There are many things that identify things about the camera you use. As previously mentioned the EXIF data, though that can be easily removed. If they have access to multiple images from the same camera they can figure out the Noise Signature and link it back to your camera. Smudges on the lens. Some of these are talked about in the link below.
Also the capture pattern and compression artifacts can give away the manufacturer and usually model of camera used to take the picture. Some of these marking survive re-compression, but mostly disappear with resizing down.
They mocked the Xbox 360 because it could only play select games from the previous generation. New PS3s only play some games from the PS1 days and none from the PS2 unless you have older hardware.
They touted the PS3 as a computer, you can even install a full OS. When they removed the Other OS option for the PS3 slim they promised that it would remain in the older systems. No Other OS on any system anymore, even the ones they promised not to remove it from.
They mocked Xbox 360 for having to pay for gold membership, saying see our online service is free. Now we are getting PSN "Gold".
They lie about why the Sixaxis controller doesn't have rumble, saying it isn't needed. Then tote what a great feature it is when the Dualshock 3 controller comes out.
They lie, and lie, and lie and lie. How are we supposed to trust anything they say anymore?
For the record, I do not own an Xbox 360, nor do I plan to ever buy a console from Microsoft again. With the way things are going, I might just never buy a console ever again.
As time goes on, more store bought PS3 games will also require you to update your firmware, they will even provide the minimum supported version on disk "for your convenience." Don't think just because you don't go on the PSN that you are safe to keep buying games.
Firefox since the beginning for me has been a bad joke. Things like trying to remove the inline auto-complete make it so that I have to click more to get to what I want. I get repetitive strain injury every once in a while and I found with Firefox it got worse. Fortunately for those of us who value our hands there is Seamonkey, an easy, feature rich interface that allows us to do what we want.
Two times where Quantum Fireballs live up to their name. The flyback on one of my monitors blew making a popping sound, then smoke started coming out of the top. I have watched a power line inside the computer glow red hot and ignite it's outer casing. Also smoke suddenly coming from a power supply that had lit on fire internally.
I was going to say I've never seen a computer spark, but there was this one time that the positioning of variable DC voltage power transformer and a monitor was creating a strong magnetic field. I accidentally dropped the monitor cable onto the outside aluminum case of the transformer and it blew the thin layer of metal off part of the monitor cable creating quite the white light. The VGA plug had a thin layer of metal for some strange reason.
Who, oh who decided that having a sound every time you clicked on an item in the start menu? One of the first things I turn off on a new installation of Windows.
Also on my Palm every button or item clicked by default had an annoying tapping sound. Fortunately it can be turned off.
Nokia on the N900 has a clicking sound for the menus that can be turned off. It also has the ability to turn on a clicking sound for every key you press.
So while it is annoying, it is definitely in use today.
I already have a ban on Ubisoft for their draconian DRM scheme. This is on top of their lazy console ports they have been doing for years and I guess add no game manuals on top of that.
I'm a firm believer in vote with your wallet. I have voted Die Ubisoft DIE, but it will only work if other agree with me.
Some games require access to the PSN. In my case Warhawk, I'm sure Unreal Tournament 3 does as well. Either way is a partial bricking of your machine, either you loose access to parts, or full games if you don't upgrade, or you loose the option for Other OS. The PS3 was marketed as a computer, Sony was very adamant about this and now they have made these claims false advertising.
IBM's Power chips make up the main processor(s) for the Xbox360 and PS3, so are you saying that the Itanium will end up in multiple consoles found in millions of homes?
They've never "integrated" anything into their OS just to take out competition. Never made proprietary extensions to standards and patented them so no-one else can inter-operate with them. Never changed interfaces to standard libraries causing old programs to not work so people have to buy the latest Microsoft product. Never removed features through software updates. Never came up with crappy new APIs just to force people to upgrade other programs when they update this one program over here. Never bought out competition and destroyed all the source code and copies of the program not sold to consumers. Never stole other company's source code and integrated it into their own. Of course the original Xbox used a standard USB interface. No control over add-on hardware for the Xbox360.
All the above is true isn't it? Oh wait, there's multiple examples where they did just the opposite of everything listed above.
As a programmer, I am sick and tired of the anti-consumer crap Microsoft is constantly pulling. Have you ever had an update to the OS that has broken some functionality to software that you use and Microsoft blames it on the developer? Chances are that company programmed it according to the Microsoft recommendation, just Microsoft went and changed that recommendation, sometimes not providing any officially supported way of doing it anymore.
