The problem is the voters are used to the current tax rate, provided by a government that cut taxes too much in wartime and incurred massive debts. They don't concern themselves with what happens when the central bank loses faith in their currency and switches to another one and the recession that follows, all they care about is the government letting them keep more money so they can continue to pay off their own credit card and the minor recession that would follow some tax increase from any part of taxmageddon. America is all about the me, and not about the us.
ugh... his health care solution is a nightmare though (not that Romney will offer anything better - his Massachusetts plan was basically the same). Hopefully you're saying we needed one, which we did. I get a kick out of how Republicans forced him to add tax provisions into the system (to pay for part of it), then chide him for raising taxes. But the 20% profit max is bad for business, and inane parts like this and the provision where life saving drugs cost money but life ending drugs are free? wtf?
Bush Jr also inherited a balanced budget and his tax cuts actually created the deficit, not the financial collapse. The coming but probably going to be avoided at the last second Taxmageddon would raise 8 trillion in taxes and budget cuts - far more than needed to balance the budget. At our current spending rate, our debt-to-GDP will be at 200% by 2037 (only Japan has worse than that right now - they're at 230%, mainly due to disaster recovery).
I blame both Republicans and Democrats equally for the current fiscal state of the country and for the imminent collapse of the dollar - neither side has been fiscally responsible. The world has already lost faith in the dollar, and twice this year has already looked into an alternate currency - the kicker will be if they switch to renminbi currency and the US has to buy yuan with pictures of a communist dictator (Mao) on the front. Makes me feel patriotic just thinking about it. Alan Greenspan's "we can't default because we can just print money" quote? Kick that shit out the window - now we have to buy money with another currency to pay our debt (and depending on how deflated the dollar gets, maybe with hard goods). After that, possibly the worst recession America has ever seen, rivaling the Great Depression.
If you want a history lesson, look up what happened when Britain did the same damn thing with the pound sterling in the 1970s and their long, slow, 10 year recovery from it. It's time to cut up the President's and congresses credit cards.
The plan Ryan has to get us back in the black with a balanced budget will take 10-30 years (10 in Ryan's scenario, 30 by current projections) - that is FAR too late. I suspect the US economy will just start recovering from the first great 21st century depressions by that time.
Marxism is an economic system Fascism is a political system
technically you can have a Fascist Capitalism or Democratic Marxism
Part of the confusion is because politicians often associate themselves with the economic systems they favor - Socialism and Communism are other prime examples of economic systems, not political systems. I think the education system and 1950s and 1960s fear-mongering is mainly to blame - they should have been shouting stop the spread of Fascism, not stop the spread of Communism, but since those two were in lockstep at the time, nobody complained. Socialism or Communism as political systems would be interesting, perhaps hysterical - Socialism would mean each person should take the role they are best at for the benefit of the country (so why bother with elections?). Communism as a political system would be everyone sharing their government role (so basically the same as Democracy as the Greeks in Athens practiced).
I would say that entirely depends - there are "rock star" programmers like John Carmack and, um, those Medal of Honor guys that left Activision (I don't play shooters much, they make me sick) and they make a fortune. Most game programmers don't have a degree and don't make much though. Not that a degree helps - the better ones self educate.
But there are many things you become aware of with higher education. For instance, if you are using Euler angles in a 3D engine, you need to be aware of Gimbal Lock. When writing a 3D engine, you need to be aware of vectors and matrices and how they work. Quaternions are still useful for anything done in main memory as well. If you're using a 3D engine that exists, some of these things aren't as useful, but I've used multivariable differential calculus for geometry extrusion in shaders (specifically a pre-processor shader - that sucker takes weeks to run on GPU and months on CPU and creates a mapping that gives reasonable results in realtime), so math has its place.
There are several state exceptions, like Kansas, but in general, the only way for private citizens to buy automatic weapons is with a license to sell automatic weapons, which is supposedly difficult to get. That said, I know someone with several, but they were all inherited and very old like a Tommy Gun (no drum barrel though, just clips), so another way to own them would be to have a relative that bought them before laws made them illegal.
