ive got some ancient SCSI disks still running (Seagate Hawk and Seagate Barracuda 2gb'ers from when 2gb was the latest and greatest, cost over $700/each at the time). I also have quite a few IBM 9gb SCSI drives from SGI systems still running as well.
I had a couple WD drives bite the dust on me, so I switched to seagate and haven't had a failure since. I've also had 6 of the IBM 75GXP Deskstars that are currently under class action lawsuits.. I had 5/6 of those fail with crucial data and couldn't afford a backup solution for anything but the most critical stuff.
Anyway, i'm a seagate fan for now, im too afraid of WD drives and IBM drives, and had a friend or two lose a maxtor. Ultimately it happens to everyone, and you need a backup solution, but seagate has always had great (3-10 year) warranties on their high end disks. If you back up your data, you can't beat the warranty.
if you pay even $1 for a piece of hardware that you never have to return (eg not a lease, like some electric cars), you own that hardware and it's just a desktop computer essentially. I say, if you mod it when the warranty is still active, you void it- and perhaps any right to utilize whatever service you're connecting to (Xbox live, TiVo) if the agreement says so, but you should be able to tweak the hardware as much as you like.
Trusted computing is sort of a different story, since if it's modded, it sort of breaks the whole trust thing.
but anyway, as I said in another reply here somewhere, while the piracy of the games is wrong, i hope that modding by itself remains legal.
Imho, modchips are like lock picking sets. In the right hands, they can be used fruitfully to legal ends (locksmith/homebrew developer)- but in the wrong hands they can be used to steal property (opening doors/decryption).
Lock pick sets are legal in most places- with exceptions and regulations in quite a lot of places though.
Seems to me if you can demonstrate some level of programming ability (show your transcript?) and affirm under threat of perjury that you intend to program xbox software, the modchips should be allowed.
Hopefully though, this won't be used as some sort of precident against the modding aspect. I fully support modding too, when it's not used to play/gather/rip/whatever any kind of pirated materials.
If I didn't have a warranty, I'd mod my tivo to put in a bigger disk, since 140 hours was the biggest TiVo sells and at best quality thats less than half that on a good day.
Once my warranty/PRP expires on my xbox, I'll probably mod it too and play with some homebrew apps and get back to my bzflag console edition endeavor, but I've got another year yet to wait.
Anyway, like I said, I really hope that somehow this doesnt become a citation in other cases against modding (by itself, without the piracy aspect)
Anyway, my point is these arent cheezeball brands, and all were installed by professional installers.
I've lost many cds to scratches in general.
My worst loss was my favorite cd which fell about 2 feet and shattered. The music industry tells you youre buying the license to listen, but then won't let you buy a new cd at media cost. -That- keeps me from buying CD's. I'm an iTunes fan. We also utilize our local public library for music in the car. The library has the funds to replace any scratched cds, so we borrow and we listen and we return it (hopefully in the same condition we received it though).
Although I said analysts, not media, the gist of what you're saying remains the same and I get what you mean.
The only thing though is when you have a services based business, and people are willing to pay a lot for stock in those services when a lot of ad revenue is generated by those services. Just because there's very little assets, or very little profit at the beginning, doesn't mean it won't grow profitwise and/or asset-wise.
Think about digital media distribution- you don't need a big manufacturing plant or a bagillion copies of a dvd- all you need is some rented server space somewhere. 0 assets required.
well, i had the right idea, wrong numbers seems like. I guess 8G is what they practice with in the centrifuges or something like that- I remember it being a health requirement or something.
And 50% was apparently a low estimate for the raw shuttle's weight.
Now, I acknowledge I don't know my physics very well, and thats why I don't build space probes. Well not since that incident with feet and meters at least..
there is a place and time for everything. the need for DRM hadn't been realized completely, it has now- for better or for worse.
Many computer buyers would see 'Embedded TPM' as a 'feature' on the specs and just gloss over it if they even read the specs. Technically it would be fully disclosed, but 90% of people wouldn't even notice.
Anyway, It's a different time, who knows how it will pan out this time around.
