hm, me neither - getting 50KB/s right now when extracting the pics (500KB) from the XP partition to the Vista partition. Not sure what else I did last time, I was creating screenshots in Vista using paint.net and needed a few pics for comparison from the other partition. I guess I had some more programs running when the problem occurred but right now it works ok. Maybe Windows Update was running in the background last time?!;-) Still, the fact that this can and did happen was a major annoyance...
Yes, Vista Business final with all recent patches and updates on a new R60 Thinkpad. See here for my speculations about the cause. I'll test it again next time I boot Vista (which hopefully won't be anytime soon hehe...)
Yes, I am using AVG; as I said I didn't really investigate this, but I doubt that the AV was interfering while copying jpgs and pngs (no exe files in the zip archive). I guess it has to do with the Windows unzip mechanism / temp folders and the fact that I copied from the C partition to the Vista D (in Vista it is still named C!) partition, but I'm reluctant to boot Vista just to re-test the copying. Next time I have to boot it, I'll do a few tests and see if I can replicate the problem.
Still, this was among the first impressions I got when trying Vista (which my boss forced me to install), and I think it speaks volumes.
5-10 seconds? That's really fast! Try this on a dual boot system with 2 partitions, XP on C and Vista on D: double click a ZIP file on your XP partition from inside Vista and copy the files inside the ZIP to your Vista D partition (which shows up as C anyway). I got a whopping 8-30 bytes per second that way recently and waited about 10 minutes for a few images to crawl from the XP partition ZIP temp folder to the Vista partition. I didn't try if copying the zip to the Vista partition first would speed things up, but I guess it would have helped a little.
Bottom line: file operations in Vista suck, even if your HD is fast and you have lots of RAM.
But hey, I'm just a dazed onlooker - what would I know about the law.
Yeah well, I just came across this: Eubanks, who served for 22 years as a lawyer at Justice:
"Political interference is happening at Justice across the department," she said. "When decisions are made now in the Bush attorney general's office, politics is the primary consideration.... The rule of law goes out the window."
So, whatever we think we know, there's always someone who knows better...
also note that an estimated 125 gigatons of ice is lost each year from the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. We'll have a little more / deeper water with each passing year.
We all know the number one reason any nation tries to get a satellite into orbit is so the rest of the world knows that they can drop a bomb onto anybody else's doorstep
You're kidding, right? Number one reason? Any nation? Yeah, you're either kidding or you're.. what's the next step after paranoia? Ah, that would be hysteria, I guess.
My thoughts exactly. The "Fun With Ballmer" section and Ballmer quotes also help to disqualify the campaign. Open letters are one thing, but this is... lamebait;)
it would simply be far, far easier to just use the backend offices of the banks which have been offshored, and take out our economic system.
Good idea, but if taking out the US economy is your goal, there's an "easier" way: just try and make the oil business move away from the Dollar, thus destabilizing the Dollar (even more) and consequently ruining the US economy and the country. By chance, Iran is just trying to do that by establishing Iran's upcoming oil bourse based on the Euro rather than on the Dollar. Consequently, Iran is on top of the list of countries to be bombed next. Go figure.
The DoD/gov't better stop whining, it's not like they don't spy on other nations - friendly nations at that. Think full SWIFT access, PNRs they want to retain for some 50 years, ECHELON and the likes.
Everybody knows that all of this is - of course - merely a part of fighting terrorism, since industrial and military espionage require different, more sophisticated and technically more complex and costly measures. Calling any of these measures disproportionate is considered heresy.
Yeah you know, this is one thing the US president - and probably a large part of the US population - will never get: there's such a thing as diplomacy, not really a part of the US foreign policy any more and therefore not in everyones mind. It uses such things as "strongly-worded letter"s and other means of communicating things you can't just say the way you think or speak - because international relationships are not as simple as your leaders would make you believe; they are very delicate indeed. Diplomacy used to work pretty well, and the UN is not a history of failures as everyone round here wants to make believe. The US foreign policy has long since abandoned diplomacy in favor of "preemptive strikes" and other elements of the Bush doctrine, and pointing fingers at the UN is just one part of the problem, aimed at deviating from the fact that the US gov't doesn't care the least bit about international relationships, but only about it's own interests and how to support them.
