However, in some cases the older technology is better. For example, a steam engine can use any heat source as fuel, so it may be useful if you can easily get wood or coal, but not diesel or electricity.
IIRC, a film camera can operate at lower temperatures than a digital one.
Shellac records can be played without electricity.
While CDs have 96dB dynamic range, modern releases are so compressed, the DR is barely 10dB. Generally, newer releases of an old recording sound worse than old CDs, because of this loudness war.
However, watching a file play is much less fun than watching a tape reel or a record spin. Sure, when I am doing something else while listening to music, I can listen to a file just as well (or may still listen to an analog recording since my file collection and my analog collection have different music). Also, when listening to files, I am sometimes too tempted to just skip songs, but I can't do that on a tape (need to keep the winding even, so I refrain from fast forwarding) so I listen to the entire tape.
Speaking of just audio quality - I have a couple of tape recorders with vacuum tubes that from an objective point of view sound worse than my tape decks with transistors - smaller frequency range, more noise, higher distortion). However, playing an old recording (say, the Beatles or something like that), it does sound "better" to me and is more enjoyable to listen to, than, say, playing it on a more modern tape deck.
I have a cassette with 50s rock&roll on it. Playing it on my usual system is OK, but if I connect the cassette deck to my tube radio from 1964 it sounds great! More modern music sounds better on my usual system though.
Cost. SSDs are still more expensive per gigabyte than HDDs. Yes, SSDs are faster, but maybe my 48TB backup server does not have to have microsecond seek times...
TLER is useful in all cases, just that it is pretty much mandatory for RAID, so the drive manufacturers disable TLER on cheaper drives to prevent them from being used in a RAID.
Yes, in theory, non-TLER drive stands better chance of recovering unreadable data, but during that time the PC appears to be frozen, so the user just reboots it. Even with TLER of 7 seconds (default) that's still a long time. I do not know about others, but I'd rather my PC be responsive and report the error so I can either restore the file from backup or run recovery software to read the sector 5000 times hoping to read it correctly once.
We have a bunch of Seagate SV35 drives in a backup server. They started to get kicked out of RAIDZ one by one. Some show actual bad sectors (and were replaced since warranty was not expired), but others worked OK when tested using MHDD and the seller refused to replace then under warranty.
It turned out that those drives are so sensitive to vibration that dropping a coin on the PC case (with the drive secured in the drive bay) from a few cm height caused the drive to hang for about two seconds and emit a beep.
Now we use WD RED drives for this - they are more resistant to vibration and have TLER.
SMART for all the Seagate SV35 drives we have show a lot of "High Fly Writes" - the normalized value is 1 and the raw value is between 1000 and 7000.
In that game, the player also chooses to run people over with his car (either specifically or because driving on the sidewalk is faster), kill them with various weapons etc. That does not make the gamers into murderers.
So, why can I kill a man in a game (and that is OK), but not a woman? The scene where the player has to torture a guy to get information, would that be different if a woman was tortured? Yes? Then where is the equality.
Then again, I am still waiting for various countries that have conscription army to stop excluding women from that.
If you can kill both men and women in a game, that means that there is no gender equality.
Killing men is OK. Killing women is not. I guess it's similar to the race equality where killing a white guy is OK, but killing a black guy is not (unless the player character is also a black guy).
Outlook is webmail now? If I want to use a program then Thunderbird is as good or better than Outlook and also has the threads feature (a plugin). However, I would rather use webmail (self hosted). And I have not been able to find one that works with threads as well as Gmail. That doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I have been unable to find it.
I like the auto threading so much it prevents me from using a different webmail software (on my own domain). While Thunderbird has a plugin that is almost as good as Gmail (almost), I have not found a webmail software (that I can run on my own server) that is as convenient as Gmail for the threads. Roundcube can kinda do it, but it cannot show the entire thread at once.
I like the fact that 100 or so email long conversation is grouped under one heading and is visible on a single page.
Some of my old film cameras have a feature where I can press a button and then the camera takes a picture after some time - usually long enough for me to get back in front of the camera.
Probably a lot if it's a brand new car. Probably not a lot if it's a cheap used car. If you do not drive a lot then the fuel efficiency of a newer car does not compensate the much higher initial price, so a cheap used car is a very good option.
Also, "needing to write many pages of text without a computer/electricity at some point in my life" argument just makes me want to buy a typewriter, not learn cursive writing (or rather how to write cursive so other people can read it).
Or I just put them in the trunk of my car and carry them home or wherever. If somebody nukes my whole city, I most likely won't care anymore about the data.
Is that 480USD/month or a one time cost? Last time I bought tapes, I did not have to sign a contract saying that now I'll be paying for them every month. Bought, paid for them, do not have to pay any more.
Do you *really* think that your $4000 LTO drive you got in the last 5 years can still read that thing?
My LTO-2 drive can read tapes recorded 5 years a go just fine. The cartridges themselves are older than 5 years though (bough them used).
SCSI interface? You mean 5 MHz SCSI-1? They haven't made cards compatible with that for over a decade.
