Or even better yet, "Sorry (Amazon|Rackspace|DigitalOcean|Google Cloud). You're going to have to stop buying shitloads of Xeon blades for your cloud hosting because you aren't running Windows OS on the bare metal."
That still only accounts for 24 hours at a maximum out of the 50.
Are you really saying that it's normal to fall asleep at a keyboard, then not use or look at your computer for the next two days when you just got a brand new hyped game?
I could see the scenario you're talking about accounting for 10 or 15 hours, sure. but 50? You'd have to fall asleep at the keyboard, then wake up and grab an already-packed suitcase and head for the airport because you are running late for a flight somewhere.
I still don't buy that this is common. Sure, there will be edge cases, but get serious.
Nuclear missile submarines do stay submerged for months on end. That's kind of the point - they exist specifically to prevent satellites from being able to fix their position.
Why would they have to rely completely on the plants themselves to replenish the oxygen? We've had carbon scrubbing substances for some time now, like lithium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. What the plants can't create themselves, they can supplement with technology.
Could we do it right now? Probably not. But they could come up with a system that works.
You're expecting the first missions to Mars to not include any logistics or planning for the astronauts' return? Because that's what your post sounds like.
Why are they calling an app crash a 'device failure' on either platform, unless the app is distributed with the device?
Why is Apple responsible for shitty code written by a 3rd party, which may or may not be a proper version of the app for the installed OS? Why is Google?
Should we start blaming Intel when Adobe applications inevitably crash now, or should we continue to blame Adobe for not caring enough to actually QA?
And apparently in the nomenclature of this study, a shitty app crashing constitutes a "failing device".
Personally, I find that to be a problem with the app, not the fucking device. Especially when some of the apps named get updated on a weekly basis with the total comments about the updates being "bug fixes".
SATA and SAS drives will still be around for some time, specifically for the data center. There are countless 4U disk shelves with 16+ SATA or SAS ports on them out there that will outlive the drives that are currently spinning in them.
Toyota and Honda both manufacture in the US (as well as other "import" brands), but it's not because they're being good guys and care about keeping the UAW alive - they're doing it to dodge protectionist import tariffs on cars.
If it's assembled in Indiana, you don't pay that tariff. And you can still manufacture the parts in Japan, as those don't have the tariff applied.
Paying only what the law requires in taxes to a government that is more likely to waste that money on bullshit than do anything good with it is in no way equivalent to dumping tons of caustic and toxic shit into an open pit and shrugging it off. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous.
For the record, even if Apple paid tax on every single dollar they make worldwide, it would only fund the Department of Defense for like 3 days.
Who else would be to blame about how fucked up the US tax code is, other than the sole legislative body with the Constitutional authority to fix it?
Why are you so adamant to let the Congress, who has been derelict of duty for some time now on the issue of tax reform, off the hook? They are the only ones that can make tax law at the Federal level, they are the only ones that have ever had the power to do so, and without repealing or amending Article I, Section 7 they will be the only ones that can.
Don't like Apple's (and Google's, and many other corporations) tax strategies? Write your fucking representative in Congress.
So you're now claiming that Tim Cook perjured himself in front of Congress when he testified that Apple pays US taxes?
I know, it's shocking that someone might try to minimize their tax liability; I'm sure you pay a bunch of unnecessary taxes and don't bother with any deductions when you file. Wait, you do? Why the double standard?
Yeah, because using rockets that cost several hundred million dollars to put a couple tons of what is mostly reusable fuel into the sun is absolutely going to be cheaper than storing it underground.
Good thing you are not one of those people, because you don't appear to be very informed at all.
The executive order killing the construction and operation of the research facilities for breeder reactors was rescinded without reinstating the budget for them. We might as well have said "it's now fully legal to flap your arms and fly to the moon" by executive order, because both were as likely to happen without funding.
Also, all plutonium isotopes are not created equal as far as weapons use goes, and there is no method to separate the one isotope you want for weapons from the others that you don't. This is why we have monitoring systems and such that the UN uses to make sure everyone is in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Because as it turns out, if you use a PWR to create power, and actually use the fuel load economically, you don't make weapons grade material. If you shut the place down after 6 months and swap fuel in the most costly manner possible, you get weapons grade plutonium inside of a whole lot of other shit you don't want (trans-uranic elements that are amazingly deadly).
However, those spontaneously fissile plutonium isotopes that ruin a bomb still work really good in a reactor, so breeding plutonium that has a higher percentage of Pu-240 and Pu-241 isn't a problem for that use.
Not discounting the other things you said, but why invent a robot to move laundry between a washer and dryer, when you can just get one unit that does both without inter-unit movement?
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Or even better yet, "Sorry (Amazon|Rackspace|DigitalOcean|Google Cloud). You're going to have to stop buying shitloads of Xeon blades for your cloud hosting because you aren't running Windows OS on the bare metal."
Wow! What's it like to be over 150 years old and on the Internet?
I'm not the poster above, but I'm going to post with my super authoritative Slashdot user name:
Go fuck yourself, federal government. And you know what? I have every right to say that, recognized under the First Amendment.
Anonymity has nothing to do with this, and in fact should be celebrated under the same Bill of Rights.
Nixon didn't get away with it. See: resignation before Congress could write up Articles of Impeachment.
