If you had bothered to read the comments you would have seen that the link to the official OMG NO ICE CAPS IN 2015!! post is already in the comment chain.
I feel no need to be duplicative, and you obviously don't have either the intellectual capacity nor moral integrity to click a fucking link and use what your laughably refer to as a "brain" to think about things critically.
"I don't remember that. Care to provide some proof?"
Yes, you truly are a good little useful idiot and sacrificial drone for The Cause (TM).
I see you've already progressed to the "that never happened!" 1984-memory hole stage of the fear-denial-more fear cycle.
I eagerly await the exact same fucking post from you in a few years when the *next* OMG WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE RIGHT NOW "report" gets issued and you are at the forefront of denying that this version of the report was ever issued because only anti-science Nazis believe in facts and verifying predictions.
he research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves
Remember kids, if some guy on a street corner or some kooky radio preacher was sermonizing about this stuff the Atheist echo chamber in here would go off its rocker in attacking religion.
But when we slap the magic word "Global Warming" on the same thing, now it's "science approved"!! Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen! We don't even have to have that level rationality with our predictions, we just double down or claim that magical government regulations staved off Doomsday.
Fuck, I thought the ice caps were permanently melted last year already. Why do they still feel the need to scare us when global warming has already killed us according to these same predictions they made 10 years ago?
Oh, and bonus points for the next time that some bot who slobbers all over this story as proof that we are all doomed DOOMED I SAY turns right back around and says that this "report" never happened in 5 years after the world hasn't ended.
Easiest way to find somebody who has a God complex because he forwarded an xterm once and thinks that everyone else is an idiot: Correctly point out that the modern X server running any real application made this century is no longer network transparent.
Bonus points for the idiots not understanding the fact that the ability to forward a window (poorly) over an X server does *NOT* make the X server "network transparent" because the word "transparent" has a specific technical meaning that the little bot with the God complex doesn't understand because "details" are beneath him.
Here's a guy who has spent almost 20 years developing X talking about why Wayland is better, he also says that modern X is not network transparent.. because it isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Watch the whole video and before you spew, remember that this guy has done more real programming for X in one day than you have done in your entire life.
" You might not like how the network transparency is implemented, "
Yeah, I don't and neither do most people who actually have to do this stuff for something other than toy applications. Speaking of which, why the hell should a separate SSH server & login session be a requirement for secure forwarding of graphical applications? You're own attacks on any progress in technology whatsoever start to ring hollow when you're "perfect" solution includes a built-in kludge that accounts for X's inadequacies.
The way you make it sound, Vulkan (or hell, any version of OpenGL after 1.0 or so) never should have been developed since 3D graphics already existed and people should just shutup and enjoy GLXGears forever.
Worth mentioning is that you'll find extremely arrogant and ignorant users advocate that remote transparency is a minority use case,
Never seen that once on Slashdot. Ever. Seen PLENTY of extremely arrogant and ignorant users with a God complex because they forwarded an xterm once* and decided that all technological progress in graphics must be halted permanently in the name of "network transparency" using one type of rather crufty protocol that performs like absolute shit over any non-LAN connection.
What's even funnier is how the word "network transparency" is repeated by these same people like a religious chant when they don't even realize that literally any modern graphical application shoved over a network socket in X is *not* network transparent but is pushing frame buffers in a massively less efficient way than all the other remote display protocols that these same people viciously attack as not being "pure" for some rather undefined value of "pure".
* And didn't realize how stupid forwarding an xterm over the SSH tunnel that's required for use with modern X is.
What exactly does Wayland bring to the table that X doesn't?
You know every single vitriolic attack that's ever been made against SystemD.... well you could apply pretty much all of them to the X server with the main difference being that with X server they are actually true most of the time, while with SystemD most of the more salacious ones are flat out wrong and are just copy-n-pasted as trolls.
Further, if we were to take a Venn diagram of the subset of people who foam at the mouth with hate about SystemD and the subset of people who foam at the mouth with hate at the concept of using a graphics stack that isn't rooted in mid-1980s graphics hardware, there's a disturbingly large overlap.
Thank you Nvidia. It's about time that there was a broader support base for Wayland, and the launch-day support of Vulkan on Linux has been quite positive too.
Why is handing over the source code a bad thing? Aren't we always preached to that Open Source is wonderful and good?
When China demands Windows source code isn't it universally acclaimed as a good thing because of the Big Bad US and how nationalism (as long as it's not the U.S.) is a wonderful thing?
So more people are being given access to source code, and more eyeballs make all bugs shallow. I call it a win.
