You are drunk. "Plan to make" not "making." Not "to all," but to "people with certain disabilities". And that's just from the summary. Haven't RTFA yet.

The submitter is reading too much into this. The drivers linked are beta drivers - this is not the first time AMD hasn't published an XP version of a beta driver, due to the relatively low number of XP users on 5000/6000/7000 series video cards (all of which are post-Win7). XP is supported by the current WHQL certified driver (13.4) and I expect the next certified driver will support XP, too. If and when AMD does drop XP support they'll announce it a couple of versions ahead of time, just as they did for Win9x and Win2K.

Undoubtedly it will make the some people angry.

But for anyone that does Windows graphics development and knows something about the underlying system, it's not a big deal. We've known that adding some of these features to Direct3D would require making some changes to the underlying display driver stack (WDDM), which is why D3D 11.2 requires WDDM 1.3 drivers, and WDDM 1.3 requires Windows 8.1. Unless of course you want Microsoft backporting a new version of the display driver stack and breaking your old OSes...

TL;DR: D3D 11.2 requiring Win8.1 can't be helped

I agree completely. The term "maker" makes my skin crawl. Aren't we special.

Only to help advertise a particular issue.

The fact that the title implies that people can just "get over" their anxieties shows that the public still has no idea about the cause of anxieties. They are a mental manifestation of a permanent PHYSICAL problem with the brain's neurochemistry. No amount of corrective therapy can fix the problem. What it can do is help alleviate the triggers that cause panic, and help the sufferer understand when medicine is required.

Are you assuming that any of this has to do with finding actual tax criminals? The IRS, just like any US government agency, works for the lobbyists. If they were looking at open software companies, then follow the money trail back to any of the big software companies. Microsoft and Oracle, BFFs all of a sudden, come to mind. Just like NSA snooping has more to do with finding and shutting down movie pirates than terrorists. Just follow the money. It worked for Watergate.

Most of America.

You forgot the land grab. All those resources will be owned by mega-corporations backed by government militaries, so don't think about trespassing on their asteroid belt or else you'll get a nuke up your mining ship.

Don't worry. Most of the people complaining about "handcuffs" don't even own iPhones. They just enjoy bitching about Apple.

And that's why this is the kind of place that can plant the seeds of revolution. This post alone is guaranteed to put me into an NSA database of known subversives. So be it. Now the question is, what can we crowd-source? How about starting with some local elections, and working our way up?

This is the gist of the problem. He does not see himself as a turd, or his business as evil. He lives in a world where such things are taken for granted as business as usual. There is no room for sympathy, fair play, justice, or integrity in big business, only blood thirsty greed. As long as it is within the letter of the law, laws written by the same people, then no one should have any problem. There is no way to make these people understand the basic problem with that way of thinking.

Are you kidding? If he's smart, he'll take the publicity all the way to seat in the Senate.

Are you new to the world, or is this sarcasm?

That would be with XP style scaling. On WinVista and later that mode can only be used with scaling levels less than or equal to 125%. After 125% you get Vista style scaling, which depending on how well behaved an application is will result in one of two things.

If the application is flagged as being DPI scaling aware (Office, web browsers, etc) then the application will take care of scaling on its own, and hopefully render a suitably large image natively. If an application isn't flagged as being DPI scaling aware, then Vista reverts to "fractional scaling", where it simply does a bilinear upscale of the application window, resulting in a blurry, god-awful mess where nothing was rendered natively.

Apple does something similar here, but their innovation was that instead of resorting to fractional scaling on non-aware applications they do integer scaling, which is far cleaner in practice. Furthermore all of Apple's drawing APIs were retina aware, so applications that weren't fully retina aware themselves could still have their text drawn natively, whereas Vista would always have to upscale the resulting Window.

The worst case scenario then for Mac OS X (a non-aware application not using Apple's drawing APIs) is that at the default 2x setting (backing scale factor 2.0) every element will simply be scaled up by a factor of 4:1; every 1 pixel now occupies 4 pixels. This means that there aren't any benefits gained from using the retina display, but using integer scaling means that this doesn't introduce any fractional interpolation artifacts that hurt the text quality, since every original text pixel maps cleanly to 4 display pixels.

Right now the expectation is that Microsoft will be introducing something similar in Win8.1. There's only so much they can do without breaking backwards compatibility, but if they follow Apple's "render big then scale down" philosophy rather than Vista's "render small and scale up" philosophy, then results should be much cleaner.