What about CD-RW? Practically every computer can read them and most can write them too. The discs are very cheap and you can find great deals on drives too.
Each USB port on a powered hub is supposed to provide up to 0.5A at just under 5V. The USB standard encourages designers to set current limits higher but devices still need to stay below that limit. Many devices use more power when charging and so charging them through USB would slow down charging. Some also require different voltages and so they would need to have added circuitry to convert 5V from USB to whatever voltage they need.
It's possible for someone to like a movie but not want to watch certain parts, for example due to not being able to stand blood and gore very well. Also it's possible that someone likes the whole movie but wants to watch it with their kids and doesn't want to expose them to certain parts, like maybe sex. I'm not endorsing this. I'm just saying that I'm sure that some people want to do these sorts of things.
I put together an Athlon 64 system with two 512 MB DIMMs of "Samsung" DDR400 running in dual channel mode. Memtest86 didn't find any errors but the Prime95 torture test would sometimes fail, sometimes immediately and generally within two hours. Moving around the DIMMs changed how long Prime95 could run. Eventually I noticed that the SPD gave timings which were faster than what Samsung specified for the chips. The RAM worked fine at the chips' rated timings, but I exchanged that RAM for some better and less fishy RAM.
I don't know, maybe Memtest86 would have shown errors if I ran it for a longer time but Prime95 certainly showed them more quickly. I recommend trying both Memtest86 and Prime95.
If you don't care about a nice colour screen or the ability to play video consider an Archos Gmini 220 or 120. They can play MP3 and WMA files, record MP3 files and copy files from a CompactFlash card. If you want to read other flash formats you can get a fairly inexpensive adapter. The 220 can display JPEGs but the monochrome LCD sucks. The 220 is under $200 US and the 120 is even cheaper.
The "collection agency" is called Settlement Support Center. I thought that was an unusual name and wondered if it is a company set up for the RIAA lawsuits. I guess it is and it has a bunch of lawyers which can pursue lawsuits if someone doesn't pay.
Archos music players satisfy these requirements for the most part. The only one I'm not totally sure about is number 4, though I'd probably still buy from Archos again. Some Archos MP3 players even have open source firmware which you can use instead.
I don't think you should be running Javascript in e-mail. I disable it. I even disable automatic loading of images so that someone can't automatically confirm my address if I view a message.
That would definitely work if you actually rubbed it on the platters. However, you might not be able to get it close enough to the platters of a fully assembled drive.
I don't find USB any more annoying than other connectors in that respect. With DB connectors one side is a bit shorter than the other and that isn't very obvious. PS2 mouse and keyboard connectors are circular. North American standard AC power connectors are polarized with one prong just a bit larger than the other.
I don't think the low voltage itself is that much of a problem. If necessary it can be boosted by a high efficiency switching power supply. This could also allow the batteries to be discharged very deeply.
No, you don't understand. This doesn't mean multiple layers of data.
Imagine taking a bunch of bar magnets and putting them in a chain, end to end. This is how it's normally done. Of course on a disk it's all much smaller and the magnets are just parts of the surface coating.
Perpendicular recording is like magnets that are perpendicular to the surface, meaning not end to end in a chain but with one of their poles pointing out of the surface and another pointing in.
So normal is ------- and perpendicular is |||||||. You can see how perpendicular recording can allow data to be packed in more tightly.
The article said the password was stored on the disk, not in flash memory on the board. Someone here claimed that it's stored in both. Remember, this is supposed to provide some security for your data if the disk is stolen. If swapping circuit boards "fixed" it that would be terrible security.
Gmail was announced on April 1st 2004. A lot of people wondered if that was a joke. 1 gig seemed like such a huge amount for a free e-mail service and the press release used some language one might find in a joke. I think it just gave Google extra free publicity as people wondered if it is a joke before Google clarified it. Search for "gmail april.fools" on Google for more info.
It's just a USB mass storage device. Modern OSes don't require special drivers. You just plug it in and then create directories, copy files and so on as if it was an external USB hard drive. You can then navigate this directory structure like a menu and play songs.
The Gminis do support a proprietary database format, ARCLibrary. If you create the database and enable this functionality you can use it as well as the directory structure. Archos tells you that you need to use MusicMatch Jukebox to create the library but now there's an open source program that does it.
Regarding navigation, scrolling through a long list like a list of all albums is kind of annoying. However I organize my music in a more intelligent hierarchical way and I don't have any complaints about navigation.
I do have some complaints about other things though. The Gmini 220 sometimes ignores button presses while the hard drive is being accessed. The FM remote crashes once in a while and needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. The player also sometimes skips for no good reason.
...and then I deleted all that other stuff to make more room for my iTunes purchases, and now my system won't recover.
Sure, that was modded funny but it can be a serious problem. People can also make more subtle changes that can make recovery impossible. It's also possible for viruses and other malicious software to mess things up. Viruses can also be spread this way. Fortunately they're using Linux so this is less probable.
Yes, I admit this has this has some advantages over a using a bootable CD or DVD for recovery but it also has some pretty serious disadvantages. It's nice to not have to worry about messing up the recovery software.
Yes, it is optional and that should be okay. However, too many people install things without really knowing what they're doing. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 also comes bundled with the Yahoo toolbar. My parents installed it and I had to help them get rid of it.
