When opengl 1.0-1.3 (and dx5/6/7) was king, gpus were fixed function rasterizers with a short list of togglable features. These days the pixel and vertex shader extensions have become the default way to program gpus, making the rest of the api obsolete. It's time for the principal vendors to rebuild the list of assumptions of what gpus can and should be doing, design an api around that, and build hardware specific drivers accordingly.
The last thing I want is another glide vs speedy3D...err I mean amd mantle vs nvidia gameworks.
I guarantee most of the media you consume on your little atmel cpu devices was created on an intel (or even amd) x86 based workstation. They are still quite relevant.
They could build in most of the reliability that comes with modern mechanical design without overdoing the plumbing. This is NOT about hipsterism..at least not for me.
Fine, get an aftermarket box and install it (or have it installed) into the double DIN slot in the car. Make sure it has gps, music, voice control and whatever else.. Replace it every 5 to 10 years instead of the whole car when the OEM computer is left in the dust.
Like I was told above, we're not part of the market demographic anymore.. Basically, if you're not a soccer mom or an aging boomer, you don't exist in today's market.
Actually, I'd rather not have the ABS. Airbags? My parents rode/drove on the roads for 40 years without them, and I spent the majority of my childhood years without them in the cars I rode in. We're all still here to tell about it. If I'm hit, it'll be hard enough that an airbag wont' make the difference..and if it does, it'll mean life as a paraplegic vs death.. I'll take death. As far as pretensioners go, they existed long before computer-assist. It's not necessary, and ones designed around the laws of physics are going to be much more reliable than the uncertainty of software these days. The best safety device is an attentive driver behind the wheel. That means no cell phone conversations or distracting video and audio cues from this idiotic featureitis.. Just me, some music, and the open road, and if it gets distracting, the music gets shut off..
I just think that today's society has been slowly conditioned to a phobomanic state.. It's afraid of the most minor things and demands crazy overcompensations for them.
Of course I'm not. I bet if the average 5'2" woman they target understood the implied risks that come from the excess complexity, they wouldn't want them as part of critical component design either.
I don't want infotainment.. I don't want apps or wifi or cell network connectivity, or ads, or remote government tracking. I don't want large lcd panels or nagging proximity beepers either. Absolutely NO microcontroller driven functionality that might decide spurious negative values mean 'floor it', 'dont turn the radio on until the car is restarted', or 'the alternator needs replacing but really doesn't.' I want simple, tactile buttons and sliders instead of touch panels and tiered menus that require visual inspection. This way I can control the basic functions of the car without taking my eyes off the road. The HVAC controls should only have three knobs for the fan speed, direction, heat level, and AC button. Also, let me open the side vents to let fresh air in even while the AC is on. I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of complexity for the radio/sound system, but that's it. In fact, design the console so I can rip the radio out and put in one of my choice without making a bigger mess out of the offensively curvy and effeminate aesthetics of the interior and dashboard. It's a dashboard, not a catwalk for the sexually ambiguous.
Speaking of aesthetics, please stop overdoing it with the curves and folds and bubble look. Kia is the worst offender, but some of the other makes are pretty bad now. Just because you can mold that plastic into any shape doesn't mean you should. It's ugly. Stop. Also, I am an average height 5'11" male with medium/largish sized hands. Please stop modeling the ergonomics for a 5'2" soccer mom with tiny hands. I'm tired of bumping the signal/wiper blade controls randomly when I turn the wheel over.
you do realize your entire post is a great criticism of feminism?
That's what feminists do.. they are plenty loud, ridiculous, professional victims who scream about being oppressed because of some nonsense articles they read, or their poor grasp of statistics. As long as they project attitudes like that into ANY industry, don't act surprised when NOONE wants anything to do with them. Their pathetic rants against conspiracy theories like patriarchy and 'rape culture' are definitely illuminating. They all sound like that red headed bitch at toronto university, anita sarkeesian, or jessica watson. Their diatribes paint men as perpetrators of conspiratorial schemes while painting women as these zero-agency perpetual victims, while at the same time demanding that men treat them as equals.
Assuming the truth is always some kind of middle ground is typical of this kind of thinking..the kind of consensus driven thinking that's going to 'compromise' this entire society right off a cliff.
If you had thicker skin, you wouldn't lump people into black and white 'good' and 'bad' zones like a 6 year old. What is my goal exactly? I've pointed out the hypocrisy of affirmative action policy and the accompanying 'identity politics.' That's not hate speech. That's stating the obvious.
Whose problem am I a part of? The people who stand to lose their political stature if the smoke and mirrors from their shaming language are stripped away? The people who are getting mandated fast tracks in life based on their race, sex, or some other attribute that isn't supposed to matter? I consider that a good thing. Despite what these social justice types think, meritocracies are a good thing, too.
