OpenGL is just an API. If your app sticks with 2D calls, you should be fine even on graphics chips that only support 2D. Simply implement a basic 2D path in your OpenGL driver and punt the rest to software. My hourly rate is reasonable if you're interested;-)
So when do I get a Virtual Virtual Machine, to allow me to run all these VM's at the same time? Because as we all know, it makes much more sense to do this, than, oh I don't know... Buy another $299 computer?
There are other reasons to resist a life-extending pill. It is likely that these pills, like AIDS drugs and other life-saving devices, will be very expensive, allowing only the very rich to live longer, widening the already huge standard-of-living gap between the rich an the poor.
If we were to find a way to live forever it would probably not be as 27 year olds. It would be our years of hobbling around, playing bingo, driving slow, shitting our own pants, suffering two kinds of cancer, etc. etc.
...and yes, I realize it was just copied and pasted from the (poorly written) actual article. The submitter could have cleaned it up and made it readable.
I'm a typical slashdot reader. I want to get the gist of what the article is about before actually deciding to go to the linked article. "design savior-faire akin"? Who the heck submitted this???
Your solution is too simplistic and can be destroyed with loopholes.
Let's say I am CEO of ExploitCorp. My lowest paid employee makes minimum wage, $5.15 hourly (no, he's not in Kansas where the min wage is much lower). This means--assuming the guy works 40 hour weeks--my salary is capped at roughly $428,000.
I also own 10 apartment buildings on the beach, and I rent each of them for $3000/mo. My "company" consists of just me, so I keep all this income: another $360,000.
Don't forget dividends from my stocks, bonds, and interest on my various savings and money market accounts. For your average hoity-toity CEO, let's estimate a conservative $25,000 yearly.
Add in sales from capital assets, pensions and annuities, royalties on the book I wrote, and any income I made outside of the country, and that cap is starting to look less and less effective.
Moral of the story: The rich know more income loopholes than you do. Shut up and get back to work.
Come on man! My buddy is an M.D. and do you realize how much he pays for malpractice insurance?? States without malpracice caps are losing quality doctors fast as they flee to states where they can actually take home some of their pay after insurance.
1/3? I don't know what tax bracket you're in, but after Fed, SS, Medicare, State, Local, property tax, Sales tax, auto registration, and other various fees, most of us in the U.S. pay over 50% of our salaries to the gov.
Europe is looking more and more attractive. You actually GET something in return for your taxes there.
Maybe if we devoted the sum output of the entire GDP to doing so! As of now, there's no hope of that happening.
If your attitude is a sample of whats at the JPL, then I would agree that the JPL has no hope of making that happen. Perhaps a more motivated company will do it, but definitely not you. Probably a company not so used to doing nothing and suckling at the government's teet.
I'm so happy to know a few dollars of my tax money probably ends up in your lazy pocket.
He added: "But uploading copyrighted music is illegal, and for a good reason, and legal action against uploaders cannot be ruled out in the future."
What if I own the copyright to the "uploaded copyrighted music"? Is it still illegal, Mr. Anonymous Spokesman For The Industry?
Hidden in his verbal sewage is the sinister and arrogant assumption that the general public is not capable of producing and copyrighting works themselves--that they are capable of only passive consumption.
This is the "industry" attitude, and it is basically accepted as truth to the reporters.
Sorry for not posting my sources, but I figured I was just pointing out the obvious fact that heavy metals are, in general, toxic.
And yes I know that DU is "a little" radioactive, but not dangerously so (hell, the lump of Uranium pitchblende sitting on my desk is radioactive, but I won't be dying of cancer any time soon).
Depleted uranium is not radioactive, but it is toxic. If you think it's a great idea to spray the environment with these bullets, then by all means, please allow me to dump a box of spent ammo into your water supply.
Look at the story sources. How about coming from something reputable?
Like who, ABC, CBS, FOX??? These are huge US media companies that will not report stories that criticize US corporate interests or the interests of the US government. Just because they have big names that doesn't make them "reputable".
Quit listening to Peter Jennings. Do you think this multi-millionaire is ever going to report a story that could cost him or the multi-billion-dollar corporation he works for?
nVidia has been circulating its Det50 driver to analysts in hopes that we would use it for our Half-Life 2 benchmarking. The driver contains application-specific optimizations
The article fails to mention whether they actually detect the application and run the driver through a different code path, or if they've made general driver-wide optimizations that happen to also help Half-Life. Knowing the behavior of these video card companies in the past, I would suspect they have huge chunks of code in there devoted soley to Half-Life.
