I was just thinking, most of my music fits on 1tb (mp3 and a lot of my.flac).
I currently serve music over nfs from a noisy back-room always-on server.
if this is cheaper (soon it will be) then I'll fit all mu music on a noiseless flash drive. I can then play that on some local noiseless (fanless, etc) playback system.
THAT is the draw for me, of large flash drives. thumbdrives are readable by even $30 dvd players (philips) and so your whole music collection can be on a stick that mounts on a consumer level appliance.
that's neat, isn't it?
You'll be waiting a while for your $3000 1TB swiss army knife to meet the price of your $30 player. Why not just bite the bullet and buy a 1TB drive for $50? With moving parts it will probably develop errors within 5 years but that compromise should get you some way towards your dream while the prices fall.
For me photo storage is important. I have about 2TB of photos (some multiple copies - RAW, converted, and edited) that span almost a decade and a half. I have multiple copies, with a couple off site as I do not wish to lose them!
So, a doomsday clock that started at 11:53 in 1947 is now at 11:55... based upon that rate of advancement (2 minutes per 65 years, obviously ignoring any other adjustments), we should be safe for over a century and a half. I've heard far more alarming predictions than that. Nothing to see here.
Personally I find it very alarming that a group of nuclear scientists can't even make a clock that doesn't work at a consistent rate. Perhaps what they need is to invent an atomic clock;-)
it's not the newer gen readers, it's all readers - they've just decided to be combative and don't have a light hearted laugh at anything anymore. And who are you to tell geeks their sense of humour is 'shitty'? You have no right to arbitrarily decide what kind of humour is good and what is bad, nor must everyone on the site conform to your ideas on humour. Replying to a joke that falls flat as if it were an attack and flying off the handle is what's immature.
Also, I am not impressed by how many digits in a user id. Why should I care that someone found this site early on?
Our traditional film business is sound as digital imaging continues to evolve.
That was 10 years ago. The typical end-user desktop/notebook world probably has a similar life left. Just as a few specialty photographers still need film, there will always be niche professionals that need high-end desktop or notebooks, but most end users won't.
Tablet PC - a hybrid of the two is what I think we'll see eventually IF corporations don't get carried away locking down anything worthwhile or useful to claw more money from the consumer. Phones will always be the ultra portable solution - they've already killed off the dedicated pocket computers like the palm pilot.
If you were home, which device would be the first to pick?
If you were at the beach, which device would you pick?
If you were on a train which device would you pick?
Depends on what I'm doing. I wouldn't want to try editing a spreadsheet on the beach on a phone, so I'd pick laptop. Likewise I wouldn't want to make a call on my laptop. So where I am restricts my choice of device, but what I'm doing dictates what I want to be using.
So is the submitter with the description "has taken to yelling at journalists reporting about social networks". What are we? 12? We can no longer use the word 'criticizing' instead of 'yelling at'??? Was he speaking too loudly in the lecture?
Not all social networkers are idiots. Many if not most know they're trading privacy for the privilege of connecting with their friends. Most even know there are possible unintended consequences, and most moderate what they say on a social network.
I have no illusions about people here reading TFA and TFS. However, since it was my submission, I felt compelled to defend it.
Specifically, no, it's not news that Tolkien was denied the Nobel 50 years ago. We have indeed known that for 50 years. The news is in why Tolkien was denied the Nobel. That information was only just released.
Holy crap on a cracker!
It was a joke, and a cheap joke at that. Instead of laughing you've twisted it in your mind into some kind of troll and then defended it??? If I was trolling would I have added "NEWs not OLDs, my preeecccicoous"???
Not only has this site become full of uninteresting garbage stories with the odd tidbit here and there, users here have lost their sense of humour.
And FYI I read the summary, but not the article. I often read the articles, but I'm just not that interested in LOTR. I find even the movies to be drawn out, despite the creation of new language and tedious description that I concede required some skill. Is it worthy of a Nobel? Nup. But neither are the Nobel winners.
Not necessarily..I believe David Cameron of the UK has a custom iPad app to help him do his job. When I was on a Civ 3 forum years ago one of the active members was a member of the House of Commons and had a tech background.
You are seriously building your case based on 2 extreme outliers?
