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Never heard of it.
Has anyone?
Apparently not.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Imagine a day when 4chan shuts down and its users descend upon other sites looking for a new home.
They already moved to Facebook, sadly.
The day 4chan dies will be the death of the most stupid memes I ever saw - I long for that day.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The company that makes Signal, one of the most secure phone call and messaging apps in the world, said Tuesday that earlier this year it received its first federal grand jury subpoena for a customer’s communications records but only shared limited information with authorities. "Please stop making data so secure, we might need to look at it some day."
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The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings. And another video of the explosion.
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October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release and availability for download of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one. *tiny tiny parade ensues*
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October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release and availability for download of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now only 30 years behind, instead of 31.
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Samsung's annual Global SSD Summit featured the normal product announcements and presentations outlining the company's latest flash-based advances, but the company also outlined its vision of the current state of the SSD market and future trends. SSDs are steadily displacing HDDs in more applications, but NVMe is shaping up to be the dark horse that may put the venerable HDD to rest. Let them fight.
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Do their drive products also explode into flames?
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only if they're powered by lithium batteries... 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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wow.  
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's just their new quick dry feature.
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Maybe their marketing department did a study and found that there was a demand for exploding washers.
I know it got my attention. Actually, it will go well with my Whirlpool exploding glass stove top.
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HDD is still cheap for GB, displacing it will require a lot of time, say 10 years at least. I can buy a 3TB HDD for less than 100€, with the same amount I can barely buy a 256 GB SSD. Which, alone, is useless.
If in 10 years we will have reached the HDD maximum density and SSD prices will have dropped to acceptable prices then the huge increase in speed will make HDDs a rarer and rarer choice, like it happened for data tapes in favor of RAID architectures.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I suspect it's going to happen sooner than a decade from now.
SSD price/GB is falling faster than HDD price/GB. Projections I've seen in the last year or two show SDDs becoming cheaper in initial purchase costs for bulk data storage around 2025. Since those are just projections for when trend lines intersect, I suspect it will probably actually happen a year or two sooner. It takes several years for the R&D costs of a new platform to actually earn out in sales; meaning that a 2024 HDD platform will probably never do so when it's overtaken a year later; meaning HDD dev will probably stop one platform before where the original intersection point is and SSDs will only need to be cheaper than a 2-3 year old design to win.
Strait line projections also assume that the R&D budgets will remain intact; I suspect that's also overly optimistic. The Tom's article shows the pending collapse of cheap laptop HDDs (and similar articles at Anandtech have shown its already in rapid retreat). While that doesn't matter much for overall profitability because the margins on those drives are negligible, so losing them doesn't matter much to the overall bottom line. The problem is that they're already eating high speed SAS drives alive in the data center, and these are a big money maker. Currently they can partially counterbalance that by selling more maximum density 3.5" drives at premium prices; the pending problem there is that in the data center power consumption (directly and in HVAC needs) and physical volume matter at least as much as the raw price/GD. That in turn means that even for bulk archival storage SSDs will become cheaper in TCO well before they're cheaper in terms of raw dollars/gigabyte on the sticker price. Once that happens I'm skeptical that consumer/SMB NAS sales will be able to sustain the R&D.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I like your analysis and you find me agreeing with that - I was being conservative, projections are often overly optimistic (they are used to attract investments after all) and usually cherry pick both the source data and the destination of the sales (enterprise market is very different from consumer market).
Since I'm a consumer and not involved in any data storage I was thinking of consumer market, plus a couple of incidents in the next ten years and probably even my expectations are optimistic too.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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As a consumer I've retired spinning rust everywhere except on my NAS; and suspect that my ~2020 NAS refresh may be my final HDD buy. Even then if SSDs are close enough that it's a $800 vs $1100 total system cost going with flash to get a system the size of a hardback book instead of one constrained by a 4x 3.5" drive cage would be tempting.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They cost too much for my pockets, my future computer (if everyhting goes well I'll buy it in December) will cost about 1100$ with a 3TB HDD and 256 GB SSD for Windows and the most demanding games (which I plan to swap in the HDD when I change active game). A TB SSD would cost me way too much - I may be an engineer but in Italy it means I'm paid slightly more than a generic labourer.
Also, as of now my only PC is a 5.5 years old notebook with progressively failing hardware, so an upgrade has been out of the options for a lot of time.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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nod
Based on historical price drops, we're probably about another year or year and a half from a 1tbd SSD being as cheap as a sweetspot SSD (currently 256, presumably 512 then) and capacity HDD. I suspect that's about when they'll start eating a bigger chunk of the mid end desktop market.
I've bought a 128 @ $300, a 256 @ $330, and most recently a 1tb @ $550, the latter of which let me go all flash in my desktop. I'm well aware that those have been as luxury priced as the $500 graphics cards I buy every other year or so, and the $1000k I spent on a 2560x1600 monitor I bought a half dozen years ago, nevermind the $500 on the behemoth tower from Caselabs I've packed it all into...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet Maybe it's a feature.
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who'd'a thunk it?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Another week, another new Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Anniversary edition. This week's collection of fixes is causing installation issues for some users. Also, the sun rose this morning.
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At this stage, heads should be starting to roll. Lessons aren't being learned and, given the vast amount of telemetry they are harvesting, this is completely unforgivable.
This space for rent
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has robustly defended his company's strident approach to security in a new on-stage Q&A, declaring: "Encryption is inherently great." Who couldn't use a little military grade encryption? My fanfiction must be kept seeeecret.
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