This is why you don't buy directly from Nvidia (or ATI for that matters). If you get a BFG or XFX or EVGA card (which often run for about the same price as vanilla cards), you also get lifetime warranty to protect against exactly this kind of trouble. A friend of mine got his EVGA GPU fried (8800GTX) and they replaced it within 5 days with a GTX 260, for free. No, it's not normal that the drivers can allow that, but shit happens. It'll get fixed quickly I hope, but you should always give yourself some protection on top of that.
Your printing example ends up doing one of two possible results:
1) By attempting to detect at launch, the program hangs for a few seconds every time, even if you never use the printing segment. See Adobe Photoshop hanging for 10 seconds whenever your default printer is a network printer that's offline.
2) By giving an error after the job is completed, you risk people thinking the error does not apply to their task (they've completed all their memorized steps, after all) or that it won't matter anyways. Most will just end up clicking through it because the error message still gets in the way of their next task: closing the software.
No, the problem's in the mindset. Do you see people ignoring "fuel low" indicators a lot? Do you see people gobbling all their pills at once despite the prescription saying it should be one a day? If people are too stupid to follow basic indications, then they should be stuck in their stupidity until their learn to work properly. In other words, screw them. Car manufacturers won't start blackening the windshield and reading out loud "fuel low" every time, so I don't see why computer software errors would have to be so insanely inventive to get their users' attention. Plus, it would be annoying for those who DO read the errors.
Now, that does not excuse errors like "0xC0003F: Fault in core area."
Each and every second spent on this issue is money wasted. Yes, it's voluntary, but the legislators who worked on that didn't do it for free, now did they?
What I don't understand is that this does not diminish us, quite the contrary! Not only have we had people who could create beautiful works of art or play thoughtful and complex games like chess, we also managed to create entirely non-sentient machines that could replicate this behaviour to a satisfying level of quality. I mean, this takes brilliance on both sides of the equation, it doesn't make both stupid or diminished.
Business suits don't care or even understand that. It works in the current state - that's enough for them. If at one point it stops working, no matter the reason, they'll blame the current IT staff for not handling things properly, not blame the guy who decided going IE6/Active-X/IIS was the good way.
Don't worry, it'll also be clearly written on the box that you need this "subscription". Otherwise, we would've seen a hundred lawsuits against Xbox Live, no?
Are you really only willing to do something if there is a punishment if you don't? I'm sorry, but that's not the way I view things.
Let me make myself clear again: I don't give a shit whether AGW is true or not. Whatever the case, doing what we would need to do were AGW true are STILL good things! Do you not care about the fauna and flora going down the drain due to pollution? Do you not care about having a breathable atmosphere in downtowns? Do you not care about having clean water to drink for years to come? If you've answered yes to any of those questions, AGW should be irrelevant. Limiting our pollutive tendencies would *also* help that, and that's why I say we should keep going.
In a case of uncertainty, maybe, just maybe, we should bet on the safe side?
What exactly is wrong with diminishing our emissions of CO2? It also usually comes with a more power-efficient, less polluting source of energy. Whether you think AGW is bullshit or a message for heaven, following the suggested courses of action is still good.
I'm not sure I agree with you here. Yes, for the most part, the Wii is the land lf third-party shovelware, yet the few good third-party games don't sell all that well either, so why bother? No More Heroes - 0.5M. A Boy and His Blob - 0.08M. Resi 4 - 1.67M. Okami - 0.3M. de Blob - 0.77M. Geometry Wars Galaxies - 0.1M. I surely missed quite a few games, but out of this lot, only Resident Evil 4 could be considered a good success.
Then you have Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (7.54M 67% average), Carnival Games (3.55M 56%) and more (sorry, Metacritic's search just decided to drop out). Sometimes it makes you think people like shovelware, which probably makes a lot of developers ponder on whether it's a good idea to work hard on developing a polished and original experience when all the consumers want are crappy minigame collections.
Way to shoot yourself in the foot. Why aren't those leaks taken care of fast, whether they are or aren't actually dangerous? We've had enough issues with fear of nuclear power, no need to let such stories grow out of proportions. Otherwise, we'll never see the US convert to nuclear power instead of gas and coal.
I've seen some of my comments on/. removed and show up in somebody else's name a few hours later, I won't bother thinking very hard under circumstances like that.
From my own personal experience, those who didn't get bullied were those who stood aside all the time, never letting themselves be known. You either were a bully, a bullied, or part of the "hivemind" where you felt like individuality was non-existent. I'm not sure the solution really is to learn such "social skills" so you can become like the other kids.
Usually, you need proof and some sort of evidence to provide negative feedback on a political party. What you bring speaks for itself, so you don't need your identity to be known for what you're saying to have an impact anyways.
If you want to back someone up, feel free, but your backing won't have much power if it's made by someone entirely anonymous. If nobody knows X Oil Company supports candidate Y, then he doesn't have the backing of the large company, just that of Anonymous User Z (which isn't much). I don't think there is a single positive point out of this new legislation.
