Flash is also immune to magnetism, shock, and a great deal harsher conditions than a rotating platter. Dust, moisture, vacuum do a lot less to solid state. AFAIK its also considered more secure, once you delete and garbage collect.
It also uses less power (and peak current), takes up less space, and allows for quicker start-up of embedded devices due to its much lower access times, and lack of any need to spin the disk up.
Theres really no significant area where platters win out on except for bulk cost-per-GB, and longevity-- and for a phone's use-case, flash will actually win out for longevity. Your anecdotal evidence aside, something with no moving parts is a LOT easier to ruggedize than something with a 7200 RPM motor, moving magnets, and small tolerances.
Generally the "don't spend my money"ers are actually "don't spend my money except on things that cause violent death"ers.
Generally people making claims on forums about what other people think dont actually know what other people think, but sure do have a fun time setting up strawmen.
Just because a judge says you have to convict if so-and-so is presented as evidence, doesn't mean a damned if that jury really doesn't want to convict.
You should look into the M1's combat record. Everything I've read has indicated that taking one out is much more difficult than you seem to think. For the curious, you can read up here on its record during the Gulf War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_M1_Abrams
One mine for example disabled an M1 for all of a day before it was back in action.
You could make the same argument for spec ops missions in urban enviroments. Usually, however, they opt NOT to have their forces drill in city streets with blanks. I wonder why?
Flash storage is superior to disk for 80% of applications, and I say this as an IT guy with a bias against apple. Try running 3 VMs on a single hardrive, first spinning, then flash; THEN tell me that its "mindless nonsense".
What really sold me was realizing that a $15k SAN loaded with drives hits about 5% of the IOPs of a $200 SSD, and about a third of the burst throughput.
Most SSDs have extra padding thrown into them to make them fit a standard laptop case. I have seen none "designed" for a full sized computer. Rip the casing off of it, and you'd be astonished at how small they are.
Generally, the chips are however big they are. If someone cared to dig you could probably find out exactly what model theyre using.
100-200% markups are historically normal for Apple devices. Spec out a MacBook pro, spec out an equivalent laptop, pay double for the MacBook. Spec out RAM upgrade on Apple.com, spec it out on newegg, pay double to Apple.
If youre suprised by this you havent been paying attention.
I work with MS products all the time. About the only one I have gotten "excited" about is PowerShell. The only other times I have heard someone get excited about an MS product was once in 2005 some guy was hyping how awesome Vista was going to be, and a coworker who inexplicably loved all things sharepoint.
Generally the rest of the time people are moderately happy when MS releases something reasonably good (Win 7) or grumpy when they drop the ball (Vista, Server 2012). At no time do you really get the sort of excitement that results in multi-day lines at an apple store. Win 7 was probably one of MS's most well received non-gaming launch in a very long time, and I dont recall any long lines waiting for a copy of the new OS.
Thats not buzz, its being successful. Microsoft is good at a number of things, but theyre not the sorts of things anyone really ever gets excited about.
YOu apparently completely misread my question as being for benefitting corporations or something.
I dont know that I agree with territorial restrictions, or that I have any specific stance on them. Nor do I really care whether visas really benefit corporations or not.
Apparently some questions just are not to be asked here on slashdot.
More to the point, go there, and smell the air. Inside a building, outside, makes no difference. You can smell the pollution, and it just kind of pervades everything.
Granted, this was a big city, but Ive been to NYC and its not even remotely the same.
If windows 8 hasn't failed yet, it will. It is certain to fail. It is such a dreadful experience that it makes even (spit!) Vista look good.
Lets not go overboard. Win 8 has an infuriating interface, but thats (AFAICT) the only really major ding against it. In every other regard, its Win7, just with better internals.
Vista on the other hand had a pointlessly shiney new interface, and everything under the hood was slow, buggy, and generally unpleasant to deal with. File copy times that went way up, infuriatingly slow boot times, way over-aggressive UAC, missing drivers for everything-- anyone who did support for Vista is probably thankful right now that the Win8 interface / Metro shenanigans are ALL they got wrong.
