Well regardless of what OS you are on, make sure that the external drive controller has the the Oxford 911 chip in it. It syncs the ata 66 and 100 (and I believe ata 133) to the 400 mbps that firewire claims to provide.
All of the video editors out there who tried to capture video to external firewire drives that existed before the Oxford 911 chip was released can recall the torture endured with all the dropped frames.
The older firewire drives are still roaming around out there. especially on ebay. Buyer beware.
I remeber that IBM developed a solid state drive a year or so back. It had the fastest seek time of any drive available at the time, but the fastest Ultra 2's had a better throughput.
Users are complacent and completely content on being provided with a box that functions with little concern of what happens behind the scenes. They dont want to touch the box (sometimes literally) for fear of "breaking" the computer.
They do not want to learn about computers or how to fix them. I want to use the analogy of automobiles. How many of us actually know how to fix our car when it breaks. Not many. This is why mechanics get paid the big bucks. This is why the techs at CompUSA can over charge the ignorant. Except in the automobile there is actually competition between firms, which provides consumers with a variety of choices.
This is just horrible news. People lack contempt for MS and this will hurt technology. MS happily pigeon-holed its users into apathetic recipients of Microsoft's efforts to control all of technology. You may think that i am being melodramatic, but i am sincerely concerned over the removal of the JVM from Windows XP.
Has anyone ever considered the possibilty of using these car as back-up generators? I mean... You can drive to work in them, hook them up as if they were a battery back-up, and drive home in them. It sounds so feasible. I just hope there is enough trunk space for the 1000 ft extension cord.
"Man. This sucks! We'll all be dead before there is any sort of intergallatic war with aliens."
If you are in California, you are paying high electricity rates, telephone, cable, and whatever flavor of Internet connectivity fees each month. the last thing we want to do is pay for content, but monthly fees are only part of the problem.
i would like to use the newspaper as an example. If you subscribe to lets say the LA Times, you pay that monthly fee to the content printed on the paper. (please do not delve into the debate of new media versus old media) you browse cnn.com every morning but you would never pay for it. Why? It is because you are not used to paying for anything on the Internet. From the beginning it has been free. Everything but porn. Sure, there are thousands of free adult sites on the web, but the pay for porn business model is working. people want it so bad that they are willing to pay for higher quality photographs and streaming sex videos. Content that cannot be found anywhere else (unless you are an avid DVD porn collector, but this is another topic all to its own)
So... the unwillingness to pay for content stems back to beginning of the Internet when people were exposed to free content on websites. websites that believed could generate a strong customer base that would allow for revenue from advertisers. we now know how well this business model has worked.
the trade off: free Internet large growth no paying customers as opposed to paid Internet slow growth but a strong paying customer base
the day is soon approaching when i will through away my win98, gaming box. I wont have all the great games to play, but at least I wont be supporting industrial tyranny.
I hope Kodak frags microsoft in court. I also hope that other companies become aware of what MS represents and begin exploiting the wide open Linux market
i cant figure what group i belong to. im obsessed with my goldfish, but i consider it a part of my family. im confused. somebody help me.
oh, by the way, its name isnt swordfish. it's "im a big stupid idiot"
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Well regardless of what OS you are on, make sure that the external drive controller has the the Oxford 911 chip in it. It syncs the ata 66 and 100 (and I believe ata 133) to the 400 mbps that firewire claims to provide.
All of the video editors out there who tried to capture video to external firewire drives that existed before the Oxford 911 chip was released can recall the torture endured with all the dropped frames.
The older firewire drives are still roaming around out there. especially on ebay. Buyer beware.
I remeber that IBM developed a solid state drive a year or so back. It had the fastest seek time of any drive available at the time, but the fastest Ultra 2's had a better throughput.
Im ready for my multimillion dollar contract. sign me up. all i need now is an agent.
i wish i had 200 dollars to spend on a claw
Users are complacent and completely content on being provided with a box that functions with little concern of what happens behind the scenes. They dont want to touch the box (sometimes literally) for fear of "breaking" the computer. They do not want to learn about computers or how to fix them. I want to use the analogy of automobiles. How many of us actually know how to fix our car when it breaks. Not many. This is why mechanics get paid the big bucks. This is why the techs at CompUSA can over charge the ignorant. Except in the automobile there is actually competition between firms, which provides consumers with a variety of choices. This is just horrible news. People lack contempt for MS and this will hurt technology. MS happily pigeon-holed its users into apathetic recipients of Microsoft's efforts to control all of technology. You may think that i am being melodramatic, but i am sincerely concerned over the removal of the JVM from Windows XP.
Has anyone ever considered the possibilty of using these car as back-up generators? I mean... You can drive to work in them, hook them up as if they were a battery back-up, and drive home in them. It sounds so feasible. I just hope there is enough trunk space for the 1000 ft extension cord.
"Man. This sucks! We'll all be dead before there is any sort of intergallatic war with aliens."
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If you are in California, you are paying high electricity rates, telephone, cable, and whatever flavor of Internet connectivity fees each month. the last thing we want to do is pay for content, but monthly fees are only part of the problem.
i would like to use the newspaper as an example. If you subscribe to lets say the LA Times, you pay that monthly fee to the content printed on the paper. (please do not delve into the debate of new media versus old media) you browse cnn.com every morning but you would never pay for it. Why? It is because you are not used to paying for anything on the Internet. From the beginning it has been free. Everything but porn. Sure, there are thousands of free adult sites on the web, but the pay for porn business model is working. people want it so bad that they are willing to pay for higher quality photographs and streaming sex videos. Content that cannot be found anywhere else (unless you are an avid DVD porn collector, but this is another topic all to its own)
So... the unwillingness to pay for content stems back to beginning of the Internet when people were exposed to free content on websites. websites that believed could generate a strong customer base that would allow for revenue from advertisers. we now know how well this business model has worked.
the trade off: free Internet large growth no paying customers as opposed to paid Internet slow growth but a strong paying customer base
the day is soon approaching when i will through away my win98, gaming box. I wont have all the great games to play, but at least I wont be supporting industrial tyranny. I hope Kodak frags microsoft in court. I also hope that other companies become aware of what MS represents and begin exploiting the wide open Linux market
i cant figure what group i belong to. im obsessed with my goldfish, but i consider it a part of my family. im confused. somebody help me. oh, by the way, its name isnt swordfish. it's "im a big stupid idiot"