http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/olympics_bsod.jpg
From what I can see of it, the error code does indeed suggest a driver, however drivers crashing the system just proves the entire development model of letting multiple third parties write critical pieces of code is broken.
I've not heard of the problem in the US, but while it might be a problem here, its not for lack of land. The whole of Belgium could get lost in the state of Wyoming.
Without cities to feed, the amount of food farmers would need to produce drops dramatically, the big loss es if the cities vanish would be things like vaccines and indoor plumbing.
ATI supports openGL, Intel added full support as well when they implemented DX10 (only one chipset has these so far iirc though).
The apparent failure of OpenGL to provide a significant rival to DX10 sucks though, especially since the DX10 on Vista only might have provided game makers an incentive to jump ship in order to get bleeding edge graphics onto XP systems.
He asked for a link to something that was never mentioned by the person he was responding too, a strawman argument, while not a troll, hardly insightful either, the democrat mods lose this one too.
I would imagine that and NDA would if anything improve the VCs view of you, most of these people have been burned by bright people with no business sense, you want to seem like you can actually handle dealing with the scum that tend to rise to the top of the business world.
Is voiding warranties for self service common? I've not had any experience with that, and I've spent the last year and a half working warranty support. (Though for the same company the whole time, they may be unique).
Of course, the same company likes to use proprietary parts, and charge ridiculous amounts for replacements if you're out of warranty.
Dell isn't Selling Linux desktop/notebooks outside of the US and China as far as I can tell, so they don't really affect these numbers.
Dell also has a smaller effect in general. About 1% of Dell's desktop/notebook sales are Linux now. The number is fairly low for a variety of reasons, one being that Dell won't sell it outside of consumer, when 85% of its purchases are through corporate (which don't all go to businesses by a long shot), and more still in small medium business, and partly because you have to specifically request it, versus the EEEpc where its the default.
In Utah at least, you would be in violation of the law to make audio recordings of me in your own home. (Utah law requires explicit consent of at least one party to the conversation, and that if a party to the conversation is doing the recording, that other parties be informed).
More interesting, federal law dictates that the more stringent law always applies for interstate communication. So if you bug you own phone, and a guest calls me in Utah, you again become liable, our laws cover email as well, which makes my companies snooping practices in violation. The really stupid thing is, if they just changed the line 'monitor your activity' to 'monitor and record your activity' in their AUP they'd be airtight. At least until I find a state where both parties have to be informed or somesuch.
I could be wrong about the legal definition of 'monitor' though.
B) That relatively small area for drilling would be spread across dozens of sites,, that means you need roads and services, which are far more disruptive than the drilling itself.
There's not a lot f choice. If I understand this right, *every* chip of the design has the problem, so short of an entirely different notebook, the only option is stopgap or replace and wait for it to fail again. And even if they do send out a new system, all the models/varients that aren't effected would be downgrades. You also have to factor in the chance of failure:
With the exception of the XPS M1330 (early runs of which have issues with piss poor connections coming loose), none of the models that have the issue, and I'm familiar with, have an abnormally high failure rate. (Notebook GPUs fail a lot regardless, so this isn't saying much). Worry more about your hard drive crapping out or the LCD giving in. Or the power circuits packing in, or Windows suddenly deciding you don't have a valid license, or your heatsinks clogging with dust, or, well, your graphics dieing for some other reason, the things (not just nVidia ones) suck in general.
Why do these articles never seem to match up to anything that's actually a common failure?
Termination fees for subsidized phones are one thing, but consider that not taking a subsidized phone doesn't eliminate the fees. The fees are also usually worth way more than the phone subsidy (smartphones are an exception to this, sometimes). In addition, Sprint, in my experience, refuses to make changes to your plan, or allow you to change to a new phone, unless you accept a new two year contract.
They may not have had much choice in system boards, low power processors usually come as a bundle, and I only ev3er found one C7-D board last year for sale in the US (other countries have better selection). I bet they put giant (and completely useless) cooling fans in there too though. The whole test seems to scream that they used a process meant for testing gaming level components.
The energy star 5 standard requires 50 watts or less at idle, something the old C7-D platforms from via managed quite easily, are they including the display in the system power consumption perhaps, or just using shoddy parts in other spots?
Also, what is the power consumption of the lower end Nano processors? As I recall, the slower nano managed to (barely) outbenchmark the atom, it would be a much better platform to check power consumption against in this case.
I also point out that for these kinds of systems, 3D based benchmarks seem fairly useless, neither platform is targeted at gaming or graphics development.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/olympics_bsod.jpg From what I can see of it, the error code does indeed suggest a driver, however drivers crashing the system just proves the entire development model of letting multiple third parties write critical pieces of code is broken.
I've not heard of the problem in the US, but while it might be a problem here, its not for lack of land. The whole of Belgium could get lost in the state of Wyoming.
Without cities to feed, the amount of food farmers would need to produce drops dramatically, the big loss es if the cities vanish would be things like vaccines and indoor plumbing.
