If it's a gratuitous addition specifically to prevent you from doing something that you otherwise could, then they have. For example, if you buy a book and find out the pages have been glued together, that's unreasonable. If you buy a computer and you find out it could run third party software, but the loading system has been disabled, that's unreasonable.
[Emphasis mine.]
What's this "you find out" BS? You knew the pages were glued together ahead of time (in a valid analogy) -- if you bought it anyway, you had better not complain. And if you DIDN'T buy it for any reason, including the glued pages, that's called freedom of choice. Stop crying.
Yeah, because a company that got and maintained its riches only because of its half-baked operating system and word processor is so much like a company that goes out on a limb (over and over again) to invent a new category of consumer device. And then the commentators are somehow surprised when that pays off.
Besides that, does that article give you a clue why Europeans are either laughing their heads off or throwing up when Americans claim they live in the "freeest of all countries"?
That's why I hate Europe. Heads popping off all the time, and vomit everywhere.
Summary: "An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates."
No, this is untrue. 18 million laptops are NOT experiencing this.
From TFA: "for this estimate, we will be using very rough and round number(s)"... "Another educated estimate says about half the parts are potentially affected, lets call it 18 million bad parts."
This is a guess at the number of parts in the field, not the number that have failed.
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I stopped reading your comment after "I stopped after...".
If it has no name until you get there, what are you going to enter into your nav computer?
Comment same as title?
"on record as wanting to do things verbally" Fail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
If it's a gratuitous addition specifically to prevent you from doing something that you otherwise could, then they have. For example, if you buy a book and find out the pages have been glued together, that's unreasonable. If you buy a computer and you find out it could run third party software, but the loading system has been disabled, that's unreasonable.
[Emphasis mine.] What's this "you find out" BS? You knew the pages were glued together ahead of time (in a valid analogy) -- if you bought it anyway, you had better not complain. And if you DIDN'T buy it for any reason, including the glued pages, that's called freedom of choice. Stop crying.
Is this like "100 times colder", or "10 times as dark", or "twice as quiet"? If 100% cheaper is free, what would 300% cheaper be?
Prove it, send me a copy.
Millions of people subscribed to cable during 2008-2011. So it all balances out.
You must be a CS major. We engineers immediately recognized the use of RPN. If you want to "slash" the "dot" you put the "slash" operator last.
And would the Simulator it contains contain another complete Living Earth Simulator. And so on...? The ultimate case of self-similarity.
Yeah, because a company that got and maintained its riches only because of its half-baked operating system and word processor is so much like a company that goes out on a limb (over and over again) to invent a new category of consumer device. And then the commentators are somehow surprised when that pays off.
Which one is which again?
I was hoping for some handy suggestions in case I dropped one of my landmines some day. Disappointed to find out that's not what this is about.
Yeah, and "testing, one, two, three" is the most important thing ever spoken into a microphone.
"Windows 7 is little more than what Vista should have been"
Helloooo?? Users WANT what Vista should have been. A little more is even better.
That's what it takes to get a front-page story on Slashdot? A virtually anonymous post on a gaming forum?
Besides that, does that article give you a clue why Europeans are either laughing their heads off or throwing up when Americans claim they live in the "freeest of all countries"?
That's why I hate Europe. Heads popping off all the time, and vomit everywhere.
You never really have to say "ever" after "never". It actually reduces the effect of your sentence, like adding the word "actually". Um, I mean...
All you can think of is a cartoon? That's pathetic. Oh wait, you're in PA? That's fine. FULL CREDIT!
I keep forgetting -- does having a wife and kids make you rich, or white?
Summary:
"An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates."
No, this is untrue. 18 million laptops are NOT experiencing this.
From TFA: ... "Another educated estimate says about half the parts are potentially affected, lets call it 18 million bad parts."
"for this estimate, we will be using very rough and round number(s)"
This is a guess at the number of parts in the field, not the number that have failed.
"A stable operating system running a mission critical device thousands of miles away..."
Just where the hell do you think Mars is??
Because there would be a change log.
At least he didn't make a death adder.
Or Blackadder.
I've been to this "actual room", and when I saw it my head "literally exploded" with excitement.