I can return my software here in the USA. If I have my receipt, and it's within 30 days of purchase, if they refuse, I tell them I'm going to do a chargeback on my credit card, force the refund, and cost them extra money in the chargeback with a citation of failure to deliver promised goods of a promised quality.
The stores always capitulate when you talk and know what you're talking about
Guess what gets broken every time a difficulty like a conjoined twin occurs and the only way to save one is to kill the other through surgical procedure?
That oath has long been outdated and made obsolete.
Until a random coyote or other urban-settlement disturbed form of wildlife catches rabies and runs amok in the streets biting people.
Like Los Angeles has coyotes, all over. I've seen many in broad daylight wandering around I-10. Coyotes are mostly nocturnal.
I carry a pellet pistol with me (can't own a gunpowder-powered handgun, I'm a felon.) 297 MPH projectile speed, and with a hollow-point field pellet, it's more than enough to discourage the most aggressive (but non-rabid) animals. Of course, there are notable exceptions, like feral canines or mistreated/misraised bull terriers of all breeds, and of course the occasional crackhead, and in those cases, you need a REAL GUN otherwise you face severe injury from said animal or crackhead.
"In modern processors, there is no penalty for using virtual memory,"
Umm, would you like to bet? If it's not stored in physical RAM, there's only two other place to store, processor cache or a slower storage medium. I guarantee you a fast processor WILL CRAWL if you tried accessing the 'virtual memory' pagefile written on disks that have low bandwidth, like CF cards and older pre-NT days hard drives.
By historical use and the way Windows uses the term today, the Submitter is correct. It's been called virtual memory since the late '70s.
"It is also worth noting that, so far as I know, self-defense has never been considered a medical priority."
The preservation of life by ANY MEANS is the TOP MEDICAL PRIORITY OF ANY DOCTOR.
I can also tell you don't suffer from carpal tunnel. Some people can't even hold a knife properly in order to slice vegetables thanks to CTS. This 'gun' (looks more like a fat drum tuning key) would help with the drawbacks of a regular handgun (kickback/recoil due to top-barrel design, which can cause wrist damage in elderly people.) Plus, it doesn't look like a gun, the elderly can say "It's my new inhaler" and catch the unsuspecting thief totally off-guard.
"And, there are a few other options besides "shoot the asshole dead" anyway--like, say, not carrying around large amounts of cash."
Some attackers get even angrier when they find out they just robbed someone with no cash, and the chance of injury to the victim in those cases dramatically rises. So, no, that is NOT an option.
"A 3 mb file copy is still as long as a 300mb file copy in xp for me."
Sounds like you've got bad hardware, which tends to be the cause of most Vista issues. I just slammed Left 4 Dead from the steam folder on my XP desktop to the steam folder on my Vista laptop in less than 15 minutes. That's a few gigs of information.
"Get your own chair at the grown up table and stop using Windows. Spam will stop, and vendors will "magically" make their software for other OS's."
First you need to graduate from your high-chair.
SPAM WILL NEVER STOP UNLESS THE NETWORKS ARE SHUT DOWN.
And even THEN, we'll get in the form of faxes, phone calls, and junk snail mail.
I think you need to grow up and open your eyes to the PAST, where anything you see today could just as easily be found 20 or more years ago, albeit in a different format. Spam back then was on paper, and in unwarranted telephone calls - now it's email and text messages.
What, you thought spam was something new, little one?
"I would guess that the vast majority of those 30 million macs are laptops."
Hooray! A MOBILE botnet that I can toy with and make ever so much harder to trace as the unwitting user carries their laptop everywhere and opens it up at every Starbucks, McDs, and any other place with open wifi.
It's not out there because WE DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND.
Those of us already hacking away at XBOX Live! know not to drag potential immature morons into our fold. We've kept this almost 100% offline because WE DON'T WANT THE ATTENTION.
A modified distro of Ubuntu has already been installed onto a 360, using a firmware hack that makes it possible to gain 100% access before full system initilization.
And Chillfix is indeed the chip we used to perform this. Because of it's nature, allowing BIOS modifications and firmware modifications, we can run anything we want on a 360 as long as we're not connected to the internet on that machine.
"But there's no chip available for the 360 that lets you "just tool around" with it."
