I'm sure it takes far less power to hurt you I'm sure it takes far less power to hurt you over long time. The question is only "how much" and "how long". over long time.
You're "sure"? Why? You're forgetting that the human body is a big heat sink.
The funny thing is that your analogy is irrelevant anyway because generally you replace video cards between 1 and 2 years anyway.
I tend to repurpose old hardware, so anything that's not on the motherboard tends to float around for ~ 3-5 years. Free drivers are important on that timescale.
I'll run closed code, but it's bloody well not going to be something as crucial as my video drivers. I've done it before, and I'll never do it again on my main computer.
How many years did it take for nVidia to add DRI support to their driver? Xinerama support? Not-corrupting-the-virtual-console-when-running-more-than-one-instance-of-X support? Do they support XRandR 1.3 yet? (That last question isn't rhetorical---I've stopped following the status of nVidia's proprietary drivers.)
The last time I used them, the nVidia drivers exhibited a severe case of Not-Invented-Here syndrome, and they weren't particularly stable.
I really don't know where all these people come from who say "nVidia's drivers just work". I suspect it's just a lack of experience with *actual* stable drivers. The best X driver experience I've had is with free drivers for hardware that's a few generations old. Super stable and everything *really* just works.
I should clarify: I find algebraic notation easier to read, but RPN easier to type. The HP graphing calculators are nice because they display in algebraic notation, but you can enter your equations interactively using RPN. So, as soon as I type "X ENTER Y +", it shows "X+Y". Then, if I type "2/", it will show me "(X+Y)/2" (actually, it shows it like you would see in a textbook, with "X+Y" on top of "2" with a horizontal line in between them).
I looked on Youtube for some videos of the HP calculators, but they were long and boring. Instead, here's a nice video of an iPhone RPN calculator app. Of course, the HP calculators are much more sophisticated, but that video shows the general idea: You have a stack, and you perform operations on the stack.
However, I still tend to use algebraic notation on a full-blown computer, because I haven't found any good, free RPN-enter interfaces for Linux. dc and rpncalc are a bit of a pain.
For me, it's not so much saving keystrokes as it is minimizing errors and not having to count parentheses. Also, RPN maps better to how I think about a problem than algebraic entry does.
So if I substituted my news sources with, say, the Washington Post, would I be better informed about Darfur? A suppressed report on Ivory Coast toxic waste dumping? Policy laundering during the ACTA negotiations? Iranian protests? SCO v. IBM? Homeopathy? Anything involving science?
My ears are deaf to these arguments as long as the mainstream press continues to do such a terrible job of keeping the public informed.
The process change needs to occur in software development, not in end user behaviour.
People need to safely run software from untrustworthy or marginally trustworthy sources, but the infrastructure isn't there. Anti-virus software is sort of a stop-gap measure, but tests like these are showing that it increasingly can't be relied upon
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Spoken like someone who truly doesn't get "due process".
I wonder how this will affect emulators. Did old computers (say, the Amiga) use a gamma of 1.0?
RTFA. There are more realistic examples given, and it makes a visible difference.
Should I write "Updates" or "Obsoletes" RFC 3514?
Awesome.
You fail Memes 101.
PHOTONS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!!!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I'm sure it takes far less power to hurt you I'm sure it takes far less power to hurt you over long time. The question is only "how much" and "how long". over long time.
You're "sure"? Why? You're forgetting that the human body is a big heat sink.
If every video card manufacturer behaved like nVidia, X would never improve and the implementations would be completely balkanized.
Still? Did you not understand? They were forced to invent their own because it was impossible to implement the features they required, with DRI.
No, they had the source code to the entire X server, kernel, and anything else they might have needed to improve. They chose not to.
If every video card manufacturer behaved like nVidia, X would never improve and the implementations would be completely balkanized.
"Every Lindows boy and girl...
All around the Lindows world...
Gonna do the Lindows rock...
All around the Lindows clock...
The funny thing is that your analogy is irrelevant anyway because generally you replace video cards between 1 and 2 years anyway.
I tend to repurpose old hardware, so anything that's not on the motherboard tends to float around for ~ 3-5 years. Free drivers are important on that timescale.
How many years did it take for nVidia to add DRI support to their driver? Xinerama support? Not-corrupting-the-virtual-console-when-running-more-than-one-instance-of-X support? Do they support XRandR 1.3 yet? (That last question isn't rhetorical---I've stopped following the status of nVidia's proprietary drivers.)
The last time I used them, the nVidia drivers exhibited a severe case of Not-Invented-Here syndrome, and they weren't particularly stable.
I really don't know where all these people come from who say "nVidia's drivers just work". I suspect it's just a lack of experience with *actual* stable drivers. The best X driver experience I've had is with free drivers for hardware that's a few generations old. Super stable and everything *really* just works.
I should clarify: I find algebraic notation easier to read, but RPN easier to type. The HP graphing calculators are nice because they display in algebraic notation, but you can enter your equations interactively using RPN. So, as soon as I type "X ENTER Y +", it shows "X+Y". Then, if I type "2 /", it will show me "(X+Y)/2" (actually, it shows it like you would see in a textbook, with "X+Y" on top of "2" with a horizontal line in between them).
I looked on Youtube for some videos of the HP calculators, but they were long and boring. Instead, here's a nice video of an iPhone RPN calculator app. Of course, the HP calculators are much more sophisticated, but that video shows the general idea: You have a stack, and you perform operations on the stack.
However, I still tend to use algebraic notation on a full-blown computer, because I haven't found any good, free RPN-enter interfaces for Linux. dc and rpncalc are a bit of a pain.
Your view shows how ignorant you are of a 3rd world situation.
3rd world?
*whoosh* Search Google for "Verizon math".
For me, it's not so much saving keystrokes as it is minimizing errors and not having to count parentheses. Also, RPN maps better to how I think about a problem than algebraic entry does.
Is that 1.92 cents or 1.92 dollars?
So if I substituted my news sources with, say, the Washington Post, would I be better informed about Darfur? A suppressed report on Ivory Coast toxic waste dumping? Policy laundering during the ACTA negotiations? Iranian protests? SCO v. IBM? Homeopathy? Anything involving science?
My ears are deaf to these arguments as long as the mainstream press continues to do such a terrible job of keeping the public informed.
I think I'll make another donation to Wikileaks
Wait, why would anyone do that?
Blanketing software patents by comparing them to business method patents is comparing apples and oranges
They're both fruits?
It's a pretty obviously-restricting prepositional phrase.
I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but...
People need to safely run software from untrustworthy or marginally trustworthy sources, but the infrastructure isn't there. Anti-virus software is sort of a stop-gap measure, but tests like these are showing that it increasingly can't be relied upon