So, now instead of having to hack around and catch companies cheating on drivers, we just have to read as they admit it openly? This is standard operating procedure now???
When I download the latest Detonator drivers for my nVidia card, I want to download a generic D3D/OpenGL driver, not a Half-Life driver. The amount of time they spend "optimizing" for the popular games is time they could have been spending making sure the performance and quality is adequate for ALL games and modeling apps.
First of all...we're talking about children here. NO child under the age of 18 can consent to committing sexual acts...period.
So, you obviously agree that there is nothing wrong with prosecuting these folks:
http://www.debaser.us/content/news/000307.shtml
Summary: Two 14 year-olds are charged with raping each other. The ridiculous claim is that they are both rapists AND victims simultaneously because they were having sex with one another, both incapable of consent.
Your Black-And-White-World mentality is why we paint so many people as criminals these days.
When a multi-national corporation contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to a senator in order to "communicate" its interests, which happen to oppose mine, and the corporation's interests become law, would you attribute this to my laziness?
Who needs a plugin extendable "media framework" when the player simply works?
I would counter that the big problem facing many other linux video players is the fact that they were developed as great "frameworks" but no one really worried about whether they actually played files.
This problem exists in other projects I've downloaded and tried (I won't name names of course). The typical app is a great skinnable, plugin-able, dynamically loadable uber-framework, but when it comes down to actually performing the task it's designed for, well, that'll be ready next release.
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NOT TRUE AT ALL.
;-)
OpenGL is just an API. If your app sticks with 2D calls, you should be fine even on graphics chips that only support 2D. Simply implement a basic 2D path in your OpenGL driver and punt the rest to software. My hourly rate is reasonable if you're interested
So when do I get a Virtual Virtual Machine, to allow me to run all these VM's at the same time? Because as we all know, it makes much more sense to do this, than, oh I don't know... Buy another $299 computer?
I'd say Gates took it a little worse than "rather well". He gave the guy a look that says "You will meet my experimental DEATH RAY after this show!!"
The Do-Not-Call list violates corporations' rights to profit and will of course be struck down in the court$.
LONG LIVE THE UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA!!!
They are not American jobs. They are GE jobs.
I think that the whole spying thing can be summed up with a poster the Security Officer at one of my Navy commands had on his wall.
"Countries do not have friends, only interests."
That seems to at least sum up the "United States foreign policy" thing. And we wonder why the whole world hates us...
There are other reasons to resist a life-extending pill. It is likely that these pills, like AIDS drugs and other life-saving devices, will be very expensive, allowing only the very rich to live longer, widening the already huge standard-of-living gap between the rich an the poor.
If we were to find a way to live forever it would probably not be as 27 year olds. It would be our years of hobbling around, playing bingo, driving slow, shitting our own pants, suffering two kinds of cancer, etc. etc.
Hardly something to aspire to.
...and yes, I realize it was just copied and pasted from the (poorly written) actual article. The submitter could have cleaned it up and made it readable.
I'm a typical slashdot reader. I want to get the gist of what the article is about before actually deciding to go to the linked article. "design savior-faire akin"? Who the heck submitted this???
Your solution is too simplistic and can be destroyed with loopholes.
Let's say I am CEO of ExploitCorp. My lowest paid employee makes minimum wage, $5.15 hourly (no, he's not in Kansas where the min wage is much lower). This means--assuming the guy works 40 hour weeks--my salary is capped at roughly $428,000.
I also own 10 apartment buildings on the beach, and I rent each of them for $3000/mo. My "company" consists of just me, so I keep all this income: another $360,000.
Don't forget dividends from my stocks, bonds, and interest on my various savings and money market accounts. For your average hoity-toity CEO, let's estimate a conservative $25,000 yearly.
Add in sales from capital assets, pensions and annuities, royalties on the book I wrote, and any income I made outside of the country, and that cap is starting to look less and less effective.
Moral of the story: The rich know more income loopholes than you do. Shut up and get back to work.
Come on man! My buddy is an M.D. and do you realize how much he pays for malpractice insurance?? States without malpracice caps are losing quality doctors fast as they flee to states where they can actually take home some of their pay after insurance.
1/3? I don't know what tax bracket you're in, but after Fed, SS, Medicare, State, Local, property tax, Sales tax, auto registration, and other various fees, most of us in the U.S. pay over 50% of our salaries to the gov.
