Devil's advocate: Multi-billion or even multi-trillion dollar losses due to the colapsing mortgate/debt industry will wreck havoc on not only the US ecconomy but also the global ecconomy. From a 'greater good' perspective it makes some sense.
However, I still think bailing out these idiots is a worse solution. It solves the short term problem (sort of) but doesn't even slightly address the insane risks taken not only by individual consumers but also large investment firms.
In retrospect, i wish i had taken out the $500k 1.85% ARM and bought a dream house instead of the $250k 30yr fixed that i could *afford* for a decent-but-not-great house. I'd be right on the soup line with everyone else...and still living in a much nicer house. Stupid me for taking responsibility for my actions.
People are leaving MSIE, if not also MS Windows, in droves. So flexing their M$ agenda by requiring MSIE would backfire quite nastily at this point.
Reference? A few % variance does not constitute 'droves'. I'm not a MS fanboy, but if you're going to try to make a point at least the opinion-distorted facts out of it. I've heard how Linux is going to take over the desktop market 'any day now' for about 10 years now. I've heard claims like yours that 'everyone' is dumping MS for at least half that time as well.
Anyone have the latest desktop stats from a legitimate source?
Ahh...but you see that's 5-15 years down the road. The shareholders (e.g. uber-rich trading firms) all want to meet this years or this QUARTER's financial targets.
Because you've had summons served to there already and...? Or did you simply assume that the tech support rep saying 'sorry, that's not it and i won't tell you naa nah' was true.
IANAL, but a company can't refuse to acknowledge a lawsuit simply because you don't delivere it to a particular one of their addresses they designated for such notices. Particularly if that address is not available.
What you're doing wrong though - is calling technical support for a legal issue. You need the corporate headquarters. If nothing else, community/media relations people would easily be able to put you in touch with the legal department. 30 seconds on their site gives a laundry list though the characters-per-line filter (WTF?) prevents me from posting all of it:
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS Julie Still 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (831) 439-2276 FAX: (831) 438-4127 E-mail: julie.still@seagate.com Woody Monroy 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (831) 439-2838 FAX: (831) 438-4127 E-mail: woody.monroy@seagate.com Brian Ziel 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (831) 439-5429 FAX: (831) 438-4127 E-mail: brian.ziel@seagate.com
PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS Consumer Electronics Colleen Rodriguez 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (831) 439-2499 FAX: (831) 438-4127 E-mail: colleen.rodriguez@seagate.com Branded Solutions Nathan Papadopulos 100 Mathilda Place Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 328-2167 Fax: (408) 328-2186 E-mail: nathan.papadopulos@seagate.com
Yes, but Dell, HP, and so on will buy 3-4 orders of magnitude more drives than your techie friends even assuming ALL of them vote with their wallet against patent abuse instead of along price/performance lines.
I think Seagate needs to be poked in the eye, but a crusade like this is nothing more than blowing smoke.
Are you serious? They're not abundantly common, true, but we certainly see them in the desktop team I manage.
To give some rough numbers...we have about 1700 desktops under my teams' direct support. We see about 1 drive failure a month. This number is artifically lowered by the fact that we pull and replace (with new) the hard drive in a users computer when they quit and it's re-assigned to someone else. Also lowered by the fact that we replace computers after 3 years.
For me, data security on our executive staff's drives is critical and i'm looking to make SSD standard on all laptops within the next 1-2 years within our company. I'll never forget the time an EVP's admin mailed his laptop from London to the US in a FedEx envelope. You know, the plasti-paper kind used for sending bundles of documents? Oddly, the LCD survived though the drive was trashed and other parts broken.
Wear leveling works. Period. Do your homework and check back. FYI, a SSD with an acceptible price point (for business/enthusiast/high-end users) and high performance IS HERE NOW.
I suggest you look at the access times and data transfer rates (especially for small, random reads) on some of the new 64GB-256MG drives floating around. They're a bit shy of the *top end* magnetic disks in linear read but completly BURY them in random read (which constitutes the vast majority HDD activity) and surpass the average-joe drives most computers come with in all aspects. The specs on the latest Samsung SSD (if accurate) beat out the fastest magnetic media you can buy: 100MB/Sec read, 80MB/sec write.
I'd have to argue against your statement though for NEAR LINE storage. For real time DB/webserver/boot drive no. For holding an archive of my gigaton of DVDs? I'd go apeshit for a 5TB drive that's quiet, inexpensive and could transfer on the order or 30-40MB/sec. Raid 1 for safety and sanity and you're golden. I don't need 100+MB/sec for watching movies. Vaugely intelligent caching will easily allow multiple read/write streams for HD content within that rough data bandwidth range.
Sorry but your assumption has no basis in reality. You assume that "my speeding" kills people. IF You looked at some real information instead just blind assumptions you'd realize that raising the speed limit has NOT increased the road fatality rate in places it has been done...and if memory serves it's actually LOWERED it in several situations.
