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Comment: Re:Wishing him well (Score 1) 471

by Kevinv (#34904742) Attached to: Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence

Wozniack has made objective reports that he is a "terrible" person. Really? Terrible?

I've seen reports (and no report made on the character of another person is truly objective) he's a taskmaster, a jerk who wants things his way. I wouldn't call them terrible people. I don't see him getting accused of racism or sexual harrasment.

Being in tech support I interact with people like that all the time. No reason to wish them ill health.

Comment: Re:Investing in the Future won't get you votes tod (Score 1) 760

by Kevinv (#34596974) Attached to: 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget

if public sector research developed something, how can you prove that private companies WOULD have done it for less? Unless they both happen to develop simultaneously, without knowledge of the other (so no cross contamination of work) you can't prove it. You also can't prove that if the private sector developed something that the public sector would have for far less (or more).

Data Storage

WD, Intel, Corsair, Kingston, Plextor SSDs Collide 56

Posted by timothy
from the will-it-collide dept.
J. Dzhugashvili writes "New SSDs just keep coming out from all corners of the market, and keeping track of all of them isn't the easiest job in the world. Good thing SSD roundups pop up every once in a while. This time, Western Digital's recently launched SiliconEdge Blue solid-state drive has been compared against new entrants from Corsair, Kingston, and Plextor. The newcomers faced off against not just each other, but also Intel's famous X25-M G2, WD's new VelociRaptor VR200M mechanical hard drive, and a plain-old WD Caviar Black 2TB thrown in for good measure. Who came out on top? Priced at about the same level, the WD and Plextor drives each seem to have deal-breaking performance weaknesses. The Kingston drive is more affordable than the rest, but it yielded poor IOMeter results. In the end, the winner appeared to be Corsair's Nova V128, which had similar all-around performance as Intel's 160GB X25-M G2 but with a slightly lower capacity and a more attractive price." Thanks to that summary, you might not need to wade through all 10 of the pages into which the linked article's been split.

Comment: Re:Science or Religion? (Score 1) 1136

by Kevinv (#31172976) Attached to: A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow

Yes. Either:

a) Provide, with evidence, a measurable alternative other than man-made greenhouse gases to the increased energy in the atmosphere (remember no solar increases have been measured in 50 years but temperatures have continued going up.)

b) The measured global temperature declines for enough years for it to be an obvious trend. One year ain't cutting it, and cherry picking your start dates to show a decline is also not going to work.

there are probably others, but either of these cases would falisfy the current theory. You'll have to do actual work to prove it, not sit around on the internet spouting the same tired crap as everyone else, but that's science how science works.

Comment: Re:Do they have a choice? (Score 2, Insightful) 178

by Kevinv (#31151676) Attached to: Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation

the only way they might actually come up with a decent answer is in putting their egos away and actually working together. Instead I bet every company tries to twist the process into their own advantage over the other participants, just like they do when they sit on standards bodies.

Comment: fighting the wrong fragmentation (Score 4, Interesting) 178

by Kevinv (#31151664) Attached to: Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation

They're fighting the wrong fragmentation. The fragmentation is in the number of handset form factors, chipsets and OSes. Apple, Google, and now even Microsoft are fighting this fragmentation. Apple with total control over all form factors and OSes they use. Google with a standard OS, but less standardized form factors. And with Win Phone microsoft said they'll be vetting manufacturers more than in the past and won't allow UI skinning.

Write once, run everywhere doesn't work when the basic functionality of each device varies so much.

Comment: Re:Notes? (Score 1) 569

by Kevinv (#31055664) Attached to: Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking?

writing focuses me on the subject and forces me to listen, think about it, then write. just "listening, and thinking" means thinking about girls, at least for me. I remember something I wrote far more than something i just listened to.

If students are writing everything the teacher says, like a stenographer, then they're doing it wrong.

If the teachers slides are sufficient notes, then they're doing it wrong.

Say something you'll be sorry for, I love receiving apologies.

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