Europe is looking more and more attractive. You actually GET something in return for your taxes there.
Habitation on the moon in 15 years? Mars in 20?
Maybe if we devoted the sum output of the entire GDP to doing so! As of now, there's no hope of that happening.
If your attitude is a sample of whats at the JPL, then I would agree that the JPL has no hope of making that happen. Perhaps a more motivated company will do it, but definitely not you. Probably a company not so used to doing nothing and suckling at the government's teet.
I'm so happy to know a few dollars of my tax money probably ends up in your lazy pocket.
He added: "But uploading copyrighted music is illegal, and for a good reason, and legal action against uploaders cannot be ruled out in the future."
What if I own the copyright to the "uploaded copyrighted music"? Is it still illegal, Mr. Anonymous Spokesman For The Industry?
Hidden in his verbal sewage is the sinister and arrogant assumption that the general public is not capable of producing and copyrighting works themselves--that they are capable of only passive consumption.
This is the "industry" attitude, and it is basically accepted as truth to the reporters.
Sorry for not posting my sources, but I figured I was just pointing out the obvious fact that heavy metals are, in general, toxic.
And yes I know that DU is "a little" radioactive, but not dangerously so (hell, the lump of Uranium pitchblende sitting on my desk is radioactive, but I won't be dying of cancer any time soon).
Depleted uranium is not radioactive, but it is toxic. If you think it's a great idea to spray the environment with these bullets, then by all means, please allow me to dump a box of spent ammo into your water supply.
Look at the story sources. How about coming from something reputable?
Like who, ABC, CBS, FOX??? These are huge US media companies that will not report stories that criticize US corporate interests or the interests of the US government. Just because they have big names that doesn't make them "reputable".
Quit listening to Peter Jennings. Do you think this multi-millionaire is ever going to report a story that could cost him or the multi-billion-dollar corporation he works for?
nVidia has been circulating its Det50 driver to analysts in hopes that we would use it for our Half-Life 2 benchmarking. The driver contains application-specific optimizations
The article fails to mention whether they actually detect the application and run the driver through a different code path, or if they've made general driver-wide optimizations that happen to also help Half-Life. Knowing the behavior of these video card companies in the past, I would suspect they have huge chunks of code in there devoted soley to Half-Life.
So, now instead of having to hack around and catch companies cheating on drivers, we just have to read as they admit it openly? This is standard operating procedure now???
When I download the latest Detonator drivers for my nVidia card, I want to download a generic D3D/OpenGL driver, not a Half-Life driver. The amount of time they spend "optimizing" for the popular games is time they could have been spending making sure the performance and quality is adequate for ALL games and modeling apps.
First of all...we're talking about children here. NO child under the age of 18 can consent to committing sexual acts...period.
So, you obviously agree that there is nothing wrong with prosecuting these folks:
http://www.debaser.us/content/news/000307.shtml
Summary: Two 14 year-olds are charged with raping each other. The ridiculous claim is that they are both rapists AND victims simultaneously because they were having sex with one another, both incapable of consent.
Your Black-And-White-World mentality is why we paint so many people as criminals these days.
When a multi-national corporation contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to a senator in order to "communicate" its interests, which happen to oppose mine, and the corporation's interests become law, would you attribute this to my laziness?
Democracy (representative or otherwise) is two wolves and a hen voting on what to have for lunch.
You would think that a language or API that doesn't change every day would be praised with words such as "standardized" "stable" and "established".
But in Bizarro World (where we all are apparently living), we criticize it as "stagnant" and "slow moving".
Compare with the OpenGL/Direct3D discussions.
Carpenters don't buy from hammer companies that change their hammers every "release".
Who needs a plugin extendable "media framework" when the player simply works?
I would counter that the big problem facing many other linux video players is the fact that they were developed as great "frameworks" but no one really worried about whether they actually played files.
This problem exists in other projects I've downloaded and tried (I won't name names of course). The typical app is a great skinnable, plugin-able, dynamically loadable uber-framework, but when it comes down to actually performing the task it's designed for, well, that'll be ready next release.
Don't like anti-trust laws? I'm sure then, that you would be more than happy to:
Pay $500/month for telephone service (each line)
Pay $500/month for your utilities
Pay $20/gallon ($5/liter) for gasoline
These are just examples... Likely the price would be just high enough where enough rich people could afford it to keep the company profitable.