Can anyone start some petition to help the kid?
Just start it yourself already. Come on, 'Someone got to do something', even the old christian saying 'Help yourself and god will help you' nails it: if you want something do it yourself, it's not going to fall from the sky.
I understand most people feel powerless, but sometimes you only need one person to step up and get things moving (Ghandi, Luther King,...)
I've been running it for a few years now on my PowerBook and MacBook Pro and it works great over WiFi. Needless to say I don't pause TV for the bathroom break anymore... did I say that?
Let me disagree about the entry level positions. I've been recruiting in my company and it's extremely difficult to find someone with the experience we are looking for )Release Engineer: skilled and technical, not a button pusher), and we are very willing to hire new grads with no experience whatsoever.
You must have noticed the job fairs, where the companies are sending recruiters. Believe me it cost the companies some money to send people at a job fair, and they genuinely want to recruit, it's not just for advertising.
For the last 2 years I've seen a few candidates and only 2 of them were good: 1 with a quite some experience and the other one was still at school. Both of them very bright and while the junior had no experience I told my manager to hire them both. I personally don't care much if you have 15 years or no experience, I want to work with smart people, that I will be happy to talk with every day.
I've been looking for a new job recently and was contacted by Apple for 3 positions for "New Grad to 2 years of experience" I declined telling them I wanted a Senior position, and while they had better matching openings (that I suggested them) they never called me back. So in that case having experience was a problem.
I've also seen what I consider bad resumes and very under-qualified people (wondering if the recruiter actually read the resume before scheduling the interview). Some examples:
- 5 pages long resume
- "Have attended meetings at previous employer"
- list all the softwares you know like "Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro" (I kid you not, the exhaustive list was on a resume)
One candidate once told me when I asked why he was leaving his employer less than a month after he started "because my manager told me I should be looking"... should I have told him, that he will look for a long time ?
I agree with you about the companies not telling you quickly that you are not good enough: Apple told me 2-3 months after the interview that they would not hire me, and Firefox never told me anything after I interviewed with them (I did not like their view of what a Release Engineer is supposed to be doing anyway).
A good advice for the youngsters who have a hard time getting an interview: go open source. It will show that you went to Computer Science because you liked it not because you've been told it was where the $$$ are (I had MANY classmates like that). I know I have landed interviews, and have impressed the interviewers because of my side projects.
When I first read the title I though it was about a new theory of some religious group trying to say that DNA is dangerous because it proves the theory of evolution so some school board declared that it does not exist.
Maybe there is some DNA that codes for 666 or that translates to "Hell freezes over".
While I do have a desk with a leather chair, I find it very uncomfortable especially since I tend to lean forward. As my primary machine is a laptop, I can actually use the machine by putting it on my laps and belly, with my back and neck resting on a stack of pillows. After a long day at the office it's extremely comfortable.
While I miss my split keyboard, the keyboard on the MacBook Pro is good enough for most tasks, so is the screen resolution.
I remember a thread a while back here on slashdot where the idea of using the bed for anything else but sleeping (or more with the wife) was wrong. But I guess I know have Scottish researchers to 'back me up' instead of just my pillows.
your IT team should have fully locked down SOE images to prevent you installing and running your own apps (Cisco CSA works well), have disabled USB, CD and floppy drives
That policy is something I don't understand how it could be reasonably applied in a software company. I'm a software engineer and I don't know how I could work without being able to run whatever software I want. I'm not installing software every day, but I do need full access to USB (using USB devices is part of the job), being able to run random software (our tools from third parties are changing pretty often) without having to wait several day to get an OK from the IT department
Don't get me wrong, if your users are just doing office work, then it's way better to prevent them running un-approved code, but most software engineers would get their productivity level way down.
That's why you want a good text editor. XCode is smart enough to backspace to the previous indent, deleting as many spaces as needed. I don't know about other text editors, I've tryed a bunch of them and always go back to XCode.
By the way anyone knows something better than XCode to edit Jam files ?
I have to use Share-point where I work and I truly deeply hate it.
Sure it kind of works in an All Windows/IE, purely M$ environment, but as soon as you add an alternative browser, or even worse OS, then it's damn painful.
It's also quite difficult to update data automatically (it might actually be possible, but I doubt it's trivial to get data from a non M$ machine).
I guess something like sharepoint works for 'Management', but for developers I think it's hard to beat a good Wiki. And good ones have history, WYSIWYG, and work with most if not all browsers and OSs.