That still only accounts for 24 hours at a maximum out of the 50.
Are you really saying that it's normal to fall asleep at a keyboard, then not use or look at your computer for the next two days when you just got a brand new hyped game?
I could see the scenario you're talking about accounting for 10 or 15 hours, sure. but 50? You'd have to fall asleep at the keyboard, then wake up and grab an already-packed suitcase and head for the airport because you are running late for a flight somewhere.
I still don't buy that this is common. Sure, there will be edge cases, but get serious.
Nuclear missile submarines do stay submerged for months on end. That's kind of the point - they exist specifically to prevent satellites from being able to fix their position.
Why would they have to rely completely on the plants themselves to replenish the oxygen? We've had carbon scrubbing substances for some time now, like lithium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. What the plants can't create themselves, they can supplement with technology.
Could we do it right now? Probably not. But they could come up with a system that works.
You're expecting the first missions to Mars to not include any logistics or planning for the astronauts' return? Because that's what your post sounds like.
If you are sleeping for 50 hours at a time, you should consult a doctor.
Yeah, because I'm sure that's what was happening - the Facebook app was taking a shit and bringing the whole OS session down with it.
Nope, not even once. Because protected memory is still a thing, and has been on every OS worth talking about in the last 16 years.
Why are they calling an app crash a 'device failure' on either platform, unless the app is distributed with the device?
Why is Apple responsible for shitty code written by a 3rd party, which may or may not be a proper version of the app for the installed OS? Why is Google?
Should we start blaming Intel when Adobe applications inevitably crash now, or should we continue to blame Adobe for not caring enough to actually QA?
And apparently in the nomenclature of this study, a shitty app crashing constitutes a "failing device".
Personally, I find that to be a problem with the app, not the fucking device. Especially when some of the apps named get updated on a weekly basis with the total comments about the updates being "bug fixes".
SATA has it's uses in the data center. Think: cheap nearline storage where performance isn't the concern, but density and cost is.
SATA and SAS drives will still be around for some time, specifically for the data center. There are countless 4U disk shelves with 16+ SATA or SAS ports on them out there that will outlive the drives that are currently spinning in them.
Unless you're still using a flip phone, whatever smartphone you have was influenced in design and function by Apple.
Because it's Apple, and this is Slashdot.
Either you're new here, or haven't been here in the last 10 years. Back then, Slashdot loved Apple because they made UNIX mainstream.
Toyota and Honda both manufacture in the US (as well as other "import" brands), but it's not because they're being good guys and care about keeping the UAW alive - they're doing it to dodge protectionist import tariffs on cars.
If it's assembled in Indiana, you don't pay that tariff. And you can still manufacture the parts in Japan, as those don't have the tariff applied.
False equivalence.
Paying only what the law requires in taxes to a government that is more likely to waste that money on bullshit than do anything good with it is in no way equivalent to dumping tons of caustic and toxic shit into an open pit and shrugging it off. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous.
For the record, even if Apple paid tax on every single dollar they make worldwide, it would only fund the Department of Defense for like 3 days.
Who else would be to blame about how fucked up the US tax code is, other than the sole legislative body with the Constitutional authority to fix it?
Why are you so adamant to let the Congress, who has been derelict of duty for some time now on the issue of tax reform, off the hook? They are the only ones that can make tax law at the Federal level, they are the only ones that have ever had the power to do so, and without repealing or amending Article I, Section 7 they will be the only ones that can.
Don't like Apple's (and Google's, and many other corporations) tax strategies? Write your fucking representative in Congress.
So you're now claiming that Tim Cook perjured himself in front of Congress when he testified that Apple pays US taxes?
I know, it's shocking that someone might try to minimize their tax liability; I'm sure you pay a bunch of unnecessary taxes and don't bother with any deductions when you file. Wait, you do? Why the double standard?
Oh look, someone's being an Internet tough guy and using super cool words like "butthurt" and without offering any actual value to the conversation.
You can always open the door...
Yeah, because using rockets that cost several hundred million dollars to put a couple tons of what is mostly reusable fuel into the sun is absolutely going to be cheaper than storing it underground.
I'm really hoping you were joking.
Good thing you are not one of those people, because you don't appear to be very informed at all.
The executive order killing the construction and operation of the research facilities for breeder reactors was rescinded without reinstating the budget for them. We might as well have said "it's now fully legal to flap your arms and fly to the moon" by executive order, because both were as likely to happen without funding.
Also, all plutonium isotopes are not created equal as far as weapons use goes, and there is no method to separate the one isotope you want for weapons from the others that you don't. This is why we have monitoring systems and such that the UN uses to make sure everyone is in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Because as it turns out, if you use a PWR to create power, and actually use the fuel load economically, you don't make weapons grade material. If you shut the place down after 6 months and swap fuel in the most costly manner possible, you get weapons grade plutonium inside of a whole lot of other shit you don't want (trans-uranic elements that are amazingly deadly).
However, those spontaneously fissile plutonium isotopes that ruin a bomb still work really good in a reactor, so breeding plutonium that has a higher percentage of Pu-240 and Pu-241 isn't a problem for that use.
Not discounting the other things you said, but why invent a robot to move laundry between a washer and dryer, when you can just get one unit that does both without inter-unit movement?
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There's already a solution for that, and it even saves space.