That's exactly how it is here and we have some of the higher interest rates around. I've only just noticed it too, I was a fool and didn't research, my own fault. I should've put it into the bubble like everyone else sadly.
I waited and I waited and I saved and I saved and I saved, quite a god damn reasonable amount too but still the prices got away from me. They are unsustainably high. I recommend watching this video and reading this guys tweets, he predicted Ireland, Spain, US etc. https://twitter.com/jtepper2/status/701767213531971584
The video is a doozy. Turnbull is going to get railroaded if he thinks supporting the 20% of home investors is the smart bet, the average person is sick of being unable to buy a fucking home. Let it crash.
This cynical yet short response is sadly very correct and should be moderated up.
If I had $100,000 AUD in a bank here 10 years ago and I collected the interest on it, compounded and never touched the money, the remaining figure of money (I dunno, $120k? shrug) would have _LESS_ buying power than it initially did, 10 years ago.
We ARE being screwed by inflation, (money printing) and general price rises in things. The financial system is messy and few people can see this. NOTE: we had / have fairly high interest rates here in Australia, in the US, Japan, my understanding is the interest rates are significantly lower, $100,000 US 10 years ago would have increased less than my Aussie $100k and it too would have less buying power than it did 10 years ago.
You either buy into / speculate on the latest bubble / fad which is returning silly profits or you're boned. The gold and silver hoarders are starting to not sound so crazy.
A.5% negative interest rate right now would cost me $1000 a year. Meanwhile some sack of pig shit who purchased 11 homes in Australia speculating on "ever increasing house prices, indefinitely and rapidly"* would actually be sent a cheque each fucking month as a reward for going into debt God.Damned.Madness
* They would ALSO be getting tax back from the government due to one of the most insane taxation / financial policies of all times, designed PURELY to reward those with 'spare money' and punishing those without https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_gearing
Those who saved money, responsibly are being EXCEEDINGLY punished in the West over the last couple of decades.
NOTE: I realise it's not your policy and some VERY small bank fees are..... somewhat reasonable, but anything as a % of the persons money is a goddamn disgrace.
*YES* Exactly @#%ing that. You are "charged" (taxed) for leaving your money with them. The idea is to force you to spend it (helping the economy) either through frivolous bullshit or investing in a business / house / something. I am not joking, Japan just did this. You literally lose money.
THEREFORE: everyone tries to take their money, in cash form out of the bank, hide it in the mattress, THAT's why they ban large denominations, because 100k under the bed in 100s is much easier than 100k under the bed in 50's
Greece or Cyprus did this recently, the article I read was not clear but it was so alarmingly written you would almost think that the $100 notes were not only no longer being printed for circulation but existing notes would be null and void after X date (I do not know if this is the case but if so, HOLY SHIT........... that's.... exceptionally evil) Again, I restate, I don't have the data on that last paragraph so if anyone could clarify I'd appreciate the information.
But long story short, yes the bank STEALS your money for leaving it with them to 'promote growth"......... (anyone brought up with the discipline to save by good, honest parents / guardians has been getting fucked for the past 20 years, myself included)
The critics are increasing on this one, there's a lot of paranoia about ending physical currency, negative interest rates, bank bail ins, etc. I generally tend to be partially susceptible to a good / interesting conspiracy theories, within reason. With this one, I'm starting to see it crop up though from a fairly significant amount of financial market doomsayers, although some of them seem to have reasonable credentials. http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/ for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman
I don't know what to think personally. I certainly feel, based on a few years of reading some of this looney news, watching some of the youtube videos on how 'money is created' essentially, the printing since 08 of money and generally how finance is handled internationally that the whole world has no fucking clue of what's going on.