One example is out web site creates Excel files. The official supported method of doing this was to use the Excel Interop object. Then Microsoft came out with a patch to Windows Server 2003 that didn't allow this to work anymore unless you turned off a whole bunch of security and that wasn't recommended. After that patch there was no official way to do what we were doing, but we had been doing it the official, supported, recommended Microsoft way before the patch.
Really all Microsoft cares about it power. It is willing to loose a lot of money for that power. Heck they told the DOJ where they could shove the settlement they came to. I know during the DOJ trial Microsoft was going out of their way to do things illegally just to tell the DOJ that they are above the law, and they proved they are. Consumers, they are just play things. I know the external beta test team for Vista was saying that the OS wasn't even close to ready to be shipped. Of course they were ignored.
We apologize for any inconvenience that you may be experiencing with the removal of the Other OS feature in the next update for the PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update. If you do update to the 3.21 on your PlayStation(R)3 system you will not be able to use the hard disk partitions used by the other operating system. The data saved in these partitions cannot be restored after the system software has been updated. You will need to back up all data to storage media before updating the system software. You may need to format the Hard Disc Drive to get the partition back.
If you choose to not update your PS3 system you will not be able to do the following:
The ability to sign in to PlayStation®Network and use network features that require signing in to PlayStation Network, such as online features of PS3 games and chat.
Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later.
Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings).
Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later.
There is no reason to hack the PS3 other than for piracy? So the fact that they lock out some of the SPUs so that only Sony sanctioned software can benefit from the whole power of the console wouldn't also be a reason to hack it. Also I know a number of hackers that have no intention of pirating software, they hack things for the challenge.
Also, this isn't hurting the pirates at all, only the customers that paid for this computer which has been turned into just a console. Sony advertised it as a computer, and even that you could install another OS. They are taking away my computer!
In our local newspaper I keep reading about someone was speeding and swerved off the road killing a child. Person was speeding and ran over an old man crossing at a cross walk. Person was speeding and ran into a pole. Person was speeding and drove into a living room. Person was speeding and killed the driver and passenger of another car.
Then the article goes on to talk about the speeding plague for paragraphs. Most of these involve the person not going straight on a straight road and then one of the last lines usually says that the person was drunk out of his gourd.
What was more the problem, that he was speeding, or that he was piss drunk? Well obviously it was that he was speeding.
Apple has always been a cutthroat company under Steve Jobs. Be it competitors, customers, or even themselves (Apple Computer vs Mac). Bill Gates credits Steve Jobs for teaching him how to run a company in his book.
So it isn't Apple is the new Microsoft, it is just Apple up to their normal evil ways. Some people have just put them on so high a pedestal that they keep missing the knifes in their back weather they are slowly worked in there or are being stabbed really quickly.
This solution uses two 3.5 inch drive bays in your computer, one for your large platter drive, the other for the caddy with a SSD drive.
Some software is installed (Windows only) that makes the two drives look like one.
The most used files from the large drive are copies to the smaller SSD drive. When files cached on the SSD drive are requested, they are read from there, if they do not exist there the request is passed onto the bigger drive. If the file is being used enough it will be copied to the SSD drive at the same time as the information is getting sent to the computer. You will not get SSD drive speeds in this case.
Yes, this is just using a SSD drive as a cache.
The product does not come with SSD storage, you have to buy a SSD drive of your choosing as well as this caddy.
I've been following this project for a long time and I'm not sure if this is still on the site or not, but back near the beginning of the project they looked at using the Win32 subsystem that was in Wine. At the time it was very basic, directly hooked into X and was using many hacks and things that made the use of the Wine code unfeasible. In about a month ReactOS had a better Win32 subsystem than Wine did.
At some point a group of developers working on the Wine project decided to toss the old Win32 implementation and properly implement it abstracting out the interfaces to X. Since Wine has more developers, they were able to find more that were willing to work on the Wine32 subsystem and it is now a lot better than ReactOS's. Basically they've taken a look, saw how much better Wine's implementation is now and decided to switch to it.
As for the already shares code part, ReactOS from the start used as many wine components as possible to give them a good start on their implementation. Every once in a while on the updates you'd see listed that the wine components had been synced back into the project. It comes down to that in ReactOS they need to talk to actual hardware, where Wine talks to X and POSIX.
