Gutmann method was only meant for drives from like 20 years ago. I believe he later stated that a few wipes of random data were about the best you could do.
That's my advice as part of the solution to cut down on malware. Of course there are millions of.com malware sites, but you can't just cut out.com. On the other hand with rare exception, most people can without penalty stay away from.cn sites.
You know what would be a great addon for Firefox? An Extension that somehow would intelligently work around Firefox hanging on a non-responsive external to the site servers. Instead of using Adblock et al, let the site have their ads but route around the ones that cause pages not to load. Nothing worse than going to your favorite site an wondering what is taking so long only to see ad2.doubleclick.com sitting in the status bar.
You answer the phone and then hear people talking and keyboards clicking in the background. Then 4 seconds later some stupid rep finally comes on as says Hello Mr. whomever.
The cheapest you can buy this for is $260 not including shipping at Newegg. I don't know where he got that 200-249 range from, but the range I'm seeing is $260-$290.
So much for the return of the midrange. Midrange being the $150 card. Today's $150 card ie the 8600gts is a joke for DX10 and the newest games. No wonder the PC gaming industry is in the shitter and losing out to consoles. You need to spend almost $300 on a video card just to stay current.
When fast new systems with Dual Core cpus, 1GB of memory, and 19" LCDs, cost $500-$600 who in their right mind thinks spending $250 on a gpu isn't a ripoff?
I was angry at Gnome for a long time. Mostly because it sucked horribly for 5+ years but also because of how everyone freaked about about the initial KDE license issue. I was so happy to be using KDE after suffering under horrible featureless WMs. Then came the bickering and divisions. It all got very old waiting around for the Linux desktop to mature and eventually many of us left for Windows 2000/XP and OS X.
Realizing that this is all obviously IMHO and comes from my own narrow view, I really do think that Linux would have been better off if everyone had just standardized on KDE long ago.
That isn't true with regards to the Xbox. They did 155K in May, 170K in July, 276K in August. September is expected to be higher and I'm sure the trend will continue till Jan. Here is a nice chart for you. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20070914235723.html
Yahoo pulls shit like this as well. My company made the mistake of using them for email and web and they are a nightmare. For the first 6 months with them it was nothing but over the invisible limit complaints and users still have emails bounced for no reason. They are fine as a web host but absolute garbage as an email provider.
There is an interesting and surprisingly in depth article on Bungie and how they went about developing for Halo 3. They follow Bungie's development process and get into things like how Bungie solved different AI problems etc. Anyway when you have some free time, it's 6 pages long, hop over to http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-09/ff_halo and give it a read. Btw I don't own an Xbox and never played Halo but I still found the article very interesting.
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Is that I hear they are backporting all of the new features to the original Zune. So gen 1 Zunes would get the wifi improvements etc. Hey Apple you listening?
Yes but usually that means someone is trying to close up or abuse source code licenses and someone else is trying to keep them open.
Plus say your right. What's worse? Companies that are constantly trying to force you into licenses that are restrictive and downright abusive/harmful to you or your computer? Or individuals who are constantly fighting to ensure that you/society only benefit from the software license?
Easiest method I've come up with so far for the average user and it only cost $200. It is not the most reliable but it is apparently vastly superior to what 99% of users are doing which is nothing. Buy two usb hard drives like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154150 . Keep one at a friends/neighbors house. Once a month on the same day you write your mortgage or rent check do the back immediately afterwards. Then drop the drive off at your friend's/neighbor's. Repeat forever. Honestly if you don't tie it to something important you just won't do it.
4. The product is described as crappy by OEMs and users, oh and it's also buggy and slow.
As and aside people keep bringing up this line of "Oh when XP came out people complained too.". They are partially right, yes people did complain. But there was no where near the level of dissatisfaction in the VAR and OEM channel as there is now. OEMs are openly dumping on Vista which is the last thing they would normally do since they love to sell the same hardware and say "Now includes Vista!". I'm sorry but even if SP1 makes Vista perform as well as XP it will still only be a flashy DRM trojan horse with little improvement over XP. If Microsoft had spent 10% as much time improving Vista's features as they did figuring out how to shove DRM in there Vista would have kicked the crap out of XP feature wise.
