I find that the comment of the OP, "OCZ's notoriously unreliable drives", not even true for me. I have a number of new and older OCZ SSD's in my computers and none of them have failed or had any error whatsoever.
They seem to have forgotten a little defect. SSDs have a low failure rate, high speeds, okay prices, but everyone's scared of flash memory degradation after a number of writes. Some crappy one would get 1500 write cycles on a chip but OCZ ones get 9000 which, even at my high usage on a 128GB drive, is at least 8 years before it fries.
I am trying to recall any OEM (besides my company) putting an SSD on their desktop computers, seen 'em on netbooks and some notebooks of course. I would think an OEM would because if that computer only has a one year warranty, the SSD will last that long and since they want you to buy a new computer, often, it'd work for that cause.
By the way, seen the OCZ sticker that comes with their SSD drive? "My SSD is faster than your HDD" at least it makes me chuckle.
Well actually, Dodge, Kansas, where that phrase originated, has an elevation of 2,493 ft (760 m) so I'd stay in Dodge.
I've got 15m of freeboard between my new house and credible tsunami run-up levels in this area
While 15 meters really is not that much for elevation, especially when talking about tsunamis, it also depends on what event triggered the tsunami and that location. I happen to reside in an area that has an elevation of 4,802 ft (1,463.6 m) so unless an asteroid hits the Pacific, am safe from all the high water issues.
Colorado itself is a nice state to live in because of the altitude, same as where I live in Oregon. Two thousand feet or higher is probably the safe option but too many people insist on living at sea level, sometimes even below. Maybe I ought to get in to the business of selling floating homes...
What I find rather interesting is that people continue to buy coastal low level land, especially considering that interactive maps (like http://flood.firetree.net/ ) clearly show what a sea level rise will do to that land. The site I use has been around since 2004. Are these people expecting that the government pay them when their land goes underwater?
But it gets even more interesting (when you use the link I provided) to raise the sea level as many meters as is now predicted. Places such as the Salton Sea might actually become connected to the Pacific Ocean because of the low level land to the south. Rivers that dump in to the ocean, as sea levels rise, the land on either side of the river upstream will flood.
As to the topic of this article, there is a solution besides relocation, such as using buildings that float. Otherwise, relocate to a location at a high enough altitude that future sea level rises will not affect them. And to start the process now instead of waiting until the last moment.
Could be dangerous for people with heart problems...
Not if the shock was the same or less as that produced by a static charge. It is enough to get your attention but not kill you, well at least I have never heard of someone's pace maker quitting due to a static charge.
I recall stories from relatives of the various World's Fair they attended in the various cities of the US, very much like what Asimov wrote about. The organizers no longer call it the "World's Fair" though as the "Expo's" tend to focus in towards some type of theme. In 2015, Milan, Italy, will be the host with the theme of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015
...I loved being off the grid for a week or three.
And that is why camping to remote areas is still so much fun. You need to know where to go and what you might expect when you get there (from animals to weather) and be prepared for whatever. But you are off the grid, unless you have a satellite phone...
I was wondering how long a drug patent lasts right now and if it is tied at all to how long it took to research whatever the drug patent is for? A solution could be simply to put a time limit on drug patents, after which it becomes a part of the public domain.
Way back when, 1986-ish, San Diego & LA was the hub of places to purchase computing things from. I was a local business back in those days so purchased from a number of distributors/retail stores in SoCal, including that place in Oceanside that became geeks.com, The online part, which of course did not show up until after 1993, was very useful to me due to their carrying things that were hard to find elsewhere, their pricing and replacement policy was great, and I no longer lived in the area so could not "pop-in" for stuff.
I really am not sure which 1k gorilla geeks is alluding to, because there has been a lot of them over the years. For example, tigerdirect used to be a source I'd purchase from until they totally screwed a large order. Ecost.com was yet another but their web site became a bear to navigate. And Newegg actually started out in retail stores in SoCal as Egghead, though I use neweggbusiness.com now. Another place I use for hard to find items is CyberGuys.com, which has a distributor side. When I need consumables, I go to go4supply.com. I used to buy cpu's and memory chips (remember those?) from thechipmerchant.com, another SoCal store that is online.
And that really is why so many of you may never have heard of some of the other companies I mentioned, because they started out selling only to VARs, VADs, OEMs, etc, though geeks is an exception because of their store you could walk in to.
Amazingly enough, a Moderator has indicated my original message as being off topic. I don't think so. My questions are valid and those who replied to them pointed out that the cell phone, especially the enhanced types, are being used in a manner the subscriber may not have wished for.