APPARENTLY the G20 meetings recently approved significantly more bank bail ins in many more countries, mine included. These are quite serious concerns, example a recent pensioner suicide, due to the banks / govt, effectively STEALING this poor bastards money, it's outright theft. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35062239
Honestly at this rate some of the "new world order, new currency for ALL!" stuff is... almost, ALMOST sounding fucking feasible. I'm willing to swallow a bit of the old conspiracy theory bullshit but as more and more evidence piles up, I'm begging to feel like it's time to buy a shitload of gold, silver and ammunition.
Well regardless of your thoughts on this post, how it's moderated, it's not going to change much - there's little, exceedingly little we can do if there's merit to any of this. So scaremongering aside that's the real concern, we simply don't have power as people in general.
NOTE / Disclaimer: Australian here, who DIDN'T buy into the ridiculous bubble housing market here, out of work now and living off cash saved, if that shit gets 'confiscated' there will be trouble. I sure as heck do not need my savings, that I worked hard for, I scrimped for, I didn't go into debt for like most else, being confiscated / overly taxed or NIRP'd into oblivion. Disgusting concept. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=NIRP&hl=en&meta=&gws_rd=ssl (NIRP)
Any phone without a physical home button, is defective by design and I wouldn't pay a cent for it. I don't give a damn if it's cheaper, faster or whatever. I'd sooner use an iPhone 6S than a Nexus device. I think the new HTC M10 has a physical home button again (phew) - otherwise Samsung only for me, regardless of their issues (S7 is an improvement on the S6)
Well I guess the article clarifies that coffee in moderation has some positive effects, (I know I started drinking it again after reading some articles, but I'm a 2 day, black only guy, fuck the extra calories from sugar and milk)
That being said, I mean if you actually give 2 shits about your liver, you'd be far better off switching to a diet low in carbs / packaged food and seriously increase your vegetable and fibre intake. In my case my GammaGT was 167 (it's meant to be 51) so I did some reading, ate a lot of veggies, consumed a lot of beetroot (in smoothies with spinach, lemon, kale, etc blah) and within 6 months my liver was ridiculously healthy. I took it from fatty liver (external only luckily) to pretty healthy.
Basically, if the food you're eating comes from a packet you're probably not helping (with some exceptions) as for the coffee, perhaps it'll help, even more? In moderation I'm sure.
If I'm reading that right, SMS is backed up. Is there any reason why Apple can't at least change the guys password? Then restore the backup to a new iPhone using the same account?
Like what else is on an iPhone that ISN'T backed up nowadays? Presumably the FBI have got his Gmail account compromised, I'd assume they've got his Apple account? Heck even the photos are backed up.
In these instances, with a death certificate and FBI Warrant info, surely resetting a password is ok, or no? I'm all for privacy and glad Apple encrypt things but I'm curious why a restoration won't provide them with a heap of information they are already after?
How is Edward Snowden (and Julian Assange, in a similar situation) kept alive financially? I mean where is the money coming from, rent, food, etc? Are these guys doomed long term? It's something I don't see discussed much, people talk about their freedom, but regardless of that, what lives do they have now and will they have in 5 or 15 years time?
Can either of them buy stuff on the internet even? If Snowden tried to use his Paypal (US) account would it be shut down? monitored? funds drained? I'm curious about these finer details about these 2 guys. Sorry, mostly off topic.
Rather than blow my mod points on you. What the heck are you even talking about? Have you SEEN the areal density increases on platter disks in the last 3 to 5 years? Things are slowing down, BADLY and when they do squeeze more in, it's with tricky, performance hampering and complicated methods like SMR and Helium.
3D Nand however has opened many new doors and new methods of storing data seem to be coming out weekly. Disks are dying out, finally.
They can now unite, online and shout together as one group of politically correct extremists, not only allowing them to fuel deeper and deeper thought processes into what is NEW and politically correct but allowing them to harass others to join them or harass business and government to make policy changes and think of "the children" (or rather, any unique snowflake)
It's becoming quite worrying and there's beginning to be more and more people sick of their shit online it seems. The more of these articles I see on Reddit, Slashdot and other forums, the more I see people decry the SJW clique. I wonder how big a head it's going to become in the next couple of years, it's quite significant now.
