Obligitory grammar nitpick: surely you mean play too loose?

If bandwidth is finite, serializing downloads means one finishes first, and can be used while the others download.

No. If you run all of the downloads in parallel then one of them still finishes first and can be used while the others finish off.

Also, when the available bandwidth per-stream is lower than the available bandwidth per-link it is quicker to run the downloads in parallel. Lastly, when the total bandwidth across all the streams is still less than the link (which is frequently true) then the sequential time of each is unaffected by running them in parallel, but the total time is greatly reduced.

I think that you underestimate the value of soft modes of failure, particularly in maintaining quality standards. Examiners are human and it is much easier to say "not yet" than it is to say "and you're out of here".

So it really is like AIDS, Cancer or Death?

Thanks for the reply - that's a really interesting use for them.

What do you use it for? If you are plugging secure data into an untrusted box it seems that you have no defense against something on the box simply reading all of the data. For example if Spotlight indexes the drive then it has leaked data immediately.

Mostly. It would start with interesting ideas and strongly developed characters that tell an interesting story of our time. Sadly by the time the final curtain drops in the desert outside of Las Vegas we will all be convinced that the story ran its course long ago and that the untimely appearance of the hand of god himself to trigger a nuclear detonation is the sad work of a creative mind all spent. In short the main problem that it would cause is that the extra 300 pages of padding cannot hide the lack of a good ending.

Take a look at filmon.com, they stream all of the free to air channels as well as a few others. The SD feed is ok quality for free, or they have a subscription service for a HD stream. I think that it is a legal service, they have some information about paying channel providers on their website, but they have been sued before and there might be one case still pending.

You seem to have a strange difficulty in thinking. The internet may be a "GLOBAL" area, but this is not the internet. This is a small part of the internet called slashdot that has an explicit english language bias.

I would assume that the japanese can speak english well, it is the dominant world language after all.

I see your point: on an english speaking forum I should always think in the context of forums outside the english speaking world. Sure. Totally. Makes perfect sense.

You've made a long and complex argument that the transistor density is low by comparing it against other types of chips. The density is limited by heat dissipation. A DRAM only accesses a few bits at a time so even accounting for refresh something like thousands of those billions of transistors are active at the same time. In a GPU most of the transistors are for processing paths that will be used in parallel, and many separate memories that will be accessed independently. Orders of magnitude more transistors will be active at the same time resulting in a lower density design. When the controlling factor for density is the application of the chip it does not make sense to compare to other types of chips, where the applications allow higher densities.

I'm curious about your last comment. Nobody knows exactly what the reticule limits for current foundries are as they are trade secrets. The comment in the summary about being close to this limit was clearly hyperbole, but what makes you so sure that it is wrong?

Why wait? Can't you put some money in a high-interest long-term account and just stick an advert in something that will get archived, say Craig's list.

Not even close. Out of the hundreds of games available for the platform there are only a handful that use 1080p. Full details here.

There would be plenty of money to be had. Short their stock before forcing a product recall.

Being unable to undo single moderations still sucks. Especially when overrated is next to funny in the dropdown.