No, again, and this kind of fallacy has already been discussed. _Everything_ in science is a theory. Taking your own analogy, disagreeing with a theory means you don't understand it. With that kind of logic, everyone who doesn't "believe" in string theory doesn't understand it.
Scientific "fact" does not exist; you just point out something most scientists believe to be true but is still, in fact, just theory.
You can quote all the studies you want, but speaking as someone who was ACTUALLY home-schooled from 6th through 12th grade, I can tell you that whatever efforts the parents make simply can't compare to being in a school for 8 hours a day.
I can of course only speak to my experience, but let me tell you my social skills suffered dramatically because of being home-schooled. Through those 6 or so years I was frequently lonely and had perhaps one or two friends throughout all my time there, whom I would see once a month when my mom took me to the school's teacher, who would evaluate my work and my education. My parents made some effort to help - I was on a baseball team throughout my time at home, but it was glaringly obvious how immature I was compared to others my age and so I made few friends.
Now, about those visits to the district education office (required in Riverside County at least); I looked forward to these less and less because most of the kids there were worse off than I was; shut-ins who didn't know how to talk, or attention-deprived obnoxious kids, and, call it a stereotype if you will, but there were plenty of crazy "fundie" parents keeping their kids out of the public schools whom I actually met. In one very poignant case I remember, the mom stepped in and refused to allow her son to read "Beowulf" because it contained "demonic ideas."
Of course, not all the parents were like that. But the kids more adapted to the environment would simply get away with not doing their work - usually by copying out of the solutions (we graded our own work - there would be spot-checking by the teacher but it was easy to get away with small inflations of one's grade).
I regret every year I spent in the program. When I got into college I was naieve, socially-shell-shocked and had trouble adapting. Perhaps it just wasn't for me, but in my opinion the majority of kids taken out of the schools learn less about life than necessary.
Acer laptop:
Suspend to ram - broken
Sound - an intel HD audio card - I get sound artifacts (snap cackle pop).
Display - NOT using fglrx yields a broken X server. I have to boot into safe mode and change xorg.conf.
This is all on Gutsy.:(
Linux isn't ready for primetime. Certainly not for laptops - and this one is 2 years old mind you.
What a load of crap. I realize it's trendy to make sensationalist statements concerning "fascist Amerika" but come on, did you even RTFA? I mean, jesus.
And the kicker is their operation appears so efficient. That doubly disqualifies this from ever happening here.
Of course simply deleting the file in question is just way too off-the-wall for most users.
Gnome guys still unresponsive I see.
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Gnome 2.14 Review
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· Score: -1, Troll
I was pleased to see the Alacarte Menu Editor, and disappointed to realize that it was added by Ubuntu, not GNOME 2.14; a menu editor is something that I've missed since one was dropped in an early 2.x release.
Un-be-lieveable. I had no idea they actually REMOVED something as basic as a MENU EDITOR? This is the problem with these gnome guys. Users be damned, they're going to do whatever the hell they want. How could they possibly justify this? So what are we supposed to do, use gconf's registry editor? It's absolute bullshit to require a third party program for so basic a task, when both Windows and KDE implement the same functionality and have done so for how many years now? If we want to know why linux won't be an acceptable desktop replacement for a long, long time, it's this kind of shit right here. Go ahead and mod me as troll, but this stuff has got to be said. If we don't bitch, nothing'll ever get done.
Microsoft to support file sharing?
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Buy Vista or Else
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I found this little bit of info fascinating:
In particular, he demonstrated a collaboration tool that uses a "People Near Me" feature, which searches over a Wi-Fi connection for other Vista users nearby and then sets up a peer-to-peer network with them. The tool is meant mostly to enable laptop users to share applications and files, among other things.
So Microsoft is, in effect, creating its own file sharing network? I wonder how the *AA will react?
Half of slashdot is clueless on this one...
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Undervolting a Laptop
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· Score: 2, Insightful
No shit? I have an Acer Travelmate 8104 and I have the same control panel you do. All Pentium Ms come with thermal throtlling. The point, dear friends, and what makes this useful, is running the laptop AT FULL SPEED but with a lower voltage. My max speed is 2.0GHz, with a default voltage of 1.308 V. I can safely reduce this to 1.068 V.
