http://www.devttys0.com/wp-con...

I don't know if that is the same issue or ont.

>> Seems odd that that wasn't included in TFS

What, did you expect the submitter to do something crazy like read every single sentence of the article? Who has time for that?

You shouldn't really have to care about whether or not the cloud provider is going to go out of business or not. We're talking about backups (i.e. a *second* copy of your data). All that is really important is that it is easy enough to add another provider to the system in the event the first one does happen to go bad.

Thus the only thing you really have to protect against is the cloud provider going out of business without warning and your local copy of the data getting destroyed before you have a chance to make a new replica.

A while back our children discovered videos that are so called unboxing videos. It is unclear to me what the exact revenue source is, but there are videos that are nothing but a set of hands opening surprise eggs for an hour (not an exaggeration - we're talking about a literal hour long video of hands opening up a big pile of surprise eggs, and there are many like it). Now, is this disturbing? Yes, absolutely. What is even more disturbing is that the advertisement has become the content.

That being said, I think the fact that many of these videos have 1 million plus views indicates that parents are ok with their children watching this.

I think the moral of the story is that if you don't want your children watching ads, then don't let them watch youtube, or at least careful curate for them.

I do not blame Youtube or Google for this though.

What are the stats/predictions these days as to how long a flash drive will last? If you had a quality flash drive you could stick it in the time capsule along with netbook or some other small sized player. It doesn't seem that unreasonable for our grid to still be on 120V in 100 years.

Well, to be fair, Google Cardboard came out in 2014 and the patent was filed in 2008.

It is probably the cost thing.

In the US it generally doesn't cost either party any money once you pay the flat monthly rate for the telephone line, which can be had for pretty cheap.

So it's a tradeoff, really - it is nice to be able to make calls across the country without thinking about the cost. On the other hand, it lowers the bar for telemarketers.

http://www.r-project.org/ also states that "R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues." So obviously the GNU project itself doesn't do a lot of actual development, though I would expect that they provide some administrative support in some form (perhaps in similar manner that the FSF does for many open source projects).

There are numerous sources to support that. Two that probably hold some weight are:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/blur... and http://www.gnu.org/software/so..., both of which list R as a GNU package.

I had wondered if it was supposed to be GRPS, and somebody didn't know what that was and shortened it to GPS assuming it must be a typo or something.

I think there's that, and the possibility of mistakes made by lack of visual differentiation. We have a social network at work, but there is no opportunity for confusion - it doesn't look anything like facebook.com. If Facebook and Facebook at Work are visually similar I suspect there will be at least one case where somebody mixes up destinations accidentally.

Presumably it would be hosted by FB. And I suspect for most companies that if the corporate internet connection goes down there are bigger issues than not being able to access corporate facebook.

Hmmm... I must be reading a different summary or am working with a different definition of TFS. When I read the summary, it says: 'According to a story at Wired, towns in Mexico that aren't served by the nation's telecom monopoly'.

I assume he wasn't being us specific as the article sure wasn't. I work on a remote team that spanned, at one point six timezones - a guy in Australia, a team in China, a team in SV and a few others scattered among the other three north american timezones. It certainly had its challenges.

I think it is especially difficult for a preexisting company to start thinking remote, and that is probably the real problem. The org is very head office centric and so many meetings start in a room and remote people get added in either part way through or after the pleasantries have taken place. They don't think to introduce people in the room so on the remote end all you hear is voices going back and forth at varying volumes depending on how far away the person is from the mic. If a couple of people in the room start having a person to person chat amongst themselves (not private but where the in room attendees are spectators and can listen in) then you are almost guaranteed to be SOL because they end up speaking quickly and don't enunciate as much and they don't speak as loud. If you are in the room you can jump in if you have something to add (probably using body language to indicate you want to add something) but you're lost very quickly if you are in the phone.

"they may as well remind us to park our HDD drive heads everytime we power down."

Are you saying I don't have to maintain my park.sh script anymore? I wish you'd told me that before I completely rewrote it to support SSDs.