Yes, seek time is no longer the proper term for it, but people use it. IOPS is the relevant measure, and as I have said, they do not list write IOPS. Read IOPS for the recent SanDisk SSD announced was 7000; this is much better than spinning media, but still pretty bad for SSD. Write IOPS are much worse, and they won't even list that.
In any case, the difference between flash and RAM SSD is far more than 10x.
You are correct; I wasn't thinking about write speed, which is typically much slower than read speed for flash devices.
Regarding the difference between flash and dynamic RAM based devices, I haven't found a reference that shows a significantly greater than 10x difference between DRAM SSDs and Flash. The source I looked at for an (admittedtly random) DRAM-based SSD performance statement is this press release, which shows a DRAM-based SSD with Read IOPS of 50000 (less than 10 times that of the SanDisk flash device, which claims random Read IOPS of 7000). I have no sense of the difference in Write IOPS, though.
You do realize that the SSD you reference is based on flash, right? If you look carefully, you will find that no vendors list write seek times or write IOPS for such devices. The reason is that the performance is just plain awful.
RAM based SSD is nice, but flash based SSD won't touch a decent 15k drive for any write heavy application.
The reason "seek time" isn't listed for SSD devices is the same reason dynamic RAM manufacturers don't list "seek time" in their device specifications, namely, it doesn't apply. In storage device parlance "seek time" refers to the time it takes for the drive head to reach the target data on a rotating disk. Read the (ahem) authoritative Wikipedia article here.
Furthermore, the recently announce flash-based SSD's from Samsung and SanDisk have file access times far superior to any rotating disk-based storage device. However, it is true that the dynamic RAM-based devices have access times that are approximately 10 times faster than the flash-based devices, but the flash based devices have file acces times typically much more than 10 times faster than a disk drive's seek time. For reference, see the SanDisk press release for their SSD device.
You see, the smart woman who wants "out" will get the baby, then convince the hubby that the kids need daycare for learning and socialization. Then it's just an hour or two in the morning and evening that she has to "work". Oh, she'll be busy. Errands here and there. Pet projects (crafting and baking and scrapbooking, oh, my!) will fill the rest of the time so she's tired enough to need help from DH most nights to put the kids to bed.
Of course, the women who are just having kids to become slackers at home are probably slackers in the workforce as well. Therefore, from an employer's perspective, I'd be delighted that they left voluntarily, so I wouldn't have to fire them.
Stars think that because of the fact that they are famous and are seen by millions of people, they have the right to have an opinion about anything.
Oddly enough, just like politicians, scientists, and Slashdot posters, the "stars" do have the right to have an opinion about anything, though that right has nothing to do with their fame. The problem is that like many politicians, Slashdot posters, and perhaps fewer scientists, their opinions may be frightfully uninformed.
Even if what informs someone's opinion is the (hypothetical) fact that the person's holy book says the world was created 6 years ago, that is preferable to the incorrect assertion that the book says the world was created 6 months ago.
The real mystery is how somebody this sharp, informed and educated managed to do so badly in college. I mean, the guy's obviously got street smarts and book smarts.
Ah, so well put. If I had mod points, I wouldn't be sure whether I should give you a "Funny" or an "Insightful".
(Remarkably, it appears that some of the folks who responded to your post may also fit the description you provided. How proud I am to be a member of such an intellectually gifted community.)
On the general topic: A 5 Celsius degree increase in temperature is the same as a 9 Fahrenheit degree increase. My thermometer and cost of cooling my house tells me that 9 degrees Fahrenheit is a disturbingly large number that, if reached, will be extremely expensive for people who live where I do.
On the topic of your post, you stated:
It's ALL bullshit. Hyperbolic hysteria and it harms the case of the environmentalists.
Civilization will not end. The human race will certainly not become extinct. 99% of the existing species will also not be made extinct. The planet will not end.
You thoroughly misrepresented the parent poster.... The parent poster did not claim that any of these things would occur. He claimed that the environmental effort is "about saving the human race, or at least civilization as we know it". He also claimed that "even if we succeed in wiping ourselves and 99% of existing species out, evolution will just continue with the remaining 1% and produce something that can handle the new conditions. It won't be the first mass extinction." Finally, he said nothing about the planet ending.
Your phrases "ALL bullshit" and "Hyperbolic hysteria" aptly describe your assertions and misrepresentations.
