You are perceptive. GGP is full of it if he's saying what it sounds like he is. WD Greens suck, Reds may be OK, but Blacks and RE4s are far and away the best of the domestics. OK, the only others left are Seagates, but they are all utter crap. Toshiba's new line they grabbed from Hitachi is also very good.
Yes, I know domestic and import don't mean jack any more; all of them are made in China.
For 3.5" hard drives, the only ones I trust are WD Black and RE4, and Toshiba's new line that used to be Hitachi's. WD Green is crap, Red might be OK. Seagates are all crap. Seagate appears to have trashed the excellent line they picked up from Samsung. It's very sad, because Samsung used to be at the absolute top of my list.
Things change, but Seagate being utter crap and WD's best being very good has been true for a while now.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction. Why wouldn't the contents of a nonvolatile cache be just as valid after a power cycle as it is after sleep or hibernate?
I'm completely with your starting point. The US is incredibly incompetent at knocking off the psychopaths at the top, but is pretty good (albeit at staggering cost) at liquidating huge numbers of underlings and innocents. In fact this is so much the case that I don't believe they are trying. Then you come to that whole paranoid phantasm that Saddam had a whole slew of "doubles" so how could he ever be found.
The difference with me is that I don't just accept this happy horse manure. I demand that the US smarten up.
Here's what seems like a clue to me. Countries are impoverished by wars, but the elite get rich. Why spend 100 grand to hire an assassin or send a small commando team to nail the leader when you can make the military industrial complex unimaginably rich stealing the people's money to fund a gigantic war to knock off all the pigeons? US leader after US leader, do you see my middle finger?
As for the difficulty decapitating Al Qaeda, that is clear. The network is underground and not organized too hierarchically. Also, as a collection of fanatics, new heads will just pop up instantly. Despotisms like Saddam's Iraq, North Korea, and Iran are entirely different. The headers wear UNIFORMs with MEDALs. They stick out like sore thumbs. They are extremely hierarchical, and the power structure is in it for self aggrandizement. Yes, in Iran they do harness religious fanaticism to their ends, but they are not at all similar to Al Qaeda.
Finally, do you really think NK's command structure is going to survive the elimination of the leadership and be all gung ho to retaliate and thus commit suicide? Retaliate how? With a bunch of fake missiles, or at best some ancient liquid fueled crap that sticks out like a sore thumb while it is mounted on a launchpad and laboriously fueled up for launch because it can't be stored and erected with fuel in it? Granted, all the while we twiddle our thumbs it does get gradually more and more perilous as NK does make progress.
You need to read up. SH made up his fake WMDs as deliberate policy. He actually essentially confirmed this later. He made them pretty convincing. Pretty much all intelligence worldwide was fooled. Yes, the response was just as crazy as the provocation. I thought I made all this clear.
Look, I don't know for sure if they are faked, and neither does anyone else. If they are real, all of the world leaders need to be removed and punished for allowing it to happen. But let's suppose for a moment that they ARE fake. I do know that the idea of blackmailing or threatening mass devastation using fake WMDs is evidence of either very sick (and stupid) minds indeed, or a bankrupt response policy on the part of the civilized world. We know this has been done before. Saddam Hussein did his level best in 2003 to convince the world he had WMDs and would use them. In response his military was shredded, he ended up dead, and his country was reduced to a wasteland in slow motion after his military was conquered.
Now, SH's ghost can maintain that his foolishness served its purpose, since ultimately the US was bankrupted and the US politico-strategic goals were turned into a sick twisted forlorn mess that ended in a worse outcome than the status quo ante. OTOH, SH lost his own life, his political movement was turned into an ash-heap, and most telling of all, his nation ended up in a living hell that continues.
Clearly if others nonetheless, seeing all this, choose to follow in his footsteps, something is wrong with the response to this kind of psychopathy. I can't believe that effective precision decapitation is so hard to do. In one instantaneous surgical strike, send all of the leadership to meet their maker. The US bungled doing this to SH on the eve of war. What was so hard about that? Find them and destroy them, and do it with force so much the opposite of showy that far from being shock and awe, no one in the country even realizes it has happened until you litter the whole countriside with pamphlets and everyone realizes that the reason none of their leaders show up any more is that they have been eliminated with extreme prejudice. That the entire civilized world acted as one, that they will repeat as many times as necessary, that they exercised extreme care not to harm the population, and that they did it barely lifting a finger.
