My gaming PC from 2013 has 32GB. I've been waiting years for games to catch up with the hardware, but most have been crippled to run on crappy consoles.
Otherwise, sure.... I don't think Linux gamers or even people doing heavy 3D editing/animation feel a big need to have access to the source code for the graphics drivers. Maybe a VERY small percentage would prefer it, because they're knowledgeable enough of a coder to tweak a driver to fix a specific problem they're encountering?
AMD stopped supporting my on-board graphics some time back. A while later, a kernel change broke their final driver release for that chip. If the fix wasn't a code change in the part of their driver that's open source, I'd have been screwed.
It seems to be an article of faith among urban planners that the way to deal with cars is just to get rid of them, as if you can wave your hands and simply undo 60-odd years of growth and sprawl enabled by cars.
I gave a lift to an urban planner once. He didn't drive, so relied on his bike or car drivers when he wanted to travel.
Needless to say, the roads in the city he 'planned' are so bad that driving through the downtown parking lots is usually faster than taking the road. And I'm not joking, if you get in a taxi, that's the route they'll usually take.
Of course, like most retail, you want to check it out for free locally, and then order off a competitor on the internet for the savings inherent in not having the infrastructure to allow you to check it out locally.
Yeah, because I'm sure Amazon will be offering free next-day shipping on cars once the dealers are out of the way.
SpaceShipTwo is having a hard time becoming commercial. At least six years so far beyond their announced launch date. Perhaps too much new technology, too many parts...
The big problem with SS2 is that it was a quick kludge to win the X-Prize, and the design just hasn't scaled up the way they expected it to... new technology might well have made it more likely to succeed.
The Jeep hack is the kind of thing you get in open source projects where there's a 'code of conduct' preventing Linus from telling them that the idea is really fscking stupid because that might cause feelbads.
Nope, no way automation is going to eliminate any jobs, and even if it were (which it's not) we can just lower pay to compensate and prices will fall until the lower pay has equal buying power, right?
You're right. It's not like we've been automating jobs away for a century or more, yet now have far more people employed than were back then.
If wealthy people mugged and burgled as often as poor people do, the police would probably be stopping and searching them as often.
Wealthy criminals are wealthy because they commit crimes that bring in a lot of money, rather than mugging old ladies. Stop and search doesn't do much for catching bankers who are stealing those old ladies' savings through the financial system.
The problem is that most cops these days can't tell the difference between a felony and just fucking around.
To be fair, the bigger problem is that many things that were 'just fucking around' when we were kids are now felonies. If you demand that the police 'enforce the law', they're far more likely to arrest kids who are 'just fucking around' than gang members who are likely to shoot them.
The problem is, there's a long history of recording accidentally going missing, or accidentally not having been recorded, when the police do something bad and the victims want to see the videos. It's a good start, but they just can't be trusted.
I've been dragged out of a car at gunpoint for 'stopping at the side of the road while sounding a bit foreign.' Think I have much respect for the US police after that? I'm lucky they weren't 'acting recklessly' that day, or I'd be six feet under.
I read an interesting article a while back by a US soldier who'd become a cop after he left the army. He said that Americans were scared of ex-military police, because they assumed they'd been trained to airstrike first and ask questions later, but he saw the civilian police do things every day that would have got him courtmartialled when he was in Iraq or Afghanistan. The rules of engagement there, where most people really did want to kill him, were much tougher and much more strictly enforced than on the streets of American cities.
Now, maybe he's making it up to make himself look better, but I can certainly believe that.
How would you like every little thing you do scrutinized
Uh, dude. That's what happens to pretty much everyone outside the public sector. If I screw up at work, I have to explain to my boss and our customers why I screwed up, and how I'll ensure it doesn't happen again.
It's called living in the real world.
Law enforcement only works two ways: 1) people respect authority and do as asked (when reasonable) by the police 2) use of force when there is no respect of the law. People have the choice of which method they'd like to be policed by.
It's not just the picture, it's the reality. US police are trained to believe the public is their enemy, and they treat them as such. Oddly enough, the public have now started to believe the same thing.
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My gaming PC from 2013 has 32GB. I've been waiting years for games to catch up with the hardware, but most have been crippled to run on crappy consoles.
Yes, because we should all throw away perfectly good hardware just because the manufacturer decides to make it obsolete.
Otherwise, sure.... I don't think Linux gamers or even people doing heavy 3D editing/animation feel a big need to have access to the source code for the graphics drivers. Maybe a VERY small percentage would prefer it, because they're knowledgeable enough of a coder to tweak a driver to fix a specific problem they're encountering?
AMD stopped supporting my on-board graphics some time back. A while later, a kernel change broke their final driver release for that chip. If the fix wasn't a code change in the part of their driver that's open source, I'd have been screwed.
So, your idea of 'spur of the moment' is 'order a vehicle and wait around for half an hour for it to turn up'?
I have noticed that the greatest proponents of 'driverless cars' never seem to have any real need to drive anywhere.
Ha-ha. You think Cameron is 'far right'.
He's at best a cuckservative, and even that is debatable.
I presume that was meant to be '2 to the power of 4, or 16', not '24 or 16'.