When it cut to the Master Chief it was real-time in engine. Look carefully at the modeling in places like the hood of the hog (vehicle on its side) or the close-up of the helmet once the MC is wearing it and you'll see texture maps being used to create grooves. If this sequence were all CG then these elements would have been modeled. The XBOX 360 is really that good. Gears of War and Just Cause had some truly amazing graphics and these two games are just the beginning.
Hmmm.... One of the Anonymous responses to this post indicates that the whole thing is prerendered, citing personal knowledge of the company doing the work. But this post was modded as "Flamebait"??? This post is conceivably overrated, but this is certainly not flamebait.
It is the habit of many people to comment on things they know nothing about; the popular saying is that people in fraternities and sororities really do pay for their friends. In reality, dues are paid to ensure that the organization can continue to function and remain an avenue for people to experience & meet new people, whom they traditionally would not have met.
So, basically, what you're saying is.. the underlying principal of your comment.. the very essence of the thing that you said just a moment ago... is that.. when you really get down to it.. some people really do pay for their friends?
Well put.
However, consider this: While it is a fact that people in fraternities and sororities are generally literally paying for their friends, it is also true that there's nothing wrong with that. If the friends are true, who cares? If you get good friends by paying for membership in their club, then congratulations, that's money well invested!
People are getting confused here. The reason fraternities and sororities are looked down upon is not because they pay for friends. Many people do this, and many others wish they had the means to do this. The reason they are looked down upon is that the Greek clubs have a reputation for being groups of overpriviledged white boys and girls who are inconsiderate to people outside their groups (and often to people inside their groups), behave recklessly, drive while intoxicated, and perform poorly in school. Naturally, this stereotype is, in many cases, completely inaccurate.
Okay, I don't respect this anti-business attitude. There are dozens of low-margin businesses (usually small stores and restaurants) in my city and others in the US that DO NOT ACCEPT payment by credit or debit cards. They ONLY accept cash. So what you're really saying is that it's perfectly okay that those business owners are unable to serve customers who are blind. That's unfair not only to the blind potential customers, but also to the businesses.
So here's the deal. On one hand, we can spend huge amounts of money to change our money system. This means changing money readers in vending machines, retraining sales clerks, changing our printing systems, dealing with fraud during the changeover, etc., etc. It's simply a huge project. On the other hand, we could ask the blind, who have been dealing with this without the benefit of ubiquitous debit cards ever since paper money has been around, to keep dealing with it in an environment more convenient for them than ever before. Maybe I'm hardhearted, but this seems like a really simple choice. We shouldn't have to make huge changes to accommodate every handicap people have.
No, that is not the deal. Does the phrase "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private," sound at all familiar to you? Cash is the universal tender that you are falsely asserting credit and debit cards are. You are right; it is a simple choice. We must improve our money in order to support business, fulfill a moral obligation to not deprive our citizens who certainly did not choose to be blind (including people who born blind, as well as thos who lost their sight in industrial accidents or fighting to protect our country), and to obey the laws that we have created to ensure access for all citizens.
...nevermind that we really are going to run out sometime, and that all this means is our children or grandchildren will be stuck with the problem instead of us, or that this now gives us more time to think up solutions that we should take advantage of immediately. You're still a conspiracy nut and you're wrong.
Huh? I think you're trying to relate to a different audience... this is Slashdot, buddy! You do remember that certain things (unfamiliar to most Slashdotters) are necessary in order to produce children, much less grandchildren, right?
I now return you to your regularly scheduled "special" 1% of the Internet. Please clean your keyboard when you log off.
If I need to learn Chinese, the site could at least help out a little with anti-aliased fonts... yuck.
The site looks great to me, anti-aliased fonts at all. You seem to be experiencing an issue with the fonts you have installed on your system, not the Chinese Wikipedia site.
Spoken like a true blind follower. I love how you ignored the rest of my post just like you ignore the body of evidence that counters your own beliefes.
Clearly, you didn't read my post. I enjoyed your incisive analysis, which quite reasonably contained neither references to the supposed "facts" about human contribution to global warming nor the clearly unnecessary references to the sources backing the Higher Truth(TM) about the issues truly causing all of the climate change we may not really be observing on Earth. Confusing people with "science" is not going to help our cause. Establishing a rational course of action issue requires greater rhetorical skill than the purported "experts" are able to bring to bear.
Again, I genuinely appreciate your efforts to boost my stock portfolio. Keep up the Good Work(TM)!
