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Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too
JagsLive sends in a story (in somewhat inflammatory prose) from The Inquirer, which links to many others; they have been following developments in the alleged NVidia quality "fiasco" for some time. "Hot on the heels of its denials that anything is wrong with the G92 and G94s comes another PCN [Product Change Notification] that shows the G92s and G92b are being changed for no reason. Yup, the problems that are plaguing G84 and G86 are the same that affect seemingly all 65nm and now 55nm NVidia parts ... It is hard to overstate how bad this is. Basically every 65nm and 55nm NVidia part appears to be defective ... We are hearing of early failure rates in the teens percent for 8800GTs and far higher for 9600GTs ... To make matters worse, NVidia has a mound of unsold defective parts that they are going to bleed out into the channel along side of the (hopefully) fixed parts. As a buyer, you have no way of knowing which one you are getting ... Until NVidia comes fully clean on this fiasco, lists all the defective parts, and orders boxes clearly marked, you can't say anything other than just avoid them. Then again, since doing the right thing would likely bankrupt them, we wouldn't hold your breath for it to happen."
While I don't think the meat industry is fair for doing what they do, at least you can avoid salmonella by cooking or curing the meat. Not to mention that healthy adults are unlikely to become terribly sick from a small amount of salmonella, and you should know better than to feed infants, elders, or sick people meat that hasn't been properly cooked or cured. Salmonella is a very common form of food poisoning, and is not as big of a deal in most countries outside of the U.S.A. where the FDA has made sure that the smallest "risk" is blown out of proportion and sounds like a life threatening risk for everyone. In the mean time, beef that is considered to be a risk of mad cow disease circulates within the U.S. without a problem. (Although I dare anyone to show me a single report where it is more than likely that a human disease was caused by cross contamination of mad cow disease. But that's the whole point, that a minute danger is blown out of proportion.)
On the other hand, with Nvidia chips, there is no common sense method to avoid the problem-chips apart from abstaining from the entire product line.
Neither one is seriously endangering human lives. Both are prone to piss of customers to no ends.
you know it's hardly appropriate to use an incomplete out of context quotation of nietzsche to somehow try to promote your religion
that's two lines of a three liner written by nietzsche himself
the last line is "some are born posthuminously! - nietzsche"
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That is because outside the USA, it has been virtually eradicated from livestock. Sweden began a program to do so more than 40 years ago and now less than 0.1% of Swedish cattle is infected with Salmonella. Compare that to the US with 2.1%...
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Got a source for this? I can't believe that one in fifty cattle in the US has Salmonella.
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Congratulations my good sir. You managed to use the precise balance of sarcasm and humor as to catch the masses unawares. It was so damn good, you could almost call it a troll (but we won't). I hereby award you with 2 hole intarwebs for your prize.
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Radeon/ATI has problems too. They finally stopped replacing my 9800XT when the warranty period was up after 3 years.
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