I wish europeans would stop labeling americans as idiotic fools. The last thing we need is more laws protecting americans from themselves. That just makes it worse.
oh shut up.. this reads like a NYT editorial piece, minus the grammar and overstuffed vocabulary. If NK started anything, the war would be quite short. I doubt even china would back them at this point. They're beholden to the US consumer just as much as the USA is in love with cheap garbage.
ati pulled that shit with quake3 and their radeon 9000 series, and nvidia pulled that with 3dmark and their geforce 5/fx line. They were outed both times. This doesn't happen anymore. Now, they do optimize for specific applications and that is bad because optimizing for corner cases has a history of breaking basic functionality elsewhere.
That is ancient and irrelevant after the geforce 7 era, as it was fixed for these cards. Today both chipsets give very similar results. The problem lies in quality drivers. radeon drivers are riddled with rendering bugs when used with anything but the 'latest' games they were 'optimized' (patched up) to work with. They're also BSOD trigger happy. While not perfect, nvidia's drivers behave far better, to the point where I'd rather have a previous generation nvidia card in my machine than the latest ati/amd.
It has so far been overblown only because it is just now becoming a real threat. This is mainly due to the introduction of new platforms that have become insanely popular. Think about it. All the new computing devices we have are, for the most part, locked out of the box...and while most people don't care to mess with their devices, they're still affected negatively because they do benefit from the efforts of those who do.
1. thoroughly wash your bedsheets (or get new ones) 2. throw out your mattress, and any carpeting underneath 3. thoroughly vaccum the frame 4. buy new matress 5. learn personal hygiene. 6. most important: lose the neckbeard
reading comments like yours also show how shills deliberately misstate the problem with strawman arguments and then attack them with gusto.. you go girl!
I"ve seen plenty of brand/whitebox store bought machines that fail to function.. usually it's because it's loaded with all kinds of trial crapware (again more advertising) which makes the desktop experience all but unusable. I've made a lot of money just formatting new machines for people. whatever 'you' charge, it sure as hell isn't worth it to the end user if this is the typical out of box experience..
1. 'monetizers' need to be much more reliable about protecting privacy and preventing leaks. 2. and the irony of that is that the user with the ad blocker paid for his bandwidth, so why should he have to pay for the 'monetizer's bandwidth too, on top of letting the 'monetizers'' javascript rip through his cookies cache and other private information? the internet isn't cable tv. get over it. we're not obligated to make anyone any money whatsoever. put the content behind a paywall if they want to get paid for it. If it's really 'that' valuable, they'll make money. If not, which is infinitely more likely, then too bad. If they can't figure out how to make money on the internet, they can go get real job making quantifiable property that can actually be sold in the real sense of the word.
well I think it's time to take more unilateral measures.. in either direction. Of course, our politicians are panty waisted little girls who just seem to compromise this country out of solutions so that none of them have to take a risk. Long term risk adverse leadership is worse than a hitler or stalin.
We should declare war via congress on countries that passive aggressively support terror for instance..or pull out entirely, close all bases and walk away. That means no more aid, even civilian humanitarian aid, from the US. If we do declare war, have a submarine come into range every so often and lob a cruise missile at a random mosque during prayer hour. No need for crazy force commitments or military budgets. Just keep doing it until they knock it off.
I've really had it with the middle east cultureclub and I just don't care about them anymore. I'm tired of their politics taking center stage in MY country's politics. They've been hassling each other for the last 2000 years. Enough already. Grow up or get the fuck back to that 1st century hell hole they want to drag the rest of the world back to.
except that it doesn't really care about the citizens it's supposed to represent. It's too busy selling out to industries that want their false scarcity scams propped up as well as law enforcement lobbies who think their personal convenience is more important than protecting civil liberties.
It might be worse other places, but it's getting worse here, and that's a bad thing.
Just because something is worse somewhere else doesn't mean we should ignore it GETTING worse at home. I see a lot of wingnuts (right and left) here in the states pull this crap to defend their cherished parties. It's bullshit.
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Defending ourselves from ever increasing government encroachment is NOT a 'hobby' we can do without.
You go girl.. Your arrogance is astounding.. You have no right to speak for me or anyone else. Quit playing the 'savior' for positive moderation.
In these cases, the perpetrators are quite motivated. If there were no guns available, they'd use something else.
Well hey in most of these shooting cases, if there were no guns available, something else would've been used.
