My Asus G71 has the same thing. I just used the SplashTop environment once to see how it ran, then never used it again. I'd rather see the ExpressGate button boot into Ubuntu 13.10 than SplashTop, but there's no way that'll be supported by Asus.
A lot of that failure was the fact the other OS on the machine was a heavily skinned version of Linux, in most cases it was SplashTop. Note that SplashTop is absolutely terrible, thus it's failure. But if I had a notebook that dual booted Win7 and Android, I can see myself using that a whole lot more,
Seeing as 53% of Steam users rely on nVidia hardware and AMD's typically shitty driver situation, it's no big surprise that they're proritizing nVidia machinery first. Once AMD grows up, presents some decent drivers, and puts on their big boy pants, I'm sure Valve will be more than happy to include their drivers as a part of the system.
Of course they are. But they're also not delivering one product for review and a completely different product to sell. What AMD's done here is little more than a bait-and-switch that's coming back to bite them in the ass. Of course there's going to be some variance from card to card, but what's happening here goes far beyond what's expected.
And what Intel is offering right now with Haswell is a massive improvement over any APU that AMD has produced to date. Which shouldn't be much of a surprise considering AMD's constant spectacular disappointments. But you're never going to get a cheap fanless discrete GPU with the power to hold up against a GTX660 or better hardware.
For low and some mid-range stuff, sure. But Intel is never going to be able to get above that so long as nVidia and AMD keep cranking out new components year after year. All Intel should be striving for is decent 4K@60 support, making sure multi-monitor systems don't break, and that compositing works as intended.
Not really. The only ones that resort to botting have a minimal interest in the game or are rampant RMTers. They won't be missed and are a pretty insignifigant percentage of the playerbase.
Yet by your own admission, if they're not there to do B, then the 'when' of an accident happening goes through the roof and they're not there to do C. So yes, by speeding you are hurting somone. It's not a matter of 'if', but 'when' as you so elegantly stated. So try driving the posted limit and not get ticketed at all. Not that damned hard.
And how would you like it if you were on the recieving end of a bait & switch campaign? I imagine you'd be just as pissed off about it, shelling out hard earned cash for one thing and getting something completely different. That's what happened here. Players were baited with an online MechWarrior 3/4, but ended up getting a tactical version of MechAssault.
Who knows. But you can't deny that Jobs was just another douchebag in marketing. Jobs' marketing is how Apple got off the ground in the first place, his lack of it and Scully's case of ADHD sunk it. When Jobs' brand of marketing came back, the company blossomed. Steve started NeXT while he was ousted from Apple, and it died. Why? Because Jobs wasn't in marketing for NeXT. Steve Jobs is a salesman. A good salesman, could probably sell garbage to the homeless and turn a profit from it... Then again, he was heavily marketing iPhones and iPads to yuppies.. Not much of a difference.
MVNOs are only cheaper if you're barely using the phone in question. If you're in for heavy usage of any aspect of the phone, they tend to get more and more expensive the heavier your usage becomes. The cheapest and fairest pre-paid plan I've found is one from US Cellular, but that's applicable if you need a dumbphone. Smartphone users should look at T-Mobile if they have an unlocked or unlockable GSM phone hanging around. I'm paying T-Mobile 50$/mo for unlimited everything on my Galaxy S3.
That's because the iPad's GUI was already well known and documented by the time it was launched, thanks to the first two iPhones. It also helped that Apple designed iOS at that point in time to be idiot proof for 99% of their active and potential customers. Linux isn't that idiot proof yet, regardless of all that's been done to make it so.
Sorry, but if it's not directly built in as a user accessable option, then who cares if the hooks are there. Mashki's right, if Win8 had a setting to completely turn off the 'Metro' UI elements and gave a Win7 shell, there'd be a lot less complaints about it.
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At least 33% of Americans are fucking morons, so why should this be any sort of surprise?
My Asus G71 has the same thing. I just used the SplashTop environment once to see how it ran, then never used it again. I'd rather see the ExpressGate button boot into Ubuntu 13.10 than SplashTop, but there's no way that'll be supported by Asus.
