I've spent all of two days now reading about PCM, but here's an observation: The lessons learned in making NAND flash work as a high-speed storage medium are applicable here as well. Many of the problems are the same, with the need for wear-leveling and optimization of write performance. The solutions appear to be somewhat different though. Their wear-leveling algorithm does not at all resemble the complexity of a typical FTL and I think that's the point.
Dealing with the problems of getting this technology to scale are simpler and cheaper to address than those presented by NAND flash, if only because in-place writes are now back on the table, with no erase-before-write cycle. This technology looks like it needs to ramp up in density though before it's a viable alternative to current NAND flash. 40 chips for 10GB on a DIMM is not going to get much done inside a 2.5" SSD case.
I also did not think their comparison to PCIe-based SSDs was fair. They called these 'state of the art', when the best SSDs are currently designed around use over a SATA3 bus and have performance figures much higher than those quoted.
You make goods points, food for thought... I only wish to clarify the point I was making when I said "...high cost console gaming..." and that is based on the way we (my wife and myself) buy PC games. Almost all games for the PC come out at around the price you can get them for on the console. However if you wait even a month, most of these titles will sell for half of what their console counterpart sells for. Consoles games often take years to come down to the same price I can buy a PC game for after only a month or two, if ever. I have an entirely unscientific suspiscion as to the reason for this PC platform, game price reduction and that is piracy. Clearly these titles are still selling on the PC after a month or two. The original Half Life is one of the few titles which after several years on store shelves was still selling for around forty dollars retail. It is MUCH harder to pirate console games than it is to pirate PC games.
I guess the cost effectiveness of console gaming comes down to this: Do you purchase MANY titles in the time you own your console or just a few? My PC hardware costs more for certain but as of late I find that I don't need to upgrade as often to play the latest games as most of the titles are simultaneously being released for slower console-based hardware. Yes, consoles are MUCH easier to use and less prone to the problems of PC games and that is definitely a mark in their favor. From the perspective of a PC gamer however, they stifle the market for new titles and new rendering methods after a couple of years. It is not in the best interest of the console manufacturer to release new hardware as long as the market for their competition has not dictated they need to compete.
I bought the retail box. I got a message when it tried to register my key that the servers were too busy and that it would try again later, but that I could play my game for now anyhow... Perhaps the CD version is different than the downloaded version?
Hey kevb, you got me curious so I decided to perform an experiment for you... I disabled my internet connection and verified it didn't work. I then tried to open the game and play it. It worked... I already registered the game and stuff like that and have my CD in the drive, so I guess they figure I'm "ok"... Just thought you'd like to know.:-)
Ok, clearly having to activate a product isn't the most fun thing in the world. And clearly the HL2 activation process is a pain(as it spends 20 minutes unencrypting your data files after the process completes...) I'm no fan of product activation. Now that I've said that, I can tell you that I actually took the time to register this one as well as activate it. I NEEDED product support, as the game was crashing before it could even fully load. Turns out the problem was my two week old video driver... I needed the one released yesterday to make the game work.:-) Ah, the joys of gaming on a PC.
Anyhow, the thought that I was being treated like a criminal never really crossed my mind. The fact is there are MANY things we do today and many things we buy that require us to identify ourselves. Your privacy is very much an illusion. This is a fact of modern life. I'm not particularly happy with this fact, but it is a fact all the same. Software companies, like any other company, have a right to decide whether or not to do business with someone if they don't know who that person is(ie. anonymous). Can you go to the car dealership and buy an automobile without giving them your name? Of course not! Even if you had cash in hand, that just sounds ludicrous. The vehicle has to be registered, taxes must be paid, etc... I don't hear anyone getting up in arms that auto manufacturers are treating them like criminals...
