now THAT is shameful. not to insult bsd, it is a fine os, but that it takes till version 6 to rectify such a problem is ridiculous. these little are usually best dealt with first, the big things have a tendancy to be noticed and taken care of.
too bad os x doesn't run on any x86 system, then we could decide if we wanted to install it.
the fact that it runs on bsd is obviously not the reason people use/want it, primarily. to call osx bsd, is to call windows vms or os/2. it may have started that way but a hell of a lot has changed.
like web sites that suggest that the administrations of america, britan, australia, spain and italy tricked their citizens into invading a country based on forged evidence for reasons that have little to do with oil or terrorism (oil has gone way up in price...)
those naughty naughty web sites err "blogs". i'm just relieved that the mainstream media keeps relentlessly attacking the validity and credibility of blogs and the internet. if it weren't for the mainstream media's absolute backing of the administration, imagine the horrors we would be subject to?
stuff like schools not having to have 75 students per teacher, roads being kept up, hospitals well-funded, millions of new jobs being created. damn, i'm so glad the media holds onto the administration's word without question. i cannot imagine the consequences and lobbyists pay our congress enough to do the worrying for us.
keep us safe please. those damn ay-rabs are gonna get us. never mind that the hijackers passports survived and the world trade centers didn't or that the air force didn't respond until half an hour after the planes that hit the towers, when normally they respond within seconds. or that the esteemable "president" and his secret service knew that he was safe in the school reading about goats, which was announced days earlier to the public, deemed that they shouldn't evacuate lest a plane should hit.
i just love the smell of a reichstag fire in the morning.
like web sites that suggest that the administrations of america, britan, australia, spain and italy tricked their citizens into invading a country based on forged evidence for reasons that have little to do with oil or terrorism (oil has gone way up in price...)
those naughty naughty web sites err "blogs". i'm just relieved that the mainstream media keeps relentlessly attacking the validity and credibility of blogs and the internet. if it weren't for the mainstream media's absolute backing of the administration, imagine the horrors we would be subject to?
stuff like schools not having to have 75 students per teacher, roads being kept up, hospitals well-funded, millions of new jobs being created. damn, i'm so glad the media holds onto the administration's word without question. i cannot imagine the consequences and lobbyists pay our congress enough to do the worrying for us.
keep us safe please. those damn ay-rabs are gonna get us. never mind that the hijackers passports survived and the world trade centers didn't or that the air force didn't respond until half an hour after the planes that hit the towers, when normally they respond within seconds. or that the esteemable "president" and his secret service knew that he was safe in the school reading about goats, which was announced days earlier to the public, deemed that they shouldn't evacuate lest a plane should hit.
actually that's not the worst part. the bad thing is there is no reduced price for upgrades.
imagine paying 30 bucks for version 5 then when 6 comes out not too long after, they ask you for another 30... it's a freaking player/transcoder, 5-10 dollar upgrade for heaven's sake.
it never was. this current announcement is just smoke and mirrors.
phones have been incredibly cheap to make, cell phones doubly so because of the vast volume they deal in.
it's all irrelevant because you'll never be able to buy a usable cell phone cheaply... because the hardware is tied to the service. the 20 dollar phone looks less cheap when you pay 20-40 bucks a month for service.
honestly, the cell phone "service" looks a lot like inkjet ink. way out of proportion to what it actually costs and what they foist on people to pay. what the market will bear... well this market should stand up and tell them they won't bear it anymore.... well dreams are all we have in these troubling times.
i mean after all, it's the cheaters that use bots to "farm" and use exploits/bugs to do other malicious things like stealing accounts, items from other users, duplicating items, etc.
ironic that developers consider that MMO games are going to save the industry, yet looking at what people have to put up with, will be its downfall.
anyway, i've got the-underdogs.org and tons of single player games i've bought in the past to keep me company well into the future.
you mean before CHEATERS ruin it for everyone again.
having control over your hardware is not a crime and not immoral in any way. but the future is going to be a real nightmare. education is the answer... tell everyone you know about the evils of TCPA/DRM/Insidiuous Computing/region codes/etc and all the other bullshit that they've been foisting on us.
if you go to your local brick and mortar and decided to buy a high priced high margin item and the owner told you to fuck off.... you'd be back the next day to give more money to the store?
epson and Hp are part of the cartel that sells ink for those silly "printers". if you want cheap ink and good print quality go for canon. and maybe learn to write your own drivers for it.
don't give any money to those assholes who keep ripping us all off.
i didn't mean that 3x = 300%. i meant 6-18 times slower depending on the work being done. and you might say "how could it possibly that much slower"... then you realize most 9200's have 64mb ram or 128. then if you're in a situation where lots of memory is required, it'll take a dive far in excess of 3x. and that's just one situation.
