To be fair, I have 2 of these exact drives that have been running pretty much 24/7/365 since about 2001-02, and in mid-2004, one crashed on me. It was backed up though so no biggy, but I still consider Seagate to make one of the best drives. Seagates I have a 1 80, 1 120, and 3 160s. I recently bought a WD2000JBRTL (Western Digital 200 GB, got it for really cheap) and it compares quite nicely except it only has a 1 year warranty, which pales in comparison to Seagate's 5 yr warranty.
They are getting cheaper. Last year it was basically $1 per gigabyte. Just a week ago I bought a drive for.34 cents per gigabyte and another for.47 cents per gigabyte. These were 200 GB drives. It seems drives are at roughly.75 cents per gigabyte if you go with smaller drives (40 - 80 GB) or with the latest drives (300 - 400 GB). Get the commodity drive that everyone is going after and they will be just as cheap.
I can see your gripe that a 40GB drive should run about $10 by now (.25 cents per GB), but 40GB is worthless for me when I consider a) buy better products lead to better progress, and b) it's inefficient to use a lot of toxins (in hard drives) to produce a small drive, when you use about the same with a larger drive. Therefore, you are dealing with purchasing legacy for a lot, efficient for a little, or research (latest) for a lot.
It is just as hackable. It's called science or social engineering. It's pretty popular. Some of the hacks include making it possible to move from New York to London in only a few hours rather than a few months, or a steam engine that can horse power without the horses. Who woulda thought of horseless carriages. When are wheels on their way out? They work good because the proportion of surface area friction is low when in motion. Is there a better motion? Is there better material that results in low friction and high traction? Are there better things than even wheels that minimize friction such as the friction between gases and solids rather than solid/solid such as in design of aerodynamics and cost efficiency of propellant? Or even in using other forces other than solid/solid pushing to repel gravity, a la magnet train? Or are forces nonetheless matter if you move it down small enough and it is only our manipulation like one gets away from programming in assembly by doing it in java? Hacks are ever the more cloudy as interests divert from even understanding them.
But not all hacks are as time consuming, but they depend mostly on if the majority participate in hacking or wanting to live the "easy and simple" life. Money is not as such a big problem as it is just a place keeper. It not holding much place in science means most people aren't into hacking life. WTF?
Re:Seriously... Why would you use this?
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That's great to only use open source, but if there is no opensource program for what you want to do, what do you do? Wait? Write your own? These may be fine ideas, fundamentally, but certainly not pragmatically.
Luckily, the GIMP is a useable program, and if you don't want to use PS, you probably don't have to, but that's not the issue. If PS is better for the job, even considering its price, it makes sense to use it.
ERROR: illegal logic operation
That's great for you to only eat mexican food, but if there is no mexican food that satifies what you're hungry for, what do you do? Wait? Cultivate your own crop? These may be fine ideas fundamentally, but certainly not pragmatically.
Luckily, quesadillas are eatable, and if you don't want to eat QSs, you probably don't have to, but that's not the issue. If quesadillas satisfy your hunger better, even considering if they cost 650% over tacos, it makes sense to use it.
Or wait, maybe money is a function of cost to use it, not just its feature set.
Then you restrict regular users or guest logins, assuming you have XP Pro or 2000Pro, with admin options. Restrict run (WINDOWS-R), access from start menu, and reg access.
Although admittedly it is much easier and powerful to administer a linux kiosk machine.
Which blows my mind as to WHY they chose to do it thisway.
Well, considering Tom Hanks plays five characters in the movie Polar Express, I'm guessing shot in the bone and flesh would have been a bit more daunting. Tom Hanks is brilliant, Zemeckis has said that to find a little boy with Hanks' skills and to keep the kid from growing during those two years of shooting would be difficult.
My big problem with the movie, based on the trailers, is that they just adapted the graphical style of Van Allsburg to animation.
Not only did they try adapting the graphical style, they recreated each picture from the book exactly in various frames throughout the movie. I am sure someone extremely attached to the original book may be able to pick this up. If they don't, I suspect they will find it an extremely drawing movie without really knowing why. The director said this was done out of respect for Van Allsburg original work. So yeah, damn straight they just adapted the graphical style. That was the whole point.
Any true geek should know pricewatch. Isn't it like a rite of passage or something into geekdom? Like when you turn 15 and finally qualify for a bank account and get that debit card that works like a Visa card?
