Well, this wouldn't be the first time Nvidia drivers are responsible for instability.
I remember when the first nForce3 drivers came out that had those IDE problems. And the continuing problem with the SW drivers. Man, I thought something was seriously wrong with my new rig. Nope, just the drivers....
I like the idea of being able to chain multiple boards together in one chassis with some redundancies eliminated and specialized. Interconnecting the boards via hypertransport or infiniband is almost a trival affair these days too. It sounds almost like video game consoles back in the day, where different chips were specialized to do different tasks, with multiple processors doing math and geometry intensive work. It wouldn't be too hard in these days of integration to design a southbridge to have more inputs so it could handle a consolidated system.
People like dragging down everyone with them; it's just human nature. When one person is in an unfortunate situation that another person isn't, jealousy erupts, until either the unfortunate person is relieved of burden or the fortunate is made less fortunate. When the former can't happen, the unfortunate person tries to make the latter happen.
Probably because it's not so stupid. Evil maybe, but not stupid. Many people use outlook. This ties them more into Outlook and less into other mail clients.
that biofuels actually increased carbon emissions. Namely because of the emissions costs of processing all the fuel. Now, something like the waste cooking oil I could see being useful, but the corn lobby will make sure that method is not widespread.
How I love politics. Politics getting in the way of reason, in the way of human survival. Nothing new. Or, in the Slashdot lore, "Nothing to see here, move along."
Actually, both nVidia and ATi are working on a system that allows a lower powered onboard GPU core to handle things like Veesta aero, then switch to the octal SLi Geforce 10000 GTX when rendering Crysis 2 or something. I believe it's a part of nVidia's hybrid SLi, and ATi's hybrid Crossfire. It's supposed to save a lot of power because not only does it divert light rendering load to a chip that can easily handle it, it suspends the main GPU, saving a lot on idle power draw (current cards, especially high-end ones, are really bad with idle power draw).
Lego, lego, lego. A big piece of my history as a kid. I used to be a fanatic about and still love it...I think it peaked around the late 80's to early 90's...the later stuff I really don't care for. Anyway, I've always loved Technic. My last (big) foray into technic was making a case:
Making a structurally intact case completely out of legos is challenging, especially when you're strapped for parts. This one needed some serious thought, but I did it all in one night on a caffiene rush. 'bout seven hours.
Here here. What would it take to have a cheap assembler put together bits of DNA under a microscope? I imagine this would take far fewer resources and be far less conspicuous than, say, fabbing an MX missile.
I remember sometime in the mid-90's when Yahoo claimed that they would never have banner ads on their search site (back then mostly what their site was), and then somewhere in their IPO frenzy, ended up doing it anyway. That's when Webcrawler came up and everybody thought Yahoo was over. Somewhere after that, Webcrawler faded into obscurity and this new upstart "Google" started becoming popular.
I still find Google's services less cluttered and easier to navigate than Yahoo's. I hardly ever use Yahoo's primary search services, though I find it still better than the Live mess.
And thankfully, I like to be realistic. Who says that these things cannot occur?
My position is one of neutrality; I believe it's possible, but I need to be shown the money before definitely confirming it as true. But there's just so much us humans are limited to in terms of perspective that I caution from saying something is absolutely or even most likely not possible.
Well said. People start to assign one meaning to a term, a fallacious tendency. For example, people forget that nonprofits are corporations, too. Message to all who misuse the word: stop.
Oh for sure - there are multiple ways to achieve optimism, thankfully, otherwise all the people who did large amounts of drugs when and have damaged pleasure centers in their brain would be completely dysfunctional.
I think so, at least in a sense. Or at least genetically predisposed to having less brain mass in this area.
"Brain damage" in this sense doesn't mean the person isn't functional or somehow retarded, it's just a lot harder to get in a good mood and look at things in a positive light. On the other hand, such brain structure lends itself more to critical analysis and less "feel-goodness."
Not invented out of thin air. I read a reuters article too, it specified the percentage. One can reasonably extrapolate the "value" from this percentage, regardless of how ridiculously obscene an amount it may be.
Sorry, I just can't tolerate the whole cluttered-mess look of things. I like it when things are "docked" into one window. Makes it easier to multi-window anyway IMO.
Multi monitors, different story - I like the space benefits of having all the widgets on monitor two with a huge empty workspace on the main monitor.
