something that reports 3 axis movement... it looks just like a joystick to me!:)
forget about the name, joystick is the first and main 3 axis mapping device and never change the name with other things start to also do 3 axis mapping.
I'm a linux user and a free software supporter... i try to install everything as free as possible, even the graphic card drivers. I try to use FLOSS games (and there are many that are fun!) but also play closed ones. If i have the game without DRM (from humblebundle or desura), i will prefer it, if not, the steam DRM isn't that bad... It would be better without any DRM, but steam is very transparent and most users will never see that it even exists.
Right now it's better to have DRM games than no games at all. Going from a totally closed platform (windows and other consoles) with DRM to a open platform with DRM is a step in the right direction. After people/games start ditch windows, the DRM problem can be fixed, specially by the "wallet voting" (ie: stop buying DRM games)
Anyway, game jump from windows to linux is important enough to allow some slack, specially if the main problem is the transparent steam DRM
MNG is complex, it can encode the video/animated image in many, many ways, several of then useless for browsers/web, being so complex is hard to use and had no real usage (like all new formats)... and no fallback mechanism... but the MNG people agree to release a subset of MNG for browsers, simpler and with about 5 main encodings/compressions combinations and build plugins for other browsers. Yet then firefox devs reject it again, saying the lib uses too much space (about 200KB IIRC)... basically they simply didn't like the main guy behind the MNG format, nor the technology (NIH "Syndrome"), still saying it was too complex format (video is complex always) and as lame excuse broke the PNG to add the same stupid hack they had done in gif: append new images in the end of a static picture to fake a animation.
PNG group didn't like the idea, PNG it's a STILL image format, pointing that the animated image format equivalent to PNG is the MNG. So Mozilla team still uses APNG for animated images internally in firefox, and the APNG is ignored and unsupported almost elsewhere . Mozilla team still ignores MNG and now prefers to bet on the HTML5 for the future animated image support
MNG is complex, as it allows one to use several compressions methods, it can add alpha to any channel, it can use multiple codecs. It tried to cover all future possible usages and upgrades. But the web subset was "simple" enough to cover both simple image animations (to replace gifs) to small video clips. Compared with APNG, where it only loops by the existent images at different speeds and supported transparency, this format is very simple, but also bigger, not as smooth and not very good at video. Due the lack of a decent web video format, flash slowly took that market and only now, ~10 years later we have finally video support build in in the browser.
For several years now, AMD is using islands names for the internal GPU names (being the type/location of island used to group families) and river names for the CPUs/APUs. Kaveri is a river in India... that just by luck is also a word in Polish and Scandinavia.
At least im East-Timor, when you ask something in a negative question ( "will not meet today?"), they usually reply directly to the question ("yes, we will not meet"), instead of the more usual negative confirmation ("no, we will not meet").
If the above example is already a little confusing, when you get a single "yes" or "no" reply, you are totally lost on what was really the reply... and learn very quickly that you must not ask negative questions if you really need a reply!!:)
for sure there are many other places were the same kind of think/talk exists
you have a two party system because you wanted to... vote on other party, promote other candidate, fight the stupid idea that alternative voting is a waste of votes.
Better yet, promote a reform of the election laws.
remember that all over the world you have multi-party elections and even multi-party government. It will not solve everything, but at least each party checks the other one bad moves.
No, no, to revive him... let him kill all those politics!!! Peace at last!!
If you agree to be conquered by him, Genghis Khan were a very good ruler, usually much better than the one they removed... just don't try to resist him or disobey to what was agreed, as he most likely would totally destroy everyone (and everything) that you one day touched, if not all your country, just to be sure!!
Actually he didn't need that... as the chief of a huge empire, many girls/women/families wanted to be connect to him, specially with kids, in hope to increase their power or guarantee the safety of their bloodlines
You know, it's always hard to prove things, just by accounting other people stories. To really prove something you have to show evidences!
