And "skepticism" about global warming has been thoroughly poisoned by the libertarian ideologues and conspiracy theorists. There is a huge sea of misinformation, a lot of it quite deliberately dishonest, out there, and all of it labels itself as "skeptic", when in actuality it is anything but. Skepticism is a distrust of all unverified information and claims, and a reliance on rationality. Global warming "skepticism" is mostly entirely one-sided - questioning ONLY those who support global warming, and NEVER those who seek to deny it.
Read the real peer reviewed papers, and you will see that Skepticism is entirely justified.
No, I will see no such thing. Perhaps if I pick and choose a few papers presented to me by those who want to promote the denial of global warming, I might think so, however.
It's the usual crypto-Luddism common in lots of hack sci-fi writing. And kind of common on Slashdot, too: How many stories every week get the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?
One of the characters, Sarah Harding, had a sequence where she talked about George Schaller reading everything that had ever been written about a subject before he began field studies - and that once he got to the field, he discovered that almost everything he had read was wrong.
The first claim - reading everything written about a subject - is patently ridiculous. This is simply not possible in today's world. The second is pure anti-intellectualism.
It sounds like you took something better than that away from it, but it's still a very dishonest and damaging idea to present.
But it certainly fits with his other bullshit, like the global warming denial.
And what would that accomplish? To develop a driver, a developer would need to actually have the hardware. And if they have the hardware, they already know there's no driver for it.
Or do you expect open-source developers to run out and buy hardware because you file a bugreport? Or two?
Well, first off, I haven't been able to find any solid confirmation that the ARM7 has been removed yet, but it would certainly be possible to remove it.
Games developed with the official SDK (that means all of them except for homebrew) only use a fixed functionality binary on the ARM7, provided by Nintendo. They do not run arbitrary code on it. So it would certainly be possible for Nintendo to supply alternate functionality that handles the tasks of the ARM7.
Their own emulator, Ensata, does just that. It doesn't emulate the ARM7 at all.
It should be noted that it is very likely that no current DS homebrew software will run on the DSi, even when hacked. The DSi lacks the ARM7 processor of the DS, and DS homebrew code relies on this existing.
Current homebrew code will at the very least require a re-compilation (once tools for this are actually available) or even further rewrites if they use the ARM7 beyond the default functionality.
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And your computer might break at the worst possible time.
That kind of availability simply makes no sense for something as trivial as a word processor. You'll get along without it.
And do you really need to have 99.999% access to your word processor?
Not just new here, very, very new here.
PS: I totally messed that up Should've been "Nope, still here".
Nope, still here.
there's NO DRM-free content on a Sony console
There's no "DRM-free" content on any console, ever. Console content has been heavily protected for decades before the term "DRM" was even invented.
Raising what bar?
You could've just written this:
"Lalalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalala"
It would've been shorter and to the point.
All right then. If you think otherwise, how about you cite some papers?
Which part of it, exactly?
And "skepticism" about global warming has been thoroughly poisoned by the libertarian ideologues and conspiracy theorists. There is a huge sea of misinformation, a lot of it quite deliberately dishonest, out there, and all of it labels itself as "skeptic", when in actuality it is anything but. Skepticism is a distrust of all unverified information and claims, and a reliance on rationality. Global warming "skepticism" is mostly entirely one-sided - questioning ONLY those who support global warming, and NEVER those who seek to deny it.
But please realize that media and other popular source overstate confidence in science all the time.
You're the only one who's bringing up the media. I've been following this since long before it was even a media topic, you know.
So, if you have, can you cite some examples for actual scientific journals, then?
And can you show that those are in any way not just a few exceptions?
Read the real peer reviewed papers, and you will see that Skepticism is entirely justified.
No, I will see no such thing. Perhaps if I pick and choose a few papers presented to me by those who want to promote the denial of global warming, I might think so, however.
Except for, you know, the SCIENTISTS.
And they really don't tend to fall in the "skeptic" camp.
Well, better file it to him, then.
It's the usual crypto-Luddism common in lots of hack sci-fi writing. And kind of common on Slashdot, too: How many stories every week get the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?
One of the characters, Sarah Harding, had a sequence where she talked about George Schaller reading everything that had ever been written about a subject before he began field studies - and that once he got to the field, he discovered that almost everything he had read was wrong.
The first claim - reading everything written about a subject - is patently ridiculous. This is simply not possible in today's world. The second is pure anti-intellectualism.
It sounds like you took something better than that away from it, but it's still a very dishonest and damaging idea to present.
But it certainly fits with his other bullshit, like the global warming denial.
And calling it "skepticism" is to equate skepticism with ideologically-driven dogma and conspiracy theories.
Skepticism is rational, "global warming skepticism" is anything but.
IF, in contrast, OEMs were to ignore the task of writing dirivers for Windows ... then you end up like Vista where the hardware doesn't work at all.
Wow, in a fantasy would, Linux is totally better than Windows!
And what would that accomplish? To develop a driver, a developer would need to actually have the hardware. And if they have the hardware, they already know there's no driver for it.
Or do you expect open-source developers to run out and buy hardware because you file a bugreport? Or two?
Considering the original post, wouldn't that be The Several Years Ago of Linux on the Desktop?
Yes, that is a possibility too. This diagram seems to imply that both CPUs are on one die in the DS, too.
They're different chips for sure, though, with the DS being labelled "CPU NTR B" and the DSi one "CPU TWL".
Update: Here's a photo of the DSi circuit board, with only a single ARM chip on it:
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2008/1101/dsi50.jpg
The ARM7 is definitely gone.
Well, first off, I haven't been able to find any solid confirmation that the ARM7 has been removed yet, but it would certainly be possible to remove it.
Games developed with the official SDK (that means all of them except for homebrew) only use a fixed functionality binary on the ARM7, provided by Nintendo. They do not run arbitrary code on it. So it would certainly be possible for Nintendo to supply alternate functionality that handles the tasks of the ARM7.
Their own emulator, Ensata, does just that. It doesn't emulate the ARM7 at all.
It should be noted that it is very likely that no current DS homebrew software will run on the DSi, even when hacked. The DSi lacks the ARM7 processor of the DS, and DS homebrew code relies on this existing.
Current homebrew code will at the very least require a re-compilation (once tools for this are actually available) or even further rewrites if they use the ARM7 beyond the default functionality.