Car&Driver did some tests and found that even with the throttle wide open the brakes can still stop a car, even a 500hp muscle car. With a normal car the distance wasn't even significantly greater than with closed throttle.
By definition, the entire advertising business is based around changing/influencing my behavior and the ONLY way they can do that is by intruding on my time/space (if there's another way, nobody's come up with it yet).
Now they're surprised when I try to prevent them? LOL!
AT might be quite neutral compared to other ad-infested sites but if you're used to browsing without ads then *any* movement on the page is very distracting while you're trying to read the text.
I get the same with TV. I don't own a TV set, I see all programs without adverts via torrent. Whenever I go to somebody's house the adverts seem unbelievably loud and obnoxious though they claim not to notice them at all (yeah, right...)
"Cellphone Industry" studies are far more likely to be scrutinized and finely-combed looking for flaws then "independent" studies (is any study truly independent?).
I've known electrosensitive people and they've all been whackjobs who wouldn't know what science was even if you served it to them on a plate with a sprig of parsley on it.
The "source code" for a book would be the author's imagination and creative ability. The publishing company most certainly doesn't own *that* after they buy the rights to a particular book.
In the software world, if I buy the rights to a program I'm buying the end result of a particular combination of code. I don't get the rights to the individual modules/libraries inside that code.
Online storage in a properly managed data center is the way to go for long term safety. Keep a local copy exactly as you are doing and send a second copy to a data center (eg. Amazon).
PS: You don't say if the data is compressed or not. Does it compress?
If I read it correctly (it was a couple of years ago) all Spinrite does is move the head to different tracks before trying to read the data. The theory is that a seek from different distances might align the drive head slightly differently to the data.
As far as I know there's no way to position drive heads directly via IDE/SATA, much less write individual bits. IDE/SATA are high level protocols, all the low-level logic is inside the drive controller.
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How is that possible...?
Car&Driver did some tests and found that even with the throttle wide open the brakes can still stop a car, even a 500hp muscle car. With a normal car the distance wasn't even significantly greater than with closed throttle.
By definition, the entire advertising business is based around changing/influencing my behavior and the ONLY way they can do that is by intruding on my time/space (if there's another way, nobody's come up with it yet).
Now they're surprised when I try to prevent them? LOL!
AT might be quite neutral compared to other ad-infested sites but if you're used to browsing without ads then *any* movement on the page is very distracting while you're trying to read the text.
I get the same with TV. I don't own a TV set, I see all programs without adverts via torrent. Whenever I go to somebody's house the adverts seem unbelievably loud and obnoxious though they claim not to notice them at all (yeah, right...)
Don't reinvent the wheel without a good reason.
Sometimes you really have to reinvent. eg. I once rewrote std::string for a program and it loaded text files three times faster.
[Of course I did it after suitable profiling and analysis, doing it at the start of coding "just in case" would be wrong]
There's no way this is a "problem employee", it's far too elaborate. You think a minimum wage boxstacker is going to make fake CPUs and heatsinks?
Huh? Dracula is supposedly sensitive to UV radiation, not radio waves.
The entire human race is sensitive to UV radiation and some are definitely more sensitive then others.
Mod this up.
"Cellphone Industry" studies are far more likely to be scrutinized and finely-combed looking for flaws then "independent" studies (is any study truly independent?).
I've known electrosensitive people and they've all been whackjobs who wouldn't know what science was even if you served it to them on a plate with a sprig of parsley on it.
Books don't have source code.
The "source code" for a book would be the author's imagination and creative ability. The publishing company most certainly doesn't own *that* after they buy the rights to a particular book.
In the software world, if I buy the rights to a program I'm buying the end result of a particular combination of code. I don't get the rights to the individual modules/libraries inside that code.
Yawn. Call me when they have 3/3.
>"Great, how does that help against spammers?"
Most of the sort of people who send spam like to go out after curfew. Take that away and they're going to be miserable.
I think they should tattoo "spammer" on their foreheads too - so people can spit on them in the street.
Only one browser in the list has adblock/noscript/flashblock.
Without those the other browsers are automatically losers no matter how fast they start up.
God intended you to drink from a human female breast.
Or maybe not...
The way I see it: If there was real use/demand for it, it would be here already...
It could be interactive, respond to mouse clicks....etc.
Ok...I guess that IS a bit steep, I didn't know they were so expensive per byte.
(For $450 you can buy enough hard disks to store about twice that much data...)
Mod up.
Online storage in a properly managed data center is the way to go for long term safety. Keep a local copy exactly as you are doing and send a second copy to a data center (eg. Amazon).
PS: You don't say if the data is compressed or not. Does it compress?
You don't need high performance for that stuff.
Step down the performance requirement a notch and the price goes down rapidly.
No it doesn't.
If I read it correctly (it was a couple of years ago) all Spinrite does is move the head to different tracks before trying to read the data. The theory is that a seek from different distances might align the drive head slightly differently to the data.
As far as I know there's no way to position drive heads directly via IDE/SATA, much less write individual bits. IDE/SATA are high level protocols, all the low-level logic is inside the drive controller.
You never had a snapped cable?
Mechanical parts are actually much less reliable.
It's actually much worse than "old car without power st".
FTFA: The car in question switches off if you hold down the start button for three seconds.
But:
a) This isn't intuitive under panic
b) Switching off the engine is BAD - you'll lose steering/brake assist.
According to a test done by Car & Driver, brakes can easily stop cars even against full throttle
So yeah, the real problem is between the pedals and the seat.
You really think AMGs might have crap brakes? LOL!
PS: They have fancy racing-spec ceramic brakes....you can get them to glow red-hot if you want.