Uh no, Seagate bought (is buying) Maxtor.
In terms of market share, here is one article I found:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122254,00.asp
Seagate Technology and Western Digital remain atop the market, research shows.
Reasonable deal on a SATA hard drive:
Hitachi 250GB Serial ATA/150 8MB Buffer Hard Drive - Retail Hard Drive Kit
$110 (free shipping), $40 in rebates(2), $70 net
http://shop.outpost.com/product/4221934
Shamelessly stolen from http://hot-deals.org/
To say that a company doing an IPO is the equivalent of creating a short position is hard for me to swallow.
If you create something in your garage, say a sculpture and then sell it to someone would you consider that you are now short the sculpture?
Not every sale is a short sale, to...
Even the lowest end video card should have all the cpu horsepower required to graph 2D charts from eSignal. All of the focus these days is on 3D performance, doing 2D graphics takes minimal cpu.
So while I agree with your overall premise (even reasonable low to mid-range cards have gobs of...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1015235#post1015235
In the other thread, roberk (Moderator) pointed out that scoresomepips was the same person as Tradevector which Real Forex Trades then admitted was one of his (many?) aliases. So following that lead I simply did a...
I agree and stated the same figure (8MB) was just fine for this application earlier in this thread.
But since there were some who felt that 128MB video memory was not enough (!) for a trading setup and use 512MB video cards in their PC's I thought I would provide a new avenue for them to...
Here's a new video card for anyone that wants a lot of video RAM:
ATI Introduces FireGL⢠V7350, the Workstation Industry's First One Gigabyte Graphics Accelerator
http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=833362&highlight=
If you read that thread in its entirety you will see that his attitude didn't go over very well last time he was on ET either:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34588
In my experience with ATA drive manufacturers, no, I don't know of any that would replace your used failed drive with a new one and you paying for return shipping is par for the course as well.
I wouldn't take much stock in anecdotal evidence about drive failures, I have only seen a few...
What I find funny is that I have made no comments about your claims, your system or you other than some trivial typing gaffs.
Yet you automatically assumed that I doubt your claims and then you proceeded to attack this strawman that you created in your mind.
What does this say about you?
I'm honored that you felt the need to start searching through my old posts just like you did with Bitstream.
I hope that when the day comes when I am "extremely wealthy" that I will have something better to do with my time.
(lame explanation for why you didn't use the correct expression, "Couldn't care less" deleted)
LOL, is that what the people "inside" your keyboard told you to say?