So when you're asked to prove you didn't steal anything, you hand over the one piece of evidence that proves this and then walk out the store without it?
This is pure FUD. The twat who wrote it even admits it in the comments:
Using "rootkit" brings the traffic. It's all about the SEO, and is why this article is on top in Google.
Was that really there? Because I can't see it now. All I can see is:
The point of the article is to let people know that the SecuROM service was installed with the demo,and I have provided a way to remove it. This is a benefit for anyone who searches for "bioshock rootkit" or "SecuROM rootkit". I am not using it just for "traffic and ad revenue".
So maybe he edited it and is even more of a jerk than at first appeared?
[X] It failed to take account of the fact that driving a car without care and attention can injure or kill. [X] To drive a car you must first pass a test of basic driving competence and safety. [X] You just made the original poster's point even more strongly. [X] It was a lame car analogy. [X] It was made of lose and fail.
Vinyl stores more information than CDs do. Quite a bit more.
Oh really?
Of course. This is trivially provable - vinyl has to store all the extra information about where the scratchs, pops, crackles and worn-out grooves are. You don't get that information on CDs!
Now excuse me while I tivo Heroes on my Windows Media Center PC.
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The system works reasonably well, but it doesn't really stop people driving in the "congestion" zones
Hmm, I worked in London at the time the charge was introduced, and for a couple of years after. I noticed a big difference in the amount of traffic on the roads. I happen to like the system, but then I don't tend to habitually drive into London (because I'm not insane).
Out of interest, did you even read the post you replied to?
They suggested leaving the trackpad as one physical button, but with the ability to determine which side of the button is being pressed, and to default to left-click for everything.
To summarise: you would have one button, that acted as a left-click no matter how/where you pressed it. (Anyone who wants a right-click would enabled it in the system preferences.)
Is this solution (i.e. the existing behaviour) not good enough for you?
From TFA:
"I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span."
If only there was a period in history when the internet didn't exist, so we could make a comparison to it.
I suspect that the running drives hot reduces the life
Google released some info about statistics on their hard drives recently - see here.
Relevant part:
"and there is less correlation between drive temperature and failure rates than might have been expected, and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot."
That's not to say drive temperature has no effect, of course.
On my qwerty keyboard, the f and j keys have special ridges on them, so as a touch typist, I can use those and my memory to locate keys in the five base rows of a keyboard.
I once used a keyboard that had the home key ridges on the wrong keys - D and K, I believe.
Amusingly, it was an Apple keyboard.
I assumed it was a competing standard or something, but it could just have been an almighty screw-up in the manufacturing.
Back in the days, when we were pissed about religion, wars and social injustice, we dressed like goths and sang bad rock and roll and emo music.
I saw a teenage goth today. The whole ensemble was only slightly marred by the brightly coloured Noddy backpack. I think she was being ironic or post-modern or something.
Me too. Sadly The Redemption of Althalus made me feel ill and started a decline I don't believe he's recovered from.
Also, never read Regina's Song unless you want to chew the carpet in frustration and disgust.
On the other hand, it's a good book if you want to read about some unbelievably smug bastard putting up shelves 8 times ("I had the procedure down pat by now.")
It's interesting the way that so many of the Amiga's features which were looked down upon as being pointless or "toy" features were later touted as being wonderful features in other OSs.
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So when you're asked to prove you didn't steal anything, you hand over the one piece of evidence that proves this and then walk out the store without it?
That seems like it could backfire one day.
That's a common problem with fundamentalist nutjobs.
I hope not - they're the worst kind.
This is pure FUD. The twat who wrote it even admits it in the comments:
Was that really there? Because I can't see it now. All I can see is:
The point of the article is to let people know that the SecuROM service was installed with the demo,and I have provided a way to remove it. This is a benefit for anyone who searches for "bioshock rootkit" or "SecuROM rootkit". I am not using it just for "traffic and ad revenue".So maybe he edited it and is even more of a jerk than at first appeared?
Your lame car analogy was modded down because:
(Please check all that apply)
[X] It failed to take account of the fact that driving a car without care and attention can injure or kill.
[X] To drive a car you must first pass a test of basic driving competence and safety.
[X] You just made the original poster's point even more strongly.
[X] It was a lame car analogy.
[X] It was made of lose and fail.
You mean even safer than a huge orange fireball?
I don't know, that's a pretty high bar.
Oh really?
Of course. This is trivially provable - vinyl has to store all the extra information about where the scratchs, pops, crackles and worn-out grooves are. You don't get that information on CDs!
Ha! Your parents are funny!
Now excuse me while I tivo Heroes on my Windows Media Center PC.
Hmm, I worked in London at the time the charge was introduced, and for a couple of years after. I noticed a big difference in the amount of traffic on the roads. I happen to like the system, but then I don't tend to habitually drive into London (because I'm not insane).
Out of interest, did you even read the post you replied to?
They suggested leaving the trackpad as one physical button, but with the ability to determine which side of the button is being pressed, and to default to left-click for everything.
To summarise: you would have one button, that acted as a left-click no matter how/where you pressed it. (Anyone who wants a right-click would enabled it in the system preferences.)
Is this solution (i.e. the existing behaviour) not good enough for you?
Another good misconception from the article:
The basics of sequential programming are all object oriented.I checked my mind. It was boggling.
Fixed!
If only there was a period in history when the internet didn't exist, so we could make a comparison to it.
GP is moaning about a pedantic point of grammar.
Of course, because as we all know, it is only possible to write FOSS for Linux, and not for any other OS. Like, say, Windows, for instance.
Google released some info about statistics on their hard drives recently - see here.
Relevant part:
"and there is less correlation between drive temperature and failure rates than might have been expected, and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot."That's not to say drive temperature has no effect, of course.
I once used a keyboard that had the home key ridges on the wrong keys - D and K, I believe.
Amusingly, it was an Apple keyboard.
I assumed it was a competing standard or something, but it could just have been an almighty screw-up in the manufacturing.
I saw a teenage goth today. The whole ensemble was only slightly marred by the brightly coloured Noddy backpack. I think she was being ironic or post-modern or something.
Me too. Sadly The Redemption of Althalus made me feel ill and started a decline I don't believe he's recovered from.
Also, never read Regina's Song unless you want to chew the carpet in frustration and disgust.
On the other hand, it's a good book if you want to read about some unbelievably smug bastard putting up shelves 8 times ("I had the procedure down pat by now.")
Look at this white horse and this black horse. They're both white horses - except the black one.
Response from frothing audiophile in 5..4..3..
Hey, Acorn RISC OS users will still tell you that you don't need pre-emptive multi-tasking, and that it's just for lazy developers. Of course, they then wonder why they don't have an RDBMS like mySQL available on their platform.
They'll get there one day. Bless 'em :-)
Yes. it makes you long for a '-1, Pointless loser' moderation option.
Although if we're asking, I'd still want '-1, User Friendly link' before that one.
Ah, now, you're forgetting the Blinovitch Limitation, Jo...