While I wouldn't be openly against the idea of an open graphics processor, I don't see the need for it. So long as the GPU enables me to use an open API like X or OpenGL, who cares really how it's done underneath.
Because honestly, who's gonna pay for support? Or afford to recall defective chips, etc? At least if my nvidia card doesn't work the store I bought it from knows they can return it back through the chain to eventually get their money back. If I buy some no-name card from a small time manufacturer, returns might not be an option, etc, etc.
As for the "binary blob vs src" debate, again I don't see the problem. Once nvidia stops releasing drivers I'll stop buying their cards. Until then though, I'll use their cards because they "just work."
I'm sure even your state has exceptions for fleeting harm. Otherwise, if you say, opened your door [while the car is in park] and hit someone (standing there) it'd be assault.
I really doubt mr. $6/hr would stay in front of the car if you started to roll anyways. So the problem would resolve itself once you got moving.
Sorry, but I've been in places like Paris, Liverpool, and Dublin. And if you think they're pollution free you're full of shit.
I can name you dozens of places in Canada and the US that are clean. They also have lower population densities...
That said, yeah the focus isn't exactly on smaller cars here and that's a shame, but don't act like we're *all* stupid. Fuel efficiency comes up almost always when discussing new cars. Just the yuppy to normal person ratio is just too high.
Actually, no it isn't. Depending on intent and outcome. There is such a thing as a "fleeting" assault. e.g., merely bumping into someone is not criminal. Similarly, tapping someone with a car on private property is neither a moving violation, nor assault/battery.
So long as you go slow enough [to not hurt them] and don't run the dude over, it's not illegal.
They have no right to detain you without actually witnessing a crime. The minute they try [or do] physically stop you, they have placed you under arrest [in most states/countries this is known as a citizens arrest] and without proper evidence they can be charged with some form of unlawful confinement.
So no, you don't surrender your right to egress just because you're on private property.
Now, they can force a search TO ENTER the premise, but then they can't refuse your right to just turn around and leave.
Some of us don't want to fill our lives with shopping. If I'm gonna have friends over tonight and need a baking tray, it's nice to know that I can head to the mall, and one of the shops will have a simple baking tray. Now replace mall with Walmart [which is about the size of a mall].
I realize that in the 19th century people would take their monthly trip into down on the family horse and cart, then hit the various stores bartering their wares for the things they needed. But in the 21st century, where we exchange money for product and services, and can travel 30km as if it were no big deal, we expect more from less.
Not that I'm against shopping. I don't mind wandering through an Ikea or Sears, or local tool shop, from time to time. But on average, I'd like to spend as little time as possible shopping.
I'm a cannuck, the only other dept store of it's kind is Zellers, which sadly has less variety than Walmart. There is always Sears for things like kitchenware and all that. Which if I owned a house would be where I would go. But since I rent an apt I just get whatever I can at Walmart and make due like the rest.
It just always bothers me that they have things like a "kitchenware section" but there is next to nothing [compared to sears, or heck even ikea] in it. And it's not like Sears and Ikea don't shop in China either. They just recognize that people may want more than the same 2 types of plates they have to offer.
As for movies/audio. I usually snatch up their 6-9$ movies as they're usually movies I grew up watching, and for $6 it's the same cost as a rental anyways. But for recent stuff or odd stuff I just use amazon since they pretty much ship the same day. I can order stuff on Sunday and have it by Tuesday.
My complaint about walmart and their kind isn't so much the shitty labour conditions, low pay, or buying stuff from China. For me, it's the total lack of selection that gets me.
For such huge stores, they have many different sorts of products, but in each category usually very low selection. About the only well represented categories are clothing and snack foods. But even in the clothing it's fairly low. I haven't seen cotton shorts there at the one near my place, in a long time for instance.
