I've had exactly that happen on a Radeon. Wake up to a burning plastic smell and found the GPU fan laying on the floor of the case with little streamers of melted plastic running back up the the video card.
I think the moral of this story is that a video card is practically a complete single-board computer, and there aren't any modern computers that have no problems at all (a Tandem mini does not count as a modern computer).
IDE is Integrated Drive Electronics. Everything that isn't a floppy disk, cd, tape, or some kind of MO cartridge is IDE. The more puhdantically correct term you're looking for is ATA.
Protip: For many years, many SCSI hard disks were identical to ATA hard disks, with the exception of a single additional interface converter chip.
Soldered-down processors are usually not expensive, premium models, so it's no great pain to have to replace the processor with the motherboard. As for the other direction - processors don't exactly fail a whole lot unless horribly abused.
If you rely so heavily on being able to trust that a game company will not advertise games to you, that you feel your "trust is violated" if you see an unexpected ad, maybe you are asking too much of the universe. These days I'm pretty happy nobody bonks me on the head and steals my food.
This is an example of "minimum cost". The same four people could be standing over 100 80GB drives, or 1000 1TB drives, with no real cost difference for labor. This is where economies of scale are created.
All the more reason to obey regulation 46A: If transmissions are being monitored during battle, no uncoded messages on an open channel.
Is this one of those things where you say something that sounds just deep enough that people will sit there and try to figure out what you just said, but when they do figure it out, it turns out to not really mean anything? I like those.
"I have some swampland in Florida to sell you."
That type of expression is usually applied to things that don't exist, like oceanfront property in Colorado. There's lots of swampland in Florida.
After all, you can't just ignore capacity, otherwise that $110 40 gig SSD starts looking really good price/performance wise up against a $200 2TB 7200RPM HD, even though it has 1/50th the capacity.
Not anymore. Non-Windows marketshare is great enough that most websites intended to attract an audience don't include platform-specific elements. We waited a long time for that, you know.
It's not enough to be "good enough" anymore. With several great browsers to choose from that do vastly more, vastly better, IE8 is just code down the drain.
Or I wish it was. I still can't get my actually-highly-technically-literate parents to use anything else. Maybe IE is something I won't understand until I get older.
The Big Two browser plugins on this planet are Flash and Adobe Reader (or some other PDF viewer). Now a big chunk of Chrome users won't have to download any plugins at all, ever.
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I've had exactly that happen on a Radeon. Wake up to a burning plastic smell and found the GPU fan laying on the floor of the case with little streamers of melted plastic running back up the the video card.
I think the moral of this story is that a video card is practically a complete single-board computer, and there aren't any modern computers that have no problems at all (a Tandem mini does not count as a modern computer).
I've no argument with you there, but to solve your practical problem, try Tversity
Is this some horrifying new strain of this?
Use one of those thumb-drive-shaped USB to SD Card adapters. Same size, cost, and capacity, plus a write protect switch.
You didn't mention the important-stuff-obscuring part. I'd complain about that too.
On the other hand, don't confuse "high standards" with being a spoiled brat.
IDE is Integrated Drive Electronics. Everything that isn't a floppy disk, cd, tape, or some kind of MO cartridge is IDE. The more puhdantically correct term you're looking for is ATA.
Protip: For many years, many SCSI hard disks were identical to ATA hard disks, with the exception of a single additional interface converter chip.
Soldered-down processors are usually not expensive, premium models, so it's no great pain to have to replace the processor with the motherboard. As for the other direction - processors don't exactly fail a whole lot unless horribly abused.
If you rely so heavily on being able to trust that a game company will not advertise games to you, that you feel your "trust is violated" if you see an unexpected ad, maybe you are asking too much of the universe. These days I'm pretty happy nobody bonks me on the head and steals my food.
It's not benefiting anyone else if you deprive yourself of good things just to make a point (usually). Food for thought.
A secure design can always benefit from additional obscurity.
Molly?
My redneck mom followed that up with "4th kid, ya let the dog lick it off"
Yes.
Not really. I don't recall "USA" being a stock ticker symbol.
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This is an example of "minimum cost". The same four people could be standing over 100 80GB drives, or 1000 1TB drives, with no real cost difference for labor.
This is where economies of scale are created.
AMATEURS.
--DEATH
All the more reason to obey regulation 46A: If transmissions are being monitored during battle, no uncoded messages on an open channel.
Is this one of those things where you say something that sounds just deep enough that people will sit there and try to figure out what you just said, but when they do figure it out, it turns out to not really mean anything? I like those.
"I have some swampland in Florida to sell you." That type of expression is usually applied to things that don't exist, like oceanfront property in Colorado. There's lots of swampland in Florida.
for f's sake, u arrogant bastards
with my students
Let me guess, Irate Text Messaging 301?
After all, you can't just ignore capacity, otherwise that $110 40 gig SSD starts looking really good price/performance wise up against a $200 2TB 7200RPM HD, even though it has 1/50th the capacity.
And that would be correct.
One million instructions per what? The suspense is killing me!
Not anymore. Non-Windows marketshare is great enough that most websites intended to attract an audience don't include platform-specific elements. We waited a long time for that, you know.
It's not enough to be "good enough" anymore. With several great browsers to choose from that do vastly more, vastly better, IE8 is just code down the drain.
Or I wish it was. I still can't get my actually-highly-technically-literate parents to use anything else. Maybe IE is something I won't understand until I get older.
Really, I think it's legit to observe that a project is dead. It doesn't obligate you to go revive it (there aren't any sentient programs yet).
The Big Two browser plugins on this planet are Flash and Adobe Reader (or some other PDF viewer). Now a big chunk of Chrome users won't have to download any plugins at all, ever.