ATI's driver quality is fairly decent these days. I used to get hard locks when playing Oblivion on my old Radeon 9800 Pro, but those disappeared as soon as I got a better cooler and fan on it. I don't think I've ever had a bluescreen or crash in Windows XP with my current X1950 Pro. The Linux drivers have been a different matter, but at least the open drivers seem stable enough.
Your Lexmark printer won't work with the next version of Windows either. I've never heard of a version of Windows being held back because Lexmark doesn't care about their users.
Fuck off. "severe lack of user testing and quality assurance" -- because Ubunutu doesn't install potentially unlicensed software without user intervention?
Windows never worked properly out of the box. There's always a need to install extra drivers to get it to work properly.
Sure, we can forgive a little cynicism and snarkiness if you can forgive us for not paying too much attention to a group of people who think this kind of rambling and incoherent strawman bullshit is "insightful".
Well, the main difference between Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the theme: one is mainly about man (or android) revolting against God (or death) in a godless universe, the other is about the authenticity of emotions and empathy in a modern society of drugs & media. The story is basically the same, though (apart from the film's more spectacular ending, of course).
This is 1) a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum: something is right because people do it; 2) a logical fallacy called a strawman (the Coward never proposed solving the piracy problem with police state measures); 3) a logical fallacy called a non sequitur (advocacy of a police state doesn't follow from the statement that piracy is wrong); 4) an incomplete "analysis" of the reason for copyright; Score: 5, interesting on Slashdot.
Having Mac-fags crawling out of the woodwork to claim lack of support is a good thing isn't 'backfiring' in any way. It just shows delusional fanboys for what they are: delusional fanboys.
You really think so? The EU will probably slap them with a hefty fine yet again. This is just another example of Microsoft being deliberately anti-competitive.
OK, then. I installed it in Windows XP and tested, just for you. Same computer, of course, but with a more recent version of ioquake3; same resolution and everything. 192 fps. So it's faster in Windows, as I expected. I'm not going to bother with fglrx.
122 fps was with the old radeon driver, as radeonhd doesn't work for me. The OpenGL performance for the two should be pretty much identical, though, as they both use the same Mesa and DRI.
Performance is pretty decent for fully supported cards. With an ancient Athlon 64 3200+ and a Radeon 1950 Pro, I get 122 fps in Quake3 timedemo with a resolution of 1600x1200 and everything on max, and I can play 1080p video as well. Unfortunately, newer cards are more work in progress, and it's only OpenGL 1.4 so far.
You should try Gnome-Do. It gives you a dock, if you want one, and also a QuickSilver-like interface for launching apps, which is far, far better than a dock.
Wrong. Translations are new works, and translations are covered by copyright. Derivative works, surely, but new and copyrightable works nonetheless. It's a situation not very dissimilar to a fork of a software project: the original author retains certain rights, and can stop the fork if it's unlicensed, but s/he doesn't get the full copyright to the fork.
Good point, perhaps. The pilot for the American Red Dwarf turned Dave Lister into someone more like Snake Plissken than the Scouse space bum. But it's not because Americans hate losers, it's because some American producers are idiots and have the wrong ideas about their viewers, since they think like marketing people. Homer Simpson is a successful loser, for instance, and he's arguably one of the greatest successes of American TV, ever. Or Archie Bunker, for that matter.
While true that the focus was mainly on WMDs, Bush certainly mentioned bringing freedom to Iraq as a goal:
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. The oppression of Kurds, Assyrians, Turkomen, Shia, Sunnis and others will be lifted, the long captivity of Iraq will end, and an era of new hope will begin. That's from October, 2002.
Also, "we" didn't invade because "we" were told there were WMDs in Iraq: those who told us there were WMDs there then invaded. It was propaganda. So was, of course, the talk of bringing freedom to Iraq.
So: it's not related to warming. In fact it's caused by a natural cooling unrelated to global warming.
So you think that all cooling events are natural, but all warming events are man-made? This is precisely the alarmist position as far as I can see. Before the negative PDO, there was a positive one, peaking in 1998. Is this a "natural" event or not?
No, and I didn't claim that. There are natural variations like there always have been. Some years will be warmer than the one preceding, others will be colder. Again, you choose to attack a convenient strawman.
2) "Under global warming scenarios, hurricane intensity is expected to increase (on the order of a few percent), but MANY questions remain as to how much, where, and when."
Indeed, simply a statement of what is expected from warming scenarios. The actual reality is different. That is the point of the article.
No, that's not the point of the article, and it specifically says the drop in hurricane activity is linked with a recent cooling.
"I don't believe Al Gore has claimed Katrina was caused by global warming
There is nothing wrong with my English language comprehension. You contradict yourself. I have corrected you by showing you how he has attempted to link AGW with Katrina.
