They'll just push to increase product placement in shows. Watching Seinfeld reruns is like playing Product Placement Jeopardy. There's George holding a bag of "Rolled Gold Pretzels" very conspicuously. Now they are plugging Buicks.
Things have picked up a lot in Massachusetts. When I put out a resume a year ago I was getting dozens of calls and emails every day. It was crazy and things have gotten even more heated since then.
Lets be honest, people only notice the sysadmins and network admins when things don't work, then they get flack. When they are busting their humps keeping things working or improving their systems they are generally taken for granted.
The parent comments sound like the companies are using the reviewers for quality control. Maybe the reviewers should charge a consulting fee. I think an internal QC department may be in order.
I always wondered what review sites like "tomshardware" did with the piles of expensive video boards they must accumulate. Can they trade hardware for hookers and booze?
I just got a 8gb Sandisk mp3 player and it has really increased my listening of CDs I haven't listened to much in the last few years (XTC, The Jazz Butcher, Wire, etc). Not having to plan ahead on what CDs I want to listen to has made a big difference.
Well, the article says this "stainless steel or titanium foil that is 22 microns or 25 microns thick". At 22 to 25 MICRONS it is very flexible.
It also has this to say about flexing, "The nature of our drives is such that they are very resistant -- almost immune -- to shock damage, making head crashes a non-event because the flexible metal foil yields to the head, pushed away by a layer of compressed air, rather than being struck by it." We most likely are talking about tiny perturbations here.
According to TFA they actually exploit the fact that the foil is NOT as rigid as current platters to actually decrease head crashes. The foil would flex away from the air cushioning created by the head.
I think you mean that the greater rotational inertia in the glass disk system tends to dampen noise in it (vibrations, etc) while a very light mass would be more susceptable to it.
"Finally, if you lighten up the parts in a hard drive, most companies are just going to use the energy savings to drive the parts FASTER."
If they drive the parts faster then you have greater performance. Energy costs vs performance, an old decision.
I think he talks about how the foil disks are very flexible and therefore can avoid head collisions and return to their previous state very quickly. I assume this flexibility and very low mass would also take care of wobbling.
I'd like to know how resistant the disks are to stretching over time due to the very high RPMS.
Hello, I'm the son of General Nutumbo (retired) of the Nigerian Army. He was very happy to find out that thousands of honest Americans were willing to help him move his $43 million dollar oil renvenues out of the National Bank of Nigeria with their financial help. Now I find out it was all a trick. Shame on you!
Duct the hot air from the data center out into the office buildings in the winter and duct cold outside in. In the summer though there's no free lunch.
They also have too many customers. You'd need a powerful organization (plus a compelling message) to get the average Sony customer to be willing pass on a product they may prefer or pay more for a competetor's product. Most customers are probably only occasional buyers and have no idea who makes it or cares. They are going on features and cost. There is also the feeling that your boycott isn't going to make a dent, just like the feeling you get if you vote for a 3rd party candidate in the US.
Even if he was joking it actually is an interesting area because many ancient Egyptian jaws show signs of massive and deadly abcesses. It was actually a common ailment based on skeletal remains. It was generally caused by the sand that was produced during grinding of grain and also blown into the food that eroded the teeth down to the pulp. You see these teeth in ancient Egyptian skulls that have become completely flattened. Jaw infection must have been a horribly painful way to die.
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They'll just push to increase product placement in shows. Watching Seinfeld reruns is like playing Product Placement Jeopardy. There's George holding a bag of "Rolled Gold Pretzels" very conspicuously. Now they are plugging Buicks.
Things have picked up a lot in Massachusetts. When I put out a resume a year ago I was getting dozens of calls and emails every day. It was crazy and things have gotten even more heated since then.
Lets be honest, people only notice the sysadmins and network admins when things don't work, then they get flack. When they are busting their humps keeping things working or improving their systems they are generally taken for granted.
