Same experience here - had an 80GB Maxtor - failed a year after purchase, got replaced under warranty, replacement failed again in a few month - couldn't be bothered anymore.
Switched to a Lacie FW drive now (what do they have inside?). And a Western Digital 20GB that came built into something is running 4 years straight with no problems (fingers crossed).
Maxtor does seem to have a very poor reliability record - look around at other comments and reviews.
Before anyone gets confused, the google toolbar stores your past searches locally (it does NOT access the google database - if it did it would be fun to reverse engineer:). By the way the same thing is built into safari (with less features) but same logic.
Yes - kind-of, I guess it's more cookie + ip based. And "Google Tracking Frequent Users" is a bit inaccurate as a title - google tracks all users (how else would they know when you have become a frequent user?) they are just displaying some of the information they gather to the frequent users (they can just as easily display it for all users since it's there anyway).
Which begs the question - how is this news except that google is finally visibly using some of the information they gather to display it to the users?
For some reason all of this reminds me of SouthPark: 105
"This is perhaps Nokia's first attempt to marry mobile phone and PDA in a lightweight and thin formfactor."
"The elephant is much too much big for Kyle to keep in the house, so he tries to bring it to school. Cartman mentions that he got a pot-bellied pig which is small enough to keep in the house"...
"Kyle plans to cross breed his elephant with Cartman's pig"... "Terrence presents a five-assed monkey and Cartman's pig gives birth. Only the result looks nothing like a elephant-pig combination..."
The best part of this is that it will be the shoddy products that can not be covered by liability insurance that will have this. And believe me, no foreign firm will get this certification.
That's why Amazon is such a valuable public service to the P2P community, with full track listings (with times, and anything you'd want for ID3 tags) and cover art!
"I'm willing to bet that an overwhelming majority of the artists that the RIAA "represents" are against this whole "let's sue our fans" thing"
I'll take that bet, and remind you of the RIAA commercials they keep on flashing during news reports on this with Britney, Christina, etc. saying that 'stealing music is wrong' (and apparently some of the stuff she had was by Christina - BBC news)
I'm sorry to disillusion you, but most of the 'artists' are there purely for the money.
Don't worry, this won't last long - we all know what happens to countries who spend too much on military R&D. And once it's over all the good scientists will be able to go to a non totalitarian country and carry on their non military research (for a while).
And in my great coutry I get to pirate music (ohhh, and believe me not just music:) without fear of prosecution, while the drop in sales because of this means that companies charge more - which YOU and your kids pay in your great coutry.
Thanks! I'll go and download another album at your expense now.
Since they paid for Kazaa (or was it just the ISP connection?) and seem to be not too computer literate, chances are when she was setting up Kazaa (c'mon all you 'parent's responsibility' people - chances are a 12 year old girl is more interested in music than her single mom) she entered her real name - so RIAA has the address + mom's name from ISP + the girl's name as the actual sharer.
All the people arguing that she is in the wrong here - is RIAA paying people to argue their point in places like this to sway opinion / show public support?
What does RIAA think about this? If you look at how many people buy the 15,000 song iPods - have as many people bought 15,000 songs, at a cost of around $15,000 (taking the price from, say, from the iTunes music store)?
More importantly, will RIAA now subpoena the list of people who bought the large iPods to prosecute them?
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aaarrrggghhhh, It's a curse
/goes to look inside case
Same experience here - had an 80GB Maxtor - failed a year after purchase, got replaced under warranty, replacement failed again in a few month - couldn't be bothered anymore.
Switched to a Lacie FW drive now (what do they have inside?). And a Western Digital 20GB that came built into something is running 4 years straight with no problems (fingers crossed).
Maxtor does seem to have a very poor reliability record - look around at other comments and reviews.
This is exactly why the multicolored bills are needed - the problem of $02 dollar bills has simply become too big.
Are you suggesting they are trying to count the candle trucks?
Before anyone gets confused, the google toolbar stores your past searches locally (it does NOT access the google database - if it did it would be fun to reverse engineer :). By the way the same thing is built into safari (with less features) but same logic.