Australian here, in reply to this guys post. Absoloutely correct, this country is little America really in a whole heap of ways.
Our government are a giant bunch of pushover losers. I cringe every time I read about New Zealand, because 9 times out of 10 they do shit right, yet they are what, 1/5'th the size of us?
Seriously this country is going tits up, it's stupidity.
You know, the same group which is anti-harassment, the SECOND you cross these motherfuckers they will hound the shit out of you, doxx you, try their darndest to hurt you (normally your place of employment) etc. Say something they disagree with and instead of them saying "fuck you cunt" they say, what I think is much worse, lies : "you're a racist!" "you're a homophobe!" etc, they'll try to spin things about you which are obviously not positive things (I'm not endorsing racism / homophobia)
There is an endless race it seems to be the most politically correct, it's quite literally (literally!) the current 'fad' right now. Who can be the most offended? Who has the most empathy? It's ME! It's ME! (stamps foot!) I am the one who cares the most about . Thing is, there's nothing inherently wrong with being for peoples rights, obviously. It's the methodology used, the cultish "with us or against us, outright!" attitude, the censorship of those who don't just disagree but dare to even begin to ask questions. Furthermore, I'm truly not convinced a lot of these people actually believe all this, DEEP DOWN. On the surface they do but they don't know why. I get the impression many of the people in the extremist PC group are white, straight and somewhat well off.
I see it on my facebook feed, I can think of 2 people out of my mere 55 friends who have both made a point of posting pro gay rights stuff or chiming in on other topics which I know for a FACT these people have said quite harsh things about these groups previously and not that long ago.
To wind back on topic, poor Stephen Fry thinks twitter is fully of bullies, the same dipshits (or similar dipshits) who abused him off of twitter will again, point their fingers and angrily shout "see it's bullies!! we need even more politically correct tools, censorship, filters and algorithm based tweets to hide these angry people" not seeing the irony of the behaviour within many of the extremist PC ranks.
Honestly I tire of it. Try and have a rational discussion with them though and sooner or later they'll find the ammo to label you something or other awful.
The argument has never changed, who said you can't have the speed? You're welcome to it but you can't have 300GB a month AND fast AND reliable. Sorry it doesn't work that way. Fast, reliable, cheap Pick any 2 you like.
So the rumours go anyhow, it was at CES. That's only 3.5x more expensive than I need it to be, for me to seriously consider moving to SSDs in my FreeNAS machine. (HDD's are awkwardly hot, noisy, power greedy, when you run 6 of them and have an unfortunately exceptionally good set of ears)
Regardless, I do believe that thrashes the OCZ drive in this article. Although it's so strangely cheap, one must wonder if it wasn't a mistake or there's something NQR about it.
Americans constantly whine about data costs, endlessly - as if it's somehow a magical unlimited bucket of data available in the spectrum. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd like it too - but it seems only the Americans 'don't get it' when it comes to this. It's pretty straightforward, there's limits to it, period.
How's this, in the last 10 years, what if instead you didn't have 4G / LTE etc, instead you just still had "inefficient EDGE" BUT unlimited data, all month long, endlessly?
You can't have both. Especially with more and more devices out there. The idiot Liberal (it means conservative here) Govt in Australia at one point, tried denying the need to build an advanced comms network (NBN) one of their excuses was "oh 3G / 4G etc will be XYZ GBs in a few years, laying fibre down is dumb!" because idiots don't understand the limits of wireless communications tech.
Personally, I have a 16GB phone, 32GB microSD slot. I get 1.5GB per month (!) and I use about half of it (but I don't go out too much) I imagine were I to travel more, I could envision a need of say 5 to 7GB at most, which is available right now at semi-reasonable prices.
Wireless is not a magical fountain of unlimited bandwidth, a million posts in a million articles won't change this.