Man... The problem I have with the phrase Global Warming.... [impressive demonstration of Shakespearian rhetorical mastery and Baconian attention to scientific principles deleted].... Look at both sides of the issue before forming an uneducated opinion.
Wow, the CEO of Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Dow Chemical, PhillipMorris, and many other completely innocuous corporations couldn't have said it better. Congratulations for so eloquently explaining so consisely why the effects of pollution are Not Our Fault(TM), and dismissing out of hand the allegations of so-called "scientists" who aim to do nothing more than Stand In The Way Of Progress(TM), Harm The Economy(TM), and Support Terrorism(TM).
I can feel value of my energy-company-laden portfolio rise just based on the eloquence and conviction of your Fair And Balanced(TM) analysis. My Scottrade account thanks you for your efforts!
How proud Mandela, Walesa, and the others in this list of "Rebels and Leaders" must be to have been included in the august company of Linus Torvalds, a man known if for nothing else, for his unwavering commitment to the ideals underlying the successful proliferation of his operating system kernel.
Congratulations for that acheivement!
Ahem.... On a less sarcastic note, this is a recognition of the real leadership Linus has demonstrated in keeping the herd of kernel developers working together fairly efficiently. Congratulations, Linus.
Great Scott, you're right! That amazing coincidence nearly slipped past us, in the same way that a steamroller nearly slips past the tar in a freshly poured road surface!
But to tag the person who was instrumental in bringing us mozilla.org, XEmacs, and a load of other free software...
Hmmm... "the person who was instrumental"? That overstates jwz's (admittedly substantial) contributions, and completely ignores the contributions of many others....as somebody who "hates free software" is a statement that speaks of ignorance. You obviously don't know the background of him....
To be fair, the post to which you respond specifically accuses jwz of being supportive of iTunes rather than CDDB, a position unlikely to be considered supportive of free software.
But then, the involvement of jwz in free software is well known and widely documented; mangu isn't. I searched on Google for you and found nothing. What are your free software contributions?
This is irrelevant. Seriously, mangu is not criticizing the quality of jwz's code, he's criticizing jwz for essentially political views. Whether mangu is an author of any code at all is offtopic and flamebait.
If you intend to demonstrate jwz's commitment to free software you can do that by referring to jwz's comments supporting free software, not by attacking someone for questioning that commitment.
There are issues about which I would suggest President Bush was not doing the right thing. This, however, is not one of them. He is plugging a major American employer that sells a product (television) in a market dominated by non-US companies. Sony, Toshiba, Samsung.
Look what you made me do. In a single paragraph I attempted to defend both George W. Bush and Dell. Now, that just didn't feel right; I'm going to go eat a bar of soap. A small bar of soap. Well, maybe just half a bar. Nah, screw it; I'll just go drink a couple beers and play Mario Kart.
I suppose you have a point, the republicans will carry texas probably no matter what. But, may I ask, how come these people should not be voting?
I deeply regret that my comment seemed something other than ironic. I respect and agree wholeheartedly with your viewpoint, and I apologize for leading you to believe otherwise. It is unfortunate than many on Slashdot appear to adhere to the perspective that I attempted to represent satirically with my comment, which undoubtedly made me seem more likely sincere than sarcastic.
If the machines were inhibiting votes for Republicans, this would be indicative of an urgent legitimate problem requiring investigation. However, this is clearly just whining by a bunch of people who shouldn't be voting anyway, and should be dismissed out of hand.
The fact that this same issue appears in various places across the country doesn't make it a significant problem unless it is detrimental to The Party.
"This index measures journalists ability to write whatever they want" They CAN write whatever they want. They just don't have the right to shield felons.
Hmmm.... Now that you put it that way, I think I see your point. There is complete freedom of speech and the press, everywhere. It's just that in some places, what you say, print, or do in order to report the news may be a crime, for which you should expect to be punished according to the local laws.
For example, if in a given country, publishing information that threatens the public perception of the government is a crime, then people who engage in publishing such content are clearly criminals, but the reporters are still free to risk the consequences of those actions.
Woohoo! Through the power of our words, all nations finally have freedom of speech and of the press!
Non-elected position having no checks and balances? Gee, where have we heard this before?
Hmmm. In my state, the state judges are elected. (Here is some explanation of how that came about.)
If I were disturbed by check & balance issue, though, it's not clear to me how a lack of check and balances for a judicial power should make me feel better than those who live in states where the judges are appointed, though.
