Those binaries were going to break. It's to teach some people a lesson: You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Want to develop for Linux? Standardise on your own libraries. Screw your users. They're already running a platform where they're expected to have some hurdles and have different tools. Use Panda3D. Or don't. Use OGRE maybe. Or program with SDL. Or raw OpenGL & ALSA.
What about Asus? I'm looking to build an AM2 setup, but things have changed a lot from a few months ago... I can't find a Gigabyte AM2 microATX motherboard.
I've heard people say botht hat Asus is still good, and that their quality is slipping... Or is it more of a question that Gigabyte has just caught up?
I makes me sad that I can't buy from the US, so my computer crap costs me a ton and a half. I kept seeing Corsair and Antec PSUs for like 30$, I'd get excited, and then find out it was the American Newegg store, and that for Canucks it was 20$ more... =(
They do a great job at slashing prices though. I guess it's because Corsair isn't well-known for good PSUs outside of some circles.
Foxconn is the supplier for macs, yes. And I believe Dell, HP, etc. get a lot of their boards from them. Or maybe it's just Apple. Foxconn is known for being OEM crap.
Why go through the trouble of hiring a bunch of x86 engineers?
Unless somehow the two companies secretly merged, or they've hired a team to help VIA shrink the Nano?... Or maybe rework it for a dual-core/more powerful release?...
Still, it would be very sweet to have a Nano/GeForce mini-ITX motherboard. Or heck, why stop there, a pico-ITX board too!
I wouldn't trust anything but SeaSonic-based brands, or something with Channel Well Tech. (Antec EarthWatts, SeaSonic, Corsair) You don't know when a generic could just blow on you.
Fortron Source/Sparkle is also good, but probably more efficient in the 220V/240V markets. Personally I've been looking at all of them, but I think I can score a sweet deal on a corsair.
As for motherboards, I like Asus, and I've been considering Gigabyte. Foxconn is the worst by far, however; lowest bidder for all the OEMs.
Unlikely. The summary is right, nVidia burnt that bridge: I remember hearing that nVidia backed out of its VIA+GeForce plans to pursue its Ion platform.
Now, why the hell you'd want to give up the Nano, is beyond me. nVidia, get your ass in gear: VIA Nano + 9400GS chipset = killer combo.
Really, if you want an answer, it's not going to be easy to find one. I download them because it's there when I need it. I have the tunes I liked when I heard them on the radio. But these aren't the songs I love, and if someone would have asked me to pay for every single one of my songs, you'd likely see a lot less.
Rather than listen to commercials on the radio, I'd rather just download the songs and listen to them. But like I said, if you told me I can't do that, and I have to pay for all of my tracks... well, hello radio.
It stacks up; I'm not interested in spending 100$ on an MP3 player and another 100$ for songs to put on it. (I'm sure you could think of 100 songs that are playing right now somewhere) But even then, I'm not really download-happy.
Again, not necessarily that I'm entitled to it... But it's for the same reason that you find replicas of famous paintings. You're not decreasing the value of the real thing. You'd just like to appreciate the real thing too.
Then again, a lot of music is hit or miss. I'm not hooked up to a large private tracker, so I don't quite get everything, and not at the best qualities. So that's where buying legit has saved my ass. For example, looking for Rachel Ferguson's "Joshua" just nets me 300KB EXE/ZIP files called "FERGY_HOT_SEX".
You can install linux on any PC. Can't say the same about a mac.
The only way to reduce windows' market share, without flooding the market with a billion macs, is by intsalling linux on those PCs. MS is terrified of the move to slower PCs, like what's happening thanks to the Atom, because it means they can't force people into new machines for new Windows, which means OEMs lose out, which means they won't have to stick with MS anymore.
There's living proof of this MS/OEM push forward.Like it or not, Vista was good for something: The price of RAM and a lot of other hardware parts dropped dramatically (RAM is climbing back up because of a German DRAM company going belly-up, but there's already so much DRAM on shelves that this won't impact supply).
Think about it. Convert all of those Win95/98/ME/2k boxes into Linux. And in two years, all of those XP boxes into Linux. Linux forced them to rethink their strategy.
Personally, I don't buy movies or music. I really only buy games anymore.
