I've had numerous IDE hard disk failures, yet not a single data tape failure so far.
You speak of not having tape failures, but you omit one important fact; how many times have you successfully retrieved data from tape?
IDE disks will fail from continual use, and that failure will generally be obvious, but what way do you have of knowing that you genuinely don't have any tape failures, if all you are doing is rewriting over the same tapes?
Yup, it's like the KFC guy, a pretty face for the public, but no one is really sure if he is real or not!
But that's my point, our political systems have long since abandoned the idea of deciding the winner on basis of the candidates ability. Whoever has the biggest campaign (i.e. funds) will win. This has been proven consistently in the US elections, I've not seen the UK figures, but I'm sure they'll follow the same trend.
Any attempt to suggest otherwise is propaganda for the status quo. You'll see them slash away at our freedoms, while saying they are defending freedom. They really have most of the population thinking that their form of "democracy" is a good thing. It's plainly not, the interests of the masses are not important to them.
What worries me is Bush is a spokesman for a group that no one really wants running the world...Big Business. Especially when their business involves oil, which is the cause of most of the worlds international problems....
created an economic and political system that values knowledge and ability rather than seniority
Delusional rubbish. Our economic and political systems are based around two things:
How much money you have
Who you have the ear of
With the two of these at your side, you can change the law if neccessary to achieve your goals. If knowledge and ability are important, how can you explain George W Bush?
What interests me is that I've always thought this was quite a "western" mentality, grounded in materialism and greed. Are the Chinese just the same?
It's a human thing. The "hunter/gatherer" drive. Successful ancestors looked after families by providing as much as possible. This instinct is still present in humans.
So, instead of gathering berries and dead animals, we download DivX.;-)
It's rubbish. It has every negative, false bullshit anti-drugs message. "White girl becomes addicted to drugs and prostitutes herself to a black man". I though that kind of racist nonsense was thrown out years ago.
I wonder how much they got paid by the pro-alcohol/anti-drug lobbies to produce this trash?
It will be like the digital downloads issue. The media companies were quite happy to continue with the status quo, making money from selling hard media. We wanted digital downloads, but they didn't provide it.
So Gnutella, Napster etc come into existence from small companies who correctly identified the demand and had nothing to lose from it's success. The big companies missed the boat, but with the help of lawyers and corrupt "campain contributions", they'll get moved onto the bridge to control the system they didn't want.
So, yes, I would not be surprised if the cable companies don't embrace this. They fear changing a business model that currently works.
We've got more freedom in this country than we've ever had, than the world has ever seen.
Excuse me? Have ever even left America before? I am sick and tired of Americans falsely believing that they have the most freedom in the world. You don't, in fact you have one of the places with the most loss of freedom in the past decade. Where on Earth did you get that misguided notion? Honestly, you are a terrible advert for your country.
What can you do that we can't? The rest of the world isn't "IN SOVIET RUSSIA..." you know. You want a free society, take a look at Europe. We're even allowed to teach about evolution in schools here...
(sorry if I've offended anyone, but this dumbass had to be set straight)
Or try "File/Save As" to get a mini-explorer file browser up. Then browse to the file you want to run, e.g. cmd.exe, right-click/"open" it, and you are away.
So "Big Brother" in this case is saying, "Make your data harder to snoop".
Only the wireless portion of it. Sooner or later your connection will go over a telcos wire, and that's where Big Brother has already installed the snooping devices...
By ensuring that only you can use your access, they know where to send the guys with the black shades should any unpatriotic material be viewed from your link. Their job would be much harder if they had to checkout everyone in a 200 meter radius of your access point;-)
My only explanation is that CNN is running someones errand.
Nothing new there. Last year, CNN ran a piece about the Palestinion/Israeli war, that aired the Palestines point of view. Israel was none to pleased and cut CNN from it's TV networks. CNN appologised, got reinstated, and to this day they haven't done any more unbiased reporting in this affair.
Anyone who relies on TV news as their primary news source is doing themselves a grave injustice. TV news is 100% about ratings. If the consumers want war and disasters, that's what the news will cover.
Generally speaking, it's good advice to try and read the news reports from different countries. It's the only way to get objective reporting that gives you the power to make up your own mind. Otherwise, you'll find yourself agreeing with the director/producer of the one local show you watch.
There's always armed revolution. Oh, wait, I forgot you leftist types don't have any guns.
