The point is going to be Moot here really shortly. The whole idea of sectoring and block sizes and such is going to go the way of the DODO in a few short years as we move from Magnetic Media to Solid State.
And the moment we go to SSD drives, the whole game changes. The idea of physical drives spaces and such disappears, and we come a lot closer to what we now see in high end Drive Array storage, where everything is abstracted away from the OS anyways.
With SSDs we'll see new ways of upgrading / managing drive spaces, such that when the time comes to put in a bigger drive, you just drop it in, and all your data moves to the new drive tranperently in the background and when the process is completed, you just remove the old SSD, and add in another new drive(wash, rinse repeat).
We'll stop using terms like "format", "defragment", "drive", and even "volume", except to express things in terms for some of us older folks, who spent the last 30-35 years with those terms ingrained in our brain.
We're already starting to see the end of Magnetic Media. I would suspect that in 4 or 5 years, magnetic drives will be mostly gone.
"Fox aggressively promoted [indybay.org] these events. "Fair and balanced" my ass."
Sure. And the other media never covered every single Cindy Shehan event.
Look, I'm not saying Fox is "fair" or even "balanced", but neither are the other people. The problem is, that the other news organizations continue to shrivel and dry up because people do get sick of it.
And then we "slashdotters" get upset when more people watch "Dancing with the Stars" than know who Obama's VP is. Not that I blame them, but come on, Joe Biden? He makes Sarah Palin look like a freakin genius.
"Think about it. "War on Christmas"? Atheists should "just shut up", and you're "tired of hearing it"? Are these really people you want to be associated with?"
Athiests should shut up about religion. They are "ANTI" religion, and thus should stay away from it. Or at least protest in front of a mosque, or two. In fact, I dare them to make fun of Mohammad or Allah in the same way.
If your war is against religion, why not pick on the one religion whose adherents are causing many (most?) of the problems today?
Is it because they aren't really scared of Christians? I'm sure that you'll say something like but most "americans" or whatever are "Christians" or whatever, but that is just bullshit excuse for picking on one, rather than all.
And I'm not a Christian, and even I can see the atheists have hatred for them that rises above their "no god" stance.
If it had been a (R) every news organization would have already covered it... in spades... on the Front Page or lead in on the nightly news.
Can you imagine what would happen to a (R) if they called someone a WHORE on TV?
Yeah, they would have been driven from office in no short order. So, yeah, if you want to talk about bias, it isn't just what you report, but how, and to what end.
When 15 people show up for "Liberal" protest, the news reports "Dozens", when 5000 conservatives do the same thing, "some" showed up.
And don't get me started on the whole White Racist Gun Toting Teabaggin protester, who turned out to be a black guy. Oh, there is no bias in the nightly news.
FOX NEWS is balance, when you have a "tingly feeling running down your leg" as fare on the other channels.
There was this little rift in 1775-1776 over just this in the British Colonies. They called it "Taxation without representation".
Now take a look at the whole Kyoto/Copenhagen scare tactics going on over the whole "climate change" fraud. It isn't about "climate change" at all, it is about Socialism and World Government.
And do you REALLY think that all those "elitists" have YOUR interest in mind? May I sell you bridge I have?
So, the Professors were deathly afraid of her morbid comments, which lead to her to be terminated as a student. I don't think she should have undertaken her commenting to that level. I just wish that the professors would just bury the hatchet and let her rest in peace.
many seem to run rampant with conspiracy theories based on nothing more than the fact that they don't know
Yeah, the lefties call the (R) guy doing this... Glenn Beck, while engaging in the very same thing that he does. I call it Irony.
Party hacks are useless tools. If you can't articulate your position without using "Evil" or otherwise demonizing your opponent, you probably should reconsider your views. In fact, if I was running for office, I'd use this very line. And I'd probably get demonized for it.
You're a fine example of why I'm not a leftwingnut socialist.
You blame everyone else for your own short comings and your greed without ambition.
You can be just as rich as you want. You just are unwilling to do what it takes. And you want everyone to be just as lazy as you.
No thanks. BTW, I'm not rich, but I'm happy and comfortable. I've found the balance in my life. I suggest that you stop looking at others and what they have (or don't have) and pay attention to yourself. I realize this is probably disturbing to you, because you probably don't like yourself very much. But I assure you, that a little introspection goes along way.
And if you measure your worth by any measure external to yourself, you'll alway be disappointed. Grass is indeed greener on the other side. Especially if all you do is piss (and moan).
There is no "Laptop battery pack", each laptop seams to have is own wattage/voltage combo that is unique to that model / brand.
The fact is, there should be a "standard" set of standard "sizes" available, like we have for regular batteries (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc).
It isn't "greed" so much as it is the cost of making a large number of short run batteries. When it costs almost as much to get a battery as it does a new laptop, there is something wrong.