A lot of that failure was the fact the other OS on the machine was a heavily skinned version of Linux, in most cases it was SplashTop. Note that SplashTop is absolutely terrible, thus it's failure. But if I had a notebook that dual booted Win7 and Android, I can see myself using that a whole lot more,
Seeing as 53% of Steam users rely on nVidia hardware and AMD's typically shitty driver situation, it's no big surprise that they're proritizing nVidia machinery first. Once AMD grows up, presents some decent drivers, and puts on their big boy pants, I'm sure Valve will be more than happy to include their drivers as a part of the system.
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Of course they are. But they're also not delivering one product for review and a completely different product to sell. What AMD's done here is little more than a bait-and-switch that's coming back to bite them in the ass. Of course there's going to be some variance from card to card, but what's happening here goes far beyond what's expected.
Seriously... They seem intent on not wanting money with the way they're treating this franchise.
And what Intel is offering right now with Haswell is a massive improvement over any APU that AMD has produced to date. Which shouldn't be much of a surprise considering AMD's constant spectacular disappointments. But you're never going to get a cheap fanless discrete GPU with the power to hold up against a GTX660 or better hardware.
For low and some mid-range stuff, sure. But Intel is never going to be able to get above that so long as nVidia and AMD keep cranking out new components year after year. All Intel should be striving for is decent 4K@60 support, making sure multi-monitor systems don't break, and that compositing works as intended.
You do know that caller ID is spoofable right?
No start menu? No thank you. I'll use Windows 7 for my gaming until it's EOL, by then Ubuntu should be a worthy sucessor for my gaming system.
Not really. The only ones that resort to botting have a minimal interest in the game or are rampant RMTers. They won't be missed and are a pretty insignifigant percentage of the playerbase.
You'd think that the idiots coming up with this have never implimented, much less read, the contents of 'The Art of Deception'.
Yet by your own admission, if they're not there to do B, then the 'when' of an accident happening goes through the roof and they're not there to do C. So yes, by speeding you are hurting somone. It's not a matter of 'if', but 'when' as you so elegantly stated. So try driving the posted limit and not get ticketed at all. Not that damned hard.
Yes, which is what they should have done years ago.
I'm kinda surprised that there's anyone that actually wants to buy RIM.
I dunno. Can't get faster than instant. Which is why I'm glad I can turn off so much of the useless animations in Android.
I'm not sure about that. People survive poticial rallies all the time, the source of expanding hot gas directly behind the podium.
And how would you like it if you were on the recieving end of a bait & switch campaign? I imagine you'd be just as pissed off about it, shelling out hard earned cash for one thing and getting something completely different. That's what happened here. Players were baited with an online MechWarrior 3/4, but ended up getting a tactical version of MechAssault.
Who knows. But you can't deny that Jobs was just another douchebag in marketing. Jobs' marketing is how Apple got off the ground in the first place, his lack of it and Scully's case of ADHD sunk it. When Jobs' brand of marketing came back, the company blossomed. Steve started NeXT while he was ousted from Apple, and it died. Why? Because Jobs wasn't in marketing for NeXT. Steve Jobs is a salesman. A good salesman, could probably sell garbage to the homeless and turn a profit from it... Then again, he was heavily marketing iPhones and iPads to yuppies.. Not much of a difference.
The part about that that makes me laugh a little is the fact that Steve Jobs was a marketing weenie.
If you're having those problems, you're an idiot running the stock firmware the handset maker provides.
MVNOs are only cheaper if you're barely using the phone in question. If you're in for heavy usage of any aspect of the phone, they tend to get more and more expensive the heavier your usage becomes. The cheapest and fairest pre-paid plan I've found is one from US Cellular, but that's applicable if you need a dumbphone. Smartphone users should look at T-Mobile if they have an unlocked or unlockable GSM phone hanging around. I'm paying T-Mobile 50$/mo for unlimited everything on my Galaxy S3.
That's because the iPad's GUI was already well known and documented by the time it was launched, thanks to the first two iPhones. It also helped that Apple designed iOS at that point in time to be idiot proof for 99% of their active and potential customers. Linux isn't that idiot proof yet, regardless of all that's been done to make it so.
Sorry, but if it's not directly built in as a user accessable option, then who cares if the hooks are there. Mashki's right, if Win8 had a setting to completely turn off the 'Metro' UI elements and gave a Win7 shell, there'd be a lot less complaints about it.