No, you haven't corrected anything. You have yet to show where Al Gore said Katrina was caused by global warming. In your quotation, Al Gore spoke about a president who was unwilling to heed warnings, both when it came to global warming in general and to NOLA specifically, ignoring warnings that the levees would break, and then later claim that "Nobody could have predicted that the levees would break".
Again, you have shown nothing but your own dishonesty.
I've found that he's claimed that "the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming", which is correct
Actually, the reverse is true. Recent scientific papers show that hurricane activity has decreased during the recent warming, not increased:
Even if that was relevant, it would still be wrong.
1) "Why the record low ACE? During the past 2 years +, the Earthâ(TM)s climate has cooled under the effects of a dramatic La Nina episode. The Pacific Ocean basin typically sees much weaker hurricanes that indeed have shorter lifecycles and therefore â" less ACE." So: it's not related to warming. In fact it's caused by a natural cooling unrelated to global warming.
2) "Under global warming scenarios, hurricane intensity is expected to increase (on the order of a few percent), but MANY questions remain as to how much, where, and when."
3) "The notion that the overall global hurricane energy or ACE has collapsed does not contradict the above papers [about increasing hurricane energy due to warming] but provides an additional, perhaps less publicized piece of the puzzle."
This is all from the article you quoted, all in direct contradiction to what you're trying to make out of it.
While telling me to check my facts you have made the error of not checking your own.
Again, you're inventing stuff. I said: "I don't believe Al Gore has claimed Katrina was caused by global warming". You try to refute that by pretending I said something completely different, as if I made a general attempt to "exhonerate Gore from" a not particularly well defined accusation of "alarmism" that somehow popped up only after I was supposed to defend him from it. Well, I didn't.
I'll give you one thing: your intellectual dishonesty is extremely well developed. You should go into politics.
No, I'm not going to claim the El Nino is caused by global warming, and I'd appreciate if you could refrain from strawman attacks. It's not that hard. Really.
And I don't believe Al Gore has claimed Katrina was caused by global warming either. If he did, it should be easily proven. I've found that he's claimed that "the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming", which is correct: there has been reports making that claim. Not made more frequent, nor caused by, but made stronger by global warming. Perhaps you should try finding evidence against actual claims instead of debunking your own inventions.
I'm not sure it's so goddamn classless. It shows that someone who didn't know the anonymous guy or anything about him still cares about his work. It might be "insensitive" in some situations, but right here and now it's also a display of appreciation. This is Slashdot, not a funeral.
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ATI's driver quality is fairly decent these days. I used to get hard locks when playing Oblivion on my old Radeon 9800 Pro, but those disappeared as soon as I got a better cooler and fan on it. I don't think I've ever had a bluescreen or crash in Windows XP with my current X1950 Pro. The Linux drivers have been a different matter, but at least the open drivers seem stable enough.
It's still "insightful", as it's a Mac advert, though.
Your Lexmark printer won't work with the next version of Windows either. I've never heard of a version of Windows being held back because Lexmark doesn't care about their users.
Fuck off. "severe lack of user testing and quality assurance" -- because Ubunutu doesn't install potentially unlicensed software without user intervention?
Windows never worked properly out of the box. There's always a need to install extra drivers to get it to work properly.
Sure, we can forgive a little cynicism and snarkiness if you can forgive us for not paying too much attention to a group of people who think this kind of rambling and incoherent strawman bullshit is "insightful".
Well, the main difference between Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the theme: one is mainly about man (or android) revolting against God (or death) in a godless universe, the other is about the authenticity of emotions and empathy in a modern society of drugs & media. The story is basically the same, though (apart from the film's more spectacular ending, of course).
This is 1) a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum: something is right because people do it; 2) a logical fallacy called a strawman (the Coward never proposed solving the piracy problem with police state measures); 3) a logical fallacy called a non sequitur (advocacy of a police state doesn't follow from the statement that piracy is wrong); 4) an incomplete "analysis" of the reason for copyright; Score: 5, interesting on Slashdot.
Congratulations.
Having Mac-fags crawling out of the woodwork to claim lack of support is a good thing isn't 'backfiring' in any way. It just shows delusional fanboys for what they are: delusional fanboys.
OS X doesn't even support Apple's own floppy drives.
For being deliberately anti-competitive. I already wrote that.
No, that would be illegal in most if not all countries Microsoft operate in.
I'm not sure the Dog Ate My Homework defence will stand up in court no matter ho much fresh dog shit you serve the jury.
You really think so? The EU will probably slap them with a hefty fine yet again. This is just another example of Microsoft being deliberately anti-competitive.
Good thing for NetBSD they don't use fglrx, then.
OK, then. I installed it in Windows XP and tested, just for you. Same computer, of course, but with a more recent version of ioquake3; same resolution and everything. 192 fps. So it's faster in Windows, as I expected. I'm not going to bother with fglrx.
122 fps was with the old radeon driver, as radeonhd doesn't work for me. The OpenGL performance for the two should be pretty much identical, though, as they both use the same Mesa and DRI.