PC gaming does present more of a piracy problem for manufacturers than does console gaming. Refusing to allow them to address such problems make the platform as a whole(pc gaming) much less attractive to the manufacturer. We are already at a stage in the game where the trend is towards high cost console gaming. Most of the new titles come out on consoles first. I feel grateful just to actually have a game available for the PC these days at the same time it is made available for the consoles, let alone made available beforehand. Ask yourself this question and try to be reasonable: If you invested forty million dollars of your money into a project, wouldn't you try to protect that investment? Wouldn't you expect a certain return on that investment? I hope this is not hard for people to understand. No one will make you go out and buy a new game. For anyone who feels so strongly about the "malicious" intent of the "evil" software company who is just trying to make a return on their investment, I recommend you do not buy the game. It is far too much fun for you anyhow...
Ok, we've all seen them. We've all followed them. It is not a big secret that there are at least some percentage of old drivers on the roads who simply do not belong behind the wheel of an automobile. I watched an elder woman go so slow on a two-lane road that she was passed by a fully loaded LOG TRUCK. And then of course she was passed by the hundred or so cars that were following the log truck... Yes, perhaps she was driving a bit too slow. But the question comes down to "Why was she driving so slow that every car on the road passed her?" It was because she did not feel safe driving any faster and thus she realized her reaction time did not permit her to react properly at any higher rate of speed. Driving slower is not the solution. If you are incapable of having a reaction time which approximates your fellow drivers on the roadway, you ought not be driving. The same is true if you cannot see the roadway as well as your fellow drivers.
Law makers are afraid to touch this very volatile issue. The NTSB and bodies such as this KNOW that lawmakers will not touch this issue because it is political suicide. So what do they try to do instead? They try to curb everyone's right to privacy, in hopes of achieving at least part of their objective. Black boxes are NOT the answer. I for one would simply take them out of my vehicles. I'll put carburetors back on if it comes down to that! Unfortunately most people will never see this happen and it will go mostly unnoticed until they get into an accident and the black box is used against them in a court of law... By then it is too late.
Seeing as how MSFT is now sharing Windows' code with the Chinese government... Did this author put ANY thought into his criticism of open-source at all?
I thought this was a tactical PDA. I clicked the link, fully expecting to see a PDA with a hardened outer shell and fully waterproof... Now that is something I could use...:-)
What type of car do you drive and in your book, does a gallon equal 128 fluid ounces? On a separate note, Americans drive whatever car they like best. Sometimes it is a compromise of bang for the buck or practicality, but it will almost always be something that fits the driver. For instance, I just ordered a Mini Cooper S for my wife. The car's style fits her like a glove. The fuel economy of that car is just fine by my budget. I feel bad for people whose primary concern in owning a car is its fuel economy. There is more to life than efficiency.
I would put a screwdriver in my head if I had a 12.9 0-60 car to look forward to next.:-) I was actually thinking that my 6.5 second 0-60 was starting to feel a bit weak. How much does your car weigh? It sounds light. Since it is a Toyota engine, you could probably boost it and at least double your horsepower. Almost all cars are boosted in Japan... Norwegian roads (switchbacks)are far too cool to drive around in a car with 40 horsepower.
99 Civic Si. That is actually the best I've ever gotten. There are many things that affect fuel economy. Temperature outside, type of roads you drive, elevation, tire pressure, tread compound(rolling resistance), how well you maintain your engine, etc... I like to drive and I drive my vehicles hard. I do all of my own maintenance. My fuel economy varies most with a change in temperature outside. Fuel economy is worst in the winter when the car spends the most time out of closed loop(car's ECU running off sensors). Even in the winter I generally get around 22 miles per gallon. I drive about 36k miles per year on average. Most of my driving I wouldn't exactly consider highway, more like curvy country roads. Did I mention I like to drive?:-) Most people could improve their fuel economy by simply monitoring their tire pressure and keeping up on vehicle maintenance at the proper intervals. Oh and just because your car CAN go 100k miles on the same set of plugs and wires doesn't mean you should... Anyhow, as far as EPA ratings go, I find they are fairly accurate, even as far as my driving differs from how they test vehicles.
