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Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size
FPCat writes "Finally, some one is doing something about one of my pet peeves. It seems a group of people are suing Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, and others for misleading consumers about hard disk sizes. About time someone spoke up and said '1000 MB != 1 GB'" It's not much of a mystery to anyone who's up on industry practices, but it's similar to the way graphic displays are sized, cereal boxes are filled, and so on. Andy Rooney could have a field day with this one.
I'm not supposed to get jigs in it!
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office. :o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
OH yes,. its true.,
Seagate employee?!?
Pedant.
MOD PARENT UP, SHE'S NAKED C'MON!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I like smurfs.
Maybe we could make a beowolf cluster of these?
Hot grits and chicks!
Uh, uh, hard disk good.
Ok so we argue about MB vs. MiB. What about "blocks" on the f'ing XBOX thingy? What the fuck are those?
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
May cause stuperatory compences from persons like me
No, it's the size of it too. www.penissizedebate.com :)
"Sufferin' succotash."
So.... you're a dork. ;)
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Yes I would know.
I'm so sorry. You must've found this out the hard way.Single best post I've read on this thread, and you're only up to +3... It's just sad, the moderation system is.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
The RIAA members have been doing this for decades.
Buy one CD FULL of music.
Get one CD HALF FULL of CRAP
Wow, their processes are better than normal. Normal planing takes 1/4" off every side, so the 2x4 is 1.5 x 3.5. If you're getting 1.75x3.75, you're doing pretty well.
What's really more important than the size is the lumber quality. You want architectural quality lumber for your house, and that'll be a good dollar or two more expensive than generic quality for a 2x4x8.
For an airplane, such as the "kitfox", you're going to want aeronautical quality, which is a good deal better than that... and then you're getting into some real expenses.
Of course, you *could* build you're house out of generic quality lumber, I suppose. I mean, moble homes are built out of 2x2s. However, if you were going to do that, I wouldn't space my joists every 2 feet. I'd put them at 1.5 feet or 1 foot; but that would decrease your savings, of course.
So far, though, the best plan I've seen for a house, yet, is one that needs no heating, even in NYState. And that one uses a ton of lumber. Essentially, they have a good deal of glass surrounding a wooden shell, and a good-sized airspace all the way around the wooden shell. They let the sun power a solar wind through the shell that essentially creates a natural heat pump. That, in turn, eliminates the need for AC in the summer or heating in the winter. Really interesting design, if you ask me. But it uses a ton of wood. If you're going to have a design like that, you probably don't need such a high quality of lumber. But don't take my word for it. After all, there's my sig...
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