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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.
Fuck you all, bastards!
Link
cool, another typo on slashdot!
Advances Nip at Its Heels, but Disk Maker Moves Forward
Nice link there, Tim!
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Jesus Christ, preview is there for a reason. One more reason I don't pay for this site:
M A.html> 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.
writes: "This is a pretty interesting story about http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01KO
And its not even english, like the rest of the site. Blech!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
The title uses "Hard Drive", while the editorial text says "Hard-Drive". Pick one?
/. screwed the link, and now everyone is posting a proper link. I just wish they had posted the circumvented link instead of the reg. required one...
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html?url=http://
KARMA WHORE
yes, clipboards are hard to use.
stories chosen for the front page are oviously random,
wonder what technique is used
darts, hat, roulette wheel...
oh for a job as easy as that
This is a pretty interesting story about http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01KOM A.html>the 'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S., and reasons why the industry is ailing ...
double check those URLs and HTML tags!
I tell you, nobody takes any pride in their work anymore :/
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
The drive market has been a commodity business for several years now. There's very little to distinguish the top offerings from the various vendors. IBM's exit from the drive arena recently was a reminder of this. A few years ago when I was part of a team designing a high-end RAID controller, it was the concensus of all the engineers that IBM made the best SCSI drives. They were dumbing billions into R&D and they still couldn't differenciate their offerings enough to make it profitable.
Here's waiting for fast solid state storage...
Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
Pete was taken blindfolded by helicopter to Mr.
Black's nightclub. He was assured by Jeff, who rested a hand on his thigh
during the mysterious trip that all this secrecy would not be necessary once
they knew him better.
Once inside the door to the club, the belindfold was
removed. It was a sumptuously decorated supperclub in the Art Deco style,
each booth situated so that the complete privacy of the client was assured,
and each booth facing a small curtained stage. Pete noticed at once of
course, nake teenage boys moving through the soft gentle velvet darkness of
the room, serving drinks and food.
"I'll be back in a few minutes," Jeff smiled. 'Meantime make yourself
at home. Everyone and everything here is available to you. Just ask. "
On a dias to the right of the stage, a naked teenage band offered
unobtrusive versions of pop songs. The lead singer gyrated his slender pale
teenage hips as he sang into the mike, and his cock and balls swung left and
right. The drummer, a cocky kid with a mop of blond hair and a sweatslick
smooth young body sat with his legs spread, his huge balls dripping off the
small stool.
"Would you care for a drink sir?"
Pete turned his head to see the tall muscular seventeen year old
waiter who like the others was naked. The boy had a winning smile, which
few noticed becuase he also had an extremely large circumcised penis thick
and smooth and pink.
"Yes, a scotch and soda please..." Pete said, smiling back at the
handsome youth.
The boy relaxed a bit, and his hips and dick jutted forward even more.
"You're new here, arn't you sir? I saw you looking at my prick. If you'd
like to touch it or suck it, please just tell me. Everyone here is eager to
make this the best night of your life."
"Well thank you..." Pete said awkwardly unable to look away now from
the horse cock ont he seventeen year old.
"Mr. Black has just released a video of me called "Scoutmaster Tim"
in which I put some boyscouts through a really nasty initiation. You might
enjoy it. I'll be right back with your drink." Pete watched the young
man's muscular ass cheeks roll as he walked up to the bar.
Another naked teen, this one about fifteen and carrying a tray
approached the table. This boy was smaller, with a more youthful chest and
stomach and a short stubby prick that stuck out from a patch of black hair
over two well rounded hairless teen balls.
"Would you care for anything to smoke sir? We have cigarettes,
cigars, pot of course, coke to sniff, crack cocaine, and heroin. We have
needles, tabs, pills, powder, all coming from Mr. Black's private coumpound
and refinery in Mae Hong Son Thailand."
Bingo! Already Pete had something. First mention of a drug ring in
Thailand. Pete searched his mind, going back to his classes in the FBI on
drugs...Mae Hong Son meant "valley of the mists" and was an area in the
northwest of the country near what is commonly referred to as the golden
triangle.
"Sir? something to smoke? " The boy smiled down at Pete. He was a
cute kid, with big eyes and black curly hair.
"Not now thank you. Maybe later." Pete wanted to appear gay, so he
lightly brushed his hand over the boy's prick and balls. The Kid thrust his
hips toward the client, offering his genitals to the man's hand.
"You can smoke me later if you care to...or perhaps you'd be interested
in my new video, 'Kenny Kennel Adventure.' It features me, a really mean
well hung dog trainer who loves to play rough, and five Great Danes. " The
boy never lost his smile when describing the film, but his eyes kind of
glazed over.
"Maybe later. " Pete said. A few seconds later, Tim returned with
the scotch and soda and a menu. Once Pete heard the sounds of heavy
fucking coming from another booth, but he could see nothing. Jeff slid
back in the booth next to him.
"The show starts in about ten minutes. There are private rooms
upstairs, really sweet, everything you could want including in house video
cameras in case you may want a copy of your visit;. As Isaid all the boys
are available, but we've got at least twenty guest tonight, so your first
choice may be taken unless you move fast. Any type boy you'd like to try
tonight?"
Pete took a risk. "yes, I'd love an Asian boy...Thai preferably. They
always look about ten years younger than their real age. "
Jeff beamed, throwing his arm around Pete. "Asian, huh? My uncle
would like you. Those are his favorites as well. We've got some delicious
Thai boys. would you like something young and unused, or in his teens and
experienced? "
Pete couldn't stand the thought of having to have sex with a child.
"Someone about fifteen would be great."
"Rough stuff or not? I mean if you're going to whip or fist the kid, I
have to know, just so we can make the proper arrangements. "
"No," Pete stammered still unable to grasp the complexity of this
perversity. 'Just normal sex."
Jeff laughed. "Just normal sex with a fifteen year old Thai boy,
huh? Just gonna shove your big dick up his little ass two or three times,
huh? Well we can arrange that. " Jeff snapped his fingers and yet another
naked boy of about thirteen hurried over. This kid qualified as an angel
in the looks department. "Bring me the Asian Book." jeff said. "And get
me a vodka martini too. And move your cunt." Then he turned back to Pete.
"Talk about sweet asses. That kid is a real trip to fuck. His rectum just
doesnt stretch, no matter how many dicks plow it. I mean I think every guy
who comes here has fucked him in the last month, and the little cunt is
still tight as can be. And his face is so cute, I just love to slap my dick
back and forth across it, leaving pecker tracks. The kid's father is a
public relations man for the Baptist Ministries and has no idea what his son
is being forced to do. "
"Forced? So the boy isnt whoring himself willingly?"
