Well, you do as you please, obviously, but my experience with Seagate, and especially with its customer "care" part, has been horrendous.
I was one of those who had unknowingly bought one of their botched 1TB drives. Fortunately, I learned of the problem before I put any data on the drive, so I signed up to their customer support forum, only to find out that it is apparently moderated by the illegitimate offspring of Adolf Hitler and Lucrecia Borgia. The "moderator" on that forum, a mutant degenerate who calls himself "AlanM", not only deleted any reference to outside forums (up to and including this Slashdot article), but appears to be suffering from terminal paranoia where any remarks about his moderating are concerned.
I'd say that any company that allows a fascist to act as their online spokesperson is not worth our money, unless you happen to like fascists of course.
Some people report that after reflashing their cache is now 0 MB. As of yet nobody seems to know whether this is an artifact or true, but I would certainly not be satisfied with a firmware "repair" that disables part of my drive.
As usual, Seagate replies to the posts on its own forum with a deafening silence. Apparently they're more concerned with editing or even deleting any post that refers to Slashdot or other forums.
Could someone give the URL of the forum that gets censored on the Seagate user forum? You know, the one where the problem gets discussed without an anal moderator (who is now attempting to censor references to Slashdot on his forum!).
I'm assuming Seagate has no power to censor posts on Slashdot...
Heh. You beat me to it. Can anyone kindly give me a significant distinction between neocons and democrats? I'm not a USAnian, so perhaps the subtleties escape me...
Just to be clear, "The names are different" doesn't count.
What he said. I'd also like to add that SRBs aren't inherently more dangerous than liquid fuel boosters. What did Challenger in, were highly unrealistic specs (the "need" for reusable boosters). And Ares is basically Apollo upgraded to the "new millennium", it's supposed to be easier, cheaper and better than Apollo.
Finally, the idea that the leftover hardware from the Apollo era is fit for anything but museum display duty, is -- to put it mildly -- highly optimistic (and if I hadn't promised myself to be nicer on the intertubes in the new year, I'd have written "bloody ignorant").
To re-start the Saturn V program, you're going to need to rebuild all the factories and facilities to actually build Saturn Vs, not to mention redo a lot of development work that has been lost over the years.
Also, Lunar Rendez-vous is an okay scenario if you really want to be first to the Moon; it's not exactly fit for a sustained presence though. And from a safety perspective Earth rendez-vous is vastly superior (Apollo 13 escaped by a very narrow margin and if the incident had occurred on the return voyage, American space casualties would have started much earlier).
OTOH, I do like the X-Prize idea. A lot.
Which means there's no chance in hell it'll ever materialize, not with socialists in power in the States.
Yes, because I obviously can store hydrogen safely at home in a balloon. Face it, as an energy carrier, hydrogen is cr*p. Its energy density, either per volume or per weight, suxx mammoth balls.
Hm. Have they also found plant chemicals to facilitate cryogenic storage of this hydrogen? After all, making hydrogen isn't exactly rocket science, but getting it where it's needed economically is the ticket.
That's the Accuratus KYB Toughball wireless keyboard and trust me, it does NOT have a 50 ft range. I own one; it's a really good keyboard, but not up to the requested specs.
Better go for the Accuratus mini long range keyboard I gave a link to elsewhere in this thread.
Accuratus makes a wireless keyboard with a range of up to 50 ft (15 m). I found this link (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Accuratus-mini-range-wireless-keyboard/dp/tech-data/B000IUY8VY/ref=de_a_smtd/026-7213754-5364427) at the UK Amazon site, but I'm certain it can be found elsewhere.
I found my (other model, less range) Accuratus wireless keyboard on eBay.
No, the stupid ecologists (who've become communists, rather than ecologists) have been hijacked by big business (because large corporations don't like a free and open market either; it tends to cut into their profit margins). Maybe you need to do a bit of thinking?
The IPCC is not a scientific body, but a political one.
There is a very good political reason for all this global warming scare mongering, and it has nothing to do with "human CO2 emissions" -- which are pathetically minute compared to the total annual CO2 emissions that occur "naturally" on this planet -- and that reason is this: By scaring the population into fuel use, the politicians have found an easy way to become more independent of OPEC oil, without losing all those precious party funding dollars from the domestic oil companies.
The entire "hydrogen economy" scam fits in the very same strategy: Hydrogen production and distribution will be such a capital-intesnive business that only those very same oil companies will be able to get into it. Continuation of high energy prices will be guaranteed and Joe Public will still be f*cked sideways up the *ss.
