No offense, but you can get a 1TB drive the size of two standard bricks. I would call that pretty dense. Forget 30 years, even 8 years ago I would be tickled with the tought of having that much data storage in such a small place. On that note I was happy when the 1gig drive came out.
So as things progress, by the time I have kids you'll probably be able to get a 100TB drive that fits in the size of single platter HD nowadays.
unless it starts to shrink back into itself and form a singularity before the next Big Bang. But hopefully by then we will have worked out the tech to create an n-dimentional bubble to sit in. Anyone else here read books on string theory?:)
Since when is creating a similar product considered piracy? Especially when it's in the materials department. How long till Lowes sues 84 Lumber because they're selling a 2x4 piece of organic material created from the trunk of a tree?
but what about the average consumer? My uncle bought a laptop with Vista and it is HORRIBLE. I've tried a couple times to get Best Buy and Toshiba to let him downgrade but they wont. Best Buy just says they dont sell XP anymore and scoffed at me, Toshiba refuses to.
So if MS is letting businesses do this, can the average consumer call up and say "hey I'll mail you the original CD + key, send me back an XP disc + key"
That's why I would never run a cleaning system from inside an infected system. When I do commands like I suggested dd/md5sum/ etc.. I do it while running Knoppix as to have a running system completely independent of the system on the hard drive and treat the discs as raw data. Thought this or similar concepts where common-place in recovery efforts.
1. create dd dumps of both drives and run diffs on the images. Added benefit of also seeing if any lower level filesystem stuff was changed and not just files.
2. find / -type f -exec md5sum {} \; compare md5sums to find which files are different. Though this will cause a problem with storing the md5, maybe use a ram drive or exclude/media or/mnt.
How is it legal for a service provider to lock you out of feature for a product you buy that is not their product? Again that's like buy a computer then looking for an ISP, then the ISP tells you you're not allowed to play games on your computer or use piece of software on it. Service providers have no right to tell you what you can't due on your own hardware, a phone is essentially a piece of hardware. You are not leasing or renting a product from them. You are buying a piece of hardware from another vendor and using them as a service provider. If anyone had that right it would be the manufacturer of the product you're buying.
Isn't that illegal or is it legal to unlock it? She paid for the phone, it's her property. In my eyes, it's like a ISP telling you what to do with your computer (You can't run java on your computer) because we have locked that feature, despite what the hardware and software can do.
Thanks will try that this evening. If it works I'll gladly post about it. Other than that the phone works ok. But that was a frustrating deal breaker for me.
Agree, that's like Dell selling a computer that only works with AOL. What does Apple have to gain by ONLY selling via AT&T?
I know if I was selling a product, I'd want it to be sold not only at Best Buy, but Target, Walmart, etc. Plus unless you're really rich or really hardcore, no one is going to spend a couple hundred dollars just to break their current contract to switch to AT&T to get a phone. Sells would have been threw the roof had it been available for any network. I would have bought one.
Are you refering to the Samsung A990 phone that came out? It is a piece of crap. My girlfriend saved up for 6 months to buy one, and last night I tried to move her mp3 collection from her old phone miniSD to a microSD I had and it wouldn't work.
Turn's out the A990 requires a cable (not included) and you had to sync with Windows Media 10 and only uses WMA!
Besides the fact I'm a linux user, this is just a step backwards. I thought we where passed the days of requiring special software to transfer songs to a device. Pretty much everything I've seen for the past 4-5 years (even those cheapo players down at Wallyworld for $32) are mass storage compliant letting you just copy your files to the SD card.
While she did keep it, just no music, I would have taken it back and utilized my 15 day return policy. Chalk one up for crippleware.
With all the hype over people getting sued and arrested for using someones open AP, I wonder if the iPhone autoconnects without user intervention or if it requires some manual selection. If auto this could cause legal problems as the user would be according to recent suits "stealing bandwith and computer fraud by illegally accessing an another persons network" I dont agree with it, but that appears to be the direction we're going.
I'm amazed AT&T or any cell company would allow a cell to enter their market that has built in wifi. Won't this cut into their profits? Since anyone can go to McD's and check their email instead of having to pay their provider for the online minutes.
I might be interpreting this wrong, but I would suspect it's Walmart who will be upset with this. This will essentially get rid of the "we'll sell below cost, just to get you in the doors to buy other crap". So this could be a good thing. If you're a mom and pop store, instead of going out of business because Walmart would take a hit just to sell something below your cost, they will be forced to sell at the same floor as you. So then you can work more on quality than quantity and hopefully beat them at their own game. Look at Best Buy:)
These have been amazing pieces of hardware. There has been a lot of buzz around opportunity, but last I heard both were still functional. What is the other one doing? That way if opportunity gets lost or malfunctions in the crater at least one will be left to roam the surface.
from what we already do? Personally I think it would be easier to carry around a national ID card instead of carrying my License, SS card, Birth certificate, etc.
I agree physical or emotional violence is not good. What I'm concerned about is a law that lets people sue for "mental anguish" because someone on MySpace called another person an idiot. I wasn't trying to condone bullying to "make men out of boys" as much as saying there needs to be a line in between what is really offensive and what a normal healthy individual would shrug off.
