Check out user "Rollo" from Anandtech forums. From the AT-Wiki--
A video card junkie who possesses a strong Nvidia bias. He was unveiled to be a participant in the AEG "user feedback" program, and his future is currently in limbo over his hiding his participation and concerns that this participation has improperly influenced him both in his recommendations and in the degree of trolling he partakes in.
IIRC, he was banned, reinstated, and then permabanned again for continually posting misinformation and plain blatant lies about ATI/AMD graphics products. FUD in online forums is quite viral and effective. I for one am glad he was banned, it was easy to see the effect he was having.
Probably shouldn't be a troll here. I have a $250 high end Radeon. Bought it along with a new system back in October. From the beginning, it would blue screen on boot but only once in a while. Now it's doing it more often (event log identifies the problem as with the ATI driver), it randomly boots the machine, and currently the machine is in a reboot cycle. Searching on the problem shows it's well known. Suggestions are to upgrade to the newest driver (fails) and disable some feature (fails). Reports of contacting ATI results in "it's Microsoft's fault". Calls to Microsoft result in "it's ATI's fault".
Yea. I agree. No matter the price, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
[John]
I can play this too.
Probably shouldn't be a troll here. I have a $250 high end Geforce. Bought it along with a new system back in October. From the beginning, it would blue screen on boot but only once in a while. Now it's doing it more often (event log identifies the problem as with the Nvidia driver), it randomly boots the machine, and currently the machine is in a reboot cycle. Searching on the problem shows it's well known. Suggestions are to upgrade to the newest driver (fails) and disable some feature (fails). Reports of contacting NVidia results in "it's Microsoft's fault". Calls to Microsoft result in "it's NVidia's fault".
Yea. I agree. No matter the price, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Nvidia is known to pay forum users and the like to post FUD like this.
Ever since AMD bought ATI the drivers have been improving by leaps and bounds. With AMD/ATI, you now get a driver release every month. Their drivers have been completely stable for at least a year or two now, and game support has been growing and solidifying as well. The only game that ATI cards struggle with now is UT3; all the others the newest line (4850/70/90) thoroughly trounces the equally priced Nvidia card.
Think of it this way-- would you rather have the Nvidia 285 for $330, or the 4890 for $230? They perform the same, and drivers are not an issue.
The whole time I was watching Obama's speech talking about getting people to lend money again I kept shouting at the TV that more credit doesn't mean anything without more capital to back it up but that basic idea seems lost in Washington. Bush obviously didn't understand and Obama doesn't seem to either. At least I can agree with what Obama wants to spend money on even though I think the timing is poor because of the bad situation he inherited from Bush.
Saying this doesn't change the right course of action.
The best thing about military spending-- when the world gets sick of buying US debt because it's all being spent on entitlements, they'll be able to stop buying it, but they won't be able to set the score right.
No, socialism is bad, it's what got us here in the first place. Gave the telcos $200B for a 46mbps pipe to the home by 2008 (? might have been 2006, I don't recall). As is typical with government, there was no oversight, or checks to make sure what needed to be done was being done...the money disappeared.
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
Bingo! The telcos want to be a content provider not a service provider. If they can get it through people's minds that internet is a valuable resource (which reminds me I have this article about Peak Internet...) then to be entertained you'll have to buy their cable TV + internet bundle because simply watching TV shows from NBC.com and streaming through Hulu won't be available (figuratively speaking, too much bandwidth) anymore.
Which reminds me, if I can buy server bandwidth for $0.10 per Gigabyte, why does internet bandwidth cost 10x as much?
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
Bingo! The telcos want to be a content provider not a service provider. If they can get it through people's minds that internet is a valuable resource (which reminds me I have this article about Peak Internet...) then to be entertained you'll have to buy their cable TV + internet bundle because simply watching TV shows from NBC.com and streaming through Hulu won't be available (figuratively speaking, too much bandwidth) anymore.
Here's my question in all this-- if I can buy webserver bandwidth for $0.10 per GB, why does TW/Comcast/Whoever want to charge me a whole dollar for each GB I use over my monthly plan limit?
What is unfair is for a perfect God to let evil go unpunished. The punishment for rejecting an infinitely good God is infinite, nothing less is enough. Now, nobody has to suffer like this, the offer has been made and is free to all; but God's not going to force himself on anybody.
