eBay and Paypal rank way up there as the most evil companies on the net. I have a friend who sells via eBay, and from what he's been telling me, eBay has been making it harder and harder to get refunds on failed auctions all the while increasing their fees.
Sellers really only have themselves to blame for this. For instance - I bought a calendar on ebay once, and when I got it - it was a recorded cd with images from the calendar on it. I told him I wanted my money back, he gave it back sans shipping. When I called eBay up about it the CSR on the phone said that the seller had claimed I was a non-payer and they credited the auction fees to him.
How long have you been in computers? You ALWAYS pay a premium for bleeding edge technology. 99% of everyone who reads this will be just fine with a much cheaper lower end card from Nvidia. Doom 3 and HL2 work perfectly fine on my 6800 with everything on.
I'm glad you weren't around when the 386 came out. I actually know someone who paid nearly 10,000 for one.
I had to fully watercool every 6800 I have owned just to keep the operating temperature at something that wouldn't be worrisome.
You must be doing something seriously wrong. I was an early adopter of the 6800 (I've got a 6800GT with 256 megs), currently its sitting at a "cool" 59 deg C (according to the docs its shutdown temp is 120 deg C). The hottest I've ever seen it get was after playing several hours of hl2 it got up to 72 deg.
Here's another one. I have a terminal server I manage that is on failing hardware, and occasionally reboots on its own mid day (its only done this twice actually). A new server has been rolled out and is ready to go, but I haven't had the time to call india and spend half an hour on the phone reactivating this license once the software is moved.
I already used up the online activations when I switched out the hdd, and then when I updated the ethernet card to gigabit, and then I had to call in when that card was replaced when it went bad.
I like the go bug (the go menu at the top) - it seems to be somewhat random, but instead of opening a new window to go to the shortcut I want, it will use a current window.
Here's my main concern: they will succeed, and a significant "pseudo-clone" market will spring up. It will cannabilize Mac hardware sales. In self defense, Apple will force users to register their copies of OS X. No more slipping the DVD into the drive and clicking on "install". No, now you'll have to enter a 30-character registration number, and you'll have to authorize the OS within a certain time limit. In other words, I'll be jumping through exactly the same hoops that I've always hated dealing with in the Windows world.
I paid like 35 for a new battery after market batter for my ipod. Its not nearly as consistent as the original one, but it typically gets well over 18 hours before needing another charge.
By the way, there is no right to steal music or break copyrights. You are NOT entitled to have a copy of that song you like so much. If you obtain a copy of a song without providing compensation to the copyright holder, your are breaking law and stealing from the copyright holder. (if you aren't stealing the song, you are stealing the "right" to make copies)
I thought in canada you did have this right - as everyone who buys any kind of recording medium pays a corperate tax on it that goes back to the association coffers.
9700/9800's do have serious quality control issues. I bought a 9700 close to two years ago here's its true actual story,
1st one > would start drawing artifacts on the screen about 30 seconds into the game.
2nd one > worked great for a week, then it started corrupting textures, and vectors (wierd protrusions would pop out of walls etc) and in 2d mode the fonts would look all sparkly, and when you typed the sparkles would change.
3rd one > DOA - didn't post at all
4th one > DOA - also didn't post at all
5th one > Its almost been a year since I bought this card. This time I sent a letter with the 4th one stating that I would never buy another ATI video card every again, and that I had bought a Nvidia 6800GT (it has never drawn one pixel incorrectly no matter how much load I put on it - works great - and I would stake my reputation against them) and they could take their sweet time to send me a card that worked perfectly fine.
They must have read that letter because like two months later (compared to a few weeks for the previous cards). I got a card that worked flawlessly - no artifacts no font corruption, nothing but perfection. I promptly sold it to some buyer in Australia on Ebay.
And before anyone accuses me of having crappy hardware. These cards I tested on a myriad of different machines (as an example I took each card to friend's pc's to have them test) including Athlon's with nforce/via chipsets and Intel P4/P3 with Intel chipsets. I even bought all new Kingston memory for my own desktop because I thought that was the issue at first - that same memory is in my current machine and works perfectly. I can't remember the last time I saw a BSOD in windows - seriously.
no - I think its more like Adobe wants to set the record straight for why they are not going to support it, and from their posts it sounds like they could care less.
I know your joking, but when the dalek's first made an appearance on the show they were made out to be these cold, unfeeling, utterly ruthless beings. I remember when I was a kid the fact they will kill anyone who got in their way without question was pretty frightening.
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I'm suprised the moderators modded this +4...
You talk like its long since gone > http://www.byte.com/
Here's a really cool picture of the worlds 3rd largest structure (KXTV/KOVR tower in California) > http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.24,-121.501944&s pn=0.3,0.3&t=k (zoom all the way in)
eBay and Paypal rank way up there as the most evil companies on the net. I have a friend who sells via eBay, and from what he's been telling me, eBay has been making it harder and harder to get refunds on failed auctions all the while increasing their fees.
Sellers really only have themselves to blame for this. For instance - I bought a calendar on ebay once, and when I got it - it was a recorded cd with images from the calendar on it. I told him I wanted my money back, he gave it back sans shipping. When I called eBay up about it the CSR on the phone said that the seller had claimed I was a non-payer and they credited the auction fees to him.
