5 years? It was 12 years ago when I dropped them. I couldn't stand their DirectX 8 regressions on Geforce2-4's (and not the crappy FX lineup suspiciously). And they NEVER fixed their palette slow bug or the text mode BSOD.
Can't really blame you on that, I've still got a Geforce 3 around here somewhere and really ATI could have had something against them for that period if they'd simply gotten their shit together with their drivers.
Well Facebook has been doing it at the behest of the EU government and Germany since December 2015 with regards to the influx of illegals in the EU. It shouldn't be a surprise that other governments are jumping on-board.
Samsung laser printers are cheap and just work. The ones at work (and the ones I have at home) just WORK, the only time they don't work is when they're out of paper. You can always print to them, and it's reliable.
Had exactly the same thought, guess this means I should pick up a couple of more laser printers before HP gets their hands on them. Every person I've recommended them to vs any brand of inkjet has been very happy with them. The HP bloatware is probably the worst thing out there, you'd think after people complained about how shitty that stuff was ~10 years ago with HP printers they would have listened. NOPE gotta double down, make it even worse and hide the "install driver only" options.
Nvidia has been releasing shit drivers for a few years. They're still having TDR problems after the huge problem back in the early 600/late 500 series days. And went as far as to pay to have people's rigs shipped to California for testing. For the better part of a year they claimed it was "all the users problem" until they discovered that they were causing it by forcing the video card via drivers to drop the core voltage so low that it caused the TDR's. Now if you ask, you'll likely not get a clear answer from their reps. It also doesn't help that nvidia outsourced their driver writing team to outside the company, except their very top-tier cards.
It was the "everything is the users fault" when I could prove that it was their problem, that made me say fuck it and dump them for AMD. And while ATI had some serious driver problems, AMD's have become far better while Nvidia's have declined steadily over the last 5 years.
The bigger issue is with the cost of motherboards and CPUs which support ECC.
Not bad on the prices, better then around here. Sad I can remember when ECC support on motherboards and CPU's was pretty much standard. But if you're looking Intel, anything higher then the Haswell architecture supports it and on the AMD side all AM2 and AM3 processors except APU's support it(if I'm remembering right).
The reality is ECC vs non ECC is basically a speed and price point issue for most people. If you're doing something that's absolutely critical and you can't afford the possibility of any type of RAM corruption screwing things over for you, then ECC is the way to go. Anything else? You're looking at easily 1/3 or 1/8th the price(depending on where you live) for non-ECC vs ECC and more capacity. On top of that with speed? Parity checksums within current ram configurations are good enough whether it be for a home desktop or a 8SLI array of videocards.
Not even so much. I think the cost of the last one I build was $50, because I needed a powersupply. Everything else was from componenets which were sitting around, old intel e5300 for the CPU. Free ECC ram from a company going out of business. Bunch of 1T-2TB drives leftover from upgrades, old case laying around. Motherboard had onboard video but it was flaky, so I slapped in an old PCI videocard 20 minutes to setup. Got ambitious a few years ago and picked up a couple of PCI SATA drive controllers that supported hotswap for $45 each, now have a 20TB file backup system and it's still a chugging along.
Not necessarily. You could have a second article about a heliocentric system, and maybe a third one discussing the merits of a geocentric and a heliocentric system. Just keep the original article about the heliocentric system intact!
That's a fair point, however under today's rules at wikipedia, along with the cock-gobbling edditors. Your topic on helocentric systems would likely be flagged for deletion because it's non-notable(akin to denialism), or doesn't conform to the ruling form of orthodoxy. The sources regardless of whether or not they're factual, would suddenly be marked as unreliable, even if they had provable baseline statistical models with the peer reviewed data to back it up.
Wikipedia simply needs to be purged of all editors and the foundation at this point with a full start over. It doesn't help the ol' Jimbo prefers to wash his hands of everything while saying "I need monies..."
Wikipedia has a bigger NPOV problem with their articles these days then vandalism. Especially because of people camping, or the variety of meat puppets that banned editors use to push agendas.
