No current DisplayPort standard supports two 4k monitors at 60Hz with a single output. The latest DisplayPort 1.2 will drive a single screen at 3840x2160@60Hz, but current monitors use multi-stream transport (MST) to do so which means the video card sees it as two separate monitors which then must be tiled together - this tends to expose driver bugs. DisplayPort 1.3 will increase the bandwidth but I don't think it has been finalized yet, nor is any hardware available.

Back when the hot girl only sits behind the nerd when she needs to cheat off my exam, and me, being all too eager to comply because girls just never gave me the time of day.

Seriously, the IT field is getting flooded with the "bullying" types, from both the bros and the hos that claim to hate them. Traditionally, engineering and the bookish, eager to work with one another and do cool shit, we're now infiltrated by assholes and douchebags of both sexes taking advantage of those who are less socially integrated. You can't go a day without reading about some Silicon Valley "magnate" who wouldn't rate a 3 on a 10 point geekscale making some bone-headed, wrong-sided statement, and then the 15 articles about how Silicon Valley is some sort of boys club written by people who couldn't spell Javascript, much less write any.

And we've let them. Geeks, long the whipping boy of the popular, buying into this whole alpha male bullshit. Jesus fucking christ, guys, your Silicon Valley heroes? They're *salesmen*, not geeks. Wolves in sheep's clothing. They talk the talk, because that's what they're good at. Give them an editor and what do they produce?

They're preying upon you (us). They want you to doubt yourself because that's what you do best. Your insecurity is their lock on you, whether that be "come on bro, are you cool enough to hang with the jocks?" or the "come on, geek, I'm pretty, I bat my eyelids and you go fetch." Think for yourselves.

The IBM T220 was announced in 2001 and had a 3840x2400 resolution, effectively what marketing now calls "4k" plus a little bit extra vertical space. It was limited to 41Hz refresh, though its replacement the T221 a year or two later increased that to 48Hz (and the last model can be overclocked to 55Hz or so). Sadly there were then the monitor Dark Ages when the T221 was discontinued and the world seemed to regress to crappy resolutions like 1440x900. You're right that 2010 was the time things started to look up again, and 8k has been demonstrated as a prototype. 5 years sounds about right; the difficulty with an 8k monitor is not so much the panel (high-dpi panels exist already, and could be cut to a larger size like 30 inches) but driving it. With the current DisplayPort spec several independent cables would be needed to drive 8k at 60Hz.

Yeah, I wish that there were better alternatives to the normal way of scrolling. Even at 60Hz refresh (and with pretty big font sizes on a 180dpi screen) it is not exactly easy on the eyes to read text as it scrolls. I like the old school way of hitting Space (or PgDn) to move down one screenful. But then you can lose track of where you were in the text. I'd like to see a horizontal red line showing the previous start of the screen, which would fade away over a second or two.

Have you tried 30Hz? It really isn't a big deal for text-based applications like programming and web browsing. Sure 60Hz refresh is nice; it gives you warm fuzzies to know that you're getting a fast refresh rate, and things just generally look cuter and more Apple-commercial-like if the screen refresh is smooth. But it's a hard case to make that it really has an impact on productivity for real work. I'm using Dell UP2414Qs at the moment, and the 60Hz refresh is great (tip: set the colour management to Game mode to eliminate input lag). But before then I used T221s at 24Hz and that was fine too for emacs and web browsing. I've even used a T221 at 12Hz and while I can't say it was the most comfortable setup, it got the job done.

I've been considering one of these bad boys for awhile now. Cheap and for what I intend to use it for (software dev and video editing where the 30Hz refresh isn't a big deal), good enough. It's not something I'd use for gaming, at least at 4K, but hey... $500.

You compared A 128GB drive to an 8GB drive. That's likely your problem.

Flash is inherently parallel, which means that the more chips you have, the more bandwidth the controller can extract. USB 3 versus USB 2 is of no concern if you can't even squeeze enough bandwidth from the flash chips to saturate the interface.

