refuting your implicit agreement with their bullshit holds
The naive sig is stating to make sense now, pretending that something along the lines of "if this is really true, then" means full agreement is more than a little stupid. If I took gawker at face value I wouldn't have started with "From what has been written".
Democracy is a herd of sheep facing off a wolf that can arm itself better than any individual sheep can possibly do.
Read what I have written it is very simple. Semiconductors behave differently when hot and that sometimes leads to failure. There is a lot of heat input from the mechanical side of the drives. If it can't be transferred away you get hot electronics no matter what you do on the electronic side. Does that make sense yet?
Take a look at charts for semiconductor resistance versus temperature from a first year engineering materials science text to get a greater insight than the one you described above.
but still within specs
I'm pretty sure the drives in the middle of the pods are going to go well above design temperatures at times. Also your mechanical utopia has with hard disks has not arrived, far from it. Different rates of expansion with different materials are one way to ruin your day when drives get hot.
MS Office 97? There was a horrible MS Word incompatibility bug in that which meant slightly different versions with identical box labels could not open files from each other. I and a couple of others had the annoying task of reinstalling MS Word on all of the computers in a university engineering department using the same media to make sure that they would play nice together. We couldn't budget for IT staff but postgraduate students are free.
I'd actually prefer a really nice web driven office suite that runs locally however
Owncloud does that for a few file formats. It means having to run a webserver locally if you want to have a web driven office suite when you are offline though.
Ayer has also populated his movie with a few civilians who are treated terribly and ultimately punished for being bystanders, because their pesky, fragile humanity gets in the way of his orgy of death and awfulness.
That kind of sums up what happened to civilians stuck in a war zone in WWII so I really don't get what the reviewer is going on about. It sounds like he just hates the genre and would pan anything in it.
It reminds me of the book reviewer who panned Greg Egan for having too much science in his science fiction and for having aliens that were far too alien.
I have found that I tend not to enjoy DC compared to Marvel movies
I think the former is all over the place and the latter is making an effort to be consistent. Earlier I would have said that the Marvel movies were employing some talented people but Batman vs Superman has some pretty good actors that barely save it from being direct to video quality - thus the Marvel stuff is far deeper than a good cast.
The "is Superman a God or a false God" theme seemed like a mismatched piece shoved in to the movie out of left field because somebody had seen "Watchman" where it made more sense and spent far less time going on about it. The actor did what he could but IMHO it would have been a far better movie to just cut Superman out entirely. Lex too, but it could be argued as an origin story and him being very different later, at a stretch.
writing monitor to "help Microsoft track how you type"
If you had written that five years ago I'd have ranted that MS may have done some ridiculous stuff but they would never go that far. The legal implications are potentially immense but they just do not care.
There are people in my workplace that do that. The software they use most of the time is MS only with locked down copy protection and weird USB dongles so not able to be run in a VM. Some software they want to use at the same time is *nix only. While using X on MS Windows and running stuff on other machines mostly works the implementations of X for MS Windows have a few quirks so they find running a linux VM in Virtualbox a less painful way to get some things done. However the MS Windows application they run doesn't work on MS Windows 8 yet let alone 10.
because I would have associated that with being less social
I suppose it was antisocial to point out the hopelessly naive view you were pushing that I doubt you believe yourself. That individualist raised by wolves shit is romantic lunacy with no reference to reality. While a society is made up of individuals those individuals are shaped by it. "Society itself is only an illusion" - WTF? It sounds like idiotic soap opera dialogue. Why did you inflict that shit on me? From your boasts above you should know a hell of a lot better than to write shit like that.
I don't know anything about Gawker which is why I wrote "From what has been written". As for your sig, there's a Churchill quote that goes with it: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Changing things so the computers people use will work properly just like they did when they were using them on MS Windows7 and showing others how they can change things to make other people's computers work properly.
