If the firmware is so risky that "Any time you install a new firmware you are rolling the dice", maybe the manufacturer should re-think the hardware / solution they are providing. Upgrade of the firmware should NEVER... NEVER... NEVER be risky.
Great customer support: on day "warranty expire +1", you are on your own. They have my business (NOT).
Also, tell that to FTC. They have NO problem going after companies whose warranties have long since expired.
Sure. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of supporting something that is critical, you can either argue that you are right, and how life is unfair. Or, you can plan for failure, and not have to tell everyone that was counting on your product/whatever that everything is going to be down until does the right thing. It may not be good customer service, but you must understand that the world and most of the businesses out there don't give a shit if you sink or swim. Go ahead and file a suit against them in court if you are so obligated, but your take away should more than just hoping that some government body (FTC) makes everything all better years down the road.
But if the manufacturer said "This is a criticl update that you must perform" your response would be...
... or "your tires on this care are not legal to be used on street anymore. If you want to user your car, you must upgrade the tires." So, you upgrade the tires, and the upgrade of tires causes the car to crash. What would you do then?
Not that I don't have some sympathy for you, but you are presenting a false dichotomy. Any time you install a new firmware you are rolling the dice. If your product is out of warranty (also meaning you've used it for long enough that it must have been working well enough, or you bought it used/cheap/out of warranty) then you are entirely on your own. The companies have no further responsibility to you. If better reliability/longevity was needed, you should have purchased spares in advance, or scheduled hardware refreshes in a timely manor to keep your critical bits on hardware that you can get support for. Think of this as a learning experience and welcome to the reality of planning for the unexpected.
I'm using T-Mobiles pay as you go, 1000 minutes for talk or texts for $100 that are good for 1 year. I'm currently using it for my Nexus 4, but you can take the SIM out and load it into a computer without issue (to answer the Ask/. posters question).
Yeah, i also thought dry dock. The U shaped building would work well for it, but the position of the U shape building doesn't lend itself well to transporting large vessels in and out of the area. Though there is a railway just south of there.
Not sure if you're trolling or just uninformed. So maybe I'm feeding.
I think he was neither trolling or uninformed. The connection speed continues to go up overtime, and if he has 25 Mbit/s, you can download a 2GB movie in just under 11 minutes. Many of the shows I watch are just a couple hundred MB so even 500 MB shows will come down in under 3 minutes. Wait 3 minutes or so and you get a ~40 minute show that looks pretty damn good... better quality than what sat/cable is delivering over all.
I'm using the current betas and haven't noticed any change in microstutter, so far as I can tell (2x R7950s).
I think I'm able to duplicate the micro-stuttering in counter strike global offensive. When I'm running BOINC (lowest priority, CPU only) occationally the game will seem to have a very brief, but noticable, halt... and go back to running smooth. Turned off BOINC and it went back to being only smooth. Might be an issue with the process scheduler... or perhaps like the articles suggest, the video card drivers. Either way, I'm all for better drivers:)
That would have been an amazing(ly terrifying) meeting between world leaders. Truman and Stalins exchange at the Potsdam conference might have gone quite quite differently. Or perhaps it was that conference that made Truman want to go to such lengths to put a nuke on the moon to show American might? Brinksmanship is such a strange game.
Off topic, but your comment took me back. In 1998, me and 2 others decided to do something similar to what you did. We skipped out on school and drove to the school where my girlfriend (now wife) was at, with the intention of getting her out of school for lunch. I wrote up a note and went into the main office and presented it to them, saying I was her brother and had a message for her. They took the note, so I left and went back to the car. They gave her the message without reading it. When the bell rang, she came out and off we all went to lunch. If they would have read the note, they would have busted us as it basically detailed out where we were parked and our intentions.
And how many people died in the Darfur Genocide? Where was the UN during that crisis?
Where was the rest of the world? Genocide should never happen, and we all shoulder some of the blame for the lack of action by every government on the planet.
Still right, but you are correct as well. And not even just education. I could use this at work. Say I'm working on trying to figure out why reset isn't working on this VM I'm running that has kernel panic'd. It could take a glance at a few key bits and go out and scour the internet for solutions while I go validate all of the mundane bits are correct (or perhaps it has even better knowledge than the internet if you pay for license fee). It is basically Microsoft Bob of the future, that could assist / complement the user in any specific task that it has a knowledge domain on. There are so many uses that it is silly. But first, they need to build it. I'm just suggesting some of the first uses will be to cheat, oh, and the military, but definitely to cheat.
