I think anyone speaking honestly would agree that "something" is wrong but unfortunately many of them will still fight to the death to preserve the status quo because they are greedy. If the "shitty shareholders" weren't there to be an excuse the executives in charge (who also are shareholders, remember) would just come up with some other excuse.
Your omniscient, omnipotent, everloving (except when you piss him off) creator who just happens to be known for destroying entire continents at a whim? Yea I think you call him whatever he tells you to call him.
From what I've read 2D *is* faster for many of the cards but not all, and only notably so for the older ones that Nvidia has shuffled off to their "legacy" driver. 3D, from what I have heard, does not work at all on most cards, and is massively slower across the board on the few older cards for which there is some minimal support working thus far.
Maybe my information is out-dated now but I would say if you have archaic Nvidia hardware (AGP-era and earlier) then this driver may be a breath of fresh air for you as far as features (KMS support, woo-woo!) and 2D application performance. For all other purposes... eh, I'd say the future of this project shows promise but it could use some generosity from Nvidia of the same sort they provided for the forcedeth ethernet driver.
Which I do, but I also care about performance. I've found myself having to switch back and forth between it and the propreitary Nvidia driver on some machines.
You would be really surprised how much of this can be mitigated if your sysadmins and support staff already have a Linux backround of some sort. One person with 5 or so years of experience customizing a specific Linux distribution can virtually eliminate amost all of the cost of training for the transition for the rest of the staff simply by creating and deploying some common desktop software and related customizations to make it "more like Windows."
...but we all know who started it; MySpace and FaceBook.
Indoctrinate the children into an environment where even the unwanted breaches in privacy just make you more popular (or at least more talked about) then this type of downhill slide into a complete lack of respect for personal information is practically inevitable.
Once the politicians and corporations realize how popular you can make it to be irresponsible with your personal data and just how much easier that makes it to harvest said data then basically everyone is on board with it.
By the time society as a whole catches up in understanding (the "Oh my God, what has science done?!" factor) its already too late for anyone to do anything about.
Oh we do that here in the US too, for most salaried jobs. But then we *also* tax your property, your spending, your savings and then every year we also make you fill out forms that tax you more.
You belong in Star Trek, and most likely that is the only world where we will ever see such ideas come to pass. At least without a really bloody and painful intermission.
And here we see the crux of the problem; becuase the greedy few will always be the justification the apathetic masses use to avoid changing the status quo to something better. Imagine the possibilities if everyone woke up one day and just decided to stop using "well if I didn't someone else would anyway" as the justification for their own complete and willful lack of altruism and foresight.
But I'd pay double to just be shot out of a cannon at the target landing zone or something - anything instead of having to spend the rest of the 6 hour journey with the same people I had to stand in line with.
No, he's referring to a conspicuous weakness of the final lines of (quad-core, btw) G5 macs compared to the company's own first competing Intel offerings. Another not-so-well-known weakness is that they also drew more juice under load than most full-sized refrigerators.
OOOOH someone involved in the study who was responsible for securing government funding took offense to my statement and had to mode me down huh? Next time you fuckers want to find something like this bullshit out I can save the taxpayers a few million dollars and you guys a few years of your lives by just giving you the same results myself with nothing more than the cost of a sheet of LSD and a case of brandy.
I like dvdbackup to rip the contents of the DVD, then I just concatenate the VOBs together manually with cat and pass them through ffmpeg to compress them;
for BLAH in 1 2; do ffmpeg -i [VOB FILE] -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -pass $BLAH -sameq -aspect [ASPECT RATIO] -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec ac3 -sameq [AVI FILE] -map 0:0 -map 0:2; done
Correct, they're blaming the law for a corner they cut in their own software development that now would cost more to correct than potential legal fallout from the loss of user data.
Even by the standards of the time most of the mid-ship hull bolts were well below acceptable specifications. Budget overruns led to the contractors making criminally negligent shortcuts. It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last either.
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I think anyone speaking honestly would agree that "something" is wrong but unfortunately many of them will still fight to the death to preserve the status quo because they are greedy. If the "shitty shareholders" weren't there to be an excuse the executives in charge (who also are shareholders, remember) would just come up with some other excuse.
Your omniscient, omnipotent, everloving (except when you piss him off) creator who just happens to be known for destroying entire continents at a whim? Yea I think you call him whatever he tells you to call him.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage
Maybe this?