Exactly the same goes for Iran. If they continue going out of their way doing their level best to convince us they are psychopathic, relieve Iran of its burden with a snap of the fingers.
We have tried the silly way, treating psychopaths like civilized human beings, and it continues to make monkeys out of us. Sure, our own cowardly leaders are afraid of the same thing being done to them, but they are fools to think they can guarantee their own oh-so-sacrosanct personal hide is protected if they only don't provoke the true psychopaths. And they bloody well should be afraid the same thing could be done to them if they themselves act like psychopaths.
TFA mentions at least one challenge. Kit in automobiles have to be built for extreme conditions (temperature range, vibrations, chemicals, dust, etc).
Hyperbole. The engine management and other systems vital to operation of the car have to meet such specifications, but infotainment systems can be mounted in the passenger compartment side of the firewall and so don't need to withstand such environmental conditions.
Fortunately you are not in charge of engineering automobile electronic systems, because you appear to know nothing of the environment there. The interior of a car sitting in the sun in the summer reaches 140 F (60 C). In the winter in northern climates it obviously reaches, oh, -40 F (-40 C). Does that sound like your living room (stereo/display) or den/basement (computer)? Doesn't sound like mine. On top of that you have bone jarring vibration on bad pavement, large G loads over potholes, all kinds of pollen if you ever roll down your windows in pollen season, periods of 100% condensing humidity or frost when the car is parked and it is raining or cools quickly outside, and so on. It is a VERY harsh environment.
Fool. The American people own their government by right spelled out in the Constitution. They can't "take over" what is theirs. Armed citizens are the ultimate last ditch the protection against the government being taken over by rogue elements. Go crawl back under your rock.
Anybody who drives a 1999-2003 VW Golf or Jetta diesel knows that the then-current EPA tests were EASY to beat for those models, and the now-current EPA tests are absurdly pessimistic. There weren't many competitors to these light models then, and still aren't, but a few are on the way. I suspect today's common rail diesels won't beat the EPA nearly as soundly as the old rotary pump VW TDI diesels did, though.
There exists a theory that the increase in temperature forces dissolved CO2 in the ocean out of solution.
Where is it supposed to go, right back into the atmosphere?
Obviously, the theory is that a rise in temperature of the oceans is the source of the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the other way round. Have you really never heard of that theory?
It is worth noting that the total amount of CO2 dissolved in the ocean is about 50 times greater than the total amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere.
Mod parent up. He has much more on the ball than most of the signed-in "contributors".
CO2 is correlated with surface environment temperature increase. Experiment suggests the former causes the latter, but I don't think it is firmly establlished. There exists a theory that the increase in temperature forces dissolved CO2 in the ocean out of solution. There are also theories that there are built-in compensating factors in the environment. I am not necessarily pushing these minority theories in this context, but they should be mentioned.
I am also mindful that plants require oxygen as well as provide oxygen. The cycle is complicated.
I am puzzled by your claim about agricultural productivity. What I am finding is that "World agricultural production grew at an average annual rate of 2.4 percent between 2001 and 2010, close to its historical average growth rate since the 1970s of 2.3 percent per year. However, recent years demonstrate a period of accelerated growth that started around 1995, which, in turn, followed more than 20 years of gradually decreasing growth rates."
Growth rates of agriculture in high income countries have slowed (thought they are still positive). Those in transition and developing countries are much higher and have not slowed. Let's face it; the production of just about all physical goods is being exported from the U.S. at a high rate.
If someone means "contaminant", let them use the word "contaminant". It's a perfectly good word, and using proper terminology will prevent misleading and prevent opening themselves to ridicule.
Merriam-Webster has a lot of definitions for "dirt". 1a. axcrement 1b. a filthy or soiling substance (as mud, dust, or grime) 1c. archaic : something worthless 1d. a contemptible person <treated me like dirt> 2. loose or packed soil or sand : earth <a mound of dirt> <a dirt road> 3a. an abject or filthy state : squalor <living in dirt> 3b corruption, chicanery <vowed to clean up the dirt in the city government> 3c. licentiousness of language or theme 3d. scandalous or malicious gossip <spreading dirt about his ex-wife> 3e. embarrassing or incriminating information <trying to dig up dirt on her political rivals>
Funny; I don't see "contaminant" anywhere in there. Let's face it, the term "dirt" is misapplied to CO2 and the reason it is used is because it is a loaded word, used for the "ewww" factor.
