They could have dropped those two bombs, or they could have dropped a thousand normal bombs and had the same result in body count, but not a japanese surrender.
No really. If it were Canada, Germany, or yes, even france, we wouldn't invade.
If it were a country ruled by an insane dictator, then probably yes, especially if that same dictator has used the same type of weapons on his own civilians, then of course we are going to get him sto stop.
As to the point, well, for starters, how long before they find a cure for this disease? How much of their research comes back down to civilians in the form of vaccinations and antibodies?
Article Info Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 300 GB Monster Created: October 8, 2003 By: Patrick Schmid Achim Roos Category: Mass Storage Summary: With a behemoth capacity of 300 GB, the DiamondMax is the biggest hard drive so far. Can the 5,400 rpm drive with just 2 MB of cache also deliver the performance for our times? DiamondMax's Plus 300 GB Monster
Opinions differ wildly in the hard-drive business. While Seagate supplies hard drives with 160 GB of capacity in the ATA area, Hitachi and Western Digital already have 250 GB disks. They all pale, however, compared to Maxtor's monster, which has a full 300 GB of write space. If you're one of those people for whom "big" isn't big enough, this is the one for you.
However, criticism of manufacturers with smaller maximum capacities is inappropriate since the focus of many of these vendors' attention lies elsewhere. As one of the quietest drives spinning at 7,200 rpm, a Barracuda ATA 7200.7 is designed most of all along ergonomic lines and to deliver a good price/performance ratio. Hitachi, Maxtor and Western Digital join the running for highest performance at regular intervals. The result is larger, faster and correspondingly expensive hard drives.
With the 4A300J0, Maxtor is traveling a different route: its aim is to provide as much storage capacity as possible at an acceptable price. The recipe it has chosen consists of 5,400 rpm instead of the favored - because it's quicker - 7,200 rpm and only 2 MB in place of the 8 MB cache usual in top models. Since SATA still costs more, it uses an UltraATA/133 interface. This is ample for the coming months, as transfer rates on the fastest ATA disks are still below 70 MB/s max.
We took a closer look at how the 300 GB monster shapes up against the established major-leaguers from Hitachi, Maxtor and Western Digital.
4A300J0 a.k.a. Diamond Max Plus: Technical Details
Technical Data Capacity 300 GB Geometry 4 Platter, 80 GB pro Platter Rotation speed 5,400 Cache 2 MB Access time 12.6 ms Interface UltraATA/133 Warranty 1 Year
The technical details leave no room for criticism. This largest DiamondMax is based on platters of approx. 80 GB. Four of them are used, raising capacity to around 320 GB. However, "only" 300 GB is used - the remainder is probably reserved for error correction.
With four platters, Maxtor is aiming pretty high. Several years ago, IBM put up to five platters per drive in its DTLA series. That offers the advantage of being able to construct very large drives. However, the increased friction causes more heat loss so that hard drives with four platters require cooling sooner than models with only one or two. Large SCSI drives are usually based on multi-platter configurations.
An UltraATA/133 controller was also included in delivery of the retail kit. Although it's labeled as a Maxtor, it in fact originates from Promise. The Maxtor website, meanwhile, contains the information that this controller is not standard in the retail kit but has to be purchased extra.
4A300J0 a.k.a. Diamond Max Plus: Technical Details, Continued
The DiamondMax Plus is scarcely audible, produces only minimal vibrations and at 39C stays comfortably cool. Active cooling can be safely dispensed with; for permanent operation, however, we still recommend it. In this context, the short guarantee period of one year should be noted. You should consider this very carefully if you're planning to operate the product continuously. We would have liked to have seen a longer guarantee period for a drive of this caliber.
Test Setup
Test System Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz 256 KB L2-Cache (Willamette) Motherboard Intel D845EBT, Intel 845E chipset RAM 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2, Infineon Controller i845E UltraDMA/100 controller (ICH4) Silicon Image Sil3112, Serial ATA Display Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Historically, Liberals (democrats, lefties, whatever) are the ones who support education more than Conservatives (republicans, righties, whatever). Therefore, it is in an educator's best interest to support the political party that pays his or her paycheck. This isn't quantum physics here.
It is a big deal, because if I write an application and decide (or the boss decides) it needs a web-based GUI than I have to code for two very different browsers, or not use any decent functionality.
Like when writing software code, you need to make versions for Windows, Mac, and *nix.
diversity, it's what keeps everything from being the same, allows for more innovation.
Yes, this is why we demonize Microsoft. Not because they violate HTTP, SSL, CSS, and countless other standards. Not because they violate business laws, and are sued for it. We demonize them because they attract idiots better than us. I'm glad he cleared that up for me, because I was wondering why I didn't run Windows. It's not just my surprise, Ed has one too:
This is the one thing that gets me the most.
Whoop-Ti-Freaking-Doo
So what if they don't follow the "standard". What's going to happen? So the <blink> tag doesn't work in IE, that's fine, at least Kid Radd is animated properly.
So they made up some tags that work in IE, good for them. I say keep it up. Open source and freedom of information and all that, they can do what ever the hell they want with the "standards"
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The US, used two bombs that ended world war two.
They could have dropped those two bombs, or they could have dropped a thousand normal bombs and had the same result in body count, but not a japanese surrender.
If it were a country ruled by an insane dictator, then probably yes, especially if that same dictator has used the same type of weapons on his own civilians, then of course we are going to get him sto stop.
