This has been going on in snail mail for longer than it has in email though. When I worked for my dad many years ago we got one at the office. It was from Nigeria, in a large manilla envelope. He gave it to me to read over and determine if it was a legitimate offer, because he's a greedy dumbass. I thought 'scam' immediately, and called the RCMP's fraud hotline, and they were quite familiar with the practice at the time. This was long before they started showing up in emails.
The partition is truly hidden, as it is a second primary partition and therefore not mountable to windows while the OS partition is active. However, there is a bit of a problem with it. The key sequence that triggers the restore is in software that resides in the boot record. So if you have to fix the boot record with fdisk/MBR, or get a boot sector virus, or do a manual install of windows, you will lose the ability to trigger the restore anymore. If you have a norton ghost boot disc though, you can boot to that and still get at the.gho file that way.
Actually for almost a year now, Dell has been equipping their Dimension line of desktop machines with a modified Norton Ghost and a hidden partition with a ghost image of their original system as it left the factory. Just as destructive to your data as throwing away the PC, but you get to keep the PC. I don't see how someone can pay $129 to clean up a computer, and figure that spending $400 replacing it instead is somehow better.
A little while ago I was reinstalling windows 98 on an ancient laptop for a friend of mine. I had to download the driver for the pcmcia nic on my desktop machine, and downloaded it directly to a floppy disc. Ever since then, anytime I try to download something to some other path on my hard drive, Firefox complains there is no disc in the drive and I have to hit cancel several times until the message stops popping up. The actual download happens just fine, to the path I want. And then at the end of the download the No Disc pop-up comes up several more times.
I'm quite certain it's deliberate, there's a conspiracy to get rid of floppies, I just know it!
street dates are established so the item appears on everybody's shelves at the same time, thus promoting fair competition.
I don't get it. This suggests that, if Chapters sells the book 2 days early, that everyone will rush out to Chapters regardless of how far it is from their home, and buy it there instead of their local smaller store. If that were true, then why bother to sell the book for more than 1 day? If everyone in the market buys it immediately there is no point in keeping it on the shelves anymore after that. Oh what's that? You can still find all the other Harry Potter books in pretty much every bookstore? Didn't everybody already buy them on the first day?
I don't see what their big concern is really. So what if some people get to read it a few hours before everyone else? It's not like this would encourage the early birds to go around ruining the ending for everyone else. I mean, people read books before other people get the chance to, all the time. Hell there are tons of books that other people have read that I haven't had the time for yet, and the time-gap is YEARS not mere hours.
And anyone who wants to pay $150 to read something a bit earlier than the rest of the world is a twit, but isn't hurting anything but their own bank account. I say let them.
I don't get it. You presume that he hasn't already got something else to do during those times. Why is that? 5-10 minutes before I go to sleep, I'm still working at my computer till the very last minute, and often past that. While I'm eating, I'm at the machine too. Waiting for the wash, yes you guessed it, I'm at the computer. Bathroom, well, since I'm reading all day while at work and at home, that's one chance to rest my eyes and just think. I don't have time for a magazine subscription and I don't think it odd that this guy doesn't either.
In my case, back in my 64 days I had about half and half. I bought games that I found in stores, that appealed to me, and I pirated games that were available on BBS's but not in stores. Then went I went Amiga, my life situation had also changed, I was very poor so it was more like 75% pirated and 25% legit. That was still partly because of availability: thanks to downloading I could get ahold of things I couldn't find locally. Then when I went PC I was super-broke by then and it was 100% piracy. Which always kind of sucked because the big multi-media age was upon us, games came with cool video sequences and high-quality audio, much of which would get stripped out of pirate releases to conserve bandwidth. Nowadays with broadband, ISOs are much more prevalent so this is less of a concern, but years ago my financial situation changed enough that I buy 100% of my games, for a few reasons..
I get the full-colour maps and manuals. I know I'm not missing any content. I can patch the games as needed without worrying about whether there's a new crack for the updated version yet I can afford to, so why not play by the rules?
That last point is key though. If you can't afford it, then the act of pirating does not represent a 'lost sale', you wouldn't have bought it anyway. Maybe it comes down to character, some people will pirate even if they have the money. Maybe it would be useful to know what percentage of the population that really is.
I don't see this technology as very useful unless it is used in a situation where there is a *necessity* that one user cannot see what the other user is seeing. Like head to head gaming on the same display.. No split-screen means you can only see your enemy from your point of view, not his as well. Currently, you can get this by putting two displays back-to-back but that's usually not convenient for space, so his idea looks good here.
Or two people in the same living room that want to watch different shows, it would be good there because they don't need two displays that would potentially distract each of them with their different content. You could have that holosonic technology to take care of the audio, and overall that would be pretty neat.
