Because according to a Mac fanboi, Apple can do no wrong, and anything possible in computerdom, on any hardware, no matter how high end, is completely possible, and in fact faster, on a COTS Apple desktop machine.:-/
Not to say that Apple doesn't make some good stuff, but they're not the be all, end all of computers.
If it was high school curriculum, then people would know by the time that they're 16 that scammers are out to rip them off. If people knew that, then it's not much of a leap of logic to figure out by the time you're 20 that banks, governments and other corporations are out to rip you off, too.
And that is the last thing the ruling elite want you to know.
It's definitly more that zero, e.g. Dr. George Tiller was recently killed by a terrorist and had previously been subject to many attacks.
Someone who shoots and kills a single guy isn't a terrorist. A terrorist plants bombs to take out large swaths of innocent civilians.
Mass casualties is the difference, here.
Besides, Dr. Tiller himself could be argued to be a mass murderer, since he was doing late term abortions. (I know....all the pro-choicers are going to be up in arms over that comment, but you're all smoked. The "It's my body" argument doesn't fly, because your baby's body isn't yours. It's your baby's.)
That means your imaging software has a bug^H^H^Hfeature that just happened to work in your favour.
Garbage, undisplayable characters in the filename doesn't make it a rootkit, although it could be a supplemental way to prevent removal. A true rootkit has some sort of a driver in kernel space or higher, that prevents the rootkit's files from being displayed in Windows, in any way at all.
A real rootkit only hides its files when it's own driver is running; which is only when running the infected system. Therefore, your PE boot disk will show the files just fine, and copy the files just fine, as long as they don't have garbage characters in the name.
Provided you do a virus scan with something that _knows how to detect_ that rootkit before you reapply the image, you'll be fine. But we're here talking about how crappy the detection rate of virus scanners is, so I wouldn't want to count on that one.....
How about the huge "Download free version" button?
The full version is $24.95 for personal use, but the free version is..well....free.
But it doesn't have real time scanning, scheduled scanning, or scheduled updates.
Well, when you're just cleaning a machine, that doesn't matter at all.
There's probably some restriction about using the free version in a commercial environment, but that may not include educational. Haven't actually looked into it.
Which, while somewhat on topic, is still irrelevant. The point was that changing government does not result in a new country. England has changed over 1000 years from a monarchy to a democratic (?) parliamentary system, but it's still the same country. Just the government has been updated to fit more modern times.
Elsewhere in the thread I've stated that Western Europe hasn't changed much for centuries, which you basically just said yourself.
I gave that poster the concession that Eastern Europe has changed somewhat, although most of the "small countries in the gap" were actually semi-autonomous states of the USSR. Borders are still roughly the same, it's just they're not part of the Soviet Bloc any more, and they've changed their name, too. I'll give you that could be considered forming a new country, but it's still more of a technicality than anything material.
My take on it: When Finland declared independence of Russia, did it become a new country? No. It still had it's government in place, it's just that government used to report to Moscow. They told the old boss to bugger off, and now they're the new boss. (Same as the old boss.)
First, most modern software is installed with an installer and adds things to the registry that you aren't going to get when copying files from a directory.
True. But for the majority of games, this stuff added to the registry is irrelevant, with the possible exception of a serial number, which most of the stuff I play doesn't have. You can usually copy the folder to another machine, double click the executable, and it'll run just fine.
Second, if you can't copy files over the network you're doing something wrong.
Most of the European countries are less than 80 years old...
This must be some strange definition of "most" that I (and most of the rest of the english-speaking world) am unfamiliar with.
If you said most eastern European countries, then I'd probably have to agree with you on a technicality, simply because a lot of them radically reconfigured their governments and renamed themselves after the fall of the iron curtain.
But Western Europe? Not a chance. England has been a country for nearly 1100 years. Even Finland, which is a recent one, is 90 years old, when you just consider it's independence. As an actual country, it's still hundreds of years old.
Music doesn't come from TV, so it's irrelevant to this conversation.
As for TV, how many geeks do you know that have all the episodes of Big Brother on burned DVDs? Or Simple Life? Or Wipeout? (which actually would be worth getting in hi def, so you could see the pained expressions of everybody who faceplants on the big balls....)
I don't know too many geeks who watch a lot of TV, and even movies are too stupid for the most part. There are a few good ones, but the majority is crap.
