Re: Are Disk Drive Vendors screwed (by flash)?

"Are Disk Drive Vendors screwed (by flash)?"

No. There is currently no one storage medium suitable for all uses, that much is surely obvious - the mix will change as it always has, new technologies will create new niches and infiltrate existing ones, old ones will present an effective usability advantage or disappear... wasn't it ever thus.

"Can Seagate and WD catch up? Shapiro would think not. They are utterly screwed."

Frankly, bollocks.

Re: German law requires that consumers know exactly what their data is being used for

In German, it will be expressible as one, very long, but very precise word.

Re: Like it much ?

"Och! Come on, now. Is there any need for that? It's not Daily Mail mode. I demand an apology and a correction.

C."

You are, of course, correct - I just didn't want to be quite that rude... ;)

@RAMChYLD Re: It will never catch on

"Wait, people actually stand for the national anthem in cinemas?"

The noise you just heard was the point flying past you very, very fast..

@pepper

"You are correct James, strange that that is omitted in the main post though.."

Strangely enough, I thought all the comments about lack of video out were some odd humour I was missing ! However, seems not - luckily, from the article..

"The Black’s six-layer, 85mm x 53mm PCB holds all the above plus an HDMI port, 10/100Mbps Ethernet and a cylinder 5V power jack."

That's been in there since I first read it, honest, so not just dropped in.

Re: There is more to Linux than Ubuntu

"RPi doesn't run UBUNTU!!!! FFS! <BZZZT!!!>

RPi is RISC/ARM architecture. Ubuntu runs Intel 386/AMD-64 CISC processors.<BZZZT!!!>"

Last I looked, Ubuntu ran on ARMv7 onwards - and there were no plans to port stuff to support ARMv6 (as used by the Pi) so your first point is correct, your second probably incorrect (as I assume it was intended, difficult to say as it's rather vague) and your buzzer (IMO) is very annoying.

Re: GIYF

"Took me all of 12 seconds to find these among dozens of others. Try searching for 'windows phone performance"

I didn't say it wasn't fast, or wasn't functional or wasn't smooth - I said i'd not seen it said it had a reputation for all of them at the same time as stated in the article.

...followed by a thumbs down but no evidence. Let me be clear - I don't care what OS in on the phone, neither am I flying the flag for any phone OS at all. Couldn't give a rats arse. As I said, I like a lot of what I see in Windows Phone but I have never seen it mentioned as having a reputation as "the most smooth, fast and functional smartphone OS" - until now. That must have been one hell of a quick reputation to gain, and i've missed it completely. Show me what i'm missing and where it's mentioned - that's all.

Re: No, Mr. Schmidt.

"I am expressly NOT trying to REdefine capitalism. It's the whole point of the bloody post. Which you have seem to have missed completely."

My issue is that you're trying to add in little nicities that you feel should be followed by Google, or any other capitalist entity, e.g. an expectation of contribution to society. Not having these does not prevent the entity engaging in capitalism - as much as you, me or anyone would like to have it so. The initial description you had, as bullet points, are fine and vague enough as far as they go.

"My fault for using difficult words. Oh well."

Ah - school yard insults - how entertaining.

Re: No, Mr. Schmidt.

"No one, Mr. Schmidt, can order you to pay taxes if you are not so required by law. But don't hide your cowardly ass behind capitalism. Because capitalism has fork all to do with it."

Yes it does - you trying to redefine capitalism to bolster your argument (not awfully well in my own opinion, YMMV) does change that one bit.

"Greed, on the other hand, has EVERYTHING to do with it."

The two are hardly mutually exclusive, now are they ?

Re: Literally?

""literally trying to answer questions about life, the Universe and everything"

I'm fairly sure that the LHC is not trying to find the answer as to why beer tastes good or why real geeks prefer Linux or why dogs are better than cats."

It is answering questions (i.e. some questions) about those things, not every question. A single question about 'life, the Universe and everything" can be just that, a single question - aside from your pedantry about someone using a well known phrase.

"It's still a fantastic experiment though, which is now causing uneasy problems for another dodgy hack of a model - Cosmic Inflation."

I can agree that it's fantastic and with inflation being a hack - prediction-wise an elegant one granted, at least when some conditions are tweaked, but only elegant in the way that a sticking plaster can be IMO.

"LITERALLY" FAIL

How very self-observant.

Re: SUSY is already dead

"And, given String Theory depends on SUSY - this absence of SUSY is a PR blow for that too."

Some string theories involve SUSY but string theory per se is most certainly not dependent on it.

Re: @AC 1103

"This subject really does bring out the tin foil hatters."

I find your naivety infinitely less irritating than your apparent belief that no-one knows better than you.

@Eadon Re: Cold winters, Wet summers

Thank you for bringing the same reasoned arguments to this debate that you do to OS related threads...

Re: So, essentially what you're saying is

"Now is a good time to buy?"

That's what a lot of this is about - it's been happening enough, and with enough poking at from suspicious origins, that it's almost certainly deliberate manipulation, e.g. disrupt a key point or two, watch Chicken Little reaction drive down price, buy. A few cycles of this and you can start getting some profit without making massive buys on the lows, or otherwise drawing attention to yourself. It might have been interesting if this blog had dug a bit deeper into this.

