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Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0
Esther Schindler writes "After a lengthy gestation period, the third generation of the Universal Serial Bus is making its way to the market. USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second. That's even faster than the 3Gb/sec of SATA hard drives and 1Gb/sec of high-end networking in the home. USB 3.0: Everything You Need to Know goes into plenty of the techie details. But is it already obsolete — will LightPeak make USB 3.0 irrelevant?"
Oh do fuck off.
USB is a universal interface, of course it comes with some limitations. What if you needed a special port for your memory stick, a different for hard drive, another one for your mp3 player and yet another one for your GPS, mouse, keyboard, external soundcard, or the gadget Rocket launcher. You would end up with 50 different ports and a bunch of Add-in cards.
USB solves all this, with some limitations (SATA is faster for drives, ethernet has faster networking). USB3 looks to me like it's going to rock, and it will problably not saturate harddrive speeds for a few years to come. It is much needed though since USB2 is just to slow for todays harddrives.
Jerry?
If you want anonymity, go back to 4chan. Here, anonymity is considered cowardice. That's why you're an Anonymous Coward.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Fuck it, I'll bite.
If you are, as you say, really curious, and not just some trolling piece of trash, then google can be your friend here.
You can claim there are many studies demonstrating IQ differences between different races, but equally, there have been many studies which detail where standard IQ tests are guilty of cultural bias. That is, if you have a certain type of background, you will find certain types of question easier. And these have nothing to do with how intelligent (or not) you may be as a person.
As for the other racist comments :
"They stink."
Incorrect. Their body odours may be different that you're used to, but again, that's cultural. Did you know that we in the west "stink" of sour milk? Apparently it has to do with the amount of dairy products in our diets. I heard about it the first time I was in India.
"They can't speak proper English despite over 200 years of being born in this country."
Again, that's just not supported by the evidence. Mangling the English language is not a feature unique to any particular race. For every Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, whoever, there are thousands of white skinned trailer trash who would be incomprehensible to anyone except their parole officer and immediate family/tribe.
"Their cultural contributions include gangsta rap, glorification of thugs and criminals, the welfare state, bastard children, poverty, low test scores and political correctness."
Factually wrong in every case, except gangsta rap. I'd give you that.
"Oh yeah and something about peanuts."
Hmm. George Washington Carver and the peanut butter "invention".
If you were even remotely interested in learning (something which you think certain people shun, so I imagine you must value in some way) I'd direct you to read : http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/george-washington-carver-did-not-invent-peanut-butter/
But I wouldn't want to draw you away from Mein Kampf, now would I?
"Years of real racism didn't prevent the Jews from prospering"
Were the Jews slaves in America? Did rich white men have them killed if someone taught a Jewish person to read? Vast misunderstanding of the nature of the problem there.
"every problem the nigger has is blamed on racism."
Gee, with such tolerant folks as yourself in society, I wonder why.
Jews were slaves in Egypt.
Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice
Even assuming that that particular myth is true (and let's be clear, the evidence is shaky at BEST) it should be blatantly clear that the Jews were hardly prospering in Egypt, or just after it.
Can you please elaborate? I didn't get how you say Jews were hardly prospering in Egypt. Yes when they were slaves they didn't prosper. Is that the point?
Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice
Well put. It doesn't have to do with what country someone is from or the color of their skin. Everything is about culture and our environment. We are all humans and we are shaped by our environment. Genetics might play a small role in the beginning and throughout someones life, but environment is the big picture.
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Very well, elaboration ... Here's the back and forth, as perceived by me:
OP : Real racism didn't stop the Jews from prospering.
VShael : "real racism" is not equivalent to slavery. It was slavery that had the adverse affect on the prosperity of african-americans, not racism. By analogy, the Jews were not slaves in America, so racism was not an impediment to Prosperity.
You : Jews were slaves in Egypt.
VShael : Even IF Jews were slaves in Egypt, that would make their situation more analogous to the African Americans, ie. slavery acted as an impediment to their prosperity. Which supported my point. In any case, the situation of the Jews in Egypt is probably fictitious and has no real bearing on the discussion.
Even accepting your assertion that slavery of the Jews in Egypt was fictitional, after that they had some great prosperity. It took a while, and divine intervention.
Hey, I understand, but if you reject the slavery story, you should reject the rest of them from that book.
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IQ tests are more a test of "modernity" than intelligence. If you asked a child 100 years ago what's the connection between cats & dogs, most would have said "dogs chase cats". Today, most kids would say "they're both mammals". Those 100-year-ago kids would have faired terribly in an IQ test, but they were just as intelligent as kids now. Kids these days have been exposed to plenty of information which makes them appear more intelligent. As you said, it's not the person's race, but when & where they were raised, and their stimuli during said raising, that affects their modernity. We're all, everywhere across the globe, roughly as intelligent as each other.
"For every Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, whoever, there are thousands of white skinned trailer trash who would be incomprehensible to anyone except their parole officer and immediate family/tribe."
Yep. Take a tour of Down East Maine. If you can get through and understand the dialect, the similies, metaphors, and other devices will leave you shaking your head. It's almost as bad as Scotland, or Nova Scotia.
I'll take my chances with interior Mississippi dialects. And I was born in Maine. Those old wormers are just too far gone to understand once you stop talking about fish and bear, and get into politics.
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Hey now, circular reasoning is sweet. It allows for all sorts of awesomeness. Without circular reasoning, we wouldn't have circular reasoning!