Well I clicked the link thinking you were exaggerating and promptly get a page of comments where none of them had been moderated. It would be interesting to hear the admins take on whether or not it's working in its current state.
First, when there aren't cheap, low end options, everyone complains - now, when there is an entry level option, you complain.
This is true, unfortunately this cheap, low end option will likely be the first impression of Android tablets (or Android entirely) for a lot of people. If the user experience truly is that horrible for this tablet it could turn a lot of people off to Android even though it's not at all representative of Android's capabilities.
I actually pirated World of Goo and was subsequently so impressed that I went and bought it. I don't bother downloading games anymore but when I did most lasted about 10 minutes of play before getting deleted. The few I enjoyed enough to keep would get a sale from me.
I don't think you understand what the gas tax is used for. It is there to help pay for the maintenance of the roads and highway system, electric cars do not obviate the need for road maintenance. Hijacking it to push a public policy agenda is a mistake I'm not going to get into here (too far off topic). Increasing the registration tax to cover the maintenance needs places a greater portion of the burden on those who don't drive very far compared to the current method, the gas tax is not perfect for this either but those who use the roads more do pay more on average.
As far as the government holding information about you, remember that knowledge can just as easily be used to your detriment as it can to your benefit. As history shows us, trusting the government to always do the right thing doesn't tend to work out so well.
If you buy a gun, the only person who is going to get shot is you, your spouse or one of your kids.
Just because you can't properly handle a firearm doesn't mean others can't. You don't just buy a gun and put it in the nightstand then call it a day, responsible ownership involves regular practice at the range to ensure your aim is good and proper storage. There are fingerprint and combination pistol safes available that can have that gun in your hand and ready to go in a matter of a few seconds. If you're not awake enough to get the gun out of the safe you're still too groggy to be using the gun.
Oh I agree with you but so long as enough people I know still use regular phone service I need to be accessible by phone number. The way I figure it this makes me reliant on Google but I find them far less evil than Verizon or AT&T.
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The marketing maybe. The phone itself is an excellent piece of hardware, the only thing that even slightly tempts me away from my N1 right now is a Droid X and with Motorola seemingly in the anti custom-ROM camp I refuse to support them.
I still think Google gave up too soon there, if enough consumers realized that buying the phone yourself then getting a plan without the phone subsidy built in is ultimately cheaper more carriers would be forced to offer those types of plans. It saddens me that I may have to purchase my next Android phone through the carrier and locked.
This is why when I switch carriers I'm not going to bother with my number. I'll make a one-time effort to get everyone I know using my Google Voice number and from then on switching numbers is as easy as telling Voice which phone to send the calls to. The sooner the carriers become just a data service provider the better, till then I'll work around their BS any way I can.
They should just give you the OEM Windows disc and a driver disc with it. Nothing more annoying than the OEM copy of Windows you paid for with the computer being saddled with a mountain of manufacturer-installed crapware every time you install it.
I think you have your companies mixed up unless you know something about Viacom the rest of the world doesn't, they're one of Activision's competitors (Activision owns the Guitar Hero franchise and Viacom acquired Harmonix, makers of Rock Band). Activision Blizzard was formed when Activision and the Vivendi Games group (of which Blizzard was a part) merged.
Beyond that after playing Starcraft II, hearing that Blizzard was destroyed is certainly news to me.
After reading this article yesterday I decided to run a test last night. I have an SLI setup with two EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked edition cards which are already overclocked from the vendor. Running without SLI activated and with the primary monitor on the top card (getting some airflow blocked by the second card directly below it) I could set the fan speed to 65% using the Precision software and sit on the Hyperion screens at a steady 70 degrees C. While that's certainly warmer than my card normally runs it's not an alarming temperature for that card by any means. I can confirm that the Hyperion does place more stress on the card as it was holding steady at 94% GPU Usage.
Adequate cooling does prevent this, as my test showed the fan doesn't even need to spin up near max RPM. If this is happening in a desktop either the case has very poor airflow or the card has an inadequate cooling solution (or both).
Unfortunately in the case of the laptops most laptops are designed with horrifically inadequate cooling to actually use the hardware included to it's potential. In my opinion if they can't design the machine to be capable of cooling the included parts then the manufacturer shouldn't offer it specced that way.
I still wonder if there is something more to this story than a bunch of cards with insufficient cooling crashing. Few if any professionally assembled PCs should have bad enough cooling that a game could cause the GPU to overheat.
Have you looked inside a Dell lately? I had an XPS 700 for a while (got a ridiculous deal on it that was far cheaper than building the equivalent myself) and the GPUs Dell chose to put in had a more anemic cooling solution than the old Hercules 3D Prophet III (Geforce 3) I used to have back in the day.
