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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Don't update
Date: 12 Oct 2014 22:49:34
Message: <543b3dbe$1@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:05:37 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 12/10/2014 07:16, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:27:40 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What does “Stash” mean in WA?
>>
>> Pretty much what you'd expect - a cache of illicit drugs.  Though here,
>> marijuana is legal, so it sometimes is used in reference to that, too.
>>
>>
> What! No street cred this side of the pond?
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N0IjBgyFoE

Well, maybe a little. ;)

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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Don't update
Date: 13 Oct 2014 03:05:19
Message: <543b79af$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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,

I think the suspicion is that they only cripple the older hardware, not 
the latest versions. There may well be perfectly valid explanations (ie 
they don't test old hardware as thoroughly with the latest drivers)
  - but it doesn't stop people thinking it is on purpose.


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