Did you read his filing (linked in TFA?) Man, what a rant. Delusional. Sounds to me like we'll hear he has Alzheimer's or some such in a few years. And calling the judge dumb might not be such a good idea either. At least he didn't say "dumb cow.":)
Soon, if not already, biotech will be able to create genetically modified humans. But it will take a century or so to tell if a given mod was an improvement. It's going to be a very slow development cycle.
Unless you can run billions of mods in parallel. It's called evolution, but the fitness function will have novel components like genetic or physical mods, just like it has today with inputs that have nothing to do with physical fitness, e.g. social or economic status.
Why on earth would they have their servers set up to automatically commit serious crimes just because a server was public and then restricted access? Their servers became self-aware on August 29, 1997.
Yup, but then you'll have N-1 times the capacity and N times the cost, space and power consumption of one SSD. That's more than I want in my laptop. Current SSDs have (wild guess) between 8 and 32 Flash chips, so adding one wouldn't drive the cost up much and you'd have a much more reliable drive. And as long as the RAID stays intact you can do data recovery if the drive breaks.
There are several SSDs with >100MB/s transfer rate available today, the transfer rate will go up with Moore's law too (as opposed to hard drive transfer rates) and there are architectural possibilities too (running more chips in parallel.) And those hard drive transfer rates are only applicable when you do linear transfers, as everybody with a fragmented drive found out the hard way. As opposed to SSDs, where it doesn't matter because of zero seek time. Finally, the interface has nothing to do with the recording technology. SSDs and HDs use the same interfaces.
Reliability isn't driven by technology, it's driven by cost and customer expectations. I worked with disk drives for years, and the main reason why drives would fail were cheap components (motors, bearings, heads...) and short time-to-market. It would be easy to make more reliable disk drives at slightly higher cost and slightly reduced performance, but if it will be totally obsolete in 3 years, why bother to make it last longer? And 1 to 3% AFR are accepted in the industry so nobody wants to pay more for a more reliable drive. What I like about SSDs is that you have multiple chips and only the interface is a single point of failure. So, it shouldn't be cost prohibitive to do RAID 5 inside the drive between multiple banks of Flash.
The SSD from Seagate is a total "Me Too!" product. So? They have lots of experience with the interface, firmware, low cost production, the market etc. Replacing rotating platters with Flash is easy. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be shopping for a Flash supplier or at least a cooperation right now.
Actually there are reasons why SSDs may catch up to rotating disks:
1. Rotating disks get closer to physical limits and designers are planning for some big technology changes that will have an effect on cost. Check out Mark Kryder's video presentation on future disk technologies at CMU (I don't have the URL handy.)
2. SSD technology can go up with Moore's law for the foreseeable future.
3. We're getting to the point where SSDs reach practical sizes. I don't need 1TB in my laptop - I could live with 64GB quite well (I only have 120GB right now.) So, in a year or two I can probably get an SSD for my typical usage pattern at a decent price. At that point the volume for SSDs will grow dramatically and rotating disks will be used mostly for very large capacity and/or very low $/GB. Less profitable => fewer engineering dollars => slower density growth. Just what happened to tape a decade ago.
There's already over a brazilian people in India. That's brazillion, or braza-people (as opposed to "brabi", which would be the binary variant.) Learn your SI prefixes, dammit!
the first bullet point in your link explains it: "Only Linux distribution recommended by Microsoft and SAP" Translation: if(you.suit()) {
buy(); } else {
run_like_hell(); }
So, while outlawing real kiddie porn is understandable to avoid children being used to produce the material, outlawing computer-generated images makes no sense at all: it won't lessen paedophiles' drives and it won't prevent "would be" paedophiles from becoming real ones. It may actually be counterproductive. There's plenty of data from the 70s showing that the incidence of rapes went down when porn flicks became legal and available. Makes a lot of sense obviously - if you got your rocks off watching porn, there's no need to go out and seek out women. The same thing should apply for a pedo .
What kind of horrible, horrible update scheme will Adobe come up with to try to combat this?! The thoughts are too terrible to imagine... Can't be worse than Apple's Quicktime updater.
That's actually a valid point. Since western society moved from 8+ to 1.7 children per couple, the main investment is in raising the kid (education etc.) Having a kid (or not) in the first place isn't the big deal, since child mortality isn't a big selector and pregnancy isn't a life threatening condition any more.
Eugenics is the process of sterilizing "lesser" peoples No. Eugenics is any attempt at improving genetic quality in humans. What you're referring to is only the "bad rap" part.
That's not eugenics... That's just genetic screening. Yes it is. Go look it up.
Actually vitamin D deficiency is a major problem for dark skinned people at higher latitudes because it is made in the skin from cholesterol under UV radiation. That is more of a problem evolution-wise than skin cancer because it can cause development problems in children, while skin cancer usually happens later in life. There's a reason why 100% of people at higher latitudes lost their skin pigmentation.
