I'm using the Open Source radeon driver under FreeBSD, and KDE desktop effects are snappy and smooth. BETTER than what I've seen with NVidia under Linux. No, it's not suitable for high end ubergeek gaming, but if that's what you are concerned with, FreeBSD is not for you...
Actually, they should have kept the FreeBSD userland. One of the major advantages of FreeBSD is that the base system is tightly integrated, with both the kernel and userland being developed in parallel by the same people.
Don't be too naive in your expectations though. It must be balanced with realism, and the reality is that politicians are flesh and blood human beings. Democratic elections do not magically confer divine rights or attributes upon them.
Keep your head in the clouds, but your feet on the ground. Expect better from your rulers, but be prepared to be disappointed. Again. For the millionth time.
Why are you arguing? First you say that suspending habeas corpus is constitutional, but now you say that suspending free speech is constitutional. Remember, it's made out of parchment. If you try to stretch it too much, it will rip.
Suspending habeous corpus is not the same thing as suspending the First Amendment. Go read what I wrote again. Non-rebellious, non-invading members of the press were being imprisoned for criticizing the President.
This is nothing new, it's been around since about 3271 B.C. when the first guy realized he could flatter the priest-king to gain political privilege. Here's a big cluestick for all of you: Government is comprised of mortal human beings! They aren't divine beings, they aren't angelic beings, they aren't even superior beings. They are mere human beings with all the ills, foibles an failings that come with being human beings.
The problem is not that we have self-serving human beings in office, the problem is that WE have the naive expectation that they will not be self-serving. We need to stop wasting our time trying to vote the "right people" into office, and start limiting the power of the wrong people who do get in.
You don't need shader support for the KDE desktop effects.
Don't bitch to KDE about the state of graphics drivers in X.org, bitch to ATI and NVidia. Yeah, ATI opened their specs, which is better than what NVidia did, but fully functional stable drivers don't just fall out of specs magically.
Doesn't matter. Throwing NORTHERN journalists in prison for criticizing the war is unconstitutional in the extreme. But Lincoln did even more than that, he threatened to imprison the attorneys of those journalists! Even one congressman was arrested!
You noticed that too? At least in the 4.0 era is seemed that way. The Open Source radeon driver has caught up though, and handles the desktop effects just fine.
The key is good drivers. I've found ancient Radeon 9000s that ran rings around new expensive nVidia cards. Stick with the Open Source drivers if you can. The commercial drivers are targeted at games, not the desktop. Here's how I see it with my experience plus reports online:
Older Radeons (r100-r500 chipsets): Use open source ati/radeon driver, avoid the commercial catalyst/fglrx driver if you can. It sucks.
Newer HD Radeons (r600, r700): open source support isn't there yet, stick with commercial catalyst/fglrx for the time being.
nVidia: Gotta use the proprietary, soul-stealing, subjugating commercial driver. The open source nv driver won't cut it.
Don't forget government. Far forabuses of the press have come from government than have come from corporations. If you piss of a company, they can pull their advertisements from your paper, but if you piss of government they can imprison you. Not just in Zimbabwe or Nicaragua, but in the U.S.! People bitch about Bush, but he was a pansy compared some former presidents. Contrary to his angelic image, Lincoln would close down newspapers and jail their editors, without trials.
You completely missed my point. There's a reason why the US has increasing forest acreage and other areas do not. And it's not just a simplistic "plant more trees".
Economics is a social science, with as much validity as anthropology and psychology. Unfortunately, many economists like to fantasize that their field is as rigorous and deterministic as physics.
If you're talking about all those government economists who will say whatever the powers that be tell them too, then you are indeed correct. Keynesian Economics has been thoroughly disproven, discredited and debunked. It is the Lamarckian evolution of economics. Yet because it offers an excuse for deficit spending, it is back in vogue.
p.s. Not that I am excusing Supply Side economics. Deficit spending is bad regardless of whether it's a liberal or conservative congress and administration doing it.
I was talking about recorded history. And specifically, within the past fifteen hundred years. We had a medieval warming spell, followed by a "mini ice age". Of course, like today, the warmer period wasn't uniformly warmer, nor the colder period uniformly colder. But the trends were there. Some evidence suggests that the medieval warming spell was warmer than the predicted anthropomorphic change.
Who said anything about famousness being a criteria. Dyson may not be climatologist, but he has earned the right to be critical of other scientists. He's got the credentials to know when an issue is being driven by more by politics rather than by science.
p.s. Throwing Paris Hilton into the equation is stupid. She no more insight on this matter than does Al Gore, another non-climatologist.
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How about we get ALL nations out of the UN? Surely there are other ways for nations to come together in a spirit of cooperation. Abolish the UN, break up the EU, and back to a federation for the US. Decentralize the power.