I can also take my min speed voltage -- 700MHz -- and reduce it as well, from 0.988 to 0.700 V.
The REASON for doing this is that Intel gives a generous amount of power to their CPUs--enough to make sure ALL (or at least 99%) of their wafers from the factor work correctly. More often than not, you can decrease their "safe" value an appreciable amount to raise battery life and lower thermal output.
I for one enjoy this feature!
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iTunes is Malware?
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· Score: 2, Informative
As an iTunes user, I discoved The Arcade Fire and British Sea Power through their recommendation service. Today they are two of my favorite bands! I say good work Apple. It's damn near impossible today to find decent music on the radio, so this feature's a great tool for people like me with very specific music tastes.
I'm reminded of Carl Sagan's famous quote from Cosmos: "Observation: You couldn't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."
Call me a cynic, but only on/. do we see "Dell not supporting HD-DVD" --> "DELL MIGHT SPORT LINUX!!!" The economic realities of this situation just won't allow Dell to NOT use Windows. Nobody's going to know what this linux thing is (or, as my sister calls it, "that weird thing"), nor how to use it, and they'll be quite upset when they discover they can't play their games and applications on it.
It's a nice thought, but this is little more than daydreaming.
Actually it's probably the truth; that quote is rather old, and furthermore, he probably searched for a string, like "the who dallas texas concert" or something like that (wait isn't the who's singer dead? bah you get my meaning) so coupled with the early search algorithm it's likely true.
What are you talking about? The train wreck? You're somehow linking the U.S. to a brutal, censorship-laden dictatorship in China with a conspiracy theory? Surely you're not serious. But then again, half of the leftist slashdotters here believe the U.S. is a "dictatorship" and that we're the root of all evil and whatnot, so go ahead and mod this post "troll":(
Before you all jump on the microsoft hatewagon, I just tried it and the code, while not opening calc.exe (yay!), crashes Firefox 1.5 rc3, making it a DoS vulnerability.:(
Hello Cryic, long time no see! (We're both (former) authors at GameFAQs in its hayday).
Greetings aside, I've got to disagree. Unless you're glued to Fox, CNN and MSNBC have been giving the government its fair share of blame. Just turn on Lou Dobbs and you'll find him railing against government ineffeciencies and wastes, to include its incompetence in the aftermath of Katrina. Over on MSNBC you've got the good Keith Olbermann, and he's not exactly letting Bush & Co off easy either. Hell, even in the Fox News camp there's some dissent coming from Shepard Smith ("Studio B") and Cavuto. Of course you'll always have blowhards like O'Reilly, but what can you do.
This is of course to say nothing of the papers -- NYT, Time, Newsweek -- nobody's giving Bush any slack these days (and rightfully so, IMO). His image is in the pits atm even amongst some conservatives due to his Supreme Court nominee. So let's not be too quick to jump on the "conservative media" bandwagon.
.viv? Sounds like a renamed.mpg file. I'm postitive they didn't create a new file format just for this trailer.
The nice thing about linux is that most distros come with the `file` utility. Just run it on the ".viv";
file/path/to/serenity.viv
And it will tell you what kind of file you've got. Just change the extension...you know what, and I'm not in Linux right now to test, but most Linux movie players aren't dominated by file extention, unlike their Windows counterparts. If I were a betting man, I'd say you could probably double click and open with mplayer and it'd likely Just Work(TM)...
They dont list any sources other than a vague reference to a "reconciliations bill" due in October, and none of my googling and searching http://thomas.loc.gov/ can find the bill in question. I'd like to see a source for this concern, and until then it's all just smoke and mirrors or whatever the phrase is...
Will this work with JHymn, which decrpyts the locked files and can translate them to mp3 (for those of us with mp3 players != iPod*)? Or have they chosen to make it harder for us to exercise our fair-use rights by breaking JHymn (like they did with 4.5, 4.7, etc.)?
Everyone seems to love Apple but no one talks about the dirty tricks they play on non-iPod users who still like iTunes (for example, in one release of iTunes, all files it found that were converted by JHymn were permanently locked!!)
I can't believe I just modded you up. You claim that this is supposed to be a solution? That it plays windows media?
Why then does your FAQ have a list of features that helixplayer DOES NOT support?