The problem is that 25 year olds are not "kids", and anyone in their mid-20s (presumably with a Bachelor's degree) should not be riding on the backs of the public.
Okay. You first. Please give back every cent ever spent to directly benefit you by any government organisation or program, and promise not to take a cent if you or yours are ever diagnosed with a life threatening illness.
In some cases it takes the village to raise the child, and in others it takes the village to raise the self-righteous hypocritical idiot.
It was never the quality of his prose that made him so renowned, rather it was the quality, depth and originality of his stories. I remember fighting through those books 20 odd years ago, if it wasn't for such an engaging story line I would have never gotten through even the first one.
I stopped half way through the second. The only other book I've stopped reading is Homer's Illiad (English translation). In both cases I realised reading them had become a chore rather than a pleasure. I did not care for or relate to the characters and I was bored. Life's too short to put up with that in an activity done for pleasure.
And yet strangely enough, the post you reply to is at 5, Insightful
That, despite mostly being a discussion of writing that was not available for the Nobel Committee to consider in 1961 since The Silmarillion was not published until 1977, well after Tolkien's death in 1973. And despite the poster admitting that he had not read the books that were published and available for the committee to judge at the time JRR was nominated for the Nobel.
So, I would say instead that when a commentator that has not read the relevant books and talks instead about material that was not yet published is modded as insightful, then you know that slashdot is dead.
What are you talking about? Opinionated misinformation is the lifeblood of slashdot!
Politicians are scheming winners of popularity contests. They are experts at manipulating people. Gadgets are not their thing. The best you can hope for is to vote for someone who has a science policy that isn't completely looney tunes and doesn't pander to the largest religious groups.
I mean, when did the world suddenly decide that anytime anyone makes an honest mistake they should be crucified for it forever?
Forgetting a rag is an honest mistake. Failing to plan for honest mistakes by implementing the appropriate checks into your process is negligence.
The engineer following the process is not necessarily the person that created the procedure. Also even if a procedure is in place double failures do occur - they are just less likely.
I love the way so many people are willing to judge that a man should or should not be fired based on 3 minutes of reading a slashdot story. Really enhances my faith in human nature. Hope none of you ever sit on a jury. What disciplinary action if any should be faced by various staff involved is something that would require at least weeks of investigation, IF you want to go in that direction and waste the time on a witch hunt instead of just fixing the issue.
That would require that they get off their backsides and change the signs. They've been sitting on those backsides for months now. It's just too much effort to get up, man.
A decline from such heights doesn't happen overnight. It takes years of mismanagement, mistakes, failure to read the market, failure to adapt, and in this case, failure to realize that the entire market on which your business is based is going away.
Rubbish. A company, like a person, can be sunk by a single bad mistake. The miracle here is that they lasted so long - that's one heck of an asset base they had to chew through!
Slashdot is more of a duplicator than an aggregator.
Actually I think technically it's more like a regurgitator. Same news comes back up, but somehow it don't look quite right, it stinks and it certainly isn't appetizing.
Many options were considered, none found effective and reliable against the fine, dry dust on Mars. In fact that was the whole reason the original mission was limited to three months, if they knew a good way to remove it they would have.
I find that hard to believe. There must be a half dozen good ways to do it. Just off the top of my head 3-4 transparent disposable sheets of film, perhaps with a drop or two of oil or alcohol between them to prevent sticking, would limit sunlight a little bit initially, but as they became worn could be discarded, restoring the surface to "good as new". You'd have to ensure little enough lubricant between the sheets so that when the new layer is revealed dust doesn't stick to them, but I can't imagine that's an insurmountable problem.
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I was just thinking, most of my music fits on 1tb (mp3 and a lot of my .flac).
I currently serve music over nfs from a noisy back-room always-on server.
if this is cheaper (soon it will be) then I'll fit all mu music on a noiseless flash drive. I can then play that on some local noiseless (fanless, etc) playback system.
THAT is the draw for me, of large flash drives. thumbdrives are readable by even $30 dvd players (philips) and so your whole music collection can be on a stick that mounts on a consumer level appliance.
that's neat, isn't it?
You'll be waiting a while for your $3000 1TB swiss army knife to meet the price of your $30 player. Why not just bite the bullet and buy a 1TB drive for $50? With moving parts it will probably develop errors within 5 years but that compromise should get you some way towards your dream while the prices fall.
