Wow, Phoronix has some creepy forums. I went to their nVidia forum to see what the Nouveau project was all about:
I'd donate money to fund a third party army of reverse engineers.
Buy a bunch of people a recent nvidia card, have them produce public domain docs of every transistor down to the HDCP implementation.. get nvidia's high end cards blacklisted by windows vista for any and all secure high definition media playback...
if you know of such an effort, a sort of dedicated warfare against nvidia, please please let me know, ill happily support it
I know it's just some random guys on the internet, but that kind of attitude is just fucked up. Looks like a bunch of Stallmanites complaining that Everything Is Not Free, and having a circle jerk about the thought of binary drivers getting locked out of the kernel.
Is there a place that has the current state of the Radeon support in the various drivers lined up that's possible for someone who isn't a developer to make sense of?
When I was putting together my current box last week, trying to figure out which card was better to get was a pain when it came to the AMD hardware. I ended up getting the GTX 260, because it was the best performing card that fit into my budget and I knew it would work fine under Linux.
I couldn't make any sense of the state of the drivers for Radeon hardware. I gathered that the radeonhd driver was the actively developed one, but RV7XX hardware wasn't listed as supported. The latest catalyst drivers didn't list support for the 4850/4870 either, so hearing that both drivers have working 3D support for a card not yet released is... not really odd, but the contradictions are symptomatic.
For those of us still using OS X on powerpc (that's many thousands of users, BTW, my machine's from November 2005) FF3 crashes instantly -- and then the crash reporter exits without being able to send a report.
I wasn't aware of this. I guess I have something misconfigured if it's not crashing instantly for me.
Umm, wouldn't that have to be a response to "I can't skip it on the Mac version", in order to make sense as an old one-button joke? As it stands, I'm not sure how to respond outside of a non-sequitur polygamous sheep playdough.
Anyway, the opening cut scene was skipped after I created my first character. I did notice that the first time I started it up, I couldn't skip it, and when I started it up after quitting without starting a game, I couldn't skip it. But once I created a game, it worked as I would expect, and I went right to the menu (I don't even remember if it started to play, or if I was hitting buttons to skip it, but I definitely remember not being annoyed or delayed when I went to restart my game).
Gameplay Notes: I kind of wish there was a way to use keyboard/gamepad controls on the computer versions, as there are no real control options. I can deal with the mouse, but my only real complaint is that it feels laggy during gameplay. I tried going back to a wired mouse and ditching my bluetooth, but the lag was still there. I might try out the wacom tablet to see if playing on that reduces the lag or not.
Aside from the niggling control issues, everything about the game is spot on. Anything I say about it would just sound like I'm sucking their cock, so I'll just not bother. It's *definitely* a game for PA Fans, probably the ultimate in fan service (well, okay, maybe the massive party every summer is the ultimate in fan service, but this is certainly up there).
The score would be 10 - \epsilon / 10, only because of the control issues.
The "free pass" comment was referring to the movie's claim of IDers being "expelled" from academia. A quick skim of the comments showed that most people were taking them at their word -- that academics who professed a belief in ID were being unjustly treated with respect to their academic freedom.
That claim is simply a lie. Not only is it a lie, but people who take the opposite stance and teach biology without mixing in bad theology get much worse treatment.
The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of projects seeking to reconcile science and religion, says that after providing a few grants for conferences and courses to debate intelligent design, they asked proponents to submit proposals for actual research.
"They never came in," said Charles L. Harper Jr., senior vice president at the Templeton Foundation, who said that while he was skeptical from the beginning, other foundation officials were initially intrigued and later grew disillusioned.
Could Mathis have been sincere when he originally told PZ and me the film was an honest attempt to examine evolution and intelligent design? The evidence that they had already purchased the Expelled domain name argues against this. Certainly Mathis' friendly demeanour disarmed me into cooperating with him -- indeed, I went out of my way to HELP him on his visit to Britain -- in a way that I never would have if I had had the slightest suspicion that his outfit was in fact a creationist front. I may have misremembered the details of our exchanges, by eMail and by telephone, but I vividly remember his reassuring me, over the telephone, that he was on the side of science, and he made no attempt to distance himself from my sarcastic jokes about 'Intelligent Design'.
The Cell video plagiarism is mostly documented at ERV. There are too many posts on the issues to link individually.
Since their screenings were such a fiasco, they attempted to "filter out" any critics by lying to anyone who might be critical by saying that the showing was cancelled, while telling people they deemed "okay" when it was on.
The people behind this movie are pathological liars. It's like, telling the truth about anything is alien to them.
The comments here are basically taking the movie at it's word -- that Intelligent Designers are being "expelled" from academia.
This is a lie. The whole movie is a lie. The irony of both invoking Nazis, yet so successfully implementing the "Big Lie" strategy has to set some kind of reprehensible high water mark.