There is more forest acreage today in the U.S. than there was in 1920. Our acreage is coming back! There's a reason for that, and you need to understand it before you start punishing the US for destroying the planet.
Non-experts who disagree with experts are a dime a dozen in any field, but for some reason, global warming seems to be the only field where they make headlines. Wonder why that is.
You ought to take a look at economics sometimes. EVERYONE has an opinion on how to get out of the recession, but most are so ignorant of economics that its laughable.
There's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy, though
While being profitable does raise the incentives to buy Redhat, being profitable also lowers the incentives to sell Redhat. On the flip side, it may make sense to sell if the buyer is more profitable, but then the buyer doesn't have as much incentive to acquire.
It's not a dark side. Even if Redhat does sell, it's because their shareholders wanted to sell. It's only going to happen if shareholders on both sides perceive a benefit.
Bravo Freeman! It's about time a scientist of this stature declared that the emperor has no clothes. This is an issue that has NOT been driven by science, but driven by control freaks in government and fearmongers in the press.
Lest you immediately rush out to stone me, I am not denying that climate change is occurring. I know the climate is changing, because that is what the climate does! Yet I am still skeptical of the details that the press and government have oversensationalized.We have had significant warm and cool spells in recorded history, as significant as what we are being warned against. Yet the planet was not destroyed.
Even the silly non-science doesn't bother me much. What I object to are the government "solutions" to this crisis. I've seen solutions that range from banning black cars, to banning all cars entirely. They all involve using police and courts and jails to take freedom away from people. Government isn't about helping people, it's about controlling their lives. Government does perform some useful services, but above a certain size it all gets drowned out by the evil.
The real heresy isn't denying global warming, it's denying that government is the appropriate solution to every problem in life.
Another objection to this silly scheme: What about winter? What about the extra energy needed to heat up a white car? And don't forget about all those nasty volatiles being released into the atmosphere people repaint their black cars.
There's a reason simplistic knee jerking solutions don't work.
It has been demonstrated that our carbon output is quickly destabilizing our climate.
Sorry, way too broad of a statement. Who has demonstrated this, how quick is "quickly", what does "destabilizing" mean, and does the collective use of black cars have a signficantly measurable effect on this?
Once we get that cleared up, then we can move on to appropriate solutions. If driving black cars have a significant negative externality, then we can treat it as any other negative externality. And history demonstrates that government is not very good at solving these kinds of problems.
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I'm using the Open Source radeon driver under FreeBSD, and KDE desktop effects are snappy and smooth. BETTER than what I've seen with NVidia under Linux. No, it's not suitable for high end ubergeek gaming, but if that's what you are concerned with, FreeBSD is not for you...
Actually, they should have kept the FreeBSD userland. One of the major advantages of FreeBSD is that the base system is tightly integrated, with both the kernel and userland being developed in parallel by the same people.
Don't be too naive in your expectations though. It must be balanced with realism, and the reality is that politicians are flesh and blood human beings. Democratic elections do not magically confer divine rights or attributes upon them.
Keep your head in the clouds, but your feet on the ground. Expect better from your rulers, but be prepared to be disappointed. Again. For the millionth time.
Why are you arguing? First you say that suspending habeas corpus is constitutional, but now you say that suspending free speech is constitutional. Remember, it's made out of parchment. If you try to stretch it too much, it will rip.
Suspending habeous corpus is not the same thing as suspending the First Amendment. Go read what I wrote again. Non-rebellious, non-invading members of the press were being imprisoned for criticizing the President.
This is nothing new, it's been around since about 3271 B.C. when the first guy realized he could flatter the priest-king to gain political privilege. Here's a big cluestick for all of you: Government is comprised of mortal human beings! They aren't divine beings, they aren't angelic beings, they aren't even superior beings. They are mere human beings with all the ills, foibles an failings that come with being human beings.
The problem is not that we have self-serving human beings in office, the problem is that WE have the naive expectation that they will not be self-serving. We need to stop wasting our time trying to vote the "right people" into office, and start limiting the power of the wrong people who do get in.
You don't need shader support for the KDE desktop effects.
Don't bitch to KDE about the state of graphics drivers in X.org, bitch to ATI and NVidia. Yeah, ATI opened their specs, which is better than what NVidia did, but fully functional stable drivers don't just fall out of specs magically.
Doesn't matter. Throwing NORTHERN journalists in prison for criticizing the war is unconstitutional in the extreme. But Lincoln did even more than that, he threatened to imprison the attorneys of those journalists! Even one congressman was arrested!
The Constitution is most needed in wartime.
Well yeah... but this is the real world. What should be and what are and universes apart. Not just in the U.S. but everywhere.
You noticed that too? At least in the 4.0 era is seemed that way. The Open Source radeon driver has caught up though, and handles the desktop effects just fine.
