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SD, I think Merc's point is more about a business offering services to the general public which decides not to offer those services to some group because that group offends the owner. As an example, if you sell wedding cakes then you have to sell them to whomever wants one and is able/willing...

It sounds to me like 3D NAND will eventually result in dramatic price reductions per GB. The article did mention 10 TB SSDs in the next few years. If they were to cost the same per GB as today's SSDs there wouldn't be much of a market for them. I'm reading between the lines and assuming a 10+TB...

If they're in decent shape they might be worth quite a bit more than a dollar. You might want to check eBay just to see what similar bills are going for.

I'm in the same boat. I think we're at the state where the integrated GPU in most processors is adequate for 99% of the population. Certainly I haven't found myself wanting for more graphics power with my A10-5800K APU. Well, maybe marginally when I get into a scenery intensive area with train...

You might be right but I suspect at this stage OLED is more mature. Regardless, a technology which emits light is superior to one which selectively filters a backlight, like LCD, in terms of contrast and viewing angle.

Well, prices for lower end 4K monitors are starting to get under $500 even now. There's the Dell UltraSharp UP2414Q I was seriously considering eventually which is now around $800. Like everything else in this business, early adopters pay more, those who wait might get it at 25% of what the...

I'm sure the price will come down. Actually my ideal monitor if I had to check all the boxes might be 4096x3072, 24 or 25 inches, and OLED. Still, what you linked to would be quite nice if the price were in the $500 or less area.

From my own personal perspective I have no use for these huge monitors given that I have limited desk space and need to sit about 15 inches from my monitor to view it clearly. I like the idea of higher resolution 4:3 monitors but a 36" to 40" 3840x2560 would suffer from the same issues that my...

Yep, most of them sucked back then.

Lucky you had teachers who didn't object to the use of Liquid Paper. Many of mine said an erasure or use of Liquid Paper was an automatic fail. I spent many a day retyping pages of term papers where I had made only one or two typos. Computers with word processor software and nice printers were...

I doubt I could put out 400 watts for 6 minutes. Maybe 2 minutes tops if I'm feeling great. According to my Schwinn 240 I peak in the 800 to 900 watt area but I can only manage that for a few seconds. Still, it comes in handy jackrabbiting up to 20 mph to get out of the way of motor traffic just...

:santa: Merry (belated) Christmas! :reindeer: :tgif:Happy New Year! :drunk:

I'm probably only a semi-weirdo by the standards of the people on this site in that I only have 3 disks and 2.75 TB of local storage on my machine. That's a 2 TB mechanical disk, and 240 and 500 GB SSDs. I suspect the trend towards keeping data only on the cloud might be short-lived. Once one...

You could try the Arnold Schwarzenegger Soundboard. When they ask info about the computer, respond with "My CPU is a neural net processor". Lots of choice phrases there you can have fun with.

I'm sure one of these people called me at one time or another but I never pick up numbers I don't recognize. If someone calls from the same number more than a few times they have the "privilege" of being added to my block list so my phone never rings again when they call. Here's a better...

I was one of those people and I stand by my words. With V-NAND now on a roadmap to increase in density enough to make ~10 TB 2.5" SSDs practical by 2017 or so at around what 1TB SSDs cost now, I think we're seeing the last few years of mechanical hard drives. There's not too many tricks left in...

I'm 5'9". My brother is actually around 140, same height as me, and he doesn't seem overly thin.

I never thought the time would come that you weigh less than me but it has. Congratulations are in order. Right now I'm hovering in the low 200s. I'd like to lose about 60 to 70 pounds.

The first hill sounds like it's well over 15% in places. Ouch! The second one averages 2.5%. Not really steep, but long enough to be brutal. Yeah, I feel your pain on the weight. Just not riding as much this year my weight crept up to maybe 200-205 instead of 190-195. I notice those extra...

I believe those numbers. I notice how just wearing normal winter clothing cuts about 2 mph off my speed. In your case, it's most likely the aerodynamics which take the biggest hit when towing the trailer. You must have some pretty steep hills by you. I'm about 200 pounds but can get up most of...

One of my cats had a thyroid issue. I thought was going to die. After the blood test came back the vet prescribed tapazole. It was a real pain getting her to take the pills. She would notice them in food and spit them out. I finally hit on putting them inside a piece of cheddar cheese. I think...

Bad cycling year for me on account of my new consulting gig. I should barely make 1000 miles for the year. I'm feeling much less fit than if I had done my usual 3000 miles or so. I did finally buy a new rear cassette, chain, and small chainring as those were all getting long in the tooth after...

When I get much past maybe 20 tabs, it's just too confusing for me. More typically, I have less than ten open at any one time.

It's awful when you can sense a pet is near the end. Cats and dogs live long enough to get very attached to them, but not long enough to make lifelong companions. For all the talk about extending human lives, I wish first we can find a way to extend our pets lives closer to ours.

I saw the 24" version in my local Micro Center. The color seemed much better than the other monitors. Combined with the sharpness, it was awesome. I finally couldn't see pixels (that's an issue for me even with the large screen 4K monitors). In my opinion for large form factor monitors (27" and...

