Why is this still an issue? it must be blind altruism. I've been using the binary nvidia drivers for years and perhaps that has tainted me. But the drivers work well and correctly use the hardware I have paid good money for. If there were open-source alternatives I would still not use them as I prefer drivers from the company that made my hardware... regardless of the availability of the source code.
The kernel developers do an incredible job in supporting all sorts of hardware and must be given their dues. But take the AC'97 audio device, it's open-source drivers do not support hardware mixing.
to do that would mean you are reasonable... we wouldn't want to be reasonable in the face of a new game console, now would we? please, swallow your meds.
This cannot be preceived as bad publicity for video games. A television show portray's an actor who plays a video game and replicates the violence. The rub is, they can't say it is the video games fault while the show depicts the exact same kind of violence. Maybe Rock star should make a game that portray's a crime based television show that a viewer watches then replicates the violence they see on the show... all this pandering moves focus away from the actual culprit, the person behind the actual violence.
maybe, just maybe, your "company" should learn how to write real code?!?... instead of blaming the IDE. If you, as a developer or manager, feel the need to rely on a single IDE to get stuff done... you're in the wrong business.
solution:
stick the DVD in the player 30 minutes before you turn the TV on or switch to the DVD's input channel. sure it sucks but it works for nearly all dvd's... except dvd's that autoplay the movie:)
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Why is this still an issue? it must be blind altruism. I've been using the binary nvidia drivers for years and perhaps that has tainted me. But the drivers work well and correctly use the hardware I have paid good money for. If there were open-source alternatives I would still not use them as I prefer drivers from the company that made my hardware... regardless of the availability of the source code. The kernel developers do an incredible job in supporting all sorts of hardware and must be given their dues. But take the AC'97 audio device, it's open-source drivers do not support hardware mixing.
to do that would mean you are reasonable... we wouldn't want to be reasonable in the face of a new game console, now would we? please, swallow your meds.
This cannot be preceived as bad publicity for video games. A television show portray's an actor who plays a video game and replicates the violence. The rub is, they can't say it is the video games fault while the show depicts the exact same kind of violence. Maybe Rock star should make a game that portray's a crime based television show that a viewer watches then replicates the violence they see on the show... all this pandering moves focus away from the actual culprit, the person behind the actual violence.
maybe, just maybe, your "company" should learn how to write real code?!?... instead of blaming the IDE. If you, as a developer or manager, feel the need to rely on a single IDE to get stuff done... you're in the wrong business.
solution: stick the DVD in the player 30 minutes before you turn the TV on or switch to the DVD's input channel. sure it sucks but it works for nearly all dvd's... except dvd's that autoplay the movie :)