"Nice web site you got here, it'd be a shame if we had a court order you to take it down. Give us $100,000 and nothing bad will happen to it, or you risk losing a $100,000,000 in court if we win."
Well.. My answer in such case is silence, followed by several bullets in the troll head. Much better.
Bill Gates is a crude example. If you prefer a more refined example, for you have a good job, a house (not renting) and maybe a family is not enough "just work hard", is a myth. You also must be in the right place at the right time, otherwise you will end up without a job or in a job lower than your skill allows. Hard work helps, but is not the only needed factor.
No, she is being realistic. You can achieve success alone, but is far, far harder to succeed than they force you to believe... And, personally, I prefer a hard truth than a sweet illusion.
Oh (insert your favorite deity here)... Yet Another "Self-Made-Man".
Dude, you also believe in Santa? Easter bunny? You can improve with hard work, yes, but that is only 10% what is necessary. Yes, that's right you read, 10%. I can be the best programmer on this planet, but I NEVER will be a "Bill Gates" if I not in the right place at the right time and having the right friends. And please, stop spreading bullshit that "just work like hell to be rich", it is fiction.
The point is that we can't order everthing online, some things are too big, to fragile or have tight time limits (I can't order pizza from another state). Or, the store is too far causing the delivery take months. Amazon may can deliver fast for you who live in the "first world", but do not think that everyone can or should do the same thing when we live on the other side of the globe.
The traditional model is not bad or "obsolete", is poorly implemented. I personally still prefer to go into a store and see personally the product I intend to buy. The problem is when the retailer do not invest in the structure it should have (more attendees, more space, more options) to be able to sell to you.
Funny... The U.S. killed (and continue to kill) thousands of people around the world in the name of the "war on terror" and "to liberate others from tyranny" (or from their petroleum?). The U.S. put my country into a dictatorship for more than 20 years, and still try to make my country become a mere subordinate, using the local media, corrupting local politicians and much more. And is the socialists that are evil?
I need the start button, the Aero interface and the old plain good desktop back. I suspect that those responsible for creating the Windows2000 are retiring and being replaced by those responsible for MSN Messenger, so that the interface has changed to... well... what we're seeing.
The problem is exactly that. We have 15 different file systems but none of them is really complete and free from obvious bugs. It's like having 15 different cars to choose from, but none of them having all the wheels, the engine, transmission, chassis and all of that working properly at the same time.
Maybe you should pay more attention in the passage where the guy talks about the issue of data integrity and how bad is the way that the kernel handles the situation ("we do the fast way and hope for the best").
Because the feature works on Nvidia and ATI, and works well? And, because is usefull for me (standard 2.2 gamma is too washed to me)? Well, I learned my lesson. The next time I buy a netbook, I will only buy if the gpu is Nvidia or ATI.
The problem actually is not her being a programming language or not. The problem is that she is one of the most stupid and defective ways of creating a program. Works? It works, but at what price?
You failed to see the irony... Yep, Javascript is a programming language and you can do many things with it. However, it is a language so defective, so bad, so WRONG that is possible to question if it is really a programming language.
Okay, more details. The standard gamma is "1", I like to use "0.75" on my desktop (which uses a Nvidia GPU). But on the netbook - which uses Intel GPU - the gamma can only be set above 1 (eg: 1.5, 1.8) and never below 1 as I can do on the desktop.
As gamma "1" is too much bright and washed for my liking so I have to get around using the gamma control from Windows, but it has some problems.
I'm thinking the same thing as you. It's too much work to do to get a game running on multi GPU and still there are problems there is no way to solve (microstutter between them).
Honestly? No. My personal experience has shown that dual GPUs do not pay in the end. Many problems (microstutter, needs compatible games) and performance gains are questionable (performance gain versus cost). Is better, at least to me, to buy a single-GPU card
Well, intel drivers are stable but crappy too. As example, I can even set gamma to a value less than 1 on my netbook, forcing me to use the gamma correction from Windows (with some problems)
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"Nice web site you got here, it'd be a shame if we had a court order you to take it down. Give us $100,000 and nothing bad will happen to it, or you risk losing a $100,000,000 in court if we win."
.. My answer in such case is silence, followed by several bullets in the troll head. Much better.
Well
I think something is seriously wrong when a program becomes too large to be compiled.
