They do this while striking a balance between cutting-edge and proven reliable technologies, based mostly on cost of R&D and production.
Looks like I've hooked a live one here, a real person from a hard disk company marketing department! Hint: Real people don't talk like that.
High end customers don't buy ATA because the featureset is inferior to that of SCSI in many tangible ways
If it is inferior, there is no technical reason for it to be that way, only a business/marketing reason.
why should the drive manufacturers attach their high end products to this tech?
I think the success of the WD Raptor shows that customers DO want high end drives with standard interfaces.
That would just serve to cannibalize their server products
That's just business-speak for "we want to be able to charge some customers 5 times more for basically the same product"
After all, how important is latency to the average home user, really
Why don't you ask seagate, which has implemented NCQ on even their low end drives?
The writing is on the wall, people are realizing that you don't need SCSI to build enterprise class RAID systems. The hard disk manufacturers that embrace this trend (WD Rapton, Seagate/Maxtor NCQ) will succeed, the ones that continue to fight it will die.
There's absolutely no reason for there to be two different standards other than price descrimination and market segmentation that does not serve the customer.
Middle click is not a linux thing. X has always been that way, long before Linux was created.
The problem is really that there are two "clipboards". Some programmers don't even understand this.
What you "copy" and "paste" is not the same as what you "highlight" and "middle-click".
So xchat, for instance, doesn't really support copy/paste. Also, any app that mixes or confuses the two buffers is broken and should have a bug report filed.
the next generation of SCSI is Serial Attached SCSI
Who cares?
Why would you want to make yet another serial interconnect standard, when SATA is perfectly fine?
Oh, I forgot, it's so the hard disk manufacturers and interface card manufacturers can charge 5 times more for a slightly faster and slightly more reliable product... i.e. marketing bullshit.
There's absolutely no reason we couldn't have had 15k RPM ATA and SATA drives by now, other than the obvious collusion and lack of competition among the few remaining hard disk makers.
I agree. I got married a couple years ago, and when doing my taxes this year, entering my W2s and such first, a large (several thousand) refund was showing on the running total. Adding my wife's W2 in, and suddenly I owe $200. She makes half what I make, and did have enough withheld, and yet the tax penalty is huge.
So don't get married if you can help it at all.. While it helps on things like medical insurance, 10-20% a year more taxes just from being married sucks balls!
Come on, you all can't be that naive. Allofmp3 just paid off the right people. If, someday in the future, they no longer pay off the right people, then it will become illegal and able to be prosecuted.
You don't care because you don't have to buy from vendors that ship thier very expensive products on Windows platforms with Dell servers. This is about more than just you playing mp3s and tuxracer.
"Whoever knowingly, with the intent to carry on any activity which would be a Federal or State crime of fraud or identity theft--"
For this law to even apply, the prosecution has to show intent to commit fraud as it is already defined. This is the same as just charging someone with attempted fraud, as far as I can tell.
Fiduciary duty is about trust and confidence. It's about trusting the discretion and judgement of the fiduciary. The concept implies freedom to run the business as they see fit.
The main requirement is that the company use that discretion and judgement to act in the shareholder's best interest. You make it sound much less flexible than it is.
Administrative regulations have to have a statutory authorization to be valid.
Administrative agencies can only implement regulations that have statutory authority codified into statute law. They can't just go make up new rules unless those rules are within the statutory authority granted to them.
I'm not sure if this is strictly a 10th amendment issue, but it would certainly be a new precedent if adminstrative agencies started to make new regulations with no statutory authority.
Intellectual property is not real property. It is a synthetic invention that is protected by laws.
These laws have slowly expanded to the point where the protections for intellectual property are so strong that they give people like you some idea that intellectual property is on the same level as real property. It's not.
The sole reason intellectual property exists is to promote science and engineering.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Limited time. Writings and discoveries. Not all creative works, in fact, music isn't mentioned anywhere!
Anyway, you have fallen victim to the propaganda that tries to make IP law something it isn't.
For example, if the copy sought to be imported was made in the US, then it could be re-imported. Or if it is imported with the permission of the US rightsholder. Or if it is imported for personal use AND was made in a way that, had it been made where US law applied, it would not have infringed against the US rightsholder (i.e. making whatever oddities of Russian law it was made under irrelevant).
This last part of your post is very wrong. The first sale doctrine was established because an importer that was selling imported copies without the copyright holder's permission was sued.
The importer won, thus creating the first sale doctrine, which you have completely misconstrued. It's legal to use, give, sell, transport fixed representations of copyrighted works that you purchased, without the copyright holder's permission.
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No no, he's some senator with cancer.
They do this while striking a balance between cutting-edge and proven reliable technologies, based mostly on cost of R&D and production.
Looks like I've hooked a live one here, a real person from a hard disk company marketing department! Hint: Real people don't talk like that.
High end customers don't buy ATA because the featureset is inferior to that of SCSI in many tangible ways
If it is inferior, there is no technical reason for it to be that way, only a business/marketing reason.
why should the drive manufacturers attach their high end products to this tech?
I think the success of the WD Raptor shows that customers DO want high end drives with standard interfaces.
