Well, nothing lasts forever. I, too, hope that someday we will have nVidia cards with open drivers. My understanding is that their geforce line is too patent-encumbered for that to ever happen to them (they pretty much went full-Microsoft during the original Xbox era) but that they more or less own their mobile (as in handheld) GPUs outright, and if they ever become the basis for a desktop product, we might see an open version of those drivers. Nouveau is pretty much unusable for a lot of users, and useless for even more.

Problem is, only a subset of ATI cards are well-supported by the FOSS driver, and the official drivers are poop. When more of the cards are supported and it takes less time for the cards to be supported, maybe I will consider ATI cards again. But every time I do, I regret it deeply...

You are only responsible for your own head being up your own ass.

You can't even tell what the argument is.

Good. About fucking time.

So what, the drivers don't work with the new kernel or something?

I don't have to show this, it's common knowledge. We've discussed the fact here repeatedly.

But it isn't, because of the massive loads they carry, and the extremely hard tires which are designed pretty much exclusively for tread life and reducing rolling friction.

Ok, so I RTFA, and I see "One right that all creators have is to undo copyright transfers and licenses after thirty-five years have passed, under some conditions." [...] "Copyright termination means that any license, including a perpetual public license, can be revoked." But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about making a promise not to sue for use of the work, which is not the same thing as offering a license for the use of the work. If you make an explicit and public promise not to sue, separately from any licensing, that's different from offering a license and then revoking it later. Licensing something for any use is not the same as placing it in the public domain, and promising not to sue for any use seems the only way to effectively actually do that otherwise.

This is a threat to the GPL, the MIT, and other [F]OSS licenses. But it's not a threat to the public domain.

I do think that we should have a public domain registry, where we can explicitly give up our right to a work in perpetuity. But why should we need one? We already have a legal concept which should permit accomplishing the same thing.

Right, and the question is whether that is actually justified, or whether it's just a revenue generation scheme.

No, a proliferation of taxis does that. See, under the current system, I can't get a taxi in a timely fashion, so I can't reasonably not have a car.

A prius exerts more force per square inch on the pavement than a large pickup, because of the reduced contact area and the increased hardness of the tires. Meanwhile, OTR trucks do vastly more damage than either — as it turns out, passenger vehicles affect the road very little (even hybrids, with their high weight carried on LRR tires) while OTR trucks do pretty much all the road damage.

In conclusion, if the basis for the fee is road damge, then a Prius should pay more than an F-350, but neither one should really pay anything compared to an OTR truck.

insurance estimates already account for this by charging for mileage

They don't penalize you for having a family, although then you have more passengers in the car, unless you plan to let some of those family members drive. What's the difference?

Well, they do, but only while you are carrying a passenger.

pretty much the only AA batteries anyone who doesn't know better should be buying are eneloop... if not those, then eneloop XX. But those are heinously expensive. basic eneloops have been independently tested to be the best bang for the buck, especially if you get their starter packs at costco which come with a charger and some battery adapters. they're Ultra Low Self-Discharge batteries and they also have good capacities. eneloop XX is cool for super hungry devices, like some older cameras.

I use a T-BB18 Trackman Wheel and it has those detents too, but at least one of them doesn't match up with the notches in the wheel, and the mouse will scroll while I barely move the wheel within it. This was basically the cheapest trackball they made, and it's been discontinued in favor of a wireless version which I don't like as much because of the weight.

this is a good project to play with then, because microswitches are cheap on ebay and their leads are fat. get yourself an el cheapo solder sucker and you're in there. you do need a halfway decent iron, though, because you want to get the job done quick and it always takes longer to reheat than to heat. I have a couple of temp controlled wellers and I got an 800 degree pointy tip for one of them which is really nice for that sort of thing.

You mean no new proprietary driver for you. The old one still exists. It didn't magically stop working because a new driver came out.

You can install an indexed search tool on older Ubuntu versions. But regardless, if newer Ubuntu doesn't support older nVidia drivers, how is that nVidia's fault?

Wait, I just saw this:

CPU without PAE? How quaint. Maybe you should join this millenium. But there are some non-PAE kernels for Ubuntu floating around out there, sometimes.

Along with your work, you provide a promise not to sue, giving up all your rights to the work in question. It's clearly illegal to do that with the intent of changing your mind later.

It would be nice if there were a no-copyright-registration process, which would certainly remove any and all doubt. But it's not like it's unclear, now. If there's no promise not to sue, look for something else.

You still don't understand how the Logitech website works. When they reuse a product name, the old product is renamed in the database to remove the conflict, and listed only under its model number. But here is an ebay listing showing the exact device in question, asshole. You could have found this yourself with google if you weren't such a dumbshit.