The parent comments sound like the companies are using the reviewers for quality control. Maybe the reviewers should charge a consulting fee. I think an internal QC department may be in order.
I always wondered what review sites like "tomshardware" did with the piles of expensive video boards they must accumulate. Can they trade hardware for hookers and booze?
Wait until there is a mysterious fire at the Captial building.
Since we are in an eternal war against terror he could proclaim an eternal state of emergency.
"x-rayed, bomb-sniffed, and patted down"
Oh shit, you mean that full body cavity search WASN'T part of the normal screening process?
I just got a 8gb Sandisk mp3 player and it has really increased my listening of CDs I haven't listened to much in the last few years (XTC, The Jazz Butcher, Wire, etc). Not having to plan ahead on what CDs I want to listen to has made a big difference.
If it lasts longer than my lifetime it is as good as forever unless it turns out that reincarnation is real.
Well, the article says this "stainless steel or titanium foil that is 22 microns or 25 microns thick". At 22 to 25 MICRONS it is very flexible.
It also has this to say about flexing, "The nature of our drives is such that they are very resistant -- almost immune -- to shock damage, making head crashes a non-event because the flexible metal foil yields to the head, pushed away by a layer of compressed air, rather than being struck by it." We most likely are talking about tiny perturbations here.
According to TFA they actually exploit the fact that the foil is NOT as rigid as current platters to actually decrease head crashes. The foil would flex away from the air cushioning created by the head.
Plus you are talking about using much less material for the foil system even if you have more platters.
I think you mean that the greater rotational inertia in the glass disk system tends to dampen noise in it (vibrations, etc) while a very light mass would be more susceptable to it.
"Finally, if you lighten up the parts in a hard drive, most companies are just going to use the energy savings to drive the parts FASTER."
If they drive the parts faster then you have greater performance. Energy costs vs performance, an old decision.
Not to mention stretching of the material over time. Especially at very high rpms (he mentioned 30K RPMs!)
I think he talks about how the foil disks are very flexible and therefore can avoid head collisions and return to their previous state very quickly. I assume this flexibility and very low mass would also take care of wobbling.
I'd like to know how resistant the disks are to stretching over time due to the very high RPMS.
Hello, I'm the son of General Nutumbo (retired) of the Nigerian Army. He was very happy to find out that thousands of honest Americans were willing to help him move his $43 million dollar oil renvenues out of the National Bank of Nigeria with their financial help. Now I find out it was all a trick. Shame on you!
Sentence them to live in a small town. As the old joke goes, every day in a small town feels like an eternity.
Yes, it is a reference to juggling. It means having more things going on then you can handle.
Duct the hot air from the data center out into the office buildings in the winter and duct cold outside in. In the summer though there's no free lunch.
When you start building 75MW power plants for your data center maybe you need to start pushing for more power efficient computing systems.
I hope they didn't spend a lot of money stalking/targeting the CEO of HP. Might be a short campaign.
They also have too many customers. You'd need a powerful organization (plus a compelling message) to get the average Sony customer to be willing pass on a product they may prefer or pay more for a competetor's product. Most customers are probably only occasional buyers and have no idea who makes it or cares. They are going on features and cost. There is also the feeling that your boycott isn't going to make a dent, just like the feeling you get if you vote for a 3rd party candidate in the US.
Same here. I looked at the parent comment's lists and didn't see anything I cared for.
They have been identified as Al-Moe, Asak Larry, and Kulaph Curly. Their tomb entrance was covered in the heiroglyph for "Nyuck Nyuck".
Even if he was joking it actually is an interesting area because many ancient Egyptian jaws show signs of massive and deadly abcesses. It was actually a common ailment based on skeletal remains. It was generally caused by the sand that was produced during grinding of grain and also blown into the food that eroded the teeth down to the pulp. You see these teeth in ancient Egyptian skulls that have become completely flattened. Jaw infection must have been a horribly painful way to die.