tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94819752012-01-27T00:23:22.765-05:00"Impartial Analysis of Popular Trends and Technology" Copyright © 2004-2011 Popular TechnologyAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05170143101028077396noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9481975.post-56539576150463586622011-10-03T20:00:00.008-04:002011-10-04T16:39:32.387-04:00

SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme left-wing bias. SourceWatch is frequently cited by those seeking to smear individuals and organizations

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The Internet allows ignorance to blossom as it has for the 9/11 Truth movement. To the naive their arguments can seem compelling but when you actually analyze their claims with hard science and facts, they completely fall apart. I was not only trained in computer information systems but also architecture. This is why absolutely nothing about any of the building collapses looked suspicious to me.

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There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compiling 'The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource'. The resource originally had a section dedicated to "

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A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunting task? Could it be a frustrated academic, a jaded technician or even a rouge scientist perhaps? No,

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In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the scientists he unjustly attacked and instead used biased and corrupt websites like DeSmogBlog to smear

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Greenfyre is the Internet blog and screen name for a radical environmental activist, Mike Kaulbars from Ottawa, Canada. He is a founder of the Earth First! chapter in Ottawa, Canada, an eco-terrorist organization with a long history of violence and sabotage."My experience is that many people are impressed and supportive of the radical militant actions that we do. ...I make no secret of my

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DeSmogBlog is a smear site founded by a scientifically unqualified public relations man, James Hoggan and funded by a convicted money launderer, John Lefebvre. The irony here is their favorite tactic is to attempt to smear those they disagree with as funded by "dirty money". Since it's creation in 2006 the site has done nothing but post poorly researched propaganda with a clear intent to smear

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WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes preceding and following the list or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comThe list is a resource for skeptics not a list of skeptics.Disclaimer: The inclusion of a paper in this list does not imply a specific personal position to any of the authors. While a minority of authors on the list cannot be labeled

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Rebuttal to "Meet the Denominator"In a desperate attempt to diminish the value of the list of peer-reviewed papers supporting skeptic's arguments, Rob Honeycutt from Skeptical Science not only lies but puts on a surprising display of his Google Scholar Illiteracy. It is clear that not only does he not understand how to properly use Google Scholar, he has no idea of the relevance of any of

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RSS Lower Troposphere Global Mean Temperature (1998-2010)(A 12-year sample that does not include the recent anomalous El-Nino)2004 - Death toll in Indian cold wave rises to 157 (ABC News, Australia, January 1, 2004)2004 - Cold weather kills 50 in Bangladesh (ABC News, Australia, January 3, 2004)2004 - Cold snap claims 416 lives in S Asia (ABC News, Australia, January 5, 2004)2004 - Record cold [-

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Global warming alarmists like to distort the scale on temperature graphs to exaggerate the mild warming of less than a degree since the end of the little ice age. (IPCC +0.74 °C)NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)Realist:Alarmist:Source:NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)

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Six Prominent Climatologists; John Christy, Patrick Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, Fred Singer and Sherwood Idso, all skeptical of "man-made" global warming (AGW) alarm."I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see."

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As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches tend to have more options than what's available in a search bar and [2] the types of searches that I

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A recent paper published in the PNAS, "Expert credibility in climate change" is being used as propaganda to claim that 97% of all climate scientists agree with the IPCC and the need for government action on climate change. An analysis of this paper does not support these conclusions.Note: All Google Scholar numerical result totals will change over time and sometimes every time you search.PNAS

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Seven Eminent Physicists; Freeman Dyson, Ivar Giaever (Nobel Prize), Robert Laughlin (Nobel Prize), Edward Teller, Frederick Seitz, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, all skeptical of "man-made" global warming (AGW) alarm."My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of

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Peter Sinclair AKA "Greenman" a cartoonist and Al Gore disciple has been hard at work creating YouTube videos that smear skeptics and their arguments. The following is a complete rebuttal to his "Crock of the Week - Flogging the Scientists" video.1. Sinclair claims that as a "non-scientist" he has found that the most "reliable" scientific information comes from "respected" peer-reviewed

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Four NASA Astronaut Legends; Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Phil Chapman (Apollo 14) and Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), all skeptical of "man-made" global warming (AGW) alarm."I think the climate has been changing for billions of years. If it's warming now, it may cool off later. I'm not in favour of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our

