What Apple does is that they recycle open source bits for their own use, and they happened to use some BSD stuff, but Mac OS X is by far not based on BSD! Let's start with the fact that Mac OS X has two kernels instead of one... So there you go...
And also, Apple does occaisionally contribute some stuff back to FreeBSD, so in some sense BSD's marketshare is also a bit of Apple's by your definition...
The layer is for the ABI, in other words the Application Binary Interface (it's like the API of a Kernel for applications). This is because FreeBSD is not Linux. With Linux the drivers are from within the kernel, or somewhat outside of it with modules.
However... If you want open source graphics drivers (I am sorry... I do not know your level of knowledge/expertice so just ignore what I am about to say if it makes you go like *whoooosh*;) ) than these are tied into X.org (the graphical foundation upon which the Linux GUI's works) and the Linux KMS (kernel mode setting) (as the UMS, user mode setting, is disabled in most current drivers) and if FreeBSD already has the KMS feature (was planned) then these drivers work out of the box on FreeBSD;).
Please try to come up with something more important than this! This absolutely rediculous because publishing a photo in a newspaper could also be an infringement of privacy!
Yes there are privacy concerns with Google, but please take some bigger issue asociated with Google than this!
Yes I am a big fan of Google. Yes I am using their services. No, I am also concerned about privacy when it comes to Google, just as much as any other info-indexing service..
You see... taking an update the yes or the no is questioned because it could cause flaws when the current version doesn't fail.
Well guess what, no-brainers; the current version is flawed.
Just take the damned update and maybe you won't cause a fscking accident. The update could cause a security fail, but it is certain version does cause it.
The Bill Gates foundation only gives the bare minimum of money required to be a charity and thus kill of taxes.
That bare minimum only goes to the people that have health concerns because they work for/live close at the companies that polute, in which the Bill Gates foundation holds stock, so it's buying off the guilt.
In the end when Billy is dead, all the money is supposed to go to charity, which is good, althought you can ask yourself of what use the money still is to a dead person; after your deatch you can't use it anyway...
And the charity only goes to plans people make to develop solutions. Any patent aquired that relates to whatever is being developped will come into Gates his hands because he paid for the investment.
We are going to sue you because you make cardridges that fit into our Nintendo DS product that can read out images on MicroSD cards.
We are unhappy with this because we are a company and we like to make as much money as we can and software pirates are abusing the functionality to run pirated copies of Nintendo DS games. Therefore we think that you need to pay us a shitload of money and not the people that pirate.
A rootkit can lie... It can say "It is 3MB and this is the signature" while it is not. But if you tell the rootkit "Oh realy? Well then... perform the following formula with this 'genuine' library for me". The rootkit will either cause an error like this BSOD, or return a correct awnser, but the awnser is not the same as the code that the original library would return.
So the checking app will get back a value, let's say 302,96 and compares that value to what the original lib would return and if these do not match it can warn the user. Simple as that.
Seems to me like you fail at computer security for not knowing how to manipulate...
1) nVidia's drivers are not implemented like standard X.org drivers: the binary drivers replace most stuff.
2) Not optimised yet.
3) It's a Gallium3D architecture driver, which is slower (for now) than classic Mesa.
Gallium3D is a new driver architecture where the driver itself is splitted into three parts:
1) The Kernel part. Providing memmorty management and kernels based modesetting instead of user mode setting. Every driver could use it so this part is not needed to be implemented into every driver out there to reduce the amount of coding work.
2) The Gallium3D itself, like this nVidia driver that only needs to expose the bare metal functionality of the graphics card in the form of an API.
3) Features (called State Trackers) like OpenGL, video acceleration, OpenCL, Direct3D, vector graphics acceleration, etc... This is also something that is the same for all Gallium3D driver supported graphics cards. This also doesn't need to be coded for every Gallium3D driven card like the nVidia cards. BTW these State Trackers are implemented on top of the 'standard' Gallium3D API that is surficed by this nVidia Nouveau driver...
So the speed of the nVidia cards when driven by this Gallium3D driver is not solely Nouveau's 'fault'. If the Linux kernel and the State Trackers speed up then the nVidia cards will also leverage more FPS.
These Gallium3D drivers are still young. The entire architecture has not long ago passed the state of rocket science. There is no real world experience and so the fact that the Nouveau developpers could reverse engineer, convert to Gallium3D and make a GeForce 9 run Quake 3 is a realy, realy big achievement.
Things will speed up soon and the future of graphic card driver is bright for Linux!
