Except even Mossad, as long with US intelligence agencies, doesn't believe they're building a bomb. It's all about regime change, though killing the sick and making the poorest children starve is all the policy will achieve.
I had a car with a 50 HP engine and its top speed was 140 km/h, or 87 mph. It also accelerated quickly enough from green light or stop sign and could climb. Though if you have hills on highways you'll be riding with trucks.
You're just grossly underestimating what 37 HP is. You don't know that cars can weigh less than a tonne either.
Face it, the only reason for DMA-BUF at all is to use multiple GPUs, some better than others. It will typically be an Optimus laptop with Intel + Nvidia, or maybe AMD APU + AMD GPU. But without proprietary drivers the bigger GPU is entirely pointless! Say you have an Intel IGP plus a nvidia GPU, if you use nouveau on the nvidia GPU then you lose so much performance and battery life it's useless and you're better off disabling it and staying on Intel. Unless you like wasting your money for a minor improvment with terrible inefficiency.
So, linux is really jumping the shark, I guess what's left is distros should switch to BSD just like debian/kFreebSD, starting with Mint. Unless this terrible situation is resolved.
Multiple differing video cards worked seamlessly in Windows 98 SE. It's retarded than 13 years later this is considered to be a special feature on Linux. I'm sure you're a dumb fuck taking pride in your OS flexibility but sticking your head in the sand when something is not about filesystems, using an amateur tiling windows manager or writing perl scripts. Using more than one or two screens : who would do that? Right. Under Windows, you check a box, with Linux, you give up and pretend that if it doesn't work it's because you didn't need it.
I was in high school from 1999 to 2001, in France. There was two or three computers in the libraries to search for books and that's all. Education was all about pen and paper, chalkboard and long hours. I would get bored by the slow pacing especially in physics / chemistry.
In middle school there are courses named "technology" where we would be taught basic technical drawing, soldering, making a crude PCB etc., now that was pretty interesting. There was a bit of computer use:) but one class was about typing and printing a letter on 286s and 386s, the other one a few years later we used networked french 8 bit computers (the network was just to stream software from an XT server) and was an educational program about tricky front/top/side views of 3D shapes.
You will most often lack page up/page down keys on an Apple computer, and end/home, making it a pain in the ass to scroll through documents, web or Unix terminals. Even the book pro retina is like this. It even lacks Ins and separate Del keys you find on a netbook. So don't buy a mac if you like to use the keyboard for anything that is not text input.
The US navy disagrees with you, it's really to plow ground targets with a ballistic arc. e.g., imagine attacking Libya with this. You just bruteforce you way to it and aim really high. Wouldn't reaching a satellite be the same or harder?
Actually, a huge tank of fossil fuels contains a tremendous amount of energy, this is how the world economy works. When I first read about the naval railguns, 7 or 8 years ago, there was no talk of nuclear propulsion. You need a lot of energy to move the ship in the first place, nuclear or not. The design was for a cruiser or destroyer ship, with electric propulsion. When firing, you divert the huge power that would have gone to the propelers otherwise, and charge the supercapacitor banks.
just for information (the discussion is two day old so I don't know if you will read this message) Optimus support will get out on linux, thanks to RandR 1.4 and nvidia annoucing support recently.
"the only difference is that Windows/Ultramon gives you a GUI, while most Linux users are satisfied with editing configuration files, because that's what they're used to and comfortable with. "
The difference is Windows has a GUI that doesn't change for 15 years, things like "system", "device manager" and resolution dialog are virtually the same across versions. But Linux, one day you find out xorg.conf is "deprecated" and you shouldn't use it. But it's a lie, you can still modify it. Another day, you find out it doesn't even exist anymore! It's still a lie, as the system is generating one for itself each time (it was already doing this last time as xorg.conf only contained bullshit like "configured screen"). Stuff changes and gets encapsulated in "dynamic" layers, so what you knew doesn't work anymore and the thing got a lot more complex.
