Credit card companies that already have accounts for you might like this, but it doesn't help you any.
If they see you carry a balance, and only pay minimums, they aren't going to offer you any good deals. If you suddenly pay off your cards, they will start sucking up to try to induce you to carry a balance again, giving you lower rates, better balance transfer deals, etc.
Also, it damages your credit score if you carry a large percentage of your available credit. Companies don't want to offer you credit if you already have 2 other maxed out cards, that's high risk.
So I'd say your advice is pretty universally bad, unless you aim is just to pay the most to the credit card companies.
An hour of a machinists time is worth almost as much as the entire hard disk, if you had to pay a machinist. Doing it yourself... well like they say about linux... only if your time is free.:)
The hard disk manufacturer would probably get suspicious if you returned hundreds of disk covers for disks that weren't very old and weren't seeing the same failure rate elsewhere in the field though.
My point was it wouldn't be cheap to buy a metal stamping press, and pay a die maker to make dies for each manufacturers covers. The only cost effective way to do it in small quantities would be to mill it out.
You are correct though, stamped faceplaces are far more common than the other choices at this point in time.
And yes, some manufacturers do take back just the faceplaces. That's the entire reason we are having this discussion.:P
While Linux advocates are a fiery lot they will probably agree that users switching to osx is better than users staying with windows.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Apple is worse in a lot of ways. While competition has driven them to use more open software, I don't view that as likely to remain the case if they were to become dominant.
Apple, in the past, always worked on the strategy of telling the user what's good for them and not giving the user any choices. They've only discovered fairly recently that open standards in various ways can be leveraged to give them a good competitive advantage.
Just remember, their OS comes with the ultimate copy protection. Palladium and trusted computing is only MS's attempt at doing what Apple has done since the beginning of time, making the hardware into a giant dongle for the OS.
The faceplates are milled, cast, or stamped aluminum. It's not a flat piece of metal, it's custom made for the drive. By the time you buy a block of aluminum and cast or mill it to the right shape, you could have bought a new drive.
after all, finding out if your computer was "sufficiently patched and configured" to clear you of negligence charges is going to make file sharing cases seem simple.
That's a cop-out anyway. It's like saying the pot the cop found in your car might not be yours because you leave the doors unlocked.
Oh, and does running some non-mainstream program - such as Firefox - make you negligent ? After all, an obscure program could well have obscure bugs in it; in other words: "No one ever got sued (or at least convicted) for running Microsoft".
On the contrary, running a program with such a horrible lag time in patching and such a terrible security track record such as IE could be negligent.
Besides, if your computer or network got damaged from traffick coming from my hijacked computer, then clearly you have been at least as negligent as I
This is just false. ISPs and users are damaged all the time by unpatched zombies, in intentional and unintentional DDoS attacks, and spam blasts.
No; the culprit here is the guy who hijacked my machine, not me. I cannot be blamed for you failing to adequately protect yourself from damage
Yes, he is the culprit, and should be charged with computer tresspass or whatever other crime he has committed. It's like if you leave a gun sitting on the curb in the ghetto and someone finds and uses it for a murder. They should be charged with murder, and you are grossly negligent and should be sued civilly for damages.
Yeah, go after the guy who hijacks people's machines in the first place, don't blame his victims for failing to defend themselves.
When the victim acts in a grossly negligent manner, they should be held accountable for their actions. If it were well known that Chevrolet cars came with very faulty tires from the factory, they had even issued a recall for it, offering free replacement, which you were notified of, and you purchased one with faulty tiers and drove it anyway without replacing the factory tires, you'd probably be liable if you killed someone after a blow-out.
The article for Ceiling Cat has been deleted dozens of times by asshole editors. The editors can't accept that something that originated as a Wikipedia troll is a genuine Internet phenomenon outside of Wikipedia. I came to wikipedia to find information on it, and was shocked to see no article there.
Don't contradict me if you don't know what you are talking about. It's in the TOS.
"You acknowledge that the Service presently includes a component of in-world fictional currency ("Currency" or "Linden Dollars" or "L$"), which constitutes a limited license right to use a feature of our product"
LL claims that lindens only exist as units of license to use "a feature of our product".
"Linden Dollars represent a limited license right governed solely under the terms of this Agreement, and are not redeemable for any sum of money or monetary value from Linden Lab at any time."
The only thing that works that way in SL is the charges for uploads and ratings, and those are tiny
Uploads, ratings, small land auctions, classified ads, find parcel listings.. Sinks total about 17 million lindens a month.. not a very tiny amount. The entire economy is something like 700 million.
The actual payments for resource usage such as tier must be paid in USD. If you earn L$ and sell it,
No shit. That has nothing to do with what I was talking about. Linden Lab claims that Lindens aren't currency because they are these "units of license" instead.
That is a more interesting question. In SL the currency is freely traded by third parties for USD, yet it's considered "units of license to utilize certain parts of the service", not money. That doesn't mean it's without value. I think the theft of SL currency (by anyone other than Linden Lab themselves) could probably be charged as a crime. It has a fair market value, and is freely and legally tradable.