I know the UN is flawed and often edentulous in its actions, but I strongly suggest that the US accept that it's the best we have so far and rather than undermining it it should be supported and improved.
Insightfull or Funny which is kinda sad
Come to think of it, I guess you probably meant something along those lines, too...
Sure, just like history is not useful since one might get the impression we're all just a bunch of barbarians and don't ever learn from our past. Thank you for the instruction, that was so helpful.
Most of what you read over seas is way blown over hyperbole of small isolated events.
Well, put those "small isolated events" together and you get a very frightening picture, and it probably takes a lot of looking the other way to ignore that. Here's a quite provocative collection of those "small isolated events"; I don't fully agree with the conclusions made there, but as you are trying to trivialize the things happening in the US, I find it acceptable to emote a litte, because of the importance of the subject. BTW, many of the sources quoted there are US based...
spread the word, he's not kidding. Hemp's a real solution, if not the solution. Give it a try. And, oh... ah um mod parent up (a little further)... look up the history and potential of the cannabis plant, you might learn a thing or two
You do have a point there, and of course I didn't RTFA, but being German I know one thing for sure: the current plans for anti "killer games" legislation - that's what violent games are called in the public discussion - have nothing whatsoever to do with the fascist / national socialist past of the country. It's the ususal "think of the children!" activism, used by politicians around the world to get a good headline in the press to suppress something they don't like (=understand).
The majority of German internet users have a very sensible opinion about the current discussion and deny the (scientifically unfounded) claims that banning certain content/games/movies/whatever will accomplish anything, while the majority of the German population - getting their education about new technology they don't use mostly from the tabloids - say that whatever will be banned will help save the kids.
So, there you go, it's once again a matter of information and - I guess - education. Lack of proper education and medienkompetenz in both politics and population mixed with overzealous right-wing politicians, guess what kind of laws this will spawn... [/rant]
I get so tired about hearing how wal-mart supposedly abuses their employees. Look, I know people who work there and they don't have any qualms.
Hm, you don't have to go to walmartsucks.org to realize that not everyone agrees with you or the people you know; a simple web search will do. You'll come across articles like this one, but it's probably just all lies...
- if the government can legally hack my computer to obtaint evidence, said evidence might have been put on my computer by some (other?) hacker, too. I'm no longer responsible for what is stored here, since any of the contents of my HDD might have been planted^z put there by some 3rd party.
- I'm supposed to help cutting administrative costs, so I should use "E-Government" possibilities (websites, software, forms etc). Tax declarations can in large parts only be made online using some (Windows only) govt software. How could I possibly trust any software / website / form provided by the government if "online searches" were to be legal? How can I visit a public government website without fear of being 0wn3d?
- as German ministers announce - Schäuble, in this case - that whatever is ruled illegal by the courts will "promptly" be put into appropriate new legislation, how am I supposed to trust this government any longer? In their oath of office, German ministers vow "to avert damage from the German people" - I don't see that. I dont't fear terrorists at all, I fear our representatives! List goes on and on, but I'm tired and kinda drunk...
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hm, me neither - getting 50KB/s right now when extracting the pics (500KB) from the XP partition to the Vista partition. Not sure what else I did last time, I was creating screenshots in Vista using paint.net and needed a few pics for comparison from the other partition. I guess I had some more programs running when the problem occurred but right now it works ok. Maybe Windows Update was running in the background last time?! ;-) Still, the fact that this can and did happen was a major annoyance...
Yes, Vista Business final with all recent patches and updates on a new R60 Thinkpad. See here for my speculations about the cause. I'll test it again next time I boot Vista (which hopefully won't be anytime soon hehe...)
Still, this was among the first impressions I got when trying Vista (which my boss forced me to install), and I think it speaks volumes.
Bottom line: file operations in Vista suck, even if your HD is fast and you have lots of RAM.
Nope. It was a result from the Google calculator, so you might.
tehe, yeah either that or the inflation in the US really *is* getting out of hand!
not quite, EUR 42.29 for Vista Home Basic, EUR 35.24 for Works 8.0. Google says, 77,53 Euros = 103,262207 U.S. dollars.
