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I think it has something to do with commercial pesticides and the bees taking pollen from poisoned plants. I have a few friends that run a bee farm and they've been losing entire hives over and over with no explanation for years now.

 

Handy guide:
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http://imagehaul.com/thehauls/6f62491da17c05c10724ad149fcd6910.jpg


In other news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6XayaLTw8
haters gonna hate.

Seriously though, this is the 'if you can't beat them, join them' approach. It was an inevitability I suppose, but taking leaves out of nvidia's marketing book is a disappointing way for AMD to try and cover their lost ground.

 

Ha ha! Thanks for that!

And as for the video... :S

 

that video....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA im crying with laughter on my chair!

 

LMFAO Sam that's great! Hahahaha good stuff!

 

http://www.gamersbliss.com/2012/02/...ted-multiplayer-but-underrated-singleplayer…/

Sorry for the double but this article is awesome. It further reinforces my points about CoD. Even the weakest game in the series, World at War, had an outstanding campaign with unforgettable characters and set pieces. Too bad WaW's only truly good looking scene is the fountain scene. It is literally better textured and composed than the rest of the game.

The multiplayer has made everyone ignore some of the best FPS campaigns ever. All of them are worth playing. United Offensive(CoD 1 expansion), Black Ops and MW2 are especially good.

Also, Daniel_K has released his hacked Creative sound chip drivers for Windows 8 with some minor updates for the other OS's as well. My good old X-Fi Xtreme Music has never had an issue with any game, ever, period, lol. It's over 6 years old and still sounds like honey

 

I was hoping perhaps that the Google affiliation would go some way to diminish the impact of Asus' terrible build quality on the Nexus 7.
Clearly that is not the case, and right on cue, our 6 months of 'Asus time' is up.

 

Is that a result of external damage or simply happened on its own?

My ASUS monitor has been fine going on 2 years now, so I guess I can't complain much. I would imagine mine is a case of ASUS simply slapping a badge on another mfg's product. AFAIK the panel is a Samsung or a Viewsonic. Above and beyond what I actually paid for that's for sure. Excellent monitor.

Honestly I couldn't care less about tablets. Sure, they're dead useful, but their power and flexibility are limited. IMO the only tablet OS currently worth using is Windows 8 due to reasons of compatibility and customization. In relative terms, Windows 8 is very open and easy to modify on the fly compared to say iOS or Android. It also has the added advantage of being compatible with the last ~15 years worth of software that is miles higher quality and more powerful than any "App". It also eliminates a lot of the learning curve and allows direct software compatibility with most desktop PCs. In that regard, I consider Windows 8 somewhat of a major win for mobile computing. I do have to give credit where it's due, Windows 8 is not shoddily made, only the UI is, haha.

My iPad 2 went bye bye after iOS 5.1 killed a 3 month old battery from about 10-12 hours of movies, gaming, and youtube down to maybe 3 if you don't do anything intensive. It also disabled features and forced others to be "always on". I knew the risks, I knew Apple's reputation, but it was a great deal brand new from a friend and I needed a portable Google machine. The running theory is that Apple were selective about what hardware was "broken" by the update in an attempt to force more users to upgrade. It happened to my wonderful iPod Touch 3 as well when iOS 5.0 came out, which was what prompted the purchase of the iPad 2. I loved that iPod. Apple's proprietary hardware has the potential to be exceptional at times, downright terrible other times. Most of their products are kinda mediocre.

Basically, I'm not surprised you got burned in the tablet game, Sam. They aren't worried about quality products or supporting them. They want to force you to constantly upgrade and make you into a steady source of income. I'm not sure if there is a truly good quality tablet. Samsung are the best I know of, but... Android. Not saying Android is bad but it has most of the same limitations inherent of iOS.

 

This is a defect, not accident damage. It varies depending on how the device is moved, it is not a static corruption of the image.
so far, my Samsung-manufactured Nexus 10, which is older than this 7, is flawless.

As for tablets in general, Android or iOS is the only way to get decent battery life. With Windows 8 you're confined to the 3 hours ish of a regular laptop.

 

That's the sad truth of it. Too bad both iOS and Android kinda suck. Android isn't nearly as bad though, I'll give it that. Interested in a Samsung Galaxy S2 or S3.

 

But then you have TouchWiz to contend with, which IMO is a pretty poor user interface. The relatively powerful hardware in those devices is reduced to an absolute crawl by TouchWiz.

 

sam you actually have genuine problems with ASUS hahaha.

all their products bite you in the behind!

 

This doesn't actually belong to me, but it is in the family, and I did technically buy it as a christmas present.

This is a bit of a better illustration of the fault:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNhWO_U14c

It has occurred to me that it could be a fault with the GPU - nvidia's mobile GPUs were known for producing stuff like this in the past, albeit on all of the screen not just one half.

 

I may give Asus a shot again one day. I'll definitely make sure to save all the warranty related material. I've owned a few Asus products. No problems. But only one motherboard. And that was around a time when they were VERY agreeable.

 

The last ASUS motherboard I ever used was my M2N32SLI-Deluxe. This was of course on the excellent nForce 590 SLI chipset and back when ASUS took true pride in their products. Heh, both Nvidia and ASUS have come a long way from that excellent motherboard. Too bad nForce 6 was such crap. It dragged down otherwise good boards.

 

Agreed. I had more than 2 Nforce chipsets overheat, rendering the board/s useless I certainly hope that is in the past!

 

Given that nvidia were banned from making chipsets for desktop boards, I'd say that it is

 

Ha ha, good to know

 

That's a funny story all on its own. Nvidia basically accused Intel of trying to stifle GPU advancement. Right, like one of the biggest PC hardware companies ever needs a boost. What a dirty, slanderous, and childish tactic.

Intel countered with the fact that they had a limited-time contractual agreement that did not apply to the latest generations of hardware. In the basest sense, Nvidia were trying to force Intel to extend their contract, and Intel had no legal obligation, or want to do so.

In my own opinion, Intel was sick of Nvidia producing horrible chipsets that reflected badly on their own products. nForce 6 and 7 had horrible reputations, rightly deserved. Intel basically had to step-up their own R&D and start putting out proper quality chipsets or there would be nothing worthwhile on the market. Not to mention that Nvidia simply refused to allow Crossfire support on their hardware, at a time when both technologies(CF and SLI) still had major teething problems, which limited their marketability. Granted, AMD weren't any better, for the most part only allowing Crossfire. But even AMD have changed their tune with the latest generations. My board does not allow SLI, but anything currently available does.

Again, nForce 4 and 5 were pretty damn good. 4 was good, 5 was great. But 6... I have a few horror stories about that. XFX, eVga, Apox, none of them could make a 680i board last. I bought a 965p board for half the price and it ran better by miles and never died. AFAIK it's still working to this day with a 3GHz OC'd E6600 in it.

 

heh i never had a problem with asus... 3 gfx cards still kicking(8800/275/580) 2 motherboards still working(P5Q PRO Turbo/P8 Z77-V LX) gigabyte on the other hand... oh man... 2 motherboards dead(Z68AP-D3/G41MT-S2PT) at one point i had VIA motherboard and it died the same day i got it... the bios chip fried when i was testing overclocking... i still have a working winfast(6100k8ma-rs) based on nvidia 410 :3 and once i had msi board... i hate that company... the motherboard had 17 caps swollen lol.... im an asus fan i even got VG236 from asus never done me any harm and still kicking after 2 years ^_^