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Too much dope ...
What a mess, at first Malcom and now that. I hope the album is ready.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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This is not surprising given that the alleged purchaser of murder a la carte is a member of a musical group that has been murdering the ears of millions for decades.
However, I predict that if he's convicted, he'll serve no time behind bars, because the big hearing-aid companies, cochlear implant manufacturers, and the various professional associations for otolaryngology, will exert their incredible political influence.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Evidently dirty deeds can't be done dirt cheap!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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His defense was overheard to be , "I said I needed to rub one out, not rub someone out!"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Makes a change form being their own targets (Moon and Bonzo). Even Ginger Baker nearly drove off a cliff once in Africa.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I for one was amazed at Baker turning up to Bruces funeral, didn't know about the cliff will have a google for it!
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It was before the days of the internet, I believe that drink was involved! Something about a Jensen Interceptor and a road sign in Afikaans if my memory serves, although it was a looooooong time ago. Of course, it may have been exaggerated at the time and I couldn't find reference in a quick search! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ah okay, I do remember Ginger Baker having a Jensen...
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Good, maybe I'm not going senile!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I spend money on good laptops. Occasionally, there are design issues, and I'm smelling one. A few months back, my precision m4700 started sporadically locking up - clearly a video card issue. It got worse, and finally the unit would not boot at all. I was prepared for the typical support process and after demonstrating that I had 4 backup drives that *all* failed to boot, Dell agreed, my card was bad. So they changed it out.
All was well.
Until tonight 
Scrambled graphics, no BS, gone.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Have you tried turning it off and then turning it back on again?
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Sure, that fixes it until the next time. The problem is that I can easily have dozens of windows up, depending on what projects I'm working on. So crashes are painful (stating the obvious).
I have two theories I'm working now - the Radeon cards are just $$@# or swapping between HDMI and display port might trigger this. I'm taking the easy road - just swap the card out.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'd make sure you have the latest drivers for the video card. If they are Radeon cards, then most likely it is an AMD/ATI card. Go to their site instead of Dell's. Dell tends to not keep them updated.
Also a BIOS update may be in order as well. If there is a newer BIOS for your machine, get it and install it.
I've seen weird problems like this get fixed by driver and BIOS updates.
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Yeah, all good suggestions, and I am up to date. In fact, the AMD drivers are actually way way out ahead of anything Dell is supplying. The last time this started happening, I went the driver route, because I could not defend myself. But I pulled a backup from my safety deposit box (6 months old), and it would not boot either.
I think I smell what might be annoying the graphics card. I use this laptop at two different locations. In my customer's lab, I use the HDMI connection and at home the display port. I'm going to change the way that's done and see if it doesn't stop.
I would not rule out a design issue on the card itself.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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QFTD: "Computers are great for solving all sorts of problems that you wouldn't have if there were no computers."
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Well, new motherboard and graphics card to be installed next week. No argument from Dell. That makes me wonder.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Meh. Dell is getting as bad as Comcast.
Tuesday: Hi, this is the dell automated system. We'd like to fix your laptop tomorrow between 830AM and 530PM.
Me: wtf?
Wednesday: waiting for call to refine service... at 1130AM - your tech will be on-site about 230pm. He'll call.
It's now 4pm. I'm back on "ole reliable'. As soon as I login, the Display Driver restarts. I'm hoping it's just a one of burp.
Tech had the audacity to suggest my backup power supply (same voltage, same current, etc, just not the absurdly overpriced model with the Dell logo) was part of the problem. Right....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Son of a $itch!
So, laptop is BSOD now at least twice a day. Today, I'm going to pop out my SSD and replace it with an older backup. The elephanting technician reassembled the unit wrong. I cannot get the damn hard drive out (usually you just press the release and it ejects). In trying to coax it out, it has that feeling that it's hung up on something for the motherboard.
I don't think this is going to end well.
So now Dell wants me to return the unit to Depot - not with my SSD in it... Just hell no...
And I was going to work today. Reaching for bottle
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Ok, I have just read up on Optogenetics and this is amazing, imo (yeah yeah, I am way behind).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64X7vHSHOE[^]
I guess we just need medicine and fiber cable in our brains and we'll be good to go. The video is worth the watch just to see the mouse run in circles and the cable to its head. 
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JoeSox wrote: I guess we just need medicine and fiber cable in our brains and we'll be good to go.
That's disgusting. Combining algae DNA with nerve cells is just so effin wrong.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: That's disgusting.
Perhaps, but the scientific method does not 'think' of terms of disgusting or not.
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JoeSox wrote: but the scientific method does not 'think' of terms of disgusting or not.
Nor does it think in terms of right or wrong. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Nor does it think in terms of right or wrong.
That's fine, because the universe doesn't operate that way.
The scientific method does, however, operate on the basis "proven correct" and "proven incorrect".
And that's also fine, because the universe doesn't do anything that it has proven incorrect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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JoeSox wrote: Perhaps, but the scientific method does not 'think' of terms of disgusting or not.
Of course except for the fact that science has studied exactly that.
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