Comment Cue lawsuits (Score 1) 105
Cue lawsuits as the wife starts getting targeted advertisements for 'hot sluts in your area' due to the husbands chatting habits...
Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion 157
puroresu writes "Astronomers in Ireland have appealed to the public to contact them with eyewitness accounts of a massive explosion in the sky over the country. From the BBC: 'Astronomy Ireland chairman David Moore said: "So far, reports have been registered by residents in west Cork, Kerry, Cavan and as far north as Donegal, thus suggesting that this spectacular event may have been witnessed by people all over the country. In the past two decades there have been two major explosions in the skies over Ireland. When we investigated these, we were able to conclude that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space."'"
Comment Re:The writing's on the wall. (Score 2) 271
Capacity is still an issue though. Although in enterprise storage SSDs offer a lower cost per transaction and provide a real benefit, they still have massive amounts of HDDs for storage on the lower tier. Outside of work where I would be classed as a standard consumer, it would cost me far, far too much to buy enough SSDs to transfer my 4TB of data from my HDDs.
Comment Re:why flash? (Score 5, Informative) 271
RTFA. It's cheaper than DRAM.
Submission + - Not every cloud has a silver lining 1
Diabolus Advocatus writes: Cory Doctorow has an interesting article on guardian.co.uk addressing what cloud computing really means for the average consumer:
The tech press is full of people who want to tell you how completely awesome life is going to be when everything moves to "the cloud" — that is, when all your important storage, processing and other needs are handled by vast, professionally managed data-centres.
Here's something you won't see mentioned, though: the main attraction of the cloud to investors and entrepreneurs is the idea of making money from you, on a recurring, perpetual basis, for something you currently get for a flat rate or for free without having to give up the money or privacy that cloud companies hope to leverage into fortunes.
The tech press is full of people who want to tell you how completely awesome life is going to be when everything moves to "the cloud" — that is, when all your important storage, processing and other needs are handled by vast, professionally managed data-centres.
Here's something you won't see mentioned, though: the main attraction of the cloud to investors and entrepreneurs is the idea of making money from you, on a recurring, perpetual basis, for something you currently get for a flat rate or for free without having to give up the money or privacy that cloud companies hope to leverage into fortunes.
Submission + - The real reason behind eircom's Pirate Bay block 1
Diabolus Advocatus writes: As has been discussed before, Ireland's largest ISP — eircom — began blocking thepiratebay.org on Sept 1st 2009. At first it appeared that eircom were trying to appease the record labels and affiliated cronies. Now it appears the censorship has a more sinister background.
For anyone not with eircom I have mirrored the notice page eircom customers see when trying to access thepiratebay.org here. As you will notice in the "Legal Downloading" section near the bottom, it states that eircom are working with the labels to "to develop an innovative new music service for eircom and non-eircom customers".
For anyone not with eircom I have mirrored the notice page eircom customers see when trying to access thepiratebay.org here. As you will notice in the "Legal Downloading" section near the bottom, it states that eircom are working with the labels to "to develop an innovative new music service for eircom and non-eircom customers".
Comment Re:Religion didn't call for this (Score 1) 1376
No, not socialist. Fianna Fail - the majority ruling party - are centre right and have been shifting further right for years due to the influence of the Progressive Democrats party. While in power they sold off most of the state and semi-state companies, while outsourcing to private companies things that they should be looking after themselves. Letting private companies build hospitals on land of a public hospital is not socialism! Letting private companies charge us tolls to use roads that were built with our tax money is not socialism! I could go on for pages. Jesus fucking christ I hate this country...
Comment Re:cutting edge considerd harmfull (Score 1) 378
Well that all depends on your target market huh?
Just remember that if you're building a golf site then stick to IE6 compatibility for the corporate users or you exclude practically your whole market.
Just remember that if you're building a golf site then stick to IE6 compatibility for the corporate users or you exclude practically your whole market.
Comment Re:Oh Lord! (Score 3, Insightful) 378
Anything is better than yellow Comic Sans on a purple background!
Comment Non-removable battery?! (Score 4, Informative) 205
Non-removable battery? What if I'm traveling for hours and my battery runs out? Oh I'll just pop in my spare! Or not...
Comment Re:Interesting, but was already assumed (Score 1) 118
Except that the atmospheric pressure it 90 time that of earth.
Comment Re:Does anyone even use classic anymore? (Score 1) 170
And judging by how long it's taking for anyone to even comment, I assume the answer to my above question is no...
Comment Does anyone even use classic anymore? (Score 2, Informative) 170
Seriously though, does anyone even use it? If I still had a Mac that old, I'd rather run 8.6 to be honest. 9 added nothing much more than bugs while running slower...
Comment From a user perspective (Score -1, Flamebait) 598
Java sucks. It's slow and a resource hog. It just doesn't feel 'right' when using programs made from it.
On the other hand, I've never really had a problem with any
Sure Java might be more open but as a user I'm going to use what is better for me - not what's better for the developers.
Comment Both? (Score 2, Insightful) 459
Can there not just be support for both?
If a browser vendor doesn't implement them both then it's their market share that will suffer, so browser vendors really would have no choice.
So... Why not implement both standards?
