No, they couldn't. APUs still aren't good enough for gaming. An A10-6800k on its own costs about the same and performs markedly worse than an Athlon x4 750k + Radeon 7750.
OIn the contrary, they should come up with more meaningful tests. On the x86 side, there are quite a few staples of testing that are also real-world scenarios, like RAR decompression, encryption and video and mp3 encoding. For GPUs, an assorted bundle of real games are great for measuring performance.
It depends on the law. Slavery is pretty bad. The only reason why it endured was that, because it was race-based, you, white man, knew your ass wasn't going to be on the line. Think more along the lines of that Braveheart thing where the local nobleman was supposed to have sex with your wife. That was very much a reason for saying "fuck everything, let's fuck those fuckers". So I don't think his ethics are off, he's merely saying that money counterfeiting and the murder of a slave trader are more moral than depriving prople of the most basic control over their lives and submitting them to capricious torture. Seems about right.
NV hasn't had "great proprietary Linux drivers" for a while. Performance is good, yes, but Optimus supportd has been denied, older cards are given the shaft (not keeping up with newer Xorg APIs in a timely manner can be excused - marking severe rendering issues on Gnome Shell, Unity and Cinnamon as a wontfix on three generations of their cards cannot) and you can get funny stories such as these: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3NDE
So, while NV has the edge in performance still, for owners of particular cards/features the experience can be incredibly frustrating, which is why I would never say their proprietary drivers for Linux are "great". I"d save that for a driver that works as well as NV's on Windows.
Of course, via a certain level of abstraction, the military IS there as a business.
What layer of abstraction? The military exists to funnel money into the hands of banking, oil and weapon industries while protecting the interests of those same companies overseas. It's as much a business as a mexican drug cartel, only much more powerful and vicious.
Actually, Ubuntu's Mir uses Android drivers, doesn't it? Ubuntu having been so focused in mobile and Adreno 3xx GPUs being quite able to render 1080p graphics (I'd love to see a comparison between Adreno 3xx and Intel 3xxx, BTW, to have an idea of where mobile GPUs stand in terms of performance), I can see why they'd go that route, to avoid the trap of ending up with good software but no hardware backers nor drivers. And, as shitty as Unity is for the desktop, it seems to work well on phones.
Has it really degraded? Thanks to Gnome Shell we now have Cinnamon. It's better than Gnome 2 ever was and is making its way to other distributions. Coupled with KDE 4.10 (when properly configured to avoid some pesky bugs), I'd say we still have two good options in the "full Linux DE" field.
KDE4 is like Gnome 3 but actually improved as it developed.
Of course. To put it anatomically, KDE 4.0 had its heart in the right place, even if its other innards were completely jumbled. The problem with Gnome Shell, on the other hand, is that it has its head up its ass.
Thisis either sad or hilarious, I'm still deciding. Basically, the "conversation" just went like this:
-Statistics I've seen say that birds double in value when transferred from bush to hand. -Really? Where have you seen those numbers? -Fuck you, I don't have to tell you.
Forget it. NVIDIA's blob is frequently applauded for perfomance, but support for older cards is nonexistant. Geforce FXs and 6s don't even work with GTK3 DEs on either driver. Your best bets are replacing the video card, removing it altogether or using those old Mesa DRI drivers that don't use Gallium 3D. I'm sure they're still around.
What non-free component is the radeon driver dependent of? AFAIK, radeon is completely free. Even the FSF's approved distros use it, and Stallman is not known for his flexibility. Are you referring to S3TC? The driver is hardly "heavily dependent" on it.
Not really. I think it was a response to the increased fragmentation of display servers. They'd have to support X and Mir and Wayland with their drivers. It's easier to just provide documentation and let the open source drivers do most of the heavy-lifting. Also, AMD's open support has been met with a lot of praise lately, due to DPM being available for the open drivers. Thinking more long-term, the Wintel platform is starting to give signs of decline, so it doesn't hurt NVIDIA to hedge their bets - and the most economical way of doing that is by releasing specs.