I'm glad you're looking forward to it. PC apologists like you (and the politicians who support these shit policies) have little to offer besides pity parties, shaming language, and ad hominem attacks, as justification; like that last line... and that middle paragraph is a no-true-scotsman fallacy. These 'social justice warriors' call their lobbied-for, state-mandated privilege 'affirmative action' and it is par for the course in terms of action for them. They also label any criticism as bigoted 'hate speech' like you've just done here. So, yes, my notion of political correctness is right on.
I do not hate women, non whites, or anyone else. I do have political disagreements with people who expect me to kowtow to these kinds of hypocritical pity parties.
Usually this logic is used to justify removing NEEDED features and complexity in order to appeal to the mouth breather sect..or to remove features that conflict with a new business model, making the software more user hostile.
Why would these organizations switch to unknowns? If they trusted truecrypt up to this point, why not continue to trust? These closed source applications could be backdoored and there's no way of really finding out. If you think source auditing is difficult, try auditing a binary.
It was never possible to trust truecrypt or anything else with 100% certainty.
How do you know it is bullshit? Are you speaking from fact or are you also speculating? Isn't it safer to assume government compromise in this situation?
errr... "If it's not buggy, it will stay not buggy." sorry.. Obviously, if software around it changes, bugs can crop up, but technically that's not a failure of the existing software.
Just because something hasn't been updated doesn't automatically mean it's broken. Everyone's hopped on to this nonsensical upgrade treadmill. Software doesn't 'wear out.' If it's not buggy, it will stay buggy. If it's working, it will stay working.
As far as supported vs unsupported software goes, you should be assuming your system can be compromised and planning accordingly anyway, whether you get updates or not.
Well, tell that to the PC crowd that cheers all female corporations. If what you say is correct, then these traits DO matter and therefore discriminating based on them is ok. If the traits didn't matter, then the relative heterogeneity of these traits in your office would not make a difference.
Then why change the site? The old site was reasonably well written and organized. It would've been easier to post an update to that. Instead we get this bizarre layout with broken english and a half-assed release. It's far more likely that the half assed release was just the payloader to distribute the canary changes..
well if second hand computer shops and unethical civilians can crack bitlocker, then it isn't very useful at all as it implies there are master keys in the wild.
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When opengl 1.0-1.3 (and dx5/6/7) was king, gpus were fixed function rasterizers with a short list of togglable features. These days the pixel and vertex shader extensions have become the default way to program gpus, making the rest of the api obsolete. It's time for the principal vendors to rebuild the list of assumptions of what gpus can and should be doing, design an api around that, and build hardware specific drivers accordingly.
The last thing I want is another glide vs speedy3D...err I mean amd mantle vs nvidia gameworks.
I guarantee most of the media you consume on your little atmel cpu devices was created on an intel (or even amd) x86 based workstation. They are still quite relevant.
They could build in most of the reliability that comes with modern mechanical design without overdoing the plumbing. This is NOT about hipsterism..at least not for me.
Fine, get an aftermarket box and install it (or have it installed) into the double DIN slot in the car. Make sure it has gps, music, voice control and whatever else.. Replace it every 5 to 10 years instead of the whole car when the OEM computer is left in the dust.
Like I was told above, we're not part of the market demographic anymore.. Basically, if you're not a soccer mom or an aging boomer, you don't exist in today's market.
I actually agree with this. An attentive, contextually aware driver is the best safety feature, for himself and those sharing the road with him.
Actually, I'd rather not have the ABS. Airbags? My parents rode/drove on the roads for 40 years without them, and I spent the majority of my childhood years without them in the cars I rode in. We're all still here to tell about it. If I'm hit, it'll be hard enough that an airbag wont' make the difference..and if it does, it'll mean life as a paraplegic vs death.. I'll take death. As far as pretensioners go, they existed long before computer-assist. It's not necessary, and ones designed around the laws of physics are going to be much more reliable than the uncertainty of software these days. The best safety device is an attentive driver behind the wheel. That means no cell phone conversations or distracting video and audio cues from this idiotic featureitis.. Just me, some music, and the open road, and if it gets distracting, the music gets shut off..
I just think that today's society has been slowly conditioned to a phobomanic state.. It's afraid of the most minor things and demands crazy overcompensations for them.
Of course I'm not. I bet if the average 5'2" woman they target understood the implied risks that come from the excess complexity, they wouldn't want them as part of critical component design either.
I don't want infotainment.. I don't want apps or wifi or cell network connectivity, or ads, or remote government tracking. I don't want large lcd panels or nagging proximity beepers either. Absolutely NO microcontroller driven functionality that might decide spurious negative values mean 'floor it', 'dont turn the radio on until the car is restarted', or 'the alternator needs replacing but really doesn't.' I want simple, tactile buttons and sliders instead of touch panels and tiered menus that require visual inspection. This way I can control the basic functions of the car without taking my eyes off the road. The HVAC controls should only have three knobs for the fan speed, direction, heat level, and AC button. Also, let me open the side vents to let fresh air in even while the AC is on. I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of complexity for the radio/sound system, but that's it. In fact, design the console so I can rip the radio out and put in one of my choice without making a bigger mess out of the offensively curvy and effeminate aesthetics of the interior and dashboard. It's a dashboard, not a catwalk for the sexually ambiguous.