History doesn't agree with you. Armed revolts generally don't go well, while peaceful protest stands a much better chance of success. Compare Waco/the Middle East to Malcolm X and Ghandi. No contest.
The same applies to car engines...a large portion of the engines workings are to remove the heat it generates. If you don't manage the heat, you get faced with an expensive repair bill.
The bonus - here is a link for a genius who wanted to water cool his cpu
Jesus! After reading on, it becomes apparent that it's not a wind up, he genuinely made his PC watertight, and filled it with water! Talk about running gung-ho into something without doing some research first!
This guy is the stuff of legends. If he had touched the case and died from the electrical shock, we'd be reading about him in the Darwin Awards!
I worked on a Compaq Laptop 6 years ago that had a heat pipe. It was solid copper, not a fluid system, but the principle the same. It's not exactly revolutionary...
Did anyone think the minefeild seemed a little out of place?
Of course not! It's a government site. The government want to us to agree to starting a war with the Iraqis. We have to be reminded how....eevil (in a Dr. Evil voice)....the Iraqis are.
might have something to do with the infiltration of the weapons inspection process by US intelligence agents
I'd assumed they were all intelligence agents. Or at least engineers trained in a lot of the techniques. If your getting into sensitive sites, you don't send folk who won't take advantage of that.
Look, I'm going to keep on asking you: Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO?
No, I do not want to upgrade to QuickTime Pro. I told you that last time. And the time before. And the next time. I will never upgrade to QuickTime Pro, it's a horrible ugly app, that can't do fullscreen video, and won't let you view in x2 zoom mode in web pages. Now, feck arfff and stop asking me every single time.
Ive always maintained that users dont need the bandwidth of Broadband
Come on, are you still running with 640k of ram then? Just because you personally aren't using the full bandwidth, I doensn't mean I don't want to.
When you say "large files", what sort of size are we talking about? On dial-up, I'd consider anything over 2 meg to be large, because it will take serveral minutes to download. I'd like to see someone use a service like E-Music on dial-up. Or p2p.
You don't have to use the full bandwidth all of the time. That patch you were needing, or that badly-designed flash website load in seconds compared to minutes on broadband. After growing up on the UK Janet academic network, then corporate networks for the last 5 years, when I first got dial-up access at home it was horrible. I barely used it. Now, I've got always on connection, full (secure) remote access to my data and media and the ability to look at web-pages without needing a stress-ball to keep me sane.
My next home move will have a broadband availabilty check on it. I'm not going back to the dark ages.
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You speak of not having tape failures, but you omit one important fact; how many times have you successfully retrieved data from tape?
IDE disks will fail from continual use, and that failure will generally be obvious, but what way do you have of knowing that you genuinely don't have any tape failures, if all you are doing is rewriting over the same tapes?
But that's my point, our political systems have long since abandoned the idea of deciding the winner on basis of the candidates ability. Whoever has the biggest campaign (i.e. funds) will win. This has been proven consistently in the US elections, I've not seen the UK figures, but I'm sure they'll follow the same trend.
Any attempt to suggest otherwise is propaganda for the status quo. You'll see them slash away at our freedoms, while saying they are defending freedom. They really have most of the population thinking that their form of "democracy" is a good thing. It's plainly not, the interests of the masses are not important to them.
What worries me is Bush is a spokesman for a group that no one really wants running the world...Big Business. Especially when their business involves oil, which is the cause of most of the worlds international problems....
"I live in China".
That way, they don't mistake you for a tourist and rip you off. (even if you are a tourist)
Ripping off tourists happens in every country. Your friend was pretty naive...I bet he didn't even barter him down to 50% of the traders asking price.
Delusional rubbish. Our economic and political systems are based around two things:
With the two of these at your side, you can change the law if neccessary to achieve your goals. If knowledge and ability are important, how can you explain George W Bush?
It's a human thing. The "hunter/gatherer" drive. Successful ancestors looked after families by providing as much as possible. This instinct is still present in humans.
So, instead of gathering berries and dead animals, we download DivX. ;-)
I wonder how much they got paid by the pro-alcohol/anti-drug lobbies to produce this trash?
So Gnutella, Napster etc come into existence from small companies who correctly identified the demand and had nothing to lose from it's success. The big companies missed the boat, but with the help of lawyers and corrupt "campain contributions", they'll get moved onto the bridge to control the system they didn't want.
