"I bought a 64-bit laptop a few years ago which came with 32-bit Windows 7, and on which I tried to install 64-bit Win7, only to discover after searching for 2-3 days that there were *no* 64-bit Windows drivers for the wifi or graphics cards and there was *no way to obtain them*."
You do know it's nothing more than an.inf modification to insert the device hardware ID string, and the driver installer will work, riiight? Or, alternatively, any of the server OS drivers would've worked, because WDDM is nicely compatible. You could've used XP64 (aka Server 2003) drivers and it would've worked.
Your problem is you were looking for OS specific drivers, not realizing that Drivers from XP64 on up work pretty much with any future Microsoft OS.
Given 80% of the food grown here in CA is exported, bullshit. Those farmers quit growing, CA's economy goes straight down the tubes as the agricultural sector takes everything else with it. Tech is a SMALL part of CAs overall economy. Agriculture/horticulture is much, MUCH larger.
Not even. That brine can be turned into so many things it's stupid to even bother putting it back into the ocean. Molten salt power storage. Sea salt micro-nutrient fertilizer (look up SEA-90.) Seasoning. Sodium bases and Chlorine bases for medicine. Baking powder and baking soda. Sea Salt crystals and figurines for the hippies. Sodium Silicate for hydroponics. The uses are many and varied.
The problems caused further north are caused by things local to that area. What SoCal uses and wastes water-wise is a damned pittance compared to the wasteful as hell agriculture that goes on up there. All that water lost in the vineyards, almond groves, fields and fields of alfalfa, olives, walnuts, just sprayed on the ground and tons of it just allowed to evaporate away. The wasted water from up there in one year could hold us over for several years down here.
I was wondering if anyone else were to point this out. There are many bacterium types that actually work with chlorophyll type-f and can absorb in the IR wavelengths and are anaerobic.
" I'm tired of draining California dry so that socal can have water it should never have had."
Uhh, except there is plenty of geological evidence that SoCal had much more vegetation and was not so much desert as recently as a few hundred years ago.
"I've found bugs in Firefox that date back to not only before it was called Firefox but before Firefox even existed.
My personal favorite is this bug [mozilla.org] which is over 15 years old now. The practical effect is that if your screen resolution ever changes, Firefox breaks and you have to restart it."
In what, Linux? I don't have that happening in Windows with dual or triple monitors when I load up a game that isn't native-resolution. I haven't had that happen even in Windows XP.
Go on Alibaba. You can build systems capable of taking 4 homes entirely off-grid with redundancy backup power in case of some 2-3 day long solar eclipse. Cost? $8K or so. I've already sold and installed several systems for about 2x that amount for businesses.
"Good luck having any stopping power on birdshot 150 yards straight up."
All it takes is for the pellet to reach. Even if it is at its apex, if one of those high-speed rotors slams into the pellet, it's done for and the drone is going down.
" In Kentucky, trespass law says "A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree when he knowingly enters...". A quad-copter is not a person."
I could've sworn that there have been many a court ruling establishing that your vehicles are a legal extension of yourself while under your control, and thus knowingly flying your quad over someones yard would indeed be trespassing.
"In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the sole authority to control all public airspace, exclusively determining the rules and requirements for its use. Public air space is classified as the 'navigable' airspace above 500 feet."
Is OpenGL still focusing on being extensible as shit while being minimal, or are they playing the feature-creep game with DX12, which is what I'm implying?
It used to be games running OpenGL or 3Dfx GLide needed FAR LOWER requirements for the same game to run vs D3D. Unreal Tournament 1999, for example. With a 3Dfx or OpenGL card, you could haul ass on a shit 4 or 6 MB card, maxed everything, on a 133MHz Pentium MMX with 16MB RAM. And it looked great. For D3D, you needed a 233 MHz processor, 32MB RAM, equivalent RAM D3D card, and it looked like dithered ass.
The whole draw of OpenGL was that developers could just add in the effects they wanted and allow users to turn them on/off to improve looks/performance. You weren't reliant upon the static/unflexible capabilities of APIs like D3D.
Now they're just playing the copycat game, and ignoring their biggest strength, to truly push GPU hardware to the limit.
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"I bought a 64-bit laptop a few years ago which came with 32-bit Windows 7, and on which I tried to install 64-bit Win7, only to discover after searching for 2-3 days that there were *no* 64-bit Windows drivers for the wifi or graphics cards and there was *no way to obtain them*."
You do know it's nothing more than an .inf modification to insert the device hardware ID string, and the driver installer will work, riiight? Or, alternatively, any of the server OS drivers would've worked, because WDDM is nicely compatible. You could've used XP64 (aka Server 2003) drivers and it would've worked.
Your problem is you were looking for OS specific drivers, not realizing that Drivers from XP64 on up work pretty much with any future Microsoft OS.
" It's not acceptable not to suspend"
Every time I do suspend this GTX 260 Core 216 horks itself on resume and fucks everything up.
Sleep/Suspend/Hibernate. It dies.
