You're joking? I got a HD2600Pro at the end of last year. 3D was still problematic back then, but the 2D ran very well. By this point, it has excellent support. The turn around this year so far has been enormous. I'd definitely recommend ATI cards as having the best support in Linux now because as well as a good (and regular) update program, you have the OSS projects running in parallel. They are also the most OSS friendly graphics card company and I bought ATI rather than NVIDIA for that reason, likewise it's what I recommend to others. ATI, definitely. You're very out of date with your information.
I disagree. It would be a possibility if "Professors" were some monolithic guild, but I think they are not. Whilst some might make lots of money from having their books set as required textbooks, the majority of lecturers have no incentive to set proprietary books and in fact have several incentives not to (not having to keep up to date themselves on where information in the book has shifted to this year, is one of those). Hence if a viable alternative to the expensive textbooks appears, the majority will take it once the concept has sunk in.
This is another example of the environmentalist's fallacy.
Excuse me, Greenpeace != All Environmentalists. In a lot of ways, they're just a nuisance who claim to speak for others. There are plenty of us "environmentalists" who are very pro-nuclear. I am one of them.
But I have tried some shots with the camera up higher than me because I wanted to give the viewer (hopefully a man) the sensation of being taller than me and looking down at me. I figured guys like that.
NO! There are three billion of us, you can't say "guy's" like that. Is this just trite pedantry? Not really - why try to disguise what you are for the sake of one proportion when there's another proportion who will go for exactly what you are? I'm 6'1" (hopefully a man) and I go for girls who are tall (as a rule I'm not stuck on this). I've had a conversation with a mate on this, who said that he liked little girls who'd gaze up at him adoringly, but what he really wants is a girl he feels is dependent on him. But I'd say he had a few issues. Me - I've always been very confident and out-going and I think that's why I tend to go for taller girls - ones who, all other things considered, therefore appear more alpha female themselves.
People are complicated, want different things and maybe you're doing what's right for you. I'm just observing that knowing nothing else about you, trying to alter your photo impressions to make yourself appear shorter might be doing you a disservice in not helping you find one of the guys who does go for what you are.
Wildly off-topic, but I just wanted to express some respect for getting off that stuff and staying off it. A number of my friends in my life have struggled with hard drugs, and it isn't easy to remove them from your life. Kudos.
I've heard testimonies to WoW's superior framerate from both sides of the OS divide, and I believe they were all sincere. The point is that it is inconsistent. That is not good enough. That some people are able to get better rates with WINE isn't sufficient to show something is cross-platform. It needs to be developed that way in the first place so that people have the ease and reliability that you'd get on a Windows platform. No offense meant to WINE, but impressive though it is when you think about how hard the task is, it's not there yet.
It costs them very little to hold a gun to your head and demand "Hand over the encryption keys."
But in this case, you are alerted to their investigation, which is valuable in and of itself. The public can be alerted as to how much spying is going on. It prevents widespread and automated snooping, such as scanning for keywords.And it gives you the option to say "no - I wont hand over my keys." It's unlikely to be literal gun to the head and even then, some people would refuse. Who was it said that 'Freedom is being able to say no and take the consequences' ?
It's only anecdotal, but the "Park and Ride" near where I live in the UK is extremely popular and well-used. People drive to the out of town car park and then hop on one of the frequent buses that takes them into town. Works great and might be a usable solution for some US cities.
Vegetarians eat grass? Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for teaching me something new today.
Here's something else new for you today, then, most of the rain forest destruction happening today is to make room for soybean crops. Not to feed vegetarians, but to feed cattle for the US beef industry. Commercial cattle farming doesn't depend on letting cows wander around eating grass. It depends on crops that are grown for that purpose.
It is possible to be vegetarian and fat, but statistically vegetarians are slimmer and healthier than meat eaters. You can have a bad vegetarian diet and you can have a bad diet that includes meat, but the bad meat diet is usually more destructive than a poor vegetarian one. The overall statistics area skewed because people who are intelligent and educated are more likely to be vegetarian than those who are not (at least in Western Europe where there isn't a cultural assumption that meat = wealth). But allowing for this factor still leaves vegetarianism as a healthier option.
At any rate, the relevant part here is the environmental effect and until people vat grow meat in some genetically engineered form, vegetarianism is very much more eco-friendly than a meat-based diet. And even then, it would still have the edge.
If something looks stupid, that doesn't change based on someone's skin colour. No exceptions.
But that said, I think the video is actually pretty groovy and I can also see the odd teacher showing it in a classroom (if teachers are still allowed to do something not listed on their government curriculum).
Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*
They need to show they are rich they are compensating. It is a well known fact that the amount you spend on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff is inversely proportionate to the size of your penis.
Yep. I meant blu-ray and HDDVD support. VLC is actually my player of choice and Linux is my preferred OS. I put the Windows partition on purely for playing HD movies (after partial success in decrypting them to play on Linux). Got it working with the help of AnyDVD which worked fine. But at over £50 for occasional use when I've already paid extra for the hardware and, especially, when I'm used to getting better and open source products for free... I resented it to much, I'm afraid.
I'm in a similar position - I also should be their target audience, but in my case, though the cost is stupid for me also, the biggest factor is actually the DRM. I can actually get the movies I care about fairly cheaply second hand. But I've only bought two because the sheer agony I have endured in trying to get them to play on my computer system, is simply too much. And it makes me sincerely angry with the technology that people who simply download the films don't have the problems that I've had to go through trying to play my legally bought copies.
Also a techie and also a flim fan. I find the difference quite noticeable and though new Blue-Ray movies are too expensive, I'm willing to buy my favourite ones second hand from Amazon. However, though I want Blue-Ray, I also want it to work. After battling with the crap that is PowerDVD on Windows or the frustration that is decrypting the discs on Linux, neither option appeals anymore and I'm just giving up on it. I'll take another look at the technology in another six months, perhaps. And if the situation for watching the bloody things on my computer (my main media centre) has improved, then I might start buying some again. (I currently have two). Its been a near complete waste of my time so far.
Perhaps slightly, as I occasionally used supermarket carrier bags as rubbish bags. But I didn't do this normally and they mostly end up stuffed together in another carrier bag behind my washing machine.:) Additionally, the plastic garbage bags that I buy are the bio-degradable ones, so that's a plus over the supermarket carriers that usually aren't. I'd say that the ecological benefit is definitely a positive one, though it's a valid question you've asked and the answer might well be more significant from another person than myself.
When loyalty cards first came in (which I consider a bad thing from society's view, but that's a separate discussion), I had fun signing up to as many as I could with joke names and seeing what would get approved. Mostly they didn't, but I did get a Tesco's card for Penelope Pitstop. I didn't manage to get Mr. Hugh G. Rection, but perhaps I'll have another go. It was fun for a while.
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You're joking? I got a HD2600Pro at the end of last year. 3D was still problematic back then, but the 2D ran very well. By this point, it has excellent support. The turn around this year so far has been enormous. I'd definitely recommend ATI cards as having the best support in Linux now because as well as a good (and regular) update program, you have the OSS projects running in parallel. They are also the most OSS friendly graphics card company and I bought ATI rather than NVIDIA for that reason, likewise it's what I recommend to others. ATI, definitely. You're very out of date with your information.
I disagree. It would be a possibility if "Professors" were some monolithic guild, but I think they are not. Whilst some might make lots of money from having their books set as required textbooks, the majority of lecturers have no incentive to set proprietary books and in fact have several incentives not to (not having to keep up to date themselves on where information in the book has shifted to this year, is one of those). Hence if a viable alternative to the expensive textbooks appears, the majority will take it once the concept has sunk in.
Excuse me, Greenpeace != All Environmentalists. In a lot of ways, they're just a nuisance who claim to speak for others. There are plenty of us "environmentalists" who are very pro-nuclear. I am one of them.
"If I didn't do it, somebody else would." That argument has been attached to a lot of crimes in human history.
NO! There are three billion of us, you can't say "guy's" like that. Is this just trite pedantry? Not really - why try to disguise what you are for the sake of one proportion when there's another proportion who will go for exactly what you are? I'm 6'1" (hopefully a man) and I go for girls who are tall (as a rule I'm not stuck on this). I've had a conversation with a mate on this, who said that he liked little girls who'd gaze up at him adoringly, but what he really wants is a girl he feels is dependent on him. But I'd say he had a few issues. Me - I've always been very confident and out-going and I think that's why I tend to go for taller girls - ones who, all other things considered, therefore appear more alpha female themselves.
People are complicated, want different things and maybe you're doing what's right for you. I'm just observing that knowing nothing else about you, trying to alter your photo impressions to make yourself appear shorter might be doing you a disservice in not helping you find one of the guys who does go for what you are.
How can that be? I'm not disputing what you say - I just want to know, well... how such a thing could be?
Well that's their choice.
