If government are elected to pursue the will of the people, why, then, do government engage in actions that clearly are not the will of the people?
'Cause a British government is typically elected by about 20% of the people, and election winners are typically determined by the votes of less than a million people in the Midlands where no party has a clear majority.
In this case, the British people voted 'none of the above' and refused to give any party a majority, but they got a government anyway.
Gee, if only 3Dfx were still around, since their multi-GPU configs didn't give a fuck which game you ran, as long as the engine supported 3Dfx GLide, you were golden to use multiple GPUs.
Gee, if you ran an antiquated, crippled API like Glide on a modern GPU, they'd perform just as well.
I worked on dual-GPU drivers years ago and the render performance was roughly 2x over a single GPU. The problem was, as soon as the game did anything complex which required one GPU to read data from the other, the performance dropped to 0.002X as we had to stall the pipeline so it could read that data. The end result was that we added a huge amount of complexity to the driver for a small performance increase.
Glide doesn't let a game do those things, so it's never a problem.
Proof: if we could rely on a stock price increasing just before the dividend then we would bid up the price right now, well before the dividend.
And how do you plan to do that?
OK, you buy a bunch of shares today and push the pirce up. Then the price starts to fall as you stop buying. Now you have to keep buying more to keep the price high, and try to dump them all shortly after the dividend, when everyone else is.
In which alternate reality does this make any sense?
It's worth mentioning that I see this in the roots of the 2nd Amendment discussions in the US as well: the martial power available to a citizen in, say, a fully-automatic weapon is almost inconceivably more than the Founding Fathers imagined a single individual having.
At the time of the founding, individuals owned artillery and the Constitution implicitly assumes the existence of private warships.
The idea that they'd freak out at the idea of someone owning a fully-automatic assault rifle is utter nonsense.
That makes the implications obvious: households that used to have 2 or 3 PCs now only need one. Many households won't need a PC at all.
I used to have one PC. They're now so cheap that I have eight devoted to different functions (server, games/video editing, Xbmc front-end, telecommuting, etc).
And those are the ones that get used, not the ones that have been in the basement for years.
You're a cog, and you will be replaced by an Indian or Malaysian or some other *-ian that makes less than you do because they don't have indoor plumbing and clean air/water.
If you're one of those people, I'm not surprised you want a union. But those of us who aren't have no desire to be lumbered with dragging along dead weight just because their union says they can't be sacked.
That'll be news to my two 64-bit Atom systems. I don't know about current Atoms, but when the original models were released only the netbook versions were restricted to 32-bit.
Every non-technical user I know goes 'WTF were they thinking?' when they see Windows 8. And a number of them are now using Macs instead of Windows PCs.
Ditto. I built a new games machine a few months ago just so I could avoid Window 8; at the rate Microsoft are going, I won't have to think about replacing it until at least Windows 10.
Pardon my retail ignorance, but the manufacturers can't just put Windows 7 on the machines?
It's not like the Vista era, where sensible people bought the machine with XP instead, this time Microsoft killed Windows 7 ASAP to try to force everyone onto Window 8.
Exactly. This is why the Earth stopped warming nearly twenty years ago, even though the Warmists were telling us the sky was about to fall if we didn't destroy the Western economy.
Microsoft is successful because of their product managers who do a good job responding to customer requests. Their customers of course, are businesses, not consumers.
So explain Windows 8.
Which business customers were demanding a touch-screen tablet UI on their desktop PCs?
Now imagine that non-technical user on a different OS. Probably would get the same results....it's a user problem, not an OS problem.
While that's true to an extent, most of them aren't installing 'Nigerian Kitty Screen Savers', they're just browsing the web and ending up infected through some remote Windows exploit.
Software shouldn't break if it's written properly instead of using undocumented procedures?!
Uh, yeah.
Meanwhile, we're talking about Windows, where 'if it works, ship it' is the order of the day. Lots of things that worked on Windows 95 or XP break on 7 (for example, I have to run many old games as administrator because they write to the Program Files directory).
If more airport authorities were to adopt Ben Gurion’s approach, surely it would be more difficult for those intending to do harm to succeed.
If US airports were to adopt Ben Gurion's approach, you'd easily catch the terrorists because they'd be the only ones still willing to put up with that crap in order to fly.
No - the plane is safe even if the battery catches fire.
Because the plane doesn't actually need the battery or anything. They just put it in there for grins.
Now, the odds of both engines failing and the battery failing at the same time so you lose electrical power are small, but the battery is there for a reason.
Yeah, but isn't it far less economically viable to fly a plane all the way to China for maintenance instead of to somewhere in the middle of the US?
Wherever you perform the maintenance, you're going to have to fly there. If you have more than two brain cells to rub together, you ensure that the last revenue flight the plane makes before maintenance brings it close to the maintenance depot, wherever in the world that may happen to be.
Why everyone on slashdot defends to death nuclear power is beyond my understanding. The waste lasts for tens to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years.
Who cares?
I mean, seriously: you're worried that someone might get cancer hundreds of thousands of years in the future?
You really think that's something worth worrying about?
In even a single thousand years, our descendants will be living in space or in caves, depending on whether or not we listen to the doomsayers. Worrying about nuclear waste thousands of years in the future is just insane.
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If government are elected to pursue the will of the people, why, then, do government engage in actions that clearly are not the will of the people?
'Cause a British government is typically elected by about 20% of the people, and election winners are typically determined by the votes of less than a million people in the Midlands where no party has a clear majority.
In this case, the British people voted 'none of the above' and refused to give any party a majority, but they got a government anyway.
how could "DRM in HTML5" NOT obsolete proprietary, browser-specific plug ins?
Because, uh, "DRM in HTML5" is merely a framework to allow sites to require specific proprietary, browser-specific plugins to display their content?
