ax cuts for the rich work *wonders* for a young economy that has lots of competing small businesses in every industry.
Such tax cuts do *nothing* for a mature economy in which each industry is dominated by a monopoly or cartel.
It isn't smart to judge a group by the stupid people that support it, but by the smart people who do.
Agree - to a point.
It isn't smart to judge a group by the stupid people that support it - unless there's a statistically significant difference in the number of stupid people.
Yes, but actors are the people least capable of discussing politics. I present Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, and Al Gore as exhibits A, B, and C.
Corporations have known for a long time that only 535 people control a country of 300 million. But, their "sponsorship" is balanced and offset by the equally loaded special interest groups. Democracy in action, and candidates get campaign funds - win-win questionmark?
But, that doesn't mean the developers of open source software have no right to an opinion, public, private, protected, or otherwise. The idea of Notepad++ boycotting the Beijing Olympics sounds pretty silly - (the self-extracting installer was going to attend, but no longer will!) - but if Oprah gets to tell me who to vote for, then surely Notepad++'s dev can tell me about how evil China's government is.
No kidding. A while ago, I read about a 8-year study that was conducted on health. They took a few thousand people, followed them for 8 years, measuring dietary information periodically. IIRC they found that, of those who died of natural (non-accidental) causes, a statistically significant number of them had low levels of vitamin D in their diet.
Correct statement: Of those subjects deceased over the course of the study, a significant group had low vitamin D intake.
The headline in my local newspaper, reporting on the (not cited in article, but pretty sure) same article: Deadly Darkness - Shady Environments, Shorter Lives
I'm sure it can be done - I have limited experience with the language - but I'd imagine device drivers would be a pain to program in Java. Somehow, I just can't see nVidia using it to program their 280 series.
Manual memory management would be another thing. Unless there's a nifty library out there that I missed (and there very well could be!), Java lacks anything that makes it suitable for kernel development, process scheduling, and the like.
Game programming I'd think would be doable, if they have good DirectX libraries and an SDK that works well.
But... other than really bare-to-the-metal stuff? Java should be able to do practically everything. Not that it would be my first choice for a lot of things, mind you.
I see more of what you mean; I browse at -1, but it's still easy to miss contextual clues and see a knee-jerk reaction. (Which, of course, requires a knee-jerk post to correct... ^.^)
But, whether Microsoft does it out of the goodness of their heart or not doesn't really matter. Microsoft definitely screwed up with the Netscape debacle, but causing forcing an operating system to be completely bereft of modern features won't make the OS market any more competitive.
It's not just the "evil" DoJ (maybe a bit heavy handed, but as you say, not really "evil"); I forget what came of it, but the European Union was whining about the inclusion of Windows Media Player. This implies that Linux is not competition in the desktop market, which I find to be naive.
The other thing is to question whether the lock-in is actually effective in any way, shape, or form, and if it is, if it's anti-competitive. Apples iTunes store locks you into iTunes - no surprise there. And Microsoft's now-defunct music store was the same way, as is their Zune Marketplace. Except Microsoft licenses their DRM.
Ooooh, solitaire and and wmplayer are going to "lock you into using Windows." I'd be doing maths in reverse polish notation were it not for calc.exe locking me into Microsoft's maths!
I might have believed iexplore and winword. Except that you have to buy Word, that Internet Explorer's homepage and search are changeable, and if you care, you can just use Firefox anyway.
The default Firefox homepage is Google, and the default Firefox search provider is Google, and Firefox does things like "directing me to Google search in various situations." Somehow, I'm not worried about the Mozilla Foundation (funded in part by Google) getting trying to "generate income from those 'free utilities' via indirect mechanisms."
I was worried about my parents' surfing habits, too.
Then I installed Deep Freeze on their machine. (I "re-aquisitioned" an installer from where I work in a rare, hypocritical moment of software piracy.)