Really, if they took metro out and gave me back my start menu (and no, its not worth buying some product to fix for me), I really wouldnt have any complaints that I didnt have for Win7.
More to the point, while the point of patents (and other IP laws) was explicitly to incentivize innovation, patent trolls act as parasites and discouragements to innovation. They provide no new ideas or products of their own, instead litigating against and punishing those who do.
They undermine the very system they are abusing, and hurt everyone involved for their own gain.
Overqualified generally means that the company thinks that there is very little pressure or incentive for you to stay with them, and that it would just be a gigantic waste of time and money to start employing you.
That generally isnt going to be the case with a Visa worker, since if you quit you get shipped back home.
My reality is that I asked people to justify their positions on slashdot and about 20% of the posts have been civil and informative, the rest have been karma whoring, name calling, and generally unhelpful.
I understand that wages will be depressed, my question is focused on whether it would better for everyone in general if the market were more opened. Obviously it would not benefit american salaries, but that wasnt my question; if "benefitting american salaries" were the end goal, noone here would have any right to complain when CEOs do things that "benefit CEO salaries" by manipulating the job market, either.
To be clear, i dont believe I ever mentioned H1B or any other particular sort of visa, it was a general question.
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Flash is also immune to magnetism, shock, and a great deal harsher conditions than a rotating platter. Dust, moisture, vacuum do a lot less to solid state. AFAIK its also considered more secure, once you delete and garbage collect.
It also uses less power (and peak current), takes up less space, and allows for quicker start-up of embedded devices due to its much lower access times, and lack of any need to spin the disk up.
Theres really no significant area where platters win out on except for bulk cost-per-GB, and longevity-- and for a phone's use-case, flash will actually win out for longevity. Your anecdotal evidence aside, something with no moving parts is a LOT easier to ruggedize than something with a 7200 RPM motor, moving magnets, and small tolerances.
Generally the "don't spend my money"ers are actually "don't spend my money except on things that cause violent death"ers.
Generally people making claims on forums about what other people think dont actually know what other people think, but sure do have a fun time setting up strawmen.
Just because a judge says you have to convict if so-and-so is presented as evidence, doesn't mean a damned if that jury really doesn't want to convict.
Well, unless the judge really wants to convict.
You know, the really amusing thing is that the second amendment specifically mentions military use, not hunting use.
Guess what category the RPG falls into?
You should look into the M1's combat record. Everything I've read has indicated that taking one out is much more difficult than you seem to think. For the curious, you can read up here on its record during the Gulf War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_M1_Abrams
One mine for example disabled an M1 for all of a day before it was back in action.
You could make the same argument for spec ops missions in urban enviroments. Usually, however, they opt NOT to have their forces drill in city streets with blanks. I wonder why?
Flash storage is superior to disk for 80% of applications, and I say this as an IT guy with a bias against apple. Try running 3 VMs on a single hardrive, first spinning, then flash; THEN tell me that its "mindless nonsense".
What really sold me was realizing that a $15k SAN loaded with drives hits about 5% of the IOPs of a $200 SSD, and about a third of the burst throughput.
Surface + Win8 seems legitimately good.
Its Win8 everywhere else that pisses 90% of people off.
Most SSDs have extra padding thrown into them to make them fit a standard laptop case. I have seen none "designed" for a full sized computer. Rip the casing off of it, and you'd be astonished at how small they are.
Generally, the chips are however big they are. If someone cared to dig you could probably find out exactly what model theyre using.
100-200% markups are historically normal for Apple devices. Spec out a MacBook pro, spec out an equivalent laptop, pay double for the MacBook. Spec out RAM upgrade on Apple.com, spec it out on newegg, pay double to Apple.
If youre suprised by this you havent been paying attention.
You also dont pay $300 for 128GB SSD.
Hooray 200% markups!
But an iPad can do just about anything the 'mundanes' want to do
Its really astonishing how much contempt people seem to have for "everyone else".
Alternative headline: 58,000 networks needlessly vulnerable because of UPnP usage.