I went looking for various things for the kitchen a couple weeks back. They had maybe 2-3 styles of plates, 2 styles of cups, etc. Barely any of the odds and ends [e.g. peeler, can opener, cheese grater, etc]. Then head over to home hardware. No real variety in the light bulbs, power strips, fuses, etc. Head over to the music dept, oh look 300 country albums and the top 20 from Sony/EMI/etc. Wow, wonders never cease to amaze me! I've walked out of dept stores many times this year alone empty handed. Not for lack of want, but just because they didn't have anything I needed. And I have to ask myself, for a store so big, how can they fail in this respect so miserably?
I like the concept of a dept store, where I don't have to drive around the city to get say towels, movies, dishes, some junk food, etc. It's simpler, faster, and environmentally friendlier. But I find myself increasingly having to shop around anyways.
No offense, but for every "Beatles" or "Abba" or whatever, there are 10s of thousands of shit all bands. Let's not pretend everyone with a guitar from the 60s had talent.
Granted, nowadays I too feel that most bands are just rehashing the same old formula, there are a few nuggets here and there of actual talent.
That said, with people like paris and britney, it has nothing to do with talent, and everything to do with a trainwreck. It's fun watching people destroy themselves, and the more attention they can get the more spectacular their downfall. Nobody cares if another nobody ODs while masturbating to pictures of shaved goats. But if K-Fed started doing that, well people would pay to see that. Don't ask why voyeurism is important to people, it just is.
Personally, I tend to get "attached" to bands that made their debut at least 3-4 years ago. That way if they make it through the initial one-hit wonder phase and are still being played, it's likely they have some clue.
Well we still talk about bands from the 60s. And they were hardly innocent either. Just now we have 24/7 news coverage to really drive in the point.
What? You think the Beatles were saints? They might have been bigger than jesus, but they're hardly without sin. Hint: They abused drugs to come up with their songs.
Why is it every generation thinks they're the rightful owners of society? I'm sure when the current 40-50 year olds were 16, their parents thought *they* were the rightful owners of society, and so forth.
I'm sure the same people who get "where's the beef" (btw, I was born in 1982, and I get the joke too, so it's hardly a generation defining meme), probably wouldn't get the subtle Victorian civilities that made up the 19th century.
In short, the article is full of Ric Romero substance and should be cataloged under "same shit, different day."
I think Canadian cars differ very little from the american style. When I was shopping for my car I wanted a small sedan that was light on the gas. I didn't plan on entering any races, or towing an RV. The 2L Focus was the smallest I could find that was reasonably priced. It's not bad on the gas when I treat it right. Though lately, I've been accelerating a bit faster than normal to stave off th assholes [re: french quebecers] who can't be bothered to do 60km/h in a 60km/h zone.
Though justice was handed out two days ago. An unmarked car nabbed a few quebecers who were probably doing 80 or more.
I always get nasty looks for doing 60-65km/h in a 60km/h zone. Yet so far, no tickets. Tickets cost money, receiving the evil eye from impatient drivers costs nothing:-)
Fair enough. Though HP also matters when you got peeps in your car. My car can hit 100km/h from 40km/h without accelerating much harder with 4 people in the car compared to just me. Granted it takes longer, but I can still manage without going over 4K. And once I'm at speed it cruises maybe 100 RPM faster [if that].
I cruise at 100km/h doing about 2.1K RPM or so. Heck, even at 40km/h my car is still in the 950-1K RPM range.
I can't see going from 40km/h to 100km/h without hitting at least 3K RPM, unless you're the type that merges on the highway at 20km/h under the limit (of which there are plenty around here). And I get about the same mileage as you do btw (well for highway driving).
There is a reasonable extreme to this though, why not a 2P or 4P setup though? Make it so you can fully shut off (re: relay) other cores. That'd rock. Of course I don't know what their cache is like but it'd have to be a decent size to make it worthwhile.
1.6L is considered big? I have a 2L 4cyl Focus in Canada, and that's considered "small" by our standards. Not that I really push my car, but I am curious as to how a 1.3L accelerates [to say hwy speeds]. Because even in my car I have to really floor it [re: 5000 RPM] to hit highway speeds before I exit the ramp, well that's exaggerating a bit. usually I hit speed before the dotted lines (that let you get out of the merging lane). So I probably could accelerate at like 3-4K RPM just fine.
