That you for posting this story! I was unaware of this project.

The fact that this MMO will have in-world non-instanced Player Housing, ala SWG but even better, PLUS realistic non-restricted skill development are enough for me to get excited about this and invest in it. Being able to run my own server without waiting years for a community emulated one cinches it!

I would love it if they could eventually also add the capability for relatively unlimited underground adventuring, perhaps in layers? And Digging, ala Minecraft.

I would also love it if they could find a way to allow non-Steam use, at least for private servers. Otherwise I will have to always have my separate Steam-box running in order to play the game, which uses the same monitor as my main system, limiting my ability for normal use as MMO's are something I usually run in addition to other things at the same time and on the same system. I also run my non-steam games from within VMware VMs which Steam will NOT allow... I will Never install Steam or any Extreme DRM on my main system as I do development and business work on it too and won't tolerate the kernel hacking and virtual device restricting behavior they are known for as well as random destructive behavior that could cause me to have to reinstall the OS and rebuild the whole environment again, causing me unacceptable down-time.

Otherwise, best of luck on this project! I can see people using this MMO software for many years to come. :)

I am a little confused; Isn't all material on the BBC public property in Britain since it's paid for with taxes?

Nevermind, if the site really was actually hosting full episodes then it really was only a matter of time before they were taken down. Though I am a little confused; Isn't all material on the BBC public property in Britain since it's paid for with taxes?

I suspect those in charge of the Dr Who franchise will end up wishing they could go back in time and reverse this stupid decision.. Especially once they see that the extermination order was signed by "The Master"...

Maybe they forgot to use Metric? Oh wait, the satellites would have ended up in Martian orbit if they had done that.

Odd; My first thought would be that those surface boulders were just the more recent micro-asteroids that were drawn to the larger asteroids gravity. I'm not sure why a more complicated explanation is necessary? But I'm open to learning.

Google might do better to just buy a bunch of kids/people copies of the brilliant book:

Bebop Bytes Back: An Unconventional Guide to Computers '.

I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to actually understand exactly what interactions occur in a cpu etc and how they result in what you experience. The book actually makes it fun! At least for people like me. ;)

Yeah, their experimental AI Neural Net has run out of cat videos to watch on youtube and has determined that this is the optimal way of finding new and unique cat videos to add to it's perfection.

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

So in other words.. You'd better drink societies Kool-Aid and smile all the time or else they'll start calling you crazy.

* Cynical interpretation of TFA.

"Perhaps the influences of Red Faction and Minecraft could also come into play as you bored your own shortcuts through layers of destructible sediment."

You have described the multiplayer game [Miner Wars 2081]. In every way it is the game that the submitter described. It has the full Descent style navigation though asteroids as well as a customizable voxel universe. Seriously, check out the videos.

Miner Wars 2081

How about a version of ZFS for Windows that doesn't need to be usable for a boot drive but can be used just for separate data drives?

Then Windows could do it's own thing with the boot drive and NTFS and it's cache etc, and ZFS would keep all your other data nice and safe.

I'd pay for even that much ZFS capability in Windows!

Well, that depends. Send me a pic. ;) (Yes, I know I misspelled "Hear". :P)

LOL! And I'll keep in mind Mr. Coward that it was too much for you to notice the obvious fact that his equation missed the greater depth of 5.25 inch bays, meaning the figure is incorrect since it doesn't account for enough platters. :P It's fun making fun of people instead of actually being constructive isn't it?

Nice. That plus however many more platters you could fit into it considering the 5.25 bay is deeper than a 3.5 inch HD.

Also, thanks for not making an issue of my misspelling one word. I'd been up since the previous day working and am also not feeling well, so I'm not going to feel bad about one obvious misspelling. ;)

This is all well and good, but couldn't just one manufacturer afford to set aside one measly manufacturing line for making 5 1/4 inch Hard Drives again?

Here me out. Now that they are up to 1TB per platter with current tech on 3.5 inch drives just imagine what they could fit into a 5 1/4 inch drive now!!

I know I wouldn't be the only one willing to shell out bux for one of those, providing they used all that space intelligently: With Data Spaces that large it would pretty much be a requirement to include built in internal Mirroring RAID of some sort between the platters, or at least provide the option, for data integrity and protection and longevity of the unit.

I've been salivating over that dream for years now.