You know what, I just contacted the dealer, and they say it is not THEM that disabled the vehicule, but the financing company. If that's true then, it's probably some Canadian corporation holding the lease that decided to disable the vehicle until the 200$ is paid.
I agree with you that in Quebec, everything is more f**ked than everywhere else.
HOWEVER, with the news coverage, the guy says it is a mechanics who sent him a text message saying his vehicle would be disabled. Two very contradictory versions. If the dealer version is true, then the dealer should sue the guy for a few hundred thousand dollars for attacking its reputation. This would not prevent the guy from suing the financing company for illegally disabling his vehicle.
Seriously the most insightful comment I've read today.
Aside that, a quick search for "FX-8320E problems" on Google gets me a ton of results showing that so many folks have problems with this CPU... OK, so many because they try to overclock it. But some folks get the problem that only 2 out of 4 cores are usable...
Back in the days, most people agreed that P4 was performing better and much cooler than the Athlon XP. You usually needed very good cooling to run any interesting workload on an Athlon XP if you wanted it to be stable.
I meant modern generation processors. I also remember that not long after that 80386 DX-40, there were bunches of AMD Athlon running so hot you could use em as pool heaters.
That's what PR is all about. It's not about getting the problems fixed: it's about getting people to think that the problem is fixed.
Engineers usually fix problems. But right now, they don't want to issue a full recall, so they still sell the old - defective - CPUs assuming that most people run Windows on top of it.
Do any company really care about a desktop processor running a "server" OS like Linux? No.
Hell, most consumer / prosumer Intel chipsets have no drivers for W2K12 / W2K16. Tweaks exist, but not for the faint of heart.
Nintendo is, for some reason, seriously just *trying* to piss people off as best as I can tell.
I personaly think they're doing a tremendous job at pissing ME off. Living in Quebec, just because they won't translate TFM in French, the SNES will not be available for sale at all here.
I've been trying to put my hands on the NES Classic since it (didnt) hit the shelves, but to no avail.
The only people making hard cash on these short supplies are the resellers, cause they pay 100$ for the console and resell it for 300$. Suckerz.
As a taxpayer, there be something pretty fuckin important they need to ask Satoshi personally to justify this waste of my tax money.
You really think they have to justify what they do with your money? One of my fav quotes in that good old ID4 movie: " You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"
Problem with this kind of bubble is that at some point, they'll have to convert the BTC to USD or other currency for the price to drop. The price will drop when they will dump it, but dump it for what? You can buy nothing with BTC, and exchanges probably don't have enough of other currencies to back the BTC value.
I know that BTC is in a big bubble hype right now, but how can this bubble burst if you can't even dump it?
Key point here. On Mozilla's side, they say they will let you opt out easily.
Still, there are a number of alternatives (Waterfox that is FF based with telemetry stripped from the source and Palemoon) that do not collect data at all.
If at least there is an actual option to opt out, that's still good news. Cause the only remaining users of MozFF are techies, so at least we can check or uncheck the necessary checkboxes.
Remember one of the reasons they're allowed these exceptions is that they are also an e-911 service, and those 911 calls must be routed quickly and get priority over all other traffic. Sure, a simple phone call doesn't take up much bandwidth, but there can be hundreds at any time in an area & if the network is congested with 4K video, that'd be a problem.
I don't think that creating a VoIP VLAN on a provider network is against the Net Neutrality rules. Technically speaking, the VoIP VLAN is not the internet. So using QoS after overprovisioning the broadband link by as much as the reserved VoIP bandwidth is not in any way a breach of Net Neutrality.
So with this very simple and inexpensive (and mostly already adopted by VoIP providers in Canada) network engineering trick, you can totally saturate the Internet VLAN with 4K videos, but your calls will still be loud and clear.
wireless carriers are allowed to throttle and process internet traffic as they want
According to this, this goes against pure Net Neutrality.
To quote the interesting part:
[...]Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.
Totally agree with you. The way you call it creates a bias. A manifesto seems bad, but an essay seems good, even though both seem to overlap in their definition.
Everything can become "an issue" when it gets pushed as bad by some pressure groups, in this case, feminists and all the "we are all equal" crowd. Then it gets to run in the news and you get a story.
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You know what, I just contacted the dealer, and they say it is not THEM that disabled the vehicule, but the financing company. If that's true then, it's probably some Canadian corporation holding the lease that decided to disable the vehicle until the 200$ is paid.
I agree with you that in Quebec, everything is more f**ked than everywhere else.
HOWEVER, with the news coverage, the guy says it is a mechanics who sent him a text message saying his vehicle would be disabled. Two very contradictory versions. If the dealer version is true, then the dealer should sue the guy for a few hundred thousand dollars for attacking its reputation. This would not prevent the guy from suing the financing company for illegally disabling his vehicle.
A very nice legal mess to be.
Seriously the most insightful comment I've read today.
