I got to play with 7 radiators in one of my cars (yep, 7, Toyota really did screw up the design of this one) All but the last custom made copper radiator were factory OEM models made of composite top and bottom caps, and the valve was most definitely a screw in (I'd love to see you solder that thing in myself though - respectable radiator shop or not!)
I haven't had the displeasure to check out any of my cars' radiators since, thank goodness.
Oh, and the first 6 replacements were on warranty. (I think I got my money's worth on that, as they also replaced all the sensors and the CPU as well - all while trying to track down a bad float in the intercooler... which I shorted out and never had another problem with...)
Actually, Seagate had a brief round of issues when they opened their first Malaysian or Philippine plant (don't recall which one) but their "clean room" apparently had dust issues.
Further more, In a long long long list of HDs, I've had a Hitachi fail after 8 years of use, and IBM drive die after being parked in a storage shed in Texas for 5 years (duh - and no, I didn't store it) and a couple of WDs fail in a bad batch in a series of servers I bought in the late 90s. These drives cover everything from MFM and RLL drives in the 80s through U320 SCSI drives.
For recent drives, I've had a problem with Samsung Spinpoints 750s dropping off when connected directly to the ICH8 chipset, but running fine when connected in external eSata cases. Maybe it's a power supply problem (7 drives are too many?:)
I used it for 6m and hated it. And that was only finding and using the command prompt. How on earth could they make it worse than it was? By limiting the resizing to OSX corners. It was about the only thing that was more user friendly on an MS system than a Mac.
It's merely in retrospect to XP, Vista, and now W7. Win2K SP3 actually worked. NT4 SP5 was finally working as well and was pretty perky, except for the single threaded GDI kernel issue, among others, that could halt the entire system with one stray command. That leftover still exists with many MS apps, although others that no longer utilize those APIs seem immune.
Trolling indeed. Computing these days is no more complex than in the "old days". Matter of fact, much to your probably surprise, you're most likely still reinventing the same wheels for the upteenth time, except you don't realize it because your blinders will only let you see GUIs and high level languages and you most likely don't have a clue what really goes on under the hood.
Here's a couple of hints: Modern office programs and Wordperfect for DOS. Hmm, type letters from keyboard and save. Wow, hard.... Take a close look - I'll wager over 90% of all documents are barely formatted text only.
Parallel programming: it's still a problem, and the new languages are looking to techniques and paradigms invented decades ago to solve them (Functional languages, multi-threading, locks, mutexes, etc)
Botnets et al exist primarily because of a certain company's total ineptitude with coding.
But, you keep on thinking you're superior. BTW, we do waterfall, and are on our 4th release in 12 months. It's Java, and our pieces are as OO as the several integrated components will allow us to be.
I'm still waiting for the next Win2K....More stable, less bloated, faster. Wait, that's in an alternate reality. I've already found OSX, and the improvements from 10.3 - 10.5 are truly amazing. Pretty much the opposite of MS OSes, which seem to degrade with each release (W7 not withstanding, as it's really just rebranded Vista SP2/3)
For goodness sake, the majority of comments I read about Win 7 are almost overwhelmingly positive. Why must Slashdot continue to moan when Microsoft appear to have learnt from their mistakes with Vista? It's fucking annoying.
Because they haven't?
OK, they did learn that having everything and the kitchen sink load synchronously before letting the user click anything was a bad idea, so now the non-essential crap loads asynchronously after the base/kernel/who knows what they're calling it these days? loads.
They also did not improve the actual plumbing underneath, just lipsticked the pig. (Yes, prefetch is just lipsticking the pig in this case) That's one example, another would be that the DRM is still there, still intertwined with the kernel, still getting in the way of programmers and performance.
It'll be interesting to see whether XP outlasts Windows 7 as well.
Let's correct the scenario though. GM offers you a CPU fix. You decline and all is well. If you accept, however, they yank the old one, replace it with the new one, and remove that "extra" wire in the process as it's not part of their configuration. Now your mods have broken the rest of the vehicle. OMG!!! Who's at fault?
If you're going to mod your system, you, and only you, can maintain it beyond that point.
When has Microsoft ever actually done that? Apple has released updates that DELIBERATELY bricked devices (jailbroken iphones for one), but that's ok
Apple release an update that functioned perfectly on correctly configured devices. If you chose to overwrite the provided code with your own code (the jailbreak) then you have taken update responsibility for your code. Should Apple be responsible for "your" code any more than GM should be responsible for you putting diesel into a gas engine vehicle?