So you're right about those oil companies wanting to screw us all, but wrong on which side they actually stand on. Green is very good for big business, because green means zillions of nanny-rules that kill off small businesses, but are quite easy for the big boys to absorbe temporally. In the end we all pay more for "green" stuff and nothing has changed, except that competition has disappeared.
Apparently most "scientists" who went with the Global Scare flow find it easier to just howl with the wolves instead of doing some normal scientific research work. It's like someone mentioned: If you want a grant for studying anything, it's mandatory to slip in a paragraph about global warming or you get zilch. Hurray for the scientific method!
I'm cynical enough to see that there's apparently a lot of money to be had in going with the human-caused global warming. And the price of my heating bill has nothing to do with global warming and everything with shady politics.
So now it's "selfish" to question the self-fulfilling prophecy that is human-caused global warming? The world is warming up, that is apparently a fact. But how much and for how long, not even mentioning what (or, very unlikely, who) causes this, is far from a proven fact. It is, however, a proven political reality.
Wait... So you base your beliefs on the size of the organisation behind them? Dude, you should be a raving Catholic or a bombing muslimist fanatic. Them's huge organisations...
In fact, the previous poster was quite cxorrect: CO2 follows temperature rises, it doesn't seem to cause them; except, of course, in that lame-ass movie-for-true-believers.
Why would you need these fancy solar cells to produce H2 on demand? Any power socket can do that, fed by electricity generated with a lot more efficiency than these cells promise. There is no way you're going to produce enough H2 from cells on the top of your car roof anyway, so forget about that.
Also, take into account the energy and hardware needed for storing the H2 in a marginally more useful form. Cooling, compressing...
Hydrogen is simply not fit as an energy carrier. The only reason it gets promoted is because large corporations can and will control the infrastructure, leaving us in the same conundrum we're now in with the oil companies.
Just to let any interested astroturfer know that I am available for posting whatever and whereever you want me to; for a modest fee obviously.
Thank [$DEITY] for the EU bureaucrats! New business opportunities just keep popping up...
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Well, you do as you please, obviously, but my experience with Seagate, and especially with its customer "care" part, has been horrendous.
I was one of those who had unknowingly bought one of their botched 1TB drives. Fortunately, I learned of the problem before I put any data on the drive, so I signed up to their customer support forum, only to find out that it is apparently moderated by the illegitimate offspring of Adolf Hitler and Lucrecia Borgia. The "moderator" on that forum, a mutant degenerate who calls himself "AlanM", not only deleted any reference to outside forums (up to and including this Slashdot article), but appears to be suffering from terminal paranoia where any remarks about his moderating are concerned.
I'd say that any company that allows a fascist to act as their online spokesperson is not worth our money, unless you happen to like fascists of course.
Some people report that after reflashing their cache is now 0 MB. As of yet nobody seems to know whether this is an artifact or true, but I would certainly not be satisfied with a firmware "repair" that disables part of my drive.
As usual, Seagate replies to the posts on its own forum with a deafening silence. Apparently they're more concerned with editing or even deleting any post that refers to Slashdot or other forums.
Could someone give the URL of the forum that gets censored on the Seagate user forum? You know, the one where the problem gets discussed without an anal moderator (who is now attempting to censor references to Slashdot on his forum!).
I'm assuming Seagate has no power to censor posts on Slashdot...
Heh. You beat me to it. Can anyone kindly give me a significant distinction between neocons and democrats? I'm not a USAnian, so perhaps the subtleties escape me...
Just to be clear, "The names are different" doesn't count.
What he said. I'd also like to add that SRBs aren't inherently more dangerous than liquid fuel boosters. What did Challenger in, were highly unrealistic specs (the "need" for reusable boosters). And Ares is basically Apollo upgraded to the "new millennium", it's supposed to be easier, cheaper and better than Apollo.
Finally, the idea that the leftover hardware from the Apollo era is fit for anything but museum display duty, is -- to put it mildly -- highly optimistic (and if I hadn't promised myself to be nicer on the intertubes in the new year, I'd have written "bloody ignorant").
To re-start the Saturn V program, you're going to need to rebuild all the factories and facilities to actually build Saturn Vs, not to mention redo a lot of development work that has been lost over the years. Also, Lunar Rendez-vous is an okay scenario if you really want to be first to the Moon; it's not exactly fit for a sustained presence though. And from a safety perspective Earth rendez-vous is vastly superior (Apollo 13 escaped by a very narrow margin and if the incident had occurred on the return voyage, American space casualties would have started much earlier). OTOH, I do like the X-Prize idea. A lot. Which means there's no chance in hell it'll ever materialize, not with socialists in power in the States.
Yes, because I obviously can store hydrogen safely at home in a balloon. Face it, as an energy carrier, hydrogen is cr*p. Its energy density, either per volume or per weight, suxx mammoth balls.
Hm. Have they also found plant chemicals to facilitate cryogenic storage of this hydrogen? After all, making hydrogen isn't exactly rocket science, but getting it where it's needed economically is the ticket.
He was al lot more vocal and detailed about it in "Kil'n People".
That's the Accuratus KYB Toughball wireless keyboard and trust me, it does NOT have a 50 ft range. I own one; it's a really good keyboard, but not up to the requested specs. Better go for the Accuratus mini long range keyboard I gave a link to elsewhere in this thread.
Accuratus makes a wireless keyboard with a range of up to 50 ft (15 m). I found this link (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Accuratus-mini-range-wireless-keyboard/dp/tech-data/B000IUY8VY/ref=de_a_smtd/026-7213754-5364427) at the UK Amazon site, but I'm certain it can be found elsewhere. I found my (other model, less range) Accuratus wireless keyboard on eBay.
Just check who gets more money for churning out doomsday predictions.
Sssshh!!! There're only going to be 3,000 in the first production run, and I want one. Keep schtumm!
No, the stupid ecologists (who've become communists, rather than ecologists) have been hijacked by big business (because large corporations don't like a free and open market either; it tends to cut into their profit margins). Maybe you need to do a bit of thinking?
The IPCC is not a scientific body, but a political one. There is a very good political reason for all this global warming scare mongering, and it has nothing to do with "human CO2 emissions" -- which are pathetically minute compared to the total annual CO2 emissions that occur "naturally" on this planet -- and that reason is this: By scaring the population into fuel use, the politicians have found an easy way to become more independent of OPEC oil, without losing all those precious party funding dollars from the domestic oil companies. The entire "hydrogen economy" scam fits in the very same strategy: Hydrogen production and distribution will be such a capital-intesnive business that only those very same oil companies will be able to get into it. Continuation of high energy prices will be guaranteed and Joe Public will still be f*cked sideways up the *ss. So you're right about those oil companies wanting to screw us all, but wrong on which side they actually stand on. Green is very good for big business, because green means zillions of nanny-rules that kill off small businesses, but are quite easy for the big boys to absorbe temporally. In the end we all pay more for "green" stuff and nothing has changed, except that competition has disappeared. Apparently most "scientists" who went with the Global Scare flow find it easier to just howl with the wolves instead of doing some normal scientific research work. It's like someone mentioned: If you want a grant for studying anything, it's mandatory to slip in a paragraph about global warming or you get zilch. Hurray for the scientific method!
I'm cynical enough to see that there's apparently a lot of money to be had in going with the human-caused global warming. And the price of my heating bill has nothing to do with global warming and everything with shady politics. So now it's "selfish" to question the self-fulfilling prophecy that is human-caused global warming? The world is warming up, that is apparently a fact. But how much and for how long, not even mentioning what (or, very unlikely, who) causes this, is far from a proven fact. It is, however, a proven political reality.
Wait... So you base your beliefs on the size of the organisation behind them? Dude, you should be a raving Catholic or a bombing muslimist fanatic. Them's huge organisations... In fact, the previous poster was quite cxorrect: CO2 follows temperature rises, it doesn't seem to cause them; except, of course, in that lame-ass movie-for-true-believers.
If that's truly what you think, then maybe the problem isn't so much with the Internet...
Why would you need these fancy solar cells to produce H2 on demand? Any power socket can do that, fed by electricity generated with a lot more efficiency than these cells promise. There is no way you're going to produce enough H2 from cells on the top of your car roof anyway, so forget about that. Also, take into account the energy and hardware needed for storing the H2 in a marginally more useful form. Cooling, compressing... Hydrogen is simply not fit as an energy carrier. The only reason it gets promoted is because large corporations can and will control the infrastructure, leaving us in the same conundrum we're now in with the oil companies.
What? They're rocks! They move! I'm not going to piss them off.
Just to let any interested astroturfer know that I am available for posting whatever and whereever you want me to; for a modest fee obviously. Thank [$DEITY] for the EU bureaucrats! New business opportunities just keep popping up...