sex crime ACCUSATIONS that are probably false.. Sweden is practically a gynocracy at this point. At this point the US government is throwing everything they can at him to see what kind of shit will stick, and in 'soft' socialist countries, anything having to do with women is a bfd.
While it's true that there are reporters out there, their stories rarely get reported on by the CNNs and foxnews channels of the world..unless it's poltiically advantageous for the state where the channel is broadcasting. This also holds true for influential private entities.
Wikileaks is exposing corruption in the federal government just like pussy riot are with the russian government...or did you intend to push the whole 'assange is a rapist' vs 'those poor helpless women' angle? You do realize it's likely the US government pushed for those accusations, right? Talk about corruption.
..the bias shows because his initial point is that all of them are hassles to different people, then he explicitly suggests linux is a hassle by default.
If you start holding them liable, you can say goodbye to freeware and hobbyist projects.. No one will want the liability that only super corporations can afford to defend.. This will grant microsoft, apple, and the government exactly what they want.
If it's in the contract that they are liable for failures, then they are.. Obviously the contract should specify what constitutes failure.. Otherwise no liability outside of gross misrepresentation (ie the software is NOT what the vendor says it is).
the problem is, the old text modes ran at 640x400 for the most part and were rendered by the card. The framebuffer driver doesn't. KMS allows acceleration but only if there's a hardware driver for it. If you use the nvidia binary, you can't use KMS.
1. users brought their bandwidth. you brought yours. the users are not required to pay for yours too. they are not required to ensure you make money either.
2. because when you put content up on a publicly accessible server, by default you've given permission for people to pull data from it.. Once that data enters their computers, you have no say in what happens. The internet is not cable television no matter how hard marketing droids try to make it that way. It's a good thing, really.
well the problem is most 'user sponsored' public radio is biased center left because it gets a lot of its funding from the federal government. Smart listening requires one to assume that ALL outlets are biased to their self interests at the very least, and are also likely using their pulpits to push their brand of politics.
actually advertising models are the best way to ensure the broadest most 'accessible' programming possible because advertisers want the most eyeballs possible. It is not what we need.. we need narrower, more focused, deeper entertainment targeted at different audiences.. Almost all of tv is targeted at the bottom barrel commonalities to ensure wide adoption, and it results in the most bland, boring programming imaginable.
Real text mode is quite fast because all the kernel has to do is push bytes at an IO port and the video card takes care of the rest. The framebuffer is slow because there is no way to accelerate blitting without interfering with the X11 driver. There are drivers in the kernel that offer partial acceleration, but because of this limitation they aren't used much. It might be possible to alleviate some of this with sse-enhanced routines, but in the end, spamming the console in framebuffer mode would still seriously impact performance of the rest of the machine, say during a software build or 'tail -f' on a fast moving log.
in character mode, the kernel command line 'vga' can alter the mode. to get a list of available modes use vga=? 0 is 80x25 1 is 80x50 which is what I use.. the rest of the list will depend on what modes your card supports. I've been doing this since the 1990s, so it's been around a long time.
Alternatively, you can use setfont alt-8x8 (or some other 8x8 font) to get a similar effect. This also works in framebuffer consoles.
With a framebuffer console, you lose the preboot output from the kernel, IE anything that's printed to the default mode before the switch. This is especially problematic with systems using uvesafb (like x86_64 where 16 bit instructions are not allowed), where the vga bios code is run inside a userspace 8086 emu (v86d). Sometimes you need the boot output to see what's going on and it's impossible to get at it later because the system didn't even get to userspace yet. Serial ports are a passe thing on modern hardware...at least the kind that have their own hardware interrupts and can be slaved to character IO by the bios. Serial is fine for embedded systems, but debugging issues with desktop machines is far easier with textmode 80x25/50 et al.
All framebuffer modes on typical x86 machines are rendered completely in software. The framebuffer driver just enumerates the VESA modes the VGA bios exposes. There are a few drivers that offer partial acceleration for some chipsets, but these are not compatible with the X11 drivers, making them largely useless. VESA offers some buffer manipulation, but no acceleration for drawing characters. This is workable on today's 2-3ghz cpus, but only for low resolutions. Since VESA doesn't enumerate 16:10/9 ratio modes, most LCD panels are not running natively, making the result blurry and ugly as hell too. Moving this stuff to userspace will slow it down further, for no gain, and make this issue worse.