the very odd thing about what you say is that while they're selling these units to other countries, they themselves make use of a foreign government's telecommunications system. they apparently handle all the billing and wiretapping services for the US populace and federal and governmental agencies.
that WIFI (and all it's many variations)are so easily crackable... because it was designed with something like this in mind?
i just find it hard to believe that after so many tries, the standards body couldn't find a way to make wifi even remotely secure. a war driver or a script kiddie can crack it in a matter of minutes at most.
also it isn't the populace's responsibility to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop/do their job.
just to nitpick a little, the 9200 is more like 300-600% slower than an x800.
but i remember reading something a while back that MS was demanding the new graphics processors become more like cpus... in that they can behave and be addressed more like a general purpose processor. now reading this article it occurs to me that WGF 2.0 might make this a non-issue. if and certainly all reports indicate that the real next-gen cards from ati/nvidia are radically different from current archs, that WGF 2.0 might solve this problem. all current and coming products in the next year are all WGF 1.0 parts, even the new r580/g80 chips.
just speculation... if someone has intimate knowledge about this subject and would like to chip in...
you make some good points. but i wonder if they're not choosing opengl 1.4 from a compatibility point of view. most graphics cards today actually don't utilize anything above shader model 1.1 (roughly equivalent to GL 1.3/1.4). even though many "gamers" and newer computers use shader model 2/3 (open gl 1.5/2.0) hardware, it's still a minority in the overall sense.
it certainly does play into ms's hands anyway... open gl has been a "thorn in their side" for a long time now.
opengl is far too valuable to let it be marginalized in the largest computer platform. i wonder though if IHV's opengl icd's can't be written (or rewritten) to support the aero display model (coexist).
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now THAT is shameful. not to insult bsd, it is a fine os, but that it takes till version 6 to rectify such a problem is ridiculous. these little are usually best dealt with first, the big things have a tendancy to be noticed and taken care of.
too bad os x doesn't run on any x86 system, then we could decide if we wanted to install it.
the fact that it runs on bsd is obviously not the reason people use/want it, primarily. to call osx bsd, is to call windows vms or os/2. it may have started that way but a hell of a lot has changed.
like web sites that suggest that the administrations of america, britan, australia, spain and italy tricked their citizens into invading a country based on forged evidence for reasons that have little to do with oil or terrorism (oil has gone way up in price...)
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those naughty naughty web sites err "blogs". i'm just relieved that the mainstream media keeps relentlessly attacking the validity and credibility of blogs and the internet. if it weren't for the mainstream media's absolute backing of the administration, imagine the horrors we would be subject to?
stuff like schools not having to have 75 students per teacher, roads being kept up, hospitals well-funded, millions of new jobs being created. damn, i'm so glad the media holds onto the administration's word without question. i cannot imagine the consequences and lobbyists pay our congress enough to do the worrying for us.
keep us safe please. those damn ay-rabs are gonna get us. never mind that the hijackers passports survived and the world trade centers didn't or that the air force didn't respond until half an hour after the planes that hit the towers, when normally they respond within seconds. or that the esteemable "president" and his secret service knew that he was safe in the school reading about goats, which was announced days earlier to the public, deemed that they shouldn't evacuate lest a plane should hit.
i just love the smell of a reichstag fire in the morning.
http://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag
http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag
like web sites that suggest that the administrations of america, britan, australia, spain and italy tricked their citizens into invading a country based on forged evidence for reasons that have little to do with oil or terrorism (oil has gone way up in price...)
those naughty naughty web sites err "blogs". i'm just relieved that the mainstream media keeps relentlessly attacking the validity and credibility of blogs and the internet. if it weren't for the mainstream media's absolute backing of the administration, imagine the horrors we would be subject to?
stuff like schools not having to have 75 students per teacher, roads being kept up, hospitals well-funded, millions of new jobs being created. damn, i'm so glad the media holds onto the administration's word without question. i cannot imagine the consequences and lobbyists pay our congress enough to do the worrying for us.
keep us safe please. those damn ay-rabs are gonna get us. never mind that the hijackers passports survived and the world trade centers didn't or that the air force didn't respond until half an hour after the planes that hit the towers, when normally they respond within seconds. or that the esteemable "president" and his secret service knew that he was safe in the school reading about goats, which was announced days earlier to the public, deemed that they shouldn't evacuate lest a plane should hit.
actually that's not the worst part. the bad thing is there is no reduced price for upgrades.
imagine paying 30 bucks for version 5 then when 6 comes out not too long after, they ask you for another 30... it's a freaking player/transcoder, 5-10 dollar upgrade for heaven's sake.
next time you're waiting 2-3 months for a rebate, you might want to ask the same question...
copyright infringement = fee administered by a pissed off public
it never was. this current announcement is just smoke and mirrors.