Some good points, just remember the west doesn't have a deforestation problem. Poorer countries do because they're trying to increase acreage to feed more people. It also doesn't help that shit-tier environmental groups and general stupidity(of the people that support them) stop things that could easily help those countries like GMO seeds, or improved farming techniques, basic farming practices. Groups like greenpeace would much rather dry wash their hands and declare high-nutrition grains/rice "poison" and let people starve to death while decrying modern farming techniques that use less acreage per person as "wasteful and destructive."
It was one of the main complaints of Norman Borlaug when he was trying the feed Africa, much like his grain/rotational farming/hybridization techniques that he used in Mexico and India. Keep in mind that prior to the anti-farming BS and genocidal push of people like Mugabe, countries like Zimbabwe were providing 90% of the grain that Europe used. That was after their own requirements for consumption.
Obviously you don't live in North America. Environmentalists are keeping renewables down, and renewables are also causing the price of electricity go to through the roof, especially when there are far cheaper methods like hydro-electric which generation costs pennies on the dollar to generate, or coal. Of which there is so much of in the ground that some places have been mining it since before confederation, and there's still a 700-900 year supply of.
Guess that's why my electricity bill keeps going up. It now costs me 0.18c/kWh on peak of which "green energy" mainly wind makes up less then 10% of total generation, but makes up 78% of the actual cost. And is now such a huge problem here in Ontario that 500k+ people are more then 3-5 months in arrears and the governments decade long "green energy program" created this entire mess. FYI that 500k number? That's nearly half of all customers of Hydro One, the largest power provider in Ontario.
Lot of places have long since moved to tires and/or plastics which aren't recycled or valueless to recycle with a combination of NG for making klinker.
Really? So how is it that you vote in a majority into parliament when your voting block counts for under 10% of the total? The difference between the two of course is that you can go up to your MP's house and yell at them. Not happening with Junker, or MEP's, or the council of unelected ministers. Because we already know that obstruction sure worked well when the MEP's and so on said "No the council can't be allowed to turn on each nations printing press and print as much cash as it wants." Which the central council went on and gave them the right to do anyway, by their own authority.
The current state is neither direct or representative democracy. Saying it is, doesn't make it so. It's more along the lines of of a voting plutocracy.
The only reason why that happened was because the government of the day(conservatives) threatened to rip the CRTC's mandate away on their ability to open up areas like that, and they were going to create a new parliamentary body to specifically deal with it. That was also at the same time that the CRTC was going humm-hawww-lllaaaaa... and listening to what Bell and Rogers were telling them, and were going to jack up the GAS and last mile rates so high that you'd have been paying twice the cost of what those big names were charging for their basic service. So vmedia/teksavvy $49/mo would go to $98mo for say 20/1, but Bell and Rogers could charge $39/mo for $20/1.
Your meme is garbage. Let me tell you what would happen.
You've got cancer, you have an appointment with a specialist in 5-7 weeks. Providing of course it's not stage 4 cancer, you're free to choose a variety of treatments at your specialists discretion. Now, if it *is* stage 4, you're easily looking at 5weeks to 15 weeks before seeing a specialist, then up wards of another 15 weeks before they start the targeted radiation therapy to reduce the cancer size so it's not so big and you can have a few months of extra life.
Oh, you're also likely going to be driving 1-4 hours for that treatment if there are no half-way houses available for you to stay at. In worst cases, for some types of cancer you many need to drive 12 hours at your expense and find a place to stay for the duration of the treatment as well. Oh and when you reach the "end of life" care required for that, you're going to spend upwards of a year with your family unless they were smart and put you down for hospice-end-of-life care at one of the specialist centers operated by the VON.
For the personal story bit, my grandmother ended up with stage 4 lung cancer. She had her first doctor examination in august and started treatment in September. Everyone was surprised, doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians. Because they know that doesn't happen very often, and when it does happen it's because someone *in* the system has bumped you up the queue. In her case that's likely what happened since at one time she had been a head nurse at a hospital. If you really want to see how long it would take for say in Ontario you can search here. Keep in mind that there's usually 3 numbers. One is the provincial target average(breast cancer is around 90 days), then the province-wide average(say 45 days), then the local hospitals average wait times(between the two, or lower).
