The largest SSD I could find is 2TB and costs $8200. If it follows Moore's law, then the price of that drive should hit $70 -- achieving parity with *today's* 2TB magnetic media drive -- in about 10 years.
The fact that manufacturers are consolidating, and hence various avenues of R&D are becoming fewer, is very much a bad thing, not only for the price we're paying for storage capacity directly, but indirectly through all the web-based services we enjoy as well. Sure, multi-TB seems like a lot today, but the same was true of multi-GB fifteen years ago, and multi-MB thirty years ago. But there are many among us who have no trouble filling that capacity and more, and when it comes to technology, today's corner case is frequently tomorrow's norm.
Which is weird. Why do games do this? Are people really that fragile?
I have the same compunctions about any possible action in an FPS as I do about driving people into homelessness and bankruptcy in Monopoly. And the targets in Assassin's Creed and Homefront aren't even real people. As unappealing as I find games like GTA and Manhunt, it's not because of the supposed unpalatable moral dilemmas they present; it's because the only morality in a game is that which is defined by the rules of the game, and pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
But the true irony is that most people are selfish pricks in real life. Maybe they play games as an escape from that reality...
Yeah, the tech said the signal levels were fine (I work with RF -- they were fine), and I replaced the modem (SB6120) while he was there. The speeds used to be good when I first got service, so there's basically 3 (non-mutually exclusive) possibilities:
1) Their node has degraded in the interim. 2) They're throttling me. 3) Usage has surpassed capacity.
Not that the specifics are important; I'm paying *them* to sort out that stuff, not the other way around.
Sure, and you can cut a steak with a toothbrush too, if you're really determined, but that doesn't make a knife any less appropriate for the task. In other words, almost any stupid analogy can be dual purposed for both "sense" and "nonsense", so almost any analogy can be considered inappropriate for a given context. If you're going to point out the inconsistencies in any analogy, then it renders the entirety of all analogies pointless.
Here's my thing. I pay for 50/10, but I only get 3-4Mbit up at the absolute best, and that's in a speed test to Comcast's own servers in the same city. Uploading to a friend's 25/25 FiOS? About 75KB/s.
I had a tech come out to troubleshoot, and he agreed that getting 30-40% of the service I pay for sounds broken to him, but Comcast hides behind their "based on network conditions" clause. It would be interesting if I could prove that I *never* get the advertised speeds, but testing that consistently would exceed my network cap.
Sort of like eating sushi with a fork...may be more practical, but you will not rack up any style points in doing so.
Nor by waving your arms around vice pushing a few buttons, I'd say. In fact, if the situation were reversed where Kinect style controls were the norm, people would probably regard remotes like the second coming. "FINALLY, I don't have to wave my fucking arms around just to change the channel!"
Forget Netflix, when are they going to add Kinect support for hotmail? And what will be the gesture for spam? I have a few suggestions if they haven't settled on one already.
To be fair, it's pretty clear he's not talking about averages. Your average Joe doesn't fly on the Space Shuttle or the Concorde. And clearly our very best *has* worsened in recent years.
Does it matter? Probably not. It's one thing to lack the capacity for something, and another to choose not to maximize that potential. I *could* stock up on 5 years worth of canned foods, but I don't. Does that mean there's a crisis in the food supply? Of course not. But if it was impossible to acquire 5 years worth of canned foods, that would be another issue altogether. Likewise, we could build faster machines, but there just seems to be no point right now. Flying from New York to Paris in 6 hours instead of 10 hours (factoring in check-in and baggage claim) doesn't really make much of a difference because you still have a time zone change. Sometimes good enough really is.
I wasn't suggesting that the goal should be piracy -- that would be foolish and plainly illegal -- but rather giving people the freedom to use their hardware to its full potential. Establishing legitimate and (otherwise) lawful uses for the technology is the best and most efficient chance I can see of defeating the effects of the DMCA.
Yes and no. Risks are risks, whether they're man-made or natural, and it's all about how you prepare for or mitigate those risks. Currently, the only substantial form of mitigation we use in the US is insurance, but we *could* do quite a lot more, especially if we're willing to abandon wood for new construction. Concrete homes in Miami survived hurricane Andrew, for example, while neighboring structures built of wood were obliterated, and there are similar results for earthquakes and tornadoes. This isn't really anything new though; reinforced concrete was invented over 150 years ago. IMO, building codes should require new construction to meet the same standards that reinforced concrete provides, regardless of the building material, and as material science progresses, so too should minimum standards for construction.
You do at 0 +/- 23.5 degrees latitude. That's a pretty large portion of the earth. The question then becomes whether to transport power to the population centers to the north and south, or let the population centers migrate to the areas of power generation in the tropics.