Wildly off-topic, but I just wanted to express some respect for getting off that stuff and staying off it. A number of my friends in my life have struggled with hard drugs, and it isn't easy to remove them from your life. Kudos.
I've heard testimonies to WoW's superior framerate from both sides of the OS divide, and I believe they were all sincere. The point is that it is inconsistent. That is not good enough. That some people are able to get better rates with WINE isn't sufficient to show something is cross-platform. It needs to be developed that way in the first place so that people have the ease and reliability that you'd get on a Windows platform. No offense meant to WINE, but impressive though it is when you think about how hard the task is, it's not there yet.
But in this case, you are alerted to their investigation, which is valuable in and of itself. The public can be alerted as to how much spying is going on. It prevents widespread and automated snooping, such as scanning for keywords.And it gives you the option to say "no - I wont hand over my keys." It's unlikely to be literal gun to the head and even then, some people would refuse. Who was it said that 'Freedom is being able to say no and take the consequences' ?
Sorry - I think I misread your post. We are in agreement.
It's only anecdotal, but the "Park and Ride" near where I live in the UK is extremely popular and well-used. People drive to the out of town car park and then hop on one of the frequent buses that takes them into town. Works great and might be a usable solution for some US cities.
Well then that's clearly what we should aim for - that we should be a nation of farmers. Farming is clearly the end goal of the species.
Here's something else new for you today, then, most of the rain forest destruction happening today is to make room for soybean crops. Not to feed vegetarians, but to feed cattle for the US beef industry. Commercial cattle farming doesn't depend on letting cows wander around eating grass. It depends on crops that are grown for that purpose.
It is possible to be vegetarian and fat, but statistically vegetarians are slimmer and healthier than meat eaters. You can have a bad vegetarian diet and you can have a bad diet that includes meat, but the bad meat diet is usually more destructive than a poor vegetarian one. The overall statistics area skewed because people who are intelligent and educated are more likely to be vegetarian than those who are not (at least in Western Europe where there isn't a cultural assumption that meat = wealth). But allowing for this factor still leaves vegetarianism as a healthier option.
At any rate, the relevant part here is the environmental effect and until people vat grow meat in some genetically engineered form, vegetarianism is very much more eco-friendly than a meat-based diet. And even then, it would still have the edge.
If something looks stupid, that doesn't change based on someone's skin colour. No exceptions.
But that said, I think the video is actually pretty groovy and I can also see the odd teacher showing it in a classroom (if teachers are still allowed to do something not listed on their government curriculum).
Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*
In Soviet Russia, the defenders invade YOU.
Yes, poor taste, I know. But not as poor taste the sick joke the Russian government has told to justify these bombings.
So women are richer than men, yes?
Yep. I meant blu-ray and HDDVD support. VLC is actually my player of choice and Linux is my preferred OS. I put the Windows partition on purely for playing HD movies (after partial success in decrypting them to play on Linux). Got it working with the help of AnyDVD which worked fine. But at over £50 for occasional use when I've already paid extra for the hardware and, especially, when I'm used to getting better and open source products for free... I resented it to much, I'm afraid.
I'm in a similar position - I also should be their target audience, but in my case, though the cost is stupid for me also, the biggest factor is actually the DRM. I can actually get the movies I care about fairly cheaply second hand. But I've only bought two because the sheer agony I have endured in trying to get them to play on my computer system, is simply too much. And it makes me sincerely angry with the technology that people who simply download the films don't have the problems that I've had to go through trying to play my legally bought copies.
Also a techie and also a flim fan. I find the difference quite noticeable and though new Blue-Ray movies are too expensive, I'm willing to buy my favourite ones second hand from Amazon. However, though I want Blue-Ray, I also want it to work. After battling with the crap that is PowerDVD on Windows or the frustration that is decrypting the discs on Linux, neither option appeals anymore and I'm just giving up on it. I'll take another look at the technology in another six months, perhaps. And if the situation for watching the bloody things on my computer (my main media centre) has improved, then I might start buying some again. (I currently have two). Its been a near complete waste of my time so far.
Wow! You aren't kidding!
I always picture them doing that anyway. In the backrooms of the Whitehouse. At midnight. In Robes. Around a pentagram.
You mean they don't?
When loyalty cards first came in (which I consider a bad thing from society's view, but that's a separate discussion), I had fun signing up to as many as I could with joke names and seeing what would get approved. Mostly they didn't, but I did get a Tesco's card for Penelope Pitstop. I didn't manage to get Mr. Hugh G. Rection, but perhaps I'll have another go. It was fun for a while.