I therefore take this study to be an insult to all of us who are pretty good at the subject and successful with our neighbors.
You do not in any way disprove the findings of the study. However, you do demonstrate that even some of the brightest people do not bother to Read The Fine Article before posting an expression of their misdirected outrage on Slashdot.
Please read the article first, then decide whether you are offended by its content.
It is interesting that when someone holds back the disclosure of a vulnerability in Microsoft software they are praised for practicing "responsible disclosure", but when these Rapid7 people do the same they are accused of foaming at the mouth needlessly since a fixed driver is allegedly already released.
This is because, as you may have observed, many of The People Of Slashdot(TM) generally like and respect nVidia's products and much of nVidia's corporate behavior. They really want to love nVidia, and they're hoping nVidia will change enough to fulfill their most romantic hopes. Naturally, such people don't want to alienate the object of their potentially unabridged affection.
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You are correct; I wasn't thinking about write speed, which is typically much slower than read speed for flash devices.
Regarding the difference between flash and dynamic RAM based devices, I haven't found a reference that shows a significantly greater than 10x difference between DRAM SSDs and Flash. The source I looked at for an (admittedtly random) DRAM-based SSD performance statement is this press release, which shows a DRAM-based SSD with Read IOPS of 50000 (less than 10 times that of the SanDisk flash device, which claims random Read IOPS of 7000). I have no sense of the difference in Write IOPS, though.
The reason "seek time" isn't listed for SSD devices is the same reason dynamic RAM manufacturers don't list "seek time" in their device specifications, namely, it doesn't apply. In storage device parlance "seek time" refers to the time it takes for the drive head to reach the target data on a rotating disk. Read the (ahem) authoritative Wikipedia article here.
Furthermore, the recently announce flash-based SSD's from Samsung and SanDisk have file access times far superior to any rotating disk-based storage device. However, it is true that the dynamic RAM-based devices have access times that are approximately 10 times faster than the flash-based devices, but the flash based devices have file acces times typically much more than 10 times faster than a disk drive's seek time. For reference, see the SanDisk press release for their SSD device.
You see, the smart woman who wants "out" will get the baby, then convince the hubby that the kids need daycare for learning and socialization. Then it's just an hour or two in the morning and evening that she has to "work". Oh, she'll be busy. Errands here and there. Pet projects (crafting and baking and scrapbooking, oh, my!) will fill the rest of the time so she's tired enough to need help from DH most nights to put the kids to bed.
Of course, the women who are just having kids to become slackers at home are probably slackers in the workforce as well. Therefore, from an employer's perspective, I'd be delighted that they left voluntarily, so I wouldn't have to fire them.
Oddly enough, just like politicians, scientists, and Slashdot posters, the "stars" do have the right to have an opinion about anything, though that right has nothing to do with their fame. The problem is that like many politicians, Slashdot posters, and perhaps fewer scientists, their opinions may be frightfully uninformed.
Even if what informs someone's opinion is the (hypothetical) fact that the person's holy book says the world was created 6 years ago, that is preferable to the incorrect assertion that the book says the world was created 6 months ago.
Ah, so well put. If I had mod points, I wouldn't be sure whether I should give you a "Funny" or an "Insightful".
(Remarkably, it appears that some of the folks who responded to your post may also fit the description you provided. How proud I am to be a member of such an intellectually gifted community.)
In your pottii???
On the topic of your post, you stated:
You thoroughly misrepresented the parent poster.... The parent poster did not claim that any of these things would occur. He claimed that the environmental effort is "about saving the human race, or at least civilization as we know it". He also claimed that "even if we succeed in wiping ourselves and 99% of existing species out, evolution will just continue with the remaining 1% and produce something that can handle the new conditions. It won't be the first mass extinction." Finally, he said nothing about the planet ending.
Your phrases "ALL bullshit" and "Hyperbolic hysteria" aptly describe your assertions and misrepresentations.
Hmmm.... One of the Anonymous responses to this post indicates that the whole thing is prerendered, citing personal knowledge of the company doing the work. But this post was modded as "Flamebait"??? This post is conceivably overrated, but this is certainly not flamebait.
Well put.
However, consider this: While it is a fact that people in fraternities and sororities are generally literally paying for their friends, it is also true that there's nothing wrong with that. If the friends are true, who cares? If you get good friends by paying for membership in their club, then congratulations, that's money well invested!
