If you went into a BestBuy and saw the 6970's and one marked "6970 but slightly dodgey" you'd ask for a cash discount. They've just made it easier for some peoples sub-par IQs and marked it 6950 to save everyones time.
Hey, AMD could have binned the whole "faulty" chip - so where's your tree-hugging mentality now?
The premium is there from all the R&D for 120Hz/200Hz panels they created.
3DTV is nothing more than rebadged 120Hz/200Hz panels with a dinky 3D processor, and 200Hz died in the ass sales -wise as it brought nothing to the table over straight 100Hz. The reason every manufacturer brought out 3D so quickly comes back to the 120Hz+ panels everyone was producing already - and what a way to shift aged stock...
Marketing Departments, I salute this most devious con. ^_^
In short, the movie 'Hackers' bears zero resemblance on reality.
Huh?
The bulk of the leadup to a hack involved sifting through logs, dumpster diving, and social engineering (like the eidetic memory delivery guy or asking A/H guy what the phone number was on the label). The fancy graphics and the ZOMG! 486! were all Hollywood, but there were some moments the scriptwriters didn't screw up beyond recognition.
Besides, I still own my 'Man in a pink shirt' book ^_^
If you're hooked into the whole proprietary software world with your Exchange servers and Sharepoints and all that garbage, hooking into the Blackberry is natural.
I didn't chose MS, the "big business" you're saying uses iPhones does. Those shared folders are how "big business" handles non-GAL company directories and calendars.
It's even a pain to code something to scrape OMA data to sync to a caldav server, including if it's an OSX server.
Before someone posts - please inform yourself by watching the video.
I did. And noticed the death grip required on a competitors phone, to produce anything *close* to what lightly touching an iPhone 4 does.
Apple has done far more than any other smartphone company ( including the "foreign" ones, like RIM and Nokia) to make sure everyone who buys an iPhone4 is 100% satisfied including free bumpers and complete refunds (no restocking fees).
Funny. I'd put that down to the two class actions in the first fortnight of sale.
Funny how despite all the press about this very minor issue, the iPhone 4 is Apple's best product yet with virtually no returns and the highest rate of customer satisfaction among all smartphones.
There are quite a few anecdotal stories about Apple Store staff pulling shifty "you can't get a refund or any further exchanges" lines regarding support. I would guess that would skew the return rates somewhat.
Also, one point that irks me quite a bit, is the classification of an iPhone as a "smartphone". While technically correct, most users have an iPhone for internet, apps, and (because it's one less thing to carry) a phone. Completely separate from a smart phone for tying email, sms, and voice conversations together with notes and other integration features. If 15-year old "Candy" has a high level of satisfaction with her iPhone, it will usually because her expectations of "smartphones" would be a lot less that those using it as an actual smartphone.
I like the ease of use with iPhones and their apps, I appreciate the Exchange mobile sync (without requiring BES licenses), and I like the push to a greater screen area. I don't like the way they've told their users it's an end-user problem (then provided a fix only when faced with a lawsuit), and been so smug about the whole thing.
Bah, show me an iPhone that can handle shared calendars, shared address books, public folders, or sharepoint calendars... (since Public Folders are being deprecated)
iPhone's in "big business" are there for show, and because RIM charge a mountain for BES licenses, especially since the BB 9000 and iPhone 4 cost about the same bought outright.
+1 for DeployStudio (since I posted elsewhere) -1 for not believing WDS/AD is better...
I'm waiting for Apple to either support NetRestore properly, or buy DeployStudio. I like the fact that Deploystudio uses sh scripts to do the grunt work... I LOVE being able to dovetail my scripts in with the restore process.
That said, WDS is even easier to get up and running, as long as you open WDS up for both recognised and unrecognised GUIDs, and AD Group Policy installs of packages is more flexible that Mac. eg You don't have to buy ARD just to administratively install packages remotely.
What if my laptop is encrypted because of PCI compliance? What if it is against the law in my country for me to compromise confidential information, but now Australia demands to see it? Does this mean American businessmen can't travel ao Australia with company laptops?
But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too.
