I'm running a blank GNOME desktop (just put on the default install; haven't customized anything) on an Athlon T-bird 750 with half a gig of memory. It's not grinding disk or anything. It really looks to me like a lack of 2D acceleration.
Also, while being impressed by the Xscreensaver demos, I noticed that some of them displayed artifacts (triangles with one vertex stuck to the left side of the screen). I figured this was due to bad OpenGL support on the card, which also led me to blame it.
(Incidentally, does anyone know where to send screenshots of buggy OpenGL drivers? I assume I can just screenshot them as I would anything else. I'm using the "r128" driver; does this go to the X.org people?
I have an ATI Rage 128, which makes X run quite slowly---dragging windows is laggy and much worse than on the equivalent Windows machine next to it. (I'm running a new install of Ubuntu 5.10.) Were I to get a budget graphics card, what should I pick up? I was told that nvidia tends to have better acceleration support in Linux; is there a good list of this sort around?
You forgot to mention how the Mossad spirited away all the Jews who would have been in those towers on 9/11. And how the Jews were pre-warned about the London bombings.
They tend not to do well in university however as they usually have not developed the abilty to think critically and independantly.
Oh, man, I needed a laugh. Since when does taking college classes have the first damn thing to do with thinking critically and independently? Having helped an ex out with a marketing class, I can assure you that it is entirely possible to slide through college under the radar, just as one can slide through high school.
Perhaps this is one of the things that the good fellas at freedesktop.org could do, being a nonpartisan standards development group. If as much as possible could be made desktop-independent, that would surely be good; features could be used by applications from either side of the fence, and maybe some kind of consistency would be possible.
For instance, if one uses Tango icon themes (implementing a fd.o spec, the same icons can be found both by KDE and GNOME desktops and applications.
'Course, that's just icons, but maybe it's possible to do that with themes.
Nobody here wants to adopt black children; they'd rather have white kids. When sperm-shopping, the same pressures apply. I exaggerate, of course, but the pressure is there. It's stupid and it's pointless, but it's there.
Y'know, I've been considering donating sperm, 'cause I fit a profile (I'm tall, pale and went to plenty of school). Where does one sign up to donate? Err, sell, rather. Beer money and all.
I read about this guy who heard that his uncle's former frat brother had uncovered a bequest from a distant relative including an encoded message that revealed the location of Atlantis, and of Jimmy Hoffa.
The feds can't copyright things, at least not in the United States. Works of the federal government or its employees in their official capacity are in the public domain. Consider the Agricultural Research Service, or NOAA, or the various military archives.
By that same token, any work of a federal agency will be public domain.
You really don't know quite how large the earth is, do you? Something on the order of thousands of tons a year of micrometeorite dust accrete to it every year. (Some figures say much, much more than that.)
Now, depleting the world's store of certain rare elements, well, that might be worth kvetching about. But making earth shrink appreciably? I think not.
The argument is usually presented as "IF late-term abortion is okay, then infanticide is okay". This usually leads to "late-term abortion is not okay".
Shee-it, from all the racket, you'd think Google was planning to release full scans of every book in the world. Except it's not. It's going to release snippets. Tiny, tiny snippets. Snippets which will, in no case whatsoever, function as a replacement for the book. People will not, repeat not, go to Google instead of buying the book. They are attacking a straw man. Whether or not Google's uses are fair will be decided by the courts, but this is in no way the wholesale copyright violation they claim it to be.
Bah, it's barely worth responding to this nonsense, except that people will believe it.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was passed by a voice vote in both houses of Congress. Pusillanimous toads, the lot of them. So no, you don't know how your Congresscritter voted.
My favorite, I think, is the scene in "Die Hard 2" where the airplane, desperately out of fuel, running on vapors, makes an emergency landing and crashes into the tarmac... and explodes in a gigantic ball of flame.
Y'know, I'm real fuzzy on why users can't use bots to do the endless level grind. I mean, Progress Quest would be way, way, way less fun if I had to click on a little box for every enemy I slew...
Anyone here familiar with Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression? Truly stunning imagery, but I've been having a bitch of a time actually trying to code the given algorithm. I don't suppose someone else already has? The examples look truly, truly fantastic.
Postmenopausal women, by that definition, are not alive. I suppose it means a reproductive phase in the life cycle, not constant fertility. And neither are folks in a coma, as they don't really respond to stimuli, right.
Oh, wait, it included the phrase "at least once during their existence". Never mind.
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I'm running a blank GNOME desktop (just put on the default install; haven't customized anything) on an Athlon T-bird 750 with half a gig of memory. It's not grinding disk or anything. It really looks to me like a lack of 2D acceleration.
Also, while being impressed by the Xscreensaver demos, I noticed that some of them displayed artifacts (triangles with one vertex stuck to the left side of the screen). I figured this was due to bad OpenGL support on the card, which also led me to blame it.
