I'm tempted to upload photos of S&M to the relevant articles now, since he seems to think they're always okay to speedy-delete, even when they're not sexual. From the link:
"Content which would trigger for the uploader or anyone else the record keeping requirements of USC 2257 can be speedy deleted. This refers to photographs and film - all other artistic media is excluded from this requirement, unless derivative of one of those - of actual or simulated acts of... 4. Sadistic or masochistic abuse."
I might not be a leather fan, but that doesn't make it okay to remove this kind of stuff.
(And before you say that this only applies to WMF, not WP, keep in mind that they are the same entity! It won't be long before this policy trickles over into the various language WPs.)
At that point, you're just fishing. What good does it do to test the entire town until you've found the most likely culprit, with an error rate of less than %00.001, if the actual culprit is two states over?
Sexual response is conditionable. That's the entire basis of a fetish. As an example, let's say a young woman is told, repeatedly, over the course of her adolescence, that sex is shameful and embarrassing. She should be highly embarrassed whenever she thinks about anything sexual. She hears the word, "penis," and is mortified and ashamed. Now, since she can't separate the ideas of shame and sex, shame becomes sexy. When she gets embarrassed, she also gets aroused.
It's very difficult to find people that are pure evil. One memorable conversation a few nights ago revealed that Pat Robertson, for all his horrible business dealings and grotesque perversions of Christianity, is not completely evil: He is environmentally conscious and was one of a handful of demagogues to appear on a series of commercials imploring the public to unite to preserve the planet's health.
Sure, he's still 99% evil, but not 100%. Jobs isn't even 99% in my book.
Actually, "criticizing" is the original spelling. It may be spelled with "s" over on the other side of the pond, but in this particular case, it is the Brits who have experienced a corruption in the language.
Just pointing out that languages change over time. No need to get all knotted up over the natural evolution of dialects.
We use a bullpen here at OSUOSL. Works just fine. No tables, though, just a fairly large cubicle with all of us facing outwards. I'd post photos if I had any.
AMD used to sell three-core Phenoms. Not for any evil nVidia market segmentation reasons, but because they found that the first couple runs of quad-core Phenoms had a fairly high rate of having one bad core. (It was always the third core, IIRC, due to a manufacturing inefficiency.) So they decided to sell them with that bad core blocked off as a triple-core processor, priced accordingly.
It's true that some companies artificially block off processing power for some reason, but AMD hasn't been one of those companies, and I'd really recommend against doing this.
Sure, but not for Google. This is my second year participating, and I'm again attached to organizations that don't directly or indirectly benefit Google. They've gotten the Melange codebase as a result of several years of GSoC; I'd think that if they wanted to commission that particular chunk of code, or hire the students responsible for it, they could have spent a lot less than the millions of dollars annually invested in the community.
It's also about command space. Say you have 64k per command buffer, and flushes are ungodly expensive. Now say that immediate-mode verts need to get placed directly in the command buffer, and VBO renders cost roughly 50 dwords per 16m verts. A wise maths person might conjecture that the maximum number of verts one might expect to submit quickly in immediate mode is about 10, yes?
You're entirely right. That's why they fund several thousand students worldwide to join open-source projects and contribute code to those projects every summer, even if the projects in question don't directly benefit Google.
Hm. My boss and roommate have iPhones, but everybody else around me (other roommate, other bosses, co-workers, parents, siblings) have Droids, Moments, G1s, Backflips, Nexus Ones (Nexi One?), etc., and not all of them are open-source savvy.
My mother, in particular, got a Droid after careful consideration of other phones, including the Storm and the iPhone. After a week with it, my father got so jealous, he switched carriers and got one for himself!
Quit it with the FUD. nVidia has given an unofficial agreement that they won't interfere with nouveau, and now that most of the code is kernel-side, there are some quality legal teams ready to defend the code if necessary.
*Your* radio station, maybe. I am fortunate enough to live in Eugene, OR, and the only radio station that plays Pink Floyd typically plays large snippets only. Of course, the payola people in charge don't like it, so you usually only hear it later at night, but there's nothing better than driving at night and having your regular shitfest of Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace, interrupted by a quarter of The Wall.
"Competent" isn't the right phrase, I think. Most of the amateurs, like myself, are students, and we've insisted on staying in school. Guys like Peter Hutterer and Jerome Glisse did get snapped up by RH right out of school, but there was a courting period there of a couple years during which Canonical definitely could have stepped in.
