No it isn't a catastrophe and in fact there is plenty of evidence that if there was more CO2 in the atmosphere the desert belts would recede.

The same way you get things on any small circle. You go to the meetings and talk to people. We call this "networking". Other people call it cronyism but what do they know.

If it is being Jewish, Mormon, or a member of Skull and Crossbones is irrelevant.

Shame you can't run them on your own FreeBSD PC system though.

If you want to move forward try getting nouveau to work. It might require code changes to nouveau for all I know. Mobile graphics (heck any mobile hardware) driver support is usually horribly broken in my experience.

Other than that you need to insert probes in the Xorg code and check how the pixmap is created and accessed. Not exactly easy.

If the NVIDIA guy "knows" where the bug is in Xorg why didn't he just post a bug report to Xorg with a small code sample reproducing the bug? Because he's a lazy bum? Because he's bullshitting you? Because he doesn't know how to communicate with open source developers?

They can't review the NVIDIA driver code so how can they can they know where the bug is just from a code review? From the analysis they did of the code they don't see a way in which it could happen. Other can compiling X.org yourself and adding debug printfs, logging or whatever to the called functions and their parameters I don't see how they can hash this out.

You got a stack trace but that isn't enough to debug every problem.

I picked "whichever is right for a job". I add that object-oriented is usually the wrong choice for the job.

Functional and imperative are great. Event-based has a lot of uses. Relational is a whole class on its own. Object-oriented is usually a waste of time.

ECC != parity check. It can detect two errors and correct one.

SpaceX is launching 6x ORBCOMM-2 LEO satellites with a Falcon 9. The ORBCOMM-2 LEO sats are like 3x as large as their first gen sats. So yeah it depends on how big the satellites are and how many they can launch at once.

Did you read the summary? It said 4000 satellites. To need that many satellites to ensure global coverage it must be a LEO satellite constellation. So the latency won't be worse than a transatlantic trip via fiber optic. The article says a 750 mile orbit so the round trip is 1500 miles. According to Google 1500 miles/speed of light is 8.05 ms. If they include caches on the satellites for web traffic the latency can be even less.

No it wasn't to maximize short term profits. It was to prevent them going bankrupt. They basically wasted all their cash reserves, which were saved in order to build their next generation fab at NY, on buying ATI above the stock market price, at the height of the stock market bubble, just before the Great Recession.

As a result they ran out of cash and had to sell their fabs to ATIC from Abu Dhabi. AMD also sold their mobile GPU division to Qualcomm and now they work on Adreno.

I blame Hector Ruiz for that.

The original Apple 1 computer. Sold for $666.66.

Mechanical watches can't get rootkit infestations.

Fancy watches don't have li-ion batteries that lose their charge after 5 years either.

You don't need to charge the Rolex, Tag Heuer or Timex every single fucking day either.

Nah the HB-1 doesn't lower the requirements because he's "certified" to know whatever you want him to know. Of course when he actually gets on the job it turns out that he doesn't know jack shit.