Correct. This is not something Iran has invented - it's something it has learned. From us. We have supplied their enemies with far more powerful weapons for decades. We (not Iran) also established countless precedences on this issue stating that this sort of supplying is not an act of war, not matter how much people like you would want to apply one set of rules to party you view as friendly, and another to those you view as hostile.
I uninstalled it back when I got it the first time accidentally when getting quicktime many, many years ago. It was horrible enough for me to get the message for posterity.
Until someone like Neelie Kroes decides to get involved. That woman has the balls of solid titanium, and she scares the shit out of most high power CEOs.
Harder to do due to local legislature being largely in favor on freezing/confiscating foreign assets in favor of local banks. Switzerland is not part of EU.
Google pays to bundle chrome with everything but virtual kitchen sinks nowadays. Almost every piece of trial/free with hope of purchasing pro version - kinds of software packages seem to come with chrome installation bundled and offered along installation of software you want.
Frankly, it's getting annoying. The peak moment of rage came when I was installing stuff to a new Asus Eee PC yesterday, messing around with video codecs to get h.264 and x.264 decoding work in 720p without dropping frames, and tried divx h.264 codec.
It came with chrome and offered to install it alongside codec (and forcibly installed a whole lot of other crapware I didn't want with plain codec installation). I think it was fourth or fifth piece of software I had to untick "install chrome, the awesome browser" during installation that day, and the whole lot of other crapware that came with it really annoyed me, but chrome was the only name that got stuck in the memory because it was literally n+1st time I had to tell installer that "really, I just want what I was told I was downloading, and no AWESOME google bars and MORE AWESOME chrome, THANKS!"./venting
Worth noting that there's a major difference between 10k rpm SCSI drives and standard 7200rpm IDE ones, both in terms of manufacturing quality and cost.
But I'm specifically not talking about "large installs where games would not be an issue" with no discreet video card. I'm talking about enthusiast machines.
That's what many people sharing on local uni networks started to use after DC++ hubs started to get closed. Funny thing is, while much harder to lock down, WASTE network utterly rapes local bandwidth. So closing DC++ hubs typically turned out a major pain for support, who instead of seeing decrease in internal traffic, saw a very sharp increase.
I can top this with my old 2x 200GB seagate barracuda 7200.7 drives. Used to be used together in raid0 on my old machine, now been in use as separate drives (one as system drive).
They're yet to cause problems, unlike several other brands I had to kick into the curb while these two lived. Their power on time is reported as 43092 and 45394 hours respectively by S.M.A.R.T.
You're probably talking about that specific failure in barracuda family, 7200.11. I had one of those, and had the typical problem (logic board dies). Exchanged it on warranty, they sent back a similar size 7200.12. No problems with that one either.
I'm fairly certain that this was common knowledge among enthusiasts. Of course, many enthusiasts spend a lot of time maintaining their rig anyway, and are much more interested in epeen value then real performance (I would know, I used to be like that at least a little bit).
ATI/AMD video card driver hell is mostly common knowledge as well, hell they don't even bother moderating their own forums from posts of people complaining about it anymore. And many hardware reviewers tend to note this as well. Thing is, ATI still rapes nvidia in actual game performance and has done so for a while, and it's a lot easier to sell cards with "10% more speed for same money" then "works reliably, doesn't show weird shit and has no AA problems on games". Hell, that's why I picked hd4870 to replace my old nvidia card (which was on AMD CPU), the sheer promise of power + the fact that core duo was better then anything AMD offered at that time. And honestly, after seeing the difference in mobo (driver) quality I would never go back - it's amazing how much you learn to value your time when you don't have to spend it for a couple of years.
If you want a bang for a buck and don't mind some extra troubleshooting and occasional weird quirk, AMD/ATI(AMD) is definitely way to do. It's going to be quite a bit cheaper at same speeds (or faster at same cost). But if troubleshooting matters, intel/nvidia is definitely better.
Removing even a part of the cost would be "really neat". I imagine they could try mounting some of those solar power elements on top of specially designed plane's wings to power some of electrical systems on board at least.
