Potentially damaing remarks will be peer reviewed by other tech savvy users, if this Maxtor issue is a one in a million problem then it will fizzle. If a lot of other Maxtor drive owners have drives that go boom, there'll be a recall. It all takes care of itself.
More than likely this owner, whose hard drive was manufactured on March 1, 2005, has a 3 or 5 year warranty on that drive. I have a similar drive from Maxtor from that year that's 5 protected for years. Pity about the data though.
How badly can a song REALLY degrade even if you compress it with *cough* *choke* *wheeze* mp3? *gasp* (eh, not for me, thank you very much; if I go lossy I go ogg) Not much, really, actually. It's certainly tons better than copying to audio tape.
Once you do it, you lock in that DRM-free quality level forever and it never degrades again.
Of course you can use APE or FLAC and bypass the loss of quality altogether.
True, but imagine how much storage space is taken up by those multitude of 15 minute Final Fantasy cinematics (you know, the ones that happen between every five or so battles your character wins). If they cut that out we'd have mo chocobo, mo chocobo, MO CHOCOBO!!!
Every economist worth their salt will tell you that soaring debt is the sign of a great economy. Debt is good, because it means we're spending like crazy and our kids will pay for it and not us.
Carter refused to nuke the Middle East by Gawd and he even suggested we go all flowery and stop being so dependent on oil and stuff.
Now excuse me while I gas up my 20 foot long stretch SUV, yeehaw!!!
Just to screw HP, we bought replacement inkjets as they came on sale (which placed them cheaper than the replacement ink).
Then we started needing to do high quality work and switched to a Konica Minolta Magicolor 7450. The consummables are cheaper per page, and it even runs in Linux. Ever seen a printer with its own hard drive? It's just wicked cool.
I didn't think about the option of making mods. Well said. I can't even say I've never heard of modders getting jobs from their work - if that were the case, where would the makers of Counterstrike be? I believe Cliffy "UT2004/Pwnage" B went that route, too...
and while it has an A class budget, it is not an A class game for the very reasons the reviewer said.
I feel the game should in fact be patched to allow you to do all the different quests in one run if you're good at bat (so to speak) and skilled enough to budget your time.
The whole "you have to fail one mission to succeed at another" qualifies as realism, but sucks at escapism. If I wanted to remove escapism I'd go outside... oh wait a minute, bad argument, bad argument!!!:)
And how do you get into the game industry now without a fairly glowing resume that shows years of prior experience? I'm talking about now... not 2-5 years ago.
There's no such thing as an entry level tech job any more. Even a tech support rep position requires 2 years of tech support experience (see: catch-22). A job in the gaming industry requires not only that but soon it'll require one other thing: fluency in Hindu and Chinese. Preferably both, according to a recent Gamasutra article.
I'm not one to dis peer review, but in this case screw them. Put your money where your mouth is and show them who's boss by showing them the money.
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More control of my computer by me, instead of by someone else.
I keep hearing about stuff like "all your base are belong to thin clients and remote servers" whenever someone mentions the future of OSes and that deeply disturbs me, especially the part about remote storage of data and subscription based access to remotely hosted apps. Forget morphing; I would prefer changing my OS settings as I please. In fact, give me OS the option where I can save my settings to a profile and then load up a profile to fit what I'm doing.
I'll pay more for having everything on my hard drive, under my control, without any need to phone home to authorize further usage of my media, software or OS. Unfortunately we the sheeple are being herded towards the digital corporate nanny state where the corporations decide what we'll get and these little heuristic tricks the OS of tomorrow will do for us, will give us the illusion that we have control.
Funny how it is that to get the kind of extra value I desire, I need to actually payless. Ok, so I'll purchase a support contract, does that count as "paying more"?
If those fish that are dying out there aren't worth protection under the free market, then they aren't worthy of survival.
Things that are truly important to humanity's survival will be preserved by market forces. Which means someone like Outback Steakhouse will take a genuine interest in their survival and will spend the money to stop these dead zones and prevent hypoxia/anoxia from happening.