If there is one thing I have to explain to every person who attempts to use one of my linux machines, it is how to copy and paste. Unfortunately, this is something that has never really worked in a uniform manner for as long as I've been using linux. Some applications won't let you highlight. Some applications will allow you to highlight, but contain no context menu that allows you to copy. Some applications will permit CTRL-C, but not a context menu. Yet other applications, if you are really clever and continue to HOLD your highlighted text with your left mouse button still depressed, you can do a quick CTRL-C with the other hand. But be careful about closing that application you just had open when you highlighted and copied that text. You might have just lost your "clipboard" contents if you did close it... Then there is pasting. The whole gamut of problems which plague copying also apply to pasting. Some applications simply don't know how to accept pasted information. Others will allow you to paste, but you have to figure out their preferred method -- CTRL-V OR right-click, or perhaps they only let you do it from the "edit" menu.
In all the time I've been using linux applications, this problem has existed. It has gotten better with time, as more standard toolkits are used to develop applications, but the underlying problem is still there and is an absolute CERTAIN stumbling block for new users. They ALWAYS have trouble with the clipboard and quite frankly, don't have the patience many times to try and work around it.
And just to stoke the flames a bit, the clipboard ALWAYS works in Windows and it ALWAYS works exactly the same way and it isn't dependent on any single application being open to store the clipboard data. Such simple things that Windows users do all day every day, such as copying the contents of a word document into notepad to kill all formatting, then copying it back into say a web editor is a task that is typically awkward to attempt in linux applications. And the damn clipboard has worked perfectly in Windows since Windows '95.
WHY can't the clipboard problem be fixed? Why hasn't the clipboard problem been fixed by now? Good grief, I know I am not the only person who has this problem on an HOURLY basis when trying to get ACTUAL work done. There needs to be ONE clipboard mechanism that is useable UNIVERSALLY by all applications. It is such an important thing to get right because it affects so much. And the old highlight it and it is copied crap is just that. It needs to die. That is too much to assume about the user's intention in making a highlight.
Ok, that feels better to get that off my chest.:-) Anyone have any real solutions to this problem? Solutions that ALL applications can agree on? Probably not, else we would have one by now...
They need to sell more than a thousand of these just to recoup the gross development revenue, more realistically 3 times that to make a profit. Is there really such a demand for a product of this size and price?
This program is just too cool! There are some things it could obviously use, such as an easier way for users to share their public keys(ala PGP key servers. The use of actual PGP/GPG keys would be really cool too!) and a few dedicated hosts to start a network(because direct peer to peer isn't always desireable or feasible, but the security through a dedicated host is good enough for most circumstances...) I guess what I'd really like to see is AIM support public key encryption, something that has always been lacking in the instant messenger app of choice for most people. Perhaps the open source community can make this a reality. And gaim encryption just doesn't work for enough people and isn't as strong as this...
The author/editor doesn't see anything wrong with people sneaking their video cameras into a movie theatre, recording the picture, and then taking the camera home and ripping/uploading the video to some warez group? Yeah, they probably don't have a problem with shoplifting either. Of course, if they do feel it is wrong, but the penalty is too strict, they should express that opinion, but since they didn't we can only assume they think it is okay to steal and screw investors out of millions of dollars of potential revenue... But then again, I'm sure these same people will claim that downloading stolen movies aren't hurting ticket sales... They couldn't even wait 'til it came out on DVD to steal it! The only problem I see with this whole scenario is the use of night vision in a theatre to spy on those in attendance and even that is stretching it due to the fact that you were already on probably three video cameras as you entered the theatre. You can hardly expect privacy anywhere anymore the minute you step outside of your own home.
Wow! Good eye for detail. I had to zoom in on them to notice the difference in the bills. Further proof this is a completely bogus claim. There is no pattern to which bills burned, except that bills that were on the top of the pile are probably more burned than bills in the middle of the pile.
