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IF Seagate is smart, they'll shutter Maxtor's stuff. My only experience with them has been in Compaq machines. And, one that I had died within 30 days. I know some like Maxtor, but, I've yet to have a problem with any Seagates, even one I bought in 2002. That one is now only not used because I can't really mix SATA and PATA without some kind of slow down due to the older drive, and, I don't have an enclosure handy.

Santa keeps the elves around because he's a mean drunk. He needs some dwarves to punt.

I suppose it could be set up as a user option? If it can be removed, then, it can be set to be displayed or not, right?

That makes even less sense to me. How is frame defined for disc time then? It seems to only make sense when defined as a frame of video. Which, I never thought of it before, but, since as was said this was CD format, a frame on a CD begs the same question. Because it's not video at all.

Notice I said ABOUT half a second. It's not entirely half a second. Thus, the remainder has to spill over into the next iteration. Plus, I didn't make this goddamn system. I'd have done something a little more SENSICAL, like, say, use a 10 based system!

HA! I love it! The irony! The delicious, smooth, creamy, warm irony! Santas , protesting the commercialization of Christmas, mind you, not only get drunk , NOT ONLY DRUNK , but go on a RAMPAGE OF LOOTING! Utter hypocrites! I say drinks all around, then!

Ah, I wasn't aware of the 75 frames being 1 second, actually. So, any length that is under 1 second will be listed as frames. So, for DVD video, it makes sense since every 15 frames is about half a second. And 5 units of 15 make 75.

Makes you wonder if McDonald's would have the balls to make one of those movies "Super Size Me!"

I suppose it could be written to spin the disc at the fastest rate possible, then introduce quick stop commands and then start again and then eject the tray. The disc might then fly out like a helicopter blade, thus simulating ejaculating the disc.

I would LOVE for ImgBurn to have direct mammary access! I officially request that as a feature!

Yes, but IE's years don't mean anything when, for many of those years, it sat around with no updates. 3 browsers leaped ahead of it in terms of providing users what they wanted. People use IE only because they have to to access some sites, like Windows Update, because Microsoft imbedded it so deeply in Windows it cannot be removed, despite what they say, or people are weened on it like a baby bottle because that's what was given to them for free. As for Firefox being more secure, inherently, it suffers from the same chance of security holes as anyone else. What Firefox has done differently over the competition, mostly IE, is that they actually address (most) reported security issues right away. As opposed to labeling them "unimportant" as Microsoft does until someone threatens a lawsuit.

Yeah... you just keep believing that... and we'll all be happy... all it takes is for good men to do nothing, and I've WON...!

EXACTLY! The overlays turn black exactly as depicted in that second picture. I had attributed it to a memory leak, but, a GDI leak makes perfect sense given the cause. (Well, it's STILL a memory leak because it's eating up memory it doesn't have to. ) When this happens, closing Opera and refreshing the Window with black clears it up. Refreshing with Opera opened does not refresh the black areas.

How did you know about my secret experimental race of atomic super insects?! It's too soon! They're not stable enough yet to go into the world, spread a mighty army, and destroy the so called human civilization which has driven me into exile!

InstallShield's program updater is installed by many new apps now. InstallShield is, pretty much, a defacto installer now. Really, only WinAmp's and the Microsoft Installer are as prevelant. Anyway, that updater should, in theory, only work with newer apps that have been told what to do with it. HOWEVER, even *I* disabled it when I saw it installed by something that Macrovision didn't install. It can be configured to be totally disabled. Be aware that, in addition, InstallShield's updater also installs two services: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\ISUSPM.exe" -startup and "C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\issch.exe" -start The first is the Update Manager service and the second is the Update Scheduler. Disabling the scheduler through the Manager should work. The Update Manager interface is the same command line as the UM service starter above without the -starup switch. The Scheduler interface runs the same way, just remove its -startup switch. I just set up the thing to never check for updates. I forget what installed it. WinDVD 7? Easy Media 8?

And, what do you want to bet that the movie will come on a self destructing disc?

The problem with that reasoning is relying back on what this country was founded on. This country, like all, has such fancy and great rhetoric on what it wants to become. Then, the politicians set themselves in and show that they only wanted to overthrow the old oppressors to set themselves up for life on the gravy train. After all, read it carefully, and our Founding Fathers in the US pretty much openly admit that the plebians are too stupid to govern themselves. The prime example? All people were created equal, unless you were poor, black, or a woman. Then, you didn't get a vote. My personal favorite: no taxation without representation. And, what exactly do we in the US have today? We elect people who go up to the various houses of government and they get together to decide how much to raise the taxes when they've dipped into the kitty too much for their own personal perks. The citizen has no say in the taxes beyond electing their representative. In other words, using the very letter of the "law" to work around it. i.e. yeah, it's taxation with representation because the people who make the laws were elected. But, those same people then rarely have the chance to stop a tax they disagree with. Or, better yet, just change the definition of tax if, say, you get elected on the slogan "Read my lips! NO NEW TAXES!"

One thing... if the browser crashes due to this error... how can it be used for a DOS attack? It should just be a chunk of inaccesible memory sitting out there, doing there but wasting resources.

If you have listened to Fox News at any time within the last 6 weeks or so, they'd like you to believe there is an assault on Christmas. An attempt to remove it from public places, government offices, department stores, etc. I used to think it was a load of Conservative rubbish... then, I remembered! There IS such a affront, and, it's been going on for over a decade! I am about to make an unusual argument FOR putting the reason back in the season. A few hours drive from where I live is a theme park. In fact, it was the very first theme park ever opened in America. In Santa Claus, Indiana, Santa Claus Land was changed to Holiday World at some point in the late 1980's/early 1990's, after 30 plus years of being Santa Claus Land. The statue of Santa that greeted patrons at the entrance gate... GONE! At the time, as a youth, I never noticed this obvious attempt to remove Santa's name from the place. Let alone remove his statue from the court lawn. It time for all patriotic people to rise up and stop this secularization of the holiday! Put the reason BACK in the season! Restore His name to the park that bore his name, in the city that still bears it! Restore 's name! It's HIS time of the year! And, I will no longer sit around while Liberals take Santa's name away! I was asleep to it as a child, but, now, I have awakened to the clarion call! CLARION, I SAY!

Well, Preview 1 of Opera 9 showed some promise. But, remember, the Preview versions of 8 were free of the bug, too. The Beta and Gold versions had it. Even 9 isn't entirely free of it. What it does better, though, is not entirely "lock up." You can open links on pages, even if the pages themselves never fully load, in other Tabs. Most importantly, I can close Tabs for things that were open. Before, I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL, terminate Opera, reopen Opera, QUICKLY find the tab I want to close and repeatedly try to close it, and hope it gets closed in time before Opera goes, "Nope... I'm just gonna sit here and DUH! for now."

Besides, isn't the maximum rate the fastest it ever gets, e.g. even for a simple microburst, if it achieves that rate, then, it would be listed as the max. I remember once getting a max read from a mounted virtual drive image of something like 40x!

A merit badge in tit mouse spotting?

Yeah, that's what they all say... until the gal with the big tits comes into the room!

No, that was the Ren And Stimpy short, "A Yard Too Far."

Now, it's been all over the news lately, but, only a handful of times do they ever go to the logical conclusion. Okay, so, yes, the world's first successful face transplant was performed. But, one thing they have only touched upon briefly. As a transplant... the new face must come from... SOMEWHERE! :& Now, surely, since a living person wouldn't willingly give up their face, they have to come from corpses! Also, a face transplant means you have someone ELSE'S face! Imagine the implications...