Private security firms with ex-military (i.e. Blackwater) and Police, including private police forces can obtain them as well.
Its because the FCC head, Julius Genachowski, is a tool and being manipulated by these companies. Julius told attendees at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association trade show that he thinks data caps are "a business model innovation" and that pricing based on usage "could be healthy and beneficial" to consumers.
That said, lets see Price of base plan on Verizon is up, but now includes texting, which was always overpriced and is being replaced by data services that do the same thing. Price of tethering is down, but is now per device and was WAY too high to begin with ($50 I recall - in Europe on the phone I used it was free) Price of data plans is in every way more expensive - I paid $60 for unlimited on two phones before, it is now $60 for 2GB shared between the two phones if I switch now
So this benefits me how? I can now get texting (which I didn't use) for "free" (at a higher voice cost), but my data rate (which I did use) is now exponentially more expensive? Tethering is now per device and always should have been free (especially with metered bandwidth)? As if these leeches didn't suck you dry with that, they now make you pay full price for phone upgrades to keep your existing plan, but still charge the subsidized price for service (in fact, only T-Mobile does not).
Oh, and AT&T is $40 for a GB of data as of Aug 23 - not sure if you can buy smaller amounts, but that is basically $10/250MB.
I have no problem with bandwidth caps or metered base usage either, but this absolutely stinks of monopoly power abuse, especially when you can get unlimited, untethered Clear wimax connections using the SAME 4G LTE TECHNOLOGY for $35-50/month (depending on speed) if it's available? They HAVE to offer unlimited, because they are competing against DSL and Cable, not phone (incidentally, they are owned mostly by Sprint Nextel and cable companies).
They were a collusion to begin with, but people seem to miss that and call it Verizon and not by the joint venture name of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Vodafone (45%) and Verizon (55%) corporations, and its legal name is Cellco Partnership d.b.a. Verizon Wireless (d.b.a=doing business as), but essentially they are two giant telecoms that agreed to work together so they could dominate the bidding wars for best bandwidth and then reap the profits (which IMO is collusion). If you mean the competition is price fixing, I agree with you on AT&T and Verizon Wireless, not sure about others, yet.
That is one argument, but it allows independents not affiliated with any party to vote as well. I live in a semi-open state, where I can vote either for Democrats or Republicans but not both, so I switch parties to vote for the candidate that isn't in office to get the most moderate candidate, which has ALWAYS failed. Usually by a landslide. This year they voted for my anathema, and it is my belief he would have won in a closed election here, too, but thankfully he lost in further primaries. This year the choices for Republican were probably the worst I've ever had to choose from, and picked Perry as the least evil, but not by much (I just agreed with him that Social Security is a Ponzi). He came in one of the last places and dropped out shortly after.
And where did he learn that from? His religious book, the Bible, which explicitly says gays should be stoned to death. Note that it also explicitly says adulterers (pretty much defined as sex between virgin and then any one of them having sex with another person while the other lives) is JUST AS BAD and also calls for death by stoning. Sure Jesus turned the other cheek for an adulteress, but would he do the same for a homosexual? Maybe Jesus thought she was hot and just wanted to bone her (sorry fundies - having a Last Temptation of Christ moment there)...
I like some of their stance, and while I agree with having a strong military, the US is spending WAY too much on the military for a country drowning in debt. I personally think drug and abortion laws should be decided by the states, not the fed, but the fed still needs trafficking and needs to handle cross state abortion issues, which are issues not clearly defined by the Modern Whig Party.
But any centrist party is a good thing as the Republicans and Democrats become more polarized, and the Republicans actively purging moderates. If the Dems decided to do the same thing, a new party is the only option.
