ll SMART-friendly HDDs support the short (1 to 2 minutes) and long (1 to 2 hours) diagnostic tests, the latter doing an exhaustive sector scan.
I don't suppose you or anyone knows what the SMART status means exactly in Mac OS X?
When you open disk utility and select a physical volume you see SMART status: verified, there isn't any wait. There is a button on the same screen to "verify" the disk, not sure how or if that relates to the SMART status.
The rule of thumb I've come up with is if it says anything apart from verified there, you are close to a failed disk. Seeing "verified" though doesn't in any way guarantee a healthy disk. Would be useful to know more..
c) Installs some fucking crap ass community software that was never asked for or mentioned when making the initial purchase over steam. This shiet from Rockstar goes in the system tray and puts up a fricken splash screen at every reboot on your desktop just to play their game.
This really annoyed me as well - Startup Guard caught it trying to register that community crap to run at startup. Denied it but it still keeps itself running after closing the game. I mean why? What chance is there that I want that crap running 24/7 on my PC? Reminds me of the last time I installed Real Player. Right click on the tray icon and you can uncheck "run at system start" so at least you can turn it off, but it is still out of order.
Not had any of the other problems you mention though - well except the 15GB (!!) download from Steam, I'd have bought a physical copy if I'd known it was that big.
Welcome to Xpress Lifts, descent to floor sixteen. You will be going down two thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven floors and, for a small extra charge, you can enjoy the in-lift movie "Gone With the Wind". If you look to your right and to your left, you will notice there are no exits. In the highly unlikely event of the lift having to make a crash-landing, death is certain. Under your seats you will find a cassette for recording your last-minute testament, and from above your head a bag will drop containing sedatives and cyanide capsules.
From a correspondence between Ensign Guy H. Raner and Albert Einstein in 1945 and 1949. Einstein responds to the accusation that he was converted by a Jesuit priest: "I have never talked to a Jesuit prest in my life. I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist." "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth." Freethought Today, November 2004
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It is included in Albert Einstein: The
From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It is included in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, published by Princeton University Press. Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950), p. 27.
"During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world... The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old conception of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes... In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vase power in the hands of priests." Albert Einstein, reported in Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium, edited by L. Bryson and
"Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me." The Quotable Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
I'm not certain what you mean by a chain-letter, but I assume you mean what I would call a pyramid scheme, and I agree that these could look legitimate if you don't think them through.
But transferring large amounts of money for a huge payoff? People may miss the fact that it's a scam, but I don't believe anyone thinks it's legal, even if the email doesn't explicitly spell it out.
No one would ever drink warm lager out of choice but there are other beers; bitters and stouts for example, which are generally served at room temperature. Since these would have largely been drunk during the war in Britain, I imagine the meme started by returning American servicemen telling stories to the folks back home. Since most of their listeners probably believed that all beer is yellow and fizzy, they thought the British sat around drinking warm lager.
It's per building/residence and as far as online access goes it applies only to live broadcasts - I think this does mean in theory that an office should have a TV licence if anyone watches a stream of a live event from the BBC, but apart from that this isn't going to lead to more fees.
And don't forget the various Crown Dependencies and British overseas territories which are not part of the United Kingdom. Of course residents or almost all of them have British citizenship so can be referred to as British (although specific 'local difficulties' may make the term offensive to some).
Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."
There was a scary program on UK TV a few years back talking about the possibility of something similar happening in the canary islands that would wipe out the eastern seaboard of the US - a little research seems to suggest this is greatly overhyped however.
Here in the UK you rarely see bumper stickers, yet road rage is not exactly rare. So I don't really see the correlation. Having said that, whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle. But maybe that's just me.
We may not have bumper stickers but for a short period every 2 years, in England at least, there is a national scheme to mark poor drivers. Bad drivers are forced to display a red cross on a white background, very bad drivers must display multiple or excessively large symbols. A very useful scheme and I'm not sure why we don't follow it year round.
The response rate to this sort of advertising is extremely low. He'll be lucky to get a single response, thus making it not worth the time to compose an email.
But this is hardly an untargeted list - I would expect the response rate to be significant.
Most people react badly to unsolicited emailed advertisements. It is likely that some of these people are already customers or potential customers. This will dissuade them from choosing your company in the future.
