I've talked quite closely with some of the ATi linux guys - Tippett is pretty enthusiastic about it. It seems quite plain that the blame lies squarely with ATi, not with the people doing the actual programming. As regards what they're focussing on, it's definitely not speed at this point. There are lots of more pressing things that are plaguing these drivers, such as power management problems, stability and so on. The release after Christmas started a set of quite big improvements, though.
Unfortunately, the whole premise of purchasing something is that if you don't cough up, you don't get whatever it is - it doesn't matter whether it's a book or some music. If you go into a bookstore and steal a random book that you don't like, then it's still stealing.
There is a difference in that there's no physical copy being stolen, but you are essentially arguing for a moneyless society.
With Firefox, you can at least hope that it will be fixed in a short amount of time, and just code to the standard. FF users are likely to update more often than IE users, too, and are more likely to be willing to, unless their technically orientated friend/relative installed it for them.
Sure enough it's not a certainty that such policies come into effect, but from where I'm sitting that appears to be the trend (for Britain, too) hopefully it can be averted however, whichever side of centre you happen to be.
A constitution isn't something that automatically makes the country that has it safe from dictatorship. A constitution can be changed, and historically they have been changed in the course of a slide into totalitarianism.
I'm not sure who you're referring to, but it's obvious that the party in power has been using the war on terror to bring in legislation, such as the PATRIOT Act.
The point is these changes are coming in gradually, and scarily. If you look at the trends to remove liberties, the reasons for which are mainly based around terror, it seems quite obvious that totalitarianism is approaching, even if it is not going to get here. The power of fear to manipulate the population is very real, and the "land of the free," seems on its way out.
I, by the way, live in Britain, and from my limited view on these things, we're not much better off.
I think, just as with blogs, podcasts have wheat and chaff - some people with the ability to orate, some who do not. I expect it will be possible to just ignore the chaff, because if there's one thing that grates, it's someone who is unable to speak without many redundant words ('like,' 'know what i'm saying',) repetition and so on. Another thing that grates is people who are unable to write, but there are still some blogs that have content and quality writing.
Nonetheless, I spend enough time on the internet without needing to cling limpet-like to another source of something; I already have slashdot, webcomics, H*R, forums and so on.
Just as a side note, when you refer to using multiple languages, have you not tried using a multikey? By default on most Linux systems Shift-AltGr is defined as key which then enables certain combinations, e.g: (shift-altgr), A, " = Ä. Also, altgr-a = æ, altgr-o = ø and so on.
Unfortunately in my experience, many Americans manage to live up to their stereotype of gun-toting, bible-bashing redneck. (When I say bible-bashing, I mean a bad kind of Christian, no slur against Christianity in general) I'm quite sure there are plenty of British twats that live up to our stereotype of drunken decadents who sit around complaining about the state of the country and then indirectly support whatever problem it was.
The thing is, just as a spelling mistake in any English text throws off a reader, so does the occurrence of a US/British specific spelling. This is not a dialectal problem, because in my experience dialects simply use different words and there is an increasing use of American originating words and phrases in Britain.
While it is really quite petty to get riled up over this, it's partly to do with a natural xenophobic instinct, and also because a text written in the opposite doesn't kling right. All languages evolve and change, but British English is the only English that can be unambiguously called English. After all, it is spoken in England, by the English.
I do so hope your last ranting statement was supposed to be ironic in some fashion, given that your economy is involves a lot of borrowing, your military is hypocritically blowing anything up it sees fit and politically, you have a system that bore GWB, when apparently it should not have. The first-past-the-post system has flaws, but then, so does your constitution. Oh, but we weren't supposed to be arguing...
It's highly likely that the disk is the bottleneck, not the CPU, as it doesn't take much power to write constantly to the harddisk, but it does take harddisk usage.
You've made some incorrect logic leaps, there. Noone is saying that 5M will do nothing because it's a small proportion of their R&D - they're saying it will do little because it is not enough to do a lot. This action can validly be seen as a bad thing if you believe that charity for the purpose of PR is a bad thing ethically. If Microsoft wanted to help, they have billions with which to do so. It seems quite obvious that this is designed to help them.
While the same amount given by someone who was not after personal gain would have the same effect, the actual merits are different. Microsoft can be despised for this because they are doing it as a PR effort - if they wanted to actually help, they would take a billion or so and use that. Make no mistake, this will surely help, but it is designed to help Microsoft primarily.
Whether or not you take issue with this last part is a matter of opinion, straight and simple, but it is a valid point to take issue on.
That's not mutually exclusive to my understanding of it. It is also taken as a set of rules, guidelines and facts about how life is and should be. If one of the rules says "stone disobedient children," than there we are.
"Following" the Bible surely isn't as black and white as following a set of rules, but there are rules in there. If you are going to follow the Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible, then those rules are part of the package.
I disagree. As far as I'm concerned, standardising the API is the most important, so things have a tendency to break the same way on all systems. A standard GUI will help very little for most people unless the GUIs are very very different, so instructions given don't make sense.
multiple IPs from NTL's proxies have been banned from/. The insane thing is that if you change proxy to another in your area, you're still in the same subnet, so you're still unable to post.
Not only that, but it shouldn't be too much hassle to intelligently upgrade to the next version when it rolls out. Of course, this is irrelevant if you're looking for a stable base of operations that doesn't change, but with support dropping after 18 months, you'd be best off going for debian if you wanted that much stability.
I challenge you to build something nearly as successful, and then call it unimpressive. They said themselves that there are no applications yet, but the fact that they have the necessary robotics to detect the ball and move the fingers into place is impressive in itself.
