Comment Appropriate? (Score -1, Redundant) 231
So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of them being able to see for the first time, ever, in their whole life? They said they can see shapes after all.....
Comment Appropriate? (Score 0) 231
So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of them being able to see for the first time, ever, in their whole life? They said they can see shapes.....
Comment Appropriate? (Score 3, Funny) 231
So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of the operation?
Comment Re:Congratulations... (Score 1) 239
My kingdom for some mod points. This might be the funniest thing I see this week. Kudos, good sir, kudos.
Comment Water Safety? (Score 2, Funny) 60
How does checking for iodine and silver check for water safety? Also - proofreading would be nice - "which are to used kill..."? My god what do we pay editors for?
NASA Has the Lost Tapes 256
The Shuttle launch may have been delayed by two days, but NASA has better news to report. caffiend666 writes "As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to restore the lost Apollo 11 tapes. A Briefing will be held July 16th at the Newseum in Washington to 'release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk... The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards.'"
Comment Re:Public Perceptions (Score 2, Interesting) 132
Yeah it does seem a little strange that people worry so much about dirty bombs. Surely the toxins in the environment (or hell, diet coke) do more damage to more people....
Comment Life goes on? (Score 5, Insightful) 132
Realistically, how was this not blindingly obvious?
If you put a bunch of life forms into a high stress environment, evolution is going to happen quickly. Clearly, the gene for radiation resistance is going to quickly become prevalent in a population exposed to large amounts of radiation....
Somewhere, Darwin smiles quietly.
If you put a bunch of life forms into a high stress environment, evolution is going to happen quickly. Clearly, the gene for radiation resistance is going to quickly become prevalent in a population exposed to large amounts of radiation....
Somewhere, Darwin smiles quietly.
Comment Of course (Score 4, Insightful) 280
Well, of course he's going to say that - he's not just going to say "well, we're planning on axing 20,000 jobs and kissing bye-bye to the SPARC line". He has to at least maintain the *illusion* that they're going to keep producing SPARC chips.
I love the line about "even Apple" is designing its own chips. One could say "even Sun" sells Intel.
I love the line about "even Apple" is designing its own chips. One could say "even Sun" sells Intel.
Comment Cavemen? (Score 5, Funny) 269
So does that mean skimpily clad cavewomen really *did* ride around on dinosaurs? mmmm...
Comment Re:Surprise? (Score 1) 429
I'm not sure that your example matches how people buy songs though.
If you go to the bakery and buy, for example, whole grain bread - you can go somewhere else and buy very similar whole grain bread for the same price (or cheaper) for almost the same product (minor differences in quality/taste).
For songs, if you want Song X by Artist Y, no other label sells a product that is the same. No amount of fudging makes them the same. As a result, there really is no competition. Everyone I know (biased sample, etc etc) seems to say "I want song X, let me go buy it" rather than "I want to buy some music, hmmmm, what shall I buy". YMMV.
As a result, I would argue that older songs will probably be even more expensive. If you actually go looking for some song from some obscure 60s band, odds are you really want that song from that band, and are probably less price sensitive as a result.
Thoughts?
If you go to the bakery and buy, for example, whole grain bread - you can go somewhere else and buy very similar whole grain bread for the same price (or cheaper) for almost the same product (minor differences in quality/taste).
For songs, if you want Song X by Artist Y, no other label sells a product that is the same. No amount of fudging makes them the same. As a result, there really is no competition. Everyone I know (biased sample, etc etc) seems to say "I want song X, let me go buy it" rather than "I want to buy some music, hmmmm, what shall I buy". YMMV.
As a result, I would argue that older songs will probably be even more expensive. If you actually go looking for some song from some obscure 60s band, odds are you really want that song from that band, and are probably less price sensitive as a result.
Thoughts?
Comment Surprise? (Score 5, Interesting) 429
Does it surprise anybody that the labels would not drop prices when not forced to? There is no competition between different labels to sell the same product (song) so why would they drop the price on a desired product (song) ?
Comment Re:No Linux Release != Evil (Score 5, Funny) 110
I'm just saying, on a scale of 0 to 100 (0 being kittens rolling around, 100 being Vader running hell), not releasing Chrome for Linux is somewhere around 70. That's all. Fell free to disagree.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Comment Is it going to come to Linux? (Score 2, Interesting) 110
It'd be nice if a company that prided itself on not being evil released the browser for more than one platform (dare I say, the evil one?)....
Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? 201
Banquo writes "I have a friend who has a small datacenter (SQL/Mail/IIS/File Repository ... 5 or 10 servers) and he was saying that his boss wants to see some kind of 'visual display of changing metrics' — Net/server/sql stats with moving lines and graphs and pretty colors. Basically they want something to display on a big LCD panel that will give a tiny bit of 'Wow' factor to customer visits. Back in my datacenter days I saw a million packages to do this stuff, but I was always blessed with an IT budget for metrics/monitoring. Can anyone suggest a free/cheap package that will make pretty moving pictures, moving lines, graphs, etc. from server/net stats? There's no worry about actually using this for real data tracking or metrics purposes. He has a pretty robust log/alert/metrics setup, but command line is a little too dry for marketing purposes. I jokingly suggested he just use a looped flash animation but he actually does want stats that are coming from and reflect his environment. Anyone know of any cheap or free data center stats/metrics 'Eye Candy' software out there?" Better yet, can you think of any particularly interesting ways to display that sort of information?
