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One should not try to change another's view; only, try to gain wisdom from the opposite point of view.
There is a big difference between free will and forced will.
I would say I make the same decisions as both my parents, kind of a blend between the two. It is obvious where I get my political tendency and creative tendency. I have always felt it was beyond "what I was taught" or "what I grew up with"
Most people who are ignorant, rarely, if ever, change. Ignorance is a disease like alcoholism. You can go to AA meetings, but will most likely suffer relapse, and always be alcoholic (apply analogy to ignorance). In essence, they are the same disease.
There was a propaganda poster (in the Smithsonian World Wars Exhibit) for World War. It depicted a ghost of Hitler in the passenger seat of a car. The caption: "If you ride alone, you ride with Hitler! Carpool today to make fuel and iron availible for our troops"
As for my signature, I get tired of people picking facts out of my posts or saying, becuase of this ONE thing, I can't take anything you say or do seriously.
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This only reinforces my arguement to my girlfriend, "I was born this way, I'm not going to change." (Not only in reply to her bad cooking, but in reply to why I said something or did anything that displeased her):D
1) Cash Reserves vs Equity in Investments - the Cupertino Campus is largely paid for not leased (estimated value 430 million) - cash reserves stand at about 3.5 Billion Dollars - other property/asset equity at close to 2 Billion) - all these stats are availible from the last SEC filing made in January
2) Intellectual Property and Brand Name recognition - Apple holds a magnitude of patent and liscensing rights. Firewire, Quicktime, FileMaker, PowerBook are just a few NAMES they make substantial money off of just liscensing the name, not to mention royalties they recieve for intellectual/distribution/use/etc. The brand name would ALWAYS exist if even if (doubtful) they ever decided to eliminate the computer hardware biz.
3) Apple has partners, advocates, millionares, billionares, maybe the largest support base of any company that has ever existed - this base would come to the rescue of Apple if the impossible happened.
Apple is supporting it's XServe with what I think is "your level of support above and beyond the consumer" - they have supplied several companies with full Xserve deployment like Genentech. I can't be certain, but I think their main media development/design firm Chiat Day also has full Xserve deployment.
Apple's XServe uses Western Digital SE Drives. The Xserve performs comparebly to most servers on the market (exceptions are Sun Blade and IBM blade, others I'm sure) - The units though can also handle SCSI - the Xserve raid is capable of Fibre Channel.
Two years ago your assertions about cost were correct, nowadays there is VERY little difference between cost of manufacture for a SCSI drive. In fact, Western Digital's own spec says that SE drives (IDE/ATA) are stripped down SCSI drives
The logic controller is only an interaction with the mainboard or SCSI card controller. (You seem to be knowledgeable about non CPU / Bus useage of SCSI so I won't detail the difference there) The part ( for the drive itself ) is $0.65 from i/o data in Japan. That's a complete SCSI "breadboard with intact electronics" for the bottom/under platter. That's in quatities of 10,000. I'm sure it gets cheaper from other companies or more volume.
As for the contracts. You DO get support from the drive manufacturers but AT A STEEP price. This in no way affects the price of consumer drives. Custom deign is EXTRA, not included in any price availible to I could assume 5 Billion in sales and higher corporate customers, which aren't much more than a 1000 companies worldwide.
No actually there is a higher quality 5-10ns type of flash RAM called SRAM, it's not SDRAM and it's not Flash RAM (as used in smartmedia or compact flash) - I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think the new XD picture cards use a type of SRAM.
The future self already has the past written, and is on a separate timeline. Anything, that your future self told you, or advised you on, could adversely affect your life to come. Did you not watch the Back To The Future Trilogy? I don't say that in jest either. Bob Gale, the lead writer, did extensive research, and came up with the "steal the sports scores book" - it had the effect of making Biff so rich he bought everything within 50 miles of Spring Valley, including Marty's Mother, after being so powerful as to murder his father and not get caught.
The IDE CF and PCMCIA dapters are not SRAM flash like I am talking about. The drives I mentioned typically for blade servers or "intense condition" applications (military, telephone line worker) - one of the points of the drive is also not to produce as much of a magnetic field (which platter drives do, mainly because they have a rather powerful magnet in them)
As for cost, that's also the point. If drive makers would get with the program Flash Drives would come down due to mass production/exceptance.
Every manufacturer has problems. I personally have always used IBM for notebook (now Hitachi) and Western Digital for Desktop. The IBM drives a re supposedly notorius for going bad, I have not had one die on me and I replace, sell, upgrade Apple laptops a lot in my business.
