The question is does this partnership hinge on the exclusion of better solutions and technologies... If not who cares if it does then we have a problem.

SCSI over USB isn't exactly all that new its been in Linux since 2012, windows since version Win8 and Mac OS since 10.8. I definitly heard about it back in 2012 maybe even in 2011.

Eh... I want to read the sequels to Count to a Trillion. Its a pretty far out there SciFi but it read quickly and kept me interested.

One of my favorite SciFi novels is The Excalibur Alternative which happens to be a free baen ebook... I want a sequel to that so bad.

Ender's game was pretty entertaining as well but I don't really have any desire to read the shadow series of it.... since it occurs chronologically at the same time as the rest of the stories I just feel it is rather pointless though I could be wrong.

Well, I hope you recover from nonfinishitis soon.. and whatever you do do not read the Hot Zone (This is the one that triggered ny nonfinishitis).

Yep that trick totally evaded me... I don't doubt that would work fine though.

Now.. what about if it had to be connected to the internet to validate the installation at startup >:W

And the server had to give it's response in a reasonable amount of time ie 100ms and you couldn't fake it on the PC due to encryption. Now I don't doubt that could be broken but it would be a tad harder at least perhaps ... maybe :D

Just detect if CPU performance is above a certain threshold.... Bochs is slow dead slow as is anything else that emulates adequately enough to make this vector of attach relevant even FPU x86 cpus are at 486 performance levels these days.

Nah... its totally pro bono islamico!

It probably is capable... when it is running Windows :D .... seriously though they may have certified it with a different OS.

I don't really care what OS it was certified with as long as it can read and write the blocks correctly on an SDXC device... and noone should really care about ExFAT its just anohter MS lock in file system.

An SDXC card is a block device.... ExFAT is a filesystem which can be accessed with this open source code https://code.google.com/p/exfat/.

Sure the spec may specify it but that doesn't mean you can't use something else. I am fairly sure Richard Stallman's camera doesn't use ExFAT and probably has the resolution of a potato making the need for SDXC moot anyway since the file sizes won't be very large at all!

And of course you can format an SD card with ext2.... you can even parition the card for smaller FSs if the card size exceeds the max FS size for the given FS.

Urquan-Masters...literally is Star Control 2. They even upgraded it some I think in the sound department...

Now if you mean new material in the style with with the level of cooky inspired awesomeness that is SC2 then yes... totally yes :D

There is pretty good hard data that says.. HTML rendering is embarrassingly parallel... thus Mozilla is working on Servo.

That is 99% of computer use right there... parallel is here to stay and knowing the web it will get vastly more parallel once a browser engine is out there that can do it.

I did read it... but he did say 4 cores is enough for most people and I refuted that.

Even though largely in the context of his rant... he is correct. That single statement is rather horrendous.

1 core even is "enough" for most tasks... however it doesn't give the best experience no one wants to wait on thier computer more than necessary.

It already is wrong...

Linux Workstation: 16cores = way faster builds than 4 cores.
CAD workstation: I imagine alot of geometry processing is parallelized... the less waiting the better (either format conversion or generating demo videos etc.. eat up alot of CPU)
Video workstation: Thats just a blatantly obvious use for multiple cores...
Linux HTPC: I wanna transcode stuff fast... more cores
Linux Gaming: These days using at least 4 cores is getting more common...

Things that I often seen that are *broken* for instance 200Mb work documents that hang the entire system when you scroll (yes windows thats bad). Linux isn't much better though disk IO starvation is a long time pet peeve there... 4 cores is the wrong place to draw the line currently maybe 6-8 cores + improved disk IO would be a realistic ideal these days.

Granted alot of programs will *ought* to run just fine on my Sparcstation LX @ 50Mhz and 128Mb ram... but that isn't the future unless we have a nuclear apocalypse. Also, there is a good chance that alot of my cores will sit ide even so power management is better than it used to be and more cores can improve latency because now I have more available CPU time even though the individual cores are probably slower. Overall thats is a good tradeoff.

It was a pretty cool episode... gives you better background on Travis since he grew up on those ships..

Why in the sky was there even an ISS in the first place ?

It rhyms even ... I'm sure someone else can even improve on it lol

I believe that was very very much the case when I entered college a few years ago... but once I hit the job market it was more like %70 .Net and the rest were a mix with Java holding a big chunk of the remainder at the top and Python rising in usage.

I like to keep my options open though... and Java is the clear choice for a multiplatform language. I live within driving distance of a banking center and a few research areas as well as the automotive industry so its not like I didn't have a selection. Obviously you get more options if you have more experience than just a college degree. But other options were limited to replacing people that have left companies/gotten hit by buses etc.. I really don't see java being in the growth part of the equation at best Oracle is squeezing the life out of it bit by bit.