I especially doubt Backblaze has it in for Seagate when at the end of the article, they say they like this new Seagate they just bought a bunch of and hope they work out, but time will tell.
Except that most of the plants we eat today didn't exist in that form until the advent of farming, and most didn't reach the size and yield we see today until the past 100 years or so.
Try living off wild grains. You'll spend your entire day gathering and chewing (and will wear your teeth down to the gums) and still won't get enough to eat... and it's only available for a couple months of the year (the ripening season in late summer). And wild grain is tiny; it takes from 20 to 200 wild grains to equal one modern grain of wheat. Same with wild berries and fruits. And a good proportion of vegetables in their wild form are toxic unless processed (eg. beans, soybeans, acorns) or selectively bred away from the wild type (squash). Explain to me how a human from the time before tools and fire and farming survived on that? especially since their descendants (us) don't have the capacity to eat these in their raw form.
It doesn't hurt, and may help, to take a low-dose, balanced supplement to cover the holes in your diet. But the public sees that as "if some is good, more is better, and a whole shitload would be great!"
Some financial facts about vitamin/mineral supplements:
Some years ago someone tried to sell me a supplement package priced at about $80/month. Now, I've formulated animal feeds and bought supplements at the bulk level, so I know what the real cost of their product's ingredients are -- I worked it out as about $2.50 for their $80 package. That's a helluva lot of laughing all the way to the bank.
[Incidentally, the cost of supplements to tweak a ton of dog food into the desired balance was about $4/ton, and that's paying retail for the supplements because the amount I needed was so small. At wholesale it would have been about half that.]
"Ten times a normal diet" isn't hard to achieve with concentrates or supplements.
BTW the obsession with cholesterol levels may also be contributing to cancer: in crude terms, cell walls are largely made of cholesterol, and if you remove it, you weaken the barrier to invasion by cancer-causing agents (viruses or whatever).
I note the term "suggests" in the article, which translates as "someone's wishful thinking supported mainly by squinting at the evidence". And where's the rule that a given mutation can't arise multiple times??
Ha, I didn't think of E.St.Louis, and I know someone who grew up there... he tells me that standing on your front lawn in the evening was an invitation to get shot, and that was over 50 years ago.
I played with that comparison thing and never did find a 'more dangerous' city. The nearest I found was Stockton CA, at 19% less dangerous than Detroit.
And unless you yourself compile and put that firmware on your phone's CPU, how do you know the source that's released is the same program as comes with your phone??
"...bureacratic cranial-rectal syndrome generallly results in inaction, not over-action"
Not my experience at all. Rather, that once a regulatory department gains power and has a good-sized budget at stake, they love to indulge in over-action, because that demonstrates that not only is their budget justified, but it should be increased! That they are doing harm with their over-action, well, that's not part of their budgeting equation, but it sure is a form of cranial-rectal inversion.
I've found that if I feel like I'm coming down with the flu -- that kinda pre-sore throat or pre-feverish thing -- I can sometimes halt it entirely by overheating myself for several hours: warm scarf around the neck and bundle up in general. If I do get sick anyway, it seems to be less severe.
It was about half a million dollars, in an unbonded bank (I don't think this is allowed anymore, but at the time there wasn't the sort of deposit insurance we have today) in a state 1200 miles away, and the loss wasn't discovered until some time after my grandmother died (this was back in 1969; I was 14 and my mom was a working single parent with two kids, and not exactly free to run off and chase it down herself) and the actual embezzlement probably took place 3 years earlier, after my granddad died (he was the one who dealt with all the money). The culprit even said to the investigator, "Yeah, how you gonna prove it?" or words to that effect... real balls, he knew he was untouchable.
But hey, which of the 3 choices are you? Oh, I know, #4) makes unwarranted assumptions based on one data point.
The ones I've seen didn't have that; it was a new case design that didn't look at all like the 'traditional' Conner. Only the firmware knew for sure....
You'd think, but even banks can be a problem that way (what would have been my inheritance was embezzled by someone at an unbonded bank -- we even knew who it was, but couldn't prove it). It's been some years and it wasn't my HOA, so I don't really have details. My sister is an architect, not a forensic accountant, and I don't suppose anyone else on the HOA board really knew how to investigate accounts either.:(
This is what happens when everyone complains that the screen on their phone is too small... marketing can't do moderation, so they take it to the opposite extreme: "Now your phone is as big as your desktop! Oh wait, it IS your desktop. Never mind!"
Speak for yourself. My everyday Win9x systems ran for weeks or even months without a reboot (if your hardware doesn't have the timer bug, you don't experience the 47 day rollover), and my WinME box, once beaten into submission, ran 24/7 as my media machine for two years, only restarted a couple times to twiddle hardware.