I hear you. My 1984 Sharp Carousel II Microwave is still alive and kicking just fine, although it is weaker (only 700W I think) than my 1200W new smaller microwave whose controls are much less intuitive than the Sharps. I much prefer the old simpler controls.
Interstate commerce may only be regulated (and taxed) by the feds. It's directly in the Constitution, IIRC. The state can make a law that says the buyer has to pay tax on something delivered from out of state. I'm unclear how that isn't a run-around on the interstate commerce bit though. Guess one of these days I may ask a lawyer.
Both New York and Connecticut are in serious trouble with the banking failure. We've lost more than 300,000 of the highest paying jobs in the world, which were responsible for almost 20% of the respective states income tax collections (both corporate and personal). The result is catastrophic, and now we have to pay the piper for years of unchecked and unregulated growth.
You know, I actually have trouble bringing up any sympathy for that. Those same highest paying 300K jobs are a large part of the reason we're in this financial crisis we're in. So I'm glad those responsible for once are paying the piper. I'm just sorry the rest of the world has to suffer as well.
As for the city and state spending beyond its means, that's the voters' fault. (They did vote in the folks who ran with unbalanced and unrealistic budgets, correct?) I'm upset that I'm having to pay the piper without ever "enjoying" any of the illicit proceeds.
You should try using some of those products. Yes, the iPod doesn't make coffee, but your coffee maker doesn't play music. If you want coffee, don't buy an iPod.
The same goes for their other products. And yes, I use Apple, Dell, HP, etc products.
Half life... 'floating' sensation because of no head-bob drove me nuts though.
I'd have to take issue with you on that one. I can't stand the head-bob effect. I'd much rather have smoother graphics than trying to add yet one more artificial effect to make it "more real".
Then again, this is all based on personal opinion, and what I may find intolerable may make it great for you and vice-versa.
As for the bad lighting issue, what if you didn't have any? (I know, shock of shocks...;) What if it did not pretend to be realistic, since it's not anyways? (Think Half-Life in this example, lots of fun and the lighting was, well, worse than anything possible now:)
You're not quite correct. The "bigtime movie producers" run rendering farms on linux to actually create final frames, a distributed heavily compute based task. I wonder what they actually do their design on? (I honestly don't know).
Macs come out of the box with calibrated screens, so your colors are representative of what you'll see when you print, provided you also have a calibrated printer and software to utilize it. After all, it's things like Photoshop and FrameMaker that set Macs apart. For some reason, even though they're available on Windows, graphics artists still prefer Macs. And since Photoshop predates Gimp and the artists learned Photoshop, they're not really going to switch.
I beg to differ. I've played games with quality animation and lighting, and games that sucked visually. If I can't get over how distractingly sucky the graphics are, and how poorly the voice acting matches the circumstances, I can't play through the game any more than I can watch a Uwe Boll film.
You're not going far back enough. If the game doesn't try to be realistic, then the disconnect between action and sound won't cause this issue, known as the uncanny valley
People would still play things like Missile Command, Space Invaders, and PacMan, all games with extremely poor graphics, by today's standards. Don't forget the entire series of RPGs which have text (can you believe it?) and are still considered among the best in the genre. RTS games also seem to fare better without these effects.
Actually, I own a large collection of music (over 1000 CDs, albums, singles, and even a few DVDs). I also own a few movies.
There's another reason sales are dropping: people have bought up all the decent (in their opinion) media from the past 100 years, and now will only buy to replace or the very odd decent release. The media distributors are fooling themselves if they think every album is a "platinum" release, even though that's probably what they tell their shareholders/bosses/latest victim. Truth is that most of the "music" coming out today has been so arm-wrenched to conform to an industry standard that no one can distinguish one artist from another and hence no one buys the result.
The industry is experiencing the nasty hangover from their euphoric rise. It happens in every business. The one MS is beginning to experience might be painful to watch even for those here when it hits in full within the next 3-4 years. (ok, maybe not;)
I still remember the best quote I ever heard in regards to file sharing: "I guess Lars (of Metallica) has finally found a solution to piracy - release an album (St Anger) so terrible no one wants it even for free". Seems more "artists" are joining him these days.
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I got to play with 7 radiators in one of my cars (yep, 7, Toyota really did screw up the design of this one) All but the last custom made copper radiator were factory OEM models made of composite top and bottom caps, and the valve was most definitely a screw in (I'd love to see you solder that thing in myself though - respectable radiator shop or not!)
I haven't had the displeasure to check out any of my cars' radiators since, thank goodness.