So the system stays on.
Swapfile, of course. Do you not know the basics of modern OS architecture?
The ones anerobic bacteria start producing in the water as those plastic balls help to create an anoxic environment for them to breed in.
The same ones we have to deal with in hydroponics systems.
"Farmers have limited political pull"
Given 80% of the food grown here in CA is exported, bullshit. Those farmers quit growing, CA's economy goes straight down the tubes as the agricultural sector takes everything else with it. Tech is a SMALL part of CAs overall economy. Agriculture/horticulture is much, MUCH larger.
"there could be issues with brine rejection"
Not even. That brine can be turned into so many things it's stupid to even bother putting it back into the ocean. Molten salt power storage. Sea salt micro-nutrient fertilizer (look up SEA-90.) Seasoning. Sodium bases and Chlorine bases for medicine. Baking powder and baking soda. Sea Salt crystals and figurines for the hippies. Sodium Silicate for hydroponics. The uses are many and varied.
"The problems in software projects arise after _months_ not hours."
I'm doing some game coding right now. I get problems cropping up every COMPILE. What the hell do you mean by MONTHS?
The problems caused further north are caused by things local to that area. What SoCal uses and wastes water-wise is a damned pittance compared to the wasteful as hell agriculture that goes on up there. All that water lost in the vineyards, almond groves, fields and fields of alfalfa, olives, walnuts, just sprayed on the ground and tons of it just allowed to evaporate away. The wasted water from up there in one year could hold us over for several years down here.
Yea, we've got pretty resistant bacteria, now days.
I have to deal with these things in hydroponic nutrient tanks.
I was wondering if anyone else were to point this out. There are many bacterium types that actually work with chlorophyll type-f and can absorb in the IR wavelengths and are anaerobic.
This is a poorly-researched idea.
" I'm tired of draining California dry so that socal can have water it should never have had."
Uhh, except there is plenty of geological evidence that SoCal had much more vegetation and was not so much desert as recently as a few hundred years ago.
" The water is nowhere near boiling temperature, so evaporation cannot happen due to heat."
It doesn't have to be boiling to evaporate.
"I've found bugs in Firefox that date back to not only before it was called Firefox but before Firefox even existed.
My personal favorite is this bug [mozilla.org] which is over 15 years old now. The practical effect is that if your screen resolution ever changes, Firefox breaks and you have to restart it."
In what, Linux? I don't have that happening in Windows with dual or triple monitors when I load up a game that isn't native-resolution. I haven't had that happen even in Windows XP.
And what if we don't want a fucking plugin to fix what shouldn't have been broken in the first place?
Go on Alibaba. You can build systems capable of taking 4 homes entirely off-grid with redundancy backup power in case of some 2-3 day long solar eclipse. Cost? $8K or so. I've already sold and installed several systems for about 2x that amount for businesses.
" And with them now doing their proprietary vendor-specific Metal API"
I bet the graphics company S3 has some serious issues with that little naming, right there, as they had a 3D API called MeTaL.
"Good luck having any stopping power on birdshot 150 yards straight up."
All it takes is for the pellet to reach. Even if it is at its apex, if one of those high-speed rotors slams into the pellet, it's done for and the drone is going down.
" In Kentucky, trespass law says "A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree when he knowingly enters ...". A quad-copter is not a person."
I could've sworn that there have been many a court ruling establishing that your vehicles are a legal extension of yourself while under your control, and thus knowingly flying your quad over someones yard would indeed be trespassing.
No, you are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the sole authority to control all public airspace, exclusively determining the rules and requirements for its use. Public air space is classified as the 'navigable' airspace above 500 feet."
http://diydrones.com/profiles/...
"Stabilization means extra mass. If it's small, it can't do that."
It's like people have forgotten that miniaturization of things is a driving force for many industries now days.
Individual Features? Present or not-present?
Is OpenGL still focusing on being extensible as shit while being minimal, or are they playing the feature-creep game with DX12, which is what I'm implying?
It used to be games running OpenGL or 3Dfx GLide needed FAR LOWER requirements for the same game to run vs D3D. Unreal Tournament 1999, for example. With a 3Dfx or OpenGL card, you could haul ass on a shit 4 or 6 MB card, maxed everything, on a 133MHz Pentium MMX with 16MB RAM. And it looked great. For D3D, you needed a 233 MHz processor, 32MB RAM, equivalent RAM D3D card, and it looked like dithered ass.
The whole draw of OpenGL was that developers could just add in the effects they wanted and allow users to turn them on/off to improve looks/performance. You weren't reliant upon the static/unflexible capabilities of APIs like D3D.
Now they're just playing the copycat game, and ignoring their biggest strength, to truly push GPU hardware to the limit.
What a fucking joke.
You assume the editing staff, such as it is, actually bothers to do any fact-checking.
Wrong.
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You cannot make a good faith statement KNOWING you or your client don't have rights to that property you claim is infringing. That is perjury as well.
No, wrong.
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