Badly supported 5xxx series cards merely means people will utilize cheaper older cards for Linux. I have a 4670 card with Fedora 12 and the experimental open source drivers enabled. Linux overall, and the drivers work great. Super cheap systems with ATI graphics and AMD processors with Linux is a decent proposition. Not perfect on the desktop, but taken with a few salt shakers it's ok.
Ford received a bunch of money to fund experimental development of an engine I believe they call the Bobcat. It is a twin-turbo gasoline engine, with E85 directly injected in. It develops massive power. It's a sink hole. Too expensive to utilize and just a reason for Ford to get some of that government teet. Ford fans are making fun of GM fans these days but it's not entirely fair. Figured slashdotters may or may not be aware...
For the Bobcat experimental engine, the longer-stroked 5.4 was used in combination with a smaller bore that provided thicker cylinder walls needed to withstand the high internal pressures of the boosted 750 pound-foot engine. According to Harrison, the Bobcat was part of a Department of Energy funded research project and there are no current plans for a production engine based on the technology. He also tells us that the extra cost of the dual injection systems and more robust block and heads negates much of the savings from not needing a diesel after-treatment system.
Other than that I do believe they got some government loans, effectively gifts, to fund restructuring. The difference between Ford and GM was timing, Ford figured out sooner what the fuck was going on and they're reaping the benefits now.
Now, the discussion of governments helping companies, as being socialistic in nature is probably a fair discussion - and also a fair analysis. However, the better discussion is why we have not punished our civil leaders for putting us into this system where there is NO protectionism of the American economy and production system. Taking down tariffs at every turn is very harmful. We are bowing to the pressure of libertarian think-tanks that live in a dream world. Granted, we may need to have "free-er" trade than we had in the 1800s, but to just take tariffs away completely? This is especially harmful when other countries keep their tariffs up or somewhat up. Also, what happens to our "neighbours"... our FUCKING neighbours! Flooding Mexico with our governments subsidized corn has repurcussions. We cannot turn our back from these issues, and we cannot remain silent.
It is my viewpoint, that so many of the current ills of the world are being "funded" by cheap petroleum. Once shipping costs go back up we should once again return to some basic and appropriate levels of protectionism, local food production, etc. The powers that be just saw an easy way to further widen the wealth and power gap and proceeded to do so.
Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation."
Sorry for my antagonizing tone but this is a serious matter that I hate when some people take lightly.
Right of free speech + right of association = right of groups, as corporations, to speak freely.
Yes, they do have a right to free speech. They have a right to gather. But corporations are an international entity who have no obligation to anyone except their stock holders. We are not arguing their right to free speech anyways, we are just proposing that they should have no right to place advertisements on television or radio which are governed by the FCC. They can place ads on the internet, they can release a DVD and have their movies heard in movie theaters. But they should not be able to directly sponsor advertisements on television.
The SCOTUS' delusional thinking continues:
Roberts, in a separate opinion, said that upholding the limits would have restrained "the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy."
Luckily: It leaves in place a ban prohibiting corporations and unions from directly contributing funds to candidates for any use.
How is a campaign donation a trampling of someone's rights? What is a person being blocked from doing because someone else has made a publicly viewable campaign donation? Be specific.
Having their voice heard by their "representatives."
If you live in your mom's basement and every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner she cooks a great meal then you don't need to cook. For that matter reading a book on finite arithmetic is probably needless. But undertaking both endeavors are worthwhile. Almost all of schooling is going to be duplicated effort that is most definitely not "fucking dumb."
I doubt this guy "needs" a running copy of Windows to put food on his table. We must not forget that Linux could have been seen, for years, as needless duplication of effort. As humanity approaches levels of comfortable where we do not worry as much about our next meal, we have indeed found more ways to spend our time doing needless stuff. The first wheel spread throughout Eurasia very quickly unchanged. (See Guns,Germs and Steel.) Since then we have found ways to have fun re-inventing them.
