You show up in the bank with some money and tell them that you want to make a deposit. Couple of hundred bucks would do it. Banks love money. If on the other hand you show up with no money and ask for a credit, well than this is a different story. Did I say that banks love money?
Did you say you were willing to go hungry/get evicted/skip car repair and lose your job, so you can leave $200 at the bank? Not quite as detached as McDonald's holiday tip that their minimum wage workforce tip the pool boy, but same genre.
Why would you buy a PC from HP? The amount of crapware on the laptop we got for my wife several years ago was downright pathetic
It is - and that's why it was nice that the pizzabox HP I got a month ago came with a virgin Windows 7 SP1 restore disk, so it was easy to blast away HP's crapware (and the 10 gig restore partition) and start over.
Of course, it took the next two hours to download and install updates (on a fast connection), since the jerks at Redmond never made a Service Pack 2.
Apple should know that the majority of power put in to a chip is dissipated as heat.
Which doesn't explain why it's Apple's fault that Nvidia lied, or how much more people will whine about Apple's prices if they retest every component so the suppliers don't have to live up to their promises.
Who's to blame? Who ever sold it to the consumer. That's what consumer protection laws are for, protecting the consumer. Most of them explicitly exclude business purchases.
Immediate responsibility to fix and blame are two seperate issues. It's not rocket science: if these stories are accurate, Apple should fix the units in question, and then get Nvidia to reimburse them. But the story is much more clickbaity with some of the usual Hatorade thrown on top.
You're just drinking the Hateboi Hatorade, because this is Apple. If this were some Android device where an overheating graphics chip caused problems - two years after the warranty is over - you wouldn't be blaming the chipmaker first and HTC/Samsung/Google a distant second.
In the modern world, any attempt to get your ideas heard in the national conversation requires money, unless you are a professional journalist with a soapbox provided for you.
Yes, that's the same bullshit rationalization that they used. The problem that you and they are ignoring is the fact that the you can suppress someone else's speech by overwhelming the room with your money.
That's kinda why I said it was an urban legend, as the story is absolutely false. Your own link says "allegations", and that's coming from Bob Barr. One of the Republicans obsessed with finding a reason, any reason at all, to impeach Clinton. And even he said it was much ado about nothing.
Apple knew exactly how much power they were putting in to the chip.
But Apple didn't know that Nvidia had lied about the cooling needs of said chip. So why is this Apple's fault, again? Again, should Apple extensively re-test every component just so the component manufacturers don't have to live up to their claims?
Now, lets turn this around. Let's say Apple claims that their new Mac Pro is capable of real-time encoding a 4k video stream. So you buy a Mac Pro because you want to capture some 4k video - but Apple lied and their product can't handle it! Now, who's primarily at fault here: the manufacturer for lying about the capabilities of their product, or you the consumer?
Their business case is LESS flexibility and LESS empowering, NOT more.
Right. That's why someone had to held a gun to their heads to get Apple to be one of the first big computer manufacturers to have an easy-open case or use an operating system based on UNIX with command line included.
Stopped reading after the first paragraph. Since it is Apple that does the system design and manufacturing, it is entirely their responsibility to make sure the design works. If the nVidia part fails to work within their design requirements, they should be selecting a different part.
/rolls eyes
And how much more will you complain about Apple's prices after they extensively re-test all their components, just so their suppliers don't have to stand behind the claims they make for their components reliability? These aren't first or second year failures, so why don't you go ahead and read the rest of the post, mmmkay?
If you cannot admit that MSNBC does the EXACT same thing
Cuz they....don't? Sure, they're in the tank for Obama 21 hours a day, but since Obama is just as right wing as Bush, that's a distinction without much of a difference. But MSNBC doesn't lie through their teeth all day long, all day strong.
Bill Clinton's staffers went around prying the W keys off the keyboards in the White House before George W. Bush moved in (among other things), but we don't automatically accuse Clinton himself of being petty and moronic because of that.
A well-known winger urban legend that only morans repeat, like Waco and Ruby Ridge being Clinton's fault. Made up so right wing trolls can accuse him of being petty and moronic and avoid any issues having to do with reality.
Not so much a bell as a dog whistle to attract fellow shit-for-brains trolls. It's not like there aren't a legion of real issues to ding Obama with (drones, spying, campaign lies, NDAA) without having to make up the same sort of asinine bullshit that you tried to pull on the last Democratic president (black helicopters, Vince Foster).
