Many nVidia cards will run on the open and free nouveau driver. I currently run 2 monitors on 1 fanless Quadro NVS290 card, so presumably 2 cards can drive 4 monitors. It's good for my uses, but I don't run games. About $150 per card, which is excessive.
Do you not understand the word recourse? If the contractor had a license in the first place, it's not recourse. If the contractor gets a license after performing the work, he performed the work unlicensed and has no legal leverage, no recourse.
Optimization has a long way to go, and I'd guess that it's really difficult to write a good optimizer. I recently wrote a 128 bit x86 assembly cosine routine more than twice as fast as the maximally optimized libquadmath routine written in C.
Governments are also charging people for disposing of fluorescents. In my town it's $1 per bulb, as much as it costs to buy it. Or it's free if you hide it in the rest of your garbage or throw it on a neighbor's lawn. Guess what happens?
Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive, an anomaly in the Republican party. A bully and a warmonger, it's no wonder he started the National Park System. Nixon's regrettable start of the EPA came about in the following manner:
_Nixon ended the Vietnam War
_Leftists, now devoid of issues, thrashed around to find new wounds, and found environmentalism.
_Nixon undercut the leftists by forming the EPA
_The leftists temporarily dropped environmentalism like a hot potato because their most hated enemy, Nixon, supported it.
"The Individual Mandate" is and has always been a violation of liberty. That some people calling themselves conservatives at one time embraced the idea shows that they were not conservatives.
A true liberal would have pushed for a one-payer system.
It depends on what "liberal" means. If it means "classical liberal", a supporter of human rights, then the weasel word "one-payer" (i.e. government) would be rejected outright. If liberal means the modern panty-waist thief so common among Democrats, you're right.
No man supports the use of force against innocent people, to make them buy insurance or anything else.
Insurance is for cowards and those out to cheat the suppliers of insurance. Forcing people into either of those categories is profoundly immoral.
I'll ignore other flaws and focus here on a single problem
Therefore not allowing your children to learn to read and write is a violation of their rights and the government will step in to stop you.
The hidden silly assumption here is that children will learn to read and write if you just allow them to. Not so: they have to be taught, and that is the parent's responsibility.
Any error whatsoever can, through the proper use of logic and facts, be used to reach any other falsehood. That is why it is important to reject ALL untruths no matter how noble they may seem. Lies may be justified to defeat evil (such as dissuading someone trying to kill you), but to call such a lie noble is incorrect.
Religions deliberately cripple the minds of their adherents and frequently reject laws of logic in order to advance their belief system, and for that reason alone they should all be rejected. Keep in mind that religions generally consist of a story and an ethical/moral system, and that they are not known as "History and Ethics" is a big clue that they're fictions maintained to promote a hierarchy of priests.
I do not start with a belief and spend a lot of effort to defend it, although many choose to pervert their minds in that manner. I put my effort into determining what is true and integrating it with what I already know.
The base mythology of modern culture is that everyone is evil or incompetent (or both). It's not true. One problem with this mythology is that anything with a competent and good person in it is automatically judged "not profound", and art with lots of evil and incompetence is almost automatically judged "profound."
when talking about art because quality is entirely subjective.
Not true. Some aspects of a work of art's quality are objective, such as permanence. If a painting's colors shift over time because of chemical changes in pigments, or it collapses because of inferior materials in the canvas, those are aspects of poor quality. If the artist, due to lack of skill, is unable to adequately express his intentions, that is inferior quality.
The Falklands war is one of the screwier modern conflicts. The Falklands is a burden to Britain, they would have been happy just to dump it. However, the people living there wanted to remain part of Britain, for obvious reasons. Argentina, the aggressor, was the one looking for a war to to divert attention from domestic failures. Britain just isn't acting that way any more, it's well into the "bread and circuses" stage of decline. Thatcher had no need of a war; she was improving England's economy and the conflict was nothing but a drain.
Not only is a treaty to ban killer robots futile because nobody will abide by it, it's not possible to define "killer robots" in a manner that will not quickly be made obsolete by advancing technology. Intelligence is increasingly built into weapons to make them more efficient and more effective. Each such step is a nibble around the edge of the definition. Is a guided bullet a killer robot if it's designed to impact only on certain types of targets? Is an autonomous earth-mover a killer robot if it digs up the base of a big dam?
Any robot hobbyist with a semi-auto pistol can make a killer robot. It's just too easy, and no document is going to stop it.
"Other planet" treaties are examples of the silliness and hubris of mankind, especially those in government. They generally claim that space colonies are the collective property of Earth (i.e. Earth's governments.) Once these colonies are self-sufficient, these earthbound fools think they can control their colonies in the absence of any mechanism for doing so, and in the face of the opposition of the colonists.
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Humans are animals.
Many nVidia cards will run on the open and free nouveau driver. I currently run 2 monitors on 1 fanless Quadro NVS290 card, so presumably 2 cards can drive 4 monitors. It's good for my uses, but I don't run games. About $150 per card, which is excessive.
Legislature, Judicial, Executive; this is properly described by a single word: tyranny.