Right, even wikipedia has it on this one: GM stopped installing big block V-8's in the Silverado HD trucks, when the GMT-800 series was discontinued in 2007. 8100 marine engines range from 300 to 500 hp and come with a stand-alone ecm. The last L18 was manufactured in December 2009.
If the surge of powerful and fuel efficient diesel engines wasn't enough, these engines went through a phase that can only be described as: What the hell kind of noise is that? Btw, it was piston slap.
Considering how many companies have failed in the past 200 years, how the financial industry was central to our current economic crisis, and how we're still living under the same government we had 200 years ago, I'd say your faith in the private sector is severely misplaced.
But don't let that stop you.
I had a longer comment prepared, but I am going to shorten it. The government's failures would be as easily producible as failures of industry. Even worse is that government departments are usually not created until a real need is noticed - which should increase their chance of success. Also, your example of the financial industry is a joke, and not relevant to any discussion of a free market. Lastly the proposition that we are under the same government we were under 200 years ago is only acceptable upon a cursory glance. I would love to go into greater detail but I refuse to against anonymous cowards.
PPC and SPARC have been put out to pasture and unless something dramatic changes their days as a relevant desktop platform are gone. We absolutely must refocus on ARM as a x86 alternative platform. I have tried using Fedora 11 (soon will install 12) on an Athlon XP 1900 with 1GB of ram and it browses the web like a pig.[2]
2. See grandparents reference to the pig-like oink of slow platforms. This Athlon would perhaps be comparable to a Sun Ultra 60. I have one with 2x450Mhz and 1GB of ram and the comparison is fair. Desktop usage in my book demands maintainability, which makes the Sun non-viable. x86 is the chevy small block of the computing world.
The parents assessment is absolutely correct. Witness WPF for another example of Microsoft giving up on any cohesive UI patterns and just completely giving up. (It is not just Windows Media Player, see Outlook, Office, MSN Live Messenger. The list probably goes on of applications within Microsoft that are considerably different.) I really wish I had mod points to mod you up. Microsoft has stopped using their development platform as a cohesive way to push standard user interface patterns out for their Operating System.
Just checked wikipedia, there it says she uses the word "irony", not funny as I had recalled. Still seems odd that he is one of the two people she looks to.
The one day I listened to his show he was talking about this...
I would not have known that Obama's Communication Director considers Mother Teresa and Chairman Mao her favorite philosophers, and that she admire how Mao overthrew the Democratic Chinese government.
I thought it was most definitely worth talking about, and spoke to the the people that Obama was choosing for his administration. That kinda shit should have had her fired in half a minute. She proceeded to say she didn't say it in any seriousness, and that it was funny. Admiring Mao is not funny.
People like Beck are worth watching occasionally. You should not be so naive as to think he is not worth watching (or listening to, he is also on the radio). I am not saying you have to every day - just that sometimes it is worthwhile.
You seem to assume that Beck might be competent to do anything other than run his potty mouth, and sling mud at his superiors.
On the one hand they may be Beck's superiors, but to say that they (politicians/social servants) in general are superior to the rest of the public is so ridiculously wrong I can't even fathom a proper retort. I personally have seen the decline of competency among such, as well as the blurring line between those in government and lobbyists. One recent high profile example would be Tom Daschle, who we later found out was knee deep in the shit.
The main issue of Beck being competent to do something else, however, appears very well grounded. I also have not uncovered any evidence to suggest that Becks parents are not brother and sister. He hasn't called me yet to say one way or the other.
Their status page looks pretty close. This thing actually sounds very cool, a sort of netbook (plus gaming hand held!) that a linux geek would be able to settle for. The type of thing that still works to lounge around in bed on a winter morning and just cruise the net. Thanks to gp for mentioning this as I had not heard of it, yet had considered getting the previous GP2X in the past. Does anyone have an idea of the cost of this thing?
Nice over-reaction - the point of contention is that Mono is a certifiable Microsoft trojan horse. That is the fear. His other point is that while people may be alright with having proprietary drivers for their NVIDIA card, they often do not want patent encumbered Microsoft derived technology used. We can always buy a new video card, but we cannot undo time spent developing software for a technology that is pulled out from under our feet. Having such a default with the GNOME meta package on Debian thus causes contention. So take your rant elsewhere. He merely said things which are clearly offensive, without saying specifically what the reasons may be - it was you that inferred some religious blindness.
