I have no problem with the performance of the nouveau drivers, but compared to the proprietary drivers my card (8500 GT) runs quite a bit hotter. So I tend to stick with the proprietary drivers.
If the nouveau devs can address this point, I'd be very content to stick with nouveau.
I could probably get comfortable with Chrome in terms of functionality, except it's from Google, and puts an unbelievable amount of tentacles into your system. I really want to have as little as possible to do with that company.
One of my neighbors when I was a kid had a couple of big mulberry trees that put out enormous quantities of fruit. When it was all ripe and overripe, it would fall to the ground and ferment - just walking by you could smell alcohol. The blue jays used to binge on this stuff and get quite loaded. First, they'd get very very noisy. A while later you'd see them just walking down the sidewalk, not even thinking about flying anywhere. Pretty funny (except the hangover when they woke up the next day, I suppose).
"Neither rusty nor slow moving in this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. "
"Privatization is the best thing we can do for space; government involvement has gotten to big, bloated, and stupid for real innovation."
Is this some kind of religious mantra with people? Privatization might be fine for launching communications satellites, but other than that, any possible business model surely relies on government contracts. Sort of like it is now. Where is the profit motive in going to the Moon or Mars or anywhere else outside of LEO? There isn't one.
"And what exactly do they expect to do when Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones need to get into orbit to save the earth from a disabled soviet nuclear satellite?"
You simply buy a couple of seats on a Soyuz, obviously.
... that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on, then web apps and the whole cloud thing makes some sort of sense. Though there are still privacy and security issues.
But I don't assume that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong.
This is absurd. For a start, we don't have clue one about how to explain consciousness. Secondly, recording physical correlates to unconsciousness is not an explanation. Like so much of this stuff, it is description masquerading as explanation. Not bad as a start, perhaps, but don't call it "explanation".
What utter bullshit. Space is hard, especially for people, and we still have a lot to learn. This has all been part of learning how people and machines work in space.
It's not a breakthrough. It is another layer of complexity to eke out a bit more mileage. What is the infrastructure required to provide this (non) breakthrough? How robust is it?
We don't need cars that get 2% more mileage - we need a Plan B. We haven't got one.
2% is pretty much the depletion rate. But my point is really that an immense amount of complicated tech is going into a paltry bit of gain. Anything but recognizing the problem. The problem isn't getting a couple of percentage points better mileage (which I doubt this will do anyway). The problem is too many people, too many cars, and declining oil production.
You see, shortly before they went to the paid subscription model, I was awarded, for reasons unclear to me, a free subscription for a year. When it runs out, I doubt I shall pay to renew it.
99.999% of the time, it's death threats against Democrats. You don't find Democrats shooting Republicans. It's the wack-job Rethuglicans that like to whip up violent reactions in their constituency. Because they don't have any real ideas. Just anger, hatred, and stupidity.
I was, you know, talking more about actual American people. You know, rather than, you know *cough* Chinese people. You know, in a sort of, you know *cough* sarcastic manner.
If you think I'm a parochial navel-gazer, that says more about you than me.
In closing, all praise Mao. He only ever did good stuff. No, the Cultural Revolution never happened. For that matter, neither did Tienanmen Square.
90% of our stuff here in the US is from China. It's cheap. That's all that matters. Mass censorship, brutal putdowns of dissent, etc. - none of that matters. Real Konsumerism Politik, don't cha know.
There will be no riots, a la Tunisia. Well, maybe for about 5 minutes. Who cares? As long as we get our cheap stuff from China.
Perhaps this trolling story has accomplished its goal: I'm about to abandon all Linux Distros forever just to avoid being considered a part of such an assholish "community" (gag). Seriously, people were down on Ubuntu the minute it became popular. If Ubuntu was successful, obviously it must be evil. And if their distro is coherent, easy to install, use and update, well then it's for the newbie masses, and must be ungood.
Or they set up defaults in a way that didn't please you, though you can easily configure it any way you wanted. No, they were "ramming their dictatorial decisions down my throat". Godz, how many times have I heard that! Oh, but asking someone to configure something is too hard for the newbies. But wait a minute, I thought Ubuntu was bad because it was too newbie-friendly.
A bunch of confused, hypocritical, self-contradictory, whining assholes. If you don't like a distro, FFS don't use it - it's really quite that simple. There's a distro out there for everyone.
I have a somewhat similar setup, though with an "archive" directory for really old stuff. By really old, I mean my 8-bit CP/M days and early DOS stuff - my master's thesis, my first coding in html, etc. I've been at this for so long that my system has evolved, never really planned it out. Let's just say that in 1982 I wasn't thinking in terms of terabytes of storage:-)
Every time I get a new computer, I move everything along, sometimes consolidating and rationalizing the system a bit as I go.
Actually, my system is not quite as rational as yours, but the point is that after all these years I know where everything is. To me, there's a combination of content type and age that needs to be dealt with. The really old stuff is in its own museum, and I know right where to go.
After a while, it feels like curating a museum, really. I don't care about posterity or anything like that, but I don't want to lose anything. I like being able to look up my journals from the 80's and emails from my VAX account at Uni and ancient newsgroup conversations that I filed, and all that.
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What? My respect for Apple just went down.
I have no problem with the performance of the nouveau drivers, but compared to the proprietary drivers my card (8500 GT) runs quite a bit hotter. So I tend to stick with the proprietary drivers.
If the nouveau devs can address this point, I'd be very content to stick with nouveau.
I could probably get comfortable with Chrome in terms of functionality, except it's from Google, and puts an unbelievable amount of tentacles into your system. I really want to have as little as possible to do with that company.
... to report the issue objectively. It seems to be a rather religious/right-wing kind of a place. That said, could be something here...