Why is horsepower used in the first place? I can't picture horses running in space and I imagine their pulling capacity would be decreased substantially;o)
How is horsepower measured in terms of thrust? Just use the HP->Newton conversion from ground based engines?
Let me know if I'm completely going the wrong direction here.. but if the shuttle astronauts feel around 8G's during liftoff, doesn't that mean that in a weightless environment it would take roughly 8 times less thrust?
If I'm on the right track, then 12 million / 8 is 1.5 million HP. Still a lot- but that's also for a very heavy shuttle with payloads and SSRB's. Assume you could even cut the weight in half by ditching the fuel and boosters and all that, we'd be talking about 6 million HP and 1/8th that is 750,000 HP.
So we're already talking about a lot less thrust, but 1400 HP != 750,000 HP- what am I missing? How much horsepower per lb does it take to overcome inertia in space? Would that be a conversion from HP to Newtons and a F=MA equation?
I guess all I'm going after is that 1400 doesn't sound like enough to move the thing, but obviously 12million isnt the required number either. So what's the piece of the puzzle I'm missing?
It's another sign that everyone is going out of business. Remember the dot com implosion? "Everything's overinflated, no real assets." "Everything's overinflated, no real assets." "Everything's overinflated, no real assets." The talking heads repeat over and over... Finally, a downturn and everyone panics, "oh my gosh, everything was overinflated, this stuff isn't worth anything!"
If you broadcast "impending failure" loud enough and long enough, a failure will occur where one may not have otherwise.
internet backbones expand exponentially over course of 10 years POTS maintainers drag their feet regarding internet telephony POTS maintainers decide to start hauling their audio over public internet to save money POTS maintainers decide not to spend money on extra pipes, instead want to prioritize traffic to get more bandwidth for free Government regulates something else that should not be a law at all, and sticks it to the little guy yet again.
I would -never- watch Lost live on TV for one simple reason - commercials. Lost is such a film-like script, the commercials would totally ruin the feel. We missed the first season and rented it on DVD via Netflix (a godsend for tv series!), and watched the whole thing nearly straight through. After getting the 5.1 dolby digital and the full cinematic effect unbroken by tampon and maxi pad commercials, there's no way I'd ever watch a show like that on TV again. I just bought my wife a 140 hour TiVo for Christmas which will arrive this week- I'd consider watching a show like Lost on the TiVo if the commercial skipping worked out. I'd watch comedies and other less immersive television on live TV, but I think for me the days of watching commercials are generally over.
If they start putting placements in the show to the point it's like the Truman Show, they'll lose much of the (large amount of) money I spend yearly when DVD release time comes out.
Unfortunately, it's not like they can edit that crap back out before the DVD release without affecting the show even more.
Placements are a lose lose. If you're paying for the DVD, you shouldn't have to pay for the commercials. Perhaps TiVo needs to kick back a little money to the networks somehow. I know I'd pay an extra couple bucks a month if it meant no ads for me. Especially if networks implemented something that signaled to the TiVo "ok, here's where the ads start.... here's where they end" so when you play the show back, it was completely ad-free, it would not only save space, but would be a nice perk for the customers.
i've never consciously posted one, but one or two of mine have been interpreted that way by mistake. It happens, especially with topics people use as flaimbait/trolls a lot. The war on iraq is a polarizing topic and quickly leads to offtopic discussion.
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ive got some ancient SCSI disks still running (Seagate Hawk and Seagate Barracuda 2gb'ers from when 2gb was the latest and greatest, cost over $700/each at the time). I also have quite a few IBM 9gb SCSI drives from SGI systems still running as well.
I had a couple WD drives bite the dust on me, so I switched to seagate and haven't had a failure since. I've also had 6 of the IBM 75GXP Deskstars that are currently under class action lawsuits.. I had 5/6 of those fail with crucial data and couldn't afford a backup solution for anything but the most critical stuff.
Anyway, i'm a seagate fan for now, im too afraid of WD drives and IBM drives, and had a friend or two lose a maxtor. Ultimately it happens to everyone, and you need a backup solution, but seagate has always had great (3-10 year) warranties on their high end disks. If you back up your data, you can't beat the warranty.
did everyone miss the joke?