And Dreamspark lets you download the full Visual Studio suite, Expression suite, XNA and Windows Server 2008 for free provided you can give them a registered student address (IE what your university gives you).
Way to go to ignore the big flaws on the iPad/big advantages of netbooks in general. First, other netbooks have better battery life than that. The iPad's processing power is handicapped, even when compared with just an Atom. The iPad has no Flash support, no multi-tasking (one main task and some background processes is as good as it gets; how odd that people whine about 7 Starter Edition but not this?). The iPad doesn't have some very nice input device called a keyboard. Must I go on?
The iPad is a very niche product which would fail in any scenario bar extremely light web browsing. Any serious text input will be gravely hindered, videos are crippled, gaming isn't really a viable option apart from simple one-trick games on the App store.
No. If suddenly a lot of people from the same group get attacked in what seems like a coordinated attack from the same origin at the same time, then yes we can assume with good probability that it is another group that opposes them.
Maybe I'm really bad at marketing, but this seems like it's targeting the wrong audience. Those who download illegal music probably do not care about going to concerts or reading up on interviews - they only want the music. This will at best be another marketing tool for the most hardcore audience, at worst a total waste of time and money.
Seriously, Google is good at doing search. Google makes tons of money doing search. Where is the need to absolutely have to broaden to other markets and be successful in each and every one of them? Google has truly marked the web and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Whether their side projects turn out to be valuable is irrelevant, so long as their main business keeps on being profitable. Do one thing and do one thing well is better than do a bunch of things and end up overextending.
It's way worse than the taser. The proper equivalent would be for the cops to have a "directed" gas weapon that'd knock down everyone in the area of effect, causing injuries when they fall. Tasers are problematic, but this would be beyond ridiculous. They could kill dozens of cars in a chase! Just imagine if the weapon is fired near a critical location like an hospital or a power plant...
Or you do all of this once and then make an image of the drive with all the stuff on there.
Oh, and get your numbers right. I have a 300-page document in Word and it's sitting at around 380kb. 2007's interface isn't wrong, it's a matter of taste and actually trying to get used to it. I know a lot of diehard "geeks" immediately back off from such a large GUI change, but many come to like it once they've stopped balking.
I like Linux, too, but this post is just very one-sided. Many things listed have to be done on Linux too. What if you dislike the bundled software? On top of getting what you want, you might also need to uninstall the stuff you don't!
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The original EEE PC ran Xandros, which was arguably a very bad decision...
This is why you don't buy directly from Nvidia (or ATI for that matters). If you get a BFG or XFX or EVGA card (which often run for about the same price as vanilla cards), you also get lifetime warranty to protect against exactly this kind of trouble. A friend of mine got his EVGA GPU fried (8800GTX) and they replaced it within 5 days with a GTX 260, for free. No, it's not normal that the drivers can allow that, but shit happens. It'll get fixed quickly I hope, but you should always give yourself some protection on top of that.
Must be a hardware bug.
Your printing example ends up doing one of two possible results:
1) By attempting to detect at launch, the program hangs for a few seconds every time, even if you never use the printing segment. See Adobe Photoshop hanging for 10 seconds whenever your default printer is a network printer that's offline.
2) By giving an error after the job is completed, you risk people thinking the error does not apply to their task (they've completed all their memorized steps, after all) or that it won't matter anyways. Most will just end up clicking through it because the error message still gets in the way of their next task: closing the software.
No, the problem's in the mindset. Do you see people ignoring "fuel low" indicators a lot? Do you see people gobbling all their pills at once despite the prescription saying it should be one a day? If people are too stupid to follow basic indications, then they should be stuck in their stupidity until their learn to work properly. In other words, screw them. Car manufacturers won't start blackening the windshield and reading out loud "fuel low" every time, so I don't see why computer software errors would have to be so insanely inventive to get their users' attention. Plus, it would be annoying for those who DO read the errors.
Now, that does not excuse errors like "0xC0003F: Fault in core area."
Each and every second spent on this issue is money wasted. Yes, it's voluntary, but the legislators who worked on that didn't do it for free, now did they?
What I don't understand is that this does not diminish us, quite the contrary! Not only have we had people who could create beautiful works of art or play thoughtful and complex games like chess, we also managed to create entirely non-sentient machines that could replicate this behaviour to a satisfying level of quality. I mean, this takes brilliance on both sides of the equation, it doesn't make both stupid or diminished.
Business suits don't care or even understand that. It works in the current state - that's enough for them. If at one point it stops working, no matter the reason, they'll blame the current IT staff for not handling things properly, not blame the guy who decided going IE6/Active-X/IIS was the good way.
Sounds like a revenge for the number of apps that Apple denied.
Don't worry, it'll also be clearly written on the box that you need this "subscription". Otherwise, we would've seen a hundred lawsuits against Xbox Live, no?
Are you really only willing to do something if there is a punishment if you don't? I'm sorry, but that's not the way I view things.
