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Comment Not just the overall rate... (Score 3, Informative) 567

It's not just the overall birth rate, but also the break down of birth rate to various segments of population that matters.

The linked article displays population projection from now to 2050, broken down by segments. It also shows the education levels of each segment. What it imply is we will end up with a less educated work force moving forward unless we are doing some heavy investing now.

So, your $20 in 1969 may turn into $0 (albeit in 2050) unless we can somehow shore up "the kids these days".

Comment Re:RAID (Score 1) 405

An alternative to RAID is to get a Drobo unit (http://www.drobo.com/), fill it up with drives, and copy the data over, then remove the drives.

The advantage is that the Drobo disk set can have dual-disk redundancy, just like RAID-6, and the drives contain enough meta data that you can insert them in any order. Just make sure you have the Drobo unit in hand to read them out.

I have not had great experiences with the enterprise model (B1200i) but the consumer models (4- or 5-bay) seem to work great.

Comment Re:clock skew? (Score 1) 99

That sounds great, but at those speeds the distance traveled per tick gets *much* smaller. I see a challenge in trying to propogate(sp?) a clock signal across the chip to have things work in concert with each other. I'm more a software guy than HW so I may be missing something obvious? ISTR an article here about a year or two ago about clockless logic. Would we need something like that in order to make a modern CPU out of this tech?

tl;dr How do you keep the clock from getting skewed up?

As some point, they will probably use asynchronous signalling. Otherwise, probably 99.99% of the power consumption will be in the clock circuits.

I believe Sun was going to have some async units in their Sparc processors. Not sure what happens to them.

Comment Re:Obligatory question (Score 4, Insightful) 640

Observational science doesn't disprove ideas about origins. Those ideas can't be tested scientifically. All that can be done really is to interpret the data in the context of your preferred presuppositional research framework. That's what materialistic scientists do... that's what scientists who believe in a young universe do.

Again, this is wrong. The "Young Universe" so-called theory can easily be tested scientifically, and every bit of data says that it's false. In fact, it is for that reason it should not even be called a theory since theories are supposed to have the benefit of empirical data to back them up.

Not when the answer you get is "that is how everything is created, to give you the illusion that evolution took/is taking place."

When a person looks at a problem with a predetermined solution, evidences can simply be twisted to fit that solution.

Once you believe that there is an omnipotent being who creates everything, it's not a stretch to makes everything around you fit into his/her/its whims.

Comment Re:The future will be printed, not forged. (Score 1) 307

Actually, I remember reading something in NewScientist (??) about global consolidation, where all the (specialized) nuts and bolts in the world are made by just one or two factories, and there are no redundancies in a lot of sectors anymore because it is cheaper to consolidate specialized manufacturing into one location.

I just hope those locations are disaster proof.

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