The open drivers work just fine for everything that's not bleeding edge. We'll see how the amdgpu driver comes along.

I wish I had mod points. What can you expect if politicians are financed by the highest bidder?

Well voters rarely kick out the incumbent even if they didn't deliver what they promised. So yeah voters are to blame. They still believe today what Reagan promised just because he played a nice guy.

We'll see if they'll be fine with the negative publicity if the Linux drivers are crap.

That's because manufacturers run into limits, especially around cost, since Moore's law has reached the end of the line. A transistor on 20nm or 14nm is more expensive than a transistor on 28nm.

I put a SSD in front of my spinning rust RAID as a cache and use writethrough or writearound. Even if the SSD fails I won't lose data.

That could've been me 40 years ago. We had a whole group of bomb makers. They all ended up as chemists/chemistry teachers or MDs; I was the odd one out with CS.

Virtual desktops, scientific computing, big render farms. There's all kinds of things, they're not really for home users though. I mean, you could buy one but you're unlikely to be able to use it effectively. This is targeted at a market and computation scale that's much much larger than most people work with. People who buy these don't buy one at a time, they buy them by the dozens.

Not necessarily, in scientific computing cards like this are important. The biggest problem with GPU computing in general is the time it takes to copy from main memory to GPU memory and back. It really makes GPU difficult to work with and generally the gains in parallelization don't really pay off considering the amount of time it takes to make those memory copies. Being able to load more into memory and have it stay there is a big deal.

LOL. When I started our Uni mainframe was, umm, not very secure (ICL 1906 with GEORGE 4, yay.) We crashed that thing every few weeks. Whenever you did something naughty and the terminal displayed a flashing status at the bottom saying it was waiting for a reply it was time to run from the terminal room because two minutes later one of the operators would come in and look who sat at terminal number X.

> You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

- Dick Cheney

All of those resources will last for an infinite amount of time because at some point they'll be too dilute, hence costly, to extract. That metric is meaningless.

What matters is what flow rate you can get out at a cost that's acceptable to the economy, and by that measure we're running out of oil and have so for a couple of years, since we're now scraping the bottle of the barrel with tight oil and tar sand. Now that tight oil is peaking it's probably a matter of a few years until we reach peak total liquids. But by then the statistics will probably lump other fossil fuels in with liquid hydrocarbons so the graph doesn't look lousy, just as they did when they lumped various type of nonconventional oil, NGL and biofuels in with crude and called it all "oil." With the old style of EIA/IEA reporting the peak would be too obvious.

> Make sure that everyone knows what they're supposed to do

Easy. Just fix those 5 P1 bugs by tomorrow.

Dude, have you never heard of synergy? All that noise around you is nothing but synergy and it'll improve your productivity !!1!

Amen. Unfortunately cubicles are state of the art in corporate America. That's why I avoid the office like the plague.