Hard drives have good density in two dimensions, but horrible in three dimensions because of the vast wasted space between platters (for the heads), and the platters themselves waste vast amounts of space in thickness (to provide rigidity I assume). Then there's all the space wasted by the head control mechanism. And all the space wasted by putting a round disk in a rectangle box... And for bearings... And a motor... None of those wastes would be present with solid state memory.
Bingo! I want all my stuff in a little box in my pocket. It can get backed up every night while I sleep, and all day at work, for starters. In fact, I'll take two little boxes wherever I go and use them as mirrors, and back THAT up whenever I feel like it.
You mean I'd *gasp* be more exposed to my environment? I'll take it!!! Besides, I rather like a grimy environment, and I don't have issues with cleaning the place up every day.
Every job has it's minuses, for sure, but I REALLY miss the physical activity I used to get. I just don't miss the crappy pay check:-)
>> The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.
Man I'd go back to that industry in a heart beat if they'd pay me anywhere near as well as I get paid for software dev... All this sitting in a sunless little dungeon room staring at a CRT all day is for the birds.
What fun is it reading April fools jokes when they are so blatantly obvious before getting to the second sentence? Come on guys, where is the believability? Leave the obvious bull-shit to George Lucas, please?
Man I'd love to be able to require a lint-type program to be run on emails sent to me. Besides the obvious implications for spam, I think I'd need pretty much one rule on mine:
"I now feel that I have been cheated out of my money by the sellers of the products. If possible, I would like to prevent the sellers of the products from cheating others as they have cheated me."
The rest of us feel cheated out of our inboxes thanks to jack asses like yourself who make spamming profitable.
We also feel cheated out of a useful legal system because of sue-happy jack asses such as yourself.
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You're thinking of the puny ones. The big suckers make quite a nice booooom :-)
I guess you could say his spamming ways finally came to a head huh?
Your sarcasm is soooo transparent!
It's going to go over like a LEAD BALLOON!
(sorry, but somebody was gonna say it)
Hard drives have good density in two dimensions, but horrible in three dimensions because of the vast wasted space between platters (for the heads), and the platters themselves waste vast amounts of space in thickness (to provide rigidity I assume). Then there's all the space wasted by the head control mechanism. And all the space wasted by putting a round disk in a rectangle box... And for bearings... And a motor... None of those wastes would be present with solid state memory.
Bingo! I want all my stuff in a little box in my pocket. It can get backed up every night while I sleep, and all day at work, for starters. In fact, I'll take two little boxes wherever I go and use them as mirrors, and back THAT up whenever I feel like it.
I find that rather hard to swallow...
And then you get some 13 year old mod who thinks this is flamebait... A 13 year old who may just VOTE in five years.
OMG the mods are smokin' it today, that's funny as hell!
What does one crazy terrorist do with a crossbow? Kill a few people maybe.
What does one crazy terrorist do with a machine gune? Kill a few people, loudly.
How does one crazy terrorist build or buy a nuclear weapon and plant it in a large city? Pretty difficult.
But, what if one crazy terrorist could build thousands of tiny bombs for very little money in the privacy of his own home?
BIG difference here.
You mean I'd *gasp* be more exposed to my environment? I'll take it!!! Besides, I rather like a grimy environment, and I don't have issues with cleaning the place up every day.
:-)
Every job has it's minuses, for sure, but I REALLY miss the physical activity I used to get. I just don't miss the crappy pay check
>> The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.
Man I'd go back to that industry in a heart beat if they'd pay me anywhere near as well as I get paid for software dev... All this sitting in a sunless little dungeon room staring at a CRT all day is for the birds.
Yeah and the NSA is gonna love this. Invisible ink is cheap!
> Bad memories. Bad, bad memories.
Maybe they used poor quality paper?
"Then you would die happy"
"But you wouldn't remember it."
But no hangover, yay!
What fun is it reading April fools jokes when they are so blatantly obvious before getting to the second sentence? Come on guys, where is the believability? Leave the obvious bull-shit to George Lucas, please?
Man I'd love to be able to require a lint-type program to be run on emails sent to me. Besides the obvious implications for spam, I think I'd need pretty much one rule on mine:
NO FUCKING HTML!
Who's with me?
Or maybe it's like saying McDonalds food is _______McGoodForYou... Nobody gonna believe it anyway...
Thx the Janet, there will probly be an ammendment to the constitution to stop such things as 'naked DSL'. Good idea, bad timing!
(Go GW)
The maker of the one desktop that doesn't have a pager is now patenting the desktop pager.
WTF!!!
I like it here in my little dungeon cubicle with my computers and my coffee. I don't WANT to go to an asteroid!!!
>> "whether or not are the property of their owners"
It's not even a quote from the article, but It occurred to me that that statement really says something about our society.
You're making me feel so insignificant. I think I'll go invent some sort of greater being that cares about me.
>> it still is a novel way to spread a virus
I think the word I would have used here is 'obvious'...
We also feel cheated out of a useful legal system because of sue-happy jack asses such as yourself.
This guy is a real treasure.