# RealAudio 3
# Windows Media (wmv/wma/asf, mms streaming)
# Older QuickTime codecs (eg, Sorenson. New QuickTime supported via MPEG4)
# MPEG1, MPEG2
# Digital CD playback
# DVD
In addition, it doesn't even support mp3's -- the FAQ says you need real player for that!
Tell me again what problems Helix Player is supposed to solve?
You can't run a 2.4 kernel and use NPTL. A mistake by a webmonkey drone, or is the site's validity called into question? I do find it hard to believe RedHat 7.2 is still in use.
From one of the source files in the aptly-named directory "r" (.......):
;Update admissions/discharges
S XFR="AODS"_$S(I=2:"A",1:"D"),IFN=+$O(^DGPM(XFR,J,0 )) I '$D(^DGPM(IFN,0)) Q
F X=0,"ODS" S X(X)=$S($D(^DGPM(IFN,X)):^(X),1:"")
I $P(X("ODS"),"^",7) D 3 Q
S (X(1),X("ODS1"))=""
I $P(X(0),U,17) S:$D(^DGPM($P(X(0),U,17),0)) X(1)=^(0) S:$D(^("ODS")) X("ODS1")=^("ODS")
S DGSPEC=$O(^DGPM("APHY",IFN,0)),DGSPEC=$S($D(^DGPM( +DGSPEC,0)):$P(^(0),"^",9),1:""),DGSPEC=$S($D(^DIC (45.7,+DGSPEC,0)):$P(^(0),"^",2),1:"")
S DR=".01///"_+X(0)_";.03////"_DGSPEC_";.05////"_$S( $D(^DG(405.1,+$P(X(1),"^",4),0)):$P(^(0),"^",3),1: "")
S DR=DR_";.06////"_$S(+X(1):+X(1),1:"")_";.1////"_ $S($D(^DIC(4,+$P(X(1),"^",5),0)):$P(^(0),"^",1),1: "")_";.11////"_$P(X("ODS1"),"^",2)_";1.01////3"
K DGSPEC Q
I'm beginning to see why the named this language after a disease
The future of FireFox...as directed by the developers. End users be damned. I'm not trying to start a flame war or be a troll, and let it be known that Firefox is my only browser, but I've been observing the bugzilla and how developers react to some of the requests of users.
For example, take bug #252371 (I'd link, but we all know mozilla's policy on/. linking). The bug is " incremental find/search in page does not find/highlight text in textarea/form/text entry boxes". What this verbose description means is I cannot search this box in which I am typing. I cannot search wikipedia text boxes. It's a bug in Firefox, apparently fixed in mozilla, and it has been around since 1.0PR (aka, since last July).
The bug has 174 votes. This is an insane amount of end users, because most users couldn't be bothered/are unaware of Firefox's bugzilla. That they take the time to CC themselves to the bug and vote for it shows just how serious this issue is to them.
What's being done about it? Absolutely nothing. People have posted eloquent requests on the bug page, pleading to get this fixed -- each time, they are effectively told to "fuck off or patch it yourself." Now I understand Bugzilla is typically for developers only, but you'd think for such an important and frustrating bug some lenience might be expected. Just check the comments of the develoeprs and you'll find what may be evidence of a larger problem with open-source development, the hostile mantra of "We don't owe you anything. If you want something done, do it yourself." Yeah, well, for those of use that don't have intimate knowledge of C++ and how the Firefox infrastructure operates, we're kind of SOL.
This kind thinking will drive users straight back to the Microsoft camp, and if I wasn't so strongly pro open source and pro-Linux, that's exactly where I'd think of returning after being treated thus.
All very nice and goot, but what about gamers?
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Advocating Dvorak
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· Score: 1
Can the DVORAK keyboard offer a viable alternative to WASD for first-person shooters? Looking at a picture of it on wikipedia, it doesn't seem like very practical switch for the avid computer gamer at least. Maybe a DVORAK user could share his or her gaming experiences?
...but I am considered "smart" by my peers, take that for what it's worth (which on the internet amounts to nothing). Smart or not, however, I definitley tend to fold under pressure. When I am taking a Chemistry exam, for example - I can do fine, except when people start leaving. I can feel the clock ticking, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach, I begin to rush and then my grade from that point onward tanks. Same thing with SATs - I take it slow, am meticulous, but the moment my peers beging to get up from their seats and I start feeling the emptiness around me (yes, I know it's emo) and the same thing happens; I rush.
