POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Don't update : Re: Don't update Server Time
28 Jul 2024 14:25:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Don't update  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 11 Oct 2014 07:45:18
Message: <5439184e$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/10/2014 09:15, Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> hate updates.  IMHO, they're just sales tactics to get you to buy newer,
>> "faster" hardware now that they updated your old hardware into complete junk by
>> making it run far more "optimizations" than it can deal with...
> 
> That doesn't make any sense. If you have, for example, the latest
> NVidia card, and a driver update breaks it, you are being enticed to
> buy a newer... what, exactly? Firstly, there is no "newer" anything
> if you already own the newest NVidia card, and secondly, the driver
> would be buggy even with a newer card if there is one.
> 
> Breaking your own product with a driver update is bad PR. What it
> does is to entice to switch to a competing product. Why would any
> sane company do that? They don't.
> 
> Your comment makes no sense.
> 

Well, both are right... in different products.

Apple's update usually make previous generation crawls. So, you need the
latest hardware on update.


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