Well, I for one have been waiting for this. I've kept a modified firmware on my PS3 in order to be able to use various media players and emulators on it, and I don't like that fact that the stock firmware periodically sends a list of every single action you've taken to Sony -- including filenames, sizes, the names of the devices they were opened from and so on.
I've found myself not playing games on the PS3 much, but it makes for a great media player. As such with the release of these LV0 keys I'm hoping to get to use Netflix on it soon.
I was just about to cum.. err, come.. suggest boobies. I mean, who needs weather or fancy ticker or anything when you can just stare at a glorious pair of boobies? Even better if you have multiple pairs to stare at!
Their examples are great, yes, but I have to disagree. In our modern world where everyone is constantly under barrage from all kinds of distractions it is way too easy to just forget what a single person, or even a small group of people, do. Also, the constant barrage of war here, war there, terrorist threat under that, threat of terrorist thread over those makes these things seem too insignificant for the Average Joe to bother his pretty head about. Standing up and making yourself a martyr just doesn't work any longer, there are too many distractions everywhere.
Please pardon me, perhaps I am being too dense to understand the following intricacies:
How can it be that "Human activity triggered an earthquake" when a quake "would likely have occurred at some point in the area" ?
The difference is in the timing, what with human activity triggering it to happen now, or it happening on its own in a few hundred years in the future.
Perhaps I was unclear. The fragmentation of the paging/swap file is not the big issue here per se, rather it is the effect on the rest of the storage volume of having a fragmented swap file. When windows makes the paging file look like buckshot scattered around the hard drive
Atleast Windows 7 tries to actually allocate the swap file as a contiguous series of blocks and as such there is no such fragmentation as you seem to believe. I've checked it myself: my swap file has no fragments whatsoever, even though I don't regularly run any sort of a disk defragmenter and I disabled the background defrag around half a year - year ago in relation to an experiment I did.
it eventually installed a US version. However, the account/whatever my kid has is European, and for that reason it refused to work. Or something in that neighbourhood.
Did you develop porn addiction? How many people actually HAVE developed porn addiction? I do not personally know a single person who had done that even though they've grown up with porn. Truth be told, all I see is fear-mongering.
(plus you don't necessary want him to go to porn websites too).
Personally I'd say that that's just folly: when the time comes he WILL find porn, one way or another, and there isn't actually anything wrong with that. Sexuality is one of those things that just can't be avoided, so why try to make it something he should feel ashamed of? He'll grow into a more stable and round person if you don't make him ashamed for things he can't avoid.
When the time comes and he starts to show interest in such have a talk with him, make sure he knows how and why to wear protection and where to get it from, and then proceed to forget the whole thing.
I use MSE, Firefox with Adblock Plus+Flashblock and disable Java in the browser as it's got more holes in it than Swiss cheese. These simple steps have kept me secure so far perfectly well. On the other hand OP's situation is a little as the kid may or may not end up falling for social engineering: how does one protect against that? I'd say actually teaching the kid what social engineering is and how to recognize it is better than relying on a software-solution for that, even though teaching that is a longer project.
Install Microsoft Security Essentials and forget about it.
It hogs the CPU and makes the disk thrash like a Dickensian schoolmaster. So even if it misses any malware or viruses they won't have time to do anything nasty.
I don't get anything like you describe and I've been using MSE on all of my laptops and desktop for atleast a year now: it's actually very lightweight compared to all the other AV - solutions, it's very non-intrusive, and I haven't had a single issue with it yet.
It's not as illogical as you think. I've had several people showing me their CDs and DVDs telling me to install them on their Windows phones because "it says Windows and therefore it does work, and you're just incompetent if you can't do it!" I do not even know how they expected to use Office or their games on a phone, but that's the thing with luddites: often times they simply do not have any idea about what they're doing.
With the above in mind I can easily see people being burned by the whole Windows RT - thing.
This would explain why, when I hear an unusual noise during the night I'm usually instantly awake, even though according to my partner I am a very deep sleeper.