Wind Turbines are being fought by hippies because they kill eagles. Within 5 years, I expect the ELA (Eagle Liberation Army) to be formed, and in 25 they are a well known terror group that destroys wind turbines in such numbers that military protection is necessary, making them largely uneconomical. Solar efficiency becomes much better, but only in China because the US government collapses under its "far worse than Greece" debt after the Renminbi becomes the world bank currency and they are no longer able to just print money to pay their debt (seriously, this is happening already - it may be 5 years, but the renminbi needs to be deregulated first). After the US currency collapse, Social Security follows suit, because it also is a big Ponzi waiting to collapse. After getting bailed out by China and a minor revolution that is put down by declaring martial law, and fortifying the rich into enclaves like the Hamptons and abandoning the poor to fend for themselves, the US reverts to feudalism where the rich protect the poor in exchange for services.
Education of the poor utterly fails in America as they become armed rabble frequently shot by troops. Education of the rich continues as normal. The world has a minor recession, but nothing like the horror in the Americas.
That future is entirely preventable, but the US needs to drastically reduce its debt, and soon.
The few Windows game developers I knew back then used WinG even after DirectX came out (FYI, I was mostly a mac developer at the time, but I got pissed at Apple for not continuing mid-priced towers and moved to Windows circa 2003). Even after Microsoft killed it, they feared Microsoft would do the same with the Direct APIs and were hesitant to move to them. I don't think any of them even used DirectX until it hit 8 because prior to 8 it was viewed as a buggier/inferior API, but that also may be due to game cycle time (the indie company I'm referring to had a 3+ year cycle). Anyhow, I'm rambling - my point is only a few studios took the initial plunge, and when they did it was sometimes half-baked. For instance, Carmack himself thought Direct3D was a disaster until 7 or 8.
As for games, I see it different - there is a total lack of Linux exclusive or OpenGL exclusive games in the market (except a few tied to a platform like Apple or PS3). If you get a few of those, even if they eventually get ported to Windows later, you can build momentum for a platform. Until that happens, gamers will not feel a need to move. This is exactly how Windows became dominant in the first place, and why iPad/iPhone was getting games first and then they are ported to Android and Apple was ahead in the market (it has since sorta reversed, but Apple did this once before with the Apple ][ so we should expect that by now).
Remember, you're talking about alpha drivers and also that this test is entirely rigged in favor of Direct3D down to the hardware - the GeForce GTX 680 is optimized for DirectX (the OpenGL optimized cards are generally about a year behind and under the Quadro brand). The processor and memory are probably intentionally set high to prevent processor and memory bound performance metrics. That means only the OS/driver and the card should impact performance.
OpenGL runs in a surface (I believe that is the terminology used for a driver independent window) on Windows since Vista, so it should work in Windowed mode, but will have a performance hit. WinRT supports C++, so I don't see any reason software-wise for not being able to create OpenGL inside Metro apps, but expect a performance hit up to about 20% for context switching and compositing with DirectX based windows (as it is today).
Apparently you haven't followed the changes in OpenGL 3 and 4, which made major changes to how it works like eliminating the fixed function pipeline. Probably the best change was ditching the shader model used in 2.0 for one that works a lot more like HLSL and Cg (which is massively more flexible, but more work to use).
When I used DirectX, it seemed largely the same as OpenGL until DX9, which was a huge improvement over OpenGL. Now I'm not so sure again, but I only really have time to dabble in both.
To be more specific, Apple controls all of their OpenGL implementation, both hardware and software (like Microsoft did before switching to DirectX), so Valve can't just write bugs against nVidia - they need to write bugs against Apple. The thing that always bugged me about Apple's implementation is that they only update it with OS releases. I've never seen them patch an OpenGL bug in a released version (though to be honest, I am at least 5 years separated from OS X - if they've changed their tune, hooray for them). I have used hardware bypasses similar to how OpenGL is done on Windows, but that is a kludge with a slight performance hit (function pointers).
In other words, it is worse than not a lot Valve can do about it - there's essentially nothing they can do about it except write a bug and wait until Apple's next OS release.
true, but for years AMD/ATI seemed to be actively trying to kill it by not adding new extensions that were not developed in house (with the ATI extension). They were missing a few ARBs and pretty much all EXTs, and I personally feel the 3.0 spec came out when it did to force AMD/ATI to update. Shortly after that they announced that they would support all EXTs in the future, like nVidia (I have not checked to see if they kept their word on that, but OpenGL has been updating more frequently, so it may not matter - they're at 4.1).
though he didn't directly harass him - it was re-tweeted by a swim team member.
