@Skutarth: Because if one of the drives fails for any reason, you lose the whole array, assuming it's RAID 0.

@acjwatt: An SSD is a good way to soup up an aging system. I've been hotrodding old computers with 7200 RPM HDDs for nearly 15 years to extend their usefulness. This is the same principle.

@Nitemancometh: I've been running an SSD for about 18 months. No negatives really. The only thing I can say is an SSD is still vulnerable to power surges, so you still have to back up your data occasionally even though there's no head to crash.

@mrpibb79: Exactly. Load your OS and your most important apps on your SSD, and use a spinning disk for storing your data.

@hatred: As a Christian and an American, I'll affirm his constitutional right to burn or otherwise destroy any book he likes, even the Bible. But that doesn't mean it will accomplish anything productive, and he's not the one who's most likely to have to deal with the fallout.

@dfp3050: Timothy McVeigh was raised Catholic, but didn't practice in adulthood. All of his public statements about religion point to him being an agnostic.

@ZenInsight: The story of Gamaliel in Acts 5 is relevant here. And Mr. Jones' argument would have a lot more credibility if he had actually read the book that he's attacking.

Whenever I've made an offer on a property, the realtor has taken recent comparable sales, figured the average price per square foot, multiplied that by the house's square footage, and used that as a starting point.

@driven to his pilot's license: Exactly. When Bush floated these ideas, it was OK. When Obama carried them out, it was socialism.

Always always ask questions. Because it could very well be that one provider really is giving you a better rate on two of the services in a bundle, but gouging you on the third. My local cable company offers $40 phone service. Whoop-de-doo, because I'm paying less than $20 for my landline. Sure, I don't have call…

@RepusYortsed: Here's how long it took for a traditional publisher to get my book to market. I pitched the idea to an editor in January 1999. I started writing in late February. I finished writing in August. We spent about six weeks in editing (marking stuff up and e-mailing it back and forth), and I received and…

After reading the author's biography at the end, this appears to be a thinly veiled advertisement. Of course Mr. Ashley is going to think his own product and the stuff made with his product are great.

@branchedout: Yup. One of the reasons we have problems today is the number of influential talking heads who either don't understand sources, or who refuse to use them. So they can say things like, "People are questioning [x] about [person he doesn't like]," and as long as it sounds halfway plausible, some percentage…

Quick, someone tell Steve Jobs before he decides that having 104 keys on a keyboard is too confusing and replaces them all with a single touchpad and gestures.

No. I'm not narcissistic enough to think anybody cares if I'm at Target buying diapers. If someone does, he or she seriously needs a life.

@westsidegimpin: I don't run 7 yet at home or at work, but this is actually a beneficial feature in XP. Usually when I click yes to report a problem, it comes back with a web page that helps me fix it. I was surprised and impressed.

@PropertyofSallieMae: Thrills. Being the guy who writes the virus that makes headlines on all the big news shows.

@Anthone Tony Si: It's probably the best feature of XP. I was shocked when I clicked the report button the first time (after using XP for several years) and it told me exactly how to fix the problem.

@BeefSupreme: That's actually very bad for them. The problem with the original NES was that the contacts oxidized over time, harming conductivity. Short-term, blowing in the carts fixed it, but long-term it made the oxidation worse. Eventually the console will quit working altogether.

Blockbuster may be the first, and biggest company that I can say I got to watch rise and fall. I remember when the movie rental stores came into my area in the late 1980s, and I remember how they went into the music business and everyone expected them to dominate it. My first trip to both seemed like going to a…