Yes - kind-of, I guess it's more cookie + ip based. And "Google Tracking Frequent Users" is a bit inaccurate as a title - google tracks all users (how else would they know when you have become a frequent user?) they are just displaying some of the information they gather to the frequent users (they can just as easily display it for all users since it's there anyway).
Which begs the question - how is this news except that google is finally visibly using some of the information they gather to display it to the users?
If it's running on Cingular's network I wouldn't be worried though.
For some reason all of this reminds me of SouthPark: 105
...
"Kyle plans to cross breed his elephant with Cartman's pig" ... "Terrence presents a five-assed monkey and Cartman's pig gives birth. Only the result looks nothing like a elephant-pig combination..."
"This is perhaps Nokia's first attempt to marry mobile phone and PDA in a lightweight and thin formfactor."
"The elephant is much too much big for Kyle to keep in the house, so he tries to bring it to school. Cartman mentions that he got a pot-bellied pig which is small enough to keep in the house"
Why oh why are 3G phones so ugly...
1. Eat less.
2. Shit more.
So, every state has the same number of people in it as Cali?
With just as big an IT economy/market (probably a better measure for the size of a potential settlement than population)?
I realize the parent post was probably intended as funny, but the mod's don't seem to ("Interesting" - wtf?)
Regardless, doesn't MS have about 45 billion in cash?
True, but what is this? Has everyone who has anything to do with music caught rabies recently at one of their conventions or something?
The best part of this is that it will be the shoddy products that can not be covered by liability insurance that will have this. And believe me, no foreign firm will get this certification.
That's why Amazon is such a valuable public service to the P2P community, with full track listings (with times, and anything you'd want for ID3 tags) and cover art!
"I'm willing to bet that an overwhelming majority of the artists that the RIAA "represents" are against this whole "let's sue our fans" thing"
I'll take that bet, and remind you of the RIAA commercials they keep on flashing during news reports on this with Britney, Christina, etc. saying that 'stealing music is wrong' (and apparently some of the stuff she had was by Christina - BBC news)
I'm sorry to disillusion you, but most of the 'artists' are there purely for the money.
No, the great firewall already picks those out - that was done long ago since it was a higher priority.
Sorry, I just can't see how pretty much the same comment is always insightful.
Sorry, Patriot Act doesn't apply to me :P
/checks if been 'liberated' yet
...yet
Don't worry, this won't last long - we all know what happens to countries who spend too much on military R&D. And once it's over all the good scientists will be able to go to a non totalitarian country and carry on their non military research (for a while).
And in my great coutry I get to pirate music (ohhh, and believe me not just music :) without fear of prosecution, while the drop in sales because of this means that companies charge more - which YOU and your kids pay in your great coutry.
Thanks! I'll go and download another album at your expense now.
Since they paid for Kazaa (or was it just the ISP connection?) and seem to be not too computer literate, chances are when she was setting up Kazaa (c'mon all you 'parent's responsibility' people - chances are a 12 year old girl is more interested in music than her single mom) she entered her real name - so RIAA has the address + mom's name from ISP + the girl's name as the actual sharer.
All the people arguing that she is in the wrong here - is RIAA paying people to argue their point in places like this to sway opinion / show public support?
Someone remind me, was Cuba on the axis of evil list? If not - they better add it fast, and quickly line it up for a liberation!
Their sugar production could be very lucrative if this takes off.
Also, now the Al Jazeera mention makes sense - sugar cane doesn't grow in the middle east.
For some reason this reminds me of eXistenZ, and then there's the Al Jazeera mention...
Well, as long as it doesn't bite.
What does RIAA think about this? If you look at how many people buy the 15,000 song iPods - have as many people bought 15,000 songs, at a cost of around $15,000 (taking the price from, say, from the iTunes music store)?
More importantly, will RIAA now subpoena the list of people who bought the large iPods to prosecute them?
Please don't go to either of these, and if you already are - come back now. I hear there is a good change of dying at either of these two conventions.
I was considering where to a a PHd - this definitely settles it in favor of CMU!
This stairway anywhere near the Maths department?
The way you put it... I'm just too excited!
This should have been written on the front page!