Requiring you to register the product is just asinine. They should be able to determine when the card was manufactured to know if it's theoretically possible that the card is still under warranty.
I don't think that's why they want you to register. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they do that so they don't have to warranty a bunch of them longer than a year for the people who forget to register.
I personally don't mind registering and have had great luck with EVGA so I continue using them. For someone who doesn't want to register they may not be the best choice.
If you registered the card with them within the first month (I think it was a month anyway) you should have the lifetime warranty and getting them to replace it shouldn't be too hard. If you didn't register it you're going to have a hell of a time convincing them to RMA it as most of their cards are only a year warranty without registration.
I haven't had to RMA anything with them but I have dealt with EVGA support on a motherboard issue and found them far more pleasant to deal with than most tech support departments I have the displeasure of dealing with.
Since you obviously haven't read the FAQ: Slashdot is US-centric. Regardless of what you think our nationality is in the USA the proper term is American.
First off, buying an app in the Android store is very easy, it is not easier to bootleg it. Second off, I had every iPhone up through the 3gs and have now switched to Android so I'm quite familiar with both platforms. Let's get a few things straight here.
"iOS apps are desktop class apps" No. Not by a long shot. If you actually believe that I have to wonder if you even have a desktop.
"... much, much more sophisticated and powerful than Android apps." I have to disagree here too. Both platforms have some well written apps and both have their share of poorly made apps. On average I have found more useful and powerful apps at lower price points on Android than I did on the iPhone. In addition Android allows apps to do more than iOS apps are allowed to without requiring a jailbreak.
"iOS apps are *cheaper* to develop than Android apps, because the tools are built for rapid app development, there is a very high-level framework that does a ton of work for you." I'm not even going to get into this, all I want to know is do you have any development experience whatsoever? If so do you even have any idea what the development process is like for Android?
or Google saying "Go for it" and filing a counterclaim for a whole host of patents they own. Google can pretty much take Oracle to the cleaners if it wants. It makes me wonder why Oracle has set itself up to be that target.
This might make me a jerk but I would love to see this happen.
I find the 24-30hz refresh incredibly annoying whenever there is a long slow pan or zoom. That's when the stutter is most noticeable and it drives me nuts. I would love to see movies released at 60hz or higher.
That is a cool idea, although I can see viewing angles being an issue depending where the case is located. I prefer using my 5.25" bays for airflow, the Antec 1200 already does this by design with each group of 3 drive bays (other than the very top-most 3) having a 120mm fan pulling air in with a small rheostat to adjust the speed of each fan. By keeping the bays in front of the video cards empty and turning up that fan I can keep my cards running cool without having to crank up the fan speed too far on the cards themselves.
It sounds like this could be used for a braille interface, I wonder if a braille interface that can change on the fly would ultimately be beneficial or prove confusing though...
Decently well it seems. I've since moved out of state but my parents haven't been complaining about constant rate increases like they used to when CMP controlled everything.
My statement was purposefully exaggerated to make a point but our infrastructure in the US mostly varies between awful and 10 shades of awful. All sarcasm aside QOS certainly has its place but it cannot make up for the massive oversubscribing common in many residential areas.
I don't expect them to estimate absolute peak. When it is an almost daily event for the connection to slow to a crawl at certain times I think they would at least realize they need to bump their infrastructure up to handle that level of traffic. In reality they should be above that capacity so they have headroom for the future but even getting things up to snuff today would be a large improvement.
Exactly. They did this with the power utilities in Maine some years ago, the utilities were told to choose between owning the delivery or the generation/selling the power. Now one company owns most of the lines but there are multiple options for who you actually buy power from.
Stop over-subscribing the lines and actually invest in infrastructure. Verizon was for a while but it seems their FIOS rollout is over, sadly it never reached me.
The problem is not the information itself, the problem is what a thief can do with that information. Since you seem to be hinting at the copyright debate tell me: How can I harm someone using the information found in a song? That song/movie/software/etc does not allow me to sign up for credit cards, loans, bank accounts and more in the author's name. If I steal your identity I can rack up all kinds of debt in your name leaving you to foot the bill or prove it wasn't you that bought all those things.
It seems to me that while most of the focus in preventing identity theft is on preventing access to this information in the first place a second avenue for addressing the problem is mostly ignored. It is far too easy to sign up for a credit card or other forms of credit while providing the bare minimum of proof that you are who you claim to be. If more effort was placed into ensuring identity before issuing the credit we could cut down the number and expense of identity theft cases.
Personally I find those services to be a waste of money. Make use of your right to a free credit report from each bureau per year, if you suspect something has happened you can place the fraud alert yourself and get access to your report then.
... The pin number on some bank cards is still limited to only four (four!) digits. So if you want to be more secure organizations are not helping you.
I've switched banks a few times and never had a card that didn't limit me to a 4 digit PIN, which banks allow more?
You do not need to be a geek to realize that things like 'password' and '12345678' are a complete joke to use for your password yet people still do it. There are limits to both sides, yes security needs to keep user-friendliness in mind but the users also need to put in a bit of effort.
How dare you suggest something so sensible! Don't you know this government prides itself on inefficiency!? Tracking who made the edits... are you MAD??? Accountability makes for all sorts of annoying problems, we don't want those people actually knowing what we suggest! Now get out of my office!
I don't know how every single incumbent is voting. I'm sure there are principled, effective congresspeople; voting all of them out would seem overly drastic.
Given the current Congress I'd be willing to accept the collateral damage of losing a few principled congress critters if it succeeds in ousting the majority of corrupt useless ones we seem to be saddled with.
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Requiring you to register the product is just asinine. They should be able to determine when the card was manufactured to know if it's theoretically possible that the card is still under warranty.
