Open-source drivers for a mainstream mobile GPU is ground-breakingly good stuff, Nvidia's won some karma points in my book. This big difference this makes it that this could make it possible to run a fully FLOSS OS on a mobile device, usually the problem preventing this is that the drivers are closed-source - even the N900 has this problem.
MOD UP. Steam is just another fucking DRM scheme, why do people talk about it like an alternative to DRM? When it first came out it was THE WORST DRM the world had ever seen up to that point, the first to require an Internet connection at all for single-player gaming.
Maybe it's supposed to simulate a post-scarcity techno-utopian communist society and everyone just assumed it was a simulation of contemporary capitalism? All the little sims were wondering why the hell their leaders are taxing them and trying to set up businesses like some kind of caveman.
"I know this appears to be my dick screwing you in the ass. It looks like a dick, feels like a dick, is attached to me at the crotch and is thrusting into your ass, but I can't be any clearer, it's not. Period."
The crooks are severely restricted by the FDA's rules. Their ability to mislabel things has been destroyed (the intended purpose of a lot of these BS products is only known through a combination of hint words on the label and word-of-mouth), and they're restricted to only selling things that can be classed as "vitamins and supplements." They haven't routed around the damage, they've been fenced into a corner. You want to get rid of that fence?
We're not recreating the conditions or the environment for starters. That would require losing more than a century of knowledge.
Most people are not less gullible and ignorant than they were a century ago, they just get misinformed in more sophisticated ways. Anti-vax and "alternative medicine" are very popular right now, do you want to open up these markets even more? People are already dying from use of bullshit medicine (trying to cure their cancer with silver particles or whatever) and it hasn't even slowed the growth of this market for ignorance.
The 19th century isn't going to ambush us merely because we let up some on the reins of medical companies. It's still illegal to knowingly kill people and you can still sue for gross or criminal negligence. These don't change even if the FDA ceases to exist.
We're not going to get 19th century conditions if we re-create the environment that led to those conditions? Why not? Do you think people are smarter or that pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be happy to receive huge profits on untested and addictive drugs if it meant losing the occasional lawsuit?
*I meant late-1800s, but it was pretty bad throughout all of human history up until the establishment of the FDA. But bring on that sweet radium water!
Matter compared to what? Surely not lives saved, the FDA is nothing but a speedbump for pharmaceutical R&D - a fairly big one, but it's not like the cure for cancer is languishing in a basement because we aren't in the early-1800s golden age of snake oil and balls-trippin' cough syrup.
And they do so by providing consequences for illegal behavior. See how this works?
Not only that, they actively try to stop crimes as they start, thereby preventing harm instead of just reacting to it. See how that works?
I did, for starters.
Hardly a start.
And I already explained the dark side of that rosy picture. Ridiculous R&D costs that result in far fewer medical innovations than we'd have in their absence.
I think the dark side is the widespread use of addictive placebos, mislabeling that drowns out any truth in an ocean of lies, and deaths due to outright carelessness on the part of the manufacturer, and the rosy side is the warm n' fuzzies that libertarians get from all that.
The police also try to stop crime before it happens, not just clean up after the fact (funny, your idea of how the police work is a bit like they did in Jennifer Government.). And who said the FDA doesn't work? We're not giving heroin to kids anymore, all kinds of drugs are being thoroughly tested before they hit the market. Sounds like it's working to me.
My parents got a letter from the Canadian government about this. They're both Canadian citizens but haven't lived there for well over a decade...and aren't the types who can afford to run the AC, never mind have 6 digits stashed in an offshore account.
Before you make some sort of idiotic "well, he wouldn't have been able to be rich if it weren't for the stable society" bullshit, I'm just going to stop you right there.
...Because Bill Gates is secretly just a less rugged-looking Snake Plissken?
Second, Libertarianism cuts both ways. Without the FDA, there would be a more medical treatments available to save lives.
When people spend more money on bullshit medicine that doesn't help, or die from unsafe medicine? Wouldn't both of those decrease the customer base for helpful medical treatments?
Exactly, if you're a rich bastard what are you gonna tell the politicians to do, give you a price break on your decadent toys, or make it easier for the peons to get an education, increasing the pool of people who could potentially be a threat to your corporate empire and decreasing the educated workforce's dependence on debt?
Depends which car we're talking about, there are plenty in the 7-digit range. Although yes that is more than a Tesla, however I think that this may be another instance of the mean vs. median problem with a few hyper-rich people skewing the average upwards.
Yes you can me and some other uber-geeks could do that, but most people will be using a highly centralized service - running on decentralized hardware...but still a centralized, proprietary service they don't control.
The people killed by cars mostly die in accidents (a tiny fraction of all non-sporting car activity), the people killed by guns are mostly murdered (a majority of all non-sporting gun activity). The number of gun murders per year in the US alone is probably more than all the people intentionally killed with cars in world history - although the phenomenon is so rare it's nearly unheard of.
What untruths did I make up, something about a firearm's design goals? Did you ever consider that you're trying to rationalize the reality of a weapon?
You misunderstand how the pedestrian detection works, it highlights pedestrians and *engages the brakes automatically* if a collision is unavoidable.
Even on a very basic car, they usually have soft bumpers, hoods devoid of blades or spikes, no grating on the windshield, insufficient ride heights to clear corpses easily...not even basic features that would be hugely helpful if the car were designed to kill.
I think you should see this discussion since you've gone down the exact same line of reasoning:
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That's a bit harsh on Fox News.
I don't know about what she did on women's rights, but just occupying the position of PM with a vagina doesn't count for anything.
Open-source drivers for a mainstream mobile GPU is ground-breakingly good stuff, Nvidia's won some karma points in my book. This big difference this makes it that this could make it possible to run a fully FLOSS OS on a mobile device, usually the problem preventing this is that the drivers are closed-source - even the N900 has this problem.
