Gather round, children, it's story time. Back when AMD's FX-9590 and Asus's Crosshair V Formula Z were the latest and greatest in their neck of the woods, Corsair cooked up some DDR3 RAM that ran @ 2800Mhz. Now, the above setup would never reach 2800Mhz (without special cooling), topping out at 2400Mhz, but this made for some top grade RAM; I mean, if it could do 2800Mhz, it could easily do 2400Mhz, right? It's overkill.
Well, around the time of DivineKnight's particular batch of RAM manufacture, RAM manufacturers were suffering from something called Row hammar. This makes the RAM very useful as a random number generator, but very bad as a storage device. And this batch had it. Memtest confirmed it.
RMA process seemed straight forward enough. Send the RAM back, get new RAM. So I sent it back. Some time passes, and I am told that instead of receiving new RAM (of the same make and model), I will be receiving a refund check, because they are out of that type of RAM. I say that's fine with me; they say it will take 6-8 weeks to cut a check. Whatever, corporate policies.
Somewhere around 8 weeks pass, and Corsair 'upgrades' their support site, apparently losing all data relating to my RMA. A quick phone call reveals that the old system still exists, but I am still put through several rounds of questions first regarding my RAM ("The system says you haven't sent us the RAM yet" "Check the old system" "Oh yeah, we received it", "The system says that it hasn't been 8 weeks yet" "Check the old system" "Ah, it has been 8 weeks", "We can't give you a refund until it is approved" "It was approved, check the old system" "Oh, yes it was"). And every time I call, I am assured that the Finance people are working on it, and that they will send me an email before the day is out. Oh, and the reason it is apparently taking so much effort to get a refund check is because Corsair normally doesn't cut a check of this size (their words).
Included image includes false dates (for Submitted, Approved, Arrived, Processing) which you can notice where the RAM was 'Processed' before it 'Arrived.' You may also take notice of the amount of time lapsing between comments, and the lack of any action on the part of Corsair (it's 8/28/2017, and still no refund check).
"I expect some would make a choice between two otherwise similar restaurants based on the theory that the busier one has the better food."
Where do you get this theory? McDonalds is usually busier than {burger joint}, yet many would argue that {burger joint} has better food than McDonalds.
They are unaware of the US's prodigious array of counter-ICBM defense weaponry, which rarely gets a good mention. If anything, a launch (or several launches) from NK would finally let the GAO know what, exactly, we've all been paying for for the last thirty-forty years since we've seen something come out of the ledger item marked "Secret."
I prefer the semi-scams which will soon populate the 'Skype-ways'; people 'poking' you or some such for some extra cash every chance they get. Imagine 3 or 4 of your friends hitting you up constantly for $30-40 bucks...it's going to make communicating via Skype a war zone.
Because it's so hard to type in a person's email address to send them the monies via PayPal already. And if they don't have an email address, perhaps you should rethink this transaction./s
This ranks up there with AOL's valued contribution to the Netscape Communicator Suite, in the form of an addition of a button labeled "@ Shop" or something close to that...because people were having trouble finding ways to spend money on the internets [sic] back in the day.
The real reason is probably something benign, like one of his servers has some version of a game that can't be found anywhere else, and the uploader decided to PGP encrypt it, and now 3 levels of the NSA are committed to quietly breaking the encryption on these files, because it's a game that some of their top programmers / mathematicians / etc. played in college but could never finish (and now that they have a job, money, and some free time, they intend to complete it, come hell or high-water).
I'm sure that the first country / corporation that can regularly make (monthly, weekly, daily) trips to the asteroid field (any of them) in a self-sustaining and relatively error-free manner will totally care what is written in that {treaty, law, etc.}. I'm also sure that they will do a long-term study of the ramifications of mining our asteroid belts./s
Hmm. That screen. Just looking at it makes me want to take out insurance on it, separate from the car...
As for the seats, those headrests look a little uncomfortable, unless you have a small head, or the ability to keep your head and neck at attention for long hours...
Really, really need a filter for "AIs already explored, to death, by SciFi authors, possibly from last century, and news to only people who's reading genres include volumes such titles as Twilight (and no, I am not speaking about the pony princess from MLP:FIM)."
