I can check when I get home, but it comes to my mind that every external hard drive I've purchased in the past four years has been FAT32 formatted for me already. Additionally, while XP and such force the GUI format to NTFS if the drive is over 32GB, you can go up to 1TB with the command line format.
Really, do you think Sony, the company with arrogance the arrogance of Nintendo without the revenue stream of the Wii, is going to license the NTFS rights from it's other 'main' competitor, Microsoft?
They'd sooner come up with their own formatting scheme.
Microsoft illegally used a monopoly to kill competition and prevent others from entering markets they had decided to be in. Microsoft has been the paragon of robber baron style dirty dealing ever since they got the deal to sell DOS to IBM.
Google has done nothing of the sort. They neither attempt to kill their competition nor do they actively work to keep others from entering any of the markets they operate in. Google has been actively and consciously working to avoid their deals coming off as 'dirty dealing' since they first started operations.
There are miles and miles of difference between Google's behavior and Microsoft's. There is a difference between being the company that could afford to and did invest in an infrastructure and being the company that simply screwed everyone till they were the only one left with any money.
Not really given FAT32 is mostly a universal standard for external media and is old enough that patents (as long as you avoid long names) are not really an issue.
A whois on the domain indicates it's old enough that it was created when Network Solutions was the only real registrar available. Remember, in the 'old' days Network Solutions had a monopoly granted it by the NSF to run the 'American' domains. While 1999 was just at the cusp of the change over, it was still a long while before Network Solutions was finally forced to play fair and real alternatives to them that people could trust showed up.
You and everyone else in this particular thread are apparently ignorant of the fact that the people convicted are Italian employees of Google Italy (thus the whole, never traveling to Italy thing is a bit silly) and the sentence is already suspended (thus no reason to for the government to track them down anyway).
That was sort of my point. Even Microsoft, in the PC realm, was able to come up with a solution that allowed the games to go on 'forever'.
The OP was making the case that the problem the consoles is shared with the PCs.
But the manner in which consoles were setup though (and it's not just the Xbox that this is a problem with) means that you have to recreate an entire infrastructure rather than mimic a server.
Even if you have an "Xbox Live" emulator, you still have to either play games with your network routing in order to make the game see the emulator or go in and change the game itself to look for the emulator rather than the 'real thing'.
However as the long and varied life of Half-Life (the original game) proved, it's not impossible to update an old game with new matching software as time goes on.
Additionally, and ironically in some respects, as Allegiance, a game initially developed by Microsoft, shows it's possible for a PC game to survive well beyond when the company that supported it turns everything off.
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I would think the burden of proof here would be on the manufacturer, and it would be to prove that this wasn't a potentially hazardous substance.
Unless you honestly think the "Asbestos model" of indiscriminately shoving this everywhere and then dealing with the fall out when people get sick is appropriate.
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You really seem to be getting caught up on not being able to tell the difference between something that is 30 atoms thick and something that is a quarter of an inch thick and made of tempered glass rather than raw silica.
Unless you think this process includes popping the coated object in a forge, again I say: Apples -> Oranges.
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Your last paragraph is in fact my concern. I'm not expecting this to slough off as you wipe it down with bleach, I'm expecting it to be shattered in the course of just normal every day use. This might be a good idea in limited situations, but it sounds like round two of the "revenge of asbestos" in terms of household use.
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Do you regularly slam items into your windows? Cause I sure as heck don't.
But I do toss stuff onto my counters all the time. Abrasive stuff like my keys, heavy stuff like cast iron pots, and even just sharp and pointy stuff like a pile of silverware.
How thick are your windows, is it possible they are more than 30 atoms thick? Cause if so, it's probable that they aren't going to shatter/splinter in the same fashion as this coating.
So you have this recording medium that is based on the idea that you'll make groves in it and run a needle along the groove. Within the groove, you'll have a number of bumps and dips which cause a vibration in the needle, which in turn is transmitted either mechanically or electronically to an amplification device, from whence the sound is actually produced.
And you think it'd be a good idea to attempt to coat said medium with a protective layer of hardened substance, to prevent it from being scratched. Do you see where this idea fails?
If you want a 'permanent' record, they already have the tech for that, ditch the (relatively) cheap material you are using to preserve the record in (vinyl) and replace it with metal.
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OP was pointing out that spraying a thin layer of a substance that is known to damage the lungs when inhaled over everything you own is a good way of ensuring said damage to your lungs.
EROSION, people. Most mountains are made of solid granite a harder substance than glass a glass shell, yet they are scoured into sand over time by the simple act of the wind blowing particulate against them. A glass shell over your counter-top is going to be silicon dust in the air in a few months of use, if it lasts that long.
I picked the FSM because no one actually believes in him and therefore I wasn't actually singling out any one religion but talking about them all.
The difference between science and religion is fairly straight forward, I can reproduce results with science or I can investigate why when I do it, it's different.
