totally agree. A good solution would be tohave both the new connector and the Molex on the disk or cd/dvd, expecially since now there's enough space for that.
A connector that slides easily is perfect for hot-swappable, external drives (drives in disc enclosures), but it's not the best idea for an internal drive. In a disc enclosure, the drive is kept in place using levers and other mechanical means, while the connectors are mounted on a fixed surface or rail. Internal drives (expecially in PCs) don't have such a rail, so the cable would be freely "floating" from the drive. OK, I'm paranoid, but I just don't like it. Provide me with both connectors on the drive, and I'm happy.
Thanks. But I guess a standard power connector could be provided on the drive, alongside with the new one. So if the drive will be internal, one could use the standard connector, instead of having to use this abomination of a powerconnector adapter. I am a bit paranoid about daisy-chaining power cords.
As I see this technology, it's the poor man's Fibre-channel. Seriously, it improves on (parallel) ATA the same way as Fibre-channel improves on SCSI: it increases throughput, it increases scalability and it drasticly increases flexibility and manageability.
Well, to be completely honest, Fibre-channel is much more sophisticated than SATA, having actually a (double) ring topology, storage-area networking (you have Fibre-channel hubs and switches), support for up to 10.000 m distances between devices and up to 400 MB/s (that's megabytes per second), diverse physical-layer techs (copper included) etc. etc. But you pay for it dearly, of course.
Ummm... what's the deal with the special power con
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Why the new connector? After all, it does plug, ultimately, in a standard ATX power supply. And they even provide a conversion cable ( == less reliable).
a halflife of a few thousand years And much more, even. There was stuff like stronzium and plutonium there.. but nuclear decay wasn't really what I meant, either. I was thinking about the diffusion of the radioactive elements in the environment, which disperses them in the surrounding area. After all, the dust that has propagated in the clouds is finite, and it's small compared to the material in reactor 4, which I consider a focal point/source of radioactive elements, and was expecting to see the radioactive "patch" mostly around that.
Could it be that the picture was taken shortly after the meltdown? Besides, makes me wonder how exactly do they map the radioactivity in such a large area, with such a precision?
Chernobyl is actually quite an interesting subject It is, isn't it? It was/is a great tragedy, but maybe we have an opportunity to learn much from it.
I did not expect Godzilla. Actually, I never saw any of those Godzilla movies - except the trailer (that's why I decided not to see the movies).
Yes, resistence to radiation is the necessary pre-requisite for these organisms, to be able to perhaps develop other mutations. Useful? Well, -if- our overgrown skull is the result of such a mutation, then it has been a useful one, from the point of view of dominating the other species. Whether we're heading in a good direction overall, I don't know...
Wouldn't that have been cleared after all these years? I understand the area around the reactor, which is a constant source of radioactive material, being so large, but the other spot, too?
Really interesting map nonetheless. Thanks, do you have any other info?
On the map the link to you posted, shows basically two patches: one around Chernobyl, and the other nort-east of it. What's that other patch, whre did it come from?
I wasn't talking about the people: they were evacuated to a safe distance. That's why I was mentioning the animals, who were exposed to the radiation all the time.
I still think we might find some surprise in the wildlife around that reactor.
I have been thinking about this for a very long time: since we have this exclusion area around the reactor since 1986, animals were exposed to the radioactivity and no doubt, many died. But did any survive? Did the radioactivity produce some major genetical changes (some believe that the increase of cranial capacity in the Homo Sapiens was due to mutations from increased gamma rays)?
Hey, I used Daemon Tools with a couple of images of game CDs, but my problem was that the music tracks woulnd't play. Sure, these tracks were ripped, but the games just wouldn't play them.
Wow, great news! In all sincerity, I was expecting some ambitious law firm to tackle the issue, thank you for finally showing me that it's actually happening. I hope these Milberg Weiss guys are as "bad" as their fame suggests.
Incidently, does possessing one of those silver-colored discs (avoiding here to call them CDs) entitle you for a portion of the possible punitive charges?
Maybe if you inform yourself of a few facts before posting you won't seem like such a zealous idiot.
And with this ad hominem attack you have quickly disqualified yourself and your posts, in my eyes. If you attack the person instead of sticking to the issue, you show that you lack confidence in your own arguments. I have learned to trust this simple rule: if someone attacks the person (usually slandering him/her, like you did), his/her arguments are weak and the person attacked is usually right.
I was under the impression N.N. was a straightforward, honest-to-God (so to say) RTS!? Well, not that you changed my mind regarding my decision -not- to buy it, but I find it good to know, anyway.