How do you come up with those figures? I get a theoretical maximum of 12.5GB/sec and I've _NEVER EVER_ encountered a wireless data transmission system that comes anywhere close to it's apparent maximum. Ever.
Wireless A,C,N,G etc - all of them, you should basically divide by 8, as standard and then halve it again. If you're lucky, maybe you'll get 60% of the claimed maximum, maybe.
I would imagine a 100Gbps system to give a real world figure (pulling this directly from my ass as I type this,.. based on experience............) probably......... 3 to 4GB/s maybe.
They have their uses but if I rely on one too much, my mental compass turns off. I've got a ridiculously good mental compass (video games as a kid, I don't know?) but I almost always know what direction I'm facing, where I came from, where I'm headed to, what direction things face, etc.
GPS can get me REALLY lost, when I disable my compass for too long, I end up with no idea where I am.
Of course AMD aren't getting progressively fucking worse for goodness sakes, who releases a CPU that's slower than the previous. They are getting worse/compared to the competition/ hence my post. They are less and less competitive.
AMD best hope this CPU has some actual guts to it for performance / power efficiency. They haven't had a great CPU since the Duron / Thunderbird days when they were (arguably) the leader on the desktop.
Their CPU's have gotten progressively worse compared to intel, to a point where it's pretty much complete folly to go AMD at this point, which is a big shame.
Let's hope they close the gap significantly, very significantly. They've almost always been behind, even if it's only slightly (yet had to hugely undercut prices) At their current rate, I do not see them lasting a hell of a lot longer. So this one better be the one for a couple of years.
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That's exactly how it is here and we have some of the higher interest rates around. I've only just noticed it too, I was a fool and didn't research, my own fault.
I should've put it into the bubble like everyone else sadly.
I waited and I waited and I saved and I saved and I saved, quite a god damn reasonable amount too but still the prices got away from me. They are unsustainably high.
I recommend watching this video and reading this guys tweets, he predicted Ireland, Spain, US etc.
https://twitter.com/jtepper2/status/701767213531971584
The video is a doozy.
Turnbull is going to get railroaded if he thinks supporting the 20% of home investors is the smart bet, the average person is sick of being unable to buy a fucking home.
Let it crash.
This cynical yet short response is sadly very correct and should be moderated up.
If I had $100,000 AUD in a bank here 10 years ago and I collected the interest on it, compounded and never touched the money, the remaining figure of money (I dunno, $120k? shrug) would have _LESS_ buying power than it initially did, 10 years ago.
We ARE being screwed by inflation, (money printing) and general price rises in things. The financial system is messy and few people can see this.
NOTE: we had / have fairly high interest rates here in Australia, in the US, Japan, my understanding is the interest rates are significantly lower, $100,000 US 10 years ago would have increased less than my Aussie $100k and it too would have less buying power than it did 10 years ago.
You either buy into / speculate on the latest bubble / fad which is returning silly profits or you're boned.
The gold and silver hoarders are starting to not sound so crazy.
A .5% negative interest rate right now would cost me $1000 a year.
Meanwhile some sack of pig shit who purchased 11 homes in Australia speculating on "ever increasing house prices, indefinitely and rapidly"* would actually be sent a cheque each fucking month as a reward for going into debt
God.Damned.Madness
* They would ALSO be getting tax back from the government due to one of the most insane taxation / financial policies of all times, designed PURELY to reward those with 'spare money' and punishing those without
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_gearing
Those who saved money, responsibly are being EXCEEDINGLY punished in the West over the last couple of decades.
NOTE: I realise it's not your policy and some VERY small bank fees are ..... somewhat reasonable, but anything as a % of the persons money is a goddamn disgrace.
*YES*
Exactly @#%ing that.
You are "charged" (taxed) for leaving your money with them. The idea is to force you to spend it (helping the economy) either through frivolous bullshit or investing in a business / house / something.
I am not joking, Japan just did this.
You literally lose money.
