Seems arbitrary to me. It shouldn't be difficult to maintain the extra package as the code is largely the same anyway. The only thing that changes from 2k/xp to vista/7/8 is the kernel module itself, a tiny part of the whole driver.
Lots of people still use XP, supported or not, and it's stupid to not support the platform even past the OEM's due date. AMD's customer isn't microsoft, it's the people using hardware with their gpus.
well, if he had bought it from her, he would've taken money out of the pocket of that 55yo male salesman at the other dealer. How is that any better? While I think he lacks a bit of self control if a woman as described could affect his judgment to such a degree, at least he had the self awareness to realize the situation and back out of it. Most people have neither the former or the latter.
That's basically what happens, but today's graphics cards require large amounts of address space and low latency IO, and the kernel module bypasses the kernel userspace stuff that requires excess copying along the way. Also, things like power management support are handled via the kernel, and if KMS is used, the kernel supports a fully accelerated, native resolution system console.
However, the bulk of the 3D driver is in userspace already as mesa regardless of video hardware. Nvidia ships a modified binary-only mesa libGL and their module does not support KMS.
The best way to make it easy to capture video from a game is for the developers to add demo record/playback capabilities in their titles. Many games already support this. In windows, they can be run (with a command to load the demo) through something like kkapture which wraps the timing, gfx, and sound apis and captures the output to a codec of your choice (I use lagarith). From there, edit the file as you please. The framerate can be set, and as the game thinks it's always time to render the next frame, it runs as fast as your leftover CPU cycles can encode and you lose no frames. It's a perfect capture.
kkapture is a free opensource utility written by ryg, a member of the demo group farbrausch. He originally wrote it to capture the output from win32 demos, but it works for many games too. http://www.farb-rausch.de/~fg/kkapture/
yes..and of course, black people don't insult white people right? white US citizens don't have their president telling them 'republicans' to get to the back of the bus?
I'd feel like I feel about neo nazis.. they're nuts... I would not think they're criminals. The irony is here is that the NAACP and SPLC (in the USA) are responsible for far more racism in culture today than any current gen neo-nazi. They have far more political power and influence. With that in mind, it's easy to see why everyone should have the right to express their opinions and arguments openly. That is the cornerstone of a free society. Jailing people for saying dumb things is tyrannical.
Regarding your other points, yes, there is racism in any country, and the European ones are no exception, but compared to the US, the situtation is a lot better in a lot of European countries.
due to oppressive law that can send you to prison for a simple insult, and the lack of free speech. I'll bet there's just as much racism there as in the US..it's just vocalized less.
So if he didn't give any secrets to foreign powers, how is he a traitor? All he did then was alert the american public to the illegal activities of their federal government. Why is this a bad thing?
It's unlikely he did this. Smear campaigns are all too common.. Another favorite is getting sweden to pay some random girls to accuse 'traitors' of rape in an attempt to sully their name in the public eye.
It's not like other countries don't have security agencies that spy on the US. Regardless of what country you're from, you've got no right to complain since it probably hasn't even adopted the US constitution as law.
The problem is that the term troll is now thrown around by oversensitive moderators/operators to silence people who offer alternative opinions, whether they be well reasoned or not. This is not trolling, period. Trolling is a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation. However, a troll only has as much power as you let him have. Moderator or user, both can deny the troll his power by sticking to rational arguments, correct facts, and the truth. See a post that pisses you off? Don't censor him, respond! As long as this concept is held in esteem, the only people the troll will piss off are the irrational users who are too embedded in their guilds to care (politics, cars, computing etc all have these). Just dont worry about them. It's not worth punching a hole into free speech that'll just get widened to the point where the forum becomes useless; where the whole site is sliced up into separate guilds that the administrators appease with nonsensical bans on certain terms or subjects because they're afraid to lose users.
slashdot suffers from this too, with people abusing the 'troll' moderation to knock down positions they don't agree with. It's the electronic equivalent of an ad hominem.
They might, but it's not the end of the world. See, there are men out there who care more about achieving something greater than just getting laid a maximum number of times.
When you say 'just saying', it suggests you don't really believe the legitimacy of your own statement.
1. crowded downtown urban areas should just ban cars altogether. automated cars aren't going to make things any better if it's always a gridlock.
2. most of the ancillary costs of car ownership are artificially imposed as it is. we should work on fixing this instead of atrophying the ability for the average citizen to own a car (or anything else really).