There is also the quality of the controller that could affect things. USB 3 flash controllers come in all sorts of different specifications: you can have something that barely exceeds the speeds of USB 2, or a slightly more expensive controller that has fast block reads but poor small file performance and slow writes, or you can pay a premium price for all-around excellent performance. This is the same thing you saw in USB 2 land, and also quite clearly seen in the SATA SSD world, so why would you expect anything less in USB 3 land? You bought a bunch of low-end "USB 3" labeled parts, and you probably got exactly what you paid for.

This happens in every industry, because there's a different set of requirements for every purchase, and an OEM ticking all the right boxes at the right price gets the sale, so they make sure to have lots of different options. Don't blame Kingston because you were shopping for crap and received crap.

This is not the same as relabeling products with advertised speeds that are higher than what was delivered. THAT is bait-and-switch, which is reprehensible. That has nothing at all to do with your case, which was simply a case of you not doing your homework.

Right, but while you may well need to archive data for 30 years, that doesn't mean you need to store a particular physical tape or disk for that long. It would make more sense to store the volume for five years and then transfer the data to a new one, to take advantage of capacity increases. Your warehouse full of tapes from 30 years ago might fit in a desk drawer now. So if I wanted to back up to hard disks, I'd keep a pool of them and replace the oldest disk every year or so. Admittedly software support for this is not great - RAID implementations don't always support cobbling together a random mixture of disk sizes which change over time.

Now what if the judge gets the documents and indeed agrees that they should remain secret?

It takes special skills to program? Maybe if you are doing some rather complex operations, but in the same regard I wouldn't want to re-gear the transmission or rebuild the engine of a car while I'm perfectly capable of customizing other aspects of a vehicle. Programming is the same way, someone can be capable of doing something they want to do (run a website and manage the database; or script their everyday crap into a few lines of code) without being 'an uber hax0r' who understands OS theory at the assembly level and capable of dealing with the full range of network security threats.

Mythologizing programming is what leads to the nephew who knows a little html being assigned as the head of IT; after all that little html takes all that programming knowledge!

And since your opinion of other programmers is so low:

Even most programmers who program for a living suck at their jobs, and I don't expect someone who's not serious about it to be any better.

might I suggest that the D-K effect is in full show and, on behalf of all coders, hackers, code monkeys, keyboard jockies, and everyone who's ever touched a computer, may I ask, beg, and plead, that you to please never write another line of code again.

As noted elsewhere, Gilad Bracha is also behind Newspeak.

From the newspeak page:

And frankly, I'm down with more smalltalk/squeak languages, simply from a personal interest standpoint. I've been playing with Pharo and I'm actually happy to see this.

Also consider: Google Glass isn't banned. You just can't use it once the lights dim, just like their cellphone policy. I'm willing to bet some patrons think they're being 'slick' by using glass...

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Sorta, not really. After changing banks/credit cards because I felt the bank I was banking with was a bit too.. unethical? for my liking, a year later, my new bank was bought out by the old bank. Or a credit card I have with one bank? Gets sold to another bank that I want to avoid with a 10 foot pole.

Now, try getting a new credit card (again) and not have it hit your credit score while you try to transfer balances, etc. It's a gigantic PITA.

The thing is that mining bitcoins is not really a supercomputer task. It is an "embarassingly parallel" problem - you could get some PCs and connect them over 9600bps serial ports, and it would hardly be any different to using the fastest network to connect them together. There is not that much communication needed between the parts of the cluster. A true supercomputer usually has fast, specialized interlink hardware between the compute nodes so it can work on problems which are somewhat less parallelizable, requiring more communication between the nodes. That is why it is expensive, and expensive to hire computing time on it, and yet it doesn't perform any better at bitcoin mining than a simple-minded farm of commodity hardware. (And for bitcoin mining, either of those will be blown out of the water by specialized ASICs.)