THEREFORE: everyone tries to take their money, in cash form out of the bank, hide it in the mattress, THAT's why they ban large denominations, because 100k under the bed in 100s is much easier than 100k under the bed in 50's
Greece or Cyprus did this recently, the article I read was not clear but it was so alarmingly written you would almost think that the $100 notes were not only no longer being printed for circulation but existing notes would be null and void after X date (I do not know if this is the case but if so, HOLY SHIT........... that's.... exceptionally evil)
Again, I restate, I don't have the data on that last paragraph so if anyone could clarify I'd appreciate the information.
But long story short, yes the bank STEALS your money for leaving it with them to 'promote growth"......... (anyone brought up with the discipline to save by good, honest parents / guardians has been getting fucked for the past 20 years, myself included)
The critics are increasing on this one, there's a lot of paranoia about ending physical currency, negative interest rates, bank bail ins, etc.
I generally tend to be partially susceptible to a good / interesting conspiracy theories, within reason. With this one, I'm starting to see it crop up though from a fairly significant amount of financial market doomsayers, although some of them seem to have reasonable credentials.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/ for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman
I don't know what to think personally. I certainly feel, based on a few years of reading some of this looney news, watching some of the youtube videos on how 'money is created' essentially, the printing since 08 of money and generally how finance is handled internationally that the whole world has no fucking clue of what's going on.
APPARENTLY the G20 meetings recently approved significantly more bank bail ins in many more countries, mine included.
These are quite serious concerns, example a recent pensioner suicide, due to the banks / govt, effectively STEALING this poor bastards money, it's outright theft.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35062239
Honestly at this rate some of the "new world order, new currency for ALL!" stuff is ... almost, ALMOST sounding fucking feasible. I'm willing to swallow a bit of the old conspiracy theory bullshit but as more and more evidence piles up, I'm begging to feel like it's time to buy a shitload of gold, silver and ammunition.
Well regardless of your thoughts on this post, how it's moderated, it's not going to change much - there's little, exceedingly little we can do if there's merit to any of this. So scaremongering aside that's the real concern, we simply don't have power as people in general.
NOTE / Disclaimer: Australian here, who DIDN'T buy into the ridiculous bubble housing market here, out of work now and living off cash saved, if that shit gets 'confiscated' there will be trouble.
I sure as heck do not need my savings, that I worked hard for, I scrimped for, I didn't go into debt for like most else, being confiscated / overly taxed or NIRP'd into oblivion. Disgusting concept.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=NIRP&hl=en&meta=&gws_rd=ssl (NIRP)
Personally:
Any phone without a physical home button, is defective by design and I wouldn't pay a cent for it. I don't give a damn if it's cheaper, faster or whatever.
I'd sooner use an iPhone 6S than a Nexus device.
I think the new HTC M10 has a physical home button again (phew) - otherwise Samsung only for me, regardless of their issues (S7 is an improvement on the S6)
Well I guess the article clarifies that coffee in moderation has some positive effects, (I know I started drinking it again after reading some articles, but I'm a 2 day, black only guy, fuck the extra calories from sugar and milk)
That being said, I mean if you actually give 2 shits about your liver, you'd be far better off switching to a diet low in carbs / packaged food and seriously increase your vegetable and fibre intake. In my case my GammaGT was 167 (it's meant to be 51) so I did some reading, ate a lot of veggies, consumed a lot of beetroot (in smoothies with spinach, lemon, kale, etc blah) and within 6 months my liver was ridiculously healthy. I took it from fatty liver (external only luckily) to pretty healthy.
Basically, if the food you're eating comes from a packet you're probably not helping (with some exceptions) as for the coffee, perhaps it'll help, even more? In moderation I'm sure.
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519?locale=en_US
If I'm reading that right, SMS is backed up.
Is there any reason why Apple can't at least change the guys password? Then restore the backup to a new iPhone using the same account?