Wow, you post contained more usefull information than that article, LOL not. You deserve it. Someone please step in and mod of -1 too. This is no fscking Digg.com where whinish opinion comments are respected... _'
In most cases the 'user' is the techniocal definition of an account. In other words: some program, like IE, that runs with admin rights (root) (no longer the case with Vista and beyond, but there are other apps) did it.
Why does this man have to give out all of his private information and such?!
You either have evidence, or you don't. I guess Nintendo didn't have any evidence, so the man could have also be perfectly innoicent!
And 1,5 million dollars?! Jesus... That man can say goodbye to his life and for what? Murder? No ladies and gentleman, sharing a videogame!
Damn... Corporate profit more important than individuals? OK... Hi there, US goverment!
I am perfectly fine with the fact that people get punished for what they do. Let the man pay the percentage Nintendo lost with their pofit over his salary (he can't pay 1.5 million dollars like in ever anyway, so it's symbolic, hello?), take away his right to have internet connection for 5-10 years and make him work unpaid for Nintendo's financial department in the weekends for a year or so... But not this.
Does anyone call this justice?! I certainly as hell do not!
In order for getting a number of people to reach critical mass for a protest, or a multitude of protests, one must first make sure that rich education reaches the critical mass first. That's going to be a hell of a job... And by education I do not mean a bunch of YouTube videos that scream "You see?!?!"...
One of the points of pro-EU was that together one stands stronger and that they have did so now makes me like the EU a lot more because it shows that its interest is in the people and not in corruption (partialy, yet or both).
While you are trying to be funny, you are actually quite correct and if you haven't written that joke sentence your post would be extremely interesting.
My protip: ofcource it is not a conspiracy or a planned islamic attack, but it is kinda like it is....
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The world needs to see his 'member' just as much as it needs your extremely anti-social post...
Mac OS X is based on NeXT.
What Apple does is that they recycle open source bits for their own use, and they happened to use some BSD stuff, but Mac OS X is by far not based on BSD! Let's start with the fact that Mac OS X has two kernels instead of one... So there you go...
And also, Apple does occaisionally contribute some stuff back to FreeBSD, so in some sense BSD's marketshare is also a bit of Apple's by your definition...
The layer is for the ABI, in other words the Application Binary Interface (it's like the API of a Kernel for applications). This is because FreeBSD is not Linux. With Linux the drivers are from within the kernel, or somewhat outside of it with modules.
However... If you want open source graphics drivers (I am sorry... I do not know your level of knowledge/expertice so just ignore what I am about to say if it makes you go like *whoooosh* ;) ) than these are tied into X.org (the graphical foundation upon which the Linux GUI's works) and the Linux KMS (kernel mode setting) (as the UMS, user mode setting, is disabled in most current drivers) and if FreeBSD already has the KMS feature (was planned) then these drivers work out of the box on FreeBSD ;).
Please try to come up with something more important than this! This absolutely rediculous because publishing a photo in a newspaper could also be an infringement of privacy!
Yes there are privacy concerns with Google, but please take some bigger issue asociated with Google than this!
Yes I am a big fan of Google. Yes I am using their services. No, I am also concerned about privacy when it comes to Google, just as much as any other info-indexing service..
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The thinking is still fundamentally flawed...
You see... taking an update the yes or the no is questioned because it could cause flaws when the current version doesn't fail.
Well guess what, no-brainers; the current version is flawed.
Just take the damned update and maybe you won't cause a fscking accident. The update could cause a security fail, but it is certain version does cause it.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/07/nation/na-gatesx07
You too also miss the entire point.
The Bill Gates foundation only gives the bare minimum of money required to be a charity and thus kill of taxes.
That bare minimum only goes to the people that have health concerns because they work for/live close at the companies that polute, in which the Bill Gates foundation holds stock, so it's buying off the guilt.
In the end when Billy is dead, all the money is supposed to go to charity, which is good, althought you can ask yourself of what use the money still is to a dead person; after your deatch you can't use it anyway...
And the charity only goes to plans people make to develop solutions. Any patent aquired that relates to whatever is being developped will come into Gates his hands because he paid for the investment.
Wost form of charity ever...
Dear R4,
We are going to sue you because you make cardridges that fit into our Nintendo DS product that can read out images on MicroSD cards.
We are unhappy with this because we are a company and we like to make as much money as we can and software pirates are abusing the functionality to run pirated copies of Nintendo DS games. Therefore we think that you need to pay us a shitload of money and not the people that pirate.
Addholes as always,
Nintendo Inc.