So, yes, I would not be surprised if the cable companies don't embrace this. They fear changing a business model that currently works.
Excuse me? Have ever even left America before? I am sick and tired of Americans falsely believing that they have the most freedom in the world. You don't, in fact you have one of the places with the most loss of freedom in the past decade. Where on Earth did you get that misguided notion? Honestly, you are a terrible advert for your country.
What can you do that we can't? The rest of the world isn't "IN SOVIET RUSSIA..." you know. You want a free society, take a look at Europe. We're even allowed to teach about evolution in schools here...
(sorry if I've offended anyone, but this dumbass had to be set straight)
I don't know what's funnier. The election system, or our belief that we live in a democracy.
It's almost too easy...
Only the wireless portion of it. Sooner or later your connection will go over a telcos wire, and that's where Big Brother has already installed the snooping devices...
By ensuring that only you can use your access, they know where to send the guys with the black shades should any unpatriotic material be viewed from your link. Their job would be much harder if they had to checkout everyone in a 200 meter radius of your access point ;-)
Nothing new there. Last year, CNN ran a piece about the Palestinion/Israeli war, that aired the Palestines point of view. Israel was none to pleased and cut CNN from it's TV networks. CNN appologised, got reinstated, and to this day they haven't done any more unbiased reporting in this affair.
Anyone who relies on TV news as their primary news source is doing themselves a grave injustice. TV news is 100% about ratings. If the consumers want war and disasters, that's what the news will cover.
Generally speaking, it's good advice to try and read the news reports from different countries. It's the only way to get objective reporting that gives you the power to make up your own mind. Otherwise, you'll find yourself agreeing with the director/producer of the one local show you watch.
How far can you get driving without a drivers license? "Papers"? I think so...
History doesn't agree with you. Armed revolts generally don't go well, while peaceful protest stands a much better chance of success. Compare Waco/the Middle East to Malcolm X and Ghandi. No contest.
Fight back, you will get stomped on.
Oops. Too funny to be true I guess.
Has MSG always been a natural component of East Asian food, or is it a modern additive?
The same applies to car engines...a large portion of the engines workings are to remove the heat it generates. If you don't manage the heat, you get faced with an expensive repair bill.
Jesus! After reading on, it becomes apparent that it's not a wind up, he genuinely made his PC watertight, and filled it with water! Talk about running gung-ho into something without doing some research first!
This guy is the stuff of legends. If he had touched the case and died from the electrical shock, we'd be reading about him in the Darwin Awards!
I worked on a Compaq Laptop 6 years ago that had a heat pipe. It was solid copper, not a fluid system, but the principle the same. It's not exactly revolutionary...
Of course not! It's a government site. The government want to us to agree to starting a war with the Iraqis. We have to be reminded how....eevil (in a Dr. Evil voice)....the Iraqis are.
I'd assumed they were all intelligence agents. Or at least engineers trained in a lot of the techniques. If your getting into sensitive sites, you don't send folk who won't take advantage of that.
In other news, the US govenment demands greater speeding punishments for the users of the German Autobahn, where there are no speed limits....
Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
Look, I'm going to keep on asking you: Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
Would you like to upgrade to QuickTime Pro?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO?
No, I do not want to upgrade to QuickTime Pro. I told you that last time. And the time before. And the next time. I will never upgrade to QuickTime Pro, it's a horrible ugly app, that can't do fullscreen video, and won't let you view in x2 zoom mode in web pages. Now, feck arfff and stop asking me every single time.
Or, throw ropes out of both windows, tie them together at ground level, then you have your link.
Typical slashdot, see a problem, get excited about solving it! ;-)
Come on, are you still running with 640k of ram then? Just because you personally aren't using the full bandwidth, I doensn't mean I don't want to.
When you say "large files", what sort of size are we talking about? On dial-up, I'd consider anything over 2 meg to be large, because it will take serveral minutes to download. I'd like to see someone use a service like E-Music on dial-up. Or p2p.
You don't have to use the full bandwidth all of the time. That patch you were needing, or that badly-designed flash website load in seconds compared to minutes on broadband. After growing up on the UK Janet academic network, then corporate networks for the last 5 years, when I first got dial-up access at home it was horrible. I barely used it. Now, I've got always on connection, full (secure) remote access to my data and media and the ability to look at web-pages without needing a stress-ball to keep me sane.
My next home move will have a broadband availabilty check on it. I'm not going back to the dark ages.