x86 is ill suited to mobile devices for all the same reasons its great on desktops and laptops that can afford large heavy batteries, and are generally used where AC is available.
This is complete BS. As ARM starts to match the performance of x86 the power draw is beginning to match too. If intel sticks it out in another generation or two i'm betting Atom will absolutely dominate the power/performance curve because there isn't anything fundamentally in x86 that makes it draw more power. If anything building an OOO ARM is harder due to the fact that every single instruction can be predicated.
Intel has learned the integration lesson too, which should bring the platform power aspects under control within a generation or two.
The "legacy" portions of x86 are such a tiny portion of the overall die as to be nearly meaningless. ARM isn't exactly legacy free either, plus they continue to have a fairly fragmented market due to a half dozen ABI's, and probably ~100 different vendors producing different versions of the chips with different memory controllers/DMA engines/etc. A SOC x86 with graphics/IO/slow memory/etc will be comparable when one gets built. ARM will continue to sell in huge numbers, but in order to absolutely control the market place they MUST have generational compatibility between devices. Otherwise, they run the risk that in any single generation they loose marketshare. This actually happens all the time, its just that their market has so far been diverse enough that it just doesn't matter, loose one vendor, gain another.
Finally, half the reason the tablets/phones seem fast isn't because they have fast hardware, but rather its a focus on building a system that works within their constrains, unlike windows or general purpose Linux. This is why no one particularly cares about x86 in a tablet. You have to customize the environment sufficiently that the ABI compatibility that x86 brings, along doesn't provide any value. No one wants a smart phone running windows 7 (hell a lot of people don't even want a desktop running windows7).
BTW: I have a fair number of ARM devices, including an OpenRD (BTW: 7 watts wall power at full load, compare with the CPU draw) which acts as the primary network server at my house. A few months ago I had this discussion with my coworker and measured the performance/watt numbers of a number of devices. The end result is that the latest Intel processors quite literally are about 10x faster than the best ARM devices you can buy, and the power/watt is roughly comparable even though the server is eating 150-300 watts (consider disks/etc) and the arms are eating 10.
We'll begin encrypting the information so our customers have no idea what we are doing or what data we are storing.
That was sort of my thought too. Of course the key has to be on the phone somewhere, so finding the data probably won't necessarily be that much harder. Its more like "next time when someone catches us storing things we shouldn't be, we can hit them with a cease and desist letter because they violated the DMCA. "
Isn't "Great Location" one of the problems with the ISS? The orbit was a compromise between what the shuttle was capable of, what the soyuz was capable of, and an orbit not already full of junk? The end result being a fairly crappy orbit for everyone involved?
M$ should get smart and release an XP v2 (aka another service pack) with a few select fixes (GPT support for one, removal of the licensed memory limit, etc). That way they can make their $200 license fee, and still make people happy.
I have a win7 machine that all built out with the latest and greatest. You know what? I don't use it, instead I sit down at my 4 year old windows XP machine and use it instead. Thats because with about 8x the hardware (high end CPU/SSD/graphics) it simply responds slower than XP on a couple year old dual core and a freeking spinning harddrive. Plus the XP machine works with a bunch of software that doesn't work on 7 (old eeprom burner, etc). Recently I put a couple of the hacks on the xp machine, and have 8G of memory and a 4TB esata disk attached. So its possible to get "updates" just not via the M$ route.
I purchased a brand new retail copy a couple years ago. As far as I know, there isn't anything in the box that says it won't activate after a certain date. I might be willing to hire a lawyer to fling a lawsuit at M$ the day it fails to activate. I don't care about support, but I want to be able to run it in a VM until the day I die. If M$ turns it off, then they have effectively put a kill switch in the product. Something I believe has been ruled to be a no-no in a couple of instances.
Think Sony, made nice hardware for a fair price. Then they started buying "content providers". Turns out the content providers took over and Sony has been going downhill for two decades now.
Google or Amazon buying record labels would ruin Google/Amazon
By 1975, it was gone. Now you have to go elsewhere for the classical education. Probably some small private college, because nearly everyone followed Harvard's lead and cut the core to just a few broad subjects.
Personally, only the Greek and Latin seem worrying. I'm sure that I could have passed the math section without a problem in HS. Now days, maybe not without brushing up a little. The geography/history sections seem easy too, but that might not have been so easy in HS. Of course, the HS I went to (in the 1990s) offered latin, but I didn't take it. But, on the other hand i'm betting there weren't to many Harvard applicants proficient in 5 major computing languages, like I was when I graduated HS. Frankly, even in the 60's knowing something about computers was probably much more valuable than knowing Latin/Greek. Hence the famous decision by Bill Gates to drop out in the mid 70's.
