Comment Re:Mutual backup. (Score 1) 86
Check out Crashplan. It can do exactly that for free and no hassle.
After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself 312
Lucas123 writes "While magnetic tape is about as boring as technology gets, it's still the cheapest storage medium and among the fastest in sequential reads and writes. And, with the release of LTO-6 with 8TB cartridges around the corner and the relatively new open linear tape file system (LTFS) being embraced by movie and television markets, tape is taking on a new life. It may even climb out of the dusty archives that cheap disk has relegated it to. 'Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster. They're more like tape. Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction, it's getting faster,' said Mark Lemmons, CTO of Thought Equity Motion, a cloud storage service for the motion picture industry."
Comment Re:I'm not going to make the tablet mistake again. (Score 4, Informative) 255
Well, it really depends on the kind of usage you give them. As a CEO I am always on the move, and there are a lot of surfaces and situations in which a laptop really isn't practical. Try the inconvenience of having to show a presentation on a lunch table with a laptop and you will understand why. Nothing beats the ease of passing an unobstrusive device over the table for the other person to check out what you are trying to show.
This may sound frivolous, but when you are trying to sell an idea, every bit of positive feeling on the other side really counts.
One of the best purchases I ever made.
Comment Re:Day in court for pointing out the obvious (Score 4, Insightful) 494
Mod parent up! Terrorism is all about... Creating terror! And disrupting societies by leading them to change significantly due to that terror. If societies refuse to change, terrorism will fail and the funding will stop coming. Look at IRA and ETA, they were not defeated by expensive equipment or civil rights limitations, they were defeated by societies refusal to become terrified.
Comment Re:McCarthy would be proud of you guys. (Score 1) 609
Very well put!
Comment Re:Sure you will (Score 1) 516
You are a software guy, aren't you? If you can watch it or hear it, you can copy it. And, with the right tools, with great quality. Digitize and distribute.
Comment As a portuguese (Score 1) 138
I am disgusted by this. The worst part is that our politicians probably did it out of ignorance.
Comment Re:Like teacher, like student (Score 1) 349
What got you here won't necessarily get you there :)
Comment Humm (Score 1) 112
Same mouse footage than Resveratrol?
Comment Re:I started to lose my hair when I was 17... (Score 1) 146
Completely agree on the importance of self-confidence but... statistics show that bald salespeople sell less than the ones with hair.
Don't ignore the evolutionary hardwiring that tells us "good fur = healthy".
Comment Re:backup power? (Score 1) 86
Errrr... Aren't helicopters covered for that event by design? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter)
Comment Re:Not again... (Score 1) 225
I can't even tell on which part of the night I lost mine!
Comment Re:too positive (Score 1) 456
The thing about sending teenagers to war that strikes me the most is that they are considered underage to buy alcohol or enter a casino yet old enough to carry around heavy weapons, kill and die for their country.
Comment Re:Just Another Political Tyrade (Score 1) 456
Mod parent up! Terrorism only works if well... it creates terror. If it doesn't, it won't get any financing.
Comment That makes perfect sense! (Score 1) 271
Lets ban everything we can't prove it's harmless just in case. Like... I don't know... most food... drinks... gases... and surely politicians!