OK. Let's seal you in an airtight chamber with 100% pure carbon dioxide. After all, it's "clean", so it must be good for you, right?
Where did I say CO2 cannot affect you or kill you, or cannot affect the planet or conceivably kill the planet, Coward? Do try to pay attention. I know it's difficult.
Consumer discretionary -> autos and components: 4.2% How about Consumer discretionary -> retailing: 4.0% Food and consumer staples retailing: 2.9% Health care equipment & services: 4.7%
Most people think net margins are gigantic. In some sectors they are substantial, up to 20% sector-wide, but in other very important sectors they are extremely modest. Even the S&P overall is 9.0%. That means plenty of S&P 500 companies overall are below that figure.
Dirty is a stupid bullshit description of CO2. CO2 is a colorless gas. It doesn't look, smell, taste, feel, or sound like "dirt". CO2 is not even pollution in any rational sense. CO2 is food for plants.
CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is ONE of the determinants of average temperature of the surface environment. Big whoop. Warming up this damn freezer I live in is NOT being "dirty".
Parent is highly informative. Quantum theory is difficult for me to follow (and, yes, difficult for me to accept - but not impossible), and this idea did not occur to me, but it makes sense.
I don't know, my impression is that the cream is as good as the cream ever was, and the crap is as bad as the crap always was, and it is not necessary for the cream to volumetrically overcome the crap in order for it to be informative and stimulating.
...like those galaxies you mentioned, they will stop eventually, either by colliding with other galaxies or weirder things
How about things that are not weird at all? Namely, interstellar and even intergalactic space is not a perfect void. Particles are present there; not very many, but a non-zero amount. You can think of these particles as a very rare gas, and they are often described as such, but it is more a plasma, chiefly ionized hydrogen, consisting of detached protons and electrons. A thin "soup" of subatomic particles in actual fact. This soup exerts a slight slowing on moving objects such as the components of galaxies.
However we learn about perfect elasticity in chemistry classes so we already have a situation where it is agreed that particles can repel each other without loss of energy.
In science, elasticity is a phenomenon of physics, not chemistry. Yes, there is the CONCEPT of perfect elasticity, and NO, it doesn't exist in reality.
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You are perceptive. GGP is full of it if he's saying what it sounds like he is. WD Greens suck, Reds may be OK, but Blacks and RE4s are far and away the best of the domestics. OK, the only others left are Seagates, but they are all utter crap. Toshiba's new line they grabbed from Hitachi is also very good.
Yes, I know domestic and import don't mean jack any more; all of them are made in China.
IMO, not so at all. Reds may be OK, Greens suck, but Blacks and RE4's really shine, and stand head and shoulders above ANY Seagates.
For 3.5" hard drives, the only ones I trust are WD Black and RE4, and Toshiba's new line that used to be Hitachi's. WD Green is crap, Red might be OK. Seagates are all crap. Seagate appears to have trashed the excellent line they picked up from Samsung. It's very sad, because Samsung used to be at the absolute top of my list.
Things change, but Seagate being utter crap and WD's best being very good has been true for a while now.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction. Why wouldn't the contents of a nonvolatile cache be just as valid after a power cycle as it is after sleep or hibernate?
I'm completely with your starting point. The US is incredibly incompetent at knocking off the psychopaths at the top, but is pretty good (albeit at staggering cost) at liquidating huge numbers of underlings and innocents. In fact this is so much the case that I don't believe they are trying. Then you come to that whole paranoid phantasm that Saddam had a whole slew of "doubles" so how could he ever be found.
The difference with me is that I don't just accept this happy horse manure. I demand that the US smarten up.
Here's what seems like a clue to me. Countries are impoverished by wars, but the elite get rich. Why spend 100 grand to hire an assassin or send a small commando team to nail the leader when you can make the military industrial complex unimaginably rich stealing the people's money to fund a gigantic war to knock off all the pigeons? US leader after US leader, do you see my middle finger?
As for the difficulty decapitating Al Qaeda, that is clear. The network is underground and not organized too hierarchically. Also, as a collection of fanatics, new heads will just pop up instantly. Despotisms like Saddam's Iraq, North Korea, and Iran are entirely different. The headers wear UNIFORMs with MEDALs. They stick out like sore thumbs. They are extremely hierarchical, and the power structure is in it for self aggrandizement. Yes, in Iran they do harness religious fanaticism to their ends, but they are not at all similar to Al Qaeda.