I could care less about DRM in HTML5.
Probably because you don't understand it.
Bizarre. I just run the latest driver and... games just work.
Gee, if only 3Dfx were still around, since their multi-GPU configs didn't give a fuck which game you ran, as long as the engine supported 3Dfx GLide, you were golden to use multiple GPUs.
Gee, if you ran an antiquated, crippled API like Glide on a modern GPU, they'd perform just as well.
I worked on dual-GPU drivers years ago and the render performance was roughly 2x over a single GPU. The problem was, as soon as the game did anything complex which required one GPU to read data from the other, the performance dropped to 0.002X as we had to stall the pipeline so it could read that data. The end result was that we added a huge amount of complexity to the driver for a small performance increase.
Glide doesn't let a game do those things, so it's never a problem.
Proof: if we could rely on a stock price increasing just before the dividend then we would bid up the price right now, well before the dividend.
And how do you plan to do that?
OK, you buy a bunch of shares today and push the pirce up. Then the price starts to fall as you stop buying. Now you have to keep buying more to keep the price high, and try to dump them all shortly after the dividend, when everyone else is.
In which alternate reality does this make any sense?
It's worth mentioning that I see this in the roots of the 2nd Amendment discussions in the US as well: the martial power available to a citizen in, say, a fully-automatic weapon is almost inconceivably more than the Founding Fathers imagined a single individual having.
At the time of the founding, individuals owned artillery and the Constitution implicitly assumes the existence of private warships.
The idea that they'd freak out at the idea of someone owning a fully-automatic assault rifle is utter nonsense.
That makes the implications obvious: households that used to have 2 or 3 PCs now only need one. Many households won't need a PC at all.
I used to have one PC. They're now so cheap that I have eight devoted to different functions (server, games/video editing, Xbmc front-end, telecommuting, etc).
And those are the ones that get used, not the ones that have been in the basement for years.
You're a cog, and you will be replaced by an Indian or Malaysian or some other *-ian that makes less than you do because they don't have indoor plumbing and clean air/water.
If you're one of those people, I'm not surprised you want a union. But those of us who aren't have no desire to be lumbered with dragging along dead weight just because their union says they can't be sacked.
to bad atom was 32bit only and amd is all 64 bit.
That'll be news to my two 64-bit Atom systems. I don't know about current Atoms, but when the original models were released only the netbook versions were restricted to 32-bit.
Most of us dislike Win 8.
Every non-technical user I know goes 'WTF were they thinking?' when they see Windows 8. And a number of them are now using Macs instead of Windows PCs.
Ditto. I built a new games machine a few months ago just so I could avoid Window 8; at the rate Microsoft are going, I won't have to think about replacing it until at least Windows 10.
Pardon my retail ignorance, but the manufacturers can't just put Windows 7 on the machines?
It's not like the Vista era, where sensible people bought the machine with XP instead, this time Microsoft killed Windows 7 ASAP to try to force everyone onto Window 8.
How are you going to tell who's sending the message without sending the aircraft ID?
Exactly. This is why the Earth stopped warming nearly twenty years ago, even though the Warmists were telling us the sky was about to fall if we didn't destroy the Western economy.
Microsoft is successful because of their product managers who do a good job responding to customer requests. Their customers of course, are businesses, not consumers.
So explain Windows 8.
Which business customers were demanding a touch-screen tablet UI on their desktop PCs?
So you think they're becoming infected on Windows by opening a command prompt and running random DOS commands because someone tells them to?
Now imagine that non-technical user on a different OS. Probably would get the same results....it's a user problem, not an OS problem.
While that's true to an extent, most of them aren't installing 'Nigerian Kitty Screen Savers', they're just browsing the web and ending up infected through some remote Windows exploit.
Software shouldn't break if it's written properly instead of using undocumented procedures?!
Uh, yeah.
Meanwhile, we're talking about Windows, where 'if it works, ship it' is the order of the day. Lots of things that worked on Windows 95 or XP break on 7 (for example, I have to run many old games as administrator because they write to the Program Files directory).
FWIW, in 2013, there have been 73 CVEs for Linux, 41 for Windows XP and 47 for Windows 7.
Meanwhile, almost every non-technical Windows user I know has been hit by malware of some kind, while no Linux user I know ever has.
I really don't understand the slow uptake to 7.
Because XP does everything most people want and there's no compelling reason to switch?
Once again, the Israelis have led the way.
Why, did they ban duty-free stores?
If more airport authorities were to adopt Ben Gurion’s approach, surely it would be more difficult for those intending to do harm to succeed.
If US airports were to adopt Ben Gurion's approach, you'd easily catch the terrorists because they'd be the only ones still willing to put up with that crap in order to fly.
when's the last time you flew a 737 to china from the US?
Duh. If a plane can't fly to China, you're not going to do maintenance there, are you?
No - the plane is safe even if the battery catches fire.
Because the plane doesn't actually need the battery or anything. They just put it in there for grins.
Now, the odds of both engines failing and the battery failing at the same time so you lose electrical power are small, but the battery is there for a reason.
Yeah, but isn't it far less economically viable to fly a plane all the way to China for maintenance instead of to somewhere in the middle of the US?
Wherever you perform the maintenance, you're going to have to fly there. If you have more than two brain cells to rub together, you ensure that the last revenue flight the plane makes before maintenance brings it close to the maintenance depot, wherever in the world that may happen to be.
Why everyone on slashdot defends to death nuclear power is beyond my understanding. The waste lasts for tens to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years.
Who cares?
I mean, seriously: you're worried that someone might get cancer hundreds of thousands of years in the future?
You really think that's something worth worrying about?
In even a single thousand years, our descendants will be living in space or in caves, depending on whether or not we listen to the doomsayers. Worrying about nuclear waste thousands of years in the future is just insane.