I don't know if you could scale a 15K rpm drive to use bigger platters. You would have a lot more centripital force at the rim -- I'd be worried about the platters warping.
Also, the linear speed might be too high to read without interleaving (which pretty much negates the advantage of the higher speed)
Some quick calculations:
Assuming that a 3.5" drive has 2.75" platters, which would have a circumferance of 8.64", would have a speed of 129,590 in/min at 15,000 RPM, which equals 122.7 MPH.
If we assume the 5.25" drive has 4.5" platters, these would have a circumferance of 14.14", which translates to 212,057 in/min or 200.8 MPH.
Also, the 5.25" platters are 268% larger (15.9 in^2 vs 5.9 in^2). Considering that the larger platters will also probably have to be thicker to prevent warping, an estimate of the platters having 3 times as much mass isn't unreasonable. This means much more powerful spindle motors, along with more heat, noise, and vibration.
None of these are insurmountable problems, but I doubt you could solve them economically enough to bring the unit price down so that it's competitive with smaller drives.
The platter circumferance in the 3.5" drive is 8.64", which at 15,000 RPM is 129590 in/min, which translates to 122.7 MPH.
Don't need to go that far -- just ship all content on burnable media, and design the playback laser so that it wipes each bit after it's read. Voilia, read-once media.
Sure, you could copy the output, but you'd only get one shot at it.
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Or you could try using the mysterious skill known as "figure it out from context".
This case shows exactly why the USA-PATRIOT act is such a bad idea. ANYTHING the powers-that-be don't like can be labelled "terrorism" and thereby trump ordinary due process and Constitutional protections.
This is not saying that this sort of behavior shouldn't be punished, what it is saying is that it should be done under existing laws. There's no reason to charge someone with "terrorism" when their conduct is more accurately described as "reckless endangerment", "malicious mischeif", or "interfering with an aircrew".
Has there been any legal basis to challenge/uphold this interpretation? Or has the fact that it showed up in a Supreme Court decision more or less made it a permanent part of law?
Our legal system is based largely on precedent (IE case law). A precedent from the Supreme Court trumps anything else -- so, barring a new law or Constitutional amendment, a SC ruling is the final answer. Of course, the SC can (and has, numerous times) reverse itself on a given issue.
Could one, perhaps, challenge the view the a corporation has constitutional rights?
Sure. If you had grounds for such a suit, you could keep appealing up to the level of the Supreme Court and hope that they take the case. It's a slim chance and takes a lot of time and money, but it is not possible.
You can also lobby Congress to pass a law saying that Corporations does not have Constitutionally-protected rights, and then wait for the inevitable appeals to see if the court rules the new law Constitutional or not.
Finally, you can lobby for a Constitutional amendment defining what rights a corporation has, but again that's (intentionally) a long and difficult process.
Are their 'rights' defined in any way?
There are a metric buttload of laws and court rulings defining and limiting corporate rights: advertising restrictions (EG tobacco & alcohol), anti-trust laws, public disclosure laws, etc.
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but I still disagree that you can say that having a nice ass is just as beneficial to getting a job as a college degree.
Welcome to the real world. When I moved on to greener pa$tures, my old boss hired my replacement based more on her physical appearance than on her technical ability.
"She has a cuter ass than the other candidate" might not cut it when justifying the hiring decision, but something like "she's a better fit with the rest of the team" or "she has better communication skills" probably will. Hell, for some jobs (EG: sales, PR, receptionist), projecting the right image IS part of the job.
FYI, It only took me about three seconds to find this with a Google search. There's no excuse to spout uninformed nonsense when finding the facts and documenting them is so trivially easy.
That the using 2 years to store the date was done to save space.
Two words, sonny: Punch Cards.
Storing dates as char(2) was a legacy left over from the days when punch cards reigned. This was the only practical way to code dates on a punch card.
Punch cards were limited to 80 characters, so you went to great lengths to make sure your record length stayed under that limit. Even after punch cards went out of use, the 80-column mentality persisted because most terminals and line printers would only display 80 chars per line, and new programs were written using the old date encoding for backwards compatibility.
The punch card legacy persists to this day in the 80x25 text screen you see every time you boot a PC.
IBM 2003 Annual financial report
Services accounts for 48% of GROSS revenue, hardware 32%, and software 16%. However, this is a bit misleading as a large percentage of the hardware and software sales are driven by the services people.
In any case, do you really think that IBM and Sun care about Open Source?
I can't say about Sun, but IBM has reinvented itself as a services company. They still sell hardware and software, but the money they make off of that is peanuts compared to what they make selling you CONSULTANTS to come in and put all the pieces together for you.
By hiring the core developers of various OSS projects, they gurantee that they have access to the top experts in those programs. Anyone can send in a mail guru to hack Postfix to meet some special requirement you have, but only IBM can sic Wietse on the problem.
Instead of paying one star 20 million for a picture why not pay 200 actors 100,000 for several movies?
Because, whether you like it or not, the "movegoing public" (AKA drooling masses) do often decide to go see a movie based on nothing more than the name of the star or director. Big name actors and directors (rightfully) grab as much of the pie as they can, because their name alone can contribute millions to the amount money the movie brings in.
Let's say your market research says that a movie will cost $x to make with a no-name actor making SAG scale and will bring in $y in ticket sales, but it will bring in $z if it has big-name-stars who cost $s over scale. As long as $z - $y > $s you're going to make more money hiring the stars.
They matter because the cosmetic appearance of a vehicle is a pretty reliable indicatator of how well the previous owner maintained it. Someone too lazy to wash their car or fix minor dings is also probably too lazy to change the fluids reguarly and do other routine maintenance.
