Sounds nice, but how do you know that will continue to be the case?
The fact is, people in cheaper countries don't have to be as good to outcompete us. Their housing is cheaper, their food is cheaper, their healthcare is cheaper. And it's not like they're unintelligent people, either.
Most other jobs have better geographical insulation from foreign competition. (I can think of exceptions, such as manufacturing - and look what happened to US manufacturing). Why not favor those positions?
What do you have against truth in advertising? If a link is sponsored, it should say so. This gives consumers more information so the market can be more efficient. Even google sees it this way, which is why they label their sponsored results. At least I hope so. If they are really selling their non-sponsored search results, I would want to know.
No, I think SSD really will win. Over the past 5 years, solid state has doubled in capacity over and over again, while hard drive capacity growth has slowed. The net effect has been tremendous gains for flash memory.
The other trend I see is satisfaction with hard drive sizes. Notice how the blurb for this article only mentioned 1.8" platters, as if capacity was only lacking in small devices? For most people, requirements for storage simply aren't growing. Even Vista is insignificant on a cheap, commonplace 500 GB drive. My PVR PC still has a 160 GB drive, I just can't be bothered to upgrade.
With near 0 access latency and higher reliability, flash doesn't have to beat winchester drives in $$/GB to win. It just has to be big enough and cheap enough, and it's getting there.
You're right - this is obviously yet another demonstration of our inability to defend against terrorism./sarcasm
He is right. If millions of illegal aliens and drug smugglers can come into the country with tons of cargo every year, then the notion that we can physically prevent small groups of terrorists from coming in, is actually absurd. If Al-Qaeda had hundreds of suicide attackers lined up to attack us, there is absolutely nothing to prevent them from launching a Virginia-Tech style massacre every day of the week. Nothing.
What conclusions to draw from this, I am not sure.
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Seriously, though, can't computers do this sort of thing more efficiently?
Nope. The govt. has spent millions or billions on this problem over the years, but they still employ analysts to do it manually for the most part.
What, you thought there was no interesting CS research left to do?
The short-term problem is, global economic forces are driving engineering out of the US; in that sense there's an oversupply here. But long term, our lack of ability to engineer things will become a strategic disadvantage and could hurt us badly economically and otherwise; in that sense it's a shortage.
In general, it seems like we are getting by skimming the value off the hard work of other countries (and immigrants). They make it, we market it and keep most of the profit. But they are building infrastructure and rapidly developing their economies, while we are going ever deeper into debt for plasma TVs, and blowing up and rebuilding Iraq over and over. It's going to catch up with us.
What I find annoying about Apple pricing (or rather "potentially" annoying, as I'm not one of their customers) is the centralized, tightly controlled pricing, combined with a strategy of infrequent price changes. The cost of a flashy new CPU or videocard will start high but drop steadily day by day (with some fluctuation). With Apple, they keep their cards close to their chest and then Wham! the thing you bought yesterday depreciates 30% overnight. It's perfectly reasonable for customers to be annoyed by this, because it's Apple's secrecy and pricing strategy that create the problem.
My point is, rebates suck, but they aren't *always* a scam....
And then there are companies like Amp'd. I hounded them for months for my $100 rebate. The last time they finally agreed to credit my account with $100 worth of airtime. That, coincidentally (I think not), was the day before they went out of business and ceased operations.
But these appear to be be tiny (for mobile applications).... you could fit an enormous number of them into a 3.5" (or even 2.5") hard drive enclosure, if you can afford it. Put in a controller that can read and write to, say, 16 chips in parallel, and you would have a monster hard drive in every respect.
And do you know where the 5% threshold for "significance" came from? Nowhere. It was picked out of the air by a researcher at some point and caught on.
7% is 7%. Labeling that "signficant" or "insignificant" doesn't change anything.
How can this be? Slashdot slams every proposal for technology in Africa as impractical and irrelevant; technological development is somehow supposed to wait until after economic and political development have taken place. I guess not.
One thing is resurrecting the monster in Russia, and that is the high price of oil. Middle-East terrorism has the same cause. Every fill of the gas tank sends wealth and strength straight into the pockets of Putin and Muslim extremists. Without this windfall, they would be powerless. If we really care about national security and global stability, we must develop sustainable energy sources.
Is that even relevant? You phone still associates with the nearest tower even if you're not talking. They could glean congestion data purely from that.
You could stop watching the show. It's not an entitlement.
You could stop watching the show, but to NBC that's no different than pirating it.
I wouldn't be surprised to see NBC come crawling back to iTunes. NBC will miss the money they were making on iTunes. People don't schedule their lives around TV any more.
