You mistake me. I didn't mean that I was pessimistic about the odds of this working, I meant that they have literally been doing exactly when you're asking for. For years. I don't know exactly how many... Eight years? Ten? And the Radeon driver is the result of that - it has replaced the closed-source fglrx driver in most distros (probably all at this point), and it's a good stable driver. The problem is that it's still way behind the closed-source Nvidia driver.
They've been working on that in their GPU segment for years. That's what the Radeon driver is. The problem is those kinds of drivers take a ton of work and a lot of time and open source isn't a magic solution.
The Wii U has the best implementation of VR that I've seen, in Nintendoland. Rather than using a head-mounted display, it uses the screen on the gamepad as though it were a window into the virtual environment. It works beautifully with basically no lag in the movement, and has all of the advantages of not strapping something to your head: easy to pick up and play, doesn't cut you off from the world around you, and has no problems with motion sickness.
The Switch should be able to do basically the same thing (I hope), since it's basically the same configuration.
::sigh:: Man, the Wii U is great. Wish more people recognized that.
All right, it's true that graphics settings may be lacking in games targeted at consoles. (Though I might point out that settings are still an interface issue.)
That second bit though, I don't buy that. A game targeted at consoles might not put effort into taking advantage of everything that a fancy PC has to offer, but unless they have some special relationship with the console maker they have no reason to deliberately make their game look worse
Consolitis is about the interface, designing for a control pad rather than for a keyboard and mouse. It's not about performance - PCs have always been more variable in performance than consoles, and PC devs have always had to take that into account.
You can make a reasonable modern game with decades-old hardware, you just can't make it look as fancy. It's been a long time since Nintendo has cared about that particular metric, and in that time they've done very well in some cases and very poorly in others. Their success seems to come down to marketing and hype more than anything else... I didn't like the Wii (sold fantastically) and I loved the Wii U (sold poorly) so I don't know. I'd like for this to do well, but it's going to come down to how much hype they can generate.
As for your question about this being slower than a smartphone: Anandtech had the X1 @ 1.0 GHz between 1.5x and 2x as fast as an Apple A8X (iPad Air 2) @ 1.49 GHz, with significantly lower power consumption. So even with the reduced clockspeed in the Switch, it would have to be a pretty fast smartphone.
Though over the lifetime of the device there will obviously be smartphones faster than this, I don't think that's going to matter - a smartphone dev will be aiming for the lowest common denominator, while a Switch dev is free to push the hardware as far as it can go.
You're jumping to conclusions with points two and three. Yes people like to place blame, and Trump (and Hitler) have chosen to direct that blame onto other groups of people, but that blame has been directed onto other targets by other demagogues: regulation, religion, ideologies, alternative lifestyles or organizational principles... etc. So many options. Whatever inconveniences you, or stands in the way of your own enrichment - that is what people should blame for their problems.
"Nationalism and Socialism has to be redefined and they had to be blended into one strong new idea to carry new strength which would make Germany great again." - A. Hitler, 1940
To be fair, that phrase gets used a lot. It's not just Trump and Hitler:
"Maybe I want to use them.... Use them to make this country great again." - Ralph Wiggum, 2008
Yes, the fact that they're not going after every single company which does this simultaneously is indicative of nothing. They start with the worst and move their way down.
Based on what information? Don't answer that, it's rhetorical.
I don't like the implication that you're making with your question there. You seem to be suggesting that I am one of "some" who just can't grasp what a decision is. Maybe if I did, then it wouldn't be a problem that Russia acted in a hostile way to sway a foreign election in favor of their preferred candidate? I hate to get all patriotic, it's generally trouble when you start discriminating between "us" and "them foreigners," but them foreigners don't have any business interfering with our election.
Sure, fine. The American people made a decision, no matter how faulty the information which they based that decision on may have been. That is true, and that fact alone is why we're talking about retaliation here and not about voiding the election. None the less, the fact that this decision was made based on information which was secretly fed to them by a foreign power should bother you a lot more than it seems to be.
This attitude though... it does seem to be consistent with how many people have approached related issues. Campaign finance, for example, is similar: it's really just about the control of information. All lot of people seem to be totally okay with voters making a decisions based on poor or one-sided information. As long as the decision is made, the rest doesn't matter. In this case we just have the additional twist that the influence is coming from outside the country.
