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Apple/NVidia Driver Bug — Question Deleted
Joe Drago writes "I purchased a Mac Pro within the first week that they were available, and immediately upgraded to 3GB of RAM (knowing that OSX loves memory). When playing 3D games (World of Warcraft mainly), the game would Kernel Panic the machine if I had played it for a few hours, or if I swapped in and out of the game a few times, etc. I eventually found out (from an official Blizzard poster) that NVidia has a bug in their drivers that kernel panics a Mac Pro if any memory past the 2GB boundary is addressed in the driver. After waiting months for a resolution to this, I decided to post on Apple's support site. Here is an image of my post.. Within a few hours, they removed it from the site, placing it under 'Posts Removed by Administration.' What's going on here? Is Apple trying to hide this bug, or is there something more serious going on between Apple and NVidia?"
There's always a chance that someone accidentally choose the wrong line in the selection box. Now that they got all web 2.0 with moderation, if you accidentally click the wrong line there's now way to reverse it.
Stop playing WOW and do something useful with your life.
And if he bought a Dell is it Dell's fault, MSFT's, or Nvidia?
The answer is the same whether you want to admit it or not. apple doesn't make the video card, and can only complain to nvidia, and put pressure on them.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
It's been tagged as flamebait because Apple users do not like being reminded that they paid Apple AND gave up their freedom to use, modify, study, and distribute software. And when their complaints about bugs are being ignored or suppressed, they suddenly realize that they want to have their cake and eat it too.
The answer is simple. His message stated he was looking for an "official" response from Apple. However, he posted this message on a forum that, albeit hosted by Apple, is a user-to-user support forum. Apple employees very, very rarely respond to any messages on those forums and when they do, they never, ever, provide "official" responses to real or perceived bugs. That's why his message was deleted. It violated the terms of use.
I realize by defending Apple I risk being labeled a "fanboy" by many of the juvenile idiots that troll this board. So, for those tempted to falsely apply that petty and overused label to me, I would ask them to provide evidence that any major computer products vendor (hardware or software) distributes official status on product bugs through their user forums. Note that by "major" I mean companies like Adobe, Dell and Microsoft. I'm aware that small developers communicate to users via their forums, but none of the big guys do.
By the way, I'm not saying that the guy doesn't have a legitimate complaint. I'm sure there are hundreds of undisclosed bugs in Apple products. Apple is no different than any other vendor in this regard. It's just that his expectation that he would get an official response through the user forums is naive and his suspicions of some conspiracy to hide the bug is just plain silly.
How about a stuffed pig with an apple in it's mouth? Like this one: http://static.flickr.com/23/25779025_5a0e53faec_m. jpg
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
You're claiming Nihm Chimpsky is a "luminary"? And you have a livejournal account? YOU, my friend, are the reason that America will collapse, hopefully a day after I keel over. Then you, and your children, and all the other jerkoffs can reap what you've sown.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Who sucks at the teat of capitalism and free markets while shitting all over the place?
That Noam Chomsky?
That's quite a tall statement not to back up with statistics. I call you a liar sir, until you do so.
Horns are really just a broken halo.
P.S. I can't believe you got modded troll. Sorry, what I am saying, the world is full of idiots.
In that "marked as troll" case just replace "idiots" with "Apple fanboys"...
I think an apple with a pig in it's mouth would be the best :D
FWIW, I think Apple is starting to really show their arrogance streak, just like the rest of the big dogs. Welcome to the club, "Apple, Inc."!
Hahahah, a PC apologist! Well, I suppose someone has to make the teeming squares feel better about themselves, at the end of the day.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
...you're a liar. Everyone knows that everything Apple makes Just Works®.
Sincerely,
Steve Jobs
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Going through your paragraphs: 1st one: I don't have a mac pro but have heard of people using it on mac pros successfully, and never once heard of any problems. But either way it's irrelevant since parallels is third party software, and the only "official" way to run windows is boot camp (which was developed in house by apple, and is a free alternative to parallels), so it has nothing to do with apple at all. 2nd one: Keyboards are something were personal taste applies, in my own opinion apple's keyboards are among the best "stock standard" keyboards that come with desktop pc's from any manufacturer, but each to his own opinion. I'd personally never dream of doing real work on anything but the low-profile scissor switch keyboards I use. However what's this crap about "one company that makes a decent replacement"? Any USB keyboard will work perfectly, buy whatever you want if you're picky about keyboards. 3rd one: Again, illustrator is third party software. If you'd done your research you would see that illustrator does not run natively on intel macs, and this can cause stability issues. Bitch to Adobe about it, they could've fixed all the issues months ago but have instead decided to force everyone to pay for the fully compatible version of illustrator (which requires adding a few new features, which requires lots of development time). But really, the blame is yours for not doing your research. 4th one: are all your reasons as stupid as the ones above? Because none of them hold any real water. You say they "lied" about it. Who lied about it? Who told your illustrator would run perfectly under emulation? Who told you that parallels is a "major selling point" when it's a paid alternative to the free-official version of the same feature? It looks to me like you're a victim of your own poor research.
That's the CS3 Beta, you idiot. It's not running under emulation on Intel, it's native code, universal binary. It's also not out yet.
welcome to my foes list.
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.