Ok, you lost me; when you said do more to kill the disk you were not talking about killing the disk? Or are you implying something clever with your alternative spelling?
Okay... do you understand the difference between slowing down and stopping?
If I wanted to appear smart, I would correct you a second time on the use of disk...used to describe things you throw, like frisbees and CDs.
CD's?
Another word for disc is 'platter'. And since we're talking about solid state taking over....
...due to its basic design, they're rapidly closing in on a wall, past which they cannot miniaturize it any further...
Yeah, unlike magnetic drives...
If the average consumer stops storing stuff locally, and instead migrates to the cloud, hosting companies are going to have all this data they need to store, with only modest performance requirements. The most economical way to achieve this for the foreseeable future will be disk drives.
That's an important detail, iddn't it? Another important detail is that having lots of people store their same information on the same network means serious efficiency gains can be made. And yet another important detail is that laptops are increasingly becoming primary machines, but they typically only have 1/4th the storage available to them their desktop counterparts have. We have a glut of storage today.
So does 'nail in the coffin' mean "nobody ever uses discs ever again period end of story they're completely extinct" or does it mean "not really a household item anymore, like vinyl"?
I'm guessing the answer is: "The opposite of what you intended so I can appear smart by correcting you."
So why doesn't the PC likewise suffer from drowning in shovelware?
Hahahaha!
I haven't checked on the numbers recently, but at the turn of the century a successful console game was 250k+ copies sold. On the PC is was 100k. The reason for that is there's so much crap on the PC that stores don't have the shelf space to keep them as long.
The PC has been 'drowning in shovelware' for decades.
I phrased that reallllly badly. I basically said "the level of hacking is the same" when I was thinking "the vulnerabilities leaving IT available to hacking are the same."
I'm sorry, you're right. What I said and what I meant were two different things.:/
But how is just over one third of a kilometer considered a near miss?
Because space junk is hard to detect, which makes it hard to predict its path. In other words, the debris was within their margins of error. That's why they thought it was prudent to put the astronauts into their escape pods.
That said, you're not wrong that the headline was sensationalist. Even NASA said this was never an emergency in their books. Just a precaution.
I suppose if all the crashes happened in one place at the exact same time it might overwhelm local emergency services.
Yes, you're on track. It's more than that, though. The way life already works, we have to be tolerant to the idea that people can just suddenly disappear. It's not just car crashes. Natural disasters, health problems, plain old 'shit happens'. We're prepared for it. When suddenly a large event happens, everything is thrown into a chaotic shock. That's what happened on 9-11, that's why it's more than a death toll of ~3,000.
Taken the way the poster you replied to actually meant it, however, as simply a comparison of the cumulative death, injury, and property damage of auto accidents versus the 9/11 incidents death injury and property damage, then the auto incidents are clearly worse.
They seem that way because you're filtering out important details. You can use the same rationale to say that smoking lowers the risk of alzheimer's.
If it helps to know, I've used it for years on numerous machines and never seen this behavior.
I'm not saying this to you to deny that it's happening, but rather so you have an extra information point to investigate the problem. I had a problem once with a machine locking up from time to time with a particular bit of software I was using and it turned out to be a problem with the network I was on.
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"Stopping" is the one you said...
No.
*sigh*
"IBM Creates Multi-Bit Phase Change Memory...
Another nail in the Coffin of the Hard Drive. Dad, tell us again about how you used to store your data on spinning disks....
Maybe after it comes out. In the mean time, I imagine the cloud, tablets, and smartphones are doing more to kill the disc."
So you're saying that the conversation above reads as: "the cloud etc. will bring the hard disc to a sudden and dramatic end", right?
Ok, you lost me; when you said do more to kill the disk you were not talking about killing the disk? Or are you implying something clever with your alternative spelling?
Okay... do you understand the difference between slowing down and stopping?
If I wanted to appear smart, I would correct you a second time on the use of disk...used to describe things you throw, like frisbees and CDs.
CD's?
Another word for disc is 'platter'. And since we're talking about solid state taking over....
...due to its basic design, they're rapidly closing in on a wall, past which they cannot miniaturize it any further...
Yeah, unlike magnetic drives...
If the average consumer stops storing stuff locally, and instead migrates to the cloud, hosting companies are going to have all this data they need to store, with only modest performance requirements. The most economical way to achieve this for the foreseeable future will be disk drives.
