As a Nudist I have the perfect answer to everyone. It's called Strip!! That's right take em off citizen. You aren't authorized to wear clothing on this flight. For those who aren't citizens, Step up and we'll place you in a nice straight jacket for your flight after we stip you of all clothing and your dignity.
The issue facing AMD on their older GPU/chipsets is the licensed tech/code that was included. Due to the contractual obligation, AMD is having to go through all of the code/designs and remove the information they licensed. On the new 4xx/5xx/6xx GPU's though, AMD has redesigned the chips with OSS support in mind as it will allow them to eventually quit wrtiting a driver at all and simply support the community that will be creating it.
Which is actually Redundant as the OP question specified
Any cost-neutral, or at least cost-conscious solutions out there that don't involve manually distributing your certificates and CRL to every workstation in the company?
We already have that. It's called Pen-Name/Psuedonym and is how I exist online. Yes you can google search on my handle and find lots of what I've posted as Fast Turtle but you wont confuse that with my other psuedonyms because I have never linked them.
I've never had a motherboard or GPU blow up on me.
That's Nice. I have had a motherboard blow up on me. A P75 had a PSU short out and the surge blew a chunk out of the Northbridge chip. System wouldn't even post afterwards.
The car analogy was the time I blew a piston rod thru the block (over revved a stick by accidently downshifting 3 to 2 instead of 3 to 4). It wasn't fun when that happened.
I'll have to disagree on your side story comment. Sorry but a side story does not have to be developed for a game to be complete as a Side-Story is just that. A side story. It is pertinent only as it directly impacts the story arc.
Most side stories don't gather enough interest to be worth expanding or the devs have a plot in mind where a side story may be planned as either an expansion or related game.
Then people need to do what I did and quit watching TV all together.It's even gone so far as to drop back to the absolute basic level of cable just so I have access to news when the net is down.
From what I see, Wayland is an independent project though I suspect it will become part of the kernel sometime within the next 2 years. Look at what Linus has been pushing for in the kernel. A working framebuffer and no dependency video drivers for the GUI. That's what Wayland is working towards. Total hardware agnostism and I hope to hell it gets there soon.
The main problem is not perception, it's with actual spares availability. Keep in mind that a Platinum Cust for Dell/HP/IBM has gauranteed replacement parts within 4 hours. This means those parts have to be in a wharehouse within 150 miles of your location to meet that service level. In the case of Xserve, the only spare parts are in Cupetino, CA and that's certainly more then 4 hours from anyone outside of the California Bay Area.
Apple was never really interested in Corporate/Enterprise business due to support issues. Costs to much money to provide even though they'd already had OSX Unix Certified. Hell they could easily have competed directly against Sun hardware since they have that Unix Certification and people would have paid enough to make it worth their while but as someone else pointed out, Apple is a Consumer Company and appearently not interested in the Corporate/Enterprise market.
As a user, I find any site specifying any font size to be infuriating as they tend to not display properly with my settings. A damn good example of that is/. itself. I've had to push the font size in Firefox to 16pts as the minimum, just to get a readable size on screen. It's the same for many websites and that violates the entire spirit of HTML, which was basic formating yet all of a sudden we're seeing so many sites use damn screwy fonts and sizes just to be different.
My desktop died recently and I've been forced to use my XP based laptop. Let me tell you, W7 is a lot better then XP in usability and IE 9, it actually works better then Firefox 3.6.11 did for many tasks. The only reason I refuse to use IE9 is the lack of Noscript for it. Otherwise I'd switch back and give up on the flakyness that firefox has become. God save me from a UI freeze while loading multiple tabs on/. . IE9 handles that easily yet firefox still hangs while loading a tab in the background.
That's pretty much how I treat Facebook. No apps are allowed access to personal data, I don't have friends and the only thing I post is stuff that I don't give a rat about.
But I've started using MS One-Note. Handles Voice, text, URL's, Vids, Graphics and almost anything else. Nice thing is, you can buy the Home/Teacher edition and be able to install it onto 3 systems at home.
Windows I/O scheduling is linked to the Advanced setting (Background/Programs) These can be found in XP on the System Properties, Advanced/System Performance/Advanced Tabs.
I really hate to say it but you do make very valid points - not only about Apple but on the failure of the American Educational System too. Yes American's are becoming slaves in response to corporate desires and political designs instead of Standing Tall and be Counted attitude of just 3 generations ago.
If you really want to get into a simple UI go with fluxbox and develop your own theme for it as it's not hard. If I want to simply get things done I use fluxbox as it stays the hell out of my way. Otherwise I'll stick with KDE 3.5.10 as it offers me the features I actually use while staying out of my way as much as possible. Of course I also use Gentoo instead of any of the others - not because of the Ricing Effect but the fact that I decide what Dependencies are installed and how the system is configured instead of someone else making those choices for me.
and yet the new 6xxx series includes more Tesselation Units. This means that games using DX11 and Tesselation become more common, the cards will suffer from fewer performance issues.
