It the obvious extension to outsourcing jobs. First American jobs go offshore, then Americans.
Vote for Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman so they can send your job to China! Help restore republican economic policies.
Should anyone blame the Chinese for discovering the republican secret for job "creation"? They want to enjoy the benefits of crony-capitalism too. We wanted them to drop communism and become capitalists. It seems we now have evidence that they have.
E-SATA is a definite improvement. I have a 7200 E-SATA 1T drive that I use as my alternate notebook when working at my desk. Its too big to carry in the field (about the size of a real brick or 2 if you also have a RAID version as I also do). I'm forced to have an external power supply, with both but the interface is what makes all the difference in the world., though sadly I couldn't find a notebook on the market with 2 e-SATA ports.
Anyone know of if a E-SATA SSD drive say about 100-300 MB is available that can take power from a USB port (or if possible? the e-SATA port itself)? That would make a good alternative boot drive and/or working drive, say for editing multimedia files?
I'll second that. My Nikon D90 puts out files about 10MB in size every time I press the button and 4-8GB per SD chip. It definitely doesn't take long for these to start adding up in a hurry and then, of course, there is the need to back these up, so at a minimum 2X.
The Seagate PN-9KWA2L500 ("Free Agent Go) - a 1 TB drive draws its power solely from the USB port. (2,0). I picked up mine at COSCO. They are about 1" thick unlike many somewhat smaller drives at about 3/4", which is nice because they fit into pockets easily. Evidently, this was a bit of a problem for COSCO as customers were evidently "pocketing" them without paying, they are so easy to carry.
If you are right, it would greatly diminish its usefulness, to me at any rate.
Another feature missing from the drive above is USB rather than SATA interface. These things are relatively slow, but not all that bad, so long as you are not transferring huge blocks of data, but rather individual image files (~10MB each).
Nonetheless, it is interesting to see this market segment develop as the past few years have seen some pleasant improvements over what was available just 3-4 years ago.
I was under the impression, perhaps erroneous, that Socrates was forced to take Hemlock, not because of heresy, but rather because he had a particularly "bad" habit of continuously pointing out the weak logic used by his fellow citizens and got a few too many of them pissed off because he made them look like fools. Greeks at the time had so many different Gods that it seems highly unlikely that praying to the wrong one was much of an issue.
A fair point, but there are other issues to consider here.
Many laptops only have a couple of USB ports, so you can only (easily) attach a couple of devices. If you have large storage requirements, this is a step in the right direction and at a reasonable price point. In my line of work I require lots of space to store digital images about 10MB each. This quickly uses space as another 10MB is just a click of a camera away. However, I must travel and be self-contained so the total size of the drive I can carry with me is of importance, not only in terms of storage size, but of physical form factor size as well (everyone knows how difficult it is to travel with luggage these days).
A point not made clear in the article, nor as far as I can see here. What about the power supply. Does this thing require an external power supply or can it draw its power requirements from the USB port itself. I don't know why the Seagate ad doesn't make this more clear. Many larger, older form factor drives require an external power supply. This can be a no go for those who must travel internationally, since there are surprisingly large number of voltages and pin configurations for external power. Having to carry a power supply that is as large or larger than the drive itself is self-defeating and makes many of my older, larger form factor drives less useful to me.
I have a couple of Seagate 1T drives that do not require an external power supply, which makes them just great for my needs, as I can subdivide my files, taking only parts of my image library I need with me. I presume the new drive is similarly powered through the USB port, but does anyone know this for sure?
Also, the boot issue is of relevance, if one likes, as I do to also run Linux at times. Anyone know if or how this device can overcome MBR constraints to allow a portable "dual boot" configuration for this thing. I'd phase out my relatively new 1TB drives for this if this could be done.
Another consideration is MTBF. Anyone know what this is on this particular drive. My experience is that as good as SeaGate is, Toshiba drives seem to be slightly better precisioned to have longer MTBF.
Input on any of these points, by others would be appreciated.
having your money in a large US bank that is only propped up by the Fed, who let them borrow taxpayer money to make their balance sheets is asking for trouble. Now that I am becoming a fan of Chrome, I have another reason not to bother with Chase Bank, even if they continue to chop down forests to get my business.
You mean that if I create enough false or misleading stories to generate a "buzz" that is picked up by bots I can bring the market to its knees by getting into the same racket as Fox News? No wonder Ruppert bought the Wall Street Journal. This explains how Uncle Ruppert will pay for the purchase.
"More importantly, a monopoly is not an evil thing in itself as long as it provides goods/services at prices that can be born by the consumers."
