I strongly object to this poster being labled a troll.
We are talking about technological reseach and it's harmful affects on the planet. DU are AO are but two of many results of scientific research that are poisoning us and slowly making the planet uninhabitable and unhealthy.
Blame ATI, not Microsoft. Vendors supply any "non-generic" driver that becomes available on the Microsoft site, and it is most likely that the vendor didn't match the hardware/driver properly, not Microsoft.
Well M$ staff should have verified the driver before they allowed it to be put on their web site, shouldn't they?
Windows update is handy, but it's not always very smart.
Right which is why it is useful know how to determine the make and model number of your peice of hardware.
You can then determine which driver to install yourself, instead of relying on some ineptly designed program made by an evil corporation to do that for you!
Make yourself a spear, go somewhere remote in the Amazon basin and see if you can catch a few fish, without being eating or stung by anything or starving to death. THEN you can start lecturing others on nature.
Clearly that is impossible. Most of humanity has lost the technological skills and knowledge to be able to survive and thrive in the wilderness areas.
Furthermore I don't hate technology, I tolerate it. And I wasn't trolling I was just trying to get people to question the benefits of technology and its consequences for human happiness, and where it will ultimatly lead us.
A subculture of people who refuse to take part in these "biotechnological advances" who will be shunned by those who did take part in some dramatically huge advancement.
They would probably be outlawed by legislation, hunted down and locked up in Guantanamo Bay.
The American system allows industry to flourish better then anywhere else in the world.
Maybe the reason it has been flourishing is because it relies on exploitation of the resources of other countries. ie human resources in this case, through the H1B visa program. The system that you seem to love so much is the same system that invented the H1B visa program.
It will stifle innovation, raise the entry bar for programmers
Not only that, but it could raise the entry bar for people that want to post comments to online discussions.
If Palladium is allowed to come to its fruition, participation in online discussions such as these could be restricted to those that have been granted an "Approved Online Commentator's License". Possibly these licenses could only be purchased from the large media empires like Newscorp. What a nightmare of a world that would be.
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I strongly object to this poster being labled a troll. We are talking about technological reseach and it's harmful affects on the planet. DU are AO are but two of many results of scientific research that are poisoning us and slowly making the planet uninhabitable and unhealthy.
Blame ATI, not Microsoft. Vendors supply any "non-generic" driver that becomes available on the Microsoft site, and it is most likely that the vendor didn't match the hardware/driver properly, not Microsoft.
Well M$ staff should have verified the driver before they allowed it to be put on their web site, shouldn't they?
Windows update is handy, but it's not always very smart.
Right which is why it is useful know how to determine the make and model number of your peice of hardware. You can then determine which driver to install yourself, instead of relying on some ineptly designed program made by an evil corporation to do that for you!
Make yourself a spear, go somewhere remote in the Amazon basin and see if you can catch a few fish, without being eating or stung by anything or starving to death. THEN you can start lecturing others on nature.
Clearly that is impossible. Most of humanity has lost the technological skills and knowledge to be able to survive and thrive in the wilderness areas.
Furthermore I don't hate technology, I tolerate it. And I wasn't trolling I was just trying to get people to question the benefits of technology and its consequences for human happiness, and where it will ultimatly lead us.
A subculture of people who refuse to take part in these "biotechnological advances" who will be shunned by those who did take part in some dramatically huge advancement.
They would probably be outlawed by legislation, hunted down and locked up in Guantanamo Bay.
I only see technological developments resulting in more an more human misery for the majority of humanity.
Humanity is becoming more and more disconected from the natural environment we evolved in the more we try to modify that environment.
Biotechnological "advances" will result in the extinction of the human speces in 100 years or so.
The American system allows industry to flourish better then anywhere else in the world.
Maybe the reason it has been flourishing is because it relies on exploitation of the resources of other countries. ie human resources in this case, through the H1B visa program.
The system that you seem to love so much is the same system that invented the H1B visa program.
It will stifle innovation, raise the entry bar for programmers
Not only that, but it could raise the entry bar for people that want to post comments to online discussions.
If Palladium is allowed to come to its fruition, participation in online discussions such as these could be restricted to those that have been granted an "Approved Online Commentator's License". Possibly these licenses could only be purchased from the large media empires like Newscorp. What a nightmare of a world that would be.