Comment Re:.50 WHAT? (Score 1) 127
Yeah, I got a similar price on a 256GB drive back in June/July.
Yeah, I got a similar price on a 256GB drive back in June/July.
I'm more irritated by the bringing price down-part of that sentence. SSD:s are already about $0.55 per GiB and have been at that price point for several months.
I hope the $0.55 price will turn out to be more like $.40 once production is in full swing.
Nah. It's in your interest to stay as much off the radar of the Dear Leader and his buddies radar as possible. The second one of them perceives you as a threat you and your family is up for disappearance.
They will go to great lengths to treat famous people well, because you can't disappear those discretely. Random nerds, not so much. One of these elite hackers will be killed the second the leaders perceive that person as a threat.
Maybe there'll be a conservative version too...
Google Search: gay marriage
Did you mean "may marriage"?
Google Search: abortion
Did you mean "adoption"?
Google Search: the big bang
Showing results for "Genesis 1":
I hear that most fields use metric, but some really high-paying ones like petroleum engineering use imperial units. Should I focus my studies on imperial units if I want to make more money?
Whether you use metric or Imperial measurements is really a minor side issue.
The important thing is that you use a good steel ruler and compasses. None of that plastic crap.
Actually, what I think have the "suits" excited is the ability to things like identify what's in your refrigerator at any given time so they can send targeted ads to your (tracked) mobile device to buy crap you don't want while you're buying stuff you need. And to monitor your video/audio consumption habits for similar reasons (seamless ad insertion, product placements, etc., etc.).
When anything and everything can send data to the Internet, who do you think will be receiving such data?
That is mainly a problem if you sign up to get something for free. I don't expect that a company that makes 50 bucks net profit off of a fridge is going to risk their reputation in order to make a tiny bit more money by selling my data.
I'm more worried that the NSA would hack into an accelerometer intended to detect vibrations of the compressor and use it as a microphone to spy on my kitchen.
When I hear "Internet of Things", I think, "Twitter Enabled Refrigerator"
It's that too, but that's not what the (more serious) suits are excited about. The suits are typically excited about increasing profits for stuff that already exists, or about new business to business inventions.
Imagine for instance connecting everything in a factory in such a way that you can sit at a screen in a control room and detect or predict problems ahead of time. You could also have a risk function that quantifies risk. Sensors might for instance detect weak but unusual vibrations in a machine. Other sensors might detect that you only have spares in stock for one repair of that machine. The risk function has a model of how the factory works and the model shows that the machine is vital and that production will be significantly reduced if it breaks down, which means that you're looking at a fairly high economic risk. The system could then suggest potential fixes, like stocking up on more spares, or running the machine more slowly until the next scheduled maintenance.
I think this sort of setup is already in place in many factories, but it will get more common and more advanced in the future.
Yeah and there were virtual machines talking to other virtual machines and abstracting away resources long before anyone thought of the word "cloud".
Simple shorthands like "cloud" or "internet of things" are needed because the suit-wearing people who decide where money gets allocated often prefer fuzzy thinking.
It's a bit worse than that. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that you are not allowed by the laws of physics to simultaneously know all the initial conditions with arbitrarily high precision.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome Klapka Jerome