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Comment Re:Micron is ahead (Score 1) 61

by just_common_sense on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:21PM (#50306307) Attached to: Toshiba, SanDisk Piloting 3D NAND That Doubles Previous Capacity

Yes. Samsung certainly did take the first steps into the 3D NAND world and is ahead in that regard. Still, Micron might be ahead in the labs and could leapfrog them if their "floating gate" approach is superior. It's too early for me to tell.

Comment Re:Micron is ahead (Score 1) 61

by just_common_sense on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:07PM (#50306237) Attached to: Toshiba, SanDisk Piloting 3D NAND That Doubles Previous Capacity

Individual layers in 3D NAND are not as dense as planar NAND. The density should increase as the technology matures. I also suspect that they're intentionally holding back so that they can maximize profits with incremental improvements.

Comment Micron is ahead (Score 1) 61

by just_common_sense on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:23AM (#50248987) Attached to: Toshiba, SanDisk Piloting 3D NAND That Doubles Previous Capacity

Isn't Micron a step ahead with their 384Gb NAND chip?: http://www.micron.com/about/in...

Comment Re:At one of the poles? (Score 1) 496

by just_common_sense on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:46PM (#49739941) Attached to: The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers

1 + (pi / 10) miles from the south pole? (1.314...) Neat idea. :-)

Comment Re:Either of the poles woulc cause this effect (Score 3, Informative) 496

by just_common_sense on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:43PM (#49739895) Attached to: The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers

It doesn't work because you cannot walk East or West from the South pole.

Comment Re:Either of the poles woulc cause this effect (Score 1) 496

by just_common_sense on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:41PM (#49739863) Attached to: The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers

Sorry, I was assuming you meant 1 mile from the South pole because if you were at the South pole to start, then you cannot walk South. Clearly the answer is supposed to be the North pole. (But I won't argue the "earth" part...)

Comment Re:Either of the poles woulc cause this effect (Score 1) 496

by just_common_sense on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:38PM (#49739819) Attached to: The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers

It's impossible to walk East or West when you are at one of the poles, so it cannot be the South pole.

Comment Works great (Score 1) 370

by just_common_sense on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:55PM (#47882975) Attached to: The State of ZFS On Linux

I've used ZFS on Linux for years now and it's been fantastic for my long-term storage. One 2 TB drive runs all the time and I power another one up periodically to auto-sync with the first one. That saves power and drive wear vs an always-on RAID0 setup.

Comment Start with the CEO (Score 1) 561

by just_common_sense on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @02:44AM (#47660861) Attached to: Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White

According to CEO Tim Cook, he's unhappy with Apple's diversity numbers and says Apple is working to improve them

Simple solution, Mr. Cook... Just suggest to the Apple board that they replace the CEO with a more "diverse" choice. That way you could be a good example instead of putting other people at a disadvantage because of their race or gender.

Comment Re:Dumb dumb dumb advice... (Score 1) 280

by just_common_sense on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:35PM (#47469485) Attached to: Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say

2.X requires Mono if you want to run it on Linux or OSX.

KeePassX 2.0 (only alpha releases so far) uses the 2.X database format and has a native Linux/OS X version. I'm using it myself and don't have mono installed. It does have some nuisances, though... The big one for me is that when you save the database, it changes the file's user/group. Also, I don't think there's browser support yet.

Comment Re:Disable player chat (Score 1) 704

by just_common_sense on Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:31AM (#46551035) Attached to: Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming

If you have a "phobia", that generally means you have irrational fear of something. There are plenty of things that I believe are wrong that I don't fear. The belief that smoking is wrong, for instance, doesn't at all imply fumiphobia.

Comment Re:Learned to mistrust the cloud with Steam (Score 1) 262

by just_common_sense on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @11:21AM (#45212681) Attached to: The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files

Sounds like a local problem with your computer, and not some issue with the "cloud". What OS are you running?

Comment Re:Hard drives warranty (Score 0) 512

by just_common_sense on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:37AM (#44841131) Attached to: SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5%

Make sure you have redundancy and/or backup so that you don't lose your data. Your hard drive will eventually die, so if it lives a long time that simply means that you're going to lose more stuff when it eventually does bite the rust.

Comment Re:Work is not the most important thing (Score 0) 245

by just_common_sense on Friday June 21, 2013 @04:34PM (#44073519) Attached to: Research Reveals Low Exposure of Excellent Work By Female Scientists

Well, fellow terrible person, at least you can manage to say something without drawing ire. ;-) This really isn't the best place to have a rational discussion.

Comment Re:Work is not the most important thing (Score 0) 245

by just_common_sense on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:47PM (#44073087) Attached to: Research Reveals Low Exposure of Excellent Work By Female Scientists

If it's not nature, then why is the maternal care for young children universal? Not only that, but gender roles occur throughout the animal kingdom, not just in homo sapiens. I don't think it's reasonable to hold the position that gender has zero impact here.

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