Like what else is on an iPhone that ISN'T backed up nowadays? Presumably the FBI have got his Gmail account compromised, I'd assume they've got his Apple account?
Heck even the photos are backed up.
In these instances, with a death certificate and FBI Warrant info, surely resetting a password is ok, or no? I'm all for privacy and glad Apple encrypt things but I'm curious why a restoration won't provide them with a heap of information they are already after?
Can I ask,
How is Edward Snowden (and Julian Assange, in a similar situation) kept alive financially? I mean where is the money coming from, rent, food, etc? Are these guys doomed long term?
It's something I don't see discussed much, people talk about their freedom, but regardless of that, what lives do they have now and will they have in 5 or 15 years time?
Can either of them buy stuff on the internet even? If Snowden tried to use his Paypal (US) account would it be shut down? monitored? funds drained? I'm curious about these finer details about these 2 guys.
Sorry, mostly off topic.
Rather than blow my mod points on you.
What the heck are you even talking about?
Have you SEEN the areal density increases on platter disks in the last 3 to 5 years?
Things are slowing down, BADLY and when they do squeeze more in, it's with tricky, performance hampering and complicated methods like SMR and Helium.
3D Nand however has opened many new doors and new methods of storing data seem to be coming out weekly.
Disks are dying out, finally.
They can now unite, online and shout together as one group of politically correct extremists, not only allowing them to fuel deeper and deeper thought processes into what is NEW and politically correct but allowing them to harass others to join them or harass business and government to make policy changes and think of "the children" (or rather, any unique snowflake)
It's becoming quite worrying and there's beginning to be more and more people sick of their shit online it seems. The more of these articles I see on Reddit, Slashdot and other forums, the more I see people decry the SJW clique. I wonder how big a head it's going to become in the next couple of years, it's quite significant now.
Australian here, in reply to this guys post.
Absoloutely correct, this country is little America really in a whole heap of ways.
Our government are a giant bunch of pushover losers. I cringe every time I read about New Zealand, because 9 times out of 10 they do shit right, yet they are what, 1/5'th the size of us?
Seriously this country is going tits up, it's stupidity.
Mod it down as much as you like, it's completely true as evidenced by the vast majority of replies to this article.
,....
Seriously, at least 2 to 5 a year since I got on the internet back in 1997?
Always a fun read, never come to fruition.
I remember reading about 100GB optical drives in 1999.
https://www.pctechguide.com/removable-storage/florescent-disc-technology
Nothing ever comes to fruition
You know, the same group which is anti-harassment, the SECOND you cross these motherfuckers they will hound the shit out of you, doxx you, try their darndest to hurt you (normally your place of employment) etc.
Say something they disagree with and instead of them saying "fuck you cunt" they say, what I think is much worse, lies : "you're a racist!" "you're a homophobe!" etc, they'll try to spin things about you which are obviously not positive things (I'm not endorsing racism / homophobia)
There is an endless race it seems to be the most politically correct, it's quite literally (literally!) the current 'fad' right now. Who can be the most offended? Who has the most empathy? It's ME! It's ME! (stamps foot!) I am the one who cares the most about .
Thing is, there's nothing inherently wrong with being for peoples rights, obviously. It's the methodology used, the cultish "with us or against us, outright!" attitude, the censorship of those who don't just disagree but dare to even begin to ask questions.
Furthermore, I'm truly not convinced a lot of these people actually believe all this, DEEP DOWN. On the surface they do but they don't know why. I get the impression many of the people in the extremist PC group are white, straight and somewhat well off.
I see it on my facebook feed, I can think of 2 people out of my mere 55 friends who have both made a point of posting pro gay rights stuff or chiming in on other topics which I know for a FACT these people have said quite harsh things about these groups previously and not that long ago.
