Sorry, I meant OpenCL, I was typing in a hurry and momentarily confused. The card is a Mobility FireGL V5700. Most recently I was trying to get rpcminer-opencl working for bitcoin mining, to no avail. The AMD site just tells me I must download the drivers from HP. I've downloaded and installed the drivers from HP's site and they don't work.
I don't know, I can't begin to imagine what open source drivers for new video cards could possibly have to do with an article about those new video cards on a website full of open source users. Very mysterious.
On a tangential vein, my desktop machine is NVIDIA but my laptop GPU is ATI, and CUDA on the ATI is broken and was just a waste of money because AMD/ATI's website just sends me to the laptop manufacturer's website to supposedly get the drivers, but the drivers on HP's website that they point me to, just plain have zero CUDA support. Surely between HP and AMD/ATI one of the two have a responsibility to make the product they advertise and sell, actually work? I've never had problems like that with NVIDIA drivers, so in future I'll stick with them.
We evolved as hunter-gatherers. I believe almost every man has a hunter instinct somewhere in him, even if it's suppressed in most people and thanks to our cushy upbringings. I grew up in the city and in an "anti-hunting" family, so I never really thought I would get into it, but as I got older I got curious about it and wanted to try it and eventually did, and there is something a little awesome about going out, tracking down and killing an animal, and literally feeding your family from the meat. To slashdotters I say don't knock it till you've tried it, and try it at least once. Obviously, one always tries to be as humane as possible, and no part of the animal whatsoever goes to waste. Time was almost every American family hunted for at least some of their food. I don't think we should ever entirely lose that heritage and way of life, firstly because it satisfies an important part of who we are as humans, and secondly because if we as a civilization accidentally ever de-industrialize and regress for whatever reason, those skills are going to be important... I think if the remnants of civilization consist of a bunch of 'pansy-boys' whining about how "killing animals is evil" or going "ew, gross" we will quite possibly die out as a species. And if we have e.g. an alien invasion, we will also need a lot of good old sharp-shooting 'aggressive' males to fight.
Unless we de-industrialize, within the next several decades it could well become cheaper to artificially grow meat than to eat real meat.. it's likely to become ever harder to defend these good old primitive ways.
Seeking to re-evaluate the fundamental aspects of life isn't "going off the deep end". It's just a sign of someone who thinks about things, and goes through something called "personal development" that is actually a sane and normal and healthy process that some intelligent adults go through. But go ahead with the irrational ad hominems if it makes you feel better. I'm not a fan of Zuckerberg, but this is not worthy of criticism.
Tracking of vehicles is probably next. I'm sure the government will ram it through with plenty of "good reasons" and the people will just put up with it like they put up with being molested at airports by the state. A friend of mine visited China a few years back and was shocked at how his movements were tracked everywhere he went... yet guess what, day by day the "land of the free" is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from communist China. And the worst part is, everyone just accepts it.
They're not archiving those aircraft movements; the pilots must register their flight plans with the FAA, and such registrations are a matter of public record.
In other words, they're basically archiving the aircraft movements. Got it.
Facebook's valuation is based on demand from Goldman Sachs, whose business model is to use Federal "stimulus" money and to socialize losses - pray tell, how is that an example of capitalism?
Then I started asking him why, and he indicated something along the lines of "it's legitimate because it's self rule".
The logical fallacy here is the reference to "self" referring not to "oneself" but to a collective. We aren't a borg, we are a collection of individuals. If I say "self" but what is meant in practice is that "I get to rule over Bob down the road", then Bob is not ruling himself, I am ruling over him. Calling Bob and myself together a collective "self" does not make this so; Bob and I are two individuals.
I think BlueCoder is referring to 'inalienable' rights, which refers to the concept that certain liberties are inherent simply by your existing and cannot be "granted" or "revoked" by governments, but only "infringed" or "not infringements". For example, it stands to reason that a person should have the right to defend their own life against an unwanted violent attack, and this right is said to be "inalienable". Nobody has to "say" it. These rights exist and belong to you inherently (and can be inferred from a rational philosophical approach to ethics), they aren't "granted" by "permission" of the state, as many pro-statists would like you to believe.
No one with real enforcement power seems to agree indeed, but that does not mean you 'don't have' those rights, it means that you have those rights, but they are being actively infringed. This seems like a semantic play but there is a massive difference.
