It's a simple problem that many of us have faced in one situation or another where something small has managed to get wedged where it shouldn't, and requires extraction.
Like that guy who managed to got his cell phone wedged in his ass and required extraction?
Yeah, I can't stand XP's WEP key inputs. The god damn field is a huge string of hex characters and it's hard enough to type them out once, but you have to type it out twice, without knowing what you typed in because both fields are masked.
The solution: open notepad, type in your WEP key, make sure it's right, then copy and paste it in both fields.
As someone mentioned elsewhere, it doesn't get rid of CO2 it only separates the CO2 from the air.
Then what do you do with the massive amounts of CO2 you've collected? Real trees don't just separate it from the air, real trees use energy from the sun to change CO2+water into cellulose and oxygen.
It's just money wasted trying to enforce a failing business model... money that could be used to improve the business model, instead: it is money wasted.
If I had a great business, I would invest the profits into improving my business model to better serve my customers, not waste money trying to enforce a failing business model that has absolutely no benefit to my customers. Their customers at best don't care about DRM and at worst are annoyed by it. The people who don't pay for their content aren't your customers and they are not likely to become your customers even if you put annoying stuff all over your product.
This seems like common sense, but the big content distributors all fail at it because they are out of touch with their customers.
The old system has too much overhead. It's just like a really old installation of Windows XP, over time the registry gets bloated, you have excess drivers, old files, corrupt files and they're all taking up system resources making the whole thing less usable. I think this is good analogy, the system they're trying to defend has too much overhead. The corrupt executives have way too much compensation for doing very little, there is way too much creative accounting going on, way too much bribery and of course then they need to spend a lot of money to keep that business going, in the end the legitimate artists suffer as well the consumer. They want a solution that will allow them to maintain their bloated business model and retain their highly excessive compensations, but that is not going to happen.
There are already plenty of alternatives to big music, recently I found this gem where you get to set your own price for what you believe the music is worth, and they give you the music in drm free formats such as mp3, flac, ogg as well as uncompressed wav... and this is at a fraction of the cost of big labels.
In any and every industry: when the small upstart who doesn't have access to mass distribution channels can afford to give you the same product for less, you got a major problem with your business model.
Here's the truth about RAIDs: RAID has faster transfer rate, but the access time is just as slow as the slowest hard drive you have in the RAID. When you try to read a file from a specific part of the disk, the disks still have to move the heads to that location and wait for the given part of the plate to spin past the reading head. Whether you have 1 hard drive, or a RAID of 20 hard drives, the time it takes to start reading the given block is identical. However, once you start reading the block, sequential access is much faster in RAID0 or 5 and that's the advantage of RAID.
If you're copying a very large file from one place to another, RAID0 or 5 will go much faster. But: when people are talking about speed in general, they are referring to things like Windows booting up, programs starting up, your database reading a bit of data from a file, a game loading some textures from a file, browser accessing hundreds of cached files etc, those all keep accessing random blocks of data from the hard drive and the overall speed for these are almost entirely limited by the access time, at that point RAID makes very little difference.
This is where SSD comes in: transfer speed of SSD is about the same as a standard hard drive, but the access time is phenomenally faster because there's no waiting for a head to move and there's no waiting for a plate to spin past the head.
In addition, SSD makes no sound, and uses much less electricity to read/write and almost no electricity when idle, produces less heat, and: immune to mechanical shocks and vibrations. These are very desirable attributes on a laptop.
I kept getting these scam calls on my cell phone, and I complained to the FCC but get I kept getting more scam calls. The FCC should have been on the ball about this long ago as they already have strict laws against automated dialing:
"(a) No person or entity may: (1) Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party)using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice;"
"To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call."
Title 47
When a tiny glimpse of a nipple showed up on TV they were on it instantly even though almost everyone already has one pair of nipples and seeing a third one on TV isn't going to harm anyone. Then there's shit like this where people run telemarketing scam and yank millions of dollars while the FCC just sits there with head in ass doing nothing about it. Perhaps they should change the name from Federal Communications Commission to Federal Censorship Commission because obviously they care about nothing other than preventing people from saying fuck on TV.
Stop calling it piracy. Piracy is when you make an unauthorized copy and sell it and profit, that's bad. Piracy is also hijacking for profit, like hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia, that's bad too. Copying stuff to share with your loved ones or a community of Internet based loved ones for no profit: that's sharing, as in sharing is caring.
As for analog hole, I think they should stick their heads out of their analog holes and take a look around. They created an imaginary world for themselves with imaginary laws and imaginary rules and they expect people to obey their imaginary laws. Those aren't our laws, they just made this stuff up for their own profit. They hijacked the legal system. They are the real pirates.
It's a shame they brainwashed us into thinking we're pirates because people associate piracy with bad things. I think PirateBay would be better off if it was called Sharing&Caring Bay. It's a community of people who like sharing.
