Blasphemer! The free market is all-knowing and all-guiding, you DARE to proclaim it's tendrel companies to be committing harm upon you??? They elevate you so, and you mock them still?? The market shows such compassion as to still offer you "services" regardless of your disdain for it, you should be gracious!!
Not much economic impact? You seem to forget you're talking about the states that use the majority of our welfare/medicaid dollars and give the least to our tax base disappearing from our economic picture. I call that us going rapidly into the black on flow, which considering how red we are even on inflow/outflow right now would be s significant economic impact.
Really, just trying to imagine in my head any of the countless software engineers I've ever known moving on to generate a story like this.. It's just weird.
*every* tutorial said the kernel needed all traces of DRI/KMS removed by compilation for the closed-source drivers to work, and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager" it was mentioned in tutorial after tutorial but I guess the current version of ubuntu replaced it with something else? Searching the software package manager thing it had came up with no such thing, it's not like I didn't google enough I couldn't find anyone instructing to where it actually is or how to get to it, it was even mentioned in the built-in help but the built-in help gave no allusions as to where it was or how I get to it.
To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding *anything* also what's with everything having firefox to start? Performance on it was shit. Chrome on windows outperforms that and I'm sure Chrome on linux outperforms Chrome on windows, but oh wait, Chrome wasn't in the software manager program in ubuntu either so I couldn't just switch to Chrome while Firefox kept locking up.
You say I did things in non-standard ways, but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.
And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS? Really? You want me to have to go fiddle with grub and know the arcane syntax of kernel bootflags just to get working something that ATI provides as well as they can, to which the *nix community is apparently taking a dump on them by choosing open-source drivers instead (why not just present the bloody ATI EULA and install their drivers for ATI hardware??)
And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap. Seriously, look up the 3d performance of the open-source radeon drivers, it's well known they *support* some 3d operations on the hardware, but at absolutely no playable performance. The folks who made them really only did it because they wanted to use the 2d acceleration facilities.
Lost nights for a week trying to get it working, the only support I could get for ATI was the open-source drivers which are not capable of any 3d intensive applications. Tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, a minimal ubuntu to apt-get in only compatible packages, and gentoo. Each one failed with the closed source ATI driver, which I presumed due to what I read of the ATI driver requiring the kernel to have DRI/KMS turned off so I recompiled kernels in all of those distributions with the DRI/KMS off and each one had the same result, upon boot it couldn't even render frame buffer. Perhaps I need to give some kernel parameters at boot about how to initialize my frame buffer since the KMS is off but in any event that was a week lost with no benefits.
My take away: linux still doesn't support 50% of all video cards made for gaming (ati)
I'm sure if I had focussed my purchasing on hardware compatible with linux I would have had a different result but as it stands, I have a machine I spent $500 on that performs great for games in windows and all I had to do was pay attention to the price and hardware component performance with no attention to hardware component compatibility. Probably would have cost me more if I added the 3rd criteria of *nix compatibility.
So as I said earlier, it's a problem of robustness and consistency.. Linux has never had issues with quality, quite the opposite. But until it can serve that quality to a majority it has no chance on desktops for gaming or anything else short of development.
Doesn't really matter because as it turns out I found out after giving a try last week, ATI has shit support in linux. I tried a variety of ubuntu's and all I got was the open-source drivers to work which don't have usable 3D performance for gaming, so right out of the gate linux lacks support for half of all available gaming video cards.
Luckily I have a choice, it's called windows, and in it I get solid 50fps in crysis on high and every other game I manage to play at a decent level of quality, so while linux may not support my system at all because I chose the cheapest ($500 !) system that would perform well, windows is more than happy to meet my demands.
Unfortunate though, as I mentioned, I'm sure if linux did have support the performance would be far better than windows because everything else being equal linux has a simply better kernel architecture.
The average good (not what everyone gets) american dental coverage is 60% or 80% of restorative work (crowns, root canals) and 80% of everything else UP TO $1500 a year, (about a cleaning and 2 or 3 fillings a year, or one crown and nothing else, get your teeth knocked out and you're SOL).
We pay for our prescriptions as well, you realize that there's a huge market in Canada for selling prescription medication to americans because it's cheaper to buy it without prescription insurance their than it is to buy it with american prescription insurance here? I pay $250/month for nexium and that's *with* prescription insurance.
People don't understand what we have is not "Insurance" in the same sense that people in other countries think of insurance, because our "Insurance" doesn't actually insure we can afford anything, it just insures the prices aren't absolutely astronomical, well, sort of insures that..
