Comment So, what's the difference? (Score 1) 411
"It's really gotten to a point where I know pretty much what my friends are going to post."
Newsflash: your friends are just as predictable in real life.
Comment Re:Phone's gone, followed by cops' innocence. (Score 1) 983
Images from a SIM card?
Good luck storing much data on a SIM card.... The largest I got is 64k
Comment Re:Contenental standardization *works*. (Score 1) 2288
It works, except in the majority of countries on said continent.
Comment Re:Doesn't consider tourists (Score 1) 249
Well, the tourists probably have time to buy a stamp from the same place they buy the postcard.
And it's more fun to get a postcard with some exotic-looking foreign stamp on it than a string of digits
Comment Checksums (Score 1) 680
I can't believe nobody uses checksums...
For raw files, I add checksums (an md5sums text file in every image folder) right after importing the images from the flash card.
Jpegs tend to get changes in the exif data, so I add the checksums for those after the editing phase.
This makes it easy to verify the backups, since the md5 files get backed up, too.
In case of a corrupted file, I can hopefully find a good copy om my nearline backup HD, my NAS hidden in a bookshelf, or an offsite USB disk.
Comment Fun to overtake... (Score 1) 345
How the hell are you supposed to overtake one of these things...?
Especially on sweden's moronic 2+1 divided highways?
Comment Not worried about mammoths ruling the world, but.. (Score 1) 312
... but what about microbiology?
I guess one of 3 things could happen:
- Mammoths are poorly adapted to the evolved microbiology in the modern world, so it dies.
- Mammoths have some weird immunesystem causing viruses/bacteria mutation and we end up with a deadly epidemic of mammoth-flu.
- Nothing.
Comment Re:It's open source (Score 1) 325
well thats what you think... mouhahahaahahah
Comment ummm... (Score 1) 277
...no link?
Comment Who gives a flying f**k about what the FC wants? (Score 0) 191
The internet is an international thing nowadays..?
Comment Let the bloating begin...? (Score 0) 175
let's hope they dont screw this little gem up.
Comment Re:Not likely (Score 1) 126
Now, unless one finds a method to obtain gold salts by using plain cooking salt (Ok... I'll make a concession and allow capsicum powder as well), this step may require indeed the use of toxic chemicals.
Who said anything about not using toxic chemicals? They used cinnamon to replace "almost all toxic chemicals".
Comment Re:Aussies IT Directors Retarded (Score 0) 179
With current laptop resolutions (usually so called "HD"), a 5 year old 17" monitor is not that bad....
Comment old news in sweden. (Score 0) 249
this is already a reality in sweden for $140/month by "telia".
sorry but the link is in swedish, try babelfish
http://www.telia.se/privat/produkter_tjanster/bredband/bredbandvianatverksuttaget/fiberlan/
Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus" 65
An anonymous reader writes "With its new Caffeine search indexing system, Google has moved away from its MapReduce distributed number crunching platform in favor of a setup that mirrors database programming. The index is stored in Google's BigTable distributed database, and Caffeine allows for incremental changes to the database itself. The system also uses an update to the Google File System codenamed 'Colossus.'"