You do have a good point, though. There's definitely a bit of brain drain, and finding people willing to work on X is rather trying.:3
Binary drivers aren't a fact of life for chipsets not supported by them. Six-year-old cards, sure. Eight-year-old cards, maybe not. AMD/ATI recently decided to drop support for r500 and older (anything older than Radeon HD 2000) from their Linux binary driver, and deferred completely to the open-source team. nVidia doesn't support their entire lineup, either; I'm told that for stuff like TNT2 and the first GeForces, the nouveau project's drivers are beating the crap out of the ancient legacy nvidia blobs.
Ubuntu is easily the quietest of the large distros when it comes to talking with driver upstreams. Really, his response, to me, translates to, "We'll let Redhat and Novell continue to front the cost of paying developers to write graphics drivers, while dragging our feet at adopting new upstream code." Frustrating.
Other way around, really. Apple needs MS so they can look hip and cool in comparison; MS doesn't really care about Apple as long as Apple hardware runs MS software.
Go to concerts. I don't care if people pirate my music, and I'm actually really glad that they take advantage of the legal, free downloads that supplant the CDs I sell. In my opinion, it's all worthless compared to the experience of live music.
I stopped buying CDs; I see no reason to require other people to buy my CDs either.
I internally rationalized with the idea that it could be e.g. ununoctium oxide, some theoretical super-heavy ore that got nicknamed "unobtainium" as a pun due to the native resistance to mining operations.
1) C. You should also be familiar with compiler theory, data structures, bus layouts, and all the various arcane weirdness around arches, especially x86.
2) Nothing special. Most of the programs we use for testing are games, since they have the best stress tests and because we target real use-cases. The exception is piglit, which is a conformance test.
3) The code. AMD and Intel have released some docs, but frankly, you will need to read the code.
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I'm tempted to upload photos of S&M to the relevant articles now, since he seems to think they're always okay to speedy-delete, even when they're not sexual. From the link:
"Content which would trigger for the uploader or anyone else the record keeping requirements of USC 2257 can be speedy deleted. This refers to photographs and film - all other artistic media is excluded from this requirement, unless derivative of one of those - of actual or simulated acts of... 4. Sadistic or masochistic abuse."
I might not be a leather fan, but that doesn't make it okay to remove this kind of stuff.
(And before you say that this only applies to WMF, not WP, keep in mind that they are the same entity! It won't be long before this policy trickles over into the various language WPs.)
At that point, you're just fishing. What good does it do to test the entire town until you've found the most likely culprit, with an error rate of less than %00.001, if the actual culprit is two states over?
I'm sure I'm going to lose karma for this...
Sexual response is conditionable. That's the entire basis of a fetish. As an example, let's say a young woman is told, repeatedly, over the course of her adolescence, that sex is shameful and embarrassing. She should be highly embarrassed whenever she thinks about anything sexual. She hears the word, "penis," and is mortified and ashamed. Now, since she can't separate the ideas of shame and sex, shame becomes sexy. When she gets embarrassed, she also gets aroused.
It's very difficult to find people that are pure evil. One memorable conversation a few nights ago revealed that Pat Robertson, for all his horrible business dealings and grotesque perversions of Christianity, is not completely evil: He is environmentally conscious and was one of a handful of demagogues to appear on a series of commercials imploring the public to unite to preserve the planet's health.
Sure, he's still 99% evil, but not 100%. Jobs isn't even 99% in my book.
Actually, "criticizing" is the original spelling. It may be spelled with "s" over on the other side of the pond, but in this particular case, it is the Brits who have experienced a corruption in the language.
Just pointing out that languages change over time. No need to get all knotted up over the natural evolution of dialects.
We use a bullpen here at OSUOSL. Works just fine. No tables, though, just a fairly large cubicle with all of us facing outwards. I'd post photos if I had any.
AMD used to sell three-core Phenoms. Not for any evil nVidia market segmentation reasons, but because they found that the first couple runs of quad-core Phenoms had a fairly high rate of having one bad core. (It was always the third core, IIRC, due to a manufacturing inefficiency.) So they decided to sell them with that bad core blocked off as a triple-core processor, priced accordingly.