I agree that de Icaza is "bridge builder", but unfortunately "the roads into Microsoft" are all one-way.
This is the essence of what I perceive Miguel is trying to do... He must make every attempt possible to sway community consensus toward an acceptance of Microsoft. If the community does not go along with the open direction that Novell is pursuing with their open source implementation of the.NET/C# standard then all their work is wasted. Miguel's group (which publicly appears to be represented by him) cannot go around saying that Microsoft is malevolent - it would be counter intuitive to the relationship they need to build in order to maintain future development and use of their project.
"First batch is very limited. Reserver yours now" They're not out yet. More-so they are more of an up-market item. Though it appears they offer a model for only $299.
I know of no ARM Netbook that is actually on the market yet. It has been a media illusion for the past year or so. But then, if you have a link to one that is actually on sale please let me know. I have in the past submitted an entry for Ask Slashdot wondering what barriers the ARM Netbook makers are facing but it was not accepted.
The person I replied to was saying there was no tax. I gave an instance of a tax. Thus I disproved him. I wouldn't have even cared to comment except for the colorful language.
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Badly supported 5xxx series cards merely means people will utilize cheaper older cards for Linux. I have a 4670 card with Fedora 12 and the experimental open source drivers enabled. Linux overall, and the drivers work great. Super cheap systems with ATI graphics and AMD processors with Linux is a decent proposition. Not perfect on the desktop, but taken with a few salt shakers it's ok.
Ford received a bunch of money to fund experimental development of an engine I believe they call the Bobcat. It is a twin-turbo gasoline engine, with E85 directly injected in. It develops massive power. It's a sink hole. Too expensive to utilize and just a reason for Ford to get some of that government teet. Ford fans are making fun of GM fans these days but it's not entirely fair. Figured slashdotters may or may not be aware...
For the Bobcat experimental engine, the longer-stroked 5.4 was used in combination with a smaller bore that provided thicker cylinder walls needed to withstand the high internal pressures of the boosted 750 pound-foot engine. According to Harrison, the Bobcat was part of a Department of Energy funded research project and there are no current plans for a production engine based on the technology. He also tells us that the extra cost of the dual injection systems and more robust block and heads negates much of the savings from not needing a diesel after-treatment system.
Other than that I do believe they got some government loans, effectively gifts, to fund restructuring. The difference between Ford and GM was timing, Ford figured out sooner what the fuck was going on and they're reaping the benefits now.
Now, the discussion of governments helping companies, as being socialistic in nature is probably a fair discussion - and also a fair analysis. However, the better discussion is why we have not punished our civil leaders for putting us into this system where there is NO protectionism of the American economy and production system. Taking down tariffs at every turn is very harmful. We are bowing to the pressure of libertarian think-tanks that live in a dream world. Granted, we may need to have "free-er" trade than we had in the 1800s, but to just take tariffs away completely? This is especially harmful when other countries keep their tariffs up or somewhat up. Also, what happens to our "neighbours" ... our FUCKING neighbours! Flooding Mexico with our governments subsidized corn has repurcussions. We cannot turn our back from these issues, and we cannot remain silent.
It is my viewpoint, that so many of the current ills of the world are being "funded" by cheap petroleum. Once shipping costs go back up we should once again return to some basic and appropriate levels of protectionism, local food production, etc. The powers that be just saw an easy way to further widen the wealth and power gap and proceeded to do so.
And besides, it's not a gift, it's a loan.
Huge government loans, on effectively no interest, are gifts. Hold no illusions.
1) Have you noticed that the stock market is tanking lately? Invest in what?
Yeah, it's much better to invest when the market is high.
Ahh, but gold, it is at an all time high. Buy Now!!!
You would be amazed what you can hear on AM radio. By the way, it may not be exactly at an all-time high, but it is pretty high.
