"Can you imagine how badly people would complain about Microsoft abusing their monopoly if they did any such thing?"
They could complain all they want but since other OS have this feature Microsoft would not be abusing the monopoly position in any manner. If anything they're keeping with the state of software distribution.
When the majority of your staff is too brain-dead to think of alternative means to accomplish what they wish to do, because they've been too used to Windows doing most of the thinking (or having an application for that) for them, this is ultimately going to be the end result.
In the meantime, without having to write anything, I've found the drivers for every one of my devices, in Linux, relatively easily. All it takes is a drive to RTFM, an desire to attempt to understand it, and lack of the fear of failure.
I figured out DOS as a child without a manual, my dad just told me "type/? or/help" (I don't remember which in DOS 5.0) and I'd get a command list. He told me to read it, play with it, do whatever, don't worry about breaking it because it was simple to fix (and in those days, they truly were, compared with the garbage of today.)
From there, Win 3.1 and on was simple. I just had to learn the GUI way of doing command line things.
I can still do as I please either in Windows CLI or GUI. I'm almost proficient enough to do it in Linux, and more than proficient enough for MenuetOS.
It's just the end result of being used to something and not forced to use your brain all the time.
BTW They changed taxonomical classification AGAIN - have you paid attention to the scientific world or do you continue to rely upon Wikipedia for your outdated and sorely incorrect information?
We just added 'Tribe' to the scientific taxonomical classification. That change once again drops the Fox firmly into the mix with other canines until we re-sort the rest of the more specific rungs below 'Tribe.'
So sad you don't bother to actually read up on this.
Maybe I should roll back to/furi/ to mock all you ignorant fools again, like I trolled Billy Rex with such an easy/g/tard argument (SOI vs stressed silicon) in the tinychat that night before I flew out to the UK.
I'm offering to outfit a militia against an internal invasion of corporations against our rights, because it's already painfully obvious the government will NOT step in to stop them.
Talking hasn't stopped them. Court hasn't stopped them (they bought the court system.)
People that buy out our rights and remove our legally-bought property because we wish to discuss something regarding said bought property MOST CERTAINLY need to die. They are the very thing our founding fathers did NOT want in our country.
"It's not like you have a Constitutional right to have the government not be a moron."
Actually we don't need the constitutional right - we pay them to do a job, they have failed to do that job. We are their employers and we reserve at any time the right to fire them, either peacefully (voting) or violently (revolution.)
In REALITY, we made the government. We have every right to expect them, as our employees (we pay their paychecks, they are our employees in every sense,) to have a brain and act in our best interest.
This is clearly not happening, and thus we should be shooting every single one of these people. Take out a few 'employees' and watch the rest of the work force straighten the fuck up.
Instead use that money to buy yourself a gun, some ammunition, and start shooting every Sony exec you find.
The message will be made VERY CLEAR at that point, and it will go down in history as a future reminder to ALL CORPORATIONS that you don't fuck with the citizen's right to speak.
I'll personally drop a quarter million on the guns if you don't have them. Just pass a background check and you'll be the proud owner of a.45.
If we have this solid evidence, file suit against the government for criminal negligence. Do something that will force them to lay punishment down on the lying son of a bitch.
It's midnight PST here, and 4chan is having MASSIVE issues in posting anything. I've tried multiple (unsecured) connections besides my own, and it's the same result, even from VPN halfway across the country.
Anonymous is worse than the hydra. You cut off one head, over 9000 more take its place, and you can't simply burn the head stump once the head is removed, it propagates too rapidly.
And all you do is piss it off even more.
Note that since the Palin e-mail crack, Anonymous has stepped up its game.
Mentioning DPI is a useless measurement. This is how we can tell nVidia is clawing desperately at nothing trying to market something that isn't worth half a shit anyways.
When companies start going by absolutely useless metrics (DPI is PURELY dependent upon the screen maker,) you know they've hit a hard spot and are doing ANYTHING to make money - INCLUDING LYING.
And nVidia is definitely lying/intentionally misleading customers by trying to claim there's enough power to push a certain resolution @ 300DPI.
