Did I say Philips was the villain? No, I merely said that all of the drives exhibiting the failure were burning from the Philips controller. I know that it is more likely a cap or design problem with the PCB, however, I have not seen other Quantum Fireball drives sans the easily identifiable Philips controller do the same thing. It is an easily identifiable component that is part of the commonality (is that a word?) or similarity (there we go) between the failed drives.
Sorry if I offended you, Mr. Royal Philips Electronics NV PR Spokeshole Man.
I've seen 8 or 10 of these Quantum drives go up, all from the same Philips controller on the board. Maxtor drives suck, but when they inherit this kind of shitty design flaw, it's fricken criminal.
Because I've experienced data loss before. That's a lot of valuable stuff (at least in my case) in a very small space with little to back it up with except for more of the same. It scares the bejesus out of me.
But I remember saying that about them huge 9GB drives when they came out when I was 12 (or so.)
Have you seen Myspace? It's the 13 year old whorish girls who are talking about their sex lives and their 13 year old boyfriends who want to be pimps who are the dangerous ones on Myspace. That situation makes it a magnet for sex predators, but Myspace seems to be the catalyst for self-destruction as well as a forum for sex predators to find easy (and willing) targets
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I've been spending money at NewEgg for about two years, though I've been aware of them and lurked for a while before then. I've been quite happy with all of my purchases, and except for one instance on a DVD-R drive RMA (at 8 or 10 months old) the process for everything, including returns, has been pretty fast. Not all of my stuff ships same-day, but except in the most extreme circumstances, that's OK. Many of the things do ship same day, and living in Orange County, CA, the La Puente warehouse is next day by ground.
I've had great experiences with their customer service, I'm impressed by their prices overall. My only complaint is that shipping is sometimes a bit steep considering I'm less than 75 miles from their warehouse and I also have to pay California sales tax. Overall though, I still give them my business after 2 years. Not a bad deal.
When it said that Emacs was going to have support for Mac OS X and Cygwin, I thought that they were going to integrate Mac OS X and Cygwin into Emacs. It made sense at first, but I read it a second time and realized that the project was not as ambitious as I thought it was.
And although I don't have a DSLR, or even a camera that shoots raw images, I find it to be a valuable app in terms of form and basic function with my Canon A95.
His technical concerns are legitimate, and Apple will need to work on those issues. However, in terms of organization and workflow, this program is incredible. I cannot forsee this application going anywhere but up in the coming months and years. I enjoy it, and look forward to updates for bugs and other issues mentioned in the article.
That will shoot ball bearings at things. I am going to use it for hunting, but I'm sure people will use it against police officers and other people not deserving of that fate.
I look forward to Jack Thompson's lawsuit against me and the pinball machine manufacturers for programming children to use my soon-to-come railgun against police officers.
I had a guy come in with a beat-to-hell PowerBook that he wanted fixed. He also wanted to get a copy of his data. I asked how it got so pounded to shit, and he said that he got angry and threw it at his girlfriend.
Now, once I opened the machine, I noticed that there was a strange sound from the hard drive. I gave it a light shake, and realized that he had shattered the drive platters. He asked if there was a chance he could get his data back.
I did everything I could to NOT laugh at him. However, I then started to worry about his girlfriend. You know, shattering the drive platters means she got beaned by that laptop pretty damn hard.
And if the end user notices nothing (or next to nothing) when using an Intel Mac, I am fine with it. I'll be happier if the end users notice increased performance, because we know that that is what the whole Intel switch is about.
As a technician, though, the notion of a BIOS in a Mac gives me some problems. I noticed that the developer Macs don't do booting over FireWire, though they do boot over USB. I think Apple should be able to work through these shortcomings by the time their first production-ready CPUs are shipping. Open Firmware allows for some cool stuff, and if those things can be accomplished with a BIOS (or an updated equivalent), I'll deal with it.
I just want to make sure the end users are happy and don't complain about weird things going on with their "cutting edge" Intel Macs.
But it seems way overpriced. But for a company that has bitchen products, I'll most certainly be a customer of theirs for a long time to come. I just don't plan on investing any money in their company's stock, that's all.
This is a "law" in the idea that it is not amending the constitution. That does not require consent of state legislatures.
To amend the constitution, the state legislatures have to get involved. I'm probably wrong when I state this, but I think it has to pass both houses of the federal legislature with a 2/3 majority as well as pass in 2/3 of the state legislatures before a constitutional amendment is en force.
I think that there should be dense, yet individual concrete sleeping areas that are extremely difficult to enter or exit from an inmate point of view. During the day, inmates should be taken to tent cities in the middle of the desert where they can work out and drink as much water as they can handle. I'm sure security logistics could be worked out by those more adept at such things.
