even though the study was initially retracted, it's since been republished and the initial retraction was widely condemned by scientists and researchers worldwide.
A case could be made that Monsanto pressured people for the retraction.
Personally I think that their GMO corn is really bad for people and animals and that eventually it'll be proved without a doubt but in the mean time Monsanto continues to rake in millions if not billions on products that are dangerous to peoples health just like aspartame.
I was thinking the same thing, those three books by Brian Daly were pretty good although they take place after Han escapes from the mines with Chewie but before episode 4.
My main concern is who are they going to get to play Han, and frankly the idea that Chris Pratt could play either Indiana Jones or Han Solo; that guy is just like Will Ferrell, a dope no matter how you slice it and he doesn't have the chops to play either character convincingly.
You could as you say set a windows system to "no pagefile" and then defrag the disk and then reset the page file to a static size however depending on how much data there is on the disk that could push the pagefile farther towards the middle or end of the disk and the farther towards the end of the disk the file gets the slower access to it gets. On your average hard drive sequential reads from the end of the disk can be 10 times slower than sequential reads from the beginning of the disk. There's actually a way to determine that by using the HD Tune software which can measure performance at various parts of the drive.
The procedure I outlined of creating free space and a partition before the boot partition guarantees that the pagefile will be as close to the beginning of the drive as possible where sequential reads are the fastest.
Yes you are correct, it would take incredibly heavy use for the pagefile (set to automatic) to degrade performance in only two weeks. In general, I'm talking about time periods of months and years, in one case I saw a Windows XP machine that had a pagefile of over 10,000 pieces and was so slow that the person threatened to "throw it out the window" if I couldn't do anything about it.
I do know this for sure. There are ways to find out how many pieces the page file is in and I've seen Windows Vista / 7 / 8 that after a year or three were in hundreds and thousands of pieces and after doing the procedure I outlined and moving the page file to a partition in front of the boot partition and making it all one piece the increase in speed was noticeable.
Sorry, I'm not wrong at all. The automatic Windows defrag utility can not defrag the page file anymore than any third party software can, the page file is opened very early in the Windows startup process and once it's opened it can't be moved or defraged, the PageDefrag utility written by Mark Russinovich for Windows XP included a driver that started before almost all other processes and services and it was able to defrag the pagefile before Windows opened it but it was very limited in that it could only move the pagefile to available continuous space and if there wasn't enough continuous space for the whole thing it would do it's best to consolidate how many pieces the file was in but it could not move other files to make enough continuous space for the pagefile. Also every time you did it (this is if you had your pagefile set to automatically managed) it would keep pushing the page file farther and farther towards the end of the disk (in order to find enough continuous space) and the farther towards the end it got the slower access to it got.
The utilities that come with Windows and the Windows auto defrag that was introduced with Windows 7 do a bare bones basic job, one of the best defragers I've ever used is MyDefrag and it does a really great job, better in many cases than commercial software.
I was reading that the 980 TI is 80%-90% as good as the Titan and at a much better price so maybe the 2nd generation will have a 980 TI which will offer almost Titan performance at a less than titanic price
From many years of working with Windows PC's there's one thing I know for sure and that's that one of the major reasons for Windows to slow down over time is the default setting of the virtual memory paging file which is "Automatically manage paging file size". As the page file expands and contracts on this setting the file gets ever more fragmented and access to it gets slower. When I first setup a new computer (with Windows pre-installed) one of the first things I do is change that setting from automatic to a custom size and make the initial and maximum size the same so hopefully it's allocated all in one piece and as close to the beginning of the disk as possible where access is fastest. If a computer has been running for years on "Automatically manage" it's page file many be in thousands of pieces and that could possibly slow the computer significantly when the page file is used. There was a utility called PageDefrag for Windows XP that allowed you to defragment your pagefile but the author Mark Russinovich never updated it to work with newer versions of Windows so there is no easy way to defragment a pagefile on Windows Vista and up but one method I've used with success is to use a partition manager to reduce the size of the boot partition (pushing it farther along the drive) and create a small block of space (perhaps 40 to 60gb) in between the system reserved partition and the boot / Windows partition; after that format it and give it a dive letter like X: and then put the page file there. When you do that it's as close to the beginning of the drive as possible and at a static size Windows never has to work to expand or shrink it and it never gets fragmented.