(Incidentally, does anyone know where to send screenshots of buggy OpenGL drivers? I assume I can just screenshot them as I would anything else. I'm using the "r128" driver; does this go to the X.org people?
I have an ATI Rage 128, which makes X run quite slowly---dragging windows is laggy and much worse than on the equivalent Windows machine next to it. (I'm running a new install of Ubuntu 5.10.) Were I to get a budget graphics card, what should I pick up? I was told that nvidia tends to have better acceleration support in Linux; is there a good list of this sort around?
They don't worship saints, they venerate them. There's a difference, which apparently was important enough to behead people over. Just sayin'.
My bad. Tinfoil hatters like yourself frequently blame the Jews.
You forgot to mention how the Mossad spirited away all the Jews who would have been in those towers on 9/11. And how the Jews were pre-warned about the London bombings.
Or, in shorthand, "jews did 911 lol".
They tend not to do well in university however as they usually have not developed the abilty to think critically and independantly.
Oh, man, I needed a laugh. Since when does taking college classes have the first damn thing to do with thinking critically and independently? Having helped an ex out with a marketing class, I can assure you that it is entirely possible to slide through college under the radar, just as one can slide through high school.
Perhaps this is one of the things that the good fellas at freedesktop.org could do, being a nonpartisan standards development group. If as much as possible could be made desktop-independent, that would surely be good; features could be used by applications from either side of the fence, and maybe some kind of consistency would be possible.
For instance, if one uses Tango icon themes (implementing a fd.o spec, the same icons can be found both by KDE and GNOME desktops and applications.
'Course, that's just icons, but maybe it's possible to do that with themes.
Nobody here wants to adopt black children; they'd rather have white kids. When sperm-shopping, the same pressures apply. I exaggerate, of course, but the pressure is there. It's stupid and it's pointless, but it's there.
Y'know, 'cause he wants to be "ready" if someone responds seriously to his comment.
If you want to count errors, the last sentence is a fragment, not a complete sentence.
Y'know, I've been considering donating sperm, 'cause I fit a profile (I'm tall, pale and went to plenty of school). Where does one sign up to donate? Err, sell, rather. Beer money and all.
I read about this guy who heard that his uncle's former frat brother had uncovered a bequest from a distant relative including an encoded message that revealed the location of Atlantis, and of Jimmy Hoffa.
Fer real.
The feds can't copyright things, at least not in the United States. Works of the federal government or its employees in their official capacity are in the public domain. Consider the Agricultural Research Service, or NOAA, or the various military archives.
By that same token, any work of a federal agency will be public domain.
Do you know why China signed it? China is exempt from its requirements, being a "developing nation".
Sheesh.
You really don't know quite how large the earth is, do you? Something on the order of thousands of tons a year of micrometeorite dust accrete to it every year. (Some figures say much, much more than that.)
Now, depleting the world's store of certain rare elements, well, that might be worth kvetching about. But making earth shrink appreciably? I think not.
Prince of Persia 3D?
The argument is usually presented as "IF late-term abortion is okay, then infanticide is okay". This usually leads to "late-term abortion is not okay".
Shee-it, from all the racket, you'd think Google was planning to release full scans of every book in the world. Except it's not. It's going to release snippets. Tiny, tiny snippets. Snippets which will, in no case whatsoever, function as a replacement for the book. People will not, repeat not, go to Google instead of buying the book. They are attacking a straw man. Whether or not Google's uses are fair will be decided by the courts, but this is in no way the wholesale copyright violation they claim it to be.
Bah, it's barely worth responding to this nonsense, except that people will believe it.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was passed by a voice vote in both houses of Congress. Pusillanimous toads, the lot of them. So no, you don't know how your Congresscritter voted.
My favorite, I think, is the scene in "Die Hard 2" where the airplane, desperately out of fuel, running on vapors, makes an emergency landing and crashes into the tarmac... and explodes in a gigantic ball of flame.
Hollywood just likes it with things explode.
You, sir, are a saint. Thank you, the glorious power of Slashdot!
Y'know, I'm real fuzzy on why users can't use bots to do the endless level grind. I mean, Progress Quest would be way, way, way less fun if I had to click on a little box for every enemy I slew...
Anyone here familiar with Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression? Truly stunning imagery, but I've been having a bitch of a time actually trying to code the given algorithm. I don't suppose someone else already has? The examples look truly, truly fantastic.
What, exactly, is a "moonbat"?
Why would an engineered device that satisfied those criteria not be life? ("Because people made it" isn't a valid answer.)
Postmenopausal women, by that definition, are not alive. I suppose it means a reproductive phase in the life cycle, not constant fertility. And neither are folks in a coma, as they don't really respond to stimuli, right.
Oh, wait, it included the phrase "at least once during their existence". Never mind.