Because Microsoft didn't start to give a rat's ass about security until Windows 7, leaving hundreds of millions of vulnerable computers from buggy code and open services.
Because XP has a critical design flaw: piss poor privilege separation. Even some of Microsoft's own apps had to be run as Administrator to launch.
Because Microsoft dropped the ball on Longhorn. Hell, we're still waiting on some of the (actually useful) features that were promised a decade ago.
Because Vista was an abomination worse than ME, and Windows 8 went so far down in the bottom of the barrel that they had to dig a new basement for it. And they all have dramatically higher hardware requirements than XP.
Because Microsoft overcharges for Windows, badly. Whereas Mountain Lion was $30, and Mavericks is free.
Rewriting back end stuff really doesn't constitute a new operating system unless it is a complete backend rewrite.
Sounds like pedantry.
If I as a user cannot tell the difference then it probably isn't a new system.
Depends on the user. Most of their under the hood improvements seem to focus on battery life and memory conservation. So if you have a Mac Pro with 32 gigs of ram, you probably DGAF. If you do most of your work on a laptop on the go, you might.
Since Apple has listed Mavericks itself as a security update, if you're not installing it, then you are in fact not getting security updates.
Call it Mavericks. Call it Toad Yogurt. Call it Security Update #7175.23. Call it Lucy. Just don't call me ignorant. Install it, or remain vulnerable. Period. This isn't hype or bullshit. It's common fucking sense.
It's a fucking tautology, is what that is. Name another version of OS X where support was immediately dumped for the previous version.
Distinction without much of a difference. Private schools get federal grant money, and it's not uncommon for public universities to cost more than private ones. Not because of the invisible hand, but because of the 30 year bipartisan war on the public sector.
Yep. Just like *knives*. I've never seen them in public, and you *certainly* can't just go to the local WalMart, Target, or grocery store and buy one off the shelf without submitting to an extensive background check.
That absurd knife comparison died a painful death when some crazy guy in China stabbed 20 odd people the same day as Sandy Hook, but none of them died.
He already went to try to get help from the theater management, and got none.
And went back to the same seat after making scene over texting during not the movie, but the previews before the movie. So it looks like you're just supporting the guy with the gun, BullshitCone.
Even during the motherfucking previews? I'm as ready as the next guy to dump a jerks cell phone into their soda during the movie, but during the ads who cares?
I got asked by the teacher why did I want to go for computer science instead of humanities. I told that I like computer science better. His answer: "you know, some guys going for computer science are very good. It would be easier for you in humanities." It was NOT after failed test or anything like that. It was in the beginning of school year and he knew nothing about me.
You could be a male with an education major and be asked, "why, because you're a pedophile?"
The party that's in power always wants more power and the opposition always opposes it. In that the Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same. The teabaggers you're so unfond of are the only ones in the nation who want the government to have less power even when their guys win.
Sure, the Obamabots stopped protesting Bush's abuses of power when they became Obama's. But on what planet have the Republicans or teabaggers, aside from the Paul's, complained about NSA spying, murder-by-drone, or the NDAA? They'd rather go on (and on and on) about the nonscandales of the IRS or Bengahzi.
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Did you say you were willing to go hungry/get evicted/skip car repair and lose your job, so you can leave $200 at the bank? Not quite as detached as McDonald's holiday tip that their minimum wage workforce tip the pool boy, but same genre.
You mean it's not just those Craazy Mooslims that want to censor the internet? Oh well, guess that would have interfered with the storyline...
It is - and that's why it was nice that the pizzabox HP I got a month ago came with a virgin Windows 7 SP1 restore disk, so it was easy to blast away HP's crapware (and the 10 gig restore partition) and start over.
Of course, it took the next two hours to download and install updates (on a fast connection), since the jerks at Redmond never made a Service Pack 2.
Which doesn't explain why it's Apple's fault that Nvidia lied, or how much more people will whine about Apple's prices if they retest every component so the suppliers don't have to live up to their promises.
Immediate responsibility to fix and blame are two seperate issues. It's not rocket science: if these stories are accurate, Apple should fix the units in question, and then get Nvidia to reimburse them. But the story is much more clickbaity with some of the usual Hatorade thrown on top.
You're just drinking the Hateboi Hatorade, because this is Apple. If this were some Android device where an overheating graphics chip caused problems - two years after the warranty is over - you wouldn't be blaming the chipmaker first and HTC/Samsung/Google a distant second.
