* SecurePark - WD's SecurePark technology parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved shock tolerance.
* ShockGuard - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks during shipping and handling and in daily operation.
* Free-fall Sensor - As an added layer of protection, if the drive (or the system it's in) is dropped while in use, WD's free-fall sensor detects that the drive is falling and, in less than 200 milliseconds, parks the head off the disks to help prevent damage and data loss.
* WhisperDrive - WD's exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms that result in one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market.
I've got 2 x 320-gb WD drives in my laptop - VERY quiet, very good performance - can you even BUY 320gig SSDs?
Then there is the biochemistry of the orgasm itself. Research shows that during ejaculation, men release a cocktail of brain chemicals, including norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide (NO), and the hormone prolactin. The release of prolactin is linked to the feeling of sexual satisfaction, and it also mediates the recovery time that men are well aware ofthe time a guy must wait before giving it another go. Studies have also shown that men deficient in prolactin have faster recovery times.
Prolactin levels are naturally higher during sleep, and animals injected with the chemical become tired immediately. This suggests a strong link between prolactin and sleep, so its likely that the hormones release during orgasm causes men to feel sleepy.
(Side note: prolactin also explains why men are sleepier after intercourse than after masturbation. For unknown reasons, intercourse orgasms release four times more prolactin than masturbatory orgasms, according to a recent study.)
Oxytocin and vasopressin, two other chemicals released during orgasm, are also associated with sleep. Their release frequently accompanies that of melatonin, the primary hormone that regulates our body clocks. Oxytocin is also thought to reduce stress levels, which again could lead to relaxation and sleepiness
Reliability = Good, Speed = Good, Space = Awful , Cost = Not this decade, Charlie Brown.
And for all those saying "no moving parts - what if I drop my laptop?" - If you drop your lappy hard enough to break a modern drive, you'll probably be shopping for a replacement. Unlike those "tests", laptops don't land flat and square.
(queue all the "but I dropped my laptop and the only thing that broke was the hard drive" posts)
You're forgetting that certain other applications are including almost all other applications these days. Composition manager like Vista and OSX use and Compiz like a bit of video memory too. True, they (should, ahem) require not so much as 2GB's, but you can tell the difference between 32MB and 256MB if you're doing more than using a terminal.
[X] "If I wanted "wobbly windows", I'd wave a magnet at my CRT, you ignorant clod!"
[X] "640 meg will always be enough"
[X] "In Soviet Russia, compositing managers manage YOU!"
[X] "Mmmm, yummy Windows, 300% more textures"
[X] "You can have my terminal when..."
[X] "We can now render the BSoD at 20,549 FPS"
[X] "With these, we can more accurately picture global warming - and with the power they draw, we'll encourage global warming"
[X] "Yes, but does it run linux?"
I know someone who just *had* to have a 1-gig video card when they first came out... still hasn't found any advantage to it over the smaller card...
Riches's imagination in making accusations is matched by his audacity in asking for damages. In the July 16 suit he demanded "211,429,399,000,000.00 trillion dollars backed by gold and silver, delivered by United States Postal Service."
That's 211 septillion, 429 sextillion, 399 quintillion dollars. To compare, the world's GDP (as of 2006) was $65.95 trillion. So the guy wanted over 3.2 TRILLION percent of the world's GDP.
And how is that crazier than the RIAA wanting $150,000.00 for each song "illegally shared" to compensate them for their "losses" - which also, using their figures for "song piracy", also works out to more than all the money in the world?
JOSIE TAYLOR: Armed with binoculars, the Environment Minister led a trek through the scrub to the grassy roosting site of the orange-bellied parrot. None were spotted.
(to Ian Campbell) Do you feel a special affinity for this bird?
IAN CAMPBELL: Nothing particularly special. But quite frankly, if you look at the bare numbers that are associated with it, you know, 50 breeding pairs, if you see 18 on one day, you've seen a large chunk of the species.
Efforts to save this rare bird from extinction are being made by the State Governments of South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, The Commonwealth Government, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) and World Wildlife Fund (Australia).
Australia's Orange-bellied Parrot can be ranked with the Giant Panda, Whooping Crane and Siberian Tiger as amongst the rarest and most endangered of the Wildlife. Only 100 to 200 individuals still exist.
Concern for the plight of the Orange-bellied Parrot is so great that the State Governments of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, the Commonwealth Government, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and the World Wildlife Fund have joined forces in an effort to build up its numbers and save it from extinction.
