There is evidence to support the theory of the technological singularity. There is no evidence to support the idea of "the rapture." Your comparison is unfair.
No one can deny that technology is advancing. It is hard to argue against the claim that the rate of advancement is accelerating. Yesterdays intractable problems are today's hobby projects. The idea of the Singularity is simply that what is possible according to physics will become practical as our technology progresses.
Feel free to argue over the timeline of the singularity, but don't dismiss the entire concept. In the face of all the evidence, that would just be silly.
Agreed, SSDs still have many cost and reliability issues to overcome, and I'm not going to get too excited till I see some improvements in those areas.
Agreed, mechanical drives still have many speed and durability issues to overcome, and I'm not going to get too excited till I see some improvements in those areas....
Get it? An SSD is just fantastically faster than a mech drive, and it is never going to biff up if you bump your laptop while it's writing. SSDs are already superior to mech drives for most applications, mobile computing (smartphones and laptops) being the most obvious.
Not really. Most users have been over-buying disks for ages. A 64GB SSD is big enough for most users and is nearly the same cost of the large mechanical disks they've been buying and wasting up until now.
Those who really need terabytes of space would be best-served by using external drives.
Research funded by capitalism does not "replace" any other type of research; it supplements it. More science is a good thing.
Though I would strongly support any legislation requiring all privately-funded research to be published. It is a shame that good research goes unpublished today because its conclusions are not beneficial to its financiers.
Well, that settles the debate. The ethics of whistle blowing is irrelevant to this discussion; they are providing substantial military aid to the Taliban which is not needed as part of any whistle-blowing case.
Arbitrage? Are you kidding? I don't know anybody who buys ten years worth of gasoline futures contracts along with their cars. Market forces may set the price of used cars, but new cars are priced based on the image they project. There is no financial reason to buy a new car when used cars provides identical transportation abilities for half the price.
Ever play arcade games? Remember how you got free games if you did well enough? This is that, but you can trade your quarters in-game just like you trade any other game item.
Your thinking is ruined by hubris. First of all, you equate extinction 100 years from now with extinction 100 billion years from now. The people who come after you care if they live, I assure you. You further assume that we know exactly the fate of the universe, despite the fact that we have been pursuing science for an insignificant period of time on the astronomical scale.
First of all, keep your business and personal data separate, or at the very least keep your embarrassing personal data separate.
Secondly, don't upload shit you want to keep private to any web service. They may not be honest, but even if they are they could still be hacked. Use truecrypt on a USB drive you keep with your car keys. For backups, upload the encrypted file container from your USB disk to any random online file storage periodically.
Thirdly, don't worry about being embarrassed after you die. You'll be dead; you won't care.
Spoof this thing so that it only reports what you want it to report, and you'll have deniability in case they ever come after you for something. If it goes to court the prosecution will look like clueless idiots as they try to reconcile mismatched data.
Everyone was outraged? Which "everyone" are you referring to? People thought it was a cool story because it reminded them of Bond films and she was hot (with topless pics).
They don't agree with "whatever the government does." They agree with their government spying on other governments. This is not new. This has always been the case. It's on computers now. So what? Same old thing.
Your government can either believe another government's public statements or they can attempt to verify those statements with espionage. You will have far better data by doing both, which is why we've been doing it for so long.
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There is evidence to support the theory of the technological singularity. There is no evidence to support the idea of "the rapture." Your comparison is unfair.
No one can deny that technology is advancing. It is hard to argue against the claim that the rate of advancement is accelerating. Yesterdays intractable problems are today's hobby projects. The idea of the Singularity is simply that what is possible according to physics will become practical as our technology progresses.
Feel free to argue over the timeline of the singularity, but don't dismiss the entire concept. In the face of all the evidence, that would just be silly.
The fact that you take gigabytes of photographs proves that you aren't a typical user. You are an outlier.
This is slashdot, not preschool. You can use your big-boy words with us.
Agreed, mechanical drives still have many speed and durability issues to overcome, and I'm not going to get too excited till I see some improvements in those areas. ...
Get it? An SSD is just fantastically faster than a mech drive, and it is never going to biff up if you bump your laptop while it's writing. SSDs are already superior to mech drives for most applications, mobile computing (smartphones and laptops) being the most obvious.
Not really. Most users have been over-buying disks for ages. A 64GB SSD is big enough for most users and is nearly the same cost of the large mechanical disks they've been buying and wasting up until now.
Those who really need terabytes of space would be best-served by using external drives.
Research funded by capitalism does not "replace" any other type of research; it supplements it. More science is a good thing.
Though I would strongly support any legislation requiring all privately-funded research to be published. It is a shame that good research goes unpublished today because its conclusions are not beneficial to its financiers.
Sorry, this is new to me. What kind of matter is created? Full atoms? Just neutrons or protons? Or nothing more than subatomic bits?
The Taliban deliberately murders rape victims and peaceful missionaries. They are more like Nazis than they are like the French.
Well, that settles the debate. The ethics of whistle blowing is irrelevant to this discussion; they are providing substantial military aid to the Taliban which is not needed as part of any whistle-blowing case.
No, but servers that require encryption per PCI but don't want the performance impact of encrypted swap could benefit.
It could be intended for use as a tmp/swap drive.
I was referring to inflation-adjusted median income.
Arbitrage? Are you kidding? I don't know anybody who buys ten years worth of gasoline futures contracts along with their cars. Market forces may set the price of used cars, but new cars are priced based on the image they project. There is no financial reason to buy a new car when used cars provides identical transportation abilities for half the price.
No money changed hands. Cops have no jurisdiction.
Ever play arcade games? Remember how you got free games if you did well enough? This is that, but you can trade your quarters in-game just like you trade any other game item.
Median household income has increased dramatically in the last fifty years. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting richer.
Physics can answer "why" questions so far as the questions are meaningful.
Your thinking is ruined by hubris. First of all, you equate extinction 100 years from now with extinction 100 billion years from now. The people who come after you care if they live, I assure you. You further assume that we know exactly the fate of the universe, despite the fact that we have been pursuing science for an insignificant period of time on the astronomical scale.
First of all, keep your business and personal data separate, or at the very least keep your embarrassing personal data separate.
Secondly, don't upload shit you want to keep private to any web service. They may not be honest, but even if they are they could still be hacked. Use truecrypt on a USB drive you keep with your car keys. For backups, upload the encrypted file container from your USB disk to any random online file storage periodically.
Thirdly, don't worry about being embarrassed after you die. You'll be dead; you won't care.
Which media? This sounds like the sort of thing parents could sue over.
I suspect that hey want the original data back and all copies destroyed. The leaked data is a subset of the original data.
This game does not look too 3D-intensive. You can probably run it fine with a $70 budget graphics card.
Spoof this thing so that it only reports what you want it to report, and you'll have deniability in case they ever come after you for something. If it goes to court the prosecution will look like clueless idiots as they try to reconcile mismatched data.
Everyone was outraged? Which "everyone" are you referring to? People thought it was a cool story because it reminded them of Bond films and she was hot (with topless pics).
They don't agree with "whatever the government does." They agree with their government spying on other governments. This is not new. This has always been the case. It's on computers now. So what? Same old thing.
Your government can either believe another government's public statements or they can attempt to verify those statements with espionage. You will have far better data by doing both, which is why we've been doing it for so long.