Yup, the California legislature unanimously bleeped up in the vote. But part of the blame goes to the power companies themselves, who pushed for the law because they thought they could make a nice profit buying power for less than the rate it was and is fixed at.
At first they were doing pretty good raking in more than they had to shell out, due to power plants using nice cheap natural gas - which then got expensive. Bad business decision, it turned out. When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall. Surprise!
Now, we get to see government dealing with the results of a damaging but very popular program, given surveys that say a majority of the end consumers/voters here in CACAland find it profitable to disbelieve in any shortage that might raise their utility bills. It'll be interesting to watch the antics.
I can just see it, the local news reminding us not to all refill our fuel tanks at the same time lest we drop the local air pressure and cause weather changes and anoxia...
First, ATT has no monopoly on business web hosting, and if they try to implement this policy web hosting customers will stay away in droves. The articles were more than vague about how ATT was going to enforce their billing in an SSL-enabled world, they neglected the subject entirely.
What could they do? Filter out connections to business IP addresses who refuse to pay netgild? Not with this or next year's technology. Filter whole netblocks unless all merchant sites submit? Probably lawsuit material.
And they would have arrayed against them not just their customers but all the businesses that would be impacted, and their lobbyists. Count this under "wishful thinking" on ATT's part.
Nope, the pure oxygen environment at high (earth) pressure made a good fraction of the capsule's interior - wiring insulation, etc - highly flammable. The solution, of course, was to not use so much oxygen, not to blame the concept of hook-and-loop fasteners and abandon those.
This, of course, is on top of all the quirks of layout rendering that make it impossible to design a decent-looking page that validates as clean HTML, and even still appear very different on some browsers.
And then some paranoid moron notices the 1x1 transparent pixels needed to tweak the layout properly and starts bitching about imagined "web bugs".
Not that that helps, since the browsers override the CSS suggestions anyway.
It amazes me how many web designers forget about the Microsoft display drivers' "Large Fonts" setting. Not to mention the "% of original size" variable settings some of the drivers offer.
I don't have other references to back this up, but according to a neighbor of mine who had been a GM engineer, the Corvair was killed not because of Nader's now known to have been rigged "tests", but because of simple economics.
Not enough Corvairs were sold to support an entire car line that shared virtually no major parts with any of GM's other vehicles.
Well, you have the mass and kinetic energy of the probe, which might amount to that of a fair-sized nuclear device if it did not decelerate. If it aimed itself appropriately, it might return important data to sensitive receivers, perhaps several bits:
Signature of impact originating from Epsilon Eridani: Rocky, earth-type planet detected.
Signature of impact including spectral lines of chlorophyll: Earth type planet bearing strong signs of life.
Signature of impact including spectral lines of chlorophyll and return volleys of relativistic weapons: Earth type planet bearing strong signs of intelligent life.
I share your pain, more so when the asterisk on a tape drive's claim of capacity leads to a fine-print footnote that says "with compression, with a 50% compression assumed.
It's an old story though. What with 10-gallon aquarioums that only hold 9.5 gallons of water, "12 inch deep" kiddie pools that are 10 inches at the edge and measure including the sag in the middle if the pool is lifted off the ground... "{insert number]-inch" TVs and monitors.
And the early byte magazine ad for a computer that claimed "368M RAM!" and had 8M - the manufacturer defined the floppy drive as "Random-Access Memory" "Because it wasn't sequential, like a tape drive...
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I've seen an IBM Deskstar fail (10 Gig, don't recall the model). Long ago, I had a Maxtor 420M fail too - but since the DiamondMax versions came out I haven't had problems.
Ah, except trying to run a Maxtor ATA/66 drive on an Intel BX chipset (e.g. ATA/33). DMA crashed instantly, and got about hdparm 3MB/s in the default mode. This was solved by using a little program I found on Maxtor's site to reprogram the drive to ATA/33, and got raw read rate of 20+MB/s again - the facility also was capable of reprogramming the ATA/66 drive to ATA/100, btw.
and a "Customer usable data bytes" of 76,869,918,720.
Where are you getting 80,530,636,800 from?
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From a look at the specs, the IBM drive is offering a sustained transfer rate of about 19-38M/sec, which generally approximates the physical transfer rate at which data passes under the heads. The Maxtor data sheet claims a to/from media rate of 49.5M/s, or about 25% faster than the IBM drive.
with ATA/100 being the interface transfer rate for both.
With admin responsibility for several dozen Dell workstations using a mix of drives, I've never seen any of the Maxtor or IBM ones fail (not so, sadly, the Western Digitals).
I suspect the problems your friend had were related to his other hardware, software, or cabling if he needed it replaced 3 times. As for "recovering his data", I doubt any drive maker would do that for free; it was probably erased in testing if the drive was not discarded.
Anyway, he should have just restored his data from his backups.
Marketing being what it is, you can bet the first hard drive/tape/holocube storage system that manages to cram 10^12 bytes into itself is going to be advertised as storing a "terabyte", and etc...
Well, actually, the first that manages 5x10^11th will claim it does - "with compression".
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Yup, the California legislature unanimously bleeped up in the vote. But part of the blame goes to the power companies themselves, who pushed for the law because they thought they could make a nice profit buying power for less than the rate it was and is fixed at.
At first they were doing pretty good raking in more than they had to shell out, due to power plants using nice cheap natural gas - which then got expensive. Bad business decision, it turned out. When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall. Surprise!