Well, it's plain and simple. CS, like many other sciences, is a form of masochism. Getting an undergrad degree in CS is like working your way through your state's top dungeon (and asking for moar).
If you are advertising, chances are whatever you are offering isn't much of a deal. You're bigger and louder than your competition? Chances are you are offering an inferior product for a superior price. Which brings us to the second problem with advertising: the stupid scams you people pull just to put a little jingle in your pocket. You want to know why people block everything these days? Well, you already know the reason: it's you, or if it isn't you, it's ten of your friends. Come on, you know that you use SEO to pump up your Google stats; it's what everyone does, and it's not hurting anyone, right? Well, there's your answer.
But what about giant epileptic shock-inducing blinking banner ads, they would certainly get customers, right? Try to imagine someone, on a ladder, in the middle of a parking lot, with a bullhorn or voice amplifier set to 11; you're pissing off millions of people to get hundreds of 'customers.'
Flash ads? Well, you know how everyone is rocking the latest i7 or Ryzen-1800X? They aren't. Let me put it to you this way: if you and your choice of a partner are nearing the end of the 1st round of mutually pleasuring each other, are right on the rails of an orgasm, and some creepy guy in suit and glasses suddenly rolled out from underneath the bed that, up until a nanosecond ago, you were making passionate love on, and started asking you if you thought about switching home insurance providers, would that not kill the moment, right there and then? And assuming you somehow didn't die of a heart attack or brain aneurysm (at this 'advertisement'), would you really be interested, ever, in discussing home insurance providers, with anyone?
Fair enough. For your viewing pleasure, I direct you to Corsair's support site (https://support.corsair.com/), and the pleasant fire that is growing there (front row seats if you have filed some tickets / RMAs with them before), as it appears that they have either lost the password portion of the accounts database and a fair portion of the ticket database, or they are being very selective about how quickly they restore / upgrade them.
You know, in the good old days of the internet, if you wanted faster speeds, you'd order up a thicker pipe. If you ordered a thicker pipe, and one site on the internet couldn't deliver faster upload speeds (your download speeds), it meant that site needed to upgrade its pipe as well. If you ordered up a thicker pipe, and many, if not most of the internet, couldn't deliver faster upload speeds (again, your download speeds), it meant your ISP, or your ISP's ISP, or your ISP's ISP's ISP needed to upgrade their network, at which point they either did, or you switched providers.
Is this supposed to infer that current burgers come from multiple cows? I mean, that's awesome! It's an avenue I don't think we've ever really explored...mixing the meat from different cows, from different breeds, to make the perfect burger. It's hard to breed a single cow that has the perfect meat for a burger, but if we allow the mixing of several cows...we can do this, go science!
Not trying to outrun Death. There may have been a few cases where I've turned around, and given him a hug. That's not what this is about. This is about removing unnecessary suffering, cruelty, and pain; it's about the false dichotomy that keeps so many people prisoners in their homelands, or open to easily preventable diseases.
For an average US citizen to go out and see the world, and go beyond the tourist spots, how many different vaccines are needed? You want to go hiking in that forest, or possibly have an authentic meal? Or maybe you're there to help people, and instead end up in a hospital bed; the disease doesn't have to kill you to screw up your life plans.
We have 1-2 rabies death per year in the US on average, why not make that 1-2 deaths per decade?
And the best / worst part of this is the cost of these vaccines: for people from almost any other country, they cost pennies on the dollar; going to pull a number out of my ass, and go with ~$2 per vaccine; while in the US, 'travel' vaccines can cost, at a minimum, say, $100 (that was the cost of my Typhoid vaccine), and many times much more. For those worried about the cost of vaccinating the masses for these additional diseases, it appears to be a matter of negotiations, not so much a matter of absolute limited supply.
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More useless fluff jobs.
Can we add Corsair to the list? They've been pretty shifty lately.
