A team that works well together will always outperform a cowboy coder hacking away exclusively. No matter how well a single person can handle a non-trivial task, they can always do it better with support from others.
If the president of GameStop weighed the loss in business from retarded children against a potential gain in business from pleased parents and decided to implement something like this, there would be no complaints from anyone that mattered. Provided, of course, that his analysis was correct and resulted in a net gain for GameStop.
Of course, anyone above mongoloid level who looked at this would realize the gross stupidity involved. GameStop isn't going to get any new business from this, and it's going to lose a lot from people who play too many games. Which is why this "manager" is (or was) working in a McJob.
He hasn't the authority to be making those decisions. If the president of GameStop decided to do this it would be fine. When a peon goes behind the President's back and does it, it's a different story.
Historically ATI has always shared specs. I wasn't aware that they hadn't for those GPU's, but this still isn't news, it's just a return to business as usual.
Given that ATI's drivers suck ass on both windows and linux, I suspect the problem isn't solely with the drivers.
You might want to pull out your spectacles. If you actually read what you responded to, I did note that the OS ATI drivers for paleolithic cards were fine.
They never supported open source efforts in the past. This is the first time they have provided documentation and been willing to answer questions without an NDA (and sometime they were reluctant to talk even with an NDA). You're wrong. ATI has always been as open as they could be. They've always released specs and interface docs.
ATI hasn't announced anything new. They've simply brought attention to the fact that they will support open source efforts, as they always have.
As always, there will be 3d drivers for paleolithic versions of their cards, and 2d for everything else. If you actually want to use up to date cards, you'll have to use the closed drivers.
So you might as well just buy Nvidia cards, since their closed drivers work.
If you're writing a reference implementation of something, you may very well want your code to be usable commercially. Modern versions of the BSD license (without the advertising shenanigans) cover this case quite well.
This has absolutely nothing to do with trees. I agree that the various carbon credit schemes in place now are nonsense. You shouldn't get them for "research" or "funding". They should be available *only* by directly and measurably reducing carbon output. For example, if a coal burning power plant builds a carbon sequestering system, they should be able to sell credit for that reduction in emissions on the open market. The next plant, which fails to do so, should be required to buy them for their emissions.
The solar cells and batteries aren't going to pay for themselves over their service lives, and they're *far* more environmentally unfriendly than any responsible power plant.
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A top notch programmer works well in a team setting by definition. Someone who cannot or will not work in a team is not a top notch programmer.
Now they can more efficiently create terrible manuals.
You're one of the problem ones. You don't work on very large projects, do you?
That you are one of the problem people.
A team that works well together will always outperform a cowboy coder hacking away exclusively. No matter how well a single person can handle a non-trivial task, they can always do it better with support from others.
Do you have neighbour's in your line of site with broadband? If so, buy a pair of high gain directional antennas, and set up an 802.11 link.
You can buy such antennas here: http://www.wlanparts.com/
He was hired to shut the fuck up and follow instructions.
If he wants something better, he should get an education and a real job.
I'm happy to filter a picture of a car or book with Adblock for the same.
Perhaps leather curing on racks? Hunters in loincloths returning with bits of mastodon?
No? That's because this isn't a village.
If the president of GameStop weighed the loss in business from retarded children against a potential gain in business from pleased parents and decided to implement something like this, there would be no complaints from anyone that mattered. Provided, of course, that his analysis was correct and resulted in a net gain for GameStop.
Of course, anyone above mongoloid level who looked at this would realize the gross stupidity involved. GameStop isn't going to get any new business from this, and it's going to lose a lot from people who play too many games. Which is why this "manager" is (or was) working in a McJob.
He hasn't the authority to be making those decisions. If the president of GameStop decided to do this it would be fine. When a peon goes behind the President's back and does it, it's a different story.
The franchise agreement would prohibit that. Your contract with Comcast doesn't.
High bandwidth users are not a protected class. I don't particularily like it, and I'm glad I don't have to deal with them, but thems the breaks.
I guarantee if you check the contract, it introduces no obligations on their part.
Facebook is something used occasionally for that specific purpose. Boomers are like that 24/7/365.
The fact that I can call you a moron at my discretion should prove the point.
To provide service to anyone. They have the right to refuse service for whatever reason they please. It's not very nice, but that's the way it is.
Historically ATI has always shared specs. I wasn't aware that they hadn't for those GPU's, but this still isn't news, it's just a return to business as usual.
Given that ATI's drivers suck ass on both windows and linux, I suspect the problem isn't solely with the drivers.
Note that even ATI's closed source drivers don't support that. Neither do Intel's.
You might want to pull out your spectacles. If you actually read what you responded to, I did note that the OS ATI drivers for paleolithic cards were fine.
At least not in the way you seem to think.
ATI hasn't announced anything new. They've simply brought attention to the fact that they will support open source efforts, as they always have.
As always, there will be 3d drivers for paleolithic versions of their cards, and 2d for everything else. If you actually want to use up to date cards, you'll have to use the closed drivers.
So you might as well just buy Nvidia cards, since their closed drivers work.
If you're writing a reference implementation of something, you may very well want your code to be usable commercially. Modern versions of the BSD license (without the advertising shenanigans) cover this case quite well.
He's just a blowhard. Killfile him and be done with it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with trees. I agree that the various carbon credit schemes in place now are nonsense. You shouldn't get them for "research" or "funding". They should be available *only* by directly and measurably reducing carbon output. For example, if a coal burning power plant builds a carbon sequestering system, they should be able to sell credit for that reduction in emissions on the open market. The next plant, which fails to do so, should be required to buy them for their emissions.
The command line is much, much easier to use. What it isn't is easier to learn from scratch.
The solar cells and batteries aren't going to pay for themselves over their service lives, and they're *far* more environmentally unfriendly than any responsible power plant.