... because they don't know how he stopped Hitler from winning World War II.
Except that WWII would not have happened in the first place if Stalin hadn't allied himself with Hitler.
It would have, it just would have happened differently. Neither some "worth no more than the paper it was written on" non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany nor the lack of one would have kept Imperial Japan bottled up or caused Hilter to lose interest in dragging France back to that same rail car to surrender to him.
The ACLU is one of the few groups that consistently surprise me because their policies consistently can't be put under either "More merging of humankind into a categoryless vat of pink slime" or "As much money for rich people as possible".
It's that seldom-seen phenomena known as having principles and sticking to them, which, even if practiced imperfectly, is rare enough to stand out when it occurs.
I think Wright was talking more about the results (backlash, unforeseen consequences, etc.) of faulty foreign policy than it being a specific punishment inflicted by The Creator.
Unless maybe God was trying to tell us something about the deficiencies of our foreign policy.
And while Obama may have had difficulty stretching his mind around an expansion of the definition of marriage, I don't think he ever said anything about the occurrence of that expansion incurring the wrath of a vengeful Jehovah, so I'm not seeing the exact 1 to 1 equivalence.
"The sled you place the drive into makes a HUGE difference in recovery."
I wouldn't dream of doing anything other than connecting it directly to the IDE controller header or a SATA port on a known good non-GigaByte brand motherboard.
I think you'll find that at most a drive will have one side of one platter devoted to servo info.
The idea is that the various components of a head stack are fixed in place relative to one another and that relationship does not change, so if you know where the servo reading head is, you know where the rest of them are.
The space betweeen data tracks on the same side of the same platter is a sort of guard band where no information should be.
"Could you explain how being put in the freezer gets the drive to work?"
Depends on what's wrong with the drive.
What I've done is is freeze a TiVo drive with problems, and then use
dd_rescue
to copy it to another drive on the theory that it would run better at a lower temp long enough to read what's on there.
As for exactly why it would run better at a lower temp, if it would, there's probably more than one reason, but if you want to make a subtle difference in the physical relationship of the internal parts to see if that helps rather than hurts, freezing seems less risky, and more reveresable, than any sort of percussive maintenence.
This is not the same as making the drive good as new, it's just getting the data off of it.
Of course TiVo drives seem to be subject to problems not usually encountered in drives used in other circumstances, or at least data on TiVo drives can't be rescued by some, if not most, of the methods available for use on those other drives.
If you stick one in the freezer, wrap a couple of layers of paper towel around it so that you don't leave any skin on it when you take it out.
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Because using what MS codes leaves you feeling like they did it to you without lubing up first?
"Furthermore, marriage is NOTHING BUT a God given right to a man and a woman."
Then all government recognition of it should be abolished.
What hard drive crash?
Except that WWII would not have happened in the first place if Stalin hadn't allied himself with Hitler.
It would have, it just would have happened differently. Neither some "worth no more than the paper it was written on" non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany nor the lack of one would have kept Imperial Japan bottled up or caused Hilter to lose interest in dragging France back to that same rail car to surrender to him.
Thing of it is, if you stipulate God as creator of the universe, and therefore of physics, his answer is correct.
And an atheist could have said "because physics makes it that way", and been equally correct.
And both would have been equally guilty of not performing the assignment correctly.
The ACLU is one of the few groups that consistently surprise me because their policies consistently can't be put under either "More merging of humankind into a categoryless vat of pink slime" or "As much money for rich people as possible".
It's that seldom-seen phenomena known as having principles and sticking to them, which, even if practiced imperfectly, is rare enough to stand out when it occurs.
Want to know the difference?
Obama's not the one going "and my personal view on marriage ought to be be forced on everyone".
I think Wright was talking more about the results (backlash, unforeseen consequences, etc.) of faulty foreign policy than it being a specific punishment inflicted by The Creator.
Unless maybe God was trying to tell us something about the deficiencies of our foreign policy.
And while Obama may have had difficulty stretching his mind around an expansion of the definition of marriage, I don't think he ever said anything about the occurrence of that expansion incurring the wrath of a vengeful Jehovah, so I'm not seeing the exact 1 to 1 equivalence.
Welcome to the cloud! Where your data is our data.
As "the cloud" is getting more traction, expect worse things to happen. We are still in the acceptance phase.
Which is another way of saying they haven't discontinued the use of the anesthesia and lubricant yet.
(but eventually they will, citing the extra expense)
Below I reproduce the AC's comment I can't mod up since I'm posting in this thread, but it definitely deserves a +1, Insightful
foreign music listeners beware (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward on Wed Aug 01, '12 06:01 AM (#40840123)
There may be all sorts of problems down the line with people who like music that isn't officially licensed in their country.
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They have a forum section where you can commiserate with others and maybe find somebody with the PCB board you need.
Copy all the data to something else and have a quick word with WD about invoking that 5 year warranty.
And make sure you can use an "advanced format" drive, 'cause that's bound to be what they'll replace it with.
"Yes, there is the matter on the HD not being grounded..."
If you have a power and/or data cable attached, it's grounded.
Wrap a couple of layers of paper towel around the drive before you put it in the freezer.
This will also help avoid leaving a couple of layers of skin on the drive when you take it out of the freezer.
"...if a write error (usually due to a bug in the drive's firmware that only shows up in edge cases) causes the servo track to be corrupted..."
Isn't the servo track written just once, at the factory?
Or did you mean corruption occuring during that one write?
"The sled you place the drive into makes a HUGE difference in recovery."
I wouldn't dream of doing anything other than connecting it directly to the IDE controller header or a SATA port on a known good non-GigaByte brand motherboard.
Sounds like 'stiction'.
I think you'll find that at most a drive will have one side of one platter devoted to servo info.
The idea is that the various components of a head stack are fixed in place relative to one another and that relationship does not change, so if you know where the servo reading head is, you know where the rest of them are.
The space betweeen data tracks on the same side of the same platter is a sort of guard band where no information should be.
"Could you explain how being put in the freezer gets the drive to work?"
Depends on what's wrong with the drive.
What I've done is is freeze a TiVo drive with problems, and then use
dd_rescue
to copy it to another drive on the theory that it would run better at a lower temp long enough to read what's on there.
As for exactly why it would run better at a lower temp, if it would, there's probably more than one reason, but if you want to make a subtle difference in the physical relationship of the internal parts to see if that helps rather than hurts, freezing seems less risky, and more reveresable, than any sort of percussive maintenence.
This is not the same as making the drive good as new, it's just getting the data off of it.
Of course TiVo drives seem to be subject to problems not usually encountered in drives used in other circumstances, or at least data on TiVo drives can't be rescued by some, if not most, of the methods available for use on those other drives.
If you stick one in the freezer, wrap a couple of layers of paper towel around it so that you don't leave any skin on it when you take it out.
Well, then, obviously he was right!
Do they calibrate the color before or after adding the anti-reflective or anti-glare or whatever it is?
It does suffer from a criminally bad screen proportion, though.
Buy two of these, glue them together vertically :p
Really, where's the 27" tall monitor?
Apparently computers are only used for movie watching nowadays, instead of as computers.
I think someone famous once said that. or, did I dream it?
Mark Twain, I believe.
Wasn't it Twain who said most of what you see on the internet isn't true?
The RAM chips
http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/270/datasheets/2114.html
or the gate drivers
http://www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/ir2114ss.pdf
?
Pfft. All they needed to do was put taxes on Hay, Stabling and Ferrier Services...
Any particular reason you think they didn't have them?
...answer your questions, but you should at least register it with them as extra insurance of not losing track of where you put it.
http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/international_time_capsule_society.asp