Or better yet. Use Linux which doesn't understand autoplay 'features'.
Personally, CDs stay in my PC just long enough to turn into MP3s. The CD is then retired to a dusty bookshelf.
Not quite. Stores would love to charge the highest dollar they can to each consumer. The reason why internet based price lists make WalMart, et al. unhappy is it erodes the regional price descrimination that a company can excersize.
WarMarts in California might charge $5.97 for a beachball and sell 10,000. While WalMart in Alaska might charge $1.97 and only sell 100. There is only a small market for beachballs in Alaska while there is a large demand for them in California. Where a company gets pissed off is when a Californian can look on the web and see that a store in Alaska sells the balls for $1.97 so they don't want to pay more than $1.97 even though they were previously willing to pay $5.97 before they were informed of the lower price.
In case you are wondering, this is also why there are regions on DVDs.
I have a personal rule when it comes to upgrades.
Any upgrade must provide at approximatly 2x more speed/space, repair a damaged component, or provide a wanted feature that cannot be obtained in any other way.
I've gone from upgrading every six months to almost every two years now. 100MHz speed jumps don't mean a heck of a lot when you have a 2Ghz CPU.
CPU history:
386DX33 > 486DX2 66 > P120 > P233 > Celeron 300 (OCed to 450) > Duron 750 > XP2400 (OCed to 2266MHz)
http://www.proxomitron.org/ can be used to nuke the javascript before it even starts. I don't know how robust it is against this exploit but it stops the demo on Neohapsis
Just add this to the patterns section of the config file:
Name = "Detect new IE exploit" Active = TRUE Bounds = "" Limit = 5000 Match = "*(showHelp \(|" "880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11)*" Replace = "WARNING: MSIE exploit attempted"
The Proxomitron can also stop any type of pop-up as well.
P.S. I didn't come up with that filter, a guest on Computer Cops did.
This might be sad, but I actually know someone who did that.
His door to his bedroom looked just like a door from the origional series and even made the noise.
He had a touch panel on the wall that was behind painted plexiglas that set his light level and he had a captian's chair.
This was about nine years ago.
Here you can let the cableguy do the software install or you can do it yourself and save $100.
I asked how many people do self installs. He said about 5%. He prefers them because it takes 10 minutes to do an install while full installs can go from 15 mintues of installing software to hours for real dumb people.
He told me about one woman who had to phone her husband because she was scared to let the guy open up her PC to install a 10BaseT card.
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Or better yet. Use Linux which doesn't understand autoplay 'features'. Personally, CDs stay in my PC just long enough to turn into MP3s. The CD is then retired to a dusty bookshelf.
I wonder what the SI unit of a CDRW is? Is my $75 40x really worth 2.7 $40 16x CDRWs? If so, could I sell my drive as 2.7 drives on eBay and get $108?
I don't understand why they felt the need to inflat an already large figure. Even 156 drives is a freaking large amount of drives.
Not quite. Stores would love to charge the highest dollar they can to each consumer. The reason why internet based price lists make WalMart, et al. unhappy is it erodes the regional price descrimination that a company can excersize.
WarMarts in California might charge $5.97 for a beachball and sell 10,000. While WalMart in Alaska might charge $1.97 and only sell 100. There is only a small market for beachballs in Alaska while there is a large demand for them in California. Where a company gets pissed off is when a Californian can look on the web and see that a store in Alaska sells the balls for $1.97 so they don't want to pay more than $1.97 even though they were previously willing to pay $5.97 before they were informed of the lower price.
In case you are wondering, this is also why there are regions on DVDs.
I have a personal rule when it comes to upgrades. Any upgrade must provide at approximatly 2x more speed/space, repair a damaged component, or provide a wanted feature that cannot be obtained in any other way. I've gone from upgrading every six months to almost every two years now. 100MHz speed jumps don't mean a heck of a lot when you have a 2Ghz CPU. CPU history: 386DX33 > 486DX2 66 > P120 > P233 > Celeron 300 (OCed to 450) > Duron 750 > XP2400 (OCed to 2266MHz)
http://www.proxomitron.org/ can be used to nuke the javascript before it even starts. I don't know how robust it is against this exploit but it stops the demo on Neohapsis
Just add this to the patterns section of the config file:
Name = "Detect new IE exploit"
Active = TRUE
Bounds = ""
Limit = 5000
Match = "*(showHelp \(|"
"880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11)*"
Replace = "WARNING: MSIE exploit attempted"
The Proxomitron can also stop any type of pop-up as well.
P.S. I didn't come up with that filter, a guest on Computer Cops did.
This might be sad, but I actually know someone who did that. His door to his bedroom looked just like a door from the origional series and even made the noise. He had a touch panel on the wall that was behind painted plexiglas that set his light level and he had a captian's chair. This was about nine years ago.
Here you can let the cableguy do the software install or you can do it yourself and save $100. I asked how many people do self installs. He said about 5%. He prefers them because it takes 10 minutes to do an install while full installs can go from 15 mintues of installing software to hours for real dumb people. He told me about one woman who had to phone her husband because she was scared to let the guy open up her PC to install a 10BaseT card.