I wish europeans would stop labeling americans as idiotic fools. The last thing we need is more laws protecting americans from themselves. That just makes it worse.
uh.. no, it's not. The last thing we need is to enable more target-rich zones.
a diablotek is also likely to die and take your expensive computer with it.
oh shut up.. this reads like a NYT editorial piece, minus the grammar and overstuffed vocabulary. If NK started anything, the war would be quite short. I doubt even china would back them at this point. They're beholden to the US consumer just as much as the USA is in love with cheap garbage.
"uhh huhuhuh and that was the first time a teacher was shot into space. huhuhuhuh"
"that was cool heheheh"
Oh noes.. the UN might write us a letter telling us how angry they are..
pff.. why when they can just send up the X302 to blow it out of the sky?
or nuclear weapons/power programs..
ati pulled that shit with quake3 and their radeon 9000 series, and nvidia pulled that with 3dmark and their geforce 5/fx line. They were outed both times. This doesn't happen anymore. Now, they do optimize for specific applications and that is bad because optimizing for corner cases has a history of breaking basic functionality elsewhere.
PCI isn't the 'cpu bus' but yes they were relatively fast for 2D stuff at the time..
That is ancient and irrelevant after the geforce 7 era, as it was fixed for these cards. Today both chipsets give very similar results. The problem lies in quality drivers. radeon drivers are riddled with rendering bugs when used with anything but the 'latest' games they were 'optimized' (patched up) to work with. They're also BSOD trigger happy. While not perfect, nvidia's drivers behave far better, to the point where I'd rather have a previous generation nvidia card in my machine than the latest ati/amd.
yeah..at 1/10th (or whatever) the performance, which would be substantially slower on linus' 386 at the time.
It has so far been overblown only because it is just now becoming a real threat. This is mainly due to the introduction of new platforms that have become insanely popular. Think about it. All the new computing devices we have are, for the most part, locked out of the box. ..and while most people don't care to mess with their devices, they're still affected negatively because they do benefit from the efforts of those who do.
1. thoroughly wash your bedsheets (or get new ones)
2. throw out your mattress, and any carpeting underneath
3. thoroughly vaccum the frame
4. buy new matress
5. learn personal hygiene.
6. most important: lose the neckbeard
I'm not worried. Why would I want ads in my applications? These web 2.0 idiots need to stop trying to take control of my computer away from me.
reading comments like yours also show how shills deliberately misstate the problem with strawman arguments and then attack them with gusto.. you go girl!
I"ve seen plenty of brand/whitebox store bought machines that fail to function.. usually it's because it's loaded with all kinds of trial crapware (again more advertising) which makes the desktop experience all but unusable. I've made a lot of money just formatting new machines for people. whatever 'you' charge, it sure as hell isn't worth it to the end user if this is the typical out of box experience..
1. 'monetizers' need to be much more reliable about protecting privacy and preventing leaks.
2. and the irony of that is that the user with the ad blocker paid for his bandwidth, so why should he have to pay for the 'monetizer's bandwidth too, on top of letting the 'monetizers'' javascript rip through his cookies cache and other private information? the internet isn't cable tv. get over it. we're not obligated to make anyone any money whatsoever. put the content behind a paywall if they want to get paid for it. If it's really 'that' valuable, they'll make money. If not, which is infinitely more likely, then too bad. If they can't figure out how to make money on the internet, they can go get real job making quantifiable property that can actually be sold in the real sense of the word.
uh, why?
well I think it's time to take more unilateral measures.. in either direction. Of course, our politicians are panty waisted little girls who just seem to compromise this country out of solutions so that none of them have to take a risk. Long term risk adverse leadership is worse than a hitler or stalin.
We should declare war via congress on countries that passive aggressively support terror for instance..or pull out entirely, close all bases and walk away. That means no more aid, even civilian humanitarian aid, from the US. If we do declare war, have a submarine come into range every so often and lob a cruise missile at a random mosque during prayer hour. No need for crazy force commitments or military budgets. Just keep doing it until they knock it off.
I've really had it with the middle east cultureclub and I just don't care about them anymore. I'm tired of their politics taking center stage in MY country's politics. They've been hassling each other for the last 2000 years. Enough already. Grow up or get the fuck back to that 1st century hell hole they want to drag the rest of the world back to.
except that it doesn't really care about the citizens it's supposed to represent. It's too busy selling out to industries that want their false scarcity scams propped up as well as law enforcement lobbies who think their personal convenience is more important than protecting civil liberties.
It might be worse other places, but it's getting worse here, and that's a bad thing.
Just because something is worse somewhere else doesn't mean we should ignore it GETTING worse at home. I see a lot of wingnuts (right and left) here in the states pull this crap to defend their cherished parties. It's bullshit.