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« on: April 05, 2010, 05:08 PM »
Wow, such a cool feature caused by such a small accident in the coding stages! 
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Or perhaps they don't need to spend the time customizing just to get something running that gets their point across. Perhaps you should be a little less nit-picky :-P-Josh (April 04, 2010, 01:38 AM)
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My business bank account demands you login as normal and then to access account info you have to use a device that that looks like a calculator which you have to insert your debit card, use your card pin in the device and it creates a unique 8 digit code for that session. Very effective - and even puts me off using online banking because it is so convoluted!-Carol Haynes (April 01, 2010, 02:58 PM)
I think my hair most have lightened to a slightly lighter shade of blond, recently, because I looked at that pic quite a few times and didn't get it...couldn't figure out how not smoking pie would help anyone lose weight. I don't know any fat people that smoke pie. In fact, I don't know anyone that smokes pie.
Then I just looked at it again and realized what it was.-app103 (April 02, 2010, 10:32 PM)
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I think that the title of this post is incorrect. The Large Hadron Collider does not smash atoms, it smashes ... hadrons.-bgd77 (April 01, 2010, 11:30 AM)
probably would also require going in "official announcements" too. (plus mouser being the author.)-nudone (April 01, 2010, 07:18 AM)
The giggling sounds of a hyena contain important information about the animal's age, dominance and identity, scientists have found.
In the study, researchers recorded the calls of 26 hyenas in captivity and found that variations in the giggles' pitch and timbre help hyenas to establish social hierarchies.
Frederic Theunissen, from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and Nicolas Mathevon, from the Universite Jean Monnet, St. Etienne, France worked with a team of researchers to study the animals in a field station at Berkeley.
"The hyena's laugh gives receivers cues to assess the social rank of the emitting individual. This may allow hyenas to establish feeding rights and organize their food-gathering activities," Theunissen said.
The researchers found that while the pitch of the giggle reveals a hyena's age, variations in the frequency of notes can encode information about dominant and subordinate status.
These vocalizations are mainly produced during food contests by animals that are prevented from securing access to a kill, and have been considered a gesture of submission.
Theunissen and colleagues also suggest that the giggle may be a sign of frustration and that it may be intended to summon help.
"Lions often eat prey previously killed by hyenas. A solitary hyena has no chance when confronted by a lion, whereas a hyena group often can 'mob' one or two lions and get their food back. Giggles could therefore allow the recruitment of allies," he said.
"Cooperation and competition are everyday components of a hyena's life. When hearing a giggling individual, clan-mate hyenas could receive information about who is getting frustrated (in terms of individual identity, age, status) and decide to join the giggler, or conversely to ignore it or move away," he added.
The researchers plan to further test these hypotheses with playback experiments in the field.
The study appears in the open access journal BMC Ecology.
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At six minutes past noon, after 25 years of preparation and several expensive setbacks, mankind yesterday came closer to knowing the origins of the universe.
Scientists cheered as the £5billion Large Hadron Collider finally smashed beams of sub-atomic particles into each other at greater force than ever before.
And they say the results will yield a much better understanding of what happened at the Big Bang - the birth of our universe.
The historic moment, at 12.06BST, ends years of scepticism about the collider, built at the European Organ-ization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva.
It also marks the beginning of the search to reveal the mysteries of matter and anti-matter and the origin of stars and planets.
In a control room, scientists erupted with applause when the first collisions were confirmed and colleagues from around the world tuned in by remote links.
"That's it!" said Dr Oliver Buchmueller of Imperial College London. "We are going where nobody has been before." And CERN director general Rolf Heuer said: "It's a great day to be a particle physicist."
The collisions took place with an energy of seven billion electron volts (7TeV) at just under the speed of light in the 27km (16.8 mile) collider tunnel, 100m below the Swiss-French border.
The record beats the 2.36TeV that CERN recorded last year.
Fears the experiments could lead to the creation of mini black holes threatening the Earth have been dismissed as "silly" by scientists.
Cern plans to run the collider for up to two years before closing it down for repairs to allow it to reach its full potential. By then it is hoped to have enough data to reveal the composition of a quarter of the universe.
Britain has invested more than £500million in the LHC.
The MSI-forum and MSI-support team are fed-up with explaining you what can be found in the manual.
I mean, come on, how hard is it to read a manual?
They are printed on paper so you see them.
We have been talking to MSI for a couple of years and came up with a solution.
It has been implemented on a few boards for some time and with big success.
It had various names, like CoreCenter (1st gathering tool) upto DrMOS (fully automatic)
Some of you noticed because Windows wanted you to install a driver, but you couldn’t find the manufacturer.
On AMD systems this was called the Away-driver.
What you didn’t know is this, this driver activates the RTFM-chip. (Re-Turn inFormation to Manufacturer chip)
It means it can detect if you read a manual as well stores the parameters you have set in the BIOS.
As soon as you start Windows we are informed about your settings and manual readings.
As we have been monitoring peoples behavior for some time and combined those with the RMA information from returned boards.
At the same time monitoring questions on the forum and matched the IP’s.
We have made a discovery.
A lot of RMA is unneeded and unwanted, many happens due to user mistakes, numbers show that 90% of the RMA is OC people killing boards and
newbies connecting the wrong connectors or insert parts that should not be inserted.
Or simply forget to remove standoffs or CPU-power.
MSI plans on tackles those numbers, and the RTFM-chip will give a readout of what you have done when it did post or attempted to post!
Checking on you isn’t new, Homeland-security done this ever you installed XP-SP3 or above, but their info in encrypted so useless to MSI.
So MSI decided to ban people from support, RMA and the forum who has done the damage themselves or didn’t read the manual the first of next month.
We know who you are, and we have gathered enough information via our RTFM-chip.
The only question is, should MSI continue to do this? As some information is real bad.
Will this hurt you relation with MSI products?
Please let us know, as we have to talk to MSI management the first of next month and make them decide what to do with the information.
To unsubscribe from these announcements, login to the forum and uncheck “Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email.” in your profile.
You can view the full announcement by following this link:
http://forum-en.msi....x.php?topic=136806.0
Regards,
The MSI HQ User to User Forum Team.
Hi there,
We are sorry people took this for prank for serious.
Nobody seem to have wondered what RTFM really means.
If you put the term in Google, you will find it is telling you to read the manual.
Just think, how would a chip check if you read manuals?
We thought of this prank after answering the many posts where people ask the obvious that is already in the manual.
But we learned a valuable lesson, no more April-fools jokes from the forum, a 10 year old thing just died.
Sorry that you took it for real and got mad.
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The point of a Turing machine for those that don't understand, is the concept that, a very simple and limited set of operations can do any computation that is computable. It is the basics for all computers that we use today. The idea was first presented in the late 1930's and this is the first example of a machine that works much like the original example. In short, it's a math thing.
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-zelin (March 26, 2010, 09:58 PM)
Slightly OT: Why does it use Orwell's "Animal Farm" as the example...doesn't seem like a post that would be found here...at least, id hope not haha-Stephen66515 (March 23, 2010, 07:27 PM)
Well...it wouldn't until your post.
(see attachment in previous post)-40hz (March 23, 2010, 09:04 PM)
