....Autonomous pilot.

It's designed to reduce the number of inputs a driver/pilot have to make... it is not designed to be used in zero visibility and still requires the driver/pilot to be aware of what is going on and be ready to take control.

Not sure how their DBW system is setup, but even in my old 2004 Subaru, the DBW system uses two sensors and duplicate wiring.

There are two potentiometers in the throttle pedal and in the throttle body. A change in pedal voltage, reflects as a change in throttle body stepper motor voltage = open throttle body (to some percentage equal to the pedal movement).

If the two potentiometers are off by more than 0.05v, then the ECU shuts off the input from the pedal and the car goes into limp-mode where it won't open the throttle plate more than a few deg and won't let the car accelerate any faster than idle.

... on my Samsung S5, full brightness in 12Noon sun is quite usable... never had an issue.

Who are you calling old?

... to virtual sex online... This is what computers were made for.

They just need a 2-column setup.... current posts on one side, or one pane, and "important"/interesting posts in the other.

Plenty of space for it in the main twitter web page, mobile people may have to swipe left or right between screens... Tweetdeck could do it simply...

Fusion-io did that 5 years ago with their pci-e flash cards. The drives were very vocal about any trauma they might have suffered and would drop into a reduced write mode if you didn't heed the warnings in order to get your attention... if you still ignored them, they would go read only and you'd be forced to copy your data off.

SanDisk's Infiniflash is 512TB in a 3U chassis that is SAS-connected. You can front this with something like DataCore's SANsymphony to turn it into a NAS/SAN appliance.

The pricing looks to be around $1/GB, which is a ton cheaper than building a SAN of that capacity, plus it's much smaller in power/space/cooling.

Aah, managed to download this plugin and get it working. It connects to a different server than chat.facebook.com as well.

I've noticed in the comments that some folks can still use xmpp with chat.facebook.com, but whatever local server that DNS is pointing me at is no longer accepting connections.

Thanks.

Pretty much all of them as we move into 3D NAND... I know samsung has one out already as the 850 EVO... everyone should be right behind them with similar products.

Newer 3D NAND is using a charge trap design which basically solves the electron leakage issue found with the older floating gate NAND...

Also, the move to the newer 3D NAND brings us back up to 40nm processes vs the 10nm gates we are currently working with, allowing for much better reliability.

Disclaimer: I've been selling enterprise flash storage for the last 6 years.

I get hit with 1-2 job opportunities every day or two from LinkedIn alone...

Some are good, some are cruft... it all becomes noise since I'm not looking for a job right now.

You can't read game files faster because the process that reads the game file is single threaded vs multi-threaded... so it can only read as fast as a single thread can read.

A fully saturated CPU has enough lanes to do about 26-28GB/sec, but a single I/O thread might only be able to do 100-200MB/sec.

There was never any reason in the OS before today to make that any faster because the spinning disks that fed data to the CPUs couldn't do more than 100MB/sec.

Now that we have all this great flash, code needs to be re-written to be able to use other idle CPU time to spin up more threads and read the data faster.