They sure do. It looks to me like the companies Seagate bought over the years are allowed to do their own thing, pretty much, as long as they turn a profit.
That's not the point. Seagate drives are not Maxtor drives, regardless of who owns the companies that make them.
My first hard drive failure was a Seagate 20Meg RLL drive in 1990. I replaced it with another (used) one, and it failed in two or three months. After that, I used Maxtor or Quantum exclusively until 2011, when I bought a Seagate 320Mb IDE, which failed in six months. A year later, I bought a Seagate 1 Gig, and the SATA plastic connector sheared during removal, leaving the drive useless. But it didn't fail.
All told, I've had thirteen Maxtors without failure and two Quantums with no failures. Meanwhile none of the four Seagates I've had survived a year.
Since posting quickly is one of the tricks round here, I forgot another problem - oil control. Without oil scraper rings, the oil sprayed on the bottom of the pistons (which only partly solves the heat problem) and oil thrown purposely on the lower cylinder walls to lube the piston on its bottom excursions will find itself in the combustion chamber in large quantities, probably large enough to foul the spark plug but certainly enough to produce huge clouds of pollutant-laden, oily smoke.
TFA is not quite right. Piston ring friction is not the reason an engine needs a cooling system. Quite a lot of heat is produced by the combustion! So much so that the piston rings' are used to transfer heat from the top of the piston to the cylinder wall; typically pistons are made of aluminum alloys which melt around 2000 F. Combustion temps are much. much higher than that. If the metal piston ring didn't conduct heat, the piston would melt.
From the Vatican...eventually. Will the scientific community be more eager to do the same with LaMark?
BTW: Both Darwin and LaMark were correct. Genes' expression, dictated by experience and culture, can be passed on, activating an otherwise inactive gene in later generations.
Yes, I know you had kidding on your mind. I just wanted to get the science straight.
You do realize that, unlike cash, you can have as many copies of a bitcoin wallet as you desire, right? Your arguments along this line are specious, because you can trivially keep encrypted copies of your wallet on dropbox, burned on a cd, a USB stick, multiple hard drives, in GMail drafts, and so on.
No, actually, I didn't. If that is so, what is the point of TFA? How did the loss of a HD result in a $4-million loss? Was the owner also ignorant of this?
I need a link to this info. Not that I don't trust you. Just that I trust me.
Here's my point: I retired in June. My computer broke moving to Oregon from San Francisco. My newly-bought motherboad does not have a PATA connection; my older backup hard disks were formatted PATA, so I cannot read them. I would be quite out of luck if I had my retirement funds in bitcoin on one of those PATA drives.
I live out in the beautiful countryside. My broadband makes 8 or ten over-the-air-hops from Medford to my house. That, combined with variable weather, makes my internet connection tenuous.
I'll guess you live in a hip, techy city where these requirements can be met; but, even so, I don't trust fiat currencies much and unproven, digital ones even less. Perhaps it is a suitable vehicle for wild value speculation, but, at my age, I have no desire to invest in so much risk.
Bitcoins are infinite. I get it. What you don't seem to get is in reality it doesn't matter.
Bitcoins are not in reality until they are traded for something tangible. If no one with something tangible wants an intangible bitcoin, it is valueless regardless of its infinite divisibility.
See definition of liquid, liquidity. Compare with definition of infinite divisibility. See any difference?
And gold can be (theoretically) divided down to one molecule chips. So what does that change? 0.0000001 bitcoins =/= 0.(insert avagadro's number here) kt.
Truly, we are in the realm of satire here, by now, aren't we?
New gold is produced regularly through mining. Old gold is generally recovered and not lost. Gold has little utility, so the demand for it is for other purposes.
Bitcoins are limited in number forever. Lost bitcoins cannot be recovered like gold in watches or teeth can. Although Bitcoins have zero utility, too, they have near-zero liquidity at the moment in the physical world. I can sell my old gold Hamilton watch at any pawn shop in the world; what can I do if I need cash and I have bitcoins and no working computer? Or no net connectiity?
There is no comparison. Literally. It's comparing oranges to quarks.
Dropping the atomic bomb on civilian populations in 1945 didn't stop the USA from leading the world toward outlawing "nuclear proliferation" decades later; why should this issue be handled differently?
According to my understanding of the article referred to, not a scientific peer-reviewed paper, there is a unique protein in the medium which causes the new (formerly a stop) function to include it in the dna. I oversimplify my misunderstanding of the oversimplified article, I am sure, but it appears that the stops inserted (transferred, introduced, modified, substituted, whatever the term) will fail to result in viable "dna" without this unique protein. I imagine the protein acts as sort of a "password" for a successful reaction.