"Come on, would a cute thing like that willingly be used as a fucktoy
for perverted men? That's the sweetness of my uncle's opeation. It cater's
to men who are into humiliation, degredation, and forced sex. Its a very
specific appeal. All the boys who work here are either blackmailed,
threatened, or just plain beaten into submission. Many lead normal lives
away from the club and films. So you might see a sixteen year old kid,
getting fucked by a black basketball team, or even a gorilla in a video..and
know that that boy is desperately trying to keep up a normal life on the
outside. Most are promised that if they behave and perform well for a few
months they will be released from their indenture and allowed to return to
their lives."
"Yeah, but Pete, what if a parent or teacher or someone does find out
that this kid is involved in a sex ring unwillingly or not...what then?"
Jeff smiled a big smile and patted Pete on the cheek. "Then we simply
have to take care of the parents or teacher. We've gotten some intersting
films that way...Mr. Black loves to film father's forced to fuck their own
sons. Sometimes a boy can really be broken in a fun way by making him screw
his own mother. That's always fun. Of course we also have whole family
fuckfests. Our show tonight features a mother, father, and two sons in a
fourway fuck orgy. The father was caught altering the books of the business
he worked for...and rather than go to prison, he opted for family sex for
Mr. Black. You'll enjoy that part of the show. The younger son is getting
his ass broken open for the first time tonight
brother. Mom's going to help by licking the dicks and balls as they fuck
the boy's ass. We've also got one of our main stars, a seventeen ear old kid
named Chad, getting gang banged tonight on stage. Also a fourteen year old
virgin boy will be stripped naked in public for the first time.Its always
great to watch their faces as the lower their underpants for a crowd for the
very first time. Then he will have his scrotum beaten. Then he will be made
to masturbate in public and lick up his spilled cum. Wait till you see this
kid's innocent , sweet face.
Then two well hung Latino boys will have a tug-o-war using their
dicks..which will be tied together. Ands then two brothers in a dildo
stuffing contest. The boy who can take the larget dildo up his asshole gets
to take the rest of the evening off. The boy who loses..get another kind of
expeirence. Both these boys are in high school and on the school soccer
team. At this point they are stil ass virgins, although both boys have
been sucking dick for the last few weeks. Tomight we will see which teenage
ass can accomodate the largest dildo.l"
Jeff smiled warmly at Pete. "You know, you are one cool dude. I know
you don't go for guys your own age..and I'm no boy any longer..but hell I'm
only about ten years younger than you are, and if you ever want sex with a
real man. Let me know." Jeff's hand was working at Pete's crotch.
Pete knew this was a big break. Christ, the guy was Mr. Black's nephew.
If he could get in tight with him, he might be able to end this insanity all
the sooner. "I have no aversion to fully grown studs..." Pete smiled back.
"I don't want you to think if always hit on the customers. In fact, I
never do, my uncle would have a kitten...but I really like you. I'm not
sure why, and that's no insult..i just don't know why I am particularly
attracted to you..youknow with all the young meat lying round here for the
taking. And the fresh boycunt we've got at the frat house. We've got four
pledges that we broke..mentally and physically and emotionally. You met two
of them in the limo. Well these boys are nothing more now than fresh fine
cunt meat. They have been reduced to cockslave status and have no will to
fight. So I guess my uncle's training paid off. So what do you you say,
would you like to spend a weekend with me sometimes...mixing it up?"
"Jeff, I'd be delighted to. " The next instant hunky young Jeff
Black's tongue was inside Pete Daniels' mouth. When they finished the two
and a half minute spitswap, Pete found a book before him.
"These are the Asian boys we have available tonight. If a boy has a
red mark next to his photo, it means he is already taken for the evening.
I'll be back..and Pete..its going to be wonderful getting to know you."
Jeff laughed and moved on to another booth. Pete opened the book.
Each boy had several photos. A face shot. A full frontal nude shot.
A full rear nude shot, and then one or two in sexy positions like holding
his ass cheeks open or masturbating his dick. The boys ranged from very
young up to about eighteen.
then there were special comments on each boy. Things like, "Never eaten
shit..want to be the first with him?" or "This boy is very naughty and can
take any punishment you can think up..." or "this boy has a four point
average in high school...see how he does at extra curriculars..." Pete
couldn't believe that Mr. Black has literally forced all these fine
innocent boys into sexual servitude. One page had a very cute young Asian
boy and girl. The caption read, "Watch this cute young brother and sister
fuck, or fuck them both yourself. Special two for one price." Pete wanted
a Thai boy, hoping to get more information on the location of the compound.
He could then page his boss at headquarters and get an attack force on its
way. But only if Mr. Black were at the compound. Any invasion that didn't
include the capture of Mr. Black would have to be considered a total
failure.
Pete had just decided on a very cute Thai fifteen year old with the
caption, "The best cocksucker at Mr. Black's," When Jeff returned.
"I just had a brilliant idea. You love Thailand...well it just so
happens, my uncle is there now, doing some business, so why don't you and I
fly out there and see him? We can get to know each other better and have a
real blast."
Pete beamed. "Great idea Jeff..." Great fucking idea! So Mr. Black
was in Thailand now..probably in Mae Hone Son.
Mr. Black had just finished a rewarding conversation with one of
Hollywood's most sought after leading men. The teenage hearthrob had
recently made a film in Thailand and fallen into Mr. Black's clutches. The
young star knew that if his homosexual orgies and drug use became common
knowledge, his career would be ruined, so Mr. Black had him literally by the
balls. The tall lanky blond was seated in a lounge chair, working a nine
inch dildo in and out of his shaved pink asshole. Not that he wanted to do
this, Mr. Black had ordered him to ass fuck himself. Mr. Black loved the way
the young man's face screwed up with every thrust of the big thick rubber
prick up his boycunt.
The kid's body which had been thin and undeveloped had now taken on nice
tone due to the work on this Thai island adventure film. His pouty
nipples now rode on well developed pecs and the lad's body was a healthy
golden tan. His dick was nothing to write home about, but it wad cute.
Just the right size to bust the twats of the teenyboppers in his
audience..only very few knew it would be their young hunky teenage
boyfriends that would more caue his boner to throb. His supposed bodyguards
were acutally studs hired to plow his skinny ass upon demand.
"You told me that if i did that disgusting New Year's party for you,
you would let me off the hook," the kid whined in his thin not very actorish
voice. He stopped pumping his boytwat for a moment, but at a look from Mr.
