WrenIII drives did this. High performance ESDI drives, all of 160 meg and the size of two CD-Rom drives stacked up. Still have mine.
Ahh the memories of opening a debug 0x000zzzzz session to the controller and defining all the format data manually: 62, 63, or 64 sectors per track (0,1,or 2 spare sectors), 128, 256, or 512K sectors.... those were the days.
bearings are easy to deal with. I have a turbo pump that spins at 35Krpm, uses a ruby bearing. The thing is loud when it starts up, but soon falls totally silent as it pumps all the air out of the system. To get the remaining air out once it's mechanically evacuated the air we add LN2 to the jacket, and turn on an ion pump to push the atmosphere molecules towards the impeller. Damn fine vacuum that produces. Useless for hard drives, as far as Bernoulli goes, but useful on the bearing side.
my bank aggregates all that stuff in one place. I have one SSL log in (to my bank), one link to get to all the bills. My bank won't e-mail me the PDFs because e-mail is not secure. I can download PDFs from the site though. I tell my bank how much to pay, whether it's recurring or not, etc. -nB
while I realize this is a corner case: My 83 diesel benz, once started can run without electricity of any kind. As a result, I could start my car at home, disconnect the battery, and off I go (at least during the day). Also, I can start the car direct from the battery and starter solenoid contacts, without powering the dash.
1 buy old Benz or other mechanical injection diesel 2 ??? 3 profit by way of reduced tax bill.
And do you know how much Nikon wants if you don't want the Bayer filter on your D80? Last time I asked I was referred to their scientific department... (IOW too damn expensive).
Related: does anyone know if this filter is removable (and by extension who offers that service?) -nB
While not guaranteed to be paid, you and your coworker have a legal _right_ to vote. Your employer is required to give you two hours off (traditionally at the beginning or end of your shift) to go vote. Since I work nearly an hour from my polling place, I simply leave 2 hours before the polls close (if I'm on 12's). If your employer even verbally chastises you for this (assuming you informed them you're going to go vote), then you can bring it up to the voting office and likely won't have to work for quite a while with the resulting lawsuit. Granted, I like voting by mail, and like I said voting doesn't guarantee you pay for those hours... -nB
I do a software test for my candidates. I hand them a small (40 line) program that is broken. Since most of my work involves code maintenance it's real world enough.
I tell them up front that the object is not to fix the code per-se, but rather to walk me through them debugging it. I've hired guys who couldn't solve the problem because they showed enough promise that I wasn't worried that I could train them, and it was obvious that they could think well.
We have a total of 4 hands on tests. Three on hardware, one on software (R&D lab). Worked out well for us so far. -nB
it's irrelevant. the fine should be in relation to the malfeasance not the size of the company.
Or are you saying that massive company A who gets it's hands on small company B's customer list deserves a bigger fine than small company Y lifting the designs for big company Z's latest design?
P.s. I love the disparity between Mods on this thread. Clearly someone has an army... oh well burn Karma, Burn!
Any examples you care to give about > $1.45B fines to EU companies?
And, no I do not believe these companies deserved the sanctions. Notice I don't cite the MS sanction as unfair. I think it was fair.
Fact is most of the points I've brought up are about dragging feet on mergers. That does more harm than the fines do.
What about the point where a German court found with the US company, yet the EC forced licensing to the smaller company, even though they entered the market much later and didn't have to do the ground work.
The chair of the EC at the time was well known for the opinion that no company should hold greater than 50% market share no matter what the reason. I'm sorry but I can't accept that.
Someone else noted that the US has done this in the past (relating to flash/DRAM memory), and yes it has. I make no bones that the US is blameless, but the EC looks to be much more aggressive about it.
As to the presentation of one side, I believe that's how it works isn't it? I present my side, you present yours. So far all you've done is call me out on my opinion and waved your hands at any point I bring up.
And now to live up to the expectations that us Yanks will resort to ad hominim when we are out of anything else to say: You pinko commie socialistic [ra ra ra etcetera etcetera on and on]
largest fine in history (by ~2x) is no difference to what is handed to member country companies? Wow...