An assembled cardboard puzzle with 5000 pieces has a high labor value under your definition. Somehow I think it would probably not be treated as a serious offence if someone stole it.
That's not the case. Value is created any time something is produced that is in demand. If I take a pile of dirt and turn it into iron, I've created value. If that value exceeds the cost of obtaining and processing the dirt, I've got a viable business, and I'm adding value to the entire economy every pile of dirt I process.
Second, the fact that 99% of the people with the disease du jour from a short checklist in Reader's Digest or Slashdot or whatever does not mean that the other 1% are also just fooling themselves.
Sure, the problem is that everyone thinks they are in the 1%, not the 99%.
If you use modern tapes or hard disks (who the hell still uses *sequential media*), then that's still more bandwidth than any backbone link on the net.
Especially if you use the Boeing 737 version of old saying.
It's not stress. They've renamed being a stressed out geek. It's now called "Aspergers Syndrome", and you can claim to have it on message boards so that people pay more attention to you. You also can get on the whole "disability" gravy train, even though there's nothing wrong with you. It's really a great advancement for all IT workers.
They won't if hardware manufacturers don't want them to.
When I first heard of Linux back in 1997, I immediately though "what about drivers?".
Standardized hardware interfaces can solve the problem, but companies don't like standards, when they can make proprietary crap like Apple does and people slurp it up.
You cant limit yourself the way sata does. Sata with its one drive per connector, prevents large scale connectivity needed in high throughput and reliablitity focused servers.
If the cabling is a problem, there's plenty of backplane based SATA RAIDS. SATA connector is designed like SCA SCSI, it's inherently well suited for backplane use.
If you mean something like a shared SCSI bus situation, I think those are going to be a less common requirement. Besides you can get SATA->iSCSI RAIDs if you want something SAN-like.
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a) 730 or 800 are both excellent. It's all gravy at that point.
b) Length of history matters more than anything else, assuming you don't have any negative stuff which will damage it heavily.
They start popping in drugs that cost $21,000 per dose into her to try and stop the bleeding
Fix patent laws and this problem goes away. More government interference to fix problems caused by government interference is never a good thing.
Credit card companies that already have accounts for you might like this, but it doesn't help you any.
If they see you carry a balance, and only pay minimums, they aren't going to offer you any good deals. If you suddenly pay off your cards, they will start sucking up to try to induce you to carry a balance again, giving you lower rates, better balance transfer deals, etc.
Also, it damages your credit score if you carry a large percentage of your available credit. Companies don't want to offer you credit if you already have 2 other maxed out cards, that's high risk.
So I'd say your advice is pretty universally bad, unless you aim is just to pay the most to the credit card companies.
An hour of a machinists time is worth almost as much as the entire hard disk, if you had to pay a machinist. Doing it yourself... well like they say about linux... only if your time is free. :)
The hard disk manufacturer would probably get suspicious if you returned hundreds of disk covers for disks that weren't very old and weren't seeing the same failure rate elsewhere in the field though.
My point was it wouldn't be cheap to buy a metal stamping press, and pay a die maker to make dies for each manufacturers covers. The only cost effective way to do it in small quantities would be to mill it out.
:P
You are correct though, stamped faceplaces are far more common than the other choices at this point in time.
And yes, some manufacturers do take back just the faceplaces. That's the entire reason we are having this discussion.
seems like Apple is forcing you into an OS lock in.
That's not what I said. I said the hardware is a $2500 dongle for the OS.
thousands of companies out there who write superb proprietary software out there that still runs great on your machine
Uh... Like Quark... or maybe Preps? Yeah, superb software there... not.
While Linux advocates are a fiery lot they will probably agree that users switching to osx is better than users staying with windows.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Apple is worse in a lot of ways. While competition has driven them to use more open software, I don't view that as likely to remain the case if they were to become dominant.
Apple, in the past, always worked on the strategy of telling the user what's good for them and not giving the user any choices. They've only discovered fairly recently that open standards in various ways can be leveraged to give them a good competitive advantage.
Just remember, their OS comes with the ultimate copy protection. Palladium and trusted computing is only MS's attempt at doing what Apple has done since the beginning of time, making the hardware into a giant dongle for the OS.
The faceplates are milled, cast, or stamped aluminum. It's not a flat piece of metal, it's custom made for the drive. By the time you buy a block of aluminum and cast or mill it to the right shape, you could have bought a new drive.
At least I always remember my passwords or, failing that, try all of them until I find the right one.
That always worries me when I have to do that.
Now that site knows all my passwords. They might even be sitting in some "invalid login" log file, in plaintext.
Don't slashdot their servers before I can change my password.
:)
Yes, the fact that the blog runs on the same MySQL cluster as the main account passwords has more than one side effect.
after all, finding out if your computer was "sufficiently patched and configured" to clear you of negligence charges is going to make file sharing cases seem simple.
That's a cop-out anyway. It's like saying the pot the cop found in your car might not be yours because you leave the doors unlocked.
Oh, and does running some non-mainstream program - such as Firefox - make you negligent ? After all, an obscure program could well have obscure bugs in it; in other words: "No one ever got sued (or at least convicted) for running Microsoft".
