Im a sysadmin by trade... and although I might chance 90 day oem ram if the price is right in my home machine, in my production servers I use Crucial, or Kingston. As far as the average consumer... How do they determine if a car is good, what criteria do they use to determine what new stove to buy? They do some research..If more people did a little research when they bought computers, or computer parts, they wouldnt have half the problems. Instead they listen to the sales people, or they buy the cheapest thing they can find and then wonder why their system locks up.
This is the prime example of why I tell people I know not to buy ram off of the internet unless its from a major company that has good support. To many people buy 15-90 day warranty ram because its cheap, and when it fails they are upset that they have to replace it. If you pay a bit more money you get lifetime warranty ram... and why do you think they are willing to warranty it that long, because they know it works. people dont understand the testing process and think they are getting the same product buying cheap ram, as opposed to inexpensive ram...
Is that sometimes, its safer to wait to implement Microsoft patches and take your chances with a worm/virus...
As a NT admin.. I have to look at the odds... A worm might take down my operation - Frequency is about once every 3-4 months. Whereas I KNOW that half of the security patches will screw things up, and with new patches released about every week..I usually try to wait at least 2 weeks (a month if possible) before I apply any patches from MS.
Yeah.. but 90% of home users cant remeber their email password, do you really want them changing the password on the hardware... It comes with the default password, its impractical for the isp to change them all, and should the user change it, then forget it, its a hour long tech support call to fix it. Replace user, press any key to continue.
A crappy html page called new page 3... with a link to 23 minutes of video that does not work... why.. because its/.'ed... Did anyone get the video to work, or are they using the/. effect to cover the fact that they have nothing.
Real salesman: Okay, we are going to sell you the software to produce secure content using our digital rights management for 2 hoojillion dollars, BUT!, you will make 3 hoojillion dollars more knowing that nobodoy is pirating your content. AND! We will provide the consumers with a free player to make things easier for you.
Content Producer: But what happens when all the consumers give you the finger and nobody looks at my content..what happens when you try to sell me "patches" and "upgrades" to realproducer once im stuck using the format..what happens when people get tired of your crappy "client"...
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To push anything that will get all producers and all consumers using their product, its a desperate grasp to finally get market share. After you download the most recent real player, you have to download a pre-release patch to view the DRM demo, Im sure that to use the DRM, the content producers will have to use Real producer, forcing the consumers to (for now) at very least use the free player...
If Real can convince enough content producers to switch to protect their interests (people stealing their content), they will force consumers to switch, and then they have both sides paying whatever ransom they want.. and when someone trys to make another player that supports the format, they run screaming DMCA! DMCA!... its garbage...
Really though... it seems ATI is still suffering with problems writing good drivers for their hardware, and at least for the gamers out there, Nvidia has been the better choice for a long time.
Computers are, and always have been... Tools. The ideas that a tool can/could teach children to think is great, but I think that the primary responsibility of teaching children to THINK, to reason, to make decisions is still primarily up to the parents, and in dual income familys alot of times it falls back on public education. The public education system is not up to the task for alot of reasons that I wont go into, so they try for computers, expecting the tools to do their jobs for them. No matter how great the tool is, if the child cant make the right decision to sit and learn from it, the tool is useless... Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction. "and on the 8th day, god said "let there be script kiddies" and the immature sprang forth from the earth".
To all the whiners... im trying for a -5 flame
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Stop your crying and whining... if you dont want to read april fool's jokes, then dont read them. Its not like a headline on 4/1 that says that nvidia bought AMD is not a dead giveaway.. Its your own fault if your so addicted to slashdot that you cant pass up the chance to read every post on every single story and then bitch about the content... for everyone complaining about the signal/noise ratio.. your sure adding alot of noise.. If you dont like it, dont read it. If you dont think its funny, dont laugh.. and for christs sake.. you can deal with it for one day.
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Yes, RAM will develop faults from use. Its just not very common, Mostly caused by overclocking, voltage spikes, and power surges.
Im a sysadmin by trade... and although I might chance 90 day oem ram if the price is right in my home machine, in my production servers I use Crucial, or Kingston. As far as the average consumer... How do they determine if a car is good, what criteria do they use to determine what new stove to buy? They do some research..If more people did a little research when they bought computers, or computer parts, they wouldnt have half the problems. Instead they listen to the sales people, or they buy the cheapest thing they can find and then wonder why their system locks up.
