The nv driver is the only one with source code available.
NVidia has already shown that they play dirty. The drivers have been shown to recognize a program named "quake.exe" and cut corners to get better benchmark scores. (performance would drop if you renamed the executable) I don't want that kind of shit running in my kernel.
It'd be fun having the job of testing this, don't you think?
You could load yourself up with government-supplied explosives, walk through, get caught, show your papers, and then go to the next line and try it again.
If you're blowing yourself up anyway, you don't give a damn about long-term poisonous effects.
I think you could make an explosive that is not a fast poison. If it is foul-tasting and you make a funny face, oh well... people do that with baby formula and saved breast milk too.
Basically: suspend a powdered high-explosive in something thick and colorless, like glycerin. (a powdered oxidizer should work well too, but I can't think of one that wouldn't be a fast-acting poison)
Sheesh... how hard is that?
Probably you could make an explosive mouse pad or keyboard rest.
All it takes is an asshole THINKING that there is money to be made. Maybe he saw some other asshole spamming and assumed that there was money to be made. The spammers need not make any money; there only needs to be an endless supply of assholes who THINK that they will make money.
All spamming is advertizing for spamming. The flood of spam advertizes that it works, no matter if this is true or not.
Try a 1600x1200 LCD from Dell, hooked up via a DVI-D (purely digital) connection.
You get 1280x960, scaled to fill the screen. This is because the BIOS sets the flatpanel size wrong and the nv driver does not have the ability to reprogram it.
On a 1920x1280 display (Dell, DVI-D, NVidia) you get something dreadful, around 720x400 if I remember right.
If the bug is in the firmware, you'll be the last to get a fix.
If I can take over the card's internal CPU (probably running a tiny real-time OS) then I can use that to write anywhere in memory. I can patch any part of your kernel I like. It doesn't matter if your driver is good or not.
The network admin cares. The software developer cares.
Regular end users need network admins and software developers. If the admins and developers think an OS is shit, they will avoid supporting it. Windows is in the lead, so the admins and developers usually can't refuse. MacOS is something that can be refused.
With POSIX, the admins and developers actually want the machines. The admins and developers buy Macs for their own personal use, play with them, learn about them... and then accept them in business.
Lots of them actually support taking shots at Israel. The people who don't support that have still allowed it to occur.
I know, it's easy for me to say that the people in Lebanon should have put Hezbolla in jail or executed the whole lot of them. There isn't a one politician over there who dares to take a strong stand against the bastards.
But yet... a nation is responsible for keeping such things in check. Each and every person has a duty to keep the gangs under control. When this is not done, somebody else will come in and do the job.
If you let the criminals operate out of your house, don't complain when you get raided.
Displays report preferred video modes and frequency limits. This is so that the OS can choose a nice video mode.
Dell fucks this up. The preferred mode is illegal according to the given frequency limit.
Some proprietary drivers seem to have a hack to deal with broken Dell displays. The X.org nv driver, as used by a normal free OS install, can not overcome this defect. (the flat panel is programmed by the BIOS to some crappy non-native mode)
I usually manage to fill 8 virtual desktops with a total of 40 to 60 windows. I might try 10 some day, because 8 is slightly cramped.
Honestly, I don't know how the Windows users can function without virtual desktops. I suppose they close the apps? I like to leave my apps open for months at a time. (excepting firefox, which grows too big after a few weeks) I keep apps on specific virtual desktops so that I can find them back as needed. Rather than hunt in the taskbar for one of 40 to 60 apps, I just pick the right desktop and then can probably see the app already open. Worst case, I might have to pick from a dozen items in the task bar -- not the whole 40 to 60 apps!
I don't get the whole home-directory-in-the-desktop thing either. What a mess! It's not as if this is easy either, because the desktop gets buried under all the apps. What, I'm supposed to close or minimize all my apps just to work with some files? I guess... the crazy pathnames (huge, with SPACES!) ensure that the command line won't be seeing much use.
Then there is not having focus-follows-mouse. I guess the system wasn't awkward enough. That must be it: Windows provides office workers with excuses for not getting much done, and provides them with plenty of things to click on so that they look busy.
I want larger-than-life views on the highest resolution monitor I can buy. About 4x larger than life should do; I don't require a microscope.
