I've never had a Maxtor drive NOT go bad. I have always considered them to be junk. If a customer has a bad drive it is always a Maxtor I find when I crack the case.
Thats nice to hear. I have a dead WD2000JB in front of me now. Just over a year old and it's already developed the clunk of death.
I have tons of drives, both WD and maxtor. In many different systems at many different locations. And WD isn't any better than maxtor. They both fail at disturbingly high rates.
Storage densities have become insanely high the last few years, and reliability has suffered because of it -- across the board, all manufacturers. Nobody is exempt.
The one thing WD does have is a longer warranty. Which is a good thing because you will need it.
yeah, because mach and gcc are so insignificant, right?
if apple had to write all the stuff in OSX from scratch, OSX would still be unreleased and still in development to this day.
apple owes its very existence today to FOSS. if there were no mach, no gcc, there would be no OSX and no apple (if you believe apple could still be floating today on an os as backwards as macos 9, you're mistaken).
well, i suppose an apple without osx would be primarily an ipod manufacturer, and itunes would be running solely on win32...
It depends. A degree can sometimes make you 'too expensive' to hire. Certainly a masters or ph.d can easily do that, but even a bs can do it when you're competing against inexpensive foreigners.
In the end ive discovered its not really what you know but who you know that matters.:/
it doesnt seem to matter anymore, companies will compare you with your CS degree to kumar from bangalore. kumar has a CS degree too, and he is much cheaper.
you don't think india can create 200k skilled CS grads overnight? they don't need to do it overnight -- they are out there already. and lots more are coming. you're talking about a country with a population more than three times that of the US.
it's gotten to the point where americans are going to india to get degrees and jobs now. it will be interesting to see how this trend evolves, as india and the us become increasingly joined at the hip.
The upside of all this, is that we can use it to track all government officials.
So we can easily track and post on a website in realtime:
o) every titty bar they go to o) every adult store they rent goatpr0n from o) every cheap motel they go to meet hookers in o) every street corner they go to score crack at o) every unrecorded vacation at taxpayer expense o) use your imagination:))
Real ID + RFID cuts both ways. Ain't that a bitch, senator?
AC had a great post, so I'm reposting it above zero.
Oh, please. The stuff that Apple gives away isn't worth much. Honestly. The free parts of OS X amounts to a pretty mediocre Unix. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD are all better than Darwin. The value of OS X is in the propriatary layers, Quartz, Cocoa and the Core parts. They're very good technologies and are worth every penny Apple charges for them, but pretending that the free Darwin part or their other free scraps like zeroconfig or the Quicktime streamer are something revolutionary is just silly
WTF do you think X11 resources are, exactly? X11 theming has existed more than a decade before apple ever discovered it. Even ancient athena shit can be themed via resources.
Most don't even notice it's there.
Most don't even know OSX theming is even possible. Ever notice 99.99999% of all OSX screenshots look 100% exactly identical?
Apple does a good job of hiding this functionality from end users. Apple doesn't want users changing the UI appearance.
the difference is that if you use Qt, theming is well supported from the bottom to the top, and no application can get past it.
with OSX, if you use carbon/cocoa, theming is a hack, not officially supported at all, and apps can get past the theming.
dont bother with the athena argument, its a red herring. you might as well argue about macos8. nobody develops new apps for either anymore.
let's see. if i use the 'official' frameworks on osx and i change themes with shapeshifter, and applications can get past the shapeshifter theming... this proves osx is somehow better?
qt/kde wants end users to be able to easily change themes to their personal taste, provides you easy and uniform ways to do it, and it is well supported. you're changing not only the application widgets, but also the window borders etc. for a completely consistent and uniform behavior.
apple is the complete antithesis to ui theming. they just don't want you to do it.
the audience isnt PhDs, its legislators. all you need to do is play the terrorism or commerce cards, and blammo -- legislation to prop up your dying business model.
No, it's a case of the apple guys offering largely useless patches, and the hordes of apple retards screaming at the KHTML guys calling them lazy shits for not merging in apple's changes immediately.
if the apple retards would just STFU there wouldn't be any issues.
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"There's a whole damned revolution waiting on opensource.apple.com"
Says you.
Wrong as you can possibly be.
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You're so wrong, you can't possibly be any wronger.
The KHTML devs are not complaining about apple not contributing back. They're complaining about all the mindless apple fanboys spouting "OMG APPLE DOES SO MUCH FOR KHTML YOU KHTML GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF LAZY FUCKS FOR NOT MERGING APPLES PATCHES IMMEDIATELY"
They took it for so long, but are no longer willing to stay silent on the issue.
