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Topic: Drive

Related:
  Hard Drive    CD ROM drive  
  Disk Drive    DVD drive  
  Floppy Drive    Test Drive  
  SCSI drive    Belt Drive  
  C drive    Drive Copy  
  Drive Image    Hard Disk Drive  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Steve Jobs
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  Apple Computer,  Linux box
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World,  Car and Driver magazine
Dream job(s):Bus Driver,  Truck driver
Favorite body part(s):Ears
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Interest(s):Computers
Favorite computer game(s):Myst
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading MP3's,  Chatting on ICQ
Ultimate fantasy(s):Owning their own trailer
Membership(s):Local Chamber of Commerce
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


John Fielding,
CEO

This drives adoption of the Client's services and creates relationship building and revenue opportunities.
Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner

This is one of the factors that drives some bands apart, as the preferences of musical style among contrasting individuals will often diverge over time.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Variable frequency motor drives to maintain a constant positive pressure to help insure the highest quality painting and curing environment.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Multiple optical drives, media or images can be grouped together under one or more Virtual Links to allows easier management as well as presenting the users with a more organized method of accessing the data.
SBA drives the standards and templates for requirements elicitation and use-case modeling.
Disk drives are aligned to within specific tolerance ranges, and it is quite common to find disk drives on either side of tolerance specifications.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

If Coriolis force drives weather systems in one direction in the northern hemisphere and another in the southern does this mean that hurricanes and other weather systems cannot cross the Equator?
This is basically all pretty bogus since modern drives use variable density bit packing on the cylinders to ensure maximum storage capacity and low magnetic drift.
The test unit drives current through a test probe which induces a varying magnetic field around the coil.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

UDMA drives are a lot cheaper that SCSI-3 drives, and are capable of stutter-free capture and playback of DV data.
The physical drives have special electronic interface packaging that prevents them form being used in industry standard connectors such as SCSI or fiber.
Poorly maintained disk drives can be a major cause of floppy disk surface damage.
 
 
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