As odd as it may sound, there are many companies willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year on maintaining and making changes to their web site, but some of these don't want to pay $300 a year for a security certificate, even if they pay for an expensive security system to be written.
As for secure FTP, some people don't want to download a separate FTP client, they just want to use what is built into Windows, and I don't think that supports sFTP. You also have to pay for a cert.
Something very similar is how I broke my phone. it hit really hard on the edge of a desk or something when it was in my pocket. The screen was even protected by a SD to CF converter, just happened to be between the screen and what ever it hit. The SD to CF converter was trashed and so was the screen on my phone. My phone was not unbreakable.
I seem to recall that there are a few ISPs that are threatening to block all requests to Google sites because of the bandwidth that is being used. I think it stands to reason that the reason Google is running an free DNS is so that people can still access their sites, no matter what their ISP does.
The price of Office 2007 for most people actually isn't that high, but I know quite a few of non-tech people that have spent twice the amount to get a version of Office that they find easy to use and works. Office 2003.
Many of my tech friends and I just use OpenOffice. Though at work I am forced to use Office 2007. I will admit, the more I use Word 2007 and Excel 2007, the more painful it becomes and it was pretty painful to start with.
Garrido was on parole when he kidnapped Jaycee Dugard, and he was still on parole 18 years later when they found out he kidnapped and was raping her.
For 18 years she was in his back yard and the parole officers regularly visited him.
If that can happen by someone who is being watched by the law, why would illegal work camps surprise you?
Of course with the number of countries that have tried and convicted Scientology of many different crimes, why they aren't watched closer by the law in the US I don't know.
In Canada they are listed as a Criminal Organization. Sometimes our laws don't work, but I am sure glad when they do.
Where I lived most people got Netscape as part of their internet package, so from most of the consumer's perspective it was free.
I think more the fact that they provided it on the OS disk, then later force installed it had more to do with the reason why it became the dominant browser. That and Microsoft paying companies to make intranet solutions that only worked on IE.
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There are many things that identify things about the camera you use. As previously mentioned the EXIF data, though that can be easily removed. If they have access to multiple images from the same camera they can figure out the Noise Signature and link it back to your camera. Smudges on the lens. Some of these are talked about in the link below.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Avoiding-Camera-Noise-Signatures/
Also the capture pattern and compression artifacts can give away the manufacturer and usually model of camera used to take the picture. Some of these marking survive re-compression, but mostly disappear with resizing down.
They mocked the Xbox 360 because it could only play select games from the previous generation. New PS3s only play some games from the PS1 days and none from the PS2 unless you have older hardware.
They touted the PS3 as a computer, you can even install a full OS. When they removed the Other OS option for the PS3 slim they promised that it would remain in the older systems. No Other OS on any system anymore, even the ones they promised not to remove it from.
They mocked Xbox 360 for having to pay for gold membership, saying see our online service is free. Now we are getting PSN "Gold".
They lie about why the Sixaxis controller doesn't have rumble, saying it isn't needed. Then tote what a great feature it is when the Dualshock 3 controller comes out.
They lie, and lie, and lie and lie. How are we supposed to trust anything they say anymore?
For the record, I do not own an Xbox 360, nor do I plan to ever buy a console from Microsoft again. With the way things are going, I might just never buy a console ever again.
As time goes on, more store bought PS3 games will also require you to update your firmware, they will even provide the minimum supported version on disk "for your convenience." Don't think just because you don't go on the PSN that you are safe to keep buying games.
Firefox since the beginning for me has been a bad joke. Things like trying to remove the inline auto-complete make it so that I have to click more to get to what I want. I get repetitive strain injury every once in a while and I found with Firefox it got worse. Fortunately for those of us who value our hands there is Seamonkey, an easy, feature rich interface that allows us to do what we want.
Two times where Quantum Fireballs live up to their name. The flyback on one of my monitors blew making a popping sound, then smoke started coming out of the top. I have watched a power line inside the computer glow red hot and ignite it's outer casing. Also smoke suddenly coming from a power supply that had lit on fire internally.
I was going to say I've never seen a computer spark, but there was this one time that the positioning of variable DC voltage power transformer and a monitor was creating a strong magnetic field. I accidentally dropped the monitor cable onto the outside aluminum case of the transformer and it blew the thin layer of metal off part of the monitor cable creating quite the white light. The VGA plug had a thin layer of metal for some strange reason.
