Hate to tell you this but, you're out of warranty, prepare for drive failure due to thermal stress, unless you have the drive exposed to room air without being in an enclosed case. You may be a statistical outlier, but I'd CMA if I were you. I should know, I've lost more data on Seagate drives than I care to count in the last twenty years.
For the past 11 years, I used nothing but Seagate drives in my builds for clients.
Over those past 11 years, I built something like 20 systems a month (on average) with occasional large scale orders of 200.
The number of failed Seagates I could count *on one hand*
YMMV clearly, but I stand behind Seagates.
You must have a Ph.D. in BS, because that's the most ridiculously untrue thing I've heard this week. I have owned or been around at least that many Seagate drives and have NEVER seen more than 10% last beyond their warranty period...... EVER! I'm talking twenty plus years of experience with Seagate drives, i.e. before they made ATA drives! I categorically pronounce your claim as shenanigans.
Me, Hitachi, good, had several (desktop and laptop). Samsung, crap, died within 24 months (laptop). Seagate, good performance but lousy longevity due to thermals. WD, solid since SATA (maybe SATA II, my memory fades). Quantum, awesome SCSI drives in the early 1990s. Maxtor was awesome back in the day. Fujitsu, crap, crap, crap. Conner, run away! HP, thermal issues like the Seagate drives. I think that covers about all the brands of drives I've been around. If I forgot any vendors that's because they were forgettable.
It's also a study in the law of large numbers. If 10 million people all say seagate's drives suck, there is a very good possibility that seagate's drives do in fact suck.
Thermals are their biggest issue, and that's been the case since they only made SCSI drives. Seagate drives run hot. Always have and that always leads to early drive failure. Anymore, run any seagate drive in an external cases only with the outer housing removed. Although any external drive, I don't care what manufacturer, they are I try to keep as much air as possible accessible to the drive. I have a few seagate drives left around, but try to avoid buying any more both personally and professionally. Seagate drives have had wicked performance for me over the years, but have seldom lasted much beyond their warranty term.
Now, I will have to wait in line at the airport TSA checkpoint behind robots that want to go to South Korea. Like the couple with eight kids isn't enough! Or, will the robots just DHL themselves there?
Actually, they want a certain number of base subscribers in your neighborhood to "pre-order", then they'll charge you the ridiculous amount of money to run the lines in your neighborhood, then they profit off the service and the nickel and diming they'll do to you on boxes, converters and DVRs.
"I need to setup a development environment on my home desktop"
No.
If you are doing it for work then your employer supplies the equipment. Maybe if it is convenient for *you* then some might add something for their personal equipment, e.g. I get my work calendar on my personal phone since it is more convenient for me to see it there than on my employer-supplied computer and the overhead is low. Since you have demonstrated how inconvenient it is to do it on your own equipment, you've proven that it is incorrect to use your own equipment.
I would go further and say no on the grounds that it directly benefits the company and that they should supply the dev machine and pay any software costs. That's how unexploitive companies work, anyway.
This, I'm surprised people are even giving suggestions for him to do work that's "not part of his job description" in his spare time. Don't. Just don't do it. You either get paid to do the work level that your qualified to do or you don't. Don't take on responsibilities that aren't yours. This is a cardinal rule as will only end up in you working yourself to death doing everyone else's job (even if they don't even work there at all). Limit yourself to your job description and leave it at that. If that need a mobile developer, inform them that you would do it gladly but that it would be additional job duties and you should be compensated for it in turn.
Agreed. My first thought was, "If he is doing this for a new job why aren't they supplying him with a laptop so he can use it at home AND at work?" You know, like a sane company would, or at least one with a clue. If they are expecting you to do this extra work, or if you volunteered, the least they could do is supply you with a portable dev machine. Run. Run away from that company.
Even better, LMFAO, that chart has Opera outpacing Safari and the iPhone. Even for one measurement period, that's utterly ridiculous. What's that measuring? It certainly isn't any site with usage stats like CNN.com, or YouTube.com. Call me when you have some real numbers.
If we're being analytical, factor in this. And, why are we factoring out microcontrollers? The question was what code is oft-run, ever. Didn't specify platform. Matter of fact it says "regardless of CPU type".
