ANY directory is a potential "shared" directory. Filesharing software doesn't limit sharing to C:\Share, or any other fixed name. By the RIAA's contention, any music file on a computer can potentially be shared, so any music file on a computer must be illegal.
Would someone just go out and metaphorically shoot these guys so that we can just be done with them please.
Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away. Why they keep fighting their users makes no real sense. How long before, no matter how neat the gadget, the masses decide that Apple simply isn't worth the trouble?
According to this screenshot from Uneasysilence, launching Adobe CS3 triggers communication between your computer and behavioral analytics firm Omniture...Adobe confirms the function, saying they use information gleaned about user behavior to gain "business insight into how to create better user experiences.
So Adobe counts how many times you start your program. Wow, that must really help them figure out how to make starting the program a better experience for the user.
Why is this so hard to verify. Use each registrar to test availability of domain xyzzyplugh99.com, changing the index number "99" for each test. Try back the next day and see which ones are sudden unavailable, then complain LOUDLY!
Just what is a.7 refresh rate? I know what.7 is. I know what Hertz is. And I know what Refresh typically means in a memory system, but if this thing needs constant, albeit slow, refresh, it's hardly non-volatile. It's more like battery backed-up with a very low current drain. Even so, I'd prefer something that was truly stable since power sources do tend to fail at the worst possible times.
could make productive use of a 32 or 64GB flash system if it were fast enough and cheap enough RIGHT NOW, regardless of the fact that I have a 500GB SATA drive in my system in order to store movies and images.
And I'd use the extra money to buy a couple more big SATA drives and set-up a RAID 5 for better performance *and* data security.
And you do a search to see how well that works when your SSD is mostly full, and the swap space is getting hit hard. Leveling doesn't tend to move static files often, meaning when the SSD is mostly full, only a small part of it is getting continually whacked. And when that goes out of service, you have an even smaller pool of free space to handle all the activity.
So you're saying that you lost 42kb of data you did care about, and some other unnamed amount of data that you lost but didn't care about? That seems a bit disingenuous. Even if you could have recovered the other data, since you didn't try it wasn't recovered.
I believe what Kirby was saying, in addition to SSD's crapping out in weeks instead of years, is that he can get the data back from rotating media virtually every time if it's important enough to be worth spending the $$$s on. Unimportant stuff he doesn't bother to spend the time and money on.
I believe he is also saying that "dead" rotating drives can still have their data recovered, while "dead" SSD drives cannot with current methods available.
As a user who had a lightly used Jump Drive die suddenly after 4 years, I can attest that the failure was complete, and every possible online recovery tool tried recovered nothing, as well as discouraging the idea of actually sending it in for full disassembly and attempted recovery. It was simply dead.
And this is not even bringing in the question of constant and sudden decreases in SSD drive capacity. How would you feel about a rather full regular hard drive that was suddenly several percent smaller? That could kill your system right there, even though most of the SSD was intact.
With the exception of capacity, the solid state disk drives appear to beat spinning disk in every category,
Well excuse me, BUT, capacity is the single largest factor in my disc drive purchase decisions. I'll give away speed, power consumption, size, heat, noise, and even cost - everything but reliability - in favor of capacity. Even "slow" hard drives are quite fast historically speaking, and none of those other factors make up for running out of drive space.
And don't the SSD's cost a lot more too? Capacity and Cost, the two biggest factors to consider.
I'm not aware that Microsoft is significantly suffering. Yeah they may want to get into the Internet advertising business, and yeah they may be an after-ran, but unless Microsoft feels entitled to own the whole world (yes, they might) I don't know how they can make their case here. They've had several years to build their own advertising model, and any failures are strictly their own. I don't recall them being worried about other computer operating system vendors while they were busy squeezing them all out.
How much more Nanny State can you get? Oh Heavens, you might offend the passenger next to you. How long before First Class is unfiltered, and only steerage has to put up with crippled net access? Until airlines compete by offering "Full Internet Access", rather than the limited crap of our competitors. And we haven't even mentioned people packet-sniffing the other passenger's passwords. Will in-flight Internet speed becoming an advertising point soon?
The only reason this issues haven't come up yet is because the first step is to get in-flight Internet access at all -- but they all will.
Hello Customer Service. This pile of titanium dust is what's left of your expensive titanium product after I tested it to ensure that you weren't lying. I expect it to be replaced by a brand new product immediately, now that I know you're honest. Thank you very much!