Who, oh who decided that having a sound every time you clicked on an item in the start menu? One of the first things I turn off on a new installation of Windows.
Also on my Palm every button or item clicked by default had an annoying tapping sound. Fortunately it can be turned off.
Nokia on the N900 has a clicking sound for the menus that can be turned off. It also has the ability to turn on a clicking sound for every key you press.
So while it is annoying, it is definitely in use today.
Wasn't "yeah!" supposed to be "you!"
I already have a ban on Ubisoft for their draconian DRM scheme. This is on top of their lazy console ports they have been doing for years and I guess add no game manuals on top of that.
I'm a firm believer in vote with your wallet. I have voted Die Ubisoft DIE, but it will only work if other agree with me.
Some games require access to the PSN. In my case Warhawk, I'm sure Unreal Tournament 3 does as well. Either way is a partial bricking of your machine, either you loose access to parts, or full games if you don't upgrade, or you loose the option for Other OS. The PS3 was marketed as a computer, Sony was very adamant about this and now they have made these claims false advertising.
IBM's Power chips make up the main processor(s) for the Xbox360 and PS3, so are you saying that the Itanium will end up in multiple consoles found in millions of homes?
They've never "integrated" anything into their OS just to take out competition. Never made proprietary extensions to standards and patented them so no-one else can inter-operate with them. Never changed interfaces to standard libraries causing old programs to not work so people have to buy the latest Microsoft product. Never removed features through software updates. Never came up with crappy new APIs just to force people to upgrade other programs when they update this one program over here. Never bought out competition and destroyed all the source code and copies of the program not sold to consumers. Never stole other company's source code and integrated it into their own. Of course the original Xbox used a standard USB interface. No control over add-on hardware for the Xbox360.
All the above is true isn't it? Oh wait, there's multiple examples where they did just the opposite of everything listed above.
As a programmer, I am sick and tired of the anti-consumer crap Microsoft is constantly pulling. Have you ever had an update to the OS that has broken some functionality to software that you use and Microsoft blames it on the developer? Chances are that company programmed it according to the Microsoft recommendation, just Microsoft went and changed that recommendation, sometimes not providing any officially supported way of doing it anymore.
One example is out web site creates Excel files. The official supported method of doing this was to use the Excel Interop object. Then Microsoft came out with a patch to Windows Server 2003 that didn't allow this to work anymore unless you turned off a whole bunch of security and that wasn't recommended. After that patch there was no official way to do what we were doing, but we had been doing it the official, supported, recommended Microsoft way before the patch.
Really all Microsoft cares about it power. It is willing to loose a lot of money for that power. Heck they told the DOJ where they could shove the settlement they came to. I know during the DOJ trial Microsoft was going out of their way to do things illegally just to tell the DOJ that they are above the law, and they proved they are. Consumers, they are just play things. I know the external beta test team for Vista was saying that the OS wasn't even close to ready to be shipped. Of course they were ignored.
Hello ****,
We apologize for any inconvenience that you may be experiencing with the removal of the Other OS feature in the next update for the PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update. If you do update to the 3.21 on your PlayStation(R)3 system you will not be able to use the hard disk partitions used by the other operating system. The data saved in these partitions cannot be restored after the system software has been updated. You will need to back up all data to storage media before updating the system software. You may need to format the Hard Disc Drive to get the partition back.
If you choose to not update your PS3 system you will not be able to do the following:
The ability to sign in to PlayStation®Network and use network features that require signing in to PlayStation Network, such as online features of PS3 games and chat.
Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later.
Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings).
Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later.
Regards, ****
There is no reason to hack the PS3 other than for piracy? So the fact that they lock out some of the SPUs so that only Sony sanctioned software can benefit from the whole power of the console wouldn't also be a reason to hack it. Also I know a number of hackers that have no intention of pirating software, they hack things for the challenge.
Also, this isn't hurting the pirates at all, only the customers that paid for this computer which has been turned into just a console. Sony advertised it as a computer, and even that you could install another OS. They are taking away my computer!
In our local newspaper I keep reading about someone was speeding and swerved off the road killing a child. Person was speeding and ran over an old man crossing at a cross walk. Person was speeding and ran into a pole. Person was speeding and drove into a living room. Person was speeding and killed the driver and passenger of another car.