One other thing is that the author mentions Windows 7, at the end of 2014 over about a three month period I built eight new computers for people who wanted quality hardware (all eight were identical in motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive) and seven of them I installed with Windows 8.1 and one the person requested Windows 7; I noticed during installation and in general using the computer with Windows 7 that it was noticeably slower than the computers with Windows 8.1 so Windows 8 appears to be faster than Windows 7 on the same hardware, at least that's my observation. (and that's Windows 7 x64 versus Windows 8.1 x64)
Another thing that slows computers down is the accumulation of temporary files, there's a tool someone recommended to me called TFC (temp file cleaner), you can find it here http://www.geekstogo.com/forum... and it really does a phenomenal job; many computers that I've used it on show marked speed improvement after running it.
I don't know what platform you use but if it's Windows just use the mail client of your choice and something like ESet Smart Security which includes a really good spam filter; I have any number of customers using it and they are all very satisfied.
As far as customer service goes, I've deal with Comcast and Verizon many many times and it's always the same. The person you're talking to seems to have no idea how to address your problem; they put you on hold multiple times while they apparently run around looking for someone who has a clue and in the end you may be transferred multiple times and after spending what seems like days on the phone you either get no help or you get disconnected. Sometimes you could swear these people are paid to be as unhelpful as possible rather than to actually help the company's customers with their problems.
There's a really good reason Comcast was voted "Most hated company" and I'm sure that Verizon and Bank of America were runners up.
That's my problem with politicians in general; they makes promises and say anything they need to in order to get elected and then do a complete 180 turn around and once in office break every promise they made to the people who elected them.
I'm just repeating what I read, I can't find that specific article but this one provides similar details: http://www.howtogeek.com/12927... so in actuality it is true.
Given the number of complaints on the Apple forums and the fact that not only do I have it on my iPhone 6 but five friends that I know personally with iPhone's ranging from 4s up and running IOS 6,7 or 8 are all experiencing it I would have to say you are the exception rather than the rule.
I also have one friend who was brave enough to use the "Hairdryer heat trick" to get the wi-fi working on his 4s again after upgrading to IOS 7; if you've never heard of this the see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and read the comments about how many people tried this and it worked. Please note that Apple has never really had much to say about this and disavows the heat trick; you can also see some discussion of it here https://discussions.apple.com/....
I thought from what I read that because there's so much customization by each manufacturer for each model that updates or whole version upgrades (i.e. Ice Cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean or Jelly Bean to Kitkat) have to come from the manufacturer? That you can't just install a generic version from Google and have all features work?
I respect Blackberry for many things, including some really groundbreaking phones but they really were caught with their pants down by the iPhone and just couldn't catch up, even after years of trying. There was an article I read the other day and I really wish I could find it to post the link; but it detailed all the things that Blackberry did and wrong when the iPhone first came out. To name a few, someone told the president "Did you see this new iPhone has a full web browser?" and the president was quoted as saying something like "How did they do that? How did they get AT&T to agree to that? Our carriers refuse to allow us to put a full web browser on because they say it will kill their network!". The article also detailed the debacle that was the Blackberry Storm, a year late and so failure pron that 90% were returned or had to be exchanged.
I really hope that Blackberry can recover (also because I have several of my clients using the Alt-N MDaemon mail server and Alt-N was bought by Blackberry years ago and I'd really hate to see them get bought up by MS because I'm sure they'd kill the MDaemon because it's an Exchange competitor) but their reputation has suffered so badly in the last five years I don't know if that's possible.
Just read the Apple IOS forums and you'll see that there are a lot of die hard Apple customers that are getting ready to jump ship because of a slew of problems in IOS ever sine version 6. The most annoying and complained about problem is the wi-fi connectivity problem; I've experienced that myself and suddenly you'll lose internet via wi-fi and cellular internet grinds slowly to a halt; the "fix" is to shut off and restart the phone (almost sounds like Windows, reboot when things aren't working right). This problem is definitely an IOS problem since people who had no problems on their device and then updated to the new IOS because they were tired of constantly being nagged to do so suddenly found their internet stops working at regular intervals and have to reboot. This problem has been going on seriously since IOS 7 and seems to have gotten worse in 8 and none of the updates Apple has put out to IOS have really addressed the problem and people are mad that these problems are not being addressed.
On the other hand if iPhone users start migrating to Android phones they'll find out that Android has some problems of it's own that really needs to be addressed.
I'm no lawyer and I hope that someone with more knowledge than me chimes in here if I'm wrong, but I believe (from a quick Google search) that to be pardoned for a crime you first have to be convicted of that crime. So Snowden hasn't been charged or convicted even though there is a warrant out for his arrest should he enter a jurisdiction that has an extradition treaty with the United States.