The three "expelled" people presented in the movie -- these are the worst stories the filmmakers could find -- involved a professor who failed to get tenure because he wasn't good enough, a woman who had her contract run out and didn't have it renewed, and them someone who said he was "fired" from the Smithsonian, despite actually being an unpaid research assistant whose term ran out.
This movie makes utterly baseless claims that the academic freedom of ID proponents is under attack.
This is a lie.
Yet, they tell the lie, and then you look at comments about the movie, and you have people assuming that the truth is "somewhere in the middle", or that "both sides need to be considered", or some other trite cliche.
Why do they get a free pass here? Seriously, the production of this movie has been filled with lies by the makers -- these allegedly religious people -- and yet, people still take the movie at face value.
They lied to the interviewees, they attempted to pirate animations used in the movie, after being humiliated during the pre-release screenings they lied to cover it up, they lied to the people who wanted to see screenings -- they're liars.
And then you look at comments here, and people talk like the movie makes valid arguments -- it does not. Aside from lies about academic suppression, it's just one long Godwin -- "there's a very tenuous link between social Darwinism and the philosophy of the Nazis, therefore believing in Evolution leads to the Holocaust".
If, in an argument, someone tells baseless, reprehensible lies about a subject, the truth isn't "somewhere in the middle". The liars are really just lying.
In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment.
*shrug* Whatever the reason, it was a ripoff. Anyway, I couldn't find any other service place in the city that would take a look at it. There might be one around, but every place I called didn't know anything about the TDIs.
It's a moot point now, as I'm never thinking about a VW again. A Civic Hybrid will probably be my next car (the current car is a used Civic that I got in lieu of getting the VW fixed again...).
Had my 2000 TDI Golf (a German made one) for 180k or so.
In the first 75, had the turbocharger replaced. It happened again after the warranty ran out, costing $2500+ to fix. I believe it had happened yet again (same symptoms), but at that point I wasn't going to go through the assrape again and I traded it in for $4000 towards a used Civic. Not to mention getting tie rod ends replaced ($1200) -- only to have them fail one month out of the parts warranty. After harassing them, I managed to get the cost of the parts refunded, but it was still several hundred in labour.
And, of course, unless you live in a major metropolitan area, you don't get a choice of where to take it. The only two places in my city that even knew how to change the headlight bulbs were two VW dealers.
Yeah, I'm not going near a VW ever again. I don't care how "green" they might be, the quality on them is shit.
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Woah.
So, if I let my WoW subscription lapse, simply starting the game is copyright infringement?
Wow, Phoronix has some creepy forums. I went to their nVidia forum to see what the Nouveau project was all about:
I know it's just some random guys on the internet, but that kind of attitude is just fucked up. Looks like a bunch of Stallmanites complaining that Everything Is Not Free, and having a circle jerk about the thought of binary drivers getting locked out of the kernel.
Is there a place that has the current state of the Radeon support in the various drivers lined up that's possible for someone who isn't a developer to make sense of?
When I was putting together my current box last week, trying to figure out which card was better to get was a pain when it came to the AMD hardware. I ended up getting the GTX 260, because it was the best performing card that fit into my budget and I knew it would work fine under Linux.
I couldn't make any sense of the state of the drivers for Radeon hardware. I gathered that the radeonhd driver was the actively developed one, but RV7XX hardware wasn't listed as supported. The latest catalyst drivers didn't list support for the 4850/4870 either, so hearing that both drivers have working 3D support for a card not yet released is... not really odd, but the contradictions are symptomatic.
Any idea if the radeonhd driver will be in a usable state for these? Or does nVidia still lack competition on the Linux front?
... and how is that not a concern?
If it's harder to use for the average sysadmin, then more mistakes will be made, which will compromise security.
I wasn't aware of this. I guess I have something misconfigured if it's not crashing instantly for me.
I figured it would be in his journal.
This is also the case in the Mac version.
Umm, wouldn't that have to be a response to "I can't skip it on the Mac version", in order to make sense as an old one-button joke? As it stands, I'm not sure how to respond outside of a non-sequitur polygamous sheep playdough.
Anyway, the opening cut scene was skipped after I created my first character. I did notice that the first time I started it up, I couldn't skip it, and when I started it up after quitting without starting a game, I couldn't skip it. But once I created a game, it worked as I would expect, and I went right to the menu (I don't even remember if it started to play, or if I was hitting buttons to skip it, but I definitely remember not being annoyed or delayed when I went to restart my game).
Grabbed this last night on my Mac.