Then the article goes on to talk about the speeding plague for paragraphs. Most of these involve the person not going straight on a straight road and then one of the last lines usually says that the person was drunk out of his gourd.
What was more the problem, that he was speeding, or that he was piss drunk? Well obviously it was that he was speeding.
Apple has always been a cutthroat company under Steve Jobs. Be it competitors, customers, or even themselves (Apple Computer vs Mac). Bill Gates credits Steve Jobs for teaching him how to run a company in his book.
So it isn't Apple is the new Microsoft, it is just Apple up to their normal evil ways. Some people have just put them on so high a pedestal that they keep missing the knifes in their back weather they are slowly worked in there or are being stabbed really quickly.
That being said, Microsoft is still evil.
This solution uses two 3.5 inch drive bays in your computer, one for your large platter drive, the other for the caddy with a SSD drive.
Some software is installed (Windows only) that makes the two drives look like one.
The most used files from the large drive are copies to the smaller SSD drive. When files cached on the SSD drive are requested, they are read from there, if they do not exist there the request is passed onto the bigger drive. If the file is being used enough it will be copied to the SSD drive at the same time as the information is getting sent to the computer. You will not get SSD drive speeds in this case.
Yes, this is just using a SSD drive as a cache.
The product does not come with SSD storage, you have to buy a SSD drive of your choosing as well as this caddy.
I've been following this project for a long time and I'm not sure if this is still on the site or not, but back near the beginning of the project they looked at using the Win32 subsystem that was in Wine. At the time it was very basic, directly hooked into X and was using many hacks and things that made the use of the Wine code unfeasible. In about a month ReactOS had a better Win32 subsystem than Wine did.
At some point a group of developers working on the Wine project decided to toss the old Win32 implementation and properly implement it abstracting out the interfaces to X. Since Wine has more developers, they were able to find more that were willing to work on the Wine32 subsystem and it is now a lot better than ReactOS's. Basically they've taken a look, saw how much better Wine's implementation is now and decided to switch to it.
As for the already shares code part, ReactOS from the start used as many wine components as possible to give them a good start on their implementation. Every once in a while on the updates you'd see listed that the wine components had been synced back into the project. It comes down to that in ReactOS they need to talk to actual hardware, where Wine talks to X and POSIX.
As odd as it may sound, there are many companies willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year on maintaining and making changes to their web site, but some of these don't want to pay $300 a year for a security certificate, even if they pay for an expensive security system to be written.
As for secure FTP, some people don't want to download a separate FTP client, they just want to use what is built into Windows, and I don't think that supports sFTP. You also have to pay for a cert.
Something very similar is how I broke my phone. it hit really hard on the edge of a desk or something when it was in my pocket. The screen was even protected by a SD to CF converter, just happened to be between the screen and what ever it hit. The SD to CF converter was trashed and so was the screen on my phone. My phone was not unbreakable.
There is the Dance of Joy from Angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t20KguJbanA&NR=1
I seem to recall that there are a few ISPs that are threatening to block all requests to Google sites because of the bandwidth that is being used. I think it stands to reason that the reason Google is running an free DNS is so that people can still access their sites, no matter what their ISP does.
*off original topic*
The price of Office 2007 for most people actually isn't that high, but I know quite a few of non-tech people that have spent twice the amount to get a version of Office that they find easy to use and works. Office 2003.
Many of my tech friends and I just use OpenOffice. Though at work I am forced to use Office 2007. I will admit, the more I use Word 2007 and Excel 2007, the more painful it becomes and it was pretty painful to start with.
Garrido was on parole when he kidnapped Jaycee Dugard, and he was still on parole 18 years later when they found out he kidnapped and was raping her.
For 18 years she was in his back yard and the parole officers regularly visited him.
If that can happen by someone who is being watched by the law, why would illegal work camps surprise you?
Of course with the number of countries that have tried and convicted Scientology of many different crimes, why they aren't watched closer by the law in the US I don't know.
In Canada they are listed as a Criminal Organization. Sometimes our laws don't work, but I am sure glad when they do.
We have the 24-Hours newspaper that is free and I find it a good source of information. Before the free newspaper I got all my news online.
Where I lived most people got Netscape as part of their internet package, so from most of the consumer's perspective it was free.
I think more the fact that they provided it on the OS disk, then later force installed it had more to do with the reason why it became the dominant browser. That and Microsoft paying companies to make intranet solutions that only worked on IE.