Chewy, one thing worth remembering here is that medical science is always advancing. If your wife has a life expectancy of 10-15 years based on current medical technology, I've little doubt significant advances will occur during that time which may well prolong her life further. So yes, enjoy...

I'm mostly referring to the time when they stopped doing those things but lots of people still had 56K. In particular, for a time I was on 56K and lots of web pages had flash videos. It started taking upwards of a minute to load a page in some cases. They still do that for microcontroller...

I came to this thread thinking maybe Google came out with a breakfast cereal. Anyway, Roadrunner here is still at 20 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. Not super speedy by today's standards, but I find many websites load even slower than that. I had a nightmare a few months ago where I was back on 56K for...

I'm just repeating what I've heard. I should mention also that I heard these things when I was a kid, so they may have been true with cars of the time even if they're not true now.

I'm surprised it didn't break. I've been told by a number of people, including mechanics, that you should never, ever floor a car, much less do so 50 times in a row.

Yep, that would be exactly what I think the market would need instead of 7200 RPM huge mechanical disks. Get the worst grade flash, even the stuff that might get trashed because it's way below specs, the shittiest controller going, don't even try to pack it in efficiently, and you'll still end...

Yeah, but we're talking here about huge drives which aren't going to be on computers sold with one mechanical disk. Just looking at a sampling of systems on Newegg typically those one disk machines have something between 500 GB to 1TB. I don't care if 7200 RPM drives are made for those who may...

Again, the point is that the stuff people typically put on 4TB or 6TB drives doesn't require the fast access times of an SSD. Fast access times are only important when you have lots of small files, not a few large ones. That being the case, why not make decrease spindle speeds and increase...

The point is huge drives are mainly for bulk storage of things like video where access time doesn't matter, and STR of even a 5400 RPM drive is more than sufficient. The downsides of 7200 RPM over 5400 RPM are heat, noise, lifetime, reliability, and density. Before SSDs became affordable faster...

One of the comments to the article mirrors my thoughts here: "I know some will disagree,.. whatever - but what is the goddamned POINT of 7200rpm platter disks for consumers nowadays? Seriously. If you care about performance you either have an OS/Apps SSD or a hybrid drive even."

Same here. Depending upon the make I can sometimes fit into a 36" waist but 38" is what I usually need. Trying to get back down to 30" like I was until my late 20s (sedentary job caused me to put on weight and ever since I've had trouble keeping it off).

I'm probably less than a year away from getting one of these. I'm waiting for them to drop in price a bit more, increase in resolution, and have the ability to print in at least a few colors. All three of those should happen within a year I think based on current progress. IMO 3D printing for...

Economics would be my guess, not lack of space. SSDs are still primarily used for smaller fast boot drives rather than bulk storage. Granted, they're starting to reach large enough sizes at low enough prices to be the only drive in a system if a person doesn't need more than a few hundred GB...

The part I'm finding interesting is Samsung's roadmap for VNAND. It sounds like they plan to increase chip capacity by a factor of 8 over what they have now by 2017. Presumably, that means drive size will scale by a factor of 8 at more or less the same price points. Assuming mechanical drives...

Given my usage patterns that's somewhere north of a decade-more than enough time I think to get my data the drive. ;)

Most of those stores are fronts to move stolen/counterfeit merchandise. They operate under one name until the authorities are on to them, then shut down and start up the next day as a different business. If the authorities come to the store to address prior consumer complaints, the store owners...

Yeah, I'm still taken for at least a good decade younger than I am, if not more. The bike riding plus good genetics probably does it (mom is only ~15% gray at 75). If/when I can afford a hair transplant (male pattern baldness runs in the family) that will probably take another ~10 years off my...

Happy birthday Howell! Time flies. I think you were 29 when we met in NYC. If I recall correctly I was either 38 or 39. Never tried skydiving or anything else that extreme but it's on my bucket list. So is summiting Everest. Unfortunately, lack of time/money will probably ensure that the most...

Demolishing is the easy part. Getting it back to looking like a kitchen is a lot harder.

In all this side discussion about student loans, I almost forgot-congratulations sedrosken! The earlier you complete college the better from both a personal and financial standpoint.

Yeah, but hopefully usurious collection fees won't be a part of that. We're actually starting to have a serious discussion here on getting rid of that aspect of the student loan system.

That's better than the system in the states. As i said, I have zero problems getting a person to repay the principal and if applicable the interest. It's the collection fees which cause loan amounts to balloon to levels which can never be repayed. It seems like this isn't a possibility under the...

That's exactly what happened. We never should have made large amounts of money available as student loans. All it did was drive up the price of college to the point where many people have no choice but to borrow to get through school. As a society however we're now faced with several issues...

I might be on board for this if you couldn't discharge credit card debt in bankruptcy like you can now. At least the educational loan went for someone trying to better themselves. A lot of credit card debt is just from people buying junk they don't need. Maybe a good compromise here is to only...

It's even worse here in the states. When a loan goes into default, the total amount plus a ~25% collection fee can be rolled into a so-called "rehabilitation loan" where the debtor must make at least 10 on-time monthly payments to have the default cleared from their credit records. If they can't...