Sorry about that. As someone else mentioned I'm not a native english speaker. I could add for my defense that it was past 1AM when I posted.
I'm also kind of unfortunate to be at a level (in English) where I'm good enough (understandable) so people don't correct me anymore.
So thank you for pointing my bad English, I'll be more careful.
(I hope no grammar nazi will have to step up on this post)
Well this is not specific to the iPod. We've known for years that portable players, back from the old Walkman can damage your ears.
French law limits the output of 'portable players' so the iPod sold in France has a different firmware from anywhere else in the world.
Something they could do is to have an option (maybe deep in the preferences) to limit the volume to a maximum safe level. If someone wants it louder, then he could unlock the full potential of the iPod, after agreeing on the warnings.
I'm wondering how much sales the Majors have lost due to Boycott. I believe I've purchased maybe 2 CDs since 2001, the last one being in 2002.
So when the sales are going down is it only because the file trading, or is there a lot coming from boycott ? My wife likes music more than I do... watches American Idol, and has an iPod. If she wants to buy a song she goes to iTunes and buy the tracks she wants not the whole album. And I don't think she get new releases anymore, most of if being crap.
I don't d/l music that I don't own the copyright either... but I've lost a bunch of CDs during my various moves of the years, so I did pay for the songs I d/l, I just don't have the original CD anymore.
French law makers voted a new law a couple of days ago and it legalize the fact that you can download, but not to upload. It creates a lot of conflict but one of the points was that "illegal" d/l is a push from the US Majors. Also at least 8 million people are doing it, so should we consider over 10% of the population as criminals? Don't forget that most of the downloader will be able to vote in the next few years and even if the parents don't understand that the majors are purely greedy. The teenagers do see them as greedy bastards and will kick the butts of the bad politicians out of office.
Reminds me a couple of years ago the city put signs "Jay Walking $200"... to prevent us from crossing the street... well California laws states that the curb does not end at the corner of the street but continues across the street even if there is no marks on the floor. We putted copies of the state law on the signs and the sign got removed a couple of days later. So never forget that even if official will threaten you with fines and others... it does not mean they are right and we have to step up. I just wish I could vote instead of blindly paying taxes.
A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled "Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical" describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters:
IRAQ HAS POSSIBLY EMPLOYED PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDISH POPULATION IN AREAS ALONG THE IRAQI-TURKISH-IRANIAN BORDERS. [...]
IN LATE FEBRUARY 1991, FOLLOWING THE COALITION FORCES' OVERWHELMING VICTORY OVER IRAQ, KURDISH REBELS STEPPED UP THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST IRAQI FORCES IN NORTHERN IRAQ. DURING THE BRUTAL CRACKDOWN THAT FOLLOWED THE KURDISH UPRISING, IRAQI FORCES LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SADDAM ((HUSSEIN)) MAY HAVE POSSIBLY USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDISH REBELS AND THE POPULACE IN ERBIL (GEOCOORD:3412N/04401E) (VICINITY OF IRANIAN BORDER) AND DOHUK (GEOCOORD:3652N/04301E) (VICINITY OF IRAQI BORDER) PROVINCES, IRAQ.
In other words, the Pentagon does refer to white phosphorus rounds as chemical weapons -- at least if they're used by our enemies.
When Sadam is using it, then it's illegal and this guy is a new Hitler (I'm not defending him here, he deserves jail for life). But when the US army does... it's ok, cause you know they are good guys, so it cannot be a chemical weapon. They would not lie to us.
In Falluja, yes the WP was used legally (not as a weapon), but it was also used to killed poeple (maybe rebels, trying do kick out an invader, who they are is not the point here)
Man if you can't open your eyes, and only filter the info that fit you wish "the guys I voted for are honest, I'm not gullible, so all they say must be the truth and everybody that says otherwise is not a patriot"... then you are screwed
We have a say in french: Only idiots never change their mind It means that if you are too stubborn to admit you might be wrong, then you're an idiot
Come on, nobody is perfect. Sadam is a very bad guy, but can you admit that the army IS torturing people (including innocent bystanders) on orders from high up, that the war was pushed on bogus info (either the government lied and they deserve jail, or they were very incompetent and should be removed from office)
As Napoleon said: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. I honestly don't know which one to pick, maybe it's both
When I saw GW invade Irak, I said, they'll find these chemical weapons alright: they'll bring them in.