For example, I have a 5670 with 512M onboard, it's an odball card as it's first gen and is in very limited production now. In running the Heaven 2.1 benchmark, the card gained a higher score w/o AA enabled but frame rates went as low as 3.8 while the same test ran with 2x AA gained a lower score showed minimum frame rates of 4.6. As these were real world runs of the Heaven Benchmark, I can understand where people are getting confused because the total score was actually lower with Anti-Aliasing on, yet the minimum frame rates were higher. Which is going to be more important then? IMO it'll be the minimum frame rates as the scores will not be directly comparable between generations. Car Analogy - It's like the performance difference between a 2.4L 4 cylinder and a 2.6L v6 engine. Both may have the same horsepower rating yet the V6 will be slower off the line.
What I suspect AMD has done was add tesselation units to the chip. This will be evident when running the Heaven Benchmark with Tesselation enabled. Keep in mind that Tesselation is one of the key changes between DX10.1 and DX11 and as you stated, this is future looking. Sure the chip may be a bit slower currently but I suspect that when running something that depends heavily on tesselation, there wont be any slowdowns.
The reason I'm aware of this is my Radeon 5650. It's a DX11 card with 512 onboard and when running the Heaven Test, there's lots of improvement when tesselation is on even though the card struggles and drops to between 4-12 frames. With tesselation off, the card easily handles the test at a playable rate of 45-60 frames.
You're Preaching to the Choir bucko but it's gotten to the point that NoScript goes onto every system I put Firefox on simply because of the various problems we've seen with J-Script and Java in general over the years.
Well I'm using Office 2007 (Outlook, Word, One Note) and am still ambivelent about the ribbon. Some of what the Ribbon has done is useful and then I find that some of the features I used on a regular basis are now buried three+ menus deep, so there's lots of trade offs that are still taking time to get used to.
2) President Impeached or forced to Resign due to Ilegalities performed by Executive branch (Tricky Dicky - Nixon)
3) Congress Passes emergency Funding by Voice Vote to keep so-called Critical services operational (DEA/FBI/CIA/) - Note that Military Budgets are passed 10 years previously (money is already allocated)
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As a Nudist I have the perfect answer to everyone. It's called Strip!! That's right take em off citizen. You aren't authorized to wear clothing on this flight. For those who aren't citizens, Step up and we'll place you in a nice straight jacket for your flight after we stip you of all clothing and your dignity.
The issue facing AMD on their older GPU/chipsets is the licensed tech/code that was included. Due to the contractual obligation, AMD is having to go through all of the code/designs and remove the information they licensed. On the new 4xx/5xx/6xx GPU's though, AMD has redesigned the chips with OSS support in mind as it will allow them to eventually quit wrtiting a driver at all and simply support the community that will be creating it.
Which is actually Redundant as the OP question specified
Any cost-neutral, or at least cost-conscious solutions out there that don't involve manually distributing your certificates and CRL to every workstation in the company?
We already have that. It's called Pen-Name/Psuedonym and is how I exist online. Yes you can google search on my handle and find lots of what I've posted as Fast Turtle but you wont confuse that with my other psuedonyms because I have never linked them.
I've never had a motherboard or GPU blow up on me.
That's Nice. I have had a motherboard blow up on me. A P75 had a PSU short out and the surge blew a chunk out of the Northbridge chip. System wouldn't even post afterwards.
The car analogy was the time I blew a piston rod thru the block (over revved a stick by accidently downshifting 3 to 2 instead of 3 to 4). It wasn't fun when that happened.
I'll have to disagree on your side story comment. Sorry but a side story does not have to be developed for a game to be complete as a Side-Story is just that. A side story. It is pertinent only as it directly impacts the story arc.
Most side stories don't gather enough interest to be worth expanding or the devs have a plot in mind where a side story may be planned as either an expansion or related game.
Then people need to do what I did and quit watching TV all together.It's even gone so far as to drop back to the absolute basic level of cable just so I have access to news when the net is down.
From what I see, Wayland is an independent project though I suspect it will become part of the kernel sometime within the next 2 years. Look at what Linus has been pushing for in the kernel. A working framebuffer and no dependency video drivers for the GUI. That's what Wayland is working towards. Total hardware agnostism and I hope to hell it gets there soon.
Funny enough, that's exactly what I like about the cheap CFL's as they don't blind me when I turn em on.
So where do they find enough blind mice to do a double blind experiment? Inquiring Minds want to Know.
The main problem is not perception, it's with actual spares availability. Keep in mind that a Platinum Cust for Dell/HP/IBM has gauranteed replacement parts within 4 hours. This means those parts have to be in a wharehouse within 150 miles of your location to meet that service level. In the case of Xserve, the only spare parts are in Cupetino, CA and that's certainly more then 4 hours from anyone outside of the California Bay Area.