Techniques for interviewing are still so jacked. That's really what it comes down to. I think ageism does occur, but I think if interviews were structured to allow people to flex their technical muscles and show their technical weaknesses we would end up with a fairer treatment across the board. As it stands, interviews are usually a practice of the interviewer trying to prove his hypothesis bias rather than disprove it, and therein lies the problem for young and old.
If you're in america, no, you don't get good benefits. Sorry, thanks for playing but have a look at other countries.
Most other first world countries have public healthcare. Those that have private have employers pay for most of it. Those which require employees pay any of it require them pay *far* less than americans pay for theirs. Also those which require employees pay any of it are having them pay for *full coverage* 100% covered no co-pays no-deductibles no-annual maximums.
Even the worst case scenario of other countries they would never only cover 80% of your costs and require $100 dollar co-pays and only cover $100k per year.
Speak for yourself. I've worked with tons of managers who love turnover, it gives them something to do and they get to continually search for cheaper and cheaper people which shows trimmed budgets which looks like budget savings/efficiencies that get them big raises and promotions by their managers.
Clunky steampunk smart phone? I'm imagining an 80's size/shape cell phone that's got 3 glass touch screens to match the 3 angles of the interior of those old things, and a sling to carry it like a satchel. I want one now, big metal dialing buttons on the back.
Guaranteed accurate but not-specific information like owner of the PBX is definitely preferable to trusting that you're not getting utterly false information.
I was being pedantic; it wasn't funny but this is slashdot, I'm well within my rights to be annoyed at typos and make un-funny jokes at those who type such things here.
If they had 20 hydrogen molecules bonded together (is that possible??) to mix with 2 carbon molecules (that is dense!) I'm relatively certain they wouldn't need to invent hydogen the 119th element. In fact, if they're just going to invent a new element, screw all the others, they should just invent one that runs jet-engines, they could call it jetylenium.
I'll bite, I have ever habitted to keep ~100gb of unpartitioned space on every system I install in case I want to pop another OS on. I'll give kubuntu a try tonight when I get home. How's dual-video card (one on mobo) ati support these days?
Great point though; these are devices that have to be bought a second time far more often than a desktop, didn't even think about the potential value to intel in that fact.
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sounds like a really immoral decision.
Oh, I Get it now, you had them confused. Understandble, business and morals are very similar; common mistake.
Sounds like a stupid business decision? Are you dense? That's 20% larger margin at no cost, how is that a stupid decision for their business???
Blasphemer! The free market is all-knowing and all-guiding, you DARE to proclaim it's tendrel companies to be committing harm upon you??? They elevate you so, and you mock them still?? The market shows such compassion as to still offer you "services" regardless of your disdain for it, you should be gracious!!
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Please don't leave us out here in colorado all alone? Us an new mexico are surrounded by jerks :(
Not much economic impact? You seem to forget you're talking about the states that use the majority of our welfare/medicaid dollars and give the least to our tax base disappearing from our economic picture. I call that us going rapidly into the black on flow, which considering how red we are even on inflow/outflow right now would be s significant economic impact.
Apparently you don't know how their government gets its "support", hint: it's not from the citizenry.
Really, just trying to imagine in my head any of the countless software engineers I've ever known moving on to generate a story like this.. It's just weird.
*every* tutorial said the kernel needed all traces of DRI/KMS removed by compilation for the closed-source drivers to work, and for all my searching I could not find the "Driver Manager" it was mentioned in tutorial after tutorial but I guess the current version of ubuntu replaced it with something else? Searching the software package manager thing it had came up with no such thing, it's not like I didn't google enough I couldn't find anyone instructing to where it actually is or how to get to it, it was even mentioned in the built-in help but the built-in help gave no allusions as to where it was or how I get to it.
To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding *anything* also what's with everything having firefox to start? Performance on it was shit. Chrome on windows outperforms that and I'm sure Chrome on linux outperforms Chrome on windows, but oh wait, Chrome wasn't in the software manager program in ubuntu either so I couldn't just switch to Chrome while Firefox kept locking up.
You say I did things in non-standard ways, but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.
And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS? Really? You want me to have to go fiddle with grub and know the arcane syntax of kernel bootflags just to get working something that ATI provides as well as they can, to which the *nix community is apparently taking a dump on them by choosing open-source drivers instead (why not just present the bloody ATI EULA and install their drivers for ATI hardware??)
And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap. Seriously, look up the 3d performance of the open-source radeon drivers, it's well known they *support* some 3d operations on the hardware, but at absolutely no playable performance. The folks who made them really only did it because they wanted to use the 2d acceleration facilities.
In the votes! Oh!