Don't you think your foot would be better directed at the behinds of the people who let their cats loose?
Every week she takes delivery of frozen cat carcasses which have been trapped and shot by a local ranger employed to cull the population.
...
Mr Burgess, who lures the cats to his traps with rotten cheese, said: "If it's got into my trap and it's a domestic cat, it should not be there. Any cat that gets into my trap will be dealt with. I take the rifle and shoot it in the head."
I remember people clearly harping about cards with 32mb, or 64, or oh god no one will ever need 256.
Look at how much more resolution today's and tomorrows displays are bringing to us, then turn and realize how much memory it takes to address all of that.
2560x1600 display, 32-bit color = 16,384,000 bytes. (16 meg)
2650 x 1920 display, 24-bit color = 12,288,000 bytes. (12 meg)
In other words, even those really nice 30" displays don't "need" 256 meg of ram, never mind 2 gig. What they do need is high internal clock rates.
None of that matters. It's not the extra copy in RAM that's the problem. It's the fact that according to the express terms of the contract players sign with Blizzard, they're not supposed to run anything like Glider. Doing so is a prima facie breach of contract.
... so why didn't they go after the end users? Oh, right - they couldn't detect it. Gee, nice to know that corporate welfare takes precedence over any need to show "proof" in the courts...
The contract isn't between MDY and Blizzard. The judge got it wrong. Same as if I want to sell you a house at a much lower price than the one you have now... you get a new mortgage and mail the keys to the bank ("jingle mail") for the old. The previous lender has no standing to sue me, since I didn't breach any contract - you did. "Encouraging to breach" isn't a civil tort. That's why they fell back on the "copy to ram is teh piratez" bit - the judge got it wrong.
the point was, this 'cheat' was running warden(the name of WoW's anti-cheat run time) in a sandbox that couldn't 'detect' the cheat, because it was loaded into a sandbox where it could only see what the cheat programmer allowed it to see.
So it had nothing to do with the concept of "loading a program into ram is making an unauthorized copy" - which means that the ruling is just plain wrong.
There are apparently lots of peope who run multiple copies legitimately...
Also, the copy on disk is NEVER identical to the copy in RAM - you might want to learn how a program is actually loaded by the OS and the fixups that are done at program load time.
Granted, but that's not what the lawsuit was about. It was about anti-cheating mechanisms being circumvented and the game being run subordinately to another process.
Unless the game contains its own bootloader, it HAS to run subordinate to another process - the host operating system.
What, you think we have enough resources for everyone? The US has 5% of the worlds' population, and consumes 20% of its' resources. Everyone else is going to be asking for their fair share in the future. That means either (a) we drain the worlds' resources at 4x the current rate, or (b) the US cuts back a LOT.
China took desperate measures wrt population because they had no choice. Guess what - neither do the rest of us.
If you think gas prices are high now, what happens when the rest of the world wants to have 2 cars per family?
We're past the breaking point, and its starting to show, from the melting ice caps to the food and energy shortages... and the only cure is to shed population - fast. Either we do it voluntarily, it events WILL force it on us.
I just don't believe we have enough resources for everyone right now... and even if we did, what about future generations? We're "spending their seed capital".
Prosperity does more to curb fertility than withholding of medical care, you cruel, cruel man.
Even if everyone today just had 2 kids, the population would continue to increase, since it takes time for people to die off.
We need to lose several billion people, not jsut slow our rate of increase.
It's not me that's cruel - its the religious nutters who over the decades have insisted that people not practice birth control, and that God wants big families. They've condemned hundreds of millions to death (and that's not including the ones they've killed "in the name of god" over the centuries).
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Get a different receiver and you can receive weather satellite data, etc., directly. Hook up with your local ham radio group for more info.
Maybe you need a modern laptop hard drive
I've got 2 x 320-gb WD drives in my laptop - VERY quiet, very good performance - can you even BUY 320gig SSDs?
Yep. That's why I said "Not this decade". Maybe sometime in the next ...
And that's why Title IX was introduced.
Do you thing George Bush took advantage of it when he was the head chearleader in school?
Haha - he said "head" ...and ... "cheerleader" ...
Okay, so let's get this straight. You had an addadicktome after having a lopitoffofme ...