Printing massive amounts of money is what the Economist called 'defaulting by stealth' - if I owe you a million Zimbabwe dollars, I don't really owe you much. Unfortunately it has the simultaneous effect of raiding the savings of people like you and me and the retirement savings of your parents.
This also has the "chilling effect" of cutting into the 2nd Amendment. Why? Because if you're woken in the middle of the night by armed intruders, now you can no longer grab your weapon and defend yourself. Now you allegedly are supposed to keep your weapon away, and then first try figure out (an impossible task ultimately, in all scenarios) "is it the police or SWAT or a gang of robbers", and keep your weapon stored away just in case it's the police and they fire on you as soon as they see the weapon.
You're also just dirt-lucky if they don't fire on you for the hell of it - many of these raids have resulted in the deaths of innocents now. And look for it to grow exponentially now that the 4th Amendment has well and truly been destroyed.. expect this map to have many more new markers in the coming years:
Thing is, as a home owner you are within your right right to use force to defend against a violent intrusion. To suggest that somebody stirred from their sleep should now first check if maybe it's the cops before defending their family, is unreasonable, as the robbers already would have the upper hand... it basically renders your right to self-defense moot. It attacks both the 4th and 2nd amendments in one go.
These invasions are volatile situations and inherently put lives at risk and WILL result in innocent deaths.
Finally what is particularly shocking is the premises on which they're invading homes. You would think these invasions would be reserved for the most serious of cases, where lives are at stake, live kidnappings or hostage scenarios. But no, it's usually "narcotics" - so basically what is so critical that they simply need to invade homes and shoot innocent people like your and my families, is to prevent some people getting high.
I'm afraid that at this rate this administration will oversea a dismantling of the entire bill of rights.
It's already become beyond ridiculous, with infringements like the TSA police-state-style system that starts to put USA on par with Soviet Russia, Communist China and Cuba and North Korea. Then there are other absurd infringements on liberty like it becoming increasingly illegal to grow your own food.
Yeah, it's funny, I'm a relative old-timer on/. and I recall probably just a bit over ten years ago having interesting discussions right here about the exciting 'future' possibilities of prosthetics, that 'one day we would be able to build functioning replacement hands' etc. We've really come full circle if the kids on/. now mundanely talk about how crap this or that prosthetic hand is. Not long ago this was the stuff of pure science fiction, stuff we dreamed about as kids, when I watched this video I was thinking about how amazing it really is that science fiction has become mundane reality, and how most people don't even think of this stuff as amazing anymore. On one "hand" it's good, on another something intangible feels lost.
Are you being serious? I can't quite tell. Because if you are, then gee, why don't we just pay all the unemployed to dig holes in the ground all day and fill them in again - we'd have zero percent unemployment.
I actually prefer one monitor. I have many times made an actual concerted effort to go two monitors, but each time I just find the hassle is more than the worth, I end up spending more time shifting windows around and what-not, than actually using the second. I work so much faster just using alt+tab. Each to his own I suppose.
Afghanistan was because Osama was operating from and working with the Taliban at the time of the 9/11 attacks (he wasn't in Abbottabad the entire time you know;), and I thought Iraq was to secure oil for cronies.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this.
A man who mass-murdered 3000 people and still wanted to murder every remaining non-Muslim on the planet has been found and stopped - and you claim to be "mystified" why people are celebrating? Really? Really really? Yeah right.
I am sure that if somebody had showed me this back in high school a LOT of things would've been a lot simpler and clearer... GP can dismiss it all he wants, but I'll be teaching my children about this.
Read the whole thing before judging.. I know it's easy to have a knee-jerk 'that's stupid' reaction but it's actually a very convincing argument if you read the whole thing.
PS that "guy" you snidely dismiss is not entirely just some random Joe Nobody, he has some reasonable credentials: http://www.michaelhartl.com/about
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I mean, they do work in the sense that my display card is working, but GPU OpenCL apps do not work.
Sorry, I meant OpenCL, I was typing in a hurry and momentarily confused. The card is a Mobility FireGL V5700. Most recently I was trying to get rpcminer-opencl working for bitcoin mining, to no avail. The AMD site just tells me I must download the drivers from HP. I've downloaded and installed the drivers from HP's site and they don't work.
