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  1. SSDs have already replaced hard drives on Why SSDs Won't Replace Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    ..for me. not everyone needs terabytes of storage.

  2. Re: samzenpus: on How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint · · Score: 1

    A fucking BB gun in your mouth would probably kill you

    You greatly underestimate the human body's vitality. It's likely much harder to kill someone by shooting them with a BB gun than by hitting them over the head with the BB gun.

  3. Re:Virtualize the system, not the CPU on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    there's nothing eco-conscious about virtualization - just more unnecessary overhead. you want efficiency? lose VMware and run the software on the bare metal.

  4. Re:IE6 is NOT the most popular web browser... on The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. Re:don't mock the Notepad++ on Zen Coding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I prefer emEditor

  6. Re:THIS IS A FARCE on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    use order-preserving symmetric encryption and you can still search on encrypted fields

  7. Re:Why not on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear!
    Spolsky occasionally writes about this and I like what he has to say as well
    FieldGuidetoDevelopers
    BionicOffice

  8. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Why are people hung up on SSD lifespan? Unless you're talking about USB flash thumbdrives any SSD you buy is not going to "wear out" any time soon - 5 years is the absolute worst case scenario assuming you write constantly as much as the drive will take. Tracking against intel's media wearout indicator suggests even heavily used drives will last around 15 years. How much computer equipment do you have around that's even 5 years old?

  9. Re:Little Flawed study. on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not? There is no reason data integrity and availability can't come from a software solution. Or am I missing something?

  10. Re:Little Flawed study. on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 2, Informative

    ..not to mention the gobs and gobs of cheap sdram you could use as cache. There's a huge opportunity for an up and coming SAN company to be competitive with commodity hardware. Doesn't look good for the likes of 3PAR, EMC, Equilogic, etc.

  11. Re:Little Flawed study. on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is why software based raid is the way to go for ultimate performance. The big SAN providers ought to be shaking in their boots when they look at what's possible using software like starwind or open-e with host-based raid controllers and SSDs. Just for example, look at this thing - if you added a couple cx4 adapters and run open-e you've got a 155,000iop/s iSCSI target there in what's basically a $30k workstation. 3PAR will sell you something the size of a refrigerator for $500,000 that wouldn't even perform as well.

  12. Re:No. on Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? · · Score: 1

    2 second string sample? The only thing original in bittersweet symphony is the lyrics. It's a great song but they should have gotten their permission in the form of a legally binding notarized contract.

  13. Re:No. on Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? · · Score: 1

    Girl Talk is a bad example. How about Jason Derulo, The Fugees, Kanye West, countless rap artists really. They don't credit the original producers of the samples used in their hits - some of the samples make up the entire hook like w/Jason Derulo.

  14. Re:What is Google's interest? Data Tracking? on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    this could screw onLive's whole plan. their technology enables thin client gaming by basically doing real-time high-resolution video compression well enough to deliver unbuffered/low-latency content over 5-10mbit service. with gbit to the home we can get away with standard technologies. hell, if my block gets gbit service I'd knock up a quick frame server atop cs:source or something just to try it out.

  15. Re:China debuts human rights abuses on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    What your asking for can only take place at the scale of religious conviction.

    Don't you think that the era of rule by religious conviction is long over? The standards for education are increasing and with it the average intelligence of our people. Eventually we will make informed and reasonable global economic decisions that are in the best interest of everyone because it's the will of an educated population. Not because a deity demands it.

  16. Re:Who said it was anti-technology? on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    They should have called it Mithril. Maybe the marines could have referred specifically to the stuff under home tree as unobtainium.. they really shouldn't have used that lame pun in so many lines. I think at least the scientists never called it that did they? It could just be the slang term the corp came up with for it since the real name is too many syllables.

  17. Re:Headache? on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I just read this http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html ..and still have no clue what the hell this stuff is.

    Dihydrogen Monoxide plays an instrumental role in the centers of the brain associated with feelings of emotional attachment and love. Married couples have found that regular ingestion of DHMO can improve their marriage-related activities, while couples that never ingest DHMO often find that their marriage suffers as well.

    it goes on and on.. DHMO affects anything and everything, both harmful and beneficial, wtf?

  18. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    probably?

  19. Re:Whodathunk on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    what is so elegant about folding in half and spiraling back to earth? "vomit comet" is right

  20. Re:Wow, Opera has what I call ambition... on Opera 10.10 Released, Includes New "Unite" Tech · · Score: 1

    Mozilla weave (bookmark/password sync), adblock plus, firebug and dictionary tooltip would be my necessities Anybody you ask will have an arbitrary list of a handful of extensions they must have. Is Opera's strategy to build-in every last one?

  21. Re:Hash Collisions on ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication · · Score: 1

    Nonsense! Certain data will be more susceptible to collision and the filesystem doesn't have the scope to make assumptions about the data. Hash collisions aren't an issue, not because they'll never happen but because of what you do when they happen. If two blocks' hashes match you don't just assume they're the same, you do a full comparison. The hash is still a cpu/time saver for when they don't match - when it's safe to assume the blocks are different without doing a full comparison.

  22. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 1

    you know a turing machine is theoretical and doesn't actually exist

  23. Re:*gag* on Building a 10 TB Array For Around $1,000 · · Score: 1

    *sigh* at modding an anecdote "5, Informative"
    I work on a particularly IO demanding application and have found Areca controllers to be a godsend. We've had dozens in production servers for many years now and they have proven to be dependable. We rigorously tested many different controllers in their highest performing configurations and nothing came close to the battery backed ARC-1680 w/4GB. This included cards from LSI, 3ware and Adaptec with their respective maximum amounts of cache and battery backup units. When configured for maximum performance (write back cache, aggressive read ahead, etc.) some of the others even failed our recovery scenarios where we pull power during rebuild and under heavy load, but the Areca was rock solid.

    I think if you want to be safe with a RAID controller, do your own tests and don't listen to shills on the internet.

  24. Re:Will it be fast enough to view slashdot? on Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome · · Score: 1

    If the javascript performance were anywhere near chrome's you would be able to tell from running some of the examples here

  25. Re:url? on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I just don't feel like squatting is inherently evil.

    How about in this case?
    Where the squatters profit from traffic intended for content that they've basically removed and replaced with their own generic, link-page.