Oh, and the first 6 replacements were on warranty. (I think I got my money's worth on that, as they also replaced all the sensors and the CPU as well - all while trying to track down a bad float in the intercooler... which I shorted out and never had another problem with...)
Actually, Seagate had a brief round of issues when they opened their first Malaysian or Philippine plant (don't recall which one) but their "clean room" apparently had dust issues.
Further more, In a long long long list of HDs, I've had a Hitachi fail after 8 years of use, and IBM drive die after being parked in a storage shed in Texas for 5 years (duh - and no, I didn't store it) and a couple of WDs fail in a bad batch in a series of servers I bought in the late 90s. These drives cover everything from MFM and RLL drives in the 80s through U320 SCSI drives.
For recent drives, I've had a problem with Samsung Spinpoints 750s dropping off when connected directly to the ICH8 chipset, but running fine when connected in external eSata cases. Maybe it's a power supply problem (7 drives are too many?:)
I used it for 6m and hated it. And that was only finding and using the command prompt. How on earth could they make it worse than it was? By limiting the resizing to OSX corners. It was about the only thing that was more user friendly on an MS system than a Mac.
overrated doesn't show up in the logs, AFAIK.
That's a successful post if ever there was one. Guess the MS employees had a late start in moderations there.
...people are starting to not care that their device doesn't support flash...
starting to?
It's merely in retrospect to XP, Vista, and now W7. Win2K SP3 actually worked. NT4 SP5 was finally working as well and was pretty perky, except for the single threaded GDI kernel issue, among others, that could halt the entire system with one stray command. That leftover still exists with many MS apps, although others that no longer utilize those APIs seem immune.
Check out the audio path. I believe that DirectX still does not allow hardware acceleration of audio.
Trolling indeed. Computing these days is no more complex than in the "old days". Matter of fact, much to your probably surprise, you're most likely still reinventing the same wheels for the upteenth time, except you don't realize it because your blinders will only let you see GUIs and high level languages and you most likely don't have a clue what really goes on under the hood.
Here's a couple of hints: Modern office programs and Wordperfect for DOS. Hmm, type letters from keyboard and save. Wow, hard.... Take a close look - I'll wager over 90% of all documents are barely formatted text only.
Parallel programming: it's still a problem, and the new languages are looking to techniques and paradigms invented decades ago to solve them (Functional languages, multi-threading, locks, mutexes, etc)
Botnets et al exist primarily because of a certain company's total ineptitude with coding.
But, you keep on thinking you're superior. BTW, we do waterfall, and are on our 4th release in 12 months. It's Java, and our pieces are as OO as the several integrated components will allow us to be.
I'm still waiting for the next Win2K....More stable, less bloated, faster. Wait, that's in an alternate reality. I've already found OSX, and the improvements from 10.3 - 10.5 are truly amazing. Pretty much the opposite of MS OSes, which seem to degrade with each release (W7 not withstanding, as it's really just rebranded Vista SP2/3)
For goodness sake, the majority of comments I read about Win 7 are almost overwhelmingly positive. Why must Slashdot continue to moan when Microsoft appear to have learnt from their mistakes with Vista? It's fucking annoying.
Because they haven't?
OK, they did learn that having everything and the kitchen sink load synchronously before letting the user click anything was a bad idea, so now the non-essential crap loads asynchronously after the base/kernel/who knows what they're calling it these days? loads.
They also did not improve the actual plumbing underneath, just lipsticked the pig. (Yes, prefetch is just lipsticking the pig in this case) That's one example, another would be that the DRM is still there, still intertwined with the kernel, still getting in the way of programmers and performance.
It'll be interesting to see whether XP outlasts Windows 7 as well.
If you look at 2 equivalently priced systems side by side, AMD may have a little less power, but a whole lot less heat as compared to an Intel system.
OSX
Linux
Solaris
BSD
Sweet.
Let's correct the scenario though. GM offers you a CPU fix. You decline and all is well. If you accept, however, they yank the old one, replace it with the new one, and remove that "extra" wire in the process as it's not part of their configuration. Now your mods have broken the rest of the vehicle. OMG!!! Who's at fault?
If you're going to mod your system, you, and only you, can maintain it beyond that point.
When has Microsoft ever actually done that? Apple has released updates that DELIBERATELY bricked devices (jailbroken iphones for one), but that's ok
Apple release an update that functioned perfectly on correctly configured devices. If you chose to overwrite the provided code with your own code (the jailbreak) then you have taken update responsibility for your code. Should Apple be responsible for "your" code any more than GM should be responsible for you putting diesel into a gas engine vehicle?