The key is good drivers. I've found ancient Radeon 9000s that ran rings around new expensive nVidia cards. Stick with the Open Source drivers if you can. The commercial drivers are targeted at games, not the desktop. Here's how I see it with my experience plus reports online:
Older Radeons (r100-r500 chipsets): Use open source ati/radeon driver, avoid the commercial catalyst/fglrx driver if you can. It sucks.
Newer HD Radeons (r600, r700): open source support isn't there yet, stick with commercial catalyst/fglrx for the time being.
nVidia: Gotta use the proprietary, soul-stealing, subjugating commercial driver. The open source nv driver won't cut it.
Intel: Great support from the open source driver.
Don't forget government. Far forabuses of the press have come from government than have come from corporations. If you piss of a company, they can pull their advertisements from your paper, but if you piss of government they can imprison you. Not just in Zimbabwe or Nicaragua, but in the U.S.! People bitch about Bush, but he was a pansy compared some former presidents. Contrary to his angelic image, Lincoln would close down newspapers and jail their editors, without trials.
I can see it now, a new department at universities, for those unable to cope with the rigors of being an Art or Communications major: Game Studies.
You completely missed my point. There's a reason why the US has increasing forest acreage and other areas do not. And it's not just a simplistic "plant more trees".
Economics is a social science, with as much validity as anthropology and psychology. Unfortunately, many economists like to fantasize that their field is as rigorous and deterministic as physics.
If you're talking about all those government economists who will say whatever the powers that be tell them too, then you are indeed correct. Keynesian Economics has been thoroughly disproven, discredited and debunked. It is the Lamarckian evolution of economics. Yet because it offers an excuse for deficit spending, it is back in vogue.
p.s. Not that I am excusing Supply Side economics. Deficit spending is bad regardless of whether it's a liberal or conservative congress and administration doing it.
I was talking about recorded history. And specifically, within the past fifteen hundred years. We had a medieval warming spell, followed by a "mini ice age". Of course, like today, the warmer period wasn't uniformly warmer, nor the colder period uniformly colder. But the trends were there. Some evidence suggests that the medieval warming spell was warmer than the predicted anthropomorphic change.
Who said anything about famousness being a criteria. Dyson may not be climatologist, but he has earned the right to be critical of other scientists. He's got the credentials to know when an issue is being driven by more by politics rather than by science.
p.s. Throwing Paris Hilton into the equation is stupid. She no more insight on this matter than does Al Gore, another non-climatologist.
How about we get ALL nations out of the UN? Surely there are other ways for nations to come together in a spirit of cooperation. Abolish the UN, break up the EU, and back to a federation for the US. Decentralize the power.
There is more forest acreage today in the U.S. than there was in 1920. Our acreage is coming back! There's a reason for that, and you need to understand it before you start punishing the US for destroying the planet.
http://www.postal2020.com/?p=29
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/who-is-destroying-the-worlds-forests/
You ought to take a look at economics sometimes. EVERYONE has an opinion on how to get out of the recession, but most are so ignorant of economics that its laughable.
While being profitable does raise the incentives to buy Redhat, being profitable also lowers the incentives to sell Redhat. On the flip side, it may make sense to sell if the buyer is more profitable, but then the buyer doesn't have as much incentive to acquire.
It's not a dark side. Even if Redhat does sell, it's because their shareholders wanted to sell. It's only going to happen if shareholders on both sides perceive a benefit.
Bravo Freeman! It's about time a scientist of this stature declared that the emperor has no clothes. This is an issue that has NOT been driven by science, but driven by control freaks in government and fearmongers in the press.
Lest you immediately rush out to stone me, I am not denying that climate change is occurring. I know the climate is changing, because that is what the climate does! Yet I am still skeptical of the details that the press and government have oversensationalized.We have had significant warm and cool spells in recorded history, as significant as what we are being warned against. Yet the planet was not destroyed.
Even the silly non-science doesn't bother me much. What I object to are the government "solutions" to this crisis. I've seen solutions that range from banning black cars, to banning all cars entirely. They all involve using police and courts and jails to take freedom away from people. Government isn't about helping people, it's about controlling their lives. Government does perform some useful services, but above a certain size it all gets drowned out by the evil.
The real heresy isn't denying global warming, it's denying that government is the appropriate solution to every problem in life.
Another objection to this silly scheme: What about winter? What about the extra energy needed to heat up a white car? And don't forget about all those nasty volatiles being released into the atmosphere people repaint their black cars.
There's a reason simplistic knee jerking solutions don't work.
Sorry, way too broad of a statement. Who has demonstrated this, how quick is "quickly", what does "destabilizing" mean, and does the collective use of black cars have a signficantly measurable effect on this?
Once we get that cleared up, then we can move on to appropriate solutions. If driving black cars have a significant negative externality, then we can treat it as any other negative externality. And history demonstrates that government is not very good at solving these kinds of problems.