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A recent peer-reviewed paper "Expert credibility in climate change" was published in the PNAS, apparently demonstrating the computer illiteracy of it's authors and PNAS reviewers. Their "results" were obtained by searching Google Scholar using the search terms: "author:fi-lastname climate". By default Google Scholar is set to search both "articles and patents" yet no mention of searching only for

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Peter Sinclair AKA "Greenman" a cartoonist and Al Gore disciple has been hard at work creating YouTube videos that smear skeptics and their arguments. The following is a complete rebuttal to his "Crock of the Week - 32000 Scientists" video challenging the petition of 31,486 scientists who reject global warming alarm.1. Sinclair claims the late Dr. Frederick Seitz was a distinguished scientist

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A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of peer-reviewed papers supporting skeptic arguments. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit certain journals that dare publish these papers. One of these is the journal Energy & Environment. This is a reference

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2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals froze over for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore's home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders met to try and stop global warming. It was so cold that even the BBC was forced to ask, what happened

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Green is the new Red!References:A different kind of red and green this Yuletide (Copenhagen Insider)Bowing to communism at the climategate festival? (Dauphin County Republican Examiner)Chavez, Mugabe Attack Capitalism and the West at Copenhagen Climate Conference (CNS News)In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communist Participation (Media Research Center)

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Emails: "I've just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)"...it would be nice to try to "contain" the putative "MWP", even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." - Michael Mann,

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The problem with the U.S. Health Care system is a combination of third party payments, government regulations and an artificial limited supply of doctors. Since the average person does not directly pay for their health care they do not care about the costs. Medical insurance encourages unnecessary procedures and waste due to the illusion of it being "free" via a co-pay. In a true free market,

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The Chevy Volt gets 230 MPG? Really? Using GM's "calculations" if you drive under 40 miles per day, you will get infinite MPG! The reality is that the Chevy Volt runs 40 miles on battery power, then a gasoline generator kicks in and you average around "40 MPG". However, I will wait for the real MPG rating as the Prius's initial 60 MPG rating was a lie - try 45 MPG. But what does a plug-in

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RealClimate.org is assumed by those who do not know any better to be an "objective" source on climate change. It features activist scientists with degrees in Geology, Geosciences, Mathematics, Oceanography and Physics who are all self proclaimed "climatologists". Yet skeptical scientists with equivalent credentials are not (probably because they have not proclaimed it). Essentially the site

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Microsoft ended Windows XP's Direct OEM and Retail License Availability on June 30, 2008 and System Builder License Availability on January 31, 2009. Which means you will be unable to purchase new copies of Windows XP (except for those still for sale on the market) after this date. Recently Microsoft ended "Mainstream Support" on April 14, 2009 but will continue "Extended Support" of Windows XP

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Even though the U.S. Presidential elections are long over (no I did not vote for and do not support Barrack Obama) there is a lot of talk about Sarah Palin running for President in 2012. I find this absolutely ridiculous as she was not and will not be the most qualified person the Republican party has to run. John McCain chose her for no other reason then with the hopes to pick up disgruntled

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2008 was a year of Global Cooling contrary to the propaganda promoted by Al Gore and the mainstream media about a "warming earth". Hundreds to thousands of people froze to death in India, China and Afghanistan. There was record breaking cold temperatures and snow falls yet the hysteria continued - a climate tour icebreaker got stuck in Arctic ice, AGW activists learned the hard way that the

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Unstoppable Solar Cycles (10 min)The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing (The Danish National Space Center)Over the past 20 years the solar cycle remains fully apparent in variations both of tropospheric air temperature and of ocean subsurface water temperature.When the response of the climate system to the solar cycle is apparent in the troposphere and ocean, but not in the global

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Marijuana - The Real Facts (1 hr)Marijuana is a very dangerous drug that has been propagandized as "safe" by weak minded idiots. The reality is marijuana is an addictive drug that can cause brain damage, cancer, gum disease, heart disease, infertility, lung disease, obesity, pregnancy failure, viral infections and doubles the risk of car accidents. The United States has the highest level of

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"CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving – I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation

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Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil (5min)175-315 Billion barrels of oil are recoverable at $15 a barrel in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada. With a remaining potential of 1.7-2.5 Trillion barrels. In Canada's oil sands alone, the supplies will last over 100 years.The Bottomless Well (Peter Huber, Mark Mills, 2005)Despite Popular Belief, The World is Not Running Out of Oil, Scientist Says (

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"Truth based on who edits last"Wikipedia can be edited by anyone with an Internet connection, regardless of age, education or experience. The average person is completely unaware that what they may be reading on a Wikipedia page could be completely false or intentionally misleading. And the only way to verify the information posted to Wikipedia is to independently research the subject from a

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"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla, 1934What people do not understand is that there is no proof of "Man-Made" Global Warming without using irrelevant computer models. Yes computer models have a place in engineering but are utterly

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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition (Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred Singer, 2008)A Climate Crisis a la Gore: The real profit pushing the perception of manmade global warming (Paul Spite, 2008)A Layman's Guide to Understanding the Global Warming Hoax (Leo Johnson, 2008)A Primer on CO2 and Climate (Howard C. Hayden, 2007)A Primer on CO2 and Climate, 2nd Edition (

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WARNING! Global Warming Alarmists do not want you to watch these videos.The real inconvenient truth is that there are plenty of videos showing the truth about the exaggerations, misinformation and outright propaganda relating to the environment and climate change.ABC: Give Me a Break: Global Warming (8 min)Apocalypse? No! (1 hr 26 min)Bullshit! - Environmental Hysteria (29 min)Bullshit! - Being

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Non 'Consensus' Scientists: Galileo - Darwin - Einstein "Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is

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There are some people out there apparently so smart they think they can do things better than the programmers at Microsoft. These hacks irresponsibly recommend ripping out components of Windows to make 'lighter' versions with absolutely no clue as to the consequences of their actions. They mislead others and cause untold amounts of headaches for support staff of PC and software vendors. I've been

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With the latest release of Diskeeper 2007 Build 11.0.701 the company formerly known as Executive Software now simply just Diskeeper Corp. has added some "enhancements" to the latest build of their disk defragmenter software:1. This product always requires Product Activation upon install.2. Silent Activation is enabled which will automatically activate when an internet connection is found.This

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Dealing with Adware, Spyware and Malware is part of the job if you work in IT. There are various free utilities available to deal with the problem. Ad-aware is one of the many I personally use and recommend. Recently in what I can only describe as desperation to strum up more business, Lavasoft has recently been including detection of various non-malicious utilities as CRITICAL OBJECTS that need

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Anyone who tracks security vulnerability reports knows of the ridiculous amount that reference holes in Linux. For whatever reason this is never talked about and Linux gets this magic aura of invulnerability. Part of the confusion lies with the complexity of the open source Linux model that separates Linux "Distributions" from Linux "Kernel" vulnerabilities. Now if you start looking into and

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Over the last year we have been bombarded with all sorts of overhyped figures of browser market share. With the latest release of Firefox 2.0 they are now claiming 2 million downloads in 24 hours. Wow that sounds great until you do the math and realize that is only 0.18% of worldwide Internet users:World Internet Usage: 1,086,250,903Firefox 2 Downloads: 2,000,000Worldwide Percentage Using Firefox

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Is Browser Security getting better? That is tough to say but Firefox is definitely not leading the way. Despite all the hype, despite all the Myths, Firefox 1.x has a worse security record so far in 2006 than Internet Explorer 6.x.The popular security site Secunia reports advisories that can include multiple security vulnerabilities of a product. The most severe Firefox Secunia advisories tend to

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Don't get me wrong Digg.com is very popular but popularity does not equal intelligent content or even good content. I've heard different people make claims that crowds can make good, intelligent decisions. That is obviously subjective depending on who is actually in the crowd making these decisions. A crowd of people with PhDs is going to get very different results as opposed to a crowd of high

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ZoneLabs over the years has offered a very good ZoneAlarm Firewall product but they have not been without their mishaps. Just last year they experienced serious issues with their "True Vector" Engine Crashing. The year before with ZoneAlarm 5 they had a serious bug that prevented CHKDSK from running at bootup in Windows XP (It appears all forum posts relating to this issue have been conveniently