Or another example, ths time athletically. My sport is baseball, and I play center or left field. When a ball's hit my way, a fly ball for instance, I really freeze up and get really nervous and I just can't "play inside myself" as my coaches say. When I am practicing, I do great, but when all the eyes are watching me, depending on me, pressuring me to make that catch and dont you DARE drop that...I dunno, I just hate the feeling. I just need to be in a sane, low pressure environment for my brain to truly function.
You lose DRI when you enable composite even with NVIDIA.
As for XDAMAGE...well, I'd rather ATI be concentrating on the bug fixes and performance increases they so desperatley rather than waste time on some silly xorg feature.
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No, again, and this kind of fallacy has already been discussed. _Everything_ in science is a theory. Taking your own analogy, disagreeing with a theory means you don't understand it. With that kind of logic, everyone who doesn't "believe" in string theory doesn't understand it.
Scientific "fact" does not exist; you just point out something most scientists believe to be true but is still, in fact, just theory.
You can quote all the studies you want, but speaking as someone who was ACTUALLY home-schooled from 6th through 12th grade, I can tell you that whatever efforts the parents make simply can't compare to being in a school for 8 hours a day.
I can of course only speak to my experience, but let me tell you my social skills suffered dramatically because of being home-schooled. Through those 6 or so years I was frequently lonely and had perhaps one or two friends throughout all my time there, whom I would see once a month when my mom took me to the school's teacher, who would evaluate my work and my education. My parents made some effort to help - I was on a baseball team throughout my time at home, but it was glaringly obvious how immature I was compared to others my age and so I made few friends.
Now, about those visits to the district education office (required in Riverside County at least); I looked forward to these less and less because most of the kids there were worse off than I was; shut-ins who didn't know how to talk, or attention-deprived obnoxious kids, and, call it a stereotype if you will, but there were plenty of crazy "fundie" parents keeping their kids out of the public schools whom I actually met. In one very poignant case I remember, the mom stepped in and refused to allow her son to read "Beowulf" because it contained "demonic ideas."
Of course, not all the parents were like that. But the kids more adapted to the environment would simply get away with not doing their work - usually by copying out of the solutions (we graded our own work - there would be spot-checking by the teacher but it was easy to get away with small inflations of one's grade).
I regret every year I spent in the program. When I got into college I was naieve, socially-shell-shocked and had trouble adapting. Perhaps it just wasn't for me, but in my opinion the majority of kids taken out of the schools learn less about life than necessary.
Acer laptop: Suspend to ram - broken Sound - an intel HD audio card - I get sound artifacts (snap cackle pop). Display - NOT using fglrx yields a broken X server. I have to boot into safe mode and change xorg.conf. This is all on Gutsy. :(
Linux isn't ready for primetime. Certainly not for laptops - and this one is 2 years old mind you.
What a load of crap. I realize it's trendy to make sensationalist statements concerning "fascist Amerika" but come on, did you even RTFA? I mean, jesus. And the kicker is their operation appears so efficient. That doubly disqualifies this from ever happening here.
Of course simply deleting the file in question is just way too off-the-wall for most users.
I was pleased to see the Alacarte Menu Editor, and disappointed to realize that it was added by Ubuntu, not GNOME 2.14; a menu editor is something that I've missed since one was dropped in an early 2.x release.
Un-be-lieveable. I had no idea they actually REMOVED something as basic as a MENU EDITOR? This is the problem with these gnome guys. Users be damned, they're going to do whatever the hell they want. How could they possibly justify this? So what are we supposed to do, use gconf's registry editor? It's absolute bullshit to require a third party program for so basic a task, when both Windows and KDE implement the same functionality and have done so for how many years now? If we want to know why linux won't be an acceptable desktop replacement for a long, long time, it's this kind of shit right here. Go ahead and mod me as troll, but this stuff has got to be said. If we don't bitch, nothing'll ever get done.