With the exception of HVD, the latest and greatest Ultra320 SCSI is fully backwards compatible with 5MHz SCSI-1. I can connect an old device to a new HBA (need the connector adapter from 68 to 50 pins) as well as connect a U320 LVD device to the 5MHz HBA (still have one).
And my Verbatim brand CD-Rs recorded in around 2000 read with multiple errors. A few audio CDs will not play on a computer, but play on a LD player with very distorted audio. One CD-R (a presumably low run legitimate recording I bought) does not play at all. Thankfully I have the same album on cassette, it plays perfectly. I should probably record a new CD from that cassette.
If the first bomb fails, you don't keep mailing bombs hoping one succeeds, you have to figure out why the bomb failed and fix that problem before you try a second time or some other method of achieving the same goal.
I am similar to the OP in that sunlight makes me want to sleep. I am better at night, but my work is standard 8-17, so I can do stuff at night only on weekends and vacations. The weird thing to me is that I can be sleepy all day, but when the night comes I no longer want to sleep.
However, I have solved the waking up problem, at least for me. I have created a playlist of a few songs (~30min in length) that starts out slow and quiet and finishes with a louder song. I set it to auto play 25 minutes before I need to wake up. The "turn off" button is 4 meters away from my bed. I sometimes wake up when song #1 is playing, sometimes during song #2 and sometimes on the second-to-last song, but I manage to wake up and not be tired or need coffee (I do not like coffee, I drink a lot of tea though). I guess the 25 minutes of music manages to "catch" me in a sleep phase from which it is easy to wake up.
Also, to accommodate my wish to stay up later and need to wake up early I get a 3 hour nap after coming from work (18:00-21:00), then stay up until 00:00, go to sleep and wake up at 05:45. During vacations I go to sleep at 14:00 and wake up at 22:00.
Why would you go through all the effort needed to make a bomb out of water if you can use gasoline or (better) LPG for that? Those are already explosive and nobody is going to care why you are buying 60L provided it first goes into the fuel tank of your car.
This. Every time I see a complaint that "some tool" makes it harder for "marketing companies" to send email I think that I should use that tool for my email servers if I am not doing that already.
Pretty much nobody wants to get spam and that includes the marketing emails, not just the regular "vi@gr@" and "Nigerian prince" spam. Pretty much nobody cares that you do honor the "unsubscribe" link, because a lot of others don't, so it is much easier to just tag your email as spam and hope to never see it again.
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However, staring at a SD card while the music plays is much less enjoyable as staring at a spinning record or tape reels.
However, in some cases the older technology is better. For example, a steam engine can use any heat source as fuel, so it may be useful if you can easily get wood or coal, but not diesel or electricity.
IIRC, a film camera can operate at lower temperatures than a digital one.
Shellac records can be played without electricity.
While CDs have 96dB dynamic range, modern releases are so compressed, the DR is barely 10dB. Generally, newer releases of an old recording sound worse than old CDs, because of this loudness war.
However, watching a file play is much less fun than watching a tape reel or a record spin. Sure, when I am doing something else while listening to music, I can listen to a file just as well (or may still listen to an analog recording since my file collection and my analog collection have different music). Also, when listening to files, I am sometimes too tempted to just skip songs, but I can't do that on a tape (need to keep the winding even, so I refrain from fast forwarding) so I listen to the entire tape.
Speaking of just audio quality - I have a couple of tape recorders with vacuum tubes that from an objective point of view sound worse than my tape decks with transistors - smaller frequency range, more noise, higher distortion). However, playing an old recording (say, the Beatles or something like that), it does sound "better" to me and is more enjoyable to listen to, than, say, playing it on a more modern tape deck.
I have a cassette with 50s rock&roll on it. Playing it on my usual system is OK, but if I connect the cassette deck to my tube radio from 1964 it sounds great! More modern music sounds better on my usual system though.
Cost. SSDs are still more expensive per gigabyte than HDDs. Yes, SSDs are faster, but maybe my 48TB backup server does not have to have microsecond seek times...
TLER is useful in all cases, just that it is pretty much mandatory for RAID, so the drive manufacturers disable TLER on cheaper drives to prevent them from being used in a RAID.
Yes, in theory, non-TLER drive stands better chance of recovering unreadable data, but during that time the PC appears to be frozen, so the user just reboots it. Even with TLER of 7 seconds (default) that's still a long time. I do not know about others, but I'd rather my PC be responsive and report the error so I can either restore the file from backup or run recovery software to read the sector 5000 times hoping to read it correctly once.
We have a bunch of Seagate SV35 drives in a backup server. They started to get kicked out of RAIDZ one by one. Some show actual bad sectors (and were replaced since warranty was not expired), but others worked OK when tested using MHDD and the seller refused to replace then under warranty.
It turned out that those drives are so sensitive to vibration that dropping a coin on the PC case (with the drive secured in the drive bay) from a few cm height caused the drive to hang for about two seconds and emit a beep.
Now we use WD RED drives for this - they are more resistant to vibration and have TLER.
SMART for all the Seagate SV35 drives we have show a lot of "High Fly Writes" - the normalized value is 1 and the raw value is between 1000 and 7000.