I don't know, I can't begin to imagine what open source drivers for new video cards could possibly have to do with an article about those new video cards on a website full of open source users. Very mysterious.
On a tangential vein, my desktop machine is NVIDIA but my laptop GPU is ATI, and CUDA on the ATI is broken and was just a waste of money because AMD/ATI's website just sends me to the laptop manufacturer's website to supposedly get the drivers, but the drivers on HP's website that they point me to, just plain have zero CUDA support. Surely between HP and AMD/ATI one of the two have a responsibility to make the product they advertise and sell, actually work? I've never had problems like that with NVIDIA drivers, so in future I'll stick with them.
We evolved as hunter-gatherers. I believe almost every man has a hunter instinct somewhere in him, even if it's suppressed in most people and thanks to our cushy upbringings. I grew up in the city and in an "anti-hunting" family, so I never really thought I would get into it, but as I got older I got curious about it and wanted to try it and eventually did, and there is something a little awesome about going out, tracking down and killing an animal, and literally feeding your family from the meat. To slashdotters I say don't knock it till you've tried it, and try it at least once. Obviously, one always tries to be as humane as possible, and no part of the animal whatsoever goes to waste. Time was almost every American family hunted for at least some of their food. I don't think we should ever entirely lose that heritage and way of life, firstly because it satisfies an important part of who we are as humans, and secondly because if we as a civilization accidentally ever de-industrialize and regress for whatever reason, those skills are going to be important ... I think if the remnants of civilization consist of a bunch of 'pansy-boys' whining about how "killing animals is evil" or going "ew, gross" we will quite possibly die out as a species. And if we have e.g. an alien invasion, we will also need a lot of good old sharp-shooting 'aggressive' males to fight.
Unless we de-industrialize, within the next several decades it could well become cheaper to artificially grow meat than to eat real meat .. it's likely to become ever harder to defend these good old primitive ways.
Seeking to re-evaluate the fundamental aspects of life isn't "going off the deep end". It's just a sign of someone who thinks about things, and goes through something called "personal development" that is actually a sane and normal and healthy process that some intelligent adults go through. But go ahead with the irrational ad hominems if it makes you feel better. I'm not a fan of Zuckerberg, but this is not worthy of criticism.
Tracking of vehicles is probably next. I'm sure the government will ram it through with plenty of "good reasons" and the people will just put up with it like they put up with being molested at airports by the state. A friend of mine visited China a few years back and was shocked at how his movements were tracked everywhere he went ... yet guess what, day by day the "land of the free" is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from communist China. And the worst part is, everyone just accepts it.
They're not archiving those aircraft movements; the pilots must register their flight plans with the FAA, and such registrations are a matter of public record.
In other words, they're basically archiving the aircraft movements. Got it.
Facebook's valuation is based on demand from Goldman Sachs, whose business model is to use Federal "stimulus" money and to socialize losses - pray tell, how is that an example of capitalism?
Then I started asking him why, and he indicated something along the lines of "it's legitimate because it's self rule".
The logical fallacy here is the reference to "self" referring not to "oneself" but to a collective. We aren't a borg, we are a collection of individuals. If I say "self" but what is meant in practice is that "I get to rule over Bob down the road", then Bob is not ruling himself, I am ruling over him. Calling Bob and myself together a collective "self" does not make this so; Bob and I are two individuals.
I think BlueCoder is referring to 'inalienable' rights, which refers to the concept that certain liberties are inherent simply by your existing and cannot be "granted" or "revoked" by governments, but only "infringed" or "not infringements". For example, it stands to reason that a person should have the right to defend their own life against an unwanted violent attack, and this right is said to be "inalienable". Nobody has to "say" it. These rights exist and belong to you inherently (and can be inferred from a rational philosophical approach to ethics), they aren't "granted" by "permission" of the state, as many pro-statists would like you to believe.
No one with real enforcement power seems to agree indeed, but that does not mean you 'don't have' those rights, it means that you have those rights, but they are being actively infringed. This seems like a semantic play but there is a massive difference.
Printing massive amounts of money is what the Economist called 'defaulting by stealth' - if I owe you a million Zimbabwe dollars, I don't really owe you much. Unfortunately it has the simultaneous effect of raiding the savings of people like you and me and the retirement savings of your parents.
