At one point in time, even until recently the 4650(?) card had the most value/performance/usefulness under linux with the open source drivers. I am not sure if this is still the case. Something to see... Any way I have no proof, take it with salt. I have a 4670 and it runs ok for what I have done so far on Linux. It was cheap 3 years ago, should still be cheap. I have never installed the proprietary Linux/ATI driver, nor wanted to.
How can they regulate this? You can go to almost any grocery/goods store and buy a 33 ounch can of ground coffee. They would surely let you buy as many of these as you wish to. Since a bunch of stupid white kids drink monsters too fast they now need to pursue regulation of it? Really? I know, maybe they should pass a law stating that energy drinks cannot taste better than coffee so as to damper the enthusiam with which these drinks are imbibed. Dumb.
Caveat of my own stupidity: While in the dorms one weekend night I drank two pots of coffee in a relatively short span of time. What would that be? Maybe 2x 6x cups of coffee? So somewhere around 1200mg or so? Anyways my stomach hurt, my head kinda spun, and my legs twitched a little as I laid in bed wondering when I would fall asleep. I learned from that to take it easy.
That is utter bull shit. You tell them they do not get support since they do not have a data plan. You learn to say no, and then you could tell them that if they paid for a data plan you could help them. But feel free to drink the company kool-aid and believe that someone needs to have a data plan when using a smart phone. From what I understand Verizon pulls this shit too.
Should we thus put microphones up everywhere to monitor speech? After all we can effectively monitor everything done over computer and phone communications. Why not have multi-directional highly sensitive microphones put up to record all speech? Effectively SETI but for us (and minus the intelligence part.) Search for Intra Terrestrial Terrorism. We wouldn't be infringing on anyone's free speech after all, just listening - if anything that is enhancing everyones freedom!
I am pretty sure, tariff or no tariff, I do not trust Chinese grocery... So from a food safety perspective, and for the good of everyone we should just leave that alone. Just this week I passed up some frozen Alaskan pollock since it was processed in China. Keep that label on it because we need educated decisions when it comes to the food we eat.
...Microsoft requires it on all new Windows 8 computers...
I thought it was just required to be "certified"... Though they do require Secure Boot not be able to be disabled on ARM. Supposedly this Windows 8 certification is optional - whatever that might mean. I hope to never buy such a UEFI/Secure boot machine, kind of like how I do not want a Samsung Chromebook. Wiki Cite:
In 2011, Microsoft was accused by critics and free software/open source advocates (including the Free Software Foundation) of trying to use the secure boot functionality of UEFI to hinder or outright prevent the installation of alternative operating systems such as Linux, by requiring that new computers certified to run its Windows 8 operating system ship with secure boot enabled using a Microsoft private key.
Right, but software and hardware often go hand in hand. Maintaining an old software install gets hard when your motherboard cap pops and nothing available would run on it unless you scour craigslist - which people that value their time wouldn't want to do. I guess my point was that the useful timeframes of old software is still being found and can vary. The previously new software/PC world is now older and has started to stabililize. I still like to play Carmageddon or Red Alert, but would I use an old version of Borland from the same era? As to my car example, you are right that the analogy got wierd, but: my pickup and my sun ultra 60 are about the same age but only one of them has remained useful enough to keep maintaining (and at an "efficient" use of $$). The software I had been using on it is thus end of lined now.
"Why, on Earth, do we update our tech so often? What, exactly, can I do with the latest stuff that wasn’t possible with the previous version?"
I think in most ways we are coming to better terms with this. Long Rant Warning. Every so often you see someone driving a '70s F250 Hi Boy, or a mid 80s K20, or an early 90s Dodge Cummins. But hint: they are rare. These survivors aren't used as often, and are diminishingly available. Most people have the means to buy something newer and, at least typically, it would be more reliable and more easily repaired. (Aspects of this are arguable but...)
You do still see some manufacturing line computer equipment running on older software but how easily are these repaired? Yes, when it works you stick with it. Not everyone upgrades as often as PC gamers. Not everyone sees Windows 8 and runs out to buy an Intel i5 Thick-Tablet. PC sales are indeed slowing down as most have realized they do not need to upgrade too often.
