AshleyAshes

MIR's are not a scam. They are just a PAIN and they are hoping that you go 'Ooo! $20 mail in rebate! I'll pay full price now and get my money later! ...Okay I got my stuff... Yup here is the MIR form! I'll do that later! ...It's been eight months... Did I ever do that MIR? No I didn't... Can I still do that or is it too late? ...Damnit. Oh, well, whatever, I already got my computer anyway.'

Because that's not what a full format is. Formatting isn't about erasing data it's about building a file system and zeroing out the data is in no way a necessary function to that. It'll erase any data that it HAS to to get the job done but that's it.

I disagree with the comparison to Loot Boxes. As I see it, people are playing games to PLAY GAMES and the dev uses that to try to sell them a lot of extra crap they don't necessarily need or that they engineered the game to make them need. In contrast, at least with a lot of TechTube, people are coming to SEE THE COMMERCIAL. The whole video is a commercial and that is what they came to see. They didn't come for something else and get tricked into consumerist desires, they came to feed consumerist desires in the first place.

It takes like as LONG as a zero out cause it is LOOKING at every sector but yeah, it's not a full zero out by a long shot.

Uhm... This is dangerously wrong. A full format does NOT zero out a drive. It only carefully erases and rewrites all address tables. All of the data on a reformatted drive, quick or full format, is still recoverable. (Though it'll take more time without the tables, but every bit is STILL in there)

I mean, personally, I like the weird stuff. I like Scrapyard Wars or seeing Voodoo cards running in a retro build. I like seeing modern GPUs tested with Sandy Bridge. I'm bored to DEATH with phone reviews cause in my opinion, so many phones are 'pretty good' bare minimum. Each one is only kinda maybe sorta better than the last one. I had a Nexus 4 till it was basically so falling apart that repairing it wasn't economical and I have a Nexus 5X that I'll use till a replacement is necessary. I won't look at phones till then. I won't toss this in the trash cause another one has 2 more megapixels than the last one. I'm running an i7 4930k which, with it's overclock, is 'close enough' to a non-K i7 8700 that an 'upgrade' would just be me setting money on fire. In fact, for this reason alone, I'm MORE interested in tech videos about hardware that can demonstrate 'long legs' and be a good use of your dollar. This thing just gets a new GPU every 2 years and it's 'basically great'. I think having a hex core CPU that's still pretty great five years later is way more interesting than buying a new CPU. But I also get it. People LIKE looking at big expensive shinies. They can emotionally feel like a 'big deal' when they can drop the money on that expensive shiny. But we def see that all the time around here. People get things that maybe they never even needed but they wanted to get something. I've seen people post "I just got this used server... ...What can I use it for?" They literally acquired something while having no use case for it before hand, meaning they never wanted or needed it to start with.

I actually disagree with this because a LOT about 'tech fandom' like what we see most of the users here being is all about consumerism. I mean, people will buy computer fans if they are special edition orange LMG fans. They're just fans. People have all kinds of 'brand allegiances' on this forum. People literally post 'I have $20 so how do I spend this RIGHT NOW on Amazon!?'. There are kids on this forum drooling over things they wish they could buy something. We've seen people do full rebuilds to replace 6700ks with 7700ks just because they need 'the new hotness'. All of this 'TechTube' silliness is a LOT less about 'Tech' than it is about 'Expensive Status Symbols'

If only science could some day invent a way, wait, MULTIPLE WAYS, to remove hair from the body. But alas, such is strictly the realm of science fiction and nothing but a fantasy.

To be clear, immigration is PURELY in the jurisdiction of the federal government and federal agencies. Provinces have no say over immigration.

The software only knows when it registered the input signal. It doesn't know when you first tried to SEND the signal. Without both points of data you can't make a measurement.

Yeah I was going for something that is actually fairly nice outside and then you hit Windows+Pause and go 'WTF? i7 2630qm!? It's a LAPTOP CPU!?'

THIS GUY STOLE MY SHTICK AND I WANT HIM BANNED FOR IT!

I recycled the core components of a Sandy Bridge laptop into an ITX motherboard for a SFF build. What's that count for?

Well, a critical thing to consider is how much reliability do you need? Amazon can migrate your instances to new hardware in the event that their hardware fails. If your collocated hardware has a failure what will be Plan B and how much downtime is acceptable to you to implement Plan B?

This wouldn't really be effective. While the Tile will communicate with ANY device running the app, if it ever goes out of range of an app it is lost. And you never know where the TILE is, you know where the DEVICE the Tile was last seen. This would be a pretty ineffective way to recover a laptop that has been stolen. I imagine it could work to a degree within closed housing, like if you were in dorms and a someone else in the dorm building took it? But if someone just took your MacBook and bolted with it, it's probably gone.

I'm betting $10 that you just opened the door to have him argue that fallacies are fallacies. >.>

To be fair, most pseudo intellectuals do not go 'Yeah but what do I do with laws?' as if 'READ THEM' was not at the top of the list. pseudo-intellectuals read the laws and interpret them poorly.

Guys... I can't even with the thread anymore...

No but there are some literal Disney works that are public domain in Canada. Now, of course, Disney is so HUGE it has entire OTHER WAYS to enforce it's control of things. Canadian Retailer: "We're selling Chinese made copies of Dumbo for cheap cause it's Public Domain. :D" Disney: "How would you like to NEVER sell ANY Star Wars merch EVER again?" Canadian Retailer: "Imma just go push these boxes of BluRays RIGHT into the river. Sorry, please forget we said anything."

ACTUALLY, the Berne Convention pretty CLEARLY stipulates that only the copyright laws of the country that an individual is IN applies to the individual. Though, it is worth noting that the Berne Convention does set MINIMUM STANDARDS in copyright law that all signatory nations must include. And beofre you look it up, literally every country that matters is a signatory of the Berne Convention. So for example, me as a Canadian, only CANADIAN copyright law applies to me even if it involves AMERICAN copyrighted works. In Canada copyright expires after 50 years where as it expires after 70 years in the United States. There are American creative works that are PUBLIC DOMAIN in Canada but even if they are still under copyright in the United States itself. However, AGAIN, we are talking about INDIVIDUALS pirating materials. Huge, big money, complex cases like MegaUpload and Kim Dot Com are an entirely different and monstrously complicated animal all together.

100%. I love film and television. My involvement in the visual effects industry literally started with me hooking up two VCRs an a CD player to edit music videos of The Simpsons to Weird Al songs. It was all just passionate self-discovery from home electronics and into computers and after effects and now I'm literally sitting in an office getting paid well to do VFX for different TV shows. I love the work I do. ...If my employer ever said 'Hey Ashley, we wanna stop paying you but have you keep working cause this is ART and PASSION not some JOB.' I'd be like 'Oh! Super! So for the last year I'e had a labour lawyer on retainer in the event of situations like this. So you can reconsider your position now or I'm going to walk out the door right now and the next contact you'll have is from my lawyer. :D'

Because if you spent 40hrs a week making a video game and earn no wages, you and any family you may be supporting, will be homeless and starve to death. (HA HA HA, game devs, only 40hrs a week... Ha ha... But I digress)