This is very far from what most people do with their drives.
Define most. It's becoming incredibly bloody common for someone to have a small NAS unit somewhere in their house. Spinning rust is basically relegated to these kinds of services now where SSDs form the core part of your day to day computing.
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
The problem with anecdotes is you need a lot of them to separate statistics from sheer dumb luck. While Segates are generally shit I have 3 of them (2 in RAID 1 and one standalone). The standalone one is in this computer from which I'm typing and has 9 years of power on time on it. The 2 in the RAID array are 7 and 8 years. Respectively.
Mind you I also seem to own the last remaining OCZ Vertex 3 that hasn't died, and it's been plodding along for a good 7 years. Maybe storage loves me, or maybe the HDD is analysing my porn collection and afraid of what I may do it if it disobeys me.
Yes experience with devices that have generally low failure rates is often based on luck. Two in one box? Did you check the box for damages in the corners? I'll bet you a dollar the box was dropped or worse, handled by UPS.
I have had the same problem with WD. I have 8 identical model 4TB HDDs in my system. 2 of them failed out of the box with nothing but a click on bootup, and after they were replaced the entire set hadn't missed a beat.
I'm very willing to accept infant mortality providing the random failure rate is low.
So like... what is going on here with WD if their HGST line is so much better than their regular line?
HGST has been kept at arms length since their purchase by WD. They may share a corporate financial statement but effectively they remain two separate companies in most of the ways that matter.
Turning it into planted forest would seriously disturb that life.
This is a question only really asked by some militant greenies. The far more interesting question is what would terraforming a landmass that size do to the wider ecosystem? You can't change that much land without having massive knock-on effects in the surround. For one, turning one of the driest arid areas of the planet into a forest would change the weather patterns and climate in all of Africa.
A few stinking lizards is the least of our problem.
Yep I call it bitcoin world. Shit it's halved in value in just the last 2 weeks. But seriously bitcoin isn't the answer here. The answer is already obvious, those countries just switch to using a different currency for day to day.
Ever traded internationally ?
Yes all the time. The interesting thing there is that no one cares how fast the transfer happens as long as the price is fixed at the destination. If you're using bitcoin for international transfers then you belong locked in a room with the pillows on the walls.
Then they would be approaching the subject subjectively since all benchmarks show performance improvements on Windows 10 to say nothing of the vastly improved security features of the OS.
Despite what people heap on it for the fisher price interface, the tracking, and Edge, under the hood it is a pretty damn impressive improvement.
I think you underestimate the power of Mario as a brand.
The Switch was the fastest selling console since launch. Critically it's also the first Nintendo console which launched WITHOUT a Mario game available.
Is anything? At the dawn of the internet we basically invented new and wonderful ways to exploit things creators thought were secure on a daily basis. If you are going to compare Chrome to something you need to compare it to IE11.
If MS doesn't reverse course as far as making locked down, consumer unfriendly, annoying, intrusive, and just plain awful OS's; Windows 10 might be the start of their decline.
Or more based in reality, people on the whole don't give a shit. But while we're talking about it:
Locked down : It isn't any more locked down than Windows 7. Consumer unfriendly : In what way? -1 points for bitching about Windows updates. Annoying : I assume you're one of the people who can't change 2 settings in the Settings app that causes the entire OS to shut up? Intrusive : Yeah most users will complain about telemetry by asking Google to post their complaint to their Facebook account. What matters to Slashdot doesn't matter to users. Plain Awful : In what way? Under the hood it's one hell of a system. Faster than Windows 7, better security features, better hardware features, but I guess you mean the entire OS is a reflection of the colour of the start bar, in which case each to their own.
Fascinating that you prefer butchering Windows 8.1 over Windows 10 which has nothing tablety about it... unless you're stupid enough to enable the tablet options... which most people don't even do on their tablets.
Before you make some claim about that you need to prove that people actually give a shit. Most people couldn't care less what OS they have providing it doesn't bog down the system or crash every few minutes like Vista did, or doesn't completely confound them ala Windows 8.
Sure. If every other person also has chlamydia then your comparison would be accurate. On the desktop Skype is the single most popular video chatting app. What you personally think about it doesn't change that fact or doesn't change the fact the word choice is perfectly fine.
Putting money into a field or technology to entice companies to adopt it and bring down the price isn't corporate welfare. Corporate welfare would be ignoring the state of the world and letting corporations continue to shit on the common man.
Hi APK I enjoy your product a lot. Host files are great, but I have this problem with some useless ACs spamming on Slashdot as of late. Can your hosts file fix that?
but the problem of PV panels occupying land is to put them in the parking lot of my office. Then my car can have a friggin' sun shade in the summer.
