I wonder how man skimmers are installed by the person with the key to the gas pump? Checking wouldn't do much good if the guy checking the pump is the one who installed the skimmer.
Wouldn't it be better to just have the robot store the beer inside of it? Basically a remote controlled beer dispenser. Add a porta potty function with wireless to order beer online and you would never have to leave your couch again.
Actually I'm glad I posted my comment, because there are several options for tape that weren't there when I last looked. There was a point there where tapes (especially the drives) were insanely expensive for pretty small capacities AND they were slower than hell (compared to the hard drives at the time). I'm definitely going to look at them again now.
I looked around a bit, and it looks like tapes cost over $100 for 1.5TB of capacity (uncompressed). Throw in $1000 for a tape drive and the whole tape thing isn't looking so hot....
We take disks off site, though I will grant that dropping them probably isn't a great idea. I've used padded Pelican cases for transport before without any problems thus far.
Disks. Not only are they way faster than tapes, but they aren't dependent on a tape drive. Picture your backup tapes. Now picture how useless they would be if your tape drive broke (or was destroyed in a disaster). Disks on the other hand can be plunked down into pretty much any machine and accessed.
I haven't priced tapes lately; how much does it cost just for tapes for one backup? Counting the cost of a tape drive (a spare probably wouldn't be a bad idea; see above) and the cost per tape, and suddenly disks don't seem so expensive anymore.
Also as an added bonus: when you retire your disks, if they are still working you can still use them for something useful.
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Or maybe they could assign letter grades, like A B C D and F.....
How about, "enjoy going extinct you stupid dinosaur".
I wonder how man skimmers are installed by the person with the key to the gas pump? Checking wouldn't do much good if the guy checking the pump is the one who installed the skimmer.
Actually it would be awesome if it was legal to download copies of movies that didn't make money anyway; maybe that would solve this problem?
I thought movies used trailers, not hotel rooms.
Yes, because watching a hotel room for three minutes doesn't bring in moviegoers.
Wow, they really were cool looking.
Wouldn't it be better to just have the robot store the beer inside of it? Basically a remote controlled beer dispenser. Add a porta potty function with wireless to order beer online and you would never have to leave your couch again.
I'd be worried about quakes too if I lived someplace that wasn't accustomed to having them and had many old non-earthquake safe buildings.
So how's your tornado shelter?
Of course, it could be difficult to get the monkey "actors" to cooperate.
Cattle prods should work, at least until the Monkey Actor's Guild comes into existence.
Combined it became a succesful prison break.
Except the getting caught part.
It got harder to throw enough workers into the mixers.
I recently had a problem with my disposal, but it was just the peels that did it.
Actually I'm glad I posted my comment, because there are several options for tape that weren't there when I last looked. There was a point there where tapes (especially the drives) were insanely expensive for pretty small capacities AND they were slower than hell (compared to the hard drives at the time). I'm definitely going to look at them again now.
Now archiving I can see, though then the question becomes, is there a working tape drive that can read these tapes?
I looked around a bit, and it looks like tapes cost over $100 for 1.5TB of capacity (uncompressed). Throw in $1000 for a tape drive and the whole tape thing isn't looking so hot....
We take disks off site, though I will grant that dropping them probably isn't a great idea. I've used padded Pelican cases for transport before without any problems thus far.
Disks. Not only are they way faster than tapes, but they aren't dependent on a tape drive. Picture your backup tapes. Now picture how useless they would be if your tape drive broke (or was destroyed in a disaster). Disks on the other hand can be plunked down into pretty much any machine and accessed.
I haven't priced tapes lately; how much does it cost just for tapes for one backup? Counting the cost of a tape drive (a spare probably wouldn't be a bad idea; see above) and the cost per tape, and suddenly disks don't seem so expensive anymore.
Also as an added bonus: when you retire your disks, if they are still working you can still use them for something useful.
Seriously, does anyone backup to tape anymore?
Only if it happens in the next 50-80 years or so, barring some serious life extension discoveries.
Actually from personal experience I'd say that sex is the first brick in the road on the way to hell. But then again I am pretty bitter.
Actually at the next press announcement they are going to show the actual device, but they have to wait for it to rise first.
Or it may just continue to accumulate, until your kids inherit it all, and curse you for not clearing it out before you went :-P
Does he have a large vehicle, and is he willing to come over and pick things up??? Sure, all these have valuable metals in them!
Trash?
Seriously, I think I just recently sent the last one I owned to Goodwill (well, assuming there aren't any hiding anywhere that I haven't found yet).
Actually the water in the zombies will all get broken down into hydrogen and oxygen so we're good.
My new car runs on zombies!
Yeah, but what if her mouth clamps shut when she crashes?