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Gather round, children, it's story time. Back when AMD's FX-9590 and Asus's Crosshair V Formula Z were the latest and greatest in their neck of the woods, Corsair cooked up some DDR3 RAM that ran @ 2800Mhz. Now, the above setup would never reach 2800Mhz (without special cooling), topping out at 2400Mhz, but this made for some top grade RAM; I mean, if it could do 2800Mhz, it could easily do 2400Mhz, right? It's overkill.
Well, around the time of DivineKnight's particular batch of RAM manufacture, RAM manufacturers were suffering from something called Row hammar. This makes the RAM very useful as a random number generator, but very bad as a storage device. And this batch had it. Memtest confirmed it.
RMA process seemed straight forward enough. Send the RAM back, get new RAM. So I sent it back. Some time passes, and I am told that instead of receiving new RAM (of the same make and model), I will be receiving a refund check, because they are out of that type of RAM. I say that's fine with me; they say it will take 6-8 weeks to cut a check. Whatever, corporate policies.
Somewhere around 8 weeks pass, and Corsair 'upgrades' their support site, apparently losing all data relating to my RMA. A quick phone call reveals that the old system still exists, but I am still put through several rounds of questions first regarding my RAM ("The system says you haven't sent us the RAM yet" "Check the old system" "Oh yeah, we received it", "The system says that it hasn't been 8 weeks yet" "Check the old system" "Ah, it has been 8 weeks", "We can't give you a refund until it is approved" "It was approved, check the old system" "Oh, yes it was"). And every time I call, I am assured that the Finance people are working on it, and that they will send me an email before the day is out. Oh, and the reason it is apparently taking so much effort to get a refund check is because Corsair normally doesn't cut a check of this size (their words).
Included image includes false dates (for Submitted, Approved, Arrived, Processing) which you can notice where the RAM was 'Processed' before it 'Arrived.' You may also take notice of the amount of time lapsing between comments, and the lack of any action on the part of Corsair (it's 8/28/2017, and still no refund check).
"I expect some would make a choice between two otherwise similar restaurants based on the theory that the busier one has the better food."
Where do you get this theory? McDonalds is usually busier than {burger joint}, yet many would argue that {burger joint} has better food than McDonalds.
You must be new here. This is /., RTFA is purely optional.
They are unaware of the US's prodigious array of counter-ICBM defense weaponry, which rarely gets a good mention. If anything, a launch (or several launches) from NK would finally let the GAO know what, exactly, we've all been paying for for the last thirty-forty years since we've seen something come out of the ledger item marked "Secret."
I prefer the semi-scams which will soon populate the 'Skype-ways'; people 'poking' you or some such for some extra cash every chance they get. Imagine 3 or 4 of your friends hitting you up constantly for $30-40 bucks...it's going to make communicating via Skype a war zone.
It means it's yet another scam to bankrupt you.
Because it's so hard to type in a person's email address to send them the monies via PayPal already. And if they don't have an email address, perhaps you should rethink this transaction. /s
This ranks up there with AOL's valued contribution to the Netscape Communicator Suite, in the form of an addition of a button labeled "@ Shop" or something close to that...because people were having trouble finding ways to spend money on the internets [sic] back in the day.
Makes you wonder what we have in space...
One day all governments will be Apple.
The real reason is probably something benign, like one of his servers has some version of a game that can't be found anywhere else, and the uploader decided to PGP encrypt it, and now 3 levels of the NSA are committed to quietly breaking the encryption on these files, because it's a game that some of their top programmers / mathematicians / etc. played in college but could never finish (and now that they have a job, money, and some free time, they intend to complete it, come hell or high-water).
Hush, the psych majors are getting excellent data from this.
I'm sure that the first country / corporation that can regularly make (monthly, weekly, daily) trips to the asteroid field (any of them) in a self-sustaining and relatively error-free manner will totally care what is written in that {treaty, law, etc.}. I'm also sure that they will do a long-term study of the ramifications of mining our asteroid belts. /s
Hmm. That screen. Just looking at it makes me want to take out insurance on it, separate from the car...
As for the seats, those headrests look a little uncomfortable, unless you have a small head, or the ability to keep your head and neck at attention for long hours...
Really, really need a filter for "AIs already explored, to death, by SciFi authors, possibly from last century, and news to only people who's reading genres include volumes such titles as Twilight (and no, I am not speaking about the pony princess from MLP:FIM)."