Now prove that Genghis Kahn existed!!! It's not easy, and remember that he is +1000 years more recent. Lets do the opposite... prove that Hercules/ Héracles didn't exist.
when all you have are stories, it's very hard to prove anything. Yes, you can prove some events, but what come first, the event or the story/person?
by the way, do you really exist? are you sure!! prove it!! -> cogito ergo sum:D
That already been solved also, you do the exact same thing:
In the deposit, you replace "air" with gas... With batteries, you replace a empty battery with a full one !:)
while you can manually fill the gas deposit, it's safer and faster to use special equipment while you can manually remove a battery (ok, you might need some help, they are heavy, unless they already assembled to be in smaller parts) it's safer and faster to use special equipment
yes, the battery are the main problem in electric cars, they still have important limitations, but even right now you can get everything to work, almost like a normal gas powered car
yes, you have more gas stations today, but how many gas stations had you 100 years ago? The temporary gas solution for that is a portable gas storage.
with electricity, you can also have portable batteries, and even better you have electricity in almost all places where are people, and you can even generate it your self, or using a solar panel/wind generator if things are really isolated... good luck producing gas!!:)
Linus said that he wants to have a 4.0 in about a year, not for now... and that he wants a clean, more bug fixed version (to see if distros use it as a long term stable version, instead of something like 2.6.32 or 3.2.x
you know, everytime you write anything on a SSD, you are really doing a copy-on-write on firmware level... the wrote block is really fully read and copied with the changes to a new block, So the btrfs copy-on-write is not doing anything worst
until now, you only had one IO queue, taken care by a single CPU (even if your machine had hundred of cpus). For slow HD, it didn't matter much, as the bottleneck was usually the HD (unless you had huge array of disks). with SSD you can hit the cpu limit, trying to process all those request. with this patch, you get one queue per cpu, so you increase a lot the parallelism of IO on high speed IO devices.
For home users, it probably will not do much difference, as they don't usually have big IO setups, but for enterprise, virtualization and storage setups, it will make a big difference. Solaris had this for many years and that is why on big storage setups solaris had a very good speed.
Don't forget that now that is harder to do, thanks to the infinite wisdom from microsoft!!
In windows 8 (and 8.1), when you "shutdown" windows, you are really just hibernating the PC, not doing the XP shutdown... When it starts again, it will load the previous state into memory and the malware is still there (and bugs, and crashs, and trash running, etc, etc)
To really "shutdown" a windows, you need to "reboot" it (or press the power button!!)
Yes, tgz (or txz) is just a tar.gz (or tar.xz)... just like a.deb is just a.ar achive (try ar x name.deb)... but this is a good thing, you can open then with standard tools if the pkgtool or dpkg or apt-* don't work.
rpm can only be open by rpm (or converted to standard archive by tools that usually require again the rpm), making very hard to open if the rpm really dont work.
Agree.. that is why we had several tried to disable that kind of cookies.
They should never exist in the first place... but as they exists right now, its hard to kill that beast!
the top usage for then is for sure the tracking of users, but is not the only usage. if no browser break that feature, not site will fix this... if no one fix their site, it's very hard for the browsers to change the default
the option to manually disable third party cookies is still there, it's not just enabled by default. Other than ads companies, big sites also use cookies between their multiple sites, changing that default could break big sites not ready for that change, throwing even more pressure for mozilla not change the default (breaking current sites is always very dangerous and tricky)
but anyway, firefox is one of the most privacy oriented browsers. If you install the add-ons noscript + requestpolicy and/or ghostery you are blocking almost all ways of tracking. add the "better privacy" to the list to also remove flash cookies (if you allow then) and be done.
having all this by default is hard, not only because the user-friendly, but because could rage many companies against mozilla if done alone... now try to talk to google to do the same to chrome (and by the way, disable the auto-submit of everything one writes to the url bar to the google servers)
RAM Doubler?! Are you talking about the program that added more swap and faked the total RAM as your real RAM+ swap? that one that after reverse engineering showed that it didn't even tried to compress anything?
yep, i used it for a few week and confirmed that it didn't really did anything.
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something that reports 3 axis movement... it looks just like a joystick to me! :)
forget about the name, joystick is the first and main 3 axis mapping device and never change the name with other things start to also do 3 axis mapping.
I'm a linux user and a free software supporter... i try to install everything as free as possible, even the graphic card drivers.
I try to use FLOSS games (and there are many that are fun!) but also play closed ones. If i have the game without DRM (from humblebundle or desura), i will prefer it, if not, the steam DRM isn't that bad... It would be better without any DRM, but steam is very transparent and most users will never see that it even exists.
Right now it's better to have DRM games than no games at all. Going from a totally closed platform (windows and other consoles) with DRM to a open platform with DRM is a step in the right direction. After people/games start ditch windows, the DRM problem can be fixed, specially by the "wallet voting" (ie: stop buying DRM games)
Anyway, game jump from windows to linux is important enough to allow some slack, specially if the main problem is the transparent steam DRM
10+ too late, postfix have since steamroller qmail in all fields
MNG is complex, it can encode the video/animated image in many, many ways, several of then useless for browsers/web, being so complex is hard to use and had no real usage (like all new formats)... and no fallback mechanism... but the MNG people agree to release a subset of MNG for browsers, simpler and with about 5 main encodings/compressions combinations and build plugins for other browsers. Yet then firefox devs reject it again, saying the lib uses too much space (about 200KB IIRC)... basically they simply didn't like the main guy behind the MNG format, nor the technology (NIH "Syndrome"), still saying it was too complex format (video is complex always) and as lame excuse broke the PNG to add the same stupid hack they had done in gif: append new images in the end of a static picture to fake a animation.
PNG group didn't like the idea, PNG it's a STILL image format, pointing that the animated image format equivalent to PNG is the MNG. So Mozilla team still uses APNG for animated images internally in firefox, and the APNG is ignored and unsupported almost elsewhere . Mozilla team still ignores MNG and now prefers to bet on the HTML5 for the future animated image support
MNG is complex, as it allows one to use several compressions methods, it can add alpha to any channel, it can use multiple codecs. It tried to cover all future possible usages and upgrades. But the web subset was "simple" enough to cover both simple image animations (to replace gifs) to small video clips. Compared with APNG, where it only loops by the existent images at different speeds and supported transparency, this format is very simple, but also bigger, not as smooth and not very good at video. Due the lack of a decent web video format, flash slowly took that market and only now, ~10 years later we have finally video support build in in the browser.
Actually should be the driver work to support this.
When a app asks to copy something to the GPU, it ask the GPU drivers, that can use that zero-copy/remap magic and tell the apps its done.
So yes, it should be supported out of the box if the drivers support it right.
For several years now, AMD is using islands names for the internal GPU names (being the type/location of island used to group families) and river names for the CPUs/APUs. Kaveri is a river in India... that just by luck is also a word in Polish and Scandinavia.
Go for Chef / Puppet, because you will never find people with the other ones skills.
you know, skills are learned, not born with.... you people with a little brain and dedication will learn whatever skill its needed
At least im East-Timor, when you ask something in a negative question ( "will not meet today?"), they usually reply directly to the question ("yes, we will not meet"), instead of the more usual negative confirmation ("no, we will not meet").
If the above example is already a little confusing, when you get a single "yes" or "no" reply, you are totally lost on what was really the reply... and learn very quickly that you must not ask negative questions if you really need a reply!! :)
for sure there are many other places were the same kind of think/talk exists
because when you start to have third party winning something, make other people think that maybe, just maybe voting on other parties is possible.
you have a two party system because you wanted to... vote on other party, promote other candidate, fight the stupid idea that alternative voting is a waste of votes.
Better yet, promote a reform of the election laws.
remember that all over the world you have multi-party elections and even multi-party government. It will not solve everything, but at least each party checks the other one bad moves.
No, no, to revive him... let him kill all those politics!!! Peace at last!!
If you agree to be conquered by him, Genghis Khan were a very good ruler, usually much better than the one they removed... just don't try to resist him or disobey to what was agreed, as he most likely would totally destroy everyone (and everything) that you one day touched, if not all your country, just to be sure!!
Actually he didn't need that... as the chief of a huge empire, many girls/women/families wanted to be connect to him, specially with kids, in hope to increase their power or guarantee the safety of their bloodlines
You know, it's always hard to prove things, just by accounting other people stories. To really prove something you have to show evidences!
Now prove that Genghis Kahn existed!!! It's not easy, and remember that he is +1000 years more recent.
