But does it work well on a USB flash drive? From the description it seems like it might. Anyone have an idea?
Most browsers already give you options to allow you to not store most of this information already. Firefox has a key combo to (transparently, optionally) wipe out selected areas of this data. Someone mentioned an option for Safari. Opera probably has something too somewhere.
Parent is right. Darwin would say that both humans and apes descended from a common ancestor. Indeed, if you take this to its extreme, all species could be traced back to a first ancestor of all life, which imo seems pretty cool to think about.
Specifically, you could set your swap file to a FIXED SIZE to keep Windows from resizing the swap file, thus theoretically upping performance due to less disk activity.
Today in XP, I set a decent minimum size (1.5GB, to complement my 1.5GB memory... I had 0.5GB at one point and I haven't changed my virtual memory size since then, no real need to.) and then set the maximum as high as it can go, for emergencies (memory leak from hell). 32bit Windows XP allows 3gb maximum size (so it tells me), so that's what I have it set at.
Another old trick that works as well today is, if you have multiple hard drives, move your paging file to the non-Windows drive. So I have my C: drive set to no paging, and D: set to 1536-3072 (Windows recommends 2302 for it, fyi).
Unfortunately I have no clue if it actually produces measurable benefits, and I have no motivation to do benchmarking to see. For most people it's probably just best to leave it be at "System managed size" unless you know what you're doing.
I wonder how this will affect the launch of the PS3... specifically, since it was intended to launch about the same time as the Wii. So instead we might have the Wii launching earlier, for less. I wonder what kind of effect it would have, but I bet it wouldn't be good for Sony.
Suit 1: Hmm, not enough people are buying our strategy guides for our games. How can we make more money?
Suit 2: We could invest more time and money in our games to make a higher-quality product.
Suit 3: Shut up Tom, that idea is horrible.
Suit 1: Let's up the games' difficulty so people will be FORCED to buy our strategy guides! Brilliant!
* Act Two *
Suit 1: OK apparently our customers are starting to use an "Internet" to download FREE, unauthorized guides made by other customers. What's worse, the legal department informed me that what they are doing is completely legal. Now, we need to either find a way to take down this "Internet" thing or figure out how to change the legality of these guides. Ideas?
Suit 2: I think...
Suit 1:...from anyone EXCEPT Tom?
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Etc. OK it's a bit of a Dilbert spin, especially near the end, but I bet the first act happened for real SOMEWHERE.
"The new management could take the axe [sic] to Microsoft's $6.6bn of wasteful research and development expenditure."
And then Apple will produce wondrous innovations, and replace Microsoft as the leading OS supplier, and Microsoft will go under and LBO will write it off as Microsoft's fault somehow.
People are greedy, corporations doubly so, and like to milk money from their consumers. Nothing NEW here... but if true I'm glad I'm going with the Wii, if only because at least I haven't seen Nintendo do anything spectacularly stupid yet (as opposed to the other two guys, esp Sony).
Even better, delete the offending files and then run SDelete several times to overwrite all your free space with random data. Then they can't prove anything (although the inability to find deleted files is suspicious).
On second thought, I suppose it'd have to be something concrete to be Prior Art... and they'd have to make something concrete to patent it, right? As in actually implement/create something, not just spout off words... although lots of patents are doubtless based on just words...
IANAL, but the document itself would be proof of Prior Art, allowing for easy invalidation of their patent... right? But then again, not everyone has laywers, time, and money to chase patents with...:(
That would require a lot of genetic engineering... I don't claim to be an expert on such things, but basically you'd have to eliminate the genes that grow everything but the meat. Then you'd have to give it sustenance somehow so it would grow.
Of course, it would still be "alive" before killing it but just as much as plants are.
Once malware is running on your PC you should assume it can do ANYTHING it wants, including disabing firewalls/antivirus, etc.
Heck, Windows Firewall has an API to allow programs to add themselves as exceptions (probably because if it didn't programmers would just use 100 different non-forward compatible methods to do it).
Virus that causes porn movies to randomly play through this display on cell phones. Man that would be embarrassing in a public place like a mall or something. Which is exactly why someone is going to make it.
"Abuse of "Report Abuse" Leads to Feature Removal"
Unless the "Report Abuse" also submits details as the submitter as well (Username and IP/hostname in particular). Still, I can see trolls mass-reporting people to the police because they visit a forum the trolls hate because they were banned quite fairly... as an example.
True, but if the files are encrypted in, for example, RSA 128-bit they can pass your files around all they want and never figure out the contents. Of course this is for sensitive data... there are tons of files on my computer I could upload that I wouldn't care if someone got their hands on.
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2.0 b1 doesn't crash for me, try disabling some extensions.
It DOES, however, refuse to run on Vista. Hopefully this release includes fixes for that.
Wii will have Smash Bros. And Zelda. And Metroid. Even if it sucks (which I doubt) those games and Nintendo's other franchises can easily save it.
But does it work well on a USB flash drive? From the description it seems like it might. Anyone have an idea?
Most browsers already give you options to allow you to not store most of this information already. Firefox has a key combo to (transparently, optionally) wipe out selected areas of this data. Someone mentioned an option for Safari. Opera probably has something too somewhere.
