I would like to know what's going on here - obviously somebody is copying statements around, possibly from some other, earlier source. The same thing happened in this Slashdot post and the same forum I linked to above.
I want to understand what's going on, because it clearly looks fishy.
[...] Her time has been spent as an executive. She's done budgets, personnel, and signed and vetoed legislation.
Obama has done, oh, none of that. This is why his campaign's statement about her being the mayor of a small rube town was so silly. It allows Palin to say "Well, by all means, lets hear of your impressive credentials as a community organizer". [...]
Read the above, then read this forum post, which contains the exact same words.
Coincidence? Same person? Pre-written sentences from (close to) the McCain campaign? I'm curious...
As a graphics driver developer, I have to tell you that the opposite is true in some cases. In the DRI, a graphics driver consists of three parts: the DDX, the DRM, and the 3d driver. In the current system, all of these components maintain stable ABIs with each other, and it's a nightmare. In fact, not being able to experiment freely with ABIs is one of the things that hold up the development of memory managers, and that in turn holds up a large number of advanced features (think render to texture, redirected direct rendering,...).
For some reason, the Italians seem to be quite resistant to learning. After all, they voted Berlusconi into office *again*, and of course he's up to all the same old tricks, drafting legislation specifically to get immunity for his own crimes.
Hint: Remove your configuration file (backup first, obviously). X.Org has become *really* good at figuring out a sane default configuration.
Sure, it might not detect your dream layout in multi-monitor setups, and it can't detect your keyboard layout etc., but it will almost always produce a clean configuration that Just Works. What's more, it outputs this configuration in/var/log/Xorg.?.log, so you can start from that if you need to make adjustments.
Heck, this may be the worst problem that X.Org has to deal with: If it works properly, people don't notice it, and *a lot* of work has gone into making things Just Work under the surface lately. People only notice X.Org in situations where things don't work, so that's why it has a bad image, even though those situations are relatively rare considering the complexity of the project.
With a lot of people focusing on the desktop performance of Linux, why isn't this project interesting? Ask yourself why you're not working on X.Org. As the developer of the original R300 DRI driver, I can tell you that graphics driver development is just plain scary. At the time, I had a single test system with a Radeon card. So whenever I touched anything in the DDX (the in-X-server 2D driver part), I was constantly worried about causing some regression on other hardware (especially output hardware) that I simply don't own. Those regressions could easily go unnoticed for months, because too few people are testing the development versions of X.Org.
A second aspect - which applies especially to the 3D side of things, which I'm most familiar with - is that graphics driver development is extremely tedious. The OpenGL spec is *huge* and we must support all of it, even the features that less than one percent of all applications use. I'm sure similar problems arise in the 2D side of things due to the required backwards compatibility with ancient protocols. That work is completely not sexy, and the only reason I'm doing it is that it's a nice break from studying mathematics, since it gives me that nice feeling of doing something immediately useful to many people.
And then he added to that by doing far too good a job blustering and trying to convince people that he had an active WMD program - so good a job that the Russians, French, Germans, Spanish, Chinese, and even the Swiss thought he did still have it going. Nice try rewriting history. How someone could end up modding you 'Insightful' is beyond me.
Last time I checked, it was the US government which tried to convince those countries that Iraq had WMD, and they used a significant amount of fake or exaggerated 'evidence' to do so. Look up Colin Powell's address to the UN, for example.
Europeans opposed the invasion of Iraq because they didn't let themselves be fooled by that. If the US had had a case, most Europeans would have supported the invasion.
The obvious problem with your argument is that you assume that the nature of the Universe as a whole is the same as the nature of the things within the Universe, but that need not be the case.
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The last paragraph of your post appears almost verbatim in a forum post elsewhere.
I would like to know what's going on here - obviously somebody is copying statements around, possibly from some other, earlier source. The same thing happened in this Slashdot post and the same forum I linked to above.
I want to understand what's going on, because it clearly looks fishy.
[...] Her time has been spent as an executive. She's done budgets, personnel, and signed and vetoed legislation.
Obama has done, oh, none of that. This is why his campaign's statement about her being the mayor of a small rube town was so silly. It allows Palin to say "Well, by all means, lets hear of your impressive credentials as a community organizer". [...]
Read the above, then read this forum post, which contains the exact same words.
Coincidence? Same person? Pre-written sentences from (close to) the McCain campaign? I'm curious...
As a graphics driver developer, I have to tell you that the opposite is true in some cases. In the DRI, a graphics driver consists of three parts: the DDX, the DRM, and the 3d driver. In the current system, all of these components maintain stable ABIs with each other, and it's a nightmare. In fact, not being able to experiment freely with ABIs is one of the things that hold up the development of memory managers, and that in turn holds up a large number of advanced features (think render to texture, redirected direct rendering, ...).
For some reason, the Italians seem to be quite resistant to learning. After all, they voted Berlusconi into office *again*, and of course he's up to all the same old tricks, drafting legislation specifically to get immunity for his own crimes.
Hint: Remove your configuration file (backup first, obviously). X.Org has become *really* good at figuring out a sane default configuration.
/var/log/Xorg.?.log, so you can start from that if you need to make adjustments.
Sure, it might not detect your dream layout in multi-monitor setups, and it can't detect your keyboard layout etc., but it will almost always produce a clean configuration that Just Works. What's more, it outputs this configuration in
Heck, this may be the worst problem that X.Org has to deal with: If it works properly, people don't notice it, and *a lot* of work has gone into making things Just Work under the surface lately. People only notice X.Org in situations where things don't work, so that's why it has a bad image, even though those situations are relatively rare considering the complexity of the project.
A second aspect - which applies especially to the 3D side of things, which I'm most familiar with - is that graphics driver development is extremely tedious. The OpenGL spec is *huge* and we must support all of it, even the features that less than one percent of all applications use. I'm sure similar problems arise in the 2D side of things due to the required backwards compatibility with ancient protocols. That work is completely not sexy, and the only reason I'm doing it is that it's a nice break from studying mathematics, since it gives me that nice feeling of doing something immediately useful to many people.
Last time I checked, it was the US government which tried to convince those countries that Iraq had WMD, and they used a significant amount of fake or exaggerated 'evidence' to do so. Look up Colin Powell's address to the UN, for example.
Europeans opposed the invasion of Iraq because they didn't let themselves be fooled by that. If the US had had a case, most Europeans would have supported the invasion.
The obvious problem with your argument is that you assume that the nature of the Universe as a whole is the same as the nature of the things within the Universe, but that need not be the case.