Posts by PleebSmash

drammed dirty ape

Millions of years of simian evolution and still only 1 GB of RAM?

the final years

"to become its SVP for client HDD"

Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.

With TSVs and V-NAND technology, the SSD manufacturers could put out a 256 terabyte 2.5" drive today if they reaaally wanted to (the ~15 TB drive with stacks of 16 dies). It would be $100,000 or more, but it could be done, unlike HDD manufacturers.

The Platform reported on a prediction that flash arrays will be cheaper than disk arrays in 8-10 years. Swing the HAMR fast or buy an SSD manufacturer.

$6.77 billion in equity

Oh my, a $1.2 million settlement!

Stageup

No sexy vulnerability name yet?

Gundamn

Too many animays have indoctrinated the children to fight and maim robots. But who will have the last laugh?

this enhanced the article

It added that it should be fined a maximum of $16,000, or just 0.016 per cent of the original penalty. That's the equivalent of getting a $150 speeding ticket and offering to pay less than a cent, or turning up to a BMW dealer, asking for a top-of-the-line M6, and trying to negotiate the price down to $20.

balloon count

"Neither Google nor Sri Lanka has revealed just how many balloons will fly"

Multiple sites are reporting that it would take about a dozen to cover the entire country and that each balloon can service about 5000 square kilometers. The area of Sri Lanka is 65,610 square kilometers.

More than 12-13 might be required for redundancy but it sounds like a lower number than you'd expect for a country with a population of over 20 million (although the point is to fill in coverage gaps to service all of the rural areas, not urban areas). If they're lucky, they might be able to get by relaunching just 1 balloon per week.

evidata

NSA: We'll delete the evidence of our crimes, just as soon as you look away

manipulate.market

The most courageous use of the new gTLDs yet.

what words?

The address is meaningless and has been meaningless ever since search engines like Google got good enough to find quality content related to keywords. Now people don't even think about addresses. You do it right, you are using a search engine, an in-browser history search, or hyperlinks.

It's like giving an advantage to a certain IP range. How about nope.

AMD's Zen

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just a hobby

The "Other" segment itself doesn't look particularly lively, though. Its revenue of $1.70bn was up a respectable 6.8 per cent from the same period a year ago but down 2.6 per cent from Q1. It was the second sequential quarter in a row in which its revenue declined. As always, though, wondering how Google's technology business is performing is just a hobby

Compare that hobby with AMD's $942M.

we're all doomed!

Moore's law is over! Intel is still king of the hill!

It's hard to be surprised. Shifts to Si-Ge or nanotubes are expected to keep chips shrinking. Cheaper EUV is needed to make these nodes easier.

Forget about when we will shrink to 3 to 7 nm. The real questions are about 3D STACKED CHIPS THAT AREN'T TOO HOT. If we can do it with NAND, maybe we can do it with CPUs.