And thus they will have to pay for the 800+ patents, while they could just join and share their 12 patents with everybody and get to beifit from a 812+ patent bank...
It's a reverse engineered driver, but instead of copying it, the devs went to convert it to Gallium3D driver architecture. There are two components. One is the Direct Rendering Manager component (lives in the kernel) and the second one is in Mesa (the free OpenGL implementation) as a state tracker.
A Gallium3D driver is making the graphics card visible to the system by means of an API. On top of that API features can be written (like OpenGL, OpenCL, vector graphics acceleration, etc) which are called state trackers. Mesa is now such a state tracker.
When a OpenGL 3.x state tracker has been written, for example, it will work on all graphics cards that have a Gallium3D driver. So now all graphics drivers in Linux will get the same feature set. When sobody writes a feature for his ATI card, you as an nVidia users will also get to have that feature and vise versa...;)
It's more or less an agreement not to sue each other, that Nokia wanted, untill Apple was there willing to charge for patents (like they always do) which made Nokia say: "OK, want it hardball? You can get it hardball!". And then when Apple said: "No fuck you, we'll play the poor victem role by saying we can't pay normal fees for you patents" while Apple could just share their patents and pay nothing for the Nokia patents.
So what you mean is there is a cabal of companies working together to limit competition [...]
No. What I am saying is that there is a 'cabal' of companies who encourage competition by sharing, and encourage sharing, of patents so that the entire global market stays healthy and Apple went "Fsck you, we are not going to cross license our patents".
So when Apple 'evolved' the market with multi-touch, they said: Nobody but can have multi-touch and thus limit competition.
You have this very large mobile phone market. A lot of companies are in it. It's a closed knit group where everybody tries to collectively protect their common business. Everybody has patents and everybody is sharing them. Simple.
Then Apple joins in... They think that they are somehow more important than everybody else. They say "fsck your patents cross-licesensing! We are going to take over this little market of all of you!".
This is not nice. I don't care who's violating who's patents... Nokia just needs to win this. Period.
For some people a computer is just like a car. For us, a dropdown menu is easy. For the general noob, it's all options. It's "changing how the computer works". For us that's an easy difference, but for other people it's not.
True. You can see the innapropriate (-1, Troll) and (5, Insightful) ratings above both the Google and Bing fanboy posts everywhere.
Most people here probably use Linux, BSD and/or Mac OS X (and some Haiku, ReactOS or insert other tiny OS here) and Microsoft is just the black sheep to bash at. Not everyone here still has up-to-date experience with the Windows developments and it's for a reason....
I, for one, has probably used and tested all thye latest OSs out there (even the Hurd live CD) and everybody is pretty right about Microsoft sucking so much. The people that have never learned about other OSs just don't understand them and see Windows as 'the only working OS' and see improvements on that as totally pro and awesome. "Windows 7 is so much more awesome than Windows XP and Vista" and "Have you tried Vista? Then you know it's awesome". This is the 'problematic group on/. because they don't have the faintest clue that what makes for example Windows 7 bearable is just a fraction of the awesomeness that other OSs have head for years...
Is it realy hard to change your OS? No it isn't. But what if somebody told you "Is it so hard to just replace this tiny engine part? It only costs you 30 dollars and your engine will run 10 times cleaner! Not to mention 4% faster."?
Would you awnser be "Hey that's cool! Where can I find the manual to do this?" or "Bah... My car drives me from A to B and it simply works. I don't want to mess with it because maybe it voids my warrenty* or something or I'll fsck it up and I am driving on public roads only in traffic jams so I'll never go faster than 30 miles per hour anyway..."
*Yes. Try sending back your Dell pc with Fedora Core on it... See what happens...
For me; as long as Google doesn't get inaccessable and Linux doesn't get embrased, extended and extinguished I'm perfectly fine with Microsofts marketshare. Bing's succes isn't a limiting facter in using my computer so I don't care...
I think that they changed it to bing because it's a name with four characters. Google is six characters long and thus bing.com types much faster than Google. Both are strange names and bing just sound like good marketing to me. search.live.com was just realy confusing and horribly long. That entire Live thing is so fucked up. Not because it sucks, but because there is no central websites for anything Live. It either live.apps.com/live_messenger or search.live.microsoft.com and all that crap. They realy made a good choice by just going with bing.com to me.
Sometimes Bing finds something that I can't find with Google, but the backgrounds and the BS and the fact that it's run by Microsoft just make me go to Google everytime.
Chrome defaults to Google and asks you on the first startup if you're OK with it or if you want to change it to another search engine. At least with the latest public build...
