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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.
+5 Insightful, because everyone knows that X-Window System clipboard sucks donkey balls.
KARMA WHORE
yes, clipboards are hard to use.
Some serious smokin' and drinkin' going on around the /. offices tonight, maybe?
Gotta Love /. there needs to be a mod for this.
yeah!
FRANKFURT, Germany -- A Russian airliner and a Boeing-made cargo plane collided over southern Germany late Monday, and up to 150 people aboard were believed to have been killed, police said.
Rescue workers have already recovered bodies of some of the victims after the Tupolev 154 and the Boeing 757 freight plane crashed into each other at 11:43 p.m. , said Wolfgang Wenzel, a spokesman for police in the city of Tuebingen.
The Boeing was carrying just two pilots, both of whom were believed to have killed, Wenzel said early Tuesday.
An air traffic controller from the airport in Frankfurt, who declined to be named, said the Tupolev was a passenger plane for Bashkirian Airlines. Bashkiria is a republic within the Russian federation. Police said the flight originated in Moscow with Barcelona, Spain, as its final destination.
The air controller identified the freight aircraft as flying for package delivery service DHL that had taken off in Bahrain and was headed for Brussels, Belgium. There was no immediate answer to telephone calls to DHL headquarters in San Francisco.
Both planes were believed to have been flying at about 36,000 feet, Wenzel said.
Burning wreckage was scattered for several miles near Ueberlingen, 135 miles south of Frankfurt and just north of Lake Constance, Wenzel said.
Dozens of people flooded police stations in the area with calls describing seeing a large ball of fire in the sky at the time of the crash, Wenzel said.
Collisions in the air between large aircraft are extremely rare, especially at the high cruising altitudes where Monday's crash reportedly occurred.
Most aircraft carry transponders, devices that relay a plane's identification, altitude and speed to ground controllers. Controllers use this information to track aircraft and keep them a safe distance from each other. In addition, equipment on many aircraft can read the transponder signals of nearby planes, painting an electronic map to show pilots the aircraft around them.
Many planes also carry collision avoidance equipment that can automatically pull the plane away from an impending collision, or sound an alarm and tell the pilot which way to turn to avoid a crash.
Transponders must be regularly calibrated and checked to make sure they are functioning properly.
The moderators too, apparently. The only mod on that post is "Overrated."
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
You rock, dude. Whoever you are. Please keep posting these stories - they are excellent!
Funny isn't it? Asking for money but unable to correctly proofread and thinking that things like the Who's bassist dying or Buffy not getting emmy nominations is news.
are absolute morons...
I bet 30 submitted stories that were much more interesting were denied and replaced by this filth.
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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they use this:http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html
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.
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word."
That must mean Taco's some kind of genius. He's got about four or five spellings per word.
Nope, different guy. This was my first attempt.
SHE DOES NEED TO TAKE CARE OF HER CLAP HOWEVER
You use "uses", while you also say "says". Pick one?
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. . . Also . .
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.. ?
WARNING! parent post contains a goatsex redirect! do not click
Actually, no, it was filled with young kids.
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 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.
Not Islam this time - try Russian pilots pissed up on Vodka. It's probably worth killing a bunch of innocent muslims anyway just in case. Oh, you already did that. Perhaps the US could be prosecuted for this - er, maybe not.
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.