Comment This will make Crunchyroll interesting... (Score 4, Insightful) 141
Comment Re: Next up: Terminators. (Score 1) 51
Comment Well, he would know... (Score 1, Insightful) 275
Comment Yay hypocrisy (Score -1, Flamebait) 119
Submission + - Seagate Unveils First Ever PCIe NVMe HDD (techradar.com)
According to Seagate, there are a number of benefits to bringing the NVMe protocol to HDDs, such as reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), performance improvements, and energy savings. Further, by creating consistency across different types of storage device, NVMe HDDs could drastically simplify datacenter configurations. While current HDDs are nowhere near fast enough to make full use of the latest PCIe standards, technical advances could mean SATA and SAS interfaces are no longer sufficient in future. At this juncture, PCIe NVMe HDDs may become the default. That said, it will take a number of years for these hard drives to enter the mainstream. Seagate says it expects the first samples to be made available to a small selection of customers in Autumn next year, while full commercial rollout is slated for 2024 at the earliest.
Comment Terrible analogy (Score 4, Informative) 271
Comment All I want to know is... (Score 2) 52
Scientists' Brains Shrank a Bit After an Extended Stay in Antarctica (sciencenews.org) 49
Comment Nom nom nom (Score 1) 62
Comment Climate change (Score 5, Insightful) 237
The rejecting of climate change is pretty easy to account for. A lot of people use climate change to push whatever their personal agenda is:
The climate is changing so we need to...
- Massively raise taxes
- Adopt a socialist economy
- Become vegetarians
- Abandon privately owned vehicles
- Switch to more expensive energy sources
Instead of debating all the kooky non-sequitur solutions are being proposed in the name of climate change, it's easier to just throw the ball back in their court by questioning whether the climate is even changing at all. If debating an actual climate scientist, this might not work very well, but when confronted by people who know little about science and are just using it to lend urgency to their pet cause, this is effective at shutting down their rant about how we must do such-and-such in the name of global warming.
People do this sort of thing in other areas as well. For instance, when faced with someone proselytizing religion, an agnostic might not want to get into some long discussion about what concepts of the divine they are and are not open to considering, and instead just say they don't believe in God at all, even if their private views on spirituality happen to be more nuanced.
Sometimes people take a hard line position just to shut up people they don't want to deal with.
Comment Overpriced downgrade (Score 1, Insightful) 86
Having no headphone jack (which I use every day) makes this a downgrade not just from my existing phone, but from the first-gen iPhone I had over a decade ago. Sure, you could use a dongle, but why?
The lack of a Bixby button is lame too. Bixby itself is useless, but having a remappable physical button is very handy. I use the one on my Note 8 to turn the flashlight on and off, much quicker and more convenient than doing it through the GUI.
Comment Take the third option (Score 3, Interesting) 85
Comment RFC2324 compliant? (Score 5, Interesting) 200
Does it correctly implement RFC2324 and respond 418 I'm a teapot when asked to brew coffee?