GE/Honeywell and Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, both of which were approved in the U.S. but either died in the E.U. or were substantially affected by E.U. pre-merger conditions.
how about that NDC Health (EU) infringed on the (C) of IMS Health (US) in Germany, and while the German courts found in favor of IMS, the EC forces IMS to license the portion of technology/software under scrutiny.
I assume this will not meet with your approval either and that's just fine. I'll not sling mud about it but I do disagree greatly with your opinion. I think the EC is protectionist to the extreme, and I think that's fine. I think the US should force Airbus to give Boeing their flight software in the interest of making all planes safer, after all, it's better for the consumer. Right? -nB
how about that the fines levied against American companies are extortionist? $1.5B against Intel for something that wasn't even illegal at the time it was done? Without looking at evidence presented by the defense? Dragging feet on mergers like this, but having little issue when a EU firm is acquiring tech from an American company (Intel's sell-off of flash to SST, an Italian company).
I could dig more, but at this point it's not worth it as I've already been flagged troll... -nB
I've been through 3 M&As they are _NOT_ fun. However, there is a period of time in each one where you can better your situation appreciably as long as you approach the situation properly (how this is I hold as a trade secret).
So far I quit one job as a result of merger, bettered my situation as a result of the second (quite well), and then for the third I was cut and re-hired ?!? by the parent company, all without separating my employment with them (new, better yet, job though).
Slashdot Mirror
right then...
$workingFluid =~ s/helium/sulpherhexaflouride/ig;
this is a reply to the wrong post :(
should have been a reply to the "smoke/dust post further above...
WrenIII drives did this.
High performance ESDI drives, all of 160 meg and the size of two CD-Rom drives stacked up.
Still have mine.
Ahh the memories of opening a debug 0x000zzzzz session to the controller and defining all the format data manually:
62, 63, or 64 sectors per track (0,1,or 2 spare sectors), 128, 256, or 512K sectors....
those were the days.
bearings are easy to deal with.
I have a turbo pump that spins at 35Krpm, uses a ruby bearing. The thing is loud when it starts up, but soon falls totally silent as it pumps all the air out of the system.
To get the remaining air out once it's mechanically evacuated the air we add LN2 to the jacket, and turn on an ion pump to push the atmosphere molecules towards the impeller. Damn fine vacuum that produces. Useless for hard drives, as far as Bernoulli goes, but useful on the bearing side.
there are these things called filters.
They work pretty well.
like helium perhaps?
or lower the viscosity of the working fluid by operating under partial vacuum?
-nB
an EMP pulse causes hard drives that are off
technically? yes.
-nB
My descendants you insensitive clod ;)
my bank aggregates all that stuff in one place.
I have one SSL log in (to my bank), one link to get to all the bills.
My bank won't e-mail me the PDFs because e-mail is not secure. I can download PDFs from the site though.
I tell my bank how much to pay, whether it's recurring or not, etc.
-nB
while I realize this is a corner case:
My 83 diesel benz, once started can run without electricity of any kind. As a result, I could start my car at home, disconnect the battery, and off I go (at least during the day). Also, I can start the car direct from the battery and starter solenoid contacts, without powering the dash.
1 buy old Benz or other mechanical injection diesel
2 ???
3 profit by way of reduced tax bill.
much farther.
The plates are visible, the RFID is not.
Another option is to put electronic toll readers everywhere and make their use compulsory. This seems like an expensive solution, however.
In essence that is what this is.
Toll booths + fastpass is just as easy to track as these would be.
-nB
no shit. who'da thought.
nice catch...
I'm covering my face, not to hide my identity, but because I think wearing this mask is funny...
I promise.
-nB
And do you know how much Nikon wants if you don't want the Bayer filter on your D80?
Last time I asked I was referred to their scientific department... (IOW too damn expensive).
Related: does anyone know if this filter is removable (and by extension who offers that service?)
