Posts by YARR

Let's hope no-one makes a killer app for this.

Nothing special really...

It seems everyone's making a smart watch these days. I've heard even Nintendo are making a Wii Watch U.

Open question...

"NAND flash memory .... is not byte-addressable. Unlike disk or tape it has to be written in blocks of bytes at a time, with each byte going into a cell."

So disks read/write individual bytes rather than blocks?

I'm glad Snowden is releasing this info as a trickle, thus ensuring it gets regular headline coverage. Now we know that our government agencies essentially treat the electorate (whom they should serve) as the enemy, and the laws are bent or just ignored so they can do as they please. The only recourse ordinary folk have is at the ballot box, but what option do we have to change anything?

Is it too late to mount a national campaign to stand independents* in the upcoming general election, to fight for our rights? Would joe public actually vote for a candidate who truly represents them (as opposed to the interests of the elite) or just carry on voting the same old way?

* political parties are hierarchical structures open to corruption and infighting. Standing as independents but with a common campaign and set of policies would avoid those problems up front.

Will the batteries last a HoloDay?

Will it take pictures called HoloGraphs, and watch movies in HoloVision?

Will they bundle it with a game called: Holo the Master Chief Collection?

Will the Doom port be called HoloDoomor?

Will it be a success? Let's read the HoloScope...

Sorry. My humor is just HoloBull.

SpaceX just won the Oscar for...

...best fireworX display of the year.

I wonder what the definition of "minority" is for a global corporation?

Women generally outlive men so they're a majority in most countries.

In ethnic terms the largest population groups on the planet are Indians, Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans so will those groups be discriminated against in favor of smaller populations like Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and the native (non-Hispanic) tribes of central and southern America?

Perhaps they should adopt a different criteria in each region or country based on the local demographics? I'd imagine that offices in Africa, the Middle East and Asia probably have the least diverse local populations, so the policy should be applied there most rigorously.

Crazy ideas...

Maybe the rotation is so slow that there is a significant differential between the rotation speed of the core and the surface, with layers of the upper mantle moving like an atmosphere (due to the differential and not just heat convection)? Then the surface rotation speed could change like the average windspeed in the upper atmosphere. Patterns or eddys in the motion could follow a cycle that speeds or slows the surface at regular intervals.

Or perhaps the absence of a moon means that the gravitational bulging due to the Sun is not countered, and results in greater friction and slowing of the planet's rotation relative to other planets?

Or the lack of a moon's disruption to the gravitational field allows small currents in the mantle to grow uninterrupted resulting in the effect I first mentioned?

Or could the slowdown be a countdown to another resurfacing event?

Could this whole GOP thing be a deceptive viral marketing campaign dreamed up by Sony to increase the takings of this upcoming "Interview" movie? Everyone will want to go see it now, then buy a PS4 to get the game too.

It's all lies!

The real intention is to do the opposite - add a hidden feature which deliberately rotates a falling iPhone to ensure it lands on the most vulnerable point. No one wants an iWatch, iPads have peaked and they've run out of ideas to sell new iPhones. With peak Apple approaching and an expensive HQ to pay for, they've got to come up with a way of increasing future sales of iPhones.

They're all wrong...

I find the 2009 Kryder prediction surprising, given that he must have been aware of the limits to PMR and the predicted costs of future technologies at the time.

As for the IDC data/storage growth projections, I'm sure they will turn out to be wildly wrong. The reality is that applications and data grow to use the available processor / storage capacity (until we run out of ideas for worthwhile new applications). If the rate at which storage becomes more affordable is slowing, then applications that would utilise larger amounts of storage will not be implemented.

Similarly the recent slow down in the advance of CPU processor speed has not resulted in a crisis of CPU power not keeping up with application demands. Developers write new applications or new features to utilise the available CPU power.

ergo YouTube will probably decide not to let users upload unlimited amounts of 4K or 8K videos that are full of duplicates, fake movies, people filming themselves mumbling on for hours about their dull opinions and not bothering to edit their footage at all.

Zen?

"AMD thinks the future of the data center lies in the ARM processor architecture"

then at what market is the next generation x86 Zen core targetted? In the past new AMD x86 cores were first released as high performance Opterons.

All bar genius

Making a thinner iPad didn't improve sales, so make the new one even thinner - genius!

If they continue this way they'll have to call it the iSheet (careful how you pronounce that) :-)

I hope QuakeCon is independent of ZeniMax, or there'll be no more Carmack keynotes.

Being pro-marriage does not imply being anti-gay, but those who lobby for gay-marriage are anti-family. Traditionally marriage is about more than the mutual needs of those who choose to commit to it, it puts the needs of children over those of their parents. A relationship that produces and nurtures a new generation and passes on the love and inherited debt of care serves a higher duty to society than a relationship focused solely on just two people's needs.

What's more the actions of OkCupid are both an example of diverting away from the real argument and attempting to escalate both the level and domain of conflict from an ideological one to an entirely unrelated area. This in itself is wrong and equates them with others who attempt to escalate real conflicts in the same way.

If gays and lesbians want equality with marriage, then they should seek to build relationships with each other that prioritise a commitment to raising a family above their own sexual proclivites, even if it takes more than two people to achieve this.

What about today's price gouging?

DDR3 must be double the price it was 2-3 years ago.

"We're on the side of freedom...."

....freedom for us but not for you. We can do as we please because we say so.

We've heard corporates deny any involvement in these privacy violations, but all the mainstream political parties have their hands dirty. Their top elected representatives have all been in power and authorised these intrusions into our privacy. They expect the public to believe that spying on the web-cams of law abiding people is "necessary and proportionate"! What kind of security agency finds it necessary to gather intimate data about people? We live in a democracy but has the electorate ever been consulted about this?

Those before us made great sacrifices for freedom, but the power elite today think the public are happy to exchange their freedom for security. If people want to fight for their freedom, they will have to take their votes elsewhere. The time is right for a freedom alliance to stand against the old parties, with a pledge to shut down these government agencies and make their activities illegal.

Brainwave...

Sounds like interested parties should form a consortium to buy up some 15 year old fab equipment with the license to punch out 15-year old designs, instead of relying on questionable old or imported stock.

One acquisition for Facebook, one giant leap for the chosen people's Ultimate World Order

It's not just one member of the tribe scratching another's back.

It's a key step to implementing their dream of an Ultimate World Order - a world order that can never be opposed. A prison planet with them as the master tribe for all eternity, established by psychopathic deception on the grandest scale.

They want to know everything about everyone, to crush all opposition. Anyone identified as a potential threat to their social control network is marginalized, and their family, friends and contacts identified then "persuaded" to betray them.

Carry on Facebooking, Whatsapping, and don't ever change your phone number. Consume, conform, suck up the propaganda lies, and be content with your servitude, Untermensch.

A couple of points

1. US law has no jurisdiction outside of the US, so good luck enforcing US laws in Dubai.

2. Why is the Syrian govenment classified as a terrorist state? Is there some evidence that has been presented in a court of law to justify this classification?

3. Why bother restricting that sale of PCs? The Syrians could just as easily buy direct from the Chinese, e.g. from Lenovo. At least if they buy US / western PCs there's a chance that they'll have hardware / firmware / software with NSA backdoors in so they can be remotely monitored. Plus exports from US / western coountries shoud be welcomed to help balance the huge trade deficit.

They could call in Dr. Gunther von Hagens to plastinate it for them. It might set a new world record for the longest preserved specimen.