If it's not on cable, if it's not on the airwaves, it's not fit for human consumption. Think about it. With the exception of some movies (I liked Boondock Saints, for example) the classics will likely air at some point or another. Same for music. I had a friend who would keep a radio hooked up to his soundcard and just record the songs he'd want, as ogg files to boot. When you think the big bad wolf is looking you down, it's an option.
Maybe I'm just a stingy bastard. I'm not paying $0.99 per song for music I'll listen to maybe twice a month (when you have a big playlist and actually listen to people at work, I realised how little I use my MP3 player).
I'd pirate games if only to stick it to companies that make shovelware and movie games. Fuck right off, bud. Let me play it a bit. If I like it, I'll definately buy it. That's what we need more of; the option to download levels from games straight to your PS3/360/Wii. Let me try the first twenty minutes. Generally from that point you can tell what the controls are like, if the game looks ok, and the story starts there (but the story can be looked up; it's the actual "how does it play" that matters the most).
But then again, there's services like Gamefly for that.
I'm not necessarily opposed to buying my media. I've bought movies, I've gotten some as gifts. I rip them, and occasionally friends lend me burnt discs and video files of questionable origins. But it's not like I want something, can afford it, and instead I download it. Music is a bit of a different story. I'm willing to buy a CD if it has good tracks (no filler BS) and for a good price (10$ is the maximum), but only from a singer/band I like.
I have no qualms about downloading crap for the sake of downloading crap. It's not like I would have bought it in the first place. ACTA is ridiculous. People are still buying movies, games, and music. If anything, the rate decreases with more anti-piracy measures, and increases with pro-freedom ones. I'm very tempted to start buying my tunes from Amazon and such just because it's bullshit-free.
DRM and lawsuits aren't going to stop anyone. All it takes is one person and one hard drive.
It might be USB-On-The-Go. But it would only have 5 pins if it were the case.
Cellphone manufacturers scare me. Some phones do, others don't, and then there's some that have something that looks like USB but probably isn't (LG Shine in this case). On the other hand, it's a big step forward from the crap Erikson and Nokia used to do, that ugly iPod-cloned connector.
For small gadgets like cellphones, there's no reason not to use USB power.
When I was flying with Air Canada, they had AC 120V sockets on each seat, along with a USB port. I didn't test the output on the AC socket, but I saw some kid charge his DS, and I'm sure it could probably deliver enough power to charge a laptop.
Now, if the OMAP (beagleboard) and i.MX515 become popular, maybe you'll see laptops that can charge via USB.
(And all the trains in Sweden that I went on had AC sockets. I don't normally ride the train so I don't know about other places)
The new LTS comes out 2 years after (6.06 -> 8.04) but the support keeps coming for a year after that (6.06 -> until june '09) for desktops.
If they change the current rate, and introduce a new LTS or cut the support for a current LTS by a year's difference, it's likely because of KDE4 being deemed LTS-worthy (4.0 obviously wasn't, nothing.0 is) or Gnome 3 being released (and so Ubuntu gets pushed back by a year)
But there's other stuff, too. Tesla was all wild with wireless power, the man probably had as much raw electricity coursing through him as he did blood. But he died quietly in his sleep at the age of what, 80-something?
Nothing is safe if it isn't in nature, and even then nature isn't safe to begin with. But I think GP meant more, you're being hit with all sorts of radio waves, stronger than the occasional use of a cellphone... do you really think it's going to kill you?
(personally, I don't like cellphones because it's concentrated radio waves right next your brain... but there's probably more of them hitting me simply as I walk down a street.)
The only problem is that it is pricier if you're doing Rogers Internet+TV (and possibly because we have two cell plans).
But then again, it's only 30$/mo for 5mbps. I'll have to see how much we've being charged for Roger's service, but considering we have to rent the modem under rogers, if Teksavvy is stuck for a long time, you see the prices stabilise after a year.
Where they really grind my gears, though, is with cable TV. 61$ a fucking month for channels that used to come with the basic plan. At least the dirtbags have the decency of keeping the first 70 or so analog. I'm worried about what's going to happen if they decide to go all-digital: would that kill off any chance of using a mythbox?
Oh, I fogot to mention... It's always based on the model name if it's an OEM product, or based on women I know for a custom build. For example, I had a Dell Precision I named Paulina...
My thoughts exactly. Xubuntu 6.06 (so 2005 drivers) worked perfectly out of the box. Right resolution, right refresh rate, and it was able to do OpenGL accel (for almost everything).
