I have heard talk of using thunderbolt or similar for server interconnects, allowing servers to become more modular. Picture a rack with a computer node (or two) connected to some storage nodes, connected to a GPU node, etc. through PCIe. My [limited] understanding is that you could essentially make one server out of a rack of gear, interconnected at a much lower level. It would theoretically be more easily made redundant or upgradable, but we'll have to see what gets developed.

I can definitely see a use for it in the server space. Aside from that, we are already using thunderbolt in media. You just can't do uncompressed 4K streams over USB.

It's relevant. "Type44Q's Blog Throttles FCC" is rather different from "Google Throttles FCC".

Ahh thank you for the extra information, that does make sense. I actually want remote start for summers as well, but I've dealt with harsh winters in the past.

Did you agree to a contract of that rate for, say, 24 months that you can't cancel at any time? I doubt it, and hope not. You can almost always cancel without penalty.

I don't have U-verse, but I call my cable provider once a year asking cancel, then let them talk me out of it and offer me a better deal.

I agree on breadth vs. depth, but I think you're unfairly categorizing "education" as breadth. While undergrad is about broad knowledge, grad school is about specialized knowledge.

A CS undergrad at a good uni is going to be studying history, religion, politics, physical sciences, math, and a wide range of CS topics. A CS grad student is going to be focused on, say, machine learning, with more closely related courses. By the time they're doctoral candidates, they should have a very deep knowledge in one particular field combined with a broad knowledge of related fields... which should allow them to go multidisciplinary or work with people from other disciplines.

I suspect you know all of this and agree, but I wanted to bring it up just in case.

I know some grad students who would beg to differ about being "enslaved".

Jokes aside, I think I agree more with globaljustin here. While I see your point and would not equate the two, there is a similarity in the humor. I'm sure there is a technical word for it...

... it really doesn't have any sort of remote start capability? I don't understand why anyone in the midwest would want one.

3%? Apple is processing credit card payments. Do you have any idea what that costs?

That really depends on what kind of storage you're using. Sure, you can do a 100 TB SuperMicro piece of junk for $15k, filled with desktop drives on a cracked Windows server or FreeNAS. But if you want something reliable, you're going to pay a lot more than $0.035/GB.

On top of that, tape is far easier and cheaper to do off-site. Any quality solution will let you write out 2 copies of each tape so you can send one to Iron Mountain or similar. If you want off-site with disk, you need a second server, second network infrastructure, good links between the two, and good software. rsync is a wonderful tool, but it doesn't cut it for this.

So the smart murderers become judges while the dumb ones go to jail?

I could be wrong, but I think the judge used to be present for executions? I'd be curious about this, but I don't think it would actually deter anyone from using the death penalty. People can be pretty callous once they start judging people.

I endorsed this idea before I started opposing the death penalty. The problem I see is that this approach assumes the convict is sane or rational. I would guess that the average death row inmate has rather poor decision making skills (or, in Texas, has serious mental disabilities).

It's not humane just because someone chooses to be eaten by lions. I'm not even sure if it would be humane if they were laughing during.

By "vote with a vengeance" I meant "have a very high turnout rate". And yes, it has everything to do with old people. You think it's a coincidence that older folks tend to be conservative? That many [mis]remember the past with fondness and want to maintain or revert the status quo?

That's the point. Older folks vote with a vengeance. American politics are bad now, but imagine if Confederates were still a large voting bloc. If society is to continue to progress, Methuselah can't be allowed to vote.

Sure, just as soon as the government can raise rates as easily as Time Warner does.

I do wonder what the outcome would be if they ripped every single track from the users' CDs and uploaded them to private storage on a server with block level deduplication. Would file level deduplication be a problem, while block level was allowed?