So here is it, what you fought to learn a year or two before is now worthless so you're a noob again, you just pray things work and it's okay. Until you come across a machine you really can't use in the state it is (maybe VESA, or no display) so you learn about X -configure and you can work again! But six monthes later you want to do something such as add a display mode, you generate it with gtf, you put in in the xorg.conf and it doesn't work because it's been moved to "RandR". you need to use "xrandr". but, there's no/etc/randr or/etc/xrandr or something like that in/etc/X11! so you try commands until one doesn't fail, great, xrandr has been told of a new mode, now how do you set it? I sadly gave up. Hell, I was considered an alpha linux guru when I used to do these xorg.conf things.
I got this set up with two monitors currently, because my graphics card has one output fried so I used two graphics cards. It was a surprise to see the new X session come up on the left (my secondary) with default panel settings (even more default than the distro itself). This is on linux mint 13 mate, which is effectively ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 2, so my distro is not too unusual.
Not being able to even move a terminal window and not having same desktop configuration etc. made me give it up after I couldn't force myself. I made a search about Xinerama and was confused, I wondered if it's deprecated, there's now RandR. There's xdmx but it would be like wrapping my display in a virtual xorg server or something. So, I would have to write a full xorg.conf while trying to use deprecated software with the help of outdated guides, or try weird thing, with no guarantee of success. Windows 98SE supported multiple monitors on different cards, I did it ten years ago and you could click a checkbox to extend desktop. I also failed to get 100Hz refresh despite modifying xorg.conf the old way then trying to deal with xrandr, but that's another thing.
Ubuntu, Ubuntu, then Debian and Ubuntu, then Ubuntu and Debian, then Ubuntu (called Mint these days).
There enough work already and I still learnt stuff over the years, the distro also changes enough already (learning to deal with grub 2, with an empty then non-existant xorg.conf, then learning new window manager/environments etc.). There's no incentive to learn other distros and learn to use the tools to deal with.rpm, etc. I once installed OpenSuse, it looked nice and had a better installer but had much less software.
If I had a to try something new it would rather be FreeBSD or specifically its PC-BSD variant. a Unix with binary compatibility sounds cool. Maybe it could be a better gaming platform than linux?, theoretically.
I'm a skinny and need a nice lunch or I will have low blood sugar level. Skinnies have a high metabolism and fatties a lower one so those ones arguably need less calories, unless they need them because they're bigger overall ignoring the fat layer.
Those kids "pigging out on junk" need a big lunch so they don't have to rely on junk food, you dumbwit. I have trouble understanding this, being French, we have long school hours so we always got a meaningful lunch, with bread. Maybe WW2 made us value meals and we don't have kids relying on snacks. By the way hard calorie limits are dumb, sugar calories are bad but fat or normal glucide calories are better. Ban all sodas and gatorade at lunch but give the kids food.
So, yet another opinion from the US Asperger community that we're meaningless in the grand scheme of things and thus everything is justifiable. Genocide and nuclear war would be fine by your account.
How can we call bullshit on someone (justified or not) and make an incredible claim, supported by you failing at correctly reading an article? If you read till the end you'll know a huge ship rejects about 50 million more sulfure dioxide than a car, NOT 50 million times the greenhouse potential or even using 50 million times the energy. This figure is due to 1. the scale of energy use, 2. ships using the worst fuel, which would be terrible or unpractical to burn on land 3. cars use gasoline, or diesel fuel which had most of its sulphur artificially removed because of standards we imposed to ouserlves.
The words from "a former official" reported in the blurb are misleading. This is a trivial attack with no real disruption and as said by another commenter, Iran behind it is just a wild guess and a tasteless one giving this country is currently threatened of an imminent attack. Only a subset of customers were annoyed and the level of annoyance was "get back to it 5 minutes later and try again". On the beginning of the month when I've just been wired my month's money, I face just that when I connect to pay the rent, but it's actually the back ends that are overloaded with maybe a million of actual people, and millions of transactions.
duh, who cares about OpenCL? OpencCL is dead. It's a benchmarking platform.
If proprietery drivers aren't better than open source, it's sad. Graphics drivers cost millions of dollars you know. Linux users can run low quality drivers more easily because there are almost no games, and the users are more tolerant of bugs.
nvidia did drop support for their much older geforce 6100/7025, recently. Wait.. it's not supported by latest drivers anymore, but a new Legacy driver version has been created, which will be supported and updated for YEARS. nvidia supports their graphics for a decade.
