> Except that it is replacing work I would do on a PC.
No not really.
> First, let's get rid of the notion that laptops are inferior species spec wise,
Why? That's just an artificial idea you need to latch onto to make your argument work. It's not necessarily true or valid.
Conventional PCs have been shoehorned into a lot of areas where they aren't the best fit. A lot of tablet "productivity" use cases are merely a reflection of this.
Nope. Enthusiast computing only depends on being able to do your own thing. That can be leading edge performance or trailing edge performance. It all depends on your particular use case.
One key to remember here is that "ahead of the state-of-the art" is actually pretty trivial to achieve when your yardstick is ARM based gear.
Use an array enclosure and plug it directly into the system that needs to use it. 8-bay arrays are cheap and plentiful already. You don't have to get into anything "expensive and fancy".
Even a "car full of disks" is doable if you already have them set up to be plugged in at the destination. Many array enclosures have been built with this in mind for decades now.
> The original saying was coined in a time where reading from a tape *was considerably faster* than reading over a network.
Reading from tape is still faster than reading from a network.
Locally attached storage is always going to be faster. For large amounts of data, it will likely always be the case that a courier with a hard drive will move the data faster than a network.
> An incredibly murderous, careless and risky bet, wouldn't you agree?
Based on an understanding of the actual facts involved, no.
Although there's just the absurdity of the idea, that you can cleanly separate out the military targets from the civilian casualties. Even now that's an extraordinarily difficult thing to do and really only possible for 2 or 3 nations on the entire planet.
Any target of military interest is likely to come with unavoidable civilian casualties. Some armies even go out of their way to make this unavoidable.
> What about the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki then, what did they do to deserve getting killed?
What did they do to deserve being singled out by clueless bleeding heart morons and elevated above all of the other civilian casualties of the war including those that died in Dresden and Tokyo and many other places?
No. You wouldn't want that either. Bombs are supposed to detonate on their target, not in random places. This is especially true for really large bombs that can level entire cities.
Contrary to what the liberal media will tell you, real armies prefer to destroy what they're actually trying to destroy and nothing else.
Shit happens. People fail. This is especially true if you are trying something new and interesting. A pathological fear of failure is stupid and ultimately counterproductive.
There's no sure thing. It's stupid to even to to think like that.
As others have said: it's not an online store.
Stop thinking strictly like a W-2 employee or consumer.
There is nothing intelligent or optimal implied by any theory evolution. The only requirement is that the organism survives to reproduce. Your personal judgement of "suitability" is entirely irrelevant.
No "intelligent design" is required. So lack of apparent "intelligent design" is not some glaring in consistency.
Real animals are more like Gamma Wars characters created at random using dice and that matches up with Darwin much better than it does than the Family Research Council.
It boggles the mind that anyone would suggest something like this and then use the excuse of "well we only run on app on a box". That's such amateur hour nonsense. It's like running your cloud apps on classic MacOS or an Amiga.
Just because you've only got "one app", it doesn't mean that you've only got one process.
It sounds like running your 2013 server apps on an OS from 1985 but "in the cloud".
All of the "advantages of scale" also come with the a "disadvantage of scale" that negates everything else. It is the essential problem with every corporation that is "too big to fail".
GM should be getting pushed out of the way by 3 more Teslas.
That is the free market that we should have but don't.
If a company can't survive without abusing it's workers, then it should not survive. The argument of "but job creators", is not an open ended excuse for total narcissism in favor of a small class of social elites.
A company with one of the key American brands couldn't keep it's doors open. That's a fundemental management failure. Trying to blame the unions is a pathetic red herring.
I'm just pissed that they took Dolly Madison down with them.
Even the original newsreader had the means to deal with trolls.
It's not any kind of new or difficult problem.
If find the noise pollution on modern websites to be far more of a problem as they often have no facilities to allow the user to filter out nonsense. Or worse, such websites actually thrive off of reducing the S/N ratio to near zero.
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> Except that it is replacing work I would do on a PC.
No not really.
> First, let's get rid of the notion that laptops are inferior species spec wise,
Why? That's just an artificial idea you need to latch onto to make your argument work. It's not necessarily true or valid.
Conventional PCs have been shoehorned into a lot of areas where they aren't the best fit. A lot of tablet "productivity" use cases are merely a reflection of this.
Laptops aren't "spec inferior", they are mobile.
Nope. Enthusiast computing only depends on being able to do your own thing. That can be leading edge performance or trailing edge performance. It all depends on your particular use case.
One key to remember here is that "ahead of the state-of-the art" is actually pretty trivial to achieve when your yardstick is ARM based gear.
That goes for performance as well as flexibility.
They still make tapes. They just hold terabytes now.
Use an array enclosure and plug it directly into the system that needs to use it. 8-bay arrays are cheap and plentiful already. You don't have to get into anything "expensive and fancy".