Speaking of aesthetics, please stop overdoing it with the curves and folds and bubble look. Kia is the worst offender, but some of the other makes are pretty bad now. Just because you can mold that plastic into any shape doesn't mean you should. It's ugly. Stop. Also, I am an average height 5'11" male with medium/largish sized hands. Please stop modeling the ergonomics for a 5'2" soccer mom with tiny hands. I'm tired of bumping the signal/wiper blade controls randomly when I turn the wheel over.
you do realize your entire post is a great criticism of feminism?
That's what feminists do.. they are plenty loud, ridiculous, professional victims who scream about being oppressed because of some nonsense articles they read, or their poor grasp of statistics. As long as they project attitudes like that into ANY industry, don't act surprised when NOONE wants anything to do with them. Their pathetic rants against conspiracy theories like patriarchy and 'rape culture' are definitely illuminating. They all sound like that red headed bitch at toronto university, anita sarkeesian, or jessica watson. Their diatribes paint men as perpetrators of conspiratorial schemes while painting women as these zero-agency perpetual victims, while at the same time demanding that men treat them as equals.
Assuming the truth is always some kind of middle ground is typical of this kind of thinking..the kind of consensus driven thinking that's going to 'compromise' this entire society right off a cliff.
If you had thicker skin, you wouldn't lump people into black and white 'good' and 'bad' zones like a 6 year old. What is my goal exactly? I've pointed out the hypocrisy of affirmative action policy and the accompanying 'identity politics.' That's not hate speech. That's stating the obvious.
Whose problem am I a part of? The people who stand to lose their political stature if the smoke and mirrors from their shaming language are stripped away? The people who are getting mandated fast tracks in life based on their race, sex, or some other attribute that isn't supposed to matter? I consider that a good thing. Despite what these social justice types think, meritocracies are a good thing, too.
I'm glad you're looking forward to it. PC apologists like you (and the politicians who support these shit policies) have little to offer besides pity parties, shaming language, and ad hominem attacks, as justification; like that last line... and that middle paragraph is a no-true-scotsman fallacy. These 'social justice warriors' call their lobbied-for, state-mandated privilege 'affirmative action' and it is par for the course in terms of action for them. They also label any criticism as bigoted 'hate speech' like you've just done here. So, yes, my notion of political correctness is right on.
I do not hate women, non whites, or anyone else. I do have political disagreements with people who expect me to kowtow to these kinds of hypocritical pity parties.
Fuck your experience and your integration. I'm trying to get work done. These 'User Experience' people are ruining desktop computing..
Usually this logic is used to justify removing NEEDED features and complexity in order to appeal to the mouth breather sect..or to remove features that conflict with a new business model, making the software more user hostile.
you wouldn't want truecrypt for that anyway as the linux truecrypt runs through FUSE, slowing things considerably.
Why would these organizations switch to unknowns? If they trusted truecrypt up to this point, why not continue to trust? These closed source applications could be backdoored and there's no way of really finding out. If you think source auditing is difficult, try auditing a binary.
It was never possible to trust truecrypt or anything else with 100% certainty.
How do you know it is bullshit? Are you speaking from fact or are you also speculating? Isn't it safer to assume government compromise in this situation?
Yeah. it seems reasonably well done, compared with todays 50MB 'utilities' and their huge runtimes and crazy dependencies.
errr... "If it's not buggy, it will stay not buggy." sorry.. Obviously, if software around it changes, bugs can crop up, but technically that's not a failure of the existing software.
Just because something hasn't been updated doesn't automatically mean it's broken. Everyone's hopped on to this nonsensical upgrade treadmill. Software doesn't 'wear out.' If it's not buggy, it will stay buggy. If it's working, it will stay working.
As far as supported vs unsupported software goes, you should be assuming your system can be compromised and planning accordingly anyway, whether you get updates or not.
The law doesn't define reality. It's unlikely they will come forward to sue, so the license is just a letter telling us how angry they will be.
I wouldn't want to depend on this as my usage patterns tend to kill ssds prematurely. It's nice they're getting cheaper though.
Well, tell that to the PC crowd that cheers all female corporations. If what you say is correct, then these traits DO matter and therefore discriminating based on them is ok. If the traits didn't matter, then the relative heterogeneity of these traits in your office would not make a difference.
Then why change the site? The old site was reasonably well written and organized. It would've been easier to post an update to that. Instead we get this bizarre layout with broken english and a half-assed release. It's far more likely that the half assed release was just the payloader to distribute the canary changes..
well if second hand computer shops and unethical civilians can crack bitlocker, then it isn't very useful at all as it implies there are master keys in the wild.