Bottom line is that this is a non-issue for a small company - mildly annoying a few thousand people in exchange for say a 1% conversion rate is a no brainer in a business where you make a large amount on each sale.
If any customers are in the EU, you may have a data protection liability. Even if you don't, at least some people will respond requesting to be removed from the mailing list, which is something that will have to be dealt with.
True, but chances of actually getting into trouble are vanishingly small.
It's very likely to be against the terms and conditions of your ISP.
Again, very very small chance of any problems, and anyway it's not exactly difficult to get a new ISP.
It is possible that you will be blacklisted by the recipients ISPs (unlikely if he does this once)
It's such a small scale operation that the chances of appearing on anyone's radar are remote.
There may be some legal ramifications for taking advantage of an obvious mistake by the other company. Even just a baseless legal threat would take time and money to deal with.
Assumes they hear about it, and want to make a noise about the fact that they are incompetent when it comes to securing their customers data.
Bottom line is, it makes a great deal of sense from a business point of view. Sure you can argue against it on ethical grounds, but trying to argue against it from a business point of view involves a lot of wishful thinking.
I've got Excel X for Mac (1 or 2 versions old IIRC) and it can do this. Step 3 of the Import Text Wizard (comes up when I import any text file for me) allows me to force the format of a column, and you can set it to text there, which has the behaviour you're looking for. A bit of a pain in the arse to be honest for imports with many columns where you just want to change a few, but at least it can be done.
Thus proving something everyone on Slashdot already knew: when it comes to rapidly advancing technology, patents do nothing but move the state of the art back 10 or 20 years.
I don't see its proved anything of the sort to be honest. Unless the poster who made the original suggestion is in a position to bring this product to market himself, and was willing to make what I assume would be a large investment to do so without the benefit of any patent protection, then no one has lost anything. On the flip side the patent holder may be able to find an investor willing to back development of the technology; it would be considerably harder to do so if the investor knew that if the product was a success, they'd have to very quickly face competitors selling identical products who didn't have to make as large an initial investment.
Disclaimer: I know crap all about solar power or the validity or utility of this particular patent; I'm just trying to make a distinction between the development of software and that of physical inventions.
You're asking for details of an atrocity that wasn't commited?
I could make one up for you if you like; if US soldiers in Iraq took a human shield approach I'm sure they could increase the number of civilian deaths by enough for you to call it an atrocity.
Or are you only talking about on US soil? If so, given that the US has never yet fought an enemy with the capability of striking the US itself, that seems a little short sighted.
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Thanks for that, much appreciated.
I don't suppose you or anyone knows what the SMART status means exactly in Mac OS X?
When you open disk utility and select a physical volume you see SMART status: verified, there isn't any wait. There is a button on the same screen to "verify" the disk, not sure how or if that relates to the SMART status.
The rule of thumb I've come up with is if it says anything apart from verified there, you are close to a failed disk. Seeing "verified" though doesn't in any way guarantee a healthy disk. Would be useful to know more..
Nah, there's at least a possibility that Britain will dump the monarchy at some point.
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This really annoyed me as well - Startup Guard caught it trying to register that community crap to run at startup. Denied it but it still keeps itself running after closing the game. I mean why? What chance is there that I want that crap running 24/7 on my PC? Reminds me of the last time I installed Real Player. Right click on the tray icon and you can uncheck "run at system start" so at least you can turn it off, but it is still out of order.
Not had any of the other problems you mention though - well except the 15GB (!!) download from Steam, I'd have bought a physical copy if I'd known it was that big.
Well you can get black ones - pretty much the same as the white version but they've got a bigger... you know... hard drive.
Too many syllables, not enough meaning.
Welcome to Xpress Lifts, descent to floor sixteen. You will be going down two thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven floors and, for a small extra charge, you can enjoy the in-lift movie "Gone With the Wind". If you look to your right and to your left, you will notice there are no exits. In the highly unlikely event of the lift having to make a crash-landing, death is certain. Under your seats you will find a cassette for recording your last-minute testament, and from above your head a bag will drop containing sedatives and cyanide capsules.
From a correspondence between Ensign Guy H. Raner and Albert Einstein in 1945 and 1949. Einstein responds to the accusation that he was converted by a Jesuit priest: "I have never talked to a Jesuit prest in my life. I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist." "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth." Freethought Today, November 2004
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It is included in Albert Einstein: The
From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It is included in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, published by Princeton University Press. Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950), p. 27.
