there is really no way of tracking data along with any existing image format as you can strip the data from them very easily (jpgs etc) and they werent designed to do that, the only way this would work is if there is a *PROPRIETARY* file extension which has unknown inner workings for the sake of making it next to tamper proof and making it unreadable by anything but specific software designed to 'modify' the image in pre-approved ways..
addiction is not an easily defined term because its rarely used properly and theres different types of addiction.. Surprising (or not) to many people, is many drugs are not whatsoever addicting in any different sense that entertainment is addiction.. in other words.. its something that you believe is fun to do... physical addiction is another animal completely.. your body starts to 'normalize' with the drug in it, and without the drug you suffer withdrawal symptoms.. withdrawal symptoms are also not directly porportionate to how addictive the drug is (another misconception).. believe it or not.. cigarettes are basically more addictive or as addictive as any illegal drug physically..
now.. defining who is a 'psycho-active' addict is not entirely simple.
conventional methods say
1. can this person function in society? if yes then
2. is there behavior considered normal? if yes then
3. is prolonged use harmful to personal health? if no then - "this is not psycho-actively addictive
obviously some large flaws in it.. many people that dont have obsessive addictions and rather suffer from mental disorders *still* cannot function in society.. so its not as if addiction is the only downfall.. 2 normal changes constantly and is rather dynamic.. chances are msot people *arent* normal even if you set their personal addictions aside. 3. Personal health is all relative to what you do i suppose.. spending countless hours behind a computer is not physically healthy and using drugs sure isnt either, but then again... a lot of stuff is *not* healthy that we dont commonly associate with addiction (over-eating... being blatantly lazy etc.)
so a better way to "classify" addictions is just by asking *THIS* simple question?
Has the activity you are engaging in failed to provide what it was originally intended for (stress release usually, mileage may vary.) and instead actually adding to your stress load (or whatever else the case may be)... in this case.. you are definetely suffering from addiction.. ultimately all but the most hopeless addicts can determine whether or not their 'addiction (as most would refer to it as)' has become a problem...
the people sitting behind there machines rationalizing the fact that addiction is completely irrational are probably being hypocritical to the extreme.. find somebody without some type of abnormal behavior and.. ill give you a cookie..
www.paypalsucks.com I didn't believe this until my friend who had $600.00 in a paypal account frozen. They requested he faxed some documents, and after that was done, they claimed it was 'unreadable' (which it most certainly was not)... PayPal is very shady, your also apt to lose money from a chargeback, people can 'dispute' charges with paypal and then the CC company refuses to pay paypal for the transaction, and in the end, the person who was supposed to end up with the money gets shorted.. as far as i know there is nothing you can at all do short of getting a lawyer... a good deal of online auctions themselves are 'at best' shady...
anti-leech is most commonly used on WareZ sites, you know the old ones, where they actually hosted the files and all you had to do is be bombarded by ads to download them? obviously this hurts these people getting something for nothing's cash flow, so its no wonder why they are now offering another service to counteract that... hah
the root of this problem lies in the simple fact that legal representation is not about equality, but rather money... Anything and everything is legal with enough money...
the music industry is willing to forsake anything and everything on their quest to stop pirates.. what they are doing.. in the end is diminishing the usefulness of CD audio. You will never be able to stop Copyright circumvention, its simply NOT possible.. sure you can curb it, but somehow i dont think these corporations will be satisfied with that..
i dont know what kind of superhuman world you people are living in, but bugs are a thing with software, its not preventable.. ever - human error will *ALWAYS* occur as long as there is a human involved, because.. simply put, we are not perfect, this can be evidenced by the fact that both open and closed source software contains bugs... Im sure microsoft will have a hotfix out within a couple days.. in the mean time your asking for trouble using MSIE... security cant be completely up to the company providing the product, and thats what these warnings are for you know..
now that you know a thief is in the area, you better be damn sure to lock the doors to your car and your house,.. all the door can do is provide the lock, they cant lock it for you (actually newer cars do, but you get the idea)
Shareaza is the only gnutella client that even uses this '2.0' protocol so im more inclined to say that its not really a new gnutella protocol but more or less an extension of the current gnutella client (apparently they didnt like the rate @ which gnutella was progressing)..