I was watching a crime show on TV about the case where a woman allegedly added cyanide to Tylenol pills to kill her husband. One of the things they mentioned is that the law enforcement agents coerced the suspect's trusted friendly neighbor to spy on the suspect and sneak into her house when she's not home to search for evidence.
I know it's illegal for the law enforcement to just walk right into your house and turn the whole place upside down on just the premise of "you look guilty" with no warrant. But apparently it's acceptable for them to coerce a neighbor to do just that. Similarly, in this case, the tech did something illegal without even needing coercing. The tech didn't have any business looking at photos on the hard drive. The hard drive and the contents do not magically become his property when he is asked to add a peripheral. I think the tech should be charged with breaking into a computer system, but I don't think this changes the admissibility of the evidence since the law enforcement didn't break any law to obtain the evidence.
IANAL so my opinion is based on common sense and observations instead of made up legal mumbo jumbo.
The size of the screen has nothing to do with that, it's from the resolution. The first generation EeePC's have resolution of 800x480 pixels, most interfaces are designed for at least 800x600 usually more like 1024x768
The Fujitsu U820 has a 5.6" screen with a resolution of 1280x800. It's much smaller than the EeePC's display but there's a whole lot more screen space.
"reflects supply & demand" is bull. The supply is not limited, the phone company isn't going to run out of SMS's and their network isn't going to get bogged down with 160 byte messages that people type on a phone with two fingers. The whole thing is idiotic, even more idiotic they actually charge twice: once for sending, once more for receiving.
That's a pretty big typo, writing intel instead of nvidia and throwing in the word "gaming" in there somehow when this thing isn't a gaming PC at all. This whole article is one big typo. I wish I could unread it.
Very true, religion is not being forced on anyone. Just a knife being forced into the throat of anyone who happens to have better sense or just doesn't believe in the same religion.
Too many have died at the hands of men supposedly doing God's bidding following His word. You can't just dismiss thousands of years of massacres: because it's still going on today.
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It's a simple problem that many of us have faced in one situation or another where something small has managed to get wedged where it shouldn't, and requires extraction.
Like that guy who managed to got his cell phone wedged in his ass and required extraction?
Yeah, I can't stand XP's WEP key inputs. The god damn field is a huge string of hex characters and it's hard enough to type them out once, but you have to type it out twice, without knowing what you typed in because both fields are masked.
The solution: open notepad, type in your WEP key, make sure it's right, then copy and paste it in both fields.
As someone mentioned elsewhere, it doesn't get rid of CO2 it only separates the CO2 from the air.
Then what do you do with the massive amounts of CO2 you've collected? Real trees don't just separate it from the air, real trees use energy from the sun to change CO2+water into cellulose and oxygen.
It's just money wasted trying to enforce a failing business model... money that could be used to improve the business model, instead: it is money wasted. If I had a great business, I would invest the profits into improving my business model to better serve my customers, not waste money trying to enforce a failing business model that has absolutely no benefit to my customers. Their customers at best don't care about DRM and at worst are annoyed by it. The people who don't pay for their content aren't your customers and they are not likely to become your customers even if you put annoying stuff all over your product.
This seems like common sense, but the big content distributors all fail at it because they are out of touch with their customers.
The old system has too much overhead. It's just like a really old installation of Windows XP, over time the registry gets bloated, you have excess drivers, old files, corrupt files and they're all taking up system resources making the whole thing less usable. I think this is good analogy, the system they're trying to defend has too much overhead. The corrupt executives have way too much compensation for doing very little, there is way too much creative accounting going on, way too much bribery and of course then they need to spend a lot of money to keep that business going, in the end the legitimate artists suffer as well the consumer. They want a solution that will allow them to maintain their bloated business model and retain their highly excessive compensations, but that is not going to happen.
There are already plenty of alternatives to big music, recently I found this gem where you get to set your own price for what you believe the music is worth, and they give you the music in drm free formats such as mp3, flac, ogg as well as uncompressed wav... and this is at a fraction of the cost of big labels.
In any and every industry: when the small upstart who doesn't have access to mass distribution channels can afford to give you the same product for less, you got a major problem with your business model.
Here's the truth about RAIDs: RAID has faster transfer rate, but the access time is just as slow as the slowest hard drive you have in the RAID. When you try to read a file from a specific part of the disk, the disks still have to move the heads to that location and wait for the given part of the plate to spin past the reading head. Whether you have 1 hard drive, or a RAID of 20 hard drives, the time it takes to start reading the given block is identical. However, once you start reading the block, sequential access is much faster in RAID0 or 5 and that's the advantage of RAID.
If you're copying a very large file from one place to another, RAID0 or 5 will go much faster. But: when people are talking about speed in general, they are referring to things like Windows booting up, programs starting up, your database reading a bit of data from a file, a game loading some textures from a file, browser accessing hundreds of cached files etc, those all keep accessing random blocks of data from the hard drive and the overall speed for these are almost entirely limited by the access time, at that point RAID makes very little difference.
