System Z is like that - you have hardware on-site but you pay ongoing fees for resources you use. You can also get paid rent for allowing IBM to farm out batch processing jobs to your hardware using capacity that you aren't using.

In a situation where you have that many disks and fully redundant storage, the lower purchase cost may win out over better reliability in terms of total cost to the business. It's a very different equation if you aren't working in the same parameters. No-one is saying that our purchase decisions should be the same as theirs - they are just being kind enough to show stats over thousands of drives, which most of us couldn't afford to gather, so we can use that in making our own decisions.

This is similar to Google running servers above recommended temperature and wearing the cost of higher failure rate because it's cheaper than running cooling to keep the servers cooler and more reliable. The cost in convenience of doing the same with your desktop or gaming rig probably isn't worthwhile when you're going to have it in a room that has to be comfortable for humans anyway. But it's still nice to see Google's stats on reliability vs temperature, and hear how it influences their decisions. Nerds are supposed to love this shit.

And you sir are way too shovinistic.. do you also have problems with jews and everything that is not your kind?

The word you're looking for is "xenophobic". Also, you should learn to spell "chauvinistic" in case it actually is the word you need at some point.

Everybody has something to hide...

...except for me and my monkey! :)

Yeah, but the thing is Jesus did like the company of whores - he was criticised by the religious elite of the day for associating with "tax collectors and sinners". That and the "he who has no sin cast the first stone" thing...

It's not a anything. There's a number of different distros, and when you install one you can generally choose the components you want and leave out the ones you don't.

There's still a minimum set of components you'll need to build a POS system, and if they're attacking your POS system they'll target one of them. Same applies to Windows anyway - you can strip Windows Embedded down pretty effectively, as they do to make the setup that Xbox games run.

What? They were doing a pretty good job of pushing you to their AMD servers by making the price/performance ratio of the SPARC gear shit for years.

I can tell you that a multipurpose platform is not appropriate for a specialized task.

So how does Linux magically help? It's a "multi-purpose platform" if I ever saw one - trying to get into everything from embedded devices to routers to smartphones to web servers to desktops.

Can anyone explain why this is marked Funny and not Informative?

Because strictly speaking, Silk Road is a marketplace and not a retailer, as it's in the business of connecting independent vendors with customers.

What makes a 360 camera great is that subject tracking, pans, and cropping can be done in post.

Why do so many people seem to miss the fact that you can't fake perspective? Taking a crop or using a longer lens does not get you the same picture as getting closer (and vice versa). Same with actually following a subject: taking a crop and trying to correct the image to make it look straight is not the same as actually shooting from the angle you need. These cameras are just going to lead to more bad content ending up on the interwebz.

You conveniently ignore the fact that Al Qaeda had no chance of taking Fallujah before the US-led invasion. The US-led invasion has strengthened Al Qaeda in Iraq.

It's the Old Testament where the God of the Israelites rains fire and brimstone on wicked cities. That had already been written.

"Harmonisation" is used as a euphamism for censorship in China in reference to a famous speech Hu Jintao made about "building a harmonious society".

WTF? Baseline MAME will compile on Linux or OSX now, using SDL bindings and a Qt or Cocoa debugger UI. It's even in the repos for some popular Linux distros.

Whether or not his actions were worth it largely depends on how we view him NOW. If we dismiss him as a criminal, nothing will change and his efforts were for naught.

You've forgotten one important thing: even if we dismiss him as a criminal, he's satisfied his own conscience. It might not be worth anything to the rest of us, but he'll be able to die at peace with himself. Even one man's inner peace is worth something.