When I launch KDE I have many reactions. First that it looks full featured at a glance, and modern even if the blue colors, fonts, icons whatever seem over the top. Oh my god, it's full of animations! Stop playing with my eyesight so much. Desktop items display big controls buttons whenever I mouse over them including "X". Ugh, I'd have to lock that feature out. A tabbed menu with four random categories! it shows a handful of programs at the time! Right. I only need to find firefox, the terminal and log out anyway. Even then this start menu wastes space and is starving for it at the same time. The KDE3 start menu was brilliant when I used it a couple of times in 2004, possibly the best start menu ever. Back then the UI really looked like a windows clone, but better looking and more powerful.
So, right from the start I have to fix at least four or five things, and didn't bother hunting for settings dialogs or a KDE control panel, because of the unfriendly start menu. So I'm back to LXDE which is an actual Windows clone (a sort of Xfce but without the control panel, easier to use taskbar and lighter).
The whole thing is probably very nice but throws too much crap at you, and is so complex it feels like learning a whole new OS. and I know there are at least two weird databases to disable, thanks to reading slashdot rants over the years.
Actually I'm so unfamiliar with it that have no idea what "swiping" means. I only know tapping (clicking), the drag-n-drop-but-the-whole-page-moves thing, and the pinch zoom.
Couldn't slashdot use an icon that looks like a particle accelerator, or a laser, or gears and boiling vial, whatever? Something other than the Fourth Reich's banner. You might as well have used a vampire icon, because it's in Romania.
Sorry for the rant. Sunday 30th September is a day of protests against the european stability mechanism treaty, I wanted to mention it. National governments will have to ask permission to spend their money, from an unelected and unaccountable shadow entity i.e. democracy goes away and we get fucked again.
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Except even Mossad, as long with US intelligence agencies, doesn't believe they're building a bomb. It's all about regime change, though killing the sick and making the poorest children starve is all the policy will achieve.
I hope Iran wins the war!
Using microwaves for computer networking is called "WiFi".
I had a car with a 50 HP engine and its top speed was 140 km/h, or 87 mph. It also accelerated quickly enough from green light or stop sign and could climb. Though if you have hills on highways you'll be riding with trucks.
You're just grossly underestimating what 37 HP is. You don't know that cars can weigh less than a tonne either.
Face it, the only reason for DMA-BUF at all is to use multiple GPUs, some better than others. It will typically be an Optimus laptop with Intel + Nvidia, or maybe AMD APU + AMD GPU. But without proprietary drivers the bigger GPU is entirely pointless! Say you have an Intel IGP plus a nvidia GPU, if you use nouveau on the nvidia GPU then you lose so much performance and battery life it's useless and you're better off disabling it and staying on Intel. Unless you like wasting your money for a minor improvment with terrible inefficiency.
So, linux is really jumping the shark, I guess what's left is distros should switch to BSD just like debian/kFreebSD, starting with Mint. Unless this terrible situation is resolved.
Multiple differing video cards worked seamlessly in Windows 98 SE. It's retarded than 13 years later this is considered to be a special feature on Linux. I'm sure you're a dumb fuck taking pride in your OS flexibility but sticking your head in the sand when something is not about filesystems, using an amateur tiling windows manager or writing perl scripts. Using more than one or two screens : who would do that? Right. Under Windows, you check a box, with Linux, you give up and pretend that if it doesn't work it's because you didn't need it.
I was in high school from 1999 to 2001, in France. There was two or three computers in the libraries to search for books and that's all. Education was all about pen and paper, chalkboard and long hours. I would get bored by the slow pacing especially in physics / chemistry.
In middle school there are courses named "technology" where we would be taught basic technical drawing, soldering, making a crude PCB etc., now that was pretty interesting. There was a bit of computer use :) but one class was about typing and printing a letter on 286s and 386s, the other one a few years later we used networked french 8 bit computers (the network was just to stream software from an XT server) and was an educational program about tricky front/top/side views of 3D shapes.
