I don't get the obsession with SC. With WOW ok, there's huge potential to waste a lot of time on it. With SC after you finish the game once I don't see a good reason to play it again. With wow there are many ways to play the game, and many things to do in the game even when you're not playing, like the auction house, training, fishing etc. I can easily play wow for 7 hrs continuously, but even 1 hr of starcraft is pushing it for me.
Story title should read: "Faulty video cards with inadequate cooling are freeze when run at their full potential".
Then we'd have other problems, like perhaps wrong English?
it's pathetic for computer hardware to kill itself by overheating, but if you know that it can happen, you should still do your best not to overheat it.
Not if you are within warranty. I purposely run such tests on new machines. I don't want to NOT use my system *for what it is supposed to be designed* cause some corporate fucks couldn't spend a few bucks on proper component engineering or cooling.
No, it shouldn't. The card should be designed such that it is impossible to reach that temperature in the first place. If they can't do that, they shouldn't rate the card to do X when it can only do 0.3X under continuous load. I face this shit problem regularly when I encode video, the CPU goes into overheat and then downclocks to 1/3rd of full speed. I paid for 2100MHz continuously, you dumb fcuk, NOT 2100 for 2 minutes and then 798 for the rest of the time. This crap has to stop.
Don't know if you've considered it but India is great for medical tourism. You can get the same job done there for much less. I know someone who went there for some knee replacement or something (can't remember what it was exactly). The major cost would be the ticket....
Well all the best! Sometimes I wish I could fast forward to couple of generations in the future, where things like eyes, teeth, heart etc should be easy enough replacements and wouldn't affect your life. I was actually curious about your case cause I know a guy who smashed some teeth completely when he fell in his bath tub. But he easily got them restored and it looked like new. If you're going for a cheaper alternative try to find out if it can be undone later, like if you want to plumb for the expensive ones sometime in the future it should be doable
My provider allows third party modems. Absent a conspiracy between manufacturers and providers, there is no way they can force updates on my equipment.
Actually they can even with third party modems. Cox is able to flash the firmware on my cable modem which I purchased externally. They actually did it many times. Once I was having problems and they said they will update the firmware remotely. After that completed, all settings including security were all reset to factory defaults.
Well, maybe you should start with http://www-personal.umich.edu/~scheeres/conferences/AIAA-2004_1446.pdf , http://www.b612foundation.org/papers/wpdynamics.pdf etc. Most of the posts on this thread are ignorant and clueless. Don't treat everything you don't understand with scorn.
Please also see this http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale1.html
THE TORINO IMPACT HAZARD SCALE
No Hazard
(White Zone)
0
The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero. Also applies to small objects such as meteors and bodies that burn up in the atmosphere as well as infrequent meteorite falls that rarely cause damage.
Actually there are many objects we are monitoring, please see http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/.
This object's impact probability is 7.1*10E-4. That's 0.00071, and not 1/1000.
The Torino Scale Color says white, which means impact is almost impossible.
Most of the times even if the probability is increased, it is quickly reduced after some investigation.
Currently the most dangerous object is 2007 VK184 (2048-2057) which gets green rating. This article is nothing more than sensationalist and stupid.
More like 72 years. NASA says that they would need to start actual diversion operations 100 years in advance, which leaves 72 years to figure it out.
Cars have been turning well for decades now. It isn't rocket science anymore. The real improvements in cars have come in the field of safety, nothing much has changes elsewhere.. And electric cars aren't exactly new, they're just popular now cause we have this environment/oil problem.
What matters is what you leverage it for, not how many use it- China has like 1.3 billion people right. And still it hasn't produced the great scientists, inventors, or respected companies. They are implementers and consumers, not innovators and are treated as such
Do you per chance walk around in an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt?
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
