To be honest, I use mine mainly for Netflix and other media related options. Occasionally I do play a game, so it fits perfectly for me. It's no longer just a "gaming console".
Heh, but I'd say the same stuff about my Wii but not have ads.
Frankly the GPU support issues are going to be the big key issue no matter what. Whether you think its wrong/stupid/immoral/wasteful/anti-american or whatever to use Linux as a gaming platform or for any other sort of performance-critical real-time 3d rendering *some* Linux users will still disagree with you and do it anyway. Whether flaws in your business plan and/or shady under-the-table anti-competitive agreements made years ago with certain big software vendors preclude you from giving Linux full support or if its really some legitimate logistics problem *some* Linux users will still disbelieve the excuses and not forgive you for it. Some of those Linux users still consider themselves your paying customers. You will never truly live this down, but don't worry; judging by the word on the street these days neither will any of your competitors.
However, if you want to set up a smokescreen that hides the fact that *someone* in the higher end of Nvidia's chain of command is openly prejudiced against open source software (or just made a shit ton of cash on Microsoft stock perhaps and refuses to believe therefore that Linux is anything other than a waste of the company's time) you could at least consider making an attempt at distro-native packages for your driver that show evidence that you are capable of and willing to put at least half as much effort into working within the rules and parameters of various distro's packaging systems and with their tools properly as you've already put into that big self-extracting NVIDIA-Linux-x86-whatever.run bash script monstrosity to make it capable of the far more arduous task of cleaning up after itself enough to get a working GLX after it has fully subverted and broken said packaging system by using very crude non-native tools and methods that are not dependency-aware.
Well thats one good theory, but I suppose that if its possible to make a virus like Stuxnet primarily target only computers that control Iranian Uranium enriching centerfuges it would be also possible to write the same virus to *avoid* activating itself anywhere in sight of machines owned by anti-virus corporations.
There's still some level of plausible deniability here, the real question is what to do about the fact that installing anti-virus software in the first place is, while not effective enough, also the limit of most user's capabilty to secure their computers.
Come on. I'm serious here. Certainly you've got a better counter-argument than "if you can't afford a solar panel array that takes 20 years to pay for itself you don't deserve one."
For whatever it may (or may not) be worth to an anonymous coward that apparently failed entirely to get the point of my statement, I actually am *opposed* to the currently restrictive and self-destructive import tariffs the US has been placing on exported Chineese solar panels. I'm sick of the pissing contests and the vapor ware. I just want more cost-effectively cheap solar panels and frankly I long ago stopped caring where they even come from. I don't necessarily speak for my other US brethren, but I would be willing to bet that most of us would be HAPPY to buy chineese solar panels sold at a loss if it meant being able to afford solar paneling our places of residence for the first time... basically EVER. See, you might not know this but (in the US at least) solar power is so fucking expensive that (ironically) only people who could give a rat's ass about the rising cost of using the existing electrical grid can actually afford to buy into it./rant
Oh, I just watched a little of the video and realized this isn't emulated using minecraft built-in materials and physics, its just a fancy plugin that lets you make computers in minecraft. Very cool, but not as cool as I originally imagined.
So what type of Mhz can you get out of this thing? Is it feasible on modern hardware for it to run at a clock rate equal to or higher than say, the stock speed of a Commodore 64? And what about I/O interfaces like audio, video and joysticks? How far can this really be taken?
Since I can't mod Adobe "-1 flamebait" I'll just say it again. Fuck you, Adobe! I'd like to go on record as stating that you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Yes, I believe I've also heard that it has been suggested that many different forms of dementia have historically been mis-diagnosed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease incidents. I don't know that it was anything more than speculation though.
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That only assumes entirely vectored thrust flight instead of something like... lighter than air lift from say helium or hot-air.
AM radio causes cancer
The BSD license only protects software authors from lawyers, while the GPL also protects the software itself from the lawyers as well.
There, I said it.
You're absolutely right. The 3 laws of robotics must be ammended! Law #4: Spend! Spend! Spend!
To be honest, I use mine mainly for Netflix and other media related options. Occasionally I do play a game, so it fits perfectly for me. It's no longer just a "gaming console".
Heh, but I'd say the same stuff about my Wii but not have ads.
