You're incorrect. Writes can only happen at the page size, but there are multiple pages per block. If a block has unwritten pages, you can still write to the remaining pages.
If they don't sell zero-emission vehicles, they have to buy zero-emission credits to make up the difference. Fiat has clearly decided that it's cheaper to sell electric cars at a loss (since if they raised the price they couldn't hit the required sales percentage) than to buy the credits.
California doesn't regulate the prices of electric vehicles: they require that either 1% of vehicle sales be zero-emission, or that the car manufacturer buy zero-emission credits.
Nobody is forcing Fiat to build an electric car, and nobody is forcing them to sell that car at a loss. They have decided to sell an electric car at a loss because they believe the loss incurred will be smaller than the cost of the zero-emission credits, and they're selling it at a loss because they don't believe consumers would buy the car unless it's sold below cost.
Firefox would suffer a large drop in market share if they refused to support features that a significant portion of their userbase would consider critical. Being known as "that browser that doesn't work with Netflix" isn't the road to success.
If you don't like DRM, that's fine. The average joe doesn't care, and he's going to drop a browser in a heartbeat if it's stopping him from watching House of Cards or whatever other content he wants.
They didn't merge, and Toshiba didn't actually buy OCZ. They only bought the *assets* of OCZ. OCZ the company went bankrupt and was liquidated, so OCZ's warranties died when the company ceased to exist.
As a result, Toshiba had no obligation to honour any warranties. Indeed, they did cancel all existing OCZ warranties except high-end SSDs.
The chassis of the laptop was a magnesium alloy, and "shattered" was a better description than "cracked". It was beyond the ability of repair with the existing parts, it needed replacements.
Well, I would have just said ZFS, but while ZFS on Linux is pretty stable these days, ZFS boot on Linux isn't. And since the OP mentioned that it was his boot drive...
Personally I just slapped some old Intel SSD running ext3 in my server as the boot drive, because if that gets hosed, I'll just re-import the zpool on a new installation.
If one of your drives is lying about writes, but the others aren't, ZFS should still be fine. When you try to read back the block, the data from the "evil" drive will fail the checksum, and the data will be reconstructed from the other drives.
Warranty holders are creditors. OCZ Technology Group went bankrupt, and Toshiba bought OCZ's assets after that. Toshiba then launched a new company named OCZ Storage Solutions.
In other words, OCZ's assets were liquidated, and some creditors got paid. After that, OCZ the original company didn't exist anymore, and the warranties were worthless. Toshiba theoretically decided to honour some (but not all) warranties, but they were not obligated to do so.
I, on the other hand, have had terrible experience with Toshiba's US support department.
I live in Canada, and wanted to buy a model of Toshiba laptop that was only available in the US. Their warranty claimed to be international, and I called Toshiba USA to confirm this. At worst, I was told, I'd have to pay the shipping costs myself. I was fine with that.
Then I dropped the laptop. It was fine electronically, it was just that a chunk was missing from the chassis, so I needed to replace some parts of the laptop chassis.
I called Toshiba USA. They refused to have anything to do with me, saying that not only could they not ship the laptop back to me at my expense, they couldn't even RECEIVE the laptop at their repair centre. Their shipping department would refuse to accept any shipment from outside the country. They told me my only solution was to mail my laptop to somebody in the US and have *THEM* send it to Toshiba. Mind you this laptop was only a few months old, only a few months into a 3-year warranty.
I called Toshiba Canada. They refused to repair the laptop (at my cost) even though by then they sold the same laptop in Canada as my American model. They said that because the model numbers were different (even if the laptops were identical) they wouldn't touch it.
Because of this, the only way that I could get my laptop repaired was to mail it to one of Toshiba's authorized third-party repair companies in the US. In the end, I had to pay $600 to repair a $1200 laptop... even though only the chassis (which probably costs a few dollars at most) was broken, with all electronics perfectly fine.
To rub salt in the wound, they did a terrible repair job, violating Toshiba's own service manual, and incorrectly re-installed the keyboard.
As a result, I will never buy another Toshiba product, nor will I ever recommend anyone buy one. Considering that many of my friends have already been burned by OCZ, them being bought by Toshiba changes my recommendation to "Don't buy OCZ products because they have a super high failure rate and Toshiba will try to screw you over on replacements."
Adywan's Star Wars Revisited isn't better, it's got completely different goals. Harmy's goal was to rebuild the theatrical cut, Adywan's goal was to make a better special edition. Neither one is "better" than the other because they're completely opposite directions.
20th Century Fox had nothing to do with Firefly, any more than the company that made your refrigerator made nuclear bombs. Different companies with a shared owner.
The better edits (like Harmy's Despecialized Edition) are done at a sub-frame level, rotoscoping in original elements from the highest quality available sources. The bluray is the base, the somewhat less "specialized" HDTV rips are used after that, and then from there anything goes. Upscaled DVDs, magazine scans, cell scans, 35mm print scans... After years of effort on them, you can't really tell where the "seams" are, except in the handful of most difficult edits.
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You're incorrect. Writes can only happen at the page size, but there are multiple pages per block. If a block has unwritten pages, you can still write to the remaining pages.
And I backed it up with links to the relevant regulation. How about you?
Put up or shut up.
Care to back up your claim that California prevents car companies from selling ZEVs beyond certain prices? Because neither the rebate implementation guide nor the California ZEV regulations make any mention of vehicle price, even though they do provide definitions for the vehicle classes.
The loss on the cars no-one wants being less than the cost of the credits that are the alternative makes them build them.