They should get 3 meals a day, no need to heat them or refrigerate them as long as they don't go bad. No need for television, internet, or any other luxuries. Books should be at the discretion of the warden. I'm actually in favor of newspapers daily, should inmates want them, though I'm sure those could be used in some way to injure someone or help them escape.
Also, medical care should be BARE minimum. Nobody should be receiving organ transplants while serving in prison, or at least major/repeat felons shouldn't get them. Keep em alive, as long as it doesn't keep someone on the outside from dying. They're more deserving of it, I don't care what anyone says.
Harsh? Probably. When I see criminals roaming around free, and look at how bad the ones in prison are, there's no reason anyone who is dumb or arrogant enough to get themselves into prison should get cool freebies.
I am all for the elimination of truly infringing content on the internet and punishing those who distribute it. I don't believe that all information should be free, though I disagree with the dumb tactics of the worldwide music industry groups and their ilk. Creators of intellectual property deserve to be paid for their work. And while there are substantial noninfringing uses of these networks, many sites are dedicated to promoting the distribution of infringing or substantial amounts of infringing content. And, generally, there are more reliable means of accessing legitimate content than through these networks (excluding BitTorrent)
As for the decrease in bandwidth usage, I'm all for that if it is able to lower the cost of consumer broadband to a more reasonable level. The exessive use of broadband for questionably legal activity slows down networks for people who need to legitimately download their ISOs (or have their Windows boxen be spam zombies.) With the lower nominal use of networks, maybe prices will drop (as opposed to killing of the broadband market like one poster suggested.)
"Living-impaired" attorneys/advocates who will fight tooth and nail to keep RFID tags off of those who are disadvantaged by their lack of basic life signs. Dead people have rights (voting?) too, you know!
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Did I say Philips was the villain? No, I merely said that all of the drives exhibiting the failure were burning from the Philips controller. I know that it is more likely a cap or design problem with the PCB, however, I have not seen other Quantum Fireball drives sans the easily identifiable Philips controller do the same thing. It is an easily identifiable component that is part of the commonality (is that a word?) or similarity (there we go) between the failed drives.
Sorry if I offended you, Mr. Royal Philips Electronics NV PR Spokeshole Man.
Here's a Quantum FireBall that caught fire:
http://homepage.mac.com/robm/PhotoAlbum10.html
I've seen 8 or 10 of these Quantum drives go up, all from the same Philips controller on the board. Maxtor drives suck, but when they inherit this kind of shitty design flaw, it's fricken criminal.
Because I've experienced data loss before. That's a lot of valuable stuff (at least in my case) in a very small space with little to back it up with except for more of the same. It scares the bejesus out of me.
But I remember saying that about them huge 9GB drives when they came out when I was 12 (or so.)
Have you seen Myspace? It's the 13 year old whorish girls who are talking about their sex lives and their 13 year old boyfriends who want to be pimps who are the dangerous ones on Myspace. That situation makes it a magnet for sex predators, but Myspace seems to be the catalyst for self-destruction as well as a forum for sex predators to find easy (and willing) targets
I've been spending money at NewEgg for about two years, though I've been aware of them and lurked for a while before then. I've been quite happy with all of my purchases, and except for one instance on a DVD-R drive RMA (at 8 or 10 months old) the process for everything, including returns, has been pretty fast. Not all of my stuff ships same-day, but except in the most extreme circumstances, that's OK. Many of the things do ship same day, and living in Orange County, CA, the La Puente warehouse is next day by ground.
I've had great experiences with their customer service, I'm impressed by their prices overall. My only complaint is that shipping is sometimes a bit steep considering I'm less than 75 miles from their warehouse and I also have to pay California sales tax. Overall though, I still give them my business after 2 years. Not a bad deal.
But I was only born in 1982, so what do you want from me.
When it said that Emacs was going to have support for Mac OS X and Cygwin, I thought that they were going to integrate Mac OS X and Cygwin into Emacs. It made sense at first, but I read it a second time and realized that the project was not as ambitious as I thought it was.
And although I don't have a DSLR, or even a camera that shoots raw images, I find it to be a valuable app in terms of form and basic function with my Canon A95.
His technical concerns are legitimate, and Apple will need to work on those issues. However, in terms of organization and workflow, this program is incredible. I cannot forsee this application going anywhere but up in the coming months and years. I enjoy it, and look forward to updates for bugs and other issues mentioned in the article.
That will shoot ball bearings at things. I am going to use it for hunting, but I'm sure people will use it against police officers and other people not deserving of that fate.