It's interesting that people never consider their hardware or useage as a factor in failure.
I imagine things can happen in strange ways (as this is true for everything else) that there are some programs that may corrupt hard drives and HELP create bad blocks. People may use the drives full speed, full throttle for too long, and possibly getting surges in their IDE cables or power cables!
I honestly do not see why things are not moving quicker towards Flash ATA or Flash SCSI or Flash Firewire 800 for that matter.
Memory is 10x more reliable and more shock resistant. It is also nanoseconds rather than milliseconds and doesn't take NEARLY the power or the "pixie dust" to produce.
A company called ADTRON makes SCSI 2.5" Flash drives. I bought one used on eBay (1 gig) about three weeks ago. I put it in a PowerBook Duo (1995 laptop). The Duo now lasts as long as a modern iBook and the difference is between night and day in App launch, speed, and most unforseen, graphics display. It appeared as if I had almost doubled processor speed.
If you want to see if I'm telling the truth. Look for SCSI Flash or IDE Flash 2.5" drives on eBay and try it in your laptop for a day. There are regularly 350 meg IDE laptop drives for sale. Right now the capacities are capped at 4 gig (and the price on one is $4600) But if WD, Seagate, Maxtor and all the other platter people would just get with the program I'm sure we could have MUCH smaller drives than current systems, with much denser capacities than even today.
I don't see why laptop manufacturers don't push this very hard. Battery life is almost doubled (no moving parts) and it almost eliminates the bottleneck that laptop hard drives have. As for desktops, you could have 4 of these drives in the space of one and possibly have them raided!
Ummmm, went into a dry pile of leaves under a tree, tree caught, boards on house nearby caught, two houses on block burned. Try looking through GreenvilleOnline archives.
By the way, guys, you don't mod a comment down because you dislike what I say or because I mention God. Especially if you respond with interaction and insight.
The boxes all say adult supervision required. However, most kids don't get supervision. Further, most adults let their kids do everything and don't take proper safety steps or make their children follow all the directions anyway.
These are essentially fireworks that just don't have an explosion of magnesium or phosphorus or other colored under heat element.
While I hate for the government to ban or limit anything that we do, I have never thought these were safe and should be reserved for liscensed hobby clubs and liscensed demonstrations. Anyone wishing to do this for fun or hobby can join the club.
I say all this from TWO first hand accidents. My neighbor boy; last summer; his 300ft tilted and hit a house. No damage, but when it shot the parachute it left a dent in the vinyl siding of the home it hit. I have also seen a bottle rocket set an entire BLOCK on fire.
Let's see, wonder where Jefferson got inspiration for the constution? The Bible in part, perhaps? God (the Christian one) is mentioned SEVERAL times in the constitution. For the first instance read the Preamble.
Jefferson, in his writings attributes, the Bible, Machevelli, Benjamin Franklin, Magna carta, amongst others.
Liberalism is VERY close to Fascism. It is DEMOCRATS who are the main force behind the DMCA. MY STATE'S senator, Fritz Hollings (D) is the biggest sponsor of the Bill. If you can recall, he was also co author to video game violence legislation and TV ratings. How about not modding me down to flamebait without facts!
No, just the opposite: a liberal wants equal rights. The only way to have equality is to strip EVERYONE of their freedoms and be under government control and government dependency - that way we are MADE/FORCED equal.
"A sale" is not a tangible asset. A car tax is also a use tax as someone pointed out and I elaborated on.
Do you pay yearly tax on clothes? Do you collect tax for your state when you have a yard sale? Do you pay tax at a flea market? (Do you think you should?) No, you have already paid the tax, and the use of that item does not infringe or place wear and tear on another tax payer's property.
A car places wear and tear on the rest of your state's taxpayer property (roads, signs, streetlights belong to the taxpayer)
Again, this is why this such a crock of bull butter. We have demonstaed in this very thread the complexity of taxing the internet as it is international commerce.
As one post pointed out, two staes (I Think there are others) don't even charge sales tax. IT IS NOT fair to those staes to pay tax to a state they don't even live in and had no chance to vote in.
I pay taxes to get what I want done. I vote for people to vote for the thing I want done. I don't want this tax. If it paases anyway, in a state that starts charging ME sales tax (where I have to collect it or even if eBay collects it and pays it) Any buyer paying tax that is NOT DIRECTLY distributed to that buyer's state is getting "taxation without representation"
This was a forseeable caveat of eBay buying Paypal. Since most people pay via Paypal, I expect eBay will soon just "add the tax" into the Paypal bill to the buyer. Before the merger, it would have taken a competitive war with Billpoint and paypal. paypal might have stuck up for MY rights!