Of course, some of a certain age might remember the last time Cadillac tried this, in the '80s, with the Cimmaron, a rebadged Chevy Cavalier with the addition of clear-coat paint and a hideous chrome-plated luggage rack on the top of the trunk lid. It nearly led to the death of the brand.
As an American and as a human being with a conscience, I don't know whether to root for a success here, or to well-deserved failure. Mebbe newly-rich Chinese and Russians are attracted to these, but even they will, eventually learn the real value of things. They'll spend a hundred bucks on a Ferrari baseball cap and call it a day.
Since the briefed reporters entered the room with the cameras in it for the press conference two minutes before 2:00:00.00, their appearance might have contained the information. F'rexample, eyeglasses off = no taper, eyeglasses on = taper; arms crossed over chest = higher rate, hands in pocket = lower rate, arms at side = no change.
OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me if corporations (and the NSA, CIA and DIA) had made breakthroughs in information transmission vs, time, either.
Ultrafast bots trading on minuscule changes by algorithm within a market sensitive to policy adjustments real or suspected by the Federal Reserve Bank, which admits it acts slowly, deliberately and without transparency or effective oversight, cannot end well.
Openbox is an offshoot of blackbox, using XML config files. Everything is configurable: colors, window borders and decorations, their size and form through these config files, without heavy graphic loads. The menu is largely customizable through addon apps, and the mouse buttons and keyboard can be deployed to control all major functions, like resizing, moving, iconifying.
It takes some learning, but when you've finished, you have a desktop that works exactly the way you told it to, and your designwork makes your screen your own.
Best of all, it explodes (figuratively, of course) when you touch the keyboard. The instant response always gives me shot of adrenaline like a good hot rod car does.
I saw it through my car windshield while stopped at a traffic light at 18th and Valencia Streets in San Fran City; I have seen other meteors before and this was just like the rest, except for its bright, cobalt-blue trail.
It dropped out of sight behind Twin Peaks; there was no boom that I heard, which makes sense to me as it seemed to be traveling fairly slowly across the sky about 45 degrees above the horizon -- or it was at very high altitude.
As a working reporter/writer for two decades, I offer some other tips:
Each sentence should be less important than the one before it. This is called pyramiding in the trade; it allows the reader to quit once he/she understands enough, or for an editor to cut from the bottom.
Never use a big word when a small, familiar one will do.
Keep sentences to less than thirty words, if at all possible. This is mandatory for the lead (first sentence.)
Be brave in paragraphing; do it often.
Read the AP, Chicago or other online style guides, and commit to memory E.B.White's Elements of Style.
Trucks were exempt from OBD2 for some years; my friend had a powerstroke and they partly co-operated with the car standard, depending on year. He now has a Dodge with a Cummins and he had to exchange his ECU harness with a later year's to get the ECU to accept a new map.
My 1999 Volvo is fully compliant, and the OBD2 plug is under a clearly-marked cover just in front of the center armrest/cubby.
I dunno anything about Autoingenuity. I'm just getting into the whole gestalt as I just bought the car and I'm trying to trace an intermittent ABS fault. I'm using an Elm-5 USB cable to my laptop on which I'm running OBDWiz software for the moment; there are F;/OSS projects for Linux, but I haven't tried them yet.
All of the self-contained readers I've run across use secrecy out of fear of losing control of trade secrets, I guess, although some cheap ones simply tell you to google the trouble codes.
*We haven't already reverse engineered the existing systems...*
I bought a connector cable with a chip that lets me connect my 1999 Volvo which is typical of the cars using OBD2 to my computer so as to read out and record parameters from the ABS, climate-control, radio, emissions, safety, and engine and transmission data.
ALL of the OBD2 codes are available to me to view or change as I prefer.
This is similar to the first system the US government mandated. The first system allowed special plugs for each vehicle. The OBD2 and later laws make it easy to program the ECU and other systems. The automakers wanted a to keep their proprietary systems, of course, but that is no longer possible as the codes *have been reverse-engineered.*
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They sure do. It looks to me like the companies Seagate bought over the years are allowed to do their own thing, pretty much, as long as they turn a profit.
That's not the point. Seagate drives are not Maxtor drives, regardless of who owns the companies that make them.
BTW, doesn't Seagate also own WD?
My first hard drive failure was a Seagate 20Meg RLL drive in 1990. I replaced it with another (used) one, and it failed in two or three months. After that, I used Maxtor or Quantum exclusively until 2011, when I bought a Seagate 320Mb IDE, which failed in six months. A year later, I bought a Seagate 1 Gig, and the SATA plastic connector sheared during removal, leaving the drive useless. But it didn't fail.
