Mir and Wayland both use EGL. They are both essentially what Xegl might have become if the appropriate resources were attributed to it. Xegl was dumped because a consensus was reached in the xorg community at the time that the current display server with AIGLX would be fine. They did not want to rewrite a X display server from scratch. Without the support of the majority of the xorg community, which was necessary for such an endeavor, the project just died out.
And there was a schism focusing on that XGL was developed in house, "behind closed doors", at Novell by David Reveman (who now works at Google). The majority of which came from Red Hat who offered and wrote AIGLX. Was there blatant bullying? Of course not and I never suggested such. But was there some jealously and collision of egos? Yes.
Those were issues with Xglx (mostly raised by nVidia specifically) which was supposed to be a stop-gap measure. Xegl was the long term approach. It wasn't just purely technical but rather a debate if the current X display server was salvageable. Red Hat and nVidia thought it was.
I think the arguments made by nvidia to why X on OpenGL would be worse than the current driver architecture can be debated on until forever. I think it all boils down to if we want put some more effort to it and take the big scary step to something new or if we want to stick to the old well known. Not too surprising, we have people who are in favor of both and we'll likely have development being done on both, which I don't think is that bad after all.
So far I haven't heard a single argument for why X on OpenGL is a a bad idea other than that it's a big step and a lot of work will have to be done. If that would stop me from working on Xgl, I wouldn't have started working on it in the first place
So yes I did do my homework. I did it 7 years ago and the teacher just forgot to collect it.
We could have had a modern display server years ago with XGL/Xegl. But it was killed off because Red Hat and nVidia didn't like. Mainly because it wasn't their idea. Now it seems all the pissing and moaning is coming from the Red Hat camp. Well karma's a bitch ain't it.
With this new web 3.3 society it seems people get intensely focused on one site only to migrate to a newer site. Remember Digg? Remember Slashdot? Reddit will get replaced, it's only a matter of time. For me I'm going back to usenet and gopher.
I don't think that's true. Take for example Terence Tao. No doubt a genius but he doesn't seem to suffer from any "isolation, stilted interaction, and resultant mental illness". Then examine Grigori Perelman, another genius but definitely suffers from what you described.
You don't have to be "tortured" to be a genius. But it doesn't hurt either.
The fundamental problem is institutional discrimination is deeply entrenched in our society. Segregation was happening naturally on its own. The government had to intervene on some level. Affirmative action is a way to give minorities and women the opportunity to succeed and show the prevailing stereotypes are incorrect. In acts as an anti-segregation force. Increasing diversity in the workforce and in higher education is similar to anti-discriminating education. If you see and interact with people who are different than you but perform at the same level; you are compelled to rethink whatever stereotypes you might hold.
But institutional racism and sexism still exist. Therefore it's not fair to measure all races and sexes based on quantitative measures alone. Affirmative action is a way to level the playing field. It might be an ugly solution and surely it doesn't follow moral absolutist principles. But it's an effective solution.
I'm going to pay. I read the NYTimes online everyday; a habit I started more than 10 years ago. The sites/shows you have listed are really just aggregators. Someone needs to be there, hit the pavement and get the story. This article is a great example of good reporting. I think it is worth value. If I have to pay a few cents for it... so be it.
Now that I'm in law school, it's clear that my fellow students value intelligence (including technical knowledge) right along with social prowess and appearance.
I won't deny that social skills and appearance are very important. But maybe I'm old fashioned; growing up when the Internet didn't have a facebook. Where we could only judge a person by what they said and how they said it. It the end it shouldn't matter what you look like or your amount of friends. If you say something... something that is True; that is what is most important.
Look I agree that texting is not making anyone less intelligent but texting is a watered down form of social interaction. A friend on facebook most of the time is not a real friend. The real threat is creating social interaction without the social connection. Where we reduce people to objects that we interact with rather than someone who lives and breathes.
Maybe the government should break out the antitrust laws as well, so when companies do decide to increase prices consumers will have cheaper alternatives.