Snowden has publicly said that he would return to the US (and wants to), if he is promised a public trial in civilian court and so far no one from the justice department has made any promises or offers (and if it was me, I don't know if I would believe it if they said it but refused to provide it in writing). I don't know that the President has the authority to tell the justice department "Look, we're ending that program anyway and a lot of people believe he's a hero and did the country a public service so rescind that arrest warrant and let him off the hook". So Snowden would have to be tried, convicted and sentenced and then his lawyers could apply for a pardon but that could mean years in jail, possibly in solitary with only a slim hope that whoever follows Obama is favorably disposed towards him. Just as an example, many people felt George W. Bush was a stooge for Dick Chaney but at the end of his presidency Chaney had a melt down when Bush wouldn't pardon his friend Scooter Libby because of political pressure from everyone else who thought he didn't deserve a pardon. I don't think the president can just randomly choose to pardon someone, there's a process that it has to go through before the paperwork reaches his desk and I don't believe his can start that process.
I'd really like to see that but I doubt it's going to happen, there's a lot of pressure by law enforcement and U.S. intelligence and the people he embarrassed by his disclosures to make an example of him so that anyone else with a conscience that works for the government will think a few times and decide "Nope, don't want to end up like Snowden in prison / solitary for the rest of my life".
btw I realize that the AOL program actually incorporates Internet Explorer but I'm not a fan of IE and pretty much tell everyone to use FireFox or Chrome.
And yet they do, much to the consternation of any IT or tech savvy people who have to work on peoples computers that has that AOL crap software AND the people have Verizon FIOS, Comcast, Cablevision or Optonline and yet they still insist on using that dreadful, horrible, useless AOL software rather than a modern browser like Chrome or FireFox.
There may be practical problems prosecuting people who have obviously lied to congress but the fact is that if people do and there are no consequences then that sends a clear message to anyone in the future that they can lie and there will be no repercussions.
If he lied under oath and there's proof that he did then charge the bastard with perjury and put him on trial and make an example of him to show that you can not lie under oath to congress and get away with it.
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How about this: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/docke... from the F.D.A. so apparently they changed their mind.
How about you wake up and smell the flowers, aspartame is bad for people and studies and research that prove it has been suppressed by Monsanto.
Sorry, there is plenty of evidence:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st...
even though the study was initially retracted, it's since been republished and the initial retraction was widely condemned by scientists and researchers worldwide.
A case could be made that Monsanto pressured people for the retraction.
Personally I think that their GMO corn is really bad for people and animals and that eventually it'll be proved without a doubt but in the mean time Monsanto continues to rake in millions if not billions on products that are dangerous to peoples health just like aspartame.
I was thinking the same thing, those three books by Brian Daly were pretty good although they take place after Han escapes from the mines with Chewie but before episode 4.
My main concern is who are they going to get to play Han, and frankly the idea that Chris Pratt could play either Indiana Jones or Han Solo; that guy is just like Will Ferrell, a dope no matter how you slice it and he doesn't have the chops to play either character convincingly.
You could as you say set a windows system to "no pagefile" and then defrag the disk and then reset the page file to a static size however depending on how much data there is on the disk that could push the pagefile farther towards the middle or end of the disk and the farther towards the end of the disk the file gets the slower access to it gets. On your average hard drive sequential reads from the end of the disk can be 10 times slower than sequential reads from the beginning of the disk. There's actually a way to determine that by using the HD Tune software which can measure performance at various parts of the drive.
The procedure I outlined of creating free space and a partition before the boot partition guarantees that the pagefile will be as close to the beginning of the drive as possible where sequential reads are the fastest.
I can't recall which site I read that review but I like Anandtech so I'd trust their review over others
Yes you are correct, it would take incredibly heavy use for the pagefile (set to automatic) to degrade performance in only two weeks. In general, I'm talking about time periods of months and years, in one case I saw a Windows XP machine that had a pagefile of over 10,000 pieces and was so slow that the person threatened to "throw it out the window" if I couldn't do anything about it.
I do know this for sure. There are ways to find out how many pieces the page file is in and I've seen Windows Vista / 7 / 8 that after a year or three were in hundreds and thousands of pieces and after doing the procedure I outlined and moving the page file to a partition in front of the boot partition and making it all one piece the increase in speed was noticeable.