Guess what, someone used white phosphorus on a city with thousands of innocent women and children (most of you guys don't care about innocent men).
Why isn't the US of A attacking the country that did that and put it's president in a tribunal?
I'm still waiting for an official apology from the republican senators that called France a country of pussies and admit we just not stupid enough to believe bogus intel.
I know a lot of "christians" can't admit that a guys that says "god bless" is sincere, but that's the root of your problems: I vote for Bush because TV told me he is a hero sent by god.
If there is one thing that scares me most in the world, it's religion.
As far as I know this is what most teleportation devices are doing in the SciFi world.
On StarTreck (I'm might get flamed by treckies for being incorrect), you are basically scanned and your molecules are destroyed while being scanned. Then a data stream is send over a remote site and the data is converted back into molecules.
There is even an episode in TNG where number One (forgot his name) is found to have clone from many years back when his data stream bounced back and he got re-assembled at the point of origin and at destination.
In StarGate your molecules are scanned/destroyed, the data is beamed and then reassembled on the other side, the data is buffered in a crystal and you can be stored several days.
Something I'm wondering is why the wraith are not simply duplicating the data over and over to get an unlimited source of food.
And why, when they are beaming a red shirt down, don't they keep a backup of the data so Kirk never loose a man.
Use a screen protection for PDA. It's a thin transparent plastic layer that, If applied correctly, will protect a nano. You cut it to fit the nano and voila.
The touch wheel will still be working (these protections are made for touch screens).
That is a *wild* overstatement. You only need a U.S. cell phone number, not citizenship.
Well I guess he assumes that if you live in the US that means you're a citizen. I don't have any numbers but they are a lot of non citizens "residents", like the permanent residents (Green Card holders), the temporary residents (Visa like H1-B), or illegal residents.
Also with Google's system even a tourist can go to a GSM provider and get a Pay-as-you-go sim card to get a US cell phone number.
They are trying to limit spamers on GMail, but what about the "us-citizens" that don't have a cell phone (think someone in a remote place with a satellite internet connection).
When I started in my company in january I got a brand new Dell with a 160GB SATA drive from Maxtor.
Performance was piss poor and the drive died after 2 weeks. Having seen a dozen drive from maxtor die last year, I blamed the manufacturer and asked to get an other brand. Some other employees did not ask for an other brand and got their replacement maxtor to fail, lossing work twice in a few weeks. A few month later IT was replacing all the maxtor drives proactively (they had one drive dying every week on average).
We lost a lot of many with these drives. I know of a bad batch that was sent to Dell, failure were so hight that Dell returned the batch... which was sent to the european market.
I trust Seagate or Hitcahi much more than Maxtor. 3 years ago I was only trusting Maxtor.
For laptops or very small hardrives like in the iPod or the lifedrive Hitachi is MUCH better than Seagate.
So it's not "I had a Maxtor drive 5 years ago and it failed just after the waranty expired" it's we had the whole company with Maxtor drive and we had to throw them away. There is a reason Maxtor only give you a 1 year waranty: they can't afford replacing all the drives that are going to fail after a year and a half.
Hey they sell alot of mice. Did they develop mice?
No Xerox did.
Actually the mouse was developed at SRI in the 60s. It was to be used with a 5 key keyboard for editing (think 2^5 possible keystrokes, with extra buttons on the mouse acting as Shift or Control keys). The keyboard never made it to consumers.
Years later some of the SRI engineers went to Xerox and brought the mouse with them.
Maybe in france, or an other european country. There a plain white line is the equivalent of the US double yellow.
The lanes are separated by "dotted" lines. The side of the road has 'longer' dots. The distance between the dots is meaningful and and when your go to the driving school (trust me it's way more difficult and expensive to get a driving license in europe), they teach you how many dots you must have between you and the previous car depending on your speed. Try to do that in the US, sometimes I'm even wondering if I'm not between 2 lanes.
So a 4 lines (total) road in france looks like this _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - ________ - - - - _ _ _ _ _
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Can anyone start some petition to help the kid? ...)
Just start it yourself already. Come on, 'Someone got to do something', even the old christian saying 'Help yourself and god will help you' nails it: if you want something do it yourself, it's not going to fall from the sky. I understand most people feel powerless, but sometimes you only need one person to step up and get things moving (Ghandi, Luther King,
Yes: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Myth_on_Mac_O S_X
... did I say that?