But his ideas about using it in some sort of development environment just doesn't make sense to me. His example of the Powerpoint and Photoshop guys. Why would you want collaborators *unable* to see what their partner is seeing? You'd have these two guys sitting next to each other, that keep leaning into each other's space so they can share what they are each seeing, and that seems like a silly waste of time. Plus, people would think they're gay. With two displays, a much easier flow of ideas can happen between the users because they can always both be 'on the same page'.
I don't have that problem on my PS2 unless the video signal is being routed through my VCR instead of direct to the composite monitor I use. The VCR itself is what kicks in the light/dark cycles for me, the protection is in there, not the PS2. But straight to a display device, no problems.
The question would be then, what the heck are you doing in control of a nuclear reactor? The same can be asked of that bewildered user, who got a computer because everybody said they needed one. All those online poker games, and those shockwave games, etc, should be put on XBox live and we can send all these users over to that platform and be done with it.
I don't need to wear titanium armor when I cross the road either. The reason is because I wait for the light, and look both ways first. I don't just go charging through traffic as though it isn't there. Being on the internet is like being in street traffic, you can be sensible about it, or you can be an idiot about it. The best protection is your brain in either case, not special armor or tools.
Well, that same user is going to have the same problem with other firewalls too. They don't read the pop-up that asks them if they want to block IE, they just panic and click somewhere, next thing they know their internet is 'broken'. I'm not defending Norton, it sucks, but the user sucks harder and that's why it even exists.
Get into the fiber itself somewhere along its travel. They can't possibly guard every single mile of it. Install some kind of relay using their technology (managing to rip it off is an excersize left to the reader), that gets a photon from the sender, records it, and then emits one down the other side of the fiber where the recipient is. Unless they actually caught you red-handed, or found your installation, how would they know they had been snooped?
Dude, I don't really have time to write my life story just so you don't jump the gun. You could try taking what I say at face value rather than trying to fill in perceived blanks with material that is simply not there. And if you think my post was a troll, well I don't know what to say to that, as your ability to create bullshit out of thin air has taken my breath away.
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Seriously, I think it would be really interesting if the future android market followed along the lines of the PC market.
"Thank you for calling Dell-Doll tech support, how can I help you today? What? No, that is NOT a coffee cup holder."
This has been going on in snail mail for longer than it has in email though. When I worked for my dad many years ago we got one at the office. It was from Nigeria, in a large manilla envelope. He gave it to me to read over and determine if it was a legitimate offer, because he's a greedy dumbass. I thought 'scam' immediately, and called the RCMP's fraud hotline, and they were quite familiar with the practice at the time. This was long before they started showing up in emails.
The partition is truly hidden, as it is a second primary partition and therefore not mountable to windows while the OS partition is active. However, there is a bit of a problem with it. The key sequence that triggers the restore is in software that resides in the boot record. So if you have to fix the boot record with fdisk /MBR, or get a boot sector virus, or do a manual install of windows, you will lose the ability to trigger the restore anymore. If you have a norton ghost boot disc though, you can boot to that and still get at the .gho file that way.
Actually for almost a year now, Dell has been equipping their Dimension line of desktop machines with a modified Norton Ghost and a hidden partition with a ghost image of their original system as it left the factory. Just as destructive to your data as throwing away the PC, but you get to keep the PC. I don't see how someone can pay $129 to clean up a computer, and figure that spending $400 replacing it instead is somehow better.
Those are going to be some awfully heavy costumes...
I can only imagine how many people will accidentally jot down a quick note to later realize they just ruined a VERY expensive piece of paper...
Then design the surface to be usable with dry-erase markers and double its effectiveness as a presentation mechanism.
A little while ago I was reinstalling windows 98 on an ancient laptop for a friend of mine. I had to download the driver for the pcmcia nic on my desktop machine, and downloaded it directly to a floppy disc. Ever since then, anytime I try to download something to some other path on my hard drive, Firefox complains there is no disc in the drive and I have to hit cancel several times until the message stops popping up. The actual download happens just fine, to the path I want. And then at the end of the download the No Disc pop-up comes up several more times.
I'm quite certain it's deliberate, there's a conspiracy to get rid of floppies, I just know it!
Naw they just have a weird form of dyslexia. What they read was *D*o not open befo*R*e *M*idnight.
street dates are established so the item appears on everybody's shelves at the same time, thus promoting fair competition.
I don't get it. This suggests that, if Chapters sells the book 2 days early, that everyone will rush out to Chapters regardless of how far it is from their home, and buy it there instead of their local smaller store. If that were true, then why bother to sell the book for more than 1 day? If everyone in the market buys it immediately there is no point in keeping it on the shelves anymore after that. Oh what's that? You can still find all the other Harry Potter books in pretty much every bookstore? Didn't everybody already buy them on the first day?
I don't see what their big concern is really. So what if some people get to read it a few hours before everyone else? It's not like this would encourage the early birds to go around ruining the ending for everyone else. I mean, people read books before other people get the chance to, all the time. Hell there are tons of books that other people have read that I haven't had the time for yet, and the time-gap is YEARS not mere hours.