BTW: I remember having the foreign language discussion in a group with my guidance counselor. The basic statement at the time, was that two years of foreign language were still a requirement for admission to some schools, what language didn't matter. What did matter was that, almost all schools required, two years of foreign language, either in HS or in college, to graduate. She recommended doing it in HS. Frankly, my two years of french in HS were hell, Its quite possible I would not have graduated from college If I had to take them with my full engineering load.
Well, the fact that the new processors will run on an AM3 board seems like more of the same from AMD, rather thank some kind of big "shift" like the title makes it sound. Rather its the same as before, AM3 processors tend to run just fine in AM2+ boards. In that case you sacrifice DDR3 and faster hyper-transport for DDR2.
Why would you do this? Well, two words, windows license. $100 for a new motherboard, and then anywhere from $100 to $300 for windows. Total upgrade cost $300->$600, vs $100-$200 for just the CPU.
I've done this a couple times, and it can be a nice upgrade, because I don't have to reinstall my applications and retweak windows to run fast. The 8-16 hours of install/tweak time It takes me to create a personal desktop is probably 99% of the reason I don't do a lot of upgrades that cannot be done in place.
RISC isn't an implementation thing. It's an instruction set thing. POWER is most definitely RISC.
Giggle, have you ever done any assembly on PPC/POWER? Its got a lot of really nasty asymmetric areas. POWER may be RISC by dogma, but it sure isn't RISC by MIPS/ARM standards. It is absolutely a LOAD/STORE arch, but a very serious argument could be made that its not RISC. I think this is generally accepted in most circles to be true.
BTW: Since POWER4 it has an instruction decoder that decodes to microops (or whatever you want to call them), just like x86 has since the PPRO/K6. These are then bundled and scheduled. Makes sense when you consider things like rlwimi/loadall.
OpenRd, loose definition of desktop, but you can plug in a monitor/keyboard, and if you need more than the built in flash, it has a esata port. I run my NAS on one, but its more targeted towards desktop type behaviors.
Seniority is bullshit. I don't care if you've been with my company for 20 years. If your boss is a 25 year old kid that just started here, it's because you don't have the skills to be in his position, and he does.
You, know I've been around enough to see this, and no its not always someone younger than me (has that ever happened?). Invariably, those people fail the test of time. Its one thing for people younger than yourself to be higher up the management chain. Its quite another for someone freshly hired to understand the intricacies of the position they inhabit. Whether that position is CEO, or junior test engineer. As the position becomes more critical to the success of the company, those intricacies become more important to the success of the company. Putting someone who doesn't have a couple years visibility on a position, into that position, is like flipping a coin. For all intents and purposes their decisions are random, and the results are going to reflect it. If you do this to a functional group, there is a good chance it will stop functioning. That said, if you do it to a dysfunctional group/division/company, its simply a prayer that enough of the decisions will be correct to turn it around. Far to often there are "people issues" that aren't evident from a first order approximation. This is like electing the president. The first 2-4 years, they are learning on the job, and their mistakes won't become evident for another 2-4 years, if not longer, as economic decisions can take decades. Same with swapping managers, the new manager makes some minor decision that should be a no brainier but fails to account for the fact that the two guys doing 50% of the work, decide that not having a window means they are going to respond to a recruiter, and leave 2 months later. The team shuffles around, meets their goals after working 80 hour weeks, the new manager gets a promotion/leaves for another company to work their magic. Over the next couple years the support staff has to be doubled, and the company starts loosing customers, because the product is now a POS.
Me too, I have a hacked treo 650 on t-mobile's pay as you go plan. Its fantastic, when I read this story I thought "&*$% me, i'm screwed"
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Just not in your moms basement. I have yet to see a copy of ubuntu running in a corporate environment. On the other hand, i've seen openSUSE on peoples desktops, and SLES running in data center after data center. Look at the large OEM's linux support list. Usually its RedHat and SLES, and there is a reason. Part of that has to do with the long support cycles, the rest has to do with testing and support of "enterprise hardware". For example, zSeries mainframes, 10G ethernet, SAS, fibre channel, 300+TB RAID arrays, you quickly find that the "popular" distributions don't work. For that matter, the last time I installed ubuntu it took 20 minutes to convince it to work properly in a vmware session, it kept disconnecting the network because it's MAC detection layer wasn't working properly with the vmware adapter. Heck probably 50% of the hardware I own won't run ubuntu. (50% of my personal hardware is non x86, cause i have POWER, sparc, ARM, etc machines).
