I would like to know why this has been tagged as being about "Australia" and not my home country, "Autralia". Stupid Americans! I suppose you think Autria is the same country, too!

Optimistic side of the science fiction from the past three decades. Reading comprehension! Star Trek spinoffs, Babylon 5, and countless written works. It's not all doom and gloom! (Also, Alien is 33 years old now, so ha!)

Most wide-eyed researchers started off expecting 60,000 genes in the human genome yet we found something closer to 20,000 when the mist settled.

By my early childhood instruction in improper fractions, it's not impossible that all 20,000 genes are holding down multiple jobs to make ends meet.

TRIM needs idle time in which to do its housekeeping [...snip...] and does not work on RAID.

Actually, the the solution to both those problems comes right in from "SSD best practices 101" - Once a week or so, boot to your bios setup screen, and leave the computer there overnight. Bam, TRIM does its thing, even on RAID drives.

That said, I agree with you - Know your use, and tailor your system to that. Personally, I'd worry more about their failure rate than anything else.

...it's also a pretty ugly logo. I mean, really, whose sense of cuteness is that supposed to play into? I don't think it works in the same way photographic feline appeal does.

I'm actually a tad concerned about that, too—I don't think they quite realise that we're talking about an audience that predominantly grew up on the optimistic side of science fiction from the past three decades, rather than the fifties. It would really suck if the movie series failed to continue because fans felt it the first one was too campy.

The rest of your life will, unfortunately, now no longer live up to something you accomplished when you were 16.

Imagine the freedom of no longer having to live up to anybody's expectations. ;)

Better yet, he doesn't have an Erdos number less than his age, so he can still hope for a normal sex life.

Can I buy a piece of tech that was not assembled by an Asian Worker making considerably less than his American Union Factory Worker counterpart?

Can I buy a piece of American tech guaranteed as "union free", such that no overpriced $30/hr loading dock workers or longshoremen or even office workers, had anything to do with it?

No? Okay then. Chinese children will suffice.


More seriously, TFA has a major failure in one of its assumptions - That most people care enough to feel bad. Yes, I would rather buy from someone making a living wage in my own country, and might pay a bit more for it; No, I won't pay 3x as much for it. And no, that doesn't really bother me.

Clearly you're from some bizarre bygone era where words like "maintenance" and "responsibility" were not yet considered dirty language. Why stop at disposable culture when you can have disposable infrastructure?