not sure what happened it only grabbed the first part of my comment..
As it is, women should have no say in the father's wallet and his choice, the same way he has no say in hers. This bit of technology won't change this inequality because it is a cornerstone in feminists' desire to control men and their access to sex.
Men offer just a bit more to human culture than just sperm. Unfortunately modern feminism has been entwining misandry into society for the last 30 years or so under the guise of 'liberating' women. Today it's so bad that we have grown men running around with adolescent insecurities and requisite self-loathing that goes with it. We have had dozens of tv shows and countless musicians completely dedicated to ridiculing and stereotyping men. What would happen if we produced a show called 'Gals with Cars' or 'Gals with Computers'.. would that pass muster with the feminists? I doubt it, but 'Guys with Kids' is perfectly alright. It's sad and maddeningly hypocritical.
1. most feminists in high places want artificial wombs and sperm.. they want to see the end of men. I'm talking about the kind of people who've been huffing so much ivy league vacuum in the tower that they are completely out of it. Unfortunately these are the people who lead feminist agendas in politics.
2. Just because you are a transgender, a woman, a non-white person, what have you, does NOT mean you are entitled to things. You want respect? earn it. You want wealth? earn it. You want to be in a special protected class where you can wear your issues on your shoulder to play the victim when you don't get your way, while others not in the group are labeled bigots? Sorry, you can't have that and have equality or a free society at the same time. Get a skin, and get some self respect. only then will others truly respect you. The petulant whining of gays/women and other so-labeled 'minorities' makes them look like children to the rest of us.. You know, just like the religious whackjobs on the right who want the state to push their crap on us all?
It's both. It's anti-white because they're held to higher standards so they have to work harder for the same grade, and it's anti-not-white because those groups get to skate by.. it's bullshit cultural marxism at its worst.
tee fuckin' hee.. now make a joke about asians or blacks and watch yourself get modded into oblivion by racist slashdot moderators who think they're 'fighting racism' by modding the latter down.
just wait until you wet your noodle on capacitive/inductive AC where watts is watts except when it's volt-amps, and efficiency is measured as a ratio between watts and volt-amps.
well yeah.. my statements include that implicitly. The specialized devices don't generally allow control over the firmware if anything because they're not meant to be general purpose computers. The difference is that in the past, these specialized devices were fixed function and unnetworked. Today it's much different and that power is being used in consumer unfriendly ways.
one other thing, I was talking about latency as well. the gpu accelerated desktops lag like hell sometimes, esp the ones in linux which are wrapped by opengl.
Just tried it with aero on and off. You are right about the cpu use. I guess in the case of the gui, it doesn't exist in the driver/library code.. It exists between the cpu and gpu somewhere. however, I tested this in 7, and lot of GDI+ was done in the cpu, at least until vista.
Yes, those routines were buggy, but they could have fixed those without introducing an almost ten fold increase in memory footprint along with other annoying design and technical aspects. There is a point were making too many stacked assumptions about the user's intellect takes the designer over the cliff. Windows 8, OSX, and gnome 3 have all reached this point.
yes, I'm well aware of this, and with that specialization comes the consumer hostile lockdown. The difference as that a dvd player (traditional ones anyway) doesn't track your play history and upload it to some assholes online who then sell the data to anyone who wants to know. The last thing I'd do is plug my tv into the internet, esp if it's got a camera on it. Since I can't easily control the software, I'm at the whim of the 'quality' code running on the device which was probably coded by underpaid indians or koreans.. No thanks. That ethernet jack is never getting a route to the internet. This is all far far worse than the aggregates the cable company gets from tracking stats with the cable box.
No, before long, all your data will be on the network somewhere, where it is beholden to the auspices and behavioral expectations of the ASP, the ISP, and of course, the state. Your only interaction will be that of access, not control. This access will be closely monitored and I can guarantee any action taken that is antithetical to the interests of the above will result in the related data erased and possibly your account terminated...or worse, jailtime. There are a lot of scary trends in place that make these statements less paranoid sounding every day, so don't bother retorting it as such.
The upgrade from the floppy to removable hds and then to flash was not riddled with middle men grabbing control and passing it off as convenience along the way. That's the difference. Since you agree with some of this perhaps you can throw away that initial fallacious argument. In many ways the 1990s were about computers as tools of individual empowerment. Today, they're becoming more and more the tools of enslavement.
It may look 'smoother', but the latency is much higher. I suspect the culprit is that every time a window is moved, a button clicked, or animation played, the pile of code that executes on the cpu compared with the old GDI+ (or X11 software blitter) interface is monstrous. It's enough that I actually notice the difference, even on modern gpus. The cpu ends up doing more work rendering the desktop with modern graphics stacks than it does doing GDI+ on the cpu with simple primitives accel on the gpu. This is with animations turned off btw (and I still can't get that damned login/out fade in/out disabled with win7).