Well anyway, pricewatch shows a 2100+ for $105 (93+12s/h) from maincomp. Although it doesn't have a network card... Now no way am I endorsing maincomp. In fact, there are a lot of companies on pricewatch with I approach with a bit of skepticism. Thankfully every transaction I have made has been no sig issues.
It gets difficult to gauge the actual source due of credit because your source got them from another source ad infinitum. Of course by pointing them away from you, you direct attention to the next in line. I'm guessing the amount of heat produced from such an event would start to cause the ice sheets to melt, so maybe this isn't such a great idea...
Er, what? The US dollar is worth the same everywhere in the world.
Correction, the US dollar is worth the same everywhere in the world when spent in the US.
Currently the exchange rate of US dollar to the euro is 1:.80. Now the dollar would be worth the same as it is worth in the US if products would also be adjusted for the relative price increase/decrease, but given there are more than two currencies in the world, that is not feasible.
I figured the flight to be $800 here so I was close. I was too lazy to look it up. It's not the same there because purchasing power is different due to inflation. Although it wouldn't probably be 800*6.2~$5000, it wouldn't be the same either.
The world is not perfect. Economics suck. There is no clear path. The Mexcian Peso crisis of 1995 where the dollar had a fixed peg to the dollar shows one example, and Russian ruble crisis during the early 90s demonstrates removing price controls which shows how inflation works pretty much over night.
So while people may be equal, nations, and their economies, are not.
Mod this down please. This poster is pretty naieve about how the world works. That's why there are all those trade rules and what not. It is the reason why sweat shops exist. Wage is relative. Money is relative. So many massive depressions around the world has been as a result of pegging a nation's currency to another nation's whose is stronger. Don't get drawn in by the topical socialist message "all people are equal." I mean that's true, that's obvious. But the decisions those people make, and thus nations, are not equal. Zimbabwe for instance hit an inflation point of about 620% increase of January of this year. $10,000 wouldn't be shit for him. The plane ticket to America where his money would be worth something would cost him damn near $5,000 US dollars alone.
You're an ego-centric grad student who needs to get off his high horse. You say so yourself, "but more importantly [...] that the best way to live is by being kind to each other." If you aren't informed enough by theories of time and space, don't say they don't exist. That is irresponsible. You cannot have read every view possible on the subject. Ask for clarification. God damn I hate people who are so damn hypocritical. They say, I'm religous, or everyone should be kind to each other, but then go ahead and pull this kind of shit when no one's looking it. I personally don't ascribe to that ideal of niceness or courtesy as I can clearly see people like yourself do exist, and there ain't much I can do to rectify that.
I was wondering what the case would be like if you were to pounce on the issue before it came common. Like the correlation of mail spam to email spam was difficult with the introduction to computers and the unsavvyness of of its users would IP phone be different with people ready? I'm thinking how nations all over the world will be embracing this, will a significant increase in participation make it more unlikely to occur if we are made aware of the implications.
I'm just saying that as of now it is pretty much dry ground with nary a spam in sight. But if it should start up, would we, as a world, be in position to attack the spammers in force (I'm thinking active agression), or would it be more passive aggression like they say in the article. Maybe this time around we'll be better prepared technically, as well as psychologically?...
In addition, he is obviously hesitant of the capabilities.
A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m diameter mirrors would
far outperform the Hubble Space Telescope, and could be built at a tiny fraction of its cost, says a scientist from the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia.
But then is quoted as saying near the end of the article
"With this simple telescope you could do the exquisite imaging that the extremely large telescopes plan to do, at a fraction of their cost" Dr. Saunders said. "But, unlike them, this telescope would also be a great survey instrument,
able to map the whole sky with Hubble-like clarity."
So I'm guessing the reporter was out at the bar with him and a few of his buddies the previous night and that's basically what the drunken banter amounted to... Oh yah oughta see it mate, wicked fly it is. Far better than those American gahooneys at NASA can do...
lol, morals are human-defined so there is always a "right" and "wrong" and they will always have to be disputed.
It is unintelligent to not critique an action that will prove directly beneficial to the person partaking in the act. It should be recognized that this industry is the same industry he is in. That is what debate/discussion is, looking at various points of view. Of course slashdot has a slant and to be honest, that's why I come here. I got a lot of the pop perspective from those other moving pieces of matter I happen to bump into in that thing called RealLife. If that comment wasn't made, or yours, I wouldn't be coming here. I like the perspective, not that it's right or wrong mind you. Thanks for your comment.
