Sounds more like a legal problem than a censorship issue, although maybe I'm not paranoid enough. If you try to find the article now you get this text:
The page you've requested is an excerpt from a book by Brent Scowcroft and George H. W. Bush titled A World Transformed, which appeared in the March 2, 1998, issue of TIME magazine under the title "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam". It has been removed from our site because the publisher did not grant us rights to sell the piece online through the TIME archive.
It is? I'm still using the old TOTALS program on the VM mainframe stuff... It doesn't use a browser at all, it's some old telnet-like (maybe actually telnet?) thing. Nice text-only interface. Maybe they just stick us interns on that relic...
This is what bothers me - how does Seagate know where he's been applying? How much spying is a corporation allowed to do to enforce the non-compete?
Well, I can think of several ways they found out (tinfoil hat people can adjust their hats to the appropriate level):
Maybe he applied online while at work and they were monitoring his internet usage (that's being highly parinoid and not likely)
They were monitoring his credit report and saw that WD had requested a report (Most companies do check your report upon beginning employment but I don't think they check afterwards)
WD told Seagate that they had extended him an offer, either officially or unofficially. Sometimes companies do cooperate on things like this so that bad things don't happen to them when the sides are reversed.
He told Seagate. I think this is the most likely. He probably mentioned that he got a better offer at WD in his exit interview or on one of the 500000 forms you have to fill out when being terminated. He was pretty high up, so I'm thinking at least someone asked him what his plans were after leaving.
As for having him hired on in some other department, I think that's what Seagate wants. They just don't want him working on the same thing he was doing for Seagate; at least for a while. He could have been working on 10 different patent disclosures relating to read/write head technology that Seagate doesn't want WD to get their hands on, at least until the patents are set in legal stone and Seagate can liscense it to WD (or not).
Minor Disclaimer: I did work for Seagate in the past and still have some ties there, but don't know anything about this particular incident and have no idea about Seagate's official stance on the issue. I'm just making educated guesses.
The parent's article points out two facts glazed over in the original one: 1) He did sign an NDA and 2) Seagate isn't try to keep him from working at WD altogether, just certain divisions.
I think it's fairly reasonable for Seagate to ask that he not work in the same division at another company that he just left at Seagate. I still can't tell from the article if he signed a non-compete clause. Also, when I signed my non-compete with Seagate, the term on it was 1 yr. (of course, I was just a lowly intern, so I don't think they would have cared one way or another)
From what I read from the article and from what I remember about signing my previous non-compete agreeement with Seagate (if his was worded the same way), they aren't trying to prevent him from working at Western Digital, just the read/write head division of WD. The way I understood the clause and had it explained to me was that you can't go to work for a competitor and work on the same exact thing you were working on at Seagate. So I don't think they would have a problem with it if he went and worked for WD in some other division, say firmware development or testing.
I think WD should hire him and put him somewhere else for the two years, then move him over to read/write if they want. I think it's fairly reasonable that Seagate wouldn't want him working on the same stuff he was doing for them just a few weeks ago. It's almost impossible to expect that at least some confidential information won't be disclosed.
Actually, the smaller and faster the drives get, the more reliable they are (as long as component quality remains the same, etc). Also, depending on the use, the drives won't be spun up all the time. A drive with its heads unloaded can take a shock much greater than anything you could give it in your car without any trouble. And to answer your question: mount it horizontally, that will reduce the chance of HDI (Head-Disc Interaction, i.e. a crash) when you turn a sharp corner. A bumpy road would be worse on a drive than a tight curve if it is horizontal.
For the price you pay, 2.5" drives are horribly inefficient, and nowhere near as fast as 3.5" models.
Talking about the models reviewed, yes, but that's soon to change, very soon. Seagate's Small Form Factor drives will be around next year. At 10,000 rpm and with a U320 SCSI, Fibre Channel, or Serial-Attached SCSI interface, they're as fast or faster than most of the 3.5" drives out there. The platters in the 3.5" enterprise drives are as small as the ones in the 2.5" anyway, and you'll (almost) be able to fit 4 2.5" drives in the space of one 3.5".