"'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'""
Impressive if your main hope in life is to live in some sort of Orwellian nightmare. Hey, here's a thought. If you put cameras in every house you can cut down on child abuse! You don't object to that do you? What are you some sort of kid toucher? Won't somebody please think of the children!
So much for Chicago being the lovely city I wanted to visit again.
I saw that, very cool. Apple's idea of paying more for a higher encoder song is laughable..89 is still IMHO.49 a song too much. But heh, it's a massive step in the right direction. I'll be buying a few songs from Amazon to a least support their efforts.
" Let me sync recorded shows to a Zune 2.0 device "
Yea no sorry can't let you do that. Get a new Vista PC with a Cablecard and every show you record will be locked to that PC. No burning, sharing, or anything else. Media Center on Vista is IMHO a total downgrade from MCE2005 which runs quite well on very modest hardware. Once MCE2005 stops getting supported I'm not sure what I'll do.
"ALSO Aero seemed to offer no real actual benefits to usability,"
They copied OS X from top to bottom,well at least they tried to anyway, why didn't they clone Expose? It is patently absurd that the only "wow moment" they offered at launch was Flip-3D. I mean are you serious? And moving wallpaper is a Vista Ultimate only feature? More then one person must have quit at Vista over what lame eye-candy features shipped with Vista at launch.
Vista Premium should at a minimum shipped with moving wallpaper, an expose clone, and a host of other useless but mind blowing effects. No scratch that, not useless, put those billions to work and make them mind blowing AND useful. I mean Christ justify those system requirements and give us something that makes using the computer fun. After setting the bar so high hardware-wise the least they could have done is come out with something that after 6 years of development time made us go WOW. Again there must have been more then a few engineers freaking out about how sterile and unimpressive Vista was at launch.
Working on computers that put the usb ports 1" from the ground. Or even better hide them between the network port and all of the other ports. Real easy to access either port location when the computer is shoved where ever it fits and is out of the way. How about moving the ports to the top of the computers and have them lit up all them time so that you can find them instantly? Would that be so freaking hard? You can even put a little cover over the ports with your oem logo on it or something.
Best usb port design? 5 year old Dells which have the usb ports at the front bottom with the ports ANGLED UPWARDS. It's lotsa fun trying to fit a thumb drive into those ports. I'd love to punch the guy in the face who came up with that design.
PDF creation was impressive 10 years ago but not now. Every program on linux and windows can already export to PDF with the right software installed. On windows I recommend PDFCreator.
First off never trust someone who makes their living off of Microsoft products to give you an honest opinion about Microsoft. Ie Bott is without a doubt a shill for Microsoft. Got that? Good.
Now with regards to what I thought was funny. It's funny that Microsoft had to drop WinFS and other technologies from Vista because they either ran out of time or couldn't get them to work. Yet they had no problem what so ever tightly integrating DRM into every single nook and cranny of Vista. It is sadly apparent that from day one Vista was designed to treat the user as a criminal and treat the Entertainment industry as the customer and overlord of your computer. That Mr. Bott is the reason for the shitstorm about Vista and its DRM. All of your talk about "not turned on yet" and "doesn't impact your computer much" is cold comfort after what we have discovered about about Vista and DRM. Don't you get that?
Oh please. We (meaning liberals)don't need make crap like that. If we want to discuss how evil the GOP is all we have to do is talk about the million+ dead in Iraq. Have fun living with that on your conscience.
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Gutmann method was only meant for drives from like 20 years ago. I believe he later stated that a few wipes of random data were about the best you could do.