People are getting confused here. The reason fraternities and sororities are looked down upon is not because they pay for friends. Many people do this, and many others wish they had the means to do this. The reason they are looked down upon is that the Greek clubs have a reputation for being groups of overpriviledged white boys and girls who are inconsiderate to people outside their groups (and often to people inside their groups), behave recklessly, drive while intoxicated, and perform poorly in school. Naturally, this stereotype is, in many cases, completely inaccurate.
Okay, I don't respect this anti-business attitude. There are dozens of low-margin businesses (usually small stores and restaurants) in my city and others in the US that DO NOT ACCEPT payment by credit or debit cards. They ONLY accept cash. So what you're really saying is that it's perfectly okay that those business owners are unable to serve customers who are blind. That's unfair not only to the blind potential customers, but also to the businesses.
So here's the deal. On one hand, we can spend huge amounts of money to change our money system. This means changing money readers in vending machines, retraining sales clerks, changing our printing systems, dealing with fraud during the changeover, etc., etc. It's simply a huge project. On the other hand, we could ask the blind, who have been dealing with this without the benefit of ubiquitous debit cards ever since paper money has been around, to keep dealing with it in an environment more convenient for them than ever before. Maybe I'm hardhearted, but this seems like a really simple choice. We shouldn't have to make huge changes to accommodate every handicap people have.
No, that is not the deal. Does the phrase "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private," sound at all familiar to you? Cash is the universal tender that you are falsely asserting credit and debit cards are. You are right; it is a simple choice. We must improve our money in order to support business, fulfill a moral obligation to not deprive our citizens who certainly did not choose to be blind (including people who born blind, as well as thos who lost their sight in industrial accidents or fighting to protect our country), and to obey the laws that we have created to ensure access for all citizens.
...nevermind that we really are going to run out sometime, and that all this means is our children or grandchildren will be stuck with the problem instead of us, or that this now gives us more time to think up solutions that we should take advantage of immediately. You're still a conspiracy nut and you're wrong.
Huh? I think you're trying to relate to a different audience... this is Slashdot, buddy! You do remember that certain things (unfamiliar to most Slashdotters) are necessary in order to produce children, much less grandchildren, right?
I now return you to your regularly scheduled "special" 1% of the Internet. Please clean your keyboard when you log off.
If I need to learn Chinese, the site could at least help out a little with anti-aliased fonts ... yuck.
The site looks great to me, anti-aliased fonts at all. You seem to be experiencing an issue with the fonts you have installed on your system, not the Chinese Wikipedia site.
Good Luck!
Spoken like a true blind follower. I love how you ignored the rest of my post just like you ignore the body of evidence that counters your own beliefes.
Clearly, you didn't read my post. I enjoyed your incisive analysis, which quite reasonably contained neither references to the supposed "facts" about human contribution to global warming nor the clearly unnecessary references to the sources backing the Higher Truth(TM) about the issues truly causing all of the climate change we may not really be observing on Earth. Confusing people with "science" is not going to help our cause. Establishing a rational course of action issue requires greater rhetorical skill than the purported "experts" are able to bring to bear.
Again, I genuinely appreciate your efforts to boost my stock portfolio. Keep up the Good Work(TM)!
Man... The problem I have with the phrase Global Warming.... [impressive demonstration of Shakespearian rhetorical mastery and Baconian attention to scientific principles deleted] .... Look at both sides of the issue before forming an uneducated opinion.
Wow, the CEO of Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Dow Chemical, PhillipMorris, and many other completely innocuous corporations couldn't have said it better. Congratulations for so eloquently explaining so consisely why the effects of pollution are Not Our Fault(TM), and dismissing out of hand the allegations of so-called "scientists" who aim to do nothing more than Stand In The Way Of Progress(TM), Harm The Economy(TM), and Support Terrorism(TM).
I can feel value of my energy-company-laden portfolio rise just based on the eloquence and conviction of your Fair And Balanced(TM) analysis. My Scottrade account thanks you for your efforts!
How proud Mandela, Walesa, and the others in this list of "Rebels and Leaders" must be to have been included in the august company of Linus Torvalds, a man known if for nothing else, for his unwavering commitment to the ideals underlying the successful proliferation of his operating system kernel.
Congratulations for that acheivement!
Ahem.... On a less sarcastic note, this is a recognition of the real leadership Linus has demonstrated in keeping the herd of kernel developers working together fairly efficiently. Congratulations, Linus.
and remember Sony originally backed BetaMax....