Apple was never really interested in Corporate/Enterprise business due to support issues. Costs to much money to provide even though they'd already had OSX Unix Certified. Hell they could easily have competed directly against Sun hardware since they have that Unix Certification and people would have paid enough to make it worth their while but as someone else pointed out, Apple is a Consumer Company and appearently not interested in the Corporate/Enterprise market.
As a user, I find any site specifying any font size to be infuriating as they tend to not display properly with my settings. A damn good example of that is /. itself. I've had to push the font size in Firefox to 16pts as the minimum, just to get a readable size on screen. It's the same for many websites and that violates the entire spirit of HTML, which was basic formating yet all of a sudden we're seeing so many sites use damn screwy fonts and sizes just to be different.
My desktop died recently and I've been forced to use my XP based laptop. Let me tell you, W7 is a lot better then XP in usability and IE 9, it actually works better then Firefox 3.6.11 did for many tasks. The only reason I refuse to use IE9 is the lack of Noscript for it. Otherwise I'd switch back and give up on the flakyness that firefox has become. God save me from a UI freeze while loading multiple tabs on /. . IE9 handles that easily yet firefox still hangs while loading a tab in the background.
That's pretty much how I treat Facebook. No apps are allowed access to personal data, I don't have friends and the only thing I post is stuff that I don't give a rat about.
But I've started using MS One-Note. Handles Voice, text, URL's, Vids, Graphics and almost anything else. Nice thing is, you can buy the Home/Teacher edition and be able to install it onto 3 systems at home.
Windows I/O scheduling is linked to the Advanced setting (Background/Programs) These can be found in XP on the System Properties, Advanced/System Performance/Advanced Tabs.
I really hate to say it but you do make very valid points - not only about Apple but on the failure of the American Educational System too. Yes American's are becoming slaves in response to corporate desires and political designs instead of Standing Tall and be Counted attitude of just 3 generations ago.
If you really want to get into a simple UI go with fluxbox and develop your own theme for it as it's not hard. If I want to simply get things done I use fluxbox as it stays the hell out of my way. Otherwise I'll stick with KDE 3.5.10 as it offers me the features I actually use while staying out of my way as much as possible. Of course I also use Gentoo instead of any of the others - not because of the Ricing Effect but the fact that I decide what Dependencies are installed and how the system is configured instead of someone else making those choices for me.
and yet the new 6xxx series includes more Tesselation Units. This means that games using DX11 and Tesselation become more common, the cards will suffer from fewer performance issues.
For example, I have a 5670 with 512M onboard, it's an odball card as it's first gen and is in very limited production now. In running the Heaven 2.1 benchmark, the card gained a higher score w/o AA enabled but frame rates went as low as 3.8 while the same test ran with 2x AA gained a lower score showed minimum frame rates of 4.6. As these were real world runs of the Heaven Benchmark, I can understand where people are getting confused because the total score was actually lower with Anti-Aliasing on, yet the minimum frame rates were higher. Which is going to be more important then? IMO it'll be the minimum frame rates as the scores will not be directly comparable between generations. Car Analogy - It's like the performance difference between a 2.4L 4 cylinder and a 2.6L v6 engine. Both may have the same horsepower rating yet the V6 will be slower off the line.
What I suspect AMD has done was add tesselation units to the chip. This will be evident when running the Heaven Benchmark with Tesselation enabled. Keep in mind that Tesselation is one of the key changes between DX10.1 and DX11 and as you stated, this is future looking. Sure the chip may be a bit slower currently but I suspect that when running something that depends heavily on tesselation, there wont be any slowdowns.
The reason I'm aware of this is my Radeon 5650. It's a DX11 card with 512 onboard and when running the Heaven Test, there's lots of improvement when tesselation is on even though the card struggles and drops to between 4-12 frames. With tesselation off, the card easily handles the test at a playable rate of 45-60 frames.
you think that's bad? I had one the other day that was embarassing as hell. Read Cub Scouts as Cum Scouts on a bumper sticker.
You're Preaching to the Choir bucko but it's gotten to the point that NoScript goes onto every system I put Firefox on simply because of the various problems we've seen with J-Script and Java in general over the years.
We use up almost 2 /8's every month.
Don't you mean 1/4 every month? Remember! Always simplify your fractions.
Well I'm using Office 2007 (Outlook, Word, One Note) and am still ambivelent about the ribbon. Some of what the Ribbon has done is useful and then I find that some of the features I used on a regular basis are now buried three+ menus deep, so there's lots of trade offs that are still taking time to get used to.
1) Candidate Assasinated before Winning Election
2) President Impeached or forced to Resign due to Ilegalities performed by Executive branch (Tricky Dicky - Nixon)
3) Congress Passes emergency Funding by Voice Vote to keep so-called Critical services operational (DEA/FBI/CIA/) - Note that Military Budgets are passed 10 years previously (money is already allocated)
In other Words, it aint gonna happen.