Unfortunately, what has happened is that the old win2k/xp style interface on vista/7 is actually slower than aero! Supposedly they took out the GDI+ acceleration in vista, forcing the cpu to do all of it, then added it back in with win7, but the latency is still there. The layout has suffered as well. At least with X11 I can run the old blitter and it works fine.
and 95% of the reason it's sitting in the landfill is because of useless, forced obsolescence created by software that takes a lot more resources yet fails to give valid reasons why. The technical reason of course is that more and more of the stack is being coded in bulky interpreted languages and/or is just sloppy (you know, the old 'you have the memory so why not use it' mentality). The other 5% is for situations where your application actually needs more cpu/ram.
Argument from antiquity. Just because something's old doesn't mean it's worse than the new. Most evolution is littered with tradeoffs. I"m not sure the tradeoffs one gets with using vista/7/8 over 2k/xp are worth it, nor do I think the actual improvements brought vista/7/8 necessarily depend on the drawbacks.
See, to me, app stores are anathema to everything a desktop computer (and personal computing) stands for. For me, microsoft would win big points giving us a desktop that can be used for literally anything. They were on their way with the 2k to 7 interface, but now they've rolled it all back with 8. I outgrew fisher price long ago. I have no desire to relive those days.
Who cares about all this when the UI gets in the way of basic desktop functionality while managing to also get in the way of every established workflow from the last 20 years? The rest of what you're talking about fits into a service pack.
1. It's just that she's used to a particular toolset. Linux offers competent toolsets to do what she does. They're just different from what she knows. This is different from not having the tools at all or even having less adequate ones. In the latter context, there are plenty of examples where all operating systems need work.
2. Aesthetics are subjective. I find aero to be gaudy and ugly. The older win2k/nt4 look was much cleaner and faster. Layout wise, it was far superior as well. Windows 8 borders on useless except for extremely simple tasks. I also find OSX and linux gpu accelerated desktops to be slow and ugly too. Seriously, I don't want all these needed fades and transisions and other stupid shit. I want it to respond. Instantly. That's just me.
3. microsoft is making 11.1 exclusive to windows 8 because they know that gamers panned it and they're trying to force them. Vendors need to realize that if their old products appeal to consumers more than their new ones, forcing their hands isn't going to make people rush out and buy. It makes them resentful.
because some of us don't want separate devices for every task and we like the enhancements powerful hardware brings to them? We've been using one machine for a lot of things since 1993 and we'd like to continue doing so.
people like you are common these days. I don't get that. by 'like you' I mean people who define differing opinions or even critical thinking as 'negative' when you don't agree with it and disregard them on that basis. Not only that, but your only defense of gnome3 is a preference for one tiny specific feature? It's sloppy thinking.
1. it's ok to have an opinion 2. it's ok to express that opinion regardless how it impacts others' feelings. 3. free doesn't exempt something from critique
some people are like that. they're not all american. it's human nature. most of it reflects real market forces. it's charge high prices or turn customers away. either way few get fuel because there isn't enough to go around.
1. need doesn't translate into entitlement. 2. These last three storms (irene, sandy, and that nor'easter we had) should be convincing americans in general that this march towards centralization of command and control (FEMA, DHS etc) is a BAD idea. we should be moving towards distributed/self sufficiency as much as possible. of course this isn't what the ideologues in DC want..
I sincerely hope that you come out of this unscathed, but perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here as well. don't wait for the next disaster to stock up on gasoline or assume it will be available. Figure out a way to heat at least one room in your home without depending on fossil fuels or electricity. It doesn't have to be comfortable, but it does have to keep you alive.
well if they're charging too much and gas is plentifully available from other sources, they won't get much business. if there's no other source, and their price maximizes the number of buys and the amount per purchase, then it's the right price.
the problem is that fuel cost is murderously folded, spindled and mutilated to the point of absurdity, by the speculators and by the state.. it's bullshit.
1. highly automated plant = few new jobs and more competition for local companies who will then automate their plants.. 2. last thing I want is to be taught in engrish how to snap two pieces of plastic together without leaving prints.
The real question is this: do we want to live like the chinese do? if so, roll out the carpet like we're doing and let them come in and rebuild our society in their image with the force of economics. If not, for fucks sake get them out of here!
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not sure what happened it only grabbed the first part of my comment..
