For me 80 GB is sufficient to store all the applications and data for my family except a few select "big" things that go on the HDD - my DVR recordings, my wife's flatbed scans of her illustrations, my son's screen recordings of minecraft... when the disk starts to get full, I find the offending directory, move it to the HDD and make a symlink. This is Linux; I find Windows to be a terrible drive space waster, and it just grows forever as you apply patches and service packs.
Laptops are obviously more difficult, since no HDD. I found a 250 GB SSD to be somewhat tight on my OSX laptop for work - much happier now with 500 GB.
Not only is this "rated to endure at least 70GB of writes per day over five years," it also comes with a 5 year warranty. Given there's still skepticism about SSD reliability from some quarters, a 5 year warranty is unbeatable.
I only wish Intel was offering this in a smaller size, say 100 GB. I think a SSD system drive + slow "green" HDD is a great combo in a desktop, and the price premium on this quality of SSD would be easier to swallow if the drive were $110 instead of $250 even though that would be the same $/GB.
At the same time, I wonder if nuclear is enough cheaper than solar and wind to bother with? It is really hard to accurately value a huge investment that expected to last 80 years. What technological advances and political changes might happen in that time? 80 years ago it was 1934.
Large-scale thermal plants can store energy to moderate the supply, and we would need a more integrated national grid give more flexibility. But it seems doable. I'll grant there would still be some cost premium, so it won't happen if left to the market alone, but then again markets don't care about global warming or the problems of long-term waste storage (even if that's really just a political problem). I really like the fact that wind and solar can simply be torn down and hauled away, or upgraded as need be.
Thank you, I was hoping the replies would be a resource for identifying some good point-to-point videoconferencing options.
Are there any cross-platform solutions that work well and let you connect by just putting in a destination IP address? (The Internet is so overrun with logins and man-in-the-middles now).
it's pretty clear to me that most (or all?) farming jobs can be automated with a combination of current machinery, sensors and some reliable software.
During the 20th century the proportion of the total workforce employed in agriculture declined from 34% to 3%, so your prediction is already about 90% fulfilled!
You need 500 nonstop miles consistently? I guess you are a long-haul trucker. In that case, diesel will be hard to beat for a very long time. Seriously, for going at a steady rate, with an engine designed for maximum efficiency at that specific level of power output, a diesel is really a good solution.
Sending your bitcoin to somebody else to hold for you is not a good idea security wise.
Compared to what? Stuffing your savings into your (digital) pillow case isn't a good idea security wise either. Whatever you do, It's going to boil down to something physical that hopefully doesn't break or get stolen, plus a secret that isn't forgotten or discovered.
All around, it's hard to imagine what you could come up with that would beat a safety deposit box at a bank, i.e. letting somebody else hold your bitcoin.
This is like if baseball has responded to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal (players paid to throw the World Series) by simply selling the World Series trophy to the highest bidder each year. (Yankees jokes aside.) Does that fix the corruption, sure. Does it save the sport, no. "Pay To Win" is the opposite of a game, it is just normal life.
That is why I DON'T like facebook. When I am sending a message to specific people, the focus is on whatever concerns us both. If I were just broadcasting information about myself for my (presumed) interested audience on Facebook, that interaction is no longer about our relationship, instead the only common factor is ME ME ME.
Why I don't like facebook is because my family used to exchange personal updates by email, which I liked. When they joined facebook, that stopped. I don't want to be on facebook, so by not joining I shut myself out. This kind of pressure is exactly what makes facebook so viral.
When facebook was an upstart, playing nice with the status quo (email) benefitted them. Now facebook is the status quo, so alternatives do not benefit them.
Madoff ran a HEDGE FUND. What a hedge fund is, is a exemption from normal regulation created by wealthy people who don't want regulation because they are Smart Enough to Know Better. Quoting Wikipedia: "edge funds are made available only to certain sophisticated or accredited investors and cannot be offered or sold to the general public." (Of course that didn't stop his victims from resorting to the law to reclaim not only what they put in, but the illusory gains he made up out of thin air that they only thought they had reaped).