And if you think this couldn't happen in America, well it can - as long as the person posted under a pseudonym or anonymously and can be tracked down (since laws exist for cyberbullying that can land you in jail for 5 years, and you can tack on 2 more for being annoying in a provision carried over from the communications decency act ).
Why does the average American have over $8000 in credit card debt? Why does the government spend more money than it takes in to the point where the world is looking into alternate currencies for the central bank, almost guaranteeing the US will default on its debt when it can no longer just print money to pay them? Why do people risk everything in Vegas (or, hell, go to Vegas at all)? Why do my poor friends live on welfare and still scrape money together to buy lottery tickets every week (and seriously expect to win)?
I think blind optimism (aka wild hope) is an epidemic in America.
never be supported? From that link is project Bumblebee, which is working on supporting it...
I was going to buy one of those, but when Sandy Bridge was recalled I couldn't find one that met my GPU and display needs (I'm a dev - if I don't have at least 1920x1080 or 2-3 monitors I have trouble operating, and I need a good GPU because my work and non-work projects both use it)
I agree and disagree with some of this (plenty of counterpoint in this thread), but it is out of date
Total obligation was $62 trillion until Obamacare. The federal expansion of medicare and medicaid just tacked on $17 trillion (and the tax the rich provision in it doesn't come close to covering cost), which will be owed before the states take over, so it likely will be tacked on to national debt. Also I've seen it up 2-3 trillion before Obamacare to around 65 trillion, so debt owed to children is more like 82-83 trillion. TOTAL tax revenue for 2011 was under 2.7 trillion. If every cent of that went to our obligation, it would take over 30 years to pay, but with only about 12% of that being flexible (about 320 billion - most of it would mean tossing out government pensions, which you know won't happen) we're looking at 250+ years, or longer than America has existed.
That said, my prediction: the rich will continue to get richer and the poor poorer. America's economy will collapse with 50%+ unemployment and the rich will build protective fortresses as they are threatened more and more by the lower classes. When Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid become insolvent, riots ensue because the poor are left with nothing. Cities burn. The rich move and fortify enclaves like the Hamptons, building walls around their fortresses. In the ensuing anarchy, the rich fortress owners will offer shelter, food, and protection if poor agree to work the land for food and give half of it to their owners. Capitalism degenerates into Feudalism. That is the happy version...
And a Democrat that believes in taking from the rich and giving to the poor, even if those poor are undeserving and the rich worked their butt off to get there. Even the health care provision includes taxing the rich, and this is the wrong way to solve the problem (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/45-signs-that-america-will-soon-be-a-nation-with-a-very-tiny-elite-and-the-rest-of-us-will-be-poor - somewhat near the end is an explanation of why taxing the rich is not the solution).
IMO, neither party should even be considered for office, but the other parties are too radical or too small. Even the Libertarians (represented in 45 states, the largest third party) only have, at best, mustered 1.1% of the vote.
If they still include a line-in jack, that alone might be worth a mac for recording to avoid the frustrations I've had. I've been trying to record on my laptop and, while I can record directly through a hardware for instruments like electric guitar and passive mics, I need phantom power for my condenser mics and therefore have to send them through my mixing console. Then I hit the problem. Instrument and Microphone pickups are too low of line-level. Headphone and Speaker out are too high of line-level.
Yes, I know the solution is a very simple circuit, but I haven't found anything pre-built, so I need to do something I haven't done since college - build it myself. I may build a slightly more complex version with a -10dBu (consumer audio) and +4dBu (pro audio) because my mixing board supports either. My main worry is that it will lose fidelity and sound like crap.