A 1.3L must be near redline though to go from say 40km/h to 100km/h on an onramp.
It's nice to know people have no fundamental problem with every aspect of your life being probed, tracked, traced, etc. Because that sort of power has NEVER been abused before. Ever.
It's true that virtually everyone is not a target of government. My life for instance, probably has never popped up on any radars beyond some faceless name on an passenger manifest here or there. I'm not paranoid into thinking that some dude at the NSA is watching my every move. But imagine, I had a dissenting opinion. How that could be abused. Imagine if the databases were [and they are] managed by third party private firms who as we've seen from public leaks can't keep a secret to save their lives.
There are problems beyond the slippery slope with constant surveillance. And that people like you are so willing to allow them to do whatever they want "in the name of security," is just sad.
Stories like V for Vendetta, while fantastic and fiction, are also warnings of what happens when people don't take safety and security into their own hands.
If you KNOW they are spy, then deport them from the country. The problem is laws like this are used to survey people you "may think might be" enemies.
The "we have to act all tough to defend our lives" is nonsense. You don't see Canada, or most of Europe randomly violating the rights of people, yet I don't even know the last time there was a terrorist attack in Canada, oh maybe the FLQ in the 60s/70s.
And yes, Canada has a "spy agency," but I have yet to read about them violating peoples rights.
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While I wouldn't be openly against the idea of an open graphics processor, I don't see the need for it. So long as the GPU enables me to use an open API like X or OpenGL, who cares really how it's done underneath.
Because honestly, who's gonna pay for support? Or afford to recall defective chips, etc? At least if my nvidia card doesn't work the store I bought it from knows they can return it back through the chain to eventually get their money back. If I buy some no-name card from a small time manufacturer, returns might not be an option, etc, etc.
As for the "binary blob vs src" debate, again I don't see the problem. Once nvidia stops releasing drivers I'll stop buying their cards. Until then though, I'll use their cards because they "just work."
I'm sure even your state has exceptions for fleeting harm. Otherwise, if you say, opened your door [while the car is in park] and hit someone (standing there) it'd be assault.
I really doubt mr. $6/hr would stay in front of the car if you started to roll anyways. So the problem would resolve itself once you got moving.
Tom
Sorry, but I've been in places like Paris, Liverpool, and Dublin. And if you think they're pollution free you're full of shit.
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I can name you dozens of places in Canada and the US that are clean. They also have lower population densities
That said, yeah the focus isn't exactly on smaller cars here and that's a shame, but don't act like we're *all* stupid. Fuel efficiency comes up almost always when discussing new cars. Just the yuppy to normal person ratio is just too high.
Actually, no it isn't. Depending on intent and outcome. There is such a thing as a "fleeting" assault. e.g., merely bumping into someone is not criminal. Similarly, tapping someone with a car on private property is neither a moving violation, nor assault/battery.
So long as you go slow enough [to not hurt them] and don't run the dude over, it's not illegal.
Tom
They have no right to detain you without actually witnessing a crime. The minute they try [or do] physically stop you, they have placed you under arrest [in most states/countries this is known as a citizens arrest] and without proper evidence they can be charged with some form of unlawful confinement.
So no, you don't surrender your right to egress just because you're on private property.
Now, they can force a search TO ENTER the premise, but then they can't refuse your right to just turn around and leave.
Tom
Games which can use the DS as a hybrid controller hehehe, that'd rock.
Fair use is limited to reasonable excerpts. Otherwise, what's stopping me from copying an entire movie, then adding "I liked this movie" at the end.
Some of us don't want to fill our lives with shopping. If I'm gonna have friends over tonight and need a baking tray, it's nice to know that I can head to the mall, and one of the shops will have a simple baking tray. Now replace mall with Walmart [which is about the size of a mall].