What you are describing is a commodity market. This is a future in which the margins (and R&D) for CPUs are more in line what what we are used to for RAM and other chips, not CPUs.
Another possibility is there is no real future - nobody will reap the profits Intel did for the last 30 years.
Intel's earnings last quarter were $2,630 M compared to $156 M for ARM holdings. So if ARM is "ruling the world" like this story claims, then ruling the world just ain't what it used to be. And I guess that is likely, if semiconductors stagnate as they seem to be.
Setting a deadline in a negotiation is not uncommon - usually it's even more arbitrary than this. Like, "this offer is good until 9am tomorrow, then I put it back on the market."
Sounds like you could benefit from faster Internet then. I'm not saying you should pay more for one of the faster options available to you now, I'm saying you would benefit if you got faster service for the same or less money.
Same at my company, but I take issue with "people don't even know their HTTPS connections aren't secure any more". Corporate machines are "rooted" in the first place, they generally install whatever new software the employer wants during each reboot or login. Probably half the cycles on my work computer are wasted on Symantec spyware. So, you can't lose the privacy you never had.
That is interesting. I would love to know if the children of older men in that study lived longer (or shorter) than their older siblings - i.e. other children of the SAME fathers conceived at a younger age.
I think you are right their interest is in robotics. But it may also wind up being a boon to 3d printing. After all, a copy machine needs a scanner as well as a printer.
The TSA still has not caught a single terrorist trying to get on a plane.
Why do you say that? Here's how many guns the TSA caught at a few airports last year:
(ATL) - 111 Guns Discovered
(DFW) - 96 Guns Discovered
(IAH) - 68 Guns Discovered
(PHX) - 66 Guns Discovered
(DEN) - 51 Guns Discovered
Your assumption is that none of those people had terrorist intentions. But why do you assume it? The fact is they took actions that would have empowered them to take over the plane.
everyone still thinks that dietary cholesterol regulation should be a high priority for health.
Well, they may still talk that way, but the prevalent treatment strategy has clearly shifted to drugs: "Nearly one in four adults age 45 and over already take pills like Lipitor and Zocor to manage their cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease." cite
Any "free market" that grants perpetual ownership rights to natural resources will eventually be bogged down in them and grind to a halt. Europe reached a state hundreds of years ago where land equated to wealth, and essentially the only way to get it was to inherit it, and feudalism is the direct consequence.
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Laptops are obviously more difficult, since no HDD. I found a 250 GB SSD to be somewhat tight on my OSX laptop for work - much happier now with 500 GB.
I only wish Intel was offering this in a smaller size, say 100 GB. I think a SSD system drive + slow "green" HDD is a great combo in a desktop, and the price premium on this quality of SSD would be easier to swallow if the drive were $110 instead of $250 even though that would be the same $/GB.
At the same time, I wonder if nuclear is enough cheaper than solar and wind to bother with? It is really hard to accurately value a huge investment that expected to last 80 years. What technological advances and political changes might happen in that time? 80 years ago it was 1934.
Large-scale thermal plants can store energy to moderate the supply, and we would need a more integrated national grid give more flexibility. But it seems doable. I'll grant there would still be some cost premium, so it won't happen if left to the market alone, but then again markets don't care about global warming or the problems of long-term waste storage (even if that's really just a political problem). I really like the fact that wind and solar can simply be torn down and hauled away, or upgraded as need be.
Are there any cross-platform solutions that work well and let you connect by just putting in a destination IP address? (The Internet is so overrun with logins and man-in-the-middles now).
During the 20th century the proportion of the total workforce employed in agriculture declined from 34% to 3%, so your prediction is already about 90% fulfilled!
