yea I noticed the extra 12 minutes of tv show time while watching Daredevil on netflix.

The episodes seem just that much longer.

No, the Flash isn't the bottlneck. The problem is now the CPU processing the data coming off of the flash. If you have storage constrained tasks these drives are 3-4x faster than other SSDs. But loading a game mostly involves decompressing thousands of compressed textures. Your HDD doesn't help with that task.

Sooo true. My first car was a 1976 Buick Century with 231 cc V6 engine, normally aspirated. The engine wasn't half-bad -- this was before emissions controls other than a PCV, EGR and catalytic converters so it *was* simple to work on -- but in every other respect it was dreadful by modern standards. 105 horsepower to move 3800+ pounds equals 0-60 in 17 seconds and 15 miles to the gallon, baby.

But aside from power to weight ratios, the thing which really sucked about old cars was the suspension and handling. Every time I see a car chase in a movie from the 1970s I laugh because I *remember* driving cars like that. By modern standards they cornered like inebriated hippos on roller skates.

So, your average software developer. Which explains a lot about why software quality sucks so much. (and then someone writes six code analysis tools and ten testing tools to at least catch the shit before it hits the fan).

Same reason that fascism and communism are unlikely to win any elections anytime soon - the name has been tainted by a horrible first version, even if you came up with a perfect current version, nobody would believe it.

Just for future reference, if you find yourself in a position of authority and someone comes to you with a solution to your pressing problem, and he doesn't know exactly what the solution is or how to make it happen, but he knows exactly how much it costs? You throw that guy out on the street, because that guy is at best a con artist, at worst utterly clueless. (Yes, in that order.)

Exactly. What makes something bad is that the downsides aren't worth the benefits, not that there are no benefits. I mean, beating up people is great exercise...

If the business was closed, then what was the harm in her parking there? None. There's no harm in me parking in your driveway when I'm not there either.

Did the business complain, or did the towing company take her car on their own initiative? Usually businesses sign contracts to allow the towing companies to patrol their lots and tow violators.

Is there any regulatory limit on how much a towing company can demand from car owners? Yes, in most jurisdictions.

Does the business get a kickback, for their participation in this extortion racket? Why would they? They get their lots patrolled for free -- that's their kickback.

That's actually the point. Warm temperatures and near constant sunlight = high productivity - if you import water. Ag in California takes up 80% of the water, but ag + mining together is only 2% of the economy. It's fine when water is abundant, but when it's in short supply, ag has to give.

Particular to the antisemitism of the Nazis, one can look at the need to find a villain, some group that they could hold responsible for their economic depression (largely the result of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles) that did not require that they question their Germanic superiority.

See any Slashdot article about H1Bs to see the phenomenon in action.

The other problem is that poor students need more spending that isn't being provided outside of school by the parents so more of the money goes to covering basic needs and less goes to whizbang features like fancy new computer labs. If your school had no need for free breakfast and lunch then you would have another $1,500 per pupil available to buy them a brand new laptop *every year* and a subscription to a programming class. Or it could pay for a full chemistry lab set.

Then you get into social issues that generally come from poverty and you have to spend even more on social workers and discipline. And since wealthy families can afford enriching out-of-school programs the school also has to spend more on tutoring and enrichment programs which cost even more.

So we can't even just level the spending across all schools and call it done--we also have to recognize the extra needs that low income schools face and provide even more. It's easy to teach a kid who shows up well fed from a low-stress home and can focus on school and then goes back home to an environment where both parents are highly educated mentors who can provide an information rich environment.

That same lot and house 10 miles from Boston $500k. 25 miles from Boston $300k

yet we expect people in such cities to survive on minimum wage so we can get our morning Starbucks.

I think his argument is that he's advertising that he will prevent false positives, not that he will suppress actual positives. That's little different than advertising that you can help prevent audits -- by making sure the forms are filled out correctly.

Well yes and no. Overcurrent failures are not caused by receiving too much power, but rather by drawing more power than the wiring is capable of handling.

There's always orders of magnitude more power available on the grid than could safely be pulled through your house's wiring. However, your wires don't burn up because the actual current draw through those wires is always much less than they can handle, just like that filament I described, through which the current draw is near zero because the air has very high resistance and thus sinks very little current. Each house has breakers or fuses to ensure that you never draw more than the wires can handle (or at least not for a long enough period of time to damage the wires).

In a similar way, if solar panels on the roof are producing more power on the roof than is needed by all of the consumers, that typically shouldn't be a problem. It only becomes a problem when someone consumes that power through a circuit path that wasn't designed to handle it or when it causes mechanical generators to go berserk in some way.

And power flowing through an insufficient circuit path means that either the solar panels are allowed to produce more current than the house wiring was rated for (which should result in fines for the installer that put in the oversized master breaker without getting the line upgraded) or the feeder line into the neighborhood is actually too small to handle the all of the houses using their maximum current rating at the same time (in which case the system was designed dangerously to begin with, and the power company just got lucky before). Either way, the problem isn't specific to solar power generation being present.

If people didn't pay for it, it wouldn't exist. I'm not talking about any specific game, but the pay-to-play/pay-to-win trend itself. People have shown that they're willing to pay to overcome obstacles -- even obstacles that exist solely to get them to pay, which would be extortion in any other context. The only way to eliminate extortion is to ban it, otherwise it's really damned effective.