I'm not sure it ends up being beneficial in the grand scheme of things, though. Iran obviously isn't a model nation by any standards, but looking at the current scenario of international politics and the powers of the UN*, you may suspect that nuclear deterrence is still alive and kicking. I don't know if we'd have so many wars or if we'd invest so much in warfare if nuclear missiles were ubiquitous, as paradoxical as this statement may seen.
*See the Iraq war. Also, remember the US are setting their sights on both Syria and Iran, now. If I were one of those countries, yes, I'd be worried and looking for anything that might make them think twice.
I'll chip in. I've never managed to break a Linux session by hogging all available memory, but Premiere on Windows would frequently force me to reboot when I went overboard with HD video editing. On the other hand, my experience on 3) is completely differente than GP's. Flash on Linux is an unmitigated disaster. It's funny hpw these things go.
What amazes me is that there have been no reprisals so far. Not by the US citizens, by US courts nor by other countries. Folks who actually live in the US, please tell me: are people really just shrugging it off or am I just not seeing the repercussions from here?
Well, they are linked. Would you rather max your speed at 50KB/s or reach 1.0MB/s but be limited to 130GB per month? They amount to the same monthly hard limit (unless my math is off), but with the faster connection you can simply burn through your allowance faster. The plus side is needing less actual machine uptime for the same data transfer.
Of course, caps can be reasonable or unreasonable. My ISP sells 10Mbps connections limited to 80GB/mo. I'd much rather reach only 5Mbps limited to 160GB/mo, and they should have a plan tailored for people like me, since it would actually make peak hours easier on them. But, like in all markets, a specific number, feature or buzzword dictates the sway of a mass made by about 80% of largely uninformed people. Or at least that's how executives view things, but the result is the same.
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No, they couldn't. APUs still aren't good enough for gaming. An A10-6800k on its own costs about the same and performs markedly worse than an Athlon x4 750k + Radeon 7750.
OIn the contrary, they should come up with more meaningful tests. On the x86 side, there are quite a few staples of testing that are also real-world scenarios, like RAR decompression, encryption and video and mp3 encoding. For GPUs, an assorted bundle of real games are great for measuring performance.
either the GPU or CPU cock increased.
Whoa, can cell phones do that now? I hold these things to my ear, for Christ's sake!
It depends on the law. Slavery is pretty bad. The only reason why it endured was that, because it was race-based, you, white man, knew your ass wasn't going to be on the line. Think more along the lines of that Braveheart thing where the local nobleman was supposed to have sex with your wife. That was very much a reason for saying "fuck everything, let's fuck those fuckers". So I don't think his ethics are off, he's merely saying that money counterfeiting and the murder of a slave trader are more moral than depriving prople of the most basic control over their lives and submitting them to capricious torture. Seems about right.
NV hasn't had "great proprietary Linux drivers" for a while. Performance is good, yes, but Optimus supportd has been denied, older cards are given the shaft (not keeping up with newer Xorg APIs in a timely manner can be excused - marking severe rendering issues on Gnome Shell, Unity and Cinnamon as a wontfix on three generations of their cards cannot) and you can get funny stories such as these: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3NDE
So, while NV has the edge in performance still, for owners of particular cards/features the experience can be incredibly frustrating, which is why I would never say their proprietary drivers for Linux are "great". I"d save that for a driver that works as well as NV's on Windows.
Of course, via a certain level of abstraction, the military IS there as a business.
What layer of abstraction? The military exists to funnel money into the hands of banking, oil and weapon industries while protecting the interests of those same companies overseas. It's as much a business as a mexican drug cartel, only much more powerful and vicious.
Actually, Ubuntu's Mir uses Android drivers, doesn't it? Ubuntu having been so focused in mobile and Adreno 3xx GPUs being quite able to render 1080p graphics (I'd love to see a comparison between Adreno 3xx and Intel 3xxx, BTW, to have an idea of where mobile GPUs stand in terms of performance), I can see why they'd go that route, to avoid the trap of ending up with good software but no hardware backers nor drivers. And, as shitty as Unity is for the desktop, it seems to work well on phones.
There's a number. It's 1984.
In fact the fair thing to do is not pay back salary for the non-essential staff, since they did not perform their duties.