If the console renders in character text mode, no it's not required because in text mode, the graphics card handles the rendering. All the kernel has to do is stream single bytes to an IO port. This has been true since the days of the original CGA on x86. If it's rendered in bitmap/framebuffer mode using the cpu, it can get really slow, especially with high resolutions, to the point where it adds 10%+ to the build times of large software or any task that streams large amounts of text. I've always tried to stick with 80x50 character mode for this reason, and if I"m forced to use framebuffer, start the task and then switch to an idle vterm. Also, these text and VESA modes look terrible on LCD panels because they aren't native to the display.
If he wasn't, then he needs to re-enroll in his sixth grade health class to learn that when you stick your junk in a vagina, it may produce a pregnancy.
Seriously. This argument is so old and so tiresome. If you get a woman pregnant, that's your kid. You need to take care of your kid. Is that too hard a concept to grasp?
That's just it. He didn't 'get her pregnant.' Both of them got her pregnant. So, if she's going to have the unilateral say in taking the fetus to term, then, by default, she should be solely responsible for it. With power comes responsibility, with no power, comes none. Ideally, she should have to enter into a contract with him (or get married) for financial support/fatherhood, but otherwise he should have the same right of refusal she does. This keeps the table balanced and encourages children only when both parents are truly ready to be parents, financially and mentally. It prevents her from using the kid as a battering ram to get him to commit when he's clearly not ready to, which happens a lot in today's society. This would eliminate a ton of highschoolesque melodrama that surrounds pregnancy today. Dr Phil would go out of business which would be a benefit to everyone..
The rules you're conforming to come from a time when women didn't have a choice. It was fair as women, especially pregnant ones, weren't allowed to work all that much and were very dependent on men for support. Today, things are very different, and it's about time that women gave up the privileges of chattel status if they want out of it.
sorry, I shouldn't have broken my statement into two posts, but it happens.. there's another reply somewhere on this poor excuse for code
roman_mir isn't. he's talking about assault, which in this gynocratic/mangina run society, is an international outrage when it happens to women, but a funny joke when it happens to men.
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sex crime ACCUSATIONS that are probably false.. Sweden is practically a gynocracy at this point. At this point the US government is throwing everything they can at him to see what kind of shit will stick, and in 'soft' socialist countries, anything having to do with women is a bfd.
While it's true that there are reporters out there, their stories rarely get reported on by the CNNs and foxnews channels of the world..unless it's poltiically advantageous for the state where the channel is broadcasting. This also holds true for influential private entities.
Wikileaks is exposing corruption in the federal government just like pussy riot are with the russian government. ..or did you intend to push the whole 'assange is a rapist' vs 'those poor helpless women' angle? You do realize it's likely the US government pushed for those accusations, right? Talk about corruption.
slashdot is no longer dominated by technocrats.. it is the hipster-'ironic'-geek that is the dominant form here now and has been for some time.
..the bias shows because his initial point is that all of them are hassles to different people, then he explicitly suggests linux is a hassle by default.
If you start holding them liable, you can say goodbye to freeware and hobbyist projects.. No one will want the liability that only super corporations can afford to defend.. This will grant microsoft, apple, and the government exactly what they want.
If it's in the contract that they are liable for failures, then they are.. Obviously the contract should specify what constitutes failure.. Otherwise no liability outside of gross misrepresentation (ie the software is NOT what the vendor says it is).
Those 'hardcore political activists' and 'bigoted groups' on the left and right are the ones running the government, so....the gp is correct.
You'd be correct except it's not paranoia. It's fact. Examples of police abuse are a youtube search away.
This is useless unless google builds a privacy culture within itself and also lobbies the government to respect individual liberty and rights again.
Windows 98 SE also could use the WDM drivers..
Doesn't mean what they're reporting isn't true.
the problem is, the old text modes ran at 640x400 for the most part and were rendered by the card. The framebuffer driver doesn't. KMS allows acceleration but only if there's a hardware driver for it. If you use the nvidia binary, you can't use KMS.
1. users brought their bandwidth. you brought yours. the users are not required to pay for yours too. they are not required to ensure you make money either.
2. because when you put content up on a publicly accessible server, by default you've given permission for people to pull data from it.. Once that data enters their computers, you have no say in what happens. The internet is not cable television no matter how hard marketing droids try to make it that way. It's a good thing, really.
well the problem is most 'user sponsored' public radio is biased center left because it gets a lot of its funding from the federal government. Smart listening requires one to assume that ALL outlets are biased to their self interests at the very least, and are also likely using their pulpits to push their brand of politics.
actually advertising models are the best way to ensure the broadest most 'accessible' programming possible because advertisers want the most eyeballs possible. It is not what we need.. we need narrower, more focused, deeper entertainment targeted at different audiences.. Almost all of tv is targeted at the bottom barrel commonalities to ensure wide adoption, and it results in the most bland, boring programming imaginable.
