I've refused to use Facebook (despite some pressure from friends) since they won't allow me to use my chosen email address, despite it being perfectly standard.
The problem is that I use 'plus addressing' (eg me+facebook@home.com) and their email validation scripts has a bug that claims it is invalid. It's not uncommon for validation scripts to have this bug, but most web sites are happy to find the bug and fix it. Not so with facebook - my impression is that they're just a little bit arrogant. So be it.
Yeah, I could not use plus addressing, or use some other account, but it hasn't got to the point where I want to bother yet. It's still annoying though.
Well, yes, I guess it's not (all) nVidia's fault. It did seem to just snow-ball though. At first it was just the motherboard and power supply. That meant that the CPU had to change - no 939, so the memory had to change too, and the graphics card (even if you use a PCI one) since it was AGP, then only the expensive boards had enough IDE/SATA ports.
It just ended up that I need pretty much everything replaced. The only things that don't need replacing are the disk drives (6 IDE and 4 SATA) and the PCI IDE board. So much for building your own PC so that you can only upgrade bits of it at a time...I guess that's just one of the (possible) reasons for building your own though.
It's especially not nVidia's fault since they do actually produce chipsets with the necessary guts to give me what I want. It's really the other guys (MSI/etc) who have chosen not to make them, or the shops here who have chosen not to stock them.
I guess I have a similar frame of mind, my last few computers having been nforce and amd cpus (don't care about graphics, since they're servers).
I have just had cause to upgrade my motherboard (MSI K8N-something), and have noticed that nvidia have dropped the ball somewhat, in that there was no upgrade path for me - only a complete replacement of m/b (it was broken), cpu (nothing takes 768pin any more), memory (new cpu, new memory) *and* graphics card (no AGP). Furthermore, nothing budget seems to have 2 IDE + 4 SATA ports any more, only the very high end ones have 6 SATA ports on board requiring some (admittedly cheap) SATA-IDE converter boards on the drives. There were some m/bs specifically for servers, but they cost a premium or weren't available...there's an availability issue in my location (everything seems to be about 6 months behind the US in China, despite almost everything being made here).
I have an MD RAID5 array with 8 drives total, made up of 4 SATA (attached to m/b) and 4 IDE drives (attached to a PCI IDE fakeRAID card). It would have been nice to put the drives all on a card, but they're all some PCI-X thing, and everything seems to be PCIe on the m/b:(
I guess it has lasted too long, though it doesn't seem like it. It's about 3 years old.
I agree, and the more amazing thing, is that they are doing the same thing in other countries. I mean, I can understand doing something like that in the US with the crazy service provider situation there, but why do it in european countries too?
Just sell the thing in Apple stores; put the visual voicemail thing on the internet as a service and allow people to pick their own plans.
It could be the bottom half, then you can get exactly half, which is also 'approximately half'...or is it? Perhaps the set of 'approximately half' excludes 'half' itself - ie exact != approximate. Interesting... or not.
Still, taking the bottom half would take away *all* their brains, so it's a nice idea.
On the other hand, do we have anything against the accountants? It's the lawyers was despise, no?
> "Can you really fight terrorists with giant bombs?" > > Of course you can, very easily. But then you end up with another of those catch phrases: collateral damage.
Unless it's the US who uses it, in which is it's "friendly fire".
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Hrm. I wonder if I can do that too - I'm using fastmail.fm. I guess I'll just have to have a look :)
Thanks for the tip.
I've refused to use Facebook (despite some pressure from friends) since they won't allow me to use my chosen email address, despite it being perfectly standard.
The problem is that I use 'plus addressing' (eg me+facebook@home.com) and their email validation scripts has a bug that claims it is invalid. It's not uncommon for validation scripts to have this bug, but most web sites are happy to find the bug and fix it. Not so with facebook - my impression is that they're just a little bit arrogant. So be it.
Yeah, I could not use plus addressing, or use some other account, but it hasn't got to the point where I want to bother yet. It's still annoying though.
Well, yes, I guess it's not (all) nVidia's fault. It did seem to just snow-ball though. At first it was just the motherboard and power supply. That meant that the CPU had to change - no 939, so the memory had to change too, and the graphics card (even if you use a PCI one) since it was AGP, then only the expensive boards had enough IDE/SATA ports.
It just ended up that I need pretty much everything replaced. The only things that don't need replacing are the disk drives (6 IDE and 4 SATA) and the PCI IDE board. So much for building your own PC so that you can only upgrade bits of it at a time...I guess that's just one of the (possible) reasons for building your own though.
