Intel last released a PowerVR based IGP with the CloverTrail+ chips, Baytrail and onward will be using their internal GPU designs. Apple does use them, but I suspect that, being such a huge customer, they probably get complete documentation and wrote their own driver that doesn't suck. Everyone else gets Android-only userspace blobs of bad to shit quality.

Where's the 'don't touch my old fucking settings because i'm a hating curmudgeon' button, because I think its time for it.

Don't worry, they kept the important parts. That being the fact that addons in Firefox are all powerful and can give you back everything you liked and hide all the new stuff, something that's never been diminished.

for not having the "correct" beliefs*

More importantly, for contributing $1000 to a political campaign in favor of an amendment that explicitly attacked a segment of the populace, on top of repeatedly (and publicly) supporting congressmen who regularly express bigoted attitudes towards homosexuals. So yeah, he was given the lead position on Mozilla and people flipped their shit because he backed politicians that spew bullshit to demonize them.

when someone objects or defends his right to an opinion, he, too, is "intolerant"

No, this is the old "you must be tolerant of my intolerance" nonsense. No one has to sit back and accept being walked over, particularly when the basis for it is entirely hollow.

Scratch a liberal or "advocacy group" and you see the same rotten core you saw in 1933.

Wait, what? Is this an indirect Godwin?

And the terrible crime here is that the man contributed to a *successful* change to the CA constitution

What does it having been successful have to do with anything?

after a previous *successful* propostion to the same effect was defeated by the same pack of "tolerance" bullies?

What are you referring to?

They're "intolerant bigots" because CEO stepped down over public furor regarding him being... an intolerant bigot? No, your logic is broken.

I once worked three jobs to be able to afford 1/2 a bedroom in a two bedroom apartment with three other guys.

What is this supposed to be, a badge of honor? Or is this stockholm syndrome? "Well I subjected myself to systemic abuse and overwork to just barely keep myself from becoming homless! There's nothing wrong with that!"

At what point did it become necessary that the government mandate a wage level so that people can live the way they want without incentive to live better?

At the moment it was obvious that corporations were more powerful than most people, and would would abuse them to the extent they could get away with.

you think I'm a mean-spirited jerk with no empathy because I want people to have an incentive to get a better life and improve their skills?

You're a mean spirited jerk because you assume that people who live in poverty have the time and resources to improve their skills.

Get a roommate or two and pool your resources.

Which works well for a small subset of people.

In the richest country that *ever* existed, in an era of post-scarcity (at least here in the US) with productivity through the roof and increasing rapidly, how can we allow the removal of incentives for people to work hard and get ahead and make something of themselves.

Indeed, in the richest country that ever existed why are people paid such poor wages and so often do without basic necessities (that they can't afford due to said same low wages)? Don't worry, the corporations you exalt are doing a great job at removing incentives for people to work hard by ensuring that hard work doesn't necessarily pay off.

Your argument strikes me as wanting to tell people the "man" is keeping you down and you'll never succeed so don't work hard and we'll make sure you can live a life of relative luxury.

No, it's about pointing out how the system is rigged and they are being taken advantage of for the sake of quarterly profits.

Just having a driver in the upstream does not guarantee it will be maintained - if no kernel developer cares for it or has the hardware, it's going to be left to bitrot until it is removed.

If it fails to build it'll be removed. You are guaranteed that much at a minimum. If you're the kind of company that expects to develop a driver once then move on, then you're a crap company who probably never fixes driver bugs anyway.

Here is our favorite asshole again

I try to be polite but straightforward, and this is what I get?

If you were the owner of a large and busy hardware company, you would be spending money on developers to be forever making corrections to your drivers, patches necessary only because some "hotshot" developer changes the kernel API all the time without worrying about maintaining compatibility with what was previously done?

I'm not the owner, but the company I work for does just that. Of course, our driver is also open source so any kernel API changes like that are done for us.

Only "pet projects" can stay changing their APIs all the time without having to worry about the consequences, and Linux can not be developed like a pet project.

Bullshit! People know how the kernel is developed, and if they want access to the user base they should play nicely with the world that was there before them, rather than demand that the kernel developers prop them up so they can have their cake and eat it too.

the GNU ideology is the problem

I know, right? Freedom sucks ass. It's so much easier when you just use a proprietary platform that may suddenly cease to be supported (IRIX.)

Hairyfeet just likes to spew venom and his own ignorance.

Why can't apps just work between versions like MacOSX, Solaris, FreeBSD with the compat libs, and even Windows?

They do. Every once in a while you find something that breaks, just like on all of those other platforms.

