You know, I think I do remember the 1GB Fireball being a trooper. But that takes a back-seat alongside my own ancient Seagates, as far as meaningless anecdotes go. There was also a time when the Fireball name was taken derogatively (like Deathstar) because the drives turned terrible, and then came the [fucking] Quantum Bigfoot abomination.
Which again, just backs up what I said, although I'm going to have to modify my stance a bit I'm still on the same soapbox: Your sampleset is good, but without a proper study or a basis for comparison, it's just anecdotes and confirmation bias and a story.
Mostly I've replaced Seagates professionally, too, but then most of the units I work with were populated entirely by Seagates from the factory.
I always replace them with low-end WD Purple drives because the speed is adequate and the caching algorithm is allegedly optimized for this use-case.
Eventually, the Seagates will all be gone and 100% of the drives I replace from then on will be WD (although of MTBF is to believed, some of these Seagates will outlive me by a long shot).
If most of the cars on the road are Fords, then most shops will see Ford cars needing repair.
I've had an old BMW daily driver for over a decade. People say that they're expensive to work on (they aren't), and that they're unreliable (mine isn't). Exceptions: Small-town mechanic sees a fancy-pants red BMW roll up and starts thinking about "boat payments." Mechanic then realizes that his local Autozone rep can't get many parts for it, so they assume that they'll be paying someone to drive an hour to the nearest dealer for whatever it needs. The price (and therefore perceived unreliability) begins to multiply.
And so, folks become biased about it.
A smart, good mechanic (I know exactly one) can figure out how to get quality, OEM (literal OEM, not OEM-like) parts rather cheaply. But what I usually do when I get in over my head working on it myself, I chat with my mechanic about it on the phone for a bit, I order the parts myself (saving him the hassle of working out of his network), and he simply charges me his hourly shop rate to do the work. I don't quibble over the bill. My mechanic is, to me, unimpeachable.
And so, I'm biased differently than a lot of other folks.
None of us are right. We all have our stories, but that doesn't make us right. It just means that we have stories. We believe them because they're true -- after all, we were there -- but that doesn't mean that anyone else needs to place any value on them. Be it my own Seagate stories, or my long-winded car analogy, it's just a story like any other.
And there's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, as long as we take them at face value.
A year or two ago, my dad (an avid dumpster diver) found a working and very clean Dell Latitude 32-bit D620 laptop. I shaved some parts off that I needed for my own D620 and sold the display+housing complete on Ebay, because...because.
I'm about to ditch the D620 altogether (in favor of kvm/qemu guest, possibly Tails) and then I will not have any more 32-bit x86 machines for my own personal purposes.
MS-DOS didn't have printer drivers. Bit-banging was unusual because MS-DOS did provide a character interface to the printer port (typically as a device called LPT1:, which you can easily parse as the equivalent of/dev/whatever, plus or minus some CPM-ish),
But even early Windows releases were half-fucking-decent at capturing LPT1: output and spooling it appropriately for MS-DOS applications, but you said this shit the bed, too.
That said, doesn't QEMU (and friends) provide a properly-virtualized parallel port -- bit-banging and all?
The thing about anecdotes like this is that the sampleset is always very small, so it's not a very meaningful datapoint.
I have several 8-year-old 250 gig Seagate 7200.10 drives that refuse to die. I took them out of service a few weeks ago.
At work, I've seen a lot of Seagates die in NVRs. But then, the NVRs were all mostly populated with 2TB Seagates from day 1 -- so of course I'm going to see a lot of them die. I also see plenty of 2TB WD drives bite the dust. I've never seen an HGST drive die in an NVR, but then none of them have HGST drives installed....
Statistically, from my perspective, it's about a wash. But that doesn't really mean anything, because again my own sampleset is very limited in scope compared to Backblaze or Google.
Meanwhile, IBM at one point was making some absolutely stellar hard drives. Their 9ES SCSI drives were the bee's knees at the time, and were resoundingly reliable. It's hard to characterize a brand of hard drive -- some models are good, and some are bad, from just about any manufacturer.
