I've been using DeskStar 20GBs, a 75GXP and a 40GV, and THEY SUCK!!!! In less than a year, one of them crashed - I had to RMA it - and now both of them are giving me click of death. IBM has a tool on their web site that you can install on a boot floppy:
To get an RMA from IBM, they prefer that you use this program (I suppose you can't if your crashed drive was the sole HD you had and you can't create the floppy). The program said my drives are the picture of health when I know by my ears that a grinding noise and spinning down randomly is NOT a healthy sign. Of course, SMART worked really well on the crashed drive - it came up with an immenent failure warning AFTER the drive had crashed. Despite their claims of reliability and good support, I've sworn off IBM drives now. No drive that fails this quickly should belong in any system.
IANAL, but as I understand it a large portion of musical copyright laws prohibit reproduction of the work for profit without permission of the composer or without giving royalties to the composer. Furthermore, copyright laws were written in such a way that whoever copyrights the work in question first wins regardless of whether they created it first or not (pending convincing evidence to the contrary). With this interpretation, you could charge people in various ways:
- Charge any (non-profit) corporation when dialing their phones for work related purposes.
- Collect royalties from phone service providers that use the songs for routing in their system.
- Licence the "songs" to telephone manufacturers and receive money for every telephone ever made.
Still, they'll have a pretty hard case trying to get any money out of this. Likewise, anyone who shares a genetic pattern that has been "copyrighted" by another company should sue that company's ass off for copyright infringment on your genetic material.
where the state of broadband is discussed in good detail. In fact, this month's issue of Forbes ASAP had a few articles (check the first 4 listed starting at Internet II in particular) discussing the current viability of broadband, future implications of Internet II, how the Internet should grow in the future, and how the government should help its growth.
I don't know enough about the current situation regarding these topics to make intelligent comments about it, but these articles IMO did a good job painting the current picture. I HIGHLY suggest these articles for anyone not familiar with the current nightmare growing in broadband regulation/deregulation, the growth of the net, and DSL vs. Cable Modem providers.
Take a second to jump off the MS/Republican campaign finance bashing. The fact is MS gave over $1 million to BOTH the Republicans and the Democrats in the last election. Check it out here: Top soft money donators during the 99-00 election cycle. While I do think it's likely that the Democrats would have handled this differently than the Republicans, there is no way that these donations were the sole reason or even a significant reason for MS getting off the hook in this way.
The fact is that big corporations tend to give lots of money to both parties so that both parties will find that company in good favor - take a look at how many times Time Warner, SBC, and other big companies show up on the list. And you know each of those companies has gotten favors from the government as they lobby for deregulation and merge into bigger monopolistic entities.
Money is everywhere in DC - it only gets your foot in the door. You gotta play the political game if you want all the benefits from your donations. Maybe a generous donation to the GOP helped the DoJ "decide" it was time to speed up the trial. The DoJ isn't backing off though - remember, MS is still guilty of being a monopoly and that will be seen to the end.
Cross yer fingers everyone. It isn't over yet...
t
Where I went to school I got a double major in both of them and the cirriculums differed by about 6 courses. The difference is the focus - CS stresses programming and software design. CoE had the basic CS cirriculum, the basic EE cirriculum, then upper level focused on digital architecture and design and related courses (networking, OSs, etc).
The two majors complimented each other very well - I left knowing alot more about the innards of a computer than most CS people do from their school courses. (it also can be more lucrative =) I could have just as easily gotten EE/CoE degrees and taken a more hardware approach and been a EE with some programming knowledge.
While your major doesn't have to do anything with what you end up doing after you graduate, the CS degree makes you more suited for a programming job while a CoE degree may give you more freedom to choose from hardware and software jobs even though you aren't as well specialized as a CS or EE...
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I've been using DeskStar 20GBs, a 75GXP and a 40GV, and THEY SUCK!!!! In less than a year, one of them crashed - I had to RMA it - and now both of them are giving me click of death. IBM has a tool on their web site that you can install on a boot floppy:
IBM hard drive support downloads (check the drive fitness test)
To get an RMA from IBM, they prefer that you use this program (I suppose you can't if your crashed drive was the sole HD you had and you can't create the floppy). The program said my drives are the picture of health when I know by my ears that a grinding noise and spinning down randomly is NOT a healthy sign. Of course, SMART worked really well on the crashed drive - it came up with an immenent failure warning AFTER the drive had crashed. Despite their claims of reliability and good support, I've sworn off IBM drives now. No drive that fails this quickly should belong in any system.
t.
- Charge any (non-profit) corporation when dialing their phones for work related purposes.
- Collect royalties from phone service providers that use the songs for routing in their system.
- Licence the "songs" to telephone manufacturers and receive money for every telephone ever made.
Still, they'll have a pretty hard case trying to get any money out of this. Likewise, anyone who shares a genetic pattern that has been "copyrighted" by another company should sue that company's ass off for copyright infringment on your genetic material.
ahhh, symbolic gestures...
t.
here:
Why Broadband Is So Narrow?
where the state of broadband is discussed in good detail. In fact, this month's issue of Forbes ASAP had a few articles (check the first 4 listed starting at Internet II in particular) discussing the current viability of broadband, future implications of Internet II, how the Internet should grow in the future, and how the government should help its growth.
I don't know enough about the current situation regarding these topics to make intelligent comments about it, but these articles IMO did a good job painting the current picture. I HIGHLY suggest these articles for anyone not familiar with the current nightmare growing in broadband regulation/deregulation, the growth of the net, and DSL vs. Cable Modem providers.
t.
Take a second to jump off the MS/Republican campaign finance bashing. The fact is MS gave over $1 million to BOTH the Republicans and the Democrats in the last election. Check it out here: Top soft money donators during the 99-00 election cycle. While I do think it's likely that the Democrats would have handled this differently than the Republicans, there is no way that these donations were the sole reason or even a significant reason for MS getting off the hook in this way.
The fact is that big corporations tend to give lots of money to both parties so that both parties will find that company in good favor - take a look at how many times Time Warner, SBC, and other big companies show up on the list. And you know each of those companies has gotten favors from the government as they lobby for deregulation and merge into bigger monopolistic entities.
Money is everywhere in DC - it only gets your foot in the door. You gotta play the political game if you want all the benefits from your donations. Maybe a generous donation to the GOP helped the DoJ "decide" it was time to speed up the trial. The DoJ isn't backing off though - remember, MS is still guilty of being a monopoly and that will be seen to the end.
Cross yer fingers everyone. It isn't over yet...
t
The two majors complimented each other very well - I left knowing alot more about the innards of a computer than most CS people do from their school courses. (it also can be more lucrative =) I could have just as easily gotten EE/CoE degrees and taken a more hardware approach and been a EE with some programming knowledge.
While your major doesn't have to do anything with what you end up doing after you graduate, the CS degree makes you more suited for a programming job while a CoE degree may give you more freedom to choose from hardware and software jobs even though you aren't as well specialized as a CS or EE...