Especially, if you own one and can charge as you say whatever the market will bear. Your quote might as well be the guiding principle of the republican party.
Now Ohio will be able to catch all those speeders and murderers with little cost to their law enforcement agencies. This ruling should also allow Ohio citizens and those just passing through to be found guilty of just about anything, promptly and efficiently. No time Ohio's deficit will be solved. The bad news is that Ohio politicians will rush to get themselves appointed as deputy sheriffs so they can immediately arrest anyone they suspect may not have given sufficiently to their reelection campaigns. First Arizona and now Ohio, soon I won't be able to travel hardly anywhere in the US and still feel safe.
Yes, but the real question is what OS will Jesus be using during the second coming and will your system be compatible?
At least the good thing about Linux is that regardless of what it is, you can be sure that some hacker will have posted a solution a short while after it is announced. Whether it will be legal to use it is another issue, but then so will the fees required by MS and Apple sales reps and lawyers.
This will all be moot soon, when Google gets their android act together. Until then it will be best if Jesus just postponed his second visit.
The really bad news with regard to unmanned drones is that the only defense against them will be a superior offense. Because drones can be flown from home-based stations far removed from the country where they are employed, the best defence will be saturation carpet bombing of the home country with nuclear weapons to assure that the maximum number of potential drone-control sites are destroyed and laid to ruin via electromagnetic pulse. The fact that 300 million Americans might perish in such an event, will be seen from the perspective of the opposing party as collateral damage. It looks more an more as if Einstein was right, future wars will be fought with sticks and stones.
If Governments Didn't Waste Money, where would all the lucrative contracts that keep Wall Streeters and Fortune 500 corporations in fat City?
Its not as if a rag-tag army of teabaggers is going to step in and bring in the bacon from now on. That would be a recipe for total economic collapse in GDP. Besides their share of kickbacks to a Bloomberg reelection would be minuscule anyway nor would their software make coffee for the mayor every morning.
However, it does leave one wondering what happened to that old technology "the punch clock". You wouldn't think it would cost 758 million dollars to upgrade it.
The title of this article is incorrect. It should read Oracle announces its products will become less secure over time. This will be true because they will permit malware to infect a percentage of their installations, which in turn will corrupt others by providing an internal platform for hackers to penetrate otherwise secure systems. Either a product is secure or it is not. Oracle is merely announcing that their products will not be secure.
As an American who has ridden both Amtrack and the French TGV, I suggest to my fellow Americans that the French have much to be proud of and America has a lot of catching up to do.
Americans would do well to become more educated, lest they make themselves look silly.
A tunnel would be possible, but this area is one of the most seismically active in the world so itt would be an engineering feat of incredible scale.
I've taken the train from Aomori to Hakkodate and it was quite an experience. I must confess to having been a bit nervous at the possibilities despite high Japanese engineering standards. I'm not so sure about a Russian-American effort, but it would be a great goal to work to bridge the two nations together. Especially, if one considers the cost savings of only having to load the rail cars once, rather than twice reloading for transfer to ship based transport.
Perhaps the Chinese are funding part of the Tea Bag party to insure that America can't improve its technological infrastructure anytime soon.
Now that one thinks of it, New Corporation, which through the Chinese wife of its owner has extensive business ties in China does carry much of the water for both the Chinese and the Teabaggers in opposing efforts by the US government to make progress on nearly any front at all.
It is curious that Murdochian Gold Worship is the one religion the Chinese seem to tolerate these days.
When has capitalism worked so efficiently that it produced so much that what it produced cost nothing? Prices don't fall to zero in any system because doing anything requires energy, which necessitates some positive cost.
Money is only the common denominator of people's values at any point in time.
It is the perception of relative worth that gives money its intrinsic value. Consequently, any method of exchange would do just fine so long as it is relatively easy to convince people that it has relative intrinsic value. A exchange of a bushel of potatoes for a bushel of wheat could just as easily be handled via a barter or via altering magnetic states within a computer, aka electronic money transfer. Its only a question of an equilibration and momentary synchronization of the perceptions between the buyer and the seller. Free gifts and services are only momentarily free as they can exist only temporarily under the expectation of some form of benefit in return at some future date.
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It the obvious extension to outsourcing jobs. First American jobs go offshore, then Americans.
Vote for Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman so they can send your job to China! Help restore republican economic policies.
Should anyone blame the Chinese for discovering the republican secret for job "creation"? They want to enjoy the benefits of crony-capitalism too. We wanted them to drop communism and become capitalists. It seems we now have evidence that they have.
