Partly the continuing degradation and replacement of societal values with what are frankly mentally sick ideas, also the furthering towards a horrible new norm where people live without any actual human contact. I'm also concerned that it could (possibly inadvertently) be just another step towards the "divide and conquer" strategy that gives governments totalitarian control over the people. I'm also concerned that its another sign that western civilization is imploding. This move would be directly in line with the pattern of sexual and other degradation that all great civilizations (e.g. Rome) go through in their last days.
Also, so many women have been trained from birth to be selfish, shallow, special little princesses that think physical appearance is everything and their mere existence is more than sufficient contribution to a relationship. No-one in their right mind would want to marry them.
Do you REALLY want a world where people are totally controlled by their phones/internet, live alone in small rented boxes and never "interact" with other humans in person?
Seriously, the world you are proudly creating just keeps looking suckier and suckier.
Marrying some machinery? I predict that people will be allowed to marry their dogs next. Then it will extend to other pets, including pet rocks. Then already dead people.
>> You don't need the source to your BIOS to boot an OS; it's an entirely separate thing.
No it really isn't. You also don't need the source to the loadable firmware of your GPU to be able to use it either.
>> the problem is that their driver just doesn't work that well in Linux because of the way it's packaged,
Nvidia GPUs have always worked MUCH better/more reliably than any ATI GPU/driver i've ever (tried to) use under Linux, at least for me. Most linux distros already come with nouveau installed and its a simple apt-get to install the nvidia linux driver.
>> most people just don't care much about that, they just want it to cook their food.
OK well if that's a legitimate excuse then it clearly also stands for all other consumer hardware, including GPUs.
>> The other problem with Nvidia's source code is that, on the Windows side, they've been found to put a bunch of crap in there to game the benchmarks
THat was like a decade ago, and ATI were doing it too.
>> But really, the primary problem is interoperation. It's a lot easier to make sure the system all works together correctly when you have the source code for all the components at their interfaces,
Sorry but thats baloney, Apart from the fact that you don't and even can't talk to the binary blob directly anyway, all you would need is the API spec. In the same way you don't talk directly or need the source to your intel CPU's microcode, which BTW is yet another example of a binary blob loaded at runtime (usually by the bios) that the same people complaining vociferously about the closedness of nVidias drivers conveniently overlook.
Because this is what happens when everyone repeatedly proritizes offloading more and more shit onto the CPU (e.g. languages that get parsed at runtime and requiring stuff like garbage collectors, inherently wasteful/inefficient protocols like XML, integrating massive toolsets and APIs rather than writing efficient code) all in the name of developer convenience, and to allow them to continue to get away with sloppy programming practices instead of being rigorous and addressing the root cause of the problem. i.e. themselves.
Just out out of interest, other than a random religious war, why pick on GPU drivers? I mean for example do you have the source code to your motherboard bios? Can you even get the binary blob for the embedded CPU in your microwave or dishwasher? Even If nvidia gave you the soruce code could/why would you change it?
Dude 1070 isn't high end. Wake me up when ATI comes up with anything that can outperform my Pascal TitanX, has at least equally stable drivers, not need multiple cards/slots, not sound like a jet taking off, and not heat my whole house up.
Totally agree. I think its a factor of several things though. Women especially appear to be biologically hard-wired to obsessively want to have kids, but I blame society more. Firstly it encourages people to see their self-worth and whole purpose in life as only to be baby-making machines. Secondly, it rewards people both socially and financially for having kids (or looked at the other way: it punishes those that choose not to) which I think is a problem that very badly needs fixing, mostly because it encourages people to just have kids without any planning, and also encourages those that would obviously be terrible parents to have kids.
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Wow white knight mangina much?
>> I don't know what exactly society does when people stop getting married and having kids. I think your society just dies.
No there are still plenty of trailer trash welfare druggies banging out multiple kids. Idiocracy really is starting to come true.
>> What skin off your nose is it?
Partly the continuing degradation and replacement of societal values with what are frankly mentally sick ideas, also the furthering towards a horrible new norm where people live without any actual human contact. I'm also concerned that it could (possibly inadvertently) be just another step towards the "divide and conquer" strategy that gives governments totalitarian control over the people.
