Sounds like the right pricing for the component differences to me...
The smaller drive still needs an enclosure, the circuitry, the motor, and the platters. Lots of components, plus a small platter means more $/GB
The slightly lareger drive needs... an extra platter or higher density platter. So they use lots of the same components, plus one slightly more costly that really increases the density. (less average $/GB)
When you get to the extremely large drives they need more reading heads, more platters, and might be higher density platters, which aren't cheap(therefore more $/GB).
Maybe they found some bugs in it. It's happened before where Windows service packs broke more than the fixed (Winnt 4 service pack 2!). They might have found a bug in it nasty enough that they want to squash it before release. If so, the delay is a good thing. Putting out a patch that breaks boxes is not good.
Cold items cause moisture to condense. Moisture adn electricity don't mix. Always let all electronics warm up to room temperature before plugging them in.
He gave half the profits from his film "The Big One" to his hometown of Flint Michigan to help with unemployment retraining programs, etc. I know he promised to donate at least a portion of this movie's profits to a literacy program.
If he gave a rats ass about profits, he wouldn't be telling folks to go ahead and download the movie. He wants the message to get out.
You are listening to republican spin about him rather than finding out about the guy.
As a neuroscientist, I can tell you that you are wrong. The brain does age along with the body, old brains do not look like young brains. Some do age much better than others, but the same is true of the rest of the body as well. Damage from oxygen radicals happens in neurons and glia, just as it does in every other type of cell in the body.
You aren't really going to want to run your FPS games on this monitor. Even if you had some insane video card that could pump out a decent # of frames per second at that resolution.
Look at the response time in the specs: 50 ms.
EEK. usually 'slow' LCD's have ~30 ms response times. Good gaming ones have 16 ms times. Expect to see a bit of ghosting on that monitor when playing FP Shooters.
I didn't say no one should point it out. Pointing it out is fine and good. Beating a dead horse is just annoying and useless. I'm an academic myself (not of sorts, a real academic), not a coder. I'll point out problems in discussions in papers I write, but I don't rant on and on endlessly about things like this.
Point out the problem. Then suggest feasible ways to move forward if you have one. Ranting on and on in a forum like this (which is going to consist of almost entirely end-users) that someone is incorrectly using the nuances of the word 'relational' (without properly explaining it in the fist place in his rants!) is not just useless, but annoying. Just bitching over and over doesn't progress science. He likes to hear himself talk. That's about it.
Sorry, but the Third Manifesto is almost a decade old. Nothing material has come of it. Academicians all over the world are working on the problem of finding a working relational system, and companies like Oracle and MS are throwing lots of money at it. Finding a working truly relational replacement for SQL is non trivial. A lot of very bright minds have taken on the task. One day I'm sure someone will come up with one. In the meantime, folks who are in the field already understand that SQL isn't really relational. Beating the dead horse isn't making anyone's work progress any faster.
Before pissing and moaning about that fact over, and over, and over and over ad nauseum, please suggest a working system which *IS* a true relational system that we can use instead.
He can't. There isn't one that works. If there was, we would all transition to it in short order.
But there's not. He should stop the constant pissing and moaning about it, and going on and on how he is superior because he understands what 'true' relational stuff is, until he can damn well propose a WORKING alternative.
Don't worry, they don't really understand it either. Guys like this bash and bash SQL for not 'truely' being relational (and it's not, but it's the best by far that we have), but they fail miserably at proposing any workable system that *is* truely relational. It's not at all a trivial task. They'll throw a lot of theoretical stuff at you, but never show you a working product that is a feasible replacement for SQL. Tossing SQL/relational stuff into XML is going to get ugly.
That would entail knowing that a story has been posted about the subject, and from the dups and even triple postings Slashdot is renowned for, you just KNOW they haven't the slightest clue if a related story was posted before. (they don't even know if the SAME story was posted before)
You know, I think there's money to be made setting up a good alternate to slashdot where the editors actually spend a few minutes seeing what's been posted before and editing the article blurbs.
but, people who need to read the articles to see what they say and who their intended targets are before they post, never actually read the freaking articles.
Do you really hate your father-in-laws hard drive that much? Don't power off when you don't need to, just pull up task manager and end-task on IE or whatever other program has gone south.
Have you actually ever even installed Powerpoint???
There is an option you can install called pack-and-go. It makes a little executable file which will show your presentation. No Powerpoint installation needed on the machine used for the presentation. It's been in every version of powerpoint I can remember using.
That's because instead of spending funds on salary, they are spending more in secret bat-corking labs. That's the real tech in baseball. corking so the umpires can't tell.;)
I went down to ye old electronics surplus store (they have tons of junked/recycled parts) and found a few very thin aluminum heatsinks. I glue'd them togeather edge to edge. Togeather they are almost exactly the same length/width as the bottom of my laptop, and about 1/2 inch thick (most of the thickness is the ribs that stick out to increase surface area. I mounted a very thin piece of ceramic tile to the ribs. The ceramic bottom keeps all the heat away from my lap, while the aluminum helps keep the heat out of my laptop. It works well and was cheap. Since it's the same size as my laptop and only ~1/2 inch thick, it fits in my laptops bag as well if I feel like dragging it along.
Well, one of the reasons is, at one point a good bit of the campus machines on a ATM network. The backbone was all ATM, and even many desktops had ATM cards. Fiber was run all over initially just for that purpose. The transition to gigabit has happened over the last couple years.
