A "low-level" format on a modern drive probably won't really low-level format it, especially if it uses some sort of servo information track or tracks that the drive's electronics are programmed to not overwrite. The factory can use a much more expensive machine to write sector markers with a much stronger magnetic field than can be generated by the heads that the drive ships with. Running a low-level format program that only uses the drive's own heads and electronics can possibly refresh some sector markers that are starting to fade magnetically but they probably won't write new ones anywhere where the old ones weren't.
Yeah, *he* typed all that, but the guys with the time machines who've posted the same thing to several other stories on previous days obviously practiced their plagarism by way of cut 'n' paste.
If post #9 is correct about him advocating a fast, open network back in the late 70's, that's before many, if not most, Slashdot readers were born (if one can, on average, infer chronological age from the maturity levels displayed in posts).
Are y'all talking about that new Star Trek series?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Actually Voyager is probably pretty good now since nobody in my market carries it anymore so I haven't seen any of this final season, and I hope the on coming up is as good as the later DS9 episodes.
Meanwhile back in orbit, what about salvaging and recycling all that stuff *in space* since we've already expended energy putting it up there. Collect it and hold it until the technology is available to turn it into parts of a space station or something.
"If they had put commercials and had kept saying after them..."
That was exactly what spoiled the show designed to look like a live newsfeed that NBC ran back in the 80's about terrorists with a nuke on a ship in Charleston harbor. Considering how heavily they promo'ed it, they were by no means really trying to fool anybody. It was just the style in which the show was produced. As the air date got closer and closer, and the entertainment press kept referring back to Orson Wells more and more, the network legal department got more and more nervous and as a result the actual broadcast was interrupted at every possible opportunity to assure everyone that it was just a TV show. Kind of like going to the theater (drama, not movie) and having the usher nudge you and say, "remember it's just actors on a stage" every couple of minutes.
"The device is small enough to be implanted in a child."
This was the part of the article that leaped out at me and sent a chill down my spine.
A split-second later, I thought of the times when being able to get an instant fix on the location of my niece or nephew using something built into my watch or cell phone would have saved me a few anxious moments, which I get enough of anyway from those two.
Just your standard, double-edged sword, the future's rushing at us so fast it's already the past, type dilemma.
I always felt that one of the great deprivations (not depravations) of my childhood was never getting a Mattel Vacu-Form. When I think of what I could have done with one that big...
Since you have absolutely no business whatsoever allowing something like this to operate unattended, you might as well just go with plain ol' wireless remote control and get any necessary guidance information with your eyes.
I'd say something about Cliff having misspelled mischief, but that would just about guarantee that I'd misspelled guidance.
Boot and Home PC were merged (or rather their unfulfilled subscription liabilities were) into Maximum PC. If either magazine had been able to survive and turn a profit on its own I expect it would have been allowed to do so, so apparently not enough people liked Boot or Home PC the way they were to keep it afloat on its own. It wasn't so much a case of "going Hollywood" as it was avoiding going under.
Sell them on eBay. Give somebody who missed them on the newstand (newsstand?) a shot at them before you make them irretrievable landfill fodder.
Books and magaazines, including the ads, are an experience in and of themselves, and as convenient as a CD with all the text in editable copyable form might be, it just ain't the same.
"...especially when they call to tell me something is down (and I am working on it and here)."
I can certainly sympathize, having often been in the position of scrambling to fix something (not always of an electronic nature), only to have to put up with well-intended interruptions telling me what I already knew (that it needs fixing) or wanting a time estimate (in a situation where determining the problem is 99% of fixing it), but what should the polite user do?
How do you find out if you're just wasting time and network resources in continued failed attempts at access unless you ask someone in charge of the network?
A couple of days ago, I couldn't log on to Slashdot, it refused to recognize me as a registered user. The stories I could get to load as a separate page came up with no comments, and several other Andover sites wouldn't load at all. The story at the top of the main page was the one about Napster users in Belgium. Subsequent attempts to load the main page in another window came up with what I assume was the way it looked before that story was added. The next day, when everything was working normally, I noticed that there is a gap of about 4 hours between the time the story was added and the earliest posts, so it would seem that something was wrong on their end, but I haven't seen any mention of it. How do I find out if the problem was on my end or their's without being an annoyance?
I haven't changed anything on my end lately, but the next day another site I frequent (a discussion forum for consumer electronics techs and the people that drive them crazy) started having problems with names disappearing from original posts (but not all of them) and the reply link not working (for me, but apparently not for everybody). So here I am wondering whether the problem is something on my end that I need to find and fix, which means I'll need all the clues I can get from anywhere and anyone I can get them, or if I've just hit a stretch of co-incidental unrelated problems that others are having. How do I find out without being a pest?
"If Microsoft was ever completely successful in eliminating competing browsers, you could bet that they would start charging for IE on non-Windows platforms."
If they were ever completely successful in eliminating competing browsers why would they continue to provide it for Windows for free?
That whole "the browser is an integral part of the operating system" argument would fly right out the (you'll pardon the expression) window the instant that they thought that they could make more money the other way.
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A "low-level" format on a modern drive probably won't really low-level format it, especially if it uses some sort of servo information track or tracks that the drive's electronics are programmed to not overwrite. The factory can use a much more expensive machine to write sector markers with a much stronger magnetic field than can be generated by the heads that the drive ships with. Running a low-level format program that only uses the drive's own heads and electronics can possibly refresh some sector markers that are starting to fade magnetically but they probably won't write new ones anywhere where the old ones weren't.