Do you not understand the word recourse ? If the contractor had a license in the first place, it's not recourse. If the contractor gets a license after performing the work, he performed the work unlicensed and has no legal leverage, no recourse.
So she's supposed to spend hours writing dozens of pages just to make you happy?
Citation needed. I saw no evidence in TFA that the homeowner's statements were false.
If the tail lights hadn't burned out.
Optimization has a long way to go, and I'd guess that it's really difficult to write a good optimizer. I recently wrote a 128 bit x86 assembly cosine routine more than twice as fast as the maximally optimized libquadmath routine written in C.
I don't know what portion of their staff is research, but IBM has 440,000 full-time employees, MSFT 90,000 (yahoo finance).
No, it happened because noisy, annoying people wanted it, and got legislators to respond without doing a cost-benefit study.
Governments are also charging people for disposing of fluorescents. In my town it's $1 per bulb, as much as it costs to buy it. Or it's free if you hide it in the rest of your garbage or throw it on a neighbor's lawn. Guess what happens?
Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive, an anomaly in the Republican party. A bully and a warmonger, it's no wonder he started the National Park System. Nixon's regrettable start of the EPA came about in the following manner:
_Nixon ended the Vietnam War
_Leftists, now devoid of issues, thrashed around to find new wounds, and found environmentalism.
_Nixon undercut the leftists by forming the EPA
_The leftists temporarily dropped environmentalism like a hot potato because their most hated enemy, Nixon, supported it.
"The Individual Mandate" is and has always been a violation of liberty. That some people calling themselves conservatives at one time embraced the idea shows that they were not conservatives.
It depends on what "liberal" means. If it means "classical liberal", a supporter of human rights, then the weasel word "one-payer" (i.e. government) would be rejected outright. If liberal means the modern panty-waist thief so common among Democrats, you're right.
No man supports the use of force against innocent people, to make them buy insurance or anything else.
Insurance is for cowards and those out to cheat the suppliers of insurance. Forcing people into either of those categories is profoundly immoral.
The purpose of fiat currency is to defraud the holder of the currency and advance the wellbeing of tyrants.
There are a variety of one troy ounce gold coins, currently worth about $1720 each.
All conventional nontrivial definitions of a deity involve one or more contradictions. Things with contradictory properties cannot exist. Q.E.D.
For examples, see Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God
I'll ignore other flaws and focus here on a single problem
The hidden silly assumption here is that children will learn to read and write if you just allow them to. Not so: they have to be taught, and that is the parent's responsibility.
Any error whatsoever can, through the proper use of logic and facts, be used to reach any other falsehood. That is why it is important to reject ALL untruths no matter how noble they may seem. Lies may be justified to defeat evil (such as dissuading someone trying to kill you), but to call such a lie noble is incorrect.
Religions deliberately cripple the minds of their adherents and frequently reject laws of logic in order to advance their belief system, and for that reason alone they should all be rejected. Keep in mind that religions generally consist of a story and an ethical/moral system, and that they are not known as "History and Ethics" is a big clue that they're fictions maintained to promote a hierarchy of priests.
I do not start with a belief and spend a lot of effort to defend it, although many choose to pervert their minds in that manner. I put my effort into determining what is true and integrating it with what I already know.
The base mythology of modern culture is that everyone is evil or incompetent (or both). It's not true. One problem with this mythology is that anything with a competent and good person in it is automatically judged "not profound", and art with lots of evil and incompetence is almost automatically judged "profound."
Hence the Simpsons.
Not true. Some aspects of a work of art's quality are objective, such as permanence. If a painting's colors shift over time because of chemical changes in pigments, or it collapses because of inferior materials in the canvas, those are aspects of poor quality. If the artist, due to lack of skill, is unable to adequately express his intentions, that is inferior quality.
Except when it isn't. It was used a great deal in the early years (1960s, 1970s ?) to improve turnoff time in diodes and TTL logic.
The Falklands war is one of the screwier modern conflicts. The Falklands is a burden to Britain, they would have been happy just to dump it. However, the people living there wanted to remain part of Britain, for obvious reasons. Argentina, the aggressor, was the one looking for a war to to divert attention from domestic failures. Britain just isn't acting that way any more, it's well into the "bread and circuses" stage of decline. Thatcher had no need of a war; she was improving England's economy and the conflict was nothing but a drain.
Not only is a treaty to ban killer robots futile because nobody will abide by it, it's not possible to define "killer robots" in a manner that will not quickly be made obsolete by advancing technology. Intelligence is increasingly built into weapons to make them more efficient and more effective. Each such step is a nibble around the edge of the definition. Is a guided bullet a killer robot if it's designed to impact only on certain types of targets? Is an autonomous earth-mover a killer robot if it digs up the base of a big dam?
Any robot hobbyist with a semi-auto pistol can make a killer robot. It's just too easy, and no document is going to stop it.
Nice libel. Lucky for you politicians generally can't sue.
"Other planet" treaties are examples of the silliness and hubris of mankind, especially those in government. They generally claim that space colonies are the collective property of Earth (i.e. Earth's governments.) Once these colonies are self-sufficient, these earthbound fools think they can control their colonies in the absence of any mechanism for doing so, and in the face of the opposition of the colonists.