That would just serve to cannibalize their server products
That's just business-speak for "we want to be able to charge some customers 5 times more for basically the same product"
After all, how important is latency to the average home user, really
Why don't you ask seagate, which has implemented NCQ on even their low end drives?
The writing is on the wall, people are realizing that you don't need SCSI to build enterprise class RAID systems. The hard disk manufacturers that embrace this trend (WD Rapton, Seagate/Maxtor NCQ) will succeed, the ones that continue to fight it will die.
There's absolutely no reason for there to be two different standards other than price descrimination and market segmentation that does not serve the customer.
Middle click is not a linux thing. X has always been that way, long before Linux was created.
The problem is really that there are two "clipboards". Some programmers don't even understand this.
What you "copy" and "paste" is not the same as what you "highlight" and "middle-click".
So xchat, for instance, doesn't really support copy/paste. Also, any app that mixes or confuses the two buffers is broken and should have a bug report filed.
the next generation of SCSI is Serial Attached SCSI
Who cares?
Why would you want to make yet another serial interconnect standard, when SATA is perfectly fine?
Oh, I forgot, it's so the hard disk manufacturers and interface card manufacturers can charge 5 times more for a slightly faster and slightly more reliable product... i.e. marketing bullshit.
There's absolutely no reason we couldn't have had 15k RPM ATA and SATA drives by now, other than the obvious collusion and lack of competition among the few remaining hard disk makers.
That's like saying the same thing will happen to linux.
Wikipedia is GFDL. No one can close it.
Thank you for proving my point that you have no sense of humor!
Ah ok, So this Usamah Ibnul guy doesn't belong to the wahabbi/salafi sect that Osama Bin Laden does. Gotcha.
Married filing separately has *huge* penalties. It's not an option.
You can't legally file single, you must file "married filing separately".
I agree. I got married a couple years ago, and when doing my taxes this year, entering my W2s and such first, a large (several thousand) refund was showing on the running total. Adding my wife's W2 in, and suddenly I owe $200. She makes half what I make, and did have enough withheld, and yet the tax penalty is huge.
So don't get married if you can help it at all.. While it helps on things like medical insurance, 10-20% a year more taxes just from being married sucks balls!
Instead of tricking viewers into watching your show, why not make some quality entertainment, and if you leak it, they will want to watch more!
Yes.
Come on, you all can't be that naive. Allofmp3 just paid off the right people. If, someday in the future, they no longer pay off the right people, then it will become illegal and able to be prosecuted.
This is the normal way russian law works.
You don't care because you don't have to buy from vendors that ship thier very expensive products on Windows platforms with Dell servers. This is about more than just you playing mp3s and tuxracer.
The new law doesn't change the old law anyway.
"Whoever knowingly, with the intent to carry on any activity which would be a Federal or State crime of fraud or identity theft--"
For this law to even apply, the prosecution has to show intent to commit fraud as it is already defined. This is the same as just charging someone with attempted fraud, as far as I can tell.
That's like saying the telephone companies should work with copyright holders to ensure no one sings a copyrighted song over the phone.
There's a huge difference between cooperating with law enforcement, and being a form of corporate police for someone elses copyrighted works.
Have you seen the like?
Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is "Don't tread on me".
Don't worry, most people get it wrong.
Fiduciary duty is about trust and confidence. It's about trusting the discretion and judgement of the fiduciary. The concept implies freedom to run the business as they see fit.
The main requirement is that the company use that discretion and judgement to act in the shareholder's best interest. You make it sound much less flexible than it is.
If you have windows in the room, you have terrible glare.
Administrative regulations have to have a statutory authorization to be valid.
Administrative agencies can only implement regulations that have statutory authority codified into statute law. They can't just go make up new rules unless those rules are within the statutory authority granted to them.
I'm not sure if this is strictly a 10th amendment issue, but it would certainly be a new precedent if adminstrative agencies started to make new regulations with no statutory authority.
You'd still have to step it down to 12V at 144A to actually charge the battery. 144 amp conductors are slightly huge. :)
Intellectual property is not real property. It is a synthetic invention that is protected by laws.
These laws have slowly expanded to the point where the protections for intellectual property are so strong that they give people like you some idea that intellectual property is on the same level as real property. It's not.
The sole reason intellectual property exists is to promote science and engineering.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Limited time. Writings and discoveries. Not all creative works, in fact, music isn't mentioned anywhere!
Anyway, you have fallen victim to the propaganda that tries to make IP law something it isn't.
So because a service fulfills the actual demand of the public, it must be illegal?
Copyright covers derivative works the same as originals. It wouldn't help.
For example, if the copy sought to be imported was made in the US, then it could be re-imported. Or if it is imported with the permission of the US rightsholder. Or if it is imported for personal use AND was made in a way that, had it been made where US law applied, it would not have infringed against the US rightsholder (i.e. making whatever oddities of Russian law it was made under irrelevant).
This last part of your post is very wrong. The first sale doctrine was established because an importer that was selling imported copies without the copyright holder's permission was sued.
The importer won, thus creating the first sale doctrine, which you have completely misconstrued. It's legal to use, give, sell, transport fixed representations of copyrighted works that you purchased, without the copyright holder's permission.
Why not? It works for Bill Gates, and Billy boy isn't in jail yet.