As it is, women should have no say in the father's wallet and his choice, the same way he has no say in hers. This bit of technology won't change this inequality because it is a cornerstone in feminists' desire to control men and their access to sex.
Men offer just a bit more to human culture than just sperm. Unfortunately modern feminism has been entwining misandry into society for the last 30 years or so under the guise of 'liberating' women. Today it's so bad that we have grown men running around with adolescent insecurities and requisite self-loathing that goes with it. We have had dozens of tv shows and countless musicians completely dedicated to ridiculing and stereotyping men. What would happen if we produced a show called 'Gals with Cars' or 'Gals with Computers'.. would that pass muster with the feminists? I doubt it, but 'Guys with Kids' is perfectly alright. It's sad and maddeningly hypocritical.
1. most feminists in high places want artificial wombs and sperm.. they want to see the end of men. I'm talking about the kind of people who've been huffing so much ivy league vacuum in the tower that they are completely out of it. Unfortunately these are the people who lead feminist agendas in politics.
2. Just because you are a transgender, a woman, a non-white person, what have you, does NOT mean you are entitled to things. You want respect? earn it. You want wealth? earn it. You want to be in a special protected class where you can wear your issues on your shoulder to play the victim when you don't get your way, while others not in the group are labeled bigots? Sorry, you can't have that and have equality or a free society at the same time. Get a skin, and get some self respect. only then will others truly respect you. The petulant whining of gays/women and other so-labeled 'minorities' makes them look like children to the rest of us.. You know, just like the religious whackjobs on the right who want the state to push their crap on us all?
It's both. It's anti-white because they're held to higher standards so they have to work harder for the same grade, and it's anti-not-white because those groups get to skate by.. it's bullshit cultural marxism at its worst.
tee fuckin' hee.. now make a joke about asians or blacks and watch yourself get modded into oblivion by racist slashdot moderators who think they're 'fighting racism' by modding the latter down.
just wait until you wet your noodle on capacitive/inductive AC where watts is watts except when it's volt-amps, and efficiency is measured as a ratio between watts and volt-amps.
well yeah.. my statements include that implicitly. The specialized devices don't generally allow control over the firmware if anything because they're not meant to be general purpose computers. The difference is that in the past, these specialized devices were fixed function and unnetworked. Today it's much different and that power is being used in consumer unfriendly ways.
one other thing, I was talking about latency as well. the gpu accelerated desktops lag like hell sometimes, esp the ones in linux which are wrapped by opengl.
Just tried it with aero on and off. You are right about the cpu use. I guess in the case of the gui, it doesn't exist in the driver/library code.. It exists between the cpu and gpu somewhere. however, I tested this in 7, and lot of GDI+ was done in the cpu, at least until vista.
Yes, those routines were buggy, but they could have fixed those without introducing an almost ten fold increase in memory footprint along with other annoying design and technical aspects. There is a point were making too many stacked assumptions about the user's intellect takes the designer over the cliff. Windows 8, OSX, and gnome 3 have all reached this point.
yes, I'm well aware of this, and with that specialization comes the consumer hostile lockdown. The difference as that a dvd player (traditional ones anyway) doesn't track your play history and upload it to some assholes online who then sell the data to anyone who wants to know. The last thing I'd do is plug my tv into the internet, esp if it's got a camera on it. Since I can't easily control the software, I'm at the whim of the 'quality' code running on the device which was probably coded by underpaid indians or koreans.. No thanks. That ethernet jack is never getting a route to the internet. This is all far far worse than the aggregates the cable company gets from tracking stats with the cable box.
No, before long, all your data will be on the network somewhere, where it is beholden to the auspices and behavioral expectations of the ASP, the ISP, and of course, the state. Your only interaction will be that of access, not control. This access will be closely monitored and I can guarantee any action taken that is antithetical to the interests of the above will result in the related data erased and possibly your account terminated...or worse, jailtime. There are a lot of scary trends in place that make these statements less paranoid sounding every day, so don't bother retorting it as such.
The upgrade from the floppy to removable hds and then to flash was not riddled with middle men grabbing control and passing it off as convenience along the way. That's the difference. Since you agree with some of this perhaps you can throw away that initial fallacious argument. In many ways the 1990s were about computers as tools of individual empowerment. Today, they're becoming more and more the tools of enslavement.
It may look 'smoother', but the latency is much higher. I suspect the culprit is that every time a window is moved, a button clicked, or animation played, the pile of code that executes on the cpu compared with the old GDI+ (or X11 software blitter) interface is monstrous. It's enough that I actually notice the difference, even on modern gpus. The cpu ends up doing more work rendering the desktop with modern graphics stacks than it does doing GDI+ on the cpu with simple primitives accel on the gpu. This is with animations turned off btw (and I still can't get that damned login/out fade in/out disabled with win7).
