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Comment Re:so.... (Score 1) 180

I find it absolutely frightening that the citizens of the country that supposedly stands against the tyranny of organizations like the Gestapo and the Stasi not only have not overturned their government over this huge scandal, but in fact mostly agree with the surveillance program.

Americans deserve what's coming to them.

When did it stand against nazi tyrrany or tyranny in general? They were perfectly happy watching the nazis swallow up Europe until Japan came in and broke some of their toys.
All the US stands against is anyone else having any power.

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Raziel-chan

Comment Re:It depends on what you want from your TV (Score 1) 272

Voyager went back into space but dumped all sense of ethics at the spaceport. Kirk would never have stood for it. Janeway did anything to get home, including mass genocide. Star Trek, how far can you fall

Yes, and this is why even in the first (second, if you treat the two-parter that began the series as two episodes) episode Janeway chose to destroy their currently only way back home instead of letting it fall into the local warring and cruel race that'd use it to conquer other planets and enslave their inhabitants. possibly leaving to things like mass genocide you mentioned. And all the other occasions where she refused to compromise her values and use methods of getting closer to home that'd endanger other species and civilizations, like with that other stranded ship that exploited energy-creating beings for that. All because she'd do anything to get back home and had no morals, it's so simple!

Wait.

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What If They Turned Off the Internet? 511

theodp writes "It's the not-too-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked readers to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. Better hope it never happens, or be prepared for dry-erase message boards, carrier pigeon-powered Twitter, block-long lines to get into adult video shops, door-to-door Rickrolling, Lolcats on Broadway, and $199.99 CDs."

Comment Did they really play that game? (Score 1) 215

Seeing as there's a factual error in the report:

'The game contains realistic, frenetic, and unrelenting violence which is inflicted upon "the Infected" who are living humans infected with a rabies-like virus that causes them to act violently. The player can choose from a variety of weapons including pistols, shotguns, machine guns, and sniper rifles. However, it is the use of the "melee" weapons such as the crowbar, axe, chainsaw and Samurai sword which inflict the most damage. These close-in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore.'

The zombies in the game are quite obviously no longer alive, I mean, they have rotten skin, pieces falling off, not to even mention the special infected. Quite different from the rabbies zombies depicted in, for example, 28 days later.

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Raziel-chan

Comment Re:Power != memory (Score 1) 292

You didn't specify that you meant the OpenGL registry up until your last post, thus reading that again won't change a thing.

Also, are you using Xinerama, Twinview or separate X servers? Problems I mentioned are well documented.

Twinview stretches a single large desktop over multiple screens. Thus, if the vertical size differs, there will be unused gaps. You can make the smaller screen scroll over that space, but it doesn't really help much, does it?
In my case it's 1050 vs 768 - that's quite a difference. In your - 1050 vs 1024. That's 26 pixels of difference. You may not even notice the unused space.

In Xinerama, on the other hand, you can only render directly to one screen at a time. That's been documented too.

Also, I have had various problems with nvidia drivers. Maybe I'm just unlucky, then.

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Raziel-chan

Comment Re:Power != memory (Score 1) 292

Twinview works reasonably well ONLY for monitors with the same resolutions. If the resolutions differ - it works like pure shit.

I have a 1680x1050 and a 1024x768 screens. This leaves part of the 'big desktop' unused and also compiz is no longer able to break the big screen apart for effects liken the desktop cube.
Also, it often causes problems with fullscreen games. In other words - Twinview is ANYTHING but good.

Also, about the 'this is about OpenGL' part. Let me quote.

[quote]They are MUCH better than the ATI ones, especially in the OpenGL department.[/quote]

You never limited your statement to OpenGL. You also said that it was GENERALLY much better. I don't see why my comment is besides the point, especially, that:

[quote]New standardized feature X is added to the registry.[/quote]

And I've just proven that untrue. Xrandr 1.2 is included in the newest X.org. Therefore, it's pretty much a standard. And Ati drivers support it pretty much perfectly, while nvidia ones trail behind.

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Raziel-chan

Comment Re:Power != memory (Score 1) 292

New standardized feature X is added to the registry. nvidia adds it pretty quickly; ATI adds it months, even years later

So you're saying that nVidia drivers fully support Xrandr and no Ati drivers support it? Yay, that means that I was doing something wrong and THAT'S why I can't have sensible dual screen with different resolution monitors and direct rendering to both screens! Now I can fix it! ... Oh, wait...

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Raziel-chan

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