1) "fat cat" institutions buy early and sell to suckers before the bubble bursts, raking in huge rewards and using the proceeds to finance more pump-and-dump schemes that the SEC turns a blind eye to because they're in bed with them. 2) For the millionth time, the investing culture becomes goggly-eyed and turns the markets into one big glorified casino. 3) Ordinary "investors" (overconfident naive people with too much money on their hands) get their money deservedly taken from them. 4) These same people go on later to rant about how unacceptably risky the stock market is, not realizing the err is their own. 5) Then the geriatrics tirade about how the world has become disconnected from brick-and-mortar businesses, without realizing the internet is just another marketplace and that there were plenty of "offline" bubbles in the past too (railroads, tulips, etc). 6) "Gold standard" cultists soapbox on about how the world would be so much better with gold-backed currency, not realizing how capital- and development-strained the world would be if it actually still were that way. 7) People talk and talk and talk about meaningless bullshit while all this goes on in spite of them, not realizing their irrelevancy. 8) History repeats, go back to step 1.
Take a trip to yahoo/google/whatever Finance and look at the share price of most tech companies in 2000 and how far most of them have fallen. It's practically a literal illustration of human stupidity.
In a way, I can't fault the institutions. If I were them, I would take advantage of stupid investors too. Make some money and teach people a good lesson at the same time.
The only people I really feel sorry for are those who invested responsibly and got burned by the fallout of these huge bubbles. Bubbles destroy confidence in legitimately profitable companies just because they are in the bubble sector. And that kills investors who responsibly bought into these companies.
The tech bubble, for instance - it made some legit companies have shitty IPOs and even stalled lots of IPOs for several years. Companies turning a profit - not pets.com or some bullshit.
Slashdot wants to lick your butthole to get you to use Linux. Why is this such an outrageously pro-Linux site? The slogan isn't "Stuff for LINUX nerds that matters"...
Then again, maybe it helps stop some virgins from plotting to blow up the planet with anime spacecraft...
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Well, this wouldn't be the first time Nvidia drivers are responsible for instability.
I remember when the first nForce3 drivers came out that had those IDE problems. And the continuing problem with the SW drivers. Man, I thought something was seriously wrong with my new rig. Nope, just the drivers....
I like the idea of being able to chain multiple boards together in one chassis with some redundancies eliminated and specialized. Interconnecting the boards via hypertransport or infiniband is almost a trival affair these days too. It sounds almost like video game consoles back in the day, where different chips were specialized to do different tasks, with multiple processors doing math and geometry intensive work. It wouldn't be too hard in these days of integration to design a southbridge to have more inputs so it could handle a consolidated system.
People like dragging down everyone with them; it's just human nature. When one person is in an unfortunate situation that another person isn't, jealousy erupts, until either the unfortunate person is relieved of burden or the fortunate is made less fortunate. When the former can't happen, the unfortunate person tries to make the latter happen.
Yeah, this is slashdot, where facts about MS get pretty easily distorted.
Probably because it's not so stupid. Evil maybe, but not stupid. Many people use outlook. This ties them more into Outlook and less into other mail clients.
that biofuels actually increased carbon emissions. Namely because of the emissions costs of processing all the fuel. Now, something like the waste cooking oil I could see being useful, but the corn lobby will make sure that method is not widespread.
How I love politics. Politics getting in the way of reason, in the way of human survival. Nothing new. Or, in the Slashdot lore, "Nothing to see here, move along."
Was this really flamebait? Seemed tongue in cheek to me, getting the point across as well..i.e. it's PRO women...
Actually, both nVidia and ATi are working on a system that allows a lower powered onboard GPU core to handle things like Veesta aero, then switch to the octal SLi Geforce 10000 GTX when rendering Crysis 2 or something. I believe it's a part of nVidia's hybrid SLi, and ATi's hybrid Crossfire. It's supposed to save a lot of power because not only does it divert light rendering load to a chip that can easily handle it, it suspends the main GPU, saving a lot on idle power draw (current cards, especially high-end ones, are really bad with idle power draw).
Lego, lego, lego. A big piece of my history as a kid. I used to be a fanatic about and still love it...I think it peaked around the late 80's to early 90's...the later stuff I really don't care for. Anyway, I've always loved Technic. My last (big) foray into technic was making a case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFopAu-e7Vs
Making a structurally intact case completely out of legos is challenging, especially when you're strapped for parts. This one needed some serious thought, but I did it all in one night on a caffiene rush. 'bout seven hours.
OK, let me put it this way: You really need to get stoned.
Karma to burn!