Or this perhaps: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HardwareStatus
From what I've read 2D *is* faster for many of the cards but not all, and only notably so for the older ones that Nvidia has shuffled off to their "legacy" driver. 3D, from what I have heard, does not work at all on most cards, and is massively slower across the board on the few older cards for which there is some minimal support working thus far.
Maybe my information is out-dated now but I would say if you have archaic Nvidia hardware (AGP-era and earlier) then this driver may be a breath of fresh air for you as far as features (KMS support, woo-woo!) and 2D application performance. For all other purposes... eh, I'd say the future of this project shows promise but it could use some generosity from Nvidia of the same sort they provided for the forcedeth ethernet driver.
Which I do, but I also care about performance. I've found myself having to switch back and forth between it and the propreitary Nvidia driver on some machines.
I watched the video and thoroughly enjoyed the sound.
I may wire up my (traditional gas engine) car to make the same sound through loudspeakers located underneath the car.
You would be really surprised how much of this can be mitigated if your sysadmins and support staff already have a Linux backround of some sort. One person with 5 or so years of experience customizing a specific Linux distribution can virtually eliminate amost all of the cost of training for the transition for the rest of the staff simply by creating and deploying some common desktop software and related customizations to make it "more like Windows."
MySpace and FaceBook shills spending mod points on me today? I'm honored. Hey guys, how you doing? :)
...but we all know who started it; MySpace and FaceBook.
Indoctrinate the children into an environment where even the unwanted breaches in privacy just make you more popular (or at least more talked about) then this type of downhill slide into a complete lack of respect for personal information is practically inevitable.
Once the politicians and corporations realize how popular you can make it to be irresponsible with your personal data and just how much easier that makes it to harvest said data then basically everyone is on board with it.
By the time society as a whole catches up in understanding (the "Oh my God, what has science done?!" factor) its already too late for anyone to do anything about.
Oh we do that here in the US too, for most salaried jobs. But then we *also* tax your property, your spending, your savings and then every year we also make you fill out forms that tax you more.
You belong in Star Trek, and most likely that is the only world where we will ever see such ideas come to pass. At least without a really bloody and painful intermission.
And here we see the crux of the problem; becuase the greedy few will always be the justification the apathetic masses use to avoid changing the status quo to something better. Imagine the possibilities if everyone woke up one day and just decided to stop using "well if I didn't someone else would anyway" as the justification for their own complete and willful lack of altruism and foresight.
+5 way too smart for the room.
I wanna play...
But I'd pay double to just be shot out of a cannon at the target landing zone or something - anything instead of having to spend the rest of the 6 hour journey with the same people I had to stand in line with.
Probably, but they didn't test for that.
No, he's referring to a conspicuous weakness of the final lines of (quad-core, btw) G5 macs compared to the company's own first competing Intel offerings. Another not-so-well-known weakness is that they also drew more juice under load than most full-sized refrigerators.
OOOOH someone involved in the study who was responsible for securing government funding took offense to my statement and had to mode me down huh? Next time you fuckers want to find something like this bullshit out I can save the taxpayers a few million dollars and you guys a few years of your lives by just giving you the same results myself with nothing more than the cost of a sheet of LSD and a case of brandy.
Fuckers.
Many drugs proven to be more fun than alcohol. News at 11.
Much faster for 3d-intensive gaming, and with less resource usage... when it works, that is.
I really want to understand this joke.
I like dvdbackup to rip the contents of the DVD, then I just concatenate the VOBs together manually with cat and pass them through ffmpeg to compress them;
for BLAH in 1 2; do ffmpeg -i [VOB FILE] -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -pass $BLAH -sameq -aspect [ASPECT RATIO] -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec ac3 -sameq [AVI FILE] -map 0:0 -map 0:2; done
So it does not require any plugins, but is a plugin?
I think they just meant to say the code is designed in a modular fashion, so you don't have to load it all at once.
Just a lucky guess from seeing it happen 1000 times first-hand I suppose. How about you?
Correct, they're blaming the law for a corner they cut in their own software development that now would cost more to correct than potential legal fallout from the loss of user data.
Even by the standards of the time most of the mid-ship hull bolts were well below acceptable specifications. Budget overruns led to the contractors making criminally negligent shortcuts. It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last either.
Woops, you're absolutely correct. That's exactly what I did. Good catch.
Sorry guys. I meant X3D. Fuck this "XML3D" noise.