To wind back on topic, poor Stephen Fry thinks twitter is fully of bullies, the same dipshits (or similar dipshits) who abused him off of twitter will again, point their fingers and angrily shout "see it's bullies!! we need even more politically correct tools, censorship, filters and algorithm based tweets to hide these angry people" not seeing the irony of the behaviour within many of the extremist PC ranks.
Honestly I tire of it. Try and have a rational discussion with them though and sooner or later they'll find the ammo to label you something or other awful.
I would've thought this fella would be more appropriate.
https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&btnG=Search&q=Howard+Eternal+Sunshine
The argument has never changed, who said you can't have the speed? You're welcome to it but you can't have 300GB a month AND fast AND reliable. Sorry it doesn't work that way.
Fast, reliable, cheap
Pick any 2 you like.
So the rumours go anyhow, it was at CES.
That's only 3.5x more expensive than I need it to be, for me to seriously consider moving to SSDs in my FreeNAS machine.
(HDD's are awkwardly hot, noisy, power greedy, when you run 6 of them and have an unfortunately exceptionally good set of ears)
Regardless, I do believe that thrashes the OCZ drive in this article. Although it's so strangely cheap, one must wonder if it wasn't a mistake or there's something NQR about it.
Are you referring to home internet or 3/4G (LTE) data?
These are 2 VASTLY different services.
Americans constantly whine about data costs, endlessly - as if it's somehow a magical unlimited bucket of data available in the spectrum.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd like it too - but it seems only the Americans 'don't get it' when it comes to this. It's pretty straightforward, there's limits to it, period.
How's this, in the last 10 years, what if instead you didn't have 4G / LTE etc, instead you just still had "inefficient EDGE" BUT unlimited data, all month long, endlessly?
You can't have both. Especially with more and more devices out there.
The idiot Liberal (it means conservative here) Govt in Australia at one point, tried denying the need to build an advanced comms network (NBN) one of their excuses was "oh 3G / 4G etc will be XYZ GBs in a few years, laying fibre down is dumb!" because idiots don't understand the limits of wireless communications tech.
Personally, I have a 16GB phone, 32GB microSD slot. I get 1.5GB per month (!) and I use about half of it (but I don't go out too much) I imagine were I to travel more, I could envision a need of say 5 to 7GB at most, which is available right now at semi-reasonable prices.
Wireless is not a magical fountain of unlimited bandwidth, a million posts in a million articles won't change this.
How do you come up with those figures?
I get a theoretical maximum of 12.5GB/sec and I've _NEVER EVER_ encountered a wireless data transmission system that comes anywhere close to it's apparent maximum. Ever.
Wireless A,C,N,G etc - all of them, you should basically divide by 8, as standard and then halve it again. If you're lucky, maybe you'll get 60% of the claimed maximum, maybe.
I would imagine a 100Gbps system to give a real world figure (pulling this directly from my ass as I type this,.. based on experience............) probably......... 3 to 4GB/s maybe.
They have their uses but if I rely on one too much, my mental compass turns off.
I've got a ridiculously good mental compass (video games as a kid, I don't know?) but I almost always know what direction I'm facing, where I came from, where I'm headed to, what direction things face, etc.
GPS can get me REALLY lost, when I disable my compass for too long, I end up with no idea where I am.
So basically your reply is "semantics"?
Of course AMD aren't getting progressively fucking worse for goodness sakes, who releases a CPU that's slower than the previous. /compared to the competition/ hence my post. They are less and less competitive.
They are getting worse
I shouldn't need to spell this out on /.
AMD best hope this CPU has some actual guts to it for performance / power efficiency. They haven't had a great CPU since the Duron / Thunderbird days when they were (arguably) the leader on the desktop.
Their CPU's have gotten progressively worse compared to intel, to a point where it's pretty much complete folly to go AMD at this point, which is a big shame.
Let's hope they close the gap significantly, very significantly. They've almost always been behind, even if it's only slightly (yet had to hugely undercut prices)
At their current rate, I do not see them lasting a hell of a lot longer. So this one better be the one for a couple of years.