The increased rotational speeds dictate that they must use smaller diameter platters, or risk the platters exploding because of the increased centripetal forces exerted.
I've only had 2 of more than 12 WD drives die; one was because it fell while running from more than 8 feet off the ground, the other was insufficient cooling. I've had 5 of 6 Maxtors die, and I'm 4/4 with IBM drives deaths. 0/4 for Seagate, but they are my most recent acquisition.
You're right, everyone has stories. I have 2 4 drive WD arrays that have been around for 3 and 2 years, no failures there. But I wouldn't trust any data to an IBM or a Maxtor drive.
How big are hard disk sectors? That's right. 512 bytes. An average cluster is 8 times that, or 4096 bytes.
It's still a completely valid, and necessary way of describing file sizes. If a hard disk manufacturer swants to make the sector sizes 500 bytes instead of 512, then by all means, the Original SI designation of kilo, etc. would be a better way to represent the total space. But since they still use 512 bytes for a sector, it should always be in 2^n.
Death of Netflix? Unfortunately for some of us, (me included), The USPS has greater throughput than the only reasonably priced internet connection. So... Netflix will live on. At least for a while.
I think the problem is with MySpace's default layout. I mean seriously, doesn't this sidebar information just invite abuse?
The Layout was recently updated to include this seemingly generic and useless information:
Favorite Color:
First Pet's Name:
Date of Birth:
City where you were born:
Drivers License Number:
Credit Card Numbers and Expiration dates:
Your Password:
In its own tests, SanDisk says its flash drive can boot up Windows Vista -- the next version of the Windows operating system -- in 35 seconds, 28 seconds faster than the 55-second boot-up time required with a conventional drive.
This Flash disk is a 1.8" form factor device. Toshiba just recently announced a 100GB Version that was slated to be out this month some time. Currently the largest Hard Disk in 1.8" form factor is only 80GB. This drive is not that much smaller in capacity, and has enormous advantages in seek time performance.
I can't imagine that Halo would be a particularly fun game to play on a cell phone. Most cells have cludgey controls that translate into a horrible game experience.
Correct statistical interpretation (July 2006 est):
Population of the World: 6,525,170,264
Population of the United States: 298,444,215
Assuming everyone has an equal chance of being picked,
(6,525,170,264 - 298,444,215)/6,525,170,264 ~= 95.4263% chance the first person is not from the US....
95.4263%^5 ~= 79.1297% chance of no-one from the US being picked.
It is statistically probable that no-one from the US is picked.
Unless it's a Honda... then it just sounds like you're breaking the law.
Normally I'd say you're right, but you forgot that some places have Noise ordinance laws those Hondas are breaking. Luckily the police can catch up to them quite quickly;)
They didn't take into effect the amount of vehicular accidents that are caused by inattentive cell phone drivers. This is probably the most unsafe aspect of them
My College has something very similar to this set up on campus. Yes, there are places where you won't be able to get a good connection, but overall it works very well, and you can walk between a lot of the buildings and you never lose signal. The problem here though, is that when I was using the Vista Beta, It seemed to keep locking down to an AP based on the MAC address, and it made it impossible to go between APs without dropping off the network and re-connecting to the new AP. They all had the same SSID. It works in Linux with no problems at all.
Anyone know why this happened, if it's fixed yet, and if it will be fixed before release? It's quite annoying to have to reconnect when I switch buildings when I was using Vista.
You're lucky enough to be in an area that offers a Decent internet connection speed. I Pay $44.95 a month for 386k/386k (was 256/256 up until the start of this month.) The ISP is the only one I can get internet from anywhere close enough to home to matter. The fastest speed they offer is 704k/704k with a price tag of $104.95 a month. It's totally rediculous how expensive it is, for the speed of service offered.
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Is it just me, or do those images look like CG?
The increased rotational speeds dictate that they must use smaller diameter platters, or risk the platters exploding because of the increased centripetal forces exerted.