Aside that, a quick search for "FX-8320E problems" on Google gets me a ton of results showing that so many folks have problems with this CPU... OK, so many because they try to overclock it. But some folks get the problem that only 2 out of 4 cores are usable...
Yeah, nice product man.
Back in the days, most people agreed that P4 was performing better and much cooler than the Athlon XP. You usually needed very good cooling to run any interesting workload on an Athlon XP if you wanted it to be stable.
If you want a cheap machine, don't buy an Apple computer. Maybe there's 700$ mor for the CPU, but there's also 500$ more for the Apple on the cover.
I meant modern generation processors. I also remember that not long after that 80386 DX-40, there were bunches of AMD Athlon running so hot you could use em as pool heaters.
That's what PR is all about. It's not about getting the problems fixed: it's about getting people to think that the problem is fixed.
Engineers usually fix problems. But right now, they don't want to issue a full recall, so they still sell the old - defective - CPUs assuming that most people run Windows on top of it.
Do any company really care about a desktop processor running a "server" OS like Linux? No.
Hell, most consumer / prosumer Intel chipsets have no drivers for W2K12 / W2K16. Tweaks exist, but not for the faint of heart.
Is it the first time that AMD will have a stable processor? And most importantly, it it spiked by the Agencies?
Totally agree with this. A lot of people around are all exited when they get targeted ads. I get f**king upset, but I seem to be the only one.
Nintendo is, for some reason, seriously just *trying* to piss people off as best as I can tell.
I personaly think they're doing a tremendous job at pissing ME off. Living in Quebec, just because they won't translate TFM in French, the SNES will not be available for sale at all here.
I've been trying to put my hands on the NES Classic since it (didnt) hit the shelves, but to no avail.
The only people making hard cash on these short supplies are the resellers, cause they pay 100$ for the console and resell it for 300$. Suckerz.
As a taxpayer, there be something pretty fuckin important they need to ask Satoshi personally to justify this waste of my tax money.
You really think they have to justify what they do with your money? One of my fav quotes in that good old ID4 movie: " You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"
I would also add that, Canadian money or not, I do not have to wait for more than an hour to confirm a transaction.
Problem with this kind of bubble is that at some point, they'll have to convert the BTC to USD or other currency for the price to drop. The price will drop when they will dump it, but dump it for what? You can buy nothing with BTC, and exchanges probably don't have enough of other currencies to back the BTC value.
I know that BTC is in a big bubble hype right now, but how can this bubble burst if you can't even dump it?
even if it takes a bit of work
Key point here. On Mozilla's side, they say they will let you opt out easily.
Still, there are a number of alternatives (Waterfox that is FF based with telemetry stripped from the source and Palemoon) that do not collect data at all.
This one dates back to Dec 27 2015...
Exact same story.
If at least there is an actual option to opt out, that's still good news. Cause the only remaining users of MozFF are techies, so at least we can check or uncheck the necessary checkboxes.
Ever tried to opt out of anything using Chrome?
and makes me happy i havent invested in sonos
How are Sonos products an investment? I'd says that happily you didn't SPEND on Sonos stuff.
Anyway, for people who like listening to quality music, Sonos are just a plain marketing scam. It sounds like shit.
Remember one of the reasons they're allowed these exceptions is that they are also an e-911 service, and those 911 calls must be routed quickly and get priority over all other traffic. Sure, a simple phone call doesn't take up much bandwidth, but there can be hundreds at any time in an area & if the network is congested with 4K video, that'd be a problem.
I don't think that creating a VoIP VLAN on a provider network is against the Net Neutrality rules. Technically speaking, the VoIP VLAN is not the internet. So using QoS after overprovisioning the broadband link by as much as the reserved VoIP bandwidth is not in any way a breach of Net Neutrality.
So with this very simple and inexpensive (and mostly already adopted by VoIP providers in Canada) network engineering trick, you can totally saturate the Internet VLAN with 4K videos, but your calls will still be loud and clear.
wireless carriers are allowed to throttle and process internet traffic as they want
According to this, this goes against pure Net Neutrality.
To quote the interesting part:
[...]Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.
The first paragraph goes like this:
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.
So I tend to agree with beelsebob.
Isn't this 100% against Net Neutrality??
They should change their name to "Seenit"
I suggest FB. Popcorn anyone?
That's the first word I had in mind... And when it smells sh** and looks like sh**, chances are that it is sh**.
Is WannaCry an inside job?
Totally agree with you. The way you call it creates a bias. A manifesto seems bad, but an essay seems good, even though both seem to overlap in their definition.
Everything can become "an issue" when it gets pushed as bad by some pressure groups, in this case, feminists and all the "we are all equal" crowd. Then it gets to run in the news and you get a story.
LOL, where do you guys get this stuff?
You know, marijuana has been legalized in some states, and soon to be in Canada. Maybe he's starting to show some side effects.