Sounds as if Diaper Dave is at it again.
E-SATA is a definite improvement. I have a 7200 E-SATA 1T drive that I use as my alternate notebook when working at my desk. Its too big to carry in the field (about the size of a real brick or 2 if you also have a RAID version as I also do). I'm forced to have an external power supply, with both but the interface is what makes all the difference in the world., though sadly I couldn't find a notebook on the market with 2 e-SATA ports.
Anyone know of if a E-SATA SSD drive say about 100-300 MB is available that can take power from a USB port (or if possible? the e-SATA port itself)? That would make a good alternative boot drive and/or working drive, say for editing multimedia files?
I'll second that. My Nikon D90 puts out files about 10MB in size every time I press the button and 4-8GB per SD chip. It definitely doesn't take long for these to start adding up in a hurry and then, of course, there is the need to back these up, so at a minimum 2X.
Interesting. Do you know the makes and models? Sizes?
The Seagate PN-9KWA2L500 ("Free Agent Go) - a 1 TB drive draws its power solely from the USB port. (2,0). I picked up mine at COSCO. They are about 1" thick unlike many somewhat smaller drives at about 3/4", which is nice because they fit into pockets easily. Evidently, this was a bit of a problem for COSCO as customers were evidently "pocketing" them without paying, they are so easy to carry.
If you are right, it would greatly diminish its usefulness, to me at any rate.
Another feature missing from the drive above is USB rather than SATA interface. These things are relatively slow, but not all that bad, so long as you are not transferring huge blocks of data, but rather individual image files (~10MB each).
Nonetheless, it is interesting to see this market segment develop as the past few years have seen some pleasant improvements over what was available just 3-4 years ago.
I was under the impression, perhaps erroneous, that Socrates was forced to take Hemlock, not because of heresy, but rather because he had a particularly "bad" habit of continuously pointing out the weak logic used by his fellow citizens and got a few too many of them pissed off because he made them look like fools. Greeks at the time had so many different Gods that it seems highly unlikely that praying to the wrong one was much of an issue.
Anyone aware of ancient letters on this point?
a security feature for wives rather than a security bug.
A fair point, but there are other issues to consider here.
Many laptops only have a couple of USB ports, so you can only (easily) attach a couple of devices. If you have large storage requirements, this is a step in the right direction and at a reasonable price point. In my line of work I require lots of space to store digital images about 10MB each. This quickly uses space as another 10MB is just a click of a camera away. However, I must travel and be self-contained so the total size of the drive I can carry with me is of importance, not only in terms of storage size, but of physical form factor size as well (everyone knows how difficult it is to travel with luggage these days).
A point not made clear in the article, nor as far as I can see here. What about the power supply. Does this thing require an external power supply or can it draw its power requirements from the USB port itself. I don't know why the Seagate ad doesn't make this more clear. Many larger, older form factor drives require an external power supply. This can be a no go for those who must travel internationally, since there are surprisingly large number of voltages and pin configurations for external power. Having to carry a power supply that is as large or larger than the drive itself is self-defeating and makes many of my older, larger form factor drives less useful to me.
I have a couple of Seagate 1T drives that do not require an external power supply, which makes them just great for my needs, as I can subdivide my files, taking only parts of my image library I need with me. I presume the new drive is similarly powered through the USB port, but does anyone know this for sure?
Also, the boot issue is of relevance, if one likes, as I do to also run Linux at times. Anyone know if or how this device can overcome MBR constraints to allow a portable "dual boot" configuration for this thing. I'd phase out my relatively new 1TB drives for this if this could be done.
Another consideration is MTBF. Anyone know what this is on this particular drive. My experience is that as good as SeaGate is, Toshiba drives seem to be slightly better precisioned to have longer MTBF.
Input on any of these points, by others would be appreciated.
having your money in a large US bank that is only propped up by the Fed, who let them borrow taxpayer money to make their balance sheets is asking for trouble. Now that I am becoming a fan of Chrome, I have another reason not to bother with Chase Bank, even if they continue to chop down forests to get my business.
Thanks for the info. I'll definitely stay away from Verizon. I had thought I might give them a try, but this changed my mind.
for those poor marine invertebrate biologists with websites dealing with the biology of the Priapulida.
You mean that if I create enough false or misleading stories to generate a "buzz" that is picked up by bots I can bring the market to its knees by getting into the same racket as Fox News? No wonder Ruppert bought the Wall Street Journal. This explains how Uncle Ruppert will pay for the purchase.