That's an important detail, iddn't it? Another important detail is that having lots of people store their same information on the same network means serious efficiency gains can be made. And yet another important detail is that laptops are increasingly becoming primary machines, but they typically only have 1/4th the storage available to them their desktop counterparts have. We have a glut of storage today.
...but then again, we were talking about "killing the disk" not "increasing sales"...
No... we're not. I said 'do more to kill the disc'.
You'll have to explain to me how consumers moving their data to the cloud will mean an increase of hard disc sales.
So does 'nail in the coffin' mean "nobody ever uses discs ever again period end of story they're completely extinct" or does it mean "not really a household item anymore, like vinyl"?
I'm guessing the answer is: "The opposite of what you intended so I can appear smart by correcting you."
Maybe after it comes out. In the mean time, I imagine the cloud, tablets, and smartphones are doing more to kill the disc.
So why doesn't the PC likewise suffer from drowning in shovelware?
Hahahaha!
I haven't checked on the numbers recently, but at the turn of the century a successful console game was 250k+ copies sold. On the PC is was 100k. The reason for that is there's so much crap on the PC that stores don't have the shelf space to keep them as long.
The PC has been 'drowning in shovelware' for decades.
There are still enough people who will fall for scams and do business with the kind of people who advertise via spam.
You don't even need that, really. You just need people with something to sell. You're right, though, that'll always be the case.
D'oh.
I phrased that reallllly badly. I basically said "the level of hacking is the same" when I was thinking "the vulnerabilities leaving IT available to hacking are the same."
I'm sorry, you're right. What I said and what I meant were two different things. :/
...but a meat battery still sounds like something good for a zombie movie
That reminds me of a nickname we had for your mom....
there is a serious issue going on lately in IT
Just for clarification: It's the reporting of it that's gone up, not the incidents of it. S'not like everybody decided to downgrade security.
Can Ubuntu Linux Consume Less Power Than Windows?
Shouldn't it already? It's not like anything in Linux is causing the 3d acceleration to kick in.
...a clever legal and technical maneuver makes it far
more difficult....
Well, when you put it like that, it makes it sound like they'll have to... innovate.
But how is just over one third of a kilometer considered a near miss?
Because space junk is hard to detect, which makes it hard to predict its path. In other words, the debris was within their margins of error. That's why they thought it was prudent to put the astronauts into their escape pods.
That said, you're not wrong that the headline was sensationalist. Even NASA said this was never an emergency in their books. Just a precaution.
I suppose if all the crashes happened in one place at the exact same time it might overwhelm local emergency services.
Yes, you're on track. It's more than that, though. The way life already works, we have to be tolerant to the idea that people can just suddenly disappear. It's not just car crashes. Natural disasters, health problems, plain old 'shit happens'. We're prepared for it. When suddenly a large event happens, everything is thrown into a chaotic shock. That's what happened on 9-11, that's why it's more than a death toll of ~3,000.
Taken the way the poster you replied to actually meant it, however, as simply a comparison of the cumulative death, injury, and property damage of auto accidents versus the 9/11 incidents death injury and property damage, then the auto incidents are clearly worse.
They seem that way because you're filtering out important details. You can use the same rationale to say that smoking lowers the risk of alzheimer's.
No, I'm saying they are more significant.
You're already posting at +2, why are you karma whoring now?
Firefox came from Mozilla which came from Netscape which came from "NOT MICROSOFT!". That created a lot of early support.
That and Slashdot mentioning Firefox/Mozilla as often as it mentions Apple today.
Fusion drives allow travel at 4 parsecs per turn and ion drives at 6.
Put the research into increasing our population, then you can get a 10 parsec drive and get just as far in as many turns.
The last releases haven't been all that, sure it's still a great browser but it doesn't really pack anything unique anymore.
Uh, yeah, I use both Opera and Chrome and .. no, that is not true. Chrome's UI has a lot of catching up to do.
Op-what, now? Is that some sort of web browser or something?
It's a browser with the features FireFox will have in a year or so.
Whoever intercepts the phone calls, and decides which calls to put on wikileaks and which to hide.
Wouldn't that discourage a bunch of bad behaviour?
Why not, we still get Linux news here.
If it helps to know, I've used it for years on numerous machines and never seen this behavior.
I'm not saying this to you to deny that it's happening, but rather so you have an extra information point to investigate the problem. I had a problem once with a machine locking up from time to time with a particular bit of software I was using and it turned out to be a problem with the network I was on.