If GGP's post is genuine (and he's not just an AC troll looking to drop some flamebait) then, according to the Christian faith, the "malicious" thing for him to do would be to not tell Stephen Hawking.
Of course, posting about it on a forum won't do him much good unless SH reads Slashdot...:)
Why do we even need a rail in the first place? We spent our money on road infrastructure, and as a result have a much better highway system than a lot of Europe (Germany excluded). I remember driving around in Scotland, England, etc. and thinking how horridly designed their road system was. Geography might have something to do with it, but a lot of the interconnecting routes were little better than rats nests of asphalt.
So, why do we need a rail? I routinely take Greyhound.
Oh, and the cost to ride the rails in Europe / ticket was the same cost as flying on an airplane over here. AND they pay all the gas taxes to supposedly pay for the rails.
On the bright side, you can drink beer on the rails. One guy just grabbed a case of whatever from Tesco and brought it with him on the train. Boom! Entertained for hours.
I've sometimes wondered if my drive to be constantly entertained is what has gotten me to where I am. My commute to my coop job is 1h15m. I purposefully take the train instead of driving. Driving would be 45m each way of time I lose, when I take the train yes it takes 1h15m but I gain back that 1h30m I would lose if I were driving.
On the train, I could sit there and look out the window at the same scenery like everybody else on the train on their way to work.
Or I could entertain myself. My mind has expanded, games don't hold the same power of me that they used to. I need something deeper, more involving than a Final Fantasy story line. So I've been cranking through books. Finished an 800 page book on the Federal Reserve's history last year. Reading a book on cultivating deeper relationships with others. On improving your style. On anything that catches my eye.
You know how I got this addiction to constant entertainment, stimulation? Gaming. Starcraft, Zelda, FPS's, etc. Back when I was 10 they set the bar pretty high mentally for what was "fun" or "satisfying". I wouldn't be so driven now to learn new things were it not for this insatiable desire to be entertained (which, now that I'm older, the entertainment part usually involves learning something new).
I too have sleeping issues (falling asleep. Staying asleep is easy;), check out some melatonin sleeping pills 3mcg/pill; or Calm's Forte. I alternate so as to avoid the melatonin dependency. They're both made of natural ingredients, and melatonin is the natural chemical your brain releases when it gets dark. It has an added benefit of being a powerful antioxidant.
Being rested helps me overcome the work problems, rather than succumb to them.
What standard PC with Vista costs $2000? $2000 PC's are a thing of the 90's. I just picked out a laptop for a friend and it was $500. Dual core, 3GB RAM, 200GB HDD.
And exactly what does this do to disprove the GP's very legitimate rant on MS's new policy of restarting your computer for you? Nice straw man there.
One time in XP I had dragged the "restart now, later" box under my taskbar (used to be able to hide it there for days). In the middle of typing a paper, it went away, and a new box came up that told me it was going to reboot my computer. I had reached the end of a paragraph, hit return twice, and in between hitting it twice the box popped up. Unfortunately the default option is "reboot now", and I did not have time to react to the box; I just saw the window but it was too late; had already hit return the second time.
Luckily I was able to ctrl+S my paper immediately and type in asdf.doc and save it wherever the default directory was.
It seems now, in XP at least, if you tell it "restart later" it never asks you again and just waits for you to reboot your computer (I hit "later" and ended up rebooting 3 days later; didn't prompt me anymore in the times between). I can deal with this.
I've since completely turned off auto updates. I'll just remember to check every few months. I can't risk my computer rebooting on me in the middle of the night. For one, Windows is not my default loaded operating system in the boot menu.
Well please don't stay there! The faster California suffers the easier it'll be to prove we don't need to replicate their legislative path. They'll only suffer if people leave. Texas, Nevada both have a much more conservative government. Lower taxes. Less nonsense.
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Check out user "Rollo" from Anandtech forums.
From the AT-Wiki--
A video card junkie who possesses a strong Nvidia bias. He was unveiled to be a participant in the AEG "user feedback" program, and his future is currently in limbo over his hiding his participation and concerns that this participation has improperly influenced him both in his recommendations and in the degree of trolling he partakes in.
IIRC, he was banned, reinstated, and then permabanned again for continually posting misinformation and plain blatant lies about ATI/AMD graphics products. FUD in online forums is quite viral and effective. I for one am glad he was banned, it was easy to see the effect he was having.