Plus, as I posted in another thread, modern Yast is actually quite good. You can configured pretty much the whole machine from it now. From basic stuff like network, disk/LVM/RAID, iscsi, etc to nearly every service the machine ships with like Samba, and Bind. While many of the configurations are basic and need further tuning, it gets the beginner most of the way down the road without having to drop to a command line or editor. The package management is just as good as anywhere else with yast/zypper, so much so I can't remember the last time i had to compile something.
Finally, SUSE's binary driver story is a lot better than anyone elses, so a lot of "proprietary" hardware just tends to work. Like say, multihead with openGL support sufficient to run blender...
I totally agree, the problem is that apparently the new generation of people at microsoft want to leave their mark. So, it seems every couple years Microsoft tries to reinvent everything in their software stack. Some changes are better, some are worse, the net affect seems to be a lot of changes for nearly zero overall improvement. It seems that this has been going on since probably ~2003 or so when suddenly.net became the new way to do everything. Before that the one thing you could count on in a microsoft product, was that putting in on your machine in general wouldn't break to many things. The interfaces evolved very slowly (heck there was a progman that looked like windows 1.0 in windows until XP), and the APIs were always extended never replaced. This is probably about 1/2 the reason windows won the desktop wars. Everyone else was breaking crap left and right every time they released new software. Microsoft had an insane amount of backwards compatibility, so writing an application for windows might have a high upfront cost, but it lasted a long time. Now, M$ changes some fundamental thing in the API every OS release and its rarely 100% better. Look at the problems with sound latency in windows 7. Or for that matter the drawing speed for win32 (pretty much 99% of non game applications). The GDI benchmarks pretty much show that windows 7 is approximately 3 times slower rendering applications than XP on the same hardware. It also manages to consume anywhere from 2-6x the CPU resources while doing it.
Yah, and probably over half of the actual applications are running in PA and Alpha translations mode on HP-UX or VMS. The IA market share would be close to 0 if HP wasn't forcing everyone stuck on HP-UX or VMS to use them. Trust me, no one but HPC people (who aren't doing $/flop or watt/flop) are looking at them and saying "I really like what I see, so i'm going to get one and run my application on it".
I'm pretty darn familiar with HP-UX on IA, and I would take a good PA machine over anything with IA, any day of the week. The good news, is that this new processor might be fast enough to actually beat a 10 year old PA running PA binaries.
I have a HP 2605dn printer, its a fantastic full duplex color laser from a couple years back. I picked it up cheap, but I'm totally annoyed that the universal print drivers HP now uses, seem to keep my machine from going into standby reliably. I regularly have to kill the spooler to fix the problem. Uninstalling the HP drivers, is the other solution.
That I didn't see an analysis of the book anywhere in that whole stack of crap. If this is what constitutes and FBI file, either the FBI didn't take the book seriously, or they waste a lot of effort on stupid BS.
Texas they're too busy playing chicken with the state budget to get anything done.
As an ex-NH resident, and now a resident of Texass, I would like to point out they are also passing emergency bills having to do with requiring photo ID to vote, "santuary cities", and requiring women who need abortions to see/hear the fetus before the abortion.
Nothing will actually get done on the budget until a special session is called after the normal legislative session expires. That is the way it is in Texass, the politicians know they don't actually have to get anything done during the normal session. So they spend their time passing bullshit political bills that are opposed by 48% of the state (cause while Texass seems red, its a lot of gerrymandering, like everywhere else, a small majority can be leveraged into a large political ratio). Anything that might actually be an emergency gets its own special session. So, what if Texas has one of the largest state deficits (by percentage of budget).
There is a cleartype tuner to fix this. Google it. A better plan though is just to turn it off anyway. That way documents half way between the screens don't look funny because they have a pink tint on one, and a blue tint (or whatever your monitor/cleartype is doing) on the other.
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Word et al. no longer have a clutter of shortcut bars that take up a quarter of your effective screen,
Hmm weird, last I checked the ribbon was basically just a tabbed button bar that takes up a 1/4 of my screen.
x86 is ill suited to mobile devices for all the same reasons its great on desktops and laptops that can afford large heavy batteries, and are generally used where AC is available.