Great Scott, you're right! That amazing coincidence nearly slipped past us, in the same way that a steamroller nearly slips past the tar in a freshly poured road surface!
But to tag the person who was instrumental in bringing us mozilla.org, XEmacs, and a load of other free software...
...as somebody who "hates free software" is a statement that speaks of ignorance. You obviously don't know the background of him....
Hmmm... "the person who was instrumental"? That overstates jwz's (admittedly substantial) contributions, and completely ignores the contributions of many others.
To be fair, the post to which you respond specifically accuses jwz of being supportive of iTunes rather than CDDB, a position unlikely to be considered supportive of free software.
But then, the involvement of jwz in free software is well known and widely documented; mangu isn't. I searched on Google for you and found nothing. What are your free software contributions?
This is irrelevant. Seriously, mangu is not criticizing the quality of jwz's code, he's criticizing jwz for essentially political views. Whether mangu is an author of any code at all is offtopic and flamebait.
If you intend to demonstrate jwz's commitment to free software you can do that by referring to jwz's comments supporting free software, not by attacking someone for questioning that commitment.
Dell gets presidential product placement?
There are issues about which I would suggest President Bush was not doing the right thing. This, however, is not one of them. He is plugging a major American employer that sells a product (television) in a market dominated by non-US companies. Sony, Toshiba, Samsung.
Look what you made me do. In a single paragraph I attempted to defend both George W. Bush and Dell. Now, that just didn't feel right; I'm going to go eat a bar of soap. A small bar of soap. Well, maybe just half a bar. Nah, screw it; I'll just go drink a couple beers and play Mario Kart.
I suppose you have a point, the republicans will carry texas probably no matter what. But, may I ask, how come these people should not be voting?
I deeply regret that my comment seemed something other than ironic. I respect and agree wholeheartedly with your viewpoint, and I apologize for leading you to believe otherwise. It is unfortunate than many on Slashdot appear to adhere to the perspective that I attempted to represent satirically with my comment, which undoubtedly made me seem more likely sincere than sarcastic.
The same thing is happening in texas. News Report
If the machines were inhibiting votes for Republicans, this would be indicative of an urgent legitimate problem requiring investigation. However, this is clearly just whining by a bunch of people who shouldn't be voting anyway, and should be dismissed out of hand.
The fact that this same issue appears in various places across the country doesn't make it a significant problem unless it is detrimental to The Party.
Ah yes, Orkin. The only company with more bugs than Microsoft.
It it ridiculous insinuate Orkin is similar to Microsoft. One of those companies is actually capable of keeping bugs out of your computer.
"This index measures journalists ability to write whatever they want"
They CAN write whatever they want. They just don't have the right to shield felons.
Hmmm.... Now that you put it that way, I think I see your point. There is complete freedom of speech and the press, everywhere. It's just that in some places, what you say, print, or do in order to report the news may be a crime, for which you should expect to be punished according to the local laws.
For example, if in a given country, publishing information that threatens the public perception of the government is a crime, then people who engage in publishing such content are clearly criminals, but the reporters are still free to risk the consequences of those actions.
Woohoo! Through the power of our words, all nations finally have freedom of speech and of the press!
Non-elected position having no checks and balances? Gee, where have we heard this before?
Hmmm. In my state, the state judges are elected. (Here is some explanation of how that came about.)
If I were disturbed by check & balance issue, though, it's not clear to me how a lack of check and balances for a judicial power should make me feel better than those who live in states where the judges are appointed, though.
I therefore take this study to be an insult to all of us who are pretty good at the subject and successful with our neighbors.
You do not in any way disprove the findings of the study. However, you do demonstrate that even some of the brightest people do not bother to Read The Fine Article before posting an expression of their misdirected outrage on Slashdot.
Please read the article first, then decide whether you are offended by its content.
It is interesting that when someone holds back the disclosure of a vulnerability in Microsoft software they are praised for practicing "responsible disclosure", but when these Rapid7 people do the same they are accused of foaming at the mouth needlessly since a fixed driver is allegedly already released.
This is because, as you may have observed, many of The People Of Slashdot(TM) generally like and respect nVidia's products and much of nVidia's corporate behavior. They really want to love nVidia, and they're hoping nVidia will change enough to fulfill their most romantic hopes. Naturally, such people don't want to alienate the object of their potentially unabridged affection.