Unfortunately, what has happened is that the old win2k/xp style interface on vista/7 is actually slower than aero! Supposedly they took out the GDI+ acceleration in vista, forcing the cpu to do all of it, then added it back in with win7, but the latency is still there. The layout has suffered as well. At least with X11 I can run the old blitter and it works fine.
and 95% of the reason it's sitting in the landfill is because of useless, forced obsolescence created by software that takes a lot more resources yet fails to give valid reasons why. The technical reason of course is that more and more of the stack is being coded in bulky interpreted languages and/or is just sloppy (you know, the old 'you have the memory so why not use it' mentality). The other 5% is for situations where your application actually needs more cpu/ram.
Argument from antiquity. Just because something's old doesn't mean it's worse than the new. Most evolution is littered with tradeoffs. I"m not sure the tradeoffs one gets with using vista/7/8 over 2k/xp are worth it, nor do I think the actual improvements brought vista/7/8 necessarily depend on the drawbacks.
See, to me, app stores are anathema to everything a desktop computer (and personal computing) stands for. For me, microsoft would win big points giving us a desktop that can be used for literally anything. They were on their way with the 2k to 7 interface, but now they've rolled it all back with 8. I outgrew fisher price long ago. I have no desire to relive those days.
sure because 99% of the code is the same.
Who cares about all this when the UI gets in the way of basic desktop functionality while managing to also get in the way of every established workflow from the last 20 years? The rest of what you're talking about fits into a service pack.
Wasn't julie larson the one behind metro?
1. It's just that she's used to a particular toolset. Linux offers competent toolsets to do what she does. They're just different from what she knows. This is different from not having the tools at all or even having less adequate ones. In the latter context, there are plenty of examples where all operating systems need work.
2. Aesthetics are subjective. I find aero to be gaudy and ugly. The older win2k/nt4 look was much cleaner and faster. Layout wise, it was far superior as well. Windows 8 borders on useless except for extremely simple tasks. I also find OSX and linux gpu accelerated desktops to be slow and ugly too. Seriously, I don't want all these needed fades and transisions and other stupid shit. I want it to respond. Instantly. That's just me.
3. microsoft is making 11.1 exclusive to windows 8 because they know that gamers panned it and they're trying to force them. Vendors need to realize that if their old products appeal to consumers more than their new ones, forcing their hands isn't going to make people rush out and buy. It makes them resentful.
because some of us don't want separate devices for every task and we like the enhancements powerful hardware brings to them? We've been using one machine for a lot of things since 1993 and we'd like to continue doing so.
people like you are common these days. I don't get that. by 'like you' I mean people who define differing opinions or even critical thinking as 'negative' when you don't agree with it and disregard them on that basis. Not only that, but your only defense of gnome3 is a preference for one tiny specific feature? It's sloppy thinking.
1. it's ok to have an opinion
2. it's ok to express that opinion regardless how it impacts others' feelings.
3. free doesn't exempt something from critique
some people are like that. they're not all american. it's human nature. most of it reflects real market forces. it's charge high prices or turn customers away. either way few get fuel because there isn't enough to go around.
1. need doesn't translate into entitlement.
2. These last three storms (irene, sandy, and that nor'easter we had) should be convincing americans in general that this march towards centralization of command and control (FEMA, DHS etc) is a BAD idea. we should be moving towards distributed/self sufficiency as much as possible. of course this isn't what the ideologues in DC want..
I sincerely hope that you come out of this unscathed, but perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here as well. don't wait for the next disaster to stock up on gasoline or assume it will be available. Figure out a way to heat at least one room in your home without depending on fossil fuels or electricity. It doesn't have to be comfortable, but it does have to keep you alive.
who decides 'correct' use? some overpaid apparatchik in a government building in another state? ..or the person buying the damned gas?
well if they're charging too much and gas is plentifully available from other sources, they won't get much business. if there's no other source, and their price maximizes the number of buys and the amount per purchase, then it's the right price.
the problem is that fuel cost is murderously folded, spindled and mutilated to the point of absurdity, by the speculators and by the state.. it's bullshit.
1. highly automated plant = few new jobs and more competition for local companies who will then automate their plants..
2. last thing I want is to be taught in engrish how to snap two pieces of plastic together without leaving prints.
The real question is this: do we want to live like the chinese do? if so, roll out the carpet like we're doing and let them come in and rebuild our society in their image with the force of economics. If not, for fucks sake get them out of here!
or just raise your middle finger(s) to tabletOS-on-desktop systems and go find a real computer to get work done on.