Sadly he was right, because Internet Explorer was actually better than Netscape.
You will most often lack page up/page down keys on an Apple computer, and end/home, making it a pain in the ass to scroll through documents, web or Unix terminals. Even the book pro retina is like this. It even lacks Ins and separate Del keys you find on a netbook. So don't buy a mac if you like to use the keyboard for anything that is not text input.
The US navy disagrees with you, it's really to plow ground targets with a ballistic arc. e.g., imagine attacking Libya with this. You just bruteforce you way to it and aim really high. Wouldn't reaching a satellite be the same or harder?
Actually, a huge tank of fossil fuels contains a tremendous amount of energy, this is how the world economy works. When I first read about the naval railguns, 7 or 8 years ago, there was no talk of nuclear propulsion. You need a lot of energy to move the ship in the first place, nuclear or not. The design was for a cruiser or destroyer ship, with electric propulsion. When firing, you divert the huge power that would have gone to the propelers otherwise, and charge the supercapacitor banks.
just for information (the discussion is two day old so I don't know if you will read this message) Optimus support will get out on linux, thanks to RandR 1.4 and nvidia annoucing support recently.
"the only difference is that Windows/Ultramon gives you a GUI, while most Linux users are satisfied with editing configuration files, because that's what they're used to and comfortable with. "
The difference is Windows has a GUI that doesn't change for 15 years, things like "system", "device manager" and resolution dialog are virtually the same across versions. But Linux, one day you find out xorg.conf is "deprecated" and you shouldn't use it. But it's a lie, you can still modify it. Another day, you find out it doesn't even exist anymore! It's still a lie, as the system is generating one for itself each time (it was already doing this last time as xorg.conf only contained bullshit like "configured screen"). Stuff changes and gets encapsulated in "dynamic" layers, so what you knew doesn't work anymore and the thing got a lot more complex.
So here is it, what you fought to learn a year or two before is now worthless so you're a noob again, you just pray things work and it's okay. Until you come across a machine you really can't use in the state it is (maybe VESA, or no display) so you learn about X -configure and you can work again! But six monthes later you want to do something such as add a display mode, you generate it with gtf, you put in in the xorg.conf and it doesn't work because it's been moved to "RandR". you need to use "xrandr". but, there's no /etc/randr or /etc/xrandr or something like that in /etc/X11! so you try commands until one doesn't fail, great, xrandr has been told of a new mode, now how do you set it? I sadly gave up. Hell, I was considered an alpha linux guru when I used to do these xorg.conf things.
I got this set up with two monitors currently, because my graphics card has one output fried so I used two graphics cards. It was a surprise to see the new X session come up on the left (my secondary) with default panel settings (even more default than the distro itself). This is on linux mint 13 mate, which is effectively ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 2, so my distro is not too unusual.
Not being able to even move a terminal window and not having same desktop configuration etc. made me give it up after I couldn't force myself. I made a search about Xinerama and was confused, I wondered if it's deprecated, there's now RandR. There's xdmx but it would be like wrapping my display in a virtual xorg server or something. So, I would have to write a full xorg.conf while trying to use deprecated software with the help of outdated guides, or try weird thing, with no guarantee of success. Windows 98SE supported multiple monitors on different cards, I did it ten years ago and you could click a checkbox to extend desktop. I also failed to get 100Hz refresh despite modifying xorg.conf the old way then trying to deal with xrandr, but that's another thing.
Ubuntu, Ubuntu, then Debian and Ubuntu, then Ubuntu and Debian, then Ubuntu (called Mint these days).
There enough work already and I still learnt stuff over the years, the distro also changes enough already (learning to deal with grub 2, with an empty then non-existant xorg.conf, then learning new window manager/environments etc.). There's no incentive to learn other distros and learn to use the tools to deal with .rpm, etc. I once installed OpenSuse, it looked nice and had a better installer but had much less software.
If I had a to try something new it would rather be FreeBSD or specifically its PC-BSD variant. a Unix with binary compatibility sounds cool. Maybe it could be a better gaming platform than linux?, theoretically.
