The total manufacturing cost differential between a Chevy and an Escalade is maybe $2000. The cost of a good has almost no bearing on its retail price. MS could sell their stuff for a thosand dollars and it would make as much sense from a coupling to the cost as selling it for 5 bucks. That's not the point. The point is how you preserve market share - how you make your product attractive in a market space where people want to pay less. They aren't stealing software because they want to put it to the man. They are stealing because the current dollar price of MS software has actually gone up over time just like the price of most intellectual property based products like movies and music.
UNC Greensboro demands XPpro and no other. They offer ZA and Norton for free or almost free. They scan ports to look for specific Windows patches and fixpacks and if you are lacking they turn off your port until you address the problem. They have a policy about P2P sharing. There do not appear to be any other restrictions.
I'm sure their intentions in these rules are good but anyone who's going to build SRBMs in their own house probably has the money and connections to buy shoulder fired missiles. I'm sure for $50,000 you could find a Russian SA-18 Grouse with a HE warhead and a 5.2Km range.
And in the end, propellants to build such a homebuilt SRBM are pretty tightly controlled.
Low tech alternatives like Palestinian Katyushas (BM-21 based) are actually pretty ineffective even with a 20Km range.
It's more user friendly to have phone number type addressing for all this human interface stuff on the net instead of trying to subnet mask your telephone.
There are a bunch of different languages in Iraq not just Arabic, including Kurdish, Assyrian and Armenian, not the mention the bibblebabble of the coalition forces: US English, UK English, Polish, Italian etc.....
Not Spanish Not French Not German Not Russian though.
Considering (1/2)m(v^2), with 6 km/sec muzzle velocity we won't need depleted uranium anymore. And considering the impact energy will be SO HIGH that they will vaporize everything they attack ergo no residual debris, waste, chemicals or ash.
When you have a 400Mhz CPU and you goose it to 600Mhz you have a 50% improvement. To get a 50% improvement out of 3Ghz CPU you have to juice it to 4.5Ghz. And let's face it anything less than a 25% improvement, or in this example a 750Mhz improvment - the actual perceived improvement is practically ZERO. So it seems to be fairly useless in the big scheme of things.
Why not build a machine instead that can boot in 2 seconds or has a 100% disk I/O performance improvement?
Oh wait I forgot - having 0.0054% better FPS playing some 1337 shooter game is da Shit. All hail me and my enormous ferrite testicles.
You're best bet is to install as normal connected. After the installation stabilizes download ZA, AVAST and Spybot.
Install ZA then install and RUN Avast and Spybot. If you have problems during these steps you can disconnect from the cable modem. If you have already been attacked these tools will find them.
Configure both Avast and Spybot with all the real time blocker tools you need and set Avast resident scanners to HIGH or, Custom, depending on your circumstances. Set both resident Spybot scanners to ON.
Hookup your cable modem. Reboot, reacquire your IP address and you are done.
I have done this numerous time w/o problems. If the machine gets infected during this time then the tools find it and remove it.
Serously, I will cheer that Assston tries to punk a real badass like Ray Lewis or Allen Iverson and it ends in a quadruple homicide, high speed car chase, dead innocent civilians and a billion dollar lawsuit against MTV.
I mean its all fascinating and shit that the ninny nannies of Brussels want to curb hatespeech - but let's face facts - they don't consider antisemitism to even be hate speech.
Storage is a function, not a thing. The function is to hold and to access a given something. Manufacturers seem to have forgotten that critical fact. And while we appreciate being sold what amounts to essentially unlimited amounts of storage - the performance of that storage has been flat for years, in fact, in relation to its size and to the performance of other aspects of your computer it's actually gone backwards.
So if not SSD then something else but in this day and age where desktop PCs have as much memory as 5 million dollar mainframes of 10 years ago its silly to pretend that there is NOTHING to be done with storage performance except by paying supercomputer prices for SSD.
At what point are just going to light the torches, hoist the pitchforks and march up the SSD (Solid State Disk) manufacturers and demand they start to bring the price down on SSDs so that we can finally get meaningfully great performance out of all this money?
I don't need the rought equivalent of the Library of Congress. What I need is FAST ACCESS to a much smaller subset of that.
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The total manufacturing cost differential between a Chevy and an Escalade is maybe $2000. The cost of a good has almost no bearing on its retail price. MS could sell their stuff for a thosand dollars and it would make as much sense from a coupling to the cost as selling it for 5 bucks. That's not the point. The point is how you preserve market share - how you make your product attractive in a market space where people want to pay less. They aren't stealing software because they want to put it to the man. They are stealing because the current dollar price of MS software has actually gone up over time just like the price of most intellectual property based products like movies and music.