But it's not the holy grail for advertising agencies and media companies, which have built an industry around the idea of getting a shallow message to a broad audience rather than a tailored message to a narrower one,"
So, let's see... Companies/organizations who sit between the producer and consumer, have made up their own rules and flimsy business model and don't like it when times change and require the business model to change. Where have I heard this before? *cough*RIAA*cough*
I know this isn't the same thing, I just saw the similarity. Oh, and I didn't see in the article, were the better ads replayed? They were during the Super Bowl.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming such as the Oscars do significantly better at getting viewers to see the commercials.
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!! I can't handle it!!! They're replacing the somewhat-good shows that have survived so far.
The only hardware modification necessary is a dollop of solder on the write-enable pads on the motherboard.
I see the point, you don't have to buy and install a modchip, but you still have to open up the XBox. I would much rather install a modchip that I can remove if need be than reflash the original BIOS with the potential of creating a nice plastic brick. This sounds like another one of those "because we can" things...
You can even "lock" the HDD like the one that came w/ the XBox and hide the extra space. Sure, there are still ways for M$ to detect if you've done something to it; it is their hardware after all. But as always, there will be a way around it... On mine, I have a switch that will either start up the XBox in it's (almost) out-of-the-box mode or modded.
Space exploration should no longer exist as a competitive sport. Write your representatives and let them know that you support US cooperation with China in space.
A cooperative approach would be nice, but look what competition has gotten us so far: going from the first man-made satellite to walking on the moon in 12 years, with the first powered flight only about 50 years before that. It's been over 30 years since we've been to the moon, isn't it time we go back?
I just wish everyone would pay more attention to the last two amendments in the Bill of Rights:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The day after the diaster, the Russians launched a scheduled, unmanned, resupply capsule to the ISS. The ISS crew has enough supplies to last them into May and possibly the beginning of June. The ISS has a "emergency lifeboat" Soyuz capsule they could use to get back to Earth. The Russians could also send up another Soyuz capsule unmanned to bring them home. As far as private companies, I don't think there are any that currently have the resources to launch a vehicle capable of bringing the astronauts home, and NASA and the Russian Space Agency still have resources to resupply the ISS.
The Columbia was in a lower orbit because of its scientific mission, and it didn't have enough fuel to get up to the ISS. It also was the only shuttle not equipted to dock with the ISS. The crew had enough supplies to last through the 5th, and could have probably rationed them out until the end of this week, just barely enough time if they scrambled Atlantis (the next shuttle to go up). Columbia was also without its robot arm because it wasn't required for this mission.
Yeah, that has to be the best Super Bowl commercial this year. What's even better is that Reebock has a 4-minute version of the commmercial on their website. From the looks of it, they're starting a whole ad campaign with him...
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Well... Seagate has announced their first SATA drives, the Cuda ATA V, but they haven't hit the shelves yet as far as I can tell. It is supposed to be available this fall... so they should be out soon. Also, the Cuda V is a true SATA drive, not just an IDE drive with a bridge slapped on it.
Most of the command queueing and multi-threaded operation in SCSI devices is implemented in the device. I think the protocol can handle re-ordering, but it's up to the device to figure out what order it wants it's data in... It is a bit interesting to send some write commands to a hard drive and then have it come back and ask you for the data in a different order that it decided was best.
It is an impressive jump ahead, and it's not going to be much more expensive. It's estimated that Serial ATA interfaces will be less than $10 more expensive than their parallel counterparts, and that will go down once it becomes more popular. Also, it's not 150 M-bits/sec, it's 150 M-Bytes/sec. Another big advantage is that Serial ATA is that the drives will be hot-swapable. The new power connectors have extended ground plugs so that the grounds contact before power... also drives will get to use a new voltage line (+3.3V) that they didn't get before.
Another interesting thing about the technology is that drives that are currently using the parallel SCSI interface will be moving to either SAS (Serial-Attached-SCSI) or Fibre Channel. SAS will use the SCSI protocol over the Serial ATA cables, so you can get rid of those nice giant ribbons.
Actually, if you touch liquid nitrogen for just a short amount of time, you won't hurt yourself. The heat from your hand vaporizes the liquid nitrogen that actually touches you, so you have a small air pocket between you and the liquid nitrogen... of course, if you hold it for more than a fraction of a second, it won't feel too good. One of the professors here actually poured some liquid nitrogen in his mouth and spit it on the wall during one of my classes, and he did it quickly enough not to hurt himself.
It looks like the name in question is pengaol.org, and they've moved the site to another location. So they've either already given up, or are just getting ready to just in case.