I look forward to Jack Thompson's lawsuit against me and the pinball machine manufacturers for programming children to use my soon-to-come railgun against police officers.
I had a guy come in with a beat-to-hell PowerBook that he wanted fixed. He also wanted to get a copy of his data. I asked how it got so pounded to shit, and he said that he got angry and threw it at his girlfriend.
Now, once I opened the machine, I noticed that there was a strange sound from the hard drive. I gave it a light shake, and realized that he had shattered the drive platters. He asked if there was a chance he could get his data back.
I did everything I could to NOT laugh at him. However, I then started to worry about his girlfriend. You know, shattering the drive platters means she got beaned by that laptop pretty damn hard.
And if the end user notices nothing (or next to nothing) when using an Intel Mac, I am fine with it. I'll be happier if the end users notice increased performance, because we know that that is what the whole Intel switch is about.
As a technician, though, the notion of a BIOS in a Mac gives me some problems. I noticed that the developer Macs don't do booting over FireWire, though they do boot over USB. I think Apple should be able to work through these shortcomings by the time their first production-ready CPUs are shipping. Open Firmware allows for some cool stuff, and if those things can be accomplished with a BIOS (or an updated equivalent), I'll deal with it.
I just want to make sure the end users are happy and don't complain about weird things going on with their "cutting edge" Intel Macs.
But it seems way overpriced. But for a company that has bitchen products, I'll most certainly be a customer of theirs for a long time to come. I just don't plan on investing any money in their company's stock, that's all.
This is a "law" in the idea that it is not amending the constitution. That does not require consent of state legislatures.
To amend the constitution, the state legislatures have to get involved. I'm probably wrong when I state this, but I think it has to pass both houses of the federal legislature with a 2/3 majority as well as pass in 2/3 of the state legislatures before a constitutional amendment is en force.
Who thought of the PENIX man pages when I saw that guy's last name?
UsngShrtCmtsIsOftNotEnghAsOneMyNdToReWrtShtInTheFt r.
No, I am from Southern California. I appreciate good (real) Mexican food, but Taco Bell just wreaks havoc on my digestive tract.
Isn't that like having flames emanate from my ass after eating at Taco Bell?
Or is it more like people emanating from a theatre during a screening of "Gigli: Special Edition"?
I think that there should be dense, yet individual concrete sleeping areas that are extremely difficult to enter or exit from an inmate point of view. During the day, inmates should be taken to tent cities in the middle of the desert where they can work out and drink as much water as they can handle. I'm sure security logistics could be worked out by those more adept at such things.
They should get 3 meals a day, no need to heat them or refrigerate them as long as they don't go bad. No need for television, internet, or any other luxuries. Books should be at the discretion of the warden. I'm actually in favor of newspapers daily, should inmates want them, though I'm sure those could be used in some way to injure someone or help them escape.
Also, medical care should be BARE minimum. Nobody should be receiving organ transplants while serving in prison, or at least major/repeat felons shouldn't get them. Keep em alive, as long as it doesn't keep someone on the outside from dying. They're more deserving of it, I don't care what anyone says.
Harsh? Probably. When I see criminals roaming around free, and look at how bad the ones in prison are, there's no reason anyone who is dumb or arrogant enough to get themselves into prison should get cool freebies.
I'm just saying that devoid of any information but a comment on MPEG playback, the story is rather bare
MPEG2/4 playback is the first benchmark any informed computer buyer should look at.
MAC makes makeup. Apple makes computers.
Stupid stupid stupid.
I am all for the elimination of truly infringing content on the internet and punishing those who distribute it. I don't believe that all information should be free, though I disagree with the dumb tactics of the worldwide music industry groups and their ilk. Creators of intellectual property deserve to be paid for their work. And while there are substantial noninfringing uses of these networks, many sites are dedicated to promoting the distribution of infringing or substantial amounts of infringing content. And, generally, there are more reliable means of accessing legitimate content than through these networks (excluding BitTorrent)
As for the decrease in bandwidth usage, I'm all for that if it is able to lower the cost of consumer broadband to a more reasonable level. The exessive use of broadband for questionably legal activity slows down networks for people who need to legitimately download their ISOs (or have their Windows boxen be spam zombies.) With the lower nominal use of networks, maybe prices will drop (as opposed to killing of the broadband market like one poster suggested.)
"Living-impaired" attorneys/advocates who will fight tooth and nail to keep RFID tags off of those who are disadvantaged by their lack of basic life signs. Dead people have rights (voting?) too, you know!
If you couldn't sense my sarcasm, all is lost.