For me photo storage is important. I have about 2TB of photos (some multiple copies - RAW, converted, and edited) that span almost a decade and a half. I have multiple copies, with a couple off site as I do not wish to lose them!
As part of owning a patent you must hold up the legal end of if someone steals your patents you must legal go after them for restitution
Your facts are as wrong as your grammar.
He has a patent on both.
Hell, I can't program past visual basic and I make more than either of you!
So there.
Paris Hilton probably can't tie her own shoelaces and probably has enough money to hire everyone on slashdot as a personal butler for 1000 years.
Money isn't everything.
So, a doomsday clock that started at 11:53 in 1947 is now at 11:55... based upon that rate of advancement (2 minutes per 65 years, obviously ignoring any other adjustments), we should be safe for over a century and a half. I've heard far more alarming predictions than that. Nothing to see here.
Personally I find it very alarming that a group of nuclear scientists can't even make a clock that doesn't work at a consistent rate. Perhaps what they need is to invent an atomic clock ;-)
You are aware that sometimes the clock moves AWAY from midnight?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg
What would you do with a clock that did that in real life? Put it in the bin. Very apt metaphor.
It wont break ubuntu anymore than it already is don't worry.
Ubuntu is an African word for "You'll take what I give you and you'll like it!!!"
it's not the newer gen readers, it's all readers - they've just decided to be combative and don't have a light hearted laugh at anything anymore. And who are you to tell geeks their sense of humour is 'shitty'? You have no right to arbitrarily decide what kind of humour is good and what is bad, nor must everyone on the site conform to your ideas on humour. Replying to a joke that falls flat as if it were an attack and flying off the handle is what's immature.
Also, I am not impressed by how many digits in a user id. Why should I care that someone found this site early on?
From Kodak's 2002 Annual Report:
Our traditional film business is sound as digital imaging
continues to evolve.
That was 10 years ago. The typical end-user desktop/notebook world probably has a similar life left. Just as a few specialty photographers still need film, there will always be niche professionals that need high-end desktop or notebooks, but most end users won't.
Tablet PC - a hybrid of the two is what I think we'll see eventually IF corporations don't get carried away locking down anything worthwhile or useful to claw more money from the consumer. Phones will always be the ultra portable solution - they've already killed off the dedicated pocket computers like the palm pilot.
If you were home, which device would be the first to pick?
If you were at the beach, which device would you pick?
If you were on a train which device would you pick?
Depends on what I'm doing. I wouldn't want to try editing a spreadsheet on the beach on a phone, so I'd pick laptop. Likewise I wouldn't want to make a call on my laptop. So where I am restricts my choice of device, but what I'm doing dictates what I want to be using.
Moglen is right, and that reporter is a moron.
So is the submitter with the description "has taken to yelling at journalists reporting about social networks". What are we? 12? We can no longer use the word 'criticizing' instead of 'yelling at'??? Was he speaking too loudly in the lecture?
Not all social networkers are idiots. Many if not most know they're trading privacy for the privilege of connecting with their friends. Most even know there are possible unintended consequences, and most moderate what they say on a social network.
I have no illusions about people here reading TFA and TFS. However, since it was my submission, I felt compelled to defend it.
Specifically, no, it's not news that Tolkien was denied the Nobel 50 years ago. We have indeed known that for 50 years. The news is in why Tolkien was denied the Nobel. That information was only just released.
Holy crap on a cracker!
It was a joke, and a cheap joke at that. Instead of laughing you've twisted it in your mind into some kind of troll and then defended it??? If I was trolling would I have added "NEWs not OLDs, my preeecccicoous"???
Not only has this site become full of uninteresting garbage stories with the odd tidbit here and there, users here have lost their sense of humour.
And FYI I read the summary, but not the article. I often read the articles, but I'm just not that interested in LOTR. I find even the movies to be drawn out, despite the creation of new language and tedious description that I concede required some skill. Is it worthy of a Nobel? Nup. But neither are the Nobel winners.
Not necessarily..I believe David Cameron of the UK has a custom iPad app to help him do his job. When I was on a Civ 3 forum years ago one of the active members was a member of the House of Commons and had a tech background.