They matter because little dings, left unrepaired, become big rust spots.
They matter for the same reason that small holes and stains in your clothes matter.
So you want to pay someone to come over to your house on a temporary basis and nag you and withhold sex because of some perceived slight that you don't even remember?
Sounds better than having someone do it on a 24x7 basis.
Reminds me of a old adage (often attributed to Groucho Marx): you don't pay a hooker to have sex with you, you pay her to leave when you're done.
IT should serve the bussiness, the bussiness should not be serving IT
In general terms, that is correct. However, it should be obvious that for many businesses, IT *is* the business.
When an information system is such an integral part of the business that you cannot conduct routine operations without that system, you have to regard it as a piece of capital equipment. In the case of Comair, the computer crash shut down their business just as completely as if an airplane had crashed.
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Exactly. A clone your beloved pet isn't going to necessarily look like or act like the original. Saving an (equally lovable) animal from death row or adopting a neighborhood stray is going to give you much more satisfaction.
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Also, the linear speed might be too high to read without interleaving (which pretty much negates the advantage of the higher speed)
Some quick calculations:
Assuming that a 3.5" drive has 2.75" platters, which would have a circumferance of 8.64", would have a speed of 129,590 in/min at 15,000 RPM, which equals 122.7 MPH.
If we assume the 5.25" drive has 4.5" platters, these would have a circumferance of 14.14", which translates to 212,057 in/min or 200.8 MPH.
Also, the 5.25" platters are 268% larger (15.9 in^2 vs 5.9 in^2). Considering that the larger platters will also probably have to be thicker to prevent warping, an estimate of the platters having 3 times as much mass isn't unreasonable. This means much more powerful spindle motors, along with more heat, noise, and vibration.
None of these are insurmountable problems, but I doubt you could solve them economically enough to bring the unit price down so that it's competitive with smaller drives. The platter circumferance in the 3.5" drive is 8.64", which at 15,000 RPM is 129590 in/min, which translates to 122.7 MPH.
It boggles my mind as to how a member of one oft-persecuted minority group (Mormons) can justify persecuting another minority group.
That's when you take it up with your local Public Utility Board, or sue them in small claims court for breach of contract.
Sure, you could copy the output, but you'd only get one shot at it.
Seriously, why not check a dictionary?
Or you could try using the mysterious skill known as "figure it out from context".This is not saying that this sort of behavior shouldn't be punished, what it is saying is that it should be done under existing laws. There's no reason to charge someone with "terrorism" when their conduct is more accurately described as "reckless endangerment", "malicious mischeif", or "interfering with an aircrew".
You can also lobby Congress to pass a law saying that Corporations does not have Constitutionally-protected rights, and then wait for the inevitable appeals to see if the court rules the new law Constitutional or not.
Finally, you can lobby for a Constitutional amendment defining what rights a corporation has, but again that's (intentionally) a long and difficult process.
There are a metric buttload of laws and court rulings defining and limiting corporate rights: advertising restrictions (EG tobacco & alcohol), anti-trust laws, public disclosure laws, etc."She has a cuter ass than the other candidate" might not cut it when justifying the hiring decision, but something like "she's a better fit with the rest of the team" or "she has better communication skills" probably will. Hell, for some jobs (EG: sales, PR, receptionist), projecting the right image IS part of the job.
Corrected Google Link, before someone jumps on me for it.
The legal concept of a corporation as a "person" which has Constitutional rights came from a Supreme Court decision, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1886.
FYI, It only took me about three seconds to find this with a Google search. There's no excuse to spout uninformed nonsense when finding the facts and documenting them is so trivially easy.
Storing dates as char(2) was a legacy left over from the days when punch cards reigned. This was the only practical way to code dates on a punch card.
Punch cards were limited to 80 characters, so you went to great lengths to make sure your record length stayed under that limit. Even after punch cards went out of use, the 80-column mentality persisted because most terminals and line printers would only display 80 chars per line, and new programs were written using the old date encoding for backwards compatibility.
The punch card legacy persists to this day in the 80x25 text screen you see every time you boot a PC.
IBM 2003 Annual financial report Services accounts for 48% of GROSS revenue, hardware 32%, and software 16%. However, this is a bit misleading as a large percentage of the hardware and software sales are driven by the services people.
By hiring the core developers of various OSS projects, they gurantee that they have access to the top experts in those programs. Anyone can send in a mail guru to hack Postfix to meet some special requirement you have, but only IBM can sic Wietse on the problem.
Let's say your market research says that a movie will cost $x to make with a no-name actor making SAG scale and will bring in $y in ticket sales, but it will bring in $z if it has big-name-stars who cost $s over scale. As long as $z - $y > $s you're going to make more money hiring the stars.
They matter because little dings, left unrepaired, become big rust spots.
They matter for the same reason that small holes and stains in your clothes matter.
Reminds me of a old adage (often attributed to Groucho Marx): you don't pay a hooker to have sex with you, you pay her to leave when you're done.
When an information system is such an integral part of the business that you cannot conduct routine operations without that system, you have to regard it as a piece of capital equipment. In the case of Comair, the computer crash shut down their business just as completely as if an airplane had crashed.
That's because once you start a highly technical thread, the 14 year olds can't even understand the conversation enough to interject a comment.
Just a little short of the mark, then.
It should be obvious that the necessary altitude for (sub)orbital orgies is 69 miles.
Hef has Playmates. Bob Guccione has Pets.
Exactly. A clone your beloved pet isn't going to necessarily look like or act like the original. Saving an (equally lovable) animal from death row or adopting a neighborhood stray is going to give you much more satisfaction.
My kingdom for some mod points! That deserves a +5, funny.