Black commenced ramming his pussy withthe dildo.
"I know baby, but you know how it is...you need the drugs and secrecy,
and my clients just love to see Hollywood's hottest young hunk geeting ass
battered on private video. So I think you've got t make a few more videos
for me. You just go on back to "Hollyweird" and do your usual thing. I'll
contact you when I want you."
"Jesus, if those videos ever get out, I'll be ruined." Slop thunk,
slop thunk, slopthunk!
Mr. Black took out his huge dick. He walked up to the mega-star.
"Then you just better hope they never get out. Open up." The blond opened
his nice full lipped mouth and Mr. Black shoved his dick into the most
idolized face in filmdom.
"Suck, and keep fucking your ass. You see you learned a valuable
lesson my dear young twat. Money and fame are not eveything. Leverage!
That is real power. I've got the leverage. You need the drugs, cant do
without them. You also have a secret sex life. So, in essence, you belong
to me. Now I want you to do a few things for me. You owe your public a
better time, so I want you to return to Hollywood and select as your next
major picture, one with a nice long full frontal nude scene. You cheated
them with this island thing, everybody thought they were going to see some
tallywhacker. So I want some cockshots in the next film, nice and clear, in
good light. We'll see if the teenboppers still adore you when they see that
their high school sweethearts have bigger dicks. I can't understand what you
are saying, so shut up and suck. Secondly, you know your lovely rear sun
deck on your Hollywood mansion..the one the reporters are always filming
with their zoom lenses..well, I want you to go out there one day next week
around noon and lay down in a lounge chair..bare assed naked and beat your
meat. Shoot a nice load. That will keep the tabloids happy. Oh stop crying
you big baby, it will probably help your fucking career. Jesus, you can't
act worth shit, so you might as well do something well even if its just jerk
off. "
The film actor had left by private car about noon, and a good thing
too, becuase at five that afternoon, the Thai Army attacked the compound.
Mr. Black first hear the whoosh whoosh whoosh of helicopter blades ashe was
fucking the ass of the sixteen year old son of one of his refinery
workers. At first he thought it was the ceiling fan and went on slamming
his big prick into the nice tight hole of the native boy. The boy was very
cute and very shy and very straight, so Mr. Black had made a big deal of
stripping the kid and feeling his ass in front of all the laughing compoung
workers. The boy knew he could not refuse Mr. Black or else his family
would lose its job working at the compound preparing the opium into small
blocks. So he had to stand there in the sun filled compound yard and let
Mr. Black weigh his balls and yank on his dick.
Finally Mr. Black had said very loudly in Thai so all could understand,
"I think this boy will make a fine pussy." And he sent the kid to his room
with instructions for the boy to shower and wait bare assed on his bed.
Nervously, the poor native boy waited for over an hour, imagining what a
dick up his ass must feel like,knowing he would be teased and called Mr.
Black's Cunt by all the boys in the village. Knowing the girls would look
away and giggle.
First Mr. Black taught him how to suck cock. That took some time. Then
the patient teacher taught the boy how to properly suck on and lick a
sctorum. Next they progressed to ass sucking, which made the boy sick
several times, but he finally got the hang of it. And then Mr. Black fuckd
the crying kid up the ass.
It was then that he heard the approaching helicopters. He never did
hear the gunfire as the Thai military troops slaughtered everyone in the
compound, man woman and child. Tolerence toward drug traffic is zero in
Thailand. An automatic death penalty, without trial at times. Mr. Black was
already in the dark tunnel dug underneath the compund and leading to the
local Karen Hill Tribe village. It was a tunnel similar to those used by
the vietnamese during the Asian war, dark and dirty, but a lifeline at times
such as these. Mr. Black had paused only enough to grab a knapsack full of
clothes and survival needs, then naked, with his hard dick still leaking
pre fuck, he grabbed the terrified Thai kid and ushered him down a stairway
beneath a trap door set in the floor of the bedroom underneath an oriental
carpet. He didn't save the kid out of kindness. He didn't want anyone
behind to testify as to where he had gone. He could have killed the boy,
but he didnt have time, and besides, the lad was cute and a potentially good
fucktoy. So they made their way naked beneath the earth, and climbed up a
ladder into a hut in the middle of the Hill Tribe village. The amazed
faces of the villagers, including the beautiful long necked girls with
silver bands stretching their heads high, broke into grins as the farang
with the big dick flopping rushed to the top of the nearest hill to stare
at the smoke rising from his burning compound.
told the story of the slaughter. Mr. Black swore vengeance on whoever had
revealed the location of the compound and cause the death of so many workers
and more importantly, the loss of so much fine opium. A multi-million dollar
loss in less than an hour.
The Thai boy tried to gently break free of Mr. Black's grasp, thinking
he might spirit himself to safety unnoticed, but Mr. Black twisted his hand
in the boy's black hair and then slapped him hard three times. "I'm not
through fucking you! " Mr. Black said in Thai. "Kow Jai Mai?" Do you
understand? "I am very angry, and when I am angry, I fuck very hard. I like
to hurt the boy I am fucking! I am going to hurt you very badly today. Very
badly. You are going to cry like a little baby as I fuck you over and over.
And hopefully, that will make me feel a little better! And then all the boys
and the men in the village will fuck you. They will do it because I will
pay them to do it. Over fifty men and boys will fuck you today. And there
is nothing you can do about it. The pain of large tragedies must be
compensated for with small pleasures!
Gotta Love /. there needs to be a mod for this.
Circumvention
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
The problem is they just work too well and nobody pays any attention.
:-)
I Guess we know why windows is so popular then
Fixed link
For those too lazy to cut and paste
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
So what?
Do they make cheaper, better, or larger hard drives than their competitors? On this, the article is silent.
I'm all for mindless flag waving, but only so far as I don't have to pay extra for it.
I have been pwned because my
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.
Oooooh. Gahhh. I'm really paying for it this time.
I tell you, I've got to start being more careful. I'm not getting any younger.
I don't even remember: What exactly did I cram in my anus last night? It feels like I drove a Mack truck through there. Thank God for Bufferin.
I've never really thought of myself as a big-time anal crammer, or the kind of guy who can out-cram everyone else at a party. I'll usually stuff, you know, a couple of travel-size shampoos and maybe a harmonica in there, just to be social. And sure, on New Year's Eve or some special occasion, I might loosen up and put in a can of soup or some Beanie Babies. But I'm hardly a brass-colon daredevil like that guy in the Guinness book who crammed a washing machine.