I have a Sun Ultra 60, the CD drive died. When I looked into it a year or two ago it was ~$100 to buy a replacement. Why would I even want to do that? I still have installation options I could pursue but I do not believe it is worth the trouble. If I wanted to play with a Sparc I would probably just buy a newer Blade 2500. In this age of fast, cheap, quiet computer hardware why would I do that? I am not _that_ much of a computer hippy - or a truck hippy as I am very happy with my 10th Gen F150 (offroad pkg, limited slip, LT tires, a decent factory offroad/onroad pickup).
Whether they belonged in jail or not, twisting the law into a pretzel to ensure that they could potentially have been jailed if those laws had been in effect at the time they commited the offense, with no regards for the future consequences of those new laws, is completely insane.
As time goes by, all of the Bill of Rights, becomes that much more of an amazing accomplishment. Though perhaps just an aspirational dream that everyone wishes to throw out with the bath water. People continually wish, through both sub-text and blatantly, to ignore the goal of having everyone innocent until proven guilty. Free speech? Who needs it? Why would we want fair trials by a jury of our peers? Why would anyone want to bear arms, that is such a silly notion of the past... Can you imagine if the impoverished people of Mali could've defended themselves against the (outsider) lunatics who wished to impose Sharia law on everyone else against their will? Nope, they don't deserve that privilege and should instead have their Library burned as punishment while they wait for the French to save them. Nope, don't say "Long live France" or you'll be shot.
See the "choice" of the US to subsidize cotton growers in Brazil due to the WTO and Brazillian influence upon US Coorporations. This is one of those things that the typical media does not like to cover but NPR did. It is also one of those things, that once you hear about, you don't forget. So you are sort of correct: we do not care at all about what the WTO thinks until we are persuaded otherwise.
I disagree. We are talking about modern society and the things in our lives that can induce fear. As well we are discussing the rights we as individuals, and as a whole have, and whether those rights deserve being retained or being taken away.
Specifically, do we need the ability to drive at the high rates we enjoy now or should we lower that to make everyone's lives safer. Does a family with a high schooler or college age student need to live in fear that some weekend that student will get too drunk and make the choices (or not "make" the choices) that will endanger their lively-hood? Do those kids deserve the right to drink like that? With guns do we allow some, or thus all/most, the right to peacably own these weapons at the risk of occasional accidental or even intentional harm? Do we allow a farmer to hire high school age kids, or even their own kids, to work around dangerous equipment? (This was just in the news the last year as the US federal government tried to impose restrictions - and failed - due to backlash.)
These are all inter-related discussions. Guns are not some special case. There is a lot of technology in our lives which can very quickly cause harm and thus does, and should, induce fear and respect. I have tried to not too often take a side but instead have tried to cite examples that various sides of this issue selectively care about.
Here is a citation for you: the recent CDC report that the media has been trying to sweep under the rug. It states that binge drinking and overdrinking, among just women and girls, contributes to the deaths of 23,000 in a year. But you know, guns are super evil. Or howabout this from the CDC site: There are approximately 80,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. You citation needed types piss me off. Stop being so fucking lazy.
According to any of the logic that I have inferred: you should not have the right to commit suicide with a gun. Since the left espouses how more gun control would somehow help to lower the numbers of suicide attempts with guns - and thus suicide attempts that succeed. As if this is indeed governmental policy we should be pursuing. I do not understand anything anymore...
Overdrinking and binge drinking contributes to the deaths of 23,000 women and girls a year. Sherly we should outlaw or put new rules and limits on drinking alcoholic beverages. After all statistics are all we are caring about, we should do the most good right... [Citation: CDC report in the news last week.]
Tuesday the CDC released information about how 23,000 women and girls die each year due to binge drinking. Is that not statistically significant? Shouldn't we now impose drinking restrictions? Maybe background checks so they only buy six packs of beer if it is for a man?
Just this morning on the news when NBC talked about this CDC report they chose not to mention the deaths per year aspect of that report. It would obviously discredit the renewed "gun bill" movement to any one who could think about the issues. Anything done will probably have no statistical impact. It is not like the connecticut shooter would call into the BATF/FBI and ask for a quick background check before "transferring" the guns to himself. I mean seriously...