RFIDs did not cause his money to burn. Microwaving the money caused the cloth to burn. I'm guessing that the microwave didn't have a carousel in it by the way the microwaves burned through one spot... What a jackass. The author never even mentions if he tried to take the money out of the wallet and walk through the scanner with just the money or just the wallet... There is probably an RFID embedded in the WALLET. I see these things all the time and sometimes they are well hidden, like under a flap. I hope the bank refuses to take back his burned money and then calls the FBI on him for destroying currency.
Good lord. Please shoot these people as soon as possible. I'm not sure who your users are but even for the non-MS crowd there are PLENTY of better alternatives to Netscape 4.x out there now. If you are using Netscape 4.x on anything built in the past five years you are wrong. And judging from my own web logs I'd say your total percentage of users running anything else besides Internet explorer/ outlook express is probably less than 5%. But I don't doubt for one second that those 5% of the internet out there using shit like Netscape 4.x do a LOT of complaining because very little on the internet will work properly for them today.
Most spyware doesn't annoy you as bad as Gator. Spyware just chills in the background and watches you. Gator then takes it a step further and "serves" you with advertisements.
That is where this argument leads. The notion that anyone who doesn't mull along with the ideals of government and their supporters (corporations) is a terrorist/traitor baffles me. It seems it never occurs to some people before they open their mouth that at one time George Washington was a terrorist, guilty of treason. Now most Americans regard him as a hero, and most Brits couldn't care less about the guy. It seems history will be the only real judge of our actions because people living in the today are always short-sighted in their over-simplification of the world. Put another way, if you don't agree with me then you are wrong. Now that is a demonstration of tolerance!;-)
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Actually, it's 40 chips for 640MB on a DIMM. The sample they demonstrated was 10GB in total.
I've spent all of two days now reading about PCM, but here's an observation: The lessons learned in making NAND flash work as a high-speed storage medium are applicable here as well. Many of the problems are the same, with the need for wear-leveling and optimization of write performance. The solutions appear to be somewhat different though. Their wear-leveling algorithm does not at all resemble the complexity of a typical FTL and I think that's the point.
Dealing with the problems of getting this technology to scale are simpler and cheaper to address than those presented by NAND flash, if only because in-place writes are now back on the table, with no erase-before-write cycle. This technology looks like it needs to ramp up in density though before it's a viable alternative to current NAND flash. 40 chips for 10GB on a DIMM is not going to get much done inside a 2.5" SSD case.
I also did not think their comparison to PCIe-based SSDs was fair. They called these 'state of the art', when the best SSDs are currently designed around use over a SATA3 bus and have performance figures much higher than those quoted.
You make goods points, food for thought... I only wish to clarify the point I was making when I said "...high cost console gaming..." and that is based on the way we (my wife and myself) buy PC games. Almost all games for the PC come out at around the price you can get them for on the console. However if you wait even a month, most of these titles will sell for half of what their console counterpart sells for. Consoles games often take years to come down to the same price I can buy a PC game for after only a month or two, if ever. I have an entirely unscientific suspiscion as to the reason for this PC platform, game price reduction and that is piracy. Clearly these titles are still selling on the PC after a month or two. The original Half Life is one of the few titles which after several years on store shelves was still selling for around forty dollars retail. It is MUCH harder to pirate console games than it is to pirate PC games.
I guess the cost effectiveness of console gaming comes down to this: Do you purchase MANY titles in the time you own your console or just a few? My PC hardware costs more for certain but as of late I find that I don't need to upgrade as often to play the latest games as most of the titles are simultaneously being released for slower console-based hardware. Yes, consoles are MUCH easier to use and less prone to the problems of PC games and that is definitely a mark in their favor. From the perspective of a PC gamer however, they stifle the market for new titles and new rendering methods after a couple of years. It is not in the best interest of the console manufacturer to release new hardware as long as the market for their competition has not dictated they need to compete.