(Except for Quantum. Quantum was never good. And Miniscribe, because fuck those crooks.)
This can't be repeated often enough. The more complicated a thing is, the more likely it is to fail. Sometimes, it's a linear relationship.
I remember buying some early PoE switches about a decade ago. I needed 48 ports total. The 48-port model was about exactly twice as expensive as a 24-port, and had exactly half of the MTBF rating.
Based on this, I bought two 24-port switches. The net MTBF of the system was still halved to be the same as a singular 48-port switch (because the complexity was doubled) but I reasoned that it would fail modularly instead of absolutely, and then could be repaired modularly.
Hard drives are no different. You can count platters if you want, but I think the real factor is the number of heads. More heads on the stack == more chances for things to go south, and more work for the actuator to do.
Odd head counts are actually fairly common. It's entirely possible to have a 2-platter drive with 3 heads, or a 4-platter drive with 7 heads. Usually, this is due to yields and bin-sorting: One side of a platter might have a defect, where the other is perfectly fine.
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Traditional pickles are fermented. Fermented pickles (fermented anything, really) is the stuff that keeps forever due to the lactic acid produced during fermentation.
The stuff Vlasic sells is "fresh pack," not fermented (as your sauerkraut was), using vinegar as a preservative. Totally different stuff...
That said: I've never thrown out pickles for "being old," even when I buy them in enormous containers.
Macromedia, the company who had a presentation product called Director and a browser plugin called Shockwave for Director, bought Flash (and the rest of FutureSplash) in 1996.
Adobe then bought Macromedia in 2005 for $3.4 billion.
Both of mine did just fine with battery life over the course of a day.
Perhaps you were holding yours wrong?
(One died a water death after being dumped out of a canoe. It did come back to life a couple of years(!) later. The other had microphone death, which I guess is kind of common when doing confirmation-biased research.)
It only happens when I actually see them, not for the vast majority of them that go unseen. And happens in both relatively bright ambient lighting (on a porch, in town, with the lights on) or relative darkness (out in the country somewhere).
But I've never noticed an auditory response to other other visual stimuli.
Google Maps can already navigate offline using explicitly cached data, as can Waze with incidentally cached data. Google Now is happy to show me headlines while offline, and will load a story that I've selected as soon as connectivity returns. Most of the apps that I use don't require connectivity. There are even web browsers that work offline.
"Doing things offline" is not a new feature in portable computing. It's just a new feature in this particular app from Google.
Meh. Anything can be insured, including a dwelling with a closet full of firey hoverboards and a Note 7 with the factory-standard autoignition feature.
It's just an additional risk that needs to be accounted for.
There is bias voltage available on the second ring of a TRRS connector, as it is necessary for the condenser microphone used for wired headsets.
It's not much in terms of voltage or current availability, but it's plenty for numerous companies to have manufactured credit card readers with active electronics that are powered entirely by it.
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I write this on Android, which is Linux.
If I weren't, I would be writing this on IOS, which is FreeBSD.
The war is over/we've always been at war with the GNU/BSD license.
You know, I think I do remember the 1GB Fireball being a trooper. But that takes a back-seat alongside my own ancient Seagates, as far as meaningless anecdotes go. There was also a time when the Fireball name was taken derogatively (like Deathstar) because the drives turned terrible, and then came the [fucking] Quantum Bigfoot abomination.
Which again, just backs up what I said, although I'm going to have to modify my stance a bit I'm still on the same soapbox: Your sampleset is good, but without a proper study or a basis for comparison, it's just anecdotes and confirmation bias and a story.
Mostly I've replaced Seagates professionally, too, but then most of the units I work with were populated entirely by Seagates from the factory.
I always replace them with low-end WD Purple drives because the speed is adequate and the caching algorithm is allegedly optimized for this use-case.
Eventually, the Seagates will all be gone and 100% of the drives I replace from then on will be WD (although of MTBF is to believed, some of these Seagates will outlive me by a long shot).
If most of the cars on the road are Fords, then most shops will see Ford cars needing repair.
