Let's assume there are 5 minutes of burned time to stop at a gas station - that's time spent pulling off the road, driving to the gas station, and driving back to the road you were on.
It takes approximately 1.5 minutes (at the US-mandated 10Gal/min maximum pumping rate) for me to fill my car - and that's good for another 450 miles. So, we have 6.5 minutes of downtime for 450 miles.
It takes 3 minutes to fill my tank 1/2 full, and I can only drive 50 miles, so I must stop 9 times in that same 450 miles. 27 minutes of downtime for fueling and 45 minutes of burned time, for a total of 72 minutes for the same 450 miles.
Why on Earth would I want to waste an hour of my life like this for every 450 miles I drive?
It's that it's using technology at a large expense that helps only a small percentage of people.
If 20% of people use iPhones, the government would still have to come up with a way to give fair treatment to the other 80% who don't. It's the responsibility of government to make its services equally available to all, and by doing what they are doing, they are making services disproportionately more available to a small percentage of the population, and that's wrong.
A typical HDD uses maybe half of that when it's not busy, while an SSD uses practically zero.
The power savings come mostly during idle time. It takes energy and constant computation to control the head position and platter rotation. That takes power. When an SSD is idle, it's idle. The clocks can shut off, and the thing just drains the few microamps of quiescent current the devices require to live.
One pro I forgot to mention before was for laptops, where SSD users don't have to worry about shock and vibration.
On top of that, it is almost impossible to get insurance to cover medical treatment for something that has no official diagnosis code associated with it.
If you consciously avoid eating GM foods, you're not only too fussy, but also have a mental disorder (orthorexia).
In short, you'd be crazy to avoid GM foods!
Lower power consumption, good for laptop battery life and energy bills Immunity to low ambient pressure Random reads are WAY faster than on HDDs. WAY faster.
Cons:
Finite write endurance (especially the newer die-shrunk SLC NAND, but the die-shrinking affects SLC, too)
Capacity / Expense (especially SLC)
Immature technology - most manufacturers still don't have it right. The original JMicron controller is a good example, having no wear leveling algorithm at all. The Indilinx controller is another, having horrible wear leveling that causes write amplification factors up in the teens. Sandforce is marginally better, but lacks any kind of caching that can be used to improve WA and/or reduce the number of erasures required. They claim WA less than 1 based on compression, but that's only under lab conditions with very deliberately-chosen write patterns.
Also, SSDs completely lack any kind of elegant O/S support. Windows sits there and churns away 15kB/s of writes 24/7, slowing eating away at the write endurance of the drive. It also makes no effort to block write, so it'll sit there and send a few bytes at a time, exacerbating the write amplification problem. TRIM is nice, but only a bandaid to the larger problem. OSX still doesn't support TRIM that I know of. I don't know what Linux would do to one... I haven't tried, and am kind afraid of investing a few hundred bucks to find out.
'We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,'
Complete and utter bullshit. When I was in school at a fairly well-known south-eastern engineering school, you couldn't walk from Skiles to the Library Fountain without tripping over 7 Microsoft recruiters. Granted, it was over a decade ago, but still...
What makes MS unattractive is the huge bloated corporate culture that has 10 levels of bureaucracy for every level of productivity, and thousands of pages of process documents that new recruits spend half their working time trying to remember, and the other half trying to forget when the "new" process comes out.
It doesn't help that, on top of it all, they expect you to show up and, you know, WORK for your paycheck...
You don't need to license the patent to homebrew your own decoder. In fact, one of the purposes of the patent system is to allow non-commercial private citizens to use new technology. Any person can reproduce the technology in any patent without fear of lawsuit. It is only when you commercialize it or attempt to profit from it that patent protection kicks in.
Actually, the actual cost of production overseas is not the major motivating factor. What makes offshore production attractive is not the lower labor wages, but rather the ridiculous cost of "cradle to grave" benefits in the US.