I usually just keep the guy who handles the game section in the shop (they're surprisingly knowledgeable here in Finland), but obviously, I would rather know that before I go out to shop. Not to talk about wanting to buy the stuff online.
thanks for the tip.
Real-time VS. Turn-based ?!
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I have read the sites, the nominees and the winners, but what I find confusing, with regards to the strategy games, is that none of these sites makes it clear whether a strategy game is turn.based or real-time. For me that's hugely important, because I stopped liking real-time strategy games a few years ago. I got slow (eh.. the age) and more impatient with RTS games. And I know at least one more guy like me in my town;o) so there is at least some segment of the market that would really like a clear information about the kind of strategy game at hand. Note that most of the time not even the box/cover of the game spells it out clearly whether it's RTS or turn-based.
My question, finally, is: is there a gamer's site that lists strategy games and has an appropriate designation whether a game is RTS or turn-based? It seems that perhaps there's a lot of fine strategy games out there, except for the Civiliation and HOMM series - the ones to which I'm sticking, for now...
I'm using version 5.5, it could be that 6.0 cleaned up the web interface quite a bit. Even in 5.5, it doesn't suck as bad as Exchange's web UI, but it still pales in comparison to the Groupwise client.
Wait a minute... you just badmouthed the GroupWise web-UI, because you were comparing it to the native client? Don't you think that's just a bit unfair? I have been using Outlook WebAccess for a long time, and I am quite familiar with GroupWise, too. I compare web-GUI to web-GUI and am convinced that Outlook WebAccess sux - in comparison with GroupWise. Yes, I agree that it's still far from what the native client can do, but give it some credit.
OK, now to the point of server-side support: This link is pretty informative, and tells you that you can use NetWare 5 or 6 or Windows NT/Windows 2000 (emphasys mine).
I hope I have dispelled at least a little bit of missunderstanding.
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totally agree. A good solution would be tohave both the new connector and the Molex on the disk or cd/dvd, expecially since now there's enough space for that.
A connector that slides easily is perfect for hot-swappable, external drives (drives in disc enclosures), but it's not the best idea for an internal drive. In a disc enclosure, the drive is kept in place using levers and other mechanical means, while the connectors are mounted on a fixed surface or rail. Internal drives (expecially in PCs) don't have such a rail, so the cable would be freely "floating" from the drive. OK, I'm paranoid, but I just don't like it.
Provide me with both connectors on the drive, and I'm happy.
Thanks.
But I guess a standard power connector could be provided on the drive, alongside with the new one. So if the drive will be internal, one could use the standard connector, instead of having to use this abomination of a powerconnector adapter. I am a bit paranoid about daisy-chaining power cords.
As I see this technology, it's the poor man's Fibre-channel. Seriously, it improves on (parallel) ATA the same way as Fibre-channel improves on SCSI: it increases throughput, it increases scalability and it drasticly increases flexibility and manageability.
Well, to be completely honest, Fibre-channel is much more sophisticated than SATA, having actually a (double) ring topology, storage-area networking (you have Fibre-channel hubs and switches), support for up to 10.000 m distances between devices and up to 400 MB/s (that's megabytes per second), diverse physical-layer techs (copper included) etc. etc. But you pay for it dearly, of course.
Why the new connector? After all, it does plug, ultimately, in a standard ATX power supply. And they even provide a conversion cable ( == less reliable).
a halflife of a few thousand years And much more, even. There was stuff like stronzium and plutonium there.. but nuclear decay wasn't really what I meant, either. I was thinking about the diffusion of the radioactive elements in the environment, which disperses them in the surrounding area. After all, the dust that has propagated in the clouds is finite, and it's small compared to the material in reactor 4, which I consider a focal point/source of radioactive elements, and was expecting to see the radioactive "patch" mostly around that.
Could it be that the picture was taken shortly after the meltdown? Besides, makes me wonder how exactly do they map the radioactivity in such a large area, with such a precision?
Chernobyl is actually quite an interesting subject
It is, isn't it? It was/is a great tragedy, but maybe we have an opportunity to learn much from it.
I did not expect Godzilla. Actually, I never saw any of those Godzilla movies - except the trailer (that's why I decided not to see the movies).
Yes, resistence to radiation is the necessary pre-requisite for these organisms, to be able to perhaps develop other mutations. Useful? Well, -if- our overgrown skull is the result of such a mutation, then it has been a useful one, from the point of view of dominating the other species. Whether we're heading in a good direction overall, I don't know...