I'm also concerned that its another sign that western civilization is imploding. This move would be directly in line with the pattern of sexual and other degradation that all great civilizations (e.g. Rome) go through in their last days.
Also, so many women have been trained from birth to be selfish, shallow, special little princesses that think physical appearance is everything and their mere existence is more than sufficient contribution to a relationship.
No-one in their right mind would want to marry them.
Do you REALLY want a world where people are totally controlled by their phones/internet, live alone in small rented boxes and never "interact" with other humans in person?
Seriously, the world you are proudly creating just keeps looking suckier and suckier.
Marrying some machinery? I predict that people will be allowed to marry their dogs next. Then it will extend to other pets, including pet rocks. Then already dead people.
ahh.... so they're walking the Planck.
as in.... the smallest possible leap?
The message is that a sender exists.
Funny how companies never inadvertently undercharge.
Why name it in German? that seems really random.
IMHO it just seems like yet another reason to not buy a Tesla.
Can you stop your Tesla from applying updates or does it follow the Windows 10 model?
Yeah what a damp squib he turned out to be too.
Trust me 2017 is going to be a YUGE year for the environment! Nobody fixes things better than me! Believe me!
>> You don't need the source to your BIOS to boot an OS; it's an entirely separate thing.
No it really isn't. You also don't need the source to the loadable firmware of your GPU to be able to use it either.
>> the problem is that their driver just doesn't work that well in Linux because of the way it's packaged,
Nvidia GPUs have always worked MUCH better/more reliably than any ATI GPU/driver i've ever (tried to) use under Linux, at least for me. Most linux distros already come with nouveau installed and its a simple apt-get to install the nvidia linux driver.
>> most people just don't care much about that, they just want it to cook their food.
OK well if that's a legitimate excuse then it clearly also stands for all other consumer hardware, including GPUs.
>> The other problem with Nvidia's source code is that, on the Windows side, they've been found to put a bunch of crap in there to game the benchmarks
THat was like a decade ago, and ATI were doing it too.
>> But really, the primary problem is interoperation. It's a lot easier to make sure the system all works together correctly when you have the source code for all the components at their interfaces,
Sorry but thats baloney, Apart from the fact that you don't and even can't talk to the binary blob directly anyway, all you would need is the API spec. In the same way you don't talk directly or need the source to your intel CPU's microcode, which BTW is yet another example of a binary blob loaded at runtime (usually by the bios) that the same people complaining vociferously about the closedness of nVidias drivers conveniently overlook.
Because this is what happens when everyone repeatedly proritizes offloading more and more shit onto the CPU (e.g. languages that get parsed at runtime and requiring stuff like garbage collectors, inherently wasteful/inefficient protocols like XML, integrating massive toolsets and APIs rather than writing efficient code) all in the name of developer convenience, and to allow them to continue to get away with sloppy programming practices instead of being rigorous and addressing the root cause of the problem. i.e. themselves.
Given that, what do you expect will happen?
Just out out of interest, other than a random religious war, why pick on GPU drivers?
I mean for example do you have the source code to your motherboard bios?
Can you even get the binary blob for the embedded CPU in your microwave or dishwasher?
Even If nvidia gave you the soruce code could/why would you change it?
Dude 1070 isn't high end.
Wake me up when ATI comes up with anything that can outperform my Pascal TitanX, has at least equally stable drivers, not need multiple cards/slots, not sound like a jet taking off, and not heat my whole house up.
Wait what? How is Freesat completely free? I mean they must be making money somehow right?
The UK is still a member of the EU so he really had no alternative.
Totally agree.
I think its a factor of several things though. Women especially appear to be biologically hard-wired to obsessively want to have kids, but I blame society more. Firstly it encourages people to see their self-worth and whole purpose in life as only to be baby-making machines.
Secondly, it rewards people both socially and financially for having kids (or looked at the other way: it punishes those that choose not to) which I think is a problem that very badly needs fixing, mostly because it encourages people to just have kids without any planning, and also encourages those that would obviously be terrible parents to have kids.
>> I've simply determined to not allow that to happen.
Thank you. If more people who would be absolutely terrible parents had your sense to self-regulate, the world would be a MUCH better place.
Of course it is. Its Microsoft. Their whole empire is built on lock-in.
Well use your home/work cable connection to watch video then, not you mobnile (which frankly is a relatively crap experience anyway).