"more people would watch A Current Affair if they weren't browsing 4chan one handed"
You mixed that up with 'Today Tonight' viewers... ACA viewers would be protesting the existence of 4chan, while 'Media Watch' viewers would be outraged by the trailers for TT, without even seeing the episode...
See subject-line above, & again: Guys, IF you're going to "mod me down", have the balls to say why, & on what TECHNICAL grounds...
Then by all means pass on that sentiment to Conroy, as due process is definitely not part of the proposal.
Last time I checked, Australia was a democracy, as as such the politicians and their departments' actions should be answerable to the public and this proposed filter bypasses every method of accountability we've put in to law.
The Dell XPS 1730 (SLi 8800GTX) comes with a 230W power supply.:S
There will always be someone who wants to pay for the privilege of the best graphics, and a lot of mates are now forgoing the shuttle cases and buying a decent GPU laptop.
That said, I have CURRENT i7 desktops with power supplies with 230W power supplies.
Slashdot Mirror
Kevin Bacon?
Cisco Reflexive ACLs have existed from before 12.2 - It's a poor man's firewall which sums up NAT accurately.
Let's not get started on the frankenstein IPV6NAT standard...
I read that as "blows goatse"
But that image is the hole left by a nVidia card melting through the laptop base and into their lap...
This is capitalism.
If you went into a BestBuy and saw the 6970's and one marked "6970 but slightly dodgey" you'd ask for a cash discount.
They've just made it easier for some peoples sub-par IQs and marked it 6950 to save everyones time.
Hey, AMD could have binned the whole "faulty" chip - so where's your tree-hugging mentality now?
80% of Advanced was the word "citation"
Abe Froman can afford to give you mod points.
Shortly after I bought a P2 300 (overclocked to 450, ofc) and out of my group of friends I was untouchable at Q3 for a while.
Everyone else got the Celeron 300a's cos they overclocked with better heat dissapation.
I never got the right Celeron 366 to hit the magic 550MHz.
sniff
The premium is there from all the R&D for 120Hz/200Hz panels they created.
3DTV is nothing more than rebadged 120Hz/200Hz panels with a dinky 3D processor, and 200Hz died in the ass sales -wise as it brought nothing to the table over straight 100Hz.
The reason every manufacturer brought out 3D so quickly comes back to the 120Hz+ panels everyone was producing already - and what a way to shift aged stock...
Marketing Departments, I salute this most devious con. ^_^
In short, the movie 'Hackers' bears zero resemblance on reality.
Huh?
The bulk of the leadup to a hack involved sifting through logs, dumpster diving, and social engineering (like the eidetic memory delivery guy or asking A/H guy what the phone number was on the label).
The fancy graphics and the ZOMG! 486! were all Hollywood, but there were some moments the scriptwriters didn't screw up beyond recognition.
Besides, I still own my 'Man in a pink shirt' book ^_^
"A frigging slashdot article posted by kdawson. :)"
But his post was cribbed almost verbatim from an article on Tom's Hardware, a fairly well-respected source.
lol. You do know TH is an advertising show pony?...
I will give you some cred though for not quoting wikipressrelease^H^H^H^H^Hpedia.
Asus G73jh running quite well (cool) here as well...
Purchase decision relied on 1) no nVidia, 2) no SLI/CF and 3) no Dell.
My m1710 died three times, my (free replacement) m1730 died twice. Not willing to take a chance with a m17x R1 or R2
I do miss CUDA though.
The only difference between a religious nut and a convict is getting caught...
Nobody got the better deal :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjEKt5Izwbo
Aussie skit show took the piss out of the triple blades when they came out...
If you're hooked into the whole proprietary software world with your Exchange servers and Sharepoints and all that garbage, hooking into the Blackberry is natural.
I didn't chose MS, the "big business" you're saying uses iPhones does. Those shared folders are how "big business" handles non-GAL company directories and calendars.
It's even a pain to code something to scrape OMA data to sync to a caldav server, including if it's an OSX server.
Personally though, I'm BAPR (BSD, Apache, Postgres, Ruby)
(BTW, I'm also Apple Leopard Server Certified)
Before someone posts - please inform yourself by watching the video.