I've only had 2 of more than 12 WD drives die; one was because it fell while running from more than 8 feet off the ground, the other was insufficient cooling. I've had 5 of 6 Maxtors die, and I'm 4/4 with IBM drives deaths. 0/4 for Seagate, but they are my most recent acquisition.
You're right, everyone has stories. I have 2 4 drive WD arrays that have been around for 3 and 2 years, no failures there. But I wouldn't trust any data to an IBM or a Maxtor drive.
Well, it's not Kelvins, since there are no degrees in Kelvin.
How big are hard disk sectors? That's right. 512 bytes. An average cluster is 8 times that, or 4096 bytes.
It's still a completely valid, and necessary way of describing file sizes. If a hard disk manufacturer swants to make the sector sizes 500 bytes instead of 512, then by all means, the Original SI designation of kilo, etc. would be a better way to represent the total space. But since they still use 512 bytes for a sector, it should always be in 2^n.
Death of Netflix? Unfortunately for some of us, (me included), The USPS has greater throughput than the only reasonably priced internet connection. So... Netflix will live on. At least for a while.
Favorite Color:
First Pet's Name:
Date of Birth:
City where you were born:
Drivers License Number:
Credit Card Numbers and Expiration dates:
Your Password:
This Flash disk is a 1.8" form factor device. Toshiba just recently announced a 100GB Version that was slated to be out this month some time. Currently the largest Hard Disk in 1.8" form factor is only 80GB. This drive is not that much smaller in capacity, and has enormous advantages in seek time performance.
I can't imagine that Halo would be a particularly fun game to play on a cell phone. Most cells have cludgey controls that translate into a horrible game experience.
Besides the Fact that you forgot GTA: Liberty City Stories, The ordering of the Games has been based on the Engines.
GTA3, VC, SA, and LCS all use the same basic game Engine.
Theoretically they should be using a new engine for GTA 4.
Correct statistical interpretation (July 2006 est): Population of the World: 6,525,170,264 Population of the United States: 298,444,215 Assuming everyone has an equal chance of being picked, (6,525,170,264 - 298,444,215)/6,525,170,264 ~= 95.4263% chance the first person is not from the US.... 95.4263%^5 ~= 79.1297% chance of no-one from the US being picked. It is statistically probable that no-one from the US is picked.
It's flash memory. It will suffice to just write over all the bits a single time. It doesn't have a pushover area like magnetic media does.
The big problems are that it's only one way, and the data content is just random garbage. I mean, look at most of the posters here on slashdot...
You mean NOT dead.
There's only one simple rule to follow. The client can never be trusted, and all information should be verified server side.
Sacralige! As a Debian Zealot, I am forced to respond in kind.
Gentoo is for Ricers, and Ubuntu is for hippies!
Interestingly enough, the CAPTCHA word for this was 'thefts'
I can't believe you 2XXX'ers fell for that. I'm from the year 3042 and Duke Nukem forever still hasn't been released.
They didn't take into effect the amount of vehicular accidents that are caused by inattentive cell phone drivers. This is probably the most unsafe aspect of them
My College has something very similar to this set up on campus. Yes, there are places where you won't be able to get a good connection, but overall it works very well, and you can walk between a lot of the buildings and you never lose signal. The problem here though, is that when I was using the Vista Beta, It seemed to keep locking down to an AP based on the MAC address, and it made it impossible to go between APs without dropping off the network and re-connecting to the new AP. They all had the same SSID. It works in Linux with no problems at all.
Anyone know why this happened, if it's fixed yet, and if it will be fixed before release? It's quite annoying to have to reconnect when I switch buildings when I was using Vista.
You're lucky enough to be in an area that offers a Decent internet connection speed. I Pay $44.95 a month for 386k/386k (was 256/256 up until the start of this month.) The ISP is the only one I can get internet from anywhere close enough to home to matter. The fastest speed they offer is 704k/704k with a price tag of $104.95 a month. It's totally rediculous how expensive it is, for the speed of service offered.