In other words, their issue is with the legions of apple retards. Are you one of them?
bush invaded iraq despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that there were no WMD. bush ignored all the experts who told him there were no WMD, and cherrypicked only those who agreed with him and his agenda.
What I expect is that the journals and publishers will start lobbying for laws to block this kind of 'free press' activity.
I wouldnt be suprised if they play the 'terrorism' card. Because you know, only legitimate researchers pay big bucks for access to scientific literature and only terrorists would want free access. Right?
Oh yes, and self-publishing is destructive to the economy, its anti-american, etc. etc. bla bla bla.
Can't imagine this is more efficient than air cooling. Oil is far denser than air and the cooling comes from air cycling through the components and carrying the heat away. I wouldnt expect oil convection cooling to be terribly effective...
the administration is pushing it as a magic bullet for terrorism though.
no, the only reason for this bill to exist is to make tracking and surveillance of citizens easier.
i guarantee the next wave of terrorists will have perfectly valid national id.
and the government will have blown $120 million on a placebo anti-terrorism measure, instead of $120 million that could have been used on actually effective security measures.
ender's game was incredibly shallow and easily predictable, and the ending was telegraphed light years away. not a single one of the characters was even remotely interesting, including ender. developments in the story are about as subtle as a baseball bat, including osc's very shallow black and white portrayal of 'good' vs 'evil'.
ender's game isn't terrible (i've read far worse), but it's not good. i can see it mainly appealing to angsty teens. however there's so much better stuff available, ender's game should be toward the bottom of the list when looking for stuff.
i haven't read osc's other works so maybe he's gotten better since then, but ender's game didn't impress me at all.
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I've never had a Maxtor drive NOT go bad. I have always considered them to be junk. If a customer has a bad drive it is always a Maxtor I find when I crack the case.
Thats nice to hear. I have a dead WD2000JB in front of me now. Just over a year old and it's already developed the clunk of death.
I have tons of drives, both WD and maxtor. In many different systems at many different locations. And WD isn't any better than maxtor. They both fail at disturbingly high rates.
Storage densities have become insanely high the last few years, and reliability has suffered because of it -- across the board, all manufacturers. Nobody is exempt.
The one thing WD does have is a longer warranty. Which is a good thing because you will need it.
yeah, because mach and gcc are so insignificant, right?
if apple had to write all the stuff in OSX from scratch, OSX would still be unreleased and still in development to this day.
apple owes its very existence today to FOSS. if there were no mach, no gcc, there would be no OSX and no apple (if you believe apple could still be floating today on an os as backwards as macos 9, you're mistaken).
well, i suppose an apple without osx would be primarily an ipod manufacturer, and itunes would be running solely on win32...
It depends. A degree can sometimes make you 'too expensive' to hire. Certainly a masters or ph.d can easily do that, but even a bs can do it when you're competing against inexpensive foreigners.
:/
In the end ive discovered its not really what you know but who you know that matters.
it doesnt seem to matter anymore, companies will compare you with your CS degree to kumar from bangalore. kumar has a CS degree too, and he is much cheaper.
you don't think india can create 200k skilled CS grads overnight? they don't need to do it overnight -- they are out there already. and lots more are coming. you're talking about a country with a population more than three times that of the US.
it's gotten to the point where americans are going to india to get degrees and jobs now. it will be interesting to see how this trend evolves, as india and the us become increasingly joined at the hip.
sure. the mom & pop mart down the street. been operating for ~20 years. not a huge profit maker and certainly not massively growing.
yet it's still here!
20 years is better than a lot of corporations.
The upside of all this, is that we can use it to track all government officials.
:))
So we can easily track and post on a website in realtime:
o) every titty bar they go to
o) every adult store they rent goatpr0n from
o) every cheap motel they go to meet hookers in
o) every street corner they go to score crack at
o) every unrecorded vacation at taxpayer expense
o) use your imagination
Real ID + RFID cuts both ways. Ain't that a bitch, senator?
AC had a great post, so I'm reposting it above zero.
Oh, please. The stuff that Apple gives away isn't worth much. Honestly. The free parts of OS X amounts to a pretty mediocre Unix. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD are all better than Darwin. The value of OS X is in the propriatary layers, Quartz, Cocoa and the Core parts. They're very good technologies and are worth every penny Apple charges for them, but pretending that the free Darwin part or their other free scraps like zeroconfig or the Quicktime streamer are something revolutionary is just silly
Apple invented UI theming.
Lollerskates!
WTF do you think X11 resources are, exactly? X11 theming has existed more than a decade before apple ever discovered it. Even ancient athena shit can be themed via resources.