BAM! Didn't think about that. Totally the winner for anything with video output, for sue. But, I was factoring embedded devices and anything with BIOS. That gets run every time a device is power cycled. That would include cell phones and printers and routers and, well, you get the picture. BIOS is in a metric shite tonne of devices, not just devices with color displays. There is code that gets executed in every one of these devices to POST, and I have to plant the flag and say that trumps any other code oft-run. There's just way too many billion devices that POST. There haven't been enough cell phones EVER to overtake the cumulative numbers--that encompasse them--that POST. Industrial equipment, lab equipment, ANYTHING with memory has to POST. Power On Self Test, to correct my previous acronym usage. Define first, then use.
When I was just out of highschool we'd drive around looking for a party. Spent half the night doing that... stopping by this house or that house... We couldn't call from the car as there were no cellphones and even if we did land line phones were often not picked up at a loud party. With modern texting/tweeting etc, teens know where the party's immediately. If it changes venue they know right away. It's just one more activity computers have made more efficient.
Juvenile delinquency just ain't what it used to be, eh?
Yes I drive a lot less than I used to 10 years ago, but it less to do with the Internet and more to do with the price of gas....
I'm not sure why your comment and link to an ancient article on gas prices (2004?!) got modded insightful, but when you factor in inflation, gas prices aren't particularly high. They're at a pretty normal level compared to historical prices (again, inflation adjusted).
That being said, the inflation adjusted income of the middle class has been going down for decades. That's more likely to be your culprit.
Try, the income of middle class has not been keeping up with inflation, let alone the real price of goods and services the last 10 years.
The organ theft urban legend has been around for a long time, but organ transplant isn't just something any unethical surgeon can do in the back of a fan. You need to match a donor first, which needs access to a suitable laboratory. Then you need a highly skilled surgeon, and a sterile operating environment, a team of supporting surgeons and nurses, an anesthetist, lots of drugs that are hard to get on the black market (Anasthetic, immunosurpresents, potent antibiotics). Expensive and specialised machines to monitor the recipient*. If organ theft does/could happen, it would have to be an operation so sophisticated and expensive that it could only be the domain of the most powerful of organised crime organisations. The ones who can pay off hospitals to carry out an off-the-books transplant.
*Double that if you intend the donor survive. This part is optional.
1. Organ theft is not an urban myth. It may not be happening in your town or country, but it is happening. Google
2. You have some incorrect information as to what is available and unavailable on the "black market". Any drug, legal or illegal can be obtained, for a price.
3. Organ theft requires as little as a sharp knife and a cooler full of ice. The knowledge to remove an organ for use in transplant is available on the internet from medical journals, accessible from just about any university library with a med school. The go-between to sell it to, that takes a little effort to find.
4. Yeah, because there's no such thing as a crooked, skilled doctor. Riiiiiight.
The world is not all like America or wherever you probably live in the Western world, nor is it like TV. It's the lesser developed parts of the world that would suffer the most if organs were made into commodities. You would see entire countries literally decimated by criminals murdering and harvesting organs, enslaving women to have babies for organ harvest and a thousand other ghoulish things that would give you nightmares the rest of your life. This Becker person and his colleague are sick, demented, abhorrent creatures who should be treated for psychosis. Only an inhuman fiend would ever suggest such a thing as creating a capitalist market for human organs. Just sick. Being smart doesn't keep you from being immoral or crazy. These two just proved that.
Internet Sure, let's get that out of the way. I don't have to go out as much to buy things, so I'd say that lowered my annual driving average by about 5%-10%
Gasoline/Petrol prices Absolutely. When the price of gasoline went over $2.50/gal (that was 2005-ish) my leisure driving went to almost none. That was easily 25%-30% of my annual driving.
More environmentally conscious Over the last 15 years I have definitely become more environmentally conscious and tried to drive less as well as use less electricity, etc.
Moved closer to work I live in a medium-sized rural university town (about 50,000 without students, about 80,000 with them). I work for the university and moved to my present location in 1999. Before that I was living about three miles away and would drive to work daily. Now, I have a 15 minute walk apartment door to office door (my office, not the outer door). That cut my driving down by more than a third.