I bought the retail box. I got a message when it tried to register my key that the servers were too busy and that it would try again later, but that I could play my game for now anyhow... Perhaps the CD version is different than the downloaded version?
Hey kevb, you got me curious so I decided to perform an experiment for you... I disabled my internet connection and verified it didn't work. I then tried to open the game and play it. It worked... I already registered the game and stuff like that and have my CD in the drive, so I guess they figure I'm "ok"... Just thought you'd like to know. :-)
Ok, clearly having to activate a product isn't the most fun thing in the world. And clearly the HL2 activation process is a pain(as it spends 20 minutes unencrypting your data files after the process completes...) I'm no fan of product activation. Now that I've said that, I can tell you that I actually took the time to register this one as well as activate it. I NEEDED product support, as the game was crashing before it could even fully load. Turns out the problem was my two week old video driver... I needed the one released yesterday to make the game work. :-) Ah, the joys of gaming on a PC.
Anyhow, the thought that I was being treated like a criminal never really crossed my mind. The fact is there are MANY things we do today and many things we buy that require us to identify ourselves. Your privacy is very much an illusion. This is a fact of modern life. I'm not particularly happy with this fact, but it is a fact all the same. Software companies, like any other company, have a right to decide whether or not to do business with someone if they don't know who that person is(ie. anonymous). Can you go to the car dealership and buy an automobile without giving them your name? Of course not! Even if you had cash in hand, that just sounds ludicrous. The vehicle has to be registered, taxes must be paid, etc... I don't hear anyone getting up in arms that auto manufacturers are treating them like criminals...
PC gaming does present more of a piracy problem for manufacturers than does console gaming. Refusing to allow them to address such problems make the platform as a whole(pc gaming) much less attractive to the manufacturer. We are already at a stage in the game where the trend is towards high cost console gaming. Most of the new titles come out on consoles first. I feel grateful just to actually have a game available for the PC these days at the same time it is made available for the consoles, let alone made available beforehand. Ask yourself this question and try to be reasonable: If you invested forty million dollars of your money into a project, wouldn't you try to protect that investment? Wouldn't you expect a certain return on that investment? I hope this is not hard for people to understand. No one will make you go out and buy a new game. For anyone who feels so strongly about the "malicious" intent of the "evil" software company who is just trying to make a return on their investment, I recommend you do not buy the game. It is far too much fun for you anyhow...
Ok, we've all seen them. We've all followed them. It is not a big secret that there are at least some percentage of old drivers on the roads who simply do not belong behind the wheel of an automobile. I watched an elder woman go so slow on a two-lane road that she was passed by a fully loaded LOG TRUCK. And then of course she was passed by the hundred or so cars that were following the log truck... Yes, perhaps she was driving a bit too slow. But the question comes down to "Why was she driving so slow that every car on the road passed her?" It was because she did not feel safe driving any faster and thus she realized her reaction time did not permit her to react properly at any higher rate of speed. Driving slower is not the solution. If you are incapable of having a reaction time which approximates your fellow drivers on the roadway, you ought not be driving. The same is true if you cannot see the roadway as well as your fellow drivers.
Law makers are afraid to touch this very volatile issue. The NTSB and bodies such as this KNOW that lawmakers will not touch this issue because it is political suicide. So what do they try to do instead? They try to curb everyone's right to privacy, in hopes of achieving at least part of their objective. Black boxes are NOT the answer. I for one would simply take them out of my vehicles. I'll put carburetors back on if it comes down to that! Unfortunately most people will never see this happen and it will go mostly unnoticed until they get into an accident and the black box is used against them in a court of law... By then it is too late.
Seeing as how MSFT is now sharing Windows' code with the Chinese government... Did this author put ANY thought into his criticism of open-source at all?