Bill Gates is a crude example. If you prefer a more refined example, for you have a good job, a house (not renting) and maybe a family is not enough "just work hard", is a myth. You also must be in the right place at the right time, otherwise you will end up without a job or in a job lower than your skill allows. Hard work helps, but is not the only needed factor.
No, she is being realistic. You can achieve success alone, but is far, far harder to succeed than they force you to believe... And, personally, I prefer a hard truth than a sweet illusion.
Oh (insert your favorite deity here)... Yet Another "Self-Made-Man".
Dude, you also believe in Santa? Easter bunny? You can improve with hard work, yes, but that is only 10% what is necessary. Yes, that's right you read, 10%. I can be the best programmer on this planet, but I NEVER will be a "Bill Gates" if I not in the right place at the right time and having the right friends. And please, stop spreading bullshit that "just work like hell to be rich", it is fiction.
Bingo. I would not have written better.
The point is that we can't order everthing online, some things are too big, to fragile or have tight time limits (I can't order pizza from another state). Or, the store is too far causing the delivery take months. Amazon may can deliver fast for you who live in the "first world", but do not think that everyone can or should do the same thing when we live on the other side of the globe.
You joke, but this may be just the future of this planet if things continue as they are today...
Amazon can ship my U.S purchased item on the same day to Brazil? Uhh... I think not.
The traditional model is not bad or "obsolete", is poorly implemented. I personally still prefer to go into a store and see personally the product I intend to buy. The problem is when the retailer do not invest in the structure it should have (more attendees, more space, more options) to be able to sell to you.
Uhh... "free-markets-are-sustainable-development"? without the supervision of anyone? BWHAHAHAHA Thanks for the laughs! :-)
Funny... The U.S. killed (and continue to kill) thousands of people around the world in the name of the "war on terror" and "to liberate others from tyranny" (or from their petroleum?). The U.S. put my country into a dictatorship for more than 20 years, and still try to make my country become a mere subordinate, using the local media, corrupting local politicians and much more. And is the socialists that are evil?
I need the start button, the Aero interface and the old plain good desktop back. I suspect that those responsible for creating the Windows2000 are retiring and being replaced by those responsible for MSN Messenger, so that the interface has changed to ... well ... what we're seeing.
The problem is exactly that. We have 15 different file systems but none of them is really complete and free from obvious bugs. It's like having 15 different cars to choose from, but none of them having all the wheels, the engine, transmission, chassis and all of that working properly at the same time.
Maybe you should pay more attention in the passage where the guy talks about the issue of data integrity and how bad is the way that the kernel handles the situation ("we do the fast way and hope for the best").
It may not be practical or realistic, but nothing should stop you from at least trying to make your system bug-free
"Who framed Roger Rabbit?"
Titan is a good choice, but way to expensive on my country. Mind you, here he costs almost $2,000!
Because the feature works on Nvidia and ATI, and works well? And, because is usefull for me (standard 2.2 gamma is too washed to me)? Well, I learned my lesson. The next time I buy a netbook, I will only buy if the gpu is Nvidia or ATI.
The problem actually is not her being a programming language or not. The problem is that she is one of the most stupid and defective ways of creating a program. Works? It works, but at what price?
You failed to see the irony... Yep, Javascript is a programming language and you can do many things with it. However, it is a language so defective, so bad, so WRONG that is possible to question if it is really a programming language.
Okay, more details. The standard gamma is "1", I like to use "0.75" on my desktop (which uses a Nvidia GPU). But on the netbook - which uses Intel GPU - the gamma can only be set above 1 (eg: 1.5, 1.8) and never below 1 as I can do on the desktop.
As gamma "1" is too much bright and washed for my liking so I have to get around using the gamma control from Windows, but it has some problems.
I'm thinking the same thing as you. It's too much work to do to get a game running on multi GPU and still there are problems there is no way to solve (microstutter between them).
Is it worth it?
Honestly? No. My personal experience has shown that dual GPUs do not pay in the end. Many problems (microstutter, needs compatible games) and performance gains are questionable (performance gain versus cost). Is better, at least to me, to buy a single-GPU card
Well, intel drivers are stable but crappy too. As example, I can even set gamma to a value less than 1 on my netbook, forcing me to use the gamma correction from Windows (with some problems)