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The problem is the voters are used to the current tax rate, provided by a government that cut taxes too much in wartime and incurred massive debts. They don't concern themselves with what happens when the central bank loses faith in their currency and switches to another one and the recession that follows, all they care about is the government letting them keep more money so they can continue to pay off their own credit card and the minor recession that would follow some tax increase from any part of taxmageddon. America is all about the me, and not about the us.
ugh... his health care solution is a nightmare though (not that Romney will offer anything better - his Massachusetts plan was basically the same). Hopefully you're saying we needed one, which we did. I get a kick out of how Republicans forced him to add tax provisions into the system (to pay for part of it), then chide him for raising taxes. But the 20% profit max is bad for business, and inane parts like this and the provision where life saving drugs cost money but life ending drugs are free? wtf?
Here's a wonderful chart of Obamacare
Bush Jr also inherited a balanced budget and his tax cuts actually created the deficit, not the financial collapse. The coming but probably going to be avoided at the last second Taxmageddon would raise 8 trillion in taxes and budget cuts - far more than needed to balance the budget. At our current spending rate, our debt-to-GDP will be at 200% by 2037 (only Japan has worse than that right now - they're at 230%, mainly due to disaster recovery).
I blame both Republicans and Democrats equally for the current fiscal state of the country and for the imminent collapse of the dollar - neither side has been fiscally responsible. The world has already lost faith in the dollar, and twice this year has already looked into an alternate currency - the kicker will be if they switch to renminbi currency and the US has to buy yuan with pictures of a communist dictator (Mao) on the front. Makes me feel patriotic just thinking about it. Alan Greenspan's "we can't default because we can just print money" quote? Kick that shit out the window - now we have to buy money with another currency to pay our debt (and depending on how deflated the dollar gets, maybe with hard goods). After that, possibly the worst recession America has ever seen, rivaling the Great Depression.
If you want a history lesson, look up what happened when Britain did the same damn thing with the pound sterling in the 1970s and their long, slow, 10 year recovery from it. It's time to cut up the President's and congresses credit cards.
The plan Ryan has to get us back in the black with a balanced budget will take 10-30 years (10 in Ryan's scenario, 30 by current projections) - that is FAR too late. I suspect the US economy will just start recovering from the first great 21st century depressions by that time.
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Marxism is an economic system
Fascism is a political system
technically you can have a Fascist Capitalism or Democratic Marxism
Part of the confusion is because politicians often associate themselves with the economic systems they favor - Socialism and Communism are other prime examples of economic systems, not political systems. I think the education system and 1950s and 1960s fear-mongering is mainly to blame - they should have been shouting stop the spread of Fascism, not stop the spread of Communism, but since those two were in lockstep at the time, nobody complained. Socialism or Communism as political systems would be interesting, perhaps hysterical - Socialism would mean each person should take the role they are best at for the benefit of the country (so why bother with elections?). Communism as a political system would be everyone sharing their government role (so basically the same as Democracy as the Greeks in Athens practiced).
Anyhow, just sayin'.
I would say that entirely depends - there are "rock star" programmers like John Carmack and, um, those Medal of Honor guys that left Activision (I don't play shooters much, they make me sick) and they make a fortune. Most game programmers don't have a degree and don't make much though. Not that a degree helps - the better ones self educate.
But there are many things you become aware of with higher education. For instance, if you are using Euler angles in a 3D engine, you need to be aware of Gimbal Lock. When writing a 3D engine, you need to be aware of vectors and matrices and how they work. Quaternions are still useful for anything done in main memory as well. If you're using a 3D engine that exists, some of these things aren't as useful, but I've used multivariable differential calculus for geometry extrusion in shaders (specifically a pre-processor shader - that sucker takes weeks to run on GPU and months on CPU and creates a mapping that gives reasonable results in realtime), so math has its place.
There are several state exceptions, like Kansas, but in general, the only way for private citizens to buy automatic weapons is with a license to sell automatic weapons, which is supposedly difficult to get. That said, I know someone with several, but they were all inherited and very old like a Tommy Gun (no drum barrel though, just clips), so another way to own them would be to have a relative that bought them before laws made them illegal.