I thought this was a tactical PDA. I clicked the link, fully expecting to see a PDA with a hardened outer shell and fully waterproof... Now that is something I could use... :-)
If you drove an RX-8 any other way than "like you stole it", it would be a crime unto itself...
What type of car do you drive and in your book, does a gallon equal 128 fluid ounces? On a separate note, Americans drive whatever car they like best. Sometimes it is a compromise of bang for the buck or practicality, but it will almost always be something that fits the driver. For instance, I just ordered a Mini Cooper S for my wife. The car's style fits her like a glove. The fuel economy of that car is just fine by my budget. I feel bad for people whose primary concern in owning a car is its fuel economy. There is more to life than efficiency.
I would put a screwdriver in my head if I had a 12.9 0-60 car to look forward to next. :-) I was actually thinking that my 6.5 second 0-60 was starting to feel a bit weak. How much does your car weigh? It sounds light. Since it is a Toyota engine, you could probably boost it and at least double your horsepower. Almost all cars are boosted in Japan... Norwegian roads (switchbacks)are far too cool to drive around in a car with 40 horsepower.
99 Civic Si. That is actually the best I've ever gotten. There are many things that affect fuel economy. Temperature outside, type of roads you drive, elevation, tire pressure, tread compound(rolling resistance), how well you maintain your engine, etc... I like to drive and I drive my vehicles hard. I do all of my own maintenance. My fuel economy varies most with a change in temperature outside. Fuel economy is worst in the winter when the car spends the most time out of closed loop(car's ECU running off sensors). Even in the winter I generally get around 22 miles per gallon. I drive about 36k miles per year on average. Most of my driving I wouldn't exactly consider highway, more like curvy country roads. Did I mention I like to drive? :-) Most people could improve their fuel economy by simply monitoring their tire pressure and keeping up on vehicle maintenance at the proper intervals. Oh and just because your car CAN go 100k miles on the same set of plugs and wires doesn't mean you should... Anyhow, as far as EPA ratings go, I find they are fairly accurate, even as far as my driving differs from how they test vehicles.
If there is one thing I have to explain to every person who attempts to use one of my linux machines, it is how to copy and paste. Unfortunately, this is something that has never really worked in a uniform manner for as long as I've been using linux. Some applications won't let you highlight. Some applications will allow you to highlight, but contain no context menu that allows you to copy. Some applications will permit CTRL-C, but not a context menu. Yet other applications, if you are really clever and continue to HOLD your highlighted text with your left mouse button still depressed, you can do a quick CTRL-C with the other hand. But be careful about closing that application you just had open when you highlighted and copied that text. You might have just lost your "clipboard" contents if you did close it... Then there is pasting. The whole gamut of problems which plague copying also apply to pasting. Some applications simply don't know how to accept pasted information. Others will allow you to paste, but you have to figure out their preferred method -- CTRL-V OR right-click, or perhaps they only let you do it from the "edit" menu.
:-) Anyone have any real solutions to this problem? Solutions that ALL applications can agree on? Probably not, else we would have one by now...
In all the time I've been using linux applications, this problem has existed. It has gotten better with time, as more standard toolkits are used to develop applications, but the underlying problem is still there and is an absolute CERTAIN stumbling block for new users. They ALWAYS have trouble with the clipboard and quite frankly, don't have the patience many times to try and work around it.
And just to stoke the flames a bit, the clipboard ALWAYS works in Windows and it ALWAYS works exactly the same way and it isn't dependent on any single application being open to store the clipboard data. Such simple things that Windows users do all day every day, such as copying the contents of a word document into notepad to kill all formatting, then copying it back into say a web editor is a task that is typically awkward to attempt in linux applications. And the damn clipboard has worked perfectly in Windows since Windows '95.