With such technology, it's not a vast leap to get to an arm that can position the hand anywhere - after all, the hand already swivels on its "wrist," so the positional translation stuff already works.
It probably doesn't need as much control as that. You correct that the hand needs to decelerate the object slowly, but this could in fact be done in a number of ways. For example, the robot currently catches a ball with its fingertips. Since it has very high control over its fingers, it might make more sense to, as the egg approaches the fingers (with them already in position to catch it) accelerate the fingers themselves. They needn't actually move at the same speed as the egg, merely slow the egg down over a long enough time to stop it breaking (force = impulse * time)
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meta-moderators, probably. As I understand it, if you don't get mod points very often, it's also rare that you're eligible to meta-moderate.
I've talked quite closely with some of the ATi linux guys - Tippett is pretty enthusiastic about it. It seems quite plain that the blame lies squarely with ATi, not with the people doing the actual programming. As regards what they're focussing on, it's definitely not speed at this point. There are lots of more pressing things that are plaguing these drivers, such as power management problems, stability and so on. The release after Christmas started a set of quite big improvements, though.
The best (from my dad is): Rip Off Your Green Bra Ivy
There is a difference in that there's no physical copy being stolen, but you are essentially arguing for a moneyless society.
With Firefox, you can at least hope that it will be fixed in a short amount of time, and just code to the standard. FF users are likely to update more often than IE users, too, and are more likely to be willing to, unless their technically orientated friend/relative installed it for them.
Sure enough it's not a certainty that such policies come into effect, but from where I'm sitting that appears to be the trend (for Britain, too) hopefully it can be averted however, whichever side of centre you happen to be.
I'm not sure who you're referring to, but it's obvious that the party in power has been using the war on terror to bring in legislation, such as the PATRIOT Act.
The point is these changes are coming in gradually, and scarily. If you look at the trends to remove liberties, the reasons for which are mainly based around terror, it seems quite obvious that totalitarianism is approaching, even if it is not going to get here. The power of fear to manipulate the population is very real, and the "land of the free," seems on its way out.
I, by the way, live in Britain, and from my limited view on these things, we're not much better off.
Nonetheless, I spend enough time on the internet without needing to cling limpet-like to another source of something; I already have slashdot, webcomics, H*R, forums and so on.
Just as a side note, when you refer to using multiple languages, have you not tried using a multikey? By default on most Linux systems Shift-AltGr is defined as key which then enables certain combinations, e.g: (shift-altgr), A, " = Ä. Also, altgr-a = æ, altgr-o = ø and so on.
Your point was lost when you had delusions about being an editor, rather than an incorrect, petty pedant.
The thing is, just as a spelling mistake in any English text throws off a reader, so does the occurrence of a US/British specific spelling. This is not a dialectal problem, because in my experience dialects simply use different words and there is an increasing use of American originating words and phrases in Britain.
While it is really quite petty to get riled up over this, it's partly to do with a natural xenophobic instinct, and also because a text written in the opposite doesn't kling right. All languages evolve and change, but British English is the only English that can be unambiguously called English. After all, it is spoken in England, by the English.
I do so hope your last ranting statement was supposed to be ironic in some fashion, given that your economy is involves a lot of borrowing, your military is hypocritically blowing anything up it sees fit and politically, you have a system that bore GWB, when apparently it should not have. The first-past-the-post system has flaws, but then, so does your constitution. Oh, but we weren't supposed to be arguing...
One morning of my work experience was shredding. Brilliant insight into the world of work, let me tell you!
It's highly likely that the disk is the bottleneck, not the CPU, as it doesn't take much power to write constantly to the harddisk, but it does take harddisk usage.
And then you bash on someone's vi grammar? Jeez!
By the way, it's "Nazis" ;)
"to make it look more advanced..."
I'm sorry, but no. Never mind misunderstanding or lack of explanation - you must have made a freudian slip.
You've made some incorrect logic leaps, there. Noone is saying that 5M will do nothing because it's a small proportion of their R&D - they're saying it will do little because it is not enough to do a lot. This action can validly be seen as a bad thing if you believe that charity for the purpose of PR is a bad thing ethically. If Microsoft wanted to help, they have billions with which to do so. It seems quite obvious that this is designed to help them.
Whether or not you take issue with this last part is a matter of opinion, straight and simple, but it is a valid point to take issue on.
"Following" the Bible surely isn't as black and white as following a set of rules, but there are rules in there. If you are going to follow the Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible, then those rules are part of the package.
I disagree. As far as I'm concerned, standardising the API is the most important, so things have a tendency to break the same way on all systems. A standard GUI will help very little for most people unless the GUIs are very very different, so instructions given don't make sense.
multiple IPs from NTL's proxies have been banned from /. The insane thing is that if you change proxy to another in your area, you're still in the same subnet, so you're still unable to post.
Not only that, but it shouldn't be too much hassle to intelligently upgrade to the next version when it rolls out. Of course, this is irrelevant if you're looking for a stable base of operations that doesn't change, but with support dropping after 18 months, you'd be best off going for debian if you wanted that much stability.
With such technology, it's not a vast leap to get to an arm that can position the hand anywhere - after all, the hand already swivels on its "wrist," so the positional translation stuff already works.
It probably doesn't need as much control as that. You correct that the hand needs to decelerate the object slowly, but this could in fact be done in a number of ways. For example, the robot currently catches a ball with its fingertips. Since it has very high control over its fingers, it might make more sense to, as the egg approaches the fingers (with them already in position to catch it) accelerate the fingers themselves. They needn't actually move at the same speed as the egg, merely slow the egg down over a long enough time to stop it breaking (force = impulse * time)
You mean a kettle, don't you.