Comment Re:hahaha (Score 1) 375
and BTW you are quite right about the trade secrets.
Comment Re:hahaha (Score 1) 375
FTA:
"All Considered...
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days."
If you are going to post a link to support an argument then at least read the whole thing first. I said almost and I think that 99.9% fulfills almost.
"All Considered...
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days."
If you are going to post a link to support an argument then at least read the whole thing first. I said almost and I think that 99.9% fulfills almost.
Comment Re:hahaha (Score 1) 375
Well actually... since google has almost perfect uptime and availability moving to gmail servers should make alot of sense. Unless of course you are committing crimes as a corporation and need to be able to delete large chunks of emails in a hurry before the federal investigators get ahold of it... then I would have to agree that google is a bad choice.
There is one really good reason though that I can see for keeping internal mail exchangers. if your internet goes down then your intranet mail does as well. However in a large multi location operation that can happen anyway.
Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 315
There is direct linkage between the wheels and the propeller. the motion of the cart turning the wheels is transferred into the propeller which when spun fast enough will in turn push back against the tailwind to push the cart steadily faster than the wind itself.
Comment Re:Nicely twisted summary (Score 1) 286
Growing up in Houston I always called it "The Armpit of Texas". But now I live in Maine. So that's almost the armpit of Canada... Oh wait, Canada already has an armpit! That's Quebec!
(I will accept no flames to this post that are not in French!)
Comment back up! (Score 1) 325
TPB is back up again already.
Preserving Memories of a Loved One? 527
An anonymous reader writes "My wife is dying of metastatic (stage 4) cancer. Statistically she has between one and two years left. I have pre-teen daughters. I'm looking for innovative ideas on how to preserve memories of their mother and my wife so that years down the road we don't forget the things we all tend to forget about a person as time passes. I have copious photos and am taking as much HD video as I can without being a jerk, so images and sounds are taken care of (and backed up securely). I'm keeping a private blog of simple daily events that help me remember the things in between the hospitalizations and treatments. In this digital age what other avenues are there for preserving memories? Non-digital suggestions would be welcome, too."
Submission + - Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) (slashdot.org) 1
El Genio Malvado writes: 10 years ago the question was asked, what is the best way to get Internet while at sea..
After reading the responses.. and a decade of technological advancement is there a better more reliable method?
If someone had the ability to telecommute 100% of the time then the idea of Sailing around the world with a Paycheck direct deposited is getting more and more tempting..
What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?
To quote the original posting..
"Who needs land anyway? Give me a boat, the stars, working global wireless Internet and a wind to sail by!"
After reading the responses.. and a decade of technological advancement is there a better more reliable method?
If someone had the ability to telecommute 100% of the time then the idea of Sailing around the world with a Paycheck direct deposited is getting more and more tempting..
What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?
To quote the original posting..
"Who needs land anyway? Give me a boat, the stars, working global wireless Internet and a wind to sail by!"
Submission + - TI Against Calculator Hobbyists ... Again (omnimaga.org)
Deep Thought writes: Texas Instruments, already infamous thanks to the signing key controversy last year, is trying a new trick to lock down its graphing calculators, this time directed toward its newest TI-Nspire line. The TI-Nspires were already the most controlled of TI's various calculator models, and no third-party development of any kind (except for its very limited form of TI-BASIC) was allowed until the release of the independent tool Ndless. Since its release, TI has been determined to prevent the large calculator programming community from using it. Its latest released operating system for the Nspire family (version 2.1) now prevents the calculators from downgrading to OS 1.1, needed to run Ndless. This is the TI's second major attack on Ndless, as the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 be removed from public download, obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for. Is TI going the way Apple did?
Comment Re:1990's? (Score 2, Insightful) 1213
Yeah but MS didn't get XP right till august of 2004. and why was the parent modded funny? Are mods modding based on sigs now??
Comment Re:Their thinking (Score 1) 270
You're throwing lingo around. "reprisal in Empire" I assume is space controlled by the server (aka. NPCs)?
What I'm getting at is that in Eve, when I played it, you are just a peon trading goods for corporations and it carries the same politics and statures that real life carries. I didn't see the fun in it. I went out looking for some NPC Pirates to kill to get weapon drops or rewards for keeping the asteroids safe and found none of it. I found that the only way to advance in the game was to join a corporation and ferry goods around space while dodging pirates or keeping to safe space. There was no "solo" track to making it.
Now you're going to complain that it's an MMO and: "Why would someone play an MMO if they want to solo?" Because Eve struck me as an interesting economy where other people determine the price of goods and I could just chase enemies and loot the rewards to sell on the market. I wouldn't have to set prices on my goods, only chase the rewards for taking out something that is in demand... but finding the enemies that needed taken out were minimal.
I am guessing then that you did not really play long enough to "get it". There are many solo tracks in eve. and trading is only a tiny fragment of the game. In fact it's so tiny that most people don't trade in any signifigant fashion (or at least any more than they need to in order to mission or kill other players)
Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 2, Funny) 187
"Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, A.A. meetings, beer nights..." It's wonderful, Marge! I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined.
Comment Re:The sad irony... (Score 1) 1238
Wow, I had no idea our textbooks had drifted so far to the left.
Reality has a well known liberal bias. --Stephen Colbert
Comment Re:Mod parent up (Score 3, Funny) 342
Nonsense! For example, a real human could never mishear the phrase "guide dog" as "gay dog" and refuse to let a dog into a restaurant.
Well to be fair, understanding Australians is an order of magnitude more difficult than understanding English speech.
(ducks)
Comment Re:Oil Gusher (Score 1) 913
The reservoir is unlikely to be located near the surface, so you've basically got a long, thin drill hole going down a long way.
Thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense. I wonder if they are considering strapping explosives to one of their underwater ROVs and sending it down as a suicide bomber. It seems like they could probably have the gushing stopped by tomorrow...
