For example, they used Western Digital hard drives.
There's your answer. In the early 90's I worked for a company that was building systems that used WD drives and they had a 30% failure rate within the first week. My own desktop went down and took a month's work with it.
More recently, got a laptop where about two thirds of the WD drive was bad. It spent more time attempting to repair filesystem damage than in doing actual work. Ordered an received a factory-sealed replacement and IT had more bad sectors than the original. Third time was more lucky and we finally got in business.
But that's why when I'm the one purchasing storage devices, the order doesn't go for Western Digital.
Well that just means that we need to smack them with some FREEDOMS!
But my question wasn't addressed to Elsevier, it was addressed to erikkemperman. Who, for all I know is in the USA undermining our basic principles and corrupting our children even as we speak. Think of the Children!!!!
What are you, sir? Some kind of evil Socialist Commie Terrorist??
In the USA, we're proud to take other people's works, copyright them for ourselves for horrendous lengths of time and prosecute mercilessly anyone who might attempt to use our presentations or derivatives thereof.
A couple of years ago in Orlando, lighthing hit a tree in a parking lot, ran down the tree, blew a 6-inch hole in the ground at the base of the tree, ran another 8 feet or so into a shed and set the shed on fire from the inside.
Never expect lightning to just give up. If if can do that through the practically-nonconductive wood of a tree and dirt, barreling down electrical wires is no problem at all. Even if it has to use vaporized metal as a path after the initial surge.
Don't be such a kneebiter. You OBVIOUSLY don't know how tech products are created.
1. Boy Genius Entrepreneur has Great Idea! 2. Boy Genius hires handful of low-wage monkey types to do grunt work (It's Simple! All You Have To Do Is...) 3. Boy Genius becomes billionaire. Monkey types get laid off.
The problem with that is that leap seconds aren't a regular adjustment, they're arbitrary "bumps" because the earth's rotation isn't 100% constant. Gravitational effects and earthquakes have been held to blame in particular. So you can't do like you do with Leap Year and come up with a simple formula. Yes, the day isn't an integral number of seconds long, but that's only the starting point.
That's unfortunate, because it means that there's no mathematical way to get sub-minute time differentials between different dates, and worse yet, no way to allow for future calendar adjustments.
Of course, the massive dislocations that we willingly inflict upon ourselves twice a year is no one's fault but our own.
I dunno. Reading off computer monitors has become less strain than it used to be, but it still isn't something I prefer to do. Maybe it was the lower resolution coupled with neck angle.
Backlit tablet screens, on the other hand, have never given me eyestrain at all.
Diagram-heavy textbooks are not a good fit for a 7-inch reader color or no. And not all of us are so titled in favor of graphic novels that we can't occasionally ready a text-only tome in the sun. Or something like "Miss Perergrine's School for Peculiar Children", which, though salted with graphics, is using monochrome photos anyway. So YMMV.
RFIDs have too limited a range to hunt down and kill book moochers, though.
In the eBook Realm, the problems have to do more with what happens when Borders (substitute name of your favorite bookseller) goes under and switches off their DRM servers. "Poof!" there goes the whole library!
And if it's a Nook Book, even the downloaded copies are inaccessible on most devices. Including the ones "Sold without DRM at the insistence of the Author/Publisher".
They have their ideology, you have yours. They'd be laughing all the way to the bank except that they also own the bank.
And, unlike the modern USA, they're a LOT more concerned about keeping millions of workers employed and gruntled than they are about whether or not it's "profitable" in the purely financial sense.
Governments and economists use the terms "recession" and "depression" to refer to certain specific metrics.
Most of those metrics are abstract numbers of more interest to governments and corporations than they are to people in Main Street.
Over the last decade or so, in fact, the pain on Main Street has become less and less reflected in "official" metrics, but since to bean-counters the metric is the reality and the whole of the reality, people have been getting more and more discontented, uncomfortable, and outright financially injured even when we have an "up" economy.