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I don't understand the fact that since I use Internet Explorer 7 with Google as my home page that I must be subject to Firefox Spam. Will this ever end? I woke up this morning to this screen as my default Google Search page in IE:I checked Firefox 1.5.0.2 and you get the normal default Google Search Page and the same in Opera 9.0 Beta. Neither had any Spam. Thinking this was in retaliation to

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The latest Opera 9 Technical Preview Windows Build 8265 passes the Acid2 Browser Test!"Acid2 is a test page, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products."Opera 9 TP Windows Build 8265 Acid2 Results:Considering Firefox (an open source web browser) still has a ways to go here to pass this test, this is a significant win for Opera (a closed source web

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With Opera recently releasing their web browser completely free of Ads, it is a good time to let the truth be told. Not only is Opera Faster then Firefox in all performance areas, it is much more Secure and more Compliant.PerformanceFirefox is often mentioned as a light-weight performance browser. It is also touted as being faster than other browsers. This is far from the truth. These tests

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Guess what time of year it is? Firefox Spam Time! - Video Spam that is. "My Lord, IE still holds Market Dominance!" cries the Fanboy. The Emperor responds, "Yes young Foxer, on my word unleash more Spam!". "Yes my lord, we will commence Spamming.....I mean "Spreading" Firefox.""Firefox 1.5 would be backed by a "big marketing push" that will include a community marketing campaign that will

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This news is six months old but for various reasons is still not widely known. nVidia dropped "Unified" driver support in Windows XP/2000 for certain GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), starting with driver v77.72. This is not the first time they have done this with their "Unified" driver architecture but it is significant in its disparity. The irony is the lack of "Unification".nVidia Unified

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Another day, another program that spreads misinformation. You would think by now people would do five minutes of research before providing others with advice. In this case the FireTune Tweak Utility made by TOTALidea falls for the old /prefetch:1 shortcut myth. FireTune claims to improve Firefox performance using Placebo effect tweaks like this? I wonder how many other useless tweaks are included

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Sony recently showed the extent to which they will go to attempt to copy protect their Music CDs. The latest use of Rootkits in their DRM has gone way too far. I am personally boycotting Sony Products. Stopping these sorts of infections and getting around DRM is much easier then you think. Simply disabling the Windows Autorun feature blocks them from installing cold. Losing the convenience of

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Recently CCleaner has added an internet urban legend as a cleaning option, "Old Prefetch data". Cleaning the Prefetch folder is an internet Myth that simply will not die due to the gross ignorance of many people in regards to how Windows XP Prefetching works. These same people generally recommend other bogus advice such as disabling Windows Prefetching completely and adding /Prefetch:1 to desktop

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At first I thought someone was joking when they told me this web link can crash your PC using simple HTML code and Internet Explorer. I suspected it might crash just the browser at worst and was simply a joke related site at best. However, after trying it I can confirm it can crash your PC. But it does so through an apparent bug in some video card drivers.On my test machine I received a BSOD in

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Following the feedback received from the initial article: Battlefield 2: The Video Card Controversy, it appears this issue is far from clear and understood. Battlefield 2 requires new hardware in order to even startup, while in the past games have required new hardware in order to run smoothly at higher detail and resolution levels. Besides the fact that the minimum supported hardware, a Radeon

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As a PC Gamer you expect to upgrade, you expect that at some point your hardware will not run the latest games acceptably. Battlefield 2 does not even give you that option. It attempts to make all non DirectX 9 compatible video cards obsolete. Which means all GeForce 4 and older video cards will not run Battlefield 2. You cannot even start up the menu. Neither Electronic Arts nor the game's

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The idea of bundling software has been around for quite some time. For years AOL links and icons were bundled with just about everything. Here though it was merely icons and links attached to more frivolous applications. The recent trend with Malware force installing itself is much worse. This happening hidden from view, during a regular application's install has angered just about everyone who

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Apple apparently is attempting to remove any shred of good faith it had with its customers. For sometime now Apple has chosen to force end users who wish to install their QuickTime Media Player to also install the iTunes software. As if the only MP3 player in existence is the iPod and every PC owner has one, shame on you Apple.Visiting the default QuickTime Download Site greets you with only two