This is where SSD comes in: transfer speed of SSD is about the same as a standard hard drive, but the access time is phenomenally faster because there's no waiting for a head to move and there's no waiting for a plate to spin past the head.
In addition, SSD makes no sound, and uses much less electricity to read/write and almost no electricity when idle, produces less heat, and: immune to mechanical shocks and vibrations. These are very desirable attributes on a laptop.
Also, SSD and RAID aren't mutually exclusive. You can have a RAID of SSDs for some mind blowing performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
John Carmack!
If the fur pie is that bad perhaps you should tell them to get a Brazilian.
I kept getting these scam calls on my cell phone, and I complained to the FCC but get I kept getting more scam calls. The FCC should have been on the ball about this long ago as they already have strict laws against automated dialing:
"(a) No person or entity may: (1) Initiate any telephone call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party)using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice;"
"To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call."
Title 47
When a tiny glimpse of a nipple showed up on TV they were on it instantly even though almost everyone already has one pair of nipples and seeing a third one on TV isn't going to harm anyone. Then there's shit like this where people run telemarketing scam and yank millions of dollars while the FCC just sits there with head in ass doing nothing about it. Perhaps they should change the name from Federal Communications Commission to Federal Censorship Commission because obviously they care about nothing other than preventing people from saying fuck on TV.
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role != roll
I, for one, welcome our new 14 year old overlord.
Stop calling it piracy. Piracy is when you make an unauthorized copy and sell it and profit, that's bad. Piracy is also hijacking for profit, like hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia, that's bad too. Copying stuff to share with your loved ones or a community of Internet based loved ones for no profit: that's sharing, as in sharing is caring.
As for analog hole, I think they should stick their heads out of their analog holes and take a look around. They created an imaginary world for themselves with imaginary laws and imaginary rules and they expect people to obey their imaginary laws. Those aren't our laws, they just made this stuff up for their own profit. They hijacked the legal system. They are the real pirates.
It's a shame they brainwashed us into thinking we're pirates because people associate piracy with bad things. I think PirateBay would be better off if it was called Sharing&Caring Bay. It's a community of people who like sharing.
I can't take this news seriously, and I don't think it deserves to be taken seriously. It's not news, it's fear mongering.
I was watching a crime show on TV about the case where a woman allegedly added cyanide to Tylenol pills to kill her husband. One of the things they mentioned is that the law enforcement agents coerced the suspect's trusted friendly neighbor to spy on the suspect and sneak into her house when she's not home to search for evidence.
I know it's illegal for the law enforcement to just walk right into your house and turn the whole place upside down on just the premise of "you look guilty" with no warrant. But apparently it's acceptable for them to coerce a neighbor to do just that. Similarly, in this case, the tech did something illegal without even needing coercing. The tech didn't have any business looking at photos on the hard drive. The hard drive and the contents do not magically become his property when he is asked to add a peripheral. I think the tech should be charged with breaking into a computer system, but I don't think this changes the admissibility of the evidence since the law enforcement didn't break any law to obtain the evidence.
IANAL so my opinion is based on common sense and observations instead of made up legal mumbo jumbo.
Now that they built a giant Lexus dealer with stadium lighting I can't even see the moon anymore.
The size of the screen has nothing to do with that, it's from the resolution. The first generation EeePC's have resolution of 800x480 pixels, most interfaces are designed for at least 800x600 usually more like 1024x768
The Fujitsu U820 has a 5.6" screen with a resolution of 1280x800. It's much smaller than the EeePC's display but there's a whole lot more screen space.
you should have disrobed.
"reflects supply & demand" is bull. The supply is not limited, the phone company isn't going to run out of SMS's and their network isn't going to get bogged down with 160 byte messages that people type on a phone with two fingers. The whole thing is idiotic, even more idiotic they actually charge twice: once for sending, once more for receiving.
That's a pretty big typo, writing intel instead of nvidia and throwing in the word "gaming" in there somehow when this thing isn't a gaming PC at all. This whole article is one big typo. I wish I could unread it.
The iPhone is already free in Japan and nobody wants it:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/26/iphone-not-selling-well-in-japan-now-available-for-free/
In a way Wikipedia is just like IRC: +v is a privilege, not a right.
/kick /ban.
Wiki did the equivalent of: "/mode -v CoS"
Just "/ignore CoS" and maybe CoS will stfu and gtfo without requiring a
This reminds me of the BitchinFast3D card I've seen in the late 90's.
http://www.russdraper.com/images/fullsize/bitchin_fast_3d.jpg
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Very true, religion is not being forced on anyone. Just a knife being forced into the throat of anyone who happens to have better sense or just doesn't believe in the same religion.
Too many have died at the hands of men supposedly doing God's bidding following His word. You can't just dismiss thousands of years of massacres: because it's still going on today.