... to them, they are apparently oh so worried about whats going on on there pc and anything that presents a potential 'physical' security hole really 'freaks' them out like they actually have a bunch of people waiting to bust into there system, and they have some 'super' sensitive data on it... give me a break, and if this 'really' is the case, just dont use it, as for the rest of you, i guess your all being paranoid for the sake of being paranoid...
if you read the article they say that it can use up to 100 watts of power when you are using the chip to the utmost. That's a lot of power. Much more then the AMDs. Anyone else think that's a little extreme? I mean I'm all for more speed, but cost aside, this seems to be a huge factor in actually getting one of these systems. You also have to get a new motherboard.
For server applications it's not as useful because you can't build dense systems. Since server applications are by their very nature more multithreaded then workstation, I would imageine that they would get much hotter. You'd need a lot more cooling. Also, don't the chips SLOW DOWN automatically when they get too hot, thus negating any increase in speed you might get from them.
Notice that the new heat sink is larger as well.
Not trying to bash it, but it seems like the older chips are still going to be better until they get this whole heat issue under control. I run my system almost 24x7 like I'm sure many people on/. do so I think that running a system all the time (with SETI or whatnot) would be expensive.
thats umm.. what, the amount of power a lightbulb consumes? lol...
actually a lot of chips that are marked for sale under slower speeds can be overclocked to over 3.06 ghz using *AIR* (yes, thats right, air) cooling... needless to say rather "impressive". the new C0 stepping 1.8 ghz northwoods are very impressive overclockers, somebody reported on the overclockers.com forum a 1.7 ghz overclock on one.. thats 95% damn impressive, and on air cooling too. PIV's are great chips and very scalable, Intel probably has working chips all the way up to 4 gHz+ right now its just not as profitable for them to produce them (it would drive down the price of there current chips and create a market saturation effect... plus they obviously cost more to make due to yield rates)...
Storage Review [storagereview.com] had such a database at once upon a time. It was widely hailed as the most comprehensive database of the kind, and pretty accurate (given that "reliable collection" is an oxymoron when it comes to the net).
Then their hard drive crashed and they lost everything.
Yes, it's horribly ironic. It also struck me as really freaking idiotic that a website dedicated to storage wouldn't back up their own data. I'm not an SR regular, so I didn't follow the story that closely at the time.
As it happens, SR is now restarting the reliability database. It'll take time to get accurate data, of course, but it's better than nothing. Here's hoping they succeed.
And that this time, they have backups.
Actually i believe they did have backups i recall reading the article, its just that they were doing a backup and somehow he copied all the bad data too the backup drive?!? im not entirely sure how it happened, but to say the least, it was, indeed ironic
If your hard drive has started to show garbled characters in the BIOS at boot . . .
Um... that really is a defect, if you hard drive is corrupting your BIOS...;)
actually they are talking about the drive name being garbled, not the bios selection menu, which would make sense, considering the vendor/drive name is read off of the hard drive, now wouldnt it?
my friend has a fujitsu 20 gb that failed a couple months back he never rma'ed it though... It seems to me hard drives are getting increasingly unreliable, i Myself have had 2 20 gb western digital drives fail on me (the data was, thankfully for the most part recoverable) and an ibm 40 gig die on me too. it seems that the smaller drives last for nearly ever (my mother has a 8 gig Maxtor drive and its at least 3 years old i think but still works fine) I still have a small 1.2 gb drive that god only knows how old it is and it also still works fine... i find it at least strange
id also like to state that if your going to running something thats eating cpu cycles and you have a 2000.00 laptop surely you can afford a 200.00 (or cheaper even) power inverter so you dont have to lose cycles, point being, running photoshop on laptop battery life isnt something that its designed to do, so in one way this 'feature' is a bad thing but in another way its kind of an idiot proof way to save battery life (which should be used for stuff such as.. processing word documents, and.. processing word documents) *chuckles*
First off, my laptop's cpu does not downshift. I tell it not to. Second, its a desktop chip masquerading as a laptop chip, which causes more problems. They don't technically downshift because they're missing SpeedStep circuitry. Instead, the timer sends the CPU empty cycles every other cycle, so the processor only does work half its cycles. This effectively lowers power consumption and performance, without techincally changing the speed of operation (because the desktop processor can't change speed)
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
actually desktop cpus do downshift, i believe its called 'clock throttling' to prevent severe processor damage in the event of critical cooling failure, so it doesnt reallys save power (or at least its never been pointed out as a key feature), but it does change the cpu speed!