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I've been playing Video Games since the golden age, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 and of course the original Nintendo. At some point I've played every mainstream system. Including oddities like the Magnavox Odyssey 2, Collecovision, Atari Lynx (light years ahead of the Gameboy) and the TurboGraphx 16. With each successful generation I've evaluated and purchased what I considered to be the best and

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There has to be a fundamental shift in this country. We can't keep going on with this ridiculous mindset of working faster, not smarter. And we have to tailor our educational facilities to be more in-line with what's going on in other global areas. Our higher-learning institutions are still among the best in the world. But if we don't fix the mid-and lower level grade insufficiencies, eventually

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Understanding the importance of reliability is the first step in overcoming socially accepted misguided conceptions. Let me start off by saying that in the computer world there are no perfect components or perfect manufacturers. What there is, are manufacturers who are significantly better then others. People incorrectly associate perfection with reliability.You get what you pay for holds true to

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Modern software releases patches and updates incrementally, meaning you only have to download the code that is different. This allows for much smaller and more effective downloads. Patching systems such as this have been around since software had version numbers. Why then does Firefox require you to download the full program every time a new version is released?Updating from v1.0.2 to v1.0.3

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For a tech toy praised up and down as being the "best" MP3 player, how has everyone managed to miss its shortcomings?I started out shopping for an MP3 player as a Christmas Gift over the holidays and wound up reading hundreds of reviews on all the available players. After much thought I narrowed the features that the player had to have:1. Support MP3 bit rate of 192 Kbps or higher.2. Drag and

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Using PopupTest.com and a couple of sites with Flash related PopUps I performed a basic comparison to see which browser would block the most types of PopUps without interfering with Good PopUps.Test Operating System = Windows XP SP2ResultsIE+SP2 PopUp Blocker = On (Default)PASS - Multi-PopUp TestPASS - Multi-PopUp Test#2PASS - Come and Go TestPASS - Timed PopUpPASS - Mouseover PopUpFAIL -

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I can understand and sympathize with the general distaste for pop-up advertisements. They are obstructive and annoying. But I do not sympathize with the distaste of standard banner advertisements that pay for all the free content we currently enjoy.Again the idealists fail to understand how websites pay for their monthly server and bandwidth charges. For most "free" sites their revenue is

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It looks like the Prophets have been found correct and the age of Firefox Spyware is upon us. While the current Java Scheme requires user intervention, this is how it started on IE. Users were given Pop-up window choices to install a "necessary" program, choosing "Yes" would install the Spyware. I can hear the cyber cries now, as Firefox followers commit mass suicide, their beloved browser

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This is just a very bad move. The Macromedia Flash Player is now by default bundling the Yahoo Toolbar. Just when you think some things online were a sure thing, companies like Macromedia have to come mess with it.Why?As far as I could tell online flash content was even more dominate then Java. Why mess with a good thing? The reasoning is simple, money. Some executive had the not so bright idea

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I would consider HijackThis an advanced tool for the detection of certain Spyware. However it is being widely used and recommended online as the only correct way to remove Spyware and irresponsibly Viruses. As usual the Elitists will try to make everything more complicated then it is or needs to be."Elitism (Defined) - The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05170143101028077396noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9481975.post-1106878745106605632005-01-27T21:00:00.003-05:002009-05-20T21:51:28.370-04:00

Religion (Definition) - "A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion."Is Firefox a bad web browser? No. Is it the next coming of the Almighty? According to some it would seem that way. It is one thing recommending a program, it is entirely another to preach about something as if you were part of a religious cult.Seriously how sad is it that a program needs a web

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"Open-source software is required to have its source code freely available; end-users have the right to modify and redistribute the software, as well as the right to package and sell the software." This is the formal definition. When you dig deeper you find that the common perception of open-source and no cost, "free" software gets kind of blurry."Despite apparent similarities, open-source

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Computing zealots rarely win many followers - as I need to periodically remind the more "enthusiastic" members of my Linux User Group. Windows has its place, so does Unix, so does MacOS. The ultimate goal of a computer user is to maximize functionality. Unfortunately, there simply isn't the "perfect OS".Many articles have been written about how Linux could be made better. Those articles usually

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