Boy, I hope I can remember what I stuffed up there last night. I'm sure it'll make a great story on Monday. I'm pretty sure it was squarish in shape: There are eight distinct pain points that feel equidistant from each other. But what would cause that? A Rubik's Cube? A stack of 10 or so CDs? An alarm clock? I just don't know.
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Obviously, heading into the evening, I didn't plan to cram anything terribly big up my ass. But who ever does? It's always the same, you know: You go to a party, they put out some cheese, a few fruit wedges--no problem. But then somebody hands you a broomstick, and you think, "Oh, what the hey!" Next thing you know, you're waking up the next morning wondering if you'll ever shit straight again.
Oh, sure, back in college, I could cram with the big boys. I was a fraternity man; how could I not? I remember this one mixer with the Tri-Delts. I crammed five bottles of Coors and won $80. The only reason I won, though, was that Big Rooney wasn't there that night. Whoa, that guy could cram things in his anus! I once saw him shove 16 pool balls in his ass and completely close his sphincter around them. He was a monster! Today, he's a broker for Schwab Insurance, the last thing any of us would have guessed, believe me.
Anyway, my point is, those days are far behind me. Nowadays, I'm lucky to get the collected works of T.S. Eliot up there--softbound!
I should note that I don't actually endorse this kind of behavior. I'm just telling you what goes on. I'm also trying not to be unrealistic. I realize that as long as there are anuses, there will be people cramming things up them. But I want to urge everyone reading this, especially young people, that if you're going to cram stuff up your anus, please do it responsibly.
Could it have been one of those Chinese tea tins? This is gonna drive me crazy. I hope I can figure it out without having to go around the house seeing what's missing.
I think last night will have to be my last great hurrah as an anal crammer. Next time someone offers me a Hickory Farms Deluxe Gift Basket, I'll just say no. Or if I do decide to do it, I'll be sure to slowly cram it one item at a time. After all, you can't help growing old, but you can do it gracefully, right? From now on, I'm setting some limits to my cramming, like a videocassette or two once a month and maybe a raccoon on my birthday. And, of course, the usual cup of spiced tea on Christmas morning with the rest of the family.
But definitely no more ironing boards. I'm pushing 35, for God's sake.
It's a good thing that IBM got out of that volatile, risky market and into the nice, solid, safe market of selling holographic memory "in five to ten years"
They'd be in real trouble now otherwise!
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Take last Sunday, for instance, when I casually struck up a conversation with this guy in the health-club locker room. Nothing fruity, just a couple of fellas talking about their workout routines while enjoying a nice hot shower. The guy looked like a real man's man, too--big biceps, meaty thighs, thick neck. He didn't seem the least bit gay. At least not until he started sucking my cock, that is.
Where does this queer get the nerve to suck my cock? Did I look gay to him? Was I wearing a pink feather boa without realizing it? I don't recall the phrase, "Suck my cock" entering the conversation, and I don't have a sign around my neck that reads, "Please, You Homosexuals, Suck My Cock."
I've got nothing against homosexuals. Let them be free to do their gay thing in peace, I say. But when they start sucking my cock, I've got a real problem.
Then there was the time I was hiking through the woods and came across a rugged-looking, blond-haired man in his early 30s. He seemed straight enough to me while we were bathing in that mountain stream, but, before you know it, he's sucking my cock!
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What is it with these homos? Can't they control their sexual urges? Aren't there enough gay cocks out there for them to suck on without them having to target normal people like me?
Believe me, I have no interest in getting my cock sucked by some queer. But try telling that to the guy at the beach club. Or the one at the video store. Or the one who catered my wedding. Or any of the countless other homos who've come on to me recently. All of them sucked my cock, and there was nothing I could do to stop them.
I tell you, when a homosexual is sucking your cock, a lot of strange thoughts go through your head: How the hell did this happen? Where did this fairy ever get the idea that I was gay? And where did he get those fantastic boots?
It screws with your head at other times, too. Every time a man passes me on the street, I'm afraid he's going to grab me and drag me off to some bathroom to suck my cock. I've even started to visualize these repulsive cock-sucking episodes during the healthy, heterosexual marital relations I enjoy with my wife--even some that haven't actually happened, like the sweaty, post-game locker-room tryst with Vancouver Canucks forward Mark Messier that I can't seem to stop thinking about.
Things could be worse, I suppose. It could be women trying to suck my cock, which would be adultery and would make me feel tremendously guilty. As it is, I'm just angry and sickened. But, believe me, that's enough. I don't know what makes these homosexuals mistake me for a guy who wants his cock sucked, and, frankly, I don't want to know. I just wish there were some way to get them to stop.
I've tried all sorts of things, but it's all been to no avail. A few months back, I started wearing an intimidating-looking black leather thong with menacing metal studs in the hopes that it would frighten those faggots off, but it didn't work. In fact, it only seemed to encourage them. Then, I really started getting rough, slapping them around whenever they were sucking my cock, but that failed, too. Even pulling out of their mouths just before ejaculation and shooting sperm all over their face, chest, and hair seemed to have no effect. What do I have to do to get the message across to these swishes?
I swear, if these homosexuals don't take a hint and quit sucking my cock all the time, I'm going to have to resort to drastic measures--like maybe pinning them down to the cement floor of the loading dock with my powerful forearms and working my cock all the way up their butt so they understand loud and clear just how much I disapprove of their unwelcome advances. I mean, you can't get much more direct than that.
And probably soon to be gone completely.
I accidentally clicked on the link to Komag Incorporated's stock prices... Hoooooooo boy.
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How do you get a low of $0.00??? How come my stock broker didn't call me that second and have me buy ten million shares? He's fired!
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My parents were divorced. They had been since right after I was born. I was 15 and my sister(Brittney) was 14. I lived with my mother, and she lived with my other sister, father, and step-mother. That weekend, my sister and I went over to my Aunt's house to stay.
I went over there at about 5:00. I sat around watching TV and talking with my sister until about 7:00. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Well, when I was in there I decided to do a little jerking off. So for a few minutes I stood there having my personal time to myself. After I was done I cleaned myself up and began brushing my teeth. My sister burst in the door, jerked down her pants and panties and began taking a pee. This shoked me at first because nothing like that had ever happened.
About an hour later my 15 year old cousin Jessica arrived. Her and Brittney went into the guest room and shut the door. I went in another room and grabed a blanket and pillow and put them in the recliner. I took off my clothes, except for my boxers, and I put on a T-shirt. I climbed in the recliner and covered up to go to sleep.