So my driving habits over the last 15 years have dropped by roughly 65%-75%. I only drive when I need to run errands or I am going to visit friends farther than I can comfortably walk. I might spend $120-$130 on gas in a "busy" month (about 1,000 miles worth), but on average I spend about $60-$65 (about 500 miles worth). I used to average between 2,000 - 3,000 miles per month when gas was under $2.50/gal. I did a lot more road trips for fun and drove back and forth to work (often multiple times a day), as well as shopping trips and other errands. People around where I live have also gotten worse driving habits over that time, so that's another reason I stay off the roads. Where I live half the population of drivers has less than eight years of driving experience, and it seems they never really learned the rules of the road, anyway. Hell, it's bad enough as a pedestrian!
It’s not really executable as I understand it, but I am not a biologist. The translation from DNA to RNA is hard to construe as ‘execution’. Then in the next step the RNA goes to ribosomes to construct proteins. So maybe DNA is ‘compiled’?
The field of computational biology would probably have a good metaphor to map the ideas from biology to computer science.
As I understand it, gene expression is where the DNA code is interpreted and appropriate cells with appropriate properties are then created. Expressing the DNA (make this a skin cell with these properties) would be execution, wouldn't it?
You can be the smartest person, ever. If you don't do anything with it you will never know genius. Genius is just a recognized smart person, that is a person recognized for being really smart.
I would have to guess some code in BIOS that's pretty much the same on every platform. The POST components for memory checking, for instance. That might actually get disqualified as they may be written in assembler?
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Hate to tell you this but, you're out of warranty, prepare for drive failure due to thermal stress, unless you have the drive exposed to room air without being in an enclosed case. You may be a statistical outlier, but I'd CMA if I were you. I should know, I've lost more data on Seagate drives than I care to count in the last twenty years.
For the past 11 years, I used nothing but Seagate drives in my builds for clients. Over those past 11 years, I built something like 20 systems a month (on average) with occasional large scale orders of 200. The number of failed Seagates I could count *on one hand* YMMV clearly, but I stand behind Seagates.
You must have a Ph.D. in BS, because that's the most ridiculously untrue thing I've heard this week. I have owned or been around at least that many Seagate drives and have NEVER seen more than 10% last beyond their warranty period ...... EVER! I'm talking twenty plus years of experience with Seagate drives, i.e. before they made ATA drives! I categorically pronounce your claim as shenanigans.
You do know China is communist, right?
Not since they took back Hong Kong, or were you not paying attention?
Me, Hitachi, good, had several (desktop and laptop). Samsung, crap, died within 24 months (laptop). Seagate, good performance but lousy longevity due to thermals. WD, solid since SATA (maybe SATA II, my memory fades). Quantum, awesome SCSI drives in the early 1990s. Maxtor was awesome back in the day. Fujitsu, crap, crap, crap. Conner, run away! HP, thermal issues like the Seagate drives. I think that covers about all the brands of drives I've been around. If I forgot any vendors that's because they were forgettable.
It's also a study in the law of large numbers. If 10 million people all say seagate's drives suck, there is a very good possibility that seagate's drives do in fact suck.
Thermals are their biggest issue, and that's been the case since they only made SCSI drives. Seagate drives run hot. Always have and that always leads to early drive failure. Anymore, run any seagate drive in an external cases only with the outer housing removed. Although any external drive, I don't care what manufacturer, they are I try to keep as much air as possible accessible to the drive. I have a few seagate drives left around, but try to avoid buying any more both personally and professionally. Seagate drives have had wicked performance for me over the years, but have seldom lasted much beyond their warranty term.
Now, I will have to wait in line at the airport TSA checkpoint behind robots that want to go to South Korea. Like the couple with eight kids isn't enough! Or, will the robots just DHL themselves there?
Money
Actually, they want a certain number of base subscribers in your neighborhood to "pre-order", then they'll charge you the ridiculous amount of money to run the lines in your neighborhood, then they profit off the service and the nickel and diming they'll do to you on boxes, converters and DVRs.
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What are "better things than Dice's editing", Alex?
Ooo...Maybe we should get Watson to replace the /. editors? Brilliant!