It's different because a foreign power didn't hack into Access Hollywood servers in order to get that video, with the intent of putting Hillary in the Whitehouse. You're missing the real issue here: the premise of that whole voting thing is that the American people decide who should be their leader.
GoboLinux isn't new at all, they've been around since 2003. Sure they're newer than Slackware, but by Linux standards they've been kicking around for a long time.
It's a research drone - all it does is collect oceanographic data. Yes it's launched from a military ship, but that doesn't mean there's anything to be gained by dismantling it.
Okay, maybe the Chinese suspected something different. It's possible they thought that this was secretly something special, but we know better now: the fact that we're hearing about this at all means that it was just a mundane instrument.
They... hacked some servers and released information which influenced voters. That's it. It doesn't require anything else.
I guess you're trying to claim that if they hadn't done it then someone else would have, given your comment about the security on the servers. First, this is a pretty ridiculous argument - "It's not a crime when I rob you because someone else was just going to do it anyway." Second, an SQLi vulnerability is not "pathetic 'security'" and this attitude is haughty. I see it here all the time from armchair sys admins on Slashdot: "I am perfect and no one would ever get into my giant organization of thousands of people. I run a tight ship and never have to compromise security for the sake of expedience or orders from above. No one ever steps out of line and nothing bad ever happens on my watch."
Bullshit.
Third, no one said anything about this being fake news. Where did you pull that out of? The issue at hand is not whether the news was real or fake, the issue is that a foreign power tried (and seems to have succeeded) in appointing a US president. Yes, all right, Russia didn't do it by themselves, the fake news and yadda yadda was all part of that. That isn't what we're talking about here.
What is your question exactly? Are you asking why this is being published on Slashdot? Because there exist people who believe that autism is caused by something else, and being able to point at something and say, "Hey look, real evidence showing that it might be this thing instead of that make-believe thing" is a useful bit of information to share with the public.
Or are you asking why the research was done at all? Maybe because the researchers were not as confident of the correlation between vitamin D deficiency and autism as you're suggesting. Establishing a link like that takes a veritable mountain of evidence - a lot of studies like this one.
There's a guy above who describes this well here and here. In light of his description I'll add something to what I said above: Fascism came about just as Communism was taking off, with its central planning, and just as we were getting away from the laissez faire economics of the 1800s, with its extreme inequality and massive poverty. When I called Fascist economics centrist I was doing so in that context - as it was implemented it had some central planning, and some market capitalism.
Uh... huh. Fascism is about war. No, for serious, stop spewing about Hillary just for two minutes and read the article that you linked. Fascism came from the massive upheaval caused by Word War One, and was basically just about codifying that as a means for governing a state in perpetuity. Saying "It's about many ideas" is like saying that driving a car is about wheels spinning as much as it is about transportation. Fascist economics were just a means to an end. In fact, the reason why fascist economics were so uninterestingly centrist was to avoid internal conflict - a unified country is a strong country and all that.
Fascism is about war, and what it takes to create a state which is maximally ready for combat. Economic concerns are simply one facet of that, and not the focus at all. Regarding the Fascist position on economics: it's oddly centrist. Given how extreme the rest of Fascism is you might expect something utterly totalitarian, but it had a mix of public and private ownership, central planning of only some of the means of production, social welfare, etc. Only somewhat more totalitarian than what we have today.
Pro-Trump communities aren't "unwanted" by at least half the populace in the USA.
We know from the election that it's less than half, but that doesn't matter - I didn't say anything about pro-Trump communities. He started with Fat People Hate and a few other small subs, then there was the thing where some of the unwanted subs like Coontown were made semi-invisible before finally being banned. The Trump related ones are just the most recent, and he's been relatively generous with those.
If the amount is increasing then this is irrelevant. Whatever the lifespan of the methane may be, it is long enough that it's being replenished faster than it's being removed.
This is a crappy reason to fire the guy. He's been purging Reddit of unwanted communities ever since he took over and people (mostly) weren't calling for his head then. This is comparatively trivial, and given that he's fessed up about it and we know all of the comments that he edited and he's promised not to do it anymore...
Meh. Rather than continuing to make a fuss over this, it seems like it would be more constructive to move on to someplace else. Leave Reddit to the meme spewers and celebrity worshipers. The crappy moderation system makes for poor discussion anyway.
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You mistake me. I didn't mean that I was pessimistic about the odds of this working, I meant that they have literally been doing exactly when you're asking for. For years. I don't know exactly how many... Eight years? Ten? And the Radeon driver is the result of that - it has replaced the closed-source fglrx driver in most distros (probably all at this point), and it's a good stable driver. The problem is that it's still way behind the closed-source Nvidia driver.