Looks like my next card purchase will be Matrox. I'm done gaming anyways, nothing has been innovative since Portal.
"It's possible they simply have no good power consumption numbers yet."
Sorry, even my company has the brains to hook the equipment up to a kill-a-watt during the various testing phases of product development, so we have power figures available immediately for given loads.
If nVidia can't cough up $200 in measly American Currency for ONE KAW tester, then nVidia is bound to be going the way of the dinosaur.
Oh, wait, they've already begun emulating 3dfx, by selling their own cards. We all saw how well that worked for Elpin systems.
"In short, cheap components that seem to last *just* long enough to get the laptop past the warranty period."
Exactly tihs.
BTW - I just NOW finished my support call. That's entirely TO LONG, over four hours, just to get them to send me a box (after they made me repeatedly download various drivers.)
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"Can you imagine how badly people would complain about Microsoft abusing their monopoly if they did any such thing?"
They could complain all they want but since other OS have this feature Microsoft would not be abusing the monopoly position in any manner. If anything they're keeping with the state of software distribution.
When the majority of your staff is too brain-dead to think of alternative means to accomplish what they wish to do, because they've been too used to Windows doing most of the thinking (or having an application for that) for them, this is ultimately going to be the end result.
In the meantime, without having to write anything, I've found the drivers for every one of my devices, in Linux, relatively easily. All it takes is a drive to RTFM, an desire to attempt to understand it, and lack of the fear of failure.
I figured out DOS as a child without a manual, my dad just told me "type /? or /help" (I don't remember which in DOS 5.0) and I'd get a command list. He told me to read it, play with it, do whatever, don't worry about breaking it because it was simple to fix (and in those days, they truly were, compared with the garbage of today.)
From there, Win 3.1 and on was simple. I just had to learn the GUI way of doing command line things.
I can still do as I please either in Windows CLI or GUI. I'm almost proficient enough to do it in Linux, and more than proficient enough for MenuetOS.
It's just the end result of being used to something and not forced to use your brain all the time.
http://tinypic.com/r/2r5gleg/7
Welcome to my research facility.
What were you saying?
BTW They changed taxonomical classification AGAIN - have you paid attention to the scientific world or do you continue to rely upon Wikipedia for your outdated and sorely incorrect information?
We just added 'Tribe' to the scientific taxonomical classification. That change once again drops the Fox firmly into the mix with other canines until we re-sort the rest of the more specific rungs below 'Tribe.'
So sad you don't bother to actually read up on this.
Maybe I should roll back to /furi/ to mock all you ignorant fools again, like I trolled Billy Rex with such an easy /g/tard argument (SOI vs stressed silicon) in the tinychat that night before I flew out to the UK.
Nope! Dropped my HP bunches of times. The hard drive protection mechanism works damned well, I must admit.
Sony lacks the honor for such an action.
Seriously, you think people that value money over the rights of individuals would even be capable of such an honorable act?
Alex the Stoner?
Yes, I'm a stoner because I have a medical script for medical cannabis due to debilitating post-operative pain.
I love how you post anonymously, as if it shields you from your own stupidity!
Real men identify themselves.
The government already knows who I am, as I've had multiple talks with FBI, SS, courts, judges, governors, etc. You apparently do not know who I am.
You amuse me.
I'm offering to outfit a militia against an internal invasion of corporations against our rights, because it's already painfully obvious the government will NOT step in to stop them.
Talking hasn't stopped them. Court hasn't stopped them (they bought the court system.)
Only DEATH will.
People that buy out our rights and remove our legally-bought property because we wish to discuss something regarding said bought property MOST CERTAINLY need to die. They are the very thing our founding fathers did NOT want in our country.
"It's not like you have a Constitutional right to have the government not be a moron."
Actually we don't need the constitutional right - we pay them to do a job, they have failed to do that job. We are their employers and we reserve at any time the right to fire them, either peacefully (voting) or violently (revolution.)
In REALITY, we made the government. We have every right to expect them, as our employees (we pay their paychecks, they are our employees in every sense,) to have a brain and act in our best interest.
This is clearly not happening, and thus we should be shooting every single one of these people. Take out a few 'employees' and watch the rest of the work force straighten the fuck up.
