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Comment Not the brightest ever witnessed after all (Score 1) 69

Coincidentally I was watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 4 last night and he talked about several credible eye witness accounts recorded by the Gervase of Canterbury where an impact on the moon was so bright that it was seen at dusk and generated a very large and visible plume, much much larger in size and longer in duration than that brief flash the MIDAS program reported about. You'll have to watch Episode 4 to learn what impact crater astronomers were able to match these accounts against, but it was a ray crater positioned on the moon consistent with the eye witness accounts.

Comment Minor difference (Score 1) 338

Although applying the concept is interesting in theory, all trolling aside a foundational difference that makes this comparison nonsense is that *most* human's don't want the virus they contract whereas *most* Facebook users want to participate on Facebook until its usefulness expires. Facebook's usefulness has an indeterminate expiration that is subjective per individual (or group of like-minded individuals) whereas the virus is counter-useful. Now, if they were to apply disease patterns of a virus whose side effect were of varied usefulness to people, then we'd have a more productive comparison.

Comment Re: Waldo (Score 1) 104

The problem with that is that <insert market space> is a bitch of an environment to maintain something as complex as the <insert product> over time. Unless you're only looking at another <insert product development lifecycle> or two of life, you'll probably see it reach the point where it's cheaper and easier to build a new <insert product>, <insert product alternative> or <insert alternative to product alternative> than it is to continue maintaining the <insert product>. There's also few practical options for preserving it as a piece of history, no matter how cool that would be.

That's how I read your post.

Comment Did you test brownouts? (Score 1) 293

Hey lkcl, I don't know if this is a concern of yours, but I ended up having some fairly costly troubleshooting a few years ago with the original OCZ Vertex drives where the root cause was my laptop battery had degraded enough to where the OCZ wasn't getting the necessary voltage/current on boot-up or when the power was unplugged and it ran off of battery. The OCZ Vertex drive hardware wasn't well designed to handle not getting enough power (it was still receiving power) and totally and completely corrupted the flash to the point where it had to be sent back to OCZ. I think I did 7-8 drive returns and a laptop motherboard replacement until I finally figured it out. You might try that on the Intel S3500 and see what your results are.

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