Tobacco has many other much nastier effects too. For example, it tends to irritate anyone with various forms of asthma (which is getting more and more common in general population due to already polluted air), up to the point where person with severe case of asthma will actually suffocate because someone is smoking nearby and he cannot leave immediate premises (such as it being his/her workplace).
Of course, same goes for marijuana and several other smokables.
Actually, in this case you do not need to "prove a negative". You need to prove that current process of global warming and its factual measurable components, such as increase in ocean temperatures, melting of polar caps etc are not linked to things causing alarming increase of environmental disasters, raising sea levels and so on. This could be done by simply disproving the currently existing links, which are mostly linked to thermodynamics.
Of course, to disprove those claims, you'd have to disprove things like basic thermodynamics, such as heat expansion (approximately 80-90% of current sea level rise is attributed to thermal expansion of water) or the fact that water vaporizes faster when it's warmer in the same pressure. You would also have to provide alternative and better functioning weather model then one currently in use, which would show you to be right. At the moment, neither has been done by those wanting to disprove global warming, or it being caused in large part by humanity and its actions.
Essentially, to disprove the claims properly, you simply need to provide a better, provable model then one currently in existence, that would support your claims. This has not been done to date.
It's worth noting that WoW is a VERY bad example here - that game is a massive exception to the rules, and is bottlenecked on CPU rather then GPU on any system with reasonably modern graphics card.
My biggest reason not to go with AMD is build quality of CPU/motherboard and system drivers quality. I've had several AMD systems, back to first time AMD raped intel on CPU front with it's first slot A athlon and two others after that.
General issues with everything from driver quality to random breakages was clearly in favor on intel systems every time. On the other hand, AMD usually beat intel on bang/cost ratio by at least 10%, usually more. But honestly, I value time spent troubleshooting random stuff, and with modern CPU/mobo prices, if AMD system sets me back more then a couple of hours more troubleshooting over its lifetime then intel system, which it most certainly will, it's just not worth it.
And that's why people who are actually experienced with managing both platforms tend to pick intel even though AMD is usually better bang for a buck. And mind you, I'm not anti-AMD - my current GFX card is hd4870 even though I went with E8400 for my current rig, which is a wonderful card if not for utterly lame driver issues. Hence, my next system on order is intel/nvidia. I just can't be arsed to spend hours figuring out why certain settings on drivers break certain games, or why certain games display really weird shit until certain settings are changed, just like why I can't be arsed to figure out why many AMD's tools don't work in mixed intel cpu + amd gpu systems instead giving me random errors. Well, not anymore. Too tired of it.
Intel really should just start marketing itself to enthusiasts with a slogan "because time you spend troubleshooting matters".
I think at this point, it's more of a "projectile vomited" rather then "released". Or at least it describes both the desirability of the stuff being excreted and the speed.
When it comes to email, reliability and functionality is FAR more important then any new features. Losing important/mission critical plug-ins to version crap can impact your real life in a vastly negative way.
Oh well, there's always outlook. Can't believe I'd actually consider moving back to MS software on email. But if Mozilla is hell-bent to ensure that I don't want to use plug-ins because they will be killed every month for several days if I'm lucky, and never released on time if not (finnish dictionary add-on, I'm looking at you), then I might as well go back to outlook.
At least it has proper spell checking in languages I need for my daily functioning.
It's worth noting that machines with bios infections can potentially be cleaned through a special disk designed to remove them (usually read only media like CD/DVD. What can be written, can be overwritten in most cases.
That said, it would really be much better if there was a physical switch that required to be turned onto access bios in write mode. That way you could use the machine normally in read-only mode, and when you want to flash a new bios you flip the switch, then flip it back.
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Correct. This is not something Iran has invented - it's something it has learned. From us. We have supplied their enemies with far more powerful weapons for decades. We (not Iran) also established countless precedences on this issue stating that this sort of supplying is not an act of war, not matter how much people like you would want to apply one set of rules to party you view as friendly, and another to those you view as hostile.
Therefore you're barking up a very wrong tree.
I uninstalled it back when I got it the first time accidentally when getting quicktime many, many years ago. It was horrible enough for me to get the message for posterity.