Maybe geeks in my area have different tastes than US geeks or something.....
That gives me a results page where half the results are people and companies suing Google, a couple are lawsuits for AdSense click fraud, which are perfectly legitimate, and a couple of trademark violation suits. One against a guy who claimed rights to "Google" itself. That lawsuit's perfectly legit, if you ask me. The only questionable one on the first page is when they sued Froogles.com. I don't know the details of that case, although it looks like Google might have been on the evil side on that one.
1. When has Google sued or threatened to sue anyone over patent violations?
2. When has Microsoft sued or threatened to sue anyone over patent violations?
I don't think Google has _ever_ even threatened to sue. They've been sued, on a number of occasions, but I can't find any references to them actually doing the suing.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has been shouting for years that Linux violates 238 of it's patents. Although they've toned it down recently. They've also sued TomTom just this year, over patent violations.
It's not just "Microsoft has a patent, so they're evil!......Google has a patent, so they're showing the stupidity of the patent system!" You've got to take into account the history of the patent holder, what previous abuses they have subjected customers and competitors to, among other things.
There's a reason the punishment for a second offence is bigger than the first offence. Because courts take into account the history of the offender. You're not doing that. You're complaining about foebois and fanbois, while you yourself are blinkered to the big picture.
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Because according to a Mac fanboi, Apple can do no wrong, and anything possible in computerdom, on any hardware, no matter how high end, is completely possible, and in fact faster, on a COTS Apple desktop machine. :-/
Not to say that Apple doesn't make some good stuff, but they're not the be all, end all of computers.
Ok...let's think this through....
If it was high school curriculum, then people would know by the time that they're 16 that scammers are out to rip them off.
If people knew that, then it's not much of a leap of logic to figure out by the time you're 20 that banks, governments and other corporations are out to rip you off, too.
And that is the last thing the ruling elite want you to know.
I don't use the free version in a commercial environment, and I'm not academic, either, so it's completely a moot point for me.
It's definitly more that zero, e.g. Dr. George Tiller was recently killed by a terrorist and had previously been subject to many attacks.
Someone who shoots and kills a single guy isn't a terrorist.
A terrorist plants bombs to take out large swaths of innocent civilians.
Mass casualties is the difference, here.
Besides, Dr. Tiller himself could be argued to be a mass murderer, since he was doing late term abortions.
(I know....all the pro-choicers are going to be up in arms over that comment, but you're all smoked. The "It's my body" argument doesn't fly, because your baby's body isn't yours. It's your baby's.)
That means your imaging software has a bug^H^H^Hfeature that just happened to work in your favour.
Garbage, undisplayable characters in the filename doesn't make it a rootkit, although it could be a supplemental way to prevent removal. A true rootkit has some sort of a driver in kernel space or higher, that prevents the rootkit's files from being displayed in Windows, in any way at all.
A real rootkit only hides its files when it's own driver is running; which is only when running the infected system.
Therefore, your PE boot disk will show the files just fine, and copy the files just fine, as long as they don't have garbage characters in the name.
Provided you do a virus scan with something that _knows how to detect_ that rootkit before you reapply the image, you'll be fine. But we're here talking about how crappy the detection rate of virus scanners is, so I wouldn't want to count on that one.....
Yes we have.
Can't remember what it was called, but I had to clean up a machine with an old school .exe file infector a few months ago.
Completely hosed every executable on the machine, so it _was_ a matter of reinstalling from scratch.
How about the huge "Download free version" button?
The full version is $24.95 for personal use, but the free version is..well....free.
But it doesn't have real time scanning, scheduled scanning, or scheduled updates.
Well, when you're just cleaning a machine, that doesn't matter at all.
There's probably some restriction about using the free version in a commercial environment, but that may not include educational. Haven't actually looked into it.
Easy. Just swipe a display from a football stadium.
I'm just wondering how many DX11 Radeons it will take to run it. Maybe 6?....
.... and for the strong oral promises of con artists later denied.
You mean, like...politicians?
Which, while somewhat on topic, is still irrelevant.
The point was that changing government does not result in a new country. England has changed over 1000 years from a monarchy to a democratic (?) parliamentary system, but it's still the same country. Just the government has been updated to fit more modern times.
Elsewhere in the thread I've stated that Western Europe hasn't changed much for centuries, which you basically just said yourself.