They've figured it out. At least they still don't know that outubeyay is the new aspternay.
MOD UP. Steam is just another fucking DRM scheme, why do people talk about it like an alternative to DRM? When it first came out it was THE WORST DRM the world had ever seen up to that point, the first to require an Internet connection at all for single-player gaming.
Maybe it's supposed to simulate a post-scarcity techno-utopian communist society and everyone just assumed it was a simulation of contemporary capitalism? All the little sims were wondering why the hell their leaders are taxing them and trying to set up businesses like some kind of caveman.
I like his argument about the SimCity DRM.
"I know this appears to be my dick screwing you in the ass. It looks like a dick, feels like a dick, is attached to me at the crotch and is thrusting into your ass, but I can't be any clearer, it's not. Period."
Fire the bastard, he's made his views clear. If Microsoft's apology is genuine then they can't continue to have that guy working in that position.
The crooks are severely restricted by the FDA's rules. Their ability to mislabel things has been destroyed (the intended purpose of a lot of these BS products is only known through a combination of hint words on the label and word-of-mouth), and they're restricted to only selling things that can be classed as "vitamins and supplements." They haven't routed around the damage, they've been fenced into a corner. You want to get rid of that fence?
We're not recreating the conditions or the environment for starters. That would require losing more than a century of knowledge.
Most people are not less gullible and ignorant than they were a century ago, they just get misinformed in more sophisticated ways. Anti-vax and "alternative medicine" are very popular right now, do you want to open up these markets even more? People are already dying from use of bullshit medicine (trying to cure their cancer with silver particles or whatever) and it hasn't even slowed the growth of this market for ignorance.
The 19th century isn't going to ambush us merely because we let up some on the reins of medical companies. It's still illegal to knowingly kill people and you can still sue for gross or criminal negligence. These don't change even if the FDA ceases to exist.
We're not going to get 19th century conditions if we re-create the environment that led to those conditions? Why not? Do you think people are smarter or that pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be happy to receive huge profits on untested and addictive drugs if it meant losing the occasional lawsuit?
*I meant late-1800s, but it was pretty bad throughout all of human history up until the establishment of the FDA. But bring on that sweet radium water!
Matter compared to what? Surely not lives saved, the FDA is nothing but a speedbump for pharmaceutical R&D - a fairly big one, but it's not like the cure for cancer is languishing in a basement because we aren't in the early-1800s golden age of snake oil and balls-trippin' cough syrup.
And they do so by providing consequences for illegal behavior. See how this works?
Not only that, they actively try to stop crimes as they start, thereby preventing harm instead of just reacting to it. See how that works?
I did, for starters.
Hardly a start.
And I already explained the dark side of that rosy picture. Ridiculous R&D costs that result in far fewer medical innovations than we'd have in their absence.
I think the dark side is the widespread use of addictive placebos, mislabeling that drowns out any truth in an ocean of lies, and deaths due to outright carelessness on the part of the manufacturer, and the rosy side is the warm n' fuzzies that libertarians get from all that.
The police also try to stop crime before it happens, not just clean up after the fact (funny, your idea of how the police work is a bit like they did in Jennifer Government.). And who said the FDA doesn't work? We're not giving heroin to kids anymore, all kinds of drugs are being thoroughly tested before they hit the market. Sounds like it's working to me.
My parents got a letter from the Canadian government about this. They're both Canadian citizens but haven't lived there for well over a decade...and aren't the types who can afford to run the AC, never mind have 6 digits stashed in an offshore account.
Before you make some sort of idiotic "well, he wouldn't have been able to be rich if it weren't for the stable society" bullshit, I'm just going to stop you right there.
...Because Bill Gates is secretly just a less rugged-looking Snake Plissken?
Hey, I could see Ballmer as Lord Humongous...
The point of the FDA is to cockblock death before it has a chance to strike, does suing after the fact do anything like that?
Second, Libertarianism cuts both ways. Without the FDA, there would be a more medical treatments available to save lives.
When people spend more money on bullshit medicine that doesn't help, or die from unsafe medicine? Wouldn't both of those decrease the customer base for helpful medical treatments?
Came here to find this...I don't have 260GB free though :-( Really need to upgrade my seedbox drives to 4TB...
Exactly, if you're a rich bastard what are you gonna tell the politicians to do, give you a price break on your decadent toys, or make it easier for the peons to get an education, increasing the pool of people who could potentially be a threat to your corporate empire and decreasing the educated workforce's dependence on debt?
Depends which car we're talking about, there are plenty in the 7-digit range. Although yes that is more than a Tesla, however I think that this may be another instance of the mean vs. median problem with a few hyper-rich people skewing the average upwards.
Yes you can me and some other uber-geeks could do that, but most people will be using a highly centralized service - running on decentralized hardware...but still a centralized, proprietary service they don't control.
The people killed by cars mostly die in accidents (a tiny fraction of all non-sporting car activity), the people killed by guns are mostly murdered (a majority of all non-sporting gun activity). The number of gun murders per year in the US alone is probably more than all the people intentionally killed with cars in world history - although the phenomenon is so rare it's nearly unheard of.
What untruths did I make up, something about a firearm's design goals? Did you ever consider that you're trying to rationalize the reality of a weapon?
You misunderstand how the pedestrian detection works, it highlights pedestrians and *engages the brakes automatically* if a collision is unavoidable.
Even on a very basic car, they usually have soft bumpers, hoods devoid of blades or spikes, no grating on the windshield, insufficient ride heights to clear corpses easily...not even basic features that would be hugely helpful if the car were designed to kill.
I think you should see this discussion since you've gone down the exact same line of reasoning:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3606837&cid=43340701