Well, if you are that certain, you could have the case checked in the Supreme Court of Canada. Oh wait.
By the way, freedom to associate only applies if both parties consent to it. I think the legal argument for this law will be something like "the kid is not old enough to legally consent to associating with you", which would make your contacting it the equivalent of stalking. This is in direct analogy to the statutory rape clause - you cannot have legal sex with a minor since a minor by definition is unable to offer legal consent to sex.
I might agree with you if ATI/AMD would finally get serious about producing drivers that aren't complete crap. Their hardware is fine, but Linux drivers, as well as OpenGL drivers on Windows just plain suck.
To be fair, the hardware exists, it is just not commercially available (and now we have learned that it won't be available in the future either, unless you are in a research group). My guess is that the hardware works just fine, but the programming model makes it much harder than anticipated to reach the nominal performance for practical problems. Kind of like the i860 as cheesybagel points out.
Of course this is what a lot of graphics researchers thought might happen ever since Intel had the Larrabee paper at Siggraph. There is going to be a lot of "told you so" going on over the next few days.
Sure. FitnessWorld (a gym chain) in Vancouver runs KDE on Linux desktops (don't know which distro). There is a linux solution for restaurant PC (the ones where the waiter enters orders), although I don't know if you'd call it a desktop - it is a custom interface with a few dozen buttons on a touch screen. Is it more or less than 1% total? Who knows.
Actually, if Inkscape can't correctly read, interpret, and draw EVERY standard-conforming SVG file, then it does by definition not comply with the standard.
This can't be emphasized enough: the issue is to protect MySQL as a viable option for proprietary, closed source applications. This is possible now by dual licensing, but Oracle has made no promises (that I know of) to keep the second license alive.
Yeah, I don't understand why that guy gets that level of publicity, his claims don't even pass simple sanity checks.
All they actually managed to do so far is put some simple circuitry inside a contact lens. They aren't anywhere close to being able to do displays, in fact it is extremely unlikely that they ever will. First, there is the focus problem that others have already mentioned. Second, or visual system sees by scanning over (i.e. moving the eye ball relative to) the scene. If the scene (display) moves with the eye ball, this obviously doesn't work.
The plural of mother-in-law IS mothers-in-law. Hence the plural of deus ex machina is di ex machina (deus is irregular when plural (and in the singular vocative). Furthermore, if deus were regular, its plural nominative would be dei.). (That is, the plural of god-from-machine is gods-from-machine.).
Well, "law" in this case is not countable (it refers to "law" as in "The Law", not as in "one of many laws").
Machines are countable so the plural interpretation of many gods from different machines is perfectly valid (i.e. "... ex machinae").
Why? On both recent Windows and OS X, all rendering is done off-screen and then composited anyways. The compositing can be done at any resolution.
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Jesus Fucking H Christ. You are like the 10th moron in this thread who quotes part (a) of that section, but is completely utterly incapable of reading on to part (b). If you actually read part (b), it expressly prohibits resale of the modified versions.
Are you all aiming for the Selective Reading of the Year Award or what?
a) I am not the one making wild claims about out somebody - the author of TFA does. I mean I get it - we don't like MS here on/., blah, blah. Still, if he makes claims, the burden of proof is on him, not on people not on everybody else to disprove him.
b) I don't run windows, so getting everything set up with a.NET architecture would in fact be quite a pain in the ass.
Especially in this case: the example code is part of a parser. Guess what, when you write a parser for any kind of file format without using a formal grammar tool, the most natural way to do it is read the individual components in the order the file format presents them. So the structure of the code is very much determined by the file format, and you have to expect a lot of similarities between different implementations, even if they were done completely independent of each other. Constants like the value 400 seem like arbitrary choices at first glance, until you realize that those offsets are part of the file format spec...
The code snippet that is provided in TFA stops in the middle of a for loop. I wonder why? Was the rest just not similar enough for a sensationalist article?
I never understood why this hasn't been fixed yet. Surely it can't be THAT hard to come up with a system where you simply can't turn the key all the way to the "lock" position while the wheels are still moving?
I don't think you are talking about the same thing as the GP. Of course Linux has excellent OpenGL support for NVIDIA. The question is: are toolkits like gtk using it for their 2D rendering? Because that is what happens on both windows and mac...
Probably, although maybe with some effort. But you won't get anywhere near the same performance, since on the Mac, X11 sits on top of other libraries, rather than directly on the hardware. That is how it integrates with the native GUI.
The program doesn't analyze the code until something bad actually happens. It just runs the binary, and when it gets a NULL pointer de-reference or an access into unallocated memory, THEN it analyzes how the program got there and makes fixes.
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You are kidding, right? That screensaver runs as root, and could have pulled who-knows-what from the web and installed it wherever it likes.
Well, if you are that certain, you could have the case checked in the Supreme Court of Canada. Oh wait.
By the way, freedom to associate only applies if both parties consent to it. I think the legal argument for this law will be something like "the kid is not old enough to legally consent to associating with you", which would make your contacting it the equivalent of stalking. This is in direct analogy to the statutory rape clause - you cannot have legal sex with a minor since a minor by definition is unable to offer legal consent to sex.