Are we Bees all of a sudden? I would hope that companies do not make any more drones who only follow a strict set of policies. Who would then think outside of the box to fix a problem or think up a new product or service?
As far as light-weight AV, I am running with MSE only because the others bog computers down too badly to be of any use. As another poster said, why haven't you switched them to some kind of Linux that looks like Win XP but isn't? That deadline of 8 April 2014 will be here soon and having a computer running XP on the internet on 9 April 2014 is a horrible idea.
My 3 cents:
1993, weather predictions are pretty much accurate, 1, 3, 7, 14 days, whatever, works.
2003, daily forecasts would help if people looked outside a window though generally accurate and long range forecasts are broken.
2013, same day forecasts are broken and long range, pfft.
A couple things I have observed, which seem fairly important.
#1) The Arctic Jet is missing. In years past, there was a physical circle of water vapor orbiting at 10 to 15 North Latitude and when a finger broke off, the area that finger went to would get REALLY cold. http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html If you look at the images right now (build animation for 20 days, every 6 hours), you would see really strange things. Like a finger of the Northern Jet going up and through the arctic circle. Which brings me to
#2) The Tropical Jet, maybe it is also called the Gulf stream, is merging every so often with the Northern Jet. You can see it on the animation site I linked but if you also view the water vapor page, (which my site has had for quite some time: http://agrisea.net/weather/wv.html), you can see where all the stuff is going.
If you are in to agriculture, get your own monitoring equipment so you know what is happening for your locations. The rest of you, hold on, it is going to be bumpy.
Oregon has no State Sales Tax, which is why my corp is based here.
It is my opinion that if a retailer is based in a particular state that has a sales tax, even if they have no physical retail store but are selling online, they must collect whatever taxes are required from sales to people in their state - It is only fair. That is how mail order sales operated for decades so online sales should not be exempt from it.
I find this entire issue to be rather odd. I was under the impression that when Sun Microsystems was developing Java that its code was heavily looked at to make sure holes of the type found could not be there. Yet now that Oracle has it, "we should disable Java" because the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT says so. If that is the case, then why isn't a warning issued so that people stop using Windows? After all, it too is full of holes that allows hackers to target it constantly. And Microsoft has been constantly fixing it and yet more holes appear.
Baryte, or barite, (BaSO4) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate. Baryte itself is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of barium.
The major baryte producers (in thousand tonnes, data for 2010) are as follows: China (3,600), India (1,000), United States (670), Morocco (460), Iran (250), Turkey (150) and Kazakhstan (100). In just the USA, It is mined in Arkansas, Connecticut, Virginia, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Nevada & Missouri. [Source]
Now that you know where it comes from and where it is found in the USA, why aren't those mines increasing their production? Has everyone become so lazy that it makes sense to import everything?
As someone who has been to both a real four year college and a tech school, I personally think the tech school was worth the money spent. It introduced me to all the types of technology in use at the time and what the future might bring, plus gave me the history about the technology. I should point out that I was in college at the beginning of the PC era, where new technologies were popping out every year.
The thing is, though, that I have spoken with people who are recently graduated from a number of different tech schools, and their learning is not at all like mine. They were much more heavily instructed in the software aspect and don't really know much more about the hardware other than a general overview. Tech schools must have a balance in what is taught instead of this heavy leaning towards specific vendor products. Otherwise, they are graduating educated idiots.
I would rather hire new people who have hands-on experience with computers in the wild than any of the tech school graduates I have met over the past ten years. Those tech grads did not have the skills to troubleshoot hardware or even know what to look for unless they used a software program.
As far as online courses, I have taken a few over the years on things that I had an interest in. Personally, I would prefer to be at a live class instead of online because there is more social interaction available and it is a richer learning environment. However, some of my interests are simply not taught at a college any where close so online is the only option. However, colleges offering online classes might want to use some of this wonderful technology to make it more like a virtual classroom instead of what is in use right now.
Ignoring all the bad decisions HP has made over the past 20 years, HP simply doesn't want to pay too much in taxes. Other large corps, like Intel, have used the multi-billion dollar write-down to escape taxes, course the rest of us will end up paying more.
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I find that the comment of the OP, "OCZ's notoriously unreliable drives", not even true for me. I have a number of new and older OCZ SSD's in my computers and none of them have failed or had any error whatsoever.
They seem to have forgotten a little defect. SSDs have a low failure rate, high speeds, okay prices, but everyone's scared of flash memory degradation after a number of writes. Some crappy one would get 1500 write cycles on a chip but OCZ ones get 9000 which, even at my high usage on a 128GB drive, is at least 8 years before it fries.