And anyone who wants to pay $150 to read something a bit earlier than the rest of the world is a twit, but isn't hurting anything but their own bank account. I say let them.
I don't get it. You presume that he hasn't already got something else to do during those times. Why is that? 5-10 minutes before I go to sleep, I'm still working at my computer till the very last minute, and often past that. While I'm eating, I'm at the machine too. Waiting for the wash, yes you guessed it, I'm at the computer. Bathroom, well, since I'm reading all day while at work and at home, that's one chance to rest my eyes and just think. I don't have time for a magazine subscription and I don't think it odd that this guy doesn't either.
My question is not how, but WHY? Are the bragging rights even that good?
"Hey baby, I can recite the first 83,431 digits of PI, I can prove it right now..."
Yeah that'll rake in the babes, no doubt about that.
In my case, back in my 64 days I had about half and half. I bought games that I found in stores, that appealed to me, and I pirated games that were available on BBS's but not in stores. Then went I went Amiga, my life situation had also changed, I was very poor so it was more like 75% pirated and 25% legit. That was still partly because of availability: thanks to downloading I could get ahold of things I couldn't find locally. Then when I went PC I was super-broke by then and it was 100% piracy. Which always kind of sucked because the big multi-media age was upon us, games came with cool video sequences and high-quality audio, much of which would get stripped out of pirate releases to conserve bandwidth. Nowadays with broadband, ISOs are much more prevalent so this is less of a concern, but years ago my financial situation changed enough that I buy 100% of my games, for a few reasons..
I get the full-colour maps and manuals.
I know I'm not missing any content.
I can patch the games as needed without worrying about whether there's a new crack for the updated version yet
I can afford to, so why not play by the rules?
That last point is key though. If you can't afford it, then the act of pirating does not represent a 'lost sale', you wouldn't have bought it anyway. Maybe it comes down to character, some people will pirate even if they have the money. Maybe it would be useful to know what percentage of the population that really is.
I don't see this technology as very useful unless it is used in a situation where there is a *necessity* that one user cannot see what the other user is seeing. Like head to head gaming on the same display.. No split-screen means you can only see your enemy from your point of view, not his as well. Currently, you can get this by putting two displays back-to-back but that's usually not convenient for space, so his idea looks good here.
Or two people in the same living room that want to watch different shows, it would be good there because they don't need two displays that would potentially distract each of them with their different content. You could have that holosonic technology to take care of the audio, and overall that would be pretty neat.
But his ideas about using it in some sort of development environment just doesn't make sense to me. His example of the Powerpoint and Photoshop guys. Why would you want collaborators *unable* to see what their partner is seeing? You'd have these two guys sitting next to each other, that keep leaning into each other's space so they can share what they are each seeing, and that seems like a silly waste of time. Plus, people would think they're gay. With two displays, a much easier flow of ideas can happen between the users because they can always both be 'on the same page'.
Unless you want that overflow you found to get patched, pick and choose your targets carefully
Nah, you'll still get to have a few months of fun.
I don't have that problem on my PS2 unless the video signal is being routed through my VCR instead of direct to the composite monitor I use. The VCR itself is what kicks in the light/dark cycles for me, the protection is in there, not the PS2. But straight to a display device, no problems.
though I don't find that I use insert often
Yes, that's a common problem among slashdot users.
Yeah I heard Anakin gets tempted by the dark side or something. I hope it works out okay for him, he was such a nice boy in the first one.
The question would be then, what the heck are you doing in control of a nuclear reactor? The same can be asked of that bewildered user, who got a computer because everybody said they needed one. All those online poker games, and those shockwave games, etc, should be put on XBox live and we can send all these users over to that platform and be done with it.
I don't need to wear titanium armor when I cross the road either. The reason is because I wait for the light, and look both ways first. I don't just go charging through traffic as though it isn't there. Being on the internet is like being in street traffic, you can be sensible about it, or you can be an idiot about it. The best protection is your brain in either case, not special armor or tools.
Well, that same user is going to have the same problem with other firewalls too. They don't read the pop-up that asks them if they want to block IE, they just panic and click somewhere, next thing they know their internet is 'broken'. I'm not defending Norton, it sucks, but the user sucks harder and that's why it even exists.
Cool, now when someone asks for my phone number I just tell them to look at the [around the 14-millionth] place in Pi.
Get into the fiber itself somewhere along its travel. They can't possibly guard every single mile of it. Install some kind of relay using their technology (managing to rip it off is an excersize left to the reader), that gets a photon from the sender, records it, and then emits one down the other side of the fiber where the recipient is. Unless they actually caught you red-handed, or found your installation, how would they know they had been snooped?
You need to examine what you just said and compare it against your previous posts. I'm not feeding you anymore, troll.
Dude, I don't really have time to write my life story just so you don't jump the gun. You could try taking what I say at face value rather than trying to fill in perceived blanks with material that is simply not there. And if you think my post was a troll, well I don't know what to say to that, as your ability to create bullshit out of thin air has taken my breath away.