Yeah well, I just came across this: Eubanks, who served for 22 years as a lawyer at Justice:
"Political interference is happening at Justice across the department," she said. "When decisions are made now in the Bush attorney general's office, politics is the primary consideration.
So, whatever we think we know, there's always someone who knows better...
also note that an estimated 125 gigatons of ice is lost each year from the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. We'll have a little more / deeper water with each passing year.
Not a treaty as such, but a decree titled "US National Space Policy" claiming space for the US. IOW, the Bush administration claims the right to deny US adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to its national interests.
You're kidding, right? Number one reason? Any nation? Yeah, you're either kidding or you're .. what's the next step after paranoia? Ah, that would be hysteria, I guess.
wooha.. one of the more nasty outcomes of stuck windows...
My thoughts exactly. The "Fun With Ballmer" section and Ballmer quotes also help to disqualify the campaign. Open letters are one thing, but this is ... lamebait ;)
Good idea, but if taking out the US economy is your goal, there's an "easier" way: just try and make the oil business move away from the Dollar, thus destabilizing the Dollar (even more) and consequently ruining the US economy and the country. By chance, Iran is just trying to do that by establishing Iran's upcoming oil bourse based on the Euro rather than on the Dollar. Consequently, Iran is on top of the list of countries to be bombed next. Go figure.
Everybody knows that all of this is - of course - merely a part of fighting terrorism, since industrial and military espionage require different, more sophisticated and technically more complex and costly measures. Calling any of these measures disproportionate is considered heresy.
Sarcasm aside: protect your networks, or prepare to be hacked.
I know the UN is flawed and often edentulous in its actions, but I strongly suggest that the US accept that it's the best we have so far and rather than undermining it it should be supported and improved.
Insightfull or Funny which is kinda sad
Come to think of it, I guess you probably meant something along those lines, too...
Sure, just like history is not useful since one might get the impression we're all just a bunch of barbarians and don't ever learn from our past. Thank you for the instruction, that was so helpful.
Well, put those "small isolated events" together and you get a very frightening picture, and it probably takes a lot of looking the other way to ignore that. Here's a quite provocative collection of those "small isolated events"; I don't fully agree with the conclusions made there, but as you are trying to trivialize the things happening in the US, I find it acceptable to emote a litte, because of the importance of the subject. BTW, many of the sources quoted there are US based...
spread the word, he's not kidding. Hemp's a real solution, if not the solution. Give it a try. And, oh... ah um mod parent up (a little further)... look up the history and potential of the cannabis plant, you might learn a thing or two
on the subject and the situation inside the EU from Spiegel Online. No mention of Nazi Germany there ;)
The majority of German internet users have a very sensible opinion about the current discussion and deny the (scientifically unfounded) claims that banning certain content/games/movies/whatever will accomplish anything, while the majority of the German population - getting their education about new technology they don't use mostly from the tabloids - say that whatever will be banned will help save the kids.
So, there you go, it's once again a matter of information and - I guess - education. Lack of proper education and medienkompetenz in both politics and population mixed with overzealous right-wing politicians, guess what kind of laws this will spawn... [/rant]
DHS has $19,632,348,000 to spend for 2007 for the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) alone, so I guess they'll win.
Proudly posting without having RTFA or even the summary :)
graphs here
Hm, you don't have to go to walmartsucks.org to realize that not everyone agrees with you or the people you know; a simple web search will do. You'll come across articles like this one, but it's probably just all lies...
- I'm supposed to help cutting administrative costs, so I should use "E-Government" possibilities (websites, software, forms etc). Tax declarations can in large parts only be made online using some (Windows only) govt software. How could I possibly trust any software / website / form provided by the government if "online searches" were to be legal? How can I visit a public government website without fear of being 0wn3d?
- as German ministers announce - Schäuble, in this case - that whatever is ruled illegal by the courts will "promptly" be put into appropriate new legislation, how am I supposed to trust this government any longer? In their oath of office, German ministers vow "to avert damage from the German people" - I don't see that. I dont't fear terrorists at all, I fear our representatives! List goes on and on, but I'm tired and kinda drunk...