But just because you don't know everything about bikes doesn't mean you don't know anything about bikes. And that's the rub... people walking into computer stores have no clue. It'd be like walking into a bike store and being just as likely to walk out with a mountain bike as with a road bike, a BMX, a Schwinn, a unicycle or a tricycle. That'd never happen to someone in relation to bicycles... why does it happen to them with computers?
fglrx has and always will suck. The new open-source drivers being pushed into current distros are quite good, considering how quickly they've been developed. ATI is making a real commitment to open-source, which is more than I can say for Nvidia. After the whole bad chips debacle that Nvidia perpetrated and lied about, and the fact that ATI's performance is beating the piss out of Nvidia with less power usage, I can't see myself going green on any GPU's in even the moderately near future.
"I am not one of those shit drivers, I am truly skilled."
But then again, that's probably why I haven't gotten into an accident or caught for speeding in over 10 years now (and I've been driving for what... 12?) If you actually are skilled, you shouldn't ever be in the position of trying to explain that to a cop.
Passengers should be banned, too. That increases reaction time. Hell, anything you do other than keenly staring ahead and in your mirrors reduces reaction time.
Driving is dangerous. We already have laws that ban dangerous and distracted driving... if someone is being dangerous, pull them over. Do we not have video cameras for evidence?
Banning everything someone might do piecemeal is asinine. Stupid people will find a way to do stupid things without explicitly breaking the law.
BTW, those cell-phone studies were almost certainly done with people right at the legal limit for "drunk" driving. Makes you think about how stupidly low those limits are, eh? MADD is a prohibitionist organization.
Yeah. But the link makes it a lot easier to find... there are a bunch of results when you search for Steampunk on Facebook. More than one when you look at the apps.
Que? Spanish for what? Did you misspell "queue", which is the wrong word anyway? You really wanted it's homophone, "cue".
Literacy: It's not just for novelists any more!
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Completely off-topic, but I paid nothing for my nonexistent jersey, because I'm not gonna pay into a company (yes, the NFL is a corporation, not a national institution) that actively hates it's fans, charging through the ass for seats and making it hard for people to even be fans of the game by trying to claim copyright of anything that once looked in their direction. Fuck them.
I go in wearing my office button-up shirt and slacks once a month or so when I want to pick through the used games, or reserve some new AAA title (new Ratchet and Clank coming out in October... whee!)
Life's too short to worry about what people think about you. Especially kids. Lead by example;)
Colorado's state lottery profits go to support the parks system. I'll drop a fiver every couple weeks on a couple losing tickets knowing that the profits are at least going to a good cause, and that I have a one in ten quadrillion chance of winning something for my effort.
I blame frat boys. $60 copies of Madden and Tiger Woods every year is a hell of an income stream, and they're too stupid to realize they're simple rehashes of the old games with slight graphical tweaks.
More than that. Google Maps uses data that Google licenses, and is only allowed to use in certain ways. If any of his apps or mods went afoul of Google's agreements, then they're obligated to put a stop to it. The article link is dead, so I can't verify if this is or isn't the case.
Was it really that hard, though? I mean, I'm sure you had in-house webservers. Making browser games, you probably wouldn't push them to the public site except once every few days at most, right? What's an air-gap when that's the case?
The SEC has very specific, and sometimes seemingly random, mandates that are required for any computers and people that work with financial and securities data.
Uranium won't get us back off the planet. Solar works well enough for short-term power, even all the way out at Mars. But it's a death sentence to explore Mars without enough fuel to get us back off the ground, so if we can find something we can use/refine as return fuel, it'll make an initial trip that much more likely.
Percentage of use is in no way an indicator of suitability. There are a number of vehicles that have been well ahead of their time and sold like crap or were driven into the ground because of pressure from the incumbents, but they were still much better than what was out there.
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But just because you don't know everything about bikes doesn't mean you don't know anything about bikes. And that's the rub... people walking into computer stores have no clue. It'd be like walking into a bike store and being just as likely to walk out with a mountain bike as with a road bike, a BMX, a Schwinn, a unicycle or a tricycle. That'd never happen to someone in relation to bicycles... why does it happen to them with computers?
fglrx has and always will suck. The new open-source drivers being pushed into current distros are quite good, considering how quickly they've been developed. ATI is making a real commitment to open-source, which is more than I can say for Nvidia. After the whole bad chips debacle that Nvidia perpetrated and lied about, and the fact that ATI's performance is beating the piss out of Nvidia with less power usage, I can't see myself going green on any GPU's in even the moderately near future.
I think you missed the fact that pretty much my entire post was sarcasm.
"I am not one of those shit drivers, I am truly skilled."
But then again, that's probably why I haven't gotten into an accident or caught for speeding in over 10 years now (and I've been driving for what... 12?) If you actually are skilled, you shouldn't ever be in the position of trying to explain that to a cop.
Passengers should be banned, too. That increases reaction time. Hell, anything you do other than keenly staring ahead and in your mirrors reduces reaction time.
Driving is dangerous. We already have laws that ban dangerous and distracted driving... if someone is being dangerous, pull them over. Do we not have video cameras for evidence?
Banning everything someone might do piecemeal is asinine. Stupid people will find a way to do stupid things without explicitly breaking the law.
BTW, those cell-phone studies were almost certainly done with people right at the legal limit for "drunk" driving. Makes you think about how stupidly low those limits are, eh? MADD is a prohibitionist organization.
Yeah. But the link makes it a lot easier to find... there are a bunch of results when you search for Steampunk on Facebook. More than one when you look at the apps.
I remember my dreams. I'm demented when I sleep.
Please tell me you aren't driving during your commute. Or if you are, please tell me what city it's in. I want to know where not to drive.
Que? Spanish for what? Did you misspell "queue", which is the wrong word anyway? You really wanted it's homophone, "cue".
Literacy: It's not just for novelists any more!
Completely off-topic, but I paid nothing for my nonexistent jersey, because I'm not gonna pay into a company (yes, the NFL is a corporation, not a national institution) that actively hates it's fans, charging through the ass for seats and making it hard for people to even be fans of the game by trying to claim copyright of anything that once looked in their direction. Fuck them.
Link, or it didn't happen ;)
So you're saying the Europeans are even more divorced between their money and the value they get from it? No wonder half of Europe is on the dole.
I go in wearing my office button-up shirt and slacks once a month or so when I want to pick through the used games, or reserve some new AAA title (new Ratchet and Clank coming out in October... whee!)
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Life's too short to worry about what people think about you. Especially kids. Lead by example
Colorado's state lottery profits go to support the parks system. I'll drop a fiver every couple weeks on a couple losing tickets knowing that the profits are at least going to a good cause, and that I have a one in ten quadrillion chance of winning something for my effort.
I blame frat boys. $60 copies of Madden and Tiger Woods every year is a hell of an income stream, and they're too stupid to realize they're simple rehashes of the old games with slight graphical tweaks.
More than that. Google Maps uses data that Google licenses, and is only allowed to use in certain ways. If any of his apps or mods went afoul of Google's agreements, then they're obligated to put a stop to it. The article link is dead, so I can't verify if this is or isn't the case.
Just because we dislike the way copyright is currently done doesn't mean we won't use their own weapon against them.
Mind naming names? I like supporting companies that are responsible like that, if I have need for their products.
Was it really that hard, though? I mean, I'm sure you had in-house webservers. Making browser games, you probably wouldn't push them to the public site except once every few days at most, right? What's an air-gap when that's the case?
The SEC has very specific, and sometimes seemingly random, mandates that are required for any computers and people that work with financial and securities data.
So stop using Windows. KDE saves all those things for me when I shut down and restart.
Laptops. Even returning from suspend and hibernate will be faster if the BIOS gets out of the way sooner.
Uranium won't get us back off the planet. Solar works well enough for short-term power, even all the way out at Mars. But it's a death sentence to explore Mars without enough fuel to get us back off the ground, so if we can find something we can use/refine as return fuel, it'll make an initial trip that much more likely.
Percentage of use is in no way an indicator of suitability. There are a number of vehicles that have been well ahead of their time and sold like crap or were driven into the ground because of pressure from the incumbents, but they were still much better than what was out there.
I'd suggest a LART. But that's not really a scalable tactic.