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Comment Re:solve your problem small (Score 1) 276

Or, a classic example of lack of trust in his abilities leads to a tonn of stupid decisions by management and a very expensive soup of ppl that will overcomplicate the thing. When they are done, they will have used up the entire budget on budget planning meetings. Been there, seen that. Duck and cover.

Comment Re:CRC Errors (Score 1) 510

Some drives use capacitors in the design to provide a buffer of power. To avoid the rest of the system eating this power they protect it. (Diodes)
This little power-store is used to ensure that the last/current operation is completed before the drive shuts down if it detects loss of input power.
It doesn't save all your data but atleast ensures no half-cooked corruption occurs on the write.
The drives ofcource cost extra, but give added safety.

Comment Re:Patent not a law (Score 1) 315

Actualy you can't.
Anyone who wants to licence a patent is free to do so and you can not deny them access.
Further you can not set the price unreasonably in order to achieve the same effect. What will happen then is someone will sit down and evaluate the worth of the patent and force you to accept that price.

Patents are illegal to use for blocking production, you can only make sure you earn your due.

Comment Re:Poison! (Score 1) 107

The problem is, if people poison the data by randomely answering the poisoning cancels itself out by shear statistics.
That's the whole point of using a large statistical basis in the research.

But, if each survey is tainted by selecting an outcome and guiding tainters to always be posetive, negative or some other deterministic viewpoint we can really taint the data.

Comment Re:It Varies (Score 2) 353

Norwegian trams have the same issue.
The wrong kind of leaves will stop em dead in their tracks. (pun intended)
Unfortunately we have the wrong kind of leaves all over.

In addition, the streets don't take kindly to a 5.7 richters tram-passing every 15 minutes even with concrete molded support for the rails.
Bus works remarkably well though...

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