Likewise, for widebody people, a seat designed for narrow hips doesn't cut it.
Nope, don't imagine it would; apparently this is why widebodied aircraft were invented (there must be a single row of some really large seats running the length of those planes...).
I'm holding out for hypersentient quantum computronium...
I wonder if it would be inherently "hypersentient" (whatever the fuck that means) or would only become so after your mindstate's been uploaded to it...:p
You think XP is less of a "Great Big Virus in Disguise" than Win7
You obviously know nothing of "DRM Engines" or the myriad ways in which the NT kernel evolved during Longhorn development. Why the fuck do you think NT 6.x and above consist of so many lines of code?! Shit, when I set up XP, it runs in 70 to 110MB of ram... and that's with wireless and printing support and a firewall enabled!
The body's amazing ability to heal itself has failed him.
Utter horseshit. You speak out of your ass about that which you clearly know nothing about. There's overwelming evidence that we've failed our bodies, inundating them with cancerous-causing synthetic substances, providing them with entirely incorrect foods for primates and simply abusing them in a variety of ways that are completely incompatible with what they were designed/evolved for.
Shut your impulsive, ignorant mouth and perhaps even educate yourself a little...
Uhhh...you DO know they are supporting the FOSS drivers by helping their devs for precisely that reason, right?
Yes.:) This is why I've settled (for the time being) on Mint 14 with the FOSS drivers; admittedly H.264 is a lot smoother than it was a few months ago as long as I play it in VLC and not in the browser (i.e. Flash). I actually RTFA; forthcoming VDPAU support for the FOSS drivers sounds like a dream come true. Any idea how good OpenGL performance is on the FOSS drivers?
Where in Japan were you at? I spent most of my childhood in Misawa (north end of Honshu), and fondly remember the cicadas showing up every few years while I was there, too.
You'll have to forgive me; bokuno nihongo wa... totemu warui? Ipai no nihongo wasuremashita? Something along those lines, anyway.:p
I was born in Tokyo while my dad was studying at Tokyo University; we moved out to Kamakura after he'd graduated and taken a civilian job with the U.S. Navy at Yokosaka. My parents wanted the "full immersion for me" so rather that send me to school on base, I attended a rural yochii-en (sp?) for two years (where I was the only other person who spoke any English besides the old Japanese Catholic priest who ran the place) - until we moved back to Tokyo. I attended an internation school in Ropongi for ~1.5years until I got kicked out (too hyperactive lol) and had to take a school bus out to ASIJ (American School in Japan) for another year and a half. We moved back to the States shortly before I turned ten (late '82).
When were you there and what led to your family being there, if I may ask?:)
Funny you should mention that.. I can still remember the sounds the cicadas made in the trees during the warmer months of my childhood spent growing up in Japan (my parents called them "locusts" but you'll have to excuse them; they were from the Midwest so I expect they couldn't have told a plague of locusts from a plague of boils).
I seem to recall that they were called "semis" in Japanese...
Your books have had a profound influence on me ever since I first discovered them so many years ago. Hell, just a few minutes ago I was daydreaming about how desperately we need the intervention of a "Meatfucker" on this planet.
Modern medicine seems to have failed you at this late hour. I wish there were some way I could share with you all of the "controversial" things I've learned about nutrition and the body's amazing ability to heal itself (not to be confused with treatment) but obviously I'm just another asshole with an opinion.
If this is indeed as terminal and hopeless as it sounds... perhaps I'll get to meet you in another life someday.
AMD has done every single thing the FOSS community asked
Except release updated Catalyst drivers so that our Radeon HD 4000's will work properly on Ubuntu 12.10 and Mint14... but no; our GPU's are apparently ancient (nevermind that mine is in a quad-core laptop w/8GB DDR3 that I bought precisely for running Linux).
Hell, I've even attempted to stick with 12.04 and Mint13, just so that I can have support for H.264 hardware acceleration, etc... guess what? It runs like shit. Even their latest Catalyst drivers (only available for Radeon 5000 series and above) are problematic, with tearing in video, etc (admittedly I haven't tried Catalyst 13.x on a Radeon HD 5000 yet but the guys at Valve don't seem to be reporting good things.
So... while nVidia are certainly a bunch of cocksuckers in the ethics dept (I've been an AMD supporter since the days of the K6-2), smooth video on Linux* currently requires Intel or Nvidia.
