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Comment Re:I'm signed up to have my head put in cryostorag (Score 1) 479

And who knows - there's some slight chance they WILL figure out how to download the person from a frozen-head-saved-game into a new model body (or fix the cracks in the brain, implant it in a cloned corpus, and restart it) - and somebody will think it's worthwhile to try it with me. Then it's time travel to the far future.

Yeah, but seriously. Under what sort of conditions would someone in the future decide to revive some reasonably rich dude from the past (hey, if you can afford cryostorage in this day and age, you're richer than 95% of the world).

I seriously doubt someone will someday say, "Hey, we don't have enough old rich dudes. Let's go resurrect some." Nope. Instead, you are going to be turned into an experiment. If you ever resurrect, it's not gonna be pretty.

Comment Mostly full (Score 1) 450

My drives are mostly full.

I have 160 GB filled on my main 200 GB drive. 30 GB is a Vista image. The other is my main OS X drive, with applications, documents, code, etc.

My media drive has 200 GB of 460 GB full. That's music, photos and video. But I recently offloaded all of my (legally downloaded) TV Shows and Movies, and that's about another 100 GB there.

All told I have about 500 GB worth of data that I care about and I have backed up on multiple drives. Most are music, video and photos. I could likely delete a lot of the photos, but space is cheaper than the time it would take me.

Comment Re:It's been time for YEARS (Score 1) 948

I would hope that all desktop OS's are used by enthusiasts. ... If people are running an OS for some other reason, then we have problems...

Expecting everyone to be an enthusiast is incredibly myopic. Most people don't care about their OS. Most don't care about their computer. They care about their paycheck, their family, and sometimes the work they have to do which often involves a computer.

Are you an enthusiasts about the car brand you drive? The type of pen you use to write with? The chair design you sit on? Some people are. But to expect everyone to be is just ridiculous.

Comment Hadn't read Watchmen before (Score 1) 523

I'm a bit ashamed to admit I hadn't read Watchmen before the movie, despite collecting comics through my youth. I was a bit too much in love with X-Men and Marvel at the time.

Anyway, I just saw the movie last night and I really liked it. I thought it was one of the best comic-based movies I've ever seen and a great movie of any genre.

I knew there would be lots of little things I wouldn't pick up, but I'm fine with that. Nothing confused me.

In fact, I purposefully didn't read the original novels yet because I wanted to experience the movie directly with less chance of being disappointed.

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jaaron writes: "Mark Shuttleworth has created a mailing list for those interested in free-software-only laptop: "Right now, software freedom isn't a huge priority for most of the companies that make up components for the PC and laptop industry. If we want to get onto their radar screen, we need to show that its worth their while to think about it. To that end I'd like to build up a list of people who are interested in this idea, and would potentially buy a high-powered laptop if it were guaranteed to work completely with free software drivers and OpenBIOS.""
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Submission + - Microsoft admits all 360s sold so far are flawed

An anonymous reader writes: CNN reports that Microsoft has admitted all xbox 360 consoles sold in the past 19 months suffer from a design flaw. But it does not have any plans to start a recall program.

It seems like everyone with a functional (like myself) are lucky. This seems to be a bad time for Microsoft. But as a 360 owner, I am glad they actually admitted this instead of denying and repeating their line on how the actual failure rate is very low.

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