A two platter disk does not have a higher transfer rate then a single platter disk! Only one head is used for reading at a time. I can know I have had a 20 GB version of the Quantum Fireball Plus AS 60GB tested in the march 2001 article it has the same transfer rate and seeks slightly faster because it has less heads to move. If you actually has taken the time to read the articles you would have noticed that the seagate was the only 100 GB/platter drive in the test the other drives had lower densities. You would also have noticed that the fastest disk in the notebook test was actually a 60 GB 7200 rpm disk and even that one can hardly keep up with the old 20 GB 7200 RPM fireball I have had.
1) The read performance graph gives you the min, avg and max sequential transfer for the disk tested. Min is at the inside, max is at the outside. 2) What do you define as seek time? The access time given on tom's hardware page is the time of positioning the head and waiting for the data to pass. Which is AFAIK the most common measurement used.
Maybe you do not think its fair to compaire notebook disks from dec 2004 with 3.5" disks from feb 2004, how about these from march 2003
3.5 even the Maxtor D740X with 40 GB capacity is faster. Lets try some older models
march 2001. Lets see they still have a slight advantage even with only 20 GB the platter. But who compaires disks from march 2001 with disks from december 2004?
And it's not anywhere near being ready to replace Microsoft Office, but I guess they've only had 10 years...
Let me tell a true story, about two years ago we started at work to write a manul for the software we produce. This manual had to contain many screen shots. We used styles extensively to keep lay-out under control but we allready had one problem. There seemed to be no way to get Word to behave well with the images. We wanted the images to stay with the paragraphs they belonged to but this caused Word to often shift them outside the margins (how stupid can a program be?).
I also remember a small problem with references and captions under images but can't remember the details. Anyway the BIG problem was when Word decided to replace all images with a red cross (really a very nice program Word). So I decided an alternative was needed. I made a list of features we actually needed. Searched for alternatives on the web and which programs do you think ended as candidates? Word Perfect and Open Office. Both could do what we wanted and in the end Open Office won because it was easier to learn. Ofcourse many things were different but it did import our existing word documents quite well.
I admit Open Office looks ugly but who cares as long as it works better. Ofcourse it will take some effort to switch for instance the style mechanisme is more complex but thats because it can do lots of things Word can't.
"Our early analysis indicates that Finjan's claims are potentially misleading and possibly erroneous regarding the breadth and severity of the alleged vulnerabilities in Windows XP SP2," the Microsoft statement said.
There are no stable and development branches anymore. For kernel 2.4 the development branche was 2.5 but there will be no 2.7 development branch for 2.6
Still this only works when sombody calls the emergency number. However there could be someone in the cinema like a surgeon who needs to be able to receive emergency calls! Such a basestation would not recognize such calls.
In dutch it would be just a plain triljoen. The english word is trillion but I can't verify in my British dictionary if that applies also to those exaggerating american's who seem to think that 10^9 allready is a billion.
First of all, if you look at sourceforge stats, the top languages are C, C++, and Java, so if Graham is right and these languages are vastly less productive than Perl and Python (whose only common characteristic is they are both "scripting languages"), he's very wrong that open source programmers working on their own time are better judges of language power than others.
What have the sourceforge numbers got to do with it? Do you think each opensource programmer is a great hacker? I don't think so... Not that I want to say perl or python is better then C, C++. Its just that your argument is invalid.
Its more like that it is not done to call yourself a hacker unless other hackers do so. Thus if you try to become a hacker you try to achieve qualities which will make other hackers call you a hacker.
I read in the report that you have used 40-wire IDE cables for the ATA100 devices. ATA100 devices definitly need 80-wire cables to give optimal performance with a 40-wire cable you get ATA33. Ofcourse it mainly affects the burst rate as the sustained transfer lies much lower.
This shows why truly redundant systems should be build using a mixture of different hardware and software developed by independend teams. This would reduce the risk of all devices being hit by the same problem.
Only for a part. Ofcourse the site is a bit limited but the point is that there are too many sites which have too much graphical nonsense distracting from the real content of the site.
A lot of webdesigner should take a lot at this site. It's clear, has no distracting elements, is fast to download and serves it's purpose perfectly. Unlike many other sites out there.
If you had actually taken a GOOD look at the graphs on this site you would have noticed that the browser graph has the following caption:
Web Browsers Used to Access Google
March 2001 - May 2004
As the article is talking about the last month (june) you couldn't really expect it to show up. However you are right that 1 percent will not be very obvious on the graph.
If it was because of mozilla's features people would have been switching a long time agoo. Ofcourse it is thanks to mozilla features that people do not switch to such an ugly browser as Opera.
To all Opera users! Don't flame me because I do not like Opera, if you like Opera just continue using it your on the right track...
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Did you know you actually got it partly right? He got nine years because he was masking his identity! From the article:
Under Virginia law, sending unsolicited bulk e-mail itself is not a crime unless the sender masks his identity.
Yet, only 39% knew what a "Trojan" was when asked.
A Trojan is a malicious piece of software which installs itself on a person's computer without their knowledge.
Wrong, a Trojan is a program which is installed by the user because he thinks it does something he needs/wants but actually does something else!
I'd love to moderate your post but sarcasm is a missing option...