If you really want to save the fish off of Oregon's coast, then put them on the menu.
PETA may in fact be using Homeland Security against us.
Under the USAPATRIOT Act, there are very few ways that you can hide your home address. Most notably, under the anti terrorist/anti money laundering clauses in Sections 313-316, you have to have your home address on record with the bank or EQUIFAX will tell them there's a discrepancy and they'll lock your account. So if said scientist has a bank account, his family's physical location is a known fact, and he cannot hide it. Furthermore, his driver's license is the same way. No PO boxes, you need your home address on the card.
But I have managed, myself, to hack my way through the California DMV; I went there in person (you have to do this in person, it seems, for this hack to work) and wrote in my Mailboxes Etc. address and it got put on my Driver's License. EQUIFAX has not nailed me since. I suspect that EQUIFAX culled my Driver's License information and took that as my home address; my bank has my Mailboxes Etc. address as well, and thus there's no section 313 discrepancy. Everything in the universe has since come to my MBE address.
USsearch.com and several other places I'd paid to retrieve my records, has never had my real home address on file. And my title to my house is in someone else's name (another long trick for another slashdot post).
Yes, I guard my privacy with my life.
The scientist in question, may not know how to hack the system as I know how; as such, any garden variety PI can have his home address in a minute. Now, more so than before, because of the very law meant to stop terror.
Now PETA can just go online and stalk you with a few mouse clicks and some cash having been forked over, and it's on.
I've been warning people about this for 2 years now......
If George Bush was truly serious about stopping terrorism and if his end goal were not a POLICE STATE, these animal rights terrorist turd burglars - who are by definition liberal and by definition an enemy of the Conservative (and in the case of this group, any sane) cause - would be locked up in Guantanamo by now.
That's not in any way anything close to spin. It's the solid truth and it's about time our leaders start making an account of these horrendous missteps instead of ignoring their citizens' pleas to take real measures to stop terrorism while these violent, stalking nutballs are left free to pick us off one by one.
The parent post wasn't off topic. It was a discussion of the Bush's administration's selective enforcement of the war on Terror, and its obvious effects upon one of our citizens, culminating in this news story.
I'm sorry if you can't follow the relevant points past the nose on your face, but now you have three more mod points to use up against me. And then I'll be back. Over and over and over again.
Or you could waste that time writing your President or your local Republican congressman and asking them to enforce the war on terror even when the victims are the scientists your leader hates so much.
Oh wait, I can see it now. "-5, connect the logical points error."
They could come in looking for pedophile material and find an old audio tape copy of a Depeche Mode song played on radio. That could be enough to get you prison time in America.
"There's a line in the book for just about every citizen." or so the approximate saying goes.
I wouldn't argue against the fact that the FBI has replaced one problem with another, not do I believe this hacker in question will do the right thing in the end; I was just offering my idea for a solution. You're very right about the threat of planting evidence being a major drawback of vigilanteism; which is why I feel 'hero' vigilantes should inevitably go legit.
In this case, our heroic hacker has done his job, he's found the pedophile, now it's time for him join law enforcement, assume some responsibility and accountability for future actions, and go legit.
Vigilante justice is sometimes needed to fill the gaps, but society's the worse for it if the problem requiring vigilantes remains, or if the vigilantes remain unchecked.
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Potentially damaing remarks will be peer reviewed by other tech savvy users, if this Maxtor issue is a one in a million problem then it will fizzle. If a lot of other Maxtor drive owners have drives that go boom, there'll be a recall. It all takes care of itself.
More than likely this owner, whose hard drive was manufactured on March 1, 2005, has a 3 or 5 year warranty on that drive. I have a similar drive from Maxtor from that year that's 5 protected for years. Pity about the data though.
What if "mywindowspartition.image" is bigger than 1 dvd?
How do you split it up?
