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The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters
redfieldp writes: "This is a pretty interesting story about the 'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S., and reasons why the industry is ailing ..." There's quite a bit of interesting hard-drive history in here, too.
Gotta Love /. there needs to be a mod for this.
The moderators too, apparently. The only mod on that post is "Overrated."
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
yes, i did post before reading and I apologize. I make an ass out of myself every time I post. (I only get modded up if I make a really big ass though.) Replying to myself offtopic is pretty obnoxious so maybe it will all work out for the best...
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By the way, I'm trying out the Opera browser for the first time, and the text I'm typing in this comment box is damn small. Any way to fix this or is Opera just gay? Criminy! iCab doesnt render /. right, netscape 4.08 sucks, newer netscapes suck more, ie is evil, Opera makes text look gay...maybe I'll try Mozilla next. or maybe lynx. fuck, i'll just use raw telnet to port 80.
Just choose one window manager and its apps. I have learned to stop worrying and love KDE 3, you can too. Cutting and pasting between KDE apps is a no brainer. You can do it the XWindow way or the Windows way. "Easy peasy" as Jamie Oliver would say.
OK, next objection to Linux...
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
You use "uses", while you also say "says". Pick one?
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You use "Pick one?", while the rest of the world ends it with an exclamation point or period. Pick one ??!!
... Noone's perfect. But a little humor helps.
--pi
Why do they call it an exclamation point, when it's clearly not a point, but a point and line? I use exclamation mark. To be consistent with question point... er... question mark.. ?
I wonder if so much of the gang and drug activity in our inner cities is a result of an artificially high minimum wage which makes unskilled people less employable.
I'd suspect that a big component of the problem is cultural (physical abuse, substance abuse, poverty, lack of education, lack of motivation, recruitment into street gangs).
But, minimum wage is indeed an artificial control, though there are many delicate balances between economic and social agendas in such things. Minimum wages are basically aimed at preventing low-skill workers from being exploited within their own country. The substitute, I guess, is fewer low-paying jobs and more welfare. Of course, under-the-table arrangements exist for less-than-minimum-wage employment.
Just as soon as the Arabs accept payment for oil in Euros. Given GWB's apparent support for Israel, this could happen any minute.
International payments are usually exchanged into the local currency of the supplier, though there is undoubtedly an underground economy based on US dollars in many poor countries. Governments don't have all that much control over underground economies, neverminding what currency they use, and governments are usually trying to stamp them out.
In any case, Americans would have little trouble getting a hold of Euros if they needed them.
The dollar derives its value from the fact that all Oil consumers MUST pay in dollars, so to buy oil, you must first buy dollars, while the oil producers have dollars more than they can spend.
Nonsense.
BTW, America imports only about 20% of the oil it uses from the Middle East (or was that only 20% of only imports?). Do you know where most of its oil comes from? America. Do you know where it imports the most oil from? Canada.
Any minute this will change, and no one will want UDS any more What does the US export to support the dollar? Apart from Gansta rap and hollywood moves? Nothing They did export planes, but Airbus is cheaper to buy and run.
More nonsense. America exports a large variety of products.
large calibre? get custom-built imported 20mm cannons or better, don't go with American brands. I personally do not know where to find them, here in Canada gun laws are a little more restrictive.
In light of recent events (the previous year specifically) good luck getting your purchase into the country.