I guess Bush hasn't heard of this "budget" thing, because last I heard we were running a deficit of $400 billion a year. The last thing we need is more spending. I'm really disappointed by the Slashdotters that think "That's cool!!" without any idea of the money involved. I hope you don't run your personal lives that way. If there are people that are excited about this they should raise their own money to do so. Bake sales for Mars are fine with me, but don't ask for my money. "Adventure" is not a sufficient reason put the country into even worse debt than we are already in.
Why are we spending money on things like this when so many Americans lack health care. I'm not against basic science, but manned space missions are really poor value when you consider what you've learned versus how much you've spent. Why doesn't he invest money in building better space telescopes? The Hubble has been a real success. I guess that doesn't fit with Bush's comic book view of the world though.
The components of a DVD player are inexpensive and the design is certainly no secret. New products eventually become commodities. I don't see why that is something for consumers to be concerned about. If the first DVD player that the author bought didn't have S-video, then he shouldn't bought the other cheap DVD player to begin with. I think it's unusual that people complain about the things that we buy are getting cheaper. I'm not really convinced by the "buy domestic" rhetoric, but DVD player have never been made in the US, so it's not as if DVD player jobs are going overseas. If anything, the lower prices of the DVD players are helping to reduce the trade deficit and consumers are getting a better deal.
I find it strange that Lomborg calls the panel's criticisms "mudslinging" when they make substantive criticisms. That's convenient rhetoric for him to adopt. Conservatives are experts in mudslinging though. Witness the comment from the scientist from the Cato Institute calling the panel "the keepers of the environmental-gloom paradigm." That's real thoughtful scientific criticism. Luckily, the current Danish government looks likely to lose badly in the upcoming election. Then maybe these politically motivated condemnations of the work of the Committee on Scientific Dishonesty will stop.
The nvidia driver doesn't use hardware acceleration for the RENDER extension... at least not by default. The README reads:
"Option "RenderAccel" "boolean" Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled."
I don't know whether you specifically enabled hardware acceleration for RENDER, but if you didn't then GTK+ ought to perform similarly using the closed drivers and the open drivers. Last I heard, only Matrox cards supported hardware RENDER acceleration in a non-experimental way.
Owen Taylor discussed GTK+ performance on OSnews recently. He wrote:
"A big bottleneck right now in GTK+ performance is the poor performance of the RENDER extension drawing anti-aliased text. Even without hardware acceleration, it could be tens of times faster than it is now. I'm hopeful that the X server work currently ongoing on freedesktop.org will result in that being fixed."
Neither Linux nor GTK+ are the problem. X is slow. BeOS doesn't use X. BTW, this isn't an attack on X, which I think is great. It is slow though.
> Because it wouldn't be "BeOS" then?
Wouldn't be BeOS in what way? Are you saying that it wouldn't perform the same way, or are you making some other claim? If it performs the same way, why would anyone care whether the kernel is Linux or something else. I don't understand why people talk about this is mystical quasi-religious terms. It's a practical decision. Use what works. OpenBeOS with a linux or BSD kernel would have stable, developing hardware support. It seems like the decision to _not_ use a mainstream kernel is the real groupthink.
I would like to know what the performace issues were that kept them from using Linux (or a BSD for that matter) as the kernel of OpenBeOS. I read some comments that said that Linux wouldn't provide the right feel. What does that mean? I know the scheduler makes a difference in GUI app behavior but that is something which can be tuned to different behaviors. In any case, I'm sure that OpenBeOS with a linux kernel on current hardware would provide the right feel... fast. I know it must be cooler to develop NewOS, but the practical thing would have been to use the tens of thousands of developer-hours of the major kernels (Linux, BSDs). Maybe they just didn't like the ambiguity of using a mainstream kernel. After all, when we talk about OS's we usually talk about kernels. If they used Linux as the kernel, then it starts to look like they are developing OpenBeDE (Desktop Environment) instead of OpenBeOS. But that doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me. Modern, C++ based, great API DE, runs on Linux! That is exiting. An operating system with sketchy hardware support is not.
I became a GNOME user because KDE was so fugly in the past. I might consider trying it out now that there is a decent installed theme. I could never figure out how a DE with so many European users could be so styleless.
There is clearly a lot that is not pretty about the U.S. justice system, e.g. pleabargaining, Bush's suspension of Habeas Corpus in Guantanamo (although I doubt the Supreme Court will stand for it), sometimes incompetent public defenders, racist juries,... I could go on and on. However, the protection against double jeopardy is one of the good things. People keep including the sentence from the 5th amendment and doing their own legal interpretations of it. Just so everyone is on the same page, in the opinion of the Supreme Court:
'[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.' U.S. v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435, 440 (1989).
There was a case recently in Thailand where a Dutchman was aquitted of a drug offense, then kept in prison for 5 years and then given a life sentence on appeal. That strikes me a manifestly unjust. It flabbergasts me that this is acceptable practice anywhere.
I'm sure that if people don't want to buy motherboards with the new Pheonix BIOSes, then the very competitive motherboard market will be happy to produce boards with a different BIOS. So...., what is the problem?
Amen. Reaper20 expressed my thoughts exactly. What is she thinking?!?!? However, it does say something about the state of linux distributions that people don't really complain about the distribution anymore (that is the software that comes on the cd's) anymore but rather about how easy it is to update packages to the latest and greatest version of package X. The complaints about multimedia are expected but unavoidable given Fedora's license policy.