Private security firms with ex-military (i.e. Blackwater) and Police, including private police forces can obtain them as well.
Its because the FCC head, Julius Genachowski, is a tool and being manipulated by these companies. Julius told attendees at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association trade show that he thinks data caps are "a business model innovation" and that pricing based on usage "could be healthy and beneficial" to consumers.
That said, lets see
Price of base plan on Verizon is up, but now includes texting, which was always overpriced and is being replaced by data services that do the same thing.
Price of tethering is down, but is now per device and was WAY too high to begin with ($50 I recall - in Europe on the phone I used it was free)
Price of data plans is in every way more expensive - I paid $60 for unlimited on two phones before, it is now $60 for 2GB shared between the two phones if I switch now
So this benefits me how? I can now get texting (which I didn't use) for "free" (at a higher voice cost), but my data rate (which I did use) is now exponentially more expensive? Tethering is now per device and always should have been free (especially with metered bandwidth)? As if these leeches didn't suck you dry with that, they now make you pay full price for phone upgrades to keep your existing plan, but still charge the subsidized price for service (in fact, only T-Mobile does not).
Oh, and AT&T is $40 for a GB of data as of Aug 23 - not sure if you can buy smaller amounts, but that is basically $10/250MB.
I have no problem with bandwidth caps or metered base usage either, but this absolutely stinks of monopoly power abuse, especially when you can get unlimited, untethered Clear wimax connections using the SAME 4G LTE TECHNOLOGY for $35-50/month (depending on speed) if it's available? They HAVE to offer unlimited, because they are competing against DSL and Cable, not phone (incidentally, they are owned mostly by Sprint Nextel and cable companies).
They were a collusion to begin with, but people seem to miss that and call it Verizon and not by the joint venture name of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Vodafone (45%) and Verizon (55%) corporations, and its legal name is Cellco Partnership d.b.a. Verizon Wireless (d.b.a=doing business as), but essentially they are two giant telecoms that agreed to work together so they could dominate the bidding wars for best bandwidth and then reap the profits (which IMO is collusion). If you mean the competition is price fixing, I agree with you on AT&T and Verizon Wireless, not sure about others, yet.
I'd be more worried about the crazies...
get the moonshine and the shotgun Jeb! We iz huntin' Dems tonight!
That is one argument, but it allows independents not affiliated with any party to vote as well. I live in a semi-open state, where I can vote either for Democrats or Republicans but not both, so I switch parties to vote for the candidate that isn't in office to get the most moderate candidate, which has ALWAYS failed. Usually by a landslide. This year they voted for my anathema, and it is my belief he would have won in a closed election here, too, but thankfully he lost in further primaries. This year the choices for Republican were probably the worst I've ever had to choose from, and picked Perry as the least evil, but not by much (I just agreed with him that Social Security is a Ponzi). He came in one of the last places and dropped out shortly after.
And where did he learn that from? His religious book, the Bible, which explicitly says gays should be stoned to death. Note that it also explicitly says adulterers (pretty much defined as sex between virgin and then any one of them having sex with another person while the other lives) is JUST AS BAD and also calls for death by stoning. Sure Jesus turned the other cheek for an adulteress, but would he do the same for a homosexual? Maybe Jesus thought she was hot and just wanted to bone her (sorry fundies - having a Last Temptation of Christ moment there)...
I like some of their stance, and while I agree with having a strong military, the US is spending WAY too much on the military for a country drowning in debt. I personally think drug and abortion laws should be decided by the states, not the fed, but the fed still needs trafficking and needs to handle cross state abortion issues, which are issues not clearly defined by the Modern Whig Party.
But any centrist party is a good thing as the Republicans and Democrats become more polarized, and the Republicans actively purging moderates. If the Dems decided to do the same thing, a new party is the only option.
