I have the opposite situation. My hardware is too new. 6870 Radeon, intel Core i5. Doesn't work right. But, I'm running inside of VirtualBox and it abstracts all that hardware away. It even supports 3D with a guest addition to expose that to OpenGL. My desktop right now in front of me is composited with compiz and plays video, wobbly windows and all just fine.

I know there are barriers when you go to upgrade old hardware: change piece A and you need to change piece B and such, but, really, leave it at a text console as a server or just pick up a cheap $299 laptop that a modern Linux will run just fine with intel video drivers. Intel video drivers over the years surprisingly have given me the fewest issues and they support compiz just fine too.

If you had read the article you would have seen that nVidia's binary blob already supports it and Ati's isn't far behind.

It doesn't matter. It's too late.


Beneficiaries to ignorance around climate change such as a, not related to the article, Koch Brother's have come out on top in the debate. People won't see this retraction and even if they did they are already biased against it. Besides, put on some shorts: there is no way climate change will change the pursuit of billions of dollars in profits. And the fact is those profits would have to be severely curtailed to make a difference. That's not the way the world works. Forget about it and just be happy you have a decent chance of adapting to climate change with our Western infrastructures in a fairly good position to handle the disruptions. Those people in Africa? Yeah, apparently the answer to them is: fuck off and die of drought.

Because really it does seem fast for due process.. Like, really. Like, Japanese Conviction Rate fast...

It's safe! I cringed, squinted my eyes, and prayed while I clicked on it! Then, let out a huge sigh of relief! There, did my community service for the day!

Wouldn't the fact that everyone is infringing on the patent have something to say about "being obvious to someone skilled in the field.."?

Concerning Mozilla, you are wrong. Mozilla works on making the best web-browser they can. Business wants a web-browser that will never change for as long as possible so they don't have to spend a single cent on upgrading their stupid internal web-applications. See IE6 and every single problem it has hung over web-standards for half a decade or so. Now, business can say: we won't use Mozilla's web-browser because it isn't (stupidly) "stable" enough for us and you know what: who cares. Mozilla's market is not some staid business: let Microsoft deal with the headaches and such that come from serving that market. Mozilla will do just fine serving non-commercial users and users that aren't so short-sighted they'd cut off their own nose. And what does that mean? A decade from now Mozilla: as a web-browser company, will have and continue to have something that is competitive for what they do.

I don't doubt you overall, but: for my home computers, the only reason the machine I'm typing this on has Windows 7 installed is because of games. My laptop doesn't have Windows, only my desktop which has the hardware to run the games.

I should have elaborated on my comment a bit. I never said it would be syntactically beautiful: just that you could do it.

For example, back in the Amiga days I implemented a Object-Orientated GUI in AMOS Basic. That was a procedural language. It ended up having lots of stub functions to handle the object part of the implementation and as the language didn't allow variable numbers of arguments to procedures sometimes you had to call the stubs with null values for parameters that weren't needed. Internally, I had no access to direct memory allocation so I had some general purpose arrays. Like GUI(30,10) which was a maximum of 30 objects with a maximum of 10 attributes. In parallel to that array I would use a string array: GUI$(30) for the same number of objects for things like text fields. Then accessing - through the stub functions - objects were given the first number - the index or "object" - and a specified attribute index and the stub functions were basically methods on the object. The Basic interpreter didn't enforce any of the object-orientation: that was all up to me with programming-style and if you didn't follow the style you broke it.

Now that example was not elegant at all but I successfully added functionality that was outside the scope of the language. Ugly as sin though.

You know "fake" isn't the right word. You can implement everything you happen to need from a higher-level language into an expressive lower-level one. That is not always possible the other way around.

I get "local news" from aggregator's such as Reddit. And you know what? Reddit: Politics makes me truly sad every day. The reason I find aggregators so effective is that of all the local news stories across the nation: they find the ones that stick out enough that people, actual people who could be your neighbor, vote them up.

The source is given for every item, I never click on ones that go to blogs. Someday, perhaps, blogs will be effective just not yet.

If I was ever in the position where I was required to submit to a polygraph, and I don't mean this situation at a bank machine, I would gladly comply as long as I was able to add a single question as the first one:

Can this machine tell if I am lying?

Polygraph machines are not lie detectors. What they are are stress detectors. And if you know that little fact you need not be stressed when you are dealing with one. Here is a summary of a polygraph machine's reliability: here.

Pissed me off too, I missed it because it wasn't even televised.

Perhaps you mean the iPhone version of: Rage?

That one is a "on-rails" shooter as the iPhone compared to a PC is a limited device. But, the upcoming full-release for the PC and consoles is a full not-rails game.

In China they arrest you for content, in the USA they just ignore you. You have equal effect in both but more freedom to mouth off in one.