Now, we get to see government dealing with the results of a damaging but very popular program, given surveys that say a majority of the end consumers/voters here in CACAland find it profitable to disbelieve in any shortage that might raise their utility bills. It'll be interesting to watch the antics.
Ah well...
"Three TV networks have projected that Bush will win Florida, but they have not called the race."
Of course, these contracts are usually legally unenforcable.
No, right now I'm doing french toast dripping with butter and maple syrup, and it's superb.
Fly above the cloud ceiling. High-altitude cirrus will not block very much.
But how many fps does an Oxy do in Q3A?
Just to keep on topic.
I can just see it, the local news reminding us not to all refill our fuel tanks at the same time lest we drop the local air pressure and cause weather changes and anoxia...
When the observations begin.
First, ATT has no monopoly on business web hosting, and if they try to implement this policy web hosting customers will stay away in droves. The articles were more than vague about how ATT was going to enforce their billing in an SSL-enabled world, they neglected the subject entirely.
What could they do? Filter out connections to business IP addresses who refuse to pay netgild? Not with this or next year's technology. Filter whole netblocks unless all merchant sites submit? Probably lawsuit material.
And they would have arrayed against them not just their customers but all the businesses that would be impacted, and their lobbyists. Count this under "wishful thinking" on ATT's part.
Fortunately, if AT&T implements their plan they will end up with few or no merchant customers.
I think you mean "Think of the kids"...
Wavelength of the light.
Nope, the pure oxygen environment at high (earth) pressure made a good fraction of the capsule's interior - wiring insulation, etc - highly flammable. The solution, of course, was to not use so much oxygen, not to blame the concept of hook-and-loop fasteners and abandon those.
This, of course, is on top of all the quirks of layout rendering that make it impossible to design a decent-looking page that validates as clean HTML, and even still appear very different on some browsers.
And then some paranoid moron notices the 1x1 transparent pixels needed to tweak the layout properly and starts bitching about imagined "web bugs".
Not that that helps, since the browsers override the CSS suggestions anyway.
It amazes me how many web designers forget about the Microsoft display drivers' "Large Fonts" setting. Not to mention the "% of original size" variable settings some of the drivers offer.
A light-nanosecond is exactly .299792458 meters, or about one foot, for those not up on it.
The PIIs were using separate cache chips, that's why Intel invented that silly package.
I don't have other references to back this up, but according to a neighbor of mine who had been a GM engineer, the Corvair was killed not because of Nader's now known to have been rigged "tests", but because of simple economics.
Not enough Corvairs were sold to support an entire car line that shared virtually no major parts with any of GM's other vehicles.
Well, you have the mass and kinetic energy of the probe, which might amount to that of a fair-sized nuclear device if it did not decelerate. If it aimed itself appropriately, it might return important data to sensitive receivers, perhaps several bits:
Signature of impact originating from Epsilon Eridani: Rocky, earth-type planet detected.
Signature of impact including spectral lines of chlorophyll: Earth type planet bearing strong signs of life.
Signature of impact including spectral lines of chlorophyll and return volleys of relativistic weapons: Earth type planet bearing strong signs of intelligent life.
I share your pain, more so when the asterisk on a tape drive's claim of capacity leads to a fine-print footnote that says "with compression, with a 50% compression assumed.
It's an old story though. What with 10-gallon aquarioums that only hold 9.5 gallons of water, "12 inch deep" kiddie pools that are 10 inches at the edge and measure including the sag in the middle if the pool is lifted off the ground... "{insert number]-inch" TVs and monitors.
And the early byte magazine ad for a computer that claimed "368M RAM!" and had 8M - the manufacturer defined the floppy drive as "Random-Access Memory" "Because it wasn't sequential, like a tape drive...
I've seen an IBM Deskstar fail (10 Gig, don't recall the model). Long ago, I had a Maxtor 420M fail too - but since the DiamondMax versions came out I haven't had problems.
Ah, except trying to run a Maxtor ATA/66 drive on an Intel BX chipset (e.g. ATA/33). DMA crashed instantly, and got about hdparm 3MB/s in the default mode. This was solved by using a little program I found on Maxtor's site to reprogram the drive to ATA/33, and got raw read rate of 20+MB/s again - the facility also was capable of reprogramming the ATA/66 drive to ATA/100, btw.
From the IBM Deskstar 40GV and 75EXP product spec at http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/prodspe c/dtla_spw.pdf - I get: (Glossary):
GB 1,000,000,000 bytes
MB 1,000,000 Bytes
KB 1,000 bytes unless otherwise specified
and a "Customer usable data bytes" of 76,869,918,720.
Where are you getting 80,530,636,800 from?
From a look at the specs, the IBM drive is offering a sustained transfer rate of about 19-38M/sec, which generally approximates the physical transfer rate at which data passes under the heads. The Maxtor data sheet claims a to/from media rate of 49.5M/s, or about 25% faster than the IBM drive.
with ATA/100 being the interface transfer rate for both.
With admin responsibility for several dozen Dell workstations using a mix of drives, I've never seen any of the Maxtor or IBM ones fail (not so, sadly, the Western Digitals).
I suspect the problems your friend had were related to his other hardware, software, or cabling if he needed it replaced 3 times. As for "recovering his data", I doubt any drive maker would do that for free; it was probably erased in testing if the drive was not discarded.
Anyway, he should have just restored his data from his backups.
Marketing being what it is, you can bet the first hard drive/tape/holocube storage system that manages to cram 10^12 bytes into itself is going to be advertised as storing a "terabyte", and etc...
Well, actually, the first that manages 5x10^11th will claim it does - "with compression".