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On 10/10/2014 20:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> ...I guess that makes the customer the beta tester? :-S
The name of the game. :-(
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Regards
Stephen
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:25:24 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
> ... A good question.
> 5000 words on the subject by our next tutorial, please ... and that
> includes you two, Henderson and Macavoy.
(Because.) * 5000
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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> (Because.) * 5000
tsk. tsk.
That's only one very large scalar Because.
#version 3.7;
#include "debug.inc"
Set_Debug (true)
#debug "Because, "
#declare Word = 2;
#while (Word < 5000)
#debug "because, "
#declare Word = Word + 1;
#end
#debug ". :D"
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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.
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- Warp
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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.
--
IQ of crossposters with FU: 100 / (number of groups)
IQ of crossposters without FU: 100 / (1 + number of groups)
IQ of multiposters: 100 / ( (number of groups) * (number of groups))
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> We recently moved our product from only working on hardware supplied by
> us, to working on ANY arbitrary PC that meets the minimum specifications.
>
> This causes an explosion of possible test combinations.
I should maybe point out that our "product" isn't just some application
that you install with Windows Installer. It's an entire
custom-configured operating system. So we have to check that we have
drivers for every device known to man. The product also interacts
closely with the hardware, further complicating matters.
If we were just building a word-processor then... yeah, it probably
wouldn't matter what hardware you run it on. So long as your OS works,
our product should work. But we're not; we're building an entire OS.
Fortunately, the OS is Linux, and those guys have been making bootable
live-CDs for years now. Even so, we still hit snags from time to time...
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On 10/10/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 20:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> ...I guess that makes the customer the beta tester? :-S
>
> The name of the game. :-(
...aaand now I have ABBA in my head.
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On 11/10/2014 13:12, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 10/10/2014 20:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> ...I guess that makes the customer the beta tester? :-S
>>
>> The name of the game. :-(
>
> ....aaand now I have ABBA in my head.
Sorry, I did not make the link.
Try thinking of the dam busters march, to get rid of it.
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Regards
Stephen
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:27:00 -0400, Bald Eagle wrote:
> That's only one very large scalar Because.
Ah, but a large scalar with 5000 words in it. :)
Jim
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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On 11/10/14 18:04, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:27:00 -0400, Bald Eagle wrote:
>
>> That's only one very large scalar Because.
>
> Ah, but a large scalar with 5000 words in it. :)
>
> Jim
>
Might I remind you three that Finals are less than a year away?
When a question requires clever maths it will indicate it. In this case
the question clearly required a confirmation or refutation of the
original statement.
McAvoy, fewer hours in the company of the Low Flyer would seem to be
indicated.
Henderson, a lack of breadth in your answer. Ask McAvoy for a taste of
his stash.
BaldEagle, I know little of you. Professor De Groot speaks highly of
your abilities ... but if you think this course will be simple, you have
another think coming. Less High-school simplicity and more real world
problem solving, please.
(Professor) John
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Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children
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