Yes. To put it more accurately, if you can expose the magnetic surface of the platters to this kind of heat without exposing it to contaminants at the same time, then the platters will not be damaged. However, all the low-level formatting of the drive (esp. the servo tracks, which for the uninitiated are magnetic "lines" on the disk that the drive head uses to identify the location of data tracks for seeking purposes) will be irretrievably lost. To say "you still have a working drive" is misleading, as I guarantee that, should you put the disk back in your computer after doing this, it will NOT work. The same goes for degaussing the disk. If you could (low-level) reformat the disk, THEN the platters would be usable again. On a side note, though I've never tried putting a drive in an oven to see what happens, I've used an "industrial-strength" degausser on a disk before, and it gets HOT. However, I don't think it was at 700 degrees, and yet you could already smell the plastic parts cooking.
Actually, they're claiming that if you develop a system that can be used for playing/reading/viewing copyrighted materials, you MUST include in it the ability to support ALL extant DRM mechanisms. (They're actually just claiming that MS, Apple, and RealNetworks have to include support for THEIR mechanism, but if they somehow won, the precedent would be set.)
I'm a believer in multi-monitor setups, and have been for years. When I'm coding, it's very nice to have my active code window maximized on one screen and documentation up on the other. Or for developing web apps, it's nice to be able to work in code in one window and be able to look at the rendered version on the other side, as being able to see both helps me correlate the two in my head. For most other work, I use the main monitor for writing email, checking my calendar, etc. and the other window has my company's jabber client open, and several apps that I've either developed or found for near-real-time checking of the status of some of our servers. But where the dual-monitor setup really shines is debugging: if I'm debugging something, it's nice to be able to run the app maximized on one screen, and still have a full screen for stepping through code, setting up watches, etc. None of the above are quite as convenient or efficient using virtual desktops as they are on two screens that you can see simultaneously. It's been my experience that, once you settle into a habit of usage for your two (or more) monitors, my usage of them is significantly more efficient than using virtual desktops. Since KDE will let me configure pretty much as many desktops as I need, I tend to squander desktop real estate and organize windows haphazardly, knowing that I have plenty of virtual desktops to use if I need more space. The result is inevitably wasted time as I switch back and forth between them, forget which desktop windows are on, etc. For me, at least, multiple physical monitors are the clear winner.
The price of things on the internet is only weakly related to the cost of domain names. I pay more per MONTH for web hosting than I pay for domain registration for the YEAR, and for sites that need greater bandwidth, guaranteed uptime, redundant links, redundant domain servers, multiple file servers, etc. the ratio is skewed significantly more. More than likely, most consumers and companies will never notice the difference. It's the cost of doing business.
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Yes. To put it more accurately, if you can expose the magnetic surface of the platters to this kind of heat without exposing it to contaminants at the same time, then the platters will not be damaged. However, all the low-level formatting of the drive (esp. the servo tracks, which for the uninitiated are magnetic "lines" on the disk that the drive head uses to identify the location of data tracks for seeking purposes) will be irretrievably lost. To say "you still have a working drive" is misleading, as I guarantee that, should you put the disk back in your computer after doing this, it will NOT work. The same goes for degaussing the disk. If you could (low-level) reformat the disk, THEN the platters would be usable again. On a side note, though I've never tried putting a drive in an oven to see what happens, I've used an "industrial-strength" degausser on a disk before, and it gets HOT. However, I don't think it was at 700 degrees, and yet you could already smell the plastic parts cooking.
Actually, they're claiming that if you develop a system that can be used for playing/reading/viewing copyrighted materials, you MUST include in it the ability to support ALL extant DRM mechanisms. (They're actually just claiming that MS, Apple, and RealNetworks have to include support for THEIR mechanism, but if they somehow won, the precedent would be set.)
I'm a believer in multi-monitor setups, and have been for years. When I'm coding, it's very nice to have my active code window maximized on one screen and documentation up on the other. Or for developing web apps, it's nice to be able to work in code in one window and be able to look at the rendered version on the other side, as being able to see both helps me correlate the two in my head. For most other work, I use the main monitor for writing email, checking my calendar, etc. and the other window has my company's jabber client open, and several apps that I've either developed or found for near-real-time checking of the status of some of our servers. But where the dual-monitor setup really shines is debugging: if I'm debugging something, it's nice to be able to run the app maximized on one screen, and still have a full screen for stepping through code, setting up watches, etc. None of the above are quite as convenient or efficient using virtual desktops as they are on two screens that you can see simultaneously. It's been my experience that, once you settle into a habit of usage for your two (or more) monitors, my usage of them is significantly more efficient than using virtual desktops. Since KDE will let me configure pretty much as many desktops as I need, I tend to squander desktop real estate and organize windows haphazardly, knowing that I have plenty of virtual desktops to use if I need more space. The result is inevitably wasted time as I switch back and forth between them, forget which desktop windows are on, etc. For me, at least, multiple physical monitors are the clear winner.
The price of things on the internet is only weakly related to the cost of domain names. I pay more per MONTH for web hosting than I pay for domain registration for the YEAR, and for sites that need greater bandwidth, guaranteed uptime, redundant links, redundant domain servers, multiple file servers, etc. the ratio is skewed significantly more. More than likely, most consumers and companies will never notice the difference. It's the cost of doing business.