A two platter disk does not have a higher transfer rate then a single platter disk! Only one head is used for reading at a time. I can know I have had a 20 GB version of the Quantum Fireball Plus AS 60GB tested in the march 2001 article it has the same transfer rate and seeks slightly faster because it has less heads to move. If you actually has taken the time to read the articles you would have noticed that the seagate was the only 100 GB/platter drive in the test the other drives had lower densities. You would also have noticed that the fastest disk in the notebook test was actually a 60 GB 7200 rpm disk and even that one can hardly keep up with the old 20 GB 7200 RPM fireball I have had.
1) The read performance graph gives you the min, avg and max sequential transfer for the disk tested. Min is at the inside, max is at the outside. 2) What do you define as seek time? The access time given on tom's hardware page is the time of positioning the head and waiting for the data to pass. Which is AFAIK the most common measurement used.
Maybe you do not think its fair to compaire notebook disks from dec 2004 with 3.5" disks from feb 2004, how about these from march 2003 3.5 even the Maxtor D740X with 40 GB capacity is faster. Lets try some older models march 2001. Lets see they still have a slight advantage even with only 20 GB the platter. But who compaires disks from march 2001 with disks from december 2004?
These benchmarks do not support his claims: Notebook
Desktop
Strategy refers to the method of writing not to the durability of the CD.
Actually I considered LaTeX and especially DocBook but I didn't think I could convince my co-workers of their merits.
And it's not anywhere near being ready to replace Microsoft Office, but I guess they've only had 10 years...
Let me tell a true story, about two years ago we started at work to write a manul for the software we produce. This manual had to contain many screen shots. We used styles extensively to keep lay-out under control but we allready had one problem. There seemed to be no way to get Word to behave well with the images. We wanted the images to stay with the paragraphs they belonged to but this caused Word to often shift them outside the margins (how stupid can a program be?).
I also remember a small problem with references and captions under images but can't remember the details. Anyway the BIG problem was when Word decided to replace all images with a red cross (really a very nice program Word). So I decided an alternative was needed. I made a list of features we actually needed. Searched for alternatives on the web and which programs do you think ended as candidates? Word Perfect and Open Office. Both could do what we wanted and in the end Open Office won because it was easier to learn. Ofcourse many things were different but it did import our existing word documents quite well.
I admit Open Office looks ugly but who cares as long as it works better. Ofcourse it will take some effort to switch for instance the style mechanisme is more complex but thats because it can do lots of things Word can't.
Maybe that's why microsoft said:"
"Our early analysis indicates that Finjan's claims are potentially misleading and possibly erroneous regarding the breadth and severity of the alleged vulnerabilities in Windows XP SP2," the Microsoft statement said.
Which do you mean? These two are included in part 1: Olympus MR 500i and MR100
The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it."
It ain't, its: "If it moves, emerge it."
There are no stable and development branches anymore. For kernel 2.4 the development branche was 2.5 but there will be no 2.7 development branch for 2.6
Still this only works when sombody calls the emergency number. However there could be someone in the cinema like a surgeon who needs to be able to receive emergency calls! Such a basestation would not recognize such calls.
looking at... pictures of sailboats. Yeah... pictures of sailboats
Yeah, taken on hot summer day's with female crews I guess...
In dutch it would be just a plain triljoen. The english word is trillion but I can't verify in my British dictionary if that applies also to those exaggerating american's who seem to think that 10^9 allready is a billion.
First of all, if you look at sourceforge stats, the top languages are C, C++, and Java, so if Graham is right and these languages are vastly less productive than Perl and Python (whose only common characteristic is they are both "scripting languages"), he's very wrong that open source programmers working on their own time are better judges of language power than others.
What have the sourceforge numbers got to do with it? Do you think each opensource programmer is a great hacker? I don't think so... Not that I want to say perl or python is better then C, C++. Its just that your argument is invalid.
Its more like that it is not done to call yourself a hacker unless other hackers do so. Thus if you try to become a hacker you try to achieve qualities which will make other hackers call you a hacker.
Where did the first hackers come from?
I read in the report that you have used 40-wire IDE cables for the ATA100 devices. ATA100 devices definitly need 80-wire cables to give optimal performance with a 40-wire cable you get ATA33. Ofcourse it mainly affects the burst rate as the sustained transfer lies much lower.
This shows why truly redundant systems should be build using a mixture of different hardware and software developed by independend teams. This would reduce the risk of all devices being hit by the same problem.
Only for a part. Ofcourse the site is a bit limited but the point is that there are too many sites which have too much graphical nonsense distracting from the real content of the site.
A lot of webdesigner should take a lot at this site. It's clear, has no distracting elements, is fast to download and serves it's purpose perfectly. Unlike many other sites out there.
That's still better then being an anonymous coward!
If you had actually taken a GOOD look at the graphs on this site you would have noticed that the browser graph has the following caption:
Web Browsers Used to Access Google
March 2001 - May 2004
As the article is talking about the last month (june) you couldn't really expect it to show up. However you are right that 1 percent will not be very obvious on the graph.
If it was because of mozilla's features people would have been switching a long time agoo. Ofcourse it is thanks to mozilla features that people do not switch to such an ugly browser as Opera.
To all Opera users! Don't flame me because I do not like Opera, if you like Opera just continue using it your on the right track...