Unless you are only have one PC used for trivial uses a bunch of PCs with a Microsoft OS requires ridiculous amounts of care and feeding and are still a fragile thing that can be need to be told what to do again after events even as insignificant as the user powering off the machine too quickly.
It is said that there are no stupid questions, just people who cannot yet see what others consider blindingly obvious.
With respect Brian, I've read that some time ago (and again to make sure) and the temperatures quoted are averages for disks that have a lot of idle time so are somewhat useless information when failure is going to be due to temperature excursions. Maximums would tell us something but are not in that blog. I've seen a lot of failures in the past in poorly designed cases with drives running hot back when the WD drives were especially hot. It's not so common now but apart from the lubricants used being better able to handle heat there are still plenty of things that go wrong when a drive is operated beyond it's design maximum. With different materials expanding at different rates it should be no shock that something with very tight tolerances fails at high temperatures.
There was a lot of work done on hard disk failures due to heat in the 1990s published in some tribology journals but I'm not sure what is available online, I've been out of materials science for more than a decade and do stuff with computers now.
Within reason, most reliability studies on electronics overall curiously do not equate temperature with average failure rates
Seriously? Where did you hear that or did you make it up?
"Of course higher temps make things fail faster" common-sense things
It comes from temperature versus resistance charts, thermal expansion, lubricant breakdown at temperature (a very bit problem resulting in seized disks in the 1990s) and statistical analysis and not "common sense".
You missed the point - the rocket engines being purchased are not the current models but the older ones that the Russians have moved on from to improved versions. We are not only a step behind but paying them to be a step behind.
They have the disks at the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the middle. The ones right in the middle of the mass would get quickly cooked under the sort of loads seen elsewhere but they distribute the writes over several servers at once.
the temperature doesn't really impact the life time too much
Temperatures beyond design limits do. I've seen it several times especially back when WD drives ran very hot and some people had inadequate server cases and/or no alarms when fans died.
So basically the hard drives environment my be "hostile" for a week
It's those temperature excursions beyond the design limits that matter and not if the average is 22C instead of 20C over months. So being hostile for a week is somewhat obviously (a lot more than IMHO) likely to be why they have extremely high failure rates across the full range of brands and models (with some much higher than others but all higher than others seem to experience).
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The naive sig is stating to make sense now, pretending that something along the lines of "if this is really true, then" means full agreement is more than a little stupid. If I took gawker at face value I wouldn't have started with "From what has been written".
Democracy is a herd of sheep facing off a wolf that can arm itself better than any individual sheep can possibly do.
Read what I have written it is very simple. Semiconductors behave differently when hot and that sometimes leads to failure. There is a lot of heat input from the mechanical side of the drives. If it can't be transferred away you get hot electronics no matter what you do on the electronic side.
Does that make sense yet?
Remote area exploration of the late 1800s and early 1900s was a non-trivial driver of increased understanding of nutrition.
I'm pretty sure the drives in the middle of the pods are going to go well above design temperatures at times.
Also your mechanical utopia has with hard disks has not arrived, far from it. Different rates of expansion with different materials are one way to ruin your day when drives get hot.
MS Office 97? There was a horrible MS Word incompatibility bug in that which meant slightly different versions with identical box labels could not open files from each other. I and a couple of others had the annoying task of reinstalling MS Word on all of the computers in a university engineering department using the same media to make sure that they would play nice together. We couldn't budget for IT staff but postgraduate students are free.
Owncloud does that for a few file formats. It means having to run a webserver locally if you want to have a web driven office suite when you are offline though.
Two minutes? I thought it was Rush hour.
That kind of sums up what happened to civilians stuck in a war zone in WWII so I really don't get what the reviewer is going on about.
It sounds like he just hates the genre and would pan anything in it.
It reminds me of the book reviewer who panned Greg Egan for having too much science in his science fiction and for having aliens that were far too alien.
I think the former is all over the place and the latter is making an effort to be consistent. Earlier I would have said that the Marvel movies were employing some talented people but Batman vs Superman has some pretty good actors that barely save it from being direct to video quality - thus the Marvel stuff is far deeper than a good cast.