It seems to be an article of faith among urban planners that the way to deal with cars is just to get rid of them, as if you can wave your hands and simply undo 60-odd years of growth and sprawl enabled by cars.
I gave a lift to an urban planner once. He didn't drive, so relied on his bike or car drivers when he wanted to travel.
Needless to say, the roads in the city he 'planned' are so bad that driving through the downtown parking lots is usually faster than taking the road. And I'm not joking, if you get in a taxi, that's the route they'll usually take.
State roads are EVIL SOCIALISM because they encourage people to drive SUVs and DESTROY THE PLANET!
Of course, like most retail, you want to check it out for free locally, and then order off a competitor on the internet for the savings inherent in not having the infrastructure to allow you to check it out locally.
Yeah, because I'm sure Amazon will be offering free next-day shipping on cars once the dealers are out of the way.
This situation is unacceptable, and you don't stay in business by screwing over your customers.
You do, when the government makes you a monopoly and keeps competition out of the market.
SpaceShipTwo is having a hard time becoming commercial. At least six years so far beyond their announced launch date. Perhaps too much new technology, too many parts ...
The big problem with SS2 is that it was a quick kludge to win the X-Prize, and the design just hasn't scaled up the way they expected it to... new technology might well have made it more likely to succeed.
The Jeep hack is the kind of thing you get in open source projects where there's a 'code of conduct' preventing Linus from telling them that the idea is really fscking stupid because that might cause feelbads.
Nope, no way automation is going to eliminate any jobs, and even if it were (which it's not) we can just lower pay to compensate and prices will fall until the lower pay has equal buying power, right?
You're right. It's not like we've been automating jobs away for a century or more, yet now have far more people employed than were back then.
Didn't Microsoft go full retard and make 'long' a 32-bit type on 64-bit Windows?
Get rid of nuclear weapons altogether. They benefit no-one and endanger all of us.
Nuclear weapons have done more for peace than any other invention in the history of the human race. No-one can risk fighting a major war any more.
The downside, of course, is that if we ever do get into a nuclear war, we're screwed.
So, you're purposefully being an ass, and then you act surprised when the cops get mad at you?
"Halt! Ihre papiere, bitte!"
If wealthy people mugged and burgled as often as poor people do, the police would probably be stopping and searching them as often.
Wealthy criminals are wealthy because they commit crimes that bring in a lot of money, rather than mugging old ladies. Stop and search doesn't do much for catching bankers who are stealing those old ladies' savings through the financial system.
The problem is that most cops these days can't tell the difference between a felony and just fucking around.
To be fair, the bigger problem is that many things that were 'just fucking around' when we were kids are now felonies. If you demand that the police 'enforce the law', they're far more likely to arrest kids who are 'just fucking around' than gang members who are likely to shoot them.
The problem is, there's a long history of recording accidentally going missing, or accidentally not having been recorded, when the police do something bad and the victims want to see the videos. It's a good start, but they just can't be trusted.
I've been dragged out of a car at gunpoint for 'stopping at the side of the road while sounding a bit foreign.' Think I have much respect for the US police after that? I'm lucky they weren't 'acting recklessly' that day, or I'd be six feet under.
I read an interesting article a while back by a US soldier who'd become a cop after he left the army. He said that Americans were scared of ex-military police, because they assumed they'd been trained to airstrike first and ask questions later, but he saw the civilian police do things every day that would have got him courtmartialled when he was in Iraq or Afghanistan. The rules of engagement there, where most people really did want to kill him, were much tougher and much more strictly enforced than on the streets of American cities.
Now, maybe he's making it up to make himself look better, but I can certainly believe that.
Nevertheless, police clearly acted recklessly.
I'll remember that, next time I shoot someone. "Sorry, your honour, I was just acting recklessly." "Well then, try not to do it again."
As for Democrats vs Republicans, here's how I see it:
The American left hate the police, because the police prevent them from murdering the rich and stealing all their stuff.
The American right hate the police, because the police prevent them from cleaning out the criminals who the police won't touch.
Everyone else is trapped in the middle, never knowing when they'll be shot by a cop 'acting recklessly'.
It's not going to end well.
How would you like every little thing you do scrutinized
Uh, dude. That's what happens to pretty much everyone outside the public sector. If I screw up at work, I have to explain to my boss and our customers why I screwed up, and how I'll ensure it doesn't happen again.
It's called living in the real world.
Law enforcement only works two ways: 1) people respect authority and do as asked (when reasonable) by the police 2) use of force when there is no respect of the law. People have the choice of which method they'd like to be policed by.
Can I suggest you take a look at this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And then ponder just how far modern policing has moved from its origins in many Western nations?
It's not just the picture, it's the reality. US police are trained to believe the public is their enemy, and they treat them as such. Oddly enough, the public have now started to believe the same thing.
How do you gain and keep the respect of a group of people, whose sole goal in an encounter is to show they world how little they respect you?
I'm guessing that beating them up and shooting them isn't likely to work.
In too many countries, modern police act like an occupying army, and are then surprised when they're treated like one.
Indeed. Massacring birds is the new Green.