-nB
While not guaranteed to be paid, you and your coworker have a legal _right_ to vote. Your employer is required to give you two hours off (traditionally at the beginning or end of your shift) to go vote. Since I work nearly an hour from my polling place, I simply leave 2 hours before the polls close (if I'm on 12's). If your employer even verbally chastises you for this (assuming you informed them you're going to go vote), then you can bring it up to the voting office and likely won't have to work for quite a while with the resulting lawsuit. Granted, I like voting by mail, and like I said voting doesn't guarantee you pay for those hours...
-nB
Yes, because next comes ad-hominim and then with the use of the strawman, we're at burningman.
-nB
I do a software test for my candidates.
I hand them a small (40 line) program that is broken. Since most of my work involves code maintenance it's real world enough.
I tell them up front that the object is not to fix the code per-se, but rather to walk me through them debugging it. I've hired guys who couldn't solve the problem because they showed enough promise that I wasn't worried that I could train them, and it was obvious that they could think well.
We have a total of 4 hands on tests. Three on hardware, one on software (R&D lab). Worked out well for us so far.
-nB
it's irrelevant.
the fine should be in relation to the malfeasance not the size of the company.
Or are you saying that massive company A who gets it's hands on small company B's customer list deserves a bigger fine than small company Y lifting the designs for big company Z's latest design?
P.s. I love the disparity between Mods on this thread. Clearly someone has an army...
oh well burn Karma, Burn!
Any examples you care to give about > $1.45B fines to EU companies?
And, no I do not believe these companies deserved the sanctions. Notice I don't cite the MS sanction as unfair. I think it was fair.
Fact is most of the points I've brought up are about dragging feet on mergers. That does more harm than the fines do.
What about the point where a German court found with the US company, yet the EC forced licensing to the smaller company, even though they entered the market much later and didn't have to do the ground work.
The chair of the EC at the time was well known for the opinion that no company should hold greater than 50% market share no matter what the reason. I'm sorry but I can't accept that.
Someone else noted that the US has done this in the past (relating to flash/DRAM memory), and yes it has. I make no bones that the US is blameless, but the EC looks to be much more aggressive about it.
As to the presentation of one side, I believe that's how it works isn't it? I present my side, you present yours. So far all you've done is call me out on my opinion and waved your hands at any point I bring up.
And now to live up to the expectations that us Yanks will resort to ad hominim when we are out of anything else to say: You pinko commie socialistic [ra ra ra etcetera etcetera on and on]
Cheers,
-nB
largest fine in history (by ~2x) is no difference to what is handed to member country companies?
Wow...
GE/Honeywell and Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, both of which were approved in the U.S. but either died in the E.U. or were substantially affected by E.U. pre-merger conditions.
how about that NDC Health (EU) infringed on the (C) of IMS Health (US) in Germany, and while the German courts found in favor of IMS, the EC forces IMS to license the portion of technology/software under scrutiny.
I assume this will not meet with your approval either and that's just fine. I'll not sling mud about it but I do disagree greatly with your opinion. I think the EC is protectionist to the extreme, and I think that's fine. I think the US should force Airbus to give Boeing their flight software in the interest of making all planes safer, after all, it's better for the consumer. Right?
-nB
how about that the fines levied against American companies are extortionist?
$1.5B against Intel for something that wasn't even illegal at the time it was done? Without looking at evidence presented by the defense?
Dragging feet on mergers like this, but having little issue when a EU firm is acquiring tech from an American company (Intel's sell-off of flash to SST, an Italian company).
I could dig more, but at this point it's not worth it as I've already been flagged troll...
-nB
I've been through 3 M&As they are _NOT_ fun.
However, there is a period of time in each one where you can better your situation appreciably as long as you approach the situation properly (how this is I hold as a trade secret).
So far I quit one job as a result of merger, bettered my situation as a result of the second (quite well), and then for the third I was cut and re-hired ?!? by the parent company, all without separating my employment with them (new, better yet, job though).
Sorry, but it really does seem to get off on abusing American firms.
Wow.
Just... wow.