Look if you thought Obama was all things to all people you were naive. If you thought sudden dramatic change was possible you were ignorant of US history.
Change can and does happen in the US but it takes a long time. This is somewhat by design as our founding fathers wanted checks and balances which acts as a hindrance to change.
Some examples:
Slavery wasn't made unconstitutional until the ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865. This overturned the Dred Scott case which decided slavery was constitutional in 1857.
Jim Crow wasn't effectively made illegal until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Women were not given the right to vote until 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment. This is some 70+ years after the birth of the modern movement for women suffrage in the US at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Injustices perpetrated by the US Government against its people can be overturned. But it takes time, blood and persistence. Thinking one man could change it and all you had to do is vote is ignorance and indifference to the sacrifices made by previous generations to defend their rights.
First off Obama wasn't talking about unilateral nuclear disarmament. He was talking about a slow gradual reduction in the world stock pile of nuclear weapons. Also he said it was a long term goal something the might be possible after his lifetime.
Second the recent provocation by NKorea proves that nuclear weapons no longer act as a sufficient deterrent. Actually NKorea is using nuclear proliferation as a market to fund its regime.
Third nuclear weapons are quickly becoming obsolete. Biological weapons which can eliminate the population of a nation without destroying its infrastructure are much more a threat in the near future. The only threat that nuclear weapons currently present is that of nuclear proliferation which increases the probability of nuclear accidents and a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon. Reducing nuclear weapons over time will decrease the probability of these events occurring.
Well I posted an article in rebuttal to your article. Then I attempted to post the actual part of the bill which we were debating (instead of a pdf file 1000+ pages long). However the current library of congress website does not save searches for an extended period of time.
Jon Smirl and David Reveman lobbied for a new xorg server built on OpenGL. It got little support from the community especially from Red Hat and Novell. Personally I think this was one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of OSS. We could have had a modern xorg server replacement which rivaled Apple and Microsoft. Now we have the main xorg branch floundering from lack of interest and developers. Not to say there hasn't been progress made but no one can argue that xorg has the resources available to compete.
Ironically someone who argued against X on OpenGL now is working on his own xorg server replacement. Good luck to him and I hope he has better support.
About three quarters of all U.S. business firms have no payroll. Most are self-employed persons operating unincorporated businesses, and may or may not be the owner's principal source of income.
"Large" FCDCs or USCCs are those with assets of at least $250 million dollars or gross receipts of at least $50 million dollars. Differences between all FCDCs and all USCCs were not statistically significant in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
In 2005 ~25% of both Large USCCs and FCDCs reported no tax liabity.
Yeah but what does it really mean? Do lower corporate taxes really result in a better economy? Well let's take a look. Ireland has a 12.5% corporate tax rate and is ranked 7th in GDP per capita throughout the world. Hrm looks pretty good. But wait Norway is ranked 3rd and has a corporate tax rate of 28%. And Luxembourg who is ranked 2nd has a corporate tax rate 29.63%. Even the United States of America which is ranked 6th has a varying federal tax rate of 15-39%. So in conclusion is there a correlation between economic strength and corporate tax rate? Nope.
Oh btw, A report from the US Congress released last week found that two-thirds of corporations in the country paid no federal income tax between 1988 and 2005.
In response to similar but separate public records requests, McLeod and Henning this summer received four banker boxes of e-mail and telephone records for two Palin aides: Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye. Henning was operating on behalf of the Valley group Last Frontier Foundation, which lists property rights and public records as among its core issues on its Web site.
... As far as McLeod can tell, all but one of the e-mails to the governor used her private e-mail address. The one time an aide e-mailed the governor's state account, he was reminded not to.
"Frank, This is not the Governor's personal e-mail account," an assistant to Palin wrote to Bailey in February.
"Whoops~!" Bailey responded in an e-mail.
The state withheld about 1,100 e-mails, citing exemptions for deliberative process, executive privilege, attorney/client privilege, privacy and personnel. If McLeod's appeal fails, Henning said he's going to take the matter to court.
