I've been told that it's often cheaper for the construction companies to ignore the cable plans if they're low voltage cables and just go about their work and pay the fines. Now, I could be wrong and feel free to correct me, but I've heard that the added cost of working around the cables and planning around the burrocracy of some Telecom companies can cost well past the cost of the fines levied to the construction company for breaking the lines. Plus, it's not their customer they're affecting, if anything their customer could be happier since the job often gets done faster since it's an emergency fix now for the telco rather than an outside request that they can fill whenever they feel like it (probably pertains to road construction more than other types.)
I wouldn't go so far as to say he lied, the only "infactuality" I've seen reported in the movie is some video footage of an NRA rally shown as an example which was not filmed at the exact rally he was talking about. Nothing in the sample footage related to the story other than to show a sample of a NRA rally. While it was misleading to show footage of one rally while talking about another, neither the content of the footage nor the events at the rally seemed to be much the subject, but the fact there was a rally was the point I believed him to be getting at and showing a sample of Charlton Heston (sp?) headding a rally explained why he went to him personally to ask about it.
(I did a little research when an in-law cited the infactuality in a "conversation" about it.)
I was hoping someone was going to bring this up, most of his movies are generally more against stupidity, fear and paranoia rather than against some inamimate object. He often also points out how our elected officials rarely vote or act for an actual cause and usually more for political gain instead as well as news media outlets often going more for a spectacle rather than to inform the public of the truth, whether it be by omission or reporting editorial as fact. (wait, editorial as fact, I would think that would describe the "Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine" comment well.)
Right, the big thing here is the tooling to punch the codes in to sheet metal or solid metal parts. The tooling is set up to punch certain length codes, just adding another number isn't as simple as just putting another punch on the rack, the whole mechanism would need to be changed in most situations.
I also had what seemed to be codec erros while trying to download, but it turned out to be just the data stream for the actual file stopping. I downloaded via a BitTorrent and I got the file just fine.
I'd hate for it to turn in to a list of people to give up on because they fit a section that's likely to drop out anyway. Kind of how you might stop wattering a plant that's going to die anyway.
I actually put "Geek" on my business cards. I own a computer business that does general on-site service calls, and for lack of a good all-encompasing term, I thought just simple "Geek" worked well, and my customers seem to take to it well. When I'm at a customer's site and someone asks who I am I tell them I'm "The Geek On Call." Never yet have I had someone not know what that means, of course I'm usually either crawling under a desk, fiddling in a network closet, or working on a machine (inside or out,) although the first time someone hears it once in a while I'll get a slight chuckle, which also works well to lighten the mood.
I run a similar setup (limited to 512 because of Chipset, thanks Intel for limiting your 815 chipset to 512) and have found myself using lots of virtual memory when I have 15 IE windows up, 10 explorer windows, 4 instant messengers, winamp and a few other incidentals and I decide it's a good time to bring up Photoshop.
I'm a messy packrat at home, might as well practice the same on my pc.
I would have to agrue against the statement that it's just a SCSI cage with SATA electronics in place. This drive was designed to also be somewhat cooler than other 10kRPM server drives as evidenced by the StorageReview tests. It also seems to be much quieter as well which also helps to lend itself towards workstation use as well as smaller servers that may share living quarters with office space with real working people (rather than a datacenter with mainly other servers as neighbors who don't really care about the noise.)
This seems to be basically a "professional" version of a regular hard drive, a niche that's been needing a good fill.
Read the article please. This drive is meant to replace SCSI drives in large storage systems.
That statement from the article is opinion fueled by a WesternDigital marketing rep. I'm sure this drive will find it's way in to many systems from servers, to high end workstations, to Jhonny-too-much-money's game machine. This is also an engineering sample of a product in development which happens to have one platter. There's not much stopping WD from simply adding more platters to increase capacity.
It used to be, probably for the last 20 years or so, it was the household VCR that generally landed the crown for most precicely milled equipment in a house or business (the internal head inside the spinning drum has to have exactly the right gap, which for the last 10 years or so has been 19 microns.)
Spindle speed and areal density have a give and take relationship, faster spindle = less areal density being the data can only be reliably read so fast by a generation of drive head and disk platter technology. Improving the head and platter designs gives you higher areal density at a given spindle speed, and sometimes a higher top spindle speed, but increasing that spindle speed will quickly reduce your areal density, sometimes to the point that the spindle speed increase can actually lower your sequential read and write speeds.
more areal density generally produces: -faster sequential reads and writes -higher capacities
faster spindle speed generally produces: -faster sequential reads and writes -less rotational latency -lower areal density = lower drive capacities -more noise -more heat
Of course there are excpetions to these attributes, but generally they are cause and effect.