As soon as something like this robot is able to be made, the miniaturized stealth version will no doubt follow. The device would just need a moment of line of sight on the test and could deliver the answers to you, perhaps in morse code skin taps. I suspect there are quite a few people who would love to be able to breeze into an engineering degree, as just one example.
When I read the article, it reminded me of the story behind the Baldurs Gate characters Minsc and Boo. Apparently, Minsc's character game from an actual pencil & paper DnD game where he was a ranger who would keep a satchel full of rats with him. The purpose of the rats were to be uses as crude trap detectors, take one out of the bag and direct it to run down some hall, usually with a toss in the right direction. Unfortunately during one of these events, a trap exploded and loosed something that smashed into Minsc head with critical damage. Some time later, after Minsc recovered, his intelligence was significantly lowered and he lost most of his memory, to the point he went from a ranger to a barbarian. He found a lone critter still in his old satchel, and thought he was a long lost friend, Boo the gigantic miniature space hamster.
I wish the Army great successes in this small animal trap detecting program!
I have an unfinished slot machine game that I programmed somewhere around 2001. I'll beet your $1000 and offer it for $999. Any takers?
In 1998, I wrote a tic-tac-toe game that you and a friend could play together, using two separate computers, via... dare I say it!? Why via TCP socket wizardry!...and the like, all done in what little of C++ I knew! I promise you it is still in its completed beta form! Even still, it has been very well tested, in the tens of times, or more... works like a charm! I'm practically giving it away for the low low price of $998.42!! ACT NOW!!!
I used to use peer guardian way back when and it was easy to find any number of lists. I've tried looking for a p2p block list, and couldn't find any free ones.
Suggestions would be welcome.
Reading that I feel like an old man, disconnected from the modern day. Is some new tech online porn technology that I've missed out on? Please... I NEED... TO... KNOW... !!!
>>>You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance.
Nationwide insures me for just $110 a month. So that would be $880 over four years..... not enough to buy a car, unless it's a really old one (like 1997).
Math fail? $110 a month, multiplied by 8 months, equals $880.
$110 a month, multiplied by 48 months (since there are 12 months in a year, multiplied by 4 years, equals 48 months, are you still with me?), equals $5280, which happens to the around the price of an okay, not great, but pretty okay used car, plus the cost to get it registered. Give it a few months and if this used car was an automatic, maybe you'll need another 24 months (2 years) worth of car insurance in order to get the transmission fixed.
Makes little sense to not run on metal when using an HPC. I can understand the benefit of being able to better utilize the hardware you have, as well as the potential lessening of your datacenter footprint in space, cooling, electric, etc. but when you are dependent on having quick(and ever quicker) turn around times because of business needs, it hasn't been my experience that the cloud makes sense, at least in production environments. Granted, for Dev & QA HPCs, go for it, but not for production.
We agree to agree:-) I'm just still in shock that the judicial system worked in our favor... on a case pertaining to technology even. Shocked. And immensely happy.
Wine's safe. And everything else associated with it.
Wine is just a single piece of software that is safe. This would have been huge if it had gone the other way. It could have been using all the way up to the point of processor instruction sets being illegal to use unless you paid a license fee.
I think I'm quite comfortable in saying that any cultural viewpoint that includes mental & physical abuse / poisoning / torture / death on those that seek knowledge, should be criticized at any and every opportunity. They can keep whatever culture they want, but the moment you start denying basic human dignities to any group of humans, is the moment you label yourself as having lost your humanity. A targeted group of people being poisoned is not in any way about acceptance of diversity and multiculturalism.
The only thing I can think of is that if it has an alternate output (HDMI) that it would save some resources to only output at the one resolution for everything... but even that seems to be at best, a poor implementation. Otherwise, it seems like it might be a marketing tool to show people with extra cash to waste that this product is even better than "insert alt. brand with lesser resolution". Because in market speak, bigger numbers are always better.
I agree with everything you say except this aspect. To do that would be to embrace censorship. We already have a moderation system that I believe is one of the better on the internet, but nothing is perfect. It is truly unfortunate that those who appear to be the most vitriol often have the most time to post. To that end I've had to stop myself from reading almost any/. comments on politics and climate change (excuse me, I do think I repeated myself) for a great many years now. But I do not think this is strictly a problem with/., indeed it seems to become ever more pervasive on all fronts of civilization the older I get.
As the saying goes, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Actually, I think my example is spot on.