I realize that in the 19th century people would take their monthly trip into down on the family horse and cart, then hit the various stores bartering their wares for the things they needed. But in the 21st century, where we exchange money for product and services, and can travel 30km as if it were no big deal, we expect more from less.
Not that I'm against shopping. I don't mind wandering through an Ikea or Sears, or local tool shop, from time to time. But on average, I'd like to spend as little time as possible shopping.
I'm a cannuck, the only other dept store of it's kind is Zellers, which sadly has less variety than Walmart. There is always Sears for things like kitchenware and all that. Which if I owned a house would be where I would go. But since I rent an apt I just get whatever I can at Walmart and make due like the rest.
It just always bothers me that they have things like a "kitchenware section" but there is next to nothing [compared to sears, or heck even ikea] in it. And it's not like Sears and Ikea don't shop in China either. They just recognize that people may want more than the same 2 types of plates they have to offer.
As for movies/audio. I usually snatch up their 6-9$ movies as they're usually movies I grew up watching, and for $6 it's the same cost as a rental anyways. But for recent stuff or odd stuff I just use amazon since they pretty much ship the same day. I can order stuff on Sunday and have it by Tuesday.
My complaint about walmart and their kind isn't so much the shitty labour conditions, low pay, or buying stuff from China. For me, it's the total lack of selection that gets me.
For such huge stores, they have many different sorts of products, but in each category usually very low selection. About the only well represented categories are clothing and snack foods. But even in the clothing it's fairly low. I haven't seen cotton shorts there at the one near my place, in a long time for instance.
I went looking for various things for the kitchen a couple weeks back. They had maybe 2-3 styles of plates, 2 styles of cups, etc. Barely any of the odds and ends [e.g. peeler, can opener, cheese grater, etc]. Then head over to home hardware. No real variety in the light bulbs, power strips, fuses, etc. Head over to the music dept, oh look 300 country albums and the top 20 from Sony/EMI/etc. Wow, wonders never cease to amaze me! I've walked out of dept stores many times this year alone empty handed. Not for lack of want, but just because they didn't have anything I needed. And I have to ask myself, for a store so big, how can they fail in this respect so miserably?
I like the concept of a dept store, where I don't have to drive around the city to get say towels, movies, dishes, some junk food, etc. It's simpler, faster, and environmentally friendlier. But I find myself increasingly having to shop around anyways.
Tom
No offense, but for every "Beatles" or "Abba" or whatever, there are 10s of thousands of shit all bands. Let's not pretend everyone with a guitar from the 60s had talent.
Granted, nowadays I too feel that most bands are just rehashing the same old formula, there are a few nuggets here and there of actual talent.
That said, with people like paris and britney, it has nothing to do with talent, and everything to do with a trainwreck. It's fun watching people destroy themselves, and the more attention they can get the more spectacular their downfall. Nobody cares if another nobody ODs while masturbating to pictures of shaved goats. But if K-Fed started doing that, well people would pay to see that. Don't ask why voyeurism is important to people, it just is.
Personally, I tend to get "attached" to bands that made their debut at least 3-4 years ago. That way if they make it through the initial one-hit wonder phase and are still being played, it's likely they have some clue.
Tom
Well we still talk about bands from the 60s. And they were hardly innocent either. Just now we have 24/7 news coverage to really drive in the point.
What? You think the Beatles were saints? They might have been bigger than jesus, but they're hardly without sin. Hint: They abused drugs to come up with their songs.
Like omg totally what? no wai! ya rly!
Why is it every generation thinks they're the rightful owners of society? I'm sure when the current 40-50 year olds were 16, their parents thought *they* were the rightful owners of society, and so forth.
I'm sure the same people who get "where's the beef" (btw, I was born in 1982, and I get the joke too, so it's hardly a generation defining meme), probably wouldn't get the subtle Victorian civilities that made up the 19th century.
In short, the article is full of Ric Romero substance and should be cataloged under "same shit, different day."
Tom
You need to use what on who now? I own an iPod and have never used itunes. I guess I'm *just that special*. (sarcasm).