*Oddly enough, if you want to run Netflix on XP**, you're shit out of luck with nVidia (at least as of a few month ago); AMD GPU's were the only ones that allowed smooth, tear-free playback.
**I wouldn't know about performance on Vista/7/8; I have no interest in testing those "Great Big Viruses in Disguise."
once they buy pixibooks and tablets we will be left to pick up the full price for our dedicated high power PCs
No. One of the main things that allowed PC's to become so cheap over time was economies of scale re: mass manufacturing of commodities like RAM. Even if "Desktop PC's" become ultra-exclusive items (doubtful), they'll very likely be packed full of ARM cores and memory chips as you're likely to find in a portable device, just a lot more of them. Certain things (chipsets, high-end GPU's) are another story... but even now, those things aren't commoditized to the same degree that more common parts are (i.e. they're relatively expensive now so even if they remain that way, you won't see much change on that front).
Oh, for fuck's sake: who's the squeamish little pansy who can't handle a little humor? This is a site for adults, not playskoolforum.com (although I certainly wonder sometimes...)
which looks like their first-generation operating system will be derived from Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
In theory, this means support for Radeon 2000 through 4000 GPU's if they stick with X.Org 1.12 (AMD refuses to support those GPU's - not all of which can be considered dated in the least - in 12.10/X.org 1.13).
But the people in North Korea have created this mess, so it's only right they take the heaviest losses.
This got modded insightful? The North Korean people didn't create this mess (they're just peons along for the ride, like the majority of people everywhere). It's leadership that's responsible... and only a fool would assume they really know what's going on here, considering how many players there are in this game and how long it's been going on for...
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Fat folks are in short supply in North Korea.
But are they in... high demand? :p
One person's mishap on or near a train seldom brings fellow travelers to a screeching halt
Indeed, trains generally mass far too much for that... :p
Wiki ain't local.
Um, neither was Greenpeace...? :p
Likewise, for widebody people, a seat designed for narrow hips doesn't cut it.
Nope, don't imagine it would; apparently this is why widebodied aircraft were invented (there must be a single row of some really large seats running the length of those planes...).
you see a lot of extremely obese people there, even by American standards
I suspect the average Okie would snack on a Samoan like a spam-flavored Slim Jim. :p
lol, nice! I know that sounds distinctly familiar; Douglas Adams?
I'm holding out for hypersentient quantum computronium...
I wonder if it would be inherently "hypersentient" (whatever the fuck that means) or would only become so after your mindstate's been uploaded to it... :p
You think XP is less of a "Great Big Virus in Disguise" than Win7
You obviously know nothing of "DRM Engines" or the myriad ways in which the NT kernel evolved during Longhorn development. Why the fuck do you think NT 6.x and above consist of so many lines of code?! Shit, when I set up XP, it runs in 70 to 110MB of ram... and that's with wireless and printing support and a firewall enabled!
However, your strawman is definitely real:
XP is outdated: check.
XP is insecure: check.
XP is crap: Most assuredly.
An additional and slightly more to the point link...
The body's amazing ability to heal itself has failed him.
Utter horseshit. You speak out of your ass about that which you clearly know nothing about. There's overwelming evidence that we've failed our bodies, inundating them with cancerous-causing synthetic substances, providing them with entirely incorrect foods for primates and simply abusing them in a variety of ways that are completely incompatible with what they were designed/evolved for.
Shut your impulsive, ignorant mouth and perhaps even educate yourself a little...
Uhhh...you DO know they are supporting the FOSS drivers by helping their devs for precisely that reason, right?
Yes. :) This is why I've settled (for the time being) on Mint 14 with the FOSS drivers; admittedly H.264 is a lot smoother than it was a few months ago as long as I play it in VLC and not in the browser (i.e. Flash). I actually RTFA; forthcoming VDPAU support for the FOSS drivers sounds like a dream come true. Any idea how good OpenGL performance is on the FOSS drivers?
Where in Japan were you at? I spent most of my childhood in Misawa (north end of Honshu), and fondly remember the cicadas showing up every few years while I was there, too.
