Nonsense. First, AMD's driver performance lags behind nvidia in general. Second, AMD's linux driver peformance lags well behind their windows driver. Third, AMD frequently drops hardware from the proprietary driver before it is well-supported, and some hardware is never supported properly at all, like the R690M chipset's GPU. Just get graphic trash if I try to use it. But the windows driver is also shit and causes problems with power management.

ATI is just incompetent, and no amount of handwaving can change that. Becoming part of AMD has, if anything, made things worse. Now their parts are competitive, but the drivers are still garbage.

Not really. They've trickled out just enough information to support new cards, while never really providing enough information to use old cards. My R690M still doesn't work properly under Linux.

No, most of the bias against AMD is due to their disastrous drivers today. I've still never had ATI graphics work properly with ATI's driver. If there's not a hacked driver (e.g. DnA) available, then the driver causes me nightmares and headaches. CCC is still festering shit. It's as big as a driver should be by itself.

So far, what it hasn't led to is their hardware working properly, which is a lot more important to most of us.

Nah, it's mostly lip service. They abandon hardware from their driver long before it's properly supported, nVidia supports much older hardware in their driver. And they don't really give all the information you need, just little dribs and drabs.

Maybe someday they will deserve your admiration, but right now, they're fakers. Maybe someday they will e.g. provide the support for Linux to do proper power management of mobile Athlon 64 processors.

Citation? I can't find reports of problems like that with external sound cards. I have an nVidia 750Ti (formerly had a 450GT) and an m-Audio Mobile Pre USB and there are absolutely no problems.

yeah, the nineties were the last time cars were worth a shit, too.

My first car was a 1960 Dodge Dart 2dr (Phoenix) with the 318ci V8 engine. It had 240 or 260 HP (opinions vary) and got over 20 MPG on the freeway... in spite of being 19.5' long, 6.5' wide, and about 4700 pounds wet. You can't compare the sixties and seventies at all.

You get a deliberate lockout in those conditions because of immobilizer codes. If I want to swap the PCM, cluster, or immo unit in my A8, I have to involve a dealer so I can recode the unit being replaced.

It doesn't do that. You just have to get the code with the radio. It decreases the value of used radios without the code, and increases the value of used radios with the code, but it doesn't devalue the radios completely.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You need to go parts shopping, $1000 for a single HID headlight (including the housing and the ballast) is not unusual.

When are you going to list channels with news, and not bullshit entertainment?

.250 ain't even good in baseball.

More and more of which will come to the internet over time.

My set will do 20-30 watts depending on what it's doing. Again, assuming it works at all. I couldn't pass it up, though.