Comment Re:Paul Christoforo's LinkedIn Page (Score 1) 419
BCI check, anyone?
BCI check, anyone?
Whenever I crack open a machine with a failed drive, I play a little game called "WD or not WD?". I'll look at the box, and guess based on the brand....7 times out of 10 I guess WD, and I'm almost always right.....they seem to be huge in the OEM market, so just by sheer volume you would tend to see more failed ones because that's what mfr's use. But having said that, I would still not trust any modern drive without a good backup solution, or RAID..
...with free overnight delivery, if anyone is interested. I want to go play with one before I make a final decision, but for the impatient ones that can't get to a store, there ya go.
My understanding is that the only difference between military and civilian GPS is the accuracy. From gps.gov (take with a grain of salt, of course) "... military users can perform ionospheric correction, a technique that reduces radio degradation caused by the Earth's atmosphere. With less degradation, PPS provides better accuracy than the basic SPS."
I am reminded of the old adage: "There are two kinds of hard drives in the world: those that have failed, and those that will".
As someone who has inherited a bowl of spaghetti more than once in his day, I can say definitively that it's all driven by upper management/ownership. You're given a limited set of tools and an even smaller budget to make sure everything not only runs, but runs at peak efficiency. Then, add in incompetent end-users that are allowed, nay, ENCOURAGED to build undocumented, unstructured and barely maintainable "applications", and you're in for some real fun.
Sure, in the same field I can understand, I do that too....I just don't want to know that the lazy sales guy down the hall makes double what I do for taking a few phone calls. Even though I already know intuitively, and by the fact his car cost half as much as my house.
I find most actions scenes "shot" today to be blurry, choppy, impossible to follow messes.
Nor do I, it would probably just piss me off anyway.
This is one instance where I don't really care that the lawyers are cleaning up, because it's at TM's expense.
In addition to those old classics, there's the modern-day "Hacker Evolution" series from exosyphen, which are also pretty well done. Uplink is the only game in this bundle I don't already have, so I'm on the fence about purchasing.
Actually, they only wrote ONE Skinner box. The unique UI that defines each "game" is the primary differentiating factor.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.