I could not agree more, and neither could the PV panels on my roof. Mind you I'm not far off pulling the trigger on a large battery system as well with an isolation switch (though there's legal hurdles for this). Unless there's some massive investment in grid scale batteries over the next 5 years I predict power disruptions will start becoming far more common.
The case in Australia is especially funny to watch. The government has put all this effort towards green power and after the last power outage are now offering incentives to try and keep the coal fired stations from going out of business. One operator has already said they don't give a crap about what the government wants, short term incentives are not a business model that justifies keeping an expensive coal plant open in the era of cheap green electricity.
The console ran continuously for 6 years. It may not have the life of an Xbox but that's hardly a bad run for a device.
The Wii U was an oddity. We stopped playing ours as soon as we got a Switch which we're actively fighting over (I'm home today but my wife took it to work !). I think the problem was it was ahead of its time. The Switch is what the Wii U wanted to be. Touchscreen, and untethered. Unfortunately those features that were the Wii U's big selling point, and ended up relegated to base station as people bought pro controllers and turned it into an 2-piece AV component under the TV.
The only conclusion I can come to is Nintendo's unique titles are driving this.
Then you've come to the wrong conclusion. The best selling games on the Switch are either more of the same with minor increments (Zelda, Mario Odysee), exactly the same (Mario Kart, Splatoon), or common (Skyrim, Doom). There are a few unique games that sell well but they haven't even made it out of Japan. They have some innovation in some currently not super popular games which don't seem to be selling quite as much.
The real conclusion you can draw is that people actually like mobile games and don't like to be tethered to a TV. I'd be playing the Switch right now if my wife hadn't taken it with her to work. I'm seriously thinking of getting a second one.
You have a well over inflated view of how much "executives" have an impact in the day to day operation of the business. Sure one person didn't do this, but I'll bet you a mars bar it was a small relatively lowly sales team.
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This is very far from what most people do with their drives.
Define most. It's becoming incredibly bloody common for someone to have a small NAS unit somewhere in their house. Spinning rust is basically relegated to these kinds of services now where SSDs form the core part of your day to day computing.
I have them. 20+ dead Seagates... internals and externals. Only 2 drives in the past 10 years have survived... yet I have no dead Hitachis, one dead Samsung and a couple dead WDs.
The problem with anecdotes is you need a lot of them to separate statistics from sheer dumb luck. While Segates are generally shit I have 3 of them (2 in RAID 1 and one standalone). The standalone one is in this computer from which I'm typing and has 9 years of power on time on it. The 2 in the RAID array are 7 and 8 years. Respectively.
Mind you I also seem to own the last remaining OCZ Vertex 3 that hasn't died, and it's been plodding along for a good 7 years. Maybe storage loves me, or maybe the HDD is analysing my porn collection and afraid of what I may do it if it disobeys me.
Yes experience with devices that have generally low failure rates is often based on luck. Two in one box? Did you check the box for damages in the corners? I'll bet you a dollar the box was dropped or worse, handled by UPS.
I have had the same problem with WD. I have 8 identical model 4TB HDDs in my system. 2 of them failed out of the box with nothing but a click on bootup, and after they were replaced the entire set hadn't missed a beat.
I'm very willing to accept infant mortality providing the random failure rate is low.
So like... what is going on here with WD if their HGST line is so much better than their regular line?
HGST has been kept at arms length since their purchase by WD. They may share a corporate financial statement but effectively they remain two separate companies in most of the ways that matter.
Turning it into planted forest would seriously disturb that life.
This is a question only really asked by some militant greenies. The far more interesting question is what would terraforming a landmass that size do to the wider ecosystem? You can't change that much land without having massive knock-on effects in the surround. For one, turning one of the driest arid areas of the planet into a forest would change the weather patterns and climate in all of Africa.
A few stinking lizards is the least of our problem.
Unless the lizards mutate and destroy Tokyo.
turn the Sahara desert green
Yes what could possibly go wrong with terraforming an area the size of the USA.
Ever used paypal, for instance ?
Yeah it has none of the downsides.
Ever lived in a country with massive inflation ?
Yep I call it bitcoin world. Shit it's halved in value in just the last 2 weeks. But seriously bitcoin isn't the answer here. The answer is already obvious, those countries just switch to using a different currency for day to day.
Ever traded internationally ?
Yes all the time. The interesting thing there is that no one cares how fast the transfer happens as long as the price is fixed at the destination. If you're using bitcoin for international transfers then you belong locked in a room with the pillows on the walls.
Then they would be approaching the subject subjectively since all benchmarks show performance improvements on Windows 10 to say nothing of the vastly improved security features of the OS.