phones have been incredibly cheap to make, cell phones doubly so because of the vast volume they deal in.
it's all irrelevant because you'll never be able to buy a usable cell phone cheaply... because the hardware is tied to the service. the 20 dollar phone looks less cheap when you pay 20-40 bucks a month for service.
honestly, the cell phone "service" looks a lot like inkjet ink. way out of proportion to what it actually costs and what they foist on people to pay. what the market will bear... well this market should stand up and tell them they won't bear it anymore.... well dreams are all we have in these troubling times.
beating cheaters to death for FUN and PROFIT.
i mean after all, it's the cheaters that use bots to "farm" and use exploits/bugs to do other malicious things like stealing accounts, items from other users, duplicating items, etc.
ironic that developers consider that MMO games are going to save the industry, yet looking at what people have to put up with, will be its downfall.
anyway, i've got the-underdogs.org and tons of single player games i've bought in the past to keep me company well into the future.
you mean before CHEATERS ruin it for everyone again.
having control over your hardware is not a crime and not immoral in any way. but the future is going to be a real nightmare. education is the answer... tell everyone you know about the evils of TCPA/DRM/Insidiuous Computing/region codes/etc and all the other bullshit that they've been foisting on us.
education is the answer!
i'm surprised you still hold them in high esteem.
if you go to your local brick and mortar and decided to buy a high priced high margin item and the owner told you to fuck off.... you'd be back the next day to give more money to the store?
how about WAKE THE FUCK UP!!
actually that should read:
everytime you buy from sony, the RIAA and MPAA extend the copyright on kittens.
they're not acting like a child, children don't have that amount of control and hubris.
they're acting like illegal monopolies.
why people continue to buy their shit is beyond me.
stop supporting these assholes with your money.
epson and Hp are part of the cartel that sells ink for those silly "printers". if you want cheap ink and good print quality go for canon. and maybe learn to write your own drivers for it.
don't give any money to those assholes who keep ripping us all off.
you go out of your way to be illegal and immoral assholes.
yeah, business, what else is new.
so i guess if japan dropped a few atomic bombs on american cities, then the war may also have been averted that way.
as they say, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
no apparently you wouldn't.
they're bad and hence obliterating them is ok.
but a just policy works both ways. if it doesn't, by definition it isn't a just policy.
i didn't mean that 3x = 300%. i meant 6-18 times slower depending on the work being done. and you might say "how could it possibly that much slower"... then you realize most 9200's have 64mb ram or 128. then if you're in a situation where lots of memory is required, it'll take a dive far in excess of 3x. and that's just one situation.
dehumanizing the enemy. the ploy of a monsterous and diseased philosophy.
indeed we should remember the war criminals who dropped 2 atomic weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION on helpless civilians.
you might be thinking of something else. the x800 is a current generation card, the 9200 is 3+ generations older.
so therefore, an old slower card will perform a lot slower than a newer one.
maybe i didn't use the best wording but i think you know what i meant.
sounds like the spy/malware industries have significant "lobbying" power now.
the very odd thing about what you say is that while they're selling these units to other countries, they themselves make use of a foreign government's telecommunications system. they apparently handle all the billing and wiretapping services for the US populace and federal and governmental agencies.
sounds like a disaster waiting to happen...
that WIFI (and all it's many variations)are so easily crackable ... because it was designed with something like this in mind?
i just find it hard to believe that after so many tries, the standards body couldn't find a way to make wifi even remotely secure. a war driver or a script kiddie can crack it in a matter of minutes at most.
also it isn't the populace's responsibility to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop/do their job.
just to nitpick a little, the 9200 is more like 300-600% slower than an x800.
but i remember reading something a while back that MS was demanding the new graphics processors become more like cpus... in that they can behave and be addressed more like a general purpose processor. now reading this article it occurs to me that WGF 2.0 might make this a non-issue. if and certainly all reports indicate that the real next-gen cards from ati/nvidia are radically different from current archs, that WGF 2.0 might solve this problem. all current and coming products in the next year are all WGF 1.0 parts, even the new r580/g80 chips.
just speculation... if someone has intimate knowledge about this subject and would like to chip in...
you make some good points. but i wonder if they're not choosing opengl 1.4 from a compatibility point of view. most graphics cards today actually don't utilize anything above shader model 1.1 (roughly equivalent to GL 1.3/1.4). even though many "gamers" and newer computers use shader model 2/3 (open gl 1.5/2.0) hardware, it's still a minority in the overall sense.
it certainly does play into ms's hands anyway... open gl has been a "thorn in their side" for a long time now.
opengl is far too valuable to let it be marginalized in the largest computer platform. i wonder though if IHV's opengl icd's can't be written (or rewritten) to support the aero display model (coexist).