You'll have to forgive me; bokuno nihongo wa... totemu warui? Ipai no nihongo wasuremashita? Something along those lines, anyway. :p
I was born in Tokyo while my dad was studying at Tokyo University; we moved out to Kamakura after he'd graduated and taken a civilian job with the U.S. Navy at Yokosaka. My parents wanted the "full immersion for me" so rather that send me to school on base, I attended a rural yochii-en (sp?) for two years (where I was the only other person who spoke any English besides the old Japanese Catholic priest who ran the place) - until we moved back to Tokyo. I attended an internation school in Ropongi for ~1.5years until I got kicked out (too hyperactive lol) and had to take a school bus out to ASIJ (American School in Japan) for another year and a half. We moved back to the States shortly before I turned ten (late '82).
When were you there and what led to your family being there, if I may ask? :)
I seem to recall that they were called "semis" in Japanese...
Dear Mr. Banks:
Your books have had a profound influence on me ever since I first discovered them so many years ago. Hell, just a few minutes ago I was daydreaming about how desperately we need the intervention of a "Meatfucker" on this planet.
Modern medicine seems to have failed you at this late hour. I wish there were some way I could share with you all of the "controversial" things I've learned about nutrition and the body's amazing ability to heal itself (not to be confused with treatment) but obviously I'm just another asshole with an opinion.
If this is indeed as terminal and hopeless as it sounds... perhaps I'll get to meet you in another life someday.
You, sir, have my eternal gratitude and respect.
Yours truly,
Type44Q
AMD has done every single thing the FOSS community asked
Except release updated Catalyst drivers so that our Radeon HD 4000's will work properly on Ubuntu 12.10 and Mint14... but no; our GPU's are apparently ancient (nevermind that mine is in a quad-core laptop w/8GB DDR3 that I bought precisely for running Linux).
Hell, I've even attempted to stick with 12.04 and Mint13, just so that I can have support for H.264 hardware acceleration, etc... guess what? It runs like shit. Even their latest Catalyst drivers (only available for Radeon 5000 series and above) are problematic, with tearing in video, etc (admittedly I haven't tried Catalyst 13.x on a Radeon HD 5000 yet but the guys at Valve don't seem to be reporting good things.
So... while nVidia are certainly a bunch of cocksuckers in the ethics dept (I've been an AMD supporter since the days of the K6-2), smooth video on Linux* currently requires Intel or Nvidia.
*Oddly enough, if you want to run Netflix on XP**, you're shit out of luck with nVidia (at least as of a few month ago); AMD GPU's were the only ones that allowed smooth, tear-free playback.
**I wouldn't know about performance on Vista/7/8; I have no interest in testing those "Great Big Viruses in Disguise."
once they buy pixibooks and tablets we will be left to pick up the full price for our dedicated high power PCs
No. One of the main things that allowed PC's to become so cheap over time was economies of scale re: mass manufacturing of commodities like RAM. Even if "Desktop PC's" become ultra-exclusive items (doubtful), they'll very likely be packed full of ARM cores and memory chips as you're likely to find in a portable device, just a lot more of them. Certain things (chipsets, high-end GPU's) are another story... but even now, those things aren't commoditized to the same degree that more common parts are (i.e. they're relatively expensive now so even if they remain that way, you won't see much change on that front).
Oh, for fuck's sake: who's the squeamish little pansy who can't handle a little humor? This is a site for adults, not playskoolforum.com (although I certainly wonder sometimes...)
Like the time I ordered Menudo at a Mexican joint because the menu suggested it was a Mexican version of Beef Stew.
That's still better than ordering something "made with love" and getting "cream of sum yung gai" :p
Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes
Why won't anyone think of the atoms?!
which looks like their first-generation operating system will be derived from Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
In theory, this means support for Radeon 2000 through 4000 GPU's if they stick with X.Org 1.12 (AMD refuses to support those GPU's - not all of which can be considered dated in the least - in 12.10/X.org 1.13).
The physical CD was never what I was buying anyway.
SPMMD!
(Someone please mod Moron down) :p
And anyway the side effect of prohibition will do far more harm to society then any drug can.
Pray tell, how are facts like that supposed to help The Powers That Be maintain their control over everyone else?? (Quit thinking, serf.)
But the people in North Korea have created this mess, so it's only right they take the heaviest losses.
This got modded insightful? The North Korean people didn't create this mess (they're just peons along for the ride, like the majority of people everywhere). It's leadership that's responsible... and only a fool would assume they really know what's going on here, considering how many players there are in this game and how long it's been going on for...
Loki: I come with glad tidings of a world made free.
Nick Fury: Free from what?
Loki: Freedom.
I was being facetious but this ought to do it... :p