"During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world... The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old conception of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes... In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vase power in the hands of priests." Albert Einstein, reported in Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium, edited by L. Bryson and
"Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me." The Quotable Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
I'm not certain what you mean by a chain-letter, but I assume you mean what I would call a pyramid scheme, and I agree that these could look legitimate if you don't think them through.
But transferring large amounts of money for a huge payoff? People may miss the fact that it's a scam, but I don't believe anyone thinks it's legal, even if the email doesn't explicitly spell it out.
No one would ever drink warm lager out of choice but there are other beers; bitters and stouts for example, which are generally served at room temperature. Since these would have largely been drunk during the war in Britain, I imagine the meme started by returning American servicemen telling stories to the folks back home. Since most of their listeners probably believed that all beer is yellow and fizzy, they thought the British sat around drinking warm lager.
It's per building/residence and as far as online access goes it applies only to live broadcasts - I think this does mean in theory that an office should have a TV licence if anyone watches a stream of a live event from the BBC, but apart from that this isn't going to lead to more fees.
And don't forget the various Crown Dependencies and British overseas territories which are not part of the United Kingdom. Of course residents or almost all of them have British citizenship so can be referred to as British (although specific 'local difficulties' may make the term offensive to some).
Confused yet?
Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."
There was a scary program on UK TV a few years back talking about the possibility of something similar happening in the canary islands that would wipe out the eastern seaboard of the US - a little research seems to suggest this is greatly overhyped however.
> Please your lassie like never before!
Woof! Woof!
We may not have bumper stickers but for a short period every 2 years, in England at least, there is a national scheme to mark poor drivers. Bad drivers are forced to display a red cross on a white background, very bad drivers must display multiple or excessively large symbols. A very useful scheme and I'm not sure why we don't follow it year round.
Some examples can be seen here.
But this is hardly an untargeted list - I would expect the response rate to be significant.
Bottom line is that this is a non-issue for a small company - mildly annoying a few thousand people in exchange for say a 1% conversion rate is a no brainer in a business where you make a large amount on each sale.
True, but chances of actually getting into trouble are vanishingly small.
Again, very very small chance of any problems, and anyway it's not exactly difficult to get a new ISP.
It's such a small scale operation that the chances of appearing on anyone's radar are remote.
Assumes they hear about it, and want to make a noise about the fact that they are incompetent when it comes to securing their customers data.
Bottom line is, it makes a great deal of sense from a business point of view. Sure you can argue against it on ethical grounds, but trying to argue against it from a business point of view involves a lot of wishful thinking.
Wow, parent gets 2 negative mods for not spotting a Python reference.. tough crowd!
I dunno, I vote for the Captain's Log joke earlier...
I've got Excel X for Mac (1 or 2 versions old IIRC) and it can do this. Step 3 of the Import Text Wizard (comes up when I import any text file for me) allows me to force the format of a column, and you can set it to text there, which has the behaviour you're looking for. A bit of a pain in the arse to be honest for imports with many columns where you just want to change a few, but at least it can be done.
I don't see its proved anything of the sort to be honest. Unless the poster who made the original suggestion is in a position to bring this product to market himself, and was willing to make what I assume would be a large investment to do so without the benefit of any patent protection, then no one has lost anything. On the flip side the patent holder may be able to find an investor willing to back development of the technology; it would be considerably harder to do so if the investor knew that if the product was a success, they'd have to very quickly face competitors selling identical products who didn't have to make as large an initial investment.
Disclaimer: I know crap all about solar power or the validity or utility of this particular patent; I'm just trying to make a distinction between the development of software and that of physical inventions.
Yes, but you have to choose between free as in beer or free as in speech. Very rarely do you get both.
You're asking for details of an atrocity that wasn't commited?
I could make one up for you if you like; if US soldiers in Iraq took a human shield approach I'm sure they could increase the number of civilian deaths by enough for you to call it an atrocity.
Or are you only talking about on US soil? If so, given that the US has never yet fought an enemy with the capability of striking the US itself, that seems a little short sighted.
I don't even want to think about how you acquired the source code.. ugh.. I said I *didn't* want to think about it.