Lastly: I do not need an assault rifle to hunt but I do not think that the purpose of the second amendment provisions on the right to bear arms is just to allow people to hunt with guns. This implicit hunting only argument from the left is ludicrous. Anyways, I do not own an "assault rifle" but why should people have that right taken away? The first muskets/rifles/long rifles after all were state of the art military weaponry which the people were allowed to own. Why do people hate freedom so much?
Tuesday the CDC released information about how 23,000 women and girls die each year due to binge drinking. Is that not statistically significant? Shouldn't we now impose drinking restrictions? Maybe background checks so they only buy six packs of beer if it is for a man?
Porting from sysVinit init scripts to systemd unit files.
It is not just the new installer, the conversion to systemd is also only at 70% complete. From their Release 18 Feature List. I am still using Fedora 16 at home as I had no real reason to move to 17 yet and will probably skip it. I am not entirely sure I want systemd instead of sys v init though and might do a review of the choices out there such as arch. I have used Fedora exclusively on the machine since early 2010 ever since the open source ATI drivers came along. Over all it has been a nice eco system.
If they had actually delivered a product that was expected to sustain their operational expenses, and if that product had failed to sell due to a rough economy, then I would agree with the comment in the summary.
You could argue that the gaming economy is always, or has lately (last ~decade) been a rough economy. Perhaps this was merely in reference to the lack of fluid capital in the markets that then pushed them toward the $75 million dollar gauranteed loan - that wasn't fully theirs and that they had to make huge payments on right away... I seem to remember reading an article about it last year that said they only received about half of that money. Anyway, they did deliver a game that was "expected" to sustain their operational expenses and provide the experience and capital to push on to making an MMO. It flopped, and thus did the plan.
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If nothing new is being invented, and novelty and true genius is gone: then we can, indeed, abolish the patent system.
Way to go, DOJ! being a proxy pawn for a market manipulator.
Isn't that the norm?
At one point in time, even until recently the 4650(?) card had the most value/performance/usefulness under linux with the open source drivers. I am not sure if this is still the case. Something to see... Any way I have no proof, take it with salt. I have a 4670 and it runs ok for what I have done so far on Linux. It was cheap 3 years ago, should still be cheap. I have never installed the proprietary Linux/ATI driver, nor wanted to.
How can they regulate this? You can go to almost any grocery/goods store and buy a 33 ounch can of ground coffee. They would surely let you buy as many of these as you wish to. Since a bunch of stupid white kids drink monsters too fast they now need to pursue regulation of it? Really? I know, maybe they should pass a law stating that energy drinks cannot taste better than coffee so as to damper the enthusiam with which these drinks are imbibed. Dumb.
Caveat of my own stupidity: While in the dorms one weekend night I drank two pots of coffee in a relatively short span of time. What would that be? Maybe 2x 6x cups of coffee? So somewhere around 1200mg or so? Anyways my stomach hurt, my head kinda spun, and my legs twitched a little as I laid in bed wondering when I would fall asleep. I learned from that to take it easy.
That is utter bull shit. You tell them they do not get support since they do not have a data plan. You learn to say no, and then you could tell them that if they paid for a data plan you could help them. But feel free to drink the company kool-aid and believe that someone needs to have a data plan when using a smart phone. From what I understand Verizon pulls this shit too.
Should we thus put microphones up everywhere to monitor speech? After all we can effectively monitor everything done over computer and phone communications. Why not have multi-directional highly sensitive microphones put up to record all speech? Effectively SETI but for us (and minus the intelligence part.) Search for Intra Terrestrial Terrorism. We wouldn't be infringing on anyone's free speech after all, just listening - if anything that is enhancing everyones freedom!
And people never use more electricity during the winter?
I am pretty sure, tariff or no tariff, I do not trust Chinese grocery... So from a food safety perspective, and for the good of everyone we should just leave that alone. Just this week I passed up some frozen Alaskan pollock since it was processed in China. Keep that label on it because we need educated decisions when it comes to the food we eat.
The delusionals tell everyone we want a free market. Oh by the way we need to pass that new farm bill!
...Microsoft requires it on all new Windows 8 computers...
