If this defection to the Conservatives happens tomorrow, you know that the Liberals in Canada are going to sound like this.
A 300 TB Drive
Less than four years away?
According to Joystick, Seagate boffins are apparently working on a hard-drive which uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) techniques.
The boffins think that this will mean that they can shove 50TB of data into a single square inch of drive space, or around 300TB of information on a standard 3.5-inch drive.
This means that you can stuff the entire Library of Congress onto your hard-drive without any compression.
Man, that will hold a lot of 3D holographic pr0n…
Of course, by then Vista 2010 will require 250 TB for a standard install…
Avoidance Of Truth
An interesting essay from Arnold Kling:
One of my strongly-held beliefs, for which I tend to attract supporting evidence and repel contrary arguments, is that markets process information more effectively than does the political process. Perhaps it as an exaggeration to refer to the market as the “world of truth,” as Tim Harford does in The Undercover Economist. However, it strikes me that it is easier for market forces to drive a bad firm out of business than it is for political forces to extinguish a policy that fails to meet the objectives that purportedly drive its enactment.
Those who believe in the wisdom of the political process might argue that the competition between political elites–between Democrats and Republicans or between Krugman and Limbaugh–promotes reasonable outcomes. However, I suspect that the net result of this competition is to lead to greater accretion of government power, giving the elites more to fight over. Politics ultimately becomes a competition to promise the undeliverable, whether it be better public education, inexpensive health care, or government suppression of drug abuse or sexual immorality.
Emphasis mine. That’s why it’s so important to get a private space industry going. A government space program will inevitably be captured by its rent seekers, and be almost invariably ineffective (and even counterproductive) in its stated goals, particularly given how unimportant those goals are to the body politic.
Unanswered Questions
1) While McVeigh affirmed that the OKBOMB conspiracy began in September 1994, it remains a question if there was a meeting with Elohim radicals, including Strassmeir, on or after that date. What has been verified is that on that day McVeigh checked into a motel that day near Elohim City.
2) Did McVeigh receive funds from the Midwest Bank Robbers?
3) Did Kevin McCarthy ever see Strassmeir with McVeigh or did he know of a friendship between them? For a time, McCarthy was Strassmeir
More Thoughts On Ares IV
From the Chair Force Engineer. He thinks that EML1 is a good idea, though, rather than lunar orbit rendezvous. So do I.
Nostalgia
Boy, if you’re an old L-5er, this site sure brings back memories. I remember using many (in fact all) of those slides when I’d go around and evangelize space colonization back in the late seventies and early eighties.
[Via Phil Bowermaster, who’s not the man he once was.]
Won’t Be Fooled Again
I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but many people think that the Iraq reporting has been inaccurate and biased:
…overall, about one-third of Americans believe that the news media present too negative a picture of what is happening in Iraq; one out of five believe that the news media present too positive a picture, and the rest say that news media coverage is about right or have no opinion.
As the party breakdown shows, the lunatics who think that coverage has been too “positive” are part of the “reality-based community.”
Won’t Be Fooled Again
I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but many people think that the Iraq reporting has been inaccurate and biased:
…overall, about one-third of Americans believe that the news media present too negative a picture of what is happening in Iraq; one out of five believe that the news media present too positive a picture, and the rest say that news media coverage is about right or have no opinion.
As the party breakdown shows, the lunatics who think that coverage has been too “positive” are part of the “reality-based community.”
Won’t Be Fooled Again
I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but many people think that the Iraq reporting has been inaccurate and biased:
…overall, about one-third of Americans believe that the news media present too negative a picture of what is happening in Iraq; one out of five believe that the news media present too positive a picture, and the rest say that news media coverage is about right or have no opinion.
As the party breakdown shows, the lunatics who think that coverage has been too “positive” are part of the “reality-based community.”
Evangelistic Atheist
Richard Dawkins is a brilliant evolutionary theorist, and popularizer of science, but over at the NYT Review of Books, H. Allen Orr isn’t very impressed with his recent screed against religion
Though I once labeled Dawkins a professional atheist, I’m forced, after reading his new book, to conclude he’s actually more an amateur.