I once had a boss express concern that the hand-made cable I was hooking up her desktop with wouldn't be able to get a full 100Mbit... as hand-made cables are never as fast as store bought cable.
I wanted to ask her if she was fucking kidding me?
Just to clarify... the process is slightly more involved if the drive in question has "more than one type of content", even if fully up to date, b/c then Windows (XP) doesn't give you the "do this every time" option. For that you have to actually access the drive properties autoplay tab, select "mixed content" then "select an action to perform" and then "take no action" and finally apply/ok.
...if not to produce 100% failure-proof designs, then to do everything they can to fix the problem and make it right by the costumer.
Years ago I had a Barracuda die and need replacement under warranty. It was real clear when I sent it in that there was NO guarantee of any sort for my data. What I received back was a different drive (different serial) complete with ALL of my data. That's as good as I can ask for.
My WRT54GL running DD-WRT v.23 (can't remember if it is SP1 or SP2) at home has been running non-stop for well over 6 months (don't know exactly when the last time I booted it was, but it was most likely just b/c I was going to be gone for a week or two)
Can't say the same thing about the Netgear GS748T smart switch I have running at work, so I'm doubtful that Netgear vs. Linksys is the issue here... (yea I know, not apples to apples...)
That would work for our area normally (I'm close to CmdrTaco) but on the 27th it got up to 59.9F, 28th it got to 55F, and 45F on the 29th... not cold enough for food. This time of year is not all that cold, remember we're only a little over a week into winter.
I'm not even a Christian and it bothers me that Advent calendars are commonly 25 days long. Advent is NOT the days of December leading up to Christmas! It is the days from Advent Sunday (Wikipedia), which this years was 30 November, to Christmas. Which at one point in the history of this mostly harmless Earth was a celebration of the birth of Christ...
"Big business, which typically thinks nothing about splashing out for newer, more up-to-date PCs"
Apparently they have not worked for any of the companies I've worked for/with...
Perhaps from a hardware standpoint this is accurate. But you know what's happened to every single PC that's come into my office pre-loaded with Vista? They've been flattened and had XP installed before they could even boot Vista.
This "joke" is old... Why should the manufacturer of the keypad make a braille and non-braille version of the keypad? I'm willing to bet that if you check the walk-up ATM, it's got the exact same keypad.
As TFA said:
"Brake lights already use LEDs, so it's not a stretch to outfit an automobile with a sensor that detects the brake lights of the car in front of it and either alerts an inattentive driver or actively slows the car." (Emphasis mine)
If the car can slow itself down based on these signals, then the cars CPU and my brain are involved. Redundant systems.
You've obviously never played Need For Speed: Underground 2. Chock full of adds, but in that kind of game you would expect to see Billboards in the game world, so it actually adds to the realism if they are advertising real products! It was not, IMO, obtrusive, and I think it was pretty neat.
Of course I'm not brain-washable enough to go out and buy everything they advertised so it shouldn't bug me! Having a sudden urge for a Whopper...
"In a control population of 46 women without cancer, there were seven false positive results, or 15 percent. In these seven women, the amounts of the telltale enzyme were very low, the researchers said."
Is it possible that they are able to detect the cancer even sooner than they realize? How can they be 100% sure that all 46 of these women did not have breast cancer? If we can only be 87% accurate...
His assumption is still sound. In your case, the user allowed his PC to be compromised by not keeping it up to date. Non-"enthusiast" users are less likely to keep their software up to date. Non-"enthusiast" users are more likely to be using Windows.
Just because you happened to have been running Red Hat and would probably be considered an "enthusiast" user, doesn't mean that Windows is not the easiest OS to hack, purely based on the user element.
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Not wrong. Stephen Fry was the Narrator and read all of the Guide entries. But the OP was not wrong either... what point are you making?
Come down to Mountain Town Station downtown. Home-made beer, and free wireless!
I once had a boss express concern that the hand-made cable I was hooking up her desktop with wouldn't be able to get a full 100Mbit... as hand-made cables are never as fast as store bought cable.
I wanted to ask her if she was fucking kidding me?
My kingdom* for a mod point!
(Sopor42 promptly gets off his "ethical" high horse...)
*It's NOT my mom's basement, i swear!
Oh it is, is it Mr AC?