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From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980302
You can find the article online several places, just not at Time's site. http://govsux.com/didnt_remove_saddam.htm
It is? I'm still using the old TOTALS program on the VM mainframe stuff... It doesn't use a browser at all, it's some old telnet-like (maybe actually telnet?) thing. Nice text-only interface. Maybe they just stick us interns on that relic...
(IBMer for the summer...)
Well, I can think of several ways they found out (tinfoil hat people can adjust their hats to the appropriate level):
- Maybe he applied online while at work and they were monitoring his internet usage (that's being highly parinoid and not likely)
- They were monitoring his credit report and saw that WD had requested a report (Most companies do check your report upon beginning employment but I don't think they check afterwards)
- WD told Seagate that they had extended him an offer, either officially or unofficially. Sometimes companies do cooperate on things like this so that bad things don't happen to them when the sides are reversed.
- He told Seagate. I think this is the most likely. He probably mentioned that he got a better offer at WD in his exit interview or on one of the 500000 forms you have to fill out when being terminated. He was pretty high up, so I'm thinking at least someone asked him what his plans were after leaving.
As for having him hired on in some other department, I think that's what Seagate wants. They just don't want him working on the same thing he was doing for Seagate; at least for a while. He could have been working on 10 different patent disclosures relating to read/write head technology that Seagate doesn't want WD to get their hands on, at least until the patents are set in legal stone and Seagate can liscense it to WD (or not).Minor Disclaimer: I did work for Seagate in the past and still have some ties there, but don't know anything about this particular incident and have no idea about Seagate's official stance on the issue. I'm just making educated guesses.
The parent's article points out two facts glazed over in the original one: 1) He did sign an NDA and 2) Seagate isn't try to keep him from working at WD altogether, just certain divisions.
I think it's fairly reasonable for Seagate to ask that he not work in the same division at another company that he just left at Seagate. I still can't tell from the article if he signed a non-compete clause. Also, when I signed my non-compete with Seagate, the term on it was 1 yr. (of course, I was just a lowly intern, so I don't think they would have cared one way or another)
From what I read from the article and from what I remember about signing my previous non-compete agreeement with Seagate (if his was worded the same way), they aren't trying to prevent him from working at Western Digital, just the read/write head division of WD. The way I understood the clause and had it explained to me was that you can't go to work for a competitor and work on the same exact thing you were working on at Seagate. So I don't think they would have a problem with it if he went and worked for WD in some other division, say firmware development or testing.
I think WD should hire him and put him somewhere else for the two years, then move him over to read/write if they want. I think it's fairly reasonable that Seagate wouldn't want him working on the same stuff he was doing for them just a few weeks ago. It's almost impossible to expect that at least some confidential information won't be disclosed.
Actually, the smaller and faster the drives get, the more reliable they are (as long as component quality remains the same, etc). Also, depending on the use, the drives won't be spun up all the time. A drive with its heads unloaded can take a shock much greater than anything you could give it in your car without any trouble. And to answer your question: mount it horizontally, that will reduce the chance of HDI (Head-Disc Interaction, i.e. a crash) when you turn a sharp corner. A bumpy road would be worse on a drive than a tight curve if it is horizontal.
For the price you pay, 2.5" drives are horribly inefficient, and nowhere near as fast as 3.5" models.
Talking about the models reviewed, yes, but that's soon to change, very soon. Seagate's Small Form Factor drives will be around next year. At 10,000 rpm and with a U320 SCSI, Fibre Channel, or Serial-Attached SCSI interface, they're as fast or faster than most of the 3.5" drives out there. The platters in the 3.5" enterprise drives are as small as the ones in the 2.5" anyway, and you'll (almost) be able to fit 4 2.5" drives in the space of one 3.5".
But it's not the holy grail for advertising agencies and media companies, which have built an industry around the idea of getting a shallow message to a broad audience rather than a tailored message to a narrower one,"
So, let's see... Companies/organizations who sit between the producer and consumer, have made up their own rules and flimsy business model and don't like it when times change and require the business model to change. Where have I heard this before? *cough*RIAA*cough*
I know this isn't the same thing, I just saw the similarity. Oh, and I didn't see in the article, were the better ads replayed? They were during the Super Bowl.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming such as the Oscars do significantly better at getting viewers to see the commercials.