People are too stupid to have the freedom of their own cars.
People like you are too stupid to have freedom. Please go move to china or something. This 'save me from reality' culture is toxic to liberty.
at the expense of millions' agency, liberties, autonomy, and privacy? No thanks. Something as situationally complex as driving is not easily translatable into logical assumptions. there are too many variables to track, many of which do not even have heuristics developed yet. A computer might react faster than a human, but it'll just as quickly cause a massive accident if it gets the situational context wrong.
Well the autonomous train problem is a lot simpler, and it still hasn't been done successfully. Lets fix this one first...and you can bet it'll have a kill switch and audio/video monitoring...and since it's not your car, you can't disable it.
I understand, but with the loss of the ability of the average citizen to own most of what he sinks his money into, his life becomes more and more like a treadmill because of the loss of control. Being subject to the whims of the 'remote car' industry for the commute every morning would be yet another example. It's bad enough that employers already blame employees for the vagaries of traffic patterns. (why are you 10 minutes late? well, leave earlier next time!) Now that he has no control over speed, direction, or even departure time, the employee is even further upstream...
Most of the ancillary costs of car ownership are artificially imposed (taxes, on ownership, fuel, etc) and don't necessarily have to be there (or as high). Regardless of what it is or does, devices designed to serve the first (as opposed to ones that serve society's first) are the better deal for keeping free societies free.
Using waste as a justification is a slippery slope argument. We can 'live' in mud huts, grubbing insects out of the ground for food, but is life really worth it at that point?
All the new technology is coming with DMRM - digital meatspace rights management, built right in. It's not just microsoft vs the GPL anymore. Software is the key to the seller/authorities retaining control over the computer controlled devices you 'buy.'
Self reliance is dying a slow death as the population embraces consumer hostile 'convenience.'
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Seems arbitrary to me. It shouldn't be difficult to maintain the extra package as the code is largely the same anyway. The only thing that changes from 2k/xp to vista/7/8 is the kernel module itself, a tiny part of the whole driver.
Lots of people still use XP, supported or not, and it's stupid to not support the platform even past the OEM's due date. AMD's customer isn't microsoft, it's the people using hardware with their gpus.
actually..it is.. sadly enough.
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html
Get some self control? Even the amount a typical 14yo boy would have would be sufficient.
well, if he had bought it from her, he would've taken money out of the pocket of that 55yo male salesman at the other dealer. How is that any better? While I think he lacks a bit of self control if a woman as described could affect his judgment to such a degree, at least he had the self awareness to realize the situation and back out of it. Most people have neither the former or the latter.
That's basically what happens, but today's graphics cards require large amounts of address space and low latency IO, and the kernel module bypasses the kernel userspace stuff that requires excess copying along the way. Also, things like power management support are handled via the kernel, and if KMS is used, the kernel supports a fully accelerated, native resolution system console.
However, the bulk of the 3D driver is in userspace already as mesa regardless of video hardware. Nvidia ships a modified binary-only mesa libGL and their module does not support KMS.
The best way to make it easy to capture video from a game is for the developers to add demo record/playback capabilities in their titles. Many games already support this. In windows, they can be run (with a command to load the demo) through something like kkapture which wraps the timing, gfx, and sound apis and captures the output to a codec of your choice (I use lagarith). From there, edit the file as you please. The framerate can be set, and as the game thinks it's always time to render the next frame, it runs as fast as your leftover CPU cycles can encode and you lose no frames. It's a perfect capture.
kkapture is a free opensource utility written by ryg, a member of the demo group farbrausch. He originally wrote it to capture the output from win32 demos, but it works for many games too.
http://www.farb-rausch.de/~fg/kkapture/
That's the issue: the constitution is no longer respected or upheld by DC. It's just gotten around or propped up as needed to justify some action.
yes..and of course, black people don't insult white people right? white US citizens don't have their president telling them 'republicans' to get to the back of the bus?
The occasional insult is not oppression.
I'd feel like I feel about neo nazis.. they're nuts... I would not think they're criminals. The irony is here is that the NAACP and SPLC (in the USA) are responsible for far more racism in culture today than any current gen neo-nazi. They have far more political power and influence. With that in mind, it's easy to see why everyone should have the right to express their opinions and arguments openly. That is the cornerstone of a free society. Jailing people for saying dumb things is tyrannical.