I thought it was just required to be "certified"... Though they do require Secure Boot not be able to be disabled on ARM. Supposedly this Windows 8 certification is optional - whatever that might mean. I hope to never buy such a UEFI/Secure boot machine, kind of like how I do not want a Samsung Chromebook. Wiki Cite:
In 2011, Microsoft was accused by critics and free software/open source advocates (including the Free Software Foundation) of trying to use the secure boot functionality of UEFI to hinder or outright prevent the installation of alternative operating systems such as Linux, by requiring that new computers certified to run its Windows 8 operating system ship with secure boot enabled using a Microsoft private key.
Right, but software and hardware often go hand in hand. Maintaining an old software install gets hard when your motherboard cap pops and nothing available would run on it unless you scour craigslist - which people that value their time wouldn't want to do. I guess my point was that the useful timeframes of old software is still being found and can vary. The previously new software/PC world is now older and has started to stabililize. I still like to play Carmageddon or Red Alert, but would I use an old version of Borland from the same era? As to my car example, you are right that the analogy got wierd, but: my pickup and my sun ultra 60 are about the same age but only one of them has remained useful enough to keep maintaining (and at an "efficient" use of $$). The software I had been using on it is thus end of lined now.
"Why, on Earth, do we update our tech so often? What, exactly, can I do with the latest stuff that wasn’t possible with the previous version?"
I think in most ways we are coming to better terms with this. Long Rant Warning. Every so often you see someone driving a '70s F250 Hi Boy, or a mid 80s K20, or an early 90s Dodge Cummins. But hint: they are rare. These survivors aren't used as often, and are diminishingly available. Most people have the means to buy something newer and, at least typically, it would be more reliable and more easily repaired. (Aspects of this are arguable but...)
You do still see some manufacturing line computer equipment running on older software but how easily are these repaired? Yes, when it works you stick with it. Not everyone upgrades as often as PC gamers. Not everyone sees Windows 8 and runs out to buy an Intel i5 Thick-Tablet. PC sales are indeed slowing down as most have realized they do not need to upgrade too often.
I have a Sun Ultra 60, the CD drive died. When I looked into it a year or two ago it was ~$100 to buy a replacement. Why would I even want to do that? I still have installation options I could pursue but I do not believe it is worth the trouble. If I wanted to play with a Sparc I would probably just buy a newer Blade 2500. In this age of fast, cheap, quiet computer hardware why would I do that? I am not _that_ much of a computer hippy - or a truck hippy as I am very happy with my 10th Gen F150 (offroad pkg, limited slip, LT tires, a decent factory offroad/onroad pickup).
Whether they belonged in jail or not, twisting the law into a pretzel to ensure that they could potentially have been jailed if those laws had been in effect at the time they commited the offense, with no regards for the future consequences of those new laws, is completely insane.
As time goes by, all of the Bill of Rights, becomes that much more of an amazing accomplishment. Though perhaps just an aspirational dream that everyone wishes to throw out with the bath water. People continually wish, through both sub-text and blatantly, to ignore the goal of having everyone innocent until proven guilty. Free speech? Who needs it? Why would we want fair trials by a jury of our peers? Why would anyone want to bear arms, that is such a silly notion of the past... Can you imagine if the impoverished people of Mali could've defended themselves against the (outsider) lunatics who wished to impose Sharia law on everyone else against their will? Nope, they don't deserve that privilege and should instead have their Library burned as punishment while they wait for the French to save them. Nope, don't say "Long live France" or you'll be shot.
See the "choice" of the US to subsidize cotton growers in Brazil due to the WTO and Brazillian influence upon US Coorporations. This is one of those things that the typical media does not like to cover but NPR did. It is also one of those things, that once you hear about, you don't forget. So you are sort of correct: we do not care at all about what the WTO thinks until we are persuaded otherwise.
You see I've got this thing, and it's @#$!ing golden! I'm not just going to give it away!
I hope that is remotely correct... lolz.
fedup
worked great for me.(It upgraded from Fedora 17 to 18)
This is the new installer for Fedora 18. Install Fedora 17. Use fedup.
I disagree. We are talking about modern society and the things in our lives that can induce fear. As well we are discussing the rights we as individuals, and as a whole have, and whether those rights deserve being retained or being taken away.