Why doesn't the summary for articles like these spell out unfamiliar abbreviations such as "contributor license agreement"?
You were expecting journalism majors to be editors of /. ??? ROFLMFAO
"I need to setup a development environment on my home desktop"
No.
If you are doing it for work then your employer supplies the equipment. Maybe if it is convenient for *you* then some might add something for their personal equipment, e.g. I get my work calendar on my personal phone since it is more convenient for me to see it there than on my employer-supplied computer and the overhead is low. Since you have demonstrated how inconvenient it is to do it on your own equipment, you've proven that it is incorrect to use your own equipment.
I would go further and say no on the grounds that it directly benefits the company and that they should supply the dev machine and pay any software costs. That's how unexploitive companies work, anyway.
This, I'm surprised people are even giving suggestions for him to do work that's "not part of his job description" in his spare time. Don't. Just don't do it. You either get paid to do the work level that your qualified to do or you don't. Don't take on responsibilities that aren't yours. This is a cardinal rule as will only end up in you working yourself to death doing everyone else's job (even if they don't even work there at all). Limit yourself to your job description and leave it at that. If that need a mobile developer, inform them that you would do it gladly but that it would be additional job duties and you should be compensated for it in turn.
Agreed. My first thought was, "If he is doing this for a new job why aren't they supplying him with a laptop so he can use it at home AND at work?" You know, like a sane company would, or at least one with a clue. If they are expecting you to do this extra work, or if you volunteered, the least they could do is supply you with a portable dev machine. Run. Run away from that company.
Even better, LMFAO, that chart has Opera outpacing Safari and the iPhone. Even for one measurement period, that's utterly ridiculous. What's that measuring? It certainly isn't any site with usage stats like CNN.com, or YouTube.com. Call me when you have some real numbers.
LMAO, you counter a list longer than my leg based on the search terms with one article.
What other reply? The reply you link to was by another user that did not agree with you at all.
If we're being analytical, factor in this. And, why are we factoring out microcontrollers? The question was what code is oft-run, ever. Didn't specify platform. Matter of fact it says "regardless of CPU type".
BAM! Didn't think about that. Totally the winner for anything with video output, for sue. But, I was factoring embedded devices and anything with BIOS. That gets run every time a device is power cycled. That would include cell phones and printers and routers and, well, you get the picture. BIOS is in a metric shite tonne of devices, not just devices with color displays. There is code that gets executed in every one of these devices to POST, and I have to plant the flag and say that trumps any other code oft-run. There's just way too many billion devices that POST. There haven't been enough cell phones EVER to overtake the cumulative numbers--that encompasse them--that POST. Industrial equipment, lab equipment, ANYTHING with memory has to POST. Power On Self Test, to correct my previous acronym usage. Define first, then use.
When I was just out of highschool we'd drive around looking for a party. Spent half the night doing that... stopping by this house or that house... We couldn't call from the car as there were no cellphones and even if we did land line phones were often not picked up at a loud party. With modern texting/tweeting etc, teens know where the party's immediately. If it changes venue they know right away. It's just one more activity computers have made more efficient.
Juvenile delinquency just ain't what it used to be, eh?
Yes I drive a lot less than I used to 10 years ago, but it less to do with the Internet and more to do with the price of gas....
I'm not sure why your comment and link to an ancient article on gas prices (2004?!) got modded insightful, but when you factor in inflation, gas prices aren't particularly high. They're at a pretty normal level compared to historical prices (again, inflation adjusted).
That being said, the inflation adjusted income of the middle class has been going down for decades. That's more likely to be your culprit.
Try, the income of middle class has not been keeping up with inflation, let alone the real price of goods and services the last 10 years.
Then there's a long way to go. Petrol in Europe is still 6 times more expensive. No, really. 6 times.
Petrol in Europe has always been pricey. I remember the first time in France where it was ~$2.00 per liter, so ~$6.50 per gallon. That was 1997!