We get to control latitude, longitude, and zoom. I also want to control at least two angles (compass direction and the elevation above the horizon) and time. It's important to have the old data too, so I can see who shot JFK.
To make things easier, I need automatic object tracking. I'll choose an object, like your car, and get video that follows it. Time could be normal, slow motion, fast motion, or reverse. I'll need the slow motion to follow bullets as they fly through the air.
I especially need an option to remove layers that get in the way. With one click, the clouds and atmospheric haze go away. With another click, the rooftops go away. With yet another click, clothes come off. Then the skin, fat, muscle, etc. Being able to remove the ocean water layer is definitely a requirement.
The map needs to be well-integrated with search of course. Google is the King of Search, and thus should be able to find the King of Rock 'n' Roll even if he's being held underground by the CIA.
Most intelligent people do think that way. Their genes will go extinct.
Some of us are much less materialistic. We're willing to sacrifice a bit because we love big families. This is the trait that is being selected for. Future generations will see family as more important than objects. Currently we desire objects like we desire fat and salt: these things were once scarce. We'll get over it in time. (speaking of which, the McDonalds diet will be healthful if we evolve to require it! That probably takes 50000 years or more though)
Not all the intelligent go to college, and of those who do, not all get mom and dad to pay for it. Kids can work their way through college. Often such kids will study much harder than the ones who get mom and dad to pay.
It's too bad the dumb people have such a head start over the smart-but-desiring-kids ones. It'll take a damn long time for the smart people to make a comeback after the ones who don't passionately desire kids go extinct.
Satellite paths are measured at: Hawaii, Kwajalein, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs
Perhaps your GPS unit thus gives you a position relative to the average of those sites. That would be two spots in the Pacific Ocean, one in the Indian Ocean, one in the South Atlantic Ocean, and one in the Rocky Mountains. If things disagree, I'll bet Colorodo Springs wins the argument.
If you're in Asia or Europe and your land moves... oh well!
Any group can slap a GNU label on their project. The FSF actively encourages this. The FSF even approached me with the request that I slap a GNU label on my own project. (they contribute NOTHING, but wanted the label anyway)
Slapping a GNU label on the project in no way makes the project really truly GNU. It's a flag of convenience for vendor neutrality, and it's a way for Stallman to claim he did everything.
"strongly desiring kids" does not mean one or two. One or two means just the opposite: you don't strongly desire kids, so your genes won't be very common.
I happen to know some highly intelligent people who had 11 kids. I know a half-way intelligent couple (moderately above average I think) who have 8 and are still popping them out. I'm at 5 already, with a wife in her mid-20s; the IQ situation here is roughly 150+ and 130.
So there do in fact exist non-stupid people who pop out babies at an amazing rate. Currently we are quite rare, but that will be changing over the next few centuries.
In the short term of course, stupidity will gain. The number of smart people who strongly desire kids isn't enough to become a major part of the population within a short period of time. In the long term though, the smart people will make a comeback because the survivers will all strongly desire kids.
With everything moving all over and us trying to define property lines (including international borders) reliably, we sure do have a mess.
If GPS is tied to some NAVY building in Maryland and the building moves, do we then declare that the building DID NOT MOVE because it is by definition in a particular place? Everybody else moved?
(I do not in fact know: it could be an Air Force cave in the Rocky Mountains, etc.)
If half of the Earth moves relative to the other half, which set of property owners has a problem?
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No shit. You use the non-free drivers.
The nv driver is the only one with source code available.
NVidia has already shown that they play dirty. The drivers have been shown to recognize a program named "quake.exe" and cut corners to get better benchmark scores. (performance would drop if you renamed the executable) I don't want that kind of shit running in my kernel.
So what if it blows up? You were going to die anyway.
Since you die doing the jihad thing, you go straight to heaven where you will receive 50 virgins PLUS your wives. Good deal, no?
(I've always wondered, how do the virgins feel? What about the wives? Where the heck are the virgins coming from anyway?)
I just recently heard of such a case. It was a home invasion. The lady obeyed, and was killed. The man ran, got hit, kept running, and lived.
Most criminals can't shoot very well.
nitro glycerin
clear, syrupy, probably odorless, non-volatile, and no matches required
Never heard of flash paper?