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Mir and Wayland both use EGL. They are both essentially what Xegl might have become if the appropriate resources were attributed to it. Xegl was dumped because a consensus was reached in the xorg community at the time that the current display server with AIGLX would be fine. They did not want to rewrite a X display server from scratch. Without the support of the majority of the xorg community, which was necessary for such an endeavor, the project just died out.
And there was a schism focusing on that XGL was developed in house, "behind closed doors", at Novell by David Reveman (who now works at Google). The majority of which came from Red Hat who offered and wrote AIGLX. Was there blatant bullying? Of course not and I never suggested such. But was there some jealously and collision of egos? Yes.
Those were issues with Xglx (mostly raised by nVidia specifically) which was supposed to be a stop-gap measure. Xegl was the long term approach. It wasn't just purely technical but rather a debate if the current X display server was salvageable. Red Hat and nVidia thought it was.
I reference David Reveman's post to the xorg mailing list.
I think the arguments made by nvidia to why X on OpenGL would be worse
than the current driver architecture can be debated on until forever. I
think it all boils down to if we want put some more effort to it and
take the big scary step to something new or if we want to stick to the
old well known. Not too surprising, we have people who are in favor of
both and we'll likely have development being done on both, which I don't
think is that bad after all.
So far I haven't heard a single argument for why X on OpenGL is a a bad
idea other than that it's a big step and a lot of work will have to be
done. If that would stop me from working on Xgl, I wouldn't have started
working on it in the first place
So yes I did do my homework. I did it 7 years ago and the teacher just forgot to collect it.
We could have had a modern display server years ago with XGL/Xegl. But it was killed off because Red Hat and nVidia didn't like. Mainly because it wasn't their idea. Now it seems all the pissing and moaning is coming from the Red Hat camp. Well karma's a bitch ain't it.
With this new web 3.3 society it seems people get intensely focused on one site only to migrate to a newer site. Remember Digg? Remember Slashdot? Reddit will get replaced, it's only a matter of time. For me I'm going back to usenet and gopher.
I don't think that's true. Take for example Terence Tao. No doubt a genius but he doesn't seem to suffer from any "isolation, stilted interaction, and resultant mental illness". Then examine Grigori Perelman, another genius but definitely suffers from what you described.
You don't have to be "tortured" to be a genius. But it doesn't hurt either.
The fundamental problem is institutional discrimination is deeply entrenched in our society. Segregation was happening naturally on its own. The government had to intervene on some level. Affirmative action is a way to give minorities and women the opportunity to succeed and show the prevailing stereotypes are incorrect. In acts as an anti-segregation force. Increasing diversity in the workforce and in higher education is similar to anti-discriminating education. If you see and interact with people who are different than you but perform at the same level; you are compelled to rethink whatever stereotypes you might hold.
But institutional racism and sexism still exist. Therefore it's not fair to measure all races and sexes based on quantitative measures alone. Affirmative action is a way to level the playing field. It might be an ugly solution and surely it doesn't follow moral absolutist principles. But it's an effective solution.
No no... men pay me money for sex.
I'm going to pay. I read the NYTimes online everyday; a habit I started more than 10 years ago. The sites/shows you have listed are really just aggregators. Someone needs to be there, hit the pavement and get the story. This article is a great example of good reporting. I think it is worth value. If I have to pay a few cents for it... so be it.
Now that I'm in law school, it's clear that my fellow students value intelligence (including technical knowledge) right along with social prowess and appearance.
I won't deny that social skills and appearance are very important. But maybe I'm old fashioned; growing up when the Internet didn't have a facebook. Where we could only judge a person by what they said and how they said it. It the end it shouldn't matter what you look like or your amount of friends. If you say something... something that is True; that is what is most important.
Yeah god forbid.
Look I agree that texting is not making anyone less intelligent but texting is a watered down form of social interaction. A friend on facebook most of the time is not a real friend. The real threat is creating social interaction without the social connection. Where we reduce people to objects that we interact with rather than someone who lives and breathes.
Maybe the government should break out the antitrust laws as well, so when companies do decide to increase prices consumers will have
cheaper alternatives.
