Just this past week I rebuilt my HTPC going from Boxee (which orphaned its support of Linux) and went to XBMC. I have personal knowledge of the dumb problems with the Catalyst driver.
XBMC is a project whose users take a lot of advantage of old hardware. The other part are dealing with small form factor hardware. A lot of it does happen to be proprietary garbage. In my case I purchased a Dell Zino several years ago for the task. There isn't much choice about for these items, and rolling you own at this size is often clunky (though a lot more feasible now than 3 or so years ago). You're going to find a lot of Nvidia (no fucking way) and AMD.
So you have one group of people that are re purposing and one group with specialty hardware. Not a lot of hardware choice in either, really.
So, yeah, this is a big deal. There is no real reason from my point of view not to provide a good driver for my platform of choice.
What the hell is this? Since when has Paypal been concerned about quality of service to ANYONE?
Every problem I have ever reported has resulted in a metaphorical slap in the face, tons of paperwork, or both. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent but the scammers who can easily sidestep anything they do and only the honest get punished. Why would this be different with bugs?
I am left without mod points now. Dang. This is a -1 Troll post if ever there was one.
The problem with "e"voting is you are using what has to be a complex technical system for something done for hundreds or thousands of years in a simple way, either by hand counting or counting slips of paper. If you believe in the KISS principle this is one case where the solution might be not to play as the lives of an entire country are to blame.
Even if you screw up micro controller code and overexposing someone to radiation in the famous incident it's only *one* person, not a country.
I don't have any problems with closed source projects in general; I think there would be a lot of needed software for small industries that wouldn't get written otherwise as open source needs a huge group of knowledgeable users to work. I don't get close-sourced drivers, though. I don't get it just from the side of a open source user OR from the business side. I just underwent another struggle with closed source ATI drivers over the past couple of days in which the regular Ubuntu installer wasn't working right and neither was their downloadable installer, so I am frustrated and a little biased this morning, but I don't see what they have to hide and I don't see how it hurts them to have various people working on their own version of the driver or sending patches in. I think it's shooting their REAL userbase (i.e. the people who recommend certain hardware vendors to people who don't pay attention to such things) in the foot.
Not only that, they are voting for congresscritters that don't listen to a constituent for any reason. They go to town meetings so their voters can "see it their way." They don't even pretend that they care any longer... but Joe Idiot will continue to vote for them because of the (R) after their name.
Societies have to act as a whole to have good educational institutions.
I think Wisconsin is a great example of this. The state has put teachers under attack because the Republican part of the state (including many outside interests) have their own agenda.
The Scandinavian countries have worked to make teaching a profession that has good pay and benefits and they have the results to show for it. There is care for society as a whole. Here in the U.S., however, we are going through the most selfish period of our history so far. No one (especially those with money) wants to spend a dollar that doesn't personally help them.
The Congress is a great example of pure classic conditioning, except the reward isn't cheese, it's money.
You reward even the mindless and they will do what you want. They also see their buddies getting revolving door jobs and that acts as a delayed gratification. This is why you get nothing but the money hungry in Congress now. If your gratification is helping your constituents you don't survive very long.
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Business software made for business by businessmen, with the predictable results.
I remember a Saturday Night Live joke commercial, but here is a different one from Mad TV.
send....more.....speaker.........wire.
Fine. Don't support Linux. If you say you support Linux, then REALLY support it. There shouldn't be a middle ground in this issue. It's pretty simple.
that's pretty fucking pedantic right there...
We liked you better when you were posting as an A.C. Obviously the same person.
The only reason it is a "poorly supported platform" is that they are CHOOSING to support it poorly.
you need not ask permission for that...
This is a dumbass troll, but I have to bite this one... how the hell do you figure this true?
We're generally not the people calling support for help, we're the ones finding the answer and sending it in for free.
Now go away and get an push-up pop.
Just this past week I rebuilt my HTPC going from Boxee (which orphaned its support of Linux) and went to XBMC. I have personal knowledge of the dumb problems with the Catalyst driver.
XBMC is a project whose users take a lot of advantage of old hardware. The other part are dealing with small form factor hardware. A lot of it does happen to be proprietary garbage. In my case I purchased a Dell Zino several years ago for the task. There isn't much choice about for these items, and rolling you own at this size is often clunky (though a lot more feasible now than 3 or so years ago). You're going to find a lot of Nvidia (no fucking way) and AMD.
So you have one group of people that are re purposing and one group with specialty hardware. Not a lot of hardware choice in either, really.
So, yeah, this is a big deal. There is no real reason from my point of view not to provide a good driver for my platform of choice.
not my fault you don't get the reference...
Oh my gods.. I can't breathe!
What the hell is this? Since when has Paypal been concerned about quality of service to ANYONE?
Every problem I have ever reported has resulted in a metaphorical slap in the face, tons of paperwork, or both. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent but the scammers who can easily sidestep anything they do and only the honest get punished. Why would this be different with bugs?
I am left without mod points now. Dang. This is a -1 Troll post if ever there was one.
The problem with "e"voting is you are using what has to be a complex technical system for something done for hundreds or thousands of years in a simple way, either by hand counting or counting slips of paper. If you believe in the KISS principle this is one case where the solution might be not to play as the lives of an entire country are to blame.
Even if you screw up micro controller code and overexposing someone to radiation in the famous incident it's only *one* person, not a country.
Yeah.. give corporations the same rights as governments. That always works out for the best.
I don't have any problems with closed source projects in general; I think there would be a lot of needed software for small industries that wouldn't get written otherwise as open source needs a huge group of knowledgeable users to work. I don't get close-sourced drivers, though. I don't get it just from the side of a open source user OR from the business side. I just underwent another struggle with closed source ATI drivers over the past couple of days in which the regular Ubuntu installer wasn't working right and neither was their downloadable installer, so I am frustrated and a little biased this morning, but I don't see what they have to hide and I don't see how it hurts them to have various people working on their own version of the driver or sending patches in. I think it's shooting their REAL userbase (i.e. the people who recommend certain hardware vendors to people who don't pay attention to such things) in the foot.
Actually, if you are a certain type of spammer maybe you would...
Not only that, they are voting for congresscritters that don't listen to a constituent for any reason. They go to town meetings so their voters can "see it their way." They don't even pretend that they care any longer... but Joe Idiot will continue to vote for them because of the (R) after their name.
When kids point out logical errors in the question on a standardized test they get slapped down.
I did this on a standard writing test when I was in high school and got blasted for it.
DETENTION!
and he got detention...
Rick Scott got elected once.
Every person that voted for that guy should be forced to write the rest of the country an apology letter.
This will be modded "flamebait" I know, but this is the type of reasoning that the GOP is using to make all of their arguments right now.
Before you hit that button, I am aware that the Democrats are doing the same thing a lot of the time as well.
Societies have to act as a whole to have good educational institutions.
I think Wisconsin is a great example of this. The state has put teachers under attack because the Republican part of the state (including many outside interests) have their own agenda.
The Scandinavian countries have worked to make teaching a profession that has good pay and benefits and they have the results to show for it. There is care for society as a whole. Here in the U.S., however, we are going through the most selfish period of our history so far. No one (especially those with money) wants to spend a dollar that doesn't personally help them.
I think you are remembering the Atlanta Test Fraud scandal.
The Congress is a great example of pure classic conditioning, except the reward isn't cheese, it's money.
You reward even the mindless and they will do what you want. They also see their buddies getting revolving door jobs and that acts as a delayed gratification. This is why you get nothing but the money hungry in Congress now. If your gratification is helping your constituents you don't survive very long.