Meditation helps, and if you can find and afford it, neurofeedback was very effective for me, much more than the drugs.
File a patent on using a fuel cell for every electric device you can think of.
ATI supports openGL, Intel added full support as well when they implemented DX10 (only one chipset has these so far iirc though).
The apparent failure of OpenGL to provide a significant rival to DX10 sucks though, especially since the DX10 on Vista only might have provided game makers an incentive to jump ship in order to get bleeding edge graphics onto XP systems.
He asked for a link to something that was never mentioned by the person he was responding too, a strawman argument, while not a troll, hardly insightful either, the democrat mods lose this one too.
I would imagine that and NDA would if anything improve the VCs view of you, most of these people have been burned by bright people with no business sense, you want to seem like you can actually handle dealing with the scum that tend to rise to the top of the business world.
Has anybody actually provided math that can be used to determine this?
Is voiding warranties for self service common? I've not had any experience with that, and I've spent the last year and a half working warranty support. (Though for the same company the whole time, they may be unique).
Of course, the same company likes to use proprietary parts, and charge ridiculous amounts for replacements if you're out of warranty.
Dell isn't Selling Linux desktop/notebooks outside of the US and China as far as I can tell, so they don't really affect these numbers.
Dell also has a smaller effect in general. About 1% of Dell's desktop/notebook sales are Linux now. The number is fairly low for a variety of reasons, one being that Dell won't sell it outside of consumer, when 85% of its purchases are through corporate (which don't all go to businesses by a long shot), and more still in small medium business, and partly because you have to specifically request it, versus the EEEpc where its the default.
IANAL
In Utah at least, you would be in violation of the law to make audio recordings of me in your own home. (Utah law requires explicit consent of at least one party to the conversation, and that if a party to the conversation is doing the recording, that other parties be informed).
More interesting, federal law dictates that the more stringent law always applies for interstate communication. So if you bug you own phone, and a guest calls me in Utah, you again become liable, our laws cover email as well, which makes my companies snooping practices in violation. The really stupid thing is, if they just changed the line 'monitor your activity' to 'monitor and record your activity' in their AUP they'd be airtight. At least until I find a state where both parties have to be informed or somesuch.
I could be wrong about the legal definition of 'monitor' though.
I have no idea, maybe they just don't sell to the UK, they're all over the US websites.
For a software company, half of spending on R&D is pretty low, keep in mind that R&D includes most of your production cost in software.
Whats wrong with Biostar boards?
A: this isn't about ANWR
B) That relatively small area for drilling would be spread across dozens of sites,, that means you need roads and services, which are far more disruptive than the drilling itself.
Do it the other way around, that way they can't pass those wonderful election year laws to get votes.
This guy figured out the anthrax was really being sent out by the government to increase panic.
In all seriousness, why the hell would you charge one of the investigators in the crime?
There's not a lot f choice. If I understand this right, *every* chip of the design has the problem, so short of an entirely different notebook, the only option is stopgap or replace and wait for it to fail again. And even if they do send out a new system, all the models/varients that aren't effected would be downgrades. You also have to factor in the chance of failure:
With the exception of the XPS M1330 (early runs of which have issues with piss poor connections coming loose), none of the models that have the issue, and I'm familiar with, have an abnormally high failure rate. (Notebook GPUs fail a lot regardless, so this isn't saying much). Worry more about your hard drive crapping out or the LCD giving in. Or the power circuits packing in, or Windows suddenly deciding you don't have a valid license, or your heatsinks clogging with dust, or, well, your graphics dieing for some other reason, the things (not just nVidia ones) suck in general.
Why do these articles never seem to match up to anything that's actually a common failure?
Termination fees for subsidized phones are one thing, but consider that not taking a subsidized phone doesn't eliminate the fees. The fees are also usually worth way more than the phone subsidy (smartphones are an exception to this, sometimes). In addition, Sprint, in my experience, refuses to make changes to your plan, or allow you to change to a new phone, unless you accept a new two year contract.
Because the one good cop in the department got fired the last time he tried that.
number of mouse click to perform any given task
By that metric EMACS is the most user friendly app out there.
They may not have had much choice in system boards, low power processors usually come as a bundle, and I only ev3er found one C7-D board last year for sale in the US (other countries have better selection). I bet they put giant (and completely useless) cooling fans in there too though. The whole test seems to scream that they used a process meant for testing gaming level components.
I've always preferred Dance Dance Revolution for video game workouts myself.
The energy star 5 standard requires 50 watts or less at idle, something the old C7-D platforms from via managed quite easily, are they including the display in the system power consumption perhaps, or just using shoddy parts in other spots?
Also, what is the power consumption of the lower end Nano processors? As I recall, the slower nano managed to (barely) outbenchmark the atom, it would be a much better platform to check power consumption against in this case.
I also point out that for these kinds of systems, 3D based benchmarks seem fairly useless, neither platform is targeted at gaming or graphics development.