On the contrary, running a program with such a horrible lag time in patching and such a terrible security track record such as IE could be negligent.
Besides, if your computer or network got damaged from traffick coming from my hijacked computer, then clearly you have been at least as negligent as I
This is just false. ISPs and users are damaged all the time by unpatched zombies, in intentional and unintentional DDoS attacks, and spam blasts.
No; the culprit here is the guy who hijacked my machine, not me. I cannot be blamed for you failing to adequately protect yourself from damage
Yes, he is the culprit, and should be charged with computer tresspass or whatever other crime he has committed. It's like if you leave a gun sitting on the curb in the ghetto and someone finds and uses it for a murder. They should be charged with murder, and you are grossly negligent and should be sued civilly for damages.
Yeah, go after the guy who hijacks people's machines in the first place, don't blame his victims for failing to defend themselves.
When the victim acts in a grossly negligent manner, they should be held accountable for their actions. If it were well known that Chevrolet cars came with very faulty tires from the factory, they had even issued a recall for it, offering free replacement, which you were notified of, and you purchased one with faulty tiers and drove it anyway without replacing the factory tires, you'd probably be liable if you killed someone after a blow-out.
Then don't regulate patching, just make sure the courts handle tort cases correctly against negligent users.
If a user puts an unpatched computer on a network, they are grossly negligent and should be liable for any damages it causes.
No need for a new law, just enforce the ones we already have for dealing with this sort of behavior.
The article for Ceiling Cat has been deleted dozens of times by asshole editors. The editors can't accept that something that originated as a Wikipedia troll is a genuine Internet phenomenon outside of Wikipedia. I came to wikipedia to find information on it, and was shocked to see no article there.
So yeah, I give up. They can fuck themselves.
Don't contradict me if you don't know what you are talking about. It's in the TOS.
"You acknowledge that the Service presently includes a component of in-world fictional currency ("Currency" or "Linden Dollars" or "L$"), which constitutes a limited license right to use a feature of our product"
LL claims that lindens only exist as units of license to use "a feature of our product".
"Linden Dollars represent a limited license right governed solely under the terms of this Agreement, and are not redeemable for any sum of money or monetary value from Linden Lab at any time."
The only thing that works that way in SL is the charges for uploads and ratings, and those are tiny
Uploads, ratings, small land auctions, classified ads, find parcel listings.. Sinks total about 17 million lindens a month.. not a very tiny amount. The entire economy is something like 700 million.
The actual payments for resource usage such as tier must be paid in USD. If you earn L$ and sell it,
No shit. That has nothing to do with what I was talking about. Linden Lab claims that Lindens aren't currency because they are these "units of license" instead.
Or just summarily delete your contributions. That seems to be a common response too.
That is a more interesting question. In SL the currency is freely traded by third parties for USD, yet it's considered "units of license to utilize certain parts of the service", not money. That doesn't mean it's without value. I think the theft of SL currency (by anyone other than Linden Lab themselves) could probably be charged as a crime. It has a fair market value, and is freely and legally tradable.
An assembled cardboard puzzle with 5000 pieces has a high labor value under your definition. Somehow I think it would probably not be treated as a serious offence if someone stole it.
That's not the case. Value is created any time something is produced that is in demand. If I take a pile of dirt and turn it into iron, I've created value. If that value exceeds the cost of obtaining and processing the dirt, I've got a viable business, and I'm adding value to the entire economy every pile of dirt I process.
That happens regardless of monetary policy.
but also by putting pressure on our governments, businesses and farmers.
In other words, dictating how people work and live. Take your eco-fascism and shove it.
Remember, do things right or don't do them at all
Then why the fuck would you use an MS server product?
Second, the fact that 99% of the people with the disease du jour from a short checklist in Reader's Digest or Slashdot or whatever does not mean that the other 1% are also just fooling themselves.
Sure, the problem is that everyone thinks they are in the 1%, not the 99%.
If you use modern tapes or hard disks (who the hell still uses *sequential media*), then that's still more bandwidth than any backbone link on the net.
Especially if you use the Boeing 737 version of old saying.
It's not stress. They've renamed being a stressed out geek. It's now called "Aspergers Syndrome", and you can claim to have it on message boards so that people pay more attention to you. You also can get on the whole "disability" gravy train, even though there's nothing wrong with you. It's really a great advancement for all IT workers.
They won't if hardware manufacturers don't want them to.
When I first heard of Linux back in 1997, I immediately though "what about drivers?".
Standardized hardware interfaces can solve the problem, but companies don't like standards, when they can make proprietary crap like Apple does and people slurp it up.
You cant limit yourself the way sata does. Sata with its one drive per connector, prevents large scale connectivity needed in high throughput and reliablitity focused servers.
If the cabling is a problem, there's plenty of backplane based SATA RAIDS. SATA connector is designed like SCA SCSI, it's inherently well suited for backplane use.
If you mean something like a shared SCSI bus situation, I think those are going to be a less common requirement. Besides you can get SATA->iSCSI RAIDs if you want something SAN-like.