That's my advice as part of the solution to cut down on malware. Of course there are millions of .com malware sites, but you can't just cut out .com. On the other hand with rare exception, most people can without penalty stay away from .cn sites.
You know what would be a great addon for Firefox? An Extension that somehow would intelligently work around Firefox hanging on a non-responsive external to the site servers. Instead of using Adblock et al, let the site have their ads but route around the ones that cause pages not to load. Nothing worse than going to your favorite site an wondering what is taking so long only to see ad2.doubleclick.com sitting in the status bar.
You answer the phone and then hear people talking and keyboards clicking in the background. Then 4 seconds later some stupid rep finally comes on as says Hello Mr. whomever.
The cheapest you can buy this for is $260 not including shipping at Newegg. I don't know where he got that 200-249 range from, but the range I'm seeing is $260-$290.
So much for the return of the midrange. Midrange being the $150 card. Today's $150 card ie the 8600gts is a joke for DX10 and the newest games. No wonder the PC gaming industry is in the shitter and losing out to consoles. You need to spend almost $300 on a video card just to stay current.
When fast new systems with Dual Core cpus, 1GB of memory, and 19" LCDs, cost $500-$600 who in their right mind thinks spending $250 on a gpu isn't a ripoff?
Just because you don't have an ISO to download doesn't mean it isn't Free. How do you think CentOS gets made?
I know the feeling. I lost my old 4 digit UID many years ago.
I was angry at Gnome for a long time. Mostly because it sucked horribly for 5+ years but also because of how everyone freaked about about the initial KDE license issue. I was so happy to be using KDE after suffering under horrible featureless WMs. Then came the bickering and divisions. It all got very old waiting around for the Linux desktop to mature and eventually many of us left for Windows 2000/XP and OS X.
Realizing that this is all obviously IMHO and comes from my own narrow view, I really do think that Linux would have been better off if everyone had just standardized on KDE long ago.
That isn't true with regards to the Xbox. They did 155K in May, 170K in July, 276K in August. September is expected to be higher and I'm sure the trend will continue till Jan. Here is a nice chart for you. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20070914235723.html
Yahoo pulls shit like this as well. My company made the mistake of using them for email and web and they are a nightmare. For the first 6 months with them it was nothing but over the invisible limit complaints and users still have emails bounced for no reason. They are fine as a web host but absolute garbage as an email provider.
Actually it doesn't cost them money since the emulation is done in software. The execs at Sony are just being assholes.
There is an interesting and surprisingly in depth article on Bungie and how they went about developing for Halo 3. They follow Bungie's development process and get into things like how Bungie solved different AI problems etc. Anyway when you have some free time, it's 6 pages long, hop over to http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-09/ff_halo and give it a read. Btw I don't own an Xbox and never played Halo but I still found the article very interesting.
Is that I hear they are backporting all of the new features to the original Zune. So gen 1 Zunes would get the wifi improvements etc. Hey Apple you listening?
Yes but usually that means someone is trying to close up or abuse source code licenses and someone else is trying to keep them open.
Plus say your right. What's worse? Companies that are constantly trying to force you into licenses that are restrictive and downright abusive/harmful to you or your computer? Or individuals who are constantly fighting to ensure that you/society only benefit from the software license?
Was it a morally corrupt web site? Those are the worst kind.
Easiest method I've come up with so far for the average user and it only cost $200. It is not the most reliable but it is apparently vastly superior to what 99% of users are doing which is nothing. Buy two usb hard drives like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154150 . Keep one at a friends/neighbors house. Once a month on the same day you write your mortgage or rent check do the back immediately afterwards. Then drop the drive off at your friend's/neighbor's. Repeat forever. Honestly if you don't tie it to something important you just won't do it.
