teaearlegreyhot

macxpress said:

Who the hell needs 20TB of space? Thats a lot of stolen music and movies. 

Well this product is great news for people like me who are involved in modern DNA sequencing projects, where individual data files are in the range of 50-100 GB each.  A single 96-sample run can generate 5TB of data in a few hours, and yes this often means hard drives are express-shipped to customers.  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a US Mail truck full of hard drives, traveling down the highway at 65 MPH"

Skeptical? The human genome is 3 billion base pairs of DNA.  Even with only 20-fold redundancy (needed for assembly) that's 60 gigabases, which is 60 Gbyte of ascii data.  Now think about the companies offering full- genome sequencing to the public, and the many people willing to pay a few thousand bucks each for the service. 

Now think of all the plant, animal, and microbial research being done in the world, and understand that many of these organisms are having their DNA being sequenced by someone.  And not just once, but multiple instances of each species....  Data storage is a major issue.  PS: the last Mac I bought is outfitted with 128 GB of RAM....

Forget selling the data, I ALSO wouldn't want the data to be GIVEN away.  Nor do I want it to become accessible to Google, when Google buys iRobot.  In short, I don't want iRobot to be transmitting ANY data outside of my home.  The data belongs to ME, not to them.  They should not have it AT ALL.

Far too many companies are able to "buy" data simply by buying the company that holds the data.  Happens all the time.  Should be stopped!

Similarly, this is why there will be no Alexa in my home.  Ever.

I guess this means absolutely everyone will be sporting puppy ears or flowers in their hair......  How did the world survive without it?

Soli said:

anantksundaram said:

teaearlegreyhot said:

  The last time I actually heard it used was 25 years ago, in neutral conversation without the intention of bigotry, by two recent arrivals from India (Indian), whom I still consider to be friends. 

That justification's about as relevant or useful as my knowing a couple of African-Americans -- friends still -- who used the N word. 

...If we would've said, "'Renewable energy' in India means 25,000 [Dalit] running in hamster-wheel type generators," would that have made it better? Would you have responded the same way? Is he just attempting social commentary like comedians try to do?

Again, I certainly did not mean offense.  Anantksundaram is already upset, and it seems I can't change that; I'm not justifying my usage, merely explaining where I found the term and why I had no reason to think it offensive.  Now I know better.  Thank you Soli for providing the term I should have used: "Dalit". Though with the benefit of hindsight, I would have given more context to my comment so as to reduce angst.  I was too busy remembering a recent documentary where the use of "spit dogs" was covered, and which caused me to reflect on my own treadmill usage, and eventually led to my uninformed comment in an attempt to be colorful in prose.  And with that, I'm finished apologizing for this transgression; time to move on.  Cheers, all.  

Are PSA's really needed for stuff that is in beta and not available to the PUBLIC?

How about modifying the headline to clarify that you're rallying against iOS 11 BETA.  Because in a year, when the final iOS 11 is released, this article will still be indexed, and still be proclaiming that iOS 11 is a fail.  Which by then it won't be.  Shirley.  ;-)