Careful, without those red states, you wouldn't eat. That doesn't even take into account the raw manufacturing and export that happens in the heartland. If you factor in the $ + Goods-exported / capita, I'd wager that the agricultural and manufacturing states (red states) come out way ahead.
Oh man, I so wish this had come down the pike a year ago when a certain un-named tech company sued me and got me fired for going to work for another certain tech company.. Dammit. 2 weeks before Christmas too.. I wonder if i have a case now, considering what they put my family through for an illegal contract...
Not bad, unless write performance isn't an issue.. I've got the newest firmware, jumbo frames on, and a Gig-E interface, and I can't get more than 8MB/sec to the stupid thing. Granted, I'm runnig a RAID 1 setup, but 1TB drives are capable of SO much better. Read performance is decent, however, at around 40MB/sec.
I work at a cell-phone store, and you would not believe what people do to their phones. I have seen phones get hot, vent hot gas, catch fire, bulge and almost pop, etc. In each case, it was because of something the customer had done to damage their phone. Usually, it's water damage, teenie bopper kids taking their phone into the shower cuz they can't miss that one important call. Or, even more benignly, (is that a Bushism?) if you have a little bit of drippings in your car's cupholder, and throw the phone in there when you get in the car, guess where the charging circuitry is located? Usually in the bottom of the phone. So, the next time you go plug your phone in, instead of the beautifully complex current-limiting charging circuit, you have yesterday's mocha providing a dead short.. BOOM. Please, PLEASE look to the stupid masses for the cause BEFORE blaming the manufacturers. I know there are bad designs out there, but 99.999999999 times out of a hundred, it's the idiots using them everyday. really. (flame suit on)
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Careful, without those red states, you wouldn't eat. That doesn't even take into account the raw manufacturing and export that happens in the heartland. If you factor in the $ + Goods-exported / capita, I'd wager that the agricultural and manufacturing states (red states) come out way ahead.
Oh man, I so wish this had come down the pike a year ago when a certain un-named tech company sued me and got me fired for going to work for another certain tech company.. Dammit. 2 weeks before Christmas too.. I wonder if i have a case now, considering what they put my family through for an illegal contract...
Not bad, unless write performance isn't an issue.. I've got the newest firmware, jumbo frames on, and a Gig-E interface, and I can't get more than 8MB/sec to the stupid thing. Granted, I'm runnig a RAID 1 setup, but 1TB drives are capable of SO much better. Read performance is decent, however, at around 40MB/sec.
Actually, I believe the speed of electrons moving through wire is roughly 1/10th the speed of light in a vacuum.
I work at a cell-phone store, and you would not believe what people do to their phones. I have seen phones get hot, vent hot gas, catch fire, bulge and almost pop, etc. In each case, it was because of something the customer had done to damage their phone. Usually, it's water damage, teenie bopper kids taking their phone into the shower cuz they can't miss that one important call. Or, even more benignly, (is that a Bushism?) if you have a little bit of drippings in your car's cupholder, and throw the phone in there when you get in the car, guess where the charging circuitry is located? Usually in the bottom of the phone. So, the next time you go plug your phone in, instead of the beautifully complex current-limiting charging circuit, you have yesterday's mocha providing a dead short.. BOOM. Please, PLEASE look to the stupid masses for the cause BEFORE blaming the manufacturers. I know there are bad designs out there, but 99.999999999 times out of a hundred, it's the idiots using them everyday. really. (flame suit on)