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Comment Re:You are asking the wrong question (Score 1) 284

"I thought I'd ask Slashdot for some suggestions on enabling maximum uptime" - the answer: YOU don't enable maximum uptime, you get someone to do do it for you.

It seems to me like you are ill-equiped to handle server hosting.

Shhh, with an uid like yours, you should realize by now 95% of ask /. questions are shills
using questionable advertising tactics, trying to get us to name their product in front of a
potential 'yeah me too' audience of buyers for their products.

This one is failing miserably, since it's all over the place.

-AI

Comment Re:My only beef with the Samsung Galaxy phones is. (Score 1) 107

Yeah, and iPhone feels so goddamn flimsy compared to my decade old, 1 pound Motorola. I like the weight and robust feel to my moto, it's one of the most satisfying aspects to it. Every time i hold an iPhone i feel like i have to be careful with it. I've dropped my Moto from a decent height on numerous occasions and it's practically spotless and faultless.

How's the concrete where it landed? I bet it left a nick!

-AI

Comment Re:No Thanks (Score 1) 256

I just wish someone would make 3.5" drives besides OCZ. Hell - I wish someone would make 5.25" drives.

Why? You see an almost perfect scaling. The cost of 1x1024GB ~= 2x512GB ~= 4x256GB ~= 8x128GB. And since you can already put $2500 worth of flash in a 2.5" drive, what do you need 3.5" drives for? $10,000 drives? Or 5.25", $100,000 drives? The way things are going it's more likely my next SSD would be a mSATA drive...

Refer to SLC and MLC and lifespan.

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/beginners-guide/slc-vs-mlc-ssds-2/

Larger form factors would allow larger SLC SSD drives.

Also,
1TB of SSD ~ $720 = http://slickdeals.net/f/4744708-for-6-15-120gb-corsair-force-series-3-ssd-79-99-after-20-00-mirebate-ships-free

-AI

Comment Re:Unfortunately for Seagate? (Score 1) 256

BTW if anybody has an article on these 'small caching SSDs for desktops" I'd sure like to read it. I've heard of small drives being used for servers, where it is basically just being used to bootstrap the OS into RAM, but I haven't seen anything about using small SSDs as caching drives on desktops. hell does Win 7 even properly support something like that, or is it just being used like Readyboost? Like i said if you have a link I'd sure like to read it, I've still got 3 SATA II slots free on my PC, wouldn't mind a cheap speed boost.

Google; still a useful tool.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248828/how_to_set_up_intel_smart_response_ssd_caching_technology.html

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1587/1/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z68-chipset-smart-response-technology-ssd-caching-review/3

but I had a few free seconds to help ya out there.

-AI

Comment Re:If they don't like it (Score 1) 687

I'd like to hear comments from these women when they are in their 40s and fat (or just old). "Nobody looks at me anymore. I used to be cute and guys would give me all kinds of attention. Now they don't even look. :-( " Young women (and men) don't appreciate the beauty they have until after it's gone.

I know women in their 40s that exercise regular, lift weights, and look better then they did in their 20-30s. They have hardly any wrinkles (avoided the sun), they had children, and yes they have a career. Some even in the fitness industry.

They turn more heads then women half their age, and are proud doing so.

Beauty is something you can maintain and improve upon.

So, you just decided to completely ignore what the parent said and go
off on your own diatribe?

Well played.

-AI

Comment Re:Long time to miss that one (Score 1) 155

Assuming you mean "orders of magnitude," you might want to familiarize yourself with what that actually means. 80 tonnes and 20 tonnes are not different by an order of magnitude. Not even one.

Also, the 80 tonne estimate seems to be from the distant past. More recent estimates are in the high 20s, so the difference with this estimate isn't even 50%.

Assuming you mean "orders of magnitude," you might want to familiarize yourself with what that actually means. 80 tonnes and 20 tonnes are not different by an order of magnitude. Not even one.

Also, the 80 tonne estimate seems to be from the distant past. More recent estimates are in the high 20s, so the difference with this estimate isn't even 50%.

Man, you are a dick... lol

If I would have fuckin meant orders of magnitude, I would have fuckin said it.

I didn't say it, cause "orders of magnitude" is incorrect, as you brilliantly
pointed out, after you changed the meaning of what I said by adding words.

magnitude [mægntjud] n.,
1. relative importance or significance
2. relative size or extent
3. (Mathematics) Maths a number assigned to a quantity, such as weight, and used as a basis of comparison for the measurement of similar quantities

Yes, when you add other words to a word and make a new phrase, it changes
the meaning sometimes. Maybe you should give up on that assuming part.
It doesn't work well for you.

I was further referring to things such as carbon sequestering, temperature and
humidity. Which, and I'm not gonna do the math, probably would be "orders of
magnitude" different when you consider it doesn't have to support the mass of
what was previously thought to exist as far as animals needing nutrients.

-AI

Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 2) 400

While not the original poster, I also refuse to have a cellphone.

I have a cellphone, I just refuse to answer it if I don't want to.

I guess you give casino's and dessert bars a wide berth too?

Don't forget whores and crack dealers!

-AI

Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 2) 400

If you actually have to talk to someone and it's important and can't risk the call being dropped you need to know where a pay phone is, which happens a lot for students trying to get work. Calls you absolutely cannot have dropped.

Naturally calls get dropped a lot on a university campus because it's a big place with very uneven and bursty load on the cell towers and all sorts of buildings and signals messing everything up. Not all campuses will have the problem either, depends on the buildings layouts and materials and where they can put cell towers.

I used to live in one of the largest cities in the US. Now,
I'm in the 7th largest (last time I checked)... I cannot at
all remember the last time I had a call dropped here.

Last time that I can remember I had a call dropped was
about 8 years ago, this one stretch of the 101 in Cali,
it really didn't like to hand off calls. Was pretty consistent
til Verizon put up a palm antenna right in the middle of
the handoff zone. Problem was gone.

I feel those that live with dropped calls in anything that
resembles a city, need to change providers.

Verizon, since 1998. Virtually 0 complaints for the last 10.

-AI

Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 0) 400

While not the original poster, I also refuse to have a cellphone.

And for you, we reserve the word, luddite.

Luddite noun \l-dt\
1. One who fears technology (or new technology, as they seem pleased with how things currently are...why can't everything just be the same?)

See, it really does fit, cause I have a "cell" phone, or as the 'kids' call them
nowadays, a smartphone. And here's the thing.

My phone, really is smart. Since I have adopted the same attitude as you
about communication, I have an app that restricts incoming calls. I don't
even have to suffer nary a beep, chirp, or vibration.

However, I still have the phone at my disposal, all the time, any data I need
to access is there, rather instantly.

So, I do not deride your lack of a "cell" phone, I condemn your ignorance to
the actual importance and usefulness of a "smartphone".

Ignorance is bliss tho, amirite?

-AI

Comment Long time to miss that one (Score 2) 155

That is a hell of a long time to miss that concept. We wasted a lot of time
and resources predicting a lot of things that are off by several magnitudes
believing that they were of a different weight.

There will be a flood of new data from related sciences following this. And
probably a number of other studies trying to disprove it.

-AI

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