I always liked that law, but it's kinda screwy. Remember back about a two or maybe three-so years ago when the UN tried to tax the intertubes, but couldn't figure out a way to do so? But now they're back at it again. Just because there's a law on something, doesn't mean that it's correct.
Oddly, I've seen Intel drives fail just as catastrophically as much as OCZ drives. It really doesn't matter who makes the drive, if a SSD dies, it dies. But if you're running anything important in less than paired RAID 1, and don't expect a failure of any type of storage you should be beating your head against the wall until your brainbox is a gooey pile of mush. That way, whoever they hire next will hopefully do the job properly, and take your failure as a warning.
Firmware bugs are probably the biggest offenders of drive destruction across the board, on mechanical and silicon drives. Take a look at the seagate 7200.1 series drives, and that firmware fiasco. But at home, I'm still using a OCZ vertex(first generation) on the 1.6fw, it's now been over 5 years(5yrs 4mo actually) and still going strong.
My first question is how did you get modded up when your first sentence is so bigoted. Followed by your second. I'm guessing you're also like Obama tossing the spooks under the bus when they openly called it a terrorist attack within 48 hours, you know the guys who had been in the field in Libya.
Steel doesn't need to melt in order to weaken. 'Nuff said.
Shhh, don't tell the conspiracy nuts that. They just won't believe you. I mean obviously that's why cars run fine without oil in them, or have coolant in them. Oh wait...son of a...
Personally, I'm willing to give the NDP a chance. But you can vote Green if you're inclined to.
By all means, vote NDP if you want. But remember Ontario, and every other province that's ever elected an NDP government to the helm. The first and immediate effect is that our provincial(ontario) bond ratings are cut by at least one if not two to three points(it will happen at the federal level too if it they're elected). The lenders know exactly what's going to happen. Well in Ontario's case, ol'Bob Rae managed to soak up a $50B debt, without even trying. My kids, kids will be paying that one off.
But hey, vote with whatever makes you feel good. Personally if the liberals ever stopped fawning over Justin Trudeau and get their act together, perhaps they'd become a real party again.
I really don't have a problem with reasonable patents. Excessive patents like we have today are the problem. Be right back, patenting stupidity. Then off to become a patent troll...
Yeah, except that developers have been fleeing consoles and coming back to the PC market for the last 3 years because it's a declining market. More so because PC's are a booming market not only in the Americas but in Asia. And it'll probably be another 2-3 years before consoles catch up. Let's not forget that as it stands, PC gaming is limited by consoles right now...6 year old hardware.
Good idea, but here's the problem. Even the chain suppliers like Ingram Micro, Supercom and so on didn't have any supply to sell during the shortage. That's why companies had to get creative to find a new supply of drives. When wholesalers don't have any supply for you, you need to find other places who have a supply and buy them anyway you can if you need them.
Our shop was buying them in bulk from Walmart, Bestbuy/Futureshop here in Canada. Because we couldn't get any through our normal supply chain.
This should be old news to well...everyone. They also have no shortage of links to domestic terrorist groups, also shown on Bullshit! but there's also a pile of linksonit available.
I used to be the head shipper/receiver for a company that shipped million dollar equipment pretty much everywhere in the world. Since their business spanned in various areas from mechanical equipment like computerized hydraulic saws to CNC machines, UPS systems, to custom electric motors, to replacement panels for other machines. Everything had to be packed in it's own way.
The non-non-rule(aka the most important). Document everything, and prepare your customs and declaration information beforehand. Be clear, be concise. Put an extra copy inside the box, on top of what you packed so if it's opened customs officials will have a full inventory list and hopefully won't destroy everything.
Rule one: There's no such thing using too little packing material. And your packaging should always be overrated, if you're sharing a shipping container this is doubly true. Rule two: If it's important, it goes in the crate. The crate goes in another crate. And between the two crates you use extra padding. You pay for it(by size) but you can help make sure it gets there in tact. Otherwise, just pack smart. Rule three: Anything that can cause damage needs to be packed separately from the main components. And any form of capture material(heat sinks, cooling containers, coolant, etc) is stored in it's own box. You'll be putting each of those in their own packing too, unless they're cheap. Rule four: If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. An example: $4m CNC machine is being shipped to Dallas, in a box, strapped to the inside of a truck. It was hit by a train. Don't expect everything to go perfectly, even customs can cage your stuff for weeks if you mess up a declaration.
