Comment Fusion Power is Just Ten Years Away! (Score 1) 118
Fusion power is just ten years away - and has been ten years away for the last forty years.
Fusion power is just ten years away - and has been ten years away for the last forty years.
I've been using various homebrew Linux fileservers at home for over a decade. Recently I was looking to upgrade from an old fileserver using Ubuntu + multiple 2TB drives configured for RAID-5. I decided to go with a Synology NAS DS218 and (2) 8TB drives.
I'm never going back to homebrew. The Synology pretty much works out of the box with fairly minimal system administration. It comes with free add-ons for serving up video, transcoding, photo management and a whole lot more.
Now I just need an infinitely long roll of 50 pound notes that a machine can mark and read
I use a Synology NAS for local storage. I backs up nightly to a USB3 HDD. I then rotate the removable drives to off-site storage.
I've been thinking about AWS Glacier. Anyone use that?
I guess that means the folks at signal.org are going to have to increase server capacity again.
Mark Zuckerberg wants commuting to work replaced with VR/AR
Says the guy who owns VR equipment maker Oculus (a Facebook company).
"This funding is a strong sign of confidence from investors"
As in - the billionaire owners of the hedge funds express their thanks to Robinhood execs for assuring that the average investor continues to lose and learn "their place".
Robinhood might want to rebrand as "Dennis Moore" (ancient Monty Python reference).
Four - people who like greasy over-priced popcorn.
If you want a commodity to speculate on (such as tulips), BitCoin is perfect for that. On the other hand with it's price bouncing all over the place - it's less than ideal for use in commerce. It would be far better to back a cryptocurrency with gold (as first suggested by Neal Stephenson) or perhaps a basket of currencies to give it price stability.
Well, "Houston" was the first word said by a human on the moon.
Back in the day I used Sun workstations. Compared to my desktop workstation, my home PC was an under-powered toy.
Today I you can use a laptop that is many orders of magnitudes more powerful than my old Sun workstation. For enterprise computing tasks you can access servers including configurable on-demand cloud-based servers. There is no need for desktop workstations.
The site: realfacebookoversight.org is readily accessible.
"The Hydrogen Economy" - Scientific American, Jan 1973
https://www.scientificamerican...
Not exactly a new idea.
Tony Stark? I thought he was dead!
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie