Considering that there's a lot of Mexicans that just plain look "Indian" and there are a number of asian nationalities that could easily be mistaken for "Indian", that's a very strong possibility even if you are talkinga about someone that is intelligent and relatively clued in.
Once you put Barney Fife into the equation, all best are off.
People that have been naturalized for 10 years might get hassled.
Are you kidding? They are a pale shallow immitation of what they were 30 years ago. If anything they are a great example of what the original article was talking about.
The Scouts have similar failings as the public schools you're whining about.
When Bush the younger started to gut the EPA and turn it into a White House mouthpiece I suddenly developed a strange and new found respect for Richard Nixon.
That is deeply and truely sad. Perversely symmetrical too.
Bullshit. Linux players will adapt to what's available on the system. Calling Linux video accleration a "clusterfuck" is really quite amusing since nvidia is effectively the only game in town and has been for quite a long time.
My ATV1 was able to handle high bitrate ATSC recordings quite adequately. If not for the fact that the Hauppauge 1212 outputs h264, I would still be happily using mine (ATV1).
Nvidia had respectable partial decode support even before VDPAU came along. This was very handy for things like the AppleTV1. As soon as VDPAU was released, I got myself an 8400 and happily awaited the release of the IONs. I tried to buy from the UK but Amazon wouldn't let me and I nearly imported a Revo from Akihabra.
I've been happily using ION low profile machines as frontend machines handling high def h264 cable recordings for as long as they have been available for purchase.
The nvidia drivers have been free of the performance issues and glitches present with ATI and the performance and HDTV detection issues of Intel.
Every community developed video player can use the GPU video decoders. Nvidia even released mplayer source when they did their original release of VDPAU.
Flash even managed to finally support this in their recent Linux versions.
The "protected path" has squat to do with video that has no DRM on it. Either they can release the necessary information or they botched their design very badly.
> ts a mess folks, and the sooner you accept there is a problem the sooner you can start to work to change it.
I just avoid the problem by not buying ATI gear. That's the beauty of a free market. If someone drops the ball, I can choose something else. You don't get away from the problem of shoddy gear just because you're running the monopoly product.
You want to run ancient hardware on a new system then perhaps you should run a new driver for it. If that ancient hardware is discontinued in the current driver then perhaps you should take the vendor's action in the matter to heart.
There's always the libre driver. If your card is ancient, the related performance issues probably aren't a problem.
I buy what's good kit for HTPC use or what's a reasonable but not absurd choice for light gaming. This isn't just a Linux thing. In truth, very few people are inclined to confuse their video card with their manhood. That's why Nvidia is hurting. They have no CPU to force bundle their GPU with.
Most people are cheap bastards. That's why Apple didn't destroy Microsoft in the 80s.
Windows won't help a bit with Flash. This is just stupid Lemming nonsense. It is equally bad on all platforms. It's the same kind of soul sucking mess on Windows 7 that is is anywhere else.
WMC is still inferior. That's why so many people (even Windows users) like XBMC in the first place. It does right what Microsoft does wrong or just plain ignores.
Intel cooperates with the community. That doesn't mean that their kit is better or that the associated drivers are better. It also doesn't make them a premium option of any kind.
That cooperation also hasn't led to feature or support parity with the Nvidia blob.
Intel is the same sort of force bundled cheap stuff that AMD is.
Quit drinking the kool-aid. Apple has ceased to be a computer company. This is how they are "beating" Microsoft. They gave up and are now competing in what is essentially a different market where consumers aren't fixated on Windows and DOS comparisons.
It's kind of like Linux really. They have found success elsewhere.
Microsoft and a whole host of other people are drawing bogus conclusions from the situation.
The only problem with that is that Microsoft simply isn't capable. Matching "the best moves of Apple" is simply something they aren't capable of. It's something they've never done. They milk entrenchment. They drag their feet. They put the least amount of effort they can get away with. They play it safe like an accountant running a movie studio.
They are out of their league if they want to go toe to toe with Apple based on purely technical merits.
Apple may be annoying and evil but at least they have the engineering talent.
Yeah, but they just shot their cash cow. Who knows how much longer it can linger before it falls over and dies? They may no longer have the luxury of blowing big wads of monopoly income in order to enter a new market.
What money are they going to throw at it if their OEMs "return the love"?
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Your propaganda is about 40 years out of date.
"Anchor mommas" get deported quite often.
On the other hand, the "anchor baby" is still a US Citizen and is so as much as anyone else is. Perhaps we should start checking DAR cards. You first.
Considering that there's a lot of Mexicans that just plain look "Indian" and there are a number of asian nationalities that could easily be mistaken for "Indian", that's a very strong possibility even if you are talkinga about someone that is intelligent and relatively clued in.
Once you put Barney Fife into the equation, all best are off.
People that have been naturalized for 10 years might get hassled.
Is that the Boy Scouts you are referring to?
Are you kidding? They are a pale shallow immitation of what they were 30 years ago. If anything they are a great example of what the original article was talking about.
The Scouts have similar failings as the public schools you're whining about.
The lack of a living wage will simply make particular economic activities unfeasable.
Your attempt to pretend to be Carnegie doesn't alter this.
Well. It all depends. It all depends on whether or not you buy into all of the propaganda fanboys like to spout about their brand being like BMW.
That is why the comparison was being drawn with Tiffany and not Walmart.
If Apple is really like GM or Walmart, then the crap pay is not really out of place.
When Bush the younger started to gut the EPA and turn it into a White House mouthpiece I suddenly developed a strange and new found respect for Richard Nixon.
That is deeply and truely sad. Perversely symmetrical too.
Bullshit. Linux players will adapt to what's available on the system. Calling Linux video accleration a "clusterfuck" is really quite amusing since nvidia is effectively the only game in town and has been for quite a long time.
My ATV1 was able to handle high bitrate ATSC recordings quite adequately. If not for the fact that the Hauppauge 1212 outputs h264, I would still be happily using mine (ATV1).
I play BDMV files with my IONs with no trouble.
Hardware decode in general suffers from the problem that your video might fall outside of the expectations of the hardware.
Nvidia had respectable partial decode support even before VDPAU came along. This was very handy for things like the AppleTV1. As soon as VDPAU was released, I got myself an 8400 and happily awaited the release of the IONs. I tried to buy from the UK but Amazon wouldn't let me and I nearly imported a Revo from Akihabra.
I've been happily using ION low profile machines as frontend machines handling high def h264 cable recordings for as long as they have been available for purchase.
The nvidia drivers have been free of the performance issues and glitches present with ATI and the performance and HDTV detection issues of Intel.
If you think it is only one single data point then clearly you aren't bothering to pay any attention to this sort of stuff.
Every community developed video player can use the GPU video decoders. Nvidia even released mplayer source when they did their original release of VDPAU.
Flash even managed to finally support this in their recent Linux versions.
The "protected path" has squat to do with video that has no DRM on it. Either they can release the necessary information or they botched their design very badly.
> ts a mess folks, and the sooner you accept there is a problem the sooner you can start to work to change it.
I just avoid the problem by not buying ATI gear. That's the beauty of a free market. If someone drops the ball, I can choose something else. You don't get away from the problem of shoddy gear just because you're running the monopoly product.
You want to run ancient hardware on a new system then perhaps you should run a new driver for it. If that ancient hardware is discontinued in the current driver then perhaps you should take the vendor's action in the matter to heart.
There's always the libre driver. If your card is ancient, the related performance issues probably aren't a problem.
I buy what's good kit for HTPC use or what's a reasonable but not absurd choice for light gaming. This isn't just a Linux thing. In truth, very few people are inclined to confuse their video card with their manhood. That's why Nvidia is hurting. They have no CPU to force bundle their GPU with.
Most people are cheap bastards. That's why Apple didn't destroy Microsoft in the 80s.
> Statistics show that people aren't going to go out and spend $500 on a nice video card to display X on Linux.
Most people don't in fact.
So your attempt to demonstrate that you have more money than you really do is rather pointless.
Windows won't help a bit with Flash. This is just stupid Lemming nonsense. It is equally bad on all platforms. It's the same kind of soul sucking mess on Windows 7 that is is anywhere else.
WMC is still inferior. That's why so many people (even Windows users) like XBMC in the first place. It does right what Microsoft does wrong or just plain ignores.
> There's absolutely no room to argue this either;
Sure there is. Intel peformance sucks and there are features missing from the driver. It doesn't matter how "open" it is.
It is not the "best-supported" on Linux.
Something beyond "Cats rule and dogs drool" might actually be useful. A developer might even act on it.
Intel cooperates with the community. That doesn't mean that their kit is better or that the associated drivers are better. It also doesn't make them a premium option of any kind.
That cooperation also hasn't led to feature or support parity with the Nvidia blob.
Intel is the same sort of force bundled cheap stuff that AMD is.
> Why should they support Linux leeches? Get a job and pay for your software losers and then maybe you'd see some support.
This is HARDWARE you moron. Everyone that has the hardware has PAID for it you moron. Get back under your bridge.
Linus may want to cuss out the guys at Nvidia but they're doing a better job in this case.
You made a really bad car analogy based on no real information besides conspicuous consumer propaganda.
Quit drinking the kool-aid. Apple has ceased to be a computer company. This is how they are "beating" Microsoft. They gave up and are now competing in what is essentially a different market where consumers aren't fixated on Windows and DOS comparisons.
It's kind of like Linux really. They have found success elsewhere.
Microsoft and a whole host of other people are drawing bogus conclusions from the situation.
The only problem with that is that Microsoft simply isn't capable. Matching "the best moves of Apple" is simply something they aren't capable of. It's something they've never done. They milk entrenchment. They drag their feet. They put the least amount of effort they can get away with. They play it safe like an accountant running a movie studio.
They are out of their league if they want to go toe to toe with Apple based on purely technical merits.
Apple may be annoying and evil but at least they have the engineering talent.
Yeah, but they just shot their cash cow. Who knows how much longer it can linger before it falls over and dies? They may no longer have the luxury of blowing big wads of monopoly income in order to enter a new market.
What money are they going to throw at it if their OEMs "return the love"?