In general your big fast 15k SCSI drives aren't always that fast in big sequential read/write tests, at least not reletive to their spindle speed, but they generally fly in random small read/write scenarios being they're generally designed for servers and most servers require that kind of data transfer and that's where the shorter rotational latency is going to really help.
Like my HP LaserJet II that just finally died. I seriously doubt the Brother Laser I just bought will last 15 years like the HP, but then again, it was about 1/10th the price.
If you wanted to talk about an annoying bus why not bring up VLB bus. I've killed more boards by incorrect VLB settings than anything else I can think of.
You want loud, I used to have 4 5.25" full height (that's twice as tall as a standard cd-rom drive) SCSI drives running in an old server. The drives were 600mb each and consumed 23watts each. I had to stagger out the spin up times so they didn't all spin up simultaniously and overload the power supply.
I took apart the 600mb drives for the big voice coil magnets that are strong enough to be very hard to remove from metal surfaces. They make decent floppy erasers.
I still have an old 5.25" full height, 2 gig SCSI drive hanging around, but not being used as well as a 3.5" double height (double the height of a 3.5" floppy, which might be "full height," but I'm not sure) 2 gig SCSI drive, but it's not loud and I'm not sure what speed it is. I kind of have a thing for old hardware that might be somewhat usefull sometime...
what I meant as "correct" was the arangement of the sentence, which was confusing with the "from his continent or any continents he had ever known before" directly followed by "had landed before" part, which was somewhat redundant, but necisary to forumulate and convey the idea correctly.
I don't see why a small lunar vehicle couldn't fit in the cargo bay of the current shuttle. Even with the original Apollo missions there were two crafts that joined, seperated for lunar landing, then rejoined after the lunar "experience," and then re-seperated for landing back at Earth, discarding the lunar vehicle alltogether.
With the current shuttle fleet one could keep and possibly re-use a lunar vehicle. Sounds fairly cost effective to me.
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I've been told that it's often cheaper for the construction companies to ignore the cable plans if they're low voltage cables and just go about their work and pay the fines. Now, I could be wrong and feel free to correct me, but I've heard that the added cost of working around the cables and planning around the burrocracy of some Telecom companies can cost well past the cost of the fines levied to the construction company for breaking the lines. Plus, it's not their customer they're affecting, if anything their customer could be happier since the job often gets done faster since it's an emergency fix now for the telco rather than an outside request that they can fill whenever they feel like it (probably pertains to road construction more than other types.)
I wouldn't go so far as to say he lied, the only "infactuality" I've seen reported in the movie is some video footage of an NRA rally shown as an example which was not filmed at the exact rally he was talking about. Nothing in the sample footage related to the story other than to show a sample of a NRA rally. While it was misleading to show footage of one rally while talking about another, neither the content of the footage nor the events at the rally seemed to be much the subject, but the fact there was a rally was the point I believed him to be getting at and showing a sample of Charlton Heston (sp?) headding a rally explained why he went to him personally to ask about it.
(I did a little research when an in-law cited the infactuality in a "conversation" about it.)
I was hoping someone was going to bring this up, most of his movies are generally more against stupidity, fear and paranoia rather than against some inamimate object. He often also points out how our elected officials rarely vote or act for an actual cause and usually more for political gain instead as well as news media outlets often going more for a spectacle rather than to inform the public of the truth, whether it be by omission or reporting editorial as fact. (wait, editorial as fact, I would think that would describe the "Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine" comment well.)
Wouldn't whittling do the same thing... all them poor rednecks with tendonitis...
Ummm, Private company, no public stock I believe.
Perfigo's products are really pretty good, and if they can get the testing and R&D support of Cisco behind them, it'll be a good thing in my opinion.
Which University, if I may ask?
Right, the big thing here is the tooling to punch the codes in to sheet metal or solid metal parts. The tooling is set up to punch certain length codes, just adding another number isn't as simple as just putting another punch on the rack, the whole mechanism would need to be changed in most situations.
I also had what seemed to be codec erros while trying to download, but it turned out to be just the data stream for the actual file stopping. I downloaded via a BitTorrent and I got the file just fine.
cause it's a BitTorrent http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
I'd hate for it to turn in to a list of people to give up on because they fit a section that's likely to drop out anyway. Kind of how you might stop wattering a plant that's going to die anyway.
Wait, so this involves going outside? Forget that.
Did we forget Ludicrous Speed?