If GM hires a worker in the US, GM has to incur the cost of that worker until the worker dies, if that worker becomes "vested" in the right to suckle that teat until death. Same goes for Europe. In asia, when a worker quits or is laid off, the expense of that worker stops immediately and doesn't carry on for another 20-50 years.
An "emergency" will eventually become when the media makes disparaging remarks about whatever administration is in power. That will be deemed a threat to national security...
The slippery slope is a fallacy except when the government is concerned.
Scientists do not have a monopoly on access to public places. If they are concerned for their safety, they should leave, or not go in the first place. Being a scientists does not make you a "better" person and does not entitle you to privileged access to anything.
1) Claim ridiculous damages from unprovable, alleged crimes 2) Claim poverty due to loss of revenue from what would be otherwise legal sales 3) Go to government with hand out 4) Get bailout, soak the taxpayers
Philadelphia already does this on some of the arterials in and out of the city. They have big signs that say "Lights timed for XX MPH" where they can change XX on the fly. You can ride the green wave all the way into the city. It works pretty well as long as the traffic isn't TOO heavy.
That's not even true in some places now. Dekalb County, Georgia judges will convict you even if your cop doesn't show up. They take the ticket, signed by the cop, as a sworn affidavit of testimony. Apparently, you don't have the right to cross examine witnesses against you in Dekalb County, Georgia.
Slashdot Mirror
Percentage of people with an IQ higher than 140: 0.31349%
Percentage of people with an IQ higher than 125: 4.15182%
(Based on Wechsler)
Let's assume there are 5 minutes of burned time to stop at a gas station - that's time spent pulling off the road, driving to the gas station, and driving back to the road you were on.
It takes approximately 1.5 minutes (at the US-mandated 10Gal/min maximum pumping rate) for me to fill my car - and that's good for another 450 miles. So, we have 6.5 minutes of downtime for 450 miles.
It takes 3 minutes to fill my tank 1/2 full, and I can only drive 50 miles, so I must stop 9 times in that same 450 miles. 27 minutes of downtime for fueling and 45 minutes of burned time, for a total of 72 minutes for the same 450 miles.
Why on Earth would I want to waste an hour of my life like this for every 450 miles I drive?
It's that it's using technology at a large expense that helps only a small percentage of people.
If 20% of people use iPhones, the government would still have to come up with a way to give fair treatment to the other 80% who don't. It's the responsibility of government to make its services equally available to all, and by doing what they are doing, they are making services disproportionately more available to a small percentage of the population, and that's wrong.
A typical HDD uses maybe half of that when it's not busy, while an SSD uses practically zero.
The power savings come mostly during idle time. It takes energy and constant computation to control the head position and platter rotation. That takes power. When an SSD is idle, it's idle. The clocks can shut off, and the thing just drains the few microamps of quiescent current the devices require to live.
One pro I forgot to mention before was for laptops, where SSD users don't have to worry about shock and vibration.
On top of that, it is almost impossible to get insurance to cover medical treatment for something that has no official diagnosis code associated with it.
If you consciously avoid eating GM foods, you're not only too fussy, but also have a mental disorder (orthorexia). In short, you'd be crazy to avoid GM foods!
Pros:
Lower power consumption, good for laptop battery life and energy bills
Immunity to low ambient pressure
Random reads are WAY faster than on HDDs. WAY faster.
Cons:
Finite write endurance (especially the newer die-shrunk SLC NAND, but the die-shrinking affects SLC, too)
Capacity / Expense (especially SLC)
Immature technology - most manufacturers still don't have it right. The original JMicron controller is a good example, having no wear leveling algorithm at all. The Indilinx controller is another, having horrible wear leveling that causes write amplification factors up in the teens. Sandforce is marginally better, but lacks any kind of caching that can be used to improve WA and/or reduce the number of erasures required. They claim WA less than 1 based on compression, but that's only under lab conditions with very deliberately-chosen write patterns.