Now, they could even format a partition from within Windows, and the machine will reboot as if nothing ever happened. It's "Groundhog's Day" for your PC.
Now, I have nothing to worry about! No maintenance problems for me!
When we knew little about the game and how to solve it, it seemed that intelligence must be required to solve it. Now that machines are better at chess than humans we've redefined as a problem that is susceptible to brute force. It is not considered a success in the AI field, just another refinement of what is not AI.
Maybe there isn't "Artificial Intelligence" as we think of it. Perhaps every problem can be reduced to brute force, algorithms, and data structures.
Perhaps we are just really good at following those yet-undiscovered algorithms.
Alrighty; I'll take your word for all of that. I don't see how USB audio can be more CPU efficient than a dedicated card, but if the presence/absence of audio makes no difference than that's probably not your problem.
I don't use HDMI, and I don't use HDCP protected discs. No Blu-Ray or HD-DVD for me, so I'm not familiar with any of the problems. But, if 3rd party drivers help the copy "protection," then I guess go with them.
Still, it seems odd that the hardware you have - which is more than decent - is having problems with vertical tearing. About the only thing I can think of is checking your TVs refresh rate in the nVidia control panel; it should probably be 29 or 30 Hz. Just guessing at random (more "is it plugged in?" stuff), but try a different HDMI cable if you can; I can only imagine what idiosyncrasies a bad one could introduce to a high-def signal.
Anyway, if you ever figure something out, please e-mail me at travis DOT vroman AT ess en cee DOT edu.
I haven't used omega drivers before, but if you felt like poking around I'd try the regular nVidia ones. I realize that they are the nVidia drivers with extra features, but maybe one of the added features is causing the improper antialiasing. Depending on your TV, you might want to change the refresh rate to 29Hz or 30Hz and see if magic happens.
I also have zero experience with USB->SPDIF dongles, but I wonder if that could be your problem. I don't know how much bandwidth digital sound takes, I'd imagine 5.1 channels of Dolby goodness would take a lot of CPU time to decode. It would then take more CPU time to send down the USB pipe (USB is entirely host based), and you can really only expect to sustain about half of the 480Mbps theoretical cap. So, that might be your lag - see if it goes away without the dongle, or if it gets worse on a 5.1 track instead of regular stereo.
And you're right, actually buying something that should be (is? but isn't working?) in the drivers is insane; you're right not to give nVidia more money. Let me know if anything I say helps, or if I'm completely off the track here...
Of course, of course. ^.^ My TI-89 calculator could play DVDs, too. (Of course, the colors were rasterized, and they were letterboxed...)
But, point was my old machine was several generations behind the parent posters and could play DVDs; I was trying to establish that his hardware should've been beefy enough - even in software - to play a DVD MPEG stream.
And it's not like consumer DVD players have quad cores in them or anything like that, either.
I didn't even know it was used in horse racing, but I guess you're right ^.^
I Googled it, and evidently a "furlong per fortnight" is almost exactly a centimeter a minute. And over here, "pay period" isn't used to measure time outside of work, and some places have longer or shorter pay periods.
But, whenever I get sent off to do some task on campus where I work, I order people to "dispatch a search party within a fortnight's passing, if failed to return have I" or some variant. They must give me weird looks because they don't know what a "fortnight" is...
Source? I was listening to a public radio station, and they had some guest on, forget his name. (So, my source is obviously reliable, right?) He said prisoner favorites are Captain Crunch, with copious amounts of sugar, with honey. They also throw feces at guards.
Hard to find anything about Guantanamo that isn't propaganda - from one "side" or the other.
Besides, I would be disappointed in my government if we considered ourselves bound by things we never signed, because they were "customary" parts of international law. How's everyone doing on Kyoto, again?
It sounds like "reclock" is just a fancy vsync checkbox, which is magic I would want checked if I was having screen tearing issues...