The organ theft urban legend has been around for a long time, but organ transplant isn't just something any unethical surgeon can do in the back of a fan. You need to match a donor first, which needs access to a suitable laboratory. Then you need a highly skilled surgeon, and a sterile operating environment, a team of supporting surgeons and nurses, an anesthetist, lots of drugs that are hard to get on the black market (Anasthetic, immunosurpresents, potent antibiotics). Expensive and specialised machines to monitor the recipient*. If organ theft does/could happen, it would have to be an operation so sophisticated and expensive that it could only be the domain of the most powerful of organised crime organisations. The ones who can pay off hospitals to carry out an off-the-books transplant.
*Double that if you intend the donor survive. This part is optional.
1. Organ theft is not an urban myth. It may not be happening in your town or country, but it is happening. Google
2. You have some incorrect information as to what is available and unavailable on the "black market". Any drug, legal or illegal can be obtained, for a price.
3. Organ theft requires as little as a sharp knife and a cooler full of ice. The knowledge to remove an organ for use in transplant is available on the internet from medical journals, accessible from just about any university library with a med school. The go-between to sell it to, that takes a little effort to find.
4. Yeah, because there's no such thing as a crooked, skilled doctor. Riiiiiight.
The world is not all like America or wherever you probably live in the Western world, nor is it like TV. It's the lesser developed parts of the world that would suffer the most if organs were made into commodities. You would see entire countries literally decimated by criminals murdering and harvesting organs, enslaving women to have babies for organ harvest and a thousand other ghoulish things that would give you nightmares the rest of your life. This Becker person and his colleague are sick, demented, abhorrent creatures who should be treated for psychosis. Only an inhuman fiend would ever suggest such a thing as creating a capitalist market for human organs. Just sick. Being smart doesn't keep you from being immoral or crazy. These two just proved that.
Now, this is over 15 years, not 10.
Internet
Sure, let's get that out of the way. I don't have to go out as much to buy things, so I'd say that lowered my annual driving average by about 5%-10%
Gasoline/Petrol prices
Absolutely. When the price of gasoline went over $2.50/gal (that was 2005-ish) my leisure driving went to almost none. That was easily 25%-30% of my annual driving.
More environmentally conscious
Over the last 15 years I have definitely become more environmentally conscious and tried to drive less as well as use less electricity, etc.
Moved closer to work
I live in a medium-sized rural university town (about 50,000 without students, about 80,000 with them). I work for the university and moved to my present location in 1999. Before that I was living about three miles away and would drive to work daily. Now, I have a 15 minute walk apartment door to office door (my office, not the outer door). That cut my driving down by more than a third.
So my driving habits over the last 15 years have dropped by roughly 65%-75%. I only drive when I need to run errands or I am going to visit friends farther than I can comfortably walk. I might spend $120-$130 on gas in a "busy" month (about 1,000 miles worth), but on average I spend about $60-$65 (about 500 miles worth). I used to average between 2,000 - 3,000 miles per month when gas was under $2.50/gal. I did a lot more road trips for fun and drove back and forth to work (often multiple times a day), as well as shopping trips and other errands. People around where I live have also gotten worse driving habits over that time, so that's another reason I stay off the roads. Where I live half the population of drivers has less than eight years of driving experience, and it seems they never really learned the rules of the road, anyway. Hell, it's bad enough as a pedestrian!
It’s not really executable as I understand it, but I am not a biologist. The translation from DNA to RNA is hard to construe as ‘execution’. Then in the next step the RNA goes to ribosomes to construct proteins. So maybe DNA is ‘compiled’?
The field of computational biology would probably have a good metaphor to map the ideas from biology to computer science.
As I understand it, gene expression is where the DNA code is interpreted and appropriate cells with appropriate properties are then created. Expressing the DNA (make this a skin cell with these properties) would be execution, wouldn't it?
What makes a genius?
Output.
You can be the smartest person, ever. If you don't do anything with it you will never know genius. Genius is just a recognized smart person, that is a person recognized for being really smart.
I would have to guess some code in BIOS that's pretty much the same on every platform. The POST components for memory checking, for instance. That might actually get disqualified as they may be written in assembler?
Can you write and compile your own software on your iPhone?
No, why would you want to? Geez, devs complain about 2560x1440 laptops not having enough screen real estate. WTF?
It sounds like your "workstation" PC is actually just a dumb terminal.
And? With cloud resources isn't that where things are heading ... again. Besides, it's only as dumb as the person sitting at it.