Also, SSDs completely lack any kind of elegant O/S support. Windows sits there and churns away 15kB/s of writes 24/7, slowing eating away at the write endurance of the drive. It also makes no effort to block write, so it'll sit there and send a few bytes at a time, exacerbating the write amplification problem. TRIM is nice, but only a bandaid to the larger problem. OSX still doesn't support TRIM that I know of. I don't know what Linux would do to one... I haven't tried, and am kind afraid of investing a few hundred bucks to find out.
'We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,'
Complete and utter bullshit. When I was in school at a fairly well-known south-eastern engineering school, you couldn't walk from Skiles to the Library Fountain without tripping over 7 Microsoft recruiters. Granted, it was over a decade ago, but still...
What makes MS unattractive is the huge bloated corporate culture that has 10 levels of bureaucracy for every level of productivity, and thousands of pages of process documents that new recruits spend half their working time trying to remember, and the other half trying to forget when the "new" process comes out.
It doesn't help that, on top of it all, they expect you to show up and, you know, WORK for your paycheck...
Let's sing the "Correlation is not causation" song!
He has reproduced the Mona Lisa using an algorithm written in 7 lines of FORTRAN for CUDA.
You don't need to license the patent to homebrew your own decoder. In fact, one of the purposes of the patent system is to allow non-commercial private citizens to use new technology. Any person can reproduce the technology in any patent without fear of lawsuit. It is only when you commercialize it or attempt to profit from it that patent protection kicks in.
Soft errors in DRAM are far more likely to be the result of alpha particle decay from materials in the die and packaging.
Actually, the actual cost of production overseas is not the major motivating factor. What makes offshore production attractive is not the lower labor wages, but rather the ridiculous cost of "cradle to grave" benefits in the US.
If GM hires a worker in the US, GM has to incur the cost of that worker until the worker dies, if that worker becomes "vested" in the right to suckle that teat until death. Same goes for Europe. In asia, when a worker quits or is laid off, the expense of that worker stops immediately and doesn't carry on for another 20-50 years.
An "emergency" will eventually become when the media makes disparaging remarks about whatever administration is in power. That will be deemed a threat to national security...
The slippery slope is a fallacy except when the government is concerned.
I have to wonder what percentage of your cell phone bill goes to pay the cost of stupid litigation like this...
Scientists do not have a monopoly on access to public places. If they are concerned for their safety, they should leave, or not go in the first place. Being a scientists does not make you a "better" person and does not entitle you to privileged access to anything.
There are at least 800,000 people here who would like to have a job...
Lack of oxygen does not mean life cannot exist. Not all life processes need oxygen.
Google "anaerobic respiration"
UEFI is just a fancy name for BIOS - the program that runs on startup to test and configure all of the hardware so that software can talk to it.
AMI had a GUI BIOS back in the early 1990s.
1) Claim ridiculous damages from unprovable, alleged crimes
2) Claim poverty due to loss of revenue from what would be otherwise legal sales
3) Go to government with hand out
4) Get bailout, soak the taxpayers
.. as long as it's like us and the same as everyone else.
Philadelphia already does this on some of the arterials in and out of the city. They have big signs that say "Lights timed for XX MPH" where they can change XX on the fly. You can ride the green wave all the way into the city. It works pretty well as long as the traffic isn't TOO heavy.
You're right, but my 14 year old niece can't go 5 seconds without typing something in on her phone.
I guess what I meant was a "dire national emergency risking the breakdown of civilization as we know it." Heh...
Because most newspapers are slanted way left and support big government paradigms.
"No show = automatic win if you show up"
That's not even true in some places now. Dekalb County, Georgia judges will convict you even if your cop doesn't show up. They take the ticket, signed by the cop, as a sworn affidavit of testimony. Apparently, you don't have the right to cross examine witnesses against you in Dekalb County, Georgia.