By the way: It leaves in place a ban prohibiting corporations and unions from directly contributing funds to candidates for any use. Try to RTFAs next time. We are talking in specific about a corporation/union funding a political advertisement - and only on places appropriate. The internet is still free reign.
Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation."
Sorry for my antagonizing tone but this is a serious matter that I hate when some people take lightly.
Right of free speech + right of association = right of groups, as corporations, to speak freely.
Yes, they do have a right to free speech. They have a right to gather. But corporations are an international entity who have no obligation to anyone except their stock holders. We are not arguing their right to free speech anyways, we are just proposing that they should have no right to place advertisements on television or radio which are governed by the FCC. They can place ads on the internet, they can release a DVD and have their movies heard in movie theaters. But they should not be able to directly sponsor advertisements on television.
The SCOTUS' delusional thinking continues:
Roberts, in a separate opinion, said that upholding the limits would have restrained "the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy."
Luckily: It leaves in place a ban prohibiting corporations and unions from directly contributing funds to candidates for any use.
How is a campaign donation a trampling of someone's rights? What is a person being blocked from doing because someone else has made a publicly viewable campaign donation? Be specific.
Having their voice heard by their "representatives."
Needless duplication of effort is fucking dumb.
If you live in your mom's basement and every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner she cooks a great meal then you don't need to cook. For that matter reading a book on finite arithmetic is probably needless. But undertaking both endeavors are worthwhile. Almost all of schooling is going to be duplicated effort that is most definitely not "fucking dumb."
I doubt this guy "needs" a running copy of Windows to put food on his table. We must not forget that Linux could have been seen, for years, as needless duplication of effort. As humanity approaches levels of comfortable where we do not worry as much about our next meal, we have indeed found more ways to spend our time doing needless stuff. The first wheel spread throughout Eurasia very quickly unchanged. (See Guns,Germs and Steel.) Since then we have found ways to have fun re-inventing them.
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12 minute reaction time? Weak, you are slipping.
Right, even wikipedia has it on this one: GM stopped installing big block V-8's in the Silverado HD trucks, when the GMT-800 series was discontinued in 2007. 8100 marine engines range from 300 to 500 hp and come with a stand-alone ecm. The last L18 was manufactured in December 2009.
If the surge of powerful and fuel efficient diesel engines wasn't enough, these engines went through a phase that can only be described as: What the hell kind of noise is that? Btw, it was piston slap.
the wife of noted huntsman T. Boone Pickens, who had previously pressured the school over animal-rights issues.
If you are going to quote, you could at least include the parts of the sentence that give context and flow... like the part right before your "snip."
Also, just because I hunt, it doesn't mean my mom does. Nor do I give the deer I shoot a vaccine of anthrax to test out before I shoot them.
Considering how many companies have failed in the past 200 years, how the financial industry was central to our current economic crisis, and how we're still living under the same government we had 200 years ago, I'd say your faith in the private sector is severely misplaced.
But don't let that stop you.
I had a longer comment prepared, but I am going to shorten it. The government's failures would be as easily producible as failures of industry. Even worse is that government departments are usually not created until a real need is noticed - which should increase their chance of success. Also, your example of the financial industry is a joke, and not relevant to any discussion of a free market. Lastly the proposition that we are under the same government we were under 200 years ago is only acceptable upon a cursory glance. I would love to go into greater detail but I refuse to against anonymous cowards.
PPC and SPARC have been put out to pasture and unless something dramatic changes their days as a relevant desktop platform are gone. We absolutely must refocus on ARM as a x86 alternative platform. I have tried using Fedora 11 (soon will install 12) on an Athlon XP 1900 with 1GB of ram and it browses the web like a pig.[2]
2. See grandparents reference to the pig-like oink of slow platforms. This Athlon would perhaps be comparable to a Sun Ultra 60. I have one with 2x450Mhz and 1GB of ram and the comparison is fair. Desktop usage in my book demands maintainability, which makes the Sun non-viable. x86 is the chevy small block of the computing world.
