Root Access

1:47 AM

@allquixotic Google has resisted government (unpaid) intrusions. I think they'd be even more resistant to bribes. They've got ways of making that money with legitimate analytics that users are comfortable with.

nertaip.blogspot.com/2015/01/death-retort.html

Online classes can get annoying. I got annoyed with some questions and retorts. So, I formulated a master retort.

DragonLord

2:03 AM

Back to the topic of microtransactions: A less-than-perfect implementation in Assassin's Creed Unity

> As a player who purchased the $100 option, nothing made me feel more disrespected than finishing the game with $56 of Helix credits and nothing to buy. The only options left were gear I hadn't unlocked (and had no need for) or else buy 74 premium boosts that I did not need thanks to my high powered gear.

Complaints of bad UX with the AC Initiates integration were noted as well

> The launch of the previous console generation brought us HD gaming, higher development and marketing costs, a $60 price tag and downloadable $2.50 horse armor. This current generation brings us even more beautiful games, even higher development and marketing costs and yet the $60 price tag remains.

> Adjusted for inflation, a $60 game costs the equivalent of $51 in 2006. When it takes 10 game studios working together to create Unity, experimenting with in-game purchases and companion apps as a way to generate additional revenue isn't greed, it's survival.

This is what I've been arguing all along. Games are becoming too expensive to develop.

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: yes and no.

AAA games are getting more expensive to develop

but there's the other end as well... which is part of the problem.

You're competing with free/freemium.

and in a sense, yourself since a lot of folks tend to buy games on sale.

The industry I work in shares a lot of aspects with game development (VFX). Funny thing is a lot of costs are lower

The better tools you work with are already designed for 2K/4K

DragonLord

2:36 AM

USB flash drive failures with No Media in Disk Management seems like a common enough issue to require a canonical question

This is the intended canonical question:

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Q: USB flash drive no longer works, Disk Management reports "No Media"

I have a 32 gb usb stick. I was in mac (vmware) putting some stuff on. Then accidently removed the drive. I put it back in, and wanted to format it. Using disk utility, i choose 1 partition, it automatically filled in 312 GB and i just clicked format or whatever. It didnt take long the i could th...

Duplicates identified so far: superuser.com/questions/871762/… superuser.com/questions/311111/… superuser.com/questions/819820/cannot-access-or-format-my-usb superuser.com/questions/692929/cant-access-usb-drive-anymore

I'm working on an edit to the canonical question—to avoid edit conflicts, please don't touch it until I say I'm finished

Psycogeek

what is the canonical answer ? They are likely cheap crap , or faked sizes that died ?

DragonLord

Merge superuser.com/questions/311111/… into the boxed question above.

Psycogeek

2:53 AM

A lot of the users that have faked out fraud flash chip item be they cards or sticks, report "everything was working fine then . . ." Most of the FULL reports of a fake discovery are "Everything worked great until i reached the end of the actual nand storage that exist, then then the whole thing dies with no access even to the 2gig that was there."

The only actual solutions i have seen so far, are to tell the controller what the actual size is, and then having a fake chip with its real size.

DragonLord

Abdullah Gheith: This question comes up often enough that I've made this a Community FAQ question. We expect to merge answers from other questions into this question—when this happens, please accept one of the answers by clicking on the check below the voting controls so that we have a designated canonical solution for this problem. — DragonLord 1 min ago

The edit is complete.

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Q: USB flash drive no longer works, various utilities don't recognize it, and Disk Management reports "No Media"

I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive: Various disk partitioning and data recovery utilities don't recognize the drive or only giv...

usb-flash-drive data-recovery hardware-failure community-faq

Psycogeek

Answers ? 0 , gratiitous 1 ? Wouldnt you expect an answer to have say 2-3 other people that indicate it might work :-) or do we delete those comments also?

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek, are you available? I'm preparing a Community FAQ question and I need your help.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

vaguely?

Whatchaneed?

DragonLord

I have as many as six duplicates, and at least one of them needs to be merged into this question.

Journeyman Geek

3:00 AM

Do they have distinctive/useful answers?

DragonLord

I feel this question is the best candidate for merging into the boxed answer above.

I've notified the OP using a comment and hopefully they'll come back to accept an answer. (Last activity was about 10 days ago.)

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Step back a bit if its ok

(That's to say, gimme a moment to work out what exactly to do ;p)

Why do we need to merge them?

DragonLord

Existing answers on the boxed question are not that good. I need a good starting point for a canonical answer.

Journeyman Geek

is there any one specific question with an absolutely awesome answer?

DragonLord

No, but this answer is more useful than the others because it clearly identifies the problem

FYI: This question is more general but the "No Media" case comes up often enough to require specific attention IMO

Emphasis is to be put on the No Media error

Journeyman Geek

3:06 AM

Blah

I'm inclined to suggest posting a new question, posting a good answer there, then closing/merging into that. I'm not sure if that's the right way to do it tho

I'm also thinking its kinda specific.

DragonLord

Okay, I'm composing a new answer. It will be community wiki.