My rig at home is an 8800 GTX with a 2.66 GHz dual core. (Intel, forget model number.) I've never had any problems with regular DVDs tearing; I just fire up Windows Media Player or Media Center and put the disc in. At my dorm, I either watched them on a 20" 1680x1050 monitor, or on an s-video cable to a TV. At home during the summer, I have the pleasure of watching 480p movies on a 720p television with a component out cable.
But, even my old Pentium 4 3.4 GHz box with a GeForce 6800 could play DVDs. There has to be something strange going on with your box. (Not very helpful, and I'm sure you guessed that by now.)
Do you have a virus scanner running? Did you try bumping your player's process priority in task manager? Last driver version? What codec packs do you have installed? Does the same thing happen on a clean, codec-pack-less install with VLC player?
I'm glad you're happy with your set-top box, and considering you have a solution you're probably sick of debugging. But, out of personal curiosity I'd like to know a bit more about your problem - I'm considering assembling a "media center"-esque PC out of my graveyard at home, and maybe your experience could help me out of a few problems.
It would be interesting to have parts of Wikipedia articles "peer reviewed" by Smart Knowledgeable People. Specific versions/revisions of those articles could be tagged as "reputable slash cite-able slash magic."
Then, it could have all the repute of a "hard bound book" and be updated every ten minutes!
Don't be pedantic. He doesn't have "it configured to broadcast its openness to everyone." I'm guessing he didn't configure it at all, let alone intentionally configure his device that way.
A misconfigured router is not an open invitation to a private network.
Not a straw man at all. The parent I replied to was quite meticulous in listing only Republicans as corrupt; my favorite part is how the "shit-weasels get back into positions of power the next time a Republican slithered into office." Neither party has a monopoly on corruption; you have some issues if you seriously believe otherwise. As an exercise to the reader, construct a list of jailed Republicans and Democrats; you'll have better numbers than "dozens."
Habeas corpus? Constitutional Amendments? If you're talking about Guantanamo Bay, the average prisoners gains 30 pounds over his stay, has access to religious artifacts and clergy and military tribunals. International treaties? It's impossible to say without knowing which crimes Bush is supposed to be guilty of, but it's worth noting that none of the prisoners can claim any protections under the Geneva Protocols. You kinda have to be a uniformed soldier for that.
Funny how anything the opposite party does is a "crime."
The whole "networking" thing lends itself to too many analogies. So let's try again:
You can transmit on the 2.4GHz public spectrum. Now, because Joe Q. Public is too oblivious to lock up his router does not give someone else de-facto permission to use his internet connection. Just like forgetting to lock your car does not give you permission to joyride on roads.
Joyriding on public roads is not okay, because the vehicle you stole is private.
Using someone else's bandwidth just because you can is likewise unacceptable. Public frequency, but a privately-owned router, modem, and network you're connecting to.
Now, someone using your internet can only be expected if you can't trouble yourself to figure out how to use WEP or WPA keys. On Linksys products (WRT54G routers and WUSB54G adapters) you push the "Secure Easy Setup" light on the router, and the "Secure Easy Setup" button on the adapter's software. They all handshake and encrypt your network. Push 2 buttons and your network has a password!
Other routers/access points I've installed might not have something that simple, but it's usually a box you check in the setup. Then again, there are people like my friends parents, you took the WPA encryption off because "a password would be too hard."
So, back to the topic: Using someone's internet and router just because you can is unlawful and unethical, even if your access is due to their negligence. A public spectrum is not license for wardriving; it just means you don't to hassle the FCC to get an access point set up in your house.
Slashdot Mirror
"Stupid people?" "Activists?"
I'm confused... you're repeating yourself.
ax cuts for the rich work *wonders* for a young economy that has lots of competing small businesses in every industry. Such tax cuts do *nothing* for a mature economy in which each industry is dominated by a monopoly or cartel.
[citation needed]
Besides, monopolization != maturation.
It isn't smart to judge a group by the stupid people that support it, but by the smart people who do.
Agree - to a point.