16 cores in 1U would be impressive. This box has only 8 cores and is the size of a mini-fridge. You can get an off-the-shelf Mac or PC with 8 cores, and they're connected by a memory bus which is far, far faster than ethernet.
Definitely. Most bioengineering to date was done through breeding, and most of it was done to make big-breasted chickens, husky cattle, uber-lactating cows, and so on.
I'll be thrilled when we can simply grow muscle (aka meat) without consuming vast ranges of land and megatons of grain.
Just wait, if the CAN$ ever goes back down, I bet they'll hike prices the next day, no inventory delays at all! Just like gas.
Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."
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The fact is, people in cheaper countries don't have to be as good to outcompete us. Their housing is cheaper, their food is cheaper, their healthcare is cheaper. And it's not like they're unintelligent people, either.
Most other jobs have better geographical insulation from foreign competition. (I can think of exceptions, such as manufacturing - and look what happened to US manufacturing). Why not favor those positions?
What do you have against truth in advertising? If a link is sponsored, it should say so. This gives consumers more information so the market can be more efficient. Even google sees it this way, which is why they label their sponsored results. At least I hope so. If they are really selling their non-sponsored search results, I would want to know.
If I ever find out I've been taking the second-best medicine so my doctor can get free trips, yes, I would sue.
They're the good guys!
The other trend I see is satisfaction with hard drive sizes. Notice how the blurb for this article only mentioned 1.8" platters, as if capacity was only lacking in small devices? For most people, requirements for storage simply aren't growing. Even Vista is insignificant on a cheap, commonplace 500 GB drive. My PVR PC still has a 160 GB drive, I just can't be bothered to upgrade.
With near 0 access latency and higher reliability, flash doesn't have to beat winchester drives in $$/GB to win. It just has to be big enough and cheap enough, and it's getting there.
What conclusions to draw from this, I am not sure.
What, you thought there was no interesting CS research left to do?
In general, it seems like we are getting by skimming the value off the hard work of other countries (and immigrants). They make it, we market it and keep most of the profit. But they are building infrastructure and rapidly developing their economies, while we are going ever deeper into debt for plasma TVs, and blowing up and rebuilding Iraq over and over. It's going to catch up with us.
What I find annoying about Apple pricing (or rather "potentially" annoying, as I'm not one of their customers) is the centralized, tightly controlled pricing, combined with a strategy of infrequent price changes. The cost of a flashy new CPU or videocard will start high but drop steadily day by day (with some fluctuation). With Apple, they keep their cards close to their chest and then Wham! the thing you bought yesterday depreciates 30% overnight. It's perfectly reasonable for customers to be annoyed by this, because it's Apple's secrecy and pricing strategy that create the problem.
But these appear to be be tiny (for mobile applications).... you could fit an enormous number of them into a 3.5" (or even 2.5") hard drive enclosure, if you can afford it. Put in a controller that can read and write to, say, 16 chips in parallel, and you would have a monster hard drive in every respect.
7% is 7%. Labeling that "signficant" or "insignificant" doesn't change anything.
That type of "self-correction" is the problem. Avoiding that is the whole point of agriculture in the first place!
How can this be? Slashdot slams every proposal for technology in Africa as impractical and irrelevant; technological development is somehow supposed to wait until after economic and political development have taken place. I guess not.
Technical question: why does Comcast do it this way? Why not do flow control the normal TCP way - drop packets on the floor?
You're forgetting the two biggest legal constructs which define capitalism - property and contract law. Without regulation there is no market.
Besides, this is not like regulating the use of hyperdrive or some other sci-fi fantasy. RFID implantation for humans is real.
One thing is resurrecting the monster in Russia, and that is the high price of oil. Middle-East terrorism has the same cause. Every fill of the gas tank sends wealth and strength straight into the pockets of Putin and Muslim extremists. Without this windfall, they would be powerless. If we really care about national security and global stability, we must develop sustainable energy sources.
Nice. I wonder how hard it would be to cool a rack full of those enough to make them stable?
I wouldn't be surprised to see NBC come crawling back to iTunes. NBC will miss the money they were making on iTunes. People don't schedule their lives around TV any more.
16 cores in 1U would be impressive. This box has only 8 cores and is the size of a mini-fridge. You can get an off-the-shelf Mac or PC with 8 cores, and they're connected by a memory bus which is far, far faster than ethernet.
I'll be thrilled when we can simply grow muscle (aka meat) without consuming vast ranges of land and megatons of grain.
Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."