"In soviet russia, XBoxes mod you" + "In soviet russia, Xboxes mod you down" = In soviet russia, Xboxes mod you (down)
+1 Funny and +1 Funny should be +2 Uber Funny =P
Oh well, my family thinks I'm hillarious, they laugh at me all the time! (again, joke...)
if you pay even $1 for a piece of hardware that you never have to return (eg not a lease, like some electric cars), you own that hardware and it's just a desktop computer essentially. I say, if you mod it when the warranty is still active, you void it- and perhaps any right to utilize whatever service you're connecting to (Xbox live, TiVo) if the agreement says so, but you should be able to tweak the hardware as much as you like.
Trusted computing is sort of a different story, since if it's modded, it sort of breaks the whole trust thing.
but anyway, as I said in another reply here somewhere, while the piracy of the games is wrong, i hope that modding by itself remains legal.
Imho, modchips are like lock picking sets. In the right hands, they can be used fruitfully to legal ends (locksmith/homebrew developer)- but in the wrong hands they can be used to steal property (opening doors/decryption).
Lock pick sets are legal in most places- with exceptions and regulations in quite a lot of places though.
Seems to me if you can demonstrate some level of programming ability (show your transcript?) and affirm under threat of perjury that you intend to program xbox software, the modchips should be allowed.
Hopefully though, this won't be used as some sort of precident against the modding aspect.
I fully support modding too, when it's not used to play/gather/rip/whatever any kind of pirated materials.
If I didn't have a warranty, I'd mod my tivo to put in a bigger disk, since 140 hours was the biggest TiVo sells and at best quality thats less than half that on a good day.
Once my warranty/PRP expires on my xbox, I'll probably mod it too and play with some homebrew apps and get back to my bzflag console edition endeavor, but I've got another year yet to wait.
Anyway, like I said, I really hope that somehow this doesnt become a citation in other cases against modding (by itself, without the piracy aspect)
In Soviet Russia, XBox'es mod you (down)...
Some people open things in-store to check out what's inside or to steal parts ;(
ive had three car stereos, all of which seem to eventually scratch my cds during loading or bumps.
Kenwood something (long time ago)
JVC MX3000 (last one)
Philips AVH-P5700DVD (current)
Anyway, my point is these arent cheezeball brands, and all were installed by professional installers.
I've lost many cds to scratches in general.
My worst loss was my favorite cd which fell about 2 feet and shattered. The music industry tells you youre buying the license to listen, but then won't let you buy a new cd at media cost. -That- keeps me from buying CD's. I'm an iTunes fan. We also utilize our local public library for music in the car. The library has the funds to replace any scratched cds, so we borrow and we listen and we return it (hopefully in the same condition we received it though).
Although I said analysts, not media, the gist of what you're saying remains the same and I get what you mean.
The only thing though is when you have a services based business, and people are willing to pay a lot for stock in those services when a lot of ad revenue is generated by those services. Just because there's very little assets, or very little profit at the beginning, doesn't mean it won't grow profitwise and/or asset-wise.
Think about digital media distribution- you don't need a big manufacturing plant or a bagillion copies of a dvd- all you need is some rented server space somewhere. 0 assets required.
IIRC, they had big satellites in space and beamed the power back via microwave. (thus the microwave power plant option)
Wasn't there a big spider like thing that would destroy your cities in SC 3000?
Anyone played Sim City 2000 lately?
well, i had the right idea, wrong numbers seems like.
I guess 8G is what they practice with in the centrifuges or something like that- I remember it being a health requirement or something.
And 50% was apparently a low estimate for the raw shuttle's weight.
Now, I acknowledge I don't know my physics very well, and thats why I don't build space probes. Well not since that incident with feet and meters at least..
there is a place and time for everything. the need for DRM hadn't been realized completely, it has now- for better or for worse.
Many computer buyers would see 'Embedded TPM' as a 'feature' on the specs and just gloss over it if they even read the specs. Technically it would be fully disclosed, but 90% of people wouldn't even notice.
Anyway, It's a different time, who knows how it will pan out this time around.
one more afterthough question..