When driving a car you can 'floor it' for a few seconds, but if you left it that way your engine would eventually overheat, if you've ever gotten stuck in the snow or on ice you'll know what I'm talking about. GPU's are similar. When your comp starts or when you do specific things with an application they can run with all of it's parts at full power, but only for a little while. If you do that for too long eventually it will burn out.
Unless you have a crappy car this is not true as a general statement. The specific scenario you reference of being stuck on ice is quite different than flooring it down an empty highway for an extended period of time (I don't recommend this for legal reasons). Your car's cooling fan is designed to pull enough air through the radiator to keep the car from overheating at idle and to assist at speed. Airflow from the car moving helps greatly with cooling, when you're flooring it stuck on ice there is no additional airflow from moving, just what the fan can provide. This would be similar to manually setting your GPU fan at a low speed then loading up some benchmarks.
This is of course completely ignoring problems with bouncing off the rev limiter which is a mechanical issue due to rotating mass, something with no direct analogue on a GPU.
Actually you can often buy a video card with at least a half decent cooling solution for $10-$20 more than the lowest priced option with a complete joke of a fan/heatsink attached. Considering there is a sizable segment of enthusiats who will benchmark their rigs for hours at a time saying nothing bought now can handle running full-bore for long is shortsighted. Maybe if you go for the absolute cheapest part every time with no regard to quality or performance.
One issue I have noticed, most video card manufacturers set the fan thresholds too high, I wasn't happy with how hot my GTX 260's would get before the fan kicked up noticeably in speed so I modified the settings using EVGA's Precision software. My guess is they do this to keep people from whining about fan noise, personally I'll take a little louder fan over running my card too hot any day. Sadly most marketing departments think cheap and quiet is more important.
I'd much rather see Microsoft come out with something I have much more control over than jump on Apple's ecosystem. I've been there and played in the walled garden, sure the garden is pretty but there's so much more outside those walls.
The finance system doesn't produce anything, so they're sucking money out of the real economy (and the investors). If this blood-sucking is stopped on its tracks, the overall economy will be more efficient. Out with those fucking leaches!
Since I don't have time to type up a whole lecture on the economy I'm going to suggest you do some research on economics and the part the financial system plays in both the national and world economies. It's not useless as you insinuate.
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Well I clicked the link thinking you were exaggerating and promptly get a page of comments where none of them had been moderated. It would be interesting to hear the admins take on whether or not it's working in its current state.
First, when there aren't cheap, low end options, everyone complains - now, when there is an entry level option, you complain.
This is true, unfortunately this cheap, low end option will likely be the first impression of Android tablets (or Android entirely) for a lot of people. If the user experience truly is that horrible for this tablet it could turn a lot of people off to Android even though it's not at all representative of Android's capabilities.
I actually pirated World of Goo and was subsequently so impressed that I went and bought it. I don't bother downloading games anymore but when I did most lasted about 10 minutes of play before getting deleted. The few I enjoyed enough to keep would get a sale from me.
Well at least they aren't making them listen to Ke$ha...
I don't think you understand what the gas tax is used for. It is there to help pay for the maintenance of the roads and highway system, electric cars do not obviate the need for road maintenance. Hijacking it to push a public policy agenda is a mistake I'm not going to get into here (too far off topic). Increasing the registration tax to cover the maintenance needs places a greater portion of the burden on those who don't drive very far compared to the current method, the gas tax is not perfect for this either but those who use the roads more do pay more on average.
As far as the government holding information about you, remember that knowledge can just as easily be used to your detriment as it can to your benefit. As history shows us, trusting the government to always do the right thing doesn't tend to work out so well.
If you buy a gun, the only person who is going to get shot is you, your spouse or one of your kids.
Just because you can't properly handle a firearm doesn't mean others can't. You don't just buy a gun and put it in the nightstand then call it a day, responsible ownership involves regular practice at the range to ensure your aim is good and proper storage. There are fingerprint and combination pistol safes available that can have that gun in your hand and ready to go in a matter of a few seconds. If you're not awake enough to get the gun out of the safe you're still too groggy to be using the gun.
Oh I agree with you but so long as enough people I know still use regular phone service I need to be accessible by phone number. The way I figure it this makes me reliant on Google but I find them far less evil than Verizon or AT&T.
The marketing maybe. The phone itself is an excellent piece of hardware, the only thing that even slightly tempts me away from my N1 right now is a Droid X and with Motorola seemingly in the anti custom-ROM camp I refuse to support them.
I still think Google gave up too soon there, if enough consumers realized that buying the phone yourself then getting a plan without the phone subsidy built in is ultimately cheaper more carriers would be forced to offer those types of plans. It saddens me that I may have to purchase my next Android phone through the carrier and locked.
This is why when I switch carriers I'm not going to bother with my number. I'll make a one-time effort to get everyone I know using my Google Voice number and from then on switching numbers is as easy as telling Voice which phone to send the calls to. The sooner the carriers become just a data service provider the better, till then I'll work around their BS any way I can.
