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Comment Re:Familiarity (Score 1) 589

I've never understood what exchange+óutlook actually gives you, please enlighten me. I supported a couple of houndred people using exchange in grad school, the most complicated question I got was how to make your address book sync properly. It might be all those extension that people write for Exchange, which sync to strange places.

Comment Re:No way I could trust a self-driving car (Score 1) 98

Once self-driving cars hit the road in any numbers, it will become really, really expensive to try to be a jerk in traffic. No speeding. No lane cutting. No tailgating. No weaving. No nothing - just follow the traffic flow and the law to the letter and spirit or you will get reported. And of course your insurance rate will like go up, simply by being a human driver.

It's not clear that they will be allowed to record all that, at least not in Sweden, which this story is about. Privacy problems and all that.

Comment Re:If you want to hoard bits... (Score 1) 983

If I were doing this with drives, I'd grab an 8x SATA card, 8 4TB drives, an external hot-swap shelf, and setup RAIDZ-2 with compression on it. .... Cost is about $1800. That's totally a backup. A second set of backups is another $1300.

Can somebody compare the cost for tape?

You pay about ~$1800-$2500 for tapes, a tape driver, and SAS card, depending on vendor, an extra 27 tapes to store 20TB again would be about $700. The big win is that the tape setup take less space, changing tapes every 800GB is not so hot though, but you get used to it. I've used 4 tape drives in parallel to be able to backup all data generated durng the day, it's ok, you learn to handle that with the morning coffee.

Comment Re:Not in my experience (Score 1) 164

Out of about 80 bikes that are locked outside my building, only 4-5 are racing bikes. If I was in the Netherlands, Germany or Denmark it would be more like 1 / 80.

Far less than that, normally people do not use racing bikes for everyday use. I stood in a busy bicycle intersection and saw ~200 upright bicycles not one racing bike.

Comment Re:Still ugly (Score 1) 164

If you just ride an hour or two on the weekend, then a cushy seat and upright posture feels comfortable. If you ride many more hours per week it's a prescription for saddle sores

I've biked 300km during three days in upright position, it's easy and I had not problem. Further, there are thousands of people doing at least 100 km a week in upright position over here.

Comment Re:Citation Needed (Score 2) 134

'and narrative-driven adventures can seem more like interactive movies than games'

Citation Needed

You can watch The last of us as a movie instead of playing it. It's 4-7 hours depending on how much gameplay there is I guess. But live streaming or editing your game sessions is big business now, so I guess it might just be a shift in what is considerd entertainment.

"I make videos of me doing stuff, so you don't have to!" - Washington.

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