Funny thing about Carnegie Mellon -- there's a lot of people there who spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and refer to it as the "evil empire,"
Hmm, not to try turn this political or go off-topic, but when you said that I thought of Iraq and how there is a lot of people there (and in the region) who spell United States similarily and also refer to it as the "evil empire." Perhaps it is all relative, but I think MS's motives might run in parallel to what the United States did to Iraq. Dismantling hate in the middle of a region of where that hate resides might work in both situations it seems. What with geeks "looking up to" CM and anti-US sentiment stemming from that whole middle-eastern region. Of course $20 million is a bit different than $87 (300?) billion.
Re:Playing the lottery is not stupid at all.
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You mean that the more stupid people you get playing these games the lower my taxes are? By all means, keep playing!... unless you might think they realize your lack of intelligence and then spend it irresponsibly, say the drug war where they can hire their brother-in-law as executive chief of prevention get-nowhere to make their sister happy by wadding his check?
Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
And section 2319 of title 18 states:
(b)
Any person who commits an offense under section 506(a)(1) of title 17 -
(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.
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Any person who commits an offense under section 506(a)(2) of title 17, United States Code -
(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 3 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution of 10 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of $2,500 or more;
(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 6 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000.
Innovation comes in step which is mostly due to having to recoup development costs. The component price of a personal aircraft benefit from using a cheap fuel source or at least a source with proven compenents like an engine that would not have to entirely redeveloped for aerial travel like an electrical engine. So what is *really* important like safety mechanisms can be established.
This doesn't say that you will disband fuel efficient tech. Rather a technology will become better efficient wise as a technology matures and mistakes are learnt from. Afterall, you wouldn't be saying China should be embargoed because of their recent spike in oil demand and expect them to be using a UN-specified percentage of fuel efficient cars within their boundary.
It's like the maglev train china decided to go and build. The only problem was who it was going to service with the price being a bit high for that middle class chinese citizen. Quoting myself from a post in an earlier article, "one trip costing roughly 1/20th of one person's income for a month." That demonstrates the sociological implications of investing in a technology, but also environmental as in this post says Price conscious people takes the bus to major transportation hubs, and convenience / time consicous people takes the taxi (which is only like 15 dollars compared to 10 dollars that the maglev costs - besides the point that the other end station is nowhere near the city and you have to take a cab anyway so it's not that much faster).
Which basically says that as long as the tech is defined to profitable areas like the airport and downtown it can remain cheap and less the cost of other tech. But what happens when you need to get somewhere else and that issue of human convenience comes up?
I think it is a matter of trade-offs. That and allowing engineers to work on interesting problems.
I wouldn't say newsworthy. Reportable though maybe. In that case, the darwin awards are in the scene covering those who do the gene pool the biggest favor by removing themselves from the planet in an extraordinary and stupid way.
get off your elitist pipehorse please, the guy making that comment is just stating that as observation (which is entirely interesting). not asserting that is impossible.
but given this was modded up so strongly, when exactly do people these days get introduced into the theories of relativity? a 100 year old solution too i might add. i guess that's rhetorical. it does disappoint me to some extent. it seems all it takes is a free saturday night from the brew and tele. but wait, i'm throwing oxymorons here left and right, don't we all here have that free saturday night? well maybe i should have said one sat night could be spared from that weekend, all-night quakefest.
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To be fair, I have 2 of these exact drives that have been running pretty much 24/7/365 since about 2001-02, and in mid-2004, one crashed on me. It was backed up though so no biggy, but I still consider Seagate to make one of the best drives. Seagates I have a 1 80, 1 120, and 3 160s. I recently bought a WD2000JBRTL (Western Digital 200 GB, got it for really cheap) and it compares quite nicely except it only has a 1 year warranty, which pales in comparison to Seagate's 5 yr warranty.
I can see your gripe that a 40GB drive should run about $10 by now (.25 cents per GB), but 40GB is worthless for me when I consider a) buy better products lead to better progress, and b) it's inefficient to use a lot of toxins (in hard drives) to produce a small drive, when you use about the same with a larger drive. Therefore, you are dealing with purchasing legacy for a lot, efficient for a little, or research (latest) for a lot.
It is just as hackable. It's called science or social engineering. It's pretty popular. Some of the hacks include making it possible to move from New York to London in only a few hours rather than a few months, or a steam engine that can horse power without the horses. Who woulda thought of horseless carriages. When are wheels on their way out? They work good because the proportion of surface area friction is low when in motion. Is there a better motion? Is there better material that results in low friction and high traction? Are there better things than even wheels that minimize friction such as the friction between gases and solids rather than solid/solid such as in design of aerodynamics and cost efficiency of propellant? Or even in using other forces other than solid/solid pushing to repel gravity, a la magnet train? Or are forces nonetheless matter if you move it down small enough and it is only our manipulation like one gets away from programming in assembly by doing it in java? Hacks are ever the more cloudy as interests divert from even understanding them.