How badly can a song REALLY degrade even if you compress it with *cough* *choke* *wheeze* mp3? *gasp* (eh, not for me, thank you very much; if I go lossy I go ogg) Not much, really, actually. It's certainly tons better than copying to audio tape.
Once you do it, you lock in that DRM-free quality level forever and it never degrades again.
Of course you can use APE or FLAC and bypass the loss of quality altogether.
True, but imagine how much storage space is taken up by those multitude of 15 minute Final Fantasy cinematics (you know, the ones that happen between every five or so battles your character wins). If they cut that out we'd have mo chocobo, mo chocobo, MO CHOCOBO!!!
Bush would claim he was told to let the fornicators, drunkards and sinners of New Orleans drown.
He should have gone off to hide at Camp David and play golf like Dubya did after 9/11.
Every economist worth their salt will tell you that soaring debt is the sign of a great economy. Debt is good, because it means we're spending like crazy and our kids will pay for it and not us.
Carter refused to nuke the Middle East by Gawd and he even suggested we go all flowery and stop being so dependent on oil and stuff.
Now excuse me while I gas up my 20 foot long stretch SUV, yeehaw!!!
Tell it, patriot!
No profit means no music.
That's been true since the dawn of time.
[parody off]
Just to screw HP, we bought replacement inkjets as they came on sale (which placed them cheaper than the replacement ink).
Then we started needing to do high quality work and switched to a Konica Minolta Magicolor 7450. The consummables are cheaper per page, and it even runs in Linux. Ever seen a printer with its own hard drive? It's just wicked cool.
We haven't looked back at HP since.
I didn't think about the option of making mods. Well said. I can't even say I've never heard of modders getting jobs from their work - if that were the case, where would the makers of Counterstrike be? I believe Cliffy "UT2004/Pwnage" B went that route, too...
and while it has an A class budget, it is not an A class game for the very reasons the reviewer said.
:)
I feel the game should in fact be patched to allow you to do all the different quests in one run if you're good at bat (so to speak) and skilled enough to budget your time.
The whole "you have to fail one mission to succeed at another" qualifies as realism, but sucks at escapism. If I wanted to remove escapism I'd go outside... oh wait a minute, bad argument, bad argument!!!
And how do you get into the game industry now without a fairly glowing resume that shows years of prior experience? I'm talking about now... not 2-5 years ago.
There's no such thing as an entry level tech job any more. Even a tech support rep position requires 2 years of tech support experience (see: catch-22). A job in the gaming industry requires not only that but soon it'll require one other thing: fluency in Hindu and Chinese. Preferably both, according to a recent Gamasutra article.
Why haven't they made Morrowind compatible with the 360?
I'm not one to dis peer review, but in this case screw them. Put your money where your mouth is and show them who's boss by showing them the money.
More control of my computer by me, instead of by someone else.
I keep hearing about stuff like "all your base are belong to thin clients and remote servers" whenever someone mentions the future of OSes and that deeply disturbs me, especially the part about remote storage of data and subscription based access to remotely hosted apps. Forget morphing; I would prefer changing my OS settings as I please. In fact, give me OS the option where I can save my settings to a profile and then load up a profile to fit what I'm doing.
I'll pay more for having everything on my hard drive, under my control, without any need to phone home to authorize further usage of my media, software or OS. Unfortunately we the sheeple are being herded towards the digital corporate nanny state where the corporations decide what we'll get and these little heuristic tricks the OS of tomorrow will do for us, will give us the illusion that we have control.
Funny how it is that to get the kind of extra value I desire, I need to actually pay less. Ok, so I'll purchase a support contract, does that count as "paying more"?
They'd never be able to do that without a strategy guide/walkthrough, nosireebobski.
If those fish that are dying out there aren't worth protection under the free market, then they aren't worthy of survival.
Things that are truly important to humanity's survival will be preserved by market forces. Which means someone like Outback Steakhouse will take a genuine interest in their survival and will spend the money to stop these dead zones and prevent hypoxia/anoxia from happening.