Probably shouldn't be a troll here. I have a $250 high end Radeon. Bought it along with a new system back in October. From the beginning, it would blue screen on boot but only once in a while. Now it's doing it more often (event log identifies the problem as with the ATI driver), it randomly boots the machine, and currently the machine is in a reboot cycle. Searching on the problem shows it's well known. Suggestions are to upgrade to the newest driver (fails) and disable some feature (fails). Reports of contacting ATI results in "it's Microsoft's fault". Calls to Microsoft result in "it's ATI's fault".
Yea. I agree. No matter the price, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
[John]
I can play this too.
Probably shouldn't be a troll here. I have a $250 high end Geforce. Bought it along with a new system back in October. From the beginning, it would blue screen on boot but only once in a while. Now it's doing it more often (event log identifies the problem as with the Nvidia driver), it randomly boots the machine, and currently the machine is in a reboot cycle. Searching on the problem shows it's well known. Suggestions are to upgrade to the newest driver (fails) and disable some feature (fails). Reports of contacting NVidia results in "it's Microsoft's fault". Calls to Microsoft result in "it's NVidia's fault".
Yea. I agree. No matter the price, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Nvidia is known to pay forum users and the like to post FUD like this.
Ever since AMD bought ATI the drivers have been improving by leaps and bounds. With AMD/ATI, you now get a driver release every month. Their drivers have been completely stable for at least a year or two now, and game support has been growing and solidifying as well. The only game that ATI cards struggle with now is UT3; all the others the newest line (4850/70/90) thoroughly trounces the equally priced Nvidia card.
Think of it this way-- would you rather have the Nvidia 285 for $330, or the 4890 for $230? They perform the same, and drivers are not an issue.
The whole time I was watching Obama's speech talking about getting people to lend money again I kept shouting at the TV that more credit doesn't mean anything without more capital to back it up but that basic idea seems lost in Washington. Bush obviously didn't understand and Obama doesn't seem to either. At least I can agree with what Obama wants to spend money on even though I think the timing is poor because of the bad situation he inherited from Bush.
Saying this doesn't change the right course of action.
[Citation Needed]
45% going to entitlements.
The best thing about military spending-- when the world gets sick of buying US debt because it's all being spent on entitlements, they'll be able to stop buying it, but they won't be able to set the score right.
To back you up--
Just imagine what would happen to the stock market if 5% of all houses were now empty.
If you thought the housing bubble bursting was bad, imagine what piling all these extra empty houses on the market would do to the banks.
Sure it wasn't the pins in the connector?
But is there ever a natural immunity in humans to a flu?
No, socialism is bad, it's what got us here in the first place. Gave the telcos $200B for a 46mbps pipe to the home by 2008 (? might have been 2006, I don't recall). As is typical with government, there was no oversight, or checks to make sure what needed to be done was being done...the money disappeared.
Pft who needs all that. If your lungs are filling with fluid, just get someone to turn you upside down and shake you while you cough.
Kids these days don't even know gravity when they see it. Get off my lawn!!!
So why would I need Blackwell?
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
Bingo! The telcos want to be a content provider not a service provider. If they can get it through people's minds that internet is a valuable resource (which reminds me I have this article about Peak Internet...) then to be entertained you'll have to buy their cable TV + internet bundle because simply watching TV shows from NBC.com and streaming through Hulu won't be available (figuratively speaking, too much bandwidth) anymore.
Which reminds me,
if I can buy server bandwidth for $0.10 per Gigabyte, why does internet bandwidth cost 10x as much?
Can we use this in court against them? IANAL...
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
Bingo! The telcos want to be a content provider not a service provider. If they can get it through people's minds that internet is a valuable resource (which reminds me I have this article about Peak Internet...) then to be entertained you'll have to buy their cable TV + internet bundle because simply watching TV shows from NBC.com and streaming through Hulu won't be available (figuratively speaking, too much bandwidth) anymore.
Get off my lawn! Megabots are so 1980's. We had Transformers back before you whippersnappers were even born!
Because they don't subscribe to your medieval worldview of "good" and "bad" asteroids?
And because it's ridiculously impractical?
Much better to make popcorn!
Here's my question in all this-- if I can buy webserver bandwidth for $0.10 per GB, why does TW/Comcast/Whoever want to charge me a whole dollar for each GB I use over my monthly plan limit?