Performance is pretty decent for fully supported cards. With an ancient Athlon 64 3200+ and a Radeon 1950 Pro, I get 122 fps in Quake3 timedemo with a resolution of 1600x1200 and everything on max, and I can play 1080p video as well. Unfortunately, newer cards are more work in progress, and it's only OpenGL 1.4 so far.
You should try Gnome-Do. It gives you a dock, if you want one, and also a QuickSilver-like interface for launching apps, which is far, far better than a dock.
Yes, it seems to be in Debian experimental. At least parts of it.
Wrong. Translations are new works, and translations are covered by copyright. Derivative works, surely, but new and copyrightable works nonetheless. It's a situation not very dissimilar to a fork of a software project: the original author retains certain rights, and can stop the fork if it's unlicensed, but s/he doesn't get the full copyright to the fork.
Good point, perhaps. The pilot for the American Red Dwarf turned Dave Lister into someone more like Snake Plissken than the Scouse space bum. But it's not because Americans hate losers, it's because some American producers are idiots and have the wrong ideas about their viewers, since they think like marketing people. Homer Simpson is a successful loser, for instance, and he's arguably one of the greatest successes of American TV, ever. Or Archie Bunker, for that matter.
While true that the focus was mainly on WMDs, Bush certainly mentioned bringing freedom to Iraq as a goal:
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. The oppression of Kurds, Assyrians, Turkomen, Shia, Sunnis and others will be lifted, the long captivity of Iraq will end, and an era of new hope will begin. That's from October, 2002.
Also, "we" didn't invade because "we" were told there were WMDs in Iraq: those who told us there were WMDs there then invaded. It was propaganda. So was, of course, the talk of bringing freedom to Iraq.
So you think that all cooling events are natural, but all warming events are man-made? This is precisely the alarmist position as far as I can see. Before the negative PDO, there was a positive one, peaking in 1998. Is this a "natural" event or not?
No, and I didn't claim that. There are natural variations like there always have been. Some years will be warmer than the one preceding, others will be colder. Again, you choose to attack a convenient strawman.
Indeed, simply a statement of what is expected from warming scenarios. The actual reality is different. That is the point of the article.
No, that's not the point of the article, and it specifically says the drop in hurricane activity is linked with a recent cooling.
There is nothing wrong with my English language comprehension. You contradict yourself. I have corrected you by showing you how he has attempted to link AGW with Katrina.
No, you haven't corrected anything. You have yet to show where Al Gore said Katrina was caused by global warming. In your quotation, Al Gore spoke about a president who was unwilling to heed warnings, both when it came to global warming in general and to NOLA specifically, ignoring warnings that the levees would break, and then later claim that "Nobody could have predicted that the levees would break".
Again, you have shown nothing but your own dishonesty.
Actually, the reverse is true. Recent scientific papers show that hurricane activity has decreased during the recent warming, not increased:
Even if that was relevant, it would still be wrong.
1) "Why the record low ACE? During the past 2 years +, the Earthâ(TM)s climate has cooled under the effects of a dramatic La Nina episode. The Pacific Ocean basin typically sees much weaker hurricanes that indeed have shorter lifecycles and therefore â" less ACE." So: it's not related to warming. In fact it's caused by a natural cooling unrelated to global warming.
2) "Under global warming scenarios, hurricane intensity is expected to increase (on the order of a few percent), but MANY questions remain as to how much, where, and when."
3) "The notion that the overall global hurricane energy or ACE has collapsed does not contradict the above papers [about increasing hurricane energy due to warming] but provides an additional, perhaps less publicized piece of the puzzle."
This is all from the article you quoted, all in direct contradiction to what you're trying to make out of it.
While telling me to check my facts you have made the error of not checking your own.
Again, you're inventing stuff. I said: "I don't believe Al Gore has claimed Katrina was caused by global warming". You try to refute that by pretending I said something completely different, as if I made a general attempt to "exhonerate Gore from" a not particularly well defined accusation of "alarmism" that somehow popped up only after I was supposed to defend him from it. Well, I didn't.
I'll give you one thing: your intellectual dishonesty is extremely well developed. You should go into politics.
No, I'm not going to claim the El Nino is caused by global warming, and I'd appreciate if you could refrain from strawman attacks. It's not that hard. Really.
And I don't believe Al Gore has claimed Katrina was caused by global warming either. If he did, it should be easily proven. I've found that he's claimed that "the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming", which is correct: there has been reports making that claim. Not made more frequent, nor caused by, but made stronger by global warming. Perhaps you should try finding evidence against actual claims instead of debunking your own inventions.
I'm not sure it's so goddamn classless. It shows that someone who didn't know the anonymous guy or anything about him still cares about his work. It might be "insensitive" in some situations, but right here and now it's also a display of appreciation. This is Slashdot, not a funeral.