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This is the new America. No one take personal responsibility for ANYTHING.
The smaller drive still needs an enclosure, the circuitry, the motor, and the platters. Lots of components, plus a small platter means more $/GB
The slightly lareger drive needs... an extra platter or higher density platter. So they use lots of the same components, plus one slightly more costly that really increases the density. (less average $/GB)
When you get to the extremely large drives they need more reading heads, more platters, and might be higher density platters, which aren't cheap(therefore more $/GB).
Kinda makes sense the way the pricing goes.
Maybe they found some bugs in it. It's happened before where Windows service packs broke more than the fixed (Winnt 4 service pack 2!). They might have found a bug in it nasty enough that they want to squash it before release. If so, the delay is a good thing. Putting out a patch that breaks boxes is not good.
Cold items cause moisture to condense. Moisture adn electricity don't mix. Always let all electronics warm up to room temperature before plugging them in.
Ohh, your right. I might step on something and crack it. I'll just wear my soft fluffy wool socks instead.
He gave half the profits from his film "The Big One" to his hometown of Flint Michigan to help with unemployment retraining programs, etc. I know he promised to donate at least a portion of this movie's profits to a literacy program.
If he gave a rats ass about profits, he wouldn't be telling folks to go ahead and download the movie. He wants the message to get out.
You are listening to republican spin about him rather than finding out about the guy.
As a neuroscientist, I can tell you that you are wrong. The brain does age along with the body, old brains do not look like young brains. Some do age much better than others, but the same is true of the rest of the body as well. Damage from oxygen radicals happens in neurons and glia, just as it does in every other type of cell in the body.
They've got some intersting old stuff on it.
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See their PDF.
Look at the response time in the specs: 50 ms. EEK. usually 'slow' LCD's have ~30 ms response times. Good gaming ones have 16 ms times. Expect to see a bit of ghosting on that monitor when playing FP Shooters.
Point out the problem. Then suggest feasible ways to move forward if you have one. Ranting on and on in a forum like this (which is going to consist of almost entirely end-users) that someone is incorrectly using the nuances of the word 'relational' (without properly explaining it in the fist place in his rants!) is not just useless, but annoying. Just bitching over and over doesn't progress science. He likes to hear himself talk. That's about it.
Sorry, but the Third Manifesto is almost a decade old. Nothing material has come of it. Academicians all over the world are working on the problem of finding a working relational system, and companies like Oracle and MS are throwing lots of money at it. Finding a working truly relational replacement for SQL is non trivial. A lot of very bright minds have taken on the task. One day I'm sure someone will come up with one. In the meantime, folks who are in the field already understand that SQL isn't really relational. Beating the dead horse isn't making anyone's work progress any faster.
Yes, SQL is not really relational.
Before pissing and moaning about that fact over, and over, and over and over ad nauseum, please suggest a working system which *IS* a true relational system that we can use instead.
He can't. There isn't one that works. If there was, we would all transition to it in short order.
But there's not. He should stop the constant pissing and moaning about it, and going on and on how he is superior because he understands what 'true' relational stuff is, until he can damn well propose a WORKING alternative.
Don't worry, they don't really understand it either. Guys like this bash and bash SQL for not 'truely' being relational (and it's not, but it's the best by far that we have), but they fail miserably at proposing any workable system that *is* truely relational. It's not at all a trivial task. They'll throw a lot of theoretical stuff at you, but never show you a working product that is a feasible replacement for SQL. Tossing SQL/relational stuff into XML is going to get ugly.
A firewall with one built-in nic??? I'd rather use a soekris board. http://www.soekris.com/
You know, I think there's money to be made setting up a good alternate to slashdot where the editors actually spend a few minutes seeing what's been posted before and editing the article blurbs.
but, people who need to read the articles to see what they say and who their intended targets are before they post, never actually read the freaking articles.
Do you?
Do you really hate your father-in-laws hard drive that much? Don't power off when you don't need to, just pull up task manager and end-task on IE or whatever other program has gone south.
There is an option you can install called pack-and-go. It makes a little executable file which will show your presentation. No Powerpoint installation needed on the machine used for the presentation. It's been in every version of powerpoint I can remember using.
Btw, I use pico in *nix. vi is a hog ;)
That's because instead of spending funds on salary, they are spending more in secret bat-corking labs. That's the real tech in baseball. corking so the umpires can't tell. ;)
Thanks for the links. but... Dear god, do you think there is any air-flow in that thing???
As a show of appreciation? How do you know the guys that helped catch the guy use or even care about Linux?
I went down to ye old electronics surplus store (they have tons of junked/recycled parts) and found a few very thin aluminum heatsinks. I glue'd them togeather edge to edge. Togeather they are almost exactly the same length/width as the bottom of my laptop, and about 1/2 inch thick (most of the thickness is the ribs that stick out to increase surface area. I mounted a very thin piece of ceramic tile to the ribs. The ceramic bottom keeps all the heat away from my lap, while the aluminum helps keep the heat out of my laptop. It works well and was cheap. Since it's the same size as my laptop and only ~1/2 inch thick, it fits in my laptops bag as well if I feel like dragging it along.
It's called NT4 Terminal Server... We've used it for years.
Well, one of the reasons is, at one point a good bit of the campus machines on a ATM network. The backbone was all ATM, and even many desktops had ATM cards. Fiber was run all over initially just for that purpose. The transition to gigabit has happened over the last couple years.