But not all hacks are as time consuming, but they depend mostly on if the majority participate in hacking or wanting to live the "easy and simple" life. Money is not as such a big problem as it is just a place keeper. It not holding much place in science means most people aren't into hacking life. WTF?
ERROR: illegal logic operation
That's great for you to only eat mexican food, but if there is no mexican food that satifies what you're hungry for, what do you do? Wait? Cultivate your own crop? These may be fine ideas fundamentally, but certainly not pragmatically.
Luckily, quesadillas are eatable, and if you don't want to eat QSs, you probably don't have to, but that's not the issue. If quesadillas satisfy your hunger better, even considering if they cost 650% over tacos, it makes sense to use it.
Or wait, maybe money is a function of cost to use it, not just its feature set.
And I'm such a dork that rather than use it for traffic, I use it to watch the sunset.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154780/
Then you restrict regular users or guest logins, assuming you have XP Pro or 2000Pro, with admin options. Restrict run (WINDOWS-R), access from start menu, and reg access.
Although admittedly it is much easier and powerful to administer a linux kiosk machine.
Well, considering Tom Hanks plays five characters in the movie Polar Express, I'm guessing shot in the bone and flesh would have been a bit more daunting. Tom Hanks is brilliant, Zemeckis has said that to find a little boy with Hanks' skills and to keep the kid from growing during those two years of shooting would be difficult.
Not only did they try adapting the graphical style, they recreated each picture from the book exactly in various frames throughout the movie. I am sure someone extremely attached to the original book may be able to pick this up. If they don't, I suspect they will find it an extremely drawing movie without really knowing why. The director said this was done out of respect for Van Allsburg original work. So yeah, damn straight they just adapted the graphical style. That was the whole point.
Well anyway, pricewatch shows a 2100+ for $105 (93+12s/h) from maincomp. Although it doesn't have a network card ... Now no way am I endorsing maincomp. In fact, there are a lot of companies on pricewatch with I approach with a bit of skepticism. Thankfully every transaction I have made has been no sig issues.
It gets difficult to gauge the actual source due of credit because your source got them from another source ad infinitum. Of course by pointing them away from you, you direct attention to the next in line. I'm guessing the amount of heat produced from such an event would start to cause the ice sheets to melt, so maybe this isn't such a great idea ...
Correction, the US dollar is worth the same everywhere in the world when spent in the US.
Currently the exchange rate of US dollar to the euro is 1:.80. Now the dollar would be worth the same as it is worth in the US if products would also be adjusted for the relative price increase/decrease, but given there are more than two currencies in the world, that is not feasible.
I figured the flight to be $800 here so I was close. I was too lazy to look it up. It's not the same there because purchasing power is different due to inflation. Although it wouldn't probably be 800*6.2~$5000, it wouldn't be the same either.
The world is not perfect. Economics suck. There is no clear path. The Mexcian Peso crisis of 1995 where the dollar had a fixed peg to the dollar shows one example, and Russian ruble crisis during the early 90s demonstrates removing price controls which shows how inflation works pretty much over night.
So while people may be equal, nations, and their economies, are not.
Mod this down please. This poster is pretty naieve about how the world works. That's why there are all those trade rules and what not. It is the reason why sweat shops exist. Wage is relative. Money is relative. So many massive depressions around the world has been as a result of pegging a nation's currency to another nation's whose is stronger. Don't get drawn in by the topical socialist message "all people are equal." I mean that's true, that's obvious. But the decisions those people make, and thus nations, are not equal. Zimbabwe for instance hit an inflation point of about 620% increase of January of this year. $10,000 wouldn't be shit for him. The plane ticket to America where his money would be worth something would cost him damn near $5,000 US dollars alone.
CSPAN. I mean it's politics. Shouldn't it be obvious where it's at?
You're an ego-centric grad student who needs to get off his high horse. You say so yourself, "but more importantly [...] that the best way to live is by being kind to each other." If you aren't informed enough by theories of time and space, don't say they don't exist. That is irresponsible. You cannot have read every view possible on the subject. Ask for clarification. God damn I hate people who are so damn hypocritical. They say, I'm religous, or everyone should be kind to each other, but then go ahead and pull this kind of shit when no one's looking it. I personally don't ascribe to that ideal of niceness or courtesy as I can clearly see people like yourself do exist, and there ain't much I can do to rectify that.