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!! I can't handle it!!! They're replacing the somewhat-good shows that have survived so far.
The only hardware modification necessary is a dollop of solder on the write-enable pads on the motherboard.
I see the point, you don't have to buy and install a modchip, but you still have to open up the XBox. I would much rather install a modchip that I can remove if need be than reflash the original BIOS with the potential of creating a nice plastic brick. This sounds like another one of those "because we can" things...
Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous.
Bill Gates
I think Bill just won the understatement of the year award.
Here's some more info: Netflix Issued Patent on Subscription Rental Service and complete copy of the patent (PDF). You can also search for patent # 6584450 on the US Patent office website.
There is a game that comes with an extra "controller". There's an article about it here. (Google cache).
You can even "lock" the HDD like the one that came w/ the XBox and hide the extra space. Sure, there are still ways for M$ to detect if you've done something to it; it is their hardware after all. But as always, there will be a way around it... On mine, I have a switch that will either start up the XBox in it's (almost) out-of-the-box mode or modded.
Space exploration should no longer exist as a competitive sport. Write your representatives and let them know that you support US cooperation with China in space.
A cooperative approach would be nice, but look what competition has gotten us so far: going from the first man-made satellite to walking on the moon in 12 years, with the first powered flight only about 50 years before that. It's been over 30 years since we've been to the moon, isn't it time we go back?
I just wish everyone would pay more attention to the last two amendments in the Bill of Rights:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The day after the diaster, the Russians launched a scheduled, unmanned, resupply capsule to the ISS. The ISS crew has enough supplies to last them into May and possibly the beginning of June. The ISS has a "emergency lifeboat" Soyuz capsule they could use to get back to Earth. The Russians could also send up another Soyuz capsule unmanned to bring them home. As far as private companies, I don't think there are any that currently have the resources to launch a vehicle capable of bringing the astronauts home, and NASA and the Russian Space Agency still have resources to resupply the ISS.
The Columbia was in a lower orbit because of its scientific mission, and it didn't have enough fuel to get up to the ISS. It also was the only shuttle not equipted to dock with the ISS. The crew had enough supplies to last through the 5th, and could have probably rationed them out until the end of this week, just barely enough time if they scrambled Atlantis (the next shuttle to go up). Columbia was also without its robot arm because it wasn't required for this mission.
Yeah, that has to be the best Super Bowl commercial this year. What's even better is that Reebock has a 4-minute version of the commmercial on their website. From the looks of it, they're starting a whole ad campaign with him...
That's why they fly at night... and are black...
Well... Seagate has announced their first SATA drives, the Cuda ATA V, but they haven't hit the shelves yet as far as I can tell. It is supposed to be available this fall... so they should be out soon. Also, the Cuda V is a true SATA drive, not just an IDE drive with a bridge slapped on it.
Most of the command queueing and multi-threaded operation in SCSI devices is implemented in the device. I think the protocol can handle re-ordering, but it's up to the device to figure out what order it wants it's data in... It is a bit interesting to send some write commands to a hard drive and then have it come back and ask you for the data in a different order that it decided was best.
It is an impressive jump ahead, and it's not going to be much more expensive. It's estimated that Serial ATA interfaces will be less than $10 more expensive than their parallel counterparts, and that will go down once it becomes more popular. Also, it's not 150 M-bits/sec, it's 150 M-Bytes/sec. Another big advantage is that Serial ATA is that the drives will be hot-swapable. The new power connectors have extended ground plugs so that the grounds contact before power... also drives will get to use a new voltage line (+3.3V) that they didn't get before.
Another interesting thing about the technology is that drives that are currently using the parallel SCSI interface will be moving to either SAS (Serial-Attached-SCSI) or Fibre Channel. SAS will use the SCSI protocol over the Serial ATA cables, so you can get rid of those nice giant ribbons.
Actually, if you touch liquid nitrogen for just a short amount of time, you won't hurt yourself. The heat from your hand vaporizes the liquid nitrogen that actually touches you, so you have a small air pocket between you and the liquid nitrogen... of course, if you hold it for more than a fraction of a second, it won't feel too good. One of the professors here actually poured some liquid nitrogen in his mouth and spit it on the wall during one of my classes, and he did it quickly enough not to hurt himself.
It looks like the name in question is pengaol.org, and they've moved the site to another location. So they've either already given up, or are just getting ready to just in case.