The "is Superman a God or a false God" theme seemed like a mismatched piece shoved in to the movie out of left field because somebody had seen "Watchman" where it made more sense and spent far less time going on about it.
The actor did what he could but IMHO it would have been a far better movie to just cut Superman out entirely.
Lex too, but it could be argued as an origin story and him being very different later, at a stretch.
Even Forrest Gump made a loss according to what the IRS and the writer were told when they came looking for money.
Hollywood accounting is "special".
Almost as good as a sleuth of bears.
If you had written that five years ago I'd have ranted that MS may have done some ridiculous stuff but they would never go that far. The legal implications are potentially immense but they just do not care.
There are people in my workplace that do that. The software they use most of the time is MS only with locked down copy protection and weird USB dongles so not able to be run in a VM. Some software they want to use at the same time is *nix only. While using X on MS Windows and running stuff on other machines mostly works the implementations of X for MS Windows have a few quirks so they find running a linux VM in Virtualbox a less painful way to get some things done.
However the MS Windows application they run doesn't work on MS Windows 8 yet let alone 10.
I suppose it was antisocial to point out the hopelessly naive view you were pushing that I doubt you believe yourself. That individualist raised by wolves shit is romantic lunacy with no reference to reality. While a society is made up of individuals those individuals are shaped by it. "Society itself is only an illusion" - WTF? It sounds like idiotic soap opera dialogue. Why did you inflict that shit on me? From your boasts above you should know a hell of a lot better than to write shit like that.
I don't know anything about Gawker which is why I wrote "From what has been written".
As for your sig, there's a Churchill quote that goes with it: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Changing things so the computers people use will work properly just like they did when they were using them on MS Windows7 and showing others how they can change things to make other people's computers work properly.
Unless you are only have one PC used for trivial uses a bunch of PCs with a Microsoft OS requires ridiculous amounts of care and feeding and are still a fragile thing that can be need to be told what to do again after events even as insignificant as the user powering off the machine too quickly.
It is said that there are no stupid questions, just people who cannot yet see what others consider blindingly obvious.
With respect Brian, I've read that some time ago (and again to make sure) and the temperatures quoted are averages for disks that have a lot of idle time so are somewhat useless information when failure is going to be due to temperature excursions. Maximums would tell us something but are not in that blog.
I've seen a lot of failures in the past in poorly designed cases with drives running hot back when the WD drives were especially hot. It's not so common now but apart from the lubricants used being better able to handle heat there are still plenty of things that go wrong when a drive is operated beyond it's design maximum. With different materials expanding at different rates it should be no shock that something with very tight tolerances fails at high temperatures.
There was a lot of work done on hard disk failures due to heat in the 1990s published in some tribology journals but I'm not sure what is available online, I've been out of materials science for more than a decade and do stuff with computers now.
Seriously? Where did you hear that or did you make it up?
It comes from temperature versus resistance charts, thermal expansion, lubricant breakdown at temperature (a very bit problem resulting in seized disks in the 1990s) and statistical analysis and not "common sense".
There was plenty of planning but the missions were cut and skylab was left to deorbit.
We don't fail to see it we regret that there is much less going on than there was.
You missed the point - the rocket engines being purchased are not the current models but the older ones that the Russians have moved on from to improved versions.
We are not only a step behind but paying them to be a step behind.
Correct, we've ceded manned spaceflight to them and most of the US space launch companies are using obsolete Russian rocket engines.
Temperatures beyond design limits do. I've seen it several times especially back when WD drives ran very hot and some people had inadequate server cases and/or no alarms when fans died.
It's those temperature excursions beyond the design limits that matter and not if the average is 22C instead of 20C over months. So being hostile for a week is somewhat obviously (a lot more than IMHO) likely to be why they have extremely high failure rates across the full range of brands and models (with some much higher than others but all higher than others seem to experience).