This also has the "chilling effect" of cutting into the 2nd Amendment. Why? Because if you're woken in the middle of the night by armed intruders, now you can no longer grab your weapon and defend yourself. Now you allegedly are supposed to keep your weapon away, and then first try figure out (an impossible task ultimately, in all scenarios) "is it the police or SWAT or a gang of robbers", and keep your weapon stored away just in case it's the police and they fire on you as soon as they see the weapon.
You're also just dirt-lucky if they don't fire on you for the hell of it - many of these raids have resulted in the deaths of innocents now. And look for it to grow exponentially now that the 4th Amendment has well and truly been destroyed .. expect this map to have many more new markers in the coming years:
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
Thing is, as a home owner you are within your right right to use force to defend against a violent intrusion. To suggest that somebody stirred from their sleep should now first check if maybe it's the cops before defending their family, is unreasonable, as the robbers already would have the upper hand ... it basically renders your right to self-defense moot. It attacks both the 4th and 2nd amendments in one go.
These invasions are volatile situations and inherently put lives at risk and WILL result in innocent deaths.
Finally what is particularly shocking is the premises on which they're invading homes. You would think these invasions would be reserved for the most serious of cases, where lives are at stake, live kidnappings or hostage scenarios. But no, it's usually "narcotics" - so basically what is so critical that they simply need to invade homes and shoot innocent people like your and my families, is to prevent some people getting high.
I'm afraid that at this rate this administration will oversea a dismantling of the entire bill of rights.
It's already become beyond ridiculous, with infringements like the TSA police-state-style system that starts to put USA on par with Soviet Russia, Communist China and Cuba and North Korea. Then there are other absurd infringements on liberty like it becoming increasingly illegal to grow your own food.
Rampant destruction of our currency by foreign interests.
I realize the surname is unusual, but Bernanke is not foreign.
Yeah, it's funny, I'm a relative old-timer on /. and I recall probably just a bit over ten years ago having interesting discussions right here about the exciting 'future' possibilities of prosthetics, that 'one day we would be able to build functioning replacement hands' etc. We've really come full circle if the kids on /. now mundanely talk about how crap this or that prosthetic hand is. Not long ago this was the stuff of pure science fiction, stuff we dreamed about as kids, when I watched this video I was thinking about how amazing it really is that science fiction has become mundane reality, and how most people don't even think of this stuff as amazing anymore. On one "hand" it's good, on another something intangible feels lost.
George Lucas wasn't the first to predict bionic hands .. sigh.
It will happen, because there is no money left. Reality bites.
Are you being serious? I can't quite tell. Because if you are, then gee, why don't we just pay all the unemployed to dig holes in the ground all day and fill them in again - we'd have zero percent unemployment.
Regardless, it really is literally too expensive. I mean, it's apparently so critical that we've been borrowing money we don't have for it.
If you can do all your coding on one monitor without any productivity loss, you aren't writing serious code.
Uh yeah right. Please. Some of us can actually hold enough of the code that's not currently visible in our minds.
I actually prefer one monitor. I have many times made an actual concerted effort to go two monitors, but each time I just find the hassle is more than the worth, I end up spending more time shifting windows around and what-not, than actually using the second. I work so much faster just using alt+tab. Each to his own I suppose.
Afghanistan was because Osama was operating from and working with the Taliban at the time of the 9/11 attacks (he wasn't in Abbottabad the entire time you know ;), and I thought Iraq was to secure oil for cronies.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this.
A man who mass-murdered 3000 people and still wanted to murder every remaining non-Muslim on the planet has been found and stopped - and you claim to be "mystified" why people are celebrating? Really? Really really? Yeah right.
Title: Fox News Errors (Score: -1 Redundant)
Yeah, perhaps this video might be more interesting to those too lazy, busy or arrogant to read the full argument:
Pi is (still) wrong
And more on the 'movement': Pi is wrong
I am sure that if somebody had showed me this back in high school a LOT of things would've been a lot simpler and clearer ... GP can dismiss it all he wants, but I'll be teaching my children about this.
Read the whole thing before judging .. I know it's easy to have a knee-jerk 'that's stupid' reaction but it's actually a very convincing argument if you read the whole thing.
PS that "guy" you snidely dismiss is not entirely just some random Joe Nobody, he has some reasonable credentials: http://www.michaelhartl.com/about