Regarding your other points, yes, there is racism in any country, and the European ones are no exception,
but compared to the US, the situtation is a lot better in a lot of European countries.
due to oppressive law that can send you to prison for a simple insult, and the lack of free speech. I'll bet there's just as much racism there as in the US..it's just vocalized less.
questioning? no. Paying off a few random girls to accuse him of sexual assault in a hugely pro feminist country like sweden? yes.
So if he didn't give any secrets to foreign powers, how is he a traitor? All he did then was alert the american public to the illegal activities of their federal government. Why is this a bad thing?
It's unlikely he did this. Smear campaigns are all too common.. Another favorite is getting sweden to pay some random girls to accuse 'traitors' of rape in an attempt to sully their name in the public eye.
I think he knows what sarcasm is. The issue is that it's considered a crime there.
It's not like other countries don't have security agencies that spy on the US. Regardless of what country you're from, you've got no right to complain since it probably hasn't even adopted the US constitution as law.
if that's the case.. but guess what? Regardless of that, the politicians in DC definitely are traitors. They should all be treated as such.
Knowing about it doesn't make it legal.
The problem is that the term troll is now thrown around by oversensitive moderators/operators to silence people who offer alternative opinions, whether they be well reasoned or not. This is not trolling, period. Trolling is a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation. However, a troll only has as much power as you let him have. Moderator or user, both can deny the troll his power by sticking to rational arguments, correct facts, and the truth. See a post that pisses you off? Don't censor him, respond! As long as this concept is held in esteem, the only people the troll will piss off are the irrational users who are too embedded in their guilds to care (politics, cars, computing etc all have these). Just dont worry about them. It's not worth punching a hole into free speech that'll just get widened to the point where the forum becomes useless; where the whole site is sliced up into separate guilds that the administrators appease with nonsensical bans on certain terms or subjects because they're afraid to lose users.
slashdot suffers from this too, with people abusing the 'troll' moderation to knock down positions they don't agree with. It's the electronic equivalent of an ad hominem.
They might, but it's not the end of the world. See, there are men out there who care more about achieving something greater than just getting laid a maximum number of times.
When you say 'just saying', it suggests you don't really believe the legitimacy of your own statement.
Agreed.
1. crowded downtown urban areas should just ban cars altogether. automated cars aren't going to make things any better if it's always a gridlock.
2. most of the ancillary costs of car ownership are artificially imposed as it is. we should work on fixing this instead of atrophying the ability for the average citizen to own a car (or anything else really).
People are too stupid to have the freedom of their own cars.
People like you are too stupid to have freedom. Please go move to china or something. This 'save me from reality' culture is toxic to liberty.
at the expense of millions' agency, liberties, autonomy, and privacy? No thanks. Something as situationally complex as driving is not easily translatable into logical assumptions. there are too many variables to track, many of which do not even have heuristics developed yet. A computer might react faster than a human, but it'll just as quickly cause a massive accident if it gets the situational context wrong.
Well the autonomous train problem is a lot simpler, and it still hasn't been done successfully. Lets fix this one first. ..and you can bet it'll have a kill switch and audio/video monitoring...and since it's not your car, you can't disable it.
I understand, but with the loss of the ability of the average citizen to own most of what he sinks his money into, his life becomes more and more like a treadmill because of the loss of control. Being subject to the whims of the 'remote car' industry for the commute every morning would be yet another example. It's bad enough that employers already blame employees for the vagaries of traffic patterns. (why are you 10 minutes late? well, leave earlier next time!) Now that he has no control over speed, direction, or even departure time, the employee is even further upstream...
Most of the ancillary costs of car ownership are artificially imposed (taxes, on ownership, fuel, etc) and don't necessarily have to be there (or as high). Regardless of what it is or does, devices designed to serve the first (as opposed to ones that serve society's first) are the better deal for keeping free societies free.
Using waste as a justification is a slippery slope argument. We can 'live' in mud huts, grubbing insects out of the ground for food, but is life really worth it at that point?
All the new technology is coming with DMRM - digital meatspace rights management, built right in. It's not just microsoft vs the GPL anymore. Software is the key to the seller/authorities retaining control over the computer controlled devices you 'buy.'
Self reliance is dying a slow death as the population embraces consumer hostile 'convenience.'