Comment Those can not be real costs (Score 1) 475
Here in Sweden we pay up to $8000 for a fiber connection to a house, there are lots of appartments that get it a lot cheaper though (for free).
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:Recruiting policy (Score 1) 589
I support a few Motif apps at work. but what is this "without any problem" phenomenon you speak of?
Indeed AFAIR Motif Apps were a problem back in the day.
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:Ingress (Score 1) 93
I would recommend Mozstumbler or openwlanmap instead. They do the same thing basically.
Comment ... badabom (Score 2) 178
Thats the same kind of person who blaems typos on there keyboard.
I see what you did their!
Comment Re:If it's such a great development environment... (Score 1) 149
In the old times, FPS was not about multiplayer. I stopped playing them around the time it became like that.
That would be around 1996 when Quake was released.
Comment Re:really? (Score 1) 143
The devil you know.
Comment HR is not on your side (Score 4, Insightful) 710
Which is why in civilised countries we have unions and employment law.
I was a bit sad when I read that she had to request HR to be present at a meeting with the boss, you need a union on your side when you have those conversations.
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.
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:Buy a "Hello Kitty" wrist strap. (Score 1) 374
Except a 2 year old
Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? 287
First time accepted submitter BlazeMiskulin writes "With XP approaching end-of-life, I find myself in a situation that I'm guessing is common: What to do with Mom's machine (or 'grandma's machine' for the younger of you). Since a change has to be made, this seems like a good time to move to a Linux distro. My mother (82) uses her computer for e-mail and web-browsing only. I know that any distro will be able to handle her needs. I've been using Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, and Redhat--usually with KDE interface) for about 10 years now, but I know that my preferences are quite different from hers.
I have my own ideas, but I'm curious what others think: What combination of distro and UI would you recommend for an old, basic-level user who is accustomed to the XP interface and adverse to change?" My Grandmother seems happy running KDE on Debian.
I have my own ideas, but I'm curious what others think: What combination of distro and UI would you recommend for an old, basic-level user who is accustomed to the XP interface and adverse to change?" My Grandmother seems happy running KDE on Debian.
Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval 258
An anonymous reader writes "If you think the average wait of 28.3 months for a patent to be approved is ridiculous, don't complain to Gilbert P. Hyatt. The 76-year-old inventor has been waiting over forty years for a ruling on whether his electronic signal to control machinery should be granted a patent. 'It's totally unconscionable,' said Brad Wright, a patent lawyer with Banner & Witcoff in Washington who specializes in computer-related applications and isn't involved in Hyatt's case. 'The patent office doesn't want to be embarrassed that they might issue a broad patent that would have a sweeping impact on the technology sector. Rather than be embarrassed, they're just bottling it up.'"
Comment Re:Elegant isn't important. (Score 1) 164
"Bicycling is the most energy-efficient way to move,"
nope.
Yes it is. (I'm not going to bother with the rest since it's just your opinions)
Comment Re:so its a moped? (Score 1) 164
You can not get a good bicycle that cheap, sure you can spend lots of time renovating old bicycles, but they probably did cost a lot more than $150 when new.