I have rather strong maternal instincts, so whenever I am sleeping I wake up instantly if I hear a small child crying, no matter how deep the sleep I am in. On a similar note my dog is still a puppy and in many ways resembles a small child and as such he raises these instincts in me: whenever my roomie is at home and keeps an eye on the dog I sleep just fine, but if my roomie isn't at home I wake up to even the tiniest out-of-the-ordinary sound made by the dog. It's quite a fancy thing how your hearing mostly turns off while you sleep and is tuned in to only certain kinds of sounds.
Hm. Depends, really. If they "fail" and cause fewer deaths or injuries than they save, isn't it a net gain?
Aye, I don't disagree. I just haven't seen any conclusive proof of such -- at most I've seen some "studies" from the manufacturers themselves, but no trustworthy studies from 3rd parties.
Seatbelts have killed people. But they're still a net gain. Isn't that what matters?
In a way, yes, but seat-belts can only hurt their wearers. A malfunctioning traction control system, malfunctioning brakes, malfunctioning steering -- they all have the capability of hurting a whole lot more people than just the passengers and therefore they should meet much, much higher standards IMHO. Collateral damage is always a Bad Thing(TM).
I've actually met several ambulance drivers around here who say the same thing -- these days they simply outright refuse to even consider cars where you can't turn such crap off. Those things are just a major disaster waiting to happen.
I cannot help but actually be quite wary of how these kinds of things are starting to crop up in modern cars. How well do these work e.g. in an abnormal situation, like e.g. there's flood water on the road, or lots and lots of snow like we here in Finland tend to get, or what if the system detects something on the road that it really wants to steer away from, but doesn't detect what's coming up on you from the side and steers you in even worse direction against your wishes? Hell, a proper snow storm is a common occurrence here in Finland and even humans have trouble keeping track of everything that's happening; I really, really doubt a computer can do a better job at it.
These things might be good for people with serious attention deficits or other kinds of similar issues, but an experienced, careful driver could quite possibly make better decisions than these and thus these systems would actually be detrimental in such cases. Hell, they could just as well turn a not-so-serious crash into a major disaster if they screwed up and took control of the car over the driver.
Because double-clicking a pretty icon is faster than hunting from Steam collections? Atleast I like to have the games I currently play on the desktop, though the ones I am not actively playing I remove from there.
Ummmmmm, your analogy is a non sequitur. Boeing has never made cars. Western digital does make storage devices, so getting into SSD would be a logical step for them.
I don't feel it's actually that big of a stretch. Western Digital is and never has been a player in the flash-storage market, they've always been a player in the mechanical storage - market, just Boeing has always been about transporting people through the air instead of on the ground. Boeing does have experience with developing lightweight, sturdy structures with passenger safety and aerodynamics/fuel efficiency in mind just as WD has experience with error-correction, data usage patterns and such details; it'd be a new area for both, but not that far from what they already do.
I was not aware of this, do you have a link elaborating on that? Given that the VIA APC has 512 of ram and almost the same price I am slightly skeptical of this claim.
Well, comparing VIA to the foundation behind the Pi is quite unfair as VIA is a large, established manufacturer with plants of their own; of course they can get deals with other manufacturers much more easily than a completely new entity that has no track record whatsoever and a questionable amount of financial resources to back up a deal with. Also, in VIA's case they themselves manufacture their own boards, the CPU, many of the connectors and so on, meaning that they can squeeze just that much more out of the price.
It's not 1994 anymore, ram is dirt cheap. Putting in 512mb from the start SHOULD have been obvious at the design meeting, would not have added significant cost, and would not have fragmented the software base, as now there will be different version for stuff with differing amounts of ram.
The manufacturers weren't convinced there'd be enough demand for the Pi and therefore getting a deal for 512MB chips would indeed have increased the price of the device quite a bit. Also, your argument is like saying that they should never ever do upgraded versions of anything whatsoever because -- gee whiz! -- there will be new versions of stuff to make use of new possibilities!
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Well, I for one have been waiting for this. I've kept a modified firmware on my PS3 in order to be able to use various media players and emulators on it, and I don't like that fact that the stock firmware periodically sends a list of every single action you've taken to Sony -- including filenames, sizes, the names of the devices they were opened from and so on.
I've found myself not playing games on the PS3 much, but it makes for a great media player. As such with the release of these LV0 keys I'm hoping to get to use Netflix on it soon.
How in hell is visual feedback patentable?
Five letters: USPTO. 'Nuff said.