Then again, I wonder if they've checked the soil conditions lately to see if the aluminum content has increased or there was spillover contamination. High aluminum content in the soil will cause blue honey as well, there's a few places where this has happened before. NY State, North Carolina, I believe on in Iowa too.
This is the stated goal of Paul Krugman. Get Inflation up to 5 percent or 6 percent even. That is going to increase (he claims) employment. But prices lag the actual inflation, and wages lag the actual inflation even more.
$20 says that if you include energy and food prices into the current inflation rate you'll be very close to 5-6% now.
Sure, where you going to get the power for them? You guys currently have a president who's vehemently anti-coal, though clean coal plants work fine. You're anti-nuclear, and won't build new nuclear generating stations even if your heads are on fire. Almost as bad as Japan on that one. You're destroying hydroelectric dams to "save the fish" reducing the number of power generators and driving up the cost of electricity.
Well, you're going to have to decide on something. I'm guessing it'll be putting NIMBY and environmentalists in the place if they want "electric cars" too. Never mind that electric cars aren't very clean to build.
You could always build some more refineries and drop the cost of fuel over there. Instead of oh, I don't know importing gasoline from Canada and the US.
Really at the price the drives are falling through the floor, by Black Friday or Christmas, people should be able to pick up a nice 240-360GB SSD for $100-200, might need to toss in instant and Mail in rebates too. But I've seen 240GB SSD's in the last week here in Canada hit $139 counting a MiR+instant rebate.
Gaming still isn't mainstream outside of the "sub 35" group in turn this makes them into a loner, even within geek circles(and don't deny it) MMO's still hold that, same with MP games that old stereotype still holds sway with some people. It'll take another few decades before that opinion changes, though it's ugly politics at it's finest and the GOP candidate should be called on it.
Bingo. Though considering developers are still fleeing the console market, and PC's are the new golden egg again. This might be changing all for the better. 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 14 years ago, it was gaming that drove PC hardware sales. Remember the near constant CPU wars over speed, scaling, battle to reach 1ghz with air cooling? Yeah. The near constant battle for 3d accelerators, slap a couple of pci voodoo 2's in SLI mode with your matrox card and awayyyyy we go! Then it got dirty, ugly, and really interesting with nVidia and ATI getting into the all in one 3d accelerator market.
But alot developers saw the cash cow or thought they did, and believed that consoles would that selling their souls out, would save them at the end of would make it all work out. Yeah...worked for...uh ID right? Who are they owned by now anyway? Bethesda. If EPIC wasn't making engines they'd be toast as well. I could mention a few other studio's too.
Right, now it's time to grow up. So, remember Iran-contra? And how the democrats blamed Regan for everything. No? Okay. So remember the last 8 years and oh let's go with the housing crisis. That was obviously all Bush's fault right. Despite the fact that in 2002 and 2003, that the republicans tried to change the rules but were blocked by the democrats. Wait, he was the only person in the government. Now that your little temper tantrum is done, you'd better get your head out of the sand.
Under Obama they were not tracked, the documents received showed that. The real problem that comes back on this is that the democrats themselves are stonewalling and it has become a civil case because the DoJ itself is blocking further investigations into the issue. Now, if you're finished lying to yourself perhaps, just perhaps you learned something today.
Now here's my point: How many people on this site will insult Glenn Beck, some nut on the radio who has no real power, while giving the White House a free pass?
Good point. Then again most people here are still giving the White House a free pass on Fast and Furious along with Holder and Obama and the killing of 300+ Mexicans a US border agent, a mass murder(most recently discovered and linked at a party of teenagers), or they're blaming Bush still because that's the line the WH is still trying to feed on the narrative. Even though under Bush's program their guns were tracked. Under Obama and Holder they simply let the guns walk away.
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All the good that does them. They're still wrong more than half the time, that's worse than Environment Canada.
I wouldn't say they're worthless. But their business line reminds me of Iomega in terms of how they plan out their deployment strategy.