There is no reproducibility for religion, and there is rarely any attempt to find it, as 'questioning' why it doesn't exist means questioning your particular god.
No, whether they fall in the same category depends on how desperate you are at attempting to claim science is less reliable than religion. Regardless whether or not we are part of the Matrix, science actually has the tools capable of explaining how the world works and predicting how it reacts. Belief is miles away from being able to do that.
We used to call it Karma, but then we devolved into just up-modding jokes or things we agreed with and down-modding anything we didn't like and now it's just a way of preening ourselves on how good we are.
It qualifies me because I spend most of my time visiting them listening to them talk about their jobs and other than the folk who get themselves on the school board to flog teachers that they felt didn't treat their children right, the home-schoolers and their demands of the schools are the main topic de jour.
I'm sure there are plenty of hidden pockets out there, but in the area my parents teach in, almost everyone knows everyone else, and even when they don't, there are things that home-school parents often interact with public schools over. Such as money for special needs.
And as far as footing the bill, the schools do already, the problem comes when the parents expect the school to start footing the bill for things that the school doesn't normally pay for, especially when the school is rural and has a tax base of about 100 times smaller than the urban school the parent yanked the kid out of and is basing their expectations on.
Here's a hint, when the school is still running a win95 office and the 'expansion' to the school is a trailer parked in the back lot, expecting the school to pay for a $100 an hour physical therapist to work with your kid one on one daily is a pipe dream. They'd be paying more annually for the therapist than they will be for any of the teachers.
Yes, because believing an invisible wad of spaghetti is floating out in space above us, imperceptibly influencing everything that happens towards a goal that seems contrary to what is actually happening is in the same category as believing in your own senses.
To be fair, as the grown son of two parents who are currently teaching in rural public schools, 90% of the folk who are home schooling in their area are exactly as BAG describes. People are actually moving to the rural areas specifically to 'protect' their children from the awful awful danger of mixing with other belief systems.
The other 10% are joes who think they can teach better than the system, and in some cases they are right but in most they aren't and are just pissed because their kids were expected to act like humans during school hours instead of the self-obsessed, impulsive monsters they are allowed to be at home.
My mother is a special needs teacher and it's especially worse in that group since in that area, a good half the parents are at fault for their children's needs (drugs, 'inbreeding', just plain piss poor parenting) and still expect the public schools to pay for things like therapists even if the kid has been pulled to be home-schooled.
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I can check when I get home, but it comes to my mind that every external hard drive I've purchased in the past four years has been FAT32 formatted for me already. Additionally, while XP and such force the GUI format to NTFS if the drive is over 32GB, you can go up to 1TB with the command line format.
Really, do you think Sony, the company with arrogance the arrogance of Nintendo without the revenue stream of the Wii, is going to license the NTFS rights from it's other 'main' competitor, Microsoft?
They'd sooner come up with their own formatting scheme.
Microsoft illegally used a monopoly to kill competition and prevent others from entering markets they had decided to be in. Microsoft has been the paragon of robber baron style dirty dealing ever since they got the deal to sell DOS to IBM.
Google has done nothing of the sort. They neither attempt to kill their competition nor do they actively work to keep others from entering any of the markets they operate in. Google has been actively and consciously working to avoid their deals coming off as 'dirty dealing' since they first started operations.
There are miles and miles of difference between Google's behavior and Microsoft's. There is a difference between being the company that could afford to and did invest in an infrastructure and being the company that simply screwed everyone till they were the only one left with any money.
Not really given FAT32 is mostly a universal standard for external media and is old enough that patents (as long as you avoid long names) are not really an issue.
A whois on the domain indicates it's old enough that it was created when Network Solutions was the only real registrar available. Remember, in the 'old' days Network Solutions had a monopoly granted it by the NSF to run the 'American' domains. While 1999 was just at the cusp of the change over, it was still a long while before Network Solutions was finally forced to play fair and real alternatives to them that people could trust showed up.
You and everyone else in this particular thread are apparently ignorant of the fact that the people convicted are Italian employees of Google Italy (thus the whole, never traveling to Italy thing is a bit silly) and the sentence is already suspended (thus no reason to for the government to track them down anyway).
Anything street legal without a needing a special waiver for emissions.
I think both interpretations are correct.
Sales figures. Called NPD because they are released by the NPD group.
They want you to think that, yes they do.
That was sort of my point. Even Microsoft, in the PC realm, was able to come up with a solution that allowed the games to go on 'forever'.
The OP was making the case that the problem the consoles is shared with the PCs.
But the manner in which consoles were setup though (and it's not just the Xbox that this is a problem with) means that you have to recreate an entire infrastructure rather than mimic a server.
Even if you have an "Xbox Live" emulator, you still have to either play games with your network routing in order to make the game see the emulator or go in and change the game itself to look for the emulator rather than the 'real thing'.
However as the long and varied life of Half-Life (the original game) proved, it's not impossible to update an old game with new matching software as time goes on.