And even if you could get treatment faster at another hospital? The provincial government can refuse to pay for it because it's in an area you don't live.
Socialism! Or at least a stronger version of it than you're used to. The first question when I go to a doctor is 'How can I help you' not, 'Lemmie see your insurance card'.
Apparently you don't live in Canada. Let me show you want happens when you go to a doctor, you hand them your insurance card. It looks like this: If you're from Ontario. No you don't get free treatment if you don't show up without one. The first thing they ask you for is...did you guess "your insurance card?" No? You poor deluded soul. You're billed directly if you don't have one, if you've been to a healthcare provider in your area(doctor/hospital) in the last 30-45 days they'll waive billing for 90days until you produce the card or send you a bill from your provincial health service(Ontario it's called OHIP).
No not everything is covered(unless you're on disability), you're paying out of pocket for all medical expenses like drugs, vision, hearing, feet, dental. Most people carry supplemental insurance on top of their provincial plan, I use there are other companies though.
You mean councils that can do whatever they want? Where individual countries like Germany or France can impose rules against everyone else? The house of lords when working properly is a bulwork against the parliament. The problem in the UK right now is it's been packed with favorites, something that was never happen.
You noted the part about the Junker and co? When they said they didn't care what the MEP's said, they were going to do it regardless and they stated they had the power to do it? CETA being just one example. Those checks and balances are so flimsy that it's a giant clusterfuck.
The UK has obviously voted against democracy. They will now be ruled by their betters.
You heard it here first. The will of the people of a nation, deciding to remain sovereign. Is anti-democracy. Are you also at war with Eastasia?
Leaving the EU was a huge mistake. The old, who voted for it out of xenophobia, will be dead by the time we will feel the consequences.
Yes, because having unelected bureaucrats deciding what's best for your country and waiving sovereign rights to them is an even better idea! The entire state of the EU at this point is anti-democratic. Then again, I suppose if the "remain" camp especially all those entitled whiny millennials really wanted to remain, they would have gotten up off their asses and actually voted. But they didn't, which is why they had the lowest turnout.
This is similar to what Ontario is looking at as well. Especially since things like disability and so on pay literally shit. If a person is unable to work, and is on disability they're capped to a maximum of $1,100/mo. You may get back some money via various programs like housing allowance(upto $350/mo) when you file income taxes. You may be able to apply for welfare(I say may) because I know people on disability who were unable to. And that's what you're expected to live on. Around here an appt in the poorer areas is still going to run you $770/mo. Income assisted housing? At least a 3 year wait at this point.
It's been guessed that the program would remove welfare, disability and roll it into a UBI program which would cap out at $23k/year(which is the poverty level). As you earn money, the amount is deducted from your UBI, until you pass the minimum $23k level at which point it fully falls off.
I know a few people who'd be able to actually survived on a UBI, because they're barely scraping by now on disability. And they've been fighting with workmans compensation for 16 years after being injured on the job. Just remember here in Ontario: Workers Comp is for the employer, not the worker. There was even a huge report showing that workers comp was turning down peoplewho should be paidby the system because they're no longer able to work. So anyone working in Ontario who get's hurt? You're looking at a life in poverty, and that's if you're lucky. I've met more people on the streets during volunteer work then I can count who can't work and were either kicked off comp or simply refused. Most recent case was a guy who's leg had been crushed by heavy machinery and couldn't walk and required a PSW for day-to-day life. Who now basically lives at the local Lutheran church because that's the only one would help him.
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So, will all those millionaire rappers etc get replaced?
Considering what's done with vocaloid? Yes.
The problem is mainly greenlight/indie games that are doing this. So really all steam has decided to do is use a nuke where a small hammer would work.
5 years? It was 12 years ago when I dropped them. I couldn't stand their DirectX 8 regressions on Geforce2-4's (and not the crappy FX lineup suspiciously). And they NEVER fixed their palette slow bug or the text mode BSOD.