I found this little bit of info fascinating:
In particular, he demonstrated a collaboration tool that uses a "People Near Me" feature, which searches over a Wi-Fi connection for other Vista users nearby and then sets up a peer-to-peer network with them. The tool is meant mostly to enable laptop users to share applications and files, among other things.
So Microsoft is, in effect, creating its own file sharing network? I wonder how the *AA will react?
No shit? I have an Acer Travelmate 8104 and I have the same control panel you do. All Pentium Ms come with thermal throtlling. The point, dear friends, and what makes this useful, is running the laptop AT FULL SPEED but with a lower voltage. My max speed is 2.0GHz, with a default voltage of 1.308 V. I can safely reduce this to 1.068 V.
I can also take my min speed voltage -- 700MHz -- and reduce it as well, from 0.988 to 0.700 V.
The REASON for doing this is that Intel gives a generous amount of power to their CPUs--enough to make sure ALL (or at least 99%) of their wafers from the factor work correctly. More often than not, you can decrease their "safe" value an appreciable amount to raise battery life and lower thermal output.
As an iTunes user, I discoved The Arcade Fire and British Sea Power through their recommendation service. Today they are two of my favorite bands! I say good work Apple. It's damn near impossible today to find decent music on the radio, so this feature's a great tool for people like me with very specific music tastes.
I'm reminded of Carl Sagan's famous quote from Cosmos: "Observation: You couldn't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."
/. do we see "Dell not supporting HD-DVD" --> "DELL MIGHT SPORT LINUX!!!" The economic realities of this situation just won't allow Dell to NOT use Windows. Nobody's going to know what this linux thing is (or, as my sister calls it, "that weird thing"), nor how to use it, and they'll be quite upset when they discover they can't play their games and applications on it.
Call me a cynic, but only on
It's a nice thought, but this is little more than daydreaming.
Actually it's probably the truth; that quote is rather old, and furthermore, he probably searched for a string, like "the who dallas texas concert" or something like that (wait isn't the who's singer dead? bah you get my meaning) so coupled with the early search algorithm it's likely true.
What are you talking about? The train wreck? You're somehow linking the U.S. to a brutal, censorship-laden dictatorship in China with a conspiracy theory? Surely you're not serious. But then again, half of the leftist slashdotters here believe the U.S. is a "dictatorship" and that we're the root of all evil and whatnot, so go ahead and mod this post "troll" :(
Before you all jump on the microsoft hatewagon, I just tried it and the code, while not opening calc.exe (yay!), crashes Firefox 1.5 rc3, making it a DoS vulnerability. :(
Hello Cryic, long time no see! (We're both (former) authors at GameFAQs in its hayday).
Greetings aside, I've got to disagree. Unless you're glued to Fox, CNN and MSNBC have been giving the government its fair share of blame. Just turn on Lou Dobbs and you'll find him railing against government ineffeciencies and wastes, to include its incompetence in the aftermath of Katrina. Over on MSNBC you've got the good Keith Olbermann, and he's not exactly letting Bush & Co off easy either. Hell, even in the Fox News camp there's some dissent coming from Shepard Smith ("Studio B") and Cavuto. Of course you'll always have blowhards like O'Reilly, but what can you do.
This is of course to say nothing of the papers -- NYT, Time, Newsweek -- nobody's giving Bush any slack these days (and rightfully so, IMO). His image is in the pits atm even amongst some conservatives due to his Supreme Court nominee. So let's not be too quick to jump on the "conservative media" bandwagon.
.viv? Sounds like a renamed .mpg file. I'm postitive they didn't create a new file format just for this trailer.
/path/to/serenity.viv
The nice thing about linux is that most distros come with the `file` utility. Just run it on the ".viv";
file
And it will tell you what kind of file you've got. Just change the extension...you know what, and I'm not in Linux right now to test, but most Linux movie players aren't dominated by file extention, unlike their Windows counterparts. If I were a betting man, I'd say you could probably double click and open with mplayer and it'd likely Just Work(TM)...
They dont list any sources other than a vague reference to a "reconciliations bill" due in October, and none of my googling and searching http://thomas.loc.gov/ can find the bill in question. I'd like to see a source for this concern, and until then it's all just smoke and mirrors or whatever the phrase is...
http://nintyrevcontroller.ytmnd.com/
;)
Will this work with JHymn, which decrpyts the locked files and can translate them to mp3 (for those of us with mp3 players != iPod*)? Or have they chosen to make it harder for us to exercise our fair-use rights by breaking JHymn (like they did with 4.5, 4.7, etc.)?