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Actually this should be only an issue on cable. I'd be surprised if the network behind a DSLAM was asymmetric in any way.
But Barstow has a McDonald's in train cars! Don't tell me they're lacking in public transportation.
Don a goatse? You're sick.
You forgot the segment adder bug in the 286 that gave us the beauty of GateA20.
Yes, it's a POC. I coded 8086 through 386 assembler for years. Ugh.
I wonder why that is? Smoking pot prevents RSI?
Did you read his filing (linked in TFA?) :)
Man, what a rant. Delusional. Sounds to me like we'll hear he has Alzheimer's or some such in a few years.
And calling the judge dumb might not be such a good idea either. At least he didn't say "dumb cow."
What's the European Space Agency got to do with gaming?
Go check out the pics.
"Cleft Asunder
Only four screws separated me from the inside of the 100, which splits conveniently into two sections."
Unless you can run billions of mods in parallel.Soon, if not already, biotech will be able to create genetically modified humans. But it will take a century or so to tell if a given mod was an improvement. It's going to be a very slow development cycle.
It's called evolution, but the fitness function will have novel components like genetic or physical mods, just like it has today with inputs that have nothing to do with physical fitness, e.g. social or economic status.
You can simplify that:
- Microsoft does/announces anything
- Slashdot posts article complaining
Apparently an SSD will be part of Centrino 2: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/23/intel-bundle-ssds-centrino
Yup, but then you'll have N-1 times the capacity and N times the cost, space and power consumption of one SSD. That's more than I want in my laptop.
Current SSDs have (wild guess) between 8 and 32 Flash chips, so adding one wouldn't drive the cost up much and you'd have a much more reliable drive.
And as long as the RAID stays intact you can do data recovery if the drive breaks.
P.S. I found the Mark Kryder video about magnetic recording technology (1 hour 22 minutes):
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/seminar/2007/fall/kryder_11_29_07.asx
There are several SSDs with >100MB/s transfer rate available today, the transfer rate will go up with Moore's law too (as opposed to hard drive transfer rates) and there are architectural possibilities too (running more chips in parallel.) And those hard drive transfer rates are only applicable when you do linear transfers, as everybody with a fragmented drive found out the hard way. As opposed to SSDs, where it doesn't matter because of zero seek time.
Finally, the interface has nothing to do with the recording technology. SSDs and HDs use the same interfaces.
Reliability isn't driven by technology, it's driven by cost and customer expectations. I worked with disk drives for years, and the main reason why drives would fail were cheap components (motors, bearings, heads...) and short time-to-market. It would be easy to make more reliable disk drives at slightly higher cost and slightly reduced performance, but if it will be totally obsolete in 3 years, why bother to make it last longer? And 1 to 3% AFR are accepted in the industry so nobody wants to pay more for a more reliable drive.
What I like about SSDs is that you have multiple chips and only the interface is a single point of failure. So, it shouldn't be cost prohibitive to do RAID 5 inside the drive between multiple banks of Flash.
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be shopping for a Flash supplier or at least a cooperation right now.
Actually there are reasons why SSDs may catch up to rotating disks:
1. Rotating disks get closer to physical limits and designers are planning for some big technology changes that will have an effect on cost. Check out Mark Kryder's video presentation on future disk technologies at CMU (I don't have the URL handy.)
2. SSD technology can go up with Moore's law for the foreseeable future.
3. We're getting to the point where SSDs reach practical sizes. I don't need 1TB in my laptop - I could live with 64GB quite well (I only have 120GB right now.) So, in a year or two I can probably get an SSD for my typical usage pattern at a decent price. At that point the volume for SSDs will grow dramatically and rotating disks will be used mostly for very large capacity and/or very low $/GB. Less profitable => fewer engineering dollars => slower density growth. Just what happened to tape a decade ago.
Learn your SI prefixes, dammit!
if(you.suit()) {
buy();
}
else {
run_like_hell();
}
There's plenty of data from the 70s showing that the incidence of rapes went down when porn flicks became legal and available. Makes a lot of sense obviously - if you got your rocks off watching porn, there's no need to go out and seek out women. The same thing should apply for a pedo .
That's actually a valid point.
Since western society moved from 8+ to 1.7 children per couple, the main investment is in raising the kid (education etc.)
Having a kid (or not) in the first place isn't the big deal, since child mortality isn't a big selector and pregnancy isn't a life threatening condition any more.
Actually vitamin D deficiency is a major problem for dark skinned people at higher latitudes because it is made in the skin from cholesterol under UV radiation. That is more of a problem evolution-wise than skin cancer because it can cause development problems in children, while skin cancer usually happens later in life.
There's a reason why 100% of people at higher latitudes lost their skin pigmentation.