Brittney and Jessice both came in and asked me if I wanted to come watch a movie in the room with them. I told them guessed, even though I was very tired. I picked up my blanket and walked with them to the room. The locked the door, and Brittney started the movie. To my suprise it was a porno. I sat on the bed and covered up. Jessica sat next to me and Brittney sat on the side of her. They began to wisper to each other. Suddenly, Jessica reached under the covers and put her hand on my thigh. I didn't pay it much attention. Brittney got up and sat on the other side of me. They began to giggle at one another, then Jessica slid her hand up and touched my cock. I looked at her for a second, then turned my attention back to the porno. She began to rub it. Brittney told me to turn and lay on my back.
Jessica then sat on my legs and pulled out my dick. She slowly started to rub it. Brittney pulled off her shirt exposing her large breasts. She leaned over me and put one near my mouth. I leaned up and took it in my mouth. I began to suck on it gently, and slightly nibbled on it. Jessica then stood up and pulled off her shirt and panties. She laid next to me and put my hand between her legs. I slid my fingers into her wet pussy. I began fingering her for a few moments until my sister got up and pulled off her underwear as well.
Brittney climbed up ontop of me and slid down onto my cock. She started to move back and forth on it. Jessice got up and told me she wanted me to eat her pussy. I told her I would if Brittney also did it to her. They both agreed and as Brittney was fucking me, Jessice straddled my face and I began to eat her pussy. I started lapping her wet cunt over and over. She let out a huge moan and her juices began to pore. She got up and laid down on her back. Brittney climbed off my cock and got on her hands and knees infront of Jessica.
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there has been industry speculation that Millipede is the secret advantage that led I.B.M. to decide to sell its disk-drive business to Hitachi.
I speculate it might have been due to IBM's hideous failure to manufacturing stable drives that cause them to sell out. 60% failure rate here, and thats not the floor of it!
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S., and reasons why the industry is ailing
Because American workers are over-paid and the "strong" US dollar makes imports cheaper?
The business is a victim of its own success just success just like the whole computer industry is or will be IMNVHO (in my not very humble opinion).
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Hard disk drive production capacity is far higher than demand, hence HDD manufacturers are having a harder time making a profit.
Why is this? Well three simple reasons spring to mind.
1. Current HDD capacities far exceed most users current demands.
OK, so you have more than one drive in your PC, but how many of the billion PCs sold have more than one? Servers do but they make up a very small (albeit highly profitable) segment of the HDD market. Most are installed in desktop PCs and, nowadays, most people don't use more than a fraction of the 20GB+ drives that come with a modern PC. Heck, even 5GB, the kind of capacity that was typical on an entry-level desktop three years ago is more than most users get through.
(Remember, not everyone is a MP3-fiend.)
2. We're buying fewer PCs.
Companies are buying fewer machines, as are private individuals.
Companies because the desktops that they've being buying lately need to be replaced less frequently than was previously the case (because the desktops they bought three years ago still run today's software comfortably), and because they are finding few new areas (ones that they haven't already covered) where a PC will help streamline operations. The current state of the global economy doesn't help either.
The same is essentially true for private individuals too. Anyone who wants a PC already likely has one, so why buy another one (especially in an uncertain economic climate) if the old one does the trick?
No new PC means no new HDD.
3. HDDs are now commodities.
Once something becomes ubiquitous and readily available, as HDDs have in the last five years, then it no longer demands a price premium. Fiercer competition means small profits, which means less reason to stay in the business, especially a business that ties up so much capital in the first place (in R&D and fabrication costs).
Examining these factors, especially the last one, it's not too hard to see why so many companies have exited the HDD business recently.
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are absolute morons...
I bet 30 submitted stories that were much more interesting were denied and replaced by this filth.
IBM's drives are usually rock solid. They often outlast there competors by a long shot. They had a series of about 1 or 2 drives, I forget which models Im sure someone will remember. I find that in most of my servers IBM drives last longer and perform better.
I mod down any one who says "I'm sure I will get modded down for this"
What the hell are you doin!" He grabbed my dick. "Here let me shake it for ya" He dragged me further down the alley. I was trying to yell for help, but it was now use, He put his huge hand over my mouth. No one could hear me. He took me inside a door that led into a room with an old mattress laying on the floor. I was terrified! I didnt know what this guy was going to do with me. He took out some handcuffs and cuffed me to some poles that were on the wall. I was laying on the mattress with my hands cuffed to a pole. I was thinking that maybe he was some weirdo that wanted to torture me! I started to sweat profusely. He came over to me and told me to shut the fuck up. He gagged me so i couldnt yell or say anything. He started to pull my jeans off. Then he slid my boxers off. He walked over to a table and grabbed a pare of scissors. I was terrified. I thought this guy was about to cut my dick off. I tried to scream and yell, but it was no use, the gag was doing its job. No one could hear me. I sighed as he brought the scissors closer and he started to cut my shirt. I had never been so relieved in my life. He cut my shirt off, and i was laying there on the old matress completely nude, gagged and bound to the poles on the wall. He started to take his clothes off. He was completely naked. His body was well muscled, with very light hair on his chest and stomach. His dick was huge! the biggest i had ever seen before!! It was as big around as a beer can and about 7" long, and it wasnt even hard yet! He started to play with himself, attempting to get himself hard i suppose. I saw this thing grow into a fucking monster! It was about a foot long, if not longer, and this thing was so thick!!! He walked over to me and flipped me onto my stomach. I saw him reach for a bottle of something, but i couldnt make out what it was. I felt something wet and cold drizzling onto my ass. He grabbed my ass and spread me wide open. He started to rub this stuff all over my asshole. I almost started to cry as i had figured he was going to stick his huge cock in my ass!!! I was so terrified i think that my pubes where turning grey! I felt his fingers rubbing my ass. All of a sudden i just started getting all these emotions and feeling that i had never had before! I mean sure i have thought about being with another guy before, but what guy hasnt. So as i was laying there with him completely in control, I started to get very aroused. I couldnt believe what was happening.