Specifically, do we need the ability to drive at the high rates we enjoy now or should we lower that to make everyone's lives safer. Does a family with a high schooler or college age student need to live in fear that some weekend that student will get too drunk and make the choices (or not "make" the choices) that will endanger their lively-hood? Do those kids deserve the right to drink like that? With guns do we allow some, or thus all/most, the right to peacably own these weapons at the risk of occasional accidental or even intentional harm? Do we allow a farmer to hire high school age kids, or even their own kids, to work around dangerous equipment? (This was just in the news the last year as the US federal government tried to impose restrictions - and failed - due to backlash.)
These are all inter-related discussions. Guns are not some special case. There is a lot of technology in our lives which can very quickly cause harm and thus does, and should, induce fear and respect. I have tried to not too often take a side but instead have tried to cite examples that various sides of this issue selectively care about.
Here is a citation for you: the recent CDC report that the media has been trying to sweep under the rug. It states that binge drinking and overdrinking, among just women and girls, contributes to the deaths of 23,000 in a year. But you know, guns are super evil. Or howabout this from the CDC site: There are approximately 80,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. You citation needed types piss me off. Stop being so fucking lazy.
According to any of the logic that I have inferred: you should not have the right to commit suicide with a gun. Since the left espouses how more gun control would somehow help to lower the numbers of suicide attempts with guns - and thus suicide attempts that succeed. As if this is indeed governmental policy we should be pursuing. I do not understand anything anymore...
Overdrinking and binge drinking contributes to the deaths of 23,000 women and girls a year. Sherly we should outlaw or put new rules and limits on drinking alcoholic beverages. After all statistics are all we are caring about, we should do the most good right... [Citation: CDC report in the news last week.]
Why do people need to drink so much? I will bring it up again:
Tuesday the CDC released information about how 23,000 women and girls die each year due to binge drinking. Is that not statistically significant? Shouldn't we now impose drinking restrictions? Maybe background checks so they only buy six packs of beer if it is for a man?
Just this morning on the news when NBC talked about this CDC report they chose not to mention the deaths per year aspect of that report. It would obviously discredit the renewed "gun bill" movement to any one who could think about the issues. Anything done will probably have no statistical impact. It is not like the connecticut shooter would call into the BATF/FBI and ask for a quick background check before "transferring" the guns to himself. I mean seriously...
Lastly: I do not need an assault rifle to hunt but I do not think that the purpose of the second amendment provisions on the right to bear arms is just to allow people to hunt with guns. This implicit hunting only argument from the left is ludicrous. Anyways, I do not own an "assault rifle" but why should people have that right taken away? The first muskets/rifles/long rifles after all were state of the art military weaponry which the people were allowed to own. Why do people hate freedom so much?
Tuesday the CDC released information about how 23,000 women and girls die each year due to binge drinking. Is that not statistically significant? Shouldn't we now impose drinking restrictions? Maybe background checks so they only buy six packs of beer if it is for a man?
[End Cynicism] Why do you hate freedom? Citation
Porting from sysVinit init scripts to systemd unit files.
It is not just the new installer, the conversion to systemd is also only at 70% complete. From their Release 18 Feature List. I am still using Fedora 16 at home as I had no real reason to move to 17 yet and will probably skip it. I am not entirely sure I want systemd instead of sys v init though and might do a review of the choices out there such as arch. I have used Fedora exclusively on the machine since early 2010 ever since the open source ATI drivers came along. Over all it has been a nice eco system.
Possible Citation: $23 million held back.
If they had actually delivered a product that was expected to sustain their operational expenses, and if that product had failed to sell due to a rough economy, then I would agree with the comment in the summary.
You could argue that the gaming economy is always, or has lately (last ~decade) been a rough economy. Perhaps this was merely in reference to the lack of fluid capital in the markets that then pushed them toward the $75 million dollar gauranteed loan - that wasn't fully theirs and that they had to make huge payments on right away... I seem to remember reading an article about it last year that said they only received about half of that money. Anyway, they did deliver a game that was "expected" to sustain their operational expenses and provide the experience and capital to push on to making an MMO. It flopped, and thus did the plan.