Lil Chillbil

Exactly. But sadly (I guess?) every laptop has one. So it's inevitable. Especially when the market favours laptops over desktops. Even then, I don't skype with webcam. I just voice call or IM. 

Repost...on skype  @Lil Chillbil 
 
Anyhow, parents should either teach kids, or take away webcams all together imo (or disable the drivers...either way)

I fucking love you troll lady,
 

@Silvercall 9/10 love it
 
like lightpainting, long exposure, panorama and black and white once I discovered it I tried to tackle the subject and obsessed over it for a few days, now its time to retire it to my bag of tricks I only pull out to impress people who think its magic (like at my aunts wedding at the lake coming up)
 
one last shot
 

I like it
 
9/10
 

7/10
 

I fucking love you troll lady,
 

I fucking love you troll lady,
 

I fucking love you troll lady,
 

I fucking love you troll lady,
 

Seriously do it! 
 
 

@Fooshi: So...every large company has tape backups. Google and amazon...I'm not so sure. But Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Fidelity, Walmart, Target, JCPenny, Autozone, etc. All of these companies have tape backup. Why? Three reasons. Friction (from management and 'the way it was previously done'), cost (even at 5¢ per GB for SATA, the storage arrays you'd need, power and cooling, floor space, etc, make it prohibitively expensive), and regulations (government rules on data retention).
 
Most IT orgs whose heads aren't shoved so far... destage backup data to hard drives as an intermediate step. So...around 6PM at night, assuming 6pm-6am is their slower time for business, the backup jobs kick in and start writing the backup data for that night to spinning disk. There are a few companies that sell solutions for this, Data Domain is the only one I can name off the top of my head. Anyway, you destage the data to disk because it's WAY faster than writing directly to tape and then you write from those disks to tape over the next 23 hours (it shouldn't take 23 hours, but that's your window before the next day's backups start).
 
As for why use tape? Because it is, bar none, the most dense form of digital storage available. It's also cheap. The tape head unit (read/writer) costs $7000-15000, depending on what you are buying, and yes you have a storage array that has 12 or 24 or them, but really, 200K, and another $100-300 per tape, to get something saved that will last you at LEAST 50 years sitting on a shelf? Yes please?
 
Tape *is* innovative. The innovation just isn't as whiz bang as iphones or new multicore CPUs. The innovation is on the magnetic layer, how the heads write the data to the tape itself (the physical layout of bits to maximize density). New amplifier and high-gain antennae designs to read ever-fainter magnetic fields. New materials for making the tape out of that not only allow for tighter magnetic fields, but also weaker ones (the weaker the field, the more closely together you can pack the bits).
 
I understand *why* you think tape is a dinosaur, but you are sadly mistaken. Tape is still very much needed by corporate business. Small mom&pop shops don't need tape because tape becomes cost effective past a certain economy of scale. Once your company has a PB or more of data, tape is generally a *very* attractive backup option from a cost perspective. Possibly even sooner, depending on retention rules for the specific data you are saving.
 
edit: Also, yes, a fair bit of work does go into ensuring that the new tape read/write units can read the previous format or 2 of data, giving you time to migrate your data on older tapes to newer ones, just in case you need that data and the read/write units aren't made anymore.

Backups. Long term, archival backups. 

told you guys tape would make a massive come back, no one listened, now there is this shit. its awesome

Seriously do it! 
 
 

If somebody said they would repair PC problems I had for $10 (if I lived in the US) I would not trust them.

You're 14.... nobody is going to trust you with their PC......

This was what the iphone 5 was supposed to be like aparently
 
but damnit I want the iphone 6 to do this. 

4/10, its cropped, low res and a tad bit blown out. I just don't like the photo 
 
 

#PCMASTERRACEFTW

http://youtu.be/rX7wtNOkuHo

MASTER RACE

6 months ago "PC GAMING IS DOOOOOOOOOOOMED" -Everyone

Title says it all, PC Gaming is now generating more revenue worldwide than console gaming.

http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/69141-global-pc-games-market-revenue-overtakes-consoles/