I might agree with you if ATI/AMD would finally get serious about producing drivers that aren't complete crap. Their hardware is fine, but Linux drivers, as well as OpenGL drivers on Windows just plain suck.
To be fair, the hardware exists, it is just not commercially available (and now we have learned that it won't be available in the future either, unless you are in a research group). My guess is that the hardware works just fine, but the programming model makes it much harder than anticipated to reach the nominal performance for practical problems. Kind of like the i860 as cheesybagel points out.
Of course this is what a lot of graphics researchers thought might happen ever since Intel had the Larrabee paper at Siggraph. There is going to be a lot of "told you so" going on over the next few days.
Lighter schedule? In academia? You are kidding, right?
Sure. FitnessWorld (a gym chain) in Vancouver runs KDE on Linux desktops (don't know which distro). There is a linux solution for restaurant PC (the ones where the waiter enters orders), although I don't know if you'd call it a desktop - it is a custom interface with a few dozen buttons on a touch screen. Is it more or less than 1% total? Who knows.
The idea is not stupid, but it also isn't new. It is just turns out to be a little harder to get working in practice than you might think..
Actually, if Inkscape can't correctly read, interpret, and draw EVERY standard-conforming SVG file, then it does by definition not comply with the standard.
This can't be emphasized enough: the issue is to protect MySQL as a viable option for proprietary, closed source applications. This is possible now by dual licensing, but Oracle has made no promises (that I know of) to keep the second license alive.
Yeah, I don't understand why that guy gets that level of publicity, his claims don't even pass simple sanity checks.
All they actually managed to do so far is put some simple circuitry inside a contact lens. They aren't anywhere close to being able to do displays, in fact it is extremely unlikely that they ever will. First, there is the focus problem that others have already mentioned. Second, or visual system sees by scanning over (i.e. moving the eye ball relative to) the scene. If the scene (display) moves with the eye ball, this obviously doesn't work.
The plural of mother-in-law IS mothers-in-law. Hence the plural of deus ex machina is di ex machina (deus is irregular when plural (and in the singular vocative). Furthermore, if deus were regular, its plural nominative would be dei.). (That is, the plural of god-from-machine is gods-from-machine.).
Well, "law" in this case is not countable (it refers to "law" as in "The Law", not as in "one of many laws").
Machines are countable so the plural interpretation of many gods from different machines is perfectly valid (i.e. "... ex machinae").
Do you need to restart after that?
Why? On both recent Windows and OS X, all rendering is done off-screen and then composited anyways. The compositing can be done at any resolution.
Jesus Fucking H Christ. You are like the 10th moron in this thread who quotes part (a) of that section, but is completely utterly incapable of reading on to part (b). If you actually read part (b), it expressly prohibits resale of the modified versions.
Are you all aiming for the Selective Reading of the Year Award or what?
You do understand the difference between the actions of a few nutcases and the actions of a government, right?
I don't think everyone here believes you can't steal music, first off.
Speak for yourself.
If you re-read that sentence, I think you'll find that he did.
a) I am not the one making wild claims about out somebody - the author of TFA does. I mean I get it - we don't like MS here on /., blah, blah. Still, if he makes claims, the burden of proof is on him, not on people not on everybody else to disprove him.
b) I don't run windows, so getting everything set up with a .NET architecture would in fact be quite a pain in the ass.
Especially in this case: the example code is part of a parser. Guess what, when you write a parser for any kind of file format without using a formal grammar tool, the most natural way to do it is read the individual components in the order the file format presents them. So the structure of the code is very much determined by the file format, and you have to expect a lot of similarities between different implementations, even if they were done completely independent of each other. Constants like the value 400 seem like arbitrary choices at first glance, until you realize that those offsets are part of the file format spec...
The code snippet that is provided in TFA stops in the middle of a for loop. I wonder why? Was the rest just not similar enough for a sensationalist article?
I never understood why this hasn't been fixed yet. Surely it can't be THAT hard to come up with a system where you simply can't turn the key all the way to the "lock" position while the wheels are still moving?
I don't think you are talking about the same thing as the GP. Of course Linux has excellent OpenGL support for NVIDIA. The question is: are toolkits like gtk using it for their 2D rendering? Because that is what happens on both windows and mac...
I know X is kinda old, but was under the impression that roman numbers were even slightly older. ;-)
Probably, although maybe with some effort. But you won't get anywhere near the same performance, since on the Mac, X11 sits on top of other libraries, rather than directly on the hardware. That is how it integrates with the native GUI.
WTF??
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/apples-new-macbook-unboxing-and-hands-on/
Well, the new unibody MacBooks don't have it. Neither does the air. The MacBook Pro still does, as do the desktop machines.
The program doesn't analyze the code until something bad actually happens. It just runs the binary, and when it gets a NULL pointer de-reference or an access into unallocated memory, THEN it analyzes how the program got there and makes fixes.