Seriously? This is not even a comprehensive list... He didn't even give an honorable mention to solar flare. And yes turbines fail, but probably not because of a computer virus. And if we had to rig something up here we do have the manufacturing capabilities.
You make yourself competitive, have better credentials than the guy who's been studying 12 hours a day in a foreign country and you'll get his job. But Americans are too fat and lazy to do any real work.
I have control over my $ and they won't be heading towards microsofts accounts until they fix there stupid OS after everyone complains. Seems like there business model is as follows: 1) Produce a product that they know is crap 2) Gather complaints and fix bugs 3) Release new product that is fixed 4) Ignore steps 1-3 and produce a new product
With the patent switch now companies can steal IP and make it theirs. We should just get rid of patents altogether, although the sycophantic lawyers and there money will never let that one fly.
I've done this a number of times, it depends what the problem is: 1) Component on controller board is dying 2) Component or mechanical failure in the main hard drive
The problems that result in the first category usually stem from components dying, usually this results in you plugging the in the drive and getting no response or os won't load the driver or incorrect bios settings for auto detection, in this case its worth a try to replace the board. I've had about a 75% success rate with this.
Mechanical problems are different. The first thing I do for these is look at the smart disk parameters, if its something to do with reading, writing, arithmetic or access times this means your drive is dying. You should immediately try and get your data off, I've seen drives get worse in a matter of hours and become completely unusable. Since you have no idea what is actually causing the problem the only thing you can do at this point is randomly change the temperature or orientation of the hard drive and hope to get some usable data off. I first try an initial copy, then turn the drive on one side and copy, then put it in the fridge. I've had success with both of these. I've also tried dropping the drive on its side to try and shift the r/w heads but I don't think that helped, sometimes I think it would if the r/w head column was misaligned or jammed. Of course, if you really want the data back you should fork out the ~1000$ and send it in, I've asked hundreds of customers if they want to do this or have us monkey around with it, I have yet for someone to take me up on paying and sending it in, maybe data isn't worth that much to most people.
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Seriously? This is not even a comprehensive list... He didn't even give an honorable mention to solar flare. And yes turbines fail, but probably not because of a computer virus. And if we had to rig something up here we do have the manufacturing capabilities.
You make yourself competitive, have better credentials than the guy who's been studying 12 hours a day in a foreign country and you'll get his job. But Americans are too fat and lazy to do any real work.
I have control over my $ and they won't be heading towards microsofts accounts until they fix there stupid OS after everyone complains. Seems like there business model is as follows: 1) Produce a product that they know is crap 2) Gather complaints and fix bugs 3) Release new product that is fixed 4) Ignore steps 1-3 and produce a new product
Firefox needs to get their act together regarding updates, they are driving people away.
With the patent switch now companies can steal IP and make it theirs. We should just get rid of patents altogether, although the sycophantic lawyers and there money will never let that one fly.
I've done this a number of times, it depends what the problem is:
1) Component on controller board is dying
2) Component or mechanical failure in the main hard drive
The problems that result in the first category usually stem from components dying, usually this results in you plugging the in the drive and getting no response or os won't load the driver or incorrect bios settings for auto detection, in this case its worth a try to replace the board. I've had about a 75% success rate with this.
Mechanical problems are different. The first thing I do for these is look at the smart disk parameters, if its something to do with reading, writing, arithmetic or access times this means your drive is dying. You should immediately try and get your data off, I've seen drives get worse in a matter of hours and become completely unusable. Since you have no idea what is actually causing the problem the only thing you can do at this point is randomly change the temperature or orientation of the hard drive and hope to get some usable data off. I first try an initial copy, then turn the drive on one side and copy, then put it in the fridge. I've had success with both of these. I've also tried dropping the drive on its side to try and shift the r/w heads but I don't think that helped, sometimes I think it would if the r/w head column was misaligned or jammed. Of course, if you really want the data back you should fork out the ~1000$ and send it in, I've asked hundreds of customers if they want to do this or have us monkey around with it, I have yet for someone to take me up on paying and sending it in, maybe data isn't worth that much to most people.