How long have you been in computers? You ALWAYS pay a premium for bleeding edge technology. 99% of everyone who reads this will be just fine with a much cheaper lower end card from Nvidia. Doom 3 and HL2 work perfectly fine on my 6800 with everything on.
I'm glad you weren't around when the 386 came out. I actually know someone who paid nearly 10,000 for one.
I had to fully watercool every 6800 I have owned just to keep the operating temperature at something that wouldn't be worrisome.
You must be doing something seriously wrong. I was an early adopter of the 6800 (I've got a 6800GT with 256 megs), currently its sitting at a "cool" 59 deg C (according to the docs its shutdown temp is 120 deg C). The hottest I've ever seen it get was after playing several hours of hl2 it got up to 72 deg.
Here's another one. I have a terminal server I manage that is on failing hardware, and occasionally reboots on its own mid day (its only done this twice actually). A new server has been rolled out and is ready to go, but I haven't had the time to call india and spend half an hour on the phone reactivating this license once the software is moved.
I already used up the online activations when I switched out the hdd, and then when I updated the ethernet card to gigabit, and then I had to call in when that card was replaced when it went bad.
I like the go bug (the go menu at the top) - it seems to be somewhat random, but instead of opening a new window to go to the shortcut I want, it will use a current window.
Doesn't always happen though.
Really the same is true for Windows - I can still count the number of bluescreens I've seen in 2000/XP/2000 on one hand.
Here's my main concern: they will succeed, and a significant "pseudo-clone" market will spring up. It will cannabilize Mac hardware sales. In self defense, Apple will force users to register their copies of OS X. No more slipping the DVD into the drive and clicking on "install". No, now you'll have to enter a 30-character registration number, and you'll have to authorize the OS within a certain time limit. In other words, I'll be jumping through exactly the same hoops that I've always hated dealing with in the Windows world.
When did this hold us back before?
I paid like 35 for a new battery after market batter for my ipod. Its not nearly as consistent as the original one, but it typically gets well over 18 hours before needing another charge.
One problem with "straight" keys is they don't allow you the speed that a semi-automatic like the one that guy was using on Leno's show.
ICE says otherwise. Their domain probably was jacked, but not by some hacker.
i cles/starwars052505.htm
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/art
Here's the video footage, unfortunately its not in torrent format (yet),
0 35.avi
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/multimedia/clip0
Thats not the way collective bargaining works though.
Ever wonder what it would be like to have a say in affairs that affect you in your company?
Actually they suceeded at spending millions of dollars without doing anything - who's the real fools here?
The investors - thats who.
By the way, there is no right to steal music or break copyrights. You are NOT entitled to have a copy of that song you like so much. If you obtain a copy of a song without providing compensation to the copyright holder, your are breaking law and stealing from the copyright holder. (if you aren't stealing the song, you are stealing the "right" to make copies)
I thought in canada you did have this right - as everyone who buys any kind of recording medium pays a corperate tax on it that goes back to the association coffers.
I have a G5 that does this - has to have a monitor connected otherwise VNC will show everything black.
As someone who works in a call center they probably have a group of people calling these customers up and letting them know where to get help.
Most of the software to clean this up can be had for free or little money.
The arguement for making OSX on x86 however is a question:
Who's making more money? Microsoft or Apple? Microsoft of course, and they don't make any hardware.
9700/9800's do have serious quality control issues. I bought a 9700 close to two years ago here's its true actual story,
1st one > would start drawing artifacts on the screen about 30 seconds into the game.
2nd one > worked great for a week, then it started corrupting textures, and vectors (wierd protrusions would pop out of walls etc) and in 2d mode the fonts would look all sparkly, and when you typed the sparkles would change.
3rd one > DOA - didn't post at all
4th one > DOA - also didn't post at all
5th one > Its almost been a year since I bought this card. This time I sent a letter with the 4th one stating that I would never buy another ATI video card every again, and that I had bought a Nvidia 6800GT (it has never drawn one pixel incorrectly no matter how much load I put on it - works great - and I would stake my reputation against them) and they could take their sweet time to send me a card that worked perfectly fine.
They must have read that letter because like two months later (compared to a few weeks for the previous cards). I got a card that worked flawlessly - no artifacts no font corruption, nothing but perfection. I promptly sold it to some buyer in Australia on Ebay.
And before anyone accuses me of having crappy hardware. These cards I tested on a myriad of different machines (as an example I took each card to friend's pc's to have them test) including Athlon's with nforce/via chipsets and Intel P4/P3 with Intel chipsets. I even bought all new Kingston memory for my own desktop because I thought that was the issue at first - that same memory is in my current machine and works perfectly. I can't remember the last time I saw a BSOD in windows - seriously.
Apple uses display postscript with pdf extensions (mainly used for compression to save memory) which they do pay for last I heard.
no - I think its more like Adobe wants to set the record straight for why they are not going to support it, and from their posts it sounds like they could care less.
The lesson here is either A) don't vote or B) don't donate money to either party.
I know your joking, but when the dalek's first made an appearance on the show they were made out to be these cold, unfeeling, utterly ruthless beings. I remember when I was a kid the fact they will kill anyone who got in their way without question was pretty frightening.