But the people in charge don't care. Their numbers look good and their incomes are typically either insulated from (for example, government jobs), derived from (for example, quarterly bonuses), or occasionally even counter (for example, Golden Parachutes for failing) to the official economic stats. Until they, too feel their livelihoods threatened, injured, or reduced, don't expect anything to change.
In the US, the words "custom" or "tailor-made" tend to be used instead.
Then again, you can't get those good Lower Prices Everyday[TM] if you actually get something customized to fit your own personal needs and preferences.
I can think of multiple uses of a fire extinguisher... It could be used to bludgeon an invader or blind them. It could be cut apart and made into a DIY foundry. It could be gussied up and used as decor. Have a little creativity!
Not only does releasing the source code open you up to hacks, but it also makes it trivially easy for someone to modify the code, adding backdoors, exploits, etc and recompile it. A simple replacement of the original code with the 'improved' codes means you have been completely pwned.
In other words, replacing the legitimate module with a trojan one.
With certain exceptions, it's very hard even allowing for the lax attention to security that is so prevalent today for an outside agent to swap out an arbitrary app in someone's shop for a trojan. And if you're getting pre-built open-source binaries from a reputable repository, that repository typically carries checksums that are intended to ensure that the module you download is the one that they built. Also, the people who built the repository don't accept arbitrary source changes from just anyone.
On the other hand, disassembling and hacking closed-source binaries isn't nearly as hard as it's made out to be. I speak from experience, both on my own part and on the part of other people I know. Although if that's not good enough, I'll simply point you to the innumerable exploits made on Windows, Flash, and other critical system resources despite the fact that few, if any of the corrupted modules had publicly-visible source code.
Of course, the officially-defined Economy consists of how businesses are doing regardless of whether they're doing useful work and providing people with profitable employment, or just trading back bits and pieces of corporations so that fat cats can collect stock options and golden parachutes.
Middle-class individuals may fee less optimistic, but we got by for millennia without a large middle class, so what do the economists care?
In Victorian times, you weren't really respectable unless you had a cabinet full of every imaginable sort of jam, jelly and marmalade. Often with specialized silverware to go with them. So Choice Overload is hardly anything new.
A lot of the TFA "brand proliferation" is because before about 1930 or so, bakeries were local (when you didn't just bake at home). Roads weren't that great, transportation costs were high. No long-haul truckers, and probably the railroads weren't cost-effective for anything as cheap as bread. Now we may have lots of different brands, but many of them are from 6 states away or more.
It's true. I read the other day that a grocery store circa 1960 carried about 7000 distinct products, versus about 40,000 in modern-day stores, including a lot of international imports like genuine D.O.P. Parmesan cheese for no more than $15/lb and often less.
And it's true. I have myself been bewildered when confronting a new product that comes in a hundred different brands and varieties. Still, we manage to get by. If you need it bad enough, you'll eventually grab something and run.
The automobile companies weren't always mega-corporations. They typically started out the size of Tesla. GM is the conglomeration of the Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, Cadillac companies plus probably a few names that used to be well-known before being bought out long ago.
I think if you took inventory of a typical hospital you'd still find lots of specialty devices and products that aren't from GE, et. al. Not everything is a hulking big MRI machine that requires major resources to build.
Architectural and engineering firms are often small partnerships.
Liability insurance and having a lawyer on retainer has pretty much always been the mark of a professional association, right up there with having a CPA on contract.
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For example, they used Western Digital hard drives.
There's your answer. In the early 90's I worked for a company that was building systems that used WD drives and they had a 30% failure rate within the first week. My own desktop went down and took a month's work with it.
More recently, got a laptop where about two thirds of the WD drive was bad. It spent more time attempting to repair filesystem damage than in doing actual work. Ordered an received a factory-sealed replacement and IT had more bad sectors than the original. Third time was more lucky and we finally got in business.