Frankly the GPU support issues are going to be the big key issue no matter what. Whether you think its wrong/stupid/immoral/wasteful/anti-american or whatever to use Linux as a gaming platform or for any other sort of performance-critical real-time 3d rendering *some* Linux users will still disagree with you and do it anyway. Whether flaws in your business plan and/or shady under-the-table anti-competitive agreements made years ago with certain big software vendors preclude you from giving Linux full support or if its really some legitimate logistics problem *some* Linux users will still disbelieve the excuses and not forgive you for it. Some of those Linux users still consider themselves your paying customers. You will never truly live this down, but don't worry; judging by the word on the street these days neither will any of your competitors.
However, if you want to set up a smokescreen that hides the fact that *someone* in the higher end of Nvidia's chain of command is openly prejudiced against open source software (or just made a shit ton of cash on Microsoft stock perhaps and refuses to believe therefore that Linux is anything other than a waste of the company's time) you could at least consider making an attempt at distro-native packages for your driver that show evidence that you are capable of and willing to put at least half as much effort into working within the rules and parameters of various distro's packaging systems and with their tools properly as you've already put into that big self-extracting NVIDIA-Linux-x86-whatever.run bash script monstrosity to make it capable of the far more arduous task of cleaning up after itself enough to get a working GLX after it has fully subverted and broken said packaging system by using very crude non-native tools and methods that are not dependency-aware.
Well thats one good theory, but I suppose that if its possible to make a virus like Stuxnet primarily target only computers that control Iranian Uranium enriching centerfuges it would be also possible to write the same virus to *avoid* activating itself anywhere in sight of machines owned by anti-virus corporations.
There's still some level of plausible deniability here, the real question is what to do about the fact that installing anti-virus software in the first place is, while not effective enough, also the limit of most user's capabilty to secure their computers.
How about we get some new rights holders? In particular, how about some rights holders that won't keep trying to sandbag back the ocean?
You are a short sight ass. You would make great CEO material.
By the way... Thanks! I'm totally putting that on my resume.
Come on. I'm serious here. Certainly you've got a better counter-argument than "if you can't afford a solar panel array that takes 20 years to pay for itself you don't deserve one."
Lemme guess, own stock in Big Oil? Lucky you...
For whatever it may (or may not) be worth to an anonymous coward that apparently failed entirely to get the point of my statement, I actually am *opposed* to the currently restrictive and self-destructive import tariffs the US has been placing on exported Chineese solar panels. I'm sick of the pissing contests and the vapor ware. I just want more cost-effectively cheap solar panels and frankly I long ago stopped caring where they even come from. I don't necessarily speak for my other US brethren, but I would be willing to bet that most of us would be HAPPY to buy chineese solar panels sold at a loss if it meant being able to afford solar paneling our places of residence for the first time ... basically EVER. See, you might not know this but (in the US at least) solar power is so fucking expensive that (ironically) only people who could give a rat's ass about the rising cost of using the existing electrical grid can actually afford to buy into it. /rant
Oh, I just watched a little of the video and realized this isn't emulated using minecraft built-in materials and physics, its just a fancy plugin that lets you make computers in minecraft. Very cool, but not as cool as I originally imagined.
More ground-breaking world-changing solar technology that will neither break ground or change the world because it will never make it to the consumer.
So what type of Mhz can you get out of this thing? Is it feasible on modern hardware for it to run at a clock rate equal to or higher than say, the stock speed of a Commodore 64? And what about I/O interfaces like audio, video and joysticks? How far can this really be taken?
Touchscreen just broke on my damned phone. Maybe if I drive over there they can tell me who these last 4 texts are from.
Since I can't mod Adobe "-1 flamebait" I'll just say it again. Fuck you, Adobe! I'd like to go on record as stating that you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
I think a better goal would be finding a way to offset electricity costs using the farts.
Yes, I believe I've also heard that it has been suggested that many different forms of dementia have historically been mis-diagnosed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease incidents. I don't know that it was anything more than speculation though.
How would that not be censorship?
What AMD did was an improvement.
Aaaaaaah! All that time spent learning Commodore Basic may yet pay off!
Reagan. Sorry.
Ronald Regan was accused of/praised for such tactics. As it turns out though it was the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease.