Great, something that I have to unmount before I can ask it to eject. It'll then mysteriously want it back, despite it being blank, every time I open another program.
I tried running with Javascript disabled. Five years ago you could get away with it. Now so many sites, especially with jQuery being so pervasive, simply don't work with JS disabled or you get an ugly broken thing.
I hear the claim, "Well you can run it on trusted sites". What has the site done to earn my trust? Why couldn't a malicious site appear interesting enough to prompt you to turn JS on and thus be attacked. Only a little social engineering can defeat NoScript. Whitelisted sites can become compromised as well.
Like you, after watching the last season of BSG there is no way I could ever tolerate watching another series written by the same people. In fact, if I ever see "from the writers of Battlestar Galactica" in an advertisement I would see it as a good indication that I probably don't want to watch the show.
I was very let down by the series. It started out great, season 2 was even better, season 3 started the downhill trend but I held hope because the first two seasons were so good but I was sadly mistaken.
Basically it just crowds out until the tabs are rendered useless then if helpfully puts scroll arrows after you can't read what's inside the tab anymore.
I see posts here about people saying that if a snack product was sold as "up to X amount" that wouldn't fly for consumers.
Of course it wouldn't. If I buy a bag of M&Ms (they happen to be sitting in front of me) it's very easy for Mars Inc. to work out that the bag has 200g in side of it (give or take a gram). If it is 194g, well throw another candy coated nut in it. Ah, 200.5g. Close enough.
Selling access to something that is mostly beyond your control is foolish to try and actually guarantee a speed.. It's like building a wind turbine and being annoyed that it isn't producing the advertised 6.5MW of power on a calm day.
Now what I would like to see would be a standardized speed test that they would be forced to post as an average and make that the big wording. "7.5Mbps AVERAGE* *Average speed may vary, maximum speed of 15Mbps."
Our domain was up for renewal in September. In July we get a letter from Domain Registry of Canada (Domain Registry of America is their US version). Looking like a normal and official bill, the boss paid it by VISA despite it being nearly 10x what a domain registrar should be charging. The next day I'm going through the paperwork and find the DROC invoice. I'm baffled because they are not our domain registrar. First thing I do is call our real company and confirm that the domain is still locked. I also renewed at the time just to make sure. I then called DROC and after a few minutes on hold I was assured that the charge was cancelled. I contacted VISA the next day and was informed that the charge had been cancelled. They seemed to be pretty routine and mechanical about cancelling people though I imagine a few people never realized they had been suckered.
I tried using NoScript for about a month but stopped using it. Often times I would run into a website that was just broken for some reason. Couldn't click on the links, missing elements, no navigation menus, etc. Yes I could just back out of these sites and go elsewhere but a few of them I simply don't have a choice. I have to use the site.
A result of this, I permit the site to run JS. I thought, gee why couldn't a malicious site just look innocent and make it appear that you NEED JS to do anything on the page causing NoScript users to give them permission.
There are also some nice things you can do with JS. While these are low priority compared to some of the risks with javascript it can make some sites a bit nicer to deal with. Yes, there are safer ways to do this stuff but you don't have a choice.
Master of Orion: MOO 1 & 2 were great but 3 was horrible. There are clones out there but they are about as fun as compiling a kernel.
Turrican: The Amiga version of Turrican II was one of the better games made for the system. A 3D version was being created but was abandoned by Factor 5. We don't need another FPS version but I would love to see Turrican II remade or extended using the look of a game like Trine.
X-Wing / Tie Fighter: Space flight combat is great and there are still games being made, even MMOs like Jumpgate Evolution yet I would love to see X-Wing rendered with modern graphics and not using a MIDI sound track. Network play would be a welcome addition too. Co-op or VS where your goal is to protect a frigate while the opposition has to destroy it.
You are right, BD-R is far too expensive. $114 for 10x50GB Disks. They are 4x so my whole primary partition would take just under 4.5 hours to backup including swapping discs.
Or I can write to my $85 1TB external drive sitting in a $30 eSATA enclosure for the same cost but in about 3 hours with no swapping.
BD-R DL is WAY too expensive and clumsy to be a viable solution. If the disks were 250GB and 500GB it might be reasonable even with the cost premium but not as they are.
The site I run is attractive to older crowds so I expect it to move with the speed of frozen molassas. Here are some numbers with a sum total of all versions for each: May 2009 MSIE: 70% Firefox: 23% Safari: 6% Chrome: Just shy of 1% Opera: 8 users. Lynx: 1 - Who the heck is that?
Most DVD players will accept pushing "Menu" at any time and just jump to the disc menu and thus skip the unskippable stuff. I say most as my roommate's JVC DVD player won't allow it but my Sony does.
I purchased a S9 only a week ago. The screen is indeed quite good. I would love for it to be just a little brighter but it's pretty close to perfect. Blacks are black and the colour doesn't shift at all while tilting it thanks to the AMOLED screen.
When I saw the Zune HD I thought "Huh, it's a S9 with a HD radio tuner and more restrictions on media". I wonder how the battery life is, the S9 is unreal. I've played just shy of 10 hours of divx media on it. I've not tested the audio life but people claim that it is 5x longer than video.
With the worries of security I'm shocked at the number of people that use 4 digits for a bank PIN. Mine varies between 10 to 14 digits. Yes I change it every-so-often. I believe the limit on Plus / Interac compatible banks is 16 digits.
I used to work at a coffeeshop and at least 85% of the customers used a 4 digit pin. I know this because the pad went BLEEP for every key push. Just count the bleeps.
I played WoW a lot. To the point of being unhealthy a few times. How did I get away from it? I cheated.
MMOs are hard to cheat at but a friend an I found a world emulator that was about 95% accurate. We spent the next week going everywhere, doing everything, getting everything. We made custom weapons/armour that made us walking gods. We set Illidan in a duel with Ragnaros. We swapped models so that we looked like Magmadar or C'Thun.
After a while we got bored and tried the normal game. It sucked. We couldn't one-shot things. Gold took hours/days to accumulate. Everything just seemed so tedious.
I went for three months without playing. I picked up WotLK and played for a week and got bored. I uninstalled it and haven't thought about it since.
Bandwidth wasn't an issue at all for the downloads. The product key and website side of it was. I downloaded the 64bit client from Microsoft at noon yesterday in the middle of the feeding frenzy and still pulled it down at 1200KB/s which is the cap on my connection.
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Trust this man, he speaks from experience.
Great, something that I have to unmount before I can ask it to eject. It'll then mysteriously want it back, despite it being blank, every time I open another program.
I tried running with Javascript disabled. Five years ago you could get away with it. Now so many sites, especially with jQuery being so pervasive, simply don't work with JS disabled or you get an ugly broken thing.
I hear the claim, "Well you can run it on trusted sites". What has the site done to earn my trust? Why couldn't a malicious site appear interesting enough to prompt you to turn JS on and thus be attacked. Only a little social engineering can defeat NoScript. Whitelisted sites can become compromised as well.
Like you, after watching the last season of BSG there is no way I could ever tolerate watching another series written by the same people. In fact, if I ever see "from the writers of Battlestar Galactica" in an advertisement I would see it as a good indication that I probably don't want to watch the show.
I was very let down by the series. It started out great, season 2 was even better, season 3 started the downhill trend but I held hope because the first two seasons were so good but I was sadly mistaken.
It handles multiple tabs about as poorly as you can expect it to. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/inside-internet-explorer-9-redmond-gets-back-in-the-game.ars/2 (scroll about 1/2 way down)
Basically it just crowds out until the tabs are rendered useless then if helpfully puts scroll arrows after you can't read what's inside the tab anymore.
I see posts here about people saying that if a snack product was sold as "up to X amount" that wouldn't fly for consumers.
Of course it wouldn't. If I buy a bag of M&Ms (they happen to be sitting in front of me) it's very easy for Mars Inc. to work out that the bag has 200g in side of it (give or take a gram). If it is 194g, well throw another candy coated nut in it. Ah, 200.5g. Close enough.
Selling access to something that is mostly beyond your control is foolish to try and actually guarantee a speed.. It's like building a wind turbine and being annoyed that it isn't producing the advertised 6.5MW of power on a calm day.
Now what I would like to see would be a standardized speed test that they would be forced to post as an average and make that the big wording. "7.5Mbps AVERAGE* *Average speed may vary, maximum speed of 15Mbps."
Our domain was up for renewal in September. In July we get a letter from Domain Registry of Canada (Domain Registry of America is their US version). Looking like a normal and official bill, the boss paid it by VISA despite it being nearly 10x what a domain registrar should be charging. The next day I'm going through the paperwork and find the DROC invoice. I'm baffled because they are not our domain registrar. First thing I do is call our real company and confirm that the domain is still locked. I also renewed at the time just to make sure. I then called DROC and after a few minutes on hold I was assured that the charge was cancelled. I contacted VISA the next day and was informed that the charge had been cancelled. They seemed to be pretty routine and mechanical about cancelling people though I imagine a few people never realized they had been suckered.
Was this your fifth cat, or was it Cat 6?
Did you properly terminate Cat 6 at the end?
I tried using NoScript for about a month but stopped using it. Often times I would run into a website that was just broken for some reason. Couldn't click on the links, missing elements, no navigation menus, etc. Yes I could just back out of these sites and go elsewhere but a few of them I simply don't have a choice. I have to use the site.