I've been running it for a few years now on my PowerBook and MacBook Pro and it works great over WiFi. Needless to say I don't pause TV for the bathroom break anymore
Don't bother clicking on the link, the video was removed.
Let me disagree about the entry level positions. I've been recruiting in my company and it's extremely difficult to find someone with the experience we are looking for )Release Engineer: skilled and technical, not a button pusher), and we are very willing to hire new grads with no experience whatsoever.
... should I have told him, that he will look for a long time ?
You must have noticed the job fairs, where the companies are sending recruiters. Believe me it cost the companies some money to send people at a job fair, and they genuinely want to recruit, it's not just for advertising.
For the last 2 years I've seen a few candidates and only 2 of them were good: 1 with a quite some experience and the other one was still at school. Both of them very bright and while the junior had no experience I told my manager to hire them both. I personally don't care much if you have 15 years or no experience, I want to work with smart people, that I will be happy to talk with every day.
I've been looking for a new job recently and was contacted by Apple for 3 positions for "New Grad to 2 years of experience" I declined telling them I wanted a Senior position, and while they had better matching openings (that I suggested them) they never called me back. So in that case having experience was a problem.
I've also seen what I consider bad resumes and very under-qualified people (wondering if the recruiter actually read the resume before scheduling the interview). Some examples:
- 5 pages long resume
- "Have attended meetings at previous employer"
- list all the softwares you know like "Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro" (I kid you not, the exhaustive list was on a resume)
One candidate once told me when I asked why he was leaving his employer less than a month after he started "because my manager told me I should be looking"
I agree with you about the companies not telling you quickly that you are not good enough: Apple told me 2-3 months after the interview that they would not hire me, and Firefox never told me anything after I interviewed with them (I did not like their view of what a Release Engineer is supposed to be doing anyway).
A good advice for the youngsters who have a hard time getting an interview: go open source. It will show that you went to Computer Science because you liked it not because you've been told it was where the $$$ are (I had MANY classmates like that). I know I have landed interviews, and have impressed the interviewers because of my side projects.
When I first read the title I though it was about a new theory of some religious group trying to say that DNA is dangerous because it proves the theory of evolution so some school board declared that it does not exist.
Maybe there is some DNA that codes for 666 or that translates to "Hell freezes over".
But I know that DNA is really coding 42.
I'm actually replying from my bed.
While I do have a desk with a leather chair, I find it very uncomfortable especially since I tend to lean forward. As my primary machine is a laptop, I can actually use the machine by putting it on my laps and belly, with my back and neck resting on a stack of pillows. After a long day at the office it's extremely comfortable.
While I miss my split keyboard, the keyboard on the MacBook Pro is good enough for most tasks, so is the screen resolution.
I remember a thread a while back here on slashdot where the idea of using the bed for anything else but sleeping (or more with the wife) was wrong. But I guess I know have Scottish researchers to 'back me up' instead of just my pillows.
your IT team should have fully locked down SOE images to prevent you installing and running your own apps (Cisco CSA works well), have disabled USB, CD and floppy drives
That policy is something I don't understand how it could be reasonably applied in a software company. I'm a software engineer and I don't know how I could work without being able to run whatever software I want. I'm not installing software every day, but I do need full access to USB (using USB devices is part of the job), being able to run random software (our tools from third parties are changing pretty often) without having to wait several day to get an OK from the IT department
Don't get me wrong, if your users are just doing office work, then it's way better to prevent them running un-approved code, but most software engineers would get their productivity level way down.
That's why you want a good text editor. XCode is smart enough to backspace to the previous indent, deleting as many spaces as needed. I don't know about other text editors, I've tryed a bunch of them and always go back to XCode.
By the way anyone knows something better than XCode to edit Jam files ?
1and1.com are $5.99, and they are VERY professional.
The only thing is it's on a year to year basis with automated renewals, but I love that company.
That got to be the funniest thing I read today!
:-)
Thanks
I have to use Share-point where I work and I truly deeply hate it.
Sure it kind of works in an All Windows/IE, purely M$ environment, but as soon as you add an alternative browser, or even worse OS, then it's damn painful.
It's also quite difficult to update data automatically (it might actually be possible, but I doubt it's trivial to get data from a non M$ machine).
I guess something like sharepoint works for 'Management', but for developers I think it's hard to beat a good Wiki. And good ones have history, WYSIWYG, and work with most if not all browsers and OSs.
