My Samsung SSD has a SMART Value of 97 (Normalized) and 30 (Raw). I've had it for about nine months 4.53 TBs to the drive. At this rate my SSD will still be working three years from now. If I get at the very least, five years out of it, then I'll be very happy.

In other words, all of this talk about how TLC NAND Flash Memory not being not durable isn't at all true. Yes, it's not as durable as MLC NAND Flash Memory but it's not like the sky is falling.

Not according to Samsung. I've done the math on how it calculates the SMART values.

The Samsung 840 Series SSD has a total of 1000 P/E Cycles.

The SMART Wear Leveling Count value has two values; the normalized value (out of 100) and the raw value (out of 1000).

So, if the raw value is 30 it means that the cells have been erased 30 times out of the total 1000 times that the SSD can endure.

The normalized value is calculated like so
FLOOR.PRECISE((1000 - X) / 10)
With X being the raw value.

So, it would be like this

(1000-30)=970
970/10=97.0

FLOOR.PRECISE(97.0)=97 -- This is your normalized value.

I have a feeling that they are watching a lot that comes out of Microsoft, Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.

Personally speaking, I think that all patents that come from Apple should be shot down but that's just my opinion. Apple is a filthy, stinking, no-good, idea-stealing, asshole of a company.

I've had good luck with two of the Samsung 840 Series SSDs that I have and my brother has had good luck with his 840 Series SSD as well. I've had better luck with the two Samsung SSDs that I had with an Intel SSD. Funny, the Samsung SSDs were cheaper than the Intel one I had but the Intel one died. Oh well.

Some people say that the reliability of the Samsung SSDs come from the fact that Samsung made the thing, the whole thing. Not just a piece of it. Samsung made the NAND, the main PCB, the controller chip, and the controller chip firmware. The whole thing was developed and manufactured in-house unlike several other SSDs that use the Sandforce SSD controller which has historically been quite a buggy piece of shit.

Maybe things have changed with the Sandforce controller but after that one Intel SSD that had the Sandforce controller in it that died on me, I won't trust a Sandforce controller-based SSD again.

Which just goes to show you, profit isn't everything. Profit is great and all, I know that but if that's all that you care about eventually you lose your way and lose the confidence of the very people who are giving you the money that makes you profitable.

Then again, that can be applied to so many other companies other than Microsoft. GM, Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, several of the large banks, etc.

I've always said that this fucked up need for more and more quarterly profits will lead to the downfall of companies. All Wall Street cares about is profit, profit, and more profit. The people on Wall Street do not give a damn about the future well being of the companies that they fuck over, when they're done fucking them over and all that's left is a dead husk of a company they'll just go onto the next company to fuck over.

This need for more and more quarterly profits needs to end and we need to get back to a economically sound long term investment strategy.

How many times have people AND the computer OEMs told Microsoft that Windows 8 and the ModernUI is absolute trash? Multiple times. You'd have to have been completely brain dead to not hear the complaints about it! But no, Ballmer must have had his fingers surgically implanted in his ears for the shouting over MetroUI was very loud yet he couldn't hear it. And now, here comes along Windows 8.1 and we have more MetroUI bullshit shoved down our throats.

GET IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING HEADS MICROSOFT! METROUI IS FUCKING GARBAGE! GET RID OF IT!

Sadly yes, they do. Unfortunately that means this is going to go nowhere fast.

They're going to present it to CBS? Seriously? Well, that's a one way ticket to cancellation. Better for them to present it to say, NetFlix, at least there it would stand a chance of survival.

Remember, this is CBS we're talking about here; mainstream media. Mainstream TV media wouldn't know a good TV show if it came up and slapped them upside the face.

It could be that they animal kingdom knows something we don't. Maybe this planet of ours is going to be facing an environmental change soon and that the animals of this planet are getting ready for it in the only way they know how, pack on the pounds. Those who have stored fat will survive longer than those without.

There is something to be said when you produce only one product in a particular product line per year. That is, one Galaxy S Series and one Galaxy Note Series device. If you keep producing more than one device per year like HTC has been doing for some time now you dilute your market.

At the risk of being called an idiot or troll, this is one of the reasons why Linux isn't going anywhere and won't any time soon. Ignoring what the user wants is what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and they too will be going down because of it.

Why would one need multiple monitors you say? Maybe he's a stock broker where he has to keep track of multiple datasets all at the same time, in real time, and can't be switching windows all the time (there's no time to do that, seconds count!). He has one screen with one graph on one screen and another other graphs and datasets on other screens.

Or maybe he just wants to be able to really multitask. An office document open there, a web browser open on another, a music app open another, etc.

Don't ask what a user wants and then proceed to scoff when the user's requests don't fall in line with what you think that the user needs. That will only provide you with a one way ticket to oblivion.

What about Isis? It's the same concept that the carriers in the US are already working on. Why didn't they patent the idea?

Apple thinks that they have power, they have none when it compares to that of say, big telecom and even the banks. The banks want this, so I figure that eventually the banks will come out with the same idea but with a bigger legal team behind it and kill Apple's idea.

Welcome to the United Police States of America.