This is complete BS. As ARM starts to match the performance of x86 the power draw is beginning to match too. If intel sticks it out in another generation or two i'm betting Atom will absolutely dominate the power/performance curve because there isn't anything fundamentally in x86 that makes it draw more power. If anything building an OOO ARM is harder due to the fact that every single instruction can be predicated.
Intel has learned the integration lesson too, which should bring the platform power aspects under control within a generation or two.
The "legacy" portions of x86 are such a tiny portion of the overall die as to be nearly meaningless. ARM isn't exactly legacy free either, plus they continue to have a fairly fragmented market due to a half dozen ABI's, and probably ~100 different vendors producing different versions of the chips with different memory controllers/DMA engines/etc. A SOC x86 with graphics/IO/slow memory/etc will be comparable when one gets built. ARM will continue to sell in huge numbers, but in order to absolutely control the market place they MUST have generational compatibility between devices. Otherwise, they run the risk that in any single generation they loose marketshare. This actually happens all the time, its just that their market has so far been diverse enough that it just doesn't matter, loose one vendor, gain another.
Finally, half the reason the tablets/phones seem fast isn't because they have fast hardware, but rather its a focus on building a system that works within their constrains, unlike windows or general purpose Linux. This is why no one particularly cares about x86 in a tablet. You have to customize the environment sufficiently that the ABI compatibility that x86 brings, along doesn't provide any value. No one wants a smart phone running windows 7 (hell a lot of people don't even want a desktop running windows7).
BTW: I have a fair number of ARM devices, including an OpenRD (BTW: 7 watts wall power at full load, compare with the CPU draw) which acts as the primary network server at my house. A few months ago I had this discussion with my coworker and measured the performance/watt numbers of a number of devices. The end result is that the latest Intel processors quite literally are about 10x faster than the best ARM devices you can buy, and the power/watt is roughly comparable even though the server is eating 150-300 watts (consider disks/etc) and the arms are eating 10.
We'll begin encrypting the information so our customers have no idea what we are doing or what data we are storing.
That was sort of my thought too. Of course the key has to be on the phone somewhere, so finding the data probably won't necessarily be that much harder. Its more like "next time when someone catches us storing things we shouldn't be, we can hit them with a cease and desist letter because they violated the DMCA. "
'Low' Mileage, Great Location...
Isn't "Great Location" one of the problems with the ISS? The orbit was a compromise between what the shuttle was capable of, what the soyuz was capable of, and an orbit not already full of junk? The end result being a fairly crappy orbit for everyone involved?
M$ should get smart and release an XP v2 (aka another service pack) with a few select fixes (GPT support for one, removal of the licensed memory limit, etc). That way they can make their $200 license fee, and still make people happy.
I have a win7 machine that all built out with the latest and greatest. You know what? I don't use it, instead I sit down at my 4 year old windows XP machine and use it instead. Thats because with about 8x the hardware (high end CPU/SSD/graphics) it simply responds slower than XP on a couple year old dual core and a freeking spinning harddrive. Plus the XP machine works with a bunch of software that doesn't work on 7 (old eeprom burner, etc). Recently I put a couple of the hacks on the xp machine, and have 8G of memory and a 4TB esata disk attached. So its possible to get "updates" just not via the M$ route.
I purchased a brand new retail copy a couple years ago. As far as I know, there isn't anything in the box that says it won't activate after a certain date. I might be willing to hire a lawyer to fling a lawsuit at M$ the day it fails to activate. I don't care about support, but I want to be able to run it in a VM until the day I die. If M$ turns it off, then they have effectively put a kill switch in the product. Something I believe has been ruled to be a no-no in a couple of instances.
Think Sony, made nice hardware for a fair price. Then they started buying "content providers". Turns out the content providers took over and Sony has been going downhill for two decades now.
Google or Amazon buying record labels would ruin Google/Amazon
By 1975, it was gone. Now you have to go elsewhere for the classical education. Probably some small private college, because nearly everyone followed Harvard's lead and cut the core to just a few broad subjects.
Personally, only the Greek and Latin seem worrying. I'm sure that I could have passed the math section without a problem in HS. Now days, maybe not without brushing up a little. The geography/history sections seem easy too, but that might not have been so easy in HS. Of course, the HS I went to (in the 1990s) offered latin, but I didn't take it. But, on the other hand i'm betting there weren't to many Harvard applicants proficient in 5 major computing languages, like I was when I graduated HS. Frankly, even in the 60's knowing something about computers was probably much more valuable than knowing Latin/Greek. Hence the famous decision by Bill Gates to drop out in the mid 70's.