Wouldn't that have been cleared after all these years? I understand the area around the reactor, which is a constant source of radioactive material, being so large, but the other spot, too?
Really interesting map nonetheless. Thanks, do you have any other info?
On the map the link to you posted, shows basically two patches: one around Chernobyl, and the other nort-east of it. What's that other patch, whre did it come from?
Sounds interesting. Do you remember any keywords that could help me do a search on the 'net? Was it a TV documentary, and if yes, who prepared it?
I wasn't talking about the people: they were evacuated to a safe distance. That's why I was mentioning the animals, who were exposed to the radiation all the time.
I still think we might find some surprise in the wildlife around that reactor.
Yes, and those are, of course, excluded from the gene pool. I was talking of those who survived and didn't become sterile.
I have been thinking about this for a very long time: since we have this exclusion area around the reactor since 1986, animals were exposed to the radioactivity and no doubt, many died. But did any survive? Did the radioactivity produce some major genetical changes (some believe that the increase of cranial capacity in the Homo Sapiens was due to mutations from increased gamma rays)?
1/10? There's a slight problem with your math. The Samsung plasma screen retails at around 4000 US$.
Hey, I used Daemon Tools with a couple of images of game CDs, but my problem was that the music tracks woulnd't play. Sure, these tracks were ripped, but the games just wouldn't play them.
Wow, great news! In all sincerity, I was expecting some ambitious law firm to tackle the issue, thank you for finally showing me that it's actually happening. I hope these Milberg Weiss guys are as "bad" as their fame suggests.
Incidently, does possessing one of those silver-colored discs (avoiding here to call them CDs) entitle you for a portion of the possible punitive charges?
Sorry to break it to you, but that joke "has a long beard" :o)
Maybe if you inform yourself of a few facts before posting you won't seem like such a zealous idiot.
And with this ad hominem attack you have quickly disqualified yourself and your posts, in my eyes. If you attack the person instead of sticking to the issue, you show that you lack confidence in your own arguments. I have learned to trust this simple rule: if someone attacks the person (usually slandering him/her, like you did), his/her arguments are weak and the person attacked is usually right.
('cause I'm not), so I have a reasonably good chance to keep my fingers.
I was under the impression N.N. was a straightforward, honest-to-God (so to say) RTS!? Well, not that you changed my mind regarding my decision -not- to buy it, but I find it good to know, anyway.
I'll try that one.
I usually just keep the guy who handles the game section in the shop (they're surprisingly knowledgeable here in Finland), but obviously, I would rather know that before I go out to shop. Not to talk about wanting to buy the stuff online.
thanks for the tip.
I have read the sites, the nominees and the winners, but what I find confusing, with regards to the strategy games, is that none of these sites makes it clear whether a strategy game is turn.based or real-time. For me that's hugely important, because I stopped liking real-time strategy games a few years ago. I got slow (eh.. the age) and more impatient with RTS games. And I know at least one more guy like me in my town ;o) so there is at least some segment of the market that would really like a clear information about the kind of strategy game at hand. Note that most of the time not even the box/cover of the game spells it out clearly whether it's RTS or turn-based.
My question, finally, is: is there a gamer's site that lists strategy games and has an appropriate designation whether a game is RTS or turn-based? It seems that perhaps there's a lot of fine strategy games out there, except for the Civiliation and HOMM series - the ones to which I'm sticking, for now...
I bet. Just ask one of those Hellreiser cenobites with the CDs stuck in his skull.
..for a webcam, replace trasparent cylinder with two green Kermit-the-Frog-like legs, and you get Mike Wazovski from Monsters inc.
I'm using version 5.5, it could be that 6.0 cleaned up the web interface quite a bit. Even in 5.5, it doesn't suck as bad as Exchange's web UI, but it still pales in comparison to the Groupwise client.
Wait a minute... you just badmouthed the GroupWise web-UI, because you were comparing it to the native client? Don't you think that's just a bit unfair? I have been using Outlook WebAccess for a long time, and I am quite familiar with GroupWise, too. I compare web-GUI to web-GUI and am convinced that Outlook WebAccess sux - in comparison with GroupWise. Yes, I agree that it's still far from what the native client can do, but give it some credit.
OK, now to the point of server-side support: This link is pretty informative, and tells you that you can use NetWare 5 or 6 or Windows NT/Windows 2000 (emphasys mine).
I hope I have dispelled at least a little bit of missunderstanding.
cheers!