Finally, do you really think NK's command structure is going to survive the elimination of the leadership and be all gung ho to retaliate and thus commit suicide? Retaliate how? With a bunch of fake missiles, or at best some ancient liquid fueled crap that sticks out like a sore thumb while it is mounted on a launchpad and laboriously fueled up for launch because it can't be stored and erected with fuel in it? Granted, all the while we twiddle our thumbs it does get gradually more and more perilous as NK does make progress.
Alas, it is you who are revisionist. Try checking the facts. Deal with it.
You need to read up. SH made up his fake WMDs as deliberate policy. He actually essentially confirmed this later. He made them pretty convincing. Pretty much all intelligence worldwide was fooled. Yes, the response was just as crazy as the provocation. I thought I made all this clear.
Look, I don't know for sure if they are faked, and neither does anyone else. If they are real, all of the world leaders need to be removed and punished for allowing it to happen. But let's suppose for a moment that they ARE fake. I do know that the idea of blackmailing or threatening mass devastation using fake WMDs is evidence of either very sick (and stupid) minds indeed, or a bankrupt response policy on the part of the civilized world. We know this has been done before. Saddam Hussein did his level best in 2003 to convince the world he had WMDs and would use them. In response his military was shredded, he ended up dead, and his country was reduced to a wasteland in slow motion after his military was conquered.
Now, SH's ghost can maintain that his foolishness served its purpose, since ultimately the US was bankrupted and the US politico-strategic goals were turned into a sick twisted forlorn mess that ended in a worse outcome than the status quo ante. OTOH, SH lost his own life, his political movement was turned into an ash-heap, and most telling of all, his nation ended up in a living hell that continues.
Clearly if others nonetheless, seeing all this, choose to follow in his footsteps, something is wrong with the response to this kind of psychopathy. I can't believe that effective precision decapitation is so hard to do. In one instantaneous surgical strike, send all of the leadership to meet their maker. The US bungled doing this to SH on the eve of war. What was so hard about that? Find them and destroy them, and do it with force so much the opposite of showy that far from being shock and awe, no one in the country even realizes it has happened until you litter the whole countriside with pamphlets and everyone realizes that the reason none of their leaders show up any more is that they have been eliminated with extreme prejudice. That the entire civilized world acted as one, that they will repeat as many times as necessary, that they exercised extreme care not to harm the population, and that they did it barely lifting a finger.
Exactly the same goes for Iran. If they continue going out of their way doing their level best to convince us they are psychopathic, relieve Iran of its burden with a snap of the fingers.
We have tried the silly way, treating psychopaths like civilized human beings, and it continues to make monkeys out of us. Sure, our own cowardly leaders are afraid of the same thing being done to them, but they are fools to think they can guarantee their own oh-so-sacrosanct personal hide is protected if they only don't provoke the true psychopaths. And they bloody well should be afraid the same thing could be done to them if they themselves act like psychopaths.
Fortunately you are not in charge of engineering automobile electronic systems, because you appear to know nothing of the environment there. The interior of a car sitting in the sun in the summer reaches 140 F (60 C). In the winter in northern climates it obviously reaches, oh, -40 F (-40 C). Does that sound like your living room (stereo/display) or den/basement (computer)? Doesn't sound like mine. On top of that you have bone jarring vibration on bad pavement, large G loads over potholes, all kinds of pollen if you ever roll down your windows in pollen season, periods of 100% condensing humidity or frost when the car is parked and it is raining or cools quickly outside, and so on. It is a VERY harsh environment.
Fool. The American people own their government by right spelled out in the Constitution. They can't "take over" what is theirs. Armed citizens are the ultimate last ditch the protection against the government being taken over by rogue elements. Go crawl back under your rock.
Anybody who drives a 1999-2003 VW Golf or Jetta diesel knows that the then-current EPA tests were EASY to beat for those models, and the now-current EPA tests are absurdly pessimistic. There weren't many competitors to these light models then, and still aren't, but a few are on the way. I suspect today's common rail diesels won't beat the EPA nearly as soundly as the old rotary pump VW TDI diesels did, though.
What the heck? That's EXACTLY what OP said. Re-read the sentence you quoted.
You can certainly make that symbolic stretch. It's rather fitting.
