Well, My first post-laptop purchase was a lock. It connects to my laptop via the convienent hole on the left side. It was not however, XP Certified. For that matter, neither was my USB keyboard light.
Yet another stupid policy, and another reason to buy from independent chains.
I work for a small company (5 employees), with a user base floating around 1M. And I can't even begin to explain the lost man hours dealing with bad bug reports. I have personally closed over 20 duplicate bugs for a single incident, seeing 3 of the 5 most recently submitted bugs were the same was the first bad sign.
We also deal with the common problem of perception; users think they are doing us the ultimate favour by posting bugs. And as such, feel that any and all means of telling us about them is apropriate, email to 5+ accounts, multiple forum posts, bugtracker, etc. This just wastes time that could have been spent fixing the bug in the first place.
While I would agree that bug reports are helpfull, and nesesary. Condecending tones, foul language, and thinly veiled threats do little.
All i would ask of posters is:
-Replicate it, If you cant make it happen more than once, it doesnt matter (s/w under windows has special quirks of which i am sure you are aware).
-Search It, then/when/ you find the same thing allready there, post a comment with your input, and stats on your OS and machine.
-Include relevant details, killing bug reports under 100chars is really tempting 'it doesnt work', 'the installer breaks', 'its too slow' are all to common.
-Include information on what you were trying to do, and what you were expecting, 'Bugs' are often just a difference of perception between coders, and end users as to what a feature should do.
I concur,
The entire point of the tiles on the space shuttle is to keep the heat outside (which is tremendous) from getting inside. They are insulators rather than conductors of heat. So since the heat s generated by the innards of the chip itself, this is counter productive (if, on the contrary we were protecting the chip from the heat of the environment it is in, this would be perfect).
Unless somehow the silicon forming the matrix of the chip could be presurized to remain a solid rather than becoming liquid or plasma, it would work. If it could remain presurized, i dont think you would need quite such an advanced material to do the insulation, but holding a chip with liquid silicon performing at several GHZ would be cool.
I find the fact that Roxio has hired X-napsterite Shawn Fanning as a consultant one of the most important points in the article, hopefully with his help we can finally have an easy to use legal way to acquire music.
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Well, My first post-laptop purchase was a lock. It connects to my laptop via the convienent hole on the left side. It was not however, XP Certified. For that matter, neither was my USB keyboard light. Yet another stupid policy, and another reason to buy from independent chains.
I work for a small company (5 employees), with a user base floating around 1M. And I can't even begin to explain the lost man hours dealing with bad bug reports. I have personally closed over 20 duplicate bugs for a single incident, seeing 3 of the 5 most recently submitted bugs were the same was the first bad sign.
/when/ you find the same thing allready there, post a comment with your input, and stats on your OS and machine.
We also deal with the common problem of perception; users think they are doing us the ultimate favour by posting bugs. And as such, feel that any and all means of telling us about them is apropriate, email to 5+ accounts, multiple forum posts, bugtracker, etc. This just wastes time that could have been spent fixing the bug in the first place.
While I would agree that bug reports are helpfull, and nesesary. Condecending tones, foul language, and thinly veiled threats do little.
All i would ask of posters is:
-Replicate it, If you cant make it happen more than once, it doesnt matter (s/w under windows has special quirks of which i am sure you are aware).
-Search It, then
-Include relevant details, killing bug reports under 100chars is really tempting 'it doesnt work', 'the installer breaks', 'its too slow' are all to common.
-Include information on what you were trying to do, and what you were expecting, 'Bugs' are often just a difference of perception between coders, and end users as to what a feature should do.
I concur, The entire point of the tiles on the space shuttle is to keep the heat outside (which is tremendous) from getting inside. They are insulators rather than conductors of heat. So since the heat s generated by the innards of the chip itself, this is counter productive (if, on the contrary we were protecting the chip from the heat of the environment it is in, this would be perfect). Unless somehow the silicon forming the matrix of the chip could be presurized to remain a solid rather than becoming liquid or plasma, it would work. If it could remain presurized, i dont think you would need quite such an advanced material to do the insulation, but holding a chip with liquid silicon performing at several GHZ would be cool.
I find the fact that Roxio has hired X-napsterite Shawn Fanning as a consultant one of the most important points in the article, hopefully with his help we can finally have an easy to use legal way to acquire music.