If you really want to save the fish off of Oregon's coast, then put them on the menu.
[end right wing parody]
A Holocaust survivor would be appalled at the amount of surveillance and violation of our Constitutional liberties that's going on under Bush.
And who are these people who throw around the word 'fascism'? Most of the tenets of Fascism directly describe the Bush Administration.
Your apathy and lack of historical knowledge is appalling.
PETA may in fact be using Homeland Security against us.
Under the USAPATRIOT Act, there are very few ways that you can hide your home address. Most notably, under the anti terrorist/anti money laundering clauses in Sections 313-316, you have to have your home address on record with the bank or EQUIFAX will tell them there's a discrepancy and they'll lock your account. So if said scientist has a bank account, his family's physical location is a known fact, and he cannot hide it. Furthermore, his driver's license is the same way. No PO boxes, you need your home address on the card.
But I have managed, myself, to hack my way through the California DMV; I went there in person (you have to do this in person, it seems, for this hack to work) and wrote in my Mailboxes Etc. address and it got put on my Driver's License. EQUIFAX has not nailed me since. I suspect that EQUIFAX culled my Driver's License information and took that as my home address; my bank has my Mailboxes Etc. address as well, and thus there's no section 313 discrepancy. Everything in the universe has since come to my MBE address.
USsearch.com and several other places I'd paid to retrieve my records, has never had my real home address on file. And my title to my house is in someone else's name (another long trick for another slashdot post).
Yes, I guard my privacy with my life.
The scientist in question, may not know how to hack the system as I know how; as such, any garden variety PI can have his home address in a minute. Now, more so than before, because of the very law meant to stop terror.
Now PETA can just go online and stalk you with a few mouse clicks and some cash having been forked over, and it's on.
I've been warning people about this for 2 years now......
It's the truth.
If George Bush was truly serious about stopping terrorism and if his end goal were not a POLICE STATE, these animal rights terrorist turd burglars - who are by definition liberal and by definition an enemy of the Conservative (and in the case of this group, any sane) cause - would be locked up in Guantanamo by now.
That's not in any way anything close to spin. It's the solid truth and it's about time our leaders start making an account of these horrendous missteps instead of ignoring their citizens' pleas to take real measures to stop terrorism while these violent, stalking nutballs are left free to pick us off one by one.
The parent post wasn't off topic. It was a discussion of the Bush's administration's selective enforcement of the war on Terror, and its obvious effects upon one of our citizens, culminating in this news story.
I'm sorry if you can't follow the relevant points past the nose on your face, but now you have three more mod points to use up against me. And then I'll be back. Over and over and over again.
Or you could waste that time writing your President or your local Republican congressman and asking them to enforce the war on terror even when the victims are the scientists your leader hates so much.
Oh wait, I can see it now. "-5, connect the logical points error."
Who's in charge of law enforcement these days?
:)
Republicans.
So who's to blame except those who are in charge of making and enforcing the laws?
Why hadn't Bush called on the FBI to deal with this like he does Osama Bin La... oh wait, he is. Sillyme.
Word up to all the Bushites sitting around tonight with mod points and a big fat grudge against the truth.
They could come in looking for pedophile material and find an old audio tape copy of a Depeche Mode song played on radio. That could be enough to get you prison time in America.
"There's a line in the book for just about every citizen." or so the approximate saying goes.
I wouldn't argue against the fact that the FBI has replaced one problem with another, not do I believe this hacker in question will do the right thing in the end; I was just offering my idea for a solution. You're very right about the threat of planting evidence being a major drawback of vigilanteism; which is why I feel 'hero' vigilantes should inevitably go legit.
In this case, our heroic hacker has done his job, he's found the pedophile, now it's time for him join law enforcement, assume some responsibility and accountability for future actions, and go legit.
Vigilante justice is sometimes needed to fill the gaps, but society's the worse for it if the problem requiring vigilantes remains, or if the vigilantes remain unchecked.