You need 500 nonstop miles consistently? I guess you are a long-haul trucker. In that case, diesel will be hard to beat for a very long time. Seriously, for going at a steady rate, with an engine designed for maximum efficiency at that specific level of power output, a diesel is really a good solution.
Compared to what? Stuffing your savings into your (digital) pillow case isn't a good idea security wise either. Whatever you do, It's going to boil down to something physical that hopefully doesn't break or get stolen, plus a secret that isn't forgotten or discovered.
All around, it's hard to imagine what you could come up with that would beat a safety deposit box at a bank, i.e. letting somebody else hold your bitcoin.
This is like if baseball has responded to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal (players paid to throw the World Series) by simply selling the World Series trophy to the highest bidder each year. (Yankees jokes aside.) Does that fix the corruption, sure. Does it save the sport, no. "Pay To Win" is the opposite of a game, it is just normal life.
That is why I DON'T like facebook. When I am sending a message to specific people, the focus is on whatever concerns us both. If I were just broadcasting information about myself for my (presumed) interested audience on Facebook, that interaction is no longer about our relationship, instead the only common factor is ME ME ME.
When facebook was an upstart, playing nice with the status quo (email) benefitted them. Now facebook is the status quo, so alternatives do not benefit them.
Madoff ran a HEDGE FUND. What a hedge fund is, is a exemption from normal regulation created by wealthy people who don't want regulation because they are Smart Enough to Know Better. Quoting Wikipedia: "edge funds are made available only to certain sophisticated or accredited investors and cannot be offered or sold to the general public." (Of course that didn't stop his victims from resorting to the law to reclaim not only what they put in, but the illusory gains he made up out of thin air that they only thought they had reaped).
What you are describing is a commodity market. This is a future in which the margins (and R&D) for CPUs are more in line what what we are used to for RAM and other chips, not CPUs.
Still, discretionary federal spending in general is falling even faster than defense spending.
At root, this is the Boomer Apocalypse everybody has been talking about for the last 40 years, and they never bothered to take care of.
Intel's earnings last quarter were $2,630 M compared to $156 M for ARM holdings. So if ARM is "ruling the world" like this story claims, then ruling the world just ain't what it used to be. And I guess that is likely, if semiconductors stagnate as they seem to be.
How many of those rich ecofreaks got rich selling windfarms ?
Setting a deadline in a negotiation is not uncommon - usually it's even more arbitrary than this. Like, "this offer is good until 9am tomorrow, then I put it back on the market."
Sounds like you could benefit from faster Internet then. I'm not saying you should pay more for one of the faster options available to you now, I'm saying you would benefit if you got faster service for the same or less money.
Same at my company, but I take issue with "people don't even know their HTTPS connections aren't secure any more". Corporate machines are "rooted" in the first place, they generally install whatever new software the employer wants during each reboot or login. Probably half the cycles on my work computer are wasted on Symantec spyware. So, you can't lose the privacy you never had.
That is interesting. I would love to know if the children of older men in that study lived longer (or shorter) than their older siblings - i.e. other children of the SAME fathers conceived at a younger age.
I think you are right their interest is in robotics. But it may also wind up being a boon to 3d printing. After all, a copy machine needs a scanner as well as a printer.
Why do you say that? Here's how many guns the TSA caught at a few airports last year:
Your assumption is that none of those people had terrorist intentions. But why do you assume it? The fact is they took actions that would have empowered them to take over the plane.
75% of the $19BN is in facebook stock, so it's more like trading some tulips for some other tulips.
Meanwhile 70 million credit card numbers were stolen from Target.
Well, they may still talk that way, but the prevalent treatment strategy has clearly shifted to drugs: "Nearly one in four adults age 45 and over already take pills like Lipitor and Zocor to manage their cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease." cite
Any "free market" that grants perpetual ownership rights to natural resources will eventually be bogged down in them and grind to a halt. Europe reached a state hundreds of years ago where land equated to wealth, and essentially the only way to get it was to inherit it, and feudalism is the direct consequence.