I'm a skinny and need a nice lunch or I will have low blood sugar level. Skinnies have a high metabolism and fatties a lower one so those ones arguably need less calories, unless they need them because they're bigger overall ignoring the fat layer.
Those kids "pigging out on junk" need a big lunch so they don't have to rely on junk food, you dumbwit. I have trouble understanding this, being French, we have long school hours so we always got a meaningful lunch, with bread. Maybe WW2 made us value meals and we don't have kids relying on snacks. By the way hard calorie limits are dumb, sugar calories are bad but fat or normal glucide calories are better. Ban all sodas and gatorade at lunch but give the kids food.
So, yet another opinion from the US Asperger community that we're meaningless in the grand scheme of things and thus everything is justifiable. Genocide and nuclear war would be fine by your account.
Mr H. had a similar opinion on evil, which was spelled as either jewry or weakness. Strength can only prevail if it eliminates all kinds of weakness.
How can we call bullshit on someone (justified or not) and make an incredible claim, supported by you failing at correctly reading an article? If you read till the end you'll know a huge ship rejects about 50 million more sulfure dioxide than a car, NOT 50 million times the greenhouse potential or even using 50 million times the energy. This figure is due to 1. the scale of energy use, 2. ships using the worst fuel, which would be terrible or unpractical to burn on land 3. cars use gasoline, or diesel fuel which had most of its sulphur artificially removed because of standards we imposed to ouserlves.
The words from "a former official" reported in the blurb are misleading. This is a trivial attack with no real disruption and as said by another commenter, Iran behind it is just a wild guess and a tasteless one giving this country is currently threatened of an imminent attack. Only a subset of customers were annoyed and the level of annoyance was "get back to it 5 minutes later and try again". On the beginning of the month when I've just been wired my month's money, I face just that when I connect to pay the rent, but it's actually the back ends that are overloaded with maybe a million of actual people, and millions of transactions.
duh, who cares about OpenCL? OpencCL is dead. It's a benchmarking platform.
If proprietery drivers aren't better than open source, it's sad. Graphics drivers cost millions of dollars you know. Linux users can run low quality drivers more easily because there are almost no games, and the users are more tolerant of bugs.
nvidia did drop support for their much older geforce 6100/7025, recently. Wait.. it's not supported by latest drivers anymore, but a new Legacy driver version has been created, which will be supported and updated for YEARS. nvidia supports their graphics for a decade.
When I launch KDE I have many reactions. First that it looks full featured at a glance, and modern even if the blue colors, fonts, icons whatever seem over the top. Oh my god, it's full of animations! Stop playing with my eyesight so much. Desktop items display big controls buttons whenever I mouse over them including "X". Ugh, I'd have to lock that feature out. A tabbed menu with four random categories! it shows a handful of programs at the time! Right. I only need to find firefox, the terminal and log out anyway. Even then this start menu wastes space and is starving for it at the same time. The KDE3 start menu was brilliant when I used it a couple of times in 2004, possibly the best start menu ever. Back then the UI really looked like a windows clone, but better looking and more powerful.
So, right from the start I have to fix at least four or five things, and didn't bother hunting for settings dialogs or a KDE control panel, because of the unfriendly start menu. So I'm back to LXDE which is an actual Windows clone (a sort of Xfce but without the control panel, easier to use taskbar and lighter).
The whole thing is probably very nice but throws too much crap at you, and is so complex it feels like learning a whole new OS. and I know there are at least two weird databases to disable, thanks to reading slashdot rants over the years.
Actually I'm so unfamiliar with it that have no idea what "swiping" means. I only know tapping (clicking), the drag-n-drop-but-the-whole-page-moves thing, and the pinch zoom.
Couldn't slashdot use an icon that looks like a particle accelerator, or a laser, or gears and boiling vial, whatever? Something other than the Fourth Reich's banner. You might as well have used a vampire icon, because it's in Romania.
Sorry for the rant. Sunday 30th September is a day of protests against the european stability mechanism treaty, I wanted to mention it. National governments will have to ask permission to spend their money, from an unelected and unaccountable shadow entity i.e. democracy goes away and we get fucked again.