"Another Global Warming Wankfest"
Because we all know that Vladimir Putin is a tree-hugging environmental wacko, right?
If he's talking about developing the northern coasts of Russia to facilitate this sea route, he obviously thinks this is a permanent trend.
I suppose he might be wrong, but whatever he is, he's not a Global Warming wanker.
One of my neighbors when I was a kid had a couple of big mulberry trees that put out enormous quantities of fruit. When it was all ripe and overripe, it would fall to the ground and ferment - just walking by you could smell alcohol. The blue jays used to binge on this stuff and get quite loaded. First, they'd get very very noisy. A while later you'd see them just walking down the sidewalk, not even thinking about flying anywhere. Pretty funny (except the hangover when they woke up the next day, I suppose).
... and I'm bloody well not delighted.
"Neither rusty nor slow moving in this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. "
WTF is a high performance facade?
"when we start colonising other planets on a large scale"
I.e., never.
Remember that?
http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/internettime/itime_howitworks.html
"Privatization is the best thing we can do for space; government involvement has gotten to big, bloated, and stupid for real innovation."
Is this some kind of religious mantra with people? Privatization might be fine for launching communications satellites, but other than that, any possible business model surely relies on government contracts. Sort of like it is now. Where is the profit motive in going to the Moon or Mars or anywhere else outside of LEO? There isn't one.
"And what exactly do they expect to do when Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones need to get into orbit to save the earth from a disabled soviet nuclear satellite?"
You simply buy a couple of seats on a Soyuz, obviously.
... that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on, then web apps and the whole cloud thing makes some sort of sense. Though there are still privacy and security issues.
But I don't assume that Web access is going to continue to be cheap, fast, and always-on. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong.
This is absurd. For a start, we don't have clue one about how to explain consciousness. Secondly, recording physical correlates to unconsciousness is not an explanation. Like so much of this stuff, it is description masquerading as explanation. Not bad as a start, perhaps, but don't call it "explanation".
is a flaming asshole. He should be sued by the Maori, from whom he ripped off "his" design. What a scumbag.
Yeah, sure.
What utter bullshit. Space is hard, especially for people, and we still have a lot to learn. This has all been part of learning how people and machines work in space.
It's not a breakthrough. It is another layer of complexity to eke out a bit more mileage. What is the infrastructure required to provide this (non) breakthrough? How robust is it?
We don't need cars that get 2% more mileage - we need a Plan B. We haven't got one.
2% is pretty much the depletion rate. But my point is really that an immense amount of complicated tech is going into a paltry bit of gain. Anything but recognizing the problem. The problem isn't getting a couple of percentage points better mileage (which I doubt this will do anyway). The problem is too many people, too many cars, and declining oil production.
Yet another layer of complexity and technology to squeeze out, what, a couple percentage points of "efficiency"? This is Rube Goldberg nonsense.
... and how many there are.
You see, shortly before they went to the paid subscription model, I was awarded, for reasons unclear to me, a free subscription for a year. When it runs out, I doubt I shall pay to renew it.
99.999% of the time, it's death threats against Democrats. You don't find Democrats shooting Republicans. It's the wack-job Rethuglicans that like to whip up violent reactions in their constituency. Because they don't have any real ideas. Just anger, hatred, and stupidity.
You know it's true. :-)
I was, you know, talking more about actual American people. You know, rather than, you know *cough* Chinese people. You know, in a sort of, you know *cough* sarcastic manner.
If you think I'm a parochial navel-gazer, that says more about you than me.
In closing, all praise Mao. He only ever did good stuff. No, the Cultural Revolution never happened. For that matter, neither did Tienanmen Square.
Idiot.
90% of our stuff here in the US is from China. It's cheap. That's all that matters. Mass censorship, brutal putdowns of dissent, etc. - none of that matters. Real Konsumerism Politik, don't cha know.
There will be no riots, a la Tunisia. Well, maybe for about 5 minutes. Who cares? As long as we get our cheap stuff from China.
Perhaps this trolling story has accomplished its goal: I'm about to abandon all Linux Distros forever just to avoid being considered a part of such an assholish "community" (gag). Seriously, people were down on Ubuntu the minute it became popular. If Ubuntu was successful, obviously it must be evil. And if their distro is coherent, easy to install, use and update, well then it's for the newbie masses, and must be ungood.
Or they set up defaults in a way that didn't please you, though you can easily configure it any way you wanted. No, they were "ramming their dictatorial decisions down my throat". Godz, how many times have I heard that! Oh, but asking someone to configure something is too hard for the newbies. But wait a minute, I thought Ubuntu was bad because it was too newbie-friendly.
A bunch of confused, hypocritical, self-contradictory, whining assholes. If you don't like a distro, FFS don't use it - it's really quite that simple. There's a distro out there for everyone.
I have a somewhat similar setup, though with an "archive" directory for really old stuff. By really old, I mean my 8-bit CP/M days and early DOS stuff - my master's thesis, my first coding in html, etc. I've been at this for so long that my system has evolved, never really planned it out. Let's just say that in 1982 I wasn't thinking in terms of terabytes of storage :-)
Every time I get a new computer, I move everything along, sometimes consolidating and rationalizing the system a bit as I go.
Actually, my system is not quite as rational as yours, but the point is that after all these years I know where everything is. To me, there's a combination of content type and age that needs to be dealt with. The really old stuff is in its own museum, and I know right where to go.
After a while, it feels like curating a museum, really. I don't care about posterity or anything like that, but I don't want to lose anything. I like being able to look up my journals from the 80's and emails from my VAX account at Uni and ancient newsgroup conversations that I filed, and all that.
Man, time flies...