... I process English with a different part of my brain than native speakers...
Allow me to contribute to your otherwise excellent command of the English language by pointing out that when things differ, they differ from one another.
"Than" is used when comparing differing quantities of the same quantity.
For example, I have endeavored to be less annoying than the average grammar nazi.
No doubt someone will be along presently to assure me that I have failed.
"I took delivery of an external 5400 RPM Western Digital from Staples for less than $60, tax and delivery included."
What capacity and when did you order?
As for comparing 5400rpm drives to 7200rpm drives, well, you shouldn't. They have different attributes that are better fitted to their different purposes.
Far be it from me to say anything nice about Microsoft, but you can't use a 3TB drive in a TiVo,either, whereas you can use a 2TB in the S3 HDs and the S4s.
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Dale Carnegie's stuff should be read by everybody, just to improve their understanding of other people and the relationships between them.
Words, mostly.
There is NO WAY that spam will ever be personalized enough to make it become priority mail...
Sure it will. It just won't be your priority, but rather theirs.
...SSDs and THE CLOUD will soon overtake the need for metal platters with little arms that read and write and are more prone to failures...
And on what do you suppose THE CLOUD stores data?
WD Caviar Greens have a feature called Intellipark which needs to be disabled with the wdidle3 utility.
Lots of TiVo owners found this out the hard way.
And it never fails.
That should have been differing quantities of the same quality.
... I process English with a different part of my brain than native speakers...
Allow me to contribute to your otherwise excellent command of the English language by pointing out that when things differ, they differ from one another.
"Than" is used when comparing differing quantities of the same quantity.
For example, I have endeavored to be less annoying than the average grammar nazi.
No doubt someone will be along presently to assure me that I have failed.
Do you know of any drive makers that actually repair drives under warranty instead of just replacing with whatever they're currently making?
trust wd caviar blacks.
But don't forget that each one needs it's own fan.
They get really toasty.
Although not quite up to waffle iron status like a Socket 4 Pentium 60.
"I died a little inside when WD bought Quantum."
Would that be the same Quantum that was bought by Maxtor in 2001?
The same Maxtor that was bought by Seagate a few years ago?
The same Seagate that bought Conner back in the '90s?
Guess which brands I've had the most trouble with over the years?
Which is not to say I haven't had a WD go bad.
"...data about the past are largely obsolete."
So nice to see someone who knows that "data 'r plural".
"Tea party is for the 1% and the 1% only, and anyone in the 99% who support them are incredibly stupid."
And since practically everybody in the Tea Party (at least at the beginning, right after Santelli's rant) is in the 99%...
And the way you know for what message I was hoping, or even whether I was, is...?
Their presence *is* their message.
If only The Partridge Family had been that way.
The only thing broken about TV is the massive proportion of it dedicated to programs about common people acting common.
Who's your provider of choice and what resolution is "native" for its content?
Or are you getting a feed of surveillance drones from the NSA?
Possibly the first time in the history of the planet that a flood has fixed something.
Me too! Maybe they gave everybody mod points today just because of this.
Seagate may not have had a factory in the flood, but chances are one or more of their suppliers did.
"We need to revisit this in the second quarter or the months between April and June."
Rather pointless since they won't have manufacturing capability restored until June.
You don't have to be pirating or doing professional video to fill up big hard drives with video much more quickly than you expected to.
Ask anyone with a TiVo.
"I took delivery of an external 5400 RPM Western Digital from Staples for less than $60, tax and delivery included."
What capacity and when did you order?
As for comparing 5400rpm drives to 7200rpm drives, well, you shouldn't. They have different attributes that are better fitted to their different purposes.
Far be it from me to say anything nice about Microsoft, but you can't use a 3TB drive in a TiVo,either, whereas you can use a 2TB in the S3 HDs and the S4s.
"...or water can be filtered or distilled..."
So, in other words, that's someone saying you have to use fresh (i.e., de-salinated) water?