Sadly, these people are REAL and NUMEROUS. It's a teenage phase or something.
I recall running an AMD 486 clone at 150mhz for years. No matter that it was consistently hot enough to burn me and Windows 95 crashed twice a day from a standing stop.
Mr. AC, the GP, was definitely in the idiot modder group. I got a firm respect for those with the chops to overclock properly - even though it's a dubious savings by the time you adequately cool and power the overclocked hardware, usually.
Compare the quantity and quality of free software available with what we had ten years ago.
The massive surfeit of processing power means that developers are free to do other cool stuff instead of spending all their time optimizing performance.
I agree with the batteries and power adapters thing, mostly. Mostly because battery shapes, sizes, capacities, and related technologies are, in fact, not all identical. I'd be bloody surprised if a big Canon SLR worked well with the same power delivery hardware as a smaller camera.
Also, don't forget that software has value. Using Canon as an example again, a lot of the more useful recent improvements in digital cameras are just better onboard software. Manufacturers do deserve to be paid more for the same camera with better software.
And this brings us to routers. Again, software, implementation, and testing has value. It's not like they just plonk in Ubuntu or something.
Modders just assume that, if they can unlock the performance, the entire implementation must be designed for it.
You know what I've seen? Melted-solid power connectors. A video card PCB turned brown from the heat. And some idiot hot-rodder paying me to install a new video card (because it fried), motherboard (because the video card fried it), and power supply (because something inside it EXPLODED).
That was a very unlucky guy, but he's a poster child for people who make the stupid-ass mistake of thinking that power delivery and PCB design intent don't matter.
A column laced with nostalgia and in-jokes, refreshing to read and great for the ego (since most people won't get the in-jokes anymore, and if I'm missing any of the in-jokes, I don't know about it).
it's focused on the use of consumer tech products in a business environment
Business managers should be expelled from the industry and blackballed for decisions like this.
There are hundreds - fucking hundreds of magazines that do this already. When some mossy-backed MBA decides to revive an old brand for a new product that nobody is going to buy, there should be a Guild of Historians who can notify the shareholders that the manager needs to be fired and sued.
Incompetent business decisions are bad enough; bad decisions that have been shown again and again to be bad are criminally negligent.
I forgive Amazon removing 1984 from Kindles because big businesses sometimes don't know their right hand from their left, and particularly because they apologized.
There's this thing called "justice". I refuse to consider myself bound to "uphold the law".
If the defendant is about to spend years in prison for weed possession, you're damned right I'm going to become mysteriously convinced he's not guilty.
I think the issue of deciding whether a man deserves to go to prison or not slightly outweighs your poxy apartment blocks.
I don't see why.
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From what I've found, if the system "expects" a PS2 keyboard because it booted up with one, it'll hot swap. I fyou didn't boot with one, you'll have to cold-boot it.
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Sadly, these people are REAL and NUMEROUS. It's a teenage phase or something.
I recall running an AMD 486 clone at 150mhz for years. No matter that it was consistently hot enough to burn me and Windows 95 crashed twice a day from a standing stop.
Unless you buy total crap, your voided warranty is worth the other $45.
Dude, are you following me around posting spastic daredevil horseshit?
You can sew a monkey heart into a dog and it will live for a while. Doesn't make it a good idea.
Congratulations, whoever you are, on the success of your new SlashdotParanoiaBot. It's ready for release.
Mr. AC, the GP, was definitely in the idiot modder group. I got a firm respect for those with the chops to overclock properly - even though it's a dubious savings by the time you adequately cool and power the overclocked hardware, usually.
History. The next one better will be 6990, and it may be a dual-GPU card.
Compare the quantity and quality of free software available with what we had ten years ago.
The massive surfeit of processing power means that developers are free to do other cool stuff instead of spending all their time optimizing performance.
I agree with the batteries and power adapters thing, mostly. Mostly because battery shapes, sizes, capacities, and related technologies are, in fact, not all identical. I'd be bloody surprised if a big Canon SLR worked well with the same power delivery hardware as a smaller camera.
Also, don't forget that software has value. Using Canon as an example again, a lot of the more useful recent improvements in digital cameras are just better onboard software. Manufacturers do deserve to be paid more for the same camera with better software.
And this brings us to routers. Again, software, implementation, and testing has value. It's not like they just plonk in Ubuntu or something.
That's the problem.
Modders just assume that, if they can unlock the performance, the entire implementation must be designed for it.
You know what I've seen? Melted-solid power connectors. A video card PCB turned brown from the heat. And some idiot hot-rodder paying me to install a new video card (because it fried), motherboard (because the video card fried it), and power supply (because something inside it EXPLODED).
That was a very unlucky guy, but he's a poster child for people who make the stupid-ass mistake of thinking that power delivery and PCB design intent don't matter.
Wow. Just wow. So much meaning and historic perspective in one little thread. I could write a paper.
A column laced with nostalgia and in-jokes, refreshing to read and great for the ego (since most people won't get the in-jokes anymore, and if I'm missing any of the in-jokes, I don't know about it).
Recommended.
it's focused on the use of consumer tech products in a business environment
Business managers should be expelled from the industry and blackballed for decisions like this.
There are hundreds - fucking hundreds of magazines that do this already. When some mossy-backed MBA decides to revive an old brand for a new product that nobody is going to buy, there should be a Guild of Historians who can notify the shareholders that the manager needs to be fired and sued.
Incompetent business decisions are bad enough; bad decisions that have been shown again and again to be bad are criminally negligent.
We constantly hear about needing to "program defensively" and test for "can't happen" conditions.
Here's one for defensive engineering.
Times have changed. 1Mhz will cause the PC to puke on itself during post, I guarantee it.
Do 25mhz. The PC will be utterly unusable, but the BIOS setup page will be able to redraw in less than 15 seconds.
Christ, no.
Read the summary, friend. They removed the books from the devices.
I'd have no complaint otherwise.
There you have it. The end.
I forgive Amazon removing 1984 from Kindles because big businesses sometimes don't know their right hand from their left, and particularly because they apologized.
Now they are liars. Kindle Store is dead to me.
I'd get by.
I still don't know why you're comparing you or me to anyone else. Two weeks of jury duty would wipe me out. This point stands alone, I think.
I'm truly saddened by how hard it's been for you.
But...
Why the hell does that invalidate my problems?
There are starving children in Africa, you know.
Life hasn't been very kind to me lately.
If I miss two week's pay in one go, I will lose my home and my car. It will ruin my life.
To anyone who thinks this is a reasonable "duty", considering there are several ways to solve the problem, I say "fuck you".
There's this thing called "justice". I refuse to consider myself bound to "uphold the law".
If the defendant is about to spend years in prison for weed possession, you're damned right I'm going to become mysteriously convinced he's not guilty.
I think the issue of deciding whether a man deserves to go to prison or not slightly outweighs your poxy apartment blocks.
I don't see why.
From what I've found, if the system "expects" a PS2 keyboard because it booted up with one, it'll hot swap. I fyou didn't boot with one, you'll have to cold-boot it.
Making fun of people who use Latin platitudes has now become a platitude in itself, allowing you to discount valid statements.
Infinite loop.
I heard they wrote a book about this kind of thing. "A tale of two cities" or something like that. Brothas fightin' the power end up causin' shit.