Until someone like Neelie Kroes decides to get involved. That woman has the balls of solid titanium, and she scares the shit out of most high power CEOs.
Harder to do due to local legislature being largely in favor on freezing/confiscating foreign assets in favor of local banks. Switzerland is not part of EU.
Visa and MasteCard together however do control the market, and most if not all rules that apply to monopoly extend to cover dupoly as well.
Correct, and in this case the argument is that by NOT doing business with wikileaks, they in fact broke the law.
Just because there are many racists, or people with beliefs similar to those of racism in the world, doesn't mean that racism should be allowed.
P.S. I'm white.
False. If they were "lobbing missiles" they would be guilty for a number of crimes, ranging from potential murder to war crimes.
In fact, Iran isn't "lobbing missiles" because it doesn't want a war. It doesn't have the economy or technology to survive one.
Google pays to bundle chrome with everything but virtual kitchen sinks nowadays. Almost every piece of trial/free with hope of purchasing pro version - kinds of software packages seem to come with chrome installation bundled and offered along installation of software you want.
Frankly, it's getting annoying. The peak moment of rage came when I was installing stuff to a new Asus Eee PC yesterday, messing around with video codecs to get h.264 and x.264 decoding work in 720p without dropping frames, and tried divx h.264 codec.
It came with chrome and offered to install it alongside codec (and forcibly installed a whole lot of other crapware I didn't want with plain codec installation). I think it was fourth or fifth piece of software I had to untick "install chrome, the awesome browser" during installation that day, and the whole lot of other crapware that came with it really annoyed me, but chrome was the only name that got stuck in the memory because it was literally n+1st time I had to tell installer that "really, I just want what I was told I was downloading, and no AWESOME google bars and MORE AWESOME chrome, THANKS!". /venting
Worth noting that there's a major difference between 10k rpm SCSI drives and standard 7200rpm IDE ones, both in terms of manufacturing quality and cost.
But I'm specifically not talking about "large installs where games would not be an issue" with no discreet video card. I'm talking about enthusiast machines.
That's what many people sharing on local uni networks started to use after DC++ hubs started to get closed. Funny thing is, while much harder to lock down, WASTE network utterly rapes local bandwidth. So closing DC++ hubs typically turned out a major pain for support, who instead of seeing decrease in internal traffic, saw a very sharp increase.
I can top this with my old 2x 200GB seagate barracuda 7200.7 drives. Used to be used together in raid0 on my old machine, now been in use as separate drives (one as system drive).
They're yet to cause problems, unlike several other brands I had to kick into the curb while these two lived. Their power on time is reported as 43092 and 45394 hours respectively by S.M.A.R.T.
You're probably talking about that specific failure in barracuda family, 7200.11. I had one of those, and had the typical problem (logic board dies). Exchanged it on warranty, they sent back a similar size 7200.12. No problems with that one either.
I'm fairly certain that this was common knowledge among enthusiasts. Of course, many enthusiasts spend a lot of time maintaining their rig anyway, and are much more interested in epeen value then real performance (I would know, I used to be like that at least a little bit).
ATI/AMD video card driver hell is mostly common knowledge as well, hell they don't even bother moderating their own forums from posts of people complaining about it anymore. And many hardware reviewers tend to note this as well. Thing is, ATI still rapes nvidia in actual game performance and has done so for a while, and it's a lot easier to sell cards with "10% more speed for same money" then "works reliably, doesn't show weird shit and has no AA problems on games". Hell, that's why I picked hd4870 to replace my old nvidia card (which was on AMD CPU), the sheer promise of power + the fact that core duo was better then anything AMD offered at that time. And honestly, after seeing the difference in mobo (driver) quality I would never go back - it's amazing how much you learn to value your time when you don't have to spend it for a couple of years.
If you want a bang for a buck and don't mind some extra troubleshooting and occasional weird quirk, AMD/ATI(AMD) is definitely way to do. It's going to be quite a bit cheaper at same speeds (or faster at same cost). But if troubleshooting matters, intel/nvidia is definitely better.
