I must come from good stock then since I have two Centenarians in my bloodline =) Oh, and at least for Japan it's 1 in 2,712 (47,000+ out of 127,450,460) that makes it to the century mark, much better odds that 99.999% =)
The researchers used PCIe-based flash cards with a channel speed of 400MBps based on the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) specification and a standard 96 NAND flash dies, which is typical of SSDs. ...
By the time NAND flash shrinks from 25nm today to 6.5nm in 2024, SSDs based on TLC flash will sport as much as 16TB of capacity and MLC flash SSDs will have 4TB, Grupp said.
So basically they use a generic PCIe design and then concluded that PCIe designs wouldn't exceed 4TB by 2024 whereas I showed that a PCIe device, available in the market today, has greater capacity than they claim will be the ceiling in 12 years. It is utter and complete horseshit.
Because some organizations will pay significantly more for exclusive rights to the patent and the easiest way to acquire those rights is to buy the patent. The patent is the inventors property so why shouldn't they have the right to sell it? I have infinitely more problems with software and business method patents as a class than I do with the rights of the holder to transfer their property.
I was assuming Android, but even on Windows you need the local admin password to login to safe mode so a user would have no way to bypass the launcher.
Ok, so you're going to take your own analysis of information on Wikipedia over analysis done by the policy wonks at the Congressional Budget Office? Yeah, that's the way to win a reasoned argument...
Sure they can, just allowing the Bush era tax cuts to expire gets rid of basically all of the growth in the deficit (as a percentage of GDP, which is what matters) for the next twenty years or so. Science research is a self funding line item in that it increases GDP pretty much as fast as you fund it (within reason, mythical man month applies to science just as well as programming).
How do you grant an X prize for basic science research? Basic science is the area where the government is absolutely needed because no company can afford to fund it as there is no payback in the horizon that a companies shareholders will find acceptable (excepting those with a government granted monopoly like Bell Labs). Most practical research should be left to the private sector because as you say the government is not particularly effective at picking the right horse.
I find it funny that they'd even care, if the information they give on the "what we know about you" page is an accurate portrayal of what they actually know about people then their classification system is really no better than Nielson 18-25 male type categories. Fark had a fun thread about this when Google changed their privacy policy and people were laughing about how off Google was. In my case despite the fact that Google's archives probably have my exact DOB they were off by one major category in age and their listed interests were pretty far off.
There isn't anywhere close to enough oil in the USA that can be pulled out of the ground fast enough to satisfy our oil demands...The only way to achieve energy dependence is to cut oil demand in half
B.S.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels. link.
Ok, just to play devils advocate, what if instead of being a barista he wanted to be a basic science researcher. Those positions are generally fairly poorly paying relative to their long term value that they generate for society yet he can't afford to take that position despite his parents supposedly generating more wealth then they could spend in their lifetime (I won't go into the fact that 25% of the US economy at the beginning of the last recession was financial services which generates very little real wealth).
Exactly, and when you are borrowing $1B it's not even making a significant change in the tax liability to be paid like when you shift income from high earning periods to retirement through a 401k (baring of course the top earning bracket moving, though right now we've got about the lowest top tax bracket in US history so moving liability forward is probably foolish).
Virgin Mobile USA offers almost the same plan, 300 minutes, "unlimited" text, and 2.5GB of data and then they throttle you for the remainder of the month. Current cost is $35/month, my wife still has the $25/month rate for that plan because she signed up before they upped the rate and despite it being no contract they will keep her at the same rate as long as she keeps current on payments. She's even had her phone replaced without losing the better rate.
Well if they only counted for 1/4th of the production and the price is marked up over 100% I think an investigation is in order because i smell price gouging.
They also account for 90+% of the production of some components used in HDD's which has been a bigger problem, the other 75% of wordwide capacity has been hamstrung from lack of parts.
Really? How? I don't think there would be a half dozen apps for syncing Chrome bookmarks to Android devices if it was native functionality and I sure as heck don't see any results on the first five pages of a google search for "chrome bookmark sync Android" that involve native tools or options....
Hmm, that means if you're developing for Android (not Android with Google) you can't assume the browser component will be available in the future, that kind of blows. I wonder if that means some third party Webkit library will become popular for developers who want to get their apps on things like the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet but still need a browser component?
It also lacks extension support. I can't wait till the Android browser syncs my Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history, and extensions. That will make for a lot less typing on the phone and I can drop the stupid GBookmark app which only exists because Google can't integrate their own services.
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I must come from good stock then since I have two Centenarians in my bloodline =) Oh, and at least for Japan it's 1 in 2,712 (47,000+ out of 127,450,460) that makes it to the century mark, much better odds that 99.999% =)
The researchers used PCIe-based flash cards with a channel speed of 400MBps based on the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) specification and a standard 96 NAND flash dies, which is typical of SSDs.
...