But here I am with Lenny, and it's barely working...
Maybe switching to a 2.4 kernel would work? Or did they backport their crappy driver?
Last I checked, the Japanese had the highest amount of US dollar holdings. Or did the PRC suddenly gobble up the extra few hundred billion that were desperately necessary?
Printing money is not a smart idea, but at least it's an improvement. I know my money has some value, unlike batering, where you're never quite sure what you'll end up with.
Not necessarily. i810 is woefully broken. You get artifacts left and right, wrong resolution that can't be changed, no openGL working whatsoever (I was doing transparencies with Xfwm but that was it). From what I understand I need one of the latest kernels with GEM to make it stop.
There's a working driver now, actually, but is it in the mainstream kernel yet?
For R700 and R600, that is... And what kind of problems would you expect? I hear you can't do Compiz+XV, but is that only if you use compiz and XvMC or similar stuff? What if the CPU is handling the decoding?
I know you're talking about computers, but there are now more games available for Apple's iPhone/iTouch than all the other handheld gaming devices combined. Yes, right now 90%+ of them are little better than your typical flash browser game, but they're improving in quality rapidly and Apple is realizing where their bread is buttered. The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues and the next iPhone will likely make game performance a priority.
Considering the DS has passed 85 million units and the GBA before it sold a fairly strong 40-50 million... You have to imagine with a market like that, there'd be a massive library of games. I'm pretty sure that surpasses Apple's iPod Touch by far.
Unless you count flash games as iPod/iPhone games? If so, that's a cheap move. They could be played on a DS, too, at least in theory. And isn't flash not even working on the iPhone?
(I hate people who use "iTouch". when the hell did this meme start? This is the iTouch)
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Those binaries were going to break. It's to teach some people a lesson: You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Want to develop for Linux? Standardise on your own libraries. Screw your users. They're already running a platform where they're expected to have some hurdles and have different tools. Use Panda3D. Or don't. Use OGRE maybe. Or program with SDL. Or raw OpenGL & ALSA.
Pick your poison, the users will follow you.
What about Asus? I'm looking to build an AM2 setup, but things have changed a lot from a few months ago... I can't find a Gigabyte AM2 microATX motherboard.
I've heard people say botht hat Asus is still good, and that their quality is slipping... Or is it more of a question that Gigabyte has just caught up?
I makes me sad that I can't buy from the US, so my computer crap costs me a ton and a half. I kept seeing Corsair and Antec PSUs for like 30$, I'd get excited, and then find out it was the American Newegg store, and that for Canucks it was 20$ more... =(
They do a great job at slashing prices though. I guess it's because Corsair isn't well-known for good PSUs outside of some circles.
Foxconn is the supplier for macs, yes. And I believe Dell, HP, etc. get a lot of their boards from them. Or maybe it's just Apple. Foxconn is known for being OEM crap.
Why go through the trouble of hiring a bunch of x86 engineers?
Unless somehow the two companies secretly merged, or they've hired a team to help VIA shrink the Nano?... Or maybe rework it for a dual-core/more powerful release?...
Still, it would be very sweet to have a Nano/GeForce mini-ITX motherboard. Or heck, why stop there, a pico-ITX board too!
I wouldn't trust anything but SeaSonic-based brands, or something with Channel Well Tech. (Antec EarthWatts, SeaSonic, Corsair) You don't know when a generic could just blow on you.
Fortron Source/Sparkle is also good, but probably more efficient in the 220V/240V markets. Personally I've been looking at all of them, but I think I can score a sweet deal on a corsair.
As for motherboards, I like Asus, and I've been considering Gigabyte. Foxconn is the worst by far, however; lowest bidder for all the OEMs.
Wasn't it because of the Centaur IDT acquisition? I don't recall Cyrix being part of this, except in name in only...
Unlikely. The summary is right, nVidia burnt that bridge: I remember hearing that nVidia backed out of its VIA+GeForce plans to pursue its Ion platform.
Now, why the hell you'd want to give up the Nano, is beyond me. nVidia, get your ass in gear: VIA Nano + 9400GS chipset = killer combo.
Because everyone talks about it. :)
Really, if you want an answer, it's not going to be easy to find one. I download them because it's there when I need it. I have the tunes I liked when I heard them on the radio. But these aren't the songs I love, and if someone would have asked me to pay for every single one of my songs, you'd likely see a lot less.