Your attempt to connect murder with speeding is beyond laughable. I wish I had points to mod you troll.
Oh, yes. I want government run internet just like they do our roads.
There's already pointless speed limits when everyone wants to go much faster. There's potholes from LAST winter that haven't been repaired much less the ones from this winter or the others that were so poorly fixed the might as well not have bothered. How about the construction? 'Sorry, this part if the internet is closed for 6 months while our union crews wank off while holding construciton flags so one single guy can do the work'
I'm ALL for that...and that's without even playing the censorship-conspiracy-monitoring-big brother card.
Get a blackberry and be done with it. The latest devices and OS code offer adequate to good multimedia support, lots of the nicey nice cute crap (MP3 ringtones, custom skins, etc.), along with the full blackberry functionality.
Blackberry needs two things and then i'll be out of complaints entirely: 1) HTML email (i mean, c'mon already) 2) improved browser
Neither is a show-stopper. I have a company provided BB...well i have about 7 of them being the Desktop Manager...and use it for my personal cell as well. If i won lotto and retired tomorrow i'd still keep a BB (8320 curve to be specific).
Amen. Seriously - what is so complicated about this concept that people don't understand?
I'd argue against the mandatory inclusion of the v-chip (it's more of a selling feature that, if the market actually desired would just become standard) but that's a moot point today. You have it, so use it and never worry about seeing 'filth'. Then again, half the reason pron is such big business is because it's so limited by laws and regulations. Scarcity = demand as with everything else.
Why bother? As the technology grows they'll just do that internally - run more flash chips in parallen and you increate you throughput. SanDisk already is up to 67MB/sec sustained and 7000IPOS
Skipping that, the sustained transfer rate on SSD's has been going up A LOT recently. From SanDisk:
SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5" achieves a sustained read rate of 67-megabyte (MB)*/sec and a random read rate of over 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer3... SanDisk SSD achieves an average file access rate of 0.11 milliseconds
Sustained read might be less than the top end desktop hard drives but the extremely low avg file access time you will see a VERY significant increase in performance in virtually all applications.
And the best part about a SS:, is it's multiple parallel chips. There's a finite number of parallel data streams you can combine but it sill easily compensates for the lower individual data rate per chip. It's more a function of the controller chip and chip-to-chip wiring complexity. If you custom designed it, you could easily get a flash drive an order (or two) of magnitude faster in sustained read/write than a mechanical one.
Keeping in mind that SSD's have been main-stream (though in the far upper tier) for what, about a year? I'm predicting (magic ball) that performance on SSD's will soon be able to greatly exceed classic hard drive technology. Mfgs will then use that advantage to offer other features that were impossible previously.
Oh, and immagine if swap file wasn't a curse word?
I'd mod this flamebat at this point...if i had any points left.
It's been established that you simply can not wear out a flash drive in a short period of time unless it has an underlying quality issue to begin with (or you're using ancient flash cards that do not have wear leveling). So maybe you had a batch of cheap/bad flash but you did not kill a flash drive in an average of 2 months use. If i remember the math, it's pretty much impossible to kill one in 6 months...you generally would need something like 1-3 years of sustained max-rate writing to the drive.
Actually i've seen on both generation sony ebook readers that 'pixels' on the screen eventually get stuck (i'm not talking 100,000+ page flips either) and slowly the screen takes on a grey din because there's always a bunch of tiny black dots. It eventually gets annoying, the crisp clear screen you bought it for is now kind of fuzzy. Personally it hurts my eyes (that's one reason i don't use my sony reader much anymore).
I buy paper books because I can't get the same book in a non-DRM eBook. If i could, byebye paperback. Oh, and i've never 'stolen' a single ebook. Baen has them non-DRMed so I just buy them. pfft. Simple. Though at 6 bucks each now they're starting to push it...since there's no printing cost, transport cost must at least balance with web cost, and there's no retailer overhead.
"The idea of having a wirelessly capable eBook which allows me to markup local copies of archival documents is really, really interesting."
It's called a Tablet PC. They're not all that great (in fact some suck horribly for daily use) except for that one single use you specified. It's that single use that they are quite handy at.
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Amen.
Devil's advocate: Multi-billion or even multi-trillion dollar losses due to the colapsing mortgate/debt industry will wreck havoc on not only the US ecconomy but also the global ecconomy. From a 'greater good' perspective it makes some sense.
However, I still think bailing out these idiots is a worse solution. It solves the short term problem (sort of) but doesn't even slightly address the insane risks taken not only by individual consumers but also large investment firms.