I always liked that law, but it's kinda screwy. Remember back about a two or maybe three-so years ago when the UN tried to tax the intertubes, but couldn't figure out a way to do so? But now they're back at it again. Just because there's a law on something, doesn't mean that it's correct.
Oddly, I've seen Intel drives fail just as catastrophically as much as OCZ drives. It really doesn't matter who makes the drive, if a SSD dies, it dies. But if you're running anything important in less than paired RAID 1, and don't expect a failure of any type of storage you should be beating your head against the wall until your brainbox is a gooey pile of mush. That way, whoever they hire next will hopefully do the job properly, and take your failure as a warning.
Firmware bugs are probably the biggest offenders of drive destruction across the board, on mechanical and silicon drives. Take a look at the seagate 7200.1 series drives, and that firmware fiasco. But at home, I'm still using a OCZ vertex(first generation) on the 1.6fw, it's now been over 5 years(5yrs 4mo actually) and still going strong.
My first question is how did you get modded up when your first sentence is so bigoted. Followed by your second. I'm guessing you're also like Obama tossing the spooks under the bus when they openly called it a terrorist attack within 48 hours, you know the guys who had been in the field in Libya.
The OIC would disagree with your statements. Especially after a majority of members called for the death of a 14 year old girl.
Steel doesn't need to melt in order to weaken. 'Nuff said.
Shhh, don't tell the conspiracy nuts that. They just won't believe you. I mean obviously that's why cars run fine without oil in them, or have coolant in them. Oh wait...son of a...
Personally, I'm willing to give the NDP a chance.
But you can vote Green if you're inclined to.
By all means, vote NDP if you want. But remember Ontario, and every other province that's ever elected an NDP government to the helm. The first and immediate effect is that our provincial(ontario) bond ratings are cut by at least one if not two to three points(it will happen at the federal level too if it they're elected). The lenders know exactly what's going to happen. Well in Ontario's case, ol'Bob Rae managed to soak up a $50B debt, without even trying. My kids, kids will be paying that one off.
But hey, vote with whatever makes you feel good. Personally if the liberals ever stopped fawning over Justin Trudeau and get their act together, perhaps they'd become a real party again.
Right, could you please point out the relevant sections in the bill. The pre-post bill is online by the way, I'll wait.
I really don't have a problem with reasonable patents. Excessive patents like we have today are the problem. Be right back, patenting stupidity. Then off to become a patent troll...
Yeah, except that developers have been fleeing consoles and coming back to the PC market for the last 3 years because it's a declining market. More so because PC's are a booming market not only in the Americas but in Asia. And it'll probably be another 2-3 years before consoles catch up. Let's not forget that as it stands, PC gaming is limited by consoles right now...6 year old hardware.
Good idea, but here's the problem. Even the chain suppliers like Ingram Micro, Supercom and so on didn't have any supply to sell during the shortage. That's why companies had to get creative to find a new supply of drives. When wholesalers don't have any supply for you, you need to find other places who have a supply and buy them anyway you can if you need them.
Our shop was buying them in bulk from Walmart, Bestbuy/Futureshop here in Canada. Because we couldn't get any through our normal supply chain.
This should be old news to well...everyone. They also have no shortage of links to domestic terrorist groups, also shown on Bullshit! but there's also a pile of links on it available.
I used to be the head shipper/receiver for a company that shipped million dollar equipment pretty much everywhere in the world. Since their business spanned in various areas from mechanical equipment like computerized hydraulic saws to CNC machines, UPS systems, to custom electric motors, to replacement panels for other machines. Everything had to be packed in it's own way.
The non-non-rule(aka the most important). Document everything, and prepare your customs and declaration information beforehand. Be clear, be concise. Put an extra copy inside the box, on top of what you packed so if it's opened customs officials will have a full inventory list and hopefully won't destroy everything.
Rule one: There's no such thing using too little packing material. And your packaging should always be overrated, if you're sharing a shipping container this is doubly true.
Rule two: If it's important, it goes in the crate. The crate goes in another crate. And between the two crates you use extra padding. You pay for it(by size) but you can help make sure it gets there in tact. Otherwise, just pack smart.
Rule three: Anything that can cause damage needs to be packed separately from the main components. And any form of capture material(heat sinks, cooling containers, coolant, etc) is stored in it's own box. You'll be putting each of those in their own packing too, unless they're cheap.
