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Comment: Re:Scam??? (Score 5, Informative) 353

by Tynin (#38322802) Attached to: PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives

I might be wrong, but I feel, really feel like the flooding wasn't that big factor

but rather its great excuse to jack up the prices.

I remember similar story about RAM and Taiwan earthquake, when it was found out that damages to facilities were really minimal.

Wish it was a scam... but I cannot help but feel sorry for their loss. Please check out these pics, showing the damage done, I haven't been able to find any newer pics, but the damage is beyond bad.

To address your concerns on this hdd scam, I present pics of from a Western Digital production plant:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/11/1/photo-horrific-images-of-flooded-western-digital-factory.aspx

I couldn't bring myself to look for pictures/video from the surrounding area, but my heart does go out to them.

Comment: Worlds largest sneakernet (Score 2) 199

by Tynin (#38221780) Attached to: Inside the World's Largest LAN Party
Even with all of that internet facing bandwidth, I've got to imagine that the sneakernet trading of all things digital must be quite prevalent. Or perhaps I'm just remember what happened at all the LAN parties I went to during my high school years (in the 90's). I wonder if they take any precautions on such things or if they turn a blind eye?

Comment: Re:end of the truck driver (Score 1) 282

by Tynin (#38129310) Attached to: Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius

I was reading an ebook called "Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy" which is about the problem of technology eliminating jobs and the role of I.T. in the recession and jobless recovery and there is a section where the authors are talking about the rise of computing power and the advent of driverless vehicles and it struck me that we are probably in the last generation where truck driving is going to be a human job. With the problems in I.T. and the lack of jobs in my hometown (I can't move from here for reasons I won't go into) I was considering becoming one myself, but it is likely that it is another job that is going to exit stage left. I don't know what to feel about that, really. I am sure not many people on Slashdot care about that very much, but truckers are an American fixture and it seems like they pretty soon be another piece of roadkill on the technology highway.

As they say, the only constant in life is change. And while everyone handles it differently, should you find yourself in a job that is going the way of the buggy whip maker, it can be advantageous to take their lesson to heart. Make sure you are able to preform more than one job well enough to get by on. That way if the horse and buggy industry goes under, you can always fall back to selling BDSM gear.

Comment: Re:Could this be done from the ground? (Score 1) 76

by Tynin (#37954978) Attached to: Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole

The Ultra Deep Field image was over 1.1 million seconds of exposure. It's just not practical to do exposures like that from the ground.

The 1.1 million seconds is interesting. As soon as I saw the number I wanted to figure out how many days that was. Turns out it is ~12.73 days. That time frame really made me think that whomever was controlling the scheduling kicked off this long picture very early Monday morning, at the start of their work week, and then waited till the following Friday, before heading home for the start of the weekend, to end the exposure.

I've been working business hours for just long enough this seemed like it must be right ;-)

Comment: Re:Funny Interference Pattern (Score 1) 76

by Tynin (#37953590) Attached to: Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole

Looking at that image, the two main features look like symmetric interference patterns, fairly simple ones. Why not do the Fourier (or other) analysis to recompose the original light signals?

You might be right, but I think it is possible those are jets being emitted from the black hole... they say they were able to measure the temp across parts of it, the hottest parts blasting out of it could be those bright points on the image. It would be quite interesting if that was ever confirmed.

http://www.space.com/5285-powerful-black-hole-jet-explained.html

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain