During the highly-infectious SARS period in 2003, several countries in East Asia were in a state of emergency. N95-rated respirator masks were in extreme short supply.

One bra-manufacturing factory in Taiwan quickly modified its process and churned out masks instead - using the cup and straps as its basic design.

It was a godsend among the Taiwanese who were greatly desperate for protection against the deadly virus, which spreads via tiny droplets of saliva sneezed/coughed into the air.

I've RTFA'ed. The article is nothing more than a thought experiment. He stated very clearly several times in the article that he does not recommend this.

From the last paragraph:

The Slashdot summary has given us a wrong impression of the article's intention. It's nothing more than a thought experiment.

You'd need to perform a dictionary and encyclopaediac attack on the description.

Butterfly = see Chaos Theory
Cotton = see Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
Fiber = see ITU-T G.652 "Characteristics of a single-mode optical fibre cable"

Yes, the sky is just a huge curved screen with plenty of white pixels.

May I ask if it's a consumer motherboard RAID, or server RAID, or software RAID?

I'm thinking of using SATA RAID on my Windows XP machine ... (forgetting that backups are more important than RAID).

I propose mirroring this text onto the following websites:

• SCO
• RIAA

Anyone has better ideas?

*unable to utter a sound*

Rebutted on Slashdot, humbled again! Oh well.

Question 1: My hard disk can sustain between 30MB/sec to 80MB/sec sequential transfer, while my competitor's can sustain up to 286MB/sec. Which will you buy?

Question 2: My laser printer can sustain 1.5 ppm, while my competitor's up to 10 ppm. Which to recommend?

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Hint 1: 286MB/sec is the upper limit for SATA 2.

Hint 2: "My" measurements are inclusive of "cooling breaks between prints" during high volume prints, and includes a medium-resolution graphic (30MB size perhaps).

Um, no. For using the other two companies' libraries, they are supposed to write those docs, so that he can use them.

Also, it has absolutely nothing to do with documenting his device's interfaces.

I have the feeling I'm about to eat a really, really huge humble pie, though.

+10 Insightful.

On an off-topic note, I just spent 1.5 hours walking through the local Muslim temporary night market. They're having sales and discounts, being the last day of sales (since tomorrow is their huge celebration). The festive mood is infectious.

Fighting? What fighting? They're too busy doing sales / preparing to celebrate!

This is supposed to be funny, mods!

I don't like the tone of my voice. Please mod me down.

You're so lucky to be surrounded by good people. But still, I can't help feeling you're blind to reality in the world. In particular, some things are nagging at my mind.

A) "motivated / months of planning", "you haven't seen the really good ones"

B) "self-centered", "not wanting to risk myself / let other people take the risk"

But I'm not smart like you, so what can I say?

TFA didn't link to the original Reddit article. The original one is here.

And that thread's comments have multiple serious discussions going on.

1. Caring / not caring about people pirating your work, and the emotions you go through.
2. How much of that are/are not lost sales, and how many of them wouldn't have bought the software anyway.
3. The practicality of spending time coding copy protection/checking, and the returns, and how much of them pisses off users.
4. That it's better to spend time developing features that paying users want instead.

And the discussions rival the quality found in Slashdot.

Probably developed in-house.

A company with an IT department that instantly shows up when you plug an USB drive ... is a rich company. Probably with in-house apps.

The easiest way to distribute/update apps in the company is to literally copy the EXE file onto the desktop (as vs deploying it using Active Directory).