@dogged Re: P.Lee @ 29 March 07:00 z

"On the nuclear, where rae you going to store the waste

It's not 1981 anymore, you know. Nuclear "waste" is simply reprocessed into usable fuel, a process that is currently over 97% efficient."

I'm very much pro-nuclear, but this is drivel - the last bit being not even wrong.

Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2

"clang isn't enough if it is still using binutils."

Is llvm-as and llvm-ld/link usable instead, in a clang-based work-flow, or have they got rid of them completely now ?

Re: Rebrand it with a different name, say it's chock full of "male enhancing" minerals

"If you ever get chance, try shark, it's good food!"

I'd love to !... not had the chance yet, although had the odd bit from some of its relatives. We also used to get fabulous conger here until they shut the fish market down, now it's like hens teeth, i'd like to see that in the super-markets as well.. gorgeous.

Re: Rebrand it with a different name, say it's chock full of "male enhancing" minerals

"Very true it's all in the marketing, just like the angry anti veggie crowd who have no issues eating cheese on toast."

That, honestly, is a phenomenon i've not come across before - great mental image though..

"A major reason I hate celeb chefs is they take a cheap food (rhubarb, cod cheeks, pollock etc) and feature it and all of a sudden it costs a sodding fortune to make a rhubarb crumble. "

..then leave the cod cheeks and pollock out of your rhubarb crumble mate - save yourself a fortune.

@Lee D Re: Fantastic!!

"So it doesn't matter how clever the physics are (and this certainly sounds like snakeoil to me, but I can't be bothered to research it precisely because of that)"

Cool - just for a moment I had thought you hadn't researched it because you haven't got a clue what they're on about.

"Solar just isn't practical, even with 100% efficient devices (that don't exist). What you gain in "free" energy, you make up for in rare earths, areas of land required, etc."

Even better news - I stupidly thought for a moment that it might be useful in some parts of the world as part of a total energy generation scheme involving other fuels. Just as well you let 'em know it "isn't practical".

Re: Image

"Quick search on google ..."

Thanks - but that wasn't the entire point, and not limited to this article.

Re: Nothing new.

"Swimming pools, sailboats, garden gnomes, faux waterfalls ..>"

Concrete jewelry has been around a while too.

"mostly coveted by folks with absolutely no taste."

Concrete can look spectacular, it can look shit and probably everything in-between - eye of the beholder and all that. To its credit, at least its not prone to making sweeping generalizations.

Re: Dtrace

"They also have their own fork of OpenSolaris "

Yep - i've not been following them but I hope they're contributing back.

"which makes them an interesting cloud provider to watch."

Indeed.

"It's a shame we don't see The Register have more articles on them and Nexenta."

Agreed, IMO there is a lot to like about Solaris in open or semi-closed state. I've started dabbling with Nexenta a while ago - originally for a home NAS project two or three years back - their stuff was very nicely put together with the obvious benefit of ZFS. In light of recent Linux GUI "innovations" I might try the OS on my dev laptop again (wasn't quite there last time I looked).

Re: Dtrace

"... Joyent employs at least one of the guys who wrote Dtrace (Bryan Cantrill), and are constantly improving it."

Good - I hope they're committing the non-client-specific improvements / specials back to the code base.

"If you want features added to dtrace for say... your specific database workload, you either host your infrastructure with Joyent and request those features, or try to hire away the guys who are writing the code."

That's fine for specific needs - not knocking that (although see comment above) but I was somewhat fucked off with the general tone in the article which seems to imply that Dtrace is some unique and wonderful invention of Joyent.

Re: <--- This

I'm not a phone person at all, but to have something equipped with a "Krait-class CPU" would make me feel like i'm in a E.E. Doc Smith or Iain M Banks novel.... which can't be bad shurly ?

@praos

"It's probably nothing more than ... an attempt to undermine development of the only serious competition to fossils -- i.e. nuclear energy."

You're right - only the FOOLS whose hats are made of THIN TIN cannot see this !!

(although I agree to a large extent with your PV comment)

Re: Follow the money

"The are also supposed to have all the problems and issues already worked out and the pilot is just to iron out the kinks."

One mans kinks are another mans issues or problems - the pilot plants in different industries i've known about most certainly had shake-down of inherent issues, and looking for additional ones due to scaling and extended running times, as part of their remit.

"It annoys me there is no notepad++ for OSX. Yes I know there are built-in tools and probably better ones for OSX, but a consistent set of apps is nice for those of us who have to skip between multiple OS very frequently."

Your choice entirely of course but.. have you not found anything multi-platform that you like ? I have to flit between a few platforms, less now than before admittedly, and either Vim or emacs do for me (not so much Vim for Python however).. there are others of course, just my preference over a lot of years, and i'm not particularly flying the flag for either.

Your preference obviously - genuine question as i've never heard of notepad++ before - i'm just curious.

"Iron Sky!"

They have the sky running on .NET ? *shudder*

Re: Prize funding?

[Mark 63]

"HP paid 480k of the 1/2/ mill?

You'd think Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Oracle would be able to come up with more than $20k between them if they were serious about security"

..and Microsoft ?

Why do you say that ? Certainly as far as Google is concerned, they have been paying for exploits for a while now and the Pwnium contest had quite a fund on it to encourage breaking it....