Is that even possible? I thought that that OS was ran by a computer instead of the other way around. I somehow needed to buy a new computer to run the OS.
Hello... earth to you people; an OS is there to run a computer. If it can't run a 3 year old Dell business desktop (Pentium D with an Intel onboard GPU) you know there's something wrong with it....
From a tech CEO perspective: yes. For everything else; no.
Don't confuse business with technology. The only reason that Microsoft is even in business today is because most people are morons when it comes to anything remotely logical and technical... But that also doesn't mean that most people are morons.
heck if I was a manufacture of anything related to computers, I would first spend a month researching slashdot just to find idea's and trying to fill them.
For those who run a gimmick OSs like Windows, it would. For the rest of the world that uses a real OS (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, etc) you just switch to a terminal and type 'killall TheCrashingAppThatTakesYourComputerHostage' and get back to your desktop...
The entire reason for chaching in RAM these days with broadband is because it's a 1000 times faster (literaly) than the HDD. A swap is for poot-man computers that have their RAM completely full...
Firefox keeps track of what you visited while running (cashin, can be turned of... *sigh*), so when you are 'closing' your tabs and you decide to re-open it or go backwards or forwards everything responds faster. If you close Firefox it doesn't have the cache in the memory anymore...
RAM these days is dirt cheap. Preloading is what makes Vista and 7 use so much memory and I gladly run Linux with preload. Because guess what? On newer hardware these tweaks make your system actually faster. I hate uninformed people whine about things that are only their problem because they can't afford to upgrade their PC every 5 years (get a Dell PC for 299 dollars or something, jesus...)
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Eleven words:
Fedora twelve plus Inkscape plus Lenevo Thinkpad tablet with Wacom Touchscreen.
Too bad, idiots...
Foss never takes off? How about:
Your TV
Your DVB reciever?
The internet that you are on, with your supscription to you ISP servers that probably run FOSS?
How about the global economy? The servers that are keeping trading alive, may they not be run by FOSS for the majority of them?
How about you webapps?
Game servers that you play your games on?
The computer in your car?
You phone maybe?
Your radio?
Webkit, GNU tools and whatever Apple uses in Mac OS X, "The most friendly computers"
Etc, etc, etc...
In other words: You don't have a clue...
Code::Blocks is what you are looking for ;). http://www.codeblocks.org/
Code::Blocks is what you are looking for. http://www.codeblocks.org/
And thus they will have to pay for the 800+ patents, while they could just join and share their 12 patents with everybody and get to beifit from a 812+ patent bank...
It's a reverse engineered driver, but instead of copying it, the devs went to convert it to Gallium3D driver architecture. There are two components. One is the Direct Rendering Manager component (lives in the kernel) and the second one is in Mesa (the free OpenGL implementation) as a state tracker.
A Gallium3D driver is making the graphics card visible to the system by means of an API. On top of that API features can be written (like OpenGL, OpenCL, vector graphics acceleration, etc) which are called state trackers. Mesa is now such a state tracker.
When a OpenGL 3.x state tracker has been written, for example, it will work on all graphics cards that have a Gallium3D driver. So now all graphics drivers in Linux will get the same feature set. When sobody writes a feature for his ATI card, you as an nVidia users will also get to have that feature and vise versa... ;)
OK never had that... What I did have was when I blinked at my monitor when running Windows I had got BSOD...
It's more or less an agreement not to sue each other, that Nokia wanted, untill Apple was there willing to charge for patents (like they always do) which made Nokia say: "OK, want it hardball? You can get it hardball!". And then when Apple said: "No fuck you, we'll play the poor victem role by saying we can't pay normal fees for you patents" while Apple could just share their patents and pay nothing for the Nokia patents.
So what you mean is there is a cabal of companies working together to limit competition [...]
No. What I am saying is that there is a 'cabal' of companies who encourage competition by sharing, and encourage sharing, of patents so that the entire global market stays healthy and Apple went "Fsck you, we are not going to cross license our patents".
So when Apple 'evolved' the market with multi-touch, they said: Nobody but can have multi-touch and thus limit competition.
Dude, you missing the point....
You have this very large mobile phone market. A lot of companies are in it. It's a closed knit group where everybody tries to collectively protect their common business. Everybody has patents and everybody is sharing them. Simple.
Then Apple joins in... They think that they are somehow more important than everybody else. They say "fsck your patents cross-licesensing! We are going to take over this little market of all of you!".
This is not nice. I don't care who's violating who's patents... Nokia just needs to win this. Period.
Nokia shareholder, much? ;)
I'd change a few comments, or just one and add:
/*Enterprise Edition.
You are not meant to know this source code!
