My hero's are Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Mark Twain (for other reasons), and George Carlin for putting modern politics into perspective.
My heroes know how to properly use an apostrophe. Though to be fair, all of those guys with the exception of George Carlin lived back before they really standardized American English spelling.
In the cases you've cited, it's not so much about data redundancy as it is about the laws of physics. If the surface of the disc isn't smooth enough, that sucker isn't going to spin and you're boned. If we want backups that last, we should really use some sort of non-optical media, if you think about it. At least, that's my opinion.
Not really what I was going for, and thanks for lumping us all in with the minority Tea Party. Thanks a lot.
Better example: One of those (more progressive, obviously) Middle Eastern countries cuts off Internet access. The same day, a bunch of people take to the streets in protest. I think we can safely say, that it would be pretty obvious what they were protesting.
Okay, in that regard, yes. I'm thinking of the people who make nonsense profiles for a stuffed, pink dolphin "Pink Floyd." Which is somewhat different, I suppose...
Good point. I guess I've been fortunate enough to find bands with good entire albums. But I also listen to the whole album straight down most of the time, so I'm just crazy:-)
Agreed; seeing as the usual situation mentioned on/. is a mazillion links open in Firefox at any given time, I do not want to aim for the 10-pixel sliver of bar left next to the minimize button if I want to move the window. Not to mention that Win 7 has finally given us the ability to grab the window when maximized and throw it around the screen without having to double-click...
Changing the home button saves an infinitesimal amount of screen space and throws a bunch of random buttons and shit on my screen when I just want to go back to my simple HTML home page with the links that I actually use. FAIL
It seems that no one took Google seriously when they labeled Google+ as a beta project. The thing is still under construction and people are complaining that it doesn't work perfectly. Gee, I wonder why.
True, to a point. It seems to me that they're still implementing half the site on-the-fly, which is my definition of an alpha product; a beta should just be bugfixing and feature tweaks. And come on: Gmail was in beta for how many years? It's Google's own fault if people have started to expect all its beta products to be stable because they leave the damn things in beta for so long.
Plus if you don't have a very fast connection. It could be easier to just buy a box with a dual-layer DVD than to download 9 GB over a slow connection.
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Or maybe got hit by a wave and flung through a wormhole while doing an atmospheric slingshot maneuver?
No, you can just go to their page and read recent stuff without having to sign up.
With the exception of Geraldo....especially Geraldo ;-)
...er, what?
Considering that there are only 4.3 million in the Detroit metropolitan area, that sounds like quite an accomplishment. (Woosh?)
My hero's are Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Mark Twain (for other reasons), and George Carlin for putting modern politics into perspective.
My heroes know how to properly use an apostrophe. Though to be fair, all of those guys with the exception of George Carlin lived back before they really standardized American English spelling.
In the cases you've cited, it's not so much about data redundancy as it is about the laws of physics. If the surface of the disc isn't smooth enough, that sucker isn't going to spin and you're boned. If we want backups that last, we should really use some sort of non-optical media, if you think about it. At least, that's my opinion.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds
Call in the Daleks for reinforcements!
More like shoot now and then ignore you when you answer the questions later.
Not really what I was going for, and thanks for lumping us all in with the minority Tea Party. Thanks a lot.
Better example: One of those (more progressive, obviously) Middle Eastern countries cuts off Internet access. The same day, a bunch of people take to the streets in protest. I think we can safely say, that it would be pretty obvious what they were protesting.
Or they think that the thing they're protesting against is so obvious they don't have to come right out and say it.
Okay, in that regard, yes. I'm thinking of the people who make nonsense profiles for a stuffed, pink dolphin "Pink Floyd." Which is somewhat different, I suppose...
Because you think protesting aggressively in a former Soviet republic would go off well...?
Facebook actually block accounts when someone (or the software) believe the name is fake.
[citation needed]
If this is actually true, I want to read it from an authoritative source.
Don't call the MPAA angels.
Good point. I guess I've been fortunate enough to find bands with good entire albums. But I also listen to the whole album straight down most of the time, so I'm just crazy :-)
You have to put up with 14 shitty songs on the CD that contains 1 or 2 songs you actually like.
Really? All the recent bands I've been listening to have standardized on 10 or maybe 11 tracks, not 15 or 16. Lucky bastard.
Agreed; seeing as the usual situation mentioned on /. is a mazillion links open in Firefox at any given time, I do not want to aim for the 10-pixel sliver of bar left next to the minimize button if I want to move the window. Not to mention that Win 7 has finally given us the ability to grab the window when maximized and throw it around the screen without having to double-click...
Changing the home button saves an infinitesimal amount of screen space and throws a bunch of random buttons and shit on my screen when I just want to go back to my simple HTML home page with the links that I actually use. FAIL
Ah, that explains it. I wonder what the parent has 20GB of non-backup files of, though.
"Unlimited TB of storage and bandwidth for $9 per month"? If it sounds too good to be true...
It seems that no one took Google seriously when they labeled Google+ as a beta project. The thing is still under construction and people are complaining that it doesn't work perfectly. Gee, I wonder why.
True, to a point. It seems to me that they're still implementing half the site on-the-fly, which is my definition of an alpha product; a beta should just be bugfixing and feature tweaks. And come on: Gmail was in beta for how many years? It's Google's own fault if people have started to expect all its beta products to be stable because they leave the damn things in beta for so long.
Plus if you don't have a very fast connection. It could be easier to just buy a box with a dual-layer DVD than to download 9 GB over a slow connection.
I remember back in the old days, when there was this crazy assumption that someone might EVER not be connected to the Internet...
The windows "calc.exe" is modified to simultaneously a valid windows exe, a valid zip archive, and a valid PDF
Calc simulataneously an exe, zip, and pdf? Is this a problem?