I gave that poster the concession that Eastern Europe has changed somewhat, although most of the "small countries in the gap" were actually semi-autonomous states of the USSR. Borders are still roughly the same, it's just they're not part of the Soviet Bloc any more, and they've changed their name, too. I'll give you that could be considered forming a new country, but it's still more of a technicality than anything material.
My take on it:
When Finland declared independence of Russia, did it become a new country? No. It still had it's government in place, it's just that government used to report to Moscow. They told the old boss to bugger off, and now they're the new boss. (Same as the old boss.)
First, most modern software is installed with an installer and adds things to the registry that you aren't going to get when copying files from a directory.
True. But for the majority of games, this stuff added to the registry is irrelevant, with the possible exception of a serial number, which most of the stuff I play doesn't have.
You can usually copy the folder to another machine, double click the executable, and it'll run just fine.
Second, if you can't copy files over the network you're doing something wrong.
Doing something wrong....yeah....like...using Vista.
BaDum crash!
Thank you..I'll be here all week....
So that means that the study is about as reliable as an average Slashdot poster. Great... =P
Yes, but much less rude.
Moron.
Does that mean I become a completely different person when I change jobs?
That's retarded.
Most of the European countries are less than 80 years old...
This must be some strange definition of "most" that I (and most of the rest of the english-speaking world) am unfamiliar with.
If you said most eastern European countries, then I'd probably have to agree with you on a technicality, simply because a lot of them radically reconfigured their governments and renamed themselves after the fall of the iron curtain.
But Western Europe? Not a chance. England has been a country for nearly 1100 years.
Even Finland, which is a recent one, is 90 years old, when you just consider it's independence.
As an actual country, it's still hundreds of years old.
Music doesn't come from TV, so it's irrelevant to this conversation.
As for TV, how many geeks do you know that have all the episodes of Big Brother on burned DVDs?
Or Simple Life?
Or Wipeout? (which actually would be worth getting in hi def, so you could see the pained expressions of everybody who faceplants on the big balls....)
I don't know too many geeks who watch a lot of TV, and even movies are too stupid for the most part. There are a few good ones, but the majority is crap.
Maybe geeks in my area have different tastes than US geeks or something.....
I fail to see the problem.
"They" is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to a group of marketers and lawyers.
I didn't compare Google to MS. The AC that I was responding to did.
Idiot. Of course Microsoft has been doing this, Google doesn't have tangible products
Google Chrome, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Google SketchUp, Google Talk, Google Picasa.
Should I continue?
So "hate speech" and "inciting violence" are one and the same?
Then why two different laws to cover them?
Wrong.
Microsoft sued first. TomTom's suit was the response.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52J1IE20090320
That gives me a results page where half the results are people and companies suing Google, a couple are lawsuits for AdSense click fraud, which are perfectly legitimate, and a couple of trademark violation suits.
One against a guy who claimed rights to "Google" itself. That lawsuit's perfectly legit, if you ask me.
The only questionable one on the first page is when they sued Froogles.com. I don't know the details of that case, although it looks like Google might have been on the evil side on that one.
I didn't bring up the Microsoft argument. An AC did, bitching about how if it was Microsoft, there'd be an uproar over this patent.
All I'm doing is explaining why the reaction would be different between the two companies.
Given Microsoft's history, it _should_ be.
If people.....understood
That's a great idea. You should patent that.
I doubt you or anybody else would ever get it working, though.....
Well, a lot of people are already mouth breathers, so society's already halfway there.... :-)
You need to ask yourself two question:
1. When has Google sued or threatened to sue anyone over patent violations?
2. When has Microsoft sued or threatened to sue anyone over patent violations?
I don't think Google has _ever_ even threatened to sue. They've been sued, on a number of occasions, but I can't find any references to them actually doing the suing.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has been shouting for years that Linux violates 238 of it's patents. Although they've toned it down recently. They've also sued TomTom just this year, over patent violations.
It's not just "Microsoft has a patent, so they're evil!......Google has a patent, so they're showing the stupidity of the patent system!"
You've got to take into account the history of the patent holder, what previous abuses they have subjected customers and competitors to, among other things.
There's a reason the punishment for a second offence is bigger than the first offence. Because courts take into account the history of the offender. You're not doing that.
You're complaining about foebois and fanbois, while you yourself are blinkered to the big picture.