I've had an old BMW daily driver for over a decade. People say that they're expensive to work on (they aren't), and that they're unreliable (mine isn't). Exceptions: Small-town mechanic sees a fancy-pants red BMW roll up and starts thinking about "boat payments." Mechanic then realizes that his local Autozone rep can't get many parts for it, so they assume that they'll be paying someone to drive an hour to the nearest dealer for whatever it needs. The price (and therefore perceived unreliability) begins to multiply.
And so, folks become biased about it.
A smart, good mechanic (I know exactly one) can figure out how to get quality, OEM (literal OEM, not OEM-like) parts rather cheaply. But what I usually do when I get in over my head working on it myself, I chat with my mechanic about it on the phone for a bit, I order the parts myself (saving him the hassle of working out of his network), and he simply charges me his hourly shop rate to do the work. I don't quibble over the bill. My mechanic is, to me, unimpeachable.
And so, I'm biased differently than a lot of other folks.
None of us are right. We all have our stories, but that doesn't make us right. It just means that we have stories. We believe them because they're true -- after all, we were there -- but that doesn't mean that anyone else needs to place any value on them. Be it my own Seagate stories, or my long-winded car analogy, it's just a story like any other.
And there's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, as long as we take them at face value.
A year or two ago, my dad (an avid dumpster diver) found a working and very clean Dell Latitude 32-bit D620 laptop. I shaved some parts off that I needed for my own D620 and sold the display+housing complete on Ebay, because...because.
I'm about to ditch the D620 altogether (in favor of kvm/qemu guest, possibly Tails) and then I will not have any more 32-bit x86 machines for my own personal purposes.
MS-DOS didn't have printer drivers. Bit-banging was unusual because MS-DOS did provide a character interface to the printer port (typically as a device called LPT1:, which you can easily parse as the equivalent of /dev/whatever, plus or minus some CPM-ish),
But even early Windows releases were half-fucking-decent at capturing LPT1: output and spooling it appropriately for MS-DOS applications, but you said this shit the bed, too.
That said, doesn't QEMU (and friends) provide a properly-virtualized parallel port -- bit-banging and all?
(And if not, it should.)
But...modern HP LaserJet printers still grok PCL, and Oki still makes dot matrix printers.
Wouldn't printing have been the easy part?
The thing about anecdotes like this is that the sampleset is always very small, so it's not a very meaningful datapoint.
I have several 8-year-old 250 gig Seagate 7200.10 drives that refuse to die. I took them out of service a few weeks ago.
At work, I've seen a lot of Seagates die in NVRs. But then, the NVRs were all mostly populated with 2TB Seagates from day 1 -- so of course I'm going to see a lot of them die. I also see plenty of 2TB WD drives bite the dust. I've never seen an HGST drive die in an NVR, but then none of them have HGST drives installed....
Statistically, from my perspective, it's about a wash. But that doesn't really mean anything, because again my own sampleset is very limited in scope compared to Backblaze or Google.
Meanwhile, IBM at one point was making some absolutely stellar hard drives. Their 9ES SCSI drives were the bee's knees at the time, and were resoundingly reliable. It's hard to characterize a brand of hard drive -- some models are good, and some are bad, from just about any manufacturer.
(Except for Quantum. Quantum was never good. And Miniscribe, because fuck those crooks.)
This can't be repeated often enough. The more complicated a thing is, the more likely it is to fail. Sometimes, it's a linear relationship.
I remember buying some early PoE switches about a decade ago. I needed 48 ports total. The 48-port model was about exactly twice as expensive as a 24-port, and had exactly half of the MTBF rating.
Based on this, I bought two 24-port switches. The net MTBF of the system was still halved to be the same as a singular 48-port switch (because the complexity was doubled) but I reasoned that it would fail modularly instead of absolutely, and then could be repaired modularly.
Hard drives are no different. You can count platters if you want, but I think the real factor is the number of heads. More heads on the stack == more chances for things to go south, and more work for the actuator to do.