Your bosses probably don't steal from you, or anyone else, so saying they steal is slanderous or libelous. And If I were your boss, I'd fire you for it.
That is, unless you work for someone like Madoff. And then that is your own damn fault, see my first paragraph. And you should be reporting them to the government if you have knowledge of this "fact".
You aren't a slave, unless you believe you are.
And lastly, I don't know how you live with yourself if you're enabling your bosses to steal. Because you're part of the problem. Read Paragraph one.
Provide me with a house (free), food (free), and transportation anywhere I want (free), and my sex change operation (free).
Basic (depending on who you ask) is subject to "negotiation" and political whims.
Here is what society should "Provide"... Common Defense. Usually against tyrants, including left wing ones who typically live in ivory towers, thinks everyone else is stupid, and the rules they make up for everyone else don't apply to them. You know, like the people meeting in Copenhagen regarding AWG caused by... carbon emissions, who dumped more carbon in a couple of weeks than 6,000 US citizens use in a year , or 4 million Ethiopians.
No, Libertarians want a civil society and find taxing and spending on "social" programs not very civil. It isn't civil because of the "Tax" part, because taxes are a necessary evil, not a requirement for "civil" society. And Income re-distribution is as tyrannical as any other tyranny.
Why do I have to agree to your idea of "civilized"? As long as I leave you and everyone else alone, what business is it of yours to tell me how to live?? I'm sure you don't like it when some Religious person tells you what their version of "civil" is, what makes you any different than them?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you're smarter than everyone else, you love making the rules for everyone else, and I'm sure you'll be first in line to toss the rules aside when they don't suit you.
Any government capable of giving you want you want, is capable of taking everything you have, including your life.
The problem isn't the expiring certs, it is trusting someone else with the keys to your documents. If you lock your docs, you should have the key to open them.
The problem isn't with MS, it is with people who trust MS to keep the keys safe... and available.
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The point is going to be Moot here really shortly. The whole idea of sectoring and block sizes and such is going to go the way of the DODO in a few short years as we move from Magnetic Media to Solid State.
And the moment we go to SSD drives, the whole game changes. The idea of physical drives spaces and such disappears, and we come a lot closer to what we now see in high end Drive Array storage, where everything is abstracted away from the OS anyways.
With SSDs we'll see new ways of upgrading / managing drive spaces, such that when the time comes to put in a bigger drive, you just drop it in, and all your data moves to the new drive tranperently in the background and when the process is completed, you just remove the old SSD, and add in another new drive(wash, rinse repeat).
We'll stop using terms like "format", "defragment", "drive", and even "volume", except to express things in terms for some of us older folks, who spent the last 30-35 years with those terms ingrained in our brain.
We're already starting to see the end of Magnetic Media. I would suspect that in 4 or 5 years, magnetic drives will be mostly gone.
"Fox aggressively promoted [indybay.org] these events. "Fair and balanced" my ass."
Sure. And the other media never covered every single Cindy Shehan event.
Look, I'm not saying Fox is "fair" or even "balanced", but neither are the other people. The problem is, that the other news organizations continue to shrivel and dry up because people do get sick of it.
And then we "slashdotters" get upset when more people watch "Dancing with the Stars" than know who Obama's VP is. Not that I blame them, but come on, Joe Biden? He makes Sarah Palin look like a freakin genius.
"Think about it. "War on Christmas"? Atheists should "just shut up", and you're "tired of hearing it"? Are these really people you want to be associated with?"
Athiests should shut up about religion. They are "ANTI" religion, and thus should stay away from it. Or at least protest in front of a mosque, or two. In fact, I dare them to make fun of Mohammad or Allah in the same way.
If your war is against religion, why not pick on the one religion whose adherents are causing many (most?) of the problems today?
Is it because they aren't really scared of Christians? I'm sure that you'll say something like but most "americans" or whatever are "Christians" or whatever, but that is just bullshit excuse for picking on one, rather than all.
And I'm not a Christian, and even I can see the atheists have hatred for them that rises above their "no god" stance.
If it had been a (R) every news organization would have already covered it ... in spades ... on the Front Page or lead in on the nightly news.
Can you imagine what would happen to a (R) if they called someone a WHORE on TV?
Yeah, they would have been driven from office in no short order. So, yeah, if you want to talk about bias, it isn't just what you report, but how, and to what end.
When 15 people show up for "Liberal" protest, the news reports "Dozens", when 5000 conservatives do the same thing, "some" showed up.
And don't get me started on the whole White Racist Gun Toting Teabaggin protester, who turned out to be a black guy. Oh, there is no bias in the nightly news.
FOX NEWS is balance, when you have a "tingly feeling running down your leg" as fare on the other channels.
Never bring a snowball to a gunfight.
Pay additional shippiing and processing, and they'll double your order!
Not me. I thought "Chandler Bing" then the "ah, what a stupid name."
I thought it was a joke at first. Seriously.
Oh and ....