Quick, hide the sensitive people like children and, people who are less rational and more spastic than children like MDSolar! Somebody used the word NUKULAR and there might even be a RAYDEEASHUN!!
We should ban all things nukular from space because polluting natural, artisanal, organic, and non-GMO space with radeyashun would be a crime!
Plus, Apple is defending the morally reprehensible position of not letting device owners install whatever software they want whenever they want.
On top of that, iOS isn't fully open sourced, and Intellectual Property is Imaginary Property Anwyay, so forcing Apple to give up iOS to the world doesn't matter since it's worth nothing.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry is this not the regular SJW thread but the special thread where all of those talking points are intentionally thrown out the window because Apple is doing something that is emotionally appealing to the mob?
Not news: AMD slapped two GPUs from last year onto a card in an under-clocked and over-priced configuration like AMD/Nvidia have been doing for years.
News: Even AMD couldn't avoid posting pictures of a nice shiny red AMD developer system that's clearly running a Haswell-E CPU with an LGA-2011 motherboard to make the "X2" or "Pro" or whatever they are calling it be functional.
Intel has already done the heavy lifting by giving us the Thunderbolt standard that can expose a 40Gbit (or more if you gang connectors) external interface that can transport PCIe to a GPU in a seamless manner.
If AMD wants to work on making the enclosures, cooling, and power supplies more standardized to make plugging in a wide range of GPUs easy then that's great. If they get all NIH and think they can gin up some proprietary connector instead of just using Thunderbolt then you can forget about this entire announcement right now.
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Looks like St. ALGORE is a denier then: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
[wipes away tear] St. Gore's sacrifices for the cause are just so inspiring!
So the fuck what. That's like saying that Osama Bin Laden wasn't a terrorist because he came from a rich family and got a degree in Civil Engineering.
If you had bothered to read the comments you would have seen that the link to the official OMG NO ICE CAPS IN 2015!! post is already in the comment chain.
I feel no need to be duplicative, and you obviously don't have either the intellectual capacity nor moral integrity to click a fucking link and use what your laughably refer to as a "brain" to think about things critically.
"I don't remember that. Care to provide some proof?"
Yes, you truly are a good little useful idiot and sacrificial drone for The Cause (TM).
I see you've already progressed to the "that never happened!" 1984-memory hole stage of the fear-denial-more fear cycle.
I eagerly await the exact same fucking post from you in a few years when the *next* OMG WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE RIGHT NOW "report" gets issued and you are at the forefront of denying that this version of the report was ever issued because only anti-science Nazis believe in facts and verifying predictions.
Remember kids, if some guy on a street corner or some kooky radio preacher was sermonizing about this stuff the Atheist echo chamber in here would go off its rocker in attacking religion.
But when we slap the magic word "Global Warming" on the same thing, now it's "science approved"!! Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen! We don't even have to have that level rationality with our predictions, we just double down or claim that magical government regulations staved off Doomsday.
Fuck, I thought the ice caps were permanently melted last year already. Why do they still feel the need to scare us when global warming has already killed us according to these same predictions they made 10 years ago?
Oh, and bonus points for the next time that some bot who slobbers all over this story as proof that we are all doomed DOOMED I SAY turns right back around and says that this "report" never happened in 5 years after the world hasn't ended.
Easiest way to find somebody who has a God complex because he forwarded an xterm once and thinks that everyone else is an idiot: Correctly point out that the modern X server running any real application made this century is no longer network transparent.
Bonus points for the idiots not understanding the fact that the ability to forward a window (poorly) over an X server does *NOT* make the X server "network transparent" because the word "transparent" has a specific technical meaning that the little bot with the God complex doesn't understand because "details" are beneath him.
Here's a guy who has spent almost 20 years developing X talking about why Wayland is better, he also says that modern X is not network transparent.. because it isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Watch the whole video and before you spew, remember that this guy has done more real programming for X in one day than you have done in your entire life.
" You might not like how the network transparency is implemented, "
Yeah, I don't and neither do most people who actually have to do this stuff for something other than toy applications. Speaking of which, why the hell should a separate SSH server & login session be a requirement for secure forwarding of graphical applications? You're own attacks on any progress in technology whatsoever start to ring hollow when you're "perfect" solution includes a built-in kludge that accounts for X's inadequacies.
The way you make it sound, Vulkan (or hell, any version of OpenGL after 1.0 or so) never should have been developed since 3D graphics already existed and people should just shutup and enjoy GLXGears forever.
Never seen that once on Slashdot. Ever.
Seen PLENTY of extremely arrogant and ignorant users with a God complex because they forwarded an xterm once* and decided that all technological progress in graphics must be halted permanently in the name of "network transparency" using one type of rather crufty protocol that performs like absolute shit over any non-LAN connection.