As to the point, well, for starters, how long before they find a cure for this disease? How much of their research comes back down to civilians in the form of vaccinations and antibodies?
Does it mean that I can now legally play my NES roms? Or does the fact that I can get tons of NES's on Ebay mean that they are still availiabe?
and there's a problem with that???
Just think what happens when you supersize it!
All MS Messenger was good for was letting me know when I got more span in my hotmail account...
Aren't these used in the Phantom Game console?
Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 300 GB Monster
Article Info
Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 300 GB Monster Created:
October 8, 2003 By:
Patrick Schmid
Achim Roos Category:
Mass Storage
Summary:
With a behemoth capacity of 300 GB, the DiamondMax is the biggest hard drive so far. Can the 5,400 rpm drive with just 2 MB of cache also deliver the performance for our times?
DiamondMax's Plus 300 GB Monster
Opinions differ wildly in the hard-drive business. While Seagate supplies hard drives with 160 GB of capacity in the ATA area, Hitachi and Western Digital already have 250 GB disks. They all pale, however, compared to Maxtor's monster, which has a full 300 GB of write space. If you're one of those people for whom "big" isn't big enough, this is the one for you.
However, criticism of manufacturers with smaller maximum capacities is inappropriate since the focus of many of these vendors' attention lies elsewhere. As one of the quietest drives spinning at 7,200 rpm, a Barracuda ATA 7200.7 is designed most of all along ergonomic lines and to deliver a good price/performance ratio. Hitachi, Maxtor and Western Digital join the running for highest performance at regular intervals. The result is larger, faster and correspondingly expensive hard drives.
With the 4A300J0, Maxtor is traveling a different route: its aim is to provide as much storage capacity as possible at an acceptable price. The recipe it has chosen consists of 5,400 rpm instead of the favored - because it's quicker - 7,200 rpm and only 2 MB in place of the 8 MB cache usual in top models. Since SATA still costs more, it uses an UltraATA/133 interface. This is ample for the coming months, as transfer rates on the fastest ATA disks are still below 70 MB/s max.
We took a closer look at how the 300 GB monster shapes up against the established major-leaguers from Hitachi, Maxtor and Western Digital.
4A300J0 a.k.a. Diamond Max Plus: Technical Details
Technical Data
Capacity 300 GB
Geometry 4 Platter, 80 GB pro Platter
Rotation speed 5,400
Cache 2 MB
Access time 12.6 ms
Interface UltraATA/133
Warranty 1 Year
The technical details leave no room for criticism. This largest DiamondMax is based on platters of approx. 80 GB. Four of them are used, raising capacity to around 320 GB. However, "only" 300 GB is used - the remainder is probably reserved for error correction.
With four platters, Maxtor is aiming pretty high. Several years ago, IBM put up to five platters per drive in its DTLA series. That offers the advantage of being able to construct very large drives. However, the increased friction causes more heat loss so that hard drives with four platters require cooling sooner than models with only one or two. Large SCSI drives are usually based on multi-platter configurations.
An UltraATA/133 controller was also included in delivery of the retail kit. Although it's labeled as a Maxtor, it in fact originates from Promise. The Maxtor website, meanwhile, contains the information that this controller is not standard in the retail kit but has to be purchased extra.
4A300J0 a.k.a. Diamond Max Plus: Technical Details, Continued
The DiamondMax Plus is scarcely audible, produces only minimal vibrations and at 39C stays comfortably cool. Active cooling can be safely dispensed with; for permanent operation, however, we still recommend it. In this context, the short guarantee period of one year should be noted. You should consider this very carefully if you're planning to operate the product continuously. We would have liked to have seen a longer guarantee period for a drive of this caliber.
Test Setup
Test System
Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz
256 KB L2-Cache (Willamette)
Motherboard Intel D845EBT, Intel 845E chipset
RAM 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2, Infineon
Controller i845E UltraDMA/100 controller (ICH4)
Silicon Image Sil3112, Serial ATA
Display Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Your mother is a whore.
HA HA, my obligatory slashdot referance comment beat yours!
First they let the music downloaders in, then all sorts of misfits start to take over their net.
Looking through, I can't believe I didn't see someone else asking it...
Of course it isn't quantum physics, it' Harry Potter Physics
No, you just have to look at the big picture.
Billy goes to college, gets degree in Harry Potter then looks for job.
Billy learns that nobody cares about the physics behind quidditch, so he goes on welfare.
Liberals like it when people go on welfare, it lets them focus more money on the welfare system and take it from evil republican CEO's.
"conservatives" would rather teach you things that get you jobs.
Please, now what would have been funny, is if it was followed by several comments of ASCII porn.
8=====D
Now that's funny
diversity, it's what keeps everything from being the same, allows for more innovation.
This is the one thing that gets me the most.
Whoop-Ti-Freaking-Doo
So what if they don't follow the "standard". What's going to happen? So the <blink> tag doesn't work in IE, that's fine, at least Kid Radd is animated properly.
So they made up some tags that work in IE, good for them. I say keep it up. Open source and freedom of information and all that, they can do what ever the hell they want with the "standards"
It look as though the 9th circuit finally did something right...
It was the big batterypowered spider walker thing that Skeletor rode in.
Someone mod this down too!
oh yeah, your mom is off topic!
Also, how many planets and other floating hunks of space stuff were we the first to get to?
I must agree, this is quite a funny one.
I mean, THE MOON!!! That's outragous!!!
We are so behind...