Sorry about that. As someone else mentioned I'm not a native english speaker. I could add for my defense that it was past 1AM when I posted.
I'm also kind of unfortunate to be at a level (in English) where I'm good enough (understandable) so people don't correct me anymore.
So thank you for pointing my bad English, I'll be more careful.
(I hope no grammar nazi will have to step up on this post)
The location is just beyond the side of the church's bell-tower and aligned with the transmitting tower. Perfect.
Amazing he was lucky enough to get 2 points aligned !!!
Joke aside, good job, I just hope for him that it will not fall on a post office customer.
Well this is not specific to the iPod. We've known for years that portable players, back from the old Walkman can damage your ears.
French law limits the output of 'portable players' so the iPod sold in France has a different firmware from anywhere else in the world.
Something they could do is to have an option (maybe deep in the preferences) to limit the volume to a maximum safe level. If someone wants it louder, then he could unlock the full potential of the iPod, after agreeing on the warnings.
I'm wondering how much sales the Majors have lost due to Boycott. I believe I've purchased maybe 2 CDs since 2001, the last one being in 2002.
... watches American Idol, and has an iPod. If she wants to buy a song she goes to iTunes and buy the tracks she wants not the whole album. And I don't think she get new releases anymore, most of if being crap.
... but I've lost a bunch of CDs during my various moves of the years, so I did pay for the songs I d/l, I just don't have the original CD anymore.
... to prevent us from crossing the street ... well California laws states that the curb does not end at the corner of the street but continues across the street even if there is no marks on the floor. We putted copies of the state law on the signs and the sign got removed a couple of days later. So never forget that even if official will threaten you with fines and others ... it does not mean they are right and we have to step up. I just wish I could vote instead of blindly paying taxes.
So when the sales are going down is it only because the file trading, or is there a lot coming from boycott ? My wife likes music more than I do
I don't d/l music that I don't own the copyright either
French law makers voted a new law a couple of days ago and it legalize the fact that you can download, but not to upload. It creates a lot of conflict but one of the points was that "illegal" d/l is a push from the US Majors. Also at least 8 million people are doing it, so should we consider over 10% of the population as criminals? Don't forget that most of the downloader will be able to vote in the next few years and even if the parents don't understand that the majors are purely greedy. The teenagers do see them as greedy bastards and will kick the butts of the bad politicians out of office.
Reminds me a couple of years ago the city put signs "Jay Walking $200"
A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled "Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical" describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters:
IRAQ HAS POSSIBLY EMPLOYED PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDISH POPULATION IN AREAS ALONG THE IRAQI-TURKISH-IRANIAN BORDERS. [...]
IN LATE FEBRUARY 1991, FOLLOWING THE COALITION FORCES' OVERWHELMING VICTORY OVER IRAQ, KURDISH REBELS STEPPED UP THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST IRAQI FORCES IN NORTHERN IRAQ. DURING THE BRUTAL CRACKDOWN THAT FOLLOWED THE KURDISH UPRISING, IRAQI FORCES LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SADDAM ((HUSSEIN)) MAY HAVE POSSIBLY USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDISH REBELS AND THE POPULACE IN ERBIL (GEOCOORD:3412N/04401E) (VICINITY OF IRANIAN BORDER) AND DOHUK (GEOCOORD:3652N/04301E) (VICINITY OF IRAQI BORDER) PROVINCES, IRAQ.
In other words, the Pentagon does refer to white phosphorus rounds as chemical weapons -- at least if they're used by our enemies.
When Sadam is using it, then it's illegal and this guy is a new Hitler (I'm not defending him here, he deserves jail for life). But when the US army does ... it's ok, cause you know they are good guys, so it cannot be a chemical weapon. They would not lie to us.
In Falluja, yes the WP was used legally (not as a weapon), but it was also used to killed poeple (maybe rebels, trying do kick out an invader, who they are is not the point here)
Man if you can't open your eyes, and only filter the info that fit you wish "the guys I voted for are honest, I'm not gullible, so all they say must be the truth and everybody that says otherwise is not a patriot" ... then you are screwed
We have a say in french: Only idiots never change their mind
It means that if you are too stubborn to admit you might be wrong, then you're an idiot
Come on, nobody is perfect. Sadam is a very bad guy, but can you admit that the army IS torturing people (including innocent bystanders) on orders from high up, that the war was pushed on bogus info (either the government lied and they deserve jail, or they were very incompetent and should be removed from office)
As Napoleon said:
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I honestly don't know which one to pick, maybe it's both
Yep,
When I saw GW invade Irak, I said, they'll find these chemical weapons alright: they'll bring them in.