UNC Greensboro demands XPpro and no other. They offer ZA and Norton for free or almost free. They scan ports to look for specific Windows patches and fixpacks and if you are lacking they turn off your port until you address the problem. They have a policy about P2P sharing. There do not appear to be any other restrictions.
I'm sure their intentions in these rules are good but anyone who's going to build SRBMs in their own house probably has the money and connections to buy shoulder fired missiles. I'm sure for $50,000 you could find a Russian SA-18 Grouse with a HE warhead and a 5.2Km range.
And in the end, propellants to build such a homebuilt SRBM are pretty tightly controlled.
Low tech alternatives like Palestinian Katyushas (BM-21 based) are actually pretty ineffective even with a 20Km range.
No - seriously it is.
So I guess that leads you to believe they'll all change the language they speak or something?
Remember to bring in those metal coathangers and we'll make pretty shiny projects for parent teacher night.
It's more user friendly to have phone number type addressing for all this human interface stuff on the net instead of trying to subnet mask your telephone.
Real real thin - except of course for the LOX chiller pump !
There are a bunch of different languages in Iraq not just Arabic, including Kurdish, Assyrian and Armenian, not the mention the bibblebabble of the coalition forces: US English, UK English, Polish, Italian etc.....
Not Spanish Not French Not German Not Russian though.
the Portland episode.
A few million joules of energy will effectively render all waste byproducts nonexistant. Literally, like a solar furnace.
And a good flyswatter.
Considering (1/2)m(v^2), with 6 km/sec muzzle velocity we won't need depleted uranium anymore. And considering the impact energy will be SO HIGH that they will vaporize everything they attack ergo no residual debris, waste, chemicals or ash.
When you have a 400Mhz CPU and you goose it to 600Mhz you have a 50% improvement. To get a 50% improvement out of 3Ghz CPU you have to juice it to 4.5Ghz. And let's face it anything less than a 25% improvement, or in this example a 750Mhz improvment - the actual perceived improvement is practically ZERO. So it seems to be fairly useless in the big scheme of things.
Why not build a machine instead that can boot in 2 seconds or has a 100% disk I/O performance improvement?
Oh wait I forgot - having 0.0054% better FPS playing some 1337 shooter game is da Shit. All hail me and my enormous ferrite testicles.
You're best bet is to install as normal connected. After the installation stabilizes download ZA, AVAST and Spybot.
Install ZA then install and RUN Avast and Spybot. If you have problems during these steps you can disconnect from the cable modem. If you have already been attacked these tools will find them.
Configure both Avast and Spybot with all the real time blocker tools you need and set Avast resident scanners to HIGH or, Custom, depending on your circumstances. Set both resident Spybot scanners to ON.
Hookup your cable modem. Reboot, reacquire your IP address and you are done.
I have done this numerous time w/o problems. If the machine gets infected during this time then the tools find it and remove it.
Serously, I will cheer that Assston tries to punk a real badass like Ray Lewis or Allen Iverson and it ends in a quadruple homicide, high speed car chase, dead innocent civilians and a billion dollar lawsuit against MTV.
Bar none Time & Chaos is the greatest.
Or you have death wish.
Actually it doesn't, poser. It only considers acts to be antisemitic.
Why are we spending precious money that could be better spent either giving it to corporations or proving that the moon landing was a fake
I mean its all fascinating and shit that the ninny nannies of Brussels want to curb hatespeech - but let's face facts - they don't consider antisemitism to even be hate speech.
Since 1981 (that's 23 years right - - Old Timers Disease...) I have had more than 12 home PCs. Ihave had
-Zero-
hard drive failures.
Seriously we need a *.sht domain.
Storage is a function, not a thing. The function is to hold and to access a given something. Manufacturers seem to have forgotten that critical fact. And while we appreciate being sold what amounts to essentially unlimited amounts of storage - the performance of that storage has been flat for years, in fact, in relation to its size and to the performance of other aspects of your computer it's actually gone backwards.
So if not SSD then something else but in this day and age where desktop PCs have as much memory as 5 million dollar mainframes of 10 years ago its silly to pretend that there is NOTHING to be done with storage performance except by paying supercomputer prices for SSD.
At what point are just going to light the torches, hoist the pitchforks and march up the SSD (Solid State Disk) manufacturers and demand they start to bring the price down on SSDs so that we can finally get meaningfully great performance out of all this money?
I don't need the rought equivalent of the Library of Congress. What I need is FAST ACCESS to a much smaller subset of that.