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I once bought a variable power supply that had a loose bolt rumbling inside among uninsulated wires - when buying cheap chineese electronics, it's important to disassemble, inspect and reassemble before first use.
About the disks - only things that can be fried by overvoltage is the control circuits, the platters with data won't be touched by anything less than a lightning strike or a failed re-entry.
So, your best bet is to go to data restoration experts.
Izack
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I'm going to see it tonight. Orbital mechanics aren't the only thing they portray inaccurately. It's Star Trek for crying out loud - structural spacecraft design, orbital mechanics, thermodynamics and physics in general, computer science, biology, exo- or Earthly, evolution, architectural and interior design, basic safety, common sense, their own wacky warp physics system...
...But who cares? Again, it's Star Trek for crying out loud. At least for the most part it doesn't really try to explain itself in terms that aren't intentionally silly - these movies, like TOS, are much, much better for just not talking about the crazy science and leaving it to "it's cool, now shut up" instead of babbling about the subspace torque.
The plot is excellent, the visuals are gorgeous, the ships are awesome (hot rod Enterprise, anyone?), the acting is great, and they're returning to "I'm giving 'er all she's got, Cap'n!!" over "I'll try adjusting the subspace anticapacitor to reverse the polarity on the warp field integrity field and blah blah blah blah!"
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And this is why the PSU is about the only part of my computer that I always make sure is highest quality. Considering a PSU is the thing that gets exchanged the least, and will still be in opperation when everything else, probably including the case, has long since been exchanged, the PSU is still holding out. And the day it fries, its only job is to make sure that it fries nothing else. A good PSU does just that. Had my enermax fry on me after some 10 years of service, even with the full lightshow (the blue lightning kind). Everything else remained undamaged.
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My drives have survived numerous failed reentries. :lol:
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About backup strategies: since I have Linux, I just copy and paste my whole desktop folder to a 16 GB flash drive. I don't usually update the backup unless I suspect something bad is coming, or I need to change OS's.
But it's true that nobody expects the hard drive inquisition:lol: So I may start backing up weekly
But it's true that nobody expects the hard drive inquisition:lol: So I may start backing up weekly
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Me too! Mine survived 4 re-entries
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No. this one is SO BAD that even Krys spotted it and commented about how poorly it was done and she always tells me off for pointing physics flaws.
Make no mistake that this is a really bad movie. It takes a great villan, turns him into a puppet and has him do things at the convenience of the plot.
Awful. 3/10 and that's only because Neelix wasn't in it.
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Yes the orbital mechanics flaw was bad enough to make an orbinaut cry (well almost
) but the rest of the movie wasn't quite that bad. Khan was well, not bad, but it just wasn't khan in the same way that the original one was. The characterization was different, and because of that it felt, well weird. :shrug:The orbital mechanics error was just frustrating because it was so unecessary, all they needed to do was have the ships falling towards the moon, and it would have been pretty much fine :beathead:
I would personally give it a "good" myself, at least 7/10 for an interesting movie. The shots of Jupiter & the moon in 3d are worth the innacuracies IMHO.
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Gotta agree with you there. Star Trek is meant to be entertainment, and I don't understand why so many people feel that the people who write Star Trek are directly responsible for trekkies that cant distinguish between reality and a sci-fi show.
If you really want to change things, why not write a letter to Abrams, outline what you thought was wrong, and why? Maybe if someone could spare enough time to explain the errors, they wouldn't make them again!
Ok... then... welcome in the club of the data lost.
What do you as a club member recommend to a guy who's too lazy to buy an external hard drive so he can make back-ups and didn't make a single one for two years of data-stockpiling?
One day I'll be sooo close to shooting myself over this.:facepalm:
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Just seen reports of an extremely destructive tornado (probably EF5) hitting Oklahoma City - with schools and hospitals on direct hit. Expect hundreds of fatalities..... :blink:
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Just now? I had seen a massive one this (German) Noon, but it was rather EF3 by the damage that I have seen so far. EF5 would have meant that most buildings have their sidewalls leveled as well to the point that it takes some fantasy to realize that a building was in that place. In the pictures that I have seen, only roofs have been damaged and some few buildings had collapsed.
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Cosmic Penguin
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Sidewalls? What sidewalls? I saw dozens of homes completely gone, down to their foundations!
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/20/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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It's been preliminary rated an EF-4 by the NWS just based on the helicopter images alone, it was probably an EF-5, they're already stating it was probably producing "near 200mph winds." There's been significant ground scorching, concrete has been removed from roads, trees completely debarked, and there are very well built structures completely destroyed with only slabs remaining. This might have been one of the worst tornadoes in recent history.
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Yes, I had seen an earlier one, this one happened about 7 hours later. I would say it could be EF-5 by the damages that I have seen so far. That is really massive destruction.
Izack
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I just saw it, it was good IMO. I kinda liked the new Khan, actually.
There's no point - all directors have made it abundantly clear that they don't care. It doesn't take a letter to explain these things, it takes an afternoon of easy research, well withing the restrictions placed on a blockbuster film development cycle. No one wants real space. Real space is for the boring old sixties, or backdrops for covers of stupid old music. In the future, everything is cooler, including the laws of nature.
Fiction takes place in either the past or the future, both of which are magical. Why? You want to escape the terrible present, where x y z modern problems take place. Everywhere seems better than the one place where all of your personal problems (aka all the possible problems you can imagine with your narrow scope) are, but you can't stray too far from the easily relatable because the audience has no imagination.
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If you wonder where did the last 9 posts from this thread go, they've gone to the OS WARS MEGA THREAD (now featuring also mobile OSes and WM wars).