Look if you thought Obama was all things to all people you were naive. If you thought sudden dramatic change was possible you were ignorant of US history.
Change can and does happen in the US but it takes a long time. This is somewhat by design as our founding fathers wanted checks and balances which acts as a hindrance to change.
Some examples:
Slavery wasn't made unconstitutional until the ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865. This overturned the Dred Scott case which decided slavery was constitutional in 1857.
Jim Crow wasn't effectively made illegal until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Women were not given the right to vote until 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment. This is some 70+ years after the birth of the modern movement for women suffrage in the US at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Injustices perpetrated by the US Government against its people can be overturned. But it takes time, blood and persistence. Thinking one man could change it and all you had to do is vote is ignorance and indifference to the sacrifices made by previous generations to defend their rights.
First off Obama wasn't talking about unilateral nuclear disarmament. He was talking about a slow gradual reduction in the world stock pile of nuclear weapons. Also he said it was a long term goal something the might be possible after his lifetime.
Second the recent provocation by NKorea proves that nuclear weapons no longer act as a sufficient deterrent. Actually NKorea is using nuclear proliferation as a market to fund its regime.
Third nuclear weapons are quickly becoming obsolete. Biological weapons which can eliminate the population of a nation without destroying its infrastructure are much more a threat in the near future. The only threat that nuclear weapons currently present is that of nuclear proliferation which increases the probability of nuclear accidents and a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon. Reducing nuclear weapons over time will decrease the probability of these events occurring.
the graphics are just lol!
I guess you never played Dwarf Fortress... I wish DF's graphics were anywhere close to Wesnoth. (Doesn't stop me from playing it though.)
yet it's going to this political bullshit (like the "traffic monitoring" provisions snuck into the stimulus bill here in the States).
Just to clarify the filtering provisions were left out of the bill.
Well I posted an article in rebuttal to your article. Then I attempted to post the actual part of the bill which we were debating (instead of a pdf file 1000+ pages long). However the current library of congress website does not save searches for an extended period of time.
Anyway..
1. goto http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.+1:
2. click #7
3. search or scroll to TITLE XIII--HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
I'll raise you one biased article for another. Then here's the actual relevant part of the bill so people can read it themselves.
Actually it looks like an up-to-date version of Xegl using DRI2.
It got little support from the community especially from Red Hat and Novell
should be "Red Hat and NVIDIA". Apologies.
Jon Smirl and David Reveman lobbied for a new xorg server built on OpenGL. It got little support from the community especially from Red Hat and Novell. Personally I think this was one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of OSS. We could have had a modern xorg server replacement which rivaled Apple and Microsoft. Now we have the main xorg branch floundering from lack of interest and developers. Not to say there hasn't been progress made but no one can argue that xorg has the resources available to compete.
Ironically someone who argued against X on OpenGL now is working on his own xorg server replacement. Good luck to him and I hope he has better support.
From the page you cite, emphasis mine:
So I was specifically talking about corporate taxes. Anyway here is the GAO paper that I referred too. Tax Administration: Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. While it does focus on all USCCs and FCDCs (which ~60% did not report tax liability) it also refers to "Large" USCCs and FCDCs which is defined as:
In 2005 ~25% of both Large USCCs and FCDCs reported no tax liabity.
So btw, look up the facts!
But I did!
Yeah but what does it really mean? Do lower corporate taxes really result in a better economy? Well let's take a look. Ireland has a 12.5% corporate tax rate and is ranked 7th in GDP per capita throughout the world. Hrm looks pretty good. But wait Norway is ranked 3rd and has a corporate tax rate of 28%. And Luxembourg who is ranked 2nd has a corporate tax rate 29.63%. Even the United States of America which is ranked 6th has a varying federal tax rate of 15-39%. So in conclusion is there a correlation between economic strength and corporate tax rate? Nope.
Oh btw, A report from the US Congress released last week found that two-thirds of corporations in the country paid no federal income tax between 1988 and 2005.
Heh.
Actually she was using her yahoo email accounts to conduct state business.