It isn't smart to judge a group by the stupid people that support it - unless there's a statistically significant difference in the number of stupid people.
Middle-click (the scroll wheel) on a link for a new tab. Same as in Firefox.
And you're trolling; IE never crashes.
Yes, but actors are the people least capable of discussing politics. I present Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, and Al Gore as exhibits A, B, and C.
Corporations have known for a long time that only 535 people control a country of 300 million. But, their "sponsorship" is balanced and offset by the equally loaded special interest groups. Democracy in action, and candidates get campaign funds - win-win questionmark?
But, that doesn't mean the developers of open source software have no right to an opinion, public, private, protected, or otherwise. The idea of Notepad++ boycotting the Beijing Olympics sounds pretty silly - (the self-extracting installer was going to attend, but no longer will!) - but if Oprah gets to tell me who to vote for, then surely Notepad++'s dev can tell me about how evil China's government is.
No kidding. A while ago, I read about a 8-year study that was conducted on health. They took a few thousand people, followed them for 8 years, measuring dietary information periodically. IIRC they found that, of those who died of natural (non-accidental) causes, a statistically significant number of them had low levels of vitamin D in their diet.
Correct statement: Of those subjects deceased over the course of the study, a significant group had low vitamin D intake.
The headline in my local newspaper, reporting on the (not cited in article, but pretty sure) same article: Deadly Darkness - Shady Environments, Shorter Lives
I'm sure it can be done - I have limited experience with the language - but I'd imagine device drivers would be a pain to program in Java. Somehow, I just can't see nVidia using it to program their 280 series.
Manual memory management would be another thing. Unless there's a nifty library out there that I missed (and there very well could be!), Java lacks anything that makes it suitable for kernel development, process scheduling, and the like.
Game programming I'd think would be doable, if they have good DirectX libraries and an SDK that works well.
But... other than really bare-to-the-metal stuff? Java should be able to do practically everything. Not that it would be my first choice for a lot of things, mind you.
I see more of what you mean; I browse at -1, but it's still easy to miss contextual clues and see a knee-jerk reaction. (Which, of course, requires a knee-jerk post to correct... ^.^)
But, whether Microsoft does it out of the goodness of their heart or not doesn't really matter. Microsoft definitely screwed up with the Netscape debacle, but causing forcing an operating system to be completely bereft of modern features won't make the OS market any more competitive.
It's not just the "evil" DoJ (maybe a bit heavy handed, but as you say, not really "evil"); I forget what came of it, but the European Union was whining about the inclusion of Windows Media Player. This implies that Linux is not competition in the desktop market, which I find to be naive.
The other thing is to question whether the lock-in is actually effective in any way, shape, or form, and if it is, if it's anti-competitive. Apples iTunes store locks you into iTunes - no surprise there. And Microsoft's now-defunct music store was the same way, as is their Zune Marketplace. Except Microsoft licenses their DRM.
I'd whine more, but my shift is ending ^.^
Ooooh, solitaire and and wmplayer are going to "lock you into using Windows." I'd be doing maths in reverse polish notation were it not for calc.exe locking me into Microsoft's maths!
I might have believed iexplore and winword. Except that you have to buy Word, that Internet Explorer's homepage and search are changeable, and if you care, you can just use Firefox anyway.
The default Firefox homepage is Google, and the default Firefox search provider is Google, and Firefox does things like "directing me to Google search in various situations." Somehow, I'm not worried about the Mozilla Foundation (funded in part by Google) getting trying to "generate income from those 'free utilities' via indirect mechanisms."
Those folks at CSI also have amazing internet trace softare. Even from octets in the 300s! Click "expand text" and scroll down a tick.)
If they can hunt you down from that, no telling what they could do with actual AI-controlled footage of you comitting a crime.
I was worried about my parents' surfing habits, too.
Then I installed Deep Freeze on their machine. (I "re-aquisitioned" an installer from where I work in a rare, hypocritical moment of software piracy.)