;o)
Why is horsepower used in the first place? I can't picture horses running in space and I imagine their pulling capacity would be decreased substantially
How is horsepower measured in terms of thrust? Just use the HP->Newton conversion from ground based engines?
Let me know if I'm completely going the wrong direction here.. but if the shuttle astronauts feel around 8G's during liftoff, doesn't that mean that in a weightless environment it would take roughly 8 times less thrust?
If I'm on the right track, then 12 million / 8 is 1.5 million HP. Still a lot- but that's also for a very heavy shuttle with payloads and SSRB's. Assume you could even cut the weight in half by ditching the fuel and boosters and all that, we'd be talking about 6 million HP and 1/8th that is 750,000 HP.
So we're already talking about a lot less thrust, but 1400 HP != 750,000 HP- what am I missing? How much horsepower per lb does it take to overcome inertia in space? Would that be a conversion from HP to Newtons and a F=MA equation?
I guess all I'm going after is that 1400 doesn't sound like enough to move the thing, but obviously 12million isnt the required number either. So what's the piece of the puzzle I'm missing?
It's another sign that everyone is going out of business.
Remember the dot com implosion?
"Everything's overinflated, no real assets." "Everything's overinflated, no real assets." "Everything's overinflated, no real assets." The talking heads repeat over and over...
Finally, a downturn and everyone panics, "oh my gosh, everything was overinflated, this stuff isn't worth anything!"
If you broadcast "impending failure" loud enough and long enough, a failure will occur where one may not have otherwise.
Why not just say the thing is rotating about an axis, which would be in effect, a gravity generator.
internet backbones expand exponentially over course of 10 years
POTS maintainers drag their feet regarding internet telephony
POTS maintainers decide to start hauling their audio over public internet to save money
POTS maintainers decide not to spend money on extra pipes, instead want to prioritize traffic to get more bandwidth for free
Government regulates something else that should not be a law at all, and sticks it to the little guy yet again.
Yay capitalism.
I just show up 20 minutes late (on off-hours movies)
I would -never- watch Lost live on TV for one simple reason - commercials. Lost is such a film-like script, the commercials would totally ruin the feel. We missed the first season and rented it on DVD via Netflix (a godsend for tv series!), and watched the whole thing nearly straight through. After getting the 5.1 dolby digital and the full cinematic effect unbroken by tampon and maxi pad commercials, there's no way I'd ever watch a show like that on TV again. I just bought my wife a 140 hour TiVo for Christmas which will arrive this week- I'd consider watching a show like Lost on the TiVo if the commercial skipping worked out. I'd watch comedies and other less immersive television on live TV, but I think for me the days of watching commercials are generally over.
If they start putting placements in the show to the point it's like the Truman Show, they'll lose much of the (large amount of) money I spend yearly when DVD release time comes out.
Unfortunately, it's not like they can edit that crap back out before the DVD release without affecting the show even more.
Placements are a lose lose. If you're paying for the DVD, you shouldn't have to pay for the commercials. Perhaps TiVo needs to kick back a little money to the networks somehow. I know I'd pay an extra couple bucks a month if it meant no ads for me. Especially if networks implemented something that signaled to the TiVo "ok, here's where the ads start.... here's where they end" so when you play the show back, it was completely ad-free, it would not only save space, but would be a nice perk for the customers.
more like: 3 to 10 people make estimates on things they know nothing about. :o)
funny, but I meant that the kids would have gained 50lbs from all the fat/grease (and other stuff in their happy meals)
A thousand chicken nuggets later (and 50lbs heavier), the kid can watch an entire 80 minute disney movie. yay.
Picture kid engrossed in game
;o)
Mom yells from kitchen "Take out the trash!"
Kid, still playing- in a fight for his 'life', yells back "In a minute!"
We get trained for multitasking at an early age
i've never consciously posted one, but one or two of mine have been interpreted that way by mistake. It happens, especially with topics people use as flaimbait/trolls a lot. The war on iraq is a polarizing topic and quickly leads to offtopic discussion.
;o)
Good metamods will view context, decent ones sometimes don't.
One 'troll' on your karma won't kill you