The Free Market is a concept invented by republicans to feed the gullible. Indeed, it is one of the most important sources of new sheep to fleece.
"AIG and GM are too big to fail, I'm too small to succeed."
No its your ideas are not worthy enough to be considered. The rich must be protected at all costs, since they are more valuable.
"More importantly, a monopoly is not an evil thing in itself as long as it provides goods/services at prices that can be born by the consumers."
Especially, if you own one and can charge as you say whatever the market will bear. Your quote might as well be the guiding principle of the republican party.
Now Ohio will be able to catch all those speeders and murderers with little cost to their law enforcement agencies. This ruling should also allow Ohio citizens and those just passing through to be found guilty of just about anything, promptly and efficiently. No time Ohio's deficit will be solved. The bad news is that Ohio politicians will rush to get themselves appointed as deputy sheriffs so they can immediately arrest anyone they suspect may not have given sufficiently to their reelection campaigns. First Arizona and now Ohio, soon I won't be able to travel hardly anywhere in the US and still feel safe.
Yes, but the real question is what OS will Jesus be using during the second coming and will your system be compatible?
At least the good thing about Linux is that regardless of what it is, you can be sure that some hacker will have posted a solution a short while after it is announced. Whether it will be legal to use it is another issue, but then so will the fees required by MS and Apple sales reps and lawyers.
This will all be moot soon, when Google gets their android act together. Until then it will be best if Jesus just postponed his second visit.
The really bad news with regard to unmanned drones is that the only defense against them will be a superior offense. Because drones can be flown from home-based stations far removed from the country where they are employed, the best defence will be saturation carpet bombing of the home country with nuclear weapons to assure that the maximum number of potential drone-control sites are destroyed and laid to ruin via electromagnetic pulse. The fact that 300 million Americans might perish in such an event, will be seen from the perspective of the opposing party as collateral damage. It looks more an more as if Einstein was right, future wars will be fought with sticks and stones.
If Governments Didn't Waste Money, where would all the lucrative contracts that keep Wall Streeters and Fortune 500 corporations in fat City?
Its not as if a rag-tag army of teabaggers is going to step in and bring in the bacon from now on. That would be a recipe for total economic collapse in GDP. Besides their share of kickbacks to a Bloomberg reelection would be minuscule anyway nor would their software make coffee for the mayor every morning.
However, it does leave one wondering what happened to that old technology "the punch clock". You wouldn't think it would cost 758 million dollars to upgrade it.
The title of this article is incorrect. It should read Oracle announces its products will become less secure over time. This will be true because they will permit malware to infect a percentage of their installations, which in turn will corrupt others by providing an internal platform for hackers to penetrate otherwise secure systems. Either a product is secure or it is not. Oracle is merely announcing that their products will not be secure.
As an American who has ridden both Amtrack and the French TGV, I suggest to my fellow Americans that the French have much to be proud of and America has a lot of catching up to do.
Americans would do well to become more educated, lest they make themselves look silly.
A tunnel would be possible, but this area is one of the most seismically active in the world so itt would be an engineering feat of incredible scale.
I've taken the train from Aomori to Hakkodate and it was quite an experience. I must confess to having been a bit nervous at the possibilities despite high Japanese engineering standards. I'm not so sure about a Russian-American effort, but it would be a great goal to work to bridge the two nations together. Especially, if one considers the cost savings of only having to load the rail cars once, rather than twice reloading for transfer to ship based transport.
Perhaps the Chinese are funding part of the Tea Bag party to insure that America can't improve its technological infrastructure anytime soon.
Now that one thinks of it, New Corporation, which through the Chinese wife of its owner has extensive business ties in China does carry much of the water for both the Chinese and the Teabaggers in opposing efforts by the US government to make progress on nearly any front at all.
It is curious that Murdochian Gold Worship is the one religion the Chinese seem to tolerate these days.
When has capitalism worked so efficiently that it produced so much that what it produced cost nothing? Prices don't fall to zero in any system because doing anything requires energy, which necessitates some positive cost.
Money is only the common denominator of people's values at any point in time.
It is the perception of relative worth that gives money its intrinsic value. Consequently, any method of exchange would do just fine so long as it is relatively easy to convince people that it has relative intrinsic value. A exchange of a bushel of potatoes for a bushel of wheat could just as easily be handled via a barter or via altering magnetic states within a computer, aka electronic money transfer. Its only a question of an equilibration and momentary synchronization of the perceptions between the buyer and the seller. Free gifts and services are only momentarily free as they can exist only temporarily under the expectation of some form of benefit in return at some future date.