Guess what, someone used white phosphorus on a city with thousands of innocent women and children (most of you guys don't care about innocent men).
Why isn't the US of A attacking the country that did that and put it's president in a tribunal?
I'm still waiting for an official apology from the republican senators that called France a country of pussies and admit we just not stupid enough to believe bogus intel.
I know a lot of "christians" can't admit that a guys that says "god bless" is sincere, but that's the root of your problems: I vote for Bush because TV told me he is a hero sent by god.
If there is one thing that scares me most in the world, it's religion.
As far as I know this is what most teleportation devices are doing in the SciFi world.
On StarTreck (I'm might get flamed by treckies for being incorrect), you are basically scanned and your molecules are destroyed while being scanned.
Then a data stream is send over a remote site and the data is converted back into molecules.
There is even an episode in TNG where number One (forgot his name) is found to have clone from many years back when his data stream bounced back and he got re-assembled at the point of origin and at destination.
In StarGate your molecules are scanned/destroyed, the data is beamed and then reassembled on the other side, the data is buffered in a crystal and you can be stored several days.
Something I'm wondering is why the wraith are not simply duplicating the data over and over to get an unlimited source of food.
And why, when they are beaming a red shirt down, don't they keep a backup of the data so Kirk never loose a man.
from TFA: "gotenkito@kazaa.com"
Maybe she has a paypal account with that address.
(Please don't actually send any money if you don't get the joke)
Use a screen protection for PDA. It's a thin transparent plastic layer that, If applied correctly, will protect a nano. You cut it to fit the nano and voila.
The touch wheel will still be working (these protections are made for touch screens).
Well I guess he assumes that if you live in the US that means you're a citizen. I don't have any numbers but they are a lot of non citizens "residents", like the permanent residents (Green Card holders), the temporary residents (Visa like H1-B), or illegal residents.
Also with Google's system even a tourist can go to a GSM provider and get a Pay-as-you-go sim card to get a US cell phone number.
They are trying to limit spamers on GMail, but what about the "us-citizens" that don't have a cell phone (think someone in a remote place with a satellite internet connection).
Well you're lucky.
... which was sent to the european market.
When I started in my company in january I got a brand new Dell with a 160GB SATA drive from Maxtor.
Performance was piss poor and the drive died after 2 weeks. Having seen a dozen drive from maxtor die last year, I blamed the manufacturer and asked to get an other brand.
Some other employees did not ask for an other brand and got their replacement maxtor to fail, lossing work twice in a few weeks.
A few month later IT was replacing all the maxtor drives proactively (they had one drive dying every week on average).
We lost a lot of many with these drives. I know of a bad batch that was sent to Dell, failure were so hight that Dell returned the batch
I trust Seagate or Hitcahi much more than Maxtor. 3 years ago I was only trusting Maxtor.
For laptops or very small hardrives like in the iPod or the lifedrive Hitachi is MUCH better than Seagate.
So it's not "I had a Maxtor drive 5 years ago and it failed just after the waranty expired" it's we had the whole company with Maxtor drive and we had to throw them away. There is a reason Maxtor only give you a 1 year waranty: they can't afford replacing all the drives that are going to fail after a year and a half.
No Xerox did.
Actually the mouse was developed at SRI in the 60s. It was to be used with a 5 key keyboard for editing (think 2^5 possible keystrokes, with extra buttons on the mouse acting as Shift or Control keys). The keyboard never made it to consumers.
Years later some of the SRI engineers went to Xerox and brought the mouse with them.
Maybe in france, or an other european country. There a plain white line is the equivalent of the US double yellow.
The lanes are separated by "dotted" lines. The side of the road has 'longer' dots. The distance between the dots is meaningful and and when your go to the driving school (trust me it's way more difficult and expensive to get a driving license in europe), they teach you how many dots you must have between you and the previous car depending on your speed.
Try to do that in the US, sometimes I'm even wondering if I'm not between 2 lanes.
So a 4 lines (total) road in france looks like this
_ _ _ _ _
- - - - -
________
- - - -
_ _ _ _ _