Most don't even notice it's there.
Most don't even know OSX theming is even possible. Ever notice 99.99999% of all OSX screenshots look 100% exactly identical?
Apple does a good job of hiding this functionality from end users. Apple doesn't want users changing the UI appearance.
BTW the themechanger project is dead.
the difference is that if you use Qt, theming is well supported from the bottom to the top, and no application can get past it.
with OSX, if you use carbon/cocoa, theming is a hack, not officially supported at all, and apps can get past the theming.
dont bother with the athena argument, its a red herring. you might as well argue about macos8. nobody develops new apps for either anymore.
let's see. if i use the 'official' frameworks on osx and i change themes with shapeshifter, and applications can get past the shapeshifter theming... this proves osx is somehow better?
qt/kde wants end users to be able to easily change themes to their personal taste, provides you easy and uniform ways to do it, and it is well supported. you're changing not only the application widgets, but also the window borders etc. for a completely consistent and uniform behavior.
apple is the complete antithesis to ui theming. they just don't want you to do it.
the audience isnt PhDs, its legislators. all you need to do is play the terrorism or commerce cards, and blammo -- legislation to prop up your dying business model.
Hah. Try something as simple as moving the window widgets (eg close button) to the right side.
So much for "extremely customizable down to a very low level"...
Also, the method for theming in OSX is a hack. You can see the results of this -- some applications get past shapeshifter without being themed.
With UI frameworks like Qt, the theming is built in at a low level, it is well supported, and every app which uses Qt will follow the themes.
Exactly. The problem is the legions of apple retards out there.
The world would be a lot better place if they would all just stop blogging and STFU.
No, it's a case of the apple guys offering largely useless patches, and the hordes of apple retards screaming at the KHTML guys calling them lazy shits for not merging in apple's changes immediately.
if the apple retards would just STFU there wouldn't be any issues.
"There's a whole damned revolution waiting on opensource.apple.com"
Says you.
You're so wrong, you can't possibly be any wronger.
The KHTML devs are not complaining about apple not contributing back. They're complaining about all the mindless apple fanboys spouting "OMG APPLE DOES SO MUCH FOR KHTML YOU KHTML GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF LAZY FUCKS FOR NOT MERGING APPLES PATCHES IMMEDIATELY"
They took it for so long, but are no longer willing to stay silent on the issue.
In other words, their issue is with the legions of apple retards. Are you one of them?
People like you are exactly who Zach Rusin was talking about.
bush invaded iraq despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary that there were no WMD . bush ignored all the experts who told him there were no WMD, and cherrypicked only those who agreed with him and his agenda.
What I expect is that the journals and publishers will start lobbying for laws to block this kind of 'free press' activity.
I wouldnt be suprised if they play the 'terrorism' card. Because you know, only legitimate researchers pay big bucks for access to scientific literature and only terrorists would want free access. Right?
Oh yes, and self-publishing is destructive to the economy, its anti-american, etc. etc. bla bla bla.
Can't imagine this is more efficient than air cooling. Oil is far denser than air and the cooling comes from air cycling through the components and carrying the heat away. I wouldnt expect oil convection cooling to be terribly effective...
darl mcbride?
the administration is pushing it as a magic bullet for terrorism though.
no, the only reason for this bill to exist is to make tracking and surveillance of citizens easier.
i guarantee the next wave of terrorists will have perfectly valid national id.
and the government will have blown $120 million on a placebo anti-terrorism measure, instead of $120 million that could have been used on actually effective security measures.
So do tell me how a national ID will prevent another 9/11. Considering all the hijackers had valid ID, and none of them were on any watch list.
What's going to stop the next batch of terrorists from having perfectly valid ID? Nothing.
What will this prevent? Nothing.
Remind me again what the point of this bill is then?
This was not always the case. A few years ago one could visit canada and re-enter without a passport.
Cisco may be buying up sipura just so they can shut it down. Sipura's products compete with Cisco's own products.
Sorta like microsoft buying out companies just to eliminate competition.
ender's game a masterpiece? please.
ender's game was incredibly shallow and easily predictable, and the ending was telegraphed light years away. not a single one of the characters was even remotely interesting, including ender. developments in the story are about as subtle as a baseball bat, including osc's very shallow black and white portrayal of 'good' vs 'evil'.
ender's game isn't terrible (i've read far worse), but it's not good. i can see it mainly appealing to angsty teens. however there's so much better stuff available, ender's game should be toward the bottom of the list when looking for stuff.
i haven't read osc's other works so maybe he's gotten better since then, but ender's game didn't impress me at all .