In retrospect, i wish i had taken out the $500k 1.85% ARM and bought a dream house instead of the $250k 30yr fixed that i could *afford* for a decent-but-not-great house. I'd be right on the soup line with everyone else...and still living in a much nicer house. Stupid me for taking responsibility for my actions.
Reference? A few % variance does not constitute 'droves'. I'm not a MS fanboy, but if you're going to try to make a point at least the opinion-distorted facts out of it. I've heard how Linux is going to take over the desktop market 'any day now' for about 10 years now. I've heard claims like yours that 'everyone' is dumping MS for at least half that time as well.
Anyone have the latest desktop stats from a legitimate source?
Ahh...but you see that's 5-15 years down the road. The shareholders (e.g. uber-rich trading firms) all want to meet this years or this QUARTER's financial targets.
Straight from the TMO website...
"...and the color magenta are registered and/or unregistered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG in the US and/or other countries"
Would it hold up in court? Ask a lawyer. Do they claim to have copyright? Yes.
I won't argue anything else, but the background on this story is legit. They've had that copyright notice for quite some time.
Because you've had summons served to there already and...? Or did you simply assume that the tech support rep saying 'sorry, that's not it and i won't tell you naa nah' was true.
IANAL, but a company can't refuse to acknowledge a lawsuit simply because you don't delivere it to a particular one of their addresses they designated for such notices. Particularly if that address is not available.
What you're doing wrong though - is calling technical support for a legal issue. You need the corporate headquarters. If nothing else, community/media relations people would easily be able to put you in touch with the legal department. 30 seconds on their site gives a laundry list though the characters-per-line filter (WTF?) prevents me from posting all of it:
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
Julie Still
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 439-2276
FAX: (831) 438-4127
E-mail: julie.still@seagate.com Woody Monroy
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 439-2838
FAX: (831) 438-4127
E-mail: woody.monroy@seagate.com Brian Ziel
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 439-5429
FAX: (831) 438-4127
E-mail: brian.ziel@seagate.com
PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS
Consumer Electronics
Colleen Rodriguez
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 439-2499
FAX: (831) 438-4127
E-mail: colleen.rodriguez@seagate.com Branded Solutions
Nathan Papadopulos
100 Mathilda Place
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 328-2167
Fax: (408) 328-2186
E-mail:
nathan.papadopulos@seagate.com
Yes, but Dell, HP, and so on will buy 3-4 orders of magnitude more drives than your techie friends even assuming ALL of them vote with their wallet against patent abuse instead of along price/performance lines.
I think Seagate needs to be poked in the eye, but a crusade like this is nothing more than blowing smoke.
Are you serious? They're not abundantly common, true, but we certainly see them in the desktop team I manage.
To give some rough numbers...we have about 1700 desktops under my teams' direct support. We see about 1 drive failure a month. This number is artifically lowered by the fact that we pull and replace (with new) the hard drive in a users computer when they quit and it's re-assigned to someone else. Also lowered by the fact that we replace computers after 3 years.
For me, data security on our executive staff's drives is critical and i'm looking to make SSD standard on all laptops within the next 1-2 years within our company. I'll never forget the time an EVP's admin mailed his laptop from London to the US in a FedEx envelope. You know, the plasti-paper kind used for sending bundles of documents? Oddly, the LCD survived though the drive was trashed and other parts broken.
2006 called, they want their SSD back.
Wear leveling works. Period. Do your homework and check back. FYI, a SSD with an acceptible price point (for business/enthusiast/high-end users) and high performance IS HERE NOW.
I suggest you look at the access times and data transfer rates (especially for small, random reads) on some of the new 64GB-256MG drives floating around. They're a bit shy of the *top end* magnetic disks in linear read but completly BURY them in random read (which constitutes the vast majority HDD activity) and surpass the average-joe drives most computers come with in all aspects. The specs on the latest Samsung SSD (if accurate) beat out the fastest magnetic media you can buy: 100MB/Sec read, 80MB/sec write.
Hybrid drives were a big *poof* ... all the promises and none of the delivery.
It does make sense though the software/logic support necessary doesn't exist currently.
Haha. I had one of those too.
I'd have to argue against your statement though for NEAR LINE storage. For real time DB/webserver/boot drive no. For holding an archive of my gigaton of DVDs? I'd go apeshit for a 5TB drive that's quiet, inexpensive and could transfer on the order or 30-40MB/sec. Raid 1 for safety and sanity and you're golden. I don't need 100+MB/sec for watching movies. Vaugely intelligent caching will easily allow multiple read/write streams for HD content within that rough data bandwidth range.
Sorry but your assumption has no basis in reality. You assume that "my speeding" kills people. IF You looked at some real information instead just blind assumptions you'd realize that raising the speed limit has NOT increased the road fatality rate in places it has been done...and if memory serves it's actually LOWERED it in several situations.
Your attempt to connect murder with speeding is beyond laughable. I wish I had points to mod you troll.