I work with MS products all the time. About the only one I have gotten "excited" about is PowerShell. The only other times I have heard someone get excited about an MS product was once in 2005 some guy was hyping how awesome Vista was going to be, and a coworker who inexplicably loved all things sharepoint.
Generally the rest of the time people are moderately happy when MS releases something reasonably good (Win 7) or grumpy when they drop the ball (Vista, Server 2012). At no time do you really get the sort of excitement that results in multi-day lines at an apple store. Win 7 was probably one of MS's most well received non-gaming launch in a very long time, and I dont recall any long lines waiting for a copy of the new OS.
Thats not buzz, its being successful. Microsoft is good at a number of things, but theyre not the sorts of things anyone really ever gets excited about.
YOu apparently completely misread my question as being for benefitting corporations or something.
I dont know that I agree with territorial restrictions, or that I have any specific stance on them. Nor do I really care whether visas really benefit corporations or not.
Apparently some questions just are not to be asked here on slashdot.
My question was on "what is right". "What that guy is doing" doesnt really play into the questions I was asking.
Apparently the definition of "selfish" is now "asks questions about other's welfare".
Apparently honest questions are not welcome on slashdot.
Apparently name calling is the new mark of civility.
Oh, the things I learned today.
More to the point, go there, and smell the air. Inside a building, outside, makes no difference. You can smell the pollution, and it just kind of pervades everything.
Granted, this was a big city, but Ive been to NYC and its not even remotely the same.
My two bits are, after running the 8 betas and using a surface tablet is if you have a tablet with it or even a desktop with touch, it isn't too bad.
You know what else isnt too bad? Chronic acne. Doesnt mean that youre happy when you find out you have it.
Microsoft has this horrible problem that they desperately want to be hip, and they will never be hip. Every time they try, it is a catastrophic failure. Want some hillarious / awkward examples?
How about Microsoft showing how you could throw a super hip Win7 launch party
Or Microsoft's attempts at relevant advertising with Seinfeld
Or their venerable MS-DOS 5 commercial
Someone name me a time that microsoft has actually succeeded in generating anything resembling "buzz"?
If windows 8 hasn't failed yet, it will. It is certain to fail. It is such a dreadful experience that it makes even (spit!) Vista look good.
Lets not go overboard. Win 8 has an infuriating interface, but thats (AFAICT) the only really major ding against it. In every other regard, its Win7, just with better internals.
Vista on the other hand had a pointlessly shiney new interface, and everything under the hood was slow, buggy, and generally unpleasant to deal with. File copy times that went way up, infuriatingly slow boot times, way over-aggressive UAC, missing drivers for everything-- anyone who did support for Vista is probably thankful right now that the Win8 interface / Metro shenanigans are ALL they got wrong.
Really, if they took metro out and gave me back my start menu (and no, its not worth buying some product to fix for me), I really wouldnt have any complaints that I didnt have for Win7.
More to the point, while the point of patents (and other IP laws) was explicitly to incentivize innovation, patent trolls act as parasites and discouragements to innovation. They provide no new ideas or products of their own, instead litigating against and punishing those who do.
They undermine the very system they are abusing, and hurt everyone involved for their own gain.
Overqualified generally means that the company thinks that there is very little pressure or incentive for you to stay with them, and that it would just be a gigantic waste of time and money to start employing you.
That generally isnt going to be the case with a Visa worker, since if you quit you get shipped back home.
My reality is that I asked people to justify their positions on slashdot and about 20% of the posts have been civil and informative, the rest have been karma whoring, name calling, and generally unhelpful.
I understand that wages will be depressed, my question is focused on whether it would better for everyone in general if the market were more opened. Obviously it would not benefit american salaries, but that wasnt my question; if "benefitting american salaries" were the end goal, noone here would have any right to complain when CEOs do things that "benefit CEO salaries" by manipulating the job market, either.
To be clear, i dont believe I ever mentioned H1B or any other particular sort of visa, it was a general question.
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distribution_1967-2003.svg
Thats in 2003 dollars; almost every line has trended upwards, and none have fallen.