I am trying to recall any OEM (besides my company) putting an SSD on their desktop computers, seen 'em on netbooks and some notebooks of course. I would think an OEM would because if that computer only has a one year warranty, the SSD will last that long and since they want you to buy a new computer, often, it'd work for that cause.
By the way, seen the OCZ sticker that comes with their SSD drive? "My SSD is faster than your HDD" at least it makes me chuckle.
So, get out of Dodge!
Well actually, Dodge, Kansas, where that phrase originated, has an elevation of 2,493 ft (760 m) so I'd stay in Dodge.
I've got 15m of freeboard between my new house and credible tsunami run-up levels in this area
While 15 meters really is not that much for elevation, especially when talking about tsunamis, it also depends on what event triggered the tsunami and that location. I happen to reside in an area that has an elevation of 4,802 ft (1,463.6 m) so unless an asteroid hits the Pacific, am safe from all the high water issues.
Colorado itself is a nice state to live in because of the altitude, same as where I live in Oregon. Two thousand feet or higher is probably the safe option but too many people insist on living at sea level, sometimes even below. Maybe I ought to get in to the business of selling floating homes...
What I find rather interesting is that people continue to buy coastal low level land, especially considering that interactive maps (like http://flood.firetree.net/ ) clearly show what a sea level rise will do to that land. The site I use has been around since 2004. Are these people expecting that the government pay them when their land goes underwater?
But it gets even more interesting (when you use the link I provided) to raise the sea level as many meters as is now predicted. Places such as the Salton Sea might actually become connected to the Pacific Ocean because of the low level land to the south. Rivers that dump in to the ocean, as sea levels rise, the land on either side of the river upstream will flood.
As to the topic of this article, there is a solution besides relocation, such as using buildings that float. Otherwise, relocate to a location at a high enough altitude that future sea level rises will not affect them. And to start the process now instead of waiting until the last moment.
Could be dangerous for people with heart problems...
Not if the shock was the same or less as that produced by a static charge. It is enough to get your attention but not kill you, well at least I have never heard of someone's pace maker quitting due to a static charge.
Why can't this type of technology be adapted in to a car's steering wheel? After all, falling asleep while driving is still a problem.
I recall stories from relatives of the various World's Fair they attended in the various cities of the US, very much like what Asimov wrote about. The organizers no longer call it the "World's Fair" though as the "Expo's" tend to focus in towards some type of theme. In 2015, Milan, Italy, will be the host with the theme of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015
...I loved being off the grid for a week or three.
And that is why camping to remote areas is still so much fun. You need to know where to go and what you might expect when you get there (from animals to weather) and be prepared for whatever. But you are off the grid, unless you have a satellite phone. ..
It might be good efficiency, but having a single log in for everything is the absolute worst security model you can have.
The government is assuming everyone will be a part of the "single log in," especially criminals.
Even us old timers know that you don't put all your eggs in one basket.
And yet most all of Humanity is still on one planet...
I was wondering how long a drug patent lasts right now and if it is tied at all to how long it took to research whatever the drug patent is for? A solution could be simply to put a time limit on drug patents, after which it becomes a part of the public domain.
Way back when, 1986-ish, San Diego & LA was the hub of places to purchase computing things from. I was a local business back in those days so purchased from a number of distributors/retail stores in SoCal, including that place in Oceanside that became geeks.com, The online part, which of course did not show up until after 1993, was very useful to me due to their carrying things that were hard to find elsewhere, their pricing and replacement policy was great, and I no longer lived in the area so could not "pop-in" for stuff.
I really am not sure which 1k gorilla geeks is alluding to, because there has been a lot of them over the years. For example, tigerdirect used to be a source I'd purchase from until they totally screwed a large order. Ecost.com was yet another but their web site became a bear to navigate. And Newegg actually started out in retail stores in SoCal as Egghead, though I use neweggbusiness.com now. Another place I use for hard to find items is CyberGuys.com, which has a distributor side. When I need consumables, I go to go4supply.com. I used to buy cpu's and memory chips (remember those?) from thechipmerchant.com, another SoCal store that is online.
And that really is why so many of you may never have heard of some of the other companies I mentioned, because they started out selling only to VARs, VADs, OEMs, etc, though geeks is an exception because of their store you could walk in to.
Amazingly enough, a Moderator has indicated my original message as being off topic. I don't think so. My questions are valid and those who replied to them pointed out that the cell phone, especially the enhanced types, are being used in a manner the subscriber may not have wished for.
