Indeed. And with that in mind, I would be very interested if anyone can cite even a single credible source that compares "workstation" and "gamer" cards objectively from nVidia and/or AMD. You'll find a load of people who parrot the line that you "must" use the far more expensive workstation cards for certain kinds of professional applications, but few can really tell you why, and even those who do generally refer to drivers rather than any difference in the hardware. And that's before you even get into nVidia doing things like deliberately nerfing the drivers on its gaming cards because otherwise they were going to show up the many-times-more-expensive workstation cards built on essentially the same platform.

I'm with the guys who want Vendor #3. Both personally, as someone who used to enjoy gaming before there was a 50+% chance of pathetic bugs spoiling the experience and at least half of them seemed to be down to poor quality drivers, and professionally, as someone who uses some of those absurdly expensive applications and needs the performance to match, I'm fed up with the constant race to the bottom in quality control and non-existent customer service. I would literally pay twice what I have paid for any recent high-end graphics card, in either a personal or a professional capacity, for a high-end card that worked reliably and came from a vendor that provided honest information to help me choose what I need and then offered real customer support for the useful lifetime of that device.

If someone could fix all these trendy new technologies like HDMI and DisplayPort so they actually worked at least as well as DVI did years ago, that would be nice too. I'm fed up with all the windows on my twin monitor set-up reducing to 640x480 every time I switch the damned monitors off, and apparently the "newer, more advanced" connection technologies used by my "high-end professional workstation" graphics card and accompanying "certified" drivers have a lot to do with it.

If Michael White is that stupid then it explains a lot. The Direct TV UI is completely horrid in every way. The guide sucks the menus suck, the remote sucks. It's better than the garbage that Comcast has, but only marginally. All of the Cable or Satellite providers have the crappiest UI possible on their boxes. Because they refuse to spend any money on them so they have the box engineers simply slap one together for the least possible cost.

Apple is going to wipe the floor with them. If apple finds a way to have a $45.00 a month subscription to most of the desired channels out there but in a On demand form, They will utterly destroy Dish and the others.

The people that voted to pass it never even read it.

In Texts a Cactus can practice Law. That is the state where a lot of the really bad lawyers go as they are incredibly lax on their requirements.

Actually, the person you responded to said:

I note you deliberately left off alcohol, which is most certainly a factor in a great many violent assaults. And the point of the entire thread isn't the specific nature of the harm these various substances do, but the fact that they are all demonstrably harmful to people other than those using them; the question at hand is whether or not this harm is sufficient cause for banning them. If you want to engage in obvious cherry-picking, go ahead, but be aware that it's really not helping you make your case.

You can add up every single murder and suicide committed under the influence of illegal drugs, every death by overdose, every death due to organ failure caused by years of addiction ... and you still won't come close to the number of deaths and the amount of damage caused by the "War on Drugs" rather than the drugs themselves. If you don't think the argument makes sense, that's your problem for not paying attention.

To Slashdot and all its readers, I apologize in advance for what might seem like feeding the Troll, but this needs to be resolved... Wow. I just fired one across your bow. Clearly a mistake and now I take it back with the deepest of apologies. Whatever I said, or did, or suggested in the past that left you in this state. Please forgive my unspeakable hubris, and if at any time I left you insulted or offended then please know that was never my intention. I can be a little brusk at times, especially after that second or third cup of java, and more than anything else, I rattle the tree to see what falls out... I often pick the minority position just to expose people's logic or more than anything else try to find what motivates them. I like understanding why people are the way people are. It has, is, and will continue to be my intention to unconceal, but never to inflict hurt or enmity, and if at any time I left you with upset or anger, then I am sorry, I can be confrontational, and I'm certainly opinionated. However, I'm also socially responsible and if I did anything that left you disrespected then I owe you the deepest of apologies. I play hard with ACs because they have their anonymity to hide behind. That is no excuse however for not being respectful and for that I'm deeply sorry.

Interesting observations. There is a particularly interesting line of thought suggesting that if a post singularity society were to disassemble all or most of the matter in their solar system to convert into "computronium", that they would have to inhabit a limited region surrounding their star for energy reasons and limited from their distance from inner shell to outer shell for reasons of minimized time lag between the communication between inner and outermost shells.

Since the only radiation making it out of the system would be infrared, the system from any distance would look like a garden variety red dwarf. Since the being(s) locked around their star would be at one level vulnerable to traveling technology (and perhaps on a different level be virtually invulnerable), and be busily grinding out whatever interesting civilization they have in exclusion to whatever else was happening in the local galactic region. Such a civilization would almost certainly be interested only in watching, but not particularly motivated to stick their nose(s) into the bailiwick of primitive alien cultures. At best, they might toss occasional probes into deep space with some kind of quantum entangled communications device on board. Its a fun thought experiment.

And only an AC emphasis on the C, would make such a deal about a typographical error... I can't remember hearing many idiots discussing the Drake Equation which either mean your IQ is 300 and you're comparing the conversation with your own lofty intellect, or you're just an insecure twit who adjusts their petty sense of self worth by pointing out ridiculous trivialities like typographical errors. Kudos on you blazing wit, perhaps next time you'd show more than half.

It's worth noting that Massena is on the Canadian border. All that separates them from Canada is the St Lawrence River, and there's a bridge a few miles east of downtown. If it is the DEA, perhaps they're watching people fill their prescriptions with cheap canadian generics they can't buy in the U.S.

Massena is also home to a major hydroelectric power dam, three large aluminum plants (two of which are idle) and the Eisenhower lock on the St. Lawrence seaway (any international ships en route to the great lakes have to stop there), so it could be a place of interest for agencies/companies other than the DEA.