They've been working on that in their GPU segment for years. That's what the Radeon driver is. The problem is those kinds of drivers take a ton of work and a lot of time and open source isn't a magic solution.
The Wii U has the best implementation of VR that I've seen, in Nintendoland. Rather than using a head-mounted display, it uses the screen on the gamepad as though it were a window into the virtual environment. It works beautifully with basically no lag in the movement, and has all of the advantages of not strapping something to your head: easy to pick up and play, doesn't cut you off from the world around you, and has no problems with motion sickness.
::sigh:: Man, the Wii U is great. Wish more people recognized that.
The Switch should be able to do basically the same thing (I hope), since it's basically the same configuration.
All right, it's true that graphics settings may be lacking in games targeted at consoles. (Though I might point out that settings are still an interface issue.)
That second bit though, I don't buy that. A game targeted at consoles might not put effort into taking advantage of everything that a fancy PC has to offer, but unless they have some special relationship with the console maker they have no reason to deliberately make their game look worse
The second amendment has never applied to exports.
Consolitis is about the interface, designing for a control pad rather than for a keyboard and mouse. It's not about performance - PCs have always been more variable in performance than consoles, and PC devs have always had to take that into account.
You can make a reasonable modern game with decades-old hardware, you just can't make it look as fancy. It's been a long time since Nintendo has cared about that particular metric, and in that time they've done very well in some cases and very poorly in others. Their success seems to come down to marketing and hype more than anything else... I didn't like the Wii (sold fantastically) and I loved the Wii U (sold poorly) so I don't know. I'd like for this to do well, but it's going to come down to how much hype they can generate.
As for your question about this being slower than a smartphone: Anandtech had the X1 @ 1.0 GHz between 1.5x and 2x as fast as an Apple A8X (iPad Air 2) @ 1.49 GHz, with significantly lower power consumption. So even with the reduced clockspeed in the Switch, it would have to be a pretty fast smartphone.
Though over the lifetime of the device there will obviously be smartphones faster than this, I don't think that's going to matter - a smartphone dev will be aiming for the lowest common denominator, while a Switch dev is free to push the hardware as far as it can go.
You're jumping to conclusions with points two and three. Yes people like to place blame, and Trump (and Hitler) have chosen to direct that blame onto other groups of people, but that blame has been directed onto other targets by other demagogues: regulation, religion, ideologies, alternative lifestyles or organizational principles... etc. So many options. Whatever inconveniences you, or stands in the way of your own enrichment - that is what people should blame for their problems.
"Nationalism and Socialism has to be redefined and they had to be blended into one strong new idea to carry new strength which would make Germany great again." - A. Hitler, 1940
... Use them to make this country great again." - Ralph Wiggum, 2008
To be fair, that phrase gets used a lot. It's not just Trump and Hitler:
"Maybe I want to use them.
Yes, the fact that they're not going after every single company which does this simultaneously is indicative of nothing. They start with the worst and move their way down.
Based on what information? Don't answer that, it's rhetorical.
I don't like the implication that you're making with your question there. You seem to be suggesting that I am one of "some" who just can't grasp what a decision is. Maybe if I did, then it wouldn't be a problem that Russia acted in a hostile way to sway a foreign election in favor of their preferred candidate? I hate to get all patriotic, it's generally trouble when you start discriminating between "us" and "them foreigners," but them foreigners don't have any business interfering with our election.
Sure, fine. The American people made a decision, no matter how faulty the information which they based that decision on may have been. That is true, and that fact alone is why we're talking about retaliation here and not about voiding the election. None the less, the fact that this decision was made based on information which was secretly fed to them by a foreign power should bother you a lot more than it seems to be.
This attitude though... it does seem to be consistent with how many people have approached related issues. Campaign finance, for example, is similar: it's really just about the control of information. All lot of people seem to be totally okay with voters making a decisions based on poor or one-sided information. As long as the decision is made, the rest doesn't matter. In this case we just have the additional twist that the influence is coming from outside the country.
It's different because a foreign power didn't hack into Access Hollywood servers in order to get that video, with the intent of putting Hillary in the Whitehouse. You're missing the real issue here: the premise of that whole voting thing is that the American people decide who should be their leader.