Obviously, the theory is that a rise in temperature of the oceans is the source of the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the other way round. Have you really never heard of that theory?
To be fair there is a counter to the theory.
It is worth noting that the total amount of CO2 dissolved in the ocean is about 50 times greater than the total amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere.
Mod parent up. He has much more on the ball than most of the signed-in "contributors".
CO2 is correlated with surface environment temperature increase. Experiment suggests the former causes the latter, but I don't think it is firmly establlished. There exists a theory that the increase in temperature forces dissolved CO2 in the ocean out of solution. There are also theories that there are built-in compensating factors in the environment. I am not necessarily pushing these minority theories in this context, but they should be mentioned.
I am also mindful that plants require oxygen as well as provide oxygen. The cycle is complicated.
I am puzzled by your claim about agricultural productivity. What I am finding is that "World agricultural production grew at an average annual rate of 2.4 percent between 2001 and 2010, close to its historical average growth rate since the 1970s of 2.3 percent per year. However, recent years demonstrate a period of accelerated growth that started around 1995, which, in turn, followed more than 20 years of gradually decreasing growth rates."
Growth rates of agriculture in high income countries have slowed (thought they are still positive). Those in transition and developing countries are much higher and have not slowed. Let's face it; the production of just about all physical goods is being exported from the U.S. at a high rate.
Twit. Ha ha, you didn't see me call you a twit. I must have not done it. I would plonk you back, but I am not an immature fool.
If someone means "contaminant", let them use the word "contaminant". It's a perfectly good word, and using proper terminology will prevent misleading and prevent opening themselves to ridicule.
Merriam-Webster has a lot of definitions for "dirt".
1a. axcrement
1b. a filthy or soiling substance (as mud, dust, or grime)
1c. archaic : something worthless
1d. a contemptible person <treated me like dirt>
2. loose or packed soil or sand : earth <a mound of dirt> <a dirt road>
3a. an abject or filthy state : squalor <living in dirt>
3b corruption, chicanery <vowed to clean up the dirt in the city government>
3c. licentiousness of language or theme
3d. scandalous or malicious gossip <spreading dirt about his ex-wife>
3e. embarrassing or incriminating information <trying to dig up dirt on her political rivals>
Funny; I don't see "contaminant" anywhere in there. Let's face it, the term "dirt" is misapplied to CO2 and the reason it is used is because it is a loaded word, used for the "ewww" factor.
Where did I say CO2 cannot affect you or kill you, or cannot affect the planet or conceivably kill the planet, Coward? Do try to pay attention. I know it's difficult.
OK, let's look at S&P 500 net profit margins by sector. The S&P 500 comprise some pretty big companies.
Consumer discretionary -> autos and components: 4.2%
How about Consumer discretionary -> retailing: 4.0%
Food and consumer staples retailing: 2.9%
Health care equipment & services: 4.7%
Most people think net margins are gigantic. In some sectors they are substantial, up to 20% sector-wide, but in other very important sectors they are extremely modest. Even the S&P overall is 9.0%. That means plenty of S&P 500 companies overall are below that figure.
There is somebody who didn't know what VAT is? Not a criticism, just an expression of abject amazement.
Dirty is a stupid bullshit description of CO2. CO2 is a colorless gas. It doesn't look, smell, taste, feel, or sound like "dirt". CO2 is not even pollution in any rational sense. CO2 is food for plants.
CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is ONE of the determinants of average temperature of the surface environment. Big whoop. Warming up this damn freezer I live in is NOT being "dirty".
Parent is highly informative. Quantum theory is difficult for me to follow (and, yes, difficult for me to accept - but not impossible), and this idea did not occur to me, but it makes sense.
I don't know, my impression is that the cream is as good as the cream ever was, and the crap is as bad as the crap always was, and it is not necessary for the cream to volumetrically overcome the crap in order for it to be informative and stimulating.
How about things that are not weird at all? Namely, interstellar and even intergalactic space is not a perfect void. Particles are present there; not very many, but a non-zero amount. You can think of these particles as a very rare gas, and they are often described as such, but it is more a plasma, chiefly ionized hydrogen, consisting of detached protons and electrons. A thin "soup" of subatomic particles in actual fact. This soup exerts a slight slowing on moving objects such as the components of galaxies.
In science, elasticity is a phenomenon of physics, not chemistry. Yes, there is the CONCEPT of perfect elasticity, and NO, it doesn't exist in reality.