In that game, the player also chooses to run people over with his car (either specifically or because driving on the sidewalk is faster), kill them with various weapons etc. That does not make the gamers into murderers.
So, why can I kill a man in a game (and that is OK), but not a woman? The scene where the player has to torture a guy to get information, would that be different if a woman was tortured? Yes? Then where is the equality.
Then again, I am still waiting for various countries that have conscription army to stop excluding women from that.
If you can kill both men and women in a game, that means that there is no gender equality.
Killing men is OK. Killing women is not. I guess it's similar to the race equality where killing a white guy is OK, but killing a black guy is not (unless the player character is also a black guy).
Outlook is webmail now? If I want to use a program then Thunderbird is as good or better than Outlook and also has the threads feature (a plugin). However, I would rather use webmail (self hosted). And I have not been able to find one that works with threads as well as Gmail. That doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I have been unable to find it.
I like the auto threading so much it prevents me from using a different webmail software (on my own domain). While Thunderbird has a plugin that is almost as good as Gmail (almost), I have not found a webmail software (that I can run on my own server) that is as convenient as Gmail for the threads. Roundcube can kinda do it, but it cannot show the entire thread at once.
I like the fact that 100 or so email long conversation is grouped under one heading and is visible on a single page.
Some of my old film cameras have a feature where I can press a button and then the camera takes a picture after some time - usually long enough for me to get back in front of the camera.
Probably a lot if it's a brand new car. Probably not a lot if it's a cheap used car. If you do not drive a lot then the fuel efficiency of a newer car does not compensate the much higher initial price, so a cheap used car is a very good option.
Also, "needing to write many pages of text without a computer/electricity at some point in my life" argument just makes me want to buy a typewriter, not learn cursive writing (or rather how to write cursive so other people can read it).
Or I just put them in the trunk of my car and carry them home or wherever.
If somebody nukes my whole city, I most likely won't care anymore about the data.
Is that 480USD/month or a one time cost? Last time I bought tapes, I did not have to sign a contract saying that now I'll be paying for them every month. Bought, paid for them, do not have to pay any more.
Do you *really* think that your $4000 LTO drive you got in the last 5 years can still read that thing?
My LTO-2 drive can read tapes recorded 5 years a go just fine. The cartridges themselves are older than 5 years though (bough them used).
SCSI interface? You mean 5 MHz SCSI-1? They haven't made cards compatible with that for over a decade.
With the exception of HVD, the latest and greatest Ultra320 SCSI is fully backwards compatible with 5MHz SCSI-1. I can connect an old device to a new HBA (need the connector adapter from 68 to 50 pins) as well as connect a U320 LVD device to the 5MHz HBA (still have one).
And my Verbatim brand CD-Rs recorded in around 2000 read with multiple errors. A few audio CDs will not play on a computer, but play on a LD player with very distorted audio. One CD-R (a presumably low run legitimate recording I bought) does not play at all. Thankfully I have the same album on cassette, it plays perfectly. I should probably record a new CD from that cassette.
Usually USB flash drives have really poor write endurance and reliability in general compared to proper SSDs.
If the first bomb fails, you don't keep mailing bombs hoping one succeeds, you have to figure out why the bomb failed and fix that problem before you try a second time or some other method of achieving the same goal.
Which means a drive to the server room instead of logging in via ssh and fixing /etc/fstab so /home or /tmp points correctly.
I am similar to the OP in that sunlight makes me want to sleep. I am better at night, but my work is standard 8-17, so I can do stuff at night only on weekends and vacations. The weird thing to me is that I can be sleepy all day, but when the night comes I no longer want to sleep.
However, I have solved the waking up problem, at least for me. I have created a playlist of a few songs (~30min in length) that starts out slow and quiet and finishes with a louder song. I set it to auto play 25 minutes before I need to wake up. The "turn off" button is 4 meters away from my bed. I sometimes wake up when song #1 is playing, sometimes during song #2 and sometimes on the second-to-last song, but I manage to wake up and not be tired or need coffee (I do not like coffee, I drink a lot of tea though). I guess the 25 minutes of music manages to "catch" me in a sleep phase from which it is easy to wake up.
Also, to accommodate my wish to stay up later and need to wake up early I get a 3 hour nap after coming from work (18:00-21:00), then stay up until 00:00, go to sleep and wake up at 05:45. During vacations I go to sleep at 14:00 and wake up at 22:00.
I agree with that.
Actually, you should not infringe his right to bear the state of the art weapons, the same ones that the military has.
18th century muskets and rifles were state of the art in 18th century - both the military and private individuals used the same weapons.
Why would you go through all the effort needed to make a bomb out of water if you can use gasoline or (better) LPG for that? Those are already explosive and nobody is going to care why you are buying 60L provided it first goes into the fuel tank of your car.
This. Every time I see a complaint that "some tool" makes it harder for "marketing companies" to send email I think that I should use that tool for my email servers if I am not doing that already.
Pretty much nobody wants to get spam and that includes the marketing emails, not just the regular "vi@gr@" and "Nigerian prince" spam. Pretty much nobody cares that you do honor the "unsubscribe" link, because a lot of others don't, so it is much easier to just tag your email as spam and hope to never see it again.