I was wondering what the case would be like if you were to pounce on the issue before it came common. Like the correlation of mail spam to email spam was difficult with the introduction to computers and the unsavvyness of of its users would IP phone be different with people ready? I'm thinking how nations all over the world will be embracing this, will a significant increase in participation make it more unlikely to occur if we are made aware of the implications.
...
I'm just saying that as of now it is pretty much dry ground with nary a spam in sight. But if it should start up, would we, as a world, be in position to attack the spammers in force (I'm thinking active agression), or would it be more passive aggression like they say in the article. Maybe this time around we'll be better prepared technically, as well as psychologically?
But then is quoted as saying near the end of the article
So I'm guessing the reporter was out at the bar with him and a few of his buddies the previous night and that's basically what the drunken banter amounted to ... Oh yah oughta see it mate, wicked fly it is. Far better than those American gahooneys at NASA can do ...
lol, morals are human-defined so there is always a "right" and "wrong" and they will always have to be disputed.
It is unintelligent to not critique an action that will prove directly beneficial to the person partaking in the act. It should be recognized that this industry is the same industry he is in. That is what debate/discussion is, looking at various points of view. Of course slashdot has a slant and to be honest, that's why I come here. I got a lot of the pop perspective from those other moving pieces of matter I happen to bump into in that thing called RealLife. If that comment wasn't made, or yours, I wouldn't be coming here. I like the perspective, not that it's right or wrong mind you. Thanks for your comment.
Hmm, not to try turn this political or go off-topic, but when you said that I thought of Iraq and how there is a lot of people there (and in the region) who spell United States similarily and also refer to it as the "evil empire." Perhaps it is all relative, but I think MS's motives might run in parallel to what the United States did to Iraq. Dismantling hate in the middle of a region of where that hate resides might work in both situations it seems. What with geeks "looking up to" CM and anti-US sentiment stemming from that whole middle-eastern region. Of course $20 million is a bit different than $87 (300?) billion.
You mean that the more stupid people you get playing these games the lower my taxes are? By all means, keep playing! ... unless you might think they realize your lack of intelligence and then spend it irresponsibly, say the drug war where they can hire their brother-in-law as executive chief of prevention get-nowhere to make their sister happy by wadding his check?
That's not true. See the above thread ... 17 U.S.C 506 sec a.
Over $1000 in damages becomes a federal offence.
And section 2319 of title 18 states:
(b)
(c)
This doesn't say that you will disband fuel efficient tech. Rather a technology will become better efficient wise as a technology matures and mistakes are learnt from. Afterall, you wouldn't be saying China should be embargoed because of their recent spike in oil demand and expect them to be using a UN-specified percentage of fuel efficient cars within their boundary.
It's like the maglev train china decided to go and build. The only problem was who it was going to service with the price being a bit high for that middle class chinese citizen. Quoting myself from a post in an earlier article, "one trip costing roughly 1/20th of one person's income for a month." That demonstrates the sociological implications of investing in a technology, but also environmental as in this post says Price conscious people takes the bus to major transportation hubs, and convenience / time consicous people takes the taxi (which is only like 15 dollars compared to 10 dollars that the maglev costs - besides the point that the other end station is nowhere near the city and you have to take a cab anyway so it's not that much faster).
Which basically says that as long as the tech is defined to profitable areas like the airport and downtown it can remain cheap and less the cost of other tech. But what happens when you need to get somewhere else and that issue of human convenience comes up?
I think it is a matter of trade-offs. That and allowing engineers to work on interesting problems.
Educate yourself, http://anotherguy.com/darwin.html or http://www.darwinawards.com
And you have angered your own god for acknowledging his god.
it seems it's at 60 by default
get off your elitist pipehorse please, the guy making that comment is just stating that as observation (which is entirely interesting). not asserting that is impossible.
but given this was modded up so strongly, when exactly do people these days get introduced into the theories of relativity? a 100 year old solution too i might add. i guess that's rhetorical. it does disappoint me to some extent. it seems all it takes is a free saturday night from the brew and tele. but wait, i'm throwing oxymorons here left and right, don't we all here have that free saturday night? well maybe i should have said one sat night could be spared from that weekend, all-night quakefest.
yeah, sorry for stringing along the stereotype.