BTW: I remember having the foreign language discussion in a group with my guidance counselor. The basic statement at the time, was that two years of foreign language were still a requirement for admission to some schools, what language didn't matter. What did matter was that, almost all schools required, two years of foreign language, either in HS or in college, to graduate. She recommended doing it in HS. Frankly, my two years of french in HS were hell, Its quite possible I would not have graduated from college If I had to take them with my full engineering load.
Well, the fact that the new processors will run on an AM3 board seems like more of the same from AMD, rather thank some kind of big "shift" like the title makes it sound. Rather its the same as before, AM3 processors tend to run just fine in AM2+ boards. In that case you sacrifice DDR3 and faster hyper-transport for DDR2.
Why would you do this? Well, two words, windows license. $100 for a new motherboard, and then anywhere from $100 to $300 for windows. Total upgrade cost $300->$600, vs $100-$200 for just the CPU.
I've done this a couple times, and it can be a nice upgrade, because I don't have to reinstall my applications and retweak windows to run fast. The 8-16 hours of install/tweak time It takes me to create a personal desktop is probably 99% of the reason I don't do a lot of upgrades that cannot be done in place.
RISC isn't an implementation thing. It's an instruction set thing. POWER is most definitely RISC.
Giggle, have you ever done any assembly on PPC/POWER? Its got a lot of really nasty asymmetric areas. POWER may be RISC by dogma, but it sure isn't RISC by MIPS/ARM standards. It is absolutely a LOAD/STORE arch, but a very serious argument could be made that its not RISC. I think this is generally accepted in most circles to be true.
BTW: Since POWER4 it has an instruction decoder that decodes to microops (or whatever you want to call them), just like x86 has since the PPRO/K6. These are then bundled and scheduled. Makes sense when you consider things like rlwimi/loadall.
OpenRd, loose definition of desktop, but you can plug in a monitor/keyboard, and if you need more than the built in flash, it has a esata port. I run my NAS on one, but its more targeted towards desktop type behaviors.
Google it.
Seniority is bullshit. I don't care if you've been with my company for 20 years. If your boss is a 25 year old kid that just started here, it's because you don't have the skills to be in his position, and he does.
You, know I've been around enough to see this, and no its not always someone younger than me (has that ever happened?). Invariably, those people fail the test of time. Its one thing for people younger than yourself to be higher up the management chain. Its quite another for someone freshly hired to understand the intricacies of the position they inhabit. Whether that position is CEO, or junior test engineer. As the position becomes more critical to the success of the company, those intricacies become more important to the success of the company. Putting someone who doesn't have a couple years visibility on a position, into that position, is like flipping a coin. For all intents and purposes their decisions are random, and the results are going to reflect it. If you do this to a functional group, there is a good chance it will stop functioning. That said, if you do it to a dysfunctional group/division/company, its simply a prayer that enough of the decisions will be correct to turn it around. Far to often there are "people issues" that aren't evident from a first order approximation. This is like electing the president. The first 2-4 years, they are learning on the job, and their mistakes won't become evident for another 2-4 years, if not longer, as economic decisions can take decades. Same with swapping managers, the new manager makes some minor decision that should be a no brainier but fails to account for the fact that the two guys doing 50% of the work, decide that not having a window means they are going to respond to a recruiter, and leave 2 months later. The team shuffles around, meets their goals after working 80 hour weeks, the new manager gets a promotion/leaves for another company to work their magic. Over the next couple years the support staff has to be doubled, and the company starts loosing customers, because the product is now a POS.
Me too, I have a hacked treo 650 on t-mobile's pay as you go plan. Its fantastic, when I read this story I thought "&*$% me, i'm screwed"
Just not in your moms basement. I have yet to see a copy of ubuntu running in a corporate environment. On the other hand, i've seen openSUSE on peoples desktops, and SLES running in data center after data center. Look at the large OEM's linux support list. Usually its RedHat and SLES, and there is a reason. Part of that has to do with the long support cycles, the rest has to do with testing and support of "enterprise hardware". For example, zSeries mainframes, 10G ethernet, SAS, fibre channel, 300+TB RAID arrays, you quickly find that the "popular" distributions don't work. For that matter, the last time I installed ubuntu it took 20 minutes to convince it to work properly in a vmware session, it kept disconnecting the network because it's MAC detection layer wasn't working properly with the vmware adapter. Heck probably 50% of the hardware I own won't run ubuntu. (50% of my personal hardware is non x86, cause i have POWER, sparc, ARM, etc machines).