Just to clarify... the process is slightly more involved if the drive in question has "more than one type of content", even if fully up to date, b/c then Windows (XP) doesn't give you the "do this every time" option. For that you have to actually access the drive properties autoplay tab, select "mixed content" then "select an action to perform" and then "take no action" and finally apply/ok.
How is this news? This has been going on for MANY years. The first example that came to mind is 11 years old, and I'm sure this is not the oldest.
Thank you for invoking Miller's Corollary. You lose. This conversation is now over.
Why in the HELL do my posts come from AC when I'm logged in, and have NOT checked "Post Anonymously"?
I don't know how in the hell that ended up AC...
Did you actually look?
A curosry search brought no results for the movie Inkheart on TBP or Mininova...
Not saying the torrent isn't out there somewhere, but it's not on the big ones yet.
I will always trust Seagate...
...if not to produce 100% failure-proof designs, then to do everything they can to fix the problem and make it right by the costumer.
Years ago I had a Barracuda die and need replacement under warranty. It was real clear when I sent it in that there was NO guarantee of any sort for my data. What I received back was a different drive (different serial) complete with ALL of my data. That's as good as I can ask for.
My WRT54GL running DD-WRT v.23 (can't remember if it is SP1 or SP2) at home has been running non-stop for well over 6 months (don't know exactly when the last time I booted it was, but it was most likely just b/c I was going to be gone for a week or two)
Can't say the same thing about the Netgear GS748T smart switch I have running at work, so I'm doubtful that Netgear vs. Linksys is the issue here... (yea I know, not apples to apples...)
That would work for our area normally (I'm close to CmdrTaco) but on the 27th it got up to 59.9F, 28th it got to 55F, and 45F on the 29th... not cold enough for food. This time of year is not all that cold, remember we're only a little over a week into winter.
That's what I get for being atheistic and complaining about Christian tradition ;-)
I'm not even a Christian and it bothers me that Advent calendars are commonly 25 days long. Advent is NOT the days of December leading up to Christmas! It is the days from Advent Sunday (Wikipedia), which this years was 30 November, to Christmas. Which at one point in the history of this mostly harmless Earth was a celebration of the birth of Christ...
"Big business, which typically thinks nothing about splashing out for newer, more up-to-date PCs"
Apparently they have not worked for any of the companies I've worked for/with...
Perhaps from a hardware standpoint this is accurate. But you know what's happened to every single PC that's come into my office pre-loaded with Vista? They've been flattened and had XP installed before they could even boot Vista.
That's the opening line to the Sixth book in the trilogy...
This "joke" is old... Why should the manufacturer of the keypad make a braille and non-braille version of the keypad? I'm willing to bet that if you check the walk-up ATM, it's got the exact same keypad.
Both tied into one central processing unit...
As TFA said: "Brake lights already use LEDs, so it's not a stretch to outfit an automobile with a sensor that detects the brake lights of the car in front of it and either alerts an inattentive driver or actively slows the car." (Emphasis mine)
If the car can slow itself down based on these signals, then the cars CPU and my brain are involved. Redundant systems.
You've obviously never played Need For Speed: Underground 2. Chock full of adds, but in that kind of game you would expect to see Billboards in the game world, so it actually adds to the realism if they are advertising real products! It was not, IMO, obtrusive, and I think it was pretty neat. Of course I'm not brain-washable enough to go out and buy everything they advertised so it shouldn't bug me! Having a sudden urge for a Whopper...
I wouldn't worry too much about this since the mice already run our "world" anyway. Think they're going to let some sill hamsters take over?
Interesting comment in that article:
"In a control population of 46 women without cancer, there were seven false positive results, or 15 percent. In these seven women, the amounts of the telltale enzyme were very low, the researchers said."
Is it possible that they are able to detect the cancer even sooner than they realize? How can they be 100% sure that all 46 of these women did not have breast cancer? If we can only be 87% accurate...
His assumption is still sound. In your case, the user allowed his PC to be compromised by not keeping it up to date. Non-"enthusiast" users are less likely to keep their software up to date. Non-"enthusiast" users are more likely to be using Windows.
Just because you happened to have been running Red Hat and would probably be considered an "enthusiast" user, doesn't mean that Windows is not the easiest OS to hack, purely based on the user element.