Let me make myself clear again: I don't give a shit whether AGW is true or not. Whatever the case, doing what we would need to do were AGW true are STILL good things! Do you not care about the fauna and flora going down the drain due to pollution? Do you not care about having a breathable atmosphere in downtowns? Do you not care about having clean water to drink for years to come? If you've answered yes to any of those questions, AGW should be irrelevant. Limiting our pollutive tendencies would *also* help that, and that's why I say we should keep going.
In a case of uncertainty, maybe, just maybe, we should bet on the safe side?
What exactly is wrong with diminishing our emissions of CO2? It also usually comes with a more power-efficient, less polluting source of energy. Whether you think AGW is bullshit or a message for heaven, following the suggested courses of action is still good.
Searches on Google about lacerations and blood stains and no mentions of raptors?!
Man, where is the world going...
I'm not sure I agree with you here. Yes, for the most part, the Wii is the land lf third-party shovelware, yet the few good third-party games don't sell all that well either, so why bother? No More Heroes - 0.5M. A Boy and His Blob - 0.08M. Resi 4 - 1.67M. Okami - 0.3M. de Blob - 0.77M. Geometry Wars Galaxies - 0.1M. I surely missed quite a few games, but out of this lot, only Resident Evil 4 could be considered a good success.
Then you have Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (7.54M 67% average), Carnival Games (3.55M 56%) and more (sorry, Metacritic's search just decided to drop out). Sometimes it makes you think people like shovelware, which probably makes a lot of developers ponder on whether it's a good idea to work hard on developing a polished and original experience when all the consumers want are crappy minigame collections.
Way to shoot yourself in the foot. Why aren't those leaks taken care of fast, whether they are or aren't actually dangerous? We've had enough issues with fear of nuclear power, no need to let such stories grow out of proportions. Otherwise, we'll never see the US convert to nuclear power instead of gas and coal.
I've seen some of my comments on /. removed and show up in somebody else's name a few hours later, I won't bother thinking very hard under circumstances like that.
Surely the other guy's name was Anonymous Coward?
From my own personal experience, those who didn't get bullied were those who stood aside all the time, never letting themselves be known. You either were a bully, a bullied, or part of the "hivemind" where you felt like individuality was non-existent. I'm not sure the solution really is to learn such "social skills" so you can become like the other kids.
Usually, you need proof and some sort of evidence to provide negative feedback on a political party. What you bring speaks for itself, so you don't need your identity to be known for what you're saying to have an impact anyways.
If you want to back someone up, feel free, but your backing won't have much power if it's made by someone entirely anonymous. If nobody knows X Oil Company supports candidate Y, then he doesn't have the backing of the large company, just that of Anonymous User Z (which isn't much). I don't think there is a single positive point out of this new legislation.
And Dreamspark lets you download the full Visual Studio suite, Expression suite, XNA and Windows Server 2008 for free provided you can give them a registered student address (IE what your university gives you).
Way to go to ignore the big flaws on the iPad/big advantages of netbooks in general. First, other netbooks have better battery life than that. The iPad's processing power is handicapped, even when compared with just an Atom. The iPad has no Flash support, no multi-tasking (one main task and some background processes is as good as it gets; how odd that people whine about 7 Starter Edition but not this?). The iPad doesn't have some very nice input device called a keyboard. Must I go on?
The iPad is a very niche product which would fail in any scenario bar extremely light web browsing. Any serious text input will be gravely hindered, videos are crippled, gaming isn't really a viable option apart from simple one-trick games on the App store.
I don't think business and ethics absolutely are mutually exclusive.
No. If suddenly a lot of people from the same group get attacked in what seems like a coordinated attack from the same origin at the same time, then yes we can assume with good probability that it is another group that opposes them.
Maybe I'm really bad at marketing, but this seems like it's targeting the wrong audience. Those who download illegal music probably do not care about going to concerts or reading up on interviews - they only want the music. This will at best be another marketing tool for the most hardcore audience, at worst a total waste of time and money.
And, erm, so what?
Seriously, Google is good at doing search. Google makes tons of money doing search. Where is the need to absolutely have to broaden to other markets and be successful in each and every one of them? Google has truly marked the web and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Whether their side projects turn out to be valuable is irrelevant, so long as their main business keeps on being profitable. Do one thing and do one thing well is better than do a bunch of things and end up overextending.
It's way worse than the taser. The proper equivalent would be for the cops to have a "directed" gas weapon that'd knock down everyone in the area of effect, causing injuries when they fall. Tasers are problematic, but this would be beyond ridiculous. They could kill dozens of cars in a chase! Just imagine if the weapon is fired near a critical location like an hospital or a power plant...
Or you do all of this once and then make an image of the drive with all the stuff on there.
Oh, and get your numbers right. I have a 300-page document in Word and it's sitting at around 380kb. 2007's interface isn't wrong, it's a matter of taste and actually trying to get used to it. I know a lot of diehard "geeks" immediately back off from such a large GUI change, but many come to like it once they've stopped balking.
I like Linux, too, but this post is just very one-sided. Many things listed have to be done on Linux too. What if you dislike the bundled software? On top of getting what you want, you might also need to uninstall the stuff you don't!