This guy was about to rape me and i was enjoying it! As he rubbed my asshole i just gave in to the pleasure. My cock started to grow and i pushed my ass upward more so i could get my ass open a little more. Then it happened, he plunged one of his fingers into my ass. Oh my it felt amazing. The feeling was indescribable. I started to moan and buck my ass up and down. Then i felt another finger violate my rectum. I figured that he was loosening me up for his huge pecker. Then he pulled out, and i felt it! It huge cock was at the entrance to my pink virgin bung! I felt him thrust his hips forward, and with one single push the head of his cock was inside of me. The pain was so immense, i thought that he had to of done some major damage to my ass. Then he pushed it all the way in. I started to buck and wiggle my body. it hurt so bad that i had tears running down my face. the pain was immense! Just try shoving a bear can up your virgin ass and tell me how it feels. As this guy was violating my rectum, all i could think about was how hot i was getting. My lust was overriding the pain. It started to feel so amazing having his huge prick inside of me. I couldnt believe what was happening. Oh my god, i had never in my entire life felt something as good as this huge dick being plunged deep into my ass. Then he pulled out. He turned me on my back and saw how hard i was. He asked me if i was enjoying him fucking me like a bitch!. I told him that i was and he knelt down in between my legs. He took my 8" cock into his mouth and began to suck it like a pro! as he was sucking me he was ramming his finger in my ass. I started to moan. It felt so good to have another man sucking me. I started to cum like i had never came before. He just kept his mouth right over my cock and took every bit of my seed into his mouth. he pushed himself up with his massive arms and took the gag from my mouth. He leaned his face towards me and began to stick his tongue in my mouth.
My cum was still in his mouth. the taste was incredible. this was the first time that i had ever in my life tasted cum. I had never even thought about it before. As many times as i had the chance to do it before, i just never though about doing it. But i loved every minute of it. I savored the taste of my cum and his tongue in my mouth. I felt chills going up and down my spine as this fucking hunk had his tongue rammed down my throat. The he grabbed my legs and threw them over his shoulders. He spread my ass again and inserted his huge piece of meat! I moaned and gasped as he shoved it back into my warm man hole. Oh it felt so good. I told him to fuck me like the little bitch that i was. Fuck me until you fill my ass full of your white creamy jism!! He started to fuck me so hard. It was amazing. He started to jerk me off as he was fucking me. Just a few jerks and i was cumming again. All over his stomach and chest. my cum was flying everywhere. I had never came like this before.
This was the best sex i had ever had in my life! I saw his face turn bright red, and his body began to shake. He let out a huge gasp and then he moaned so loud. He must have squirted a fucking gallon of cum into my ass. He was jerking for what seemed like 2 minutes straight, when he finally finished he dropped over on top of me and told me that it was the best he had ever had!. He told me how tight i was and how he loved ripping me open!. I told him that it was the best fucking sex i had ever had. He said that he didnt want me to have any hard feelings. it was just that he liked what he saw, and he takes what he likes. I told him that it wasnt a problem, after all. How can you rape the willing?......
Here's my SHN partition:
/store/shn
3jane:/store/shn 291891992 195551296 72989344 73%
Uh-huh. 300 gigs. 73% full. I put about 10 gigs a week on it (that's about 8 or 9 3-hour concerts at 16 bits/44.1 KHz). That cost me about $1000 to build back in November of last year, and I'm currently looking at 4 160 gig Maxtor drives to fill the remaining 4 slots of my 3ware card.
Now, I may be an extreme case, but I know plenty of people who fill up their hard drives just from the applications and video games they've installed, with a few gigs of of MP3s here and there for good measure. Hell, I throw out 4 gig drives nowadays. I've got 9s and 18s that I don't even use, and about a terabyte of shit online 24/7/365. And it's data I use (MP3s, SHNs, video, 0day juarez, etc), not just shit I keep around for the hell of it (that's all on tape and CD-R.)
Just because you're stuck in 1996 doesn't mean the rest of us haven't found a use for our big hard drives.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
i'm constantly afraid that computer makers will go the way of american automobile. designs that are purposfully faulty so they fail and you have to buy them again in 3 years. A 3 year old computer is still a pretty damn fast computer in the office environment, this has dramatically decreased the need for companies to by new computers (a p3? send that one over to tech support). although, with dell now offering a 4(!) year warranty, hopefully quality will continue to prevail.
It's just a cycle, like everything else. Hard-drives pretty much outstripped (for most people) the amount of stuff they actually store. Another thing rarely mentioned is that most people are content with what they have, not because they wouldn't like a larger hard-drive, but because it is unnecessary, and things deemed unnecessary are often the first to go when money gets tight.
On the other hand, I know of one insurance company that puts all claims and paperwork in digital form in about 4 different places. This enables them to move the paper work off site and also requires them to get the largest, most top of the line hdd's they can find. Every month or so, they are bringing a new system online with bigger, better, faster.TM So, failing harddrive companies, concentrate on the businesses, not Mom and Dad with their 12GB they wont fill up, until software bloat causes them to.
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Who makes the Pentium processor?
(a) Athlon
(b) Microsoft
(c) IBM
(d) Intel
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...
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They're hyphenated.
I bought a hard drive.
Your hard-drive problems are puzzling.
Not that everyone does this consistently.
Tim
So how many gigs of data on your drives is actually legal?
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That must mean Taco's some kind of genius. He's got about four or five spellings per word.
about the 'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S.,
Komag makes the media not the complete disk drive
It's a shame that people are willing to pay more for a pair of shoes then a disk drive to store their data on!
I think that IBM's exit is about more than the marketplace being competative. I think it's about the marketplace being dead. Think about it: how much did you spend on your first 256M HD? How much does a 256M USB NVRAM "drive" cost today?
My bet is that IBM is dumping this business because it's going the way of the tape drive. Yeah, still useful for LARGE amounts of data, but it looks like it should be easy to build NVRAM drives for damn cheap, and that have a MTBF that's longer than most of us will live.
How much would it cost to build a 20G NVRAM drive that performs 10x better than a platter?
Do you talk about how much HD space you have to all the skanky 40-year-olds at the singles bar before they throw their drinks in your face?
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Probably nearly all of it, since I own all the CDs on my MP3 server, and all of the SHNs are freely tradeable.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
I know its offtopic, but oh well
I don't know how you came up with the assumption that the American car company puts a 3 year life on their products. I have an american car for 9 years and it runs like a champ.
This post close captioned for the thinking impared.
I agree that storage size has vastly outpaced demand. We have a 2 terabyte chunk of platters attached to a server which will probably triple in the next year or so, but that is not the norm.
Our "large" database servers (10's of millions of records) have more storage than they know what to with. We are currently big on 18.X gig drives at 15k rpm just beacuse we want the spindles to speed up performance. I'd rather have a 12 or 14 drive cage full of fast 18 giger ebay specials than 73 or even 36 gig drives and have a rockin price/performance ratio.