GoboLinux isn't new at all, they've been around since 2003. Sure they're newer than Slackware, but by Linux standards they've been kicking around for a long time.
It's a research drone - all it does is collect oceanographic data. Yes it's launched from a military ship, but that doesn't mean there's anything to be gained by dismantling it.
Okay, maybe the Chinese suspected something different. It's possible they thought that this was secretly something special, but we know better now: the fact that we're hearing about this at all means that it was just a mundane instrument.
Tell me again how they "hacked the election"?
They... hacked some servers and released information which influenced voters. That's it. It doesn't require anything else.
I guess you're trying to claim that if they hadn't done it then someone else would have, given your comment about the security on the servers. First, this is a pretty ridiculous argument - "It's not a crime when I rob you because someone else was just going to do it anyway." Second, an SQLi vulnerability is not "pathetic 'security'" and this attitude is haughty. I see it here all the time from armchair sys admins on Slashdot: "I am perfect and no one would ever get into my giant organization of thousands of people. I run a tight ship and never have to compromise security for the sake of expedience or orders from above. No one ever steps out of line and nothing bad ever happens on my watch."
Bullshit.
Third, no one said anything about this being fake news. Where did you pull that out of? The issue at hand is not whether the news was real or fake, the issue is that a foreign power tried (and seems to have succeeded) in appointing a US president. Yes, all right, Russia didn't do it by themselves, the fake news and yadda yadda was all part of that. That isn't what we're talking about here.
What is your question exactly? Are you asking why this is being published on Slashdot? Because there exist people who believe that autism is caused by something else, and being able to point at something and say, "Hey look, real evidence showing that it might be this thing instead of that make-believe thing" is a useful bit of information to share with the public.
Or are you asking why the research was done at all? Maybe because the researchers were not as confident of the correlation between vitamin D deficiency and autism as you're suggesting. Establishing a link like that takes a veritable mountain of evidence - a lot of studies like this one.
There's a guy above who describes this well here and here. In light of his description I'll add something to what I said above: Fascism came about just as Communism was taking off, with its central planning, and just as we were getting away from the laissez faire economics of the 1800s, with its extreme inequality and massive poverty. When I called Fascist economics centrist I was doing so in that context - as it was implemented it had some central planning, and some market capitalism.
Uh... huh. Fascism is about war. No, for serious, stop spewing about Hillary just for two minutes and read the article that you linked. Fascism came from the massive upheaval caused by Word War One, and was basically just about codifying that as a means for governing a state in perpetuity. Saying "It's about many ideas" is like saying that driving a car is about wheels spinning as much as it is about transportation. Fascist economics were just a means to an end. In fact, the reason why fascist economics were so uninterestingly centrist was to avoid internal conflict - a unified country is a strong country and all that.
Fascism is about war, and what it takes to create a state which is maximally ready for combat. Economic concerns are simply one facet of that, and not the focus at all. Regarding the Fascist position on economics: it's oddly centrist. Given how extreme the rest of Fascism is you might expect something utterly totalitarian, but it had a mix of public and private ownership, central planning of only some of the means of production, social welfare, etc. Only somewhat more totalitarian than what we have today.
You *know* I'm right about those things
Don't make assumptions. Propaganda works.
It's 46% by the most recent tally. Been going down ever since the election, as more votes are counted.
Pro-Trump communities aren't "unwanted" by at least half the populace in the USA.
We know from the election that it's less than half, but that doesn't matter - I didn't say anything about pro-Trump communities. He started with Fat People Hate and a few other small subs, then there was the thing where some of the unwanted subs like Coontown were made semi-invisible before finally being banned. The Trump related ones are just the most recent, and he's been relatively generous with those.
If the amount is increasing then this is irrelevant. Whatever the lifespan of the methane may be, it is long enough that it's being replenished faster than it's being removed.
There are paying Reddit users?
This is a crappy reason to fire the guy. He's been purging Reddit of unwanted communities ever since he took over and people (mostly) weren't calling for his head then. This is comparatively trivial, and given that he's fessed up about it and we know all of the comments that he edited and he's promised not to do it anymore...
Meh. Rather than continuing to make a fuss over this, it seems like it would be more constructive to move on to someplace else. Leave Reddit to the meme spewers and celebrity worshipers. The crappy moderation system makes for poor discussion anyway.
Yeah, when people disappear from the news it isn't always because they've gone into hiding. Sometimes the news just doesn't care about them anymore.