This is the prime example of why I tell people I know not to buy ram off of the internet unless its from a major company that has good support. To many people buy 15-90 day warranty ram because its cheap, and when it fails they are upset that they have to replace it. If you pay a bit more money you get lifetime warranty ram... and why do you think they are willing to warranty it that long, because they know it works. people dont understand the testing process and think they are getting the same product buying cheap ram, as opposed to inexpensive ram...
Is that sometimes, its safer to wait to implement Microsoft patches and take your chances with a worm/virus...
As a NT admin.. I have to look at the odds... A worm might take down my operation - Frequency is about once every 3-4 months. Whereas I KNOW that half of the security patches will screw things up, and with new patches released about every week..I usually try to wait at least 2 weeks (a month if possible) before I apply any patches from MS.
Shape the motes like spiders... and give them simple commands like "kill Tom Selleck"
A beowulf clu.... nevermind, my bad....
"One that won't run OS X, that's for sure."
:)
You say that like its a bad thing... I was thinking, and it WOULDNT come with OS X... to each their own
For only $1999 ... Do you know what kind of PC I could build for that much money?? Then I just need the beowulf cluster..
I believe sig should read...
You can lead a boss to an idea, but you cant make him think!
Yeah.. but 90% of home users cant remeber their email password, do you really want them changing the password on the hardware... It comes with the default password, its impractical for the isp to change them all, and should the user change it, then forget it, its a hour long tech support call to fix it. Replace user, press any key to continue.
Dammit Jim! Im a doctor, not a printer repair tech...
A crappy html page called new page 3... with a link to 23 minutes of video that does not work... why.. because its /.'ed... Did anyone get the video to work, or are they using the /. effect to cover the fact that they have nothing.
consumers go where the pron is... if they only way the masses can get their streaming fun is via realplayer, they will download the "Free" player.
so how do you hook your watch up to the internet to activate it??
Real salesman: Okay, we are going to sell you the software to produce secure content using our digital rights management for 2 hoojillion dollars, BUT!, you will make 3 hoojillion dollars more knowing that nobodoy is pirating your content. AND! We will provide the consumers with a free player to make things easier for you.
Content Producer: But what happens when all the consumers give you the finger and nobody looks at my content..what happens when you try to sell me "patches" and "upgrades" to realproducer once im stuck using the format..what happens when people get tired of your crappy "client"...
To push anything that will get all producers and all consumers using their product, its a desperate grasp to finally get market share. After you download the most recent real player, you have to download a pre-release patch to view the DRM demo, Im sure that to use the DRM, the content producers will have to use Real producer, forcing the consumers to (for now) at very least use the free player...
If Real can convince enough content producers to switch to protect their interests (people stealing their content), they will force consumers to switch, and then they have both sides paying whatever ransom they want.. and when someone trys to make another player that supports the format, they run screaming DMCA! DMCA!... its garbage...
sorry, but I cant help myself
In Soviet Russia... Video cards benchmark YOU!!
Really though... it seems ATI is still suffering with problems writing good drivers for their hardware, and at least for the gamers out there, Nvidia has been the better choice for a long time.
...I just got my new series 3 sata drive...yeah..pixie dust...its a 5 terabyte drive I can access at 600 MBS...
Site died as I was reading... We are having major server problems at the moment. Something is up - we will fix this ;) /.ed in under 5 minutes...
I stand, er... sit corrected.. Its been a while..I will go rent tonight and watch again so that I might better remember the sript...
that M$ already has the patent on stealing software from others? seems the Apple case law would work against M$ on this one.... First post!
How can I not love a 64 bit processor that for some reason makes me think of the Transformers...
Computers are, and always have been... Tools. The ideas that a tool can/could teach children to think is great, but I think that the primary responsibility of teaching children to THINK, to reason, to make decisions is still primarily up to the parents, and in dual income familys alot of times it falls back on public education. The public education system is not up to the task for alot of reasons that I wont go into, so they try for computers, expecting the tools to do their jobs for them. No matter how great the tool is, if the child cant make the right decision to sit and learn from it, the tool is useless... Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction. "and on the 8th day, god said "let there be script kiddies" and the immature sprang forth from the earth".
Blue... no! GREEN!!... aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Stop your crying and whining... if you dont want to read april fool's jokes, then dont read them. Its not like a headline on 4/1 that says that nvidia bought AMD is not a dead giveaway.. Its your own fault if your so addicted to slashdot that you cant pass up the chance to read every post on every single story and then bitch about the content... for everyone complaining about the signal/noise ratio.. your sure adding alot of noise.. If you dont like it, dont read it. If you dont think its funny, dont laugh.. and for christs sake.. you can deal with it for one day.