Everyone seems to love Apple but no one talks about the dirty tricks they play on non-iPod users who still like iTunes (for example, in one release of iTunes, all files it found that were converted by JHymn were permanently locked!!)
I can't believe I just modded you up. You claim that this is supposed to be a solution? That it plays windows media?
Why then does your FAQ have a list of features that helixplayer DOES NOT support?
# RealAudio 3
# Windows Media (wmv/wma/asf, mms streaming)
# Older QuickTime codecs (eg, Sorenson. New QuickTime supported via MPEG4)
# MPEG1, MPEG2
# Digital CD playback
# DVD
In addition, it doesn't even support mp3's -- the FAQ says you need real player for that!
Tell me again what problems Helix Player is supposed to solve?
From the link, in the `Moving Picture Company` portfolio they have the following specs;
Kernel: 2.4.27
Compiler: gcc 3.3.2
Threads: posix
Glibc: 2.3.3, with NPTL
You can't run a 2.4 kernel and use NPTL. A mistake by a webmonkey drone, or is the site's validity called into question? I do find it hard to believe RedHat 7.2 is still in use.
The future of FireFox...as directed by the developers. End users be damned. I'm not trying to start a flame war or be a troll, and let it be known that Firefox is my only browser, but I've been observing the bugzilla and how developers react to some of the requests of users.
/. linking). The bug is " incremental find/search in page does not find/highlight text in textarea/form/text entry boxes". What this verbose description means is I cannot search this box in which I am typing. I cannot search wikipedia text boxes. It's a bug in Firefox, apparently fixed in mozilla, and it has been around since 1.0PR (aka, since last July).
The bug has 174 votes. This is an insane amount of end users, because most users couldn't be bothered/are unaware of Firefox's bugzilla. That they take the time to CC themselves to the bug and vote for it shows just how serious this issue is to them.
For example, take bug #252371 (I'd link, but we all know mozilla's policy on
What's being done about it? Absolutely nothing. People have posted eloquent requests on the bug page, pleading to get this fixed -- each time, they are effectively told to "fuck off or patch it yourself." Now I understand Bugzilla is typically for developers only, but you'd think for such an important and frustrating bug some lenience might be expected. Just check the comments of the develoeprs and you'll find what may be evidence of a larger problem with open-source development, the hostile mantra of "We don't owe you anything. If you want something done, do it yourself." Yeah, well, for those of use that don't have intimate knowledge of C++ and how the Firefox infrastructure operates, we're kind of SOL.
This kind thinking will drive users straight back to the Microsoft camp, and if I wasn't so strongly pro open source and pro-Linux, that's exactly where I'd think of returning after being treated thus.
Can the DVORAK keyboard offer a viable alternative to WASD for first-person shooters? Looking at a picture of it on wikipedia, it doesn't seem like very practical switch for the avid computer gamer at least. Maybe a DVORAK user could share his or her gaming experiences?
...but I am considered "smart" by my peers, take that for what it's worth (which on the internet amounts to nothing). Smart or not, however, I definitley tend to fold under pressure. When I am taking a Chemistry exam, for example - I can do fine, except when people start leaving. I can feel the clock ticking, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach, I begin to rush and then my grade from that point onward tanks. Same thing with SATs - I take it slow, am meticulous, but the moment my peers beging to get up from their seats and I start feeling the emptiness around me (yes, I know it's emo) and the same thing happens; I rush.
Or another example, ths time athletically. My sport is baseball, and I play center or left field. When a ball's hit my way, a fly ball for instance, I really freeze up and get really nervous and I just can't "play inside myself" as my coaches say. When I am practicing, I do great, but when all the eyes are watching me, depending on me, pressuring me to make that catch and dont you DARE drop that...I dunno, I just hate the feeling. I just need to be in a sane, low pressure environment for my brain to truly function.
You lose DRI when you enable composite even with NVIDIA. As for XDAMAGE...well, I'd rather ATI be concentrating on the bug fixes and performance increases they so desperatley rather than waste time on some silly xorg feature.