Can't really blame you on that, I've still got a Geforce 3 around here somewhere and really ATI could have had something against them for that period if they'd simply gotten their shit together with their drivers.
Funny though how all the negative nvidia comments are voted down though, almost like someone is really butthurt. Oh here's the thread on them wanting to have rigs and videocards shipped to them as well. Including the whining from the fanboys that it's all the customers fault. Including a snippet on it.
Well Facebook has been doing it at the behest of the EU government and Germany since December 2015 with regards to the influx of illegals in the EU. It shouldn't be a surprise that other governments are jumping on-board.
Samsung laser printers are cheap and just work. The ones at work (and the ones I have at home) just WORK, the only time they don't work is when they're out of paper. You can always print to them, and it's reliable.
Had exactly the same thought, guess this means I should pick up a couple of more laser printers before HP gets their hands on them. Every person I've recommended them to vs any brand of inkjet has been very happy with them. The HP bloatware is probably the worst thing out there, you'd think after people complained about how shitty that stuff was ~10 years ago with HP printers they would have listened. NOPE gotta double down, make it even worse and hide the "install driver only" options.
Nvidia has been releasing shit drivers for a few years. They're still having TDR problems after the huge problem back in the early 600/late 500 series days. And went as far as to pay to have people's rigs shipped to California for testing. For the better part of a year they claimed it was "all the users problem" until they discovered that they were causing it by forcing the video card via drivers to drop the core voltage so low that it caused the TDR's. Now if you ask, you'll likely not get a clear answer from their reps. It also doesn't help that nvidia outsourced their driver writing team to outside the company, except their very top-tier cards.
It was the "everything is the users fault" when I could prove that it was their problem, that made me say fuck it and dump them for AMD. And while ATI had some serious driver problems, AMD's have become far better while Nvidia's have declined steadily over the last 5 years.
The bigger issue is with the cost of motherboards and CPUs which support ECC.
Not bad on the prices, better then around here. Sad I can remember when ECC support on motherboards and CPU's was pretty much standard. But if you're looking Intel, anything higher then the Haswell architecture supports it and on the AMD side all AM2 and AM3 processors except APU's support it(if I'm remembering right).
The reality is ECC vs non ECC is basically a speed and price point issue for most people. If you're doing something that's absolutely critical and you can't afford the possibility of any type of RAM corruption screwing things over for you, then ECC is the way to go. Anything else? You're looking at easily 1/3 or 1/8th the price(depending on where you live) for non-ECC vs ECC and more capacity. On top of that with speed? Parity checksums within current ram configurations are good enough whether it be for a home desktop or a 8SLI array of videocards.
Not even so much. I think the cost of the last one I build was $50, because I needed a powersupply. Everything else was from componenets which were sitting around, old intel e5300 for the CPU. Free ECC ram from a company going out of business. Bunch of 1T-2TB drives leftover from upgrades, old case laying around. Motherboard had onboard video but it was flaky, so I slapped in an old PCI videocard 20 minutes to setup. Got ambitious a few years ago and picked up a couple of PCI SATA drive controllers that supported hotswap for $45 each, now have a 20TB file backup system and it's still a chugging along.
Not necessarily. You could have a second article about a heliocentric system, and maybe a third one discussing the merits of a geocentric and a heliocentric system. Just keep the original article about the heliocentric system intact!
That's a fair point, however under today's rules at wikipedia, along with the cock-gobbling edditors. Your topic on helocentric systems would likely be flagged for deletion because it's non-notable(akin to denialism), or doesn't conform to the ruling form of orthodoxy. The sources regardless of whether or not they're factual, would suddenly be marked as unreliable, even if they had provable baseline statistical models with the peer reviewed data to back it up.
Wikipedia simply needs to be purged of all editors and the foundation at this point with a full start over. It doesn't help the ol' Jimbo prefers to wash his hands of everything while saying "I need monies..."