no need to fear.. windows has a built in crash function (ironic at that, since it seems to do it rather well itself)! their is a registry key required to enable it. after you do that type "ctrl+pause|break" great stuff!!
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can i subscribe to the 'i wanna be a hacker' club too? aww darn.. well LoL
better than snorting PCB in the morning.. i hear its just like cafffeine though.. laff
so does this mean i can turn people off !!! 0 you batard 0!! LoL
there is really no way of tracking data along with any existing image format as you can strip the data from them very easily (jpgs etc) and they werent designed to do that, the only way this would work is if there is a *PROPRIETARY* file extension which has unknown inner workings for the sake of making it next to tamper proof and making it unreadable by anything but specific software designed to 'modify' the image in pre-approved ways..
addiction is not an easily defined term because its rarely used properly and theres different types of addiction.. Surprising (or not) to many people, is many drugs are not whatsoever addicting in any different sense that entertainment is addiction.. in other words.. its something that you believe is fun to do... physical addiction is another animal completely.. your body starts to 'normalize' with the drug in it, and without the drug you suffer withdrawal symptoms.. withdrawal symptoms are also not directly porportionate to how addictive the drug is (another misconception) .. believe it or not.. cigarettes are basically more addictive or as addictive as any illegal drug physically..
now.. defining who is a 'psycho-active' addict is not entirely simple.
conventional methods say
1. can this person function in society? if yes then
2. is there behavior considered normal? if yes then
3. is prolonged use harmful to personal health? if no then - "this is not psycho-actively addictive
obviously some large flaws in it.. many people that dont have obsessive addictions and rather suffer from mental disorders *still* cannot function in society.. so its not as if addiction is the only downfall.. 2 normal changes constantly and is rather dynamic.. chances are msot people *arent* normal even if you set their personal addictions aside. 3. Personal health is all relative to what you do i suppose.. spending countless hours behind a computer is not physically healthy and using drugs sure isnt either, but then again... a lot of stuff is *not* healthy that we dont commonly associate with addiction (over-eating... being blatantly lazy etc.)
so a better way to "classify" addictions is just by asking *THIS* simple question?
Has the activity you are engaging in failed to provide what it was originally intended for (stress release usually, mileage may vary.) and instead actually adding to your stress load (or whatever else the case may be)... in this case.. you are definetely suffering from addiction.. ultimately all but the most hopeless addicts can determine whether or not their 'addiction (as most would refer to it as)' has become a problem...
the people sitting behind there machines rationalizing the fact that addiction is completely irrational are probably being hypocritical to the extreme.. find somebody without some type of abnormal behavior and .. ill give you a cookie..
www.paypalsucks.com I didn't believe this until my friend who had $600.00 in a paypal account frozen. They requested he faxed some documents, and after that was done, they claimed it was 'unreadable' (which it most certainly was not)... PayPal is very shady, your also apt to lose money from a chargeback, people can 'dispute' charges with paypal and then the CC company refuses to pay paypal for the transaction, and in the end, the person who was supposed to end up with the money gets shorted .. as far as i know there is nothing you can at all do short of getting a lawyer... a good deal of online auctions themselves are 'at best' shady...
next they are going to start 'minitaurizing' homess... Moore's law... if you can fit twice as many people in half the space? why the f*ck not?
anti-leech is most commonly used on WareZ sites, you know the old ones, where they actually hosted the files and all you had to do is be bombarded by ads to download them? obviously this hurts these people getting something for nothing's cash flow, so its no wonder why they are now offering another service to counteract that... hah
the root of this problem lies in the simple fact that legal representation is not about equality, but rather money... Anything and everything is legal with enough money...