Bla bla bla^2*/
Then release it under a proprietaty license. A small license fee. Profit. Kaboom baby
Eesy money....
Maybe... But Intel had their name under the Slashdot category box on the top left and asked the /. users about ideas.
For some people a computer is just like a car. For us, a dropdown menu is easy. For the general noob, it's all options. It's "changing how the computer works". For us that's an easy difference, but for other people it's not.
True. You can see the innapropriate (-1, Troll) and (5, Insightful) ratings above both the Google and Bing fanboy posts everywhere.
Most people here probably use Linux, BSD and/or Mac OS X (and some Haiku, ReactOS or insert other tiny OS here) and Microsoft is just the black sheep to bash at. Not everyone here still has up-to-date experience with the Windows developments and it's for a reason....
I, for one, has probably used and tested all thye latest OSs out there (even the Hurd live CD) and everybody is pretty right about Microsoft sucking so much. The people that have never learned about other OSs just don't understand them and see Windows as 'the only working OS' and see improvements on that as totally pro and awesome. "Windows 7 is so much more awesome than Windows XP and Vista" and "Have you tried Vista? Then you know it's awesome". This is the 'problematic group on /. because they don't have the faintest clue that what makes for example Windows 7 bearable is just a fraction of the awesomeness that other OSs have head for years...
Is it realy hard to change your OS? No it isn't. But what if somebody told you "Is it so hard to just replace this tiny engine part? It only costs you 30 dollars and your engine will run 10 times cleaner! Not to mention 4% faster."?
Would you awnser be "Hey that's cool! Where can I find the manual to do this?" or "Bah... My car drives me from A to B and it simply works. I don't want to mess with it because maybe it voids my warrenty* or something or I'll fsck it up and I am driving on public roads only in traffic jams so I'll never go faster than 30 miles per hour anyway..."
*Yes. Try sending back your Dell pc with Fedora Core on it... See what happens...
For me; as long as Google doesn't get inaccessable and Linux doesn't get embrased, extended and extinguished I'm perfectly fine with Microsofts marketshare. Bing's succes isn't a limiting facter in using my computer so I don't care...
I think that they changed it to bing because it's a name with four characters. Google is six characters long and thus bing.com types much faster than Google. Both are strange names and bing just sound like good marketing to me. search.live.com was just realy confusing and horribly long. That entire Live thing is so fucked up. Not because it sucks, but because there is no central websites for anything Live. It either live.apps.com/live_messenger or search.live.microsoft.com and all that crap. They realy made a good choice by just going with bing.com to me.
Sometimes Bing finds something that I can't find with Google, but the backgrounds and the BS and the fact that it's run by Microsoft just make me go to Google everytime.
Chrome defaults to Google and asks you on the first startup if you're OK with it or if you want to change it to another search engine. At least with the latest public build...
Have you ever _used_ Vista?
Is that even possible? I thought that that OS was ran by a computer instead of the other way around. I somehow needed to buy a new computer to run the OS.
Hello... earth to you people; an OS is there to run a computer. If it can't run a 3 year old Dell business desktop (Pentium D with an Intel onboard GPU) you know there's something wrong with it....
From a tech CEO perspective: yes. For everything else; no.
Don't confuse business with technology. The only reason that Microsoft is even in business today is because most people are morons when it comes to anything remotely logical and technical... But that also doesn't mean that most people are morons.
heck if I was a manufacture of anything related to computers, I would first spend a month researching slashdot just to find idea's and trying to fill them.
Intel did...
For those who run a gimmick OSs like Windows, it would. For the rest of the world that uses a real OS (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, etc) you just switch to a terminal and type 'killall TheCrashingAppThatTakesYourComputerHostage' and get back to your desktop...
The entire reason for chaching in RAM these days with broadband is because it's a 1000 times faster (literaly) than the HDD. A swap is for poot-man computers that have their RAM completely full...
Firefox keeps track of what you visited while running (cashin, can be turned of... *sigh*), so when you are 'closing' your tabs and you decide to re-open it or go backwards or forwards everything responds faster. If you close Firefox it doesn't have the cache in the memory anymore...
RAM these days is dirt cheap. Preloading is what makes Vista and 7 use so much memory and I gladly run Linux with preload. Because guess what? On newer hardware these tweaks make your system actually faster. I hate uninformed people whine about things that are only their problem because they can't afford to upgrade their PC every 5 years (get a Dell PC for 299 dollars or something, jesus...)
Under Linux you can su and/or sudo and under Windows you can right-click and run-as... (it prompts for the password, if the account has one).
Stop this useless discussion...
Admin is for administering the system and updating. User is for using the system set up by the administrator.