Now, they could even format a partition from within Windows, and the machine will reboot as if nothing ever happened. It's "Groundhog's Day" for your PC.
Now, I have nothing to worry about! No maintenance problems for me!
You're speaking to it!
^,.,^
When we knew little about the game and how to solve it, it seemed that intelligence must be required to solve it. Now that machines are better at chess than humans we've redefined as a problem that is susceptible to brute force. It is not considered a success in the AI field, just another refinement of what is not AI.
Maybe there isn't "Artificial Intelligence" as we think of it. Perhaps every problem can be reduced to brute force, algorithms, and data structures.
Perhaps we are just really good at following those yet-undiscovered algorithms.
*twilight zone music*
Alrighty; I'll take your word for all of that. I don't see how USB audio can be more CPU efficient than a dedicated card, but if the presence/absence of audio makes no difference than that's probably not your problem.
I don't use HDMI, and I don't use HDCP protected discs. No Blu-Ray or HD-DVD for me, so I'm not familiar with any of the problems. But, if 3rd party drivers help the copy "protection," then I guess go with them.
Still, it seems odd that the hardware you have - which is more than decent - is having problems with vertical tearing. About the only thing I can think of is checking your TVs refresh rate in the nVidia control panel; it should probably be 29 or 30 Hz. Just guessing at random (more "is it plugged in?" stuff), but try a different HDMI cable if you can; I can only imagine what idiosyncrasies a bad one could introduce to a high-def signal.
Anyway, if you ever figure something out, please e-mail me at travis DOT vroman AT ess en cee DOT edu.
I haven't used omega drivers before, but if you felt like poking around I'd try the regular nVidia ones. I realize that they are the nVidia drivers with extra features, but maybe one of the added features is causing the improper antialiasing. Depending on your TV, you might want to change the refresh rate to 29Hz or 30Hz and see if magic happens.
I also have zero experience with USB->SPDIF dongles, but I wonder if that could be your problem. I don't know how much bandwidth digital sound takes, I'd imagine 5.1 channels of Dolby goodness would take a lot of CPU time to decode. It would then take more CPU time to send down the USB pipe (USB is entirely host based), and you can really only expect to sustain about half of the 480Mbps theoretical cap. So, that might be your lag - see if it goes away without the dongle, or if it gets worse on a 5.1 track instead of regular stereo.
And you're right, actually buying something that should be (is? but isn't working?) in the drivers is insane; you're right not to give nVidia more money. Let me know if anything I say helps, or if I'm completely off the track here...
Of course, of course. ^.^ My TI-89 calculator could play DVDs, too. (Of course, the colors were rasterized, and they were letterboxed...)
But, point was my old machine was several generations behind the parent posters and could play DVDs; I was trying to establish that his hardware should've been beefy enough - even in software - to play a DVD MPEG stream.
And it's not like consumer DVD players have quad cores in them or anything like that, either.
I didn't even know it was used in horse racing, but I guess you're right ^.^
I Googled it, and evidently a "furlong per fortnight" is almost exactly a centimeter a minute. And over here, "pay period" isn't used to measure time outside of work, and some places have longer or shorter pay periods.
But, whenever I get sent off to do some task on campus where I work, I order people to "dispatch a search party within a fortnight's passing, if failed to return have I" or some variant. They must give me weird looks because they don't know what a "fortnight" is...
Source? I was listening to a public radio station, and they had some guest on, forget his name. (So, my source is obviously reliable, right?) He said prisoner favorites are Captain Crunch, with copious amounts of sugar, with honey. They also throw feces at guards.
Hard to find anything about Guantanamo that isn't propaganda - from one "side" or the other.
Besides, I would be disappointed in my government if we considered ourselves bound by things we never signed, because they were "customary" parts of international law. How's everyone doing on Kyoto, again?
It sounds like "reclock" is just a fancy vsync checkbox, which is magic I would want checked if I was having screen tearing issues...