Here here. What would it take to have a cheap assembler put together bits of DNA under a microscope? I imagine this would take far fewer resources and be far less conspicuous than, say, fabbing an MX missile.
Depends. Fear causes the release of fight-or-flight hormones which, saturating the body beyond a certain threshold, can be disabling.
Consider that most of the parents are ex-jocks, and it makes a lot of sense. They tend to be more open and boisterous.
What competition?
I remember sometime in the mid-90's when Yahoo claimed that they would never have banner ads on their search site (back then mostly what their site was), and then somewhere in their IPO frenzy, ended up doing it anyway. That's when Webcrawler came up and everybody thought Yahoo was over. Somewhere after that, Webcrawler faded into obscurity and this new upstart "Google" started becoming popular.
I still find Google's services less cluttered and easier to navigate than Yahoo's. I hardly ever use Yahoo's primary search services, though I find it still better than the Live mess.
And thankfully, I like to be realistic. Who says that these things cannot occur?
My position is one of neutrality; I believe it's possible, but I need to be shown the money before definitely confirming it as true. But there's just so much us humans are limited to in terms of perspective that I caution from saying something is absolutely or even most likely not possible.
A very sound and reasonable premise. Microsoft does not typically act brutally with employees firing-wise, contrary to the Slashdot zeitgeist.
Well said. People start to assign one meaning to a term, a fallacious tendency. For example, people forget that nonprofits are corporations, too. Message to all who misuse the word: stop.
Oh for sure - there are multiple ways to achieve optimism, thankfully, otherwise all the people who did large amounts of drugs when and have damaged pleasure centers in their brain would be completely dysfunctional.
I am certain. And I'm certain there will be drug technologies for all purposes revolving around this in coming years.
I think so, at least in a sense. Or at least genetically predisposed to having less brain mass in this area.
"Brain damage" in this sense doesn't mean the person isn't functional or somehow retarded, it's just a lot harder to get in a good mood and look at things in a positive light. On the other hand, such brain structure lends itself more to critical analysis and less "feel-goodness."
Not invented out of thin air. I read a reuters article too, it specified the percentage. One can reasonably extrapolate the "value" from this percentage, regardless of how ridiculously obscene an amount it may be.
Sorry, I just can't tolerate the whole cluttered-mess look of things. I like it when things are "docked" into one window. Makes it easier to multi-window anyway IMO.
Multi monitors, different story - I like the space benefits of having all the widgets on monitor two with a huge empty workspace on the main monitor.
Here's the way the (investing) world works.
1) "fat cat" institutions buy early and sell to suckers before the bubble bursts, raking in huge rewards and using the proceeds to finance more pump-and-dump schemes that the SEC turns a blind eye to because they're in bed with them.
2) For the millionth time, the investing culture becomes goggly-eyed and turns the markets into one big glorified casino.
3) Ordinary "investors" (overconfident naive people with too much money on their hands) get their money deservedly taken from them.
4) These same people go on later to rant about how unacceptably risky the stock market is, not realizing the err is their own.
5) Then the geriatrics tirade about how the world has become disconnected from brick-and-mortar businesses, without realizing the internet is just another marketplace and that there were plenty of "offline" bubbles in the past too (railroads, tulips, etc).
6) "Gold standard" cultists soapbox on about how the world would be so much better with gold-backed currency, not realizing how capital- and development-strained the world would be if it actually still were that way.
7) People talk and talk and talk about meaningless bullshit while all this goes on in spite of them, not realizing their irrelevancy.
8) History repeats, go back to step 1.
Take a trip to yahoo/google/whatever Finance and look at the share price of most tech companies in 2000 and how far most of them have fallen. It's practically a literal illustration of human stupidity.
In a way, I can't fault the institutions. If I were them, I would take advantage of stupid investors too. Make some money and teach people a good lesson at the same time.
The only people I really feel sorry for are those who invested responsibly and got burned by the fallout of these huge bubbles. Bubbles destroy confidence in legitimately profitable companies just because they are in the bubble sector. And that kills investors who responsibly bought into these companies.
The tech bubble, for instance - it made some legit companies have shitty IPOs and even stalled lots of IPOs for several years. Companies turning a profit - not pets.com or some bullshit.
Slashdot wants to lick your butthole to get you to use Linux. Why is this such an outrageously pro-Linux site? The slogan isn't "Stuff for LINUX nerds that matters"...
Then again, maybe it helps stop some virgins from plotting to blow up the planet with anime spacecraft...
Pathetic, guys, really.