I find myself formatting drives for application servers feeling guilty that I am making partitions so big I know will never be more than a quarter full. We have web servers with less than 4 gig of space used serving about a million hits a month. Why do would we be keeping the demand up for the large drives? This drives the demand, and therefore the price and margin of the high end drives down.
The drive sizes are just growing so fast most users don't need to upgrade. It is not helped by the fact that the upgrade cycle for PC's has slowed down so much. We are replacing PC's at customers sites because the contract says it is time to replace, even though the PC is already more than powerful enough for the job they perform. How many business users really need more than a 450Mhz box on their desk? We are putting 2ghz machines on these desks now. These people run terminal emulation software, browse the web, and type.
There are many factors contributing to this hard drive problem the article talks about, these are just some personal examples I have of the reason give for the slump.
-Pete
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This indicates they don't do any manufacturing in the US? Thus are they a US manufacturer or a US owned Manufacturer ? and does this indicate there are non independant manufacturers in the US - for example IBM with US plants ? The word 'independant' is too important to be edited out of the slashdot story as it spins it in a new direction - there may be other manufacturers in the USA (i have no idea where to find out) but Komag is ONE of the last few independant ones (and i think US owned might be more valid).
This is more interesting :
So what manufacturing do they do in the US ? I suspect they have one single disk media plant and the platters are sold to OEM's for use in their drives. (they do - see Komags Website - they supply Seagate, maxtor and WD.
But in fact they don't seem to have a manufacturing plant in the us according to them - from their website
That indicates the plant that the NY Times is talking about is one of their R&D plants and not a production plant. Which it is as Komag lists San Jose and Santa Rosa as their 2 R&D plants - and for my mind R&D isn't manufacture...
So in fact are they a US manufacturer or a US owned manufacturer ? There is a difference to my mind as IBM are a US owned manufacturer.... In fact the article looks like a piece aimed at building the company's stock ahead of their relisting on the share market and not a piece about technology per se.
I refuse to argue with Anonymous Cowards - if you want a discussion get an account....
HDs are currently the slowest thing in your computer, it is the ultimate bottleneck. This is getting worse and worse each time, the performance jumps just are not present in this industry. People will not go out and buy a new HD like they would a graphics card, because the performance increases just a few percent over the model for HDs. Graphics cards double in speed in 6 to 9 months.
CPUs increase massively, and there is still the enthusiast market to drive it, but there are no HD enthusiast markets, not until the manufacturers think of something creative in design (and no, IBM, unprecidented failure doesn't count). It took this long to get a 8meg cache drive, and we all know how cheap memory is.
There is serious lack of innovation in this field.
One word, gnutella. Or any other file sharing package.
I filled my file server in about 2 weeks with that, I'm talking 70 gigs and a fast connection. And I need larger drives now.
Some of us just happen to pickup the slack for everyone else who doesn't take full advantage of what's in front of them.
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The Hard Drive may be the slowest component, but the PCI bus is the big bottleneck for MANY applications. I can cache enough of the things I need to hit the disk for in memory to render the disk bottleneck irrelavent to many applications. What I can't do is drive stuff across the crappy PCI bus any faster. Could we please move away from PCI towards something better!!
I think a one of the biggest problems in recent years is the decreasing reliability of drives. Personally, I have experienced both the IBM "deathstar" epidemic as well as a new "beeping" issue with Maxtor drives on Macs. (See http://www.macintouch.com/maxtor2.html for more info on beeping Maxtors) I have stopped buying drives for the time being until some of these problems settle down. Fact of the matter is people don't buy shoddy products (ok you got me on Windows!).
Every hard disk on the market right now has some kind of distinguishing characteristic. Folks doing equipment purchasing may not be *aware* of the distinctions, but they are present nonetheless.
Want a high-performance 5400rpm ATA disk? Look at Western Digital's *AB-series drives. Quiet SCSI? Fujitsu has/had that market cornered. Performance at any cost? Seagate's X15-36LP.
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Does this mean that hard drives would not be required to comply with the impending Digital Wrongs Management laws the US is brewing up? Of course the US will just state that hard drives will need to comply for import but since I don't live in the US I couldn't care less.
Keep up the good work Taiwan!
Going by tax rates there isn't a level playing field within the U.S. 50 different tax rates on various factors of production.
As stated in the article, IBM had recently started to use "Pixie dust" to push the supermagnetic barrier to squeeze more data on each platter. So obviously, they ran afowl of the Pixie's union, and had to sell the business to hitachi, which relies on the gremlin's union to keep the pixies in-line.
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Only under a flawed economic system will you fail because the technology is too successful. The problem is not of over investment. But one of the economic system that we are under.
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Interestingly, this stock traded 1,097,800 shares today. I wonder who bought those shares? I wonder who sold them?
I'm really, really unhappy at the quality control behind hard drives. Just this morning I put my foot on my 20gb Maxtor ATA66 old-and-showing-it drive. I barely set it on there and had only gotten comfortable with it as a foot rest when it made a funny noise and shut down! (No joke, I am this stupid and this did happen, and this isn't the first time.) Damn Maxtor, can't make a drive that head-crashes properly! Anyway, it still works, because it booted the Windows .NET Enterprise Server beta that this message is being typed on...
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How about spinning the drive at 3600 rpm or less, and eliminating all the other little noises that go with it? I am more interested in that feature than capacity. And I am *way* more interested in silence than in access speed.
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It's running my gateway machine as I type, and has been for 3 years. Wanna buy it? (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
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Anyone notice that this article was written by John Markoff, the same guy who wrote the slanderous stuff about Kevin Mitnick way back?
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Wasn't it just a few days ago when /. went over the registration issue? Now NYT is being quoted without registration warnings?
Bill Gates reports that no-one will ever need more than 640KB of memory. Wait a minute - that was like two decades ago? Wow.
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Contrary to what the article states, pixie dust, and the technology/technologists behind it are a failure. IBM hard drive division being sold because the "most successful hard drive in history" was bleeding them, by their own admission. Brutal technological competition? Try not having a backup technology for the failed GXP pixie dust debacle. See: http://www.tech-report.com/news_reply.x/3494
What do you do when technology that is supposed to put you at the front of the pack puts you into the sewer, and you have no backup strategy? You cut your losses and run like hell.
And I thought that American (US, anyhow) journalism was above bias!