Wikipedia has a bigger NPOV problem with their articles these days then vandalism. Especially because of people camping, or the variety of meat puppets that banned editors use to push agendas.
Nah. Twitter will be too busy censoring possible theories claiming they're harassing the explosion.
Some good points, just remember the west doesn't have a deforestation problem. Poorer countries do because they're trying to increase acreage to feed more people. It also doesn't help that shit-tier environmental groups and general stupidity(of the people that support them) stop things that could easily help those countries like GMO seeds, or improved farming techniques, basic farming practices. Groups like greenpeace would much rather dry wash their hands and declare high-nutrition grains/rice "poison" and let people starve to death while decrying modern farming techniques that use less acreage per person as "wasteful and destructive."
It was one of the main complaints of Norman Borlaug when he was trying the feed Africa, much like his grain/rotational farming/hybridization techniques that he used in Mexico and India. Keep in mind that prior to the anti-farming BS and genocidal push of people like Mugabe, countries like Zimbabwe were providing 90% of the grain that Europe used. That was after their own requirements for consumption.
Obviously you don't live in North America. Environmentalists are keeping renewables down, and renewables are also causing the price of electricity go to through the roof, especially when there are far cheaper methods like hydro-electric which generation costs pennies on the dollar to generate, or coal. Of which there is so much of in the ground that some places have been mining it since before confederation, and there's still a 700-900 year supply of.
Guess that's why my electricity bill keeps going up. It now costs me 0.18c/kWh on peak of which "green energy" mainly wind makes up less then 10% of total generation, but makes up 78% of the actual cost. And is now such a huge problem here in Ontario that 500k+ people are more then 3-5 months in arrears and the governments decade long "green energy program" created this entire mess. FYI that 500k number? That's nearly half of all customers of Hydro One, the largest power provider in Ontario.
Lot of places have long since moved to tires and/or plastics which aren't recycled or valueless to recycle with a combination of NG for making klinker.
Really? So how is it that you vote in a majority into parliament when your voting block counts for under 10% of the total? The difference between the two of course is that you can go up to your MP's house and yell at them. Not happening with Junker, or MEP's, or the council of unelected ministers. Because we already know that obstruction sure worked well when the MEP's and so on said "No the council can't be allowed to turn on each nations printing press and print as much cash as it wants." Which the central council went on and gave them the right to do anyway, by their own authority.
The current state is neither direct or representative democracy. Saying it is, doesn't make it so. It's more along the lines of of a voting plutocracy.
The only reason why that happened was because the government of the day(conservatives) threatened to rip the CRTC's mandate away on their ability to open up areas like that, and they were going to create a new parliamentary body to specifically deal with it. That was also at the same time that the CRTC was going humm-hawww-lllaaaaa... and listening to what Bell and Rogers were telling them, and were going to jack up the GAS and last mile rates so high that you'd have been paying twice the cost of what those big names were charging for their basic service. So vmedia/teksavvy $49/mo would go to $98mo for say 20/1, but Bell and Rogers could charge $39/mo for $20/1.
Your meme is garbage. Let me tell you what would happen.
You've got cancer, you have an appointment with a specialist in 5-7 weeks. Providing of course it's not stage 4 cancer, you're free to choose a variety of treatments at your specialists discretion. Now, if it *is* stage 4, you're easily looking at 5weeks to 15 weeks before seeing a specialist, then up wards of another 15 weeks before they start the targeted radiation therapy to reduce the cancer size so it's not so big and you can have a few months of extra life.
Oh, you're also likely going to be driving 1-4 hours for that treatment if there are no half-way houses available for you to stay at. In worst cases, for some types of cancer you many need to drive 12 hours at your expense and find a place to stay for the duration of the treatment as well. Oh and when you reach the "end of life" care required for that, you're going to spend upwards of a year with your family unless they were smart and put you down for hospice-end-of-life care at one of the specialist centers operated by the VON.
