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  1. Re:If you want to lose all your data. on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read the context of GEN 24, where the word is first used. It doesn't mean what you think it means. But of course, bigots don't care about truth.

    See also Gen 34:3

    I do read Hebrew by the way. :-)

    And I am not a Christian.

    Your assumptions are more evidence of your bigotry. As is your hiding behind AC status. You should go back an hide under the bridge, troll.

  2. Re:Depends on your data on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Even Capacity is going to go this year, with expected 16 TB SSD drives coming to market. The only thing Spinning drives have at this point is Price. And if price is all you care about, then go Cheap! For everything else, go SSD>

  3. Re:Where is this $200 1TB SSD on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

    Not $200, but getting really close to being under 300.

  4. The clock is ticking on spinning drives. HDD are still viable, but only for large backups. However, if all you look at is price, then you get what you pay for.

  5. Speed of the drives isn't just for Enterprise. Speed of the drives is really measured in IOPs, and just about anything meaningful can make use of the expanded IOPs available on SSDs

    Your BEST spinning disk has IOPs in the range of 700-800
    Your average SSD is now in the range of 100,000 IOPs

    No, that is not a typo.. It is how you get boot times in seconds rather than minutes.

  6. Re:Density is nice, but what about longevity? on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Flash writes. You're dealing with Write limits on Flash. There are other component failures associated with beyond write limits.

  7. Re:Density is nice, but what about longevity? on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You didn't read the report correctly. And I wouldn't plan on pushing anything past its rated limits for writes. That being said, "writes" are the limiting factor, just before general failure. Longevity is more than just writes, it is component failures as well.

    It is important to note, that spinning drives have significant drop in reliability at about 42 months (See BackBlaze stats). And while drives can last WELL into 8 years, if you're dealing with critical data, you really don't want to push it much past 42 months. I personally had drives last 10 years. I didn't have any trust in them for the last half of that time.

  8. Re:Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew. on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never used the context of that word. Which makes your entire response a strawman. Which again is a bigoted response.

  9. Re:If you want to lose all your data. on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [Deu 22:25-30 KJV] 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter: 27 For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her. 28 If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

    Fact is, you're making shit up to suit your own bigoted views. You skip the part where the rapist is sentenced to death. The second part is that if a man takes a woman, he has to stay married to her ... forever (no divorce permitted), and he has to take care of her. So yeah, nothing like what you claim. But you're a troll, and like most trolls are ignorant bigots.

  10. Re:The are available, but not for $5 on Where Are the Raspberry Pi Zeros? (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    unavailable

    Inconceivable!

  11. Re:That guy looks and sounds like a pompous ass on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 2

    Talking like an "arrogant twat" is subjective criticism. As such has no merits on anything useful. To me, you talk like a "arrogant twat", which makes you wrong. See how easy that was to dismiss you?

  12. Re:That guy looks and sounds like a pompous ass on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 1

    Really? Every single person makes judgements by personality traits alone (or at least primarily?)

    I certainly don't. Such considerations aren't just pointless, they are wrong. Considering how politics is going, you can see the skillful liar and charmer scamming millions of people because he had a "better personality" than a better man, who wasn't quite as charming. So we miss out on someone who might be a good person in favor of a charming sociopath. All because of "personality".

    How is that working out?

  13. Re:That guy looks and sounds like a pompous ass on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 2

    People who view others simply by personality traits are missing out. Yeah, so the guy talks like an arrogant twat, is he wrong?

    You see, your attacking him on something completely irrelevant, simply because it is easier than to actually discuss the merits of what he was saying.

    Keep in mind, he may be brilliant or he may be a complete loon, I am not judging either here, just your rebuttal, which amounts to "Big Fat Ugly ... do not like", which actually makes you exactly who hate the most, an arrogant twat. ;)

  14. Re:This is completely awesome on Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Reactor Produces Its First Flash of Hydrogen Plasma (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    "Make things" is the limit, not energy. There are limits to resources, energy is just one component of the resource tree.

