You know what makes me mad??

[JerryPH]

You SHOULD be far more worried about energy prices. As oil runs out prices go UP - and UP - and UP.... and all the nice cheap things we've taken for granted, made possible by cheap energy will start to go up in price and our 'leaders' seem oblivious to the end result.

Not to push things into another direction, but I doubt that will ever happen... at least not for a LONG time. Canada is not tapping 5% of it's unrefined oil capacity. Hybernia off of Newfoundland is basically untouched, Athabasca Tar sands are at 30% usage compared to what they could be. Oil production in western Canada is nowhere near 40% of it's capacity on a yearly basis. In western Canada alone there is enough oil to supply Canada for 350 years and according to the experts, thats a very conservative estimate.

Brazil, that pumps and refine's it's own fuel and doesn't sell outside its country is selling fuel today at 1/5th of global prices... and making money.

On top of that, there *is* technology that permits incredible fuel mileage. In 1976 I was on PEI when Chrysler by accident let slip out and accidentally sold to a PEI local a 440 6-pack Challenger that did 55MPG on regular fuel. Not true? I was there when they offered the guy $150,000 to get it back. He refused. Then they asked to do a test to make sure it was the car. He did, so they disconnected the line to the carburator, hooked up a preassurized 1 gallon tank then proceded to drive 54 miles before stalling. Thing was, average speed was between 70-73MPH!

In another example, a man here in Montreal built an engine that worked off of hydrogen and had an effective MPG of 48 MPG in his Escort. The fuel? Common tap water... the most common liquid on earth! Emmisions? ZERO.. unless you call steam a dangerous emmissions.

If they wanted to, they could easily create a small nuclear powered vehicle that would not need refuling for 30-40 years, powered of a small nuclear engine.

Solar energy is ramping up nicely.

Hybrid powered cars do very well. Ford has the Escape that does 36MPG on the highway, and its likely one of the least effective designs on the market! There are many others like Lexus, etc... that are also hybrid and do well with fuel management.

Unfortunately, none of these "cheaper" technologies will happen in the near future becuase no one could make MONEY off it. Cars will always be around, and not to worry, some form of fuel will always be available and we are all always going to be bent over a rail and violated financially to the benefit of the bigger companies and our respective governments.

Finally... my own personal experiences. I own a 1999 Grand Prix GTP. A car with a supercharged V6 (that has approximately 350HP), that I have modified extensively for increased power. I've been tuning the car for gas mileage for the last 2 years... I can easily average 39 MPG on the highway... not bad for a car that runs on 87 octane, does 165MPH and consistantly does the 1/4 mile in under 13.5 at over 105 mph. It can also carry 5 people and 2 weeks groceries without issues.

Solutions are there aplenty... question is... will the people in power let us use them? Likely not without a fight.

So, what does this have to do with CF cards? Well, I purchased 2 Lexar 8GB Extreme 4's for 105 bucks a pop... thats a lot of room compared to the 1 GB that JIP paid for a 1 GB card a while back. Prices drop... I wish the price for fuel or housing dropped in a similar fashion.

 

[RacePhoto]

I remember my first SD card for my 1.3 mp p&s. It was 32MB and cost at least $50. I was amazed that it could hold as many photos as it could. What could I do with that now? 3 or 4 RAW images?

I had to use fountain pens in grade school, because the teacher said ball points made blobs and he didn't like them. (true story) Had to walk three miles back and forth to school, every day, rain or snow, both ways up hill. (not true)

When I went to college, the computer building, WAS a whole building.

First "real" computer was $2400 Apple IIe and had 64k memory and ran 5 1/4" floppies, that were actually floppy. The 300 baud modem was twice as fast as an acoustic coupler, and cost hundreds of dollars. 10mb hard drive, on close out, was $800. (you can buy a 1 terrabyte raid drive for 1/3rd of that now)

Mavica digital camera was $700 and recorded 640x480 images on 3 1/2" floppies, which was a good deal, because memory was so expensive! Over 22 photos per disk. One Jpg from a 6mp digital camera, won't fit on the same floppy. :mrgreen: A raw file would fill 6 or 7 of the same disks, and a PSD would take 33 disks!

I think we're all better off, even if we paid $119 for a huge 512mb CF card. And the same card sells for $19 now.

People pay over $10 a gallon for bottled water, for no good reason!
(I don't) But complain about gasoline for $3 a gallon?

 

[JIP]

Not to push things into another direction, but I doubt that will ever happen... at least not for a LONG time. Canada is not tapping 5% of it's unrefined oil capacity. Hybernia off of Newfoundland is basically untouched, Athabasca Tar sands are at 30% usage compared to what they could be. Oil production in western Canada is nowhere near 40% of it's capacity on a yearly basis. In western Canada alone there is enough oil to supply Canada for 350 years and according to the experts, thats a very conservative estimate.

Brazil, that pumps and refine's it's own fuel and doesn't sell outside its country is selling fuel today at 1/5th of global prices... and making money.

On top of that, there *is* technology that permits incredible fuel mileage. In 1976 I was on PEI when Chrysler by accident let slip out and accidentally sold to a PEI local a 440 6-pack Challenger that did 55MPG on regular fuel. Not true? I was there when they offered the guy $150,000 to get it back. He refused. Then they asked to do a test to make sure it was the car. He did, so they disconnected the line to the carburator, hooked up a preassurized 1 gallon tank then proceded to drive 54 miles before stalling. Thing was, average speed was between 70-73MPH!

In another example, a man here in Montreal built an engine that worked off of hydrogen and had an effective MPG of 48 MPG in his Escort. The fuel? Common tap water... the most common liquid on earth! Emmisions? ZERO.. unless you call steam a dangerous emmissions.

If they wanted to, they could easily create a small nuclear powered vehicle that would not need refuling for 30-40 years, powered of a small nuclear engine.

Solar energy is ramping up nicely.

Hybrid powered cars do very well. Ford has the Escape that does 36MPG on the highway, and its likely one of the least effective designs on the market! There are many others like Lexus, etc... that are also hybrid and do well with fuel management.

Unfortunately, none of these "cheaper" technologies will happen in the near future becuase no one could make MONEY off it. Cars will always be around, and not to worry, some form of fuel will always be available and we are all always going to be bent over a rail and violated financially to the benefit of the bigger companies and our respective governments.

Finally... my own personal experiences. I own a 1999 Grand Prix GTP. A car with a supercharged V6 (that has approximately 350HP), that I have modified extensively for increased power. I've been tuning the car for gas mileage for the last 2 years... I can easily average 39 MPG on the highway... not bad for a car that runs on 87 octane, does 165MPH and consistantly does the 1/4 mile in under 13.5 at over 105 mph. It can also carry 5 people and 2 weeks groceries without issues.

Solutions are there aplenty... question is... will the people in power let us use them? Likely not without a fight.

So, what does this have to do with CF cards? Well, I purchased 2 Lexar 8GB Extreme 4's for 105 bucks a pop... thats a lot of room compared to the 1 GB that JIP paid for a 1 GB card a while back. Prices drop... I wish the price for fuel or housing dropped in a similar fashion.

While I do agree with alot of what you say lets stick to CF cards at least on this thread.