WHY can't the clipboard problem be fixed? Why hasn't the clipboard problem been fixed by now? Good grief, I know I am not the only person who has this problem on an HOURLY basis when trying to get ACTUAL work done. There needs to be ONE clipboard mechanism that is useable UNIVERSALLY by all applications. It is such an important thing to get right because it affects so much. And the old highlight it and it is copied crap is just that. It needs to die. That is too much to assume about the user's intention in making a highlight.
Ok, that feels better to get that off my chest.
They need to sell more than a thousand of these just to recoup the gross development revenue, more realistically 3 times that to make a profit. Is there really such a demand for a product of this size and price?
I think the subject says it all.
This program is just too cool! There are some things it could obviously use, such as an easier way for users to share their public keys(ala PGP key servers. The use of actual PGP/GPG keys would be really cool too!) and a few dedicated hosts to start a network(because direct peer to peer isn't always desireable or feasible, but the security through a dedicated host is good enough for most circumstances...) I guess what I'd really like to see is AIM support public key encryption, something that has always been lacking in the instant messenger app of choice for most people. Perhaps the open source community can make this a reality. And gaim encryption just doesn't work for enough people and isn't as strong as this...
The author/editor doesn't see anything wrong with people sneaking their video cameras into a movie theatre, recording the picture, and then taking the camera home and ripping/uploading the video to some warez group? Yeah, they probably don't have a problem with shoplifting either. Of course, if they do feel it is wrong, but the penalty is too strict, they should express that opinion, but since they didn't we can only assume they think it is okay to steal and screw investors out of millions of dollars of potential revenue... But then again, I'm sure these same people will claim that downloading stolen movies aren't hurting ticket sales... They couldn't even wait 'til it came out on DVD to steal it! The only problem I see with this whole scenario is the use of night vision in a theatre to spy on those in attendance and even that is stretching it due to the fact that you were already on probably three video cameras as you entered the theatre. You can hardly expect privacy anywhere anymore the minute you step outside of your own home.
Wow! Good eye for detail. I had to zoom in on them to notice the difference in the bills. Further proof this is a completely bogus claim. There is no pattern to which bills burned, except that bills that were on the top of the pile are probably more burned than bills in the middle of the pile.
RFIDs did not cause his money to burn. Microwaving the money caused the cloth to burn. I'm guessing that the microwave didn't have a carousel in it by the way the microwaves burned through one spot... What a jackass. The author never even mentions if he tried to take the money out of the wallet and walk through the scanner with just the money or just the wallet... There is probably an RFID embedded in the WALLET. I see these things all the time and sometimes they are well hidden, like under a flap. I hope the bank refuses to take back his burned money and then calls the FBI on him for destroying currency.
Good lord. Please shoot these people as soon as possible. I'm not sure who your users are but even for the non-MS crowd there are PLENTY of better alternatives to Netscape 4.x out there now. If you are using Netscape 4.x on anything built in the past five years you are wrong. And judging from my own web logs I'd say your total percentage of users running anything else besides Internet explorer/ outlook express is probably less than 5%. But I don't doubt for one second that those 5% of the internet out there using shit like Netscape 4.x do a LOT of complaining because very little on the internet will work properly for them today.
A system with only 128MB or RAM is NOT a server in today's world. Ten years ago maybe but not today.
When they put the disabling device on cop cars, it won't be long before every criminal has a disabler. ;-)
Most spyware doesn't annoy you as bad as Gator. Spyware just chills in the background and watches you. Gator then takes it a step further and "serves" you with advertisements.
This guy's thoughts belong in this woman's book:
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That is where this argument leads. The notion that anyone who doesn't mull along with the ideals of government and their supporters (corporations) is a terrorist/traitor baffles me. It seems it never occurs to some people before they open their mouth that at one time George Washington was a terrorist, guilty of treason. Now most Americans regard him as a hero, and most Brits couldn't care less about the guy. It seems history will be the only real judge of our actions because people living in the today are always short-sighted in their over-simplification of the world. Put another way, if you don't agree with me then you are wrong. Now that is a demonstration of tolerance!