Psst - if you're a guy and you feel like talking after sex, you're either not doing it right, or not long enough (but I repeat myself).
http://scienceline.org/2006/09/25/ask-wenner-sex/
Reliability = Good, Speed = Good, Space = Awful , Cost = Not this decade, Charlie Brown.
And for all those saying "no moving parts - what if I drop my laptop?" - If you drop your lappy hard enough to break a modern drive, you'll probably be shopping for a replacement. Unlike those "tests", laptops don't land flat and square.
(queue all the "but I dropped my laptop and the only thing that broke was the hard drive" posts)
[X] "If I wanted "wobbly windows", I'd wave a magnet at my CRT, you ignorant clod!" ..."
[X] "640 meg will always be enough"
[X] "In Soviet Russia, compositing managers manage YOU!"
[X] "Mmmm, yummy Windows, 300% more textures"
[X] "You can have my terminal when
[X] "We can now render the BSoD at 20,549 FPS"
[X] "With these, we can more accurately picture global warming - and with the power they draw, we'll encourage global warming"
[X] "Yes, but does it run linux?"
I know someone who just *had* to have a 1-gig video card when they first came out ... still hasn't found any advantage to it over the smaller card ...
And how is that crazier than the RIAA wanting $150,000.00 for each song "illegally shared" to compensate them for their "losses" - which also, using their figures for "song piracy", also works out to more than all the money in the world?
So which one's going to be getting their salad tossed, and which one's the eater? Or is it going to be a mutual thing?
We've already been to the moon.
Slingshot it around the moon for a gravity-assisted trip to Mars.
Only for games and certain other applications - not for writing a document or coding or surfing the net. Most apps are fine with a lot less video ram.
Perhaps you should read the article first.
The cats are not native to the island, are feral, and the parrot in question isn't only rare - it's an endangered species, with only 100 to 200 in existence.
More info here
Don't you think your foot would be better directed at the behinds of the people who let their cats loose?
FTFA:
2560x1600 display, 32-bit color = 16,384,000 bytes. (16 meg)
2650 x 1920 display, 24-bit color = 12,288,000 bytes. (12 meg)
In other words, even those really nice 30" displays don't "need" 256 meg of ram, never mind 2 gig. What they do need is high internal clock rates.
Since we have 2 eyes, you'll need to at least double that ...
He was arrested AFTER he disabled everyone else's account.
What do you recommend they do next time, use a crystal ball or ouija board to predict who's going to pull such a stunt?
The contract isn't between MDY and Blizzard. The judge got it wrong. Same as if I want to sell you a house at a much lower price than the one you have now ... you get a new mortgage and mail the keys to the bank ("jingle mail") for the old. The previous lender has no standing to sue me, since I didn't breach any contract - you did. "Encouraging to breach" isn't a civil tort. That's why they fell back on the "copy to ram is teh piratez" bit - the judge got it wrong.
So it had nothing to do with the concept of "loading a program into ram is making an unauthorized copy" - which means that the ruling is just plain wrong.
That's not what other posters are reporting ...
There are apparently lots of peope who run multiple copies legitimately ...
Also, the copy on disk is NEVER identical to the copy in RAM - you might want to learn how a program is actually loaded by the OS and the fixups that are done at program load time.
Unless the game contains its own bootloader, it HAS to run subordinate to another process - the host operating system.
Pretty much everyone has the same cause of death if you think about it - lack of oxygen to the brain ...
What, you think we have enough resources for everyone? The US has 5% of the worlds' population, and consumes 20% of its' resources. Everyone else is going to be asking for their fair share in the future. That means either (a) we drain the worlds' resources at 4x the current rate, or (b) the US cuts back a LOT.
China took desperate measures wrt population because they had no choice. Guess what - neither do the rest of us.
If you think gas prices are high now, what happens when the rest of the world wants to have 2 cars per family?
We're past the breaking point, and its starting to show, from the melting ice caps to the food and energy shortages ... and the only cure is to shed population - fast. Either we do it voluntarily, it events WILL force it on us.
I just don't believe we have enough resources for everyone right now ... and even if we did, what about future generations? We're "spending their seed capital".
Even if everyone today just had 2 kids, the population would continue to increase, since it takes time for people to die off.
We need to lose several billion people, not jsut slow our rate of increase.
It's not me that's cruel - its the religious nutters who over the decades have insisted that people not practice birth control, and that God wants big families. They've condemned hundreds of millions to death (and that's not including the ones they've killed "in the name of god" over the centuries).