Rule four: If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. An example: $4m CNC machine is being shipped to Dallas, in a box, strapped to the inside of a truck. It was hit by a train. Don't expect everything to go perfectly, even customs can cage your stuff for weeks if you mess up a declaration.
Then again, I wonder if they've checked the soil conditions lately to see if the aluminum content has increased or there was spillover contamination. High aluminum content in the soil will cause blue honey as well, there's a few places where this has happened before. NY State, North Carolina, I believe on in Iowa too.
This is the stated goal of Paul Krugman. Get Inflation up to 5 percent or 6 percent even. That is going to increase (he claims) employment. But prices lag the actual inflation, and wages lag the actual inflation even more.
$20 says that if you include energy and food prices into the current inflation rate you'll be very close to 5-6% now.
Sure, where you going to get the power for them? You guys currently have a president who's vehemently anti-coal, though clean coal plants work fine. You're anti-nuclear, and won't build new nuclear generating stations even if your heads are on fire. Almost as bad as Japan on that one. You're destroying hydroelectric dams to "save the fish" reducing the number of power generators and driving up the cost of electricity.
Well, you're going to have to decide on something. I'm guessing it'll be putting NIMBY and environmentalists in the place if they want "electric cars" too. Never mind that electric cars aren't very clean to build.
You could always build some more refineries and drop the cost of fuel over there. Instead of oh, I don't know importing gasoline from Canada and the US.
Really at the price the drives are falling through the floor, by Black Friday or Christmas, people should be able to pick up a nice 240-360GB SSD for $100-200, might need to toss in instant and Mail in rebates too. But I've seen 240GB SSD's in the last week here in Canada hit $139 counting a MiR+instant rebate.
Remember it's not read/write speed that really counts with SSD. It's IOPS.
I dunno man, I think all my text file are infect with something. They just keep showing me links for porn...
Gaming still isn't mainstream outside of the "sub 35" group in turn this makes them into a loner, even within geek circles(and don't deny it) MMO's still hold that, same with MP games that old stereotype still holds sway with some people. It'll take another few decades before that opinion changes, though it's ugly politics at it's finest and the GOP candidate should be called on it.
Bingo. Though considering developers are still fleeing the console market, and PC's are the new golden egg again. This might be changing all for the better. 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 14 years ago, it was gaming that drove PC hardware sales. Remember the near constant CPU wars over speed, scaling, battle to reach 1ghz with air cooling? Yeah. The near constant battle for 3d accelerators, slap a couple of pci voodoo 2's in SLI mode with your matrox card and awayyyyy we go! Then it got dirty, ugly, and really interesting with nVidia and ATI getting into the all in one 3d accelerator market.
But alot developers saw the cash cow or thought they did, and believed that consoles would that selling their souls out, would save them at the end of would make it all work out. Yeah...worked for...uh ID right? Who are they owned by now anyway? Bethesda. If EPIC wasn't making engines they'd be toast as well. I could mention a few other studio's too.
Right, now it's time to grow up. So, remember Iran-contra? And how the democrats blamed Regan for everything. No? Okay. So remember the last 8 years and oh let's go with the housing crisis. That was obviously all Bush's fault right. Despite the fact that in 2002 and 2003, that the republicans tried to change the rules but were blocked by the democrats. Wait, he was the only person in the government. Now that your little temper tantrum is done, you'd better get your head out of the sand.
Under Obama they were not tracked, the documents received showed that. The real problem that comes back on this is that the democrats themselves are stonewalling and it has become a civil case because the DoJ itself is blocking further investigations into the issue. Now, if you're finished lying to yourself perhaps, just perhaps you learned something today.
Now here's my point: How many people on this site will insult Glenn Beck, some nut on the radio who has no real power, while giving the White House a free pass?
Good point. Then again most people here are still giving the White House a free pass on Fast and Furious along with Holder and Obama and the killing of 300+ Mexicans a US border agent, a mass murder(most recently discovered and linked at a party of teenagers), or they're blaming Bush still because that's the line the WH is still trying to feed on the narrative. Even though under Bush's program their guns were tracked. Under Obama and Holder they simply let the guns walk away.