I know it might seem trifling, but we are still engaged in active combat operations halfway around the world. If we still had a draft I think you'd be acutely aware of that.
If I'm buying a GPU for a video game, I only care about how it benchmarks on video games.
Uh... No, you don't. You care how it actually PLAYS the games. Benchmarks are just an indication used for purchasing the GPU, and this article talks about a better way of measuring gaming performance to make better decisions.
The summary already explicitly answered this. No, you can't.
But there was nothing to stop you uninstalling Office and installing it on another machine perfectly legally. With that option removed, Office 2013 effectively becomes a much more expensive proposition for many
Listen, Corporate Overlords, you know that little buzzer or dinger that goes off incessantly whenever I leave the lights on or don't buckle up and you think it's a "feature"? The first week of every car I've ever owned is spent taking apart the dashboard and removing that feature, and then pulverizing it with a hammer and throwing the remains on a base of burning coals. I shit you not, I'm serious about that crap.
Or you could, you know, turn the lights off and buckle up. It's illegal in most developed countries to not buckle up. Also, it takes you a week to dismantle a dashboard?
Last I checked my smartphone didn't have a front facing camera, nor do I hold it in such a way that it would give a meaningful picture of my face - the best you'd get is a smudge of part of my ear.
i'm a computer programmer. it's easy to make an accurate progress bar. take the total, take the current, divide. done. i don't know why windows progress bars and time estimated are so messed up. they're clearly doing something totally wrong. if not many things. as usual.
I'm not convinced that paying $50 for a graphics card should qualify for 10 years of active driver support. Anybody using a card that old doesn't care about performance which means they're likely to be the low end models in the first place. AMD has enough financial issues at the moment, funding driver development so users don't need to pay for an upgrade is not in their best interests.
What do you mean, "never"? It's already usable for 2d. 3d will probably take a while longer, but it's still a very recent card by open driver development standards.
I was under the impression that 3D was required before 2D on the SI cards due to them relying on Glamor
Which kernel? I hope you mean bootloader. UEFI actually improves the bootloading experience such that installing grub and Windows concurrently won't keep fighting for the single MBR entry - it natively supports multiple registered bootloaders. It's also necessary for using 3TB+ boot drives due to limitations in the MBR scheme.
It's a lot a new code and not well tested.
That's an implementation detail, not a problem with the concept itself. Hopefully it'll improve over time. I'd still generally trust it over coreboot which voids the warranty.
It has too many features, doing thing which firmware really has no business doing.
Linux actually makes good use of some of the features of UEFI. One prime example is using UEFI variables for storing kernel log info in non-volatile storage. Is there a particular feature of UEFI that you feel really shouldn't be there? (Please don't mention Secure Boot - even if you don't agree with the principle, it does belong at the firmware level to implement that style of security)
Sorry, but if removing the battery or otherwise resetting the NVRAM to factory defaults resolves the issue, that's not even remotely "bricked".
Non-Volatile Random Access Memmory
Look up the first part and you'll figure out why removing the battery won't fix it.
"Or otherwise". Even though they were wrong about it not being bricked in this instance, to be fair the AC wasn't completely clueless. Some hardware includes procedures to recover from bad NVRAM data.
Like Microsoft operatives infiltrated SONY at all levels of management and sent the company crashing into the ground? I think that'd be funny.
Of course, if Microsoft were competent enough to do that...
Considering what they've done to Nokia, they definitely seem capable of doing just that.
There's nothing stopping Microsoft from modifying their copy of libgit2 as long as they release the source according to the modified GPL license it is covered by. In fact, Microsoft already have upstreamed some modifications.
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If you look at the specs, Mir will be more clean-cut and modular than X.org ever was, allowing for implementation across distros if they so wish.
So... basically you just agreed that Wayland would have sufficed.
The Ubuntu and Debian projects cause far more damage to the linux community than they do contribute ...
What harm has Debian done?
GNU/Linux may be fragmented, but Ubuntu isn't.
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu et al...
Who's the guy welcoming new staff and handing out Allen keys?
Iron rusts fairly readily.
MechWarrior Online and Star Citizen are the only ones I know of.
I know it might seem trifling, but we are still engaged in active combat operations halfway around the world. If we still had a draft I think you'd be acutely aware of that.
Aerial combat where the F-35 might be of any use?
I can't even have a phone conversation with one most of the time and you're lucky if they ever follow through with what they say they'll do.
Funny, I can say the same thing about most Americans I've had to deal with.
If I'm buying a GPU for a video game, I only care about how it benchmarks on video games.
Uh... No, you don't. You care how it actually PLAYS the games. Benchmarks are just an indication used for purchasing the GPU, and this article talks about a better way of measuring gaming performance to make better decisions.
Those multi-GPU cards still use SLI/Crossfire under the hood.
It is the equivalent of knowing how to speak English but being unaware that there is a geographic area called England.
So, a not-so-insignificant portion of America?
But there was nothing to stop you uninstalling Office and installing it on another machine perfectly legally. With that option removed, Office 2013 effectively becomes a much more expensive proposition for many
Listen, Corporate Overlords, you know that little buzzer or dinger that goes off incessantly whenever I leave the lights on or don't buckle up and you think it's a "feature"? The first week of every car I've ever owned is spent taking apart the dashboard and removing that feature, and then pulverizing it with a hammer and throwing the remains on a base of burning coals. I shit you not, I'm serious about that crap.
Or you could, you know, turn the lights off and buckle up. It's illegal in most developed countries to not buckle up. Also, it takes you a week to dismantle a dashboard?
Last I checked my smartphone didn't have a front facing camera, nor do I hold it in such a way that it would give a meaningful picture of my face - the best you'd get is a smudge of part of my ear.
You could always just stick some tape or something over the camera if it bugs you that much.
Making it any more accurate (say by prescanning all files ahead of time) would dramatically increase the amount of time the operation would take.
You've just described why Vista took so damn long to actually start a copy operation.
i'm a computer programmer. it's easy to make an accurate progress bar. take the total, take the current, divide. done. i don't know why windows progress bars and time estimated are so messed up. they're clearly doing something totally wrong. if not many things. as usual.
Clearly you're not a very good one.
I'm not convinced that paying $50 for a graphics card should qualify for 10 years of active driver support. Anybody using a card that old doesn't care about performance which means they're likely to be the low end models in the first place. AMD has enough financial issues at the moment, funding driver development so users don't need to pay for an upgrade is not in their best interests.
What do you mean, "never"? It's already usable for 2d. 3d will probably take a while longer, but it's still a very recent card by open driver development standards.
I was under the impression that 3D was required before 2D on the SI cards due to them relying on Glamor
It's unnecessary, just launch the kernel
Which kernel? I hope you mean bootloader. UEFI actually improves the bootloading experience such that installing grub and Windows concurrently won't keep fighting for the single MBR entry - it natively supports multiple registered bootloaders. It's also necessary for using 3TB+ boot drives due to limitations in the MBR scheme.
It's a lot a new code and not well tested.
That's an implementation detail, not a problem with the concept itself. Hopefully it'll improve over time. I'd still generally trust it over coreboot which voids the warranty.
It has too many features, doing thing which firmware really has no business doing.
Linux actually makes good use of some of the features of UEFI. One prime example is using UEFI variables for storing kernel log info in non-volatile storage. Is there a particular feature of UEFI that you feel really shouldn't be there? (Please don't mention Secure Boot - even if you don't agree with the principle, it does belong at the firmware level to implement that style of security)
I'm intending to purchase a motherboot that's supported by coreboot so I don't have to deal with UEFI
Why? What's wrong with UEFI that you need to replace it with coreboot (which just so happens to have a UEFI payload)
Sorry, but if removing the battery or otherwise resetting the NVRAM to factory defaults resolves the issue, that's not even remotely "bricked".
Non-Volatile Random Access Memmory
Look up the first part and you'll figure out why removing the battery won't fix it.
"Or otherwise". Even though they were wrong about it not being bricked in this instance, to be fair the AC wasn't completely clueless. Some hardware includes procedures to recover from bad NVRAM data.
That's often a case of running out of desktop heap rather than handles.
Like Microsoft operatives infiltrated SONY at all levels of management and sent the company crashing into the ground? I think that'd be funny.
Of course, if Microsoft were competent enough to do that...
Considering what they've done to Nokia, they definitely seem capable of doing just that.
There's nothing stopping Microsoft from modifying their copy of libgit2 as long as they release the source according to the modified GPL license it is covered by. In fact, Microsoft already have upstreamed some modifications.