I suspect that he didn't prepare for this eventuality as well as, say, Compaq did when reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and that there was damning evidence out there or on his own hard drives. Maybe he has or had a PSN account, or maybe he did in fact profit from this hacking somehow. Just because he swore to the contrary in his affidavit(s) doesn't make it so, and we have no more reason to believe him than to believe any random person off the street.
What we really need is a corporation, formed by interested parties, with the sole raison d'etre of undertaking the next generation of hacks on our behalf. It can be a thorn in the side of onerous, overbearing multinational corporations, and if it's sued out of existence it won't matter one bit; just turn around and form a new one. It's time to fight fire with fire.
[The law is] an interesting and complex system that any real hacker should relish understanding and, well, hacking.
The problem with the law is that it's written in an ambiguous language and applied inconsistently from one case to the next. It is essentially a chaotic and unpredictable system which, frankly, is not worth the expense in time and money for most people to bother with unless they absolutely have to. Trying to win a court case is like trying to make it rain in New York by spraying some water in the air in California. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not -- there are so many variables that it's impossible to know for sure.
The more variables you can control, the better your odds become, but it costs a lot of money to position your variables as the dominant forces (researching various issues, introducing them as evidence, arguing for their significance) while at the same time preventing your opponent from doing the same. And in the end this whole complex structure you've created, your case, can be undone by a little unexpected piece of evidence or even a turn of phrase, like a tiny breeze that sends a future hurricane toward Galveston instead of Miami.
The only value provided by law is the false comfort it gives us in justice and fairness -- it says it's fair, and we believe -- and the true knowledge that there's a giant out there we should all fear, because when it sets its sights on us, anything can happen.
If only we possessed some sort of technology that allowed us to store excess power instead of using it right away. Why, if the energy source were cheap enough, we wouldn't even have to worry about efficiency losses!
Yeah, but since you can install a full blown Amiga (let alone C64) emulator on any PC made in the past 10 years, a pre-installed version in hardware isn't really much of a selling point.
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The largest SSD I could find is 2TB and costs $8200. If it follows Moore's law, then the price of that drive should hit $70 -- achieving parity with *today's* 2TB magnetic media drive -- in about 10 years.
The fact that manufacturers are consolidating, and hence various avenues of R&D are becoming fewer, is very much a bad thing, not only for the price we're paying for storage capacity directly, but indirectly through all the web-based services we enjoy as well. Sure, multi-TB seems like a lot today, but the same was true of multi-GB fifteen years ago, and multi-MB thirty years ago. But there are many among us who have no trouble filling that capacity and more, and when it comes to technology, today's corner case is frequently tomorrow's norm.
Which is weird. Why do games do this? Are people really that fragile?
I have the same compunctions about any possible action in an FPS as I do about driving people into homelessness and bankruptcy in Monopoly. And the targets in Assassin's Creed and Homefront aren't even real people. As unappealing as I find games like GTA and Manhunt, it's not because of the supposed unpalatable moral dilemmas they present; it's because the only morality in a game is that which is defined by the rules of the game, and pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
But the true irony is that most people are selfish pricks in real life. Maybe they play games as an escape from that reality...
Yeah, the tech said the signal levels were fine (I work with RF -- they were fine), and I replaced the modem (SB6120) while he was there. The speeds used to be good when I first got service, so there's basically 3 (non-mutually exclusive) possibilities:
1) Their node has degraded in the interim.
2) They're throttling me.
3) Usage has surpassed capacity.
Not that the specifics are important; I'm paying *them* to sort out that stuff, not the other way around.
Canadians get their Slurpees by stepping out their front doors and opening their mouths.
Sure, and you can cut a steak with a toothbrush too, if you're really determined, but that doesn't make a knife any less appropriate for the task. In other words, almost any stupid analogy can be dual purposed for both "sense" and "nonsense", so almost any analogy can be considered inappropriate for a given context. If you're going to point out the inconsistencies in any analogy, then it renders the entirety of all analogies pointless.
Here's my thing. I pay for 50/10, but I only get 3-4Mbit up at the absolute best, and that's in a speed test to Comcast's own servers in the same city. Uploading to a friend's 25/25 FiOS? About 75KB/s.
I had a tech come out to troubleshoot, and he agreed that getting 30-40% of the service I pay for sounds broken to him, but Comcast hides behind their "based on network conditions" clause. It would be interesting if I could prove that I *never* get the advertised speeds, but testing that consistently would exceed my network cap.
Nah, a Canadian would have said "If it's not too much trouble, would you mind having intercourse with yourself, eh?"
Sort of like eating sushi with a fork...may be more practical, but you will not rack up any style points in doing so.
Nor by waving your arms around vice pushing a few buttons, I'd say. In fact, if the situation were reversed where Kinect style controls were the norm, people would probably regard remotes like the second coming. "FINALLY, I don't have to wave my fucking arms around just to change the channel!"
