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  1. Re:Why not the "boring" Tape storage? on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 1

    Well im definitely talking about a real tape library setup where you'd offsite a secondary copy for DR but still would hold a set of tapes onsite ready to go... so...

  2. Re:Why not the "boring" Tape storage? on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not really how tape systems work. Generally they keep an index online so you can tell the tape system to pop in a specific tape and goto a specific position, longest load times... in real world that i've personally witnessed... 10 mins

  3. Re:begs FFS on Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits · · Score: 4, Funny

    For all intensive purposes...

  4. Re:Are they "small government" republicans ? he he on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Fuck this republicant/democant shit... they are all greedy incompetent peices of shit who are a waste of air they breathe. They make me embarassed of our otherwise great country.

  5. Shower Thought on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    Maybe being able to get through an application form on a webpage is the first test that weeds out the incompetent.

  6. Linux Mint 16 w/ MATE on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest letting them try Linux Mint 16 w/ MATE. This addresses the hardware problem (this setup works on nearly everything) and user problem (MATE is simple to use).

  7. Computing is going back to its roots on Businesses Moving From Amazon's Cloud To Build Their Own · · Score: 1

    Thanks to initiatives such as OpenStack and Hadoop and MapReduce (etc) and the countless contributors who commit to the many projects that allow companies (and individuals with commodity hardware in their garage!) to do these amazing things for cheap, this is all possible and should be the trend! The ROI is well within acceptable margins and well.. it's just fun for us computer geeks! Computing really is moving back to it's roots and we're getting to play with amazing software projects.

  8. Do what's sensible... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Preserve a "Digital Inheritance"? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I bet Hollywood and the RIAA would like to assume you'll make the only sensible option and inform your beneficiaries to use your life insurance to repurchase all such content you think you own.

  9. Re:no DirectX 12 on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 1

    Call it DirectX11R6.2.1 and you'll get the middle finger from Linus.

  10. Re:And if you run Lynx on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    I use a telnet client, connect on port 80, and manually write raw http compliant requests to browse the internet. The image translators work for my LAN web servers. But there's way too much information to decode the Internet. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?

  11. Re:I seriously disagree on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Pardon my reading comprehension right now, but are you bashing Chrome and saying people only use it because of Google's goofy advertisements endorsing Chrome? I chose Chrome long before Google really worked on advertising it. I chose it for it's responsiveness, very quick javascript engine, instance based crash handling, compact and non-distracting address bar, built in sand boxed flash player, and several other reasons really. I understand the other browsers do some of these same things now but at one point in time Chrome was the first for many of these really cool features. These are reasons I went to Chrome. Before Chrome, I was using Firefox because IE was simply terrible, we all know that. But honestly a couple years ago Firefox was really getting bloated itself. Chrome was refreshing. The road wasn't always smooth sailing, but I'm still happy with Chrome now. I like Firefox again as well, they've cleaned up a lot of the mess that was created. Not a fan boy, I just like riding the smoothest wave in the sea. Change is always good.

  12. In Soviet Russia... on Can NASA, Air Force, and Private Industry Really Mitigate an Asteroid Threat? · · Score: 1

    ...comets try to mitigate the Earth threat.

  13. HACKS! on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    System.out.println("You win!");

  14. Plenty of use cases on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 1

    Considering the fact that only a small percentage of even IT people understand just how much server horsepower is required for many typical tasks that environments require of them, I don't expect a huge demand for these Moonshot servers. The specs however are very well suited for many applications used in small to medium sized businesses. And when you get to those who would see appropriate use for these, the price of the chassis is very ugly.

  15. I was already looking for a Higgs Boson on CERN Gives Away Higgs Boson Particles To 10 Lucky Winners · · Score: 1

    ....but then I took an arrow to the knee =(

  16. Re:Just use the hardware you have on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft took the same stance as Apple and went out of their way to (try) and stop us from installing OSX on PC hardware it wouldn't "just work"

  17. Avid SC2 Player... WANT on Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I would love to have a tool like this to solidify the "Theorycraft" behind build orders in SC2 :) I mean, I've got my build orders down pretty good now, but that doesn't mean a genetic algorithm isn't ready to punch my face :)