Regular paper explodes just fine if treated with nitric acid.
You could fill the cover with explosives.
But this is silly: you could more easily fill your butt with explosives, then take a trip to the lavatory.
No, not them. They hide the liquids in their tits.
(do they still have to have security guards watch them taste it?)
It'd be fun having the job of testing this, don't you think?
You could load yourself up with government-supplied explosives, walk through, get caught, show your papers, and then go to the next line and try it again.
It's probably too much time traveling though.
Damn that would be fun.
Moveing the threat level in response to foiled plots is fairly idiotic, unless things are averaged out over time.
Better would be to adjust the level according to opinion of the USA among muslims.
If you're blowing yourself up anyway, you don't give a damn about long-term poisonous effects.
I think you could make an explosive that is not a fast poison. If it is foul-tasting and you make a funny face, oh well... people do that with baby formula and saved breast milk too.
Basically: suspend a powdered high-explosive in something thick and colorless, like glycerin. (a powdered oxidizer should work well too, but I can't think of one that wouldn't be a fast-acting poison)
Sheesh... how hard is that?
Probably you could make an explosive mouse pad or keyboard rest.
You're not with us. That means you're against us.
GET HIM!!!!!
Sure, the phosphoric acid gives it a pH of 2, but that's good for dentists.
I'd worry more about "Snort coke!".
If my mother-in-law always sends me a chatty email, it won't be marked spam. (assuming I don't train the filter to consider her a spammer)
Problem: the first email from this person
If the filter threshold is set to junk these chatty spams, then it is tough enough to eliminate the first email from any chatty person.
there wouldn't be much repeat spam
All it takes is an asshole THINKING that there is money to be made. Maybe he saw some other asshole spamming and assumed that there was money to be made. The spammers need not make any money; there only needs to be an endless supply of assholes who THINK that they will make money.
All spamming is advertizing for spamming. The flood of spam advertizes that it works, no matter if this is true or not.
Try a 1600x1200 LCD from Dell, hooked up via a DVI-D (purely digital) connection.
You get 1280x960, scaled to fill the screen. This is because the BIOS sets the flatpanel size wrong and the nv driver does not have the ability to reprogram it.
On a 1920x1280 display (Dell, DVI-D, NVidia) you get something dreadful, around 720x400 if I remember right.
If the bug is in the firmware, you'll be the last to get a fix.
If I can take over the card's internal CPU (probably running a tiny real-time OS) then I can use that to write anywhere in memory. I can patch any part of your kernel I like. It doesn't matter if your driver is good or not.
The regular end user sure doesn't care.
The network admin cares. The software developer cares.
Regular end users need network admins and software developers. If the admins and developers think an OS is shit, they will avoid supporting it. Windows is in the lead, so the admins and developers usually can't refuse. MacOS is something that can be refused.
With POSIX, the admins and developers actually want the machines. The admins and developers buy Macs for their own personal use, play with them, learn about them... and then accept them in business.
The general public in Lebanon is to blame.
Lots of them actually support taking shots at Israel. The people who don't support that have still allowed it to occur.
I know, it's easy for me to say that the people in Lebanon should have put Hezbolla in jail or executed the whole lot of them. There isn't a one politician over there who dares to take a strong stand against the bastards.
But yet... a nation is responsible for keeping such things in check. Each and every person has a duty to keep the gangs under control. When this is not done, somebody else will come in and do the job.
If you let the criminals operate out of your house, don't complain when you get raided.
Displays report preferred video modes and frequency limits. This is so that the OS can choose a nice video mode.
Dell fucks this up. The preferred mode is illegal according to the given frequency limit.
Some proprietary drivers seem to have a hack to deal with broken Dell displays. The X.org nv driver, as used by a normal free OS install, can not overcome this defect. (the flat panel is programmed by the BIOS to some crappy non-native mode)
It's been this way for years.
I usually manage to fill 8 virtual desktops with a total of 40 to 60 windows. I might try 10 some day, because 8 is slightly cramped.
Honestly, I don't know how the Windows users can function without virtual desktops. I suppose they close the apps? I like to leave my apps open for months at a time. (excepting firefox, which grows too big after a few weeks) I keep apps on specific virtual desktops so that I can find them back as needed. Rather than hunt in the taskbar for one of 40 to 60 apps, I just pick the right desktop and then can probably see the app already open. Worst case, I might have to pick from a dozen items in the task bar -- not the whole 40 to 60 apps!