Additionally, and ironically in some respects, as Allegiance, a game initially developed by Microsoft, shows it's possible for a PC game to survive well beyond when the company that supported it turns everything off.
I would think the burden of proof here would be on the manufacturer, and it would be to prove that this wasn't a potentially hazardous substance.
Unless you honestly think the "Asbestos model" of indiscriminately shoving this everywhere and then dealing with the fall out when people get sick is appropriate.
You really seem to be getting caught up on not being able to tell the difference between something that is 30 atoms thick and something that is a quarter of an inch thick and made of tempered glass rather than raw silica.
Unless you think this process includes popping the coated object in a forge, again I say: Apples -> Oranges.
Your last paragraph is in fact my concern. I'm not expecting this to slough off as you wipe it down with bleach, I'm expecting it to be shattered in the course of just normal every day use. This might be a good idea in limited situations, but it sounds like round two of the "revenge of asbestos" in terms of household use.
Do you regularly slam items into your windows? Cause I sure as heck don't.
But I do toss stuff onto my counters all the time. Abrasive stuff like my keys, heavy stuff like cast iron pots, and even just sharp and pointy stuff like a pile of silverware.
How thick are your windows, is it possible they are more than 30 atoms thick? Cause if so, it's probable that they aren't going to shatter/splinter in the same fashion as this coating.
In other words, Apples -> Oranges.
So you have this recording medium that is based on the idea that you'll make groves in it and run a needle along the groove. Within the groove, you'll have a number of bumps and dips which cause a vibration in the needle, which in turn is transmitted either mechanically or electronically to an amplification device, from whence the sound is actually produced.
And you think it'd be a good idea to attempt to coat said medium with a protective layer of hardened substance, to prevent it from being scratched. Do you see where this idea fails?
If you want a 'permanent' record, they already have the tech for that, ditch the (relatively) cheap material you are using to preserve the record in (vinyl) and replace it with metal.
It's a solvent, dissolve some iron into it :-P
OP was pointing out that spraying a thin layer of a substance that is known to damage the lungs when inhaled over everything you own is a good way of ensuring said damage to your lungs.
EROSION, people. Most mountains are made of solid granite a harder substance than glass a glass shell, yet they are scoured into sand over time by the simple act of the wind blowing particulate against them. A glass shell over your counter-top is going to be silicon dust in the air in a few months of use, if it lasts that long.
Commando baby, it's the only way.
I picked the FSM because no one actually believes in him and therefore I wasn't actually singling out any one religion but talking about them all.
The difference between science and religion is fairly straight forward, I can reproduce results with science or I can investigate why when I do it, it's different.
There is no reproducibility for religion, and there is rarely any attempt to find it, as 'questioning' why it doesn't exist means questioning your particular god.
No, whether they fall in the same category depends on how desperate you are at attempting to claim science is less reliable than religion. Regardless whether or not we are part of the Matrix, science actually has the tools capable of explaining how the world works and predicting how it reacts. Belief is miles away from being able to do that.
We used to call it Karma, but then we devolved into just up-modding jokes or things we agreed with and down-modding anything we didn't like and now it's just a way of preening ourselves on how good we are.
It qualifies me because I spend most of my time visiting them listening to them talk about their jobs and other than the folk who get themselves on the school board to flog teachers that they felt didn't treat their children right, the home-schoolers and their demands of the schools are the main topic de jour.
I'm sure there are plenty of hidden pockets out there, but in the area my parents teach in, almost everyone knows everyone else, and even when they don't, there are things that home-school parents often interact with public schools over. Such as money for special needs.
And as far as footing the bill, the schools do already, the problem comes when the parents expect the school to start footing the bill for things that the school doesn't normally pay for, especially when the school is rural and has a tax base of about 100 times smaller than the urban school the parent yanked the kid out of and is basing their expectations on.
Here's a hint, when the school is still running a win95 office and the 'expansion' to the school is a trailer parked in the back lot, expecting the school to pay for a $100 an hour physical therapist to work with your kid one on one daily is a pipe dream. They'd be paying more annually for the therapist than they will be for any of the teachers.
Yes, because believing an invisible wad of spaghetti is floating out in space above us, imperceptibly influencing everything that happens towards a goal that seems contrary to what is actually happening is in the same category as believing in your own senses.
To be fair, as the grown son of two parents who are currently teaching in rural public schools, 90% of the folk who are home schooling in their area are exactly as BAG describes. People are actually moving to the rural areas specifically to 'protect' their children from the awful awful danger of mixing with other belief systems.
The other 10% are joes who think they can teach better than the system, and in some cases they are right but in most they aren't and are just pissed because their kids were expected to act like humans during school hours instead of the self-obsessed, impulsive monsters they are allowed to be at home.
My mother is a special needs teacher and it's especially worse in that group since in that area, a good half the parents are at fault for their children's needs (drugs, 'inbreeding', just plain piss poor parenting) and still expect the public schools to pay for things like therapists even if the kid has been pulled to be home-schooled.