Comment 200B spent? (Score 1) 52

by plorqk on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:18PM (#64913449) Attached to: Tech Giants Are Set To Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI

Just on marketing, not actual AI yes?

Comment Makes you want to catch crabs (Score 1) 203

by plorqk on Monday April 08, 2013 @01:24PM (#43393041) Attached to: Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs

That was worded that way intentionally.

Submission + - SSD Write Endurance Considered... Sufficient (ef.gy)

Submitted by jyujin on Monday February 18, 2013 @06:26PM

jyujin writes: Ever wonder how long your SSD will last? It's funny how bad people are at estimating just how long "100,000 writes" are going to take when spread over a device that spans several thousand of those blocks over several gigabytes of memory. It obviously gets far worse with newer flash memory that is able to withstand a whopping million writes per cell. So yeah, let's crunch some numbers and fix that misconception. Spoiler: even at the maximum SATA 3.0 link speeds, you'd still find yourself waiting several months or even years for that SSD to start dying on you.

Comment Windows 8 = New Fruitcake? (Score 1) 740

by plorqk on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:21PM (#42205379) Attached to: Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'

Is windows 8 now the new fruitcake you send to people you dislike?

Comment Hey! (Score 1) 288

by plorqk on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:37PM (#34955518) Attached to: <em>Duke Nukem Forever</em> Release Date Revealed

What's with the delays?

Comment Sound like one of Qwest's own slogans: (Score 1) 371

by plorqk on Thursday January 20, 2011 @01:21PM (#34941504) Attached to: DSL Installation Fail

Service inaction.

Really it's Service in action but it sounds like the former when you hear it outloud.