I don't get the whole home-directory-in-the-desktop thing either. What a mess! It's not as if this is easy either, because the desktop gets buried under all the apps. What, I'm supposed to close or minimize all my apps just to work with some files? I guess... the crazy pathnames (huge, with SPACES!) ensure that the command line won't be seeing much use.
Then there is not having focus-follows-mouse. I guess the system wasn't awkward enough. That must be it: Windows provides office workers with excuses for not getting much done, and provides them with plenty of things to click on so that they look busy.
I want larger-than-life views on the highest resolution monitor I can buy. About 4x larger than life should do; I don't require a microscope.
We get to control latitude, longitude, and zoom. I also want to control at least two angles (compass direction and the elevation above the horizon) and time. It's important to have the old data too, so I can see who shot JFK.
To make things easier, I need automatic object tracking. I'll choose an object, like your car, and get video that follows it. Time could be normal, slow motion, fast motion, or reverse. I'll need the slow motion to follow bullets as they fly through the air.
I especially need an option to remove layers that get in the way. With one click, the clouds and atmospheric haze go away. With another click, the rooftops go away. With yet another click, clothes come off. Then the skin, fat, muscle, etc. Being able to remove the ocean water layer is definitely a requirement.
The map needs to be well-integrated with search of course. Google is the King of Search, and thus should be able to find the King of Rock 'n' Roll even if he's being held underground by the CIA.
Most intelligent people do think that way. Their genes will go extinct.
Some of us are much less materialistic. We're willing to sacrifice a bit because we love big families. This is the trait that is being selected for. Future generations will see family as more important than objects. Currently we desire objects like we desire fat and salt: these things were once scarce. We'll get over it in time. (speaking of which, the McDonalds diet will be healthful if we evolve to require it! That probably takes 50000 years or more though)
Not all the intelligent go to college, and of those who do, not all get mom and dad to pay for it. Kids can work their way through college. Often such kids will study much harder than the ones who get mom and dad to pay.
It's too bad the dumb people have such a head start over the smart-but-desiring-kids ones. It'll take a damn long time for the smart people to make a comeback after the ones who don't passionately desire kids go extinct.
Satellite paths are measured at:
Hawaii, Kwajalein, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs
Perhaps your GPS unit thus gives you a position relative to the average of those sites. That would be two spots in the Pacific Ocean, one in the Indian Ocean, one in the South Atlantic Ocean, and one in the Rocky Mountains. If things disagree, I'll bet Colorodo Springs wins the argument.
If you're in Asia or Europe and your land moves... oh well!
You're not paying attention.
Any group can slap a GNU label on their project. The FSF actively encourages this. The FSF even approached me with the request that I slap a GNU label on my own project. (they contribute NOTHING, but wanted the label anyway)
Slapping a GNU label on the project in no way makes the project really truly GNU. It's a flag of convenience for vendor neutrality, and it's a way for Stallman to claim he did everything.
GNOME is no more GNU than OpenBSD is.
"strongly desiring kids" does not mean one or two. One or two means just the opposite: you don't strongly desire kids, so your genes won't be very common.
I happen to know some highly intelligent people who had 11 kids. I know a half-way intelligent couple (moderately above average I think) who have 8 and are still popping them out. I'm at 5 already, with a wife in her mid-20s; the IQ situation here is roughly 150+ and 130.
So there do in fact exist non-stupid people who pop out babies at an amazing rate. Currently we are quite rare, but that will be changing over the next few centuries.
In the short term of course, stupidity will gain. The number of smart people who strongly desire kids isn't enough to become a major part of the population within a short period of time. In the long term though, the smart people will make a comeback because the survivers will all strongly desire kids.
With everything moving all over and us trying to define property lines (including international borders) reliably, we sure do have a mess.
If GPS is tied to some NAVY building in Maryland and the building moves, do we then declare that the building DID NOT MOVE because it is by definition in a particular place? Everybody else moved?
(I do not in fact know: it could be an Air Force cave in the Rocky Mountains, etc.)
If half of the Earth moves relative to the other half, which set of property owners has a problem?