Plus, as I posted in another thread, modern Yast is actually quite good. You can configured pretty much the whole machine from it now. From basic stuff like network, disk/LVM/RAID, iscsi, etc to nearly every service the machine ships with like Samba, and Bind. While many of the configurations are basic and need further tuning, it gets the beginner most of the way down the road without having to drop to a command line or editor. The package management is just as good as anywhere else with yast/zypper, so much so I can't remember the last time i had to compile something.
Finally, SUSE's binary driver story is a lot better than anyone elses, so a lot of "proprietary" hardware just tends to work. Like say, multihead with openGL support sufficient to run blender...
Linuxconf was cool, but it had some major holes. I'm here to tell you that Yast by the nature of having far more modules, is a _MUCH_ better solution.
I totally agree, the problem is that apparently the new generation of people at microsoft want to leave their mark. So, it seems every couple years Microsoft tries to reinvent everything in their software stack. Some changes are better, some are worse, the net affect seems to be a lot of changes for nearly zero overall improvement. It seems that this has been going on since probably ~2003 or so when suddenly .net became the new way to do everything. Before that the one thing you could count on in a microsoft product, was that putting in on your machine in general wouldn't break to many things. The interfaces evolved very slowly (heck there was a progman that looked like windows 1.0 in windows until XP), and the APIs were always extended never replaced. This is probably about 1/2 the reason windows won the desktop wars. Everyone else was breaking crap left and right every time they released new software. Microsoft had an insane amount of backwards compatibility, so writing an application for windows might have a high upfront cost, but it lasted a long time. Now, M$ changes some fundamental thing in the API every OS release and its rarely 100% better. Look at the problems with sound latency in windows 7. Or for that matter the drawing speed for win32 (pretty much 99% of non game applications). The GDI benchmarks pretty much show that windows 7 is approximately 3 times slower rendering applications than XP on the same hardware. It also manages to consume anywhere from 2-6x the CPU resources while doing it.
Yah, and probably over half of the actual applications are running in PA and Alpha translations mode on HP-UX or VMS. The IA market share would be close to 0 if HP wasn't forcing everyone stuck on HP-UX or VMS to use them. Trust me, no one but HPC people (who aren't doing $/flop or watt/flop) are looking at them and saying "I really like what I see, so i'm going to get one and run my application on it".
I'm pretty darn familiar with HP-UX on IA, and I would take a good PA machine over anything with IA, any day of the week. The good news, is that this new processor might be fast enough to actually beat a 10 year old PA running PA binaries.
My programmable remote doesn't have enough characters in the menu I use for the blury device. So its been blury ever since.
The DE1 is pretty nice too.
With the bonus you can run ZET on it.
I have a good idea where the federal budget could be cut....
I have a HP 2605dn printer, its a fantastic full duplex color laser from a couple years back. I picked it up cheap, but I'm totally annoyed that the universal print drivers HP now uses, seem to keep my machine from going into standby reliably. I regularly have to kill the spooler to fix the problem. Uninstalling the HP drivers, is the other solution.
That I didn't see an analysis of the book anywhere in that whole stack of crap. If this is what constitutes and FBI file, either the FBI didn't take the book seriously, or they waste a lot of effort on stupid BS.
Texas they're too busy playing chicken with the state budget to get anything done.
As an ex-NH resident, and now a resident of Texass, I would like to point out they are also passing emergency bills having to do with requiring photo ID to vote, "santuary cities", and requiring women who need abortions to see/hear the fetus before the abortion.
Nothing will actually get done on the budget until a special session is called after the normal legislative session expires. That is the way it is in Texass, the politicians know they don't actually have to get anything done during the normal session. So they spend their time passing bullshit political bills that are opposed by 48% of the state (cause while Texass seems red, its a lot of gerrymandering, like everywhere else, a small majority can be leveraged into a large political ratio). Anything that might actually be an emergency gets its own special session. So, what if Texas has one of the largest state deficits (by percentage of budget).
There is a cleartype tuner to fix this. Google it. A better plan though is just to turn it off anyway. That way documents half way between the screens don't look funny because they have a pink tint on one, and a blue tint (or whatever your monitor/cleartype is doing) on the other.
Guess I might as well stop opening the bottoms of the paper sleeves/boxes to avoid breaking the "by breaking this seal you agree to" seals.