Despite what people heap on it for the fisher price interface, the tracking, and Edge, under the hood it is a pretty damn impressive improvement.
I think you underestimate the power of Mario as a brand.
The Switch was the fastest selling console since launch. Critically it's also the first Nintendo console which launched WITHOUT a Mario game available.
Do yourself a favour, don't. The 5th one was crap. So far I think the 3rd one was the peak.
But is it as bad as IE was in its hay days
Is anything? At the dawn of the internet we basically invented new and wonderful ways to exploit things creators thought were secure on a daily basis. If you are going to compare Chrome to something you need to compare it to IE11.
If MS doesn't reverse course as far as making locked down, consumer unfriendly, annoying, intrusive, and just plain awful OS's; Windows 10 might be the start of their decline.
Or more based in reality, people on the whole don't give a shit. But while we're talking about it:
Locked down : It isn't any more locked down than Windows 7.
Consumer unfriendly : In what way? -1 points for bitching about Windows updates.
Annoying : I assume you're one of the people who can't change 2 settings in the Settings app that causes the entire OS to shut up?
Intrusive : Yeah most users will complain about telemetry by asking Google to post their complaint to their Facebook account. What matters to Slashdot doesn't matter to users.
Plain Awful : In what way? Under the hood it's one hell of a system. Faster than Windows 7, better security features, better hardware features, but I guess you mean the entire OS is a reflection of the colour of the start bar, in which case each to their own.
Fascinating that you prefer butchering Windows 8.1 over Windows 10 which has nothing tablety about it ... unless you're stupid enough to enable the tablet options ... which most people don't even do on their tablets.
Before you make some claim about that you need to prove that people actually give a shit. Most people couldn't care less what OS they have providing it doesn't bog down the system or crash every few minutes like Vista did, or doesn't completely confound them ala Windows 8.
When no one cares then popular = market share.
Despite what a few people on Slashdot think nearly all users don't give a shit what OS they run.
I saw the same post on pretty much every story today.
Well I guess the first "by some" has shown himself.
Sure. If every other person also has chlamydia then your comparison would be accurate. On the desktop Skype is the single most popular video chatting app. What you personally think about it doesn't change that fact or doesn't change the fact the word choice is perfectly fine.
Putting money into a field or technology to entice companies to adopt it and bring down the price isn't corporate welfare. Corporate welfare would be ignoring the state of the world and letting corporations continue to shit on the common man.
Women are not a minority.
Everyone is a minority somewhere. Very few of these issues play out on a global context.
Hi APK I enjoy your product a lot. Host files are great, but I have this problem with some useless ACs spamming on Slashdot as of late. Can your hosts file fix that?
but the problem of PV panels occupying land is to put them in the parking lot of my office. Then my car can have a friggin' sun shade in the summer.
I could not agree more, and neither could the PV panels on my roof. Mind you I'm not far off pulling the trigger on a large battery system as well with an isolation switch (though there's legal hurdles for this). Unless there's some massive investment in grid scale batteries over the next 5 years I predict power disruptions will start becoming far more common.
The case in Australia is especially funny to watch. The government has put all this effort towards green power and after the last power outage are now offering incentives to try and keep the coal fired stations from going out of business. One operator has already said they don't give a crap about what the government wants, short term incentives are not a business model that justifies keeping an expensive coal plant open in the era of cheap green electricity.
What a strange world we live in :-)
The console ran continuously for 6 years. It may not have the life of an Xbox but that's hardly a bad run for a device.
The Wii U was an oddity. We stopped playing ours as soon as we got a Switch which we're actively fighting over (I'm home today but my wife took it to work !). I think the problem was it was ahead of its time. The Switch is what the Wii U wanted to be. Touchscreen, and untethered. Unfortunately those features that were the Wii U's big selling point, and ended up relegated to base station as people bought pro controllers and turned it into an 2-piece AV component under the TV.
It did have an awesome Netflix client through.
The only conclusion I can come to is Nintendo's unique titles are driving this.
Then you've come to the wrong conclusion. The best selling games on the Switch are either more of the same with minor increments (Zelda, Mario Odysee), exactly the same (Mario Kart, Splatoon), or common (Skyrim, Doom). There are a few unique games that sell well but they haven't even made it out of Japan. They have some innovation in some currently not super popular games which don't seem to be selling quite as much.
The real conclusion you can draw is that people actually like mobile games and don't like to be tethered to a TV. I'd be playing the Switch right now if my wife hadn't taken it with her to work. I'm seriously thinking of getting a second one.
This had to be multiple executives
You have a well over inflated view of how much "executives" have an impact in the day to day operation of the business. Sure one person didn't do this, but I'll bet you a mars bar it was a small relatively lowly sales team.