Parent is right. Darwin would say that both humans and apes descended from a common ancestor. Indeed, if you take this to its extreme, all species could be traced back to a first ancestor of all life, which imo seems pretty cool to think about.
Firefox 2 Beta 1. They're taking their time on a beta 2 though...
Specifically, you could set your swap file to a FIXED SIZE to keep Windows from resizing the swap file, thus theoretically upping performance due to less disk activity.
Today in XP, I set a decent minimum size (1.5GB, to complement my 1.5GB memory... I had 0.5GB at one point and I haven't changed my virtual memory size since then, no real need to.) and then set the maximum as high as it can go, for emergencies (memory leak from hell). 32bit Windows XP allows 3gb maximum size (so it tells me), so that's what I have it set at.
Another old trick that works as well today is, if you have multiple hard drives, move your paging file to the non-Windows drive. So I have my C: drive set to no paging, and D: set to 1536-3072 (Windows recommends 2302 for it, fyi).
Unfortunately I have no clue if it actually produces measurable benefits, and I have no motivation to do benchmarking to see. For most people it's probably just best to leave it be at "System managed size" unless you know what you're doing.
I wonder how this will affect the launch of the PS3... specifically, since it was intended to launch about the same time as the Wii. So instead we might have the Wii launching earlier, for less. I wonder what kind of effect it would have, but I bet it wouldn't be good for Sony.
THESE are some impressive technical feats, as in the "what the HELL was the guy who made this smoking?!?!" kind of impressive.
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Outside of his role he should be addressed as WILLIAM SHATNER, not KIRK.
* Business meeting *
Suit 1: Hmm, not enough people are buying our strategy guides for our games. How can we make more money?
Suit 2: We could invest more time and money in our games to make a higher-quality product.
Suit 3: Shut up Tom, that idea is horrible.
Suit 1: Let's up the games' difficulty so people will be FORCED to buy our strategy guides! Brilliant!
* Act Two *
Suit 1: OK apparently our customers are starting to use an "Internet" to download FREE, unauthorized guides made by other customers. What's worse, the legal department informed me that what they are doing is completely legal. Now, we need to either find a way to take down this "Internet" thing or figure out how to change the legality of these guides. Ideas?
Suit 2: I think...
Suit 1: ...from anyone EXCEPT Tom?
----
Etc. OK it's a bit of a Dilbert spin, especially near the end, but I bet the first act happened for real SOMEWHERE.
I thought he was a church pastor living in Ravenholm... huh... learn something new everyday.
"The new management could take the axe [sic] to Microsoft's $6.6bn of wasteful research and development expenditure."
And then Apple will produce wondrous innovations, and replace Microsoft as the leading OS supplier, and Microsoft will go under and LBO will write it off as Microsoft's fault somehow.
"What lesson can we take from this?"
People are greedy, corporations doubly so, and like to milk money from their consumers. Nothing NEW here... but if true I'm glad I'm going with the Wii, if only because at least I haven't seen Nintendo do anything spectacularly stupid yet (as opposed to the other two guys, esp Sony).
Even better, delete the offending files and then run SDelete several times to overwrite all your free space with random data. Then they can't prove anything (although the inability to find deleted files is suspicious).
http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/topic.as p?fid=2348&tid=1938761
Some good stuff in there... EP2 is looking better than EP1, and I'm willing to give them some more time with it.
On second thought, I suppose it'd have to be something concrete to be Prior Art... and they'd have to make something concrete to patent it, right? As in actually implement/create something, not just spout off words... although lots of patents are doubtless based on just words...
IANAL, but the document itself would be proof of Prior Art, allowing for easy invalidation of their patent... right? But then again, not everyone has laywers, time, and money to chase patents with... :(
Ah right, forgot about that. Yes that would probably be better, I figured there was probably a better way to do it.
And as one non-biology schooled person to another, that sounds pretty good to me.
That would require a lot of genetic engineering... I don't claim to be an expert on such things, but basically you'd have to eliminate the genes that grow everything but the meat. Then you'd have to give it sustenance somehow so it would grow.
Of course, it would still be "alive" before killing it but just as much as plants are.
Yeah, and then when the police question neighbors they find out YOU were the one who forced the window open. That'll be fun.
Once malware is running on your PC you should assume it can do ANYTHING it wants, including disabing firewalls/antivirus, etc.
Heck, Windows Firewall has an API to allow programs to add themselves as exceptions (probably because if it didn't programmers would just use 100 different non-forward compatible methods to do it).
Virus that causes porn movies to randomly play through this display on cell phones. Man that would be embarrassing in a public place like a mall or something. Which is exactly why someone is going to make it.
"Abuse of "Report Abuse" Leads to Feature Removal"
Unless the "Report Abuse" also submits details as the submitter as well (Username and IP/hostname in particular). Still, I can see trolls mass-reporting people to the police because they visit a forum the trolls hate because they were banned quite fairly... as an example.
True, but if the files are encrypted in, for example, RSA 128-bit they can pass your files around all they want and never figure out the contents. Of course this is for sensitive data... there are tons of files on my computer I could upload that I wouldn't care if someone got their hands on.