It's true that some companies artificially block off processing power for some reason, but AMD hasn't been one of those companies, and I'd really recommend against doing this.
Sure, but not for Google. This is my second year participating, and I'm again attached to organizations that don't directly or indirectly benefit Google. They've gotten the Melange codebase as a result of several years of GSoC; I'd think that if they wanted to commission that particular chunk of code, or hire the students responsible for it, they could have spent a lot less than the millions of dollars annually invested in the community.
But whatever. :3
It's also about command space. Say you have 64k per command buffer, and flushes are ungodly expensive. Now say that immediate-mode verts need to get placed directly in the command buffer, and VBO renders cost roughly 50 dwords per 16m verts. A wise maths person might conjecture that the maximum number of verts one might expect to submit quickly in immediate mode is about 10, yes?
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/gallium/drivers/r300/r300_render.c#n141
You're entirely right. That's why they fund several thousand students worldwide to join open-source projects and contribute code to those projects every summer, even if the projects in question don't directly benefit Google.
Hm. My boss and roommate have iPhones, but everybody else around me (other roommate, other bosses, co-workers, parents, siblings) have Droids, Moments, G1s, Backflips, Nexus Ones (Nexi One?), etc., and not all of them are open-source savvy.
My mother, in particular, got a Droid after careful consideration of other phones, including the Storm and the iPhone. After a week with it, my father got so jealous, he switched carriers and got one for himself!
It's not as silly as you might think.
Quit it with the FUD. nVidia has given an unofficial agreement that they won't interfere with nouveau, and now that most of the code is kernel-side, there are some quality legal teams ready to defend the code if necessary.
I like lawyers. Can we kill the corporate overlords running the industry instead?
*Your* radio station, maybe. I am fortunate enough to live in Eugene, OR, and the only radio station that plays Pink Floyd typically plays large snippets only. Of course, the payola people in charge don't like it, so you usually only hear it later at night, but there's nothing better than driving at night and having your regular shitfest of Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace, interrupted by a quarter of The Wall.
You could make a compilation out of it. Call it "House of Leaves."
"Competent" isn't the right phrase, I think. Most of the amateurs, like myself, are students, and we've insisted on staying in school. Guys like Peter Hutterer and Jerome Glisse did get snapped up by RH right out of school, but there was a courting period there of a couple years during which Canonical definitely could have stepped in.
You do have a good point, though. There's definitely a bit of brain drain, and finding people willing to work on X is rather trying. :3
Binary drivers aren't a fact of life for chipsets not supported by them. Six-year-old cards, sure. Eight-year-old cards, maybe not. AMD/ATI recently decided to drop support for r500 and older (anything older than Radeon HD 2000) from their Linux binary driver, and deferred completely to the open-source team. nVidia doesn't support their entire lineup, either; I'm told that for stuff like TNT2 and the first GeForces, the nouveau project's drivers are beating the crap out of the ancient legacy nvidia blobs.
Ubuntu is easily the quietest of the large distros when it comes to talking with driver upstreams. Really, his response, to me, translates to, "We'll let Redhat and Novell continue to front the cost of paying developers to write graphics drivers, while dragging our feet at adopting new upstream code." Frustrating.
Other way around, really. Apple needs MS so they can look hip and cool in comparison; MS doesn't really care about Apple as long as Apple hardware runs MS software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
Go to concerts. I don't care if people pirate my music, and I'm actually really glad that they take advantage of the legal, free downloads that supplant the CDs I sell. In my opinion, it's all worthless compared to the experience of live music.
I stopped buying CDs; I see no reason to require other people to buy my CDs either.
The solution? Stop putting in the Bold (tm) chunk of americium inside the earpiece. :3
I internally rationalized with the idea that it could be e.g. ununoctium oxide, some theoretical super-heavy ore that got nicknamed "unobtainium" as a pun due to the native resistance to mining operations.
That's a pretty fascinating backstory, though.
1) C. You should also be familiar with compiler theory, data structures, bus layouts, and all the various arcane weirdness around arches, especially x86.
2) Nothing special. Most of the programs we use for testing are games, since they have the best stress tests and because we target real use-cases. The exception is piglit, which is a conformance test.
3) The code. AMD and Intel have released some docs, but frankly, you will need to read the code.
Good luck. This is tough stuff.
Bush is definitely a waste of time. One of the worst bands I've ever heard.