If the firmware is so risky that "Any time you install a new firmware you are rolling the dice", maybe the manufacturer should re-think the hardware / solution they are providing. Upgrade of the firmware should NEVER... NEVER... NEVER be risky.
Great customer support: on day "warranty expire +1", you are on your own. They have my business (NOT).
Also, tell that to FTC. They have NO problem going after companies whose warranties have long since expired.
Sure. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of supporting something that is critical, you can either argue that you are right, and how life is unfair. Or, you can plan for failure, and not have to tell everyone that was counting on your product/whatever that everything is going to be down until does the right thing. It may not be good customer service, but you must understand that the world and most of the businesses out there don't give a shit if you sink or swim. Go ahead and file a suit against them in court if you are so obligated, but your take away should more than just hoping that some government body (FTC) makes everything all better years down the road.
But if the manufacturer said "This is a criticl update that you must perform" your response would be...
Not that I don't have some sympathy for you, but you are presenting a false dichotomy. Any time you install a new firmware you are rolling the dice. If your product is out of warranty (also meaning you've used it for long enough that it must have been working well enough, or you bought it used/cheap/out of warranty) then you are entirely on your own. The companies have no further responsibility to you. If better reliability/longevity was needed, you should have purchased spares in advance, or scheduled hardware refreshes in a timely manor to keep your critical bits on hardware that you can get support for. Think of this as a learning experience and welcome to the reality of planning for the unexpected.
I'm using T-Mobiles pay as you go, 1000 minutes for talk or texts for $100 that are good for 1 year. I'm currently using it for my Nexus 4, but you can take the SIM out and load it into a computer without issue (to answer the Ask /. posters question).
Yeah, i also thought dry dock. The U shaped building would work well for it, but the position of the U shape building doesn't lend itself well to transporting large vessels in and out of the area. Though there is a railway just south of there.
Not sure if you're trolling or just uninformed. So maybe I'm feeding.
I think he was neither trolling or uninformed. The connection speed continues to go up overtime, and if he has 25 Mbit/s, you can download a 2GB movie in just under 11 minutes. Many of the shows I watch are just a couple hundred MB so even 500 MB shows will come down in under 3 minutes. Wait 3 minutes or so and you get a ~40 minute show that looks pretty damn good... better quality than what sat/cable is delivering over all.
I'm using the current betas and haven't noticed any change in microstutter, so far as I can tell (2x R7950s).
I think I'm able to duplicate the micro-stuttering in counter strike global offensive. When I'm running BOINC (lowest priority, CPU only) occationally the game will seem to have a very brief, but noticable, halt... and go back to running smooth. Turned off BOINC and it went back to being only smooth. Might be an issue with the process scheduler... or perhaps like the articles suggest, the video card drivers. Either way, I'm all for better drivers :)
Thank you for the clarification. I completely misremembered the year of the conference.
That would have been an amazing(ly terrifying) meeting between world leaders. Truman and Stalins exchange at the Potsdam conference might have gone quite quite differently. Or perhaps it was that conference that made Truman want to go to such lengths to put a nuke on the moon to show American might? Brinksmanship is such a strange game.
Off topic, but your comment took me back. In 1998, me and 2 others decided to do something similar to what you did. We skipped out on school and drove to the school where my girlfriend (now wife) was at, with the intention of getting her out of school for lunch. I wrote up a note and went into the main office and presented it to them, saying I was her brother and had a message for her. They took the note, so I left and went back to the car. They gave her the message without reading it. When the bell rang, she came out and off we all went to lunch. If they would have read the note, they would have busted us as it basically detailed out where we were parked and our intentions.
And how many people died in the Darfur Genocide? Where was the UN during that crisis?
Where was the rest of the world? Genocide should never happen, and we all shoulder some of the blame for the lack of action by every government on the planet.
Still right, but you are correct as well. And not even just education. I could use this at work. Say I'm working on trying to figure out why reset isn't working on this VM I'm running that has kernel panic'd. It could take a glance at a few key bits and go out and scour the internet for solutions while I go validate all of the mundane bits are correct (or perhaps it has even better knowledge than the internet if you pay for license fee). It is basically Microsoft Bob of the future, that could assist / complement the user in any specific task that it has a knowledge domain on. There are so many uses that it is silly. But first, they need to build it. I'm just suggesting some of the first uses will be to cheat, oh, and the military, but definitely to cheat.
As soon as something like this robot is able to be made, the miniaturized stealth version will no doubt follow. The device would just need a moment of line of sight on the test and could deliver the answers to you, perhaps in morse code skin taps. I suspect there are quite a few people who would love to be able to breeze into an engineering degree, as just one example.