the music industry is willing to forsake anything and everything on their quest to stop pirates.. what they are doing .. in the end is diminishing the usefulness of CD audio. You will never be able to stop Copyright circumvention, its simply NOT possible.. sure you can curb it, but somehow i dont think these corporations will be satisfied with that..
i dont know what kind of superhuman world you people are living in, but bugs are a thing with software, its not preventable.. ever - human error will *ALWAYS* occur as long as there is a human involved, because.. simply put, we are not perfect, this can be evidenced by the fact that both open and closed source software contains bugs... Im sure microsoft will have a hotfix out within a couple days.. in the mean time your asking for trouble using MSIE... security cant be completely up to the company providing the product, and thats what these warnings are for you know.. now that you know a thief is in the area, you better be damn sure to lock the doors to your car and your house,.. all the door can do is provide the lock, they cant lock it for you (actually newer cars do, but you get the idea)
guess what.. its *almost* faster than the speed of light. well, if it wasnt light of course :)
imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... oh wait.. nvm
Shareaza is the only gnutella client that even uses this '2.0' protocol so im more inclined to say that its not really a new gnutella protocol but more or less an extension of the current gnutella client (apparently they didnt like the rate @ which gnutella was progressing)..
... to them, they are apparently oh so worried about whats going on on there pc and anything that presents a potential 'physical' security hole really 'freaks' them out like they actually have a bunch of people waiting to bust into there system, and they have some 'super' sensitive data on it... give me a break, and if this 'really' is the case, just dont use it, as for the rest of you, i guess your all being paranoid for the sake of being paranoid...
actually a lot of chips that are marked for sale under slower speeds can be overclocked to over 3.06 ghz using *AIR* (yes, thats right, air) cooling... needless to say rather "impressive". the new C0 stepping 1.8 ghz northwoods are very impressive overclockers, somebody reported on the overclockers.com forum a 1.7 ghz overclock on one.. thats 95% damn impressive, and on air cooling too. PIV's are great chips and very scalable, Intel probably has working chips all the way up to 4 gHz+ right now its just not as profitable for them to produce them (it would drive down the price of there current chips and create a market saturation effect... plus they obviously cost more to make due to yield rates)...
Actually i believe they did have backups i recall reading the article, its just that they were doing a backup and somehow he copied all the bad data too the backup drive?!? im not entirely sure how it happened, but to say the least, it was, indeed ironic
my friend has a fujitsu 20 gb that failed a couple months back he never rma'ed it though... It seems to me hard drives are getting increasingly unreliable, i Myself have had 2 20 gb western digital drives fail on me (the data was, thankfully for the most part recoverable) and an ibm 40 gig die on me too. it seems that the smaller drives last for nearly ever (my mother has a 8 gig Maxtor drive and its at least 3 years old i think but still works fine) I still have a small 1.2 gb drive that god only knows how old it is and it also still works fine... i find it at least strange
id also like to state that if your going to running something thats eating cpu cycles and you have a 2000.00 laptop surely you can afford a 200.00 (or cheaper even) power inverter so you dont have to lose cycles, point being, running photoshop on laptop battery life isnt something that its designed to do, so in one way this 'feature' is a bad thing but in another way its kind of an idiot proof way to save battery life (which should be used for stuff such as.. processing word documents, and.. processing word documents) *chuckles*
First off, my laptop's cpu does not downshift. I tell it not to. Second, its a desktop chip masquerading as a laptop chip, which causes more problems. They don't technically downshift because they're missing SpeedStep circuitry. Instead, the timer sends the CPU empty cycles every other cycle, so the processor only does work half its cycles. This effectively lowers power consumption and performance, without techincally changing the speed of operation (because the desktop processor can't change speed) This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
actually desktop cpus do downshift, i believe its called 'clock throttling' to prevent severe processor damage in the event of critical cooling failure, so it doesnt reallys save power (or at least its never been pointed out as a key feature), but it does change the cpu speed!
no need to fear.. windows has a built in crash function (ironic at that, since it seems to do it rather well itself)! their is a registry key required to enable it. after you do that type "ctrl+pause|break" great stuff!!