Removing even a part of the cost would be "really neat". I imagine they could try mounting some of those solar power elements on top of specially designed plane's wings to power some of electrical systems on board at least.
And I was being thorough.
Tobacco has many other much nastier effects too. For example, it tends to irritate anyone with various forms of asthma (which is getting more and more common in general population due to already polluted air), up to the point where person with severe case of asthma will actually suffocate because someone is smoking nearby and he cannot leave immediate premises (such as it being his/her workplace).
Of course, same goes for marijuana and several other smokables.
Undeserving and the only ones who can't afford not to pay tax you mean?
Actually, in this case you do not need to "prove a negative". You need to prove that current process of global warming and its factual measurable components, such as increase in ocean temperatures, melting of polar caps etc are not linked to things causing alarming increase of environmental disasters, raising sea levels and so on. This could be done by simply disproving the currently existing links, which are mostly linked to thermodynamics.
Of course, to disprove those claims, you'd have to disprove things like basic thermodynamics, such as heat expansion (approximately 80-90% of current sea level rise is attributed to thermal expansion of water) or the fact that water vaporizes faster when it's warmer in the same pressure. You would also have to provide alternative and better functioning weather model then one currently in use, which would show you to be right. At the moment, neither has been done by those wanting to disprove global warming, or it being caused in large part by humanity and its actions.
Essentially, to disprove the claims properly, you simply need to provide a better, provable model then one currently in existence, that would support your claims. This has not been done to date.
Stating half-truths, leaving out the important other half is one of the key trolling techniques.
It's worth noting that WoW is a VERY bad example here - that game is a massive exception to the rules, and is bottlenecked on CPU rather then GPU on any system with reasonably modern graphics card.
My biggest reason not to go with AMD is build quality of CPU/motherboard and system drivers quality. I've had several AMD systems, back to first time AMD raped intel on CPU front with it's first slot A athlon and two others after that.
General issues with everything from driver quality to random breakages was clearly in favor on intel systems every time. On the other hand, AMD usually beat intel on bang/cost ratio by at least 10%, usually more. But honestly, I value time spent troubleshooting random stuff, and with modern CPU/mobo prices, if AMD system sets me back more then a couple of hours more troubleshooting over its lifetime then intel system, which it most certainly will, it's just not worth it.
And that's why people who are actually experienced with managing both platforms tend to pick intel even though AMD is usually better bang for a buck. And mind you, I'm not anti-AMD - my current GFX card is hd4870 even though I went with E8400 for my current rig, which is a wonderful card if not for utterly lame driver issues. Hence, my next system on order is intel/nvidia. I just can't be arsed to spend hours figuring out why certain settings on drivers break certain games, or why certain games display really weird shit until certain settings are changed, just like why I can't be arsed to figure out why many AMD's tools don't work in mixed intel cpu + amd gpu systems instead giving me random errors. Well, not anymore. Too tired of it.
Intel really should just start marketing itself to enthusiasts with a slogan "because time you spend troubleshooting matters".
Interestingly ars technica agrees with you, but clearly states that that is also GPU's weakest link on llano.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/another-look-at-amds-llano.ars
I think at this point, it's more of a "projectile vomited" rather then "released". Or at least it describes both the desirability of the stuff being excreted and the speed.
When it comes to email, reliability and functionality is FAR more important then any new features. Losing important/mission critical plug-ins to version crap can impact your real life in a vastly negative way.
Oh well, there's always outlook. Can't believe I'd actually consider moving back to MS software on email. But if Mozilla is hell-bent to ensure that I don't want to use plug-ins because they will be killed every month for several days if I'm lucky, and never released on time if not (finnish dictionary add-on, I'm looking at you), then I might as well go back to outlook.
At least it has proper spell checking in languages I need for my daily functioning.
It's worth noting that machines with bios infections can potentially be cleaned through a special disk designed to remove them (usually read only media like CD/DVD. What can be written, can be overwritten in most cases.
That said, it would really be much better if there was a physical switch that required to be turned onto access bios in write mode. That way you could use the machine normally in read-only mode, and when you want to flash a new bios you flip the switch, then flip it back.