Auto mechanics don't give back your used parts out of the goodness of their hearts. They give them back because consumer law forces them to do so.
A similar consumer law should force the return of replaced parts on computers, and don't expect Apple to change their mind about it until such a law is passed. And while they're at it, they should forbid under pain of long jail sentences, computer technicians from rifling through your hard drive for files of interest. I'll let the occasional child porn collector slip past this barrier in the interests of increased privacy from young geeks in the process. And I'd test them from time to time with decoy systems with files too interesting to resist by anyone who is pursuing through your personal data.
When you only have $21M/year to work with, I'd recommend targeting it towards the single company, or two, who have the most to lose and will squeal the loudest at the US government for allowing this to happen. Don't spread it around so much that nobody feels your pain!
Antigua was screwed by this decision. The arbitrators should all be investigated for receiving payoffs or other compensation to make such an unfair ruling. And after the investigation, they should all be jailed!
Since the ban is still in place, does Antigua get additional damages ongoing, or is the $21M the whole thing now and forever?
I typically see it done by determining the amount of energy obtained from a gallon of fuel. Based on the energy, you now have a basis for comparison with the energy required to charge your batteries. Since you can compare a gallon of gas with a unit of energy and you can measure the distance traveled, you can now roughly translate to a mpg rating.
I would find it more useful to rate a car on MP$ - miles per dollar.
MPG is a close rating for gasoline and diesel automobiles. It's a simple calculation to convert that to fuel costs in your area - or compare two different models for efficiency in an apples to apples fashion. But to compare an electric car's costs to a gasoline car's, not so simple. While electricity costs vary, widely sometimes, meaning that a miles per KWH would be a better equivalent to MPG, you will then need a simple equation to plug in 2 variables to equate MPG to MPKWH. Even so, a reasonable attempt to equate these two numbers to a single MP$ comparison would be worthwhile.
And once you've done that, a comparison of fuel costs/mile would also be worthwhile. Electricity generation + transmission + losses while charging isn't the most efficient use of fuel, but neither does the internal combustion engine come near making efficient use of all of its heat energy. While MPG is easily computed for a gasoline car, there obviously can be an equivalent MPG rating for an electric car, if you can determine just how must fuel does that electricity cost to travel that distance. That would be important for the environment, since electricity generation is mostly a hidden cost in the environmental equations.
Just create them a joe user account and give that to them.
And create this account before your computer breaks, since you may not be able to login and create it after the moment of failure that requires this repair.
Anytime you expose secret projects that the company does not feel is ready for prime-time, you risk losing any forward momentum that you would have had over opposing companies in development.
Yeah, it makes it ever so much easier to keep selling the old stuff to the cluele<<<<<< faithful, instead of the much improved, better performing, cheaper gear coming out in only 2 months - which you can then sell them as well. An Informed consumer is a Bad consumer.
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You format shift when you place a CD in a drive and turn pits into a stream of digital bits.
You format shift when any physical medium is transformed into compressions and rarefactions in the air beyond the speaker surface.
You format shift when your ear drums translate compressions and rarefactions into nerve impulses.
The whole concept of listening to music is a series of format shifts.
Would someone just go out and metaphorically shoot these guys so that we can just be done with them please.
Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away. Why they keep fighting their users makes no real sense. How long before, no matter how neat the gadget, the masses decide that Apple simply isn't worth the trouble?
So Adobe counts how many times you start your program. Wow, that must really help them figure out how to make starting the program a better experience for the user.
Why is this so hard to verify. Use each registrar to test availability of domain xyzzyplugh99.com, changing the index number "99" for each test. Try back the next day and see which ones are sudden unavailable, then complain LOUDLY!
Just what is a .7 refresh rate? I know what .7 is. I know what Hertz is. And I know what Refresh typically means in a memory system, but if this thing needs constant, albeit slow, refresh, it's hardly non-volatile. It's more like battery backed-up with a very low current drain. Even so, I'd prefer something that was truly stable since power sources do tend to fail at the worst possible times.
It's not enough. The USA won't even notice this little pin prick.
And I'd use the extra money to buy a couple more big SATA drives and set-up a RAID 5 for better performance *and* data security.
And you do a search to see how well that works when your SSD is mostly full, and the swap space is getting hit hard. Leveling doesn't tend to move static files often, meaning when the SSD is mostly full, only a small part of it is getting continually whacked. And when that goes out of service, you have an even smaller pool of free space to handle all the activity.