Forget Netflix, when are they going to add Kinect support for hotmail? And what will be the gesture for spam? I have a few suggestions if they haven't settled on one already.
To be fair, it's pretty clear he's not talking about averages. Your average Joe doesn't fly on the Space Shuttle or the Concorde. And clearly our very best *has* worsened in recent years.
Does it matter? Probably not. It's one thing to lack the capacity for something, and another to choose not to maximize that potential. I *could* stock up on 5 years worth of canned foods, but I don't. Does that mean there's a crisis in the food supply? Of course not. But if it was impossible to acquire 5 years worth of canned foods, that would be another issue altogether. Likewise, we could build faster machines, but there just seems to be no point right now. Flying from New York to Paris in 6 hours instead of 10 hours (factoring in check-in and baggage claim) doesn't really make much of a difference because you still have a time zone change. Sometimes good enough really is.
Good thing, then, that they're not using mineral oil. Yes, it says mineral oil in the summary, but TFA says "a coolant similar to mineral oil."
I wasn't suggesting that the goal should be piracy -- that would be foolish and plainly illegal -- but rather giving people the freedom to use their hardware to its full potential. Establishing legitimate and (otherwise) lawful uses for the technology is the best and most efficient chance I can see of defeating the effects of the DMCA.
Yes and no. Risks are risks, whether they're man-made or natural, and it's all about how you prepare for or mitigate those risks. Currently, the only substantial form of mitigation we use in the US is insurance, but we *could* do quite a lot more, especially if we're willing to abandon wood for new construction. Concrete homes in Miami survived hurricane Andrew, for example, while neighboring structures built of wood were obliterated, and there are similar results for earthquakes and tornadoes. This isn't really anything new though; reinforced concrete was invented over 150 years ago. IMO, building codes should require new construction to meet the same standards that reinforced concrete provides, regardless of the building material, and as material science progresses, so too should minimum standards for construction.
F sharp.
Alas, we don't get summer sun every day
You do at 0 +/- 23.5 degrees latitude. That's a pretty large portion of the earth. The question then becomes whether to transport power to the population centers to the north and south, or let the population centers migrate to the areas of power generation in the tropics.
I suspect that he didn't prepare for this eventuality as well as, say, Compaq did when reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and that there was damning evidence out there or on his own hard drives. Maybe he has or had a PSN account, or maybe he did in fact profit from this hacking somehow. Just because he swore to the contrary in his affidavit(s) doesn't make it so, and we have no more reason to believe him than to believe any random person off the street.
What we really need is a corporation, formed by interested parties, with the sole raison d'etre of undertaking the next generation of hacks on our behalf. It can be a thorn in the side of onerous, overbearing multinational corporations, and if it's sued out of existence it won't matter one bit; just turn around and form a new one. It's time to fight fire with fire.
[The law is] an interesting and complex system that any real hacker should relish understanding and, well, hacking.
The problem with the law is that it's written in an ambiguous language and applied inconsistently from one case to the next. It is essentially a chaotic and unpredictable system which, frankly, is not worth the expense in time and money for most people to bother with unless they absolutely have to. Trying to win a court case is like trying to make it rain in New York by spraying some water in the air in California. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not -- there are so many variables that it's impossible to know for sure.
The more variables you can control, the better your odds become, but it costs a lot of money to position your variables as the dominant forces (researching various issues, introducing them as evidence, arguing for their significance) while at the same time preventing your opponent from doing the same. And in the end this whole complex structure you've created, your case, can be undone by a little unexpected piece of evidence or even a turn of phrase, like a tiny breeze that sends a future hurricane toward Galveston instead of Miami.
The only value provided by law is the false comfort it gives us in justice and fairness -- it says it's fair, and we believe -- and the true knowledge that there's a giant out there we should all fear, because when it sets its sights on us, anything can happen.
When Luis Zeledon was captured by detectives, it was probably safe to say that he had not intended to be found.
Probably, but not everyone who doesn't wish to be found, monitored, or tracked is or was up to no good.
Though the imaging technology was conceived primarily as a counterterrorism tool...
Let's not kid ourselves -- terrorism was a workable excuse for the deployment of these systems, not the impetus.
Marriage: It's a lot of work, but in the long run, eventually one of you dies.
Seriously... what's a guy gotta do to find a deity worthy of the pedestal he puts her on?!?
If only we possessed some sort of technology that allowed us to store excess power instead of using it right away. Why, if the energy source were cheap enough, we wouldn't even have to worry about efficiency losses!
Ah, but what if he had mosquito larvae from Senegal on his taint?
Ironically, once l33t is in the OED, it's no longer l33t.
Yeah, but since you can install a full blown Amiga (let alone C64) emulator on any PC made in the past 10 years, a pre-installed version in hardware isn't really much of a selling point.
I believe you meant per fortnight, good sir. As everybody knows, a furlong is 110 fathoms.