Lets do the opposite... prove that Hercules/ Héracles didn't exist.
when all you have are stories, it's very hard to prove anything. Yes, you can prove some events, but what come first, the event or the story/person?
by the way, do you really exist? are you sure!! prove it!! -> cogito ergo sum :D
That already been solved also, you do the exact same thing:
In the deposit, you replace "air" with gas... :)
With batteries, you replace a empty battery with a full one !
while you can manually fill the gas deposit, it's safer and faster to use special equipment
while you can manually remove a battery (ok, you might need some help, they are heavy, unless they already assembled to be in smaller parts) it's safer and faster to use special equipment
yes, the battery are the main problem in electric cars, they still have important limitations, but even right now you can get everything to work, almost like a normal gas powered car
when it runs out of juice, you're stuck.
yes, that point is totally different from gas!!
yes, you have more gas stations today, but how many gas stations had you 100 years ago? The temporary gas solution for that is a portable gas storage.
with electricity, you can also have portable batteries, and even better you have electricity in almost all places where are people, and you can even generate it your self, or using a solar panel/wind generator if things are really isolated... good luck producing gas!! :)
Linus said that he wants to have a 4.0 in about a year, not for now... and that he wants a clean, more bug fixed version (to see if distros use it as a long term stable version, instead of something like 2.6.32 or 3.2.x
you know, everytime you write anything on a SSD, you are really doing a copy-on-write on firmware level... the wrote block is really fully read and copied with the changes to a new block, So the btrfs copy-on-write is not doing anything worst
until now, you only had one IO queue, taken care by a single CPU (even if your machine had hundred of cpus). For slow HD, it didn't matter much, as the bottleneck was usually the HD (unless you had huge array of disks). with SSD you can hit the cpu limit, trying to process all those request. with this patch, you get one queue per cpu, so you increase a lot the parallelism of IO on high speed IO devices.
For home users, it probably will not do much difference, as they don't usually have big IO setups, but for enterprise, virtualization and storage setups, it will make a big difference. Solaris had this for many years and that is why on big storage setups solaris had a very good speed.
those companies also dropped excel macros for android apps, so that problem is being solved!
Don't forget that now that is harder to do, thanks to the infinite wisdom from microsoft!!
In windows 8 (and 8.1), when you "shutdown" windows, you are really just hibernating the PC, not doing the XP shutdown... When it starts again, it will load the previous state into memory and the malware is still there (and bugs, and crashs, and trash running, etc, etc)
To really "shutdown" a windows, you need to "reboot" it (or press the power button!!)
The real solution is to use linux :)
Of course it installs... you have to fix the script to stop thinking that everyone is using redhat or debian
Yes, tgz (or txz) is just a tar.gz (or tar.xz) ... just like a .deb is just a .ar achive (try ar x name .deb) ... but this is a good thing, you can open then with standard tools if the pkgtool or dpkg or apt-* don't work.
rpm can only be open by rpm (or converted to standard archive by tools that usually require again the rpm), making very hard to open if the rpm really dont work.
Agree.. that is why we had several tried to disable that kind of cookies.
They should never exist in the first place... but as they exists right now, its hard to kill that beast!
the top usage for then is for sure the tracking of users, but is not the only usage. if no browser break that feature, not site will fix this... if no one fix their site, it's very hard for the browsers to change the default
humm... why fork?
the option to manually disable third party cookies is still there, it's not just enabled by default. Other than ads companies, big sites also use cookies between their multiple sites, changing that default could break big sites not ready for that change, throwing even more pressure for mozilla not change the default (breaking current sites is always very dangerous and tricky)
but anyway, firefox is one of the most privacy oriented browsers. If you install the add-ons noscript + requestpolicy and/or ghostery you are blocking almost all ways of tracking. add the "better privacy" to the list to also remove flash cookies (if you allow then) and be done.
having all this by default is hard, not only because the user-friendly, but because could rage many companies against mozilla if done alone... now try to talk to google to do the same to chrome (and by the way, disable the auto-submit of everything one writes to the url bar to the google servers)
RAM Doubler?! Are you talking about the program that added more swap and faked the total RAM as your real RAM+ swap? that one that after reverse engineering showed that it didn't even tried to compress anything?
yep, i used it for a few week and confirmed that it didn't really did anything.