Bing
Is
Not
Google
MS isn't losing money on Vista. They are just charging for Vista SP3, AKA Windows 7.
NO
Canada, Demand that all EU countries adopt YOUR copyright and patent laws.
See how they like it.
Yes, exactly.
There was this little rift in 1775-1776 over just this in the British Colonies. They called it "Taxation without representation".
Now take a look at the whole Kyoto/Copenhagen scare tactics going on over the whole "climate change" fraud. It isn't about "climate change" at all, it is about Socialism and World Government.
And do you REALLY think that all those "elitists" have YOUR interest in mind? May I sell you bridge I have?
Hey, I have a derivative work.
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I think you're right. I want my mummy
So, the Professors were deathly afraid of her morbid comments, which lead to her to be terminated as a student. I don't think she should have undertaken her commenting to that level. I just wish that the professors would just bury the hatchet and let her rest in peace.
Yeah, but your forget, they would at least have smug satisfaction of being politically correct.
Yeah, the lefties call the (R) guy doing this ... Glenn Beck, while engaging in the very same thing that he does. I call it Irony.
Party hacks are useless tools. If you can't articulate your position without using "Evil" or otherwise demonizing your opponent, you probably should reconsider your views. In fact, if I was running for office, I'd use this very line. And I'd probably get demonized for it.
No, you're not confused.
You're a fine example of why I'm not a leftwingnut socialist.
You blame everyone else for your own short comings and your greed without ambition.
You can be just as rich as you want. You just are unwilling to do what it takes. And you want everyone to be just as lazy as you.
No thanks. BTW, I'm not rich, but I'm happy and comfortable. I've found the balance in my life. I suggest that you stop looking at others and what they have (or don't have) and pay attention to yourself. I realize this is probably disturbing to you, because you probably don't like yourself very much. But I assure you, that a little introspection goes along way.
And if you measure your worth by any measure external to yourself, you'll alway be disappointed. Grass is indeed greener on the other side. Especially if all you do is piss (and moan).
More like "Lack of standards"
There is no "Laptop battery pack", each laptop seams to have is own wattage/voltage combo that is unique to that model / brand.
The fact is, there should be a "standard" set of standard "sizes" available, like we have for regular batteries (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc).
It isn't "greed" so much as it is the cost of making a large number of short run batteries. When it costs almost as much to get a battery as it does a new laptop, there is something wrong.
Quit. Ask for a Raise. Start your own company.
Your bosses probably don't steal from you, or anyone else, so saying they steal is slanderous or libelous. And If I were your boss, I'd fire you for it.
That is, unless you work for someone like Madoff. And then that is your own damn fault, see my first paragraph. And you should be reporting them to the government if you have knowledge of this "fact".
You aren't a slave, unless you believe you are.
And lastly, I don't know how you live with yourself if you're enabling your bosses to steal. Because you're part of the problem. Read Paragraph one.
better everyone suffer and die as unwitting slaves, than a anyone having the chance to be happy.
FIFY
Provide me with a house (free), food (free), and transportation anywhere I want (free), and my sex change operation (free).
Basic (depending on who you ask) is subject to "negotiation" and political whims.
Here is what society should "Provide" ... Common Defense. Usually against tyrants, including left wing ones who typically live in ivory towers, thinks everyone else is stupid, and the rules they make up for everyone else don't apply to them. You know, like the people meeting in Copenhagen regarding AWG caused by ... carbon emissions, who dumped more carbon in a couple of weeks than 6,000 US citizens use in a year , or 4 million Ethiopians.
No, Libertarians want a civil society and find taxing and spending on "social" programs not very civil. It isn't civil because of the "Tax" part, because taxes are a necessary evil, not a requirement for "civil" society. And Income re-distribution is as tyrannical as any other tyranny.
Why do I have to agree to your idea of "civilized"? As long as I leave you and everyone else alone, what business is it of yours to tell me how to live?? I'm sure you don't like it when some Religious person tells you what their version of "civil" is, what makes you any different than them?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you're smarter than everyone else, you love making the rules for everyone else, and I'm sure you'll be first in line to toss the rules aside when they don't suit you.
Any government capable of giving you want you want, is capable of taking everything you have, including your life.
If the Busybox software is UNMODIFIED, and there is ALREADY a place to get the source, then I don't get what the problem is.
Simply point the people to busybox site and be done.
Yeah, because some people hate anything bigger than the mom/pop store down the street.
I would love to see some sort of Social Contract for big companies, where they sign the dotted line to assure us of their "word".
There is yet another way. It is called massive civil disobedience.
They can't cut us all off. And I dare them to try.
The problem isn't the expiring certs, it is trusting someone else with the keys to your documents. If you lock your docs, you should have the key to open them.
The problem isn't with MS, it is with people who trust MS to keep the keys safe ... and available.
Impostor.
I know my boss, you're not HIM/HER ... errrr... Noodly.