I did. And noticed the death grip required on a competitors phone, to produce anything *close* to what lightly touching an iPhone 4 does.
Apple has done far more than any other smartphone company ( including the "foreign" ones, like RIM and Nokia) to make sure everyone who buys an iPhone4 is 100% satisfied including free bumpers and complete refunds (no restocking fees).
Funny. I'd put that down to the two class actions in the first fortnight of sale.
Funny how despite all the press about this very minor issue, the iPhone 4 is Apple's best product yet with virtually no returns and the highest rate of customer satisfaction among all smartphones.
There are quite a few anecdotal stories about Apple Store staff pulling shifty "you can't get a refund or any further exchanges" lines regarding support. I would guess that would skew the return rates somewhat.
Also, one point that irks me quite a bit, is the classification of an iPhone as a "smartphone". While technically correct, most users have an iPhone for internet, apps, and (because it's one less thing to carry) a phone. Completely separate from a smart phone for tying email, sms, and voice conversations together with notes and other integration features. If 15-year old "Candy" has a high level of satisfaction with her iPhone, it will usually because her expectations of "smartphones" would be a lot less that those using it as an actual smartphone.
I like the ease of use with iPhones and their apps, I appreciate the Exchange mobile sync (without requiring BES licenses), and I like the push to a greater screen area.
I don't like the way they've told their users it's an end-user problem (then provided a fix only when faced with a lawsuit), and been so smug about the whole thing.
Bah, show me an iPhone that can handle shared calendars, shared address books, public folders, or sharepoint calendars... (since Public Folders are being deprecated)
iPhone's in "big business" are there for show, and because RIM charge a mountain for BES licenses, especially since the BB 9000 and iPhone 4 cost about the same bought outright.
It's definitively not for the call quality...
Yeah and how about those important security updates which require a local admin to install?
I had to fix it by aliasing various components to scripts sudo'ing asu.
I'll admit that it's good that r19 of DeployStudio can force an ASU now...
+1 for DeployStudio (since I posted elsewhere)
-1 for not believing WDS/AD is better...
I'm waiting for Apple to either support NetRestore properly, or buy DeployStudio.
I like the fact that Deploystudio uses sh scripts to do the grunt work... I LOVE being able to dovetail my scripts in with the restore process.
That said, WDS is even easier to get up and running, as long as you open WDS up for both recognised and unrecognised GUIDs, and AD Group Policy installs of packages is more flexible that Mac. eg You don't have to buy ARD just to administratively install packages remotely.
Wine was testes for virus compability not so long ago.
How ballsy of them to test for viruses! :P
Something to add...
Both those articles are from 2008
What if my laptop is encrypted because of PCI compliance? What if it is against the law in my country for me to compromise confidential information, but now Australia demands to see it? Does this mean American businessmen can't travel ao Australia with company laptops?
Or will Australia not search encrypted laptops?
Karma for this:-
Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cause, Appeals Court Rules
and
Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first
But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too.
Internet was down resulting in a dazed Zen thoughts of "If there's no-one to blog/facebook it to, did it really happen?"
My car says otherwise though :(
"more people would watch A Current Affair if they weren't browsing 4chan one handed"
You mixed that up with 'Today Tonight' viewers... ACA viewers would be protesting the existence of 4chan, while 'Media Watch' viewers would be outraged by the trailers for TT, without even seeing the episode...
See subject-line above, & again: Guys, IF you're going to "mod me down", have the balls to say why, & on what TECHNICAL grounds...
Then by all means pass on that sentiment to Conroy, as due process is definitely not part of the proposal.
Last time I checked, Australia was a democracy, as as such the politicians and their departments' actions should be answerable to the public and this proposed filter bypasses every method of accountability we've put in to law.
80W seems extravagant.
The Dell XPS 1730 (SLi 8800GTX) comes with a 230W power supply. :S
There will always be someone who wants to pay for the privilege of the best graphics, and a lot of mates are now forgoing the shuttle cases and buying a decent GPU laptop.
That said, I have CURRENT i7 desktops with power supplies with 230W power supplies.