Meh. The author calls IBM a victim- a victim of what? Their own stupidity and inability to produce a good product? Oh, no, I get it... <SARCASM thickness="very">IBM is a victim of companies (such as Komag) who are capable of producing a better product than them. Nasty, underhanded good-product companies!</SARCASM>
Seriously though, IBM is out of the business. Sure the Pixie Dust info. is relevant (i.e. Komag is better because they don't need pixie dust), but the stuff about millipede... how is that relevant if it's still 5-10 years out? It seems like the author is just trying to play up IBM even though they failed out of their own stupidity. Not even a mention of WD's new 200gb drives... Komag even makes the platters for WD!!
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The profitable part of the storage market is the packaging. The disk drives are the cheap part. Why bother making disks if you can make a fortune pimping someone else's drives?
If you want proof, look at IBM's ESS product. They've gone from using their own fibre channel disks to a SEAGATE U-160 with an add-on shim that adapts the drive to FC.
A more up-to-date link on the pixie dust GXP debacle is here: http://www.tech-report.com/news_reply.x/3494
With photolitography the cost per bit will remain far too high, even with feature sizes growing ever smaller ... we need something which can do submicron patterning a lot cheaper, when we do companies like rolltronics will be able to mass produce memory with thin film techniques like MRAM/thinfilm.se/Ovonyx. But until that time cheap solid state mass storage is just a dream.
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if their platters can only store one image:
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Plug it in and see if it blows up the PSU! (-:
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I have a 7200rpm drive in my Dell, an IBM, and I can't hear it at all.
Maybe your case just sucks?
Demand for storage will not increase until backup methods can scale up.
What good is that 120 GB hard drive in your machine if you can only backup 40-60 GB?
Disk storage has been really cheap for years, yet backup systems like tape and DVD are either too small or too damn expensive.
Anybody check out prices on DDS4, AIT, and other tape drives....way too expensive.
Our ability to store stuff is not dictated by hard drive space, it is dictated by backup space.
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then wear earplugs. Most HDs these days are incredibly quiet.
Can't you guys find stories on sites that DON'T require registration??? I don't care about the NY Times, and I don't want to register.
Either you're a total retard, or someone is deliberately sending you broken hardware as a prank. There's absolutely no way you can lose a dozen hard drives in one machine in 3 years and not have it be PEBKAC (or ID-10-T syndrome.)
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Seagate will drop the capacity of a 60GB platter to 40GB through a technical process it calls destroking.
If margins are so tight, I can't figure out how destroking could be happening. I associate intentional crippling of products with monopolies.
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I just installed a Maxtor 80 Gb 5400 RPM drive in my PC, and it's very quiet...quieter than my old 13 Gb unit. In fact, it seems like I can't hear the new drive at all. Certainly not when the CD-ROM is spinning...now that makes a racket.
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Try archiving HDTV. At 19.4Mbps, you will be shocked at how small an 80Gig drive is. It will hold only about 9.5 hours worth. I've got plenty of large drives and need more.
If you open your mind too wide, people will throw trash in it.
Try a plextor 40x12x40 IDE CDRw drive. It is worlds QUIETER than my old plextor 16x10x40. Go figure.
Is it just me, or does it seem there's a direct correlation between your download speeds and your hard drive size?
Unless you create huge files (digital movies) there's only so many places a person can get data to fill their hard drive. Since most DVDs are not data, the only other medium is CDs, and 650megs barely makes a dent in even a small 10gig hard drive.
So the only other source for data is the internet. If you have a 56k modem, it would take a long time to download enough to fill even 1 gig. However, with broadband, it's full in a fraction of the time. Anyone with broadband at home would agree: they downloaded a lot more once they had broadband. Whether it's mp3s, movies, games or p0rn.
Before I had broadband I had a 20 gig hard drive and couldn't even fill half of it. After broadband I bought another 20 gig, then sold them for two 40gigs. Now I'm selling those for a 120 and 100gig. All because of broadband.
If I were hard drive manufactures I'd be damn sure to market to the broadband market, either form partnerships or sell directly to customers. Because without broadband no one needs anything larger than 10gigs.
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Lets say the miniumum wage is $5/hr
I have a job opening that will be profitable for me if I pay $5/hr.
I pay $5/hr, make profit everyone wins.
Raise the minimum wage to $6/hr, I don't make a profit at that wage, so I don't hire anyone.
Someone is unemployed, and I don't make profit, and others don't benefit from my service. But at least we didn't exploit that unemployed guy.
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Zworykin and Farnsworth, working separately.
Zworykin (Russian) patented what worked like a television camera. Fransworth (American) patented what would allow signal to transfer.
John Logie Baird, the Scottish guy, just had something that transfered silhouetes later on that he dubbed "television." His was later than Zworykin's and mechanical, not electronic.
The creators of the modern television are Zworykin and Fransworth because they used electronics.
Is your television mechanical? No. So obviously Baird did completely nothing except to invent the name television.
If you're worried that workers in the third world are underpaid (and they are), you should wholeheartedly support globalization of markets. The places where people are suffering are the places where capitalism has not yet worked its mojo.
Take this hard drive industry example. Moving production overseas boosts the standard of living for those workers who now have high-tech jobs. Back in the states, the manufacturers pass along a portion of the labor savings to consumers, which makes computers more affordable. 99.99% of Americans never worked in the hard drive industry, and their standard of living increases in a noticible way by the reduced cost of hard drives and assembled computers. The only people who don't benefit are the 0.01% of Americans who worked as laborers in the hard drive industry. Sorry, but the benefits for the rest of the world far outweigh their loss. The net benefit to the human race is substantial. Moving these types of jobs overseas is the Right Thing To Do.
You are right about one thing: when the American standard of living goes down, it has a deleterious ripple effect on the standard of living in every country.
That is exactly why we should outsource these types of jobs to the third world. Doing so increases the standard of living of the average American.
Here's an excellent analogy. It's possible to grow oranges in Maine. Really, it is. You can build big expensive greenhouses for the orange trees, and heat them in the winter.
Does it make sense to forbid the good people of Maine from outsourcing their orange production to Florida? Well, the Maine agriculture lobby and greenhouse builders in Maine would love it -- they would make a lot of money. But that represents less than 1% of Maine's population. The standard of living of the other 99% would suffer. For them, the price of a glass of orange juice would probably increase by 1500%. And what about the poor orange farmers in Florida whose business would suffer? I'm sure you can see that it makes no sense to cater to small special interest groups (in this case, Maine orange growers).
So, unrestricted free trade is a good thing within these 50 states, and it's no different when you talk about international trade. For some strange reason (perhaps misplaced patriotism), many people can't seem to grok that. But it doesn't matter whether you're talking about oranges or hard drive labor, Florida or Indonesia. Let the money flow where it will, and the human race will soar.
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