If they don't sell zero-emission vehicles, they have to buy zero-emission credits to make up the difference. Fiat has clearly decided that it's cheaper to sell electric cars at a loss (since if they raised the price they couldn't hit the required sales percentage) than to buy the credits.
In order for 1% of your sales to be zero-emission vehicles, you have to actually sell some zero-emission vehicles.
California doesn't regulate the prices of electric vehicles: they require that either 1% of vehicle sales be zero-emission, or that the car manufacturer buy zero-emission credits.
Nobody is forcing Fiat to build an electric car, and nobody is forcing them to sell that car at a loss. They have decided to sell an electric car at a loss because they believe the loss incurred will be smaller than the cost of the zero-emission credits, and they're selling it at a loss because they don't believe consumers would buy the car unless it's sold below cost.
Firefox would suffer a large drop in market share if they refused to support features that a significant portion of their userbase would consider critical. Being known as "that browser that doesn't work with Netflix" isn't the road to success.
If you don't like DRM, that's fine. The average joe doesn't care, and he's going to drop a browser in a heartbeat if it's stopping him from watching House of Cards or whatever other content he wants.
They didn't merge, and Toshiba didn't actually buy OCZ. They only bought the *assets* of OCZ. OCZ the company went bankrupt and was liquidated, so OCZ's warranties died when the company ceased to exist.
As a result, Toshiba had no obligation to honour any warranties. Indeed, they did cancel all existing OCZ warranties except high-end SSDs.
The chassis of the laptop was a magnesium alloy, and "shattered" was a better description than "cracked". It was beyond the ability of repair with the existing parts, it needed replacements.
Well, I would have just said ZFS, but while ZFS on Linux is pretty stable these days, ZFS boot on Linux isn't. And since the OP mentioned that it was his boot drive...
Personally I just slapped some old Intel SSD running ext3 in my server as the boot drive, because if that gets hosed, I'll just re-import the zpool on a new installation.
If one of your drives is lying about writes, but the others aren't, ZFS should still be fine. When you try to read back the block, the data from the "evil" drive will fail the checksum, and the data will be reconstructed from the other drives.
Ditto blocks can provide redundancy in a single-drive setup, but why would anybody run a single-drive setup for anything important these days?
Warranty holders are creditors. OCZ Technology Group went bankrupt, and Toshiba bought OCZ's assets after that. Toshiba then launched a new company named OCZ Storage Solutions.
In other words, OCZ's assets were liquidated, and some creditors got paid. After that, OCZ the original company didn't exist anymore, and the warranties were worthless. Toshiba theoretically decided to honour some (but not all) warranties, but they were not obligated to do so.
I, on the other hand, have had terrible experience with Toshiba's US support department.
I live in Canada, and wanted to buy a model of Toshiba laptop that was only available in the US. Their warranty claimed to be international, and I called Toshiba USA to confirm this. At worst, I was told, I'd have to pay the shipping costs myself. I was fine with that.
Then I dropped the laptop. It was fine electronically, it was just that a chunk was missing from the chassis, so I needed to replace some parts of the laptop chassis.
I called Toshiba USA. They refused to have anything to do with me, saying that not only could they not ship the laptop back to me at my expense, they couldn't even RECEIVE the laptop at their repair centre. Their shipping department would refuse to accept any shipment from outside the country. They told me my only solution was to mail my laptop to somebody in the US and have *THEM* send it to Toshiba. Mind you this laptop was only a few months old, only a few months into a 3-year warranty.
I called Toshiba Canada. They refused to repair the laptop (at my cost) even though by then they sold the same laptop in Canada as my American model. They said that because the model numbers were different (even if the laptops were identical) they wouldn't touch it.
Because of this, the only way that I could get my laptop repaired was to mail it to one of Toshiba's authorized third-party repair companies in the US. In the end, I had to pay $600 to repair a $1200 laptop... even though only the chassis (which probably costs a few dollars at most) was broken, with all electronics perfectly fine.
To rub salt in the wound, they did a terrible repair job, violating Toshiba's own service manual, and incorrectly re-installed the keyboard.
As a result, I will never buy another Toshiba product, nor will I ever recommend anyone buy one. Considering that many of my friends have already been burned by OCZ, them being bought by Toshiba changes my recommendation to "Don't buy OCZ products because they have a super high failure rate and Toshiba will try to screw you over on replacements."
Sounds like a case of "should have used ZFS/BTRFS" on top of the case of "should have used anything but OCZ" :P
Works fine in Intel drives, but not so much in OCZ drives where OCZ has disabled all the safety features to eek out a bit more performance.
OCZ probably had no legal leg to stand on, but Toshiba is not legally required to honour OCZ's warranties, even though they bought the company.
You think the statement is "happy"?
less than 1/2 of 1 percent
One might even say less than half a percent.
Adywan's Star Wars Revisited isn't better, it's got completely different goals. Harmy's goal was to rebuild the theatrical cut, Adywan's goal was to make a better special edition. Neither one is "better" than the other because they're completely opposite directions.
And regular rail freight is far cheaper than maglev train freight.
20th Century Fox had nothing to do with Firefly, any more than the company that made your refrigerator made nuclear bombs. Different companies with a shared owner.
The better edits (like Harmy's Despecialized Edition) are done at a sub-frame level, rotoscoping in original elements from the highest quality available sources. The bluray is the base, the somewhat less "specialized" HDTV rips are used after that, and then from there anything goes. Upscaled DVDs, magazine scans, cell scans, 35mm print scans... After years of effort on them, you can't really tell where the "seams" are, except in the handful of most difficult edits.