You are seriously building your case based on 2 extreme outliers?
The problem is that 25 year olds are not "kids", and anyone in their mid-20s (presumably with a Bachelor's degree) should not be riding on the backs of the public.
Okay. You first. Please give back every cent ever spent to directly benefit you by any government organisation or program, and promise not to take a cent if you or yours are ever diagnosed with a life threatening illness.
In some cases it takes the village to raise the child, and in others it takes the village to raise the self-righteous hypocritical idiot.
Mod parent down: "The truth hurts!"
Mod the article down: "Half a century too late!". NEWs not OLDs, my preeecccicoous.
It was never the quality of his prose that made him so renowned, rather it was the quality, depth and originality of his stories. I remember fighting through those books 20 odd years ago, if it wasn't for such an engaging story line I would have never gotten through even the first one.
I stopped half way through the second. The only other book I've stopped reading is Homer's Illiad (English translation). In both cases I realised reading them had become a chore rather than a pleasure. I did not care for or relate to the characters and I was bored. Life's too short to put up with that in an activity done for pleasure.
And yet strangely enough, the post you reply to is at 5, Insightful
That, despite mostly being a discussion of writing that was not available for the Nobel Committee to consider in 1961 since The Silmarillion was not published until 1977, well after Tolkien's death in 1973. And despite the poster admitting that he had not read the books that were published and available for the committee to judge at the time JRR was nominated for the Nobel.
So, I would say instead that when a commentator that has not read the relevant books and talks instead about material that was not yet published is modded as insightful, then you know that slashdot is dead.
What are you talking about? Opinionated misinformation is the lifeblood of slashdot!
Politicians are scheming winners of popularity contests. They are experts at manipulating people. Gadgets are not their thing. The best you can hope for is to vote for someone who has a science policy that isn't completely looney tunes and doesn't pander to the largest religious groups.
I mean, when did the world suddenly decide that anytime anyone makes an honest mistake they should be crucified for it forever?
Forgetting a rag is an honest mistake. Failing to plan for honest mistakes by implementing the appropriate checks into your process is negligence.
The engineer following the process is not necessarily the person that created the procedure. Also even if a procedure is in place double failures do occur - they are just less likely.
I love the way so many people are willing to judge that a man should or should not be fired based on 3 minutes of reading a slashdot story. Really enhances my faith in human nature. Hope none of you ever sit on a jury. What disciplinary action if any should be faced by various staff involved is something that would require at least weeks of investigation, IF you want to go in that direction and waste the time on a witch hunt instead of just fixing the issue.
Occupy Verizon?
That would require that they get off their backsides and change the signs. They've been sitting on those backsides for months now. It's just too much effort to get up, man.
A decline from such heights doesn't happen overnight. It takes years of mismanagement, mistakes, failure to read the market, failure to adapt, and in this case, failure to realize that the entire market on which your business is based is going away.
Rubbish. A company, like a person, can be sunk by a single bad mistake. The miracle here is that they lasted so long - that's one heck of an asset base they had to chew through!
... from someone who says, "I don't actually have an MD, but I do have a 'Great Listener' badge!"?
You do realize a doctor who doesn't listen is just as bad don't you?
Use this tool to figure out which route the rich kids with cell phones are taking and relieve them of their property.
Facebook already has the patent on that one.
Aircraft are over-engineered by a factor of 120-300%.
194.78% of statistics are made up on the spot!
Slashdot is more of a duplicator than an aggregator.
Actually I think technically it's more like a regurgitator. Same news comes back up, but somehow it don't look quite right, it stinks and it certainly isn't appetizing.
Many options were considered, none found effective and reliable against the fine, dry dust on Mars. In fact that was the whole reason the original mission was limited to three months, if they knew a good way to remove it they would have.
I find that hard to believe. There must be a half dozen good ways to do it. Just off the top of my head 3-4 transparent disposable sheets of film, perhaps with a drop or two of oil or alcohol between them to prevent sticking, would limit sunlight a little bit initially, but as they became worn could be discarded, restoring the surface to "good as new". You'd have to ensure little enough lubricant between the sheets so that when the new layer is revealed dust doesn't stick to them, but I can't imagine that's an insurmountable problem.