The big trick was to install IE 5.0 (Win2K version) -- that made all your problems go away. I never had a lick of trouble with my Win98 (not SE) box until some POS from TurboTax forcibly installed IE5.5, after which it was never right again, and needed a restart every few weeks.
Very much my experience, which is why across maybe 250 drives worth of experience, I've become a WD bigot. I don't do RAID but I usually have 15 or so drives in regular use, and usually 6 or 7 in 24/7 use. The most elderly at present is a WD now 13 years old, running 24/7/365. WDs either die almost immediately (rare), start to sputter at about 5.5 years (about a third of 'em), or last indefinitely (all the rest). WD told me their designed lifespan is 5 years, on all their drives. (I asked.) My oldest working WD is dated 1991.
I was the hardware dude for the local user group for about ten years, and handled all the salvaged systems. There again -- WDs were likely to be fine (deaders were very rare); Seagates, iffy to dead; Maxtors, usually dead.
And in only one case have I seen a WD die without warning; the others that have gone bad gave me plenty of notice (loud clanks, bad sectors, etc.)... and I've nursed some along for up to 3 years after they first showed signs of going out.
Conversely, your first warning with a Seagate is the day it gets real hot but won't read (bad bearings, presumably); or with a Maxtor, when it just quits between one moment and the next.
Nope, in fact I remember brand new HDs with Seagate labels pasted on 'em, but that reported themselves as Conners. Clearly Seagate had relabeled the acquired inventory.
Conners were slow and had a fairly uniform tendency to just vanish data if left unpowered for more than a few weeks. If left sit a bit longer, they'd also vanish the partition. Kinda like a Bad Track 0 error on a floppy.
(Crap, now I really feel old!)
Me, I've bought WD exclusively for a long time, and don't regret it.
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I especially doubt Backblaze has it in for Seagate when at the end of the article, they say they like this new Seagate they just bought a bunch of and hope they work out, but time will tell.
Except that most of the plants we eat today didn't exist in that form until the advent of farming, and most didn't reach the size and yield we see today until the past 100 years or so.
Try living off wild grains. You'll spend your entire day gathering and chewing (and will wear your teeth down to the gums) and still won't get enough to eat... and it's only available for a couple months of the year (the ripening season in late summer). And wild grain is tiny; it takes from 20 to 200 wild grains to equal one modern grain of wheat. Same with wild berries and fruits. And a good proportion of vegetables in their wild form are toxic unless processed (eg. beans, soybeans, acorns) or selectively bred away from the wild type (squash). Explain to me how a human from the time before tools and fire and farming survived on that? especially since their descendants (us) don't have the capacity to eat these in their raw form.
It doesn't hurt, and may help, to take a low-dose, balanced supplement to cover the holes in your diet. But the public sees that as "if some is good, more is better, and a whole shitload would be great!"
Some financial facts about vitamin/mineral supplements:
Some years ago someone tried to sell me a supplement package priced at about $80/month. Now, I've formulated animal feeds and bought supplements at the bulk level, so I know what the real cost of their product's ingredients are -- I worked it out as about $2.50 for their $80 package. That's a helluva lot of laughing all the way to the bank.
[Incidentally, the cost of supplements to tweak a ton of dog food into the desired balance was about $4/ton, and that's paying retail for the supplements because the amount I needed was so small. At wholesale it would have been about half that.]
"Ten times a normal diet" isn't hard to achieve with concentrates or supplements.
BTW the obsession with cholesterol levels may also be contributing to cancer: in crude terms, cell walls are largely made of cholesterol, and if you remove it, you weaken the barrier to invasion by cancer-causing agents (viruses or whatever).
Because the money has run out, and now they're eating US.
I prefer these handy, easy-to-understand charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And yes, a little warmer would be more 'normal', but I expect we'll have another ice age first.
Maybe not, if enough of the population get off their fat asses and become farmers again.
I note the term "suggests" in the article, which translates as "someone's wishful thinking supported mainly by squinting at the evidence". And where's the rule that a given mutation can't arise multiple times??
"Cave paintings and jewelry may have been an early form of advertising of your goods and services,"
That's a good point. Public art historically tends to fall into two basic sorts -- graffiti, and advertising.
Yep.
Ha, I didn't think of E.St.Louis, and I know someone who grew up there... he tells me that standing on your front lawn in the evening was an invitation to get shot, and that was over 50 years ago.
I played with that comparison thing and never did find a 'more dangerous' city. The nearest I found was Stockton CA, at 19% less dangerous than Detroit.