Odd head counts are actually fairly common. It's entirely possible to have a 2-platter drive with 3 heads, or a 4-platter drive with 7 heads. Usually, this is due to yields and bin-sorting: One side of a platter might have a defect, where the other is perfectly fine.
But CE is self certified. I can wipe my ass with it.
The FCC doesn't care.
CE doesn't matter to me in the US.
It is unfit for the purpose, I think, but that is a matter for consumer protection laws - not bodies that govern RF emissions.
(emphasis mine)
Traditional pickles are fermented. Fermented pickles (fermented anything, really) is the stuff that keeps forever due to the lactic acid produced during fermentation.
The stuff Vlasic sells is "fresh pack," not fermented (as your sauerkraut was), using vinegar as a preservative. Totally different stuff...
That said: I've never thrown out pickles for "being old," even when I buy them in enormous containers.
Close, gramps.
Macromedia, the company who had a presentation product called Director and a browser plugin called Shockwave for Director, bought Flash (and the rest of FutureSplash) in 1996.
Adobe then bought Macromedia in 2005 for $3.4 billion.
Delete your facebook.
FFS, I could do that years ago with a Droid 4, using micro-HDMI for display and any random Bluetooth or USB OTG accessories that I felt like.
For the Droid Bionic, they even made a lapdock, with a built-in keyboard, monitor, and pointer.
Fast forward, and I can do it with an S5 using wired MHL for video display and Bluetooth peripherals.
Or just about anything else Android using Chromecast and whatever peripherals.
It's a shitty idea in that it is clever, efficient and seems useful, but really isn't useful at all.
Both of mine did just fine with battery life over the course of a day.
Perhaps you were holding yours wrong?
(One died a water death after being dumped out of a canoe. It did come back to life a couple of years(!) later. The other had microphone death, which I guess is kind of common when doing confirmation-biased research.)
My opinion is an informed opinion.
Thank you for your concern.
4. Head in sand.
5. Build a wall.
6. Start a war.
7. ???
8. Profit!
I'm no mechanical engineer, but the S5 was both waterproof (IP67) and had an easily-swapped battery.
S7 feels about the same in-hand, though a bit heavier, has a glass back and a non-serviceable battery, but is rated IP68.
I have both of them in front of me. They're both great. But I'd prefer the S5's tradeoffs with regards to battery and water ingress.
Tons of very complicated stuff works offline -- even things that benefit strongly from being connected.
But I'm not sure how useful Reddit would be with a bunch of cached headlines and nothing else...
I am one who hears meteors tear through the sky.
It only happens when I actually see them, not for the vast majority of them that go unseen. And happens in both relatively bright ambient lighting (on a porch, in town, with the lights on) or relative darkness (out in the country somewhere).
But I've never noticed an auditory response to other other visual stimuli.
We already are.
Google Maps can already navigate offline using explicitly cached data, as can Waze with incidentally cached data. Google Now is happy to show me headlines while offline, and will load a story that I've selected as soon as connectivity returns. Most of the apps that I use don't require connectivity. There are even web browsers that work offline.
"Doing things offline" is not a new feature in portable computing. It's just a new feature in this particular app from Google.
Meh. Anything can be insured, including a dwelling with a closet full of firey hoverboards and a Note 7 with the factory-standard autoignition feature.
It's just an additional risk that needs to be accounted for.
Oh, the "you get what you pay for" logical fallacy, with a side of "I made this up."
What if I told you that 1 time in 10,000 the generic will perform in circumstances where the brand name won't?
(I can make shit up, too.)
There is bias voltage available on the second ring of a TRRS connector, as it is necessary for the condenser microphone used for wired headsets.
It's not much in terms of voltage or current availability, but it's plenty for numerous companies to have manufactured credit card readers with active electronics that are powered entirely by it.
What are you going on about?
You can stream Mozart in the Jungle for as little as $1.99 per episode, no Prime membership needed. Similarly with Game of Thrones and Orange is the New Black, though those cost a little more.
It seems very expensive to me, but if that's what you want to do, you can do it.