A result of this, I permit the site to run JS. I thought, gee why couldn't a malicious site just look innocent and make it appear that you NEED JS to do anything on the page causing NoScript users to give them permission.
There are also some nice things you can do with JS. While these are low priority compared to some of the risks with javascript it can make some sites a bit nicer to deal with. Yes, there are safer ways to do this stuff but you don't have a choice.
Master of Orion: MOO 1 & 2 were great but 3 was horrible. There are clones out there but they are about as fun as compiling a kernel.
Turrican: The Amiga version of Turrican II was one of the better games made for the system. A 3D version was being created but was abandoned by Factor 5. We don't need another FPS version but I would love to see Turrican II remade or extended using the look of a game like Trine.
X-Wing / Tie Fighter: Space flight combat is great and there are still games being made, even MMOs like Jumpgate Evolution yet I would love to see X-Wing rendered with modern graphics and not using a MIDI sound track. Network play would be a welcome addition too. Co-op or VS where your goal is to protect a frigate while the opposition has to destroy it.
Kudos to the mod that labeled this "Funny".
You are right, BD-R is far too expensive. $114 for 10x50GB Disks. They are 4x so my whole primary partition would take just under 4.5 hours to backup including swapping discs.
Or I can write to my $85 1TB external drive sitting in a $30 eSATA enclosure for the same cost but in about 3 hours with no swapping.
BD-R DL is WAY too expensive and clumsy to be a viable solution. If the disks were 250GB and 500GB it might be reasonable even with the cost premium but not as they are.
I can never seem to see lunar craters correctly. They always look like domes to me.
The site I run is attractive to older crowds so I expect it to move with the speed of frozen molassas. Here are some numbers with a sum total of all versions for each:
May 2009
MSIE: 70%
Firefox: 23%
Safari: 6%
Chrome: Just shy of 1%
Opera: 8 users.
Lynx: 1 - Who the heck is that?
June 2009
MSIE: 69%
Firefox: 24%
Rest unchanged.
Most DVD players will accept pushing "Menu" at any time and just jump to the disc menu and thus skip the unskippable stuff. I say most as my roommate's JVC DVD player won't allow it but my Sony does.
I purchased a S9 only a week ago. The screen is indeed quite good. I would love for it to be just a little brighter but it's pretty close to perfect. Blacks are black and the colour doesn't shift at all while tilting it thanks to the AMOLED screen.
When I saw the Zune HD I thought "Huh, it's a S9 with a HD radio tuner and more restrictions on media". I wonder how the battery life is, the S9 is unreal. I've played just shy of 10 hours of divx media on it. I've not tested the audio life but people claim that it is 5x longer than video.
With the worries of security I'm shocked at the number of people that use 4 digits for a bank PIN. Mine varies between 10 to 14 digits. Yes I change it every-so-often. I believe the limit on Plus / Interac compatible banks is 16 digits.
I used to work at a coffeeshop and at least 85% of the customers used a 4 digit pin. I know this because the pad went BLEEP for every key push. Just count the bleeps.
I played WoW a lot. To the point of being unhealthy a few times. How did I get away from it? I cheated.
MMOs are hard to cheat at but a friend an I found a world emulator that was about 95% accurate. We spent the next week going everywhere, doing everything, getting everything. We made custom weapons/armour that made us walking gods. We set Illidan in a duel with Ragnaros. We swapped models so that we looked like Magmadar or C'Thun.
After a while we got bored and tried the normal game. It sucked. We couldn't one-shot things. Gold took hours/days to accumulate. Everything just seemed so tedious.
I went for three months without playing. I picked up WotLK and played for a week and got bored. I uninstalled it and haven't thought about it since.
Install
Disable "Start Navigation Sound" (WHY MS? WHY DO YOU KEEP THIS ON?)
Unhide known extensions
Unhide system files
Two BIG reasons why a phone will never kill a remote.
Phone: Needs charged every 2-3 days.
Remote: Needs new batteries every 12-18 months.
Phone: People often take phones with them to places like work, thus taking your 'remote'.
Remote: Why on Earth would you take a remote to work?
Steel wool works great but isn't advised for long term use. It is flammable and if it gets wet it rusts and makes a nasty mess.
Copper wool costs more but is just as effective with the benefit that spark won't ignite it and when it gets wet it basically stays the same.
Laden or unladen?
Better yet, we'll sell you guys Quebec.
Wow, good job CRTC.
My telemarketing calls went from about 2 a week to 6+. Good thing I'm rarely home and they get the answering machine instead.
Hah.
Bandwidth wasn't an issue at all for the downloads. The product key and website side of it was. I downloaded the 64bit client from Microsoft at noon yesterday in the middle of the feeding frenzy and still pulled it down at 1200KB/s which is the cap on my connection.
A torrent would not have solved it yesterday.