And unless you yourself compile and put that firmware on your phone's CPU, how do you know the source that's released is the same program as comes with your phone??
"...required to 'live and work' in Detroit for an undetermined length of time..."
Wouldn't that qualify as 'cruel and unusual punishment'??
"...bureacratic cranial-rectal syndrome generallly results in inaction, not over-action"
Not my experience at all. Rather, that once a regulatory department gains power and has a good-sized budget at stake, they love to indulge in over-action, because that demonstrates that not only is their budget justified, but it should be increased! That they are doing harm with their over-action, well, that's not part of their budgeting equation, but it sure is a form of cranial-rectal inversion.
No doubt. But I was fortunate enough to miss 'em all!
I did notice that when they acquired Maxtor, they miraculously switched to Maxtor's case design...
I've found that if I feel like I'm coming down with the flu -- that kinda pre-sore throat or pre-feverish thing -- I can sometimes halt it entirely by overheating myself for several hours: warm scarf around the neck and bundle up in general. If I do get sick anyway, it seems to be less severe.
Tho most years I get a flu shot instead. :)
It was about half a million dollars, in an unbonded bank (I don't think this is allowed anymore, but at the time there wasn't the sort of deposit insurance we have today) in a state 1200 miles away, and the loss wasn't discovered until some time after my grandmother died (this was back in 1969; I was 14 and my mom was a working single parent with two kids, and not exactly free to run off and chase it down herself) and the actual embezzlement probably took place 3 years earlier, after my granddad died (he was the one who dealt with all the money). The culprit even said to the investigator, "Yeah, how you gonna prove it?" or words to that effect... real balls, he knew he was untouchable.
But hey, which of the 3 choices are you? Oh, I know, #4) makes unwarranted assumptions based on one data point.
The ones I've seen didn't have that; it was a new case design that didn't look at all like the 'traditional' Conner. Only the firmware knew for sure....
You'd think, but even banks can be a problem that way (what would have been my inheritance was embezzled by someone at an unbonded bank -- we even knew who it was, but couldn't prove it). It's been some years and it wasn't my HOA, so I don't really have details. My sister is an architect, not a forensic accountant, and I don't suppose anyone else on the HOA board really knew how to investigate accounts either. :(
This is what happens when everyone complains that the screen on their phone is too small ... marketing can't do moderation, so they take it to the opposite extreme: "Now your phone is as big as your desktop! Oh wait, it IS your desktop. Never mind!"
Speak for yourself. My everyday Win9x systems ran for weeks or even months without a reboot (if your hardware doesn't have the timer bug, you don't experience the 47 day rollover), and my WinME box, once beaten into submission, ran 24/7 as my media machine for two years, only restarted a couple times to twiddle hardware.
The big trick was to install IE 5.0 (Win2K version) -- that made all your problems go away. I never had a lick of trouble with my Win98 (not SE) box until some POS from TurboTax forcibly installed IE5.5, after which it was never right again, and needed a restart every few weeks.
Very much my experience, which is why across maybe 250 drives worth of experience, I've become a WD bigot. I don't do RAID but I usually have 15 or so drives in regular use, and usually 6 or 7 in 24/7 use. The most elderly at present is a WD now 13 years old, running 24/7/365. WDs either die almost immediately (rare), start to sputter at about 5.5 years (about a third of 'em), or last indefinitely (all the rest). WD told me their designed lifespan is 5 years, on all their drives. (I asked.) My oldest working WD is dated 1991.
I was the hardware dude for the local user group for about ten years, and handled all the salvaged systems. There again -- WDs were likely to be fine (deaders were very rare); Seagates, iffy to dead; Maxtors, usually dead.
And in only one case have I seen a WD die without warning; the others that have gone bad gave me plenty of notice (loud clanks, bad sectors, etc.) ... and I've nursed some along for up to 3 years after they first showed signs of going out.
Conversely, your first warning with a Seagate is the day it gets real hot but won't read (bad bearings, presumably); or with a Maxtor, when it just quits between one moment and the next.
Nope, in fact I remember brand new HDs with Seagate labels pasted on 'em, but that reported themselves as Conners. Clearly Seagate had relabeled the acquired inventory.
Conners were slow and had a fairly uniform tendency to just vanish data if left unpowered for more than a few weeks. If left sit a bit longer, they'd also vanish the partition. Kinda like a Bad Track 0 error on a floppy.
(Crap, now I really feel old!)
Me, I've bought WD exclusively for a long time, and don't regret it.
As I recall, MiniScribe's fictitious inventory also included a number of bricks.