Funny, you expended many dozens of precious electrons when you could have simply not responded.

<sarcasm>Are you telling me electronics isn't malleable like Play-Doh? Huh, maybe that's also why my motherboard stopped working when I folded to fit in a mini-case.</sarcasm>

No, I'm serious. As near as I can tell, the ruler and a normal SSD are about the same thickness (about 10 mm). Thus, all Intel was doing was changing the other two (longer) dimensions, which shouldn't change the surface area by much.

Since my previous post clearly wasn't clear, let me be more specific. What it seems is Intel is doing is taking a 70x100 rectangle and slicing it into two 35mm x 100 mm slices. Those get slices re-arranged end to end instead of side to side. Through the magic of geometry, that isn't adding much surface area. It's adding a little but not much.

However, that leaves a 35x200mm long ruler. The real ruler is more like 45x300mm so there definitely is more surface area. But the surface area per unit volume doesn't seem like it's changing. For cooling, that's what I thought matters. So why does this form factor cool better?

Does that make my question clearer?

Could you explain that a bit? I'm not that familiar with SSD dimensions but I thought a typical 2.5" disk was about a third of an inch thick. To make it a ruler, all I have to do is cut it with a bandsaw into three strips and glue them all together. That shouldn't change the surface area so I don't see how it affects cooling.

That assumes the 1971 minimum wage was reasonable. Do you have any reason to believe that?

...that a gaggle of emotionally infantile social misfits are making a robot with emotional intelligence? Quite possibly more than they have?

(He writes, being an emotional infant who can't read people to save his life...)

I'd much rather companies just paid me a higher salary and let me figure out where I want to live. For that matter, I'd rather they gave me a higher salary and got their nose out of my health care too.

I was with you until you started ranting. Yes, relax zoning laws and make it easier to build new homes. Doing so will only reduce the price of housing (that pesky supply and demand thing). If rich gentry move in, they had to move from somewhere and now a house in that somewhere is available.

The second order effect is that if you start building more housing, you might also drive up demand ("Yay, more SF apartments, I can think of moving there now!"). I don't know which effect will dominate. Personally, I'd love to think about living in SF except (a) I'd hate my uber liberal neighbors and (b) I can't afford it now.

For all Apple's influence in Cupertino, I doubt they could get the city council to approve an apartment complex that size. The NYMBYism out here is pretty intense.

We seem to be building 5-story apartments and condos all over the place these days. I've watched three, or maybe four, high-rise apartments get built in downtown San Jose in the last few years. That's not enough but it's more housing than I've seen be built in years. The question on everyone's lips is traffic. The roads already seem crowded, will this make it worse? I wonder if the new homes will be filled with people who already work here. If so, this will just shorten their commute and traffic will get better. If this lets companies hire more workers, it's going to make traffic much worse.

And, of course, it's impossible to increase the productivity of arable land, or to reclaim land and make it arable.

Uh, yes he did. He voted with his feet. Every time he used a credit card, ATM, or just got cash back at the grocery store, he voted that those were choices he preferred over a physical branch office. There's no reason for him to be surprised the bank reacted.

Personally, I'm totally down with that. I use a bank branch maybe once every two years. I go to an actual ATM a few times a year, tops. And I'm an old coot, not a millenial.

The pilots I know say this is a long way off. Airplanes can do all sorts of wacky things and for now, you want a human pilot to handle the more-frequent-than-you-want-to-know cockpit glitches.

Starting wage for a major airline might be that much. For a regional airline, which is what TFA was talking about, it's much lower. I have niece who's a pilot and she really struggled to make ends meet when she started out.