It's probably blame the people who install things carelessly. However, that happens and keeps happening on a large scale. Macromedia is probably counting on it. This is simillar to spyware/malware. In fact maybe the only reason why it's not thought of that way is the Yahoo brand.
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What about CD-RW? Practically every computer can read them and most can write them too. The discs are very cheap and you can find great deals on drives too.
Each USB port on a powered hub is supposed to provide up to 0.5A at just under 5V. The USB standard encourages designers to set current limits higher but devices still need to stay below that limit. Many devices use more power when charging and so charging them through USB would slow down charging. Some also require different voltages and so they would need to have added circuitry to convert 5V from USB to whatever voltage they need.
It's possible for someone to like a movie but not want to watch certain parts, for example due to not being able to stand blood and gore very well. Also it's possible that someone likes the whole movie but wants to watch it with their kids and doesn't want to expose them to certain parts, like maybe sex. I'm not endorsing this. I'm just saying that I'm sure that some people want to do these sorts of things.
I don't know, maybe Memtest86 would have shown errors if I ran it for a longer time but Prime95 certainly showed them more quickly. I recommend trying both Memtest86 and Prime95.
If you don't care about a nice colour screen or the ability to play video consider an Archos Gmini 220 or 120. They can play MP3 and WMA files, record MP3 files and copy files from a CompactFlash card. If you want to read other flash formats you can get a fairly inexpensive adapter. The 220 can display JPEGs but the monochrome LCD sucks. The 220 is under $200 US and the 120 is even cheaper.
Copper interconnects have already been used. IBM developed the technology and released PowerPC processors with copper interconnects.
The "collection agency" is called Settlement Support Center. I thought that was an unusual name and wondered if it is a company set up for the RIAA lawsuits. I guess it is and it has a bunch of lawyers which can pursue lawsuits if someone doesn't pay.
Archos music players satisfy these requirements for the most part. The only one I'm not totally sure about is number 4, though I'd probably still buy from Archos again. Some Archos MP3 players even have open source firmware which you can use instead.
I don't think you should be running Javascript in e-mail. I disable it. I even disable automatic loading of images so that someone can't automatically confirm my address if I view a message.
That would definitely work if you actually rubbed it on the platters. However, you might not be able to get it close enough to the platters of a fully assembled drive.
Nowdays Seagate has a bunch of 15000 RPM drives. Their sustained transfer rates are supposed to approach 100 megs a second.
I don't find USB any more annoying than other connectors in that respect. With DB connectors one side is a bit shorter than the other and that isn't very obvious. PS2 mouse and keyboard connectors are circular. North American standard AC power connectors are polarized with one prong just a bit larger than the other.
I don't think the low voltage itself is that much of a problem. If necessary it can be boosted by a high efficiency switching power supply. This could also allow the batteries to be discharged very deeply.
Imagine taking a bunch of bar magnets and putting them in a chain, end to end. This is how it's normally done. Of course on a disk it's all much smaller and the magnets are just parts of the surface coating.
Perpendicular recording is like magnets that are perpendicular to the surface, meaning not end to end in a chain but with one of their poles pointing out of the surface and another pointing in.
So normal is ------- and perpendicular is |||||||. You can see how perpendicular recording can allow data to be packed in more tightly.
2.88 meg 3.5" floppies use perpendicular recording.
The article said the password was stored on the disk, not in flash memory on the board. Someone here claimed that it's stored in both. Remember, this is supposed to provide some security for your data if the disk is stolen. If swapping circuit boards "fixed" it that would be terrible security.
Gmail was announced on April 1st 2004. A lot of people wondered if that was a joke. 1 gig seemed like such a huge amount for a free e-mail service and the press release used some language one might find in a joke. I think it just gave Google extra free publicity as people wondered if it is a joke before Google clarified it. Search for "gmail april.fools" on Google for more info.
The Gminis do support a proprietary database format, ARCLibrary. If you create the database and enable this functionality you can use it as well as the directory structure. Archos tells you that you need to use MusicMatch Jukebox to create the library but now there's an open source program that does it.
Regarding navigation, scrolling through a long list like a list of all albums is kind of annoying. However I organize my music in a more intelligent hierarchical way and I don't have any complaints about navigation.
I do have some complaints about other things though. The Gmini 220 sometimes ignores button presses while the hard drive is being accessed. The FM remote crashes once in a while and needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. The player also sometimes skips for no good reason.
You can get a Mac Mini for less than that.
Sure, that was modded funny but it can be a serious problem. People can also make more subtle changes that can make recovery impossible. It's also possible for viruses and other malicious software to mess things up. Viruses can also be spread this way. Fortunately they're using Linux so this is less probable.
Yes, I admit this has this has some advantages over a using a bootable CD or DVD for recovery but it also has some pretty serious disadvantages. It's nice to not have to worry about messing up the recovery software.
Yes. In fact P2P has already been applied to streaming. For example there's PeerCast P2P Radio.
You said it would be a government-supplied chip.
What about if you do the crypto in software?
It's probably blame the people who install things carelessly. However, that happens and keeps happening on a large scale. Macromedia is probably counting on it. This is simillar to spyware/malware. In fact maybe the only reason why it's not thought of that way is the Yahoo brand.