Not only because they make great games, but they make multiplatform games. I was thrilled when I was able get the PC CD plop it in my Mac and there was an installer for it:) WC2 forever lol
Though what they did with the freecraft project kinda sucked.
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So as things progress, by the time I have kids you'll probably be able to get a 100TB drive that fits in the size of single platter HD nowadays.
unless it starts to shrink back into itself and form a singularity before the next Big Bang. But hopefully by then we will have worked out the tech to create an n-dimentional bubble to sit in. Anyone else here read books on string theory? :)
Since when is creating a similar product considered piracy? Especially when it's in the materials department. How long till Lowes sues 84 Lumber because they're selling a 2x4 piece of organic material created from the trunk of a tree?
Wasn't there a discussion a while back that while cell phone providers say "unlimited" it's actually 5gigs a month?
So if MS is letting businesses do this, can the average consumer call up and say "hey I'll mail you the original CD + key, send me back an XP disc + key"
That's why I would never run a cleaning system from inside an infected system. When I do commands like I suggested dd/md5sum/ etc.. I do it while running Knoppix as to have a running system completely independent of the system on the hard drive and treat the discs as raw data. Thought this or similar concepts where common-place in recovery efforts.
That can't be legal. Granted any company can dump you in a second, but if you put in the hours they legally have to compensate you for those hours.
1. create dd dumps of both drives and run diffs on the images. Added benefit of also seeing if any lower level filesystem stuff was changed and not just files.
2. find / -type f -exec md5sum {} \; compare md5sums to find which files are different. Though this will cause a problem with storing the md5, maybe use a ram drive or exclude /media or /mnt.
Why would we WANT to manage identities. Thought one the freedoms of the internet was anonymity and freedom of speech.
How is it legal for a service provider to lock you out of feature for a product you buy that is not their product? Again that's like buy a computer then looking for an ISP, then the ISP tells you you're not allowed to play games on your computer or use piece of software on it. Service providers have no right to tell you what you can't due on your own hardware, a phone is essentially a piece of hardware. You are not leasing or renting a product from them. You are buying a piece of hardware from another vendor and using them as a service provider. If anyone had that right it would be the manufacturer of the product you're buying.
Isn't that illegal or is it legal to unlock it? She paid for the phone, it's her property. In my eyes, it's like a ISP telling you what to do with your computer (You can't run java on your computer) because we have locked that feature, despite what the hardware and software can do.
Thanks will try that this evening. If it works I'll gladly post about it. Other than that the phone works ok. But that was a frustrating deal breaker for me.
I'd give it 2 months till we see a gcc toolchain for the iPhone :)
Matter of opinion. I enjoy my Wii, but for most gaming you just can't beat a mouse and WASD on the keyboard :) just more esthetically pleasing.
Agree, that's like Dell selling a computer that only works with AOL. What does Apple have to gain by ONLY selling via AT&T? I know if I was selling a product, I'd want it to be sold not only at Best Buy, but Target, Walmart, etc. Plus unless you're really rich or really hardcore, no one is going to spend a couple hundred dollars just to break their current contract to switch to AT&T to get a phone. Sells would have been threw the roof had it been available for any network. I would have bought one.
Turn's out the A990 requires a cable (not included) and you had to sync with Windows Media 10 and only uses WMA! Besides the fact I'm a linux user, this is just a step backwards. I thought we where passed the days of requiring special software to transfer songs to a device. Pretty much everything I've seen for the past 4-5 years (even those cheapo players down at Wallyworld for $32) are mass storage compliant letting you just copy your files to the SD card.
While she did keep it, just no music, I would have taken it back and utilized my 15 day return policy. Chalk one up for crippleware.
With all the hype over people getting sued and arrested for using someones open AP, I wonder if the iPhone autoconnects without user intervention or if it requires some manual selection. If auto this could cause legal problems as the user would be according to recent suits "stealing bandwith and computer fraud by illegally accessing an another persons network" I dont agree with it, but that appears to be the direction we're going.
I'm amazed AT&T or any cell company would allow a cell to enter their market that has built in wifi. Won't this cut into their profits? Since anyone can go to McD's and check their email instead of having to pay their provider for the online minutes.
"OMG I gotta have It (TM)" or Deep Silicon :)
I might be interpreting this wrong, but I would suspect it's Walmart who will be upset with this. This will essentially get rid of the "we'll sell below cost, just to get you in the doors to buy other crap". So this could be a good thing. If you're a mom and pop store, instead of going out of business because Walmart would take a hit just to sell something below your cost, they will be forced to sell at the same floor as you. So then you can work more on quality than quantity and hopefully beat them at their own game. Look at Best Buy :)
These have been amazing pieces of hardware. There has been a lot of buzz around opportunity, but last I heard both were still functional. What is the other one doing? That way if opportunity gets lost or malfunctions in the crater at least one will be left to roam the surface.
Though what they did with the freecraft project kinda sucked.