Wind Turbines are being fought by hippies because they kill eagles. Within 5 years, I expect the ELA (Eagle Liberation Army) to be formed, and in 25 they are a well known terror group that destroys wind turbines in such numbers that military protection is necessary, making them largely uneconomical. Solar efficiency becomes much better, but only in China because the US government collapses under its "far worse than Greece" debt after the Renminbi becomes the world bank currency and they are no longer able to just print money to pay their debt (seriously, this is happening already - it may be 5 years, but the renminbi needs to be deregulated first). After the US currency collapse, Social Security follows suit, because it also is a big Ponzi waiting to collapse. After getting bailed out by China and a minor revolution that is put down by declaring martial law, and fortifying the rich into enclaves like the Hamptons and abandoning the poor to fend for themselves, the US reverts to feudalism where the rich protect the poor in exchange for services.
Education of the poor utterly fails in America as they become armed rabble frequently shot by troops. Education of the rich continues as normal. The world has a minor recession, but nothing like the horror in the Americas.
That future is entirely preventable, but the US needs to drastically reduce its debt, and soon.
The few Windows game developers I knew back then used WinG even after DirectX came out (FYI, I was mostly a mac developer at the time, but I got pissed at Apple for not continuing mid-priced towers and moved to Windows circa 2003). Even after Microsoft killed it, they feared Microsoft would do the same with the Direct APIs and were hesitant to move to them. I don't think any of them even used DirectX until it hit 8 because prior to 8 it was viewed as a buggier/inferior API, but that also may be due to game cycle time (the indie company I'm referring to had a 3+ year cycle). Anyhow, I'm rambling - my point is only a few studios took the initial plunge, and when they did it was sometimes half-baked. For instance, Carmack himself thought Direct3D was a disaster until 7 or 8.
As for games, I see it different - there is a total lack of Linux exclusive or OpenGL exclusive games in the market (except a few tied to a platform like Apple or PS3). If you get a few of those, even if they eventually get ported to Windows later, you can build momentum for a platform. Until that happens, gamers will not feel a need to move. This is exactly how Windows became dominant in the first place, and why iPad/iPhone was getting games first and then they are ported to Android and Apple was ahead in the market (it has since sorta reversed, but Apple did this once before with the Apple ][ so we should expect that by now).
Remember, you're talking about alpha drivers and also that this test is entirely rigged in favor of Direct3D down to the hardware - the GeForce GTX 680 is optimized for DirectX (the OpenGL optimized cards are generally about a year behind and under the Quadro brand). The processor and memory are probably intentionally set high to prevent processor and memory bound performance metrics. That means only the OS/driver and the card should impact performance.
OpenGL runs in a surface (I believe that is the terminology used for a driver independent window) on Windows since Vista, so it should work in Windowed mode, but will have a performance hit. WinRT supports C++, so I don't see any reason software-wise for not being able to create OpenGL inside Metro apps, but expect a performance hit up to about 20% for context switching and compositing with DirectX based windows (as it is today).
Apparently you haven't followed the changes in OpenGL 3 and 4, which made major changes to how it works like eliminating the fixed function pipeline. Probably the best change was ditching the shader model used in 2.0 for one that works a lot more like HLSL and Cg (which is massively more flexible, but more work to use).
When I used DirectX, it seemed largely the same as OpenGL until DX9, which was a huge improvement over OpenGL. Now I'm not so sure again, but I only really have time to dabble in both.
To be more specific, Apple controls all of their OpenGL implementation, both hardware and software (like Microsoft did before switching to DirectX), so Valve can't just write bugs against nVidia - they need to write bugs against Apple. The thing that always bugged me about Apple's implementation is that they only update it with OS releases. I've never seen them patch an OpenGL bug in a released version (though to be honest, I am at least 5 years separated from OS X - if they've changed their tune, hooray for them). I have used hardware bypasses similar to how OpenGL is done on Windows, but that is a kludge with a slight performance hit (function pointers).