Actually, most states collect a yearly property tax (my state does) - my state has a $300 cap on sales tax. Liscense tags, registration are consdered fees. (But actually a fee is a tax by another name)
No No - taxes are taxes on property. Your example is DEFINITELY taxation without representation. It is THE EXACT reason for the Boston Tea party.
The government must (they don't always do it) provide tangible results for taxes. In other words, "This tax is used to pay for (fill in the blank)"
Taxes on used cars are slightly different. The taxes are paid on a yearly basis, and have to be paid by the owner. They are paid "supposedly" for wear and tear you do to the tax base with that car (road, environment, congestion/cross gaurd/cop direction, power bill for red lights, sign costs) For items such as computers, walkmans, clothes, etc - the taxes are paid once.
Yahoo will tell you that they have a "Bulk Mail folder" to stop SPAM. However, the storage of "bulk mail" goes against your storage total.
I beleive Yahoo is selling "descreetly and indirectly" to spam companies. You have to watch when you sign up or pay for Yahoo services how you are agreeing to sign your information over.
I was forced to get a Premium Yahoo account because of the "bulk mail" filling up every 48 hours - If I didn't empty it, it would bounce my eMail.
Yahoo uses this questionable way of gaining revenue in the same way they allow OBVIOUS porn solicitors to post personal ads, and allow OBVIOUS scammers to sell "Presale Auctions"
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There is a big difference between free will and forced will.
I would say I make the same decisions as both my parents, kind of a blend between the two. It is obvious where I get my political tendency and creative tendency. I have always felt it was beyond "what I was taught" or "what I grew up with"
Most people who are ignorant, rarely, if ever, change. Ignorance is a disease like alcoholism. You can go to AA meetings, but will most likely suffer relapse, and always be alcoholic (apply analogy to ignorance). In essence, they are the same disease.
As for my signature, I get tired of people picking facts out of my posts or saying, becuase of this ONE thing, I can't take anything you say or do seriously.
2) Intellectual Property and Brand Name recognition - Apple holds a magnitude of patent and liscensing rights. Firewire, Quicktime, FileMaker, PowerBook are just a few NAMES they make substantial money off of just liscensing the name, not to mention royalties they recieve for intellectual/distribution/use/etc. The brand name would ALWAYS exist if even if (doubtful) they ever decided to eliminate the computer hardware biz.
3) Apple has partners, advocates, millionares, billionares, maybe the largest support base of any company that has ever existed - this base would come to the rescue of Apple if the impossible happened.
Apple's XServe uses Western Digital SE Drives. The Xserve performs comparebly to most servers on the market (exceptions are Sun Blade and IBM blade, others I'm sure) - The units though can also handle SCSI - the Xserve raid is capable of Fibre Channel.
Two years ago your assertions about cost were correct, nowadays there is VERY little difference between cost of manufacture for a SCSI drive. In fact, Western Digital's own spec says that SE drives (IDE/ATA) are stripped down SCSI drives
The logic controller is only an interaction with the mainboard or SCSI card controller. (You seem to be knowledgeable about non CPU / Bus useage of SCSI so I won't detail the difference there) The part ( for the drive itself ) is $0.65 from i/o data in Japan. That's a complete SCSI "breadboard with intact electronics" for the bottom/under platter. That's in quatities of 10,000. I'm sure it gets cheaper from other companies or more volume.
As for the contracts. You DO get support from the drive manufacturers but AT A STEEP price. This in no way affects the price of consumer drives. Custom deign is EXTRA, not included in any price availible to I could assume 5 Billion in sales and higher corporate customers, which aren't much more than a 1000 companies worldwide.
That was a good post to say the least though.
Check out ADTRON
Why didn't they choose FireWire 800 or something like an AGP type i/o so that video card PC cards could be ultrafast?
As for cost, that's also the point. If drive makers would get with the program Flash Drives would come down due to mass production/exceptance.
It's interesting that people never consider their hardware or useage as a factor in failure.
I imagine things can happen in strange ways (as this is true for everything else) that there are some programs that may corrupt hard drives and HELP create bad blocks. People may use the drives full speed, full throttle for too long, and possibly getting surges in their IDE cables or power cables!
Memory is 10x more reliable and more shock resistant. It is also nanoseconds rather than milliseconds and doesn't take NEARLY the power or the "pixie dust" to produce.