People are not obligated to make you money. They brought their bandwidth and you brought yours.. They pay for their bandwidth.. You pay for yours.
using X11 with kms requires X11 drivers that support it. If you use the nvidia binary drivers, you can't use kms.
Real text mode is quite fast because all the kernel has to do is push bytes at an IO port and the video card takes care of the rest. The framebuffer is slow because there is no way to accelerate blitting without interfering with the X11 driver. There are drivers in the kernel that offer partial acceleration, but because of this limitation they aren't used much. It might be possible to alleviate some of this with sse-enhanced routines, but in the end, spamming the console in framebuffer mode would still seriously impact performance of the rest of the machine, say during a software build or 'tail -f' on a fast moving log.
in character mode, the kernel command line 'vga' can alter the mode. to get a list of available modes use vga=?
0 is 80x25
1 is 80x50 which is what I use..
the rest of the list will depend on what modes your card supports. I've been doing this since the 1990s, so it's been around a long time.
Alternatively, you can use setfont alt-8x8 (or some other 8x8 font) to get a similar effect. This also works in framebuffer consoles.
With a framebuffer console, you lose the preboot output from the kernel, IE anything that's printed to the default mode before the switch. This is especially problematic with systems using uvesafb (like x86_64 where 16 bit instructions are not allowed), where the vga bios code is run inside a userspace 8086 emu (v86d). Sometimes you need the boot output to see what's going on and it's impossible to get at it later because the system didn't even get to userspace yet. Serial ports are a passe thing on modern hardware...at least the kind that have their own hardware interrupts and can be slaved to character IO by the bios. Serial is fine for embedded systems, but debugging issues with desktop machines is far easier with textmode 80x25/50 et al.
All framebuffer modes on typical x86 machines are rendered completely in software. The framebuffer driver just enumerates the VESA modes the VGA bios exposes. There are a few drivers that offer partial acceleration for some chipsets, but these are not compatible with the X11 drivers, making them largely useless. VESA offers some buffer manipulation, but no acceleration for drawing characters. This is workable on today's 2-3ghz cpus, but only for low resolutions. Since VESA doesn't enumerate 16:10/9 ratio modes, most LCD panels are not running natively, making the result blurry and ugly as hell too. Moving this stuff to userspace will slow it down further, for no gain, and make this issue worse.
still, the extended text modes are far faster than the framebuffer. I wish more modern cards still supported them.
If the console renders in character text mode, no it's not required because in text mode, the graphics card handles the rendering. All the kernel has to do is stream single bytes to an IO port. This has been true since the days of the original CGA on x86. If it's rendered in bitmap/framebuffer mode using the cpu, it can get really slow, especially with high resolutions, to the point where it adds 10%+ to the build times of large software or any task that streams large amounts of text. I've always tried to stick with 80x50 character mode for this reason, and if I"m forced to use framebuffer, start the task and then switch to an idle vterm. Also, these text and VESA modes look terrible on LCD panels because they aren't native to the display.
If he wasn't, then he needs to re-enroll in his sixth grade health class to learn that when you stick your junk in a vagina, it may produce a pregnancy.
Seriously. This argument is so old and so tiresome. If you get a woman pregnant, that's your kid. You need to take care of your kid. Is that too hard a concept to grasp?
That's just it. He didn't 'get her pregnant.' Both of them got her pregnant. So, if she's going to have the unilateral say in taking the fetus to term, then, by default, she should be solely responsible for it. With power comes responsibility, with no power, comes none. Ideally, she should have to enter into a contract with him (or get married) for financial support/fatherhood, but otherwise he should have the same right of refusal she does. This keeps the table balanced and encourages children only when both parents are truly ready to be parents, financially and mentally. It prevents her from using the kid as a battering ram to get him to commit when he's clearly not ready to, which happens a lot in today's society. This would eliminate a ton of highschoolesque melodrama that surrounds pregnancy today. Dr Phil would go out of business which would be a benefit to everyone..
The rules you're conforming to come from a time when women didn't have a choice. It was fair as women, especially pregnant ones, weren't allowed to work all that much and were very dependent on men for support. Today, things are very different, and it's about time that women gave up the privileges of chattel status if they want out of it.
sorry, I shouldn't have broken my statement into two posts, but it happens.. there's another reply somewhere on this poor excuse for code
roman_mir isn't. he's talking about assault, which in this gynocratic/mangina run society, is an international outrage when it happens to women, but a funny joke when it happens to men.