Journeyman Geek

no need for that

(community wiking)

DragonLord

Alright, I am writing a brand-new question and answer describing the issue. The edits on the boxed question above will be rolled back.

I'll roll the edits back just before I submit the question and answer.

Psycogeek

there was a location on the web that specialised in discovery and re-flashing of fake MP3/4 china devices with fake storage ammounts, and flash chunks. they seemed to be very sucessful in "repairing" junk, but it required special stuff, and difficult low level softwares , and procedures. Even with the sucesses they had , i was like well there is a trash can :-)

Now i just test end to end all the stuff i get on the day it comes in, and never had a fail out of the ~15 chips and sticks i use. Plus the stuff in many devices (almost forgot all the flash in things)

Because i saw it might be possible to fix them, and save the $8 :-P I would want to avoid telling people "there is nothing you can do" because (if it was a fake) it possibly can be unfaked the same way it was programmed to be fake.

DragonLord

3:29 AM

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Q: USB flash drive no longer works, various utilities don't recognize it, and Disk Management reports "No Media"

I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive: Various disk partitioning and data recovery utilities don't recognize the drive or only giv...

usb-flash-drive data-recovery hardware-failure community-faq

List of duplicates:

http://superuser.com/questions/538383/did-my-usb-drive-just-die
http://superuser.com/questions/871762/computer-cant-recognize-usb-flash-disk
http://superuser.com/questions/431073/usb-drive-is-empty-in-drive-management
http://superuser.com/questions/311111/how-do-i-fix-a-memorex-usb-8gb-flash-drive-that-shows-0-b-available
http://superuser.com/questions/819820/cannot-access-or-format-my-usb
http://superuser.com/questions/692929/cant-access-usb-drive-anymore
http://superuser.com/questions/746344/is-my-sony-usb-flash-drive-dead

Journeyman Geek

hm

That's annoying

Mind integrating some stuff off some of the other questions into yours?

DragonLord

I'm working on it.

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/692929/cant-access-usb-drive-anymore the comment seems particularly useful

and I'd leave this one be superuser.com/questions/431073/…

DragonLord

> I've got a USB drive here, that somebody asked to try and fix. When inserting it, it shows up in explorer, but when I double click it I get a message saying "Please insert a disk into drive H:". So I went to disk management, to see if it was correctly formatted. It doesn't show up in the upper pane, and in the lower pane it tells me there is no medium in H:.

Journeyman Geek

closed a few, I'll let the community handle the rest ;p

DragonLord

3:35 AM

No medium.

Journeyman Geek

no no

I mean the tool in question

Psycogeek

bbalegere links are not dead (as seen in the comments) or have been since fixed superuser.com/a/693176/98855 and it is some tools that at least can see

DragonLord

Hang on, I'm working on it.

Psycogeek

@DragonLord and "no medium" could be just a different languages translation of the exact same message?

DragonLord

I've got a lot of information to integrate from other answers and may not get to it today.

allquixotic

3:40 AM

well, according to Verizon, they're going to start letting people opt out of X-UIDH soon, but instead of giving them an undefined amount of time to decide to create the opt-out UI (and infrastructure changes), I'm now running under a VPN 24/7

openvpn udp from Maryland to Virginia Amazon AWS region... very fast c4.large instance with the Enhanced Networking SR-IOV path

Journeyman Geek

X-UIDH?

ahh

never mind, googled it

@allquixotic: ow

DragonLord

@allquixotic Wow, that must cost you a pretty penny

Ramhound

Man...

Leave it to school to totally ruin the "free Windows 10 upgrade for a year"

People are frustrating. Do people really think Microsoft would invalidate your existing license if you had to reinstall it?

or god forbid change the motherboard on a license type that allows you to do that?

Something about it [not being smart business or something tag line here]

DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek Can you change the duplicate target?

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Q: USB flash drive no longer works, various utilities don't recognize it, and Disk Management reports "No Media"

I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive: Various disk partitioning and data recovery utilities don't recognize the drive or only giv...

usb-flash-drive data-recovery hardware-failure community-faq

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A: USB flash drive no longer works, various utilities don't recognize it, and Disk Management reports "No Media"

The No Media error means the flash memory controller on the flash drive no longer recognizes the flash memory and cannot communicate with it. Because the controller cannot communicate with the memory on the drive, it appears to the computer as a empty disk drive. To the computer, the drive is n...

Answer updated.

Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: not easily

DragonLord

3:57 AM

Sorry, have to go in a few minutes.

Thanks for your help. See ya tomorrow.

roar

Psycogeek

ATT just got Rollover data. YAY so now my tiny data package can actually be used every once in a while as needed, instead of always being so tiny it would go over to even use it sparingly and rarely.

Psycogeek

4:31 AM

mass downvotes again, cpet the porn question superuser.com/questions/871794/… Worthy of an upvote even :-)

Psycogeek

4:52 AM

And it is duplicated with this one superuser.com/questions/871764/… ahhh what a mess. same basic understanding of the problem in the questions, different answers on each.

Psycogeek

5:23 AM

superuser.com/questions/871868/… <---100% Spam. (getting killed by users quickly)

Gone!

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