Gameplay Notes: I kind of wish there was a way to use keyboard/gamepad controls on the computer versions, as there are no real control options. I can deal with the mouse, but my only real complaint is that it feels laggy during gameplay. I tried going back to a wired mouse and ditching my bluetooth, but the lag was still there. I might try out the wacom tablet to see if playing on that reduces the lag or not.
Aside from the niggling control issues, everything about the game is spot on. Anything I say about it would just sound like I'm sucking their cock, so I'll just not bother. It's *definitely* a game for PA Fans, probably the ultimate in fan service (well, okay, maybe the massive party every summer is the ultimate in fan service, but this is certainly up there).
The score would be 10 - \epsilon / 10, only because of the control issues.
Eh? I can skip it on the Mac version.
When I say that I hope this new president fosters growth within the OLPC organization.
The "free pass" comment was referring to the movie's claim of IDers being "expelled" from academia. A quick skim of the comments showed that most people were taking them at their word -- that academics who professed a belief in ID were being unjustly treated with respect to their academic freedom.
That claim is simply a lie. Not only is it a lie, but people who take the opposite stance and teach biology without mixing in bad theology get much worse treatment.
Intelligent Design hasn't produced anything even remotely approaching a "very, very solid study".
The Templeton Foundation doesn't even touch the Intelligent Design people.
Intelligent Design is a political movement founded in religious belief. Anything that presents it as doing anything but donning the trappings of science is a lie, pure and simple.
Richard Dawkins on meeting Mark Mathis:
The Cell video plagiarism is mostly documented at ERV. There are too many posts on the issues to link individually.
After they humiliated themselves, they proceeded to tell lies to cover up their incompetence.
Since their screenings were such a fiasco, they attempted to "filter out" any critics by lying to anyone who might be critical by saying that the showing was cancelled, while telling people they deemed "okay" when it was on.
The people behind this movie are pathological liars. It's like, telling the truth about anything is alien to them.
The comments here are basically taking the movie at it's word -- that Intelligent Designers are being "expelled" from academia.
This is a lie. The whole movie is a lie. The irony of both invoking Nazis, yet so successfully implementing the "Big Lie" strategy has to set some kind of reprehensible high water mark.
The three "expelled" people presented in the movie -- these are the worst stories the filmmakers could find -- involved a professor who failed to get tenure because he wasn't good enough, a woman who had her contract run out and didn't have it renewed, and them someone who said he was "fired" from the Smithsonian, despite actually being an unpaid research assistant whose term ran out.
Compare and contrast.
This movie makes utterly baseless claims that the academic freedom of ID proponents is under attack.
This is a lie.
Yet, they tell the lie, and then you look at comments about the movie, and you have people assuming that the truth is "somewhere in the middle", or that "both sides need to be considered", or some other trite cliche.
Why do they get a free pass here? Seriously, the production of this movie has been filled with lies by the makers -- these allegedly religious people -- and yet, people still take the movie at face value.
They lied to the interviewees, they attempted to pirate animations used in the movie, after being humiliated during the pre-release screenings they lied to cover it up, they lied to the people who wanted to see screenings -- they're liars.
And then you look at comments here, and people talk like the movie makes valid arguments -- it does not. Aside from lies about academic suppression, it's just one long Godwin -- "there's a very tenuous link between social Darwinism and the philosophy of the Nazis, therefore believing in Evolution leads to the Holocaust".
If, in an argument, someone tells baseless, reprehensible lies about a subject, the truth isn't "somewhere in the middle". The liars are really just lying.
It'll have cute kids.
I defer to your mastery in this subject.
I suggest you look into the Free Zone.
Why? Do you plan on mangling your fingers and eyes out of boredom?
You are aware that taste isn't just determined by the contents of the glass, right?
*shrug* Whatever the reason, it was a ripoff. Anyway, I couldn't find any other service place in the city that would take a look at it. There might be one around, but every place I called didn't know anything about the TDIs.
It's a moot point now, as I'm never thinking about a VW again. A Civic Hybrid will probably be my next car (the current car is a used Civic that I got in lieu of getting the VW fixed again...).
Now you have me wanting a show about a different Herbert. Thanks.
Had my 2000 TDI Golf (a German made one) for 180k or so.
In the first 75, had the turbocharger replaced. It happened again after the warranty ran out, costing $2500+ to fix. I believe it had happened yet again (same symptoms), but at that point I wasn't going to go through the assrape again and I traded it in for $4000 towards a used Civic. Not to mention getting tie rod ends replaced ($1200) -- only to have them fail one month out of the parts warranty. After harassing them, I managed to get the cost of the parts refunded, but it was still several hundred in labour.
And, of course, unless you live in a major metropolitan area, you don't get a choice of where to take it. The only two places in my city that even knew how to change the headlight bulbs were two VW dealers.
Yeah, I'm not going near a VW ever again. I don't care how "green" they might be, the quality on them is shit.