All told, I've had thirteen Maxtors without failure and two Quantums with no failures. Meanwhile none of the four Seagates I've had survived a year.
I've drawn my own conclusions.
Since posting quickly is one of the tricks round here, I forgot another problem - oil control. Without oil scraper rings, the oil sprayed on the bottom of the pistons (which only partly solves the heat problem) and oil thrown purposely on the lower cylinder walls to lube the piston on its bottom excursions will find itself in the combustion chamber in large quantities, probably large enough to foul the spark plug but certainly enough to produce huge clouds of pollutant-laden, oily smoke.
Do I have a solution? Not yet.
But I can cry "bullshit" when I hear it, can't I?
No Ph.D. here, but I used to was a mechanic.
TFA is not quite right. Piston ring friction is not the reason an engine needs a cooling system. Quite a lot of heat is produced by the combustion! So much so that the piston rings' are used to transfer heat from the top of the piston to the cylinder wall; typically pistons are made of aluminum alloys which melt around 2000 F. Combustion temps are much. much higher than that. If the metal piston ring didn't conduct heat, the piston would melt.
Solve that with an air seal!
From the Vatican...eventually. Will the scientific community be more eager to do the same with LaMark?
BTW: Both Darwin and LaMark were correct. Genes' expression, dictated by experience and culture, can be passed on, activating an otherwise inactive gene in later generations.
Yes, I know you had kidding on your mind. I just wanted to get the science straight.
You do realize that, unlike cash, you can have as many copies of a bitcoin wallet as you desire, right? Your arguments along this line are specious, because you can trivially keep encrypted copies of your wallet on dropbox, burned on a cd, a USB stick, multiple hard drives, in GMail drafts, and so on.
No, actually, I didn't. If that is so, what is the point of TFA? How did the loss of a HD result in a $4-million loss? Was the owner also ignorant of this?
I need a link to this info. Not that I don't trust you. Just that I trust me.
Here's my point: I retired in June. My computer broke moving to Oregon from San Francisco. My newly-bought motherboad does not have a PATA connection; my older backup hard disks were formatted PATA, so I cannot read them. I would be quite out of luck if I had my retirement funds in bitcoin on one of those PATA drives.
I live out in the beautiful countryside. My broadband makes 8 or ten over-the-air-hops from Medford to my house. That, combined with variable weather, makes my internet connection tenuous.
I'll guess you live in a hip, techy city where these requirements can be met; but, even so, I don't trust fiat currencies much and unproven, digital ones even less. Perhaps it is a suitable vehicle for wild value speculation, but, at my age, I have no desire to invest in so much risk.
it certainly has some use to some group of people
We agree it acts like a currency now; is it still a currency without a computer or a net connection?
Bitcoins are infinite. I get it. What you don't seem to get is in reality it doesn't matter.
Bitcoins are not in reality until they are traded for something tangible. If no one with something tangible wants an intangible bitcoin, it is valueless regardless of its infinite divisibility.
See definition of liquid, liquidity. Compare with definition of infinite divisibility. See any difference?
And gold can be (theoretically) divided down to one molecule chips. So what does that change? 0.0000001 bitcoins =/= 0.(insert avagadro's number here) kt.
Truly, we are in the realm of satire here, by now, aren't we?
New gold is produced regularly through mining. Old gold is generally recovered and not lost. Gold has little utility, so the demand for it is for other purposes.
Bitcoins are limited in number forever. Lost bitcoins cannot be recovered like gold in watches or teeth can. Although Bitcoins have zero utility, too, they have near-zero liquidity at the moment in the physical world. I can sell my old gold Hamilton watch at any pawn shop in the world; what can I do if I need cash and I have bitcoins and no working computer? Or no net connectiity?
There is no comparison. Literally. It's comparing oranges to quarks.
he threw out a hard drive containing 7500 bitcoins,
Oh. This money is not kept in vaults, but on Seagates and WDs.
Keep a copy of SpinRite around....
And a USB-to-RLL/IDE/PATA/SATA connector for when standards and interfaces change.
Fools.
Thank you. It's not game theory to me so much as history. As Twain may have said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
But if game theory worked for Russell, who am I to argue?
Dropping the atomic bomb on civilian populations in 1945 didn't stop the USA from leading the world toward outlawing "nuclear proliferation" decades later; why should this issue be handled differently?
According to my understanding of the article referred to, not a scientific peer-reviewed paper, there is a unique protein in the medium which causes the new (formerly a stop) function to include it in the dna. I oversimplify my misunderstanding of the oversimplified article, I am sure, but it appears that the stops inserted (transferred, introduced, modified, substituted, whatever the term) will fail to result in viable "dna" without this unique protein. I imagine the protein acts as sort of a "password" for a successful reaction.