I saw these at a Lan Party (GDFest) a while ago, pretty cool stuff.
I actually put "Geek" on my business cards. I own a computer business that does general on-site service calls, and for lack of a good all-encompasing term, I thought just simple "Geek" worked well, and my customers seem to take to it well. When I'm at a customer's site and someone asks who I am I tell them I'm "The Geek On Call." Never yet have I had someone not know what that means, of course I'm usually either crawling under a desk, fiddling in a network closet, or working on a machine (inside or out,) although the first time someone hears it once in a while I'll get a slight chuckle, which also works well to lighten the mood.
I run a similar setup (limited to 512 because of Chipset, thanks Intel for limiting your 815 chipset to 512) and have found myself using lots of virtual memory when I have 15 IE windows up, 10 explorer windows, 4 instant messengers, winamp and a few other incidentals and I decide it's a good time to bring up Photoshop.
I'm a messy packrat at home, might as well practice the same on my pc.
I would have to agrue against the statement that it's just a SCSI cage with SATA electronics in place. This drive was designed to also be somewhat cooler than other 10kRPM server drives as evidenced by the StorageReview tests. It also seems to be much quieter as well which also helps to lend itself towards workstation use as well as smaller servers that may share living quarters with office space with real working people (rather than a datacenter with mainly other servers as neighbors who don't really care about the noise.)
This seems to be basically a "professional" version of a regular hard drive, a niche that's been needing a good fill.
That statement from the article is opinion fueled by a WesternDigital marketing rep. I'm sure this drive will find it's way in to many systems from servers, to high end workstations, to Jhonny-too-much-money's game machine. This is also an engineering sample of a product in development which happens to have one platter. There's not much stopping WD from simply adding more platters to increase capacity.
It used to be, probably for the last 20 years or so, it was the household VCR that generally landed the crown for most precicely milled equipment in a house or business (the internal head inside the spinning drum has to have exactly the right gap, which for the last 10 years or so has been 19 microns.)
it's like this:
Spindle speed and areal density have a give and take relationship, faster spindle = less areal density being the data can only be reliably read so fast by a generation of drive head and disk platter technology. Improving the head and platter designs gives you higher areal density at a given spindle speed, and sometimes a higher top spindle speed, but increasing that spindle speed will quickly reduce your areal density, sometimes to the point that the spindle speed increase can actually lower your sequential read and write speeds.
more areal density generally produces:
-faster sequential reads and writes
-higher capacities
faster spindle speed generally produces:
-faster sequential reads and writes
-less rotational latency
-lower areal density = lower drive capacities
-more noise
-more heat
Of course there are excpetions to these attributes, but generally they are cause and effect.
In general your big fast 15k SCSI drives aren't always that fast in big sequential read/write tests, at least not reletive to their spindle speed, but they generally fly in random small read/write scenarios being they're generally designed for servers and most servers require that kind of data transfer and that's where the shorter rotational latency is going to really help.
Like my HP LaserJet II that just finally died. I seriously doubt the Brother Laser I just bought will last 15 years like the HP, but then again, it was about 1/10th the price.
If you wanted to talk about an annoying bus why not bring up VLB bus. I've killed more boards by incorrect VLB settings than anything else I can think of.
You want loud, I used to have 4 5.25" full height (that's twice as tall as a standard cd-rom drive) SCSI drives running in an old server. The drives were 600mb each and consumed 23watts each. I had to stagger out the spin up times so they didn't all spin up simultaniously and overload the power supply.
I took apart the 600mb drives for the big voice coil magnets that are strong enough to be very hard to remove from metal surfaces. They make decent floppy erasers.
I still have an old 5.25" full height, 2 gig SCSI drive hanging around, but not being used as well as a 3.5" double height (double the height of a 3.5" floppy, which might be "full height," but I'm not sure) 2 gig SCSI drive, but it's not loud and I'm not sure what speed it is. I kind of have a thing for old hardware that might be somewhat usefull sometime...
what I meant as "correct" was the arangement of the sentence, which was confusing with the "from his continent or any continents he had ever known before" directly followed by "had landed before" part, which was somewhat redundant, but necisary to forumulate and convey the idea correctly.
I don't see why a small lunar vehicle couldn't fit in the cargo bay of the current shuttle. Even with the original Apollo missions there were two crafts that joined, seperated for lunar landing, then rejoined after the lunar "experience," and then re-seperated for landing back at Earth, discarding the lunar vehicle alltogether.
With the current shuttle fleet one could keep and possibly re-use a lunar vehicle. Sounds fairly cost effective to me.