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Picture this: You bought 10 of something, all identical items (minus some sn on the box). You throw away the packaging material for 8 or 9 of the 10 items (remember, it's all identical). You then have a device DOA/fail that isnt the EXACT packaging you saved. What difference would it make to newegg take the item out of the box and scan the barcode inside? A little customer service goes a long way.

Likewise, I've spent thousands. Stopped buying with newegg when they sent me a defective HDD and told me to RMA it with Western Digital.

From the graph it looks like there is no correlation. Does this count splits?

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You're living in a pipe dream if you think a data analytics company will become the biggest company in the world.

From OpenJDK:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {

        if (fromIndex > toIndex)

            throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
                       ") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");

        if (fromIndex < 0)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);

        if (toIndex > arrayLen)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);

    }

From Google:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {

        if (fromIndex > toIndex)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
                       ") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");

        if (fromIndex < 0)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);

        if (toIndex > arrayLen)
            throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);

    }

}

Open and shut case. /s

"People always conveniently forget as well that when you store data at S3 or Rackspace they're doing 3 replica's. If you store 3TB's, its not just the cost of a single 3TB drive..its 3x. To do it at home you'd need to buy 3x3TB Drives @300$ each."

Existing companies store multiple copies transparently...Either way, 1 copy or 3 copies, I dont think the math is wrong. Just change from 9$x to 3$x.

provider1=[d1,1][d1,2][d1,3]

provider2=[d2,1][d2,2][d2,3]

provider3=[d3,1][d3,2][d3,3]

Each drive cost $x. You have 9$x = cost to store 1 drive of data, across 3 providers, who each store 3 copies. If drive prices halve, it's still 9$x.

Wouldn't the next issue become bandwidth? Sure, you have cheap storage, but you still need to manipulate the data somehow. I know S3 only charges for outbound data. What about the other companies? Is bandwidth free and plenty?

"In 2006 a 320 GB hard drive cost $120. Today (Thailand floods aside) that much money will snag you a 3 TB drive."

Floods or not, the current price isn't $120 dollars. It's 50% higher than that.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desk...

Shows one of the cheapest 3tb non enterprise drives. It looks like 3tb was $120 for ~2 weeks. Looking at enterprise drives, 3tb is closer to $300.

This article is basically advocating RAID 5 across many storage providers.

*edit: From the pictures, article is advocating RAID 10. Nonetheless, RAID5 would be just as feasible for additional storage.

Surprised no one has mentioned OpLop for passwords. I keep a list of sites (containing a site nickname and a password hint). I then wrote a simple md5base64 perl script which combines the nickname and password (similar to OpLop..basically md5(nickname+pass)). Script throws the result on to my clipboard, and I hit paste. Thus, no two sites use the same password. If one site is compromised (ex: zappos.com), I just need to change that one password. Script is on my phone, desktop, and cloud drive.

I use multiple passwords, a different one based off the importance of the site. I was amazed at how many sites impose a 12 character limit (Fidelity...really?).

Sweet. They only expire in 3 years or so. Brilliant move on AOL's part.

It'll be only a matter of time before it's rooted and running AdBlock. :)

Best Buy's historical strategy has been to make profits from accessories like cables. But they have been doing it wrong in the past 5 years. They should be using these accessories to drive foot traffic.

Best Buy can sell products or services. They obviously cant sell products (for a profit), and their services kind of suck. But they need to do one or the other, and they need to do it great. Amazon and company has them beat on selling products. They need to focus all their energy on selling services.

Best Buy's current strategy is borrowed time. A shame the employees get to suffer through shitty (mis)management like this.

A laser? They are used all day in fiber optics...and they are pretty fast.

Without mention of the power required for the laser it's only speculation.

Ouch, Charter only charges $82.99 a month (with modem rental) for 100Mbps. Around the same time they introduced 100Mbps service, they introduced bandwidth caps. (500 gb/month for 100mbit service). Bandwidth caps @charter are a 3 strike policy.

I can get charter business @~$200 a month which is 100mbit service (no download cap, guaranteed uptime). Are you on some sort of comcast business plan?

This is interesting. I am surprised that amazon spends only $55 extra a year on shipping per prime user. This past month alone I've received ~30 packages, all 2 day free shipping from amazon prime. This included some very large objects like a rowing machine, and some small items like a ream of paper. Last year I had a 3'x3'x2' next day aired for 4 dollars in time for Christmas. If I were to try shipping these items the cost would be in the $300-$400 dollar range (for one month).

It's easy to think of something I need, hit amazon, select prime eligible, and buy in a matter of 3 clicks...No worry about cost or when it will be at my door.

Amazon must have a pretty good deal going with UPS (& FedEx for next day air).

At least someone found a use for all those old bitcoin mining rigs...

Also, why is it assumed the "good day" couldnt have been during the filming of a movie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date) would also suggest otherwise

Any technologies exist that let you have multiple encrypted OS's on multiple keys? For example, 1 key could boot up one OS and another key could boot up a different OS. Seems like it'd be difficult to prove that you booted one or the other...

I'm still not sure what DDOS'ing a government website will ultimately achieve. So you cant access justice.gov for a few days...how many of you visit that site daily? How does this affect the Justice department other than making some IT guy look bad?

I see what they are trying to do. They want to show that the will of a few can control the masses...but hijacking a bystander's browser will only make Anonymous look like a bunch of assholes. This tactic will give the media and/or government a way to paint Anonymous in a different light.

It's like HP decided one day to lose as many customers as possible. This must be part of that plan. Paul Rand is rolling over in his grave.

"above average team player" vs "average team player" literally made me laugh out loud. This whole infographic just an advert for mixtent. No real data posted? Simply percentages and rankings? At a minimum they could have included the sample size.