And I thought you could burn itunes tracks to CD, kinda annoying but not exactly a 100% lockin.
Mr. Fusion?
I think Canadian cars differ very little from the american style. When I was shopping for my car I wanted a small sedan that was light on the gas. I didn't plan on entering any races, or towing an RV. The 2L Focus was the smallest I could find that was reasonably priced. It's not bad on the gas when I treat it right. Though lately, I've been accelerating a bit faster than normal to stave off th assholes [re: french quebecers] who can't be bothered to do 60km/h in a 60km/h zone.
:-)
Though justice was handed out two days ago. An unmarked car nabbed a few quebecers who were probably doing 80 or more.
I always get nasty looks for doing 60-65km/h in a 60km/h zone. Yet so far, no tickets. Tickets cost money, receiving the evil eye from impatient drivers costs nothing
Tom
lolocopter rofl omg wtf bbq ... just do the damn search ya boob.
Fair enough. Though HP also matters when you got peeps in your car. My car can hit 100km/h from 40km/h without accelerating much harder with 4 people in the car compared to just me. Granted it takes longer, but I can still manage without going over 4K. And once I'm at speed it cruises maybe 100 RPM faster [if that].
Tom
I cruise at 100km/h doing about 2.1K RPM or so. Heck, even at 40km/h my car is still in the 950-1K RPM range.
I can't see going from 40km/h to 100km/h without hitting at least 3K RPM, unless you're the type that merges on the highway at 20km/h under the limit (of which there are plenty around here). And I get about the same mileage as you do btw (well for highway driving).
Tom
There is a reasonable extreme to this though, why not a 2P or 4P setup though? Make it so you can fully shut off (re: relay) other cores. That'd rock. Of course I don't know what their cache is like but it'd have to be a decent size to make it worthwhile.
Tom
1.6L is considered big? I have a 2L 4cyl Focus in Canada, and that's considered "small" by our standards. Not that I really push my car, but I am curious as to how a 1.3L accelerates [to say hwy speeds]. Because even in my car I have to really floor it [re: 5000 RPM] to hit highway speeds before I exit the ramp, well that's exaggerating a bit. usually I hit speed before the dotted lines (that let you get out of the merging lane). So I probably could accelerate at like 3-4K RPM just fine.
A 1.3L must be near redline though to go from say 40km/h to 100km/h on an onramp.
Tom
Difference is your cable provider doesn't produce TV programming, they just direct it to your home.
Your analogy would be more like "I only want to read the Times, does that mean the corner store can't also bundle the Sun with it?"
Why would you go to the store to buy two newspapers when you only want one?
Step 1. Stop being lazy. Just turn the damn key in the door.
Step 2. Yeah, if they used 3DES or Blowfish at the time, this wouldn't be an issue.
Step 3. See Step 1.
It's nice to know people have no fundamental problem with every aspect of your life being probed, tracked, traced, etc. Because that sort of power has NEVER been abused before. Ever.
It's true that virtually everyone is not a target of government. My life for instance, probably has never popped up on any radars beyond some faceless name on an passenger manifest here or there. I'm not paranoid into thinking that some dude at the NSA is watching my every move. But imagine, I had a dissenting opinion. How that could be abused. Imagine if the databases were [and they are] managed by third party private firms who as we've seen from public leaks can't keep a secret to save their lives.
There are problems beyond the slippery slope with constant surveillance. And that people like you are so willing to allow them to do whatever they want "in the name of security," is just sad.
Stories like V for Vendetta, while fantastic and fiction, are also warnings of what happens when people don't take safety and security into their own hands.
If you KNOW they are spy, then deport them from the country. The problem is laws like this are used to survey people you "may think might be" enemies.
The "we have to act all tough to defend our lives" is nonsense. You don't see Canada, or most of Europe randomly violating the rights of people, yet I don't even know the last time there was a terrorist attack in Canada, oh maybe the FLQ in the 60s/70s.
And yes, Canada has a "spy agency," but I have yet to read about them violating peoples rights.