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Comment: already ruined (Score 5, Funny) 357

by Deadplant (#38062530) Attached to: <em>Doctor Who</em> To Become Hollywood Feature Film

Dr Who has already been ruined. They may as well sell it for scrap now.
The latest season has been an utter disgrace.

I'm a big fan, I've seen every episode.
(those early black and white ones are pretty campy)

The recent episode about the fat bumbling idiot with the talking baby was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"herp a derp... I'm a fat moron, look, I walked into a wall and knocked over a display-case! hahahah, now my baby is making cutting remarks about me! Oh dear! aliens! oh dear, I've bumbled and stumbled into their grasp, how will I ever escape? Maybe if I really *really* love my baby the power of my love will make them explode! KABOOM! yay! it worked! *happily ever after*"
I haven't been able to watch it again since that day.

Comment: Re:Ack! (Score 1) 405

by Deadplant (#37133644) Attached to: Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting?

That doesn't create a fully secret ballot.
You can still look up who somone voted for if you obtain their hash number.

The day after voting day deliver your hash number to your supervisor or you're fired.
If you voted the wrong way you're fired.

Rummage through wife's purse to find her hash number card. She voted the wrong way? Beating.

Comment: Re:Rotational media (Score 1) 397

by Deadplant (#36827730) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives?

that doesn't look right.
you used MB where I think you meant GB (but that doesn't matter for comparison purposes)
It looks like you're using 1000 GB = 1 TB for your calc so I'll continue with that.

the LOT05 cartridge has a capacity of 1.5TB not 3
So the cost is $0.045 per GB

the LTO4 has a capacity of 800GB
So the cost is $0.031 per GB

The large tapes are more expensive than the sata drive but very close and certainly cheaper than I expected.
Of course they externalize the cost of the tape drives but the cost of that would depend on the size of your operation.
For a huge organization with thousands of tapes it is a small cost.
For a small org or an individual with say 30 tapes it is huge. To back up a 45TB collection (very large for an individual or small business) a $1600 (from newegg) tape drive would add $53 to every tape. So the real cost would be more like $0.081 per GB for the tapes.

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