But that's why when I'm the one purchasing storage devices, the order doesn't go for Western Digital.
Well that just means that we need to smack them with some FREEDOMS!
But my question wasn't addressed to Elsevier, it was addressed to erikkemperman. Who, for all I know is in the USA undermining our basic principles and corrupting our children even as we speak. Think of the Children!!!!
You should be ashamed of yourself, you do-nothing!
What are you, sir? Some kind of evil Socialist Commie Terrorist??
In the USA, we're proud to take other people's works, copyright them for ourselves for horrendous lengths of time and prosecute mercilessly anyone who might attempt to use our presentations or derivatives thereof.
Just ask Disney.
A couple of years ago in Orlando, lighthing hit a tree in a parking lot, ran down the tree, blew a 6-inch hole in the ground at the base of the tree, ran another 8 feet or so into a shed and set the shed on fire from the inside.
Never expect lightning to just give up. If if can do that through the practically-nonconductive wood of a tree and dirt, barreling down electrical wires is no problem at all. Even if it has to use vaporized metal as a path after the initial surge.
... or his whole investment becomes worthless.
Or was that "and"?
Don't be such a kneebiter. You OBVIOUSLY don't know how tech products are created.
1. Boy Genius Entrepreneur has Great Idea!
2. Boy Genius hires handful of low-wage monkey types to do grunt work (It's Simple! All You Have To Do Is...)
3. Boy Genius becomes billionaire. Monkey types get laid off.
The problem with that is that leap seconds aren't a regular adjustment, they're arbitrary "bumps" because the earth's rotation isn't 100% constant. Gravitational effects and earthquakes have been held to blame in particular. So you can't do like you do with Leap Year and come up with a simple formula. Yes, the day isn't an integral number of seconds long, but that's only the starting point.
That's unfortunate, because it means that there's no mathematical way to get sub-minute time differentials between different dates, and worse yet, no way to allow for future calendar adjustments.
Of course, the massive dislocations that we willingly inflict upon ourselves twice a year is no one's fault but our own.
There is nothing better than a book lined wall
Yes there is. A book lined wall that swings out and reveals a secret passage!
I dunno. Reading off computer monitors has become less strain than it used to be, but it still isn't something I prefer to do. Maybe it was the lower resolution coupled with neck angle.
Backlit tablet screens, on the other hand, have never given me eyestrain at all.
Diagram-heavy textbooks are not a good fit for a 7-inch reader color or no. And not all of us are so titled in favor of graphic novels that we can't occasionally ready a text-only tome in the sun. Or something like "Miss Perergrine's School for Peculiar Children", which, though salted with graphics, is using monochrome photos anyway. So YMMV.
RFIDs have too limited a range to hunt down and kill book moochers, though.
In the eBook Realm, the problems have to do more with what happens when Borders (substitute name of your favorite bookseller) goes under and switches off their DRM servers. "Poof!" there goes the whole library!
And if it's a Nook Book, even the downloaded copies are inaccessible on most devices. Including the ones "Sold without DRM at the insistence of the Author/Publisher".
Since there is, thankfully, no central registry of who owns what copies of what books ...
That's Snowden's leak for next week, you insensitive clod!
They have their ideology, you have yours. They'd be laughing all the way to the bank except that they also own the bank.
And, unlike the modern USA, they're a LOT more concerned about keeping millions of workers employed and gruntled than they are about whether or not it's "profitable" in the purely financial sense.
Well, they ARE Communists, you know!
Governments and economists use the terms "recession" and "depression" to refer to certain specific metrics.
Most of those metrics are abstract numbers of more interest to governments and corporations than they are to people in Main Street.
Over the last decade or so, in fact, the pain on Main Street has become less and less reflected in "official" metrics, but since to bean-counters the metric is the reality and the whole of the reality, people have been getting more and more discontented, uncomfortable, and outright financially injured even when we have an "up" economy.
