that is... But I don't really consider either a true wholesaler; for example, I can be pretty sure that I won't encounter mothers with crying babies trying to buy five gallons of kosher dill pickles and Häagen-Dazs at my other wholesalers. Anyway, if there were a VISA tax on every transaction, like you say, we'd be up the proverbial shit creek without a paddle. No argument there, like they say there's a tool for every purpose.
Uhhh... yes it does. The merchant gets to pay VISA say 4% for the priviledge of letting you pay later and get 1% back. Guess what, the merchant you bought from had to raise prices 5% or even more in order to afford allowing you to make purchases with VISA.
I'm sorry, my business has a merchant account, and that's not the way it works.
VISA, MasterCard take $0.32 and 3.2% out of any transaction (except refunds, obviously) that I send through my machine. It dosen't matter what card my clients hand me, they ALWAYS get thirty-two cents and 3.2 percent... But then I have a good account privider.
AFAIK, all of those rewards programs come directly out of the profits that the bank gets, and not out of the pockets of merchants, I've never heard otherwise. The amount of sales I get simply because spontaneous people have a card but don't have cash more than makes up for the fact that I have to fork over a few bucks. It's the cost of business, and compared to my other costs, it's negligible.
American Express, and Discover, on the other hand, they do take 5% or so, but everyone that has one of those cards also have a Visa, so that's why it's not worth if to deal with them... Plus, I've heard that both card companies are bigger buttheads, despite the fact that they cost more. Not worth it.
I'm pro-choice all the way, man.. And I don't draw the line of "viable life" upon the exit of the womb! I mean, could that be any more arbitrary? Of course not.
Personally, I'm all for legislation that legalizes retroactive abortions, up to about age 23 or so... And should such a law come to pass I already have a list of several deserving candidates!
Then they do a triple take when I tell them that Los Angeles is east of Reno.
However, that's almost understandable. To most people in the world, Nevada contains nothing more than the Las Vegas strip, the Hoover Dam and Area 51... And everyone knows those are east of Los Angeles.
There are other factors to consider as well- my canon 10D has a 9 shot buffer for RAW shots, and some sort of in-between buffer for writing them to the card. I used to hit the end of the buffer all the time, because I never noticed that it wouldn't process the buffer while the shutter was held half-down in the focus position. Talk about a design flaw- but knowing that, I kept my finger off the shutter button whenever possible if the buffer had anything in it (displayed in the viewfinder) and the problem disappeared.
Hrm... I've heard about that. I don't think that my 20D does this, but they may have fixed that in the 20D, or my setup causes it not to happen. You might try changing the auto focus button to the * button in the custom function menu, this way the auto focus is separate from the shutter button. The combo of exposure metering and auto focus might be too much for the camera to juggle. Anyway, I changed the location of the auto focus button a while ago and I find it to be much handier located on the * button.
For one, you don't have to worry about AF while you're focusing manually (you can use AF to ballpark and quickly adjust manually), and you don't have to worry about AF screwing your focus if you let up on the shutter accidentally. Secondly, I get fewer unintentional exposures from being excited or shooting from a bumpy ride. I also have it so that the big wheel is dedicated to changing the AF sensor location. I've found that I do much less fiddling and more getting good shots.
I totally agree with you on the other stuff, those photo tanks are especially nice. It doesn't take too long to fill up a 2GB card when shooting raw (2GB the largest card I use for the reasons you point out), so I find that keeping 3 cards in rotation till I can use the tank to download them is especially handy. Other than that, I think I'm gonna need a bigger disk or a RAID (yes, with backups) to keep all of my photos, as it seems that I don't like to delete anything at all since I don't have to worry about filling up a couple cards! So, the RAWs aren't bad (7MB), but TIFFs from raws for a 20D eat 24MB each! Ouch!
Gas? No. You can go anywhere and get premium gas...
Oil? Now that's a different story! Yeah, you gotta use Ferrari oil, at $70 bucks a quart, if you like your warranty... So happens that the oil is Ferrari red, too. Go figure.
Exactly.
Externally, newer high speed CF cards support PIO mode 3 which supports around 11MB/s (iirc). Since the external interface is much faster than the numbers they publish (the highet read speed being 8.1MB/s) we have to conclude that the limitation is on the other side of the memory controller. The limiting factor in the future will be what modes your camera and reader support, assuming you intend to use these huge flash drives in a camera. My 20D wants one. I heard it say so.