I was just about to cum.. err, come.. suggest boobies. I mean, who needs weather or fancy ticker or anything when you can just stare at a glorious pair of boobies? Even better if you have multiple pairs to stare at!
Their examples are great, yes, but I have to disagree. In our modern world where everyone is constantly under barrage from all kinds of distractions it is way too easy to just forget what a single person, or even a small group of people, do. Also, the constant barrage of war here, war there, terrorist threat under that, threat of terrorist thread over those makes these things seem too insignificant for the Average Joe to bother his pretty head about. Standing up and making yourself a martyr just doesn't work any longer, there are too many distractions everywhere.
There's nothing to defend. I just said humans triggered the thing to happen now instead of it happening on its own at a later date, nothing else.
But you were throwing out that humans moved it up a few hundred years.
It was just to make the point that humans triggered it to happen now instead of later.
You are only stupid for trying to spin things to make man "evil".
Where? I didn't take a stance either way in the whole thing. Geesh. You sure are oversensitive over this.
Humans don't cause quakes, we can only trigger them.
The stress was there with or without the pumping, and that stress must be relieved.
Why're you telling me this? I never claimed anything like that.
Please pardon me, perhaps I am being too dense to understand the following intricacies:
How can it be that "Human activity triggered an earthquake" when a quake "would likely have occurred at some point in the area" ?
The difference is in the timing, what with human activity triggering it to happen now, or it happening on its own in a few hundred years in the future.
Perhaps I was unclear. The fragmentation of the paging/swap file is not the big issue here per se, rather it is the effect on the rest of the storage volume of having a fragmented swap file. When windows makes the paging file look like buckshot scattered around the hard drive
Atleast Windows 7 tries to actually allocate the swap file as a contiguous series of blocks and as such there is no such fragmentation as you seem to believe. I've checked it myself: my swap file has no fragments whatsoever, even though I don't regularly run any sort of a disk defragmenter and I disabled the background defrag around half a year - year ago in relation to an experiment I did.
it eventually installed a US version. However, the account/whatever my kid has is European, and for that reason it refused to work. Or something in that neighbourhood.
You should download the European version then. The European sites for WoW are www.wow-europe.com and www.eu.battle.net and you probably went to www.worldofwarcraft.com or www.battle.net. Here is the correct link: http://dist.blizzard.com/downloads/wow-installers/full/World-of-Warcraft-Setup-enGB.exe
Did you develop porn addiction? How many people actually HAVE developed porn addiction? I do not personally know a single person who had done that even though they've grown up with porn. Truth be told, all I see is fear-mongering.
I can't reproduce what you claim. It works as it's supposed to on my machine.
(plus you don't necessary want him to go to porn websites too).
Personally I'd say that that's just folly: when the time comes he WILL find porn, one way or another, and there isn't actually anything wrong with that. Sexuality is one of those things that just can't be avoided, so why try to make it something he should feel ashamed of? He'll grow into a more stable and round person if you don't make him ashamed for things he can't avoid.
When the time comes and he starts to show interest in such have a talk with him, make sure he knows how and why to wear protection and where to get it from, and then proceed to forget the whole thing.
I have to agree here: the laptop mentioned ain't gonna run the game in any way or form that's actually pleasant.
I use MSE, Firefox with Adblock Plus+Flashblock and disable Java in the browser as it's got more holes in it than Swiss cheese. These simple steps have kept me secure so far perfectly well. On the other hand OP's situation is a little as the kid may or may not end up falling for social engineering: how does one protect against that? I'd say actually teaching the kid what social engineering is and how to recognize it is better than relying on a software-solution for that, even though teaching that is a longer project.
It hogs the CPU and makes the disk thrash like a Dickensian schoolmaster. So even if it misses any malware or viruses they won't have time to do anything nasty.
I don't get anything like you describe and I've been using MSE on all of my laptops and desktop for atleast a year now: it's actually very lightweight compared to all the other AV - solutions, it's very non-intrusive, and I haven't had a single issue with it yet.
It's not as illogical as you think. I've had several people showing me their CDs and DVDs telling me to install them on their Windows phones because "it says Windows and therefore it does work, and you're just incompetent if you can't do it!" I do not even know how they expected to use Office or their games on a phone, but that's the thing with luddites: often times they simply do not have any idea about what they're doing.