What do you think?
Would this make it safer?
Then it follows you believe the Lexus ES3xx is a different car than a Camry.
To each his own (opinion.)
Fashionistas might like it. It goes well with the new Hasselblad-decorated Sony NEX7 http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/06/10/hasselblad-lunar-now-shipping or the new Leica M decorated by Jony Ives and Mark Newsom.
Of course, some of a certain age might remember the last time Cadillac tried this, in the '80s, with the Cimmaron, a rebadged Chevy Cavalier with the addition of clear-coat paint and a hideous chrome-plated luggage rack on the top of the trunk lid. It nearly led to the death of the brand.
As an American and as a human being with a conscience, I don't know whether to root for a success here, or to well-deserved failure. Mebbe newly-rich Chinese and Russians are attracted to these, but even they will, eventually learn the real value of things. They'll spend a hundred bucks on a Ferrari baseball cap and call it a day.
Since the briefed reporters entered the room with the cameras in it for the press conference two minutes before 2:00:00.00, their appearance might have contained the information. F'rexample, eyeglasses off = no taper, eyeglasses on = taper; arms crossed over chest = higher rate, hands in pocket = lower rate, arms at side = no change.
OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me if corporations (and the NSA, CIA and DIA) had made breakthroughs in information transmission vs, time, either.
Ultrafast bots trading on minuscule changes by algorithm within a market sensitive to policy adjustments real or suspected by the Federal Reserve Bank, which admits it acts slowly, deliberately and without transparency or effective oversight, cannot end well.
Openbox is an offshoot of blackbox, using XML config files. Everything is configurable: colors, window borders and decorations, their size and form through these config files, without heavy graphic loads. The menu is largely customizable through addon apps, and the mouse buttons and keyboard can be deployed to control all major functions, like resizing, moving, iconifying.
It takes some learning, but when you've finished, you have a desktop that works exactly the way you told it to, and your designwork makes your screen your own.
Best of all, it explodes (figuratively, of course) when you touch the keyboard. The instant response always gives me shot of adrenaline like a good hot rod car does.
Now I can skip the articles and start posting right away, just like I did before, except I can now use the excuse that the TFA was in gibberish.
I saw it through my car windshield while stopped at a traffic light at 18th and Valencia Streets in San Fran City; I have seen other meteors before and this was just like the rest, except for its bright, cobalt-blue trail.
It dropped out of sight behind Twin Peaks; there was no boom that I heard, which makes sense to me as it seemed to be traveling fairly slowly across the sky about 45 degrees above the horizon -- or it was at very high altitude.
As a working reporter/writer for two decades, I offer some other tips:
Each sentence should be less important than the one before it. This is called pyramiding in the trade; it allows the reader to quit once he/she understands enough, or for an editor to cut from the bottom.
Never use a big word when a small, familiar one will do.
Keep sentences to less than thirty words, if at all possible. This is mandatory for the lead (first sentence.)
Be brave in paragraphing; do it often.
Read the AP, Chicago or other online style guides, and commit to memory E.B.White's Elements of Style.
Trucks were exempt from OBD2 for some years; my friend had a powerstroke and they partly co-operated with the car standard, depending on year. He now has a Dodge with a Cummins and he had to exchange his ECU harness with a later year's to get the ECU to accept a new map.
My 1999 Volvo is fully compliant, and the OBD2 plug is under a clearly-marked cover just in front of the center armrest/cubby.
I dunno anything about Autoingenuity. I'm just getting into the whole gestalt as I just bought the car and I'm trying to trace an intermittent ABS fault. I'm using an Elm-5 USB cable to my laptop on which I'm running OBDWiz software for the moment; there are F;/OSS projects for Linux, but I haven't tried them yet.
All of the self-contained readers I've run across use secrecy out of fear of losing control of trade secrets, I guess, although some cheap ones simply tell you to google the trouble codes.
*We haven't already reverse engineered the existing systems...*
I bought a connector cable with a chip that lets me connect my 1999 Volvo which is typical of the cars using OBD2 to my computer so as to read out and record parameters from the ABS, climate-control, radio, emissions, safety, and engine and transmission data.
ALL of the OBD2 codes are available to me to view or change as I prefer.
This is similar to the first system the US government mandated. The first system allowed special plugs for each vehicle. The OBD2 and later laws make it easy to program the ECU and other systems. The automakers wanted a to keep their proprietary systems, of course, but that is no longer possible as the codes *have been reverse-engineered.*