This would be different as it's a somewhat neglected service for the sake of vague parity with Apple.. If Siri or Cortana started making inroads on *Android* devices, Google would take it pretty seriously and would rapidly relegate third-party solutions to obscurity in short order. This isn't like Wave or Reader or Google code, some exploration of a different market to determine viability, this is directly related to their core business of search.

Yes, swapping is better on a SSD. But, it is MUCH MUCH better to not swap at all. That is my point. If you have to have swap, you are better off just buying more RAM.

Okay, those numbers that you quoted are very arbitrary, I'd like to see anything to back that up.

SATA revision 3.0 = 6 Gbit/s

DDR3 - 1600 = 12800 MB/s
"MB" = Mega-BYTES, so multiply by 8 for bits/seconds
DDR3 - 1600 = 102400 Mbits/s
DDR3 - 1600 = 102.400 Gbits/s

So, the peak bandwidth is about 17 times faster!

Now, let's look at latency.
Typical DDR RAM latency is around 10 ns (give or take, but that is an average number)
Typical SSD latency is around 0.1 us, which is around 100 ns. About ten times more.

One more thing here about these numbers.... An SSD is **NOT** RAM. If you page, you have to get the data FROM the SSD and put it INTO your RAM. From there, the RAM must be read again. So, even IF your SSD were exactly the same speed as your RAM, it will still be slower because it must be copied into RAM first before it can be used.

As to whether it is unreasonable, that depends. It will not cost much to try, but still a rather bad idea if you do a LOT of swapping.

Ummmmm. Solid state drives don't actually HAVE heads. RTFA (actually read the first article in the series). The Intel drive counts the bytes written. When it reaches it's limit, boom. It goes read-only, but only until the next reboot. Then, it goes dead.

This happens NO MATTER WHAT the state of the spare sectors are.

What pisses me off is that the Intel drive suicided. OK, I can understand that they track writes and shut it down once confidence goes down. I get that. However, the drive should be read-only after that!

If I had a drive that still held my perfect, pristine data, but I could not actually get to it, I would be pissed. What is wrong with going into a read-only mode?

So does this mean I can use my SSD as a swap drive now? Seriously, that would be awesome. Lots of times I go over the 16 gigs of RAM I have while editing 3D models and the second it starts to swap to disk it's painful.

Being an AC, I would chalk this up to a joke or trolling. But.... on the off chance that you are serious, I will bite.

Yes, you COULD use an SSD as swap, but it will not help THAT much. An SSD is much faster than a mechanical disk, but still a couple of orders of magnitude slower than real RAM. That upgrade would be like the difference between jogging with 50 pounds on your back, and then lowering it to 35 pounds. Yes, it will make a difference and make things better, but how much better to have no weight at all?

Just get more RAM. If your system cannot hold more RAM, then get a new mobo. If you regularly go over 16 GB of actual RAM in use, even going to a slower processor will be an improvement if you stop swapping. Hitting the swap file is a great way to make a fast processor do nothing for a while.

The system did not work, the warrant should have never been issued it was a fishing expedition wrapped up in "science". To start the used a commercial DNA database aka someplace that sucker innocents into submitting DNA samples (ancestry.com) for genealogical purposes with promises of anonymity and control. The first warrant broke that anonymity and led to the guys father even though they knew he was not a suspect. They then got a warrant to forcibly sample the son with the extra info of apparently he had friends on facebook near the crime and directed horror flicks.

So the first person they invaded the privacy of, they knew had no connection to the crime and based on a commercial database that was created under false pretenses. They then forced a person to submit DNA (that will stay in the system forever). This was all fishing with no evidence.

If this is left to stand sooner or later the police will be able to match everybodys DNA as sequencing is becoming the norm. Companies like Quest Diag etc will put some clause 13 pages into a form you have to sign to get a lab test done saying it's ok for them to sell your sequence anonymously. Then a partial match is grounds enough to get a warrant to break that anonymity without giving the persona a chance to fight it.

Sure the genie is out of the bottle our DNA is becoming easier to sequence and we know more and more by looking at that sequence. This has important medical benefits. Would you be ok with the police being able to search everybody's medical records looking for a white male with a cleft palate since they had a suspect with that medical condition. We need to keep the bar far higher for the police to access medical records.

Sure if you live someplace with a cost of living similar to India. Rent a coder etc have always been a race to the bottom with piles of overhead.

Disagreeing with a law is never moot, this is exactly the sort of things jurors can choose to refuse to convict on, in effect society's power to pardon the wrongly accused.

We are making laws to get politicians elected, this does not make our society better. It's why we have the second highest percentage of people in jail in the world (with only a tiny island nation of 90k higher than us). People seem to forget we need the minimum amount of laws for us to live reasonably happily together not a special snowflake law for everything that might piss us off.

I see resume's for people with less than 5 years experience with "expert" level knowledge in 200+ things. Meaning that they saw it once.

It really seems that it's the HR departments that are using this stuff as checkbox gatekeepers. In a perfect world I want to see some of your code but thats nearly always locked up under contracts. But as long as the list of checkboxes gets longer so does the list of lies.

Hate speech laws are broken as they make nonviolent speech a crime. They do not require that it was intended to cause panic (the classic shouting fire in a crowded theater) or instruct others to do harm. It makes a crime of failing to use PC speech.

In your example neither should be more than defacing public property.

... required asking a stranger to hold and click your camera while you posed.

Of course, you always got a crappy photo that way, because everyone always thought you primarily wanted a photo of yourself, instead of a photo of something interesting that just happens to have you in the picture...

And thus you demonstrate why hate speech laws are broken by design. I dont have to like it but people have the right to be idiots and assholes, until they do something tangible.

Just as a safe, they are free to use whatever means they can to access it.

Compelling a person to give them information that would incriminate them, hurt there reputation or put them / others in harm is broken. If a law says you have to it's still broken and morally wrong and thus should not be followed.

Problems how often and how sever are a design issue. In current Gen IV you have GFR's that use helium as a coolant, it floats and is unable to stay radioactive for long, Compare to a Gen II with water it stays radioactive for a long time. Gen IV plants can use previous gens waste as fuel, some of the design are fairly proliferation resistant and that is a HUGE issue with helping the third world skip the industrial use of fossil fuels for power and heat.

The point is we got stuck on gen II plants, Gen III has come and gone and were just starting to see ground broke on gen IV plants.

Insurance is about the hype, fact is you get more exposure being downwind from a coal plant sure people are scared but thats because others told them to be.