My rig at home is an 8800 GTX with a 2.66 GHz dual core. (Intel, forget model number.) I've never had any problems with regular DVDs tearing; I just fire up Windows Media Player or Media Center and put the disc in. At my dorm, I either watched them on a 20" 1680x1050 monitor, or on an s-video cable to a TV. At home during the summer, I have the pleasure of watching 480p movies on a 720p television with a component out cable.
But, even my old Pentium 4 3.4 GHz box with a GeForce 6800 could play DVDs. There has to be something strange going on with your box. (Not very helpful, and I'm sure you guessed that by now.)
Do you have a virus scanner running? Did you try bumping your player's process priority in task manager? Last driver version? What codec packs do you have installed? Does the same thing happen on a clean, codec-pack-less install with VLC player?
I'm glad you're happy with your set-top box, and considering you have a solution you're probably sick of debugging. But, out of personal curiosity I'd like to know a bit more about your problem - I'm considering assembling a "media center"-esque PC out of my graveyard at home, and maybe your experience could help me out of a few problems.
Serves the rest of the world for ignoring furlongs per fortnight.
It would be interesting to have parts of Wikipedia articles "peer reviewed" by Smart Knowledgeable People. Specific versions/revisions of those articles could be tagged as "reputable slash cite-able slash magic."
Then, it could have all the repute of a "hard bound book" and be updated every ten minutes!
Don't be pedantic. He doesn't have "it configured to broadcast its openness to everyone." I'm guessing he didn't configure it at all, let alone intentionally configure his device that way.
A misconfigured router is not an open invitation to a private network.
Not a straw man at all. The parent I replied to was quite meticulous in listing only Republicans as corrupt; my favorite part is how the "shit-weasels get back into positions of power the next time a Republican slithered into office." Neither party has a monopoly on corruption; you have some issues if you seriously believe otherwise. As an exercise to the reader, construct a list of jailed Republicans and Democrats; you'll have better numbers than "dozens."
Habeas corpus? Constitutional Amendments? If you're talking about Guantanamo Bay, the average prisoners gains 30 pounds over his stay, has access to religious artifacts and clergy and military tribunals. International treaties? It's impossible to say without knowing which crimes Bush is supposed to be guilty of, but it's worth noting that none of the prisoners can claim any protections under the Geneva Protocols. You kinda have to be a uniformed soldier for that.
Funny how anything the opposite party does is a "crime."
The whole "networking" thing lends itself to too many analogies. So let's try again:
You can transmit on the 2.4GHz public spectrum. Now, because Joe Q. Public is too oblivious to lock up his router does not give someone else de-facto permission to use his internet connection. Just like forgetting to lock your car does not give you permission to joyride on roads.
Joyriding on public roads is not okay, because the vehicle you stole is private.
Using someone else's bandwidth just because you can is likewise unacceptable. Public frequency, but a privately-owned router, modem, and network you're connecting to.
Now, someone using your internet can only be expected if you can't trouble yourself to figure out how to use WEP or WPA keys. On Linksys products (WRT54G routers and WUSB54G adapters) you push the "Secure Easy Setup" light on the router, and the "Secure Easy Setup" button on the adapter's software. They all handshake and encrypt your network. Push 2 buttons and your network has a password!
Other routers/access points I've installed might not have something that simple, but it's usually a box you check in the setup. Then again, there are people like my friends parents, you took the WPA encryption off because "a password would be too hard."
So, back to the topic: Using someone's internet and router just because you can is unlawful and unethical, even if your access is due to their negligence. A public spectrum is not license for wardriving; it just means you don't to hassle the FCC to get an access point set up in your house.
Insulting anyone who dares to air legitimate concerns is the best way to ensure they are never inclined to listen to your POV.
Good thing he only insulted "hysteria-spreading, anti-nuclear, tree-huggers" then.
And identifying with that group will get more people to listen to your POV questionmark ...?
^.^