Om-nom-nom-nom! Google's Cookie Monster DEVOURS MORE DRIVES Google is exporting its data import service beyond US borders, giving sysadmins an easier way to upload large amounts of information into the company's infrastructure cloud. Announced today, the hard-disk-slurping service will now operate out of centers in Switzerland, Japan, and India. With the launch, Google has taken a lead …
I liked the old black and orange plasma displays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Platovterm1981.jpg
It does appear to be the standard to have black text on white background. All harks back to that rarely seen item called a book (our younger viewers may not be families with the concept of bound paper with words printed on them.)
Perhaps you could fiddle with your brightness/contrast to get it a little less harsh.
Or find a utility for your device of choice to invert the screen to white on black.
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"I'm going to have to fit PTFE shims or something to mine to compensate for wear and keep it going a few more years."
Nothing you could use in the big pile of metal artificial hip joints that the NHS is no longer allowed to use? Or working the other way, could you help the quacks fit shims into the unlucky recipients of said metal hips?
"The Disk Import capability costs $80 per disk..."
I presume that means that Google pay <i>you</i> $80 per disk of your data that they will use to profile you, bombard you with adverts of 'related' products, occasionally lose the password files and share with the security agencies.
Great article, but describing the Cookie Monster as "this probably diabetic creature" is pretty offensive to people living with diabetes - a condition which has nothing to do with eating too much sugar and is only over-eating-related (in some cases) when talking about Type 2 diabetes.
...The fact that you think that you become diabetic by eating loads of cookies (or any other sweet stuff for that matter) is exactly the myth I'm talking about and which The Register is helping to perpetuate.
People do not "get" diabetes by eating loads of sweets. That's the fact of it. If you want more info about how you develop diabetes (both Type 2 or the much less common Type 1), go here: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/What-is-diabetes/
Oh, and to the person saying "most diabetics I know have a sense of humour", well, I'm diabetic (Type 1, diagnosed at age 3) and have laughed at plenty of jokes but when kids in schools are bullied because of myths such as this one I don't laugh as much to be honest! Would you be laughing so much if we were talking about another chronic condition which will kill you without medication (Type 1 diabetes) or lifestyle change (Type 2 diabetes) like AIDS, cystic fibrosis or cancer? Probably not..
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