Doesn't seem that hard to me... one ray per pixel, just do 1000 pixels at once. Unless by "data dependencies" you mean simulating actual photons bouncing around...
He's been robbed of pretty much his entire life. Sounds like identity theft to me.
The thing where someone else stole his credit card number and bought things using it - I agree with you there though. Those were just common fraudsters.
Just wondering, what other app are you running that made you install XP? Everything you listed there (except Diablo, but that didn't work anyway) would've run on the OS it already had installed.
I've had a bunch of sound cards with weird glitches like that. IIRC, there's an Ensoniq one where the front and back outputs had _different_ sample rates. Right now I'm using an Aureal card which refuses to output 4 channels at all.
That car analogy doesn't work anyway. For the first few years unleaded cars were just leaded cars with engine upgrades, and could handle both just fine.
If you want a better analogy try seatbelts: They were added in newer cars to stop drivers having so many fatal crashes, and eventually it was made illegal not to use them. Crash-related deaths are just as common, if not more, and you still get gouged on the insurance if you drive a flashy car, but the important point is that the car maker gets to shift some of the blame to other people which prevents it getting sued and drives up its profits.
However, anyone willing to bet on the Linux 3D performance on Radeon? I'm not... After watching them release the full 3D hardware documentation for half of the radeon line (and seeing a working glxgears on a X1*00 days later), and knowing that's only the beginning of it, I would.
Right, now that you've demonstrated an excessively verbose knowledge of the subject, demonstrate the usefulness of this impure aluminium as a fuel storage method.
I've got enough spare parts lying around to actually try that wireless thing. The impossible part is finding someone else living in a 100ft radius technically competent enough and willing to do it too...
Yeah, I used to hate seeing that black Safe Mode prompt every few days with no explanation whatsoever. Luckily it decided to stop booting even into Safe Mode and as a result I no longer have to deal with a huge pain in the ass.
I was going to outright say that people call him an idiot because he _is_ one, but I think you said it better. Seriously, non-free things are better because... they come with a hugely inflated price tag? Maybe he should go buy WinZix...
i915 works fine for me; runs compiz and plays video without blinking. It's a bit lacking in other areas... but PCs aren't supposed to be game machines now, are they?
That's what they already do, in desktop PC towers anyway. Except for the expansion card slots and disks... maybe we'll see "CTX" boards starting to appear soon.
Finally, why do you think PDF = lean and mean? Acrobat proves that a PDF reader can get hideously bloated. Ok, just as a quick demonstration -
Opening a 2MB HTML file, waiting for the browser to unfreeze so it'll respond to the exit button: ~ $ time konqueror downloads/html5.html
real 1m14.716s user 1m4.970s sys 0m0.310s
Opening a 3MB, ~250 page PDF file, holding page down so it's forced to load every page, then closing it once it's at the bottom and showing the page contents: ~ $ time kpdf downloads/R5xx_Acceleration_v1.2.pdf
real 0m35.181s user 0m11.132s sys 0m1.345s
Just because Adobe makes buggy, slow, bloated, shitty software doesn't mean the format itself is inherently bad.
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Doesn't seem that hard to me... one ray per pixel, just do 1000 pixels at once. Unless by "data dependencies" you mean simulating actual photons bouncing around...
He's been robbed of pretty much his entire life. Sounds like identity theft to me.
The thing where someone else stole his credit card number and bought things using it - I agree with you there though. Those were just common fraudsters.
In a world of closed source glass-clad skyscrapers, open source is the concrete and steel. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
Just wondering, what other app are you running that made you install XP? Everything you listed there (except Diablo, but that didn't work anyway) would've run on the OS it already had installed.
This has nothing to do with the driver. The issue is that you're boiling the GPU for three days straight and expecting it not to malfunction.
I've had a bunch of sound cards with weird glitches like that. IIRC, there's an Ensoniq one where the front and back outputs had _different_ sample rates. Right now I'm using an Aureal card which refuses to output 4 channels at all.
If someone came to me and offered me a free seat on a commercial suborbital spacecraft departing next week, I'd probably think the same as him.
That car analogy doesn't work anyway. For the first few years unleaded cars were just leaded cars with engine upgrades, and could handle both just fine.
If you want a better analogy try seatbelts: They were added in newer cars to stop drivers having so many fatal crashes, and eventually it was made illegal not to use them. Crash-related deaths are just as common, if not more, and you still get gouged on the insurance if you drive a flashy car, but the important point is that the car maker gets to shift some of the blame to other people which prevents it getting sued and drives up its profits.
Maybe you should ask yourself why running screensavers for 60 hours straight is a mission-critical function in the first place.
Right, now that you've demonstrated an excessively verbose knowledge of the subject, demonstrate the usefulness of this impure aluminium as a fuel storage method.
The last time I found an SQL injection hole I went and rewrote everything to use prepared statements.
s/salt shaker/envelope/g
s/restaurant/post office/
Doesn't sound so far-fetched now, does it?
I've got enough spare parts lying around to actually try that wireless thing. The impossible part is finding someone else living in a 100ft radius technically competent enough and willing to do it too...
Yep, I remember those the last time this exact same story was posted on /. over a year ago.
I'd be happy if _any_ part of my camera's shots were in focus...
I didn't see anything in the above rules about size, or more specifically, what happens if someone enters a sailboat on wheels into the competition.
Yeah, I used to hate seeing that black Safe Mode prompt every few days with no explanation whatsoever. Luckily it decided to stop booting even into Safe Mode and as a result I no longer have to deal with a huge pain in the ass.
Ever tried to do anything productive using only a windows command line? Go try it, right now, and see how stupid your sarcastic remark sounds.
I was going to outright say that people call him an idiot because he _is_ one, but I think you said it better.
Seriously, non-free things are better because... they come with a hugely inflated price tag? Maybe he should go buy WinZix...
I think it's about time the EU's antitrust group stop hounding the hell out of Microsoft and started taking a look at these people...
Surely they must be doing something illegal here.
i915 works fine for me; runs compiz and plays video without blinking. It's a bit lacking in other areas... but PCs aren't supposed to be game machines now, are they?
Why bother going to that kind of effort? Just run the same program on a bunch of different computers and compare the output.
That's what they already do, in desktop PC towers anyway. Except for the expansion card slots and disks... maybe we'll see "CTX" boards starting to appear soon.
Opening a 2MB HTML file, waiting for the browser to unfreeze so it'll respond to the exit button:
~ $ time konqueror downloads/html5.html
real 1m14.716s
user 1m4.970s
sys 0m0.310s
Opening a 3MB, ~250 page PDF file, holding page down so it's forced to load every page, then closing it once it's at the bottom and showing the page contents:
~ $ time kpdf downloads/R5xx_Acceleration_v1.2.pdf
real 0m35.181s
user 0m11.132s
sys 0m1.345s
Just because Adobe makes buggy, slow, bloated, shitty software doesn't mean the format itself is inherently bad.
When is someone going to write a book on how to make good websites?