I don't think that's why they want you to register. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they do that so they don't have to warranty a bunch of them longer than a year for the people who forget to register.
I personally don't mind registering and have had great luck with EVGA so I continue using them. For someone who doesn't want to register they may not be the best choice.
If you registered the card with them within the first month (I think it was a month anyway) you should have the lifetime warranty and getting them to replace it shouldn't be too hard. If you didn't register it you're going to have a hell of a time convincing them to RMA it as most of their cards are only a year warranty without registration.
I haven't had to RMA anything with them but I have dealt with EVGA support on a motherboard issue and found them far more pleasant to deal with than most tech support departments I have the displeasure of dealing with.
"Method of patent free knowledge sharing between scientists."
FITLER THIS!
Fitler? Did Hitler buy a gym?
Since you obviously haven't read the FAQ: Slashdot is US-centric. Regardless of what you think our nationality is in the USA the proper term is American.
Someone needs to calm down...
First off, buying an app in the Android store is very easy, it is not easier to bootleg it. Second off, I had every iPhone up through the 3gs and have now switched to Android so I'm quite familiar with both platforms. Let's get a few things straight here.
No. Not by a long shot. If you actually believe that I have to wonder if you even have a desktop.
I have to disagree here too. Both platforms have some well written apps and both have their share of poorly made apps. On average I have found more useful and powerful apps at lower price points on Android than I did on the iPhone. In addition Android allows apps to do more than iOS apps are allowed to without requiring a jailbreak.
I'm not even going to get into this, all I want to know is do you have any development experience whatsoever? If so do you even have any idea what the development process is like for Android?
You mean the Xbox 360 thermal design team is still employed?!
or Google saying "Go for it" and filing a counterclaim for a whole host of patents they own. Google can pretty much take Oracle to the cleaners if it wants. It makes me wonder why Oracle has set itself up to be that target.
This might make me a jerk but I would love to see this happen.
I find the 24-30hz refresh incredibly annoying whenever there is a long slow pan or zoom. That's when the stutter is most noticeable and it drives me nuts. I would love to see movies released at 60hz or higher.
That is a cool idea, although I can see viewing angles being an issue depending where the case is located. I prefer using my 5.25" bays for airflow, the Antec 1200 already does this by design with each group of 3 drive bays (other than the very top-most 3) having a 120mm fan pulling air in with a small rheostat to adjust the speed of each fan. By keeping the bays in front of the video cards empty and turning up that fan I can keep my cards running cool without having to crank up the fan speed too far on the cards themselves.
It sounds like this could be used for a braille interface, I wonder if a braille interface that can change on the fly would ultimately be beneficial or prove confusing though...
Decently well it seems. I've since moved out of state but my parents haven't been complaining about constant rate increases like they used to when CMP controlled everything.
My statement was purposefully exaggerated to make a point but our infrastructure in the US mostly varies between awful and 10 shades of awful. All sarcasm aside QOS certainly has its place but it cannot make up for the massive oversubscribing common in many residential areas.
I don't expect them to estimate absolute peak. When it is an almost daily event for the connection to slow to a crawl at certain times I think they would at least realize they need to bump their infrastructure up to handle that level of traffic. In reality they should be above that capacity so they have headroom for the future but even getting things up to snuff today would be a large improvement.
Exactly. They did this with the power utilities in Maine some years ago, the utilities were told to choose between owning the delivery or the generation/selling the power. Now one company owns most of the lines but there are multiple options for who you actually buy power from.
Stop over-subscribing the lines and actually invest in infrastructure. Verizon was for a while but it seems their FIOS rollout is over, sadly it never reached me.
The problem is not the information itself, the problem is what a thief can do with that information. Since you seem to be hinting at the copyright debate tell me: How can I harm someone using the information found in a song? That song/movie/software/etc does not allow me to sign up for credit cards, loans, bank accounts and more in the author's name. If I steal your identity I can rack up all kinds of debt in your name leaving you to foot the bill or prove it wasn't you that bought all those things.
It seems to me that while most of the focus in preventing identity theft is on preventing access to this information in the first place a second avenue for addressing the problem is mostly ignored. It is far too easy to sign up for a credit card or other forms of credit while providing the bare minimum of proof that you are who you claim to be. If more effort was placed into ensuring identity before issuing the credit we could cut down the number and expense of identity theft cases.
Lifelock's practice of renewing fraud alerts on your credit profile was ruled illegal by a federal judge last year.
Their CEO had his identity stolen too.
Personally I find those services to be a waste of money. Make use of your right to a free credit report from each bureau per year, if you suspect something has happened you can place the fraud alert yourself and get access to your report then.
http://xkcd.com/327/
... The pin number on some bank cards is still limited to only four (four!) digits. So if you want to be more secure organizations are not helping you.
I've switched banks a few times and never had a card that didn't limit me to a 4 digit PIN, which banks allow more?
You do not need to be a geek to realize that things like 'password' and '12345678' are a complete joke to use for your password yet people still do it. There are limits to both sides, yes security needs to keep user-friendliness in mind but the users also need to put in a bit of effort.
This is one of the few times on /. where I DON'T want to see any sources for that one way or the other...
How dare you suggest something so sensible! Don't you know this government prides itself on inefficiency!? Tracking who made the edits... are you MAD??? Accountability makes for all sorts of annoying problems, we don't want those people actually knowing what we suggest! Now get out of my office!
I don't know how every single incumbent is voting. I'm sure there are principled, effective congresspeople; voting all of them out would seem overly drastic.
Given the current Congress I'd be willing to accept the collateral damage of losing a few principled congress critters if it succeeds in ousting the majority of corrupt useless ones we seem to be saddled with.
6000 hulls!
I've done the same thing, I actually had to double-check the username to make sure I didn't post that and just forget that I had...