Yeah, *he* typed all that, but the guys with the time machines who've posted the same thing to several other stories on previous days obviously practiced their plagarism by way of cut 'n' paste.
If post #9 is correct about him advocating a fast, open network back in the late 70's, that's before many, if not most, Slashdot readers were born (if one can, on average, infer chronological age from the maturity levels displayed in posts).
Depends on how much current the current limiting resistor (across which some of that 5 volts will be dropped) limits the current to.
All your high-bandwidth wire are use Marxist dielectric.
Then if you have something to say that's worth saying, use that account.
If you have something to say that isn't worth saying, then don't bother saying it under any name, including "Anonymous Coward".
Once she has a Delldow she won't need you anymore.
Are y'all talking about that new Star Trek series?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Actually Voyager is probably pretty good now since nobody in my market carries it anymore so I haven't seen any of this final season, and I hope the on coming up is as good as the later DS9 episodes.
Meanwhile back in orbit, what about salvaging and recycling all that stuff *in space* since we've already expended energy putting it up there. Collect it and hold it until the technology is available to turn it into parts of a space station or something.
I pointed out what (could have) made that show different from most of the rest of what's on television. You merely pointed out what it had in common.
I should probably know better than to respond to anyone with nothing more to discuss in public than the size of his device.
It wasn't the size of the device, it was the prospect of this being done to children that gave me pause.
That was exactly what spoiled the show designed to look like a live newsfeed that NBC ran back in the 80's about terrorists with a nuke on a ship in Charleston harbor.
Considering how heavily they promo'ed it, they were by no means really trying to fool anybody. It was just the style in which the show was produced.
As the air date got closer and closer, and the entertainment press kept referring back to Orson Wells more and more, the network legal department got more and more nervous and as a result the actual broadcast was interrupted at every possible opportunity to assure everyone that it was just a TV show.
Kind of like going to the theater (drama, not movie) and having the usher nudge you and say, "remember it's just actors on a stage" every couple of minutes.
This was the part of the article that leaped out at me and sent a chill down my spine.
A split-second later, I thought of the times when being able to get an instant fix on the location of my niece or nephew using something built into my watch or cell phone would have saved me a few anxious moments, which I get enough of anyway from those two.
Just your standard, double-edged sword, the future's rushing at us so fast it's already the past, type dilemma.
I always felt that one of the great deprivations (not depravations) of my childhood was never getting a Mattel Vacu-Form. When I think of what I could have done with one that big...
Something with a screen full of some sort of dancing animal accompanied by annoying music and sound effects might be a good way to start.
I'd say something about Cliff having misspelled mischief, but that would just about guarantee that I'd misspelled guidance.
Boot and Home PC were merged (or rather their unfulfilled subscription liabilities were) into Maximum PC. If either magazine had been able to survive and turn a profit on its own I expect it would have been allowed to do so, so apparently not enough people liked Boot or Home PC the way they were to keep it afloat on its own. It wasn't so much a case of "going Hollywood" as it was avoiding going under.
Please explain where in her post you see the word book or anything about books?
Too bad there aren't HTML tags for "voice of the comic book store guy on The Simpsons".
Not all opinions that someone disagrees with, or might disagree with, are flamebait. The above is an example of the former, not the latter.
Books and magaazines, including the ads, are an experience in and of themselves, and as convenient as a CD with all the text in editable copyable form might be, it just ain't the same.
I can certainly sympathize, having often been in the position of scrambling to fix something (not always of an electronic nature), only to have to put up with well-intended interruptions telling me what I already knew (that it needs fixing) or wanting a time estimate (in a situation where determining the problem is 99% of fixing it), but what should the polite user do?
How do you find out if you're just wasting time and network resources in continued failed attempts at access unless you ask someone in charge of the network?
A couple of days ago, I couldn't log on to Slashdot, it refused to recognize me as a registered user. The stories I could get to load as a separate page came up with no comments, and several other Andover sites wouldn't load at all. The story at the top of the main page was the one about Napster users in Belgium. Subsequent attempts to load the main page in another window came up with what I assume was the way it looked before that story was added. The next day, when everything was working normally, I noticed that there is a gap of about 4 hours between the time the story was added and the earliest posts, so it would seem that something was wrong on their end, but I haven't seen any mention of it. How do I find out if the problem was on my end or their's without being an annoyance?
I haven't changed anything on my end lately, but the next day another site I frequent (a discussion forum for consumer electronics techs and the people that drive them crazy) started having problems with names disappearing from original posts (but not all of them) and the reply link not working (for me, but apparently not for everybody). So here I am wondering whether the problem is something on my end that I need to find and fix, which means I'll need all the clues I can get from anywhere and anyone I can get them, or if I've just hit a stretch of co-incidental unrelated problems that others are having. How do I find out without being a pest?
You only get one day of birth, or birthday. After that, at one year intervals, you get an anniversary of that day.
Does that hold true for that other unscrupulous outfit as well? The one over in Blue Cove?
If they were ever completely successful in eliminating competing browsers why would they continue to provide it for Windows for free?
That whole "the browser is an integral part of the operating system" argument would fly right out the (you'll pardon the expression) window the instant that they thought that they could make more money the other way.