Rather than listen to commercials on the radio, I'd rather just download the songs and listen to them. But like I said, if you told me I can't do that, and I have to pay for all of my tracks... well, hello radio.
It stacks up; I'm not interested in spending 100$ on an MP3 player and another 100$ for songs to put on it. (I'm sure you could think of 100 songs that are playing right now somewhere) But even then, I'm not really download-happy.
Again, not necessarily that I'm entitled to it... But it's for the same reason that you find replicas of famous paintings. You're not decreasing the value of the real thing. You'd just like to appreciate the real thing too.
Then again, a lot of music is hit or miss. I'm not hooked up to a large private tracker, so I don't quite get everything, and not at the best qualities. So that's where buying legit has saved my ass. For example, looking for Rachel Ferguson's "Joshua" just nets me 300KB EXE/ZIP files called "FERGY_HOT_SEX".
You can install linux on any PC. Can't say the same about a mac.
The only way to reduce windows' market share, without flooding the market with a billion macs, is by intsalling linux on those PCs. MS is terrified of the move to slower PCs, like what's happening thanks to the Atom, because it means they can't force people into new machines for new Windows, which means OEMs lose out, which means they won't have to stick with MS anymore.
There's living proof of this MS/OEM push forward .Like it or not, Vista was good for something: The price of RAM and a lot of other hardware parts dropped dramatically (RAM is climbing back up because of a German DRAM company going belly-up, but there's already so much DRAM on shelves that this won't impact supply).
Think about it. Convert all of those Win95/98/ME/2k boxes into Linux. And in two years, all of those XP boxes into Linux. Linux forced them to rethink their strategy.
Personally, I don't buy movies or music. I really only buy games anymore.
If it's not on cable, if it's not on the airwaves, it's not fit for human consumption. Think about it. With the exception of some movies (I liked Boondock Saints, for example) the classics will likely air at some point or another. Same for music. I had a friend who would keep a radio hooked up to his soundcard and just record the songs he'd want, as ogg files to boot. When you think the big bad wolf is looking you down, it's an option.
Maybe I'm just a stingy bastard. I'm not paying $0.99 per song for music I'll listen to maybe twice a month (when you have a big playlist and actually listen to people at work, I realised how little I use my MP3 player).
I'd pirate games if only to stick it to companies that make shovelware and movie games. Fuck right off, bud. Let me play it a bit. If I like it, I'll definately buy it. That's what we need more of; the option to download levels from games straight to your PS3/360/Wii. Let me try the first twenty minutes. Generally from that point you can tell what the controls are like, if the game looks ok, and the story starts there (but the story can be looked up; it's the actual "how does it play" that matters the most).
But then again, there's services like Gamefly for that.
I'm not necessarily opposed to buying my media. I've bought movies, I've gotten some as gifts. I rip them, and occasionally friends lend me burnt discs and video files of questionable origins. But it's not like I want something, can afford it, and instead I download it. Music is a bit of a different story. I'm willing to buy a CD if it has good tracks (no filler BS) and for a good price (10$ is the maximum), but only from a singer/band I like.
I have no qualms about downloading crap for the sake of downloading crap. It's not like I would have bought it in the first place. ACTA is ridiculous. People are still buying movies, games, and music. If anything, the rate decreases with more anti-piracy measures, and increases with pro-freedom ones. I'm very tempted to start buying my tunes from Amazon and such just because it's bullshit-free.
DRM and lawsuits aren't going to stop anyone. All it takes is one person and one hard drive.
It might be USB-On-The-Go. But it would only have 5 pins if it were the case.
Cellphone manufacturers scare me. Some phones do, others don't, and then there's some that have something that looks like USB but probably isn't (LG Shine in this case). On the other hand, it's a big step forward from the crap Erikson and Nokia used to do, that ugly iPod-cloned connector.
For small gadgets like cellphones, there's no reason not to use USB power.
When I was flying with Air Canada, they had AC 120V sockets on each seat, along with a USB port. I didn't test the output on the AC socket, but I saw some kid charge his DS, and I'm sure it could probably deliver enough power to charge a laptop.
Now, if the OMAP (beagleboard) and i.MX515 become popular, maybe you'll see laptops that can charge via USB.
(And all the trains in Sweden that I went on had AC sockets. I don't normally ride the train so I don't know about other places)
The new LTS comes out 2 years after (6.06 -> 8.04) but the support keeps coming for a year after that (6.06 -> until june '09) for desktops.