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I guess Bush hasn't heard of this "budget" thing, because last I heard we were running a deficit of $400 billion a year. The last thing we need is more spending. I'm really disappointed by the Slashdotters that think "That's cool!!" without any idea of the money involved. I hope you don't run your personal lives that way. If there are people that are excited about this they should raise their own money to do so. Bake sales for Mars are fine with me, but don't ask for my money. "Adventure" is not a sufficient reason put the country into even worse debt than we are already in.
Why are we spending money on things like this when so many Americans lack health care. I'm not against basic science, but manned space missions are really poor value when you consider what you've learned versus how much you've spent. Why doesn't he invest money in building better space telescopes? The Hubble has been a real success. I guess that doesn't fit with Bush's comic book view of the world though.
Including all the off-shore spammers? I hope your comment was supposed to funny, because it made me laugh.
The components of a DVD player are inexpensive and the design is certainly no secret. New products eventually become commodities. I don't see why that is something for consumers to be concerned about. If the first DVD player that the author bought didn't have S-video, then he shouldn't bought the other cheap DVD player to begin with. I think it's unusual that people complain about the things that we buy are getting cheaper. I'm not really convinced by the "buy domestic" rhetoric, but DVD player have never been made in the US, so it's not as if DVD player jobs are going overseas. If anything, the lower prices of the DVD players are helping to reduce the trade deficit and consumers are getting a better deal.
> First our jobs, now are missiles.
I guess they've taken our ability to write coherent English as well.
I find it strange that Lomborg calls the panel's criticisms "mudslinging" when they make substantive criticisms. That's convenient rhetoric for him to adopt. Conservatives are experts in mudslinging though. Witness the comment from the scientist from the Cato Institute calling the panel "the keepers of the environmental-gloom paradigm." That's real thoughtful scientific criticism. Luckily, the current Danish government looks likely to lose badly in the upcoming election. Then maybe these politically motivated condemnations of the work of the Committee on Scientific Dishonesty will stop.
The nvidia driver doesn't use hardware acceleration for the RENDER extension ... at least not by default. The README reads:
"Option "RenderAccel" "boolean" Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled."
I don't know whether you specifically enabled hardware acceleration for RENDER, but if you didn't then GTK+ ought to perform similarly using the closed drivers and the open drivers. Last I heard, only Matrox cards supported hardware RENDER acceleration in a non-experimental way.
Owen Taylor discussed GTK+ performance on OSnews recently. He wrote: "A big bottleneck right now in GTK+ performance is the poor performance of the RENDER extension drawing anti-aliased text. Even without hardware acceleration, it could be tens of times faster than it is now. I'm hopeful that the X server work currently ongoing on freedesktop.org will result in that being fixed." Neither Linux nor GTK+ are the problem. X is slow. BeOS doesn't use X. BTW, this isn't an attack on X, which I think is great. It is slow though.
> Because it wouldn't be "BeOS" then? Wouldn't be BeOS in what way? Are you saying that it wouldn't perform the same way, or are you making some other claim? If it performs the same way, why would anyone care whether the kernel is Linux or something else. I don't understand why people talk about this is mystical quasi-religious terms. It's a practical decision. Use what works. OpenBeOS with a linux or BSD kernel would have stable, developing hardware support. It seems like the decision to _not_ use a mainstream kernel is the real groupthink.
I would like to know what the performace issues were that kept them from using Linux (or a BSD for that matter) as the kernel of OpenBeOS. I read some comments that said that Linux wouldn't provide the right feel. What does that mean? I know the scheduler makes a difference in GUI app behavior but that is something which can be tuned to different behaviors. In any case, I'm sure that OpenBeOS with a linux kernel on current hardware would provide the right feel... fast. I know it must be cooler to develop NewOS, but the practical thing would have been to use the tens of thousands of developer-hours of the major kernels (Linux, BSDs). Maybe they just didn't like the ambiguity of using a mainstream kernel. After all, when we talk about OS's we usually talk about kernels. If they used Linux as the kernel, then it starts to look like they are developing OpenBeDE (Desktop Environment) instead of OpenBeOS. But that doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me. Modern, C++ based, great API DE, runs on Linux! That is exiting. An operating system with sketchy hardware support is not.
I became a GNOME user because KDE was so fugly in the past. I might consider trying it out now that there is a decent installed theme. I could never figure out how a DE with so many European users could be so styleless.
There is clearly a lot that is not pretty about the U.S. justice system, e.g. pleabargaining, Bush's suspension of Habeas Corpus in Guantanamo (although I doubt the Supreme Court will stand for it), sometimes incompetent public defenders, racist juries,... I could go on and on. However, the protection against double jeopardy is one of the good things. People keep including the sentence from the 5th amendment and doing their own legal interpretations of it. Just so everyone is on the same page, in the opinion of the Supreme Court: '[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.' U.S. v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435, 440 (1989). There was a case recently in Thailand where a Dutchman was aquitted of a drug offense, then kept in prison for 5 years and then given a life sentence on appeal. That strikes me a manifestly unjust. It flabbergasts me that this is acceptable practice anywhere.
I'm sure that if people don't want to buy motherboards with the new Pheonix BIOSes, then the very competitive motherboard market will be happy to produce boards with a different BIOS. So...., what is the problem?
Amen. Reaper20 expressed my thoughts exactly. What is she thinking?!?!? However, it does say something about the state of linux distributions that people don't really complain about the distribution anymore (that is the software that comes on the cd's) anymore but rather about how easy it is to update packages to the latest and greatest version of package X. The complaints about multimedia are expected but unavoidable given Fedora's license policy.