For funny definitions of "fair", obviously. If the non-essential doesn't have to pay rent/mortgage or eat during that time, then it's fair.
Has it really degraded? Thanks to Gnome Shell we now have Cinnamon. It's better than Gnome 2 ever was and is making its way to other distributions. Coupled with KDE 4.10 (when properly configured to avoid some pesky bugs), I'd say we still have two good options in the "full Linux DE" field.
That's not what we wanted. We wanted to know its cost was $80, tops.
KDE4 is like Gnome 3 but actually improved as it developed.
Of course. To put it anatomically, KDE 4.0 had its heart in the right place, even if its other innards were completely jumbled. The problem with Gnome Shell, on the other hand, is that it has its head up its ass.
Thisis either sad or hilarious, I'm still deciding. Basically, the "conversation" just went like this:
-Statistics I've seen say that birds double in value when transferred from bush to hand.
-Really? Where have you seen those numbers?
-Fuck you, I don't have to tell you.
Reminds me of this, but applied to the internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8062QEFk5g
Forget it. NVIDIA's blob is frequently applauded for perfomance, but support for older cards is nonexistant. Geforce FXs and 6s don't even work with GTK3 DEs on either driver. Your best bets are replacing the video card, removing it altogether or using those old Mesa DRI drivers that don't use Gallium 3D. I'm sure they're still around.
What non-free component is the radeon driver dependent of? AFAIK, radeon is completely free. Even the FSF's approved distros use it, and Stallman is not known for his flexibility. Are you referring to S3TC? The driver is hardly "heavily dependent" on it.
Not really. I think it was a response to the increased fragmentation of display servers. They'd have to support X and Mir and Wayland with their drivers. It's easier to just provide documentation and let the open source drivers do most of the heavy-lifting. Also, AMD's open support has been met with a lot of praise lately, due to DPM being available for the open drivers. Thinking more long-term, the Wintel platform is starting to give signs of decline, so it doesn't hurt NVIDIA to hedge their bets - and the most economical way of doing that is by releasing specs.
I'm not sure it ends up being beneficial in the grand scheme of things, though. Iran obviously isn't a model nation by any standards, but looking at the current scenario of international politics and the powers of the UN*, you may suspect that nuclear deterrence is still alive and kicking. I don't know if we'd have so many wars or if we'd invest so much in warfare if nuclear missiles were ubiquitous, as paradoxical as this statement may seen.
*See the Iraq war. Also, remember the US are setting their sights on both Syria and Iran, now. If I were one of those countries, yes, I'd be worried and looking for anything that might make them think twice.
I'll chip in. I've never managed to break a Linux session by hogging all available memory, but Premiere on Windows would frequently force me to reboot when I went overboard with HD video editing. On the other hand, my experience on 3) is completely differente than GP's. Flash on Linux is an unmitigated disaster. It's funny hpw these things go.
Why yes, there are a few.
GTA I through Vice City, sure. San Andreas was already bit stale. IV was just incredibly annoying and not sandboxy at all.
Ah, Gentoo users. You are to the average slashdotter what the average slashdotter is to the rest of the world. And we love you for it.
What amazes me is that there have been no reprisals so far. Not by the US citizens, by US courts nor by other countries. Folks who actually live in the US, please tell me: are people really just shrugging it off or am I just not seeing the repercussions from here?
Well, they are linked. Would you rather max your speed at 50KB/s or reach 1.0MB/s but be limited to 130GB per month? They amount to the same monthly hard limit (unless my math is off), but with the faster connection you can simply burn through your allowance faster. The plus side is needing less actual machine uptime for the same data transfer.
Of course, caps can be reasonable or unreasonable. My ISP sells 10Mbps connections limited to 80GB/mo. I'd much rather reach only 5Mbps limited to 160GB/mo, and they should have a plan tailored for people like me, since it would actually make peak hours easier on them. But, like in all markets, a specific number, feature or buzzword dictates the sway of a mass made by about 80% of largely uninformed people. Or at least that's how executives view things, but the result is the same.
Cortex A7 cores, though. And clocked pretty low. The four of them together amount probably to about one and a half 1.8GHz Krait cores or thereabouts.