Even a "car full of disks" is doable if you already have them set up to be plugged in at the destination. Many array enclosures have been built with this in mind for decades now.
> The original saying was coined in a time where reading from a tape *was considerably faster* than reading over a network.
Reading from tape is still faster than reading from a network.
Locally attached storage is always going to be faster. For large amounts of data, it will likely always be the case that a courier with a hard drive will move the data faster than a network.
> An incredibly murderous, careless and risky bet, wouldn't you agree?
Based on an understanding of the actual facts involved, no.
Although there's just the absurdity of the idea, that you can cleanly separate out the military targets from the civilian casualties. Even now that's an extraordinarily difficult thing to do and really only possible for 2 or 3 nations on the entire planet.
Any target of military interest is likely to come with unavoidable civilian casualties. Some armies even go out of their way to make this unavoidable.
> My "rushed" judgement is that it's not right to use nuclear weapons on innocent civilians.
Yes. It would have been better that we repeated Iwo Jima and Okinawa across the entirely of Japan.
Clueless idiot.
You know squat about the war in the Pacific. You are clearly the one drinking the kool-aid.
"Drinking the kool-aid" is an especially ironic metaphor considering how the Japanese conducted themselves in those battles.
Clueless idiot.
> What about the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki then, what did they do to deserve getting killed?
What did they do to deserve being singled out by clueless bleeding heart morons and elevated above all of the other civilian casualties of the war including those that died in Dresden and Tokyo and many other places?
No. You wouldn't want that either. Bombs are supposed to detonate on their target, not in random places. This is especially true for really large bombs that can level entire cities.
Contrary to what the liberal media will tell you, real armies prefer to destroy what they're actually trying to destroy and nothing else.
Spraying bullets is for Hollywood.
Shit happens. People fail. This is especially true if you are trying something new and interesting. A pathological fear of failure is stupid and ultimately counterproductive.
There's no sure thing. It's stupid to even to to think like that.
As others have said: it's not an online store.
Stop thinking strictly like a W-2 employee or consumer.
It creates a single platform product. It's like having only drivers for Windows.
pppppffft!
For $200 I can get a ready made Atom with an Nvidia GPU.
This board is worse than useless. It's insulting.
There is nothing intelligent or optimal implied by any theory evolution. The only requirement is that the organism survives to reproduce. Your personal judgement of "suitability" is entirely irrelevant.
No "intelligent design" is required. So lack of apparent "intelligent design" is not some glaring in consistency.
Real animals are more like Gamma Wars characters created at random using dice and that matches up with Darwin much better than it does than the Family Research Council.
Let's not forget the unreasonable deadlines and absurd budgets.
Real engineers have to fight against those and other human frailties when putting stuff together.
Stuff like "but my boss is a cheapskate tort-reform astroturfer" lets the engineers of the hook somewhat.
You're just mad because the joke hits the mark and reveals an invonenient truth.
So "libertarians" are much like creationists...
If you've never seen what the FS will do during a crash, then how can you even claim to say anything about it?
The phrase "success based on blind luck" comes to mind.
You're going to go with that lameness? Seriously? You are a couple years late for that since Android has popped that little bubble.
BSD is great for wannabe Robber Barons.
Everyone else can play nice with the rest of civilized society.
Even most of the wannabe Robber Barons can.
Many true things upset people. Political correctness is a curse that corrodes democracy.
It's much more damaging than Trolls.
It boggles the mind that anyone would suggest something like this and then use the excuse of "well we only run on app on a box". That's such amateur hour nonsense. It's like running your cloud apps on classic MacOS or an Amiga.
Just because you've only got "one app", it doesn't mean that you've only got one process.
It sounds like running your 2013 server apps on an OS from 1985 but "in the cloud".
[shake head]
GM is GMs single biggest disadvantage.
All of the "advantages of scale" also come with the a "disadvantage of scale" that negates everything else. It is the essential problem with every corporation that is "too big to fail".
GM should be getting pushed out of the way by 3 more Teslas.
That is the free market that we should have but don't.
If a company can't survive without abusing it's workers, then it should not survive. The argument of "but job creators", is not an open ended excuse for total narcissism in favor of a small class of social elites.
A company with one of the key American brands couldn't keep it's doors open. That's a fundemental management failure. Trying to blame the unions is a pathetic red herring.
I'm just pissed that they took Dolly Madison down with them.
> Engineers learned aerodynamics?
Genuine aerodynamics is not that ugly.
Even the original newsreader had the means to deal with trolls.
It's not any kind of new or difficult problem.
If find the noise pollution on modern websites to be far more of a problem as they often have no facilities to allow the user to filter out nonsense. Or worse, such websites actually thrive off of reducing the S/N ratio to near zero.
It's 2013.
Technological progress "killed" Usenet as a communications platform, not nymshifting trolls.