A rootkit can lie... It can say "It is 3MB and this is the signature" while it is not. But if you tell the rootkit "Oh realy? Well then... perform the following formula with this 'genuine' library for me". The rootkit will either cause an error like this BSOD, or return a correct awnser, but the awnser is not the same as the code that the original library would return.
So the checking app will get back a value, let's say 302,96 and compares that value to what the original lib would return and if these do not match it can warn the user. Simple as that.
Seems to me like you fail at computer security for not knowing how to manipulate...
A few reasons:
1) nVidia's drivers are not implemented like standard X.org drivers: the binary drivers replace most stuff.
2) Not optimised yet.
3) It's a Gallium3D architecture driver, which is slower (for now) than classic Mesa.
Gallium3D is a new driver architecture where the driver itself is splitted into three parts:
1) The Kernel part. Providing memmorty management and kernels based modesetting instead of user mode setting. Every driver could use it so this part is not needed to be implemented into every driver out there to reduce the amount of coding work.
2) The Gallium3D itself, like this nVidia driver that only needs to expose the bare metal functionality of the graphics card in the form of an API.
3) Features (called State Trackers) like OpenGL, video acceleration, OpenCL, Direct3D, vector graphics acceleration, etc... This is also something that is the same for all Gallium3D driver supported graphics cards. This also doesn't need to be coded for every Gallium3D driven card like the nVidia cards. BTW these State Trackers are implemented on top of the 'standard' Gallium3D API that is surficed by this nVidia Nouveau driver...
So the speed of the nVidia cards when driven by this Gallium3D driver is not solely Nouveau's 'fault'. If the Linux kernel and the State Trackers speed up then the nVidia cards will also leverage more FPS.
These Gallium3D drivers are still young. The entire architecture has not long ago passed the state of rocket science. There is no real world experience and so the fact that the Nouveau developpers could reverse engineer, convert to Gallium3D and make a GeForce 9 run Quake 3 is a realy, realy big achievement.
Things will speed up soon and the future of graphic card driver is bright for Linux!
I ... a verb on top of your verb so you can .... while you ...
Wow, you post contained more usefull information than that article, LOL not. You deserve it. Someone please step in and mod of -1 too. This is no fscking Digg.com where whinish opinion comments are respected... _'
Then don't use their epic services then, throw away your mobile phone and whatnot... It's not like there is any lock in product...
Rather lack of stuff to cite? Ever came across a company official e-mail adress that was CompanyOfficial@gmail.com instead of Official@Company.com?
Checksums, 'nuff said...
Apps: Calc this for me...
rootkit: errrrrr.... ?
Apps: Busted, fscker! *and warns user*.
In most cases the 'user' is the techniocal definition of an account. In other words: some program, like IE, that runs with admin rights (root) (no longer the case with Vista and beyond, but there are other apps) did it.
Do you?
What's so wrong about them suing him?
Not much, except for the way they did it...
Why does this man have to give out all of his private information and such?!
You either have evidence, or you don't. I guess Nintendo didn't have any evidence, so the man could have also be perfectly innoicent!
And 1,5 million dollars?! Jesus... That man can say goodbye to his life and for what? Murder? No ladies and gentleman, sharing a videogame!
Damn... Corporate profit more important than individuals? OK... Hi there, US goverment!
I am perfectly fine with the fact that people get punished for what they do. Let the man pay the percentage Nintendo lost with their pofit over his salary (he can't pay 1.5 million dollars like in ever anyway, so it's symbolic, hello?), take away his right to have internet connection for 5-10 years and make him work unpaid for Nintendo's financial department in the weekends for a year or so... But not this.
Does anyone call this justice?! I certainly as hell do not!
What else should it look like, full of Adobe Flash?
It's functional, although it could need some performance tweaks in places that I know shit about...
It sounds to me that you are just hating jews for being succesful in a free market.
That reminds me a bit of Nazi Germany propaganda...
How can the EU screw with the grain market in Africa?
PS: And by protest I meant succesful/meaningful protest
In order for getting a number of people to reach critical mass for a protest, or a multitude of protests, one must first make sure that rich education reaches the critical mass first. That's going to be a hell of a job... And by education I do not mean a bunch of YouTube videos that scream "You see?!?!"...
One of the points of pro-EU was that together one stands stronger and that they have did so now makes me like the EU a lot more because it shows that its interest is in the people and not in corruption (partialy, yet or both).
While you are trying to be funny, you are actually quite correct and if you haven't written that joke sentence your post would be extremely interesting.
My protip: ofcource it is not a conspiracy or a planned islamic attack, but it is kinda like it is....