WRONG. Chillifix allows you to do far more than just backup games. We can use it to recover bad 360 BIOS, bricked Hitachi drives, and more.
But then again, you PROBABLY don't make a living by doing these things on a daily basis, so I can forgive you for not knowing what in the hell you're talking about.
You certainly wouldn't be able to tell by smoking it, all the THC would have degraded by then back into precursor cannabinoids. They likely would have measured the amount of residual compounds leftover from broken-down pot.
Hint: Most slashdot users NEVER PLAYED most anything Final Fantasy, and thus wouldn't know jack about Uematsu Nobuo, who while good doesn't compare to Meguro Masashi for pure emotion in the music.
...Which is why I carry around a copy of all relevant laws concerning consumer protection. When a manager argues, I shove that paper in his face and go "Capitulate or we call police, lawyers, and Federal Authorities for federal-level charges (If they apply.)
Or odds were that the person didn't have a specialized and very-custom computer.
Try having more than one optical drive in your system, virtual or physical. Watch whichever's the secondary end up disabled or having the firmware totally bricked (Which starforce did)
"UDP senders don't know when they're flooding the connection, so they just keep doing it"
Well, in all fairness, the little uplink light on my router would go absolutely nuts if I had a UDP stream (Oh, say, like a Camfrog Video Chat) happening. So I'm sure I'd notice fairly quickly.
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I can return my software here in the USA. If I have my receipt, and it's within 30 days of purchase, if they refuse, I tell them I'm going to do a chargeback on my credit card, force the refund, and cost them extra money in the chargeback with a citation of failure to deliver promised goods of a promised quality.
The stores always capitulate when you talk and know what you're talking about
If I have my way SecuROM will be barred 100% from the market. We'll see after I'm done nailing EA to a cross for the inclusion of it in Spore.
Guess what gets broken every time a difficulty like a conjoined twin occurs and the only way to save one is to kill the other through surgical procedure?
That oath has long been outdated and made obsolete.
Until a random coyote or other urban-settlement disturbed form of wildlife catches rabies and runs amok in the streets biting people.
Like Los Angeles has coyotes, all over. I've seen many in broad daylight wandering around I-10. Coyotes are mostly nocturnal.
I carry a pellet pistol with me (can't own a gunpowder-powered handgun, I'm a felon.) 297 MPH projectile speed, and with a hollow-point field pellet, it's more than enough to discourage the most aggressive (but non-rabid) animals. Of course, there are notable exceptions, like feral canines or mistreated/misraised bull terriers of all breeds, and of course the occasional crackhead, and in those cases, you need a REAL GUN otherwise you face severe injury from said animal or crackhead.
"In modern processors, there is no penalty for using virtual memory,"
Umm, would you like to bet? If it's not stored in physical RAM, there's only two other place to store, processor cache or a slower storage medium. I guarantee you a fast processor WILL CRAWL if you tried accessing the 'virtual memory' pagefile written on disks that have low bandwidth, like CF cards and older pre-NT days hard drives.
By historical use and the way Windows uses the term today, the Submitter is correct. It's been called virtual memory since the late '70s.
Don't make a pagefile.
Tell the sloppy coders of the plugins to get their crap straight and catch up to modern times.
"It is also worth noting that, so far as I know, self-defense has never been considered a medical priority."
The preservation of life by ANY MEANS is the TOP MEDICAL PRIORITY OF ANY DOCTOR.
I can also tell you don't suffer from carpal tunnel. Some people can't even hold a knife properly in order to slice vegetables thanks to CTS. This 'gun' (looks more like a fat drum tuning key) would help with the drawbacks of a regular handgun (kickback/recoil due to top-barrel design, which can cause wrist damage in elderly people.) Plus, it doesn't look like a gun, the elderly can say "It's my new inhaler" and catch the unsuspecting thief totally off-guard.
"Why should I be forced to carry a gun everywhere I go if I want to feel safe outside?"
Because if the humans won't get you, NATURE WILL. There are other threats to your life outside than just other humans.
"And, there are a few other options besides "shoot the asshole dead" anyway--like, say, not carrying around large amounts of cash."
Some attackers get even angrier when they find out they just robbed someone with no cash, and the chance of injury to the victim in those cases dramatically rises. So, no, that is NOT an option.
XP lies which makes it seem faster than Vista
"A 3 mb file copy is still as long as a 300mb file copy in xp for me."