Lost nights for a week trying to get it working, the only support I could get for ATI was the open-source drivers which are not capable of any 3d intensive applications. Tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, a minimal ubuntu to apt-get in only compatible packages, and gentoo. Each one failed with the closed source ATI driver, which I presumed due to what I read of the ATI driver requiring the kernel to have DRI/KMS turned off so I recompiled kernels in all of those distributions with the DRI/KMS off and each one had the same result, upon boot it couldn't even render frame buffer. Perhaps I need to give some kernel parameters at boot about how to initialize my frame buffer since the KMS is off but in any event that was a week lost with no benefits.
My take away: linux still doesn't support 50% of all video cards made for gaming (ati)
I'm sure if I had focussed my purchasing on hardware compatible with linux I would have had a different result but as it stands, I have a machine I spent $500 on that performs great for games in windows and all I had to do was pay attention to the price and hardware component performance with no attention to hardware component compatibility. Probably would have cost me more if I added the 3rd criteria of *nix compatibility.
So as I said earlier, it's a problem of robustness and consistency.. Linux has never had issues with quality, quite the opposite. But until it can serve that quality to a majority it has no chance on desktops for gaming or anything else short of development.
Doesn't really matter because as it turns out I found out after giving a try last week, ATI has shit support in linux. I tried a variety of ubuntu's and all I got was the open-source drivers to work which don't have usable 3D performance for gaming, so right out of the gate linux lacks support for half of all available gaming video cards.
Luckily I have a choice, it's called windows, and in it I get solid 50fps in crysis on high and every other game I manage to play at a decent level of quality, so while linux may not support my system at all because I chose the cheapest ($500 !) system that would perform well, windows is more than happy to meet my demands.
Unfortunate though, as I mentioned, I'm sure if linux did have support the performance would be far better than windows because everything else being equal linux has a simply better kernel architecture.
The average good (not what everyone gets) american dental coverage is 60% or 80% of restorative work (crowns, root canals) and 80% of everything else UP TO $1500 a year, (about a cleaning and 2 or 3 fillings a year, or one crown and nothing else, get your teeth knocked out and you're SOL).
We pay for our prescriptions as well, you realize that there's a huge market in Canada for selling prescription medication to americans because it's cheaper to buy it without prescription insurance their than it is to buy it with american prescription insurance here? I pay $250/month for nexium and that's *with* prescription insurance.
People don't understand what we have is not "Insurance" in the same sense that people in other countries think of insurance, because our "Insurance" doesn't actually insure we can afford anything, it just insures the prices aren't absolutely astronomical, well, sort of insures that..
Techniques for interviewing are still so jacked. That's really what it comes down to. I think ageism does occur, but I think if interviews were structured to allow people to flex their technical muscles and show their technical weaknesses we would end up with a fairer treatment across the board. As it stands, interviews are usually a practice of the interviewer trying to prove his hypothesis bias rather than disprove it, and therein lies the problem for young and old.
If you're in america, no, you don't get good benefits. Sorry, thanks for playing but have a look at other countries.
Most other first world countries have public healthcare. Those that have private have employers pay for most of it. Those which require employees pay any of it require them pay *far* less than americans pay for theirs. Also those which require employees pay any of it are having them pay for *full coverage* 100% covered no co-pays no-deductibles no-annual maximums.
Even the worst case scenario of other countries they would never only cover 80% of your costs and require $100 dollar co-pays and only cover $100k per year.
BZZZT I'm sorry you have the wrong answer! So close..
Doctors and lawyers have unions.
Speak for yourself. I've worked with tons of managers who love turnover, it gives them something to do and they get to continually search for cheaper and cheaper people which shows trimmed budgets which looks like budget savings/efficiencies that get them big raises and promotions by their managers.
Clunky steampunk smart phone? I'm imagining an 80's size/shape cell phone that's got 3 glass touch screens to match the 3 angles of the interior of those old things, and a sling to carry it like a satchel. I want one now, big metal dialing buttons on the back.
Guaranteed accurate but not-specific information like owner of the PBX is definitely preferable to trusting that you're not getting utterly false information.
6.63 years.
I was being pedantic; it wasn't funny but this is slashdot, I'm well within my rights to be annoyed at typos and make un-funny jokes at those who type such things here.
Puns like that from AC are completely unacceptable. Shame on you.
If they had 20 hydrogen molecules bonded together (is that possible??) to mix with 2 carbon molecules (that is dense!) I'm relatively certain they wouldn't need to invent hydogen the 119th element. In fact, if they're just going to invent a new element, screw all the others, they should just invent one that runs jet-engines, they could call it jetylenium.
I'll bite, I have ever habitted to keep ~100gb of unpartitioned space on every system I install in case I want to pop another OS on. I'll give kubuntu a try tonight when I get home. How's dual-video card (one on mobo) ati support these days?
Great point though; these are devices that have to be bought a second time far more often than a desktop, didn't even think about the potential value to intel in that fact.