For the personal story bit, my grandmother ended up with stage 4 lung cancer. She had her first doctor examination in august and started treatment in September. Everyone was surprised, doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians. Because they know that doesn't happen very often, and when it does happen it's because someone *in* the system has bumped you up the queue. In her case that's likely what happened since at one time she had been a head nurse at a hospital. If you really want to see how long it would take for say in Ontario you can search here. Keep in mind that there's usually 3 numbers. One is the provincial target average(breast cancer is around 90 days), then the province-wide average(say 45 days), then the local hospitals average wait times(between the two, or lower).
And even if you could get treatment faster at another hospital? The provincial government can refuse to pay for it because it's in an area you don't live.
Socialism! Or at least a stronger version of it than you're used to. The first question when I go to a doctor is 'How can I help you' not, 'Lemmie see your insurance card'.
Apparently you don't live in Canada. Let me show you want happens when you go to a doctor, you hand them your insurance card. It looks like this: If you're from Ontario. No you don't get free treatment if you don't show up without one. The first thing they ask you for is...did you guess "your insurance card?" No? You poor deluded soul. You're billed directly if you don't have one, if you've been to a healthcare provider in your area(doctor/hospital) in the last 30-45 days they'll waive billing for 90days until you produce the card or send you a bill from your provincial health service(Ontario it's called OHIP).
No not everything is covered(unless you're on disability), you're paying out of pocket for all medical expenses like drugs, vision, hearing, feet, dental. Most people carry supplemental insurance on top of their provincial plan, I use there are other companies though.
You mean councils that can do whatever they want? Where individual countries like Germany or France can impose rules against everyone else? The house of lords when working properly is a bulwork against the parliament. The problem in the UK right now is it's been packed with favorites, something that was never happen.
So who voted in Junker?
Well if someone wants my ICQ password they're welcome to it. I don't think I've used it since 2001 and have had many passwords since.
You noted the part about the Junker and co? When they said they didn't care what the MEP's said, they were going to do it regardless and they stated they had the power to do it? CETA being just one example. Those checks and balances are so flimsy that it's a giant clusterfuck.
The UK has obviously voted against democracy. They will now be ruled by their betters.
You heard it here first. The will of the people of a nation, deciding to remain sovereign. Is anti-democracy. Are you also at war with Eastasia?
Leaving the EU was a huge mistake. The old, who voted for it out of xenophobia, will be dead by the time we will feel the consequences.
Yes, because having unelected bureaucrats deciding what's best for your country and waiving sovereign rights to them is an even better idea! The entire state of the EU at this point is anti-democratic. Then again, I suppose if the "remain" camp especially all those entitled whiny millennials really wanted to remain, they would have gotten up off their asses and actually voted. But they didn't, which is why they had the lowest turnout.
This is similar to what Ontario is looking at as well. Especially since things like disability and so on pay literally shit. If a person is unable to work, and is on disability they're capped to a maximum of $1,100/mo. You may get back some money via various programs like housing allowance(upto $350/mo) when you file income taxes. You may be able to apply for welfare(I say may) because I know people on disability who were unable to. And that's what you're expected to live on. Around here an appt in the poorer areas is still going to run you $770/mo. Income assisted housing? At least a 3 year wait at this point.
It's been guessed that the program would remove welfare, disability and roll it into a UBI program which would cap out at $23k/year(which is the poverty level). As you earn money, the amount is deducted from your UBI, until you pass the minimum $23k level at which point it fully falls off.
I know a few people who'd be able to actually survived on a UBI, because they're barely scraping by now on disability. And they've been fighting with workmans compensation for 16 years after being injured on the job. Just remember here in Ontario: Workers Comp is for the employer, not the worker. There was even a huge report showing that workers comp was turning down people who should be paid by the system because they're no longer able to work. So anyone working in Ontario who get's hurt? You're looking at a life in poverty, and that's if you're lucky. I've met more people on the streets during volunteer work then I can count who can't work and were either kicked off comp or simply refused. Most recent case was a guy who's leg had been crushed by heavy machinery and couldn't walk and required a PSW for day-to-day life. Who now basically lives at the local Lutheran church because that's the only one would help him.