Unfair?
What is unfair is for a perfect God to let evil go unpunished.
The punishment for rejecting an infinitely good God is infinite, nothing less is enough.
Now, nobody has to suffer like this, the offer has been made and is free to all; but God's not going to force himself on anybody.
If GGP's post is genuine (and he's not just an AC troll looking to drop some flamebait) then, according to the Christian faith, the "malicious" thing for him to do would be to not tell Stephen Hawking.
Of course, posting about it on a forum won't do him much good unless SH reads Slashdot... :)
Why do we even need a rail in the first place? We spent our money on road infrastructure, and as a result have a much better highway system than a lot of Europe (Germany excluded). I remember driving around in Scotland, England, etc. and thinking how horridly designed their road system was. Geography might have something to do with it, but a lot of the interconnecting routes were little better than rats nests of asphalt.
So, why do we need a rail? I routinely take Greyhound.
Oh, and the cost to ride the rails in Europe / ticket was the same cost as flying on an airplane over here. AND they pay all the gas taxes to supposedly pay for the rails.
On the bright side, you can drink beer on the rails. One guy just grabbed a case of whatever from Tesco and brought it with him on the train. Boom! Entertained for hours.
I've sometimes wondered if my drive to be constantly entertained is what has gotten me to where I am.
My commute to my coop job is 1h15m. I purposefully take the train instead of driving. Driving would be 45m each way of time I lose, when I take the train yes it takes 1h15m but I gain back that 1h30m I would lose if I were driving.
On the train, I could sit there and look out the window at the same scenery like everybody else on the train on their way to work.
Or I could entertain myself. My mind has expanded, games don't hold the same power of me that they used to. I need something deeper, more involving than a Final Fantasy story line. So I've been cranking through books. Finished an 800 page book on the Federal Reserve's history last year. Reading a book on cultivating deeper relationships with others. On improving your style. On anything that catches my eye.
You know how I got this addiction to constant entertainment, stimulation? Gaming. Starcraft, Zelda, FPS's, etc. Back when I was 10 they set the bar pretty high mentally for what was "fun" or "satisfying". I wouldn't be so driven now to learn new things were it not for this insatiable desire to be entertained (which, now that I'm older, the entertainment part usually involves learning something new).
My wife is a pig, you insensitive clod!!!
Sammy--
I too have sleeping issues (falling asleep. Staying asleep is easy ;), check out some melatonin sleeping pills 3mcg/pill; or Calm's Forte. I alternate so as to avoid the melatonin dependency. They're both made of natural ingredients, and melatonin is the natural chemical your brain releases when it gets dark. It has an added benefit of being a powerful antioxidant.
Being rested helps me overcome the work problems, rather than succumb to them.
What standard PC with Vista costs $2000? $2000 PC's are a thing of the 90's.
I just picked out a laptop for a friend and it was $500. Dual core, 3GB RAM, 200GB HDD.
And exactly what does this do to disprove the GP's very legitimate rant on MS's new policy of restarting your computer for you? Nice straw man there.
One time in XP I had dragged the "restart now, later" box under my taskbar (used to be able to hide it there for days). In the middle of typing a paper, it went away, and a new box came up that told me it was going to reboot my computer. I had reached the end of a paragraph, hit return twice, and in between hitting it twice the box popped up. Unfortunately the default option is "reboot now", and I did not have time to react to the box; I just saw the window but it was too late; had already hit return the second time.
Luckily I was able to ctrl+S my paper immediately and type in asdf.doc and save it wherever the default directory was.
It seems now, in XP at least, if you tell it "restart later" it never asks you again and just waits for you to reboot your computer (I hit "later" and ended up rebooting 3 days later; didn't prompt me anymore in the times between). I can deal with this.
I've since completely turned off auto updates. I'll just remember to check every few months. I can't risk my computer rebooting on me in the middle of the night. For one, Windows is not my default loaded operating system in the boot menu.
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Well please don't stay there! The faster California suffers the easier it'll be to prove we don't need to replicate their legislative path. They'll only suffer if people leave. Texas, Nevada both have a much more conservative government. Lower taxes. Less nonsense.
They made up for it in volume. More people watch DMCA takedown-worthy material than non-DMCA takedown-worthy material.