Oh, yes. I want government run internet just like they do our roads.
There's already pointless speed limits when everyone wants to go much faster. There's potholes from LAST winter that haven't been repaired much less the ones from this winter or the others that were so poorly fixed the might as well not have bothered. How about the construction? 'Sorry, this part if the internet is closed for 6 months while our union crews wank off while holding construciton flags so one single guy can do the work'
I'm ALL for that...and that's without even playing the censorship-conspiracy-monitoring-big brother card.
Get a blackberry and be done with it. The latest devices and OS code offer adequate to good multimedia support, lots of the nicey nice cute crap (MP3 ringtones, custom skins, etc.), along with the full blackberry functionality.
Blackberry needs two things and then i'll be out of complaints entirely: 1) HTML email (i mean, c'mon already) 2) improved browser
Neither is a show-stopper. I have a company provided BB...well i have about 7 of them being the Desktop Manager...and use it for my personal cell as well. If i won lotto and retired tomorrow i'd still keep a BB (8320 curve to be specific).
Amen. Seriously - what is so complicated about this concept that people don't understand?
I'd argue against the mandatory inclusion of the v-chip (it's more of a selling feature that, if the market actually desired would just become standard) but that's a moot point today. You have it, so use it and never worry about seeing 'filth'. Then again, half the reason pron is such big business is because it's so limited by laws and regulations. Scarcity = demand as with everything else.
Yes, if memory serves you need something on the order of 1,000's of centerfuges to hit weapons grade.
Well considering there are people living there now/again...
...my computer already has over a TB...
Long file transfers aren't where your 'user experience' generally comes in. How often do you read more than 100MB sequentially off a hard drive?
How often do you read 100MB in much smaller files (100KB - 5MB)? Ahem, booting windows, loading warcraft...and so on.
So yes, HDD wins in the one area that means the least. I bet your car has the loudest muffler too.
Wear leveling...
Why does this need to be explained *every* time there's a thread about flash memory?
Most flash drives can sustain max-speed writing for several YEARS before approaching their max.
Put your OS and swap file on there (swap will LOVE fast flash) and enjoy.
Why bother? As the technology grows they'll just do that internally - run more flash chips in parallen and you increate you throughput. SanDisk already is up to 67MB/sec sustained and 7000IPOS
Good points, bad maths.
... SanDisk SSD achieves an average file access rate of 0.11 milliseconds
Skipping that, the sustained transfer rate on SSD's has been going up A LOT recently. From SanDisk:
SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5" achieves a sustained read rate of 67-megabyte (MB)*/sec and a random read rate of over 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer3
Sustained read might be less than the top end desktop hard drives but the extremely low avg file access time you will see a VERY significant increase in performance in virtually all applications.
And the best part about a SS:, is it's multiple parallel chips. There's a finite number of parallel data streams you can combine but it sill easily compensates for the lower individual data rate per chip. It's more a function of the controller chip and chip-to-chip wiring complexity. If you custom designed it, you could easily get a flash drive an order (or two) of magnitude faster in sustained read/write than a mechanical one.
Keeping in mind that SSD's have been main-stream (though in the far upper tier) for what, about a year? I'm predicting (magic ball) that performance on SSD's will soon be able to greatly exceed classic hard drive technology. Mfgs will then use that advantage to offer other features that were impossible previously.
Oh, and immagine if swap file wasn't a curse word?
I'd mod this flamebat at this point...if i had any points left.
It's been established that you simply can not wear out a flash drive in a short period of time unless it has an underlying quality issue to begin with (or you're using ancient flash cards that do not have wear leveling). So maybe you had a batch of cheap/bad flash but you did not kill a flash drive in an average of 2 months use. If i remember the math, it's pretty much impossible to kill one in 6 months...you generally would need something like 1-3 years of sustained max-rate writing to the drive.
Actually i've seen on both generation sony ebook readers that 'pixels' on the screen eventually get stuck (i'm not talking 100,000+ page flips either) and slowly the screen takes on a grey din because there's always a bunch of tiny black dots. It eventually gets annoying, the crisp clear screen you bought it for is now kind of fuzzy. Personally it hurts my eyes (that's one reason i don't use my sony reader much anymore).
I buy paper books because I can't get the same book in a non-DRM eBook. If i could, byebye paperback. Oh, and i've never 'stolen' a single ebook. Baen has them non-DRMed so I just buy them. pfft. Simple. Though at 6 bucks each now they're starting to push it...since there's no printing cost, transport cost must at least balance with web cost, and there's no retailer overhead.
"The idea of having a wirelessly capable eBook which allows me to markup local copies of archival documents is really, really interesting."
It's called a Tablet PC. They're not all that great (in fact some suck horribly for daily use) except for that one single use you specified. It's that single use that they are quite handy at.