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  1. Re:It was already announced. on Apple Quietly Releases New iPods · · Score: 1

    I guess I should be more clear - does that really merit front page on slashdot?

  2. It was already announced. on Apple Quietly Releases New iPods · · Score: 1

    It's just shipping. What's the big deal about shipping...?

  3. Re:Well, that's a good sign! on KDE Publishes Manifesto · · Score: 4, Insightful

    seriously? Having a document saying what the project stands for is a bad thing?

  4. Re:Aren't the Damages a Little Insane? on Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. non-profits get to go for free (or used to).

  5. Re:All on consumer grade drives..... on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    by the way, my original point was that consumer drives perform as just as well. Those are the drives in my nice X4540 box too.

  6. Re:All on consumer grade drives..... on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    I do apologize. There were two other links as well:

    http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
    http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

    A quick search on "consumer" and "enterprise" on those two pages will help. You'd probably like the bit where they discovered that enterprise grade western digital drives fail at a higher rate.

  7. Re:Wow on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    basically that's what they said. They asked him to stagger it over a period of a couple of months, but told him - $5/month, not a problem.

  8. Re:All on consumer grade drives..... on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    Apparently you believe:

    a) they store only one copy of your data
    b) that "enterprise" hard drives are some how better quality

    Here's a hint: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+hard+drive+report

  9. Re:Can't they just... on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 5, Informative

    some hard drives (western digital, iirc) are now sold without the sata interface on the drive itself, for external models.

    you rip it apart, and find out that you can't stick it onto a sata port...

  10. Re:Wow on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    There was a photographer who wanted to backup terabytes of data, and they told him, sure. go ahead.

  11. Re:Aren't the Damages a Little Insane? on Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? · · Score: 2

    If you are sending emails out, shouldn't you take responsibility for what you are sending out and who you are sending it to?

  12. Re:Aren't the Damages a Little Insane? on Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts? · · Score: 2

    Bullshit lawsuit obviously. If you feel that strongly about sending emails to gmail recipients, block it at your outbound MTA or you know what - don't send that email to gmail recipients.

    That google is an ad supported company is well known. If you choose to interact with them on an ad supported platform, what did you think was going to happen? Sheesh.

  13. Re:HAHA on Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    I worked at a place where the Exchange admin - every so often - would have to heroically worked 72 hours or whatever to rescue the mail servers and we only have 2 days of downtime, etc etc, and the CIO would praise him for his hardwork.

    I asked my boss if I should also reboot the firewalls every now and then - just to heroically bring them back up again, and get thanked for my hardwork. He gave me a nasty look...

  14. wrong pill...? on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 1, Funny

    did someone take the wrong pill...?

  15. Re:The thing about science... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the problem isn't whether science is true (whether you believe in it or not).

    the problem is that he is actively stopping us from *discovering* the bits of science that we have not yet discovered.

  16. Re:Last sentence on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 2

    See, I knew you were biased. That judge rejected Apple's request to ban the samsung tablets until after the Appeals Court told her that she was wrong.

    There were a number of other things that she ruled on that was against Apple.

    But you conveniently forget all that, and because the *JURY* that Samsung wanted (you do realize Samsung could have rejected any jury they wanted without any questions for a limited number of times) ruled against them, so now the judge is biased.

    fucking brainless fandroid.

  17. Re:Last sentence on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    Is it really that difficult?

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=first+android+phone#

  18. Re:Smartphones on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying Apple enabled the current smartphone industry to be where it is?

    Isn't that a darn good thing, seeing that a large number of people are hopping on to the web using their phones/tablets?

    To be someone who enabled an entire industry - that's small beans in your world?

  19. Re:One Year Later on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    You are *CRAZY* is all I can say.

    How the hell do you think any programmer is going to write iOS apps or do other things they need to do (such as writing backend services to support the iOS apps?) without the ability to compile and do other shit?

  20. Re:Last sentence on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They didn't invent the smartphone. They invented a good and usable one.

    There's a reason why v0.1 of Android looked like the blackberry, and just about every single smartphone on the market looks like the iPhone now rather than the blackberry.

  21. Re:Last sentence on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    Then who invented DC current, and why isn't he listed in your followup?

  22. Re:A year already? on How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed · · Score: 1

    It takes talent and skill.

  23. Re:Let me be the first to trust you on Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? · · Score: 1

    It's always a function of how much time/effort it takes to learn to implement the new system, to implement it, to train the others on how to use it, and maintenance/support.

    You just gotta make sure your boss and you are in alignment on all of them, or you'd rapidly be out of work.

    Opensource is good and all that, but sometimes you can really get tripped up. At one point, OpenOffice was a bigger beast than Microsoft Office, and really slowed shit down. Those people are there to work, not to support your purity of ideals. Slowing them down makes the company less money...

  24. Re:Zimbra? on Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Figure out what you need first. If you need Exchange, go with Exchange. Anything "exchange-like" will just cause you heartburn.

    OTOH, if you *DON'T* need exchange, *DON'T* get that fpos.

  25. Re:The reason is simple. on Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets · · Score: 1

    On the retina display macbook pro, yes. The rest of them were easy.