I can click on a setup.exe from the XP era and unless it is a horribly written business app requiring local admin (more like win98 style written) it will run on Windows 8 no problem.

Rather, it'll install (maybe) and run (maybe.)

Why do ATI drivers from 2 years ago not run on Linux?

Because the kernel has moved on and AMD refuses to keep pace.

ABI and API compatibilities as Linux developers feel that is evil and encourages binary blobs!

That will waste their time as they try to track down a bug only to find it's in a binary module that they can't look into.

Funny no other platform has this problem with them.

So you're taking up Hairyfeet's penchant for blatant lying?

Socialist ideology about everyone that is closed source is harmful I know lets purposedly not include a stable ABi so things break when I do an apt-get update to force ATI and NVidia will just work. That is the ticket.

And now it's just balls to the wall nutty rambling.

I might piss some some Slashdot moderators but I speak the truth.

Your opinion isn't the truth, and cut out the passive agressive garbage.

Why can't a stable ABI and API exist so one thing can just work? It is freaking 2014?

Because, again, the internel kernel APIs and ABIs do not need to be stable if you push your driver upstream. If you do, they keep it up to date for you and can debug issues for you. Otherwise you're just demanding that they assume the duty of maintaining backwards compatibility so that you may reap the rewards of the work done by them without aiding them in any way.

Such as refusal to have a compatability layer for binary driver compatability between kernel versions and the refusal to allow users to use binary drivers.

This isn't arrogance. It's acknowledging that things that belong in the kernel should be in the kernel. In the case of Linux, it's drivers. The only thing that binary drivers get you are hard to debug crashes, vendor dependence, and driver interfaces that must now be maintained ad infinitum. It won't save you from anything in the long run.

I have heard that many Linux developers wanted to drop support for floppy disks, "because few Linux developers have floppy drives", despite there being tons of floppies around that users may need to access.

You have, huh? Given how many "Linux developers" (since we're being vague) conduct all of their discussions in public, can you track this down to some reliable source or is this merely hearsay?

have heard that many Linux developers wanted to drop support for floppy disks, "because few Linux developers have floppy drives", despite there being tons of floppies around that users may need to access.

Sounds more like you're out to beat up strawmen.

What does "development methodology" have to do with it? Sometimes you just want to start from scratch rather than hauling along someone else's baggage. I guess your complaint just falls into the category of "dissatisfaction with how others spend their own time."

Which is not a defense of the actions in Nevada - at best it is yet another indictment of the NYPD (and LAPD, and...)

none of which were brandished by the protesters, let alone used in a threatening manner.

Bullshit, unless you're going to claim the photos going around of not merely brandished but aimed weapons were staged.

Are you terrified because they don't share your ideology, or what?

Terrified that they've decided to toss the rule of law out the door and point guns at people to get their way.

The Dust Bowl was caused by a trifecta of over-farming, monoculture (wheat), and a massive drought - not grazing. It was also caused by activities performed primarily on private land, so the comparison is invalid on two fronts. Methinks you're reaching too much for hyperbole to support an otherwise somewhat valid point.

I don't see how it's hyperbole.

lso, why does the federal government have to supply this management, instead of by the state whose borders encompass the land in question

Because it's land held by the Federal Government. I'm sure Nevada could offer to purchase it.

But look at Nevada, a 1,000 man militia. Probably the first time a battalion size militia has been active in the U.S.

Terrifying. Unaccountable quasi-military organizations that tend to be high on ideology and low on reason. What happens if they were to try and pull the same shit to enforce their own rules (like they effectively did here) beyond just allowing a freeloader to not pay for grazing rights? These guys scream about "liberty" all the time but, down the line, they're either anarchist or authoritarian.

But one can also argue the Feds enacted unethical policies and mis-used laws, in an abusive way.

Hardly. Managing land to keep it from being destroyed like it was during the Dust Bowl is important and costs money. Otherwise we end up with a Tragedy of the Commons and the land is left in ruins, grazed down to barren earth.

The point of the Second Amendment is for those times when what is legal (or what is illegal) is WRONG!!!!!

Or you think it's wrong but your rationalizations are arbitrary and capricious, and somehow you use that to justify murdering people (or at least threatening to.)

Apple tried to save us from an Amazon monopoly and failed.

Hahaha! No they didn't. They tried to insulate themselves and their profits from having to compete with Amazon. It had nothing to do with "saving us" at all. Amazing how quickly fanboys will rewrite history for the sake of their favorite corporation, no matter how evil they're shown to be.