By the time NAND flash shrinks from 25nm today to 6.5nm in 2024, SSDs based on TLC flash will sport as much as 16TB of capacity and MLC flash SSDs will have 4TB, Grupp said.
So basically they use a generic PCIe design and then concluded that PCIe designs wouldn't exceed 4TB by 2024 whereas I showed that a PCIe device, available in the market today, has greater capacity than they claim will be the ceiling in 12 years. It is utter and complete horseshit.
Yeah, about that 4TB limit, I think these folks will be surprised that their 5TB and 10TB drives won't be possible in the next few years....
Because some organizations will pay significantly more for exclusive rights to the patent and the easiest way to acquire those rights is to buy the patent. The patent is the inventors property so why shouldn't they have the right to sell it? I have infinitely more problems with software and business method patents as a class than I do with the rights of the holder to transfer their property.
If you can't use Google here's a link to a nice pretty picture based on the analysis.
I was assuming Android, but even on Windows you need the local admin password to login to safe mode so a user would have no way to bypass the launcher.
Or just install a password protected launcher, much easier than trying to figure out what you can and can't uninstall.
You're intentionally ignoring the Inverse-square law.
Ok, so you're going to take your own analysis of information on Wikipedia over analysis done by the policy wonks at the Congressional Budget Office? Yeah, that's the way to win a reasoned argument...
Really, do you have better numbers than the nonpartisan CBO?
Sure they can, just allowing the Bush era tax cuts to expire gets rid of basically all of the growth in the deficit (as a percentage of GDP, which is what matters) for the next twenty years or so. Science research is a self funding line item in that it increases GDP pretty much as fast as you fund it (within reason, mythical man month applies to science just as well as programming).
How do you grant an X prize for basic science research? Basic science is the area where the government is absolutely needed because no company can afford to fund it as there is no payback in the horizon that a companies shareholders will find acceptable (excepting those with a government granted monopoly like Bell Labs). Most practical research should be left to the private sector because as you say the government is not particularly effective at picking the right horse.
I find it funny that they'd even care, if the information they give on the "what we know about you" page is an accurate portrayal of what they actually know about people then their classification system is really no better than Nielson 18-25 male type categories. Fark had a fun thread about this when Google changed their privacy policy and people were laughing about how off Google was. In my case despite the fact that Google's archives probably have my exact DOB they were off by one major category in age and their listed interests were pretty far off.
The national grid doesn't work that way, there's not enough interconnect capacity to ship 2.2GW of additional power out of SRSO.
There isn't anywhere close to enough oil in the USA that can be pulled out of the ground fast enough to satisfy our oil demands...The only way to achieve energy dependence is to cut oil demand in half
B.S.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels.
link.
Ok, just to play devils advocate, what if instead of being a barista he wanted to be a basic science researcher. Those positions are generally fairly poorly paying relative to their long term value that they generate for society yet he can't afford to take that position despite his parents supposedly generating more wealth then they could spend in their lifetime (I won't go into the fact that 25% of the US economy at the beginning of the last recession was financial services which generates very little real wealth).
Exactly, and when you are borrowing $1B it's not even making a significant change in the tax liability to be paid like when you shift income from high earning periods to retirement through a 401k (baring of course the top earning bracket moving, though right now we've got about the lowest top tax bracket in US history so moving liability forward is probably foolish).
Virgin Mobile USA offers almost the same plan, 300 minutes, "unlimited" text, and 2.5GB of data and then they throttle you for the remainder of the month. Current cost is $35/month, my wife still has the $25/month rate for that plan because she signed up before they upped the rate and despite it being no contract they will keep her at the same rate as long as she keeps current on payments. She's even had her phone replaced without losing the better rate.
Well if they only counted for 1/4th of the production and the price is marked up over 100% I think an investigation is in order because i smell price gouging.
They also account for 90+% of the production of some components used in HDD's which has been a bigger problem, the other 75% of wordwide capacity has been hamstrung from lack of parts.
Really? How? I don't think there would be a half dozen apps for syncing Chrome bookmarks to Android devices if it was native functionality and I sure as heck don't see any results on the first five pages of a google search for "chrome bookmark sync Android" that involve native tools or options....
Hmm, that means if you're developing for Android (not Android with Google) you can't assume the browser component will be available in the future, that kind of blows. I wonder if that means some third party Webkit library will become popular for developers who want to get their apps on things like the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet but still need a browser component?
I was thinking they could allow the browser component to be updated outside the rest of the OS just like they did for Google Maps.
Actually given the number of apps which consume the browser component I think it SHOULD be part of the base OS and should also be updated regularly.
It also lacks extension support. I can't wait till the Android browser syncs my Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history, and extensions. That will make for a lot less typing on the phone and I can drop the stupid GBookmark app which only exists because Google can't integrate their own services.
The last time I saw stats it was around 28%, but if weighted by downloads it was significantly higher.