Thanks for sharing this. I wish they retained pictures, but it still brought back memories.
When I read the article, it reminded me of the story behind the Baldurs Gate characters Minsc and Boo. Apparently, Minsc's character game from an actual pencil & paper DnD game where he was a ranger who would keep a satchel full of rats with him. The purpose of the rats were to be uses as crude trap detectors, take one out of the bag and direct it to run down some hall, usually with a toss in the right direction. Unfortunately during one of these events, a trap exploded and loosed something that smashed into Minsc head with critical damage. Some time later, after Minsc recovered, his intelligence was significantly lowered and he lost most of his memory, to the point he went from a ranger to a barbarian. He found a lone critter still in his old satchel, and thought he was a long lost friend, Boo the gigantic miniature space hamster.
I wish the Army great successes in this small animal trap detecting program!
I have an unfinished slot machine game that I programmed somewhere around 2001. I'll beet your $1000 and offer it for $999. Any takers?
In 1998, I wrote a tic-tac-toe game that you and a friend could play together, using two separate computers, via... dare I say it!? Why via TCP socket wizardry! ...and the like, all done in what little of C++ I knew! I promise you it is still in its completed beta form! Even still, it has been very well tested, in the tens of times, or more... works like a charm! I'm practically giving it away for the low low price of $998.42!! ACT NOW!!!
I used to use peer guardian way back when and it was easy to find any number of lists. I've tried looking for a p2p block list, and couldn't find any free ones. Suggestions would be welcome.
Nice, I think we both did a fine job posting similarly in the same minute. Great minds and all of that. Cheers :)
Reading that I feel like an old man, disconnected from the modern day. Is some new tech online porn technology that I've missed out on? Please... I NEED... TO... KNOW... !!!
>>>You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance.
Nationwide insures me for just $110 a month. So that would be $880 over four years..... not enough to buy a car, unless it's a really old one (like 1997).
Math fail? $110 a month, multiplied by 8 months, equals $880. $110 a month, multiplied by 48 months (since there are 12 months in a year, multiplied by 4 years, equals 48 months, are you still with me?), equals $5280, which happens to the around the price of an okay, not great, but pretty okay used car, plus the cost to get it registered. Give it a few months and if this used car was an automatic, maybe you'll need another 24 months (2 years) worth of car insurance in order to get the transmission fixed.
Makes little sense to not run on metal when using an HPC. I can understand the benefit of being able to better utilize the hardware you have, as well as the potential lessening of your datacenter footprint in space, cooling, electric, etc. but when you are dependent on having quick(and ever quicker) turn around times because of business needs, it hasn't been my experience that the cloud makes sense, at least in production environments. Granted, for Dev & QA HPCs, go for it, but not for production.
We agree to agree :-) I'm just still in shock that the judicial system worked in our favor... on a case pertaining to technology even. Shocked. And immensely happy.
Wine's safe. And everything else associated with it.
Wine is just a single piece of software that is safe. This would have been huge if it had gone the other way. It could have been using all the way up to the point of processor instruction sets being illegal to use unless you paid a license fee.
I think I'm quite comfortable in saying that any cultural viewpoint that includes mental & physical abuse / poisoning / torture / death on those that seek knowledge, should be criticized at any and every opportunity. They can keep whatever culture they want, but the moment you start denying basic human dignities to any group of humans, is the moment you label yourself as having lost your humanity. A targeted group of people being poisoned is not in any way about acceptance of diversity and multiculturalism.
I think I just responded to a troll...
The only thing I can think of is that if it has an alternate output (HDMI) that it would save some resources to only output at the one resolution for everything... but even that seems to be at best, a poor implementation. Otherwise, it seems like it might be a marketing tool to show people with extra cash to waste that this product is even better than "insert alt. brand with lesser resolution". Because in market speak, bigger numbers are always better.
...filtering out the really negative posters.
I agree with everything you say except this aspect. To do that would be to embrace censorship. We already have a moderation system that I believe is one of the better on the internet, but nothing is perfect. It is truly unfortunate that those who appear to be the most vitriol often have the most time to post. To that end I've had to stop myself from reading almost any /. comments on politics and climate change (excuse me, I do think I repeated myself) for a great many years now. But I do not think this is strictly a problem with /., indeed it seems to become ever more pervasive on all fronts of civilization the older I get.
As the saying goes, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."