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Comment ORLY? (Score 1) 235

The designer of an interface despised by the majority of its (ex) users (who are jumping the ship in droves) says he's right and the world should bend over and get some more of his wisdom. Ok, he's gentle and says he wants the UI experience he devised used by the people who is still unaware of it. It it seems like a turd, smells like one and is warm like one, it's difficult to believe it is something else. And asking people to manipulate it will not make a lot of happy fa(e)ces.
But I don't believe he'll listen.
Changing for the sake of change doesn't aggregate anything to the user experience. People will not 2girls1cup with it.

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taupter writes: "New Nvidia Linux drive r 100.14.19 is out,for x86 and amd64. An updated Solaris driver is out too. The "black-window bug" is finally fixed! Get it at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.19.html Release Highlights: Added support for new GPUs: Quadro FX 290, Quadro FX 370, Quadro FX 570, Quadro FX 1700 Improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling. Fixed a performance regression on GeForce 8 GPUs. Added support for a 'NoScanout' mode to the X driver, useful for high performance computing environments and remote graphics; please see the 'UseDisplayDevice' option description for details. Improved power management support with GeForce 8 and older GPUs. Improved compatibility with recent X.Org X servers. Improved G-Sync support with Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600. Added XV brightness and contrast controls to the GeForce 8 video texture adapter implementation. Further improved interaction with ATi RS480/482 based mainboards. Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 8 GPUs. Fixed XvMC support on GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a GPUs with PureVideo support. Added support for bridgeless SLI with GeForce 8 GPUs. Fixed rotation support on some GeForce 8 GPUs. Fixed a problem causing X to render incorrectly after VT switches with composited desktops. Fixed a RENDER acceleration bug that was causing 2D rendering corruption in Eclipse with GeForce 8 GPUs. Improved VGA console restoration with DFPs and TVs. Fixed a bug that resulted in the generation of incorrect EDIDs on some notebooks. Fixed flickering corruption with SLIAA on GeForce 8 GPUs. Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels. Fixed a compatibility problem with some Linux 2.4 kernels. Improved hotkey switching support. Fixed an 'nvidia-installer' bug that was causing the installer to treat some of its temporary files as conflicting. Fixed several problems causing crashes if /dev is mounted with the 'noexec' option. Reduced kernel virtual memory usage with some GeForce 8 GPUs."

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