![]() ![]() ![]() The drive arrived in the afternoon two days ago and by the time my head hit the pillow, before midnight, I had cloned the boot drive and replaced it with the SAMSUNG 2TB SSD.Īnd now… my Rocket is a rocket again! No need for a faster processor, or a new system board, or more DDRAMM. I ordered one via mail order in this time of COVID quarantine. I could have purchased another fixed disk, but I swallowed hard and purchased a 2TB SSD as the price of that was within the range of acceptable. My Rocket was no longer a Rocket and I wondered, was it time for a new PC build: a new processor, more DRAMM, better video adapters, a newer motherboard?īut the price tag looked too high. It got so bad that I would turn the beast on in the morning before going to the kitchen to make (and have) at least one cup of coffee. It has been getting slower and slower at boot-up. I have had to run CHKDSK /F on it frequently as well as running Windows scan and health checks on a semi monthly basis. That drive has been showing signs of distress. The drive that has been my ‘C’ drive has been in the computer since the beginning, though it wasn’t the boot drive until the Win 10 debacle. There was no way back, and though I had backups of my critical files, it was a mess, leaving me with a 2TB boot ‘C’ and a RAID 0 ‘D’ of 4TB using the MS dynamic drive assignment system.Ī 3TB ‘E’ drive was added in 2016 and it died in 2017 taking a bunch of valuable stuff that I will never get back. Later an unwanted but attempted (because MS is not a good citizen) upgrade to Win 10 crashed my boot drive. The original Win 7 build allowed for a ‘RAID 0’ build on the boot drive using third party drivers for 4TB ‘C’ drive using two 2TB fixed disks. Little has changed other than an upgrade to faster DDRAMM and changes to drives. In that blog I gave the details of the original buildout. I first mentioned the build of my current desktop computer, Whistler, in a 31 December 2012 blog titled, My Rocket. Mike Lieberman 09:25 AM Add Comment Wednesday, 02 December 2020 It is time to allow the flames of hatred to ebb. This is the time to solidify around the basic rights won and cool the fire of the left. This is not the time for progressive advances. But we gave them the firewood in our yearning for a better society and our impatience to get it. ![]() Sure, it's easy to blame the 'right,' the NRA, the haters. But then we had the ancillary matters, public bathrooms and such. That was a lot! Maybe even too much, too fast already. I too was proud that our nation could elect a black individual to the office of President. I too welcomed the inclusion of our LGBTQ citizens into greater formal governmental acceptance. Too many changes, too fast, create the bouillabaisse of societal fears that create what we have now. Societal change normally happens at a glacial pace and it does so for a clear reason. Threatened in their racial identity threatened in the sexual identity threatened in their religious identity threatened by 'others.' That's all it takes in any society. All it takes is the politics of fear and hate that fertilizes the hearts and minds who feel threatened. Whenever you here people talk about Nazi Germany or Stalin's USSR and say, "It can't happen here!". Mike Lieberman 20:16 PM Add Comment Thursday, 07 January 2021 ![]() The liability that companies that deploy these autonomous vehicles will be exposed to will make those corporations reconsider whether the technology is worth the cost in the never-ending stream of lawsuits that are sure to come their way. No matter how good a driving system is, there will be failures, there will be times when a crash wasn’t avoidable. That a machine did the deed becomes a trigger for a deep seated fear of the loss of human control over the heartless machine created by the heartless and presumably rich corporation. Regardless of how many human drivers have killed others. Now, juries don’t much care for big corporations and they sure don’t care for machines that kill. Once established, a monetary reward to the ‘victim’ is divined, often by a jury. In accidents, our legal systems are designed to establish blame. The reason is a simple one, and the term for it in the legal world is called ‘deep pockets.’ It is claimed that, statistically, autonomous driving via AI is far safer than when we humans are behind the wheel, and I am willing to accept the argument that that may well be the case.īut, unless there is a change in the legal system in nations such as the USA, I am firmly convinced that the push to such driverless systems will quickly grind to a halt and be abandoned. ![]()
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