Sorry, I'm not wrong at all. The automatic Windows defrag utility can not defrag the page file anymore than any third party software can, the page file is opened very early in the Windows startup process and once it's opened it can't be moved or defraged, the PageDefrag utility written by Mark Russinovich for Windows XP included a driver that started before almost all other processes and services and it was able to defrag the pagefile before Windows opened it but it was very limited in that it could only move the pagefile to available continuous space and if there wasn't enough continuous space for the whole thing it would do it's best to consolidate how many pieces the file was in but it could not move other files to make enough continuous space for the pagefile. Also every time you did it (this is if you had your pagefile set to automatically managed) it would keep pushing the page file farther and farther towards the end of the disk (in order to find enough continuous space) and the farther towards the end it got the slower access to it got.
The utilities that come with Windows and the Windows auto defrag that was introduced with Windows 7 do a bare bones basic job, one of the best defragers I've ever used is MyDefrag and it does a really great job, better in many cases than commercial software.
I was reading that the 980 TI is 80%-90% as good as the Titan and at a much better price so maybe the 2nd generation will have a 980 TI which will offer almost Titan performance at a less than titanic price
From many years of working with Windows PC's there's one thing I know for sure and that's that one of the major reasons for Windows to slow down over time is the default setting of the virtual memory paging file which is "Automatically manage paging file size". As the page file expands and contracts on this setting the file gets ever more fragmented and access to it gets slower. When I first setup a new computer (with Windows pre-installed) one of the first things I do is change that setting from automatic to a custom size and make the initial and maximum size the same so hopefully it's allocated all in one piece and as close to the beginning of the disk as possible where access is fastest. If a computer has been running for years on "Automatically manage" it's page file many be in thousands of pieces and that could possibly slow the computer significantly when the page file is used. There was a utility called PageDefrag for Windows XP that allowed you to defragment your pagefile but the author Mark Russinovich never updated it to work with newer versions of Windows so there is no easy way to defragment a pagefile on Windows Vista and up but one method I've used with success is to use a partition manager to reduce the size of the boot partition (pushing it farther along the drive) and create a small block of space (perhaps 40 to 60gb) in between the system reserved partition and the boot / Windows partition; after that format it and give it a dive letter like X: and then put the page file there. When you do that it's as close to the beginning of the drive as possible and at a static size Windows never has to work to expand or shrink it and it never gets fragmented.
One other thing is that the author mentions Windows 7, at the end of 2014 over about a three month period I built eight new computers for people who wanted quality hardware (all eight were identical in motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive) and seven of them I installed with Windows 8.1 and one the person requested Windows 7; I noticed during installation and in general using the computer with Windows 7 that it was noticeably slower than the computers with Windows 8.1 so Windows 8 appears to be faster than Windows 7 on the same hardware, at least that's my observation. (and that's Windows 7 x64 versus Windows 8.1 x64)
Another thing that slows computers down is the accumulation of temporary files, there's a tool someone recommended to me called TFC (temp file cleaner), you can find it here http://www.geekstogo.com/forum... and it really does a phenomenal job; many computers that I've used it on show marked speed improvement after running it.
I don't know what platform you use but if it's Windows just use the mail client of your choice and something like ESet Smart Security which includes a really good spam filter; I have any number of customers using it and they are all very satisfied.
As far as customer service goes, I've deal with Comcast and Verizon many many times and it's always the same. The person you're talking to seems to have no idea how to address your problem; they put you on hold multiple times while they apparently run around looking for someone who has a clue and in the end you may be transferred multiple times and after spending what seems like days on the phone you either get no help or you get disconnected. Sometimes you could swear these people are paid to be as unhelpful as possible rather than to actually help the company's customers with their problems.
There's a really good reason Comcast was voted "Most hated company" and I'm sure that Verizon and Bank of America were runners up.
That's my problem with politicians in general; they makes promises and say anything they need to in order to get elected and then do a complete 180 turn around and once in office break every promise they made to the people who elected them.
I'm just repeating what I read, I can't find that specific article but this one provides similar details: http://www.howtogeek.com/12927... so in actuality it is true.
Given the number of complaints on the Apple forums and the fact that not only do I have it on my iPhone 6 but five friends that I know personally with iPhone's ranging from 4s up and running IOS 6,7 or 8 are all experiencing it I would have to say you are the exception rather than the rule.
I also have one friend who was brave enough to use the "Hairdryer heat trick" to get the wi-fi working on his 4s again after upgrading to IOS 7; if you've never heard of this the see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and read the comments about how many people tried this and it worked. Please note that Apple has never really had much to say about this and disavows the heat trick; you can also see some discussion of it here https://discussions.apple.com/....
I thought from what I read that because there's so much customization by each manufacturer for each model that updates or whole version upgrades (i.e. Ice Cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean or Jelly Bean to Kitkat) have to come from the manufacturer? That you can't just install a generic version from Google and have all features work?