    Recycling becomes key. And with nearly endless energy, recycling becomes a non-issue, allowing for re-purposing of "used" resources.

  15. Re:Celebrate booting gun forums/owners? on Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2nd Amendment is a Constitutional right (in the US), regardless of how you feel about it. I wonder if you'd be okay with others suspending other rights simply because someone views them as "dangerous".

  16. Re:Excellent! on Canonical Reveals the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Storage is always going to be an issue. Without integrated Cloud/Web Storage (like Google Drive, Box, Dropbox ...) even the SD card option is lame. As for Libre/Open Office, those are nice, but having live documents I can edit from just about anywhere is a huge benefit for me, and "Office" suites no longer suffice in today's world (IMHO)

  17. Re:Dear black and whiter on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    You said the street was designed for multi-ton vehicles, I corrected you, the street was designed for horses, and adapted for multi-ton vehicles. The street existed long before cars.

    But I get it, you're one of those assholes who think that ruining someone else's neighborhood for your convenience is okay. The only solution is to block the roads with guard houses for neighborhoods like they do in the Philippines ...

    http://cache1.asset-cache.net/...

  18. Re:Excellent! on Canonical Reveals the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Those specs are so 2 years ago. I was reading and was more like "meh" than anything else.

  19. Antibiotics are great, until Bacteria evolve to be resistant to them. And while it hasn't happened yet, there are indications that an outbreak of resistant bacteria might wipe out large portions of humanity.

    Unintended consequences are unintended. And they often occur long after the root cause is forgotten.

  20. Re:Dear black and whiter on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    The street I grew up on was designed for horses, not multi-ton vehicles.

    Or are you saying kids should have to transverse a mile of crosswalks to play in a park infested with transients simply to avoid commuters looking for "shortcut"?

  21. Re:Fixable - Easily on Winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Announced (underhanded-c.org) · · Score: 1

    My understanding if float_t means one thing here, and another thing there, then it isn't defined correctly. Standard Math.h files expect it one way, changing that in one place, but not passing that change on to every other possible place is problematic, and as a programmer SHOULD cause flags. Compilers don't care, as you stated.

    It should have been flagged somewhere by someone or something. Because it wasn't, looked innocuous and has a potential for HUGE problems down the road. Just because something is allowed, doesn't make it right. Lots of huge bugs are created that way.

  22. So, you're willing to risk the entire gene pool to fix one person. Got it.

  23. "What could possibly go wrong"

    Has nothing to do with religion. Has everything to do with Scientists ignoring Darwinism and trying to fix nature's "mistakes" without understanding they may not be mistakes after all, but Genetic Mutations for the survival of the fittest. Some mutations are bad/good, until they are proven otherwise. Like sickle cell trait is bad, but has genetic strengths against Malaria. Remove the trait, you remove the benefit the trait provides, making the species weaker.

  24. Re:Fixable - Easily on Winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Announced (underhanded-c.org) · · Score: 1

    This header file defines float_t as double precision, although by default math.h defines float_t as single precision.

    Sorry. Technically float_t is a type, and defined as single precision. double_t is the correct type for double float

    Regardless, redefining the float_t to being double is the problem, when it is already defined as something else. Sending back for a fix would solve the problem, rather than redefining what float_t means. Of course, you can remain pendantic and not get the point I was making. It is solvable, by sending the code back for revision, to remove the problematic re-defining of the type. In this case, using double_t instead of redefining float_t .

    http://pubs.opengroup.org/onli...

    float_t
            A real-floating type at least as wide as float.
    double_t
            A real-floating type at least as wide as double, and at least as wide as float_t.

  25. Fixable - Easily on Winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Announced (underhanded-c.org) · · Score: 0

    Do not use common function names when defining new function. This would be caught simply by insisting that the function is already named, and thus being sent back the the programmer to rename it something else.