The parents assessment is absolutely correct. Witness WPF for another example of Microsoft giving up on any cohesive UI patterns and just completely giving up. (It is not just Windows Media Player, see Outlook, Office, MSN Live Messenger. The list probably goes on of applications within Microsoft that are considerably different.) I really wish I had mod points to mod you up. Microsoft has stopped using their development platform as a cohesive way to push standard user interface patterns out for their Operating System.
Just checked wikipedia, there it says she uses the word "irony", not funny as I had recalled. Still seems odd that he is one of the two people she looks to.
The one day I listened to his show he was talking about this...
I would not have known that Obama's Communication Director considers Mother Teresa and Chairman Mao her favorite philosophers, and that she admire how Mao overthrew the Democratic Chinese government.
I thought it was most definitely worth talking about, and spoke to the the people that Obama was choosing for his administration. That kinda shit should have had her fired in half a minute. She proceeded to say she didn't say it in any seriousness, and that it was funny. Admiring Mao is not funny.
People like Beck are worth watching occasionally. You should not be so naive as to think he is not worth watching (or listening to, he is also on the radio). I am not saying you have to every day - just that sometimes it is worthwhile.
You seem to assume that Beck might be competent to do anything other than run his potty mouth, and sling mud at his superiors.
On the one hand they may be Beck's superiors, but to say that they (politicians/social servants) in general are superior to the rest of the public is so ridiculously wrong I can't even fathom a proper retort. I personally have seen the decline of competency among such, as well as the blurring line between those in government and lobbyists. One recent high profile example would be Tom Daschle, who we later found out was knee deep in the shit.
The main issue of Beck being competent to do something else, however, appears very well grounded. I also have not uncovered any evidence to suggest that Becks parents are not brother and sister. He hasn't called me yet to say one way or the other.
If it ever ends up coming out.
Their status page looks pretty close. This thing actually sounds very cool, a sort of netbook (plus gaming hand held!) that a linux geek would be able to settle for. The type of thing that still works to lounge around in bed on a winter morning and just cruise the net. Thanks to gp for mentioning this as I had not heard of it, yet had considered getting the previous GP2X in the past. Does anyone have an idea of the cost of this thing?
As an Internet advocate for your obvious lack of a thesaurus, I give you http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/retarded
As somebody who wants to understand what's being read, I five you Wikipedia on Elegant Variation and suggest you burn your thesaurus.
Does it need said? Yes, yes it does. I five you ...wait, no, it doesn't need said.
Nice over-reaction - the point of contention is that Mono is a certifiable Microsoft trojan horse. That is the fear. His other point is that while people may be alright with having proprietary drivers for their NVIDIA card, they often do not want patent encumbered Microsoft derived technology used. We can always buy a new video card, but we cannot undo time spent developing software for a technology that is pulled out from under our feet. Having such a default with the GNOME meta package on Debian thus causes contention. So take your rant elsewhere. He merely said things which are clearly offensive, without saying specifically what the reasons may be - it was you that inferred some religious blindness.
I agree that de Icaza is "bridge builder", but unfortunately "the roads into Microsoft" are all one-way.
This is the essence of what I perceive Miguel is trying to do... He must make every attempt possible to sway community consensus toward an acceptance of Microsoft. If the community does not go along with the open direction that Novell is pursuing with their open source implementation of the .NET/C# standard then all their work is wasted. Miguel's group (which publicly appears to be represented by him) cannot go around saying that Microsoft is malevolent - it would be counter intuitive to the relationship they need to build in order to maintain future development and use of their project.
"First batch is very limited. Reserver yours now" They're not out yet. More-so they are more of an up-market item. Though it appears they offer a model for only $299.
I know of no ARM Netbook that is actually on the market yet. It has been a media illusion for the past year or so. But then, if you have a link to one that is actually on sale please let me know. I have in the past submitted an entry for Ask Slashdot wondering what barriers the ARM Netbook makers are facing but it was not accepted.
The person I replied to was saying there was no tax. I gave an instance of a tax. Thus I disproved him. I wouldn't have even cared to comment except for the colorful language.
There is No Microsoft Tax Except on Lazy Twats
Silly me, replying to an AC Troll... Here you go.
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