Sounds like you've got bad hardware, which tends to be the cause of most Vista issues. I just slammed Left 4 Dead from the steam folder on my XP desktop to the steam folder on my Vista laptop in less than 15 minutes. That's a few gigs of information.
"Get your own chair at the grown up table and stop using Windows. Spam will stop, and vendors will "magically" make their software for other OS's."
First you need to graduate from your high-chair.
SPAM WILL NEVER STOP UNLESS THE NETWORKS ARE SHUT DOWN.
And even THEN, we'll get in the form of faxes, phone calls, and junk snail mail.
I think you need to grow up and open your eyes to the PAST, where anything you see today could just as easily be found 20 or more years ago, albeit in a different format. Spam back then was on paper, and in unwarranted telephone calls - now it's email and text messages.
What, you thought spam was something new, little one?
"I would guess that the vast majority of those 30 million macs are laptops."
Hooray! A MOBILE botnet that I can toy with and make ever so much harder to trace as the unwitting user carries their laptop everywhere and opens it up at every Starbucks, McDs, and any other place with open wifi.
I love how I get modded troll for basically calling someone on their own nonsense.
Proof that Slashdot moderators tend to not have any brains. Smarts, yes, brains and common sense (and possibly reading comprehension) no.
"However, since this is the Internet, I want to take this opportunity to point out several substantial flaws in your submission."
I hate to nitpick, but when the fuck does ANY list start with 'zero' as the heading number?
Can't trust the advice of a person that fails to use the number zero in a proper manner.
It's not out there because WE DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND.
Those of us already hacking away at XBOX Live! know not to drag potential immature morons into our fold. We've kept this almost 100% offline because WE DON'T WANT THE ATTENTION.
A modified distro of Ubuntu has already been installed onto a 360, using a firmware hack that makes it possible to gain 100% access before full system initilization.
And Chillfix is indeed the chip we used to perform this. Because of it's nature, allowing BIOS modifications and firmware modifications, we can run anything we want on a 360 as long as we're not connected to the internet on that machine.
because this is seriously the biggest load of it I've ever seen. A person could exhibit half of the mentioned symptoms after a fucking sneeze.
Someone needs to arrest the head of the FBI and the DoHS, because they've long since lost their fucking minds and are just hurting us in the long run.
"I'm not going to waste any time or money on this "problem" until I hear of thousands of other Mac boxes going down in flames."
Yep, you've never worked at Flextronics before. Otherwise you'd know just how many Apple computes literally burn themselves up.
"But there's no chip available for the 360 that lets you "just tool around" with it."
WRONG. Chillifix allows you to do far more than just backup games. We can use it to recover bad 360 BIOS, bricked Hitachi drives, and more.
But then again, you PROBABLY don't make a living by doing these things on a daily basis, so I can forgive you for not knowing what in the hell you're talking about.
Bioassays, perhaps.
You certainly wouldn't be able to tell by smoking it, all the THC would have degraded by then back into precursor cannabinoids. They likely would have measured the amount of residual compounds leftover from broken-down pot.
Hint: Most slashdot users NEVER PLAYED most anything Final Fantasy, and thus wouldn't know jack about Uematsu Nobuo, who while good doesn't compare to Meguro Masashi for pure emotion in the music.
Most peoploe that Chips their 360s won't bother connecting to the network anyways since they can get all updates needed from the mod manufacturer.
And most buy the modchips to be able to tool around. They're just nerds, not hardcore pirates. They don't care about online.
Just speaking as someone that's had to install dozens of modchips in dozens of systems over the years.
...Which is why I carry around a copy of all relevant laws concerning consumer protection. When a manager argues, I shove that paper in his face and go "Capitulate or we call police, lawyers, and Federal Authorities for federal-level charges (If they apply.)
Come prepared and you'll win every time.
Or odds were that the person didn't have a specialized and very-custom computer.
Try having more than one optical drive in your system, virtual or physical. Watch whichever's the secondary end up disabled or having the firmware totally bricked (Which starforce did)
"UDP senders don't know when they're flooding the connection, so they just keep doing it"
Well, in all fairness, the little uplink light on my router would go absolutely nuts if I had a UDP stream (Oh, say, like a Camfrog Video Chat) happening. So I'm sure I'd notice fairly quickly.