Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs.
For me, your humble anonymous reporter, who is using Fedora Linux with a ATI IGP 340M, is very pleased that the developers of the OSS drivers have provided hardware acceleration for my GPU: "glxinfo : direct rendering: Yes", "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RS200 4337) 20090101 NO-TCL DRI2" but even if Adobe did provide Hardware acceleration H.264 on Linux, they would'nt provide it for me because they disable it for GPU's with SGI in the Client vendor string.
Adobe 10.1, with all its goodness, now gives me around 95% CPU usage as aposed to about 75% with the previous release. Good times. I anticipate my windows friends will have a much better experience.
Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under Linux and Mac OS. Linux currently lacks a developed standard API that supports H.264 hardware video decoding, and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs.
For me, your humble anonymous reporter, who is using Fedora Linux with a ATI IGP 340M, is very pleased that the developers of the OSS drivers have provided hardware acceleration for my GPU: "glxinfo : direct rendering: Yes", "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RS200 4337) 20090101 NO-TCL DRI2" but even if Adobe did provide Hardware acceleration H.264 on linux, they would'nt provide it for me because they disable it for GPU's with SGI in the Client vendor string.
Adobe 10.1, with all its goodness, now gives me around 95% CPU usage as opposed to about 75% with the previous release. Good times. I anticipate my windows friends will have a much better experience.
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When I can hunt down that gifted emergency response professional, I'm going to give him a clue as to what emergency response really is. Don't Get Me Started. Just Don't.
So yes, religion isn't really a necessity anymore. We can easily replace it with technology. But it did have its place in the history of humanity, and it was quite important in forming our ability to cooperate in larger groups.
How can technology replace it so easily? Has human nature changed that much? I don't buy it. Technology may have advanced dramatically since "primitive" times, but people are still as selfish and prone to corruption as ever.
In the last few centuries, we have seen the printing press, great scientific advancement (calculus, physics, chemistry etc...), the computer, the internet, space travel etc. Technology has enabled massive increases in terms of food production, but the problem of poverty remains. Human trafficking is still a problem (and yes it still happens in developed countries). In the last few centuries we have also seen the atom bomb, several wars much larger than any recorded war from more "primitive" times, the holocaust etc.
Have we become so technologically advanced that we have outgrown our need for God? I think the opposite is true. In our technologically advanced age we need God more than ever.
I am not arguing the technology is a bad thing, it can certainly help us enforce basic laws. However, it is no replacement for God, morality or religion.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"