But the people in charge don't care. Their numbers look good and their incomes are typically either insulated from (for example, government jobs), derived from (for example, quarterly bonuses), or occasionally even counter (for example, Golden Parachutes for failing) to the official economic stats. Until they, too feel their livelihoods threatened, injured, or reduced, don't expect anything to change.
Well, after all, IT isn't a profession. A child could do it. Little Jimmy made a "pong" game just the other day. It was so cute!
Because tech problems are all simple and don't need a whole lot of specialized training. All You Have To Do Is...
That's right. You don't "owe me a job" and I don't owe you my business.
In the US, the words "custom" or "tailor-made" tend to be used instead.
Then again, you can't get those good Lower Prices Everyday[TM] if you actually get something customized to fit your own personal needs and preferences.
I can think of multiple uses of a fire extinguisher... It could be used to bludgeon an invader or blind them. It could be cut apart and made into a DIY foundry. It could be gussied up and used as decor. Have a little creativity!
Martha Stewart, is that you?
Not only does releasing the source code open you up to hacks, but it also makes it trivially easy for someone to modify the code, adding backdoors, exploits, etc and recompile it. A simple replacement of the original code with the 'improved' codes means you have been completely pwned.
In other words, replacing the legitimate module with a trojan one.
With certain exceptions, it's very hard even allowing for the lax attention to security that is so prevalent today for an outside agent to swap out an arbitrary app in someone's shop for a trojan. And if you're getting pre-built open-source binaries from a reputable repository, that repository typically carries checksums that are intended to ensure that the module you download is the one that they built. Also, the people who built the repository don't accept arbitrary source changes from just anyone.
On the other hand, disassembling and hacking closed-source binaries isn't nearly as hard as it's made out to be. I speak from experience, both on my own part and on the part of other people I know. Although if that's not good enough, I'll simply point you to the innumerable exploits made on Windows, Flash, and other critical system resources despite the fact that few, if any of the corrupted modules had publicly-visible source code.
When you're talking volume of nuclear waste, it's best to measure it in four dimensions.
"The Economy" is going just fine.
Of course, the officially-defined Economy consists of how businesses are doing regardless of whether they're doing useful work and providing people with profitable employment, or just trading back bits and pieces of corporations so that fat cats can collect stock options and golden parachutes.
Middle-class individuals may fee less optimistic, but we got by for millennia without a large middle class, so what do the economists care?
In Victorian times, you weren't really respectable unless you had a cabinet full of every imaginable sort of jam, jelly and marmalade. Often with specialized silverware to go with them. So Choice Overload is hardly anything new.
A lot of the TFA "brand proliferation" is because before about 1930 or so, bakeries were local (when you didn't just bake at home). Roads weren't that great, transportation costs were high. No long-haul truckers, and probably the railroads weren't cost-effective for anything as cheap as bread. Now we may have lots of different brands, but many of them are from 6 states away or more.
It's true. I read the other day that a grocery store circa 1960 carried about 7000 distinct products, versus about 40,000 in modern-day stores, including a lot of international imports like genuine D.O.P. Parmesan cheese for no more than $15/lb and often less.
And it's true. I have myself been bewildered when confronting a new product that comes in a hundred different brands and varieties. Still, we manage to get by. If you need it bad enough, you'll eventually grab something and run.
HP. Downsizing its way to Greatness.
The automobile companies weren't always mega-corporations. They typically started out the size of Tesla. GM is the conglomeration of the Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, Cadillac companies plus probably a few names that used to be well-known before being bought out long ago.
I think if you took inventory of a typical hospital you'd still find lots of specialty devices and products that aren't from GE, et. al. Not everything is a hulking big MRI machine that requires major resources to build.
Architectural and engineering firms are often small partnerships.
Liability insurance and having a lawyer on retainer has pretty much always been the mark of a professional association, right up there with having a CPA on contract.