A company called ADTRON makes SCSI 2.5" Flash drives. I bought one used on eBay (1 gig) about three weeks ago. I put it in a PowerBook Duo (1995 laptop). The Duo now lasts as long as a modern iBook and the difference is between night and day in App launch, speed, and most unforseen, graphics display. It appeared as if I had almost doubled processor speed.
If you want to see if I'm telling the truth. Look for SCSI Flash or IDE Flash 2.5" drives on eBay and try it in your laptop for a day. There are regularly 350 meg IDE laptop drives for sale. Right now the capacities are capped at 4 gig (and the price on one is $4600) But if WD, Seagate, Maxtor and all the other platter people would just get with the program I'm sure we could have MUCH smaller drives than current systems, with much denser capacities than even today.
I don't see why laptop manufacturers don't push this very hard. Battery life is almost doubled (no moving parts) and it almost eliminates the bottleneck that laptop hard drives have. As for desktops, you could have 4 of these drives in the space of one and possibly have them raided!
Every oil change I have ever gotten from Meineke for a car I think has been "mixed with water".
My girlfriend was two doors down.
These are essentially fireworks that just don't have an explosion of magnesium or phosphorus or other colored under heat element.
While I hate for the government to ban or limit anything that we do, I have never thought these were safe and should be reserved for liscensed hobby clubs and liscensed demonstrations. Anyone wishing to do this for fun or hobby can join the club.
I say all this from TWO first hand accidents. My neighbor boy; last summer; his 300ft tilted and hit a house. No damage, but when it shot the parachute it left a dent in the vinyl siding of the home it hit. I have also seen a bottle rocket set an entire BLOCK on fire.
Read with understanding. Ribbit Ribbit!
Jefferson, in his writings attributes, the Bible, Machevelli, Benjamin Franklin, Magna carta, amongst others.
Liberalism is VERY close to Fascism. It is DEMOCRATS who are the main force behind the DMCA. MY STATE'S senator, Fritz Hollings (D) is the biggest sponsor of the Bill. If you can recall, he was also co author to video game violence legislation and TV ratings. How about not modding me down to flamebait without facts!
No, just the opposite: a liberal wants equal rights. The only way to have equality is to strip EVERYONE of their freedoms and be under government control and government dependency - that way we are MADE/FORCED equal.
It will also help sell "forward thinking artists" and labels who don't have the label.
Do you pay yearly tax on clothes? Do you collect tax for your state when you have a yard sale? Do you pay tax at a flea market? (Do you think you should?) No, you have already paid the tax, and the use of that item does not infringe or place wear and tear on another tax payer's property.
A car places wear and tear on the rest of your state's taxpayer property (roads, signs, streetlights belong to the taxpayer)
Either my brain or the "T" on my keyboard is sticking. Funny, since were are disscussing Taxes.
As one post pointed out, two staes (I Think there are others) don't even charge sales tax. IT IS NOT fair to those staes to pay tax to a state they don't even live in and had no chance to vote in.
I pay taxes to get what I want done. I vote for people to vote for the thing I want done. I don't want this tax. If it paases anyway, in a state that starts charging ME sales tax (where I have to collect it or even if eBay collects it and pays it) Any buyer paying tax that is NOT DIRECTLY distributed to that buyer's state is getting "taxation without representation"
This was a forseeable caveat of eBay buying Paypal. Since most people pay via Paypal, I expect eBay will soon just "add the tax" into the Paypal bill to the buyer. Before the merger, it would have taken a competitive war with Billpoint and paypal. paypal might have stuck up for MY rights!
The government must (they don't always do it) provide tangible results for taxes. In other words, "This tax is used to pay for (fill in the blank)"
Taxes on used cars are slightly different. The taxes are paid on a yearly basis, and have to be paid by the owner. They are paid "supposedly" for wear and tear you do to the tax base with that car (road, environment, congestion/cross gaurd/cop direction, power bill for red lights, sign costs) For items such as computers, walkmans, clothes, etc - the taxes are paid once.
I beleive Yahoo is selling "descreetly and indirectly" to spam companies. You have to watch when you sign up or pay for Yahoo services how you are agreeing to sign your information over.
I was forced to get a Premium Yahoo account because of the "bulk mail" filling up every 48 hours - If I didn't empty it, it would bounce my eMail.
Yahoo uses this questionable way of gaining revenue in the same way they allow OBVIOUS porn solicitors to post personal ads, and allow OBVIOUS scammers to sell "Presale Auctions"