What's wrong with 8?
Sorry I got confused and thought you were responding to the tab indenting and not end of sentence spacing.
You may as well not bother if you're only going to use two spaces...
Living in Jersey I wouldn't give one of those things 10 minutes before someone slams into it if they tried it here...
They should just give you the OEM Windows disc and a driver disc with it. Nothing more annoying than the OEM copy of Windows you paid for with the computer being saddled with a mountain of manufacturer-installed crapware every time you install it.
I think you have your companies mixed up unless you know something about Viacom the rest of the world doesn't, they're one of Activision's competitors (Activision owns the Guitar Hero franchise and Viacom acquired Harmonix, makers of Rock Band). Activision Blizzard was formed when Activision and the Vivendi Games group (of which Blizzard was a part) merged.
Beyond that after playing Starcraft II, hearing that Blizzard was destroyed is certainly news to me.
it's not because your cooling is subpar
After reading this article yesterday I decided to run a test last night. I have an SLI setup with two EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked edition cards which are already overclocked from the vendor. Running without SLI activated and with the primary monitor on the top card (getting some airflow blocked by the second card directly below it) I could set the fan speed to 65% using the Precision software and sit on the Hyperion screens at a steady 70 degrees C. While that's certainly warmer than my card normally runs it's not an alarming temperature for that card by any means. I can confirm that the Hyperion does place more stress on the card as it was holding steady at 94% GPU Usage.
Adequate cooling does prevent this, as my test showed the fan doesn't even need to spin up near max RPM. If this is happening in a desktop either the case has very poor airflow or the card has an inadequate cooling solution (or both).
Unfortunately in the case of the laptops most laptops are designed with horrifically inadequate cooling to actually use the hardware included to it's potential. In my opinion if they can't design the machine to be capable of cooling the included parts then the manufacturer shouldn't offer it specced that way.
Think I'm a rare breed, do you?
No but I was surprised you would admit that on /.
I still wonder if there is something more to this story than a bunch of cards with insufficient cooling crashing. Few if any professionally assembled PCs should have bad enough cooling that a game could cause the GPU to overheat.
Have you looked inside a Dell lately? I had an XPS 700 for a while (got a ridiculous deal on it that was far cheaper than building the equivalent myself) and the GPUs Dell chose to put in had a more anemic cooling solution than the old Hercules 3D Prophet III (Geforce 3) I used to have back in the day.
When driving a car you can 'floor it' for a few seconds, but if you left it that way your engine would eventually overheat, if you've ever gotten stuck in the snow or on ice you'll know what I'm talking about. GPU's are similar. When your comp starts or when you do specific things with an application they can run with all of it's parts at full power, but only for a little while. If you do that for too long eventually it will burn out.
Unless you have a crappy car this is not true as a general statement. The specific scenario you reference of being stuck on ice is quite different than flooring it down an empty highway for an extended period of time (I don't recommend this for legal reasons). Your car's cooling fan is designed to pull enough air through the radiator to keep the car from overheating at idle and to assist at speed. Airflow from the car moving helps greatly with cooling, when you're flooring it stuck on ice there is no additional airflow from moving, just what the fan can provide. This would be similar to manually setting your GPU fan at a low speed then loading up some benchmarks.
This is of course completely ignoring problems with bouncing off the rev limiter which is a mechanical issue due to rotating mass, something with no direct analogue on a GPU.
I agree, sadly these issues aren't that uncommon. Remember the 7900gs?
Actually you can often buy a video card with at least a half decent cooling solution for $10-$20 more than the lowest priced option with a complete joke of a fan/heatsink attached. Considering there is a sizable segment of enthusiats who will benchmark their rigs for hours at a time saying nothing bought now can handle running full-bore for long is shortsighted. Maybe if you go for the absolute cheapest part every time with no regard to quality or performance.
One issue I have noticed, most video card manufacturers set the fan thresholds too high, I wasn't happy with how hot my GTX 260's would get before the fan kicked up noticeably in speed so I modified the settings using EVGA's Precision software. My guess is they do this to keep people from whining about fan noise, personally I'll take a little louder fan over running my card too hot any day. Sadly most marketing departments think cheap and quiet is more important.
Did you just admit you left your router password as "password1"?
I wonder if killing Courier will go down in history as one of Microsoft's huge mistakes... I certainly wasn't happy to hear it was cancelled.
I'd much rather see Microsoft come out with something I have much more control over than jump on Apple's ecosystem. I've been there and played in the walled garden, sure the garden is pretty but there's so much more outside those walls.
The finance system doesn't produce anything, so they're sucking money out of the real economy (and the investors). If this blood-sucking is stopped on its tracks, the overall economy will be more efficient. Out with those fucking leaches!
Since I don't have time to type up a whole lecture on the economy I'm going to suggest you do some research on economics and the part the financial system plays in both the national and world economies. It's not useless as you insinuate.