In other words, it is worse than not a lot Valve can do about it - there's essentially nothing they can do about it except write a bug and wait until Apple's next OS release.
true, but for years AMD/ATI seemed to be actively trying to kill it by not adding new extensions that were not developed in house (with the ATI extension). They were missing a few ARBs and pretty much all EXTs, and I personally feel the 3.0 spec came out when it did to force AMD/ATI to update. Shortly after that they announced that they would support all EXTs in the future, like nVidia (I have not checked to see if they kept their word on that, but OpenGL has been updating more frequently, so it may not matter - they're at 4.1).
though he didn't directly harass him - it was re-tweeted by a swim team member.
And if you think this couldn't happen in America, well it can - as long as the person posted under a pseudonym or anonymously and can be tracked down (since laws exist for cyberbullying that can land you in jail for 5 years, and you can tack on 2 more for being annoying in a provision carried over from the communications decency act ).
Why does the average American have over $8000 in credit card debt? Why does the government spend more money than it takes in to the point where the world is looking into alternate currencies for the central bank, almost guaranteeing the US will default on its debt when it can no longer just print money to pay them? Why do people risk everything in Vegas (or, hell, go to Vegas at all)? Why do my poor friends live on welfare and still scrape money together to buy lottery tickets every week (and seriously expect to win)?
I think blind optimism (aka wild hope) is an epidemic in America.
never be supported? From that link is project Bumblebee, which is working on supporting it...
I was going to buy one of those, but when Sandy Bridge was recalled I couldn't find one that met my GPU and display needs (I'm a dev - if I don't have at least 1920x1080 or 2-3 monitors I have trouble operating, and I need a good GPU because my work and non-work projects both use it)
I agree and disagree with some of this (plenty of counterpoint in this thread), but it is out of date
Total obligation was $62 trillion until Obamacare. The federal expansion of medicare and medicaid just tacked on $17 trillion (and the tax the rich provision in it doesn't come close to covering cost), which will be owed before the states take over, so it likely will be tacked on to national debt. Also I've seen it up 2-3 trillion before Obamacare to around 65 trillion, so debt owed to children is more like 82-83 trillion. TOTAL tax revenue for 2011 was under 2.7 trillion. If every cent of that went to our obligation, it would take over 30 years to pay, but with only about 12% of that being flexible (about 320 billion - most of it would mean tossing out government pensions, which you know won't happen) we're looking at 250+ years, or longer than America has existed.
That said, my prediction: the rich will continue to get richer and the poor poorer. America's economy will collapse with 50%+ unemployment and the rich will build protective fortresses as they are threatened more and more by the lower classes. When Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid become insolvent, riots ensue because the poor are left with nothing. Cities burn. The rich move and fortify enclaves like the Hamptons, building walls around their fortresses. In the ensuing anarchy, the rich fortress owners will offer shelter, food, and protection if poor agree to work the land for food and give half of it to their owners. Capitalism degenerates into Feudalism. That is the happy version...
And a Democrat that believes in taking from the rich and giving to the poor, even if those poor are undeserving and the rich worked their butt off to get there. Even the health care provision includes taxing the rich, and this is the wrong way to solve the problem (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/45-signs-that-america-will-soon-be-a-nation-with-a-very-tiny-elite-and-the-rest-of-us-will-be-poor - somewhat near the end is an explanation of why taxing the rich is not the solution).
IMO, neither party should even be considered for office, but the other parties are too radical or too small. Even the Libertarians (represented in 45 states, the largest third party) only have, at best, mustered 1.1% of the vote.
If they still include a line-in jack, that alone might be worth a mac for recording to avoid the frustrations I've had. I've been trying to record on my laptop and, while I can record directly through a hardware for instruments like electric guitar and passive mics, I need phantom power for my condenser mics and therefore have to send them through my mixing console. Then I hit the problem. Instrument and Microphone pickups are too low of line-level. Headphone and Speaker out are too high of line-level.
Yes, I know the solution is a very simple circuit, but I haven't found anything pre-built, so I need to do something I haven't done since college - build it myself. I may build a slightly more complex version with a -10dBu (consumer audio) and +4dBu (pro audio) because my mixing board supports either. My main worry is that it will lose fidelity and sound like crap.