I wonder if that is why companies like Google give their employees one day (I think it was 1 day) per week to work on whatever they want.

My previous job had a "do what you want one day a week" policy as well: Sunday.

There is significant precedent in copyright law that lists of facts or data cannot be copyrighted.

You're assuming that the schedule is a list of facts, as opposed to a work of fantasy. My experience with public transport in the US is that it's generally the latter.

CUDA's focus on the GPU often means the GPU does more work than an OpenCL program using both GPU and one or two CPU cores.

Do you have evidence for this statement? Code that you can share?

Learn about Binary Search Trees, Red Black Trees, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Heaps, etc. Depends entirely on what you plan to be doing when leaving school. These algorithms are seldom used when programming things like business apps. In fact I don't think I can ever recall implementing a search algorithm as you mention after school.

This is why my future employability as a hardware guy is guaranteed. Thankyou.

Those drivers are all for Savage: it says "Supported Savage Cards" at the top. You're correct, there were AGP Virge cards. The native API for these cards was called "S3D" not "MeTaL" and was a different (and older) codebase. UT99 would have definitely blown goats on any of the Virge series.

S3 Virge, not regular Virge. There was a difference. S3 Virge used MeTaL. Regular Virge/VX/DX/Trio3D did not use metal. S3Virge cards did.

Sorry, I think your memory is somewhat faulty there. MeTaL was definitely Savage series only, I know because I helped write it.

The 'MeTaL' acceleration was bullshit.

Given that "MeTaL" was for Savage3D, not Virge, it's not surprising that it didn't do very much for you.

7th guest was pre-rendered.

Copyright law says you don't have that right.

I know of no law, anywhere, that says that I can't legally obtain a copy of a copyrighted work then modify said copy as I see fit as long as it stays in my possession. If you do, please enlighten us all. Please be as specific as possible.

This is no more illegal than purchasing a copy of a book, writing notes in the margins, and crossing out sections you disagree with.

The issue is similar to that of mod chips for game consoles: contributory infringement.

Contributory infringement applies where there is an (actual or potential) infringement to connect it to. If an ISP offered an Adblock-filtered web as a service to its customers and the Adblock makers recommended it for this purpose then maybe you'd have a point. But they don't. All filtering is performed by the end-user, so no transfer of the copyrighted material takes place.

By the way, it's "tailored" not "taylored".

In a sense, AdBlock is acting as malicious software, because it's altering the site author's message, without their permission.

In what sense? Adblock doesn't modify anything on the server - the content remains unchanged. Once the bits are on my machine, I can do anything I want with them without permission from the author as long as I don't republish the modified version.

They may not have money, but they have a vehicle. Confiscate it.

And to the other assholes who say "I don't download, why should I subsidise others ?". A download tax subsidising other people is no different from the way your income taxes subsidise your healthcare system, the raods you never use but are built anyway, the pension being paid to your retired grandmother etc etc.

There is a fairly significant difference: healthcare, roads and pensions are necessities that are (generally) most efficiently provided by society acting together. Entertainment is a luxury, the consumption (or not) of which is down to individual preference.

Calling people who don't want to consume this particular luxury "assholes" seems somewhat unreasonable to me.

A GPL-licensed module that allows proprietary plugins to talk to GCC over a socket from a different process space. ... oops ...