Comment Re:Great (Score 5, Funny) 252
smash the patriarchy
You have to pay extra for that kind of thing.
smash the patriarchy
You have to pay extra for that kind of thing.
Or write a check...
Ah...I still have fond memories of my C=128
I'm not sure I like Jimmy.
What in the name of everything you hold holy were you thinking when posting this?
I think you meant to say:
What in 'http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-name-of-everything-you-hold-holy-were-you-thinking/the name of everything you hold holy' were you thinking when posting this?
Eventually the people in charge are going to realize that any kind of financial institution is basically a database on the internet that holds and exchanges account information. And then they're going to turn ghostly white as they realize all these strangers are touching the equipment that, in a very real sense, IS the bank, er, financial whatever...or worse, those strangers OWN the equipment that IS the financial gobstopper.
And then, at least in finance, outsourcing IT will be seen as a form of insanity.
See also Philip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle".
How do you fire your boss?
The racist parts are based on racism.
"Stuck also pointed out that InPhase's technology writes data at 20MB/sec compared with Blu-rays data transfer speed of 4.8MB/sec.
"If they [GE] really do have a 500GB disk, I come up with 100,000 seconds to fill a disc. There's 86,400 seconds in a day. You do the math,"
Hmm... 500,000MB / 20MB/sec = 25,000 sec. =~7 hours
Dude. That's what housekeeping is for...
Whatever happened to just carbon fuel cells?
from 2005: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7891-coalpowered-fuel-cell-aims-for-efficiency.html
and some unknown date: https://www.llnl.gov/str/June01/Cooper.html
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur R. Miller