With the above in mind I can easily see people being burned by the whole Windows RT - thing.
This would explain why, when I hear an unusual noise during the night I'm usually instantly awake, even though according to my partner I am a very deep sleeper.
I have rather strong maternal instincts, so whenever I am sleeping I wake up instantly if I hear a small child crying, no matter how deep the sleep I am in. On a similar note my dog is still a puppy and in many ways resembles a small child and as such he raises these instincts in me: whenever my roomie is at home and keeps an eye on the dog I sleep just fine, but if my roomie isn't at home I wake up to even the tiniest out-of-the-ordinary sound made by the dog. It's quite a fancy thing how your hearing mostly turns off while you sleep and is tuned in to only certain kinds of sounds.
Hm. Depends, really. If they "fail" and cause fewer deaths or injuries than they save, isn't it a net gain?
Aye, I don't disagree. I just haven't seen any conclusive proof of such -- at most I've seen some "studies" from the manufacturers themselves, but no trustworthy studies from 3rd parties.
Seatbelts have killed people. But they're still a net gain. Isn't that what matters?
In a way, yes, but seat-belts can only hurt their wearers. A malfunctioning traction control system, malfunctioning brakes, malfunctioning steering -- they all have the capability of hurting a whole lot more people than just the passengers and therefore they should meet much, much higher standards IMHO. Collateral damage is always a Bad Thing(TM).
I've actually met several ambulance drivers around here who say the same thing -- these days they simply outright refuse to even consider cars where you can't turn such crap off. Those things are just a major disaster waiting to happen.
I cannot help but actually be quite wary of how these kinds of things are starting to crop up in modern cars. How well do these work e.g. in an abnormal situation, like e.g. there's flood water on the road, or lots and lots of snow like we here in Finland tend to get, or what if the system detects something on the road that it really wants to steer away from, but doesn't detect what's coming up on you from the side and steers you in even worse direction against your wishes? Hell, a proper snow storm is a common occurrence here in Finland and even humans have trouble keeping track of everything that's happening; I really, really doubt a computer can do a better job at it.
These things might be good for people with serious attention deficits or other kinds of similar issues, but an experienced, careful driver could quite possibly make better decisions than these and thus these systems would actually be detrimental in such cases. Hell, they could just as well turn a not-so-serious crash into a major disaster if they screwed up and took control of the car over the driver.
Because double-clicking a pretty icon is faster than hunting from Steam collections? Atleast I like to have the games I currently play on the desktop, though the ones I am not actively playing I remove from there.
Ummmmmm, your analogy is a non sequitur. Boeing has never made cars. Western digital does make storage devices, so getting into SSD would be a logical step for them.
I don't feel it's actually that big of a stretch. Western Digital is and never has been a player in the flash-storage market, they've always been a player in the mechanical storage - market, just Boeing has always been about transporting people through the air instead of on the ground. Boeing does have experience with developing lightweight, sturdy structures with passenger safety and aerodynamics/fuel efficiency in mind just as WD has experience with error-correction, data usage patterns and such details; it'd be a new area for both, but not that far from what they already do.
I was not aware of this, do you have a link elaborating on that? Given that the VIA APC has 512 of ram and almost the same price I am slightly skeptical of this claim.
Well, comparing VIA to the foundation behind the Pi is quite unfair as VIA is a large, established manufacturer with plants of their own; of course they can get deals with other manufacturers much more easily than a completely new entity that has no track record whatsoever and a questionable amount of financial resources to back up a deal with. Also, in VIA's case they themselves manufacture their own boards, the CPU, many of the connectors and so on, meaning that they can squeeze just that much more out of the price.
It's not 1994 anymore, ram is dirt cheap. Putting in 512mb from the start SHOULD have been obvious at the design meeting, would not have added significant cost, and would not have fragmented the software base, as now there will be different version for stuff with differing amounts of ram.
The manufacturers weren't convinced there'd be enough demand for the Pi and therefore getting a deal for 512MB chips would indeed have increased the price of the device quite a bit. Also, your argument is like saying that they should never ever do upgraded versions of anything whatsoever because -- gee whiz! -- there will be new versions of stuff to make use of new possibilities!