Are we Bees all of a sudden? I would hope that companies do not make any more drones who only follow a strict set of policies. Who would then think outside of the box to fix a problem or think up a new product or service?
Sorry, I have a copyright on Xtreme.. :p
Do none of your phones have an OFF button? You know, turn the phone off at night or must you be reachable 24/7/365?
As far as light-weight AV, I am running with MSE only because the others bog computers down too badly to be of any use. As another poster said, why haven't you switched them to some kind of Linux that looks like Win XP but isn't? That deadline of 8 April 2014 will be here soon and having a computer running XP on the internet on 9 April 2014 is a horrible idea.
My 3 cents:
1993, weather predictions are pretty much accurate, 1, 3, 7, 14 days, whatever, works.
2003, daily forecasts would help if people looked outside a window though generally accurate and long range forecasts are broken.
2013, same day forecasts are broken and long range, pfft.
A couple things I have observed, which seem fairly important.
#1) The Arctic Jet is missing. In years past, there was a physical circle of water vapor orbiting at 10 to 15 North Latitude and when a finger broke off, the area that finger went to would get REALLY cold. http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html If you look at the images right now (build animation for 20 days, every 6 hours), you would see really strange things. Like a finger of the Northern Jet going up and through the arctic circle. Which brings me to
#2) The Tropical Jet, maybe it is also called the Gulf stream, is merging every so often with the Northern Jet. You can see it on the animation site I linked but if you also view the water vapor page, (which my site has had for quite some time: http://agrisea.net/weather/wv.html), you can see where all the stuff is going.
If you are in to agriculture, get your own monitoring equipment so you know what is happening for your locations. The rest of you, hold on, it is going to be bumpy.
It Expired 13.5 Billion Years Ago, Sorry. Guess the mice should have bought the extended warranty... ;)
Oregon has no State Sales Tax, which is why my corp is based here.
It is my opinion that if a retailer is based in a particular state that has a sales tax, even if they have no physical retail store but are selling online, they must collect whatever taxes are required from sales to people in their state - It is only fair. That is how mail order sales operated for decades so online sales should not be exempt from it.
I find this entire issue to be rather odd. I was under the impression that when Sun Microsystems was developing Java that its code was heavily looked at to make sure holes of the type found could not be there. Yet now that Oracle has it, "we should disable Java" because the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT says so. If that is the case, then why isn't a warning issued so that people stop using Windows? After all, it too is full of holes that allows hackers to target it constantly. And Microsoft has been constantly fixing it and yet more holes appear.
Baryte, or barite, (BaSO4) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate. Baryte itself is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of barium.
The major baryte producers (in thousand tonnes, data for 2010) are as follows: China (3,600), India (1,000), United States (670), Morocco (460), Iran (250), Turkey (150) and Kazakhstan (100). In just the USA, It is mined in Arkansas, Connecticut, Virginia, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Nevada & Missouri. [Source]
Now that you know where it comes from and where it is found in the USA, why aren't those mines increasing their production? Has everyone become so lazy that it makes sense to import everything?
Meanwhile, down under is burning. Could you all topic drift back to that huge problem?
As someone who has been to both a real four year college and a tech school, I personally think the tech school was worth the money spent. It introduced me to all the types of technology in use at the time and what the future might bring, plus gave me the history about the technology. I should point out that I was in college at the beginning of the PC era, where new technologies were popping out every year.
The thing is, though, that I have spoken with people who are recently graduated from a number of different tech schools, and their learning is not at all like mine. They were much more heavily instructed in the software aspect and don't really know much more about the hardware other than a general overview. Tech schools must have a balance in what is taught instead of this heavy leaning towards specific vendor products. Otherwise, they are graduating educated idiots.
I would rather hire new people who have hands-on experience with computers in the wild than any of the tech school graduates I have met over the past ten years. Those tech grads did not have the skills to troubleshoot hardware or even know what to look for unless they used a software program.
As far as online courses, I have taken a few over the years on things that I had an interest in. Personally, I would prefer to be at a live class instead of online because there is more social interaction available and it is a richer learning environment. However, some of my interests are simply not taught at a college any where close so online is the only option. However, colleges offering online classes might want to use some of this wonderful technology to make it more like a virtual classroom instead of what is in use right now.
Ignoring all the bad decisions HP has made over the past 20 years, HP simply doesn't want to pay too much in taxes. Other large corps, like Intel, have used the multi-billion dollar write-down to escape taxes, course the rest of us will end up paying more.