I really shouldn't feed the troll.
I hear you. My 1984 Sharp Carousel II Microwave is still alive and kicking just fine, although it is weaker (only 700W I think) than my 1200W new smaller microwave whose controls are much less intuitive than the Sharps. I much prefer the old simpler controls.
exactly. And my last remaining mod point expired right before reading it. Darn!
Interstate commerce may only be regulated (and taxed) by the feds. It's directly in the Constitution, IIRC. The state can make a law that says the buyer has to pay tax on something delivered from out of state. I'm unclear how that isn't a run-around on the interstate commerce bit though. Guess one of these days I may ask a lawyer.
Both New York and Connecticut are in serious trouble with the banking failure. We've lost more than 300,000 of the highest paying jobs in the world, which were responsible for almost 20% of the respective states income tax collections (both corporate and personal). The result is catastrophic, and now we have to pay the piper for years of unchecked and unregulated growth.
You know, I actually have trouble bringing up any sympathy for that. Those same highest paying 300K jobs are a large part of the reason we're in this financial crisis we're in. So I'm glad those responsible for once are paying the piper. I'm just sorry the rest of the world has to suffer as well.
As for the city and state spending beyond its means, that's the voters' fault. (They did vote in the folks who ran with unbalanced and unrealistic budgets, correct?) I'm upset that I'm having to pay the piper without ever "enjoying" any of the illicit proceeds.
You should try using some of those products. Yes, the iPod doesn't make coffee, but your coffee maker doesn't play music. If you want coffee, don't buy an iPod.
The same goes for their other products. And yes, I use Apple, Dell, HP, etc products.
Half life ... 'floating' sensation because of no head-bob drove me nuts though.
I'd have to take issue with you on that one. I can't stand the head-bob effect. I'd much rather have smoother graphics than trying to add yet one more artificial effect to make it "more real".
Then again, this is all based on personal opinion, and what I may find intolerable may make it great for you and vice-versa.
Nethack, it's been a while.
As for the bad lighting issue, what if you didn't have any? (I know, shock of shocks...;) What if it did not pretend to be realistic, since it's not anyways? (Think Half-Life in this example, lots of fun and the lighting was, well, worse than anything possible now:)
You're not quite correct. The "bigtime movie producers" run rendering farms on linux to actually create final frames, a distributed heavily compute based task. I wonder what they actually do their design on? (I honestly don't know).
Macs come out of the box with calibrated screens, so your colors are representative of what you'll see when you print, provided you also have a calibrated printer and software to utilize it. After all, it's things like Photoshop and FrameMaker that set Macs apart. For some reason, even though they're available on Windows, graphics artists still prefer Macs. And since Photoshop predates Gimp and the artists learned Photoshop, they're not really going to switch.
I beg to differ. I've played games with quality animation and lighting, and games that sucked visually. If I can't get over how distractingly sucky the graphics are, and how poorly the voice acting matches the circumstances, I can't play through the game any more than I can watch a Uwe Boll film.
You're not going far back enough. If the game doesn't try to be realistic, then the disconnect between action and sound won't cause this issue, known as the uncanny valley
People would still play things like Missile Command, Space Invaders, and PacMan, all games with extremely poor graphics, by today's standards. Don't forget the entire series of RPGs which have text (can you believe it?) and are still considered among the best in the genre. RTS games also seem to fare better without these effects.
Actually, I own a large collection of music (over 1000 CDs, albums, singles, and even a few DVDs). I also own a few movies.
There's another reason sales are dropping: people have bought up all the decent (in their opinion) media from the past 100 years, and now will only buy to replace or the very odd decent release. The media distributors are fooling themselves if they think every album is a "platinum" release, even though that's probably what they tell their shareholders/bosses/latest victim. Truth is that most of the "music" coming out today has been so arm-wrenched to conform to an industry standard that no one can distinguish one artist from another and hence no one buys the result.
The industry is experiencing the nasty hangover from their euphoric rise. It happens in every business. The one MS is beginning to experience might be painful to watch even for those here when it hits in full within the next 3-4 years. (ok, maybe not;)
I still remember the best quote I ever heard in regards to file sharing: "I guess Lars (of Metallica) has finally found a solution to piracy - release an album (St Anger) so terrible no one wants it even for free". Seems more "artists" are joining him these days.
I'd disagree - the "average" programmer can barely set the clock on his VCR (yes, dated reference...;)