4. The product is described as crappy by OEMs and users, oh and it's also buggy and slow.
As and aside people keep bringing up this line of "Oh when XP came out people complained too.". They are partially right, yes people did complain. But there was no where near the level of dissatisfaction in the VAR and OEM channel as there is now. OEMs are openly dumping on Vista which is the last thing they would normally do since they love to sell the same hardware and say "Now includes Vista!". I'm sorry but even if SP1 makes Vista perform as well as XP it will still only be a flashy DRM trojan horse with little improvement over XP. If Microsoft had spent 10% as much time improving Vista's features as they did figuring out how to shove DRM in there Vista would have kicked the crap out of XP feature wise.
"'Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety.'""
Impressive if your main hope in life is to live in some sort of Orwellian nightmare. Hey, here's a thought. If you put cameras in every house you can cut down on child abuse! You don't object to that do you? What are you some sort of kid toucher? Won't somebody please think of the children!
So much for Chicago being the lovely city I wanted to visit again.
I saw that, very cool. Apple's idea of paying more for a higher encoder song is laughable. .89 is still IMHO .49 a song too much. But heh, it's a massive step in the right direction. I'll be buying a few songs from Amazon to a least support their efforts.
" Let me sync recorded shows to a Zune 2.0 device "
Yea no sorry can't let you do that. Get a new Vista PC with a Cablecard and every show you record will be locked to that PC. No burning, sharing, or anything else. Media Center on Vista is IMHO a total downgrade from MCE2005 which runs quite well on very modest hardware. Once MCE2005 stops getting supported I'm not sure what I'll do.
"ALSO Aero seemed to offer no real actual benefits to usability,"
They copied OS X from top to bottom,well at least they tried to anyway, why didn't they clone Expose? It is patently absurd that the only "wow moment" they offered at launch was Flip-3D. I mean are you serious? And moving wallpaper is a Vista Ultimate only feature? More then one person must have quit at Vista over what lame eye-candy features shipped with Vista at launch.
Vista Premium should at a minimum shipped with moving wallpaper, an expose clone, and a host of other useless but mind blowing effects. No scratch that, not useless, put those billions to work and make them mind blowing AND useful. I mean Christ justify those system requirements and give us something that makes using the computer fun. After setting the bar so high hardware-wise the least they could have done is come out with something that after 6 years of development time made us go WOW. Again there must have been more then a few engineers freaking out about how sterile and unimpressive Vista was at launch.
Working on computers that put the usb ports 1" from the ground. Or even better hide them between the network port and all of the other ports. Real easy to access either port location when the computer is shoved where ever it fits and is out of the way. How about moving the ports to the top of the computers and have them lit up all them time so that you can find them instantly? Would that be so freaking hard? You can even put a little cover over the ports with your oem logo on it or something.
Best usb port design? 5 year old Dells which have the usb ports at the front bottom with the ports ANGLED UPWARDS. It's lotsa fun trying to fit a thumb drive into those ports. I'd love to punch the guy in the face who came up with that design.
PDF creation was impressive 10 years ago but not now. Every program on linux and windows can already export to PDF with the right software installed. On windows I recommend PDFCreator.
First off never trust someone who makes their living off of Microsoft products to give you an honest opinion about Microsoft. Ie Bott is without a doubt a shill for Microsoft. Got that? Good.
Now with regards to what I thought was funny. It's funny that Microsoft had to drop WinFS and other technologies from Vista because they either ran out of time or couldn't get them to work. Yet they had no problem what so ever tightly integrating DRM into every single nook and cranny of Vista. It is sadly apparent that from day one Vista was designed to treat the user as a criminal and treat the Entertainment industry as the customer and overlord of your computer. That Mr. Bott is the reason for the shitstorm about Vista and its DRM. All of your talk about "not turned on yet" and "doesn't impact your computer much" is cold comfort after what we have discovered about about Vista and DRM. Don't you get that?
Oh please. We (meaning liberals)don't need make crap like that. If we want to discuss how evil the GOP is all we have to do is talk about the million+ dead in Iraq. Have fun living with that on your conscience.