What's even funnier is how the word "network transparency" is repeated by these same people like a religious chant when they don't even realize that literally any modern graphical application shoved over a network socket in X is *not* network transparent but is pushing frame buffers in a massively less efficient way than all the other remote display protocols that these same people viciously attack as not being "pure" for some rather undefined value of "pure".
* And didn't realize how stupid forwarding an xterm over the SSH tunnel that's required for use with modern X is.
Except that Vulkan support isn't news.
Nvidia had Vulkan support for Linux on launch day. The news is the official Wayland support.
What exactly does Wayland bring to the table that X doesn't?
You know every single vitriolic attack that's ever been made against SystemD.... well you could apply pretty much all of them to the X server with the main difference being that with X server they are actually true most of the time, while with SystemD most of the more salacious ones are flat out wrong and are just copy-n-pasted as trolls.
Further, if we were to take a Venn diagram of the subset of people who foam at the mouth with hate about SystemD and the subset of people who foam at the mouth with hate at the concept of using a graphics stack that isn't rooted in mid-1980s graphics hardware, there's a disturbingly large overlap.
Thank you Nvidia. It's about time that there was a broader support base for Wayland, and the launch-day support of Vulkan on Linux has been quite positive too.
Why is handing over the source code a bad thing?
Aren't we always preached to that Open Source is wonderful and good?
When China demands Windows source code isn't it universally acclaimed as a good thing because of the Big Bad US and how nationalism (as long as it's not the U.S.) is a wonderful thing?
So more people are being given access to source code, and more eyeballs make all bugs shallow. I call it a win.
1. Ordered to not bow to the Steve Jobs statue every day.
2. The cafeteria/yoga center runs out of fair-trade artisanal non-GMO lemon grass smoothies.
3. Apple actually starts fixing bugs in OS X instead of focusing on SHINY in iOS.
4. Siri tells them that their auras are not in tune with the universal energy of orange.
Quick, hide the sensitive people like children and, people who are less rational and more spastic than children like MDSolar! Somebody used the word NUKULAR and there might even be a RAYDEEASHUN!!
We should ban all things nukular from space because polluting natural, artisanal, organic, and non-GMO space with radeyashun would be a crime!
Go onto any college campus and commit a microagression. That'll shut things down real quick, no mass surveillance required.
Apple is a corporation and shouldn't have rights.
Plus, Apple is defending the morally reprehensible position of not letting device owners install whatever software they want whenever they want.
On top of that, iOS isn't fully open sourced, and Intellectual Property is Imaginary Property Anwyay, so forcing Apple to give up iOS to the world doesn't matter since it's worth nothing.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry is this not the regular SJW thread but the special thread where all of those talking points are intentionally thrown out the window because Apple is doing something that is emotionally appealing to the mob?
What increase in hurricanes are we talking about?
Is the weather on Jupiter at issue here?
http://www.livescience.com/507...
Not news: AMD slapped two GPUs from last year onto a card in an under-clocked and over-priced configuration like AMD/Nvidia have been doing for years.
News: Even AMD couldn't avoid posting pictures of a nice shiny red AMD developer system that's clearly running a Haswell-E CPU with an LGA-2011 motherboard to make the "X2" or "Pro" or whatever they are calling it be functional.
Fortunately, Super-Snowden is already in Russia and will save Google from those bad, evil NSA types that run the Russian kleptocracy!
And don't forget Snowden's side-kick: Vladdy-doo, with the famous catch-phrase: PUTIN POWER!
Look, that racist Hitler-Trump doesn't like TPP, so you are automagically a racist (like Bernie Sanders) if you don't like it.
Don't be a racist, do what Obama would do, support TPP.
My next social justice crusade is against the white male patriarchy of correct spelling and grammar.
I'm tired of your male patriatriachal capitalist hetero lunarism. We demand trans-lunar rights NOW!
Ban MDsolar: Yes please.
BUT WHAT IF TEPCO IS LYING OMGZ?!?!?!
Yeah, maybe they are, but Tepco could lie about the sun coming up every morning and it wouldn't be a justification to not ban mdsolar.
Intel has already done the heavy lifting by giving us the Thunderbolt standard that can expose a 40Gbit (or more if you gang connectors) external interface that can transport PCIe to a GPU in a seamless manner.
If AMD wants to work on making the enclosures, cooling, and power supplies more standardized to make plugging in a wide range of GPUs easy then that's great. If they get all NIH and think they can gin up some proprietary connector instead of just using Thunderbolt then you can forget about this entire announcement right now.