Rest in piece, you run yourself to the ground, for the rest of us?

It's much easier to look for spikes or what your data looks like *after* an important event has taken place, than to actually predict them. I'm sure that even if I look at my computer logs on a significant date, there's most likely something there that I would class as interesting or out of the ordinary, in hindsight, too...

CPUs

Sorry but no, not all corporations are like that. In fact, there are many corporations that put environmental and social responsibilities first. And also no to your second argument, voting with your wallet actually does work. I don't know if you're an Apple consumer or just naive, but these are facts.

And THAT is the answer to the question "why did Google not buy Sun". It is cheaper to just some nickels and dimes now. And I guess they didn't need Solaris.

Wasn't this posted a few days ago?

Sorry but I think parent talks a load of bull. How can it be modded interesting? The guy is talking about modeling and analysis but not about any facts/evidence of success about its predictive nature. In other words, he merely said that you can do more with more computing power. Sorry but... isn't that obvious?

Putting all of it in one tank is not practical. Surely we could have multiple tanks. And you are assuming that the entire energy grid is powered by wind power. Plus efficiencies could be made by the time it all got to that point.

Because I wasn't referring to backups, just noticed that he has a bunch of Apple kit. Cranky much?

Ouch, this must be a bit of a pain. Maybe a good opportunity to try something outside the walled garden for a change? :)

I hated it when they made us memorize dates too. But guess what, we were much more capable of doing that back then than we are now. So I still remember certain important dates to this day. Whether they come handy in anything else than suffixing them to passwords, I don't know... :P

Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own? You know, so that you're not afraid that Apple will lock you out of your own hardware.

Actually it is very depressing that THIS is how you get children to be interested in your history. I blame the parents.

I think that's what Microsoft is sort of doing, but is it really working for them?

Uhm isn't 17.999... days still about 18 days? The summary said 18 days of downtime, still pay 50%. That's a pretty accurate summary when using my kind of rounding.