I respect Blackberry for many things, including some really groundbreaking phones but they really were caught with their pants down by the iPhone and just couldn't catch up, even after years of trying. There was an article I read the other day and I really wish I could find it to post the link; but it detailed all the things that Blackberry did and wrong when the iPhone first came out. To name a few, someone told the president "Did you see this new iPhone has a full web browser?" and the president was quoted as saying something like "How did they do that? How did they get AT&T to agree to that? Our carriers refuse to allow us to put a full web browser on because they say it will kill their network!". The article also detailed the debacle that was the Blackberry Storm, a year late and so failure pron that 90% were returned or had to be exchanged.
I really hope that Blackberry can recover (also because I have several of my clients using the Alt-N MDaemon mail server and Alt-N was bought by Blackberry years ago and I'd really hate to see them get bought up by MS because I'm sure they'd kill the MDaemon because it's an Exchange competitor) but their reputation has suffered so badly in the last five years I don't know if that's possible.
Just read the Apple IOS forums and you'll see that there are a lot of die hard Apple customers that are getting ready to jump ship because of a slew of problems in IOS ever sine version 6. The most annoying and complained about problem is the wi-fi connectivity problem; I've experienced that myself and suddenly you'll lose internet via wi-fi and cellular internet grinds slowly to a halt; the "fix" is to shut off and restart the phone (almost sounds like Windows, reboot when things aren't working right). This problem is definitely an IOS problem since people who had no problems on their device and then updated to the new IOS because they were tired of constantly being nagged to do so suddenly found their internet stops working at regular intervals and have to reboot. This problem has been going on seriously since IOS 7 and seems to have gotten worse in 8 and none of the updates Apple has put out to IOS have really addressed the problem and people are mad that these problems are not being addressed.
On the other hand if iPhone users start migrating to Android phones they'll find out that Android has some problems of it's own that really needs to be addressed.
That Sargent Pepper taught the band to play, unfortunately Windows 3.0 was no Fab 4 ha ha
Ok, so Google can be wrong...... good to know :-)
I'm no lawyer and I hope that someone with more knowledge than me chimes in here if I'm wrong, but I believe (from a quick Google search) that to be pardoned for a crime you first have to be convicted of that crime. So Snowden hasn't been charged or convicted even though there is a warrant out for his arrest should he enter a jurisdiction that has an extradition treaty with the United States.
Snowden has publicly said that he would return to the US (and wants to), if he is promised a public trial in civilian court and so far no one from the justice department has made any promises or offers (and if it was me, I don't know if I would believe it if they said it but refused to provide it in writing). I don't know that the President has the authority to tell the justice department "Look, we're ending that program anyway and a lot of people believe he's a hero and did the country a public service so rescind that arrest warrant and let him off the hook". So Snowden would have to be tried, convicted and sentenced and then his lawyers could apply for a pardon but that could mean years in jail, possibly in solitary with only a slim hope that whoever follows Obama is favorably disposed towards him. Just as an example, many people felt George W. Bush was a stooge for Dick Chaney but at the end of his presidency Chaney had a melt down when Bush wouldn't pardon his friend Scooter Libby because of political pressure from everyone else who thought he didn't deserve a pardon. I don't think the president can just randomly choose to pardon someone, there's a process that it has to go through before the paperwork reaches his desk and I don't believe his can start that process.
I'd really like to see that but I doubt it's going to happen, there's a lot of pressure by law enforcement and U.S. intelligence and the people he embarrassed by his disclosures to make an example of him so that anyone else with a conscience that works for the government will think a few times and decide "Nope, don't want to end up like Snowden in prison / solitary for the rest of my life".
btw I realize that the AOL program actually incorporates Internet Explorer but I'm not a fan of IE and pretty much tell everyone to use FireFox or Chrome.
My thought exactly.
And yet they do, much to the consternation of any IT or tech savvy people who have to work on peoples computers that has that AOL crap software AND the people have Verizon FIOS, Comcast, Cablevision or Optonline and yet they still insist on using that dreadful, horrible, useless AOL software rather than a modern browser like Chrome or FireFox.
There may be practical problems prosecuting people who have obviously lied to congress but the fact is that if people do and there are no consequences then that sends a clear message to anyone in the future that they can lie and there will be no repercussions.
If he lied under oath and there's proof that he did then charge the bastard with perjury and put him on trial and make an example of him to show that you can not lie under oath to congress and get away with it.
It would be nice, but don't count on it. The political machine is very angry at him and wants him made an example of.