Instead use that money to buy yourself a gun, some ammunition, and start shooting every Sony exec you find.
The message will be made VERY CLEAR at that point, and it will go down in history as a future reminder to ALL CORPORATIONS that you don't fuck with the citizen's right to speak.
I'll personally drop a quarter million on the guns if you don't have them. Just pass a background check and you'll be the proud owner of a .45.
SONY NEEDS TO DIE.
If we have this solid evidence, file suit against the government for criminal negligence. Do something that will force them to lay punishment down on the lying son of a bitch.
We've got a better one already made. It's nothing more than a fancy airbrush and heals burn wounds MUCH faster than this device.
http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/news/article.asp?qEmpID=328
Because nobody bothered to keep their box or record the originally-aired PS3 ads which CLEARLY stated Other Operating System support.
Find that evidence and a massive class-action suit can happen.
Because then the new ads showing the PS3 slim and saying "It does everything" can be proven a lie, as it can't even do what the original PS3 could do.
Actually, it's still a lie, as no PS3 slim model has PS2 capability.
Sony should be immediately dragged through court for false advertising.
You dropping potash exports would just make us buy it up here in the USA or Europe.
Our farms need that.
"Not illegal"
VERY ILLEGAL. Speaking as business owner that knows full well that this is a bait and switch.
"Anyway, given DPI and screen size, you can easily get the dimensions in pixels."
No, you just get pixel count. That doesn't tell you supported resolution at all.
My Samsung A550 has 6.1MP screen, but only displays maximum 2.1MP images.
Gee, I wonder why that would be?
Saying DPI and screen size alone is FUCKING USELESS.
It's midnight PST here, and 4chan is having MASSIVE issues in posting anything. I've tried multiple (unsecured) connections besides my own, and it's the same result, even from VPN halfway across the country.
"but how many of these mistakes is your company making?"
Looks like I got lax in cracking the whip. I just went from 3 errors to 33 errors.
Time to crack the whip, again.
Anonymous is worse than the hydra. You cut off one head, over 9000 more take its place, and you can't simply burn the head stump once the head is removed, it propagates too rapidly.
And all you do is piss it off even more.
Note that since the Palin e-mail crack, Anonymous has stepped up its game.
You clearly have no clue about Anonymous.
Well, saying 1440p doesn't say much, as you're missing aspect ratio.
Mentioning DPI is a useless measurement. This is how we can tell nVidia is clawing desperately at nothing trying to market something that isn't worth half a shit anyways.
When companies start going by absolutely useless metrics (DPI is PURELY dependent upon the screen maker,) you know they've hit a hard spot and are doing ANYTHING to make money - INCLUDING LYING.
And nVidia is definitely lying/intentionally misleading customers by trying to claim there's enough power to push a certain resolution @ 300DPI.
Looks like my next card purchase will be Matrox. I'm done gaming anyways, nothing has been innovative since Portal.
"It's possible they simply have no good power consumption numbers yet."
Sorry, even my company has the brains to hook the equipment up to a kill-a-watt during the various testing phases of product development, so we have power figures available immediately for given loads.
If nVidia can't cough up $200 in measly American Currency for ONE KAW tester, then nVidia is bound to be going the way of the dinosaur.
Oh, wait, they've already begun emulating 3dfx, by selling their own cards. We all saw how well that worked for Elpin systems.
Meh, we're already breaking those speeds with local data buses, what's the point of this when we'll be getting it wirelessly soon enough?
Oh, vendor lock-in. Duh.
Ignore me.
"In short, cheap components that seem to last *just* long enough to get the laptop past the warranty period."
Exactly tihs.
BTW - I just NOW finished my support call. That's entirely TO LONG, over four hours, just to get them to send me a box (after they made me repeatedly download various drivers.)
"Of course the US does have a confirmed history of abducting foreigners in foriegn countries, though the SS doesn't seem to do that."
The job of the SS is A. Protect the United States Currency and B. Investigate threats against teh President of the United States.
The SS *WILL* fly overseas to find you. I've asked a couple of times during my own SS visits, yes, they do travel internationally.