Obvious selective reasoning is obvious.
So you base your arguments on partisan tribalism rather than who is right or wrong, based on the facts?
Factually irrelevant. Both liberal and conservative groups were scrutinized, and the only group to be denied tax-exempt status was a liberal one.
Deal.
Yes, that's the same bullshit rationalization that they used. The problem that you and they are ignoring is the fact that the you can suppress someone else's speech by overwhelming the room with your money.
That's kinda why I said it was an urban legend, as the story is absolutely false. Your own link says "allegations", and that's coming from Bob Barr. One of the Republicans obsessed with finding a reason, any reason at all, to impeach Clinton. And even he said it was much ado about nothing.
But Apple didn't know that Nvidia had lied about the cooling needs of said chip. So why is this Apple's fault, again? Again, should Apple extensively re-test every component just so the component manufacturers don't have to live up to their claims?
Now, lets turn this around. Let's say Apple claims that their new Mac Pro is capable of real-time encoding a 4k video stream. So you buy a Mac Pro because you want to capture some 4k video - but Apple lied and their product can't handle it! Now, who's primarily at fault here: the manufacturer for lying about the capabilities of their product, or you the consumer?
Right. That's why someone had to held a gun to their heads to get Apple to be one of the first big computer manufacturers to have an easy-open case or use an operating system based on UNIX with command line included.
And how much more will you complain about Apple's prices after they extensively re-test all their components, just so their suppliers don't have to stand behind the claims they make for their components reliability? These aren't first or second year failures, so why don't you go ahead and read the rest of the post, mmmkay?
Except:
1) 18 million installs != 18 million users.
2) Drop in the bucket of the overall internet using population
Cuz they....don't? Sure, they're in the tank for Obama 21 hours a day, but since Obama is just as right wing as Bush, that's a distinction without much of a difference. But MSNBC doesn't lie through their teeth all day long, all day strong.
A well-known winger urban legend that only morans repeat, like Waco and Ruby Ridge being Clinton's fault. Made up so right wing trolls can accuse him of being petty and moronic and avoid any issues having to do with reality.
Not so much a bell as a dog whistle to attract fellow shit-for-brains trolls. It's not like there aren't a legion of real issues to ding Obama with (drones, spying, campaign lies, NDAA) without having to make up the same sort of asinine bullshit that you tried to pull on the last Democratic president (black helicopters, Vince Foster).
Get a life. Get a clue.
Because Microsoft didn't start to give a rat's ass about security until Windows 7, leaving hundreds of millions of vulnerable computers from buggy code and open services.
Because XP has a critical design flaw: piss poor privilege separation. Even some of Microsoft's own apps had to be run as Administrator to launch.
Because Microsoft dropped the ball on Longhorn. Hell, we're still waiting on some of the (actually useful) features that were promised a decade ago.
Because Vista was an abomination worse than ME, and Windows 8 went so far down in the bottom of the barrel that they had to dig a new basement for it. And they all have dramatically higher hardware requirements than XP.
Because Microsoft overcharges for Windows, badly. Whereas Mountain Lion was $30, and Mavericks is free.
Sounds like pedantry.
Depends on the user. Most of their under the hood improvements seem to focus on battery life and memory conservation. So if you have a Mac Pro with 32 gigs of ram, you probably DGAF. If you do most of your work on a laptop on the go, you might.
It's a fucking tautology, is what that is. Name another version of OS X where support was immediately dumped for the previous version.
Distinction without much of a difference. Private schools get federal grant money, and it's not uncommon for public universities to cost more than private ones. Not because of the invisible hand, but because of the 30 year bipartisan war on the public sector.
That absurd knife comparison died a painful death when some crazy guy in China stabbed 20 odd people the same day as Sandy Hook, but none of them died.
And went back to the same seat after making scene over texting during not the movie, but the previews before the movie. So it looks like you're just supporting the guy with the gun, BullshitCone.
Even during the motherfucking previews? I'm as ready as the next guy to dump a jerks cell phone into their soda during the movie, but during the ads who cares?
You could be a male with an education major and be asked, "why, because you're a pedophile?"
Sure, the Obamabots stopped protesting Bush's abuses of power when they became Obama's. But on what planet have the Republicans or teabaggers, aside from the Paul's, complained about NSA spying, murder-by-drone, or the NDAA? They'd rather go on (and on and on) about the nonscandales of the IRS or Bengahzi.