Comment Re:As a HS sophomore, I was told to not major in C (Score 1) 333
As a HS junior I was told basically the same thing. That was ~3 years ago, and I'm now two years into a CS degree. I sure hope they were wrong. :-)
Comment Re:I thought everyone knew this (Score 1) 192
For USB flash drives, Toshiba calculated that a 10,000 write cycle endurance would enable customers to completely write and erase the entire contents once per day for 27 years, well beyond the life of the hardware.
Heh, good to know that Toshiba's engineers can divide by 365. Sad that Kingston seemingly had to ask them to.
Submission + - Safest Seat on a Plane: How to Survive a Crash (popularmechanics.com)
Ant writes: "Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus (Boeing too?).
Seen on Boing Boing."
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