It's especially not nVidia's fault since they do actually produce chipsets with the necessary guts to give me what I want. It's really the other guys (MSI/etc) who have chosen not to make them, or the shops here who have chosen not to stock them.
> dump their collections before their lost,
before their lost what?
I guess I have a similar frame of mind, my last few computers having been nforce and amd cpus (don't care about graphics, since they're servers).
:(
I have just had cause to upgrade my motherboard (MSI K8N-something), and have noticed that nvidia have dropped the ball somewhat, in that there was no upgrade path for me - only a complete replacement of m/b (it was broken), cpu (nothing takes 768pin any more), memory (new cpu, new memory) *and* graphics card (no AGP). Furthermore, nothing budget seems to have 2 IDE + 4 SATA ports any more, only the very high end ones have 6 SATA ports on board requiring some (admittedly cheap) SATA-IDE converter boards on the drives. There were some m/bs specifically for servers, but they cost a premium or weren't available...there's an availability issue in my location (everything seems to be about 6 months behind the US in China, despite almost everything being made here).
I have an MD RAID5 array with 8 drives total, made up of 4 SATA (attached to m/b) and 4 IDE drives (attached to a PCI IDE fakeRAID card). It would have been nice to put the drives all on a card, but they're all some PCI-X thing, and everything seems to be PCIe on the m/b
I guess it has lasted too long, though it doesn't seem like it. It's about 3 years old.
...and I guess the same goes for the nVidia/AMD relationship, except more so, probably.
> The only thing this has over there old v8 is more pci-e lanes also the SLI is only pci-e 1.1
'there old v8'? Where? I don't see any 'old v8'.
I agree, and the more amazing thing, is that they are doing the same thing in other countries. I mean, I can understand doing something like that in the US with the crazy service provider situation there, but why do it in european countries too?
Just sell the thing in Apple stores; put the visual voicemail thing on the internet as a service and allow people to pick their own plans.
mod parent up...
old tech isn't necessarily bad. I often use MMS to send photos to my wife and friends. It wouldn't work to use email - it's not nearly as immediate.
> ...a below average number of crimes ...as there really isn't such thing as an average crime,
>
average *number of* crimes != average crime
Ha, LOL :)
...and if '7' then a big battle with Steve Jobs, according to most people on /., it seems.
[7 is supposed to be God's number, for some reason]
> What's next? They claim they own the page numbers too?
If they're claiming page numbers 386, 486, and 686, they'll have a big battle with Intel.
> This is wrong,
Hrm. Interesting. I wonder where I got that information from...
Anyway, I sit down corrected.
does it mention if usb 3.0 will slow down if you plug a usb 2.0/1.1/1.0 on a usb 3.0 bus?
like if you plug a usb 1.X device onto a usb 2.0 bus, then everything slows to usb 1.X. IINM...
It could be the bottom half, then you can get exactly half, which is also 'approximately half'...or is it? Perhaps the set of 'approximately half' excludes 'half' itself - ie exact != approximate. Interesting ... or not.
Still, taking the bottom half would take away *all* their brains, so it's a nice idea.
On the other hand, do we have anything against the accountants? It's the lawyers was despise, no?
What's a "U.S. million"?
...like Microsoft tends to?
Has the U.S. done it's usual thing of copying everyone else and then changing it slightly?
If you go to their web site and follow the 'For careers at PC World click here' link, it takes you to another company called DSGi plc :
You might then also notice on the 'Job Opportunities' menu references to Currys and Dixons. They are other high street tech stores in the UK.
I can't help but wonder if Curry's and Dixons' customer support is equally poor.
In other words, nothing would change from the current situation wrt .doc/etc.
> Boy, your expert on this subject!
Who's "Boy", how you know Boy is an expert, and what makes Boy the poster's?
>By the time I hit my mid-life crisis I hope they've marketed some of these ;-)
yeah, and banned those stupid cars too! (or was it a van?)
*I*, for one, want one!
what? less than a second in 0-60??? what does that mean?
> "Can you really fight terrorists with giant bombs?"
>
> Of course you can, very easily. But then you end up with another of those catch phrases: collateral damage.
Unless it's the US who uses it, in which is it's "friendly fire".
most of the time, extrans works just fine, but not this time - that's the mode I was trying.
It has gone wrong occasionally at other times too.
> Talk to a solicitor/barrister/whatever-you-people-call-it.
When I moved to the US, I was always confused by those "No Soliciting" notices around my apartment complex.