If they change the current rate, and introduce a new LTS or cut the support for a current LTS by a year's difference, it's likely because of KDE4 being deemed LTS-worthy (4.0 obviously wasn't, nothing .0 is) or Gnome 3 being released (and so Ubuntu gets pushed back by a year)
(do you use Google Earth, Skype, or Opera?).
Minor correction: It seems Opera only uses Qt on Linux.
Very strange, because it looks like it would be Qt, but that's the official word.
(for the curious, it comes in Qt4 versions too, you've just got to look for it.)
But there's other stuff, too. Tesla was all wild with wireless power, the man probably had as much raw electricity coursing through him as he did blood. But he died quietly in his sleep at the age of what, 80-something?
Nothing is safe if it isn't in nature, and even then nature isn't safe to begin with. But I think GP meant more, you're being hit with all sorts of radio waves, stronger than the occasional use of a cellphone... do you really think it's going to kill you?
(personally, I don't like cellphones because it's concentrated radio waves right next your brain... but there's probably more of them hitting me simply as I walk down a street.)
The only problem is that it is pricier if you're doing Rogers Internet+TV (and possibly because we have two cell plans).
But then again, it's only 30$/mo for 5mbps. I'll have to see how much we've being charged for Roger's service, but considering we have to rent the modem under rogers, if Teksavvy is stuck for a long time, you see the prices stabilise after a year.
Where they really grind my gears, though, is with cable TV. 61$ a fucking month for channels that used to come with the basic plan. At least the dirtbags have the decency of keeping the first 70 or so analog. I'm worried about what's going to happen if they decide to go all-digital: would that kill off any chance of using a mythbox?
Not any more. nVidia breaks kernels. AMD has a free driver for pretty much all of their GPUs.
nVidia + VIA would be nice, if they weren't morons and dropped the platform.
Blegh, gold standard? The same one that has to deflate?
No thank you sir. I like printed money better. The current situation is not the ultimate one, but it's better than the alternatives.
Oh, I fogot to mention... It's always based on the model name if it's an OEM product, or based on women I know for a custom build. For example, I had a Dell Precision I named Paulina...
Well, not any in specific, just female names that I like. For some I haven't ever met someone with that name (as simple as Linda).
It feels nicer. More personal?
But those are for desktops. Maybe for servers I'd give them boys names, because they do heavy lifting while I play around with the girls. =)
My thoughts exactly. Xubuntu 6.06 (so 2005 drivers) worked perfectly out of the box. Right resolution, right refresh rate, and it was able to do OpenGL accel (for almost everything).
But here I am with Lenny, and it's barely working...
Maybe switching to a 2.4 kernel would work? Or did they backport their crappy driver?
Last I checked, the Japanese had the highest amount of US dollar holdings. Or did the PRC suddenly gobble up the extra few hundred billion that were desperately necessary?
Printing money is not a smart idea, but at least it's an improvement. I know my money has some value, unlike batering, where you're never quite sure what you'll end up with.
Not necessarily. i810 is woefully broken. You get artifacts left and right, wrong resolution that can't be changed, no openGL working whatsoever (I was doing transparencies with Xfwm but that was it). From what I understand I need one of the latest kernels with GEM to make it stop.
Yeah, thanks intel.
There's a working driver now, actually, but is it in the mainstream kernel yet?
For R700 and R600, that is... And what kind of problems would you expect? I hear you can't do Compiz+XV, but is that only if you use compiz and XvMC or similar stuff? What if the CPU is handling the decoding?
I know you're talking about computers, but there are now more games available for Apple's iPhone/iTouch than all the other handheld gaming devices combined. Yes, right now 90%+ of them are little better than your typical flash browser game, but they're improving in quality rapidly and Apple is realizing where their bread is buttered. The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues and the next iPhone will likely make game performance a priority.
Considering the DS has passed 85 million units and the GBA before it sold a fairly strong 40-50 million... You have to imagine with a market like that, there'd be a massive library of games. I'm pretty sure that surpasses Apple's iPod Touch by far.
Unless you count flash games as iPod/iPhone games? If so, that's a cheap move. They could be played on a DS, too, at least in theory. And isn't flash not even working on the iPhone?
(I hate people who use "iTouch". when the hell did this meme start? This is the iTouch)