Turning the corner

[ericasco]

1. I got sick last week. Sick sick sick. Flu and bronchitis sick. I was supposed to stay home from work Thursday and Friday, but didn't end up doing so. It was my first experience actually getting medicine for the flu. I can't say whether it helped or not, but I think it's nifty that there is a treatment at all.


2. Let's see... in recent Apple news:

Comments

[the_laird]

1. Hope you feel better now.

2. Nice of them to offer to help with (now defunct) hardware.

3. Tried to lift one once. Study fellas aren't they?

4. Amen to that. Shame, because technically HD-DVD was slightly better. But a clear winner is better for everyone. Then again, BluRay won't have the same lifetime as DVD because digital downloads will kill all in 5 years.

[ericasco]

3. Quite.

4. I think if the infrastructure scales out, this could happen, given a few things:

a. If you download a movie, you can start watching it before the whole thing comes down.
b. Your downloading single-threaded. So, if I want to watch "No Country..." on my laptop, and my wife wants to watch "La Vie En Rose", well, it will be less than ideal.
c. The spectacles that are movies don't scale to, say, 200GB per entity. That's a sizable download.

More than anything, I'd like to have backup storage in 50GB chunks, which Blu-ray will provide. I think about it more for efficient archival(?) storage rather than media distribution.

[scoreboard]

110 pounds for a RAID. Now you know why I had to quit that job.

I would write more, but I am too drunk to see the keyboard because WE BEAT MOTHER!ING TENNESSEE.

I heard

[ericasco]

Congratulations. The Junks were talking you up this morning. Make sure to grab the podcast ASAP

Re: I heard

[scoreboard]

They botched the podcast - I think segment 4 (labelled) should actually be segment 6 and they just dropped the Vandy stuff and the foreign currency stuff. BITTER.

What did they say? =)

Re: I heard

[ericasco]

They talked about the coaches being on the end lines and the floor being raised above the press tables and how all Vandy does at home is whup #1 ranked teams. This, of course, took 40 minutes because they all have the attention spans of gnats with ADHD.