I believe what Kirby was saying, in addition to SSD's crapping out in weeks instead of years, is that he can get the data back from rotating media virtually every time if it's important enough to be worth spending the $$$s on. Unimportant stuff he doesn't bother to spend the time and money on.
I believe he is also saying that "dead" rotating drives can still have their data recovered, while "dead" SSD drives cannot with current methods available.
As a user who had a lightly used Jump Drive die suddenly after 4 years, I can attest that the failure was complete, and every possible online recovery tool tried recovered nothing, as well as discouraging the idea of actually sending it in for full disassembly and attempted recovery. It was simply dead.
And this is not even bringing in the question of constant and sudden decreases in SSD drive capacity. How would you feel about a rather full regular hard drive that was suddenly several percent smaller? That could kill your system right there, even though most of the SSD was intact.
Well excuse me, BUT, capacity is the single largest factor in my disc drive purchase decisions. I'll give away speed, power consumption, size, heat, noise, and even cost - everything but reliability - in favor of capacity. Even "slow" hard drives are quite fast historically speaking, and none of those other factors make up for running out of drive space.
And don't the SSD's cost a lot more too? Capacity and Cost, the two biggest factors to consider.
I'm not aware that Microsoft is significantly suffering. Yeah they may want to get into the Internet advertising business, and yeah they may be an after-ran, but unless Microsoft feels entitled to own the whole world (yes, they might) I don't know how they can make their case here. They've had several years to build their own advertising model, and any failures are strictly their own. I don't recall them being worried about other computer operating system vendors while they were busy squeezing them all out.
The only reason this issues haven't come up yet is because the first step is to get in-flight Internet access at all -- but they all will.
Hello Customer Service. This pile of titanium dust is what's left of your expensive titanium product after I tested it to ensure that you weren't lying. I expect it to be replaced by a brand new product immediately, now that I know you're honest. Thank you very much!
A similar consumer law should force the return of replaced parts on computers, and don't expect Apple to change their mind about it until such a law is passed. And while they're at it, they should forbid under pain of long jail sentences, computer technicians from rifling through your hard drive for files of interest. I'll let the occasional child porn collector slip past this barrier in the interests of increased privacy from young geeks in the process. And I'd test them from time to time with decoy systems with files too interesting to resist by anyone who is pursuing through your personal data.
When you only have $21M/year to work with, I'd recommend targeting it towards the single company, or two, who have the most to lose and will squeal the loudest at the US government for allowing this to happen. Don't spread it around so much that nobody feels your pain!
Since the ban is still in place, does Antigua get additional damages ongoing, or is the $21M the whole thing now and forever?
I would find it more useful to rate a car on MP$ - miles per dollar.
MPG is a close rating for gasoline and diesel automobiles. It's a simple calculation to convert that to fuel costs in your area - or compare two different models for efficiency in an apples to apples fashion. But to compare an electric car's costs to a gasoline car's, not so simple. While electricity costs vary, widely sometimes, meaning that a miles per KWH would be a better equivalent to MPG, you will then need a simple equation to plug in 2 variables to equate MPG to MPKWH. Even so, a reasonable attempt to equate these two numbers to a single MP$ comparison would be worthwhile.
And once you've done that, a comparison of fuel costs/mile would also be worthwhile. Electricity generation + transmission + losses while charging isn't the most efficient use of fuel, but neither does the internal combustion engine come near making efficient use of all of its heat energy. While MPG is easily computed for a gasoline car, there obviously can be an equivalent MPG rating for an electric car, if you can determine just how must fuel does that electricity cost to travel that distance. That would be important for the environment, since electricity generation is mostly a hidden cost in the environmental equations.
These would all be numbers worth seeing.
And create this account before your computer breaks, since you may not be able to login and create it after the moment of failure that requires this repair.
The scientists won't be nearly so happy if it hits Rover, or Spirit.
Uh, how do you measure MPG in an electric car?
Frankly, the NCAA are a bunch of arseholes, who really outted themselves on this when they took their stand against college mascots who offend ANYONE!
Yeah, it makes it ever so much easier to keep selling the old stuff to the cluele<<<<<< faithful, instead of the much improved, better performing, cheaper gear coming out in only 2 months - which you can then sell them as well. An Informed consumer is a Bad consumer.
Google may not be evil,
But Apple surely is - especially this year!
May Allah praise your work, and quick delivery schedule.
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