It has been a tremendously long day but luckily it is winding down quickly.
I've been testing hard drives since 8:30AM and I'm still no where near completion. Although testing the Raptors and most of the newer drives goes quite quickly, since I've decided to include some older drives for comparison's sake benchmarking them takes forever. For example, I threw in the Western Digital Expert 205BA, an old test bed hard drive of ours from a few years ago, and it took from around 8:30AM until around 1 or 2PM (I lost track of time) to finish testing just that one drive. The IBM 75GXP took almost half the time to complete the same tests, and a newer 7200RPM 8MB cache drive takes significantly less time. The results will be well worth it however, it may just take longer than anticipated.
It snowed here in New Haven on Sunday, and when I say it snowed I mean it snowed hard - unlike what I'm used to in Raleigh. We needed to run some errands so I got to put those snow driving skills to the test. I have concluded that driving in the snow is how everyone should learn how to pull themselves out of a sticky situation. There's no better simulator for a 300ft skidpad than some empty, snowy roads; just make sure that you're keeping well below the speed limit.
Actually I have a huge issue with "driver's education" here in the States; in order for me to get my license I had to drive down a road, take a left, take another left, make a three point turn and come back to my starting place. I don't know about you, but most of the accidents I've seen haven't been because someone screwed up a three point turn on a deserted road. Where are the parallel parking tests? I didn't even have to learn how to parallel park during driver's ed, no wonder so many people have issues parallel parking. What about high speed lane change tests? How to properly take a corner? And don't get me started on braking; I've heard from too many people that they don't know what ABS feels like, and from those without ABS I've heard just as many not know how to prevent their wheels from locking up.
I refuse to believe that speeding and cell phones are the cause of all of our accidents, poor driving habits have to be a big contributor (being distracted does fall into that category).
That's my rant for the night, I've got a handful of drives remaining, but chances are that I won't be able to finish with them until tomorrow.
I'll talk to you all later, have a great night. As for me, Vinney gets back in around 45 minutes (poor gal has been in one class for around 10 hours, there's law school for ya) and hopefully we'll be off to get some dinner. Seeing as how neither of us have eaten since this morning, I'm pretty sure she's starving...I know I am.
Take care.
I've been testing hard drives since 8:30AM and I'm still no where near completion. Although testing the Raptors and most of the newer drives goes quite quickly, since I've decided to include some older drives for comparison's sake benchmarking them takes forever. For example, I threw in the Western Digital Expert 205BA, an old test bed hard drive of ours from a few years ago, and it took from around 8:30AM until around 1 or 2PM (I lost track of time) to finish testing just that one drive. The IBM 75GXP took almost half the time to complete the same tests, and a newer 7200RPM 8MB cache drive takes significantly less time. The results will be well worth it however, it may just take longer than anticipated.
It snowed here in New Haven on Sunday, and when I say it snowed I mean it snowed hard - unlike what I'm used to in Raleigh. We needed to run some errands so I got to put those snow driving skills to the test. I have concluded that driving in the snow is how everyone should learn how to pull themselves out of a sticky situation. There's no better simulator for a 300ft skidpad than some empty, snowy roads; just make sure that you're keeping well below the speed limit.
Actually I have a huge issue with "driver's education" here in the States; in order for me to get my license I had to drive down a road, take a left, take another left, make a three point turn and come back to my starting place. I don't know about you, but most of the accidents I've seen haven't been because someone screwed up a three point turn on a deserted road. Where are the parallel parking tests? I didn't even have to learn how to parallel park during driver's ed, no wonder so many people have issues parallel parking. What about high speed lane change tests? How to properly take a corner? And don't get me started on braking; I've heard from too many people that they don't know what ABS feels like, and from those without ABS I've heard just as many not know how to prevent their wheels from locking up.
I refuse to believe that speeding and cell phones are the cause of all of our accidents, poor driving habits have to be a big contributor (being distracted does fall into that category).
That's my rant for the night, I've got a handful of drives remaining, but chances are that I won't be able to finish with them until tomorrow.
I'll talk to you all later, have a great night. As for me, Vinney gets back in around 45 minutes (poor gal has been in one class for around 10 hours, there's law school for ya) and hopefully we'll be off to get some dinner. Seeing as how neither of us have eaten since this morning, I'm pretty sure she's starving...I know I am.
Take care.
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SeraphsSati - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - link
hehe, just did an article for my journalism class on the new Toyota Prius. It offers an automatic parking system using sensors. So, for those that can't parallel park, or park at all for that matter.