But JavaScript can do anything!
Well, it's plain and simple. CS, like many other sciences, is a form of masochism. Getting an undergrad degree in CS is like working your way through your state's top dungeon (and asking for moar).
If you are advertising, chances are whatever you are offering isn't much of a deal. You're bigger and louder than your competition? Chances are you are offering an inferior product for a superior price. Which brings us to the second problem with advertising: the stupid scams you people pull just to put a little jingle in your pocket. You want to know why people block everything these days? Well, you already know the reason: it's you, or if it isn't you, it's ten of your friends. Come on, you know that you use SEO to pump up your Google stats; it's what everyone does, and it's not hurting anyone, right? Well, there's your answer.
But what about giant epileptic shock-inducing blinking banner ads, they would certainly get customers, right? Try to imagine someone, on a ladder, in the middle of a parking lot, with a bullhorn or voice amplifier set to 11; you're pissing off millions of people to get hundreds of 'customers.'
Flash ads? Well, you know how everyone is rocking the latest i7 or Ryzen-1800X? They aren't. Let me put it to you this way: if you and your choice of a partner are nearing the end of the 1st round of mutually pleasuring each other, are right on the rails of an orgasm, and some creepy guy in suit and glasses suddenly rolled out from underneath the bed that, up until a nanosecond ago, you were making passionate love on, and started asking you if you thought about switching home insurance providers, would that not kill the moment, right there and then? And assuming you somehow didn't die of a heart attack or brain aneurysm (at this 'advertisement'), would you really be interested, ever, in discussing home insurance providers, with anyone?
I believe this fulfills the practical part of what this /. posting is about, now onto the theoretical. ;-)
Fair enough. For your viewing pleasure, I direct you to Corsair's support site (https://support.corsair.com/), and the pleasant fire that is growing there (front row seats if you have filed some tickets / RMAs with them before), as it appears that they have either lost the password portion of the accounts database and a fair portion of the ticket database, or they are being very selective about how quickly they restore / upgrade them.
Posting to undo mod.
You know, in the good old days of the internet, if you wanted faster speeds, you'd order up a thicker pipe. If you ordered a thicker pipe, and one site on the internet couldn't deliver faster upload speeds (your download speeds), it meant that site needed to upgrade its pipe as well. If you ordered up a thicker pipe, and many, if not most of the internet, couldn't deliver faster upload speeds (again, your download speeds), it meant your ISP, or your ISP's ISP, or your ISP's ISP's ISP needed to upgrade their network, at which point they either did, or you switched providers.
Ok, let's mix some Texas Longhorn, Angus, and whatever counts as a Wagyu into a burger, and see what we get!
Is this supposed to infer that current burgers come from multiple cows? I mean, that's awesome! It's an avenue I don't think we've ever really explored...mixing the meat from different cows, from different breeds, to make the perfect burger. It's hard to breed a single cow that has the perfect meat for a burger, but if we allow the mixing of several cows...we can do this, go science!
I for one look forward to Australia's War on Mathematics.
Not trying to outrun Death. There may have been a few cases where I've turned around, and given him a hug. That's not what this is about. This is about removing unnecessary suffering, cruelty, and pain; it's about the false dichotomy that keeps so many people prisoners in their homelands, or open to easily preventable diseases.
For an average US citizen to go out and see the world, and go beyond the tourist spots, how many different vaccines are needed? You want to go hiking in that forest, or possibly have an authentic meal? Or maybe you're there to help people, and instead end up in a hospital bed; the disease doesn't have to kill you to screw up your life plans.
We have 1-2 rabies death per year in the US on average, why not make that 1-2 deaths per decade?
And the best / worst part of this is the cost of these vaccines: for people from almost any other country, they cost pennies on the dollar; going to pull a number out of my ass, and go with ~$2 per vaccine; while in the US, 'travel' vaccines can cost, at a minimum, say, $100 (that was the cost of my Typhoid vaccine), and many times much more. For those worried about the cost of vaccinating the masses for these additional diseases, it appears to be a matter of negotiations, not so much a matter of absolute limited supply.