Most major manufacturers (Hp, Compaq, IBM, Gateway...) use S3, SiS, Trident, and other cheap video cards and NOT ATI/Nvidia for their base and average PC's. Only the more mid-level to high-end machines have NVidia/ATI cards in them. I've seen some new Pc's with Geforce2's but there it's is not the mainstream shipping card by any means.
You are neglecting several other key brands of cards which are used in some cases way more then NVidia / ATI. Matrox for instance is used primarily for Digital Editing, and general 2D Graphics work because of it's fabulous image quality. 3D Labs makes great 3D CAD/Imaging (as in Production Rendering) cards which give all sorts of shader/gl extension benefits not scene on regular cards. Evans and Sutherland make good Cad cards. SGI makes good rendering cards, same as Sun.
Nvidia and ATI are good gaming cards, but they are not the only manufacturers of video cards. Their cards are built for gaming. They may work your latest pirated copy of 3d studio max/maya/animation master/lightwave/truespace, but it doesn't mean it's good at it. Far from it actually.
Must every article talk about the benefits of Linux and Open Source. As a developer I like Linux because it's a good alternative to Windows, however, I'm not a fan of the Open Source idea.
Yes, open source has it's merits and people who work on the open projects should be commended for all their great work, but it starts to get annoying when people expect everything on Linux to be free and open source.
I've been wanting to write Linux Gui code a long time, however the only Gui toolkits which allow closed source for commercial use are too much money to pay, so I am detered from developing with them. Perhaps a bit of commercialization of things could help Linux?
This brings me to my main question. Is Open Source a requirement for Linux to succeed in the Operating System business, or is it just a selling point?
Yes, but they are tread on dangerous waters because it's a clone to OpenGL. And if you knew anything about Mesa, you would know that Brian Paul (the maker of Mesa) said not to call it MesaGL because it would violate copyrights from SGI. Straight from their site:
"Please do not refer to the library as MesaGL (for legal reasons). It's just Mesa or The Mesa 3-D graphics library. "
That aside, Mesa supports almost all the functionality, but does not support certain extensions such as ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM which had Microsoft patents in it. If you'll notice on the Mesa website only NV_VERTEX_PROGRAM is there, which would indicate that the NVidia vertex program extension probably still uses Microsoft IP which forbids NVidia from Open Sourcing it.
YES you can use the Linksys USB Ethernet card, because I am doing this. I have a my PS2 running through my Linksys router (w/DHCP) to my DSL line and it works perfectly. I just set the games to automatic detection (dhcp) and it connects fine. It's nifty works with Tony Hawk 3/4 and SOCOMM. Ofcourse it'll probably work with more games, but these are the only ones I have with Internet Caps.
Free Software / Oper-source isn't the answer to all life's problems. Although it's a great thing, many business modals do not revolve around giving their trade-secrets away. Besides, from what I have seen there are no elaborate RDE's available with the possible exception of Glade but then your code must be OSS.
That sounds like a great idea, but it's NOT going to happen. Microsoft, SGI, S3, Intel, ATI, and other ALL own patents inside OpenGL. Some like ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM, an essential for the OpenGL 1.4 specification is *apparently from ARB meetings* owned IP from Microsoft, which means NVidia has to license the technology to use it. Do you really think Microsoft gives two shits about making their source-code open when they are fighting like hell to get others closed? What serious benefit in a realistic business sense would it have for them?
It's great to say OPEN SOURCE everything, but in the real world, companies cannot simply give away trade secrets, patent info, algorithms just to help the enemy.
If your looking for 2D Image Quality, buy a Matrox video card. Their video cards aren't fast at 3D, but have far superior visual quality and are the video cards of choice for many PC graphics artists.
For one thing, the fuel they use costs something around $10,000 per pound of cargo/payload so if one astronaut is 180lbs, then the cost to put one person is space would be something like $1,800,000 for that one person in fuel alone.
Then consider the training. The astronauts are trained usually for 6 months before a mission. If there are 5 trainers and each one makes $30,000 the trainers for the mission would cost $75,000 in salary.
Because they developers live with their parents, have no social lives, and wear the same clothes, making their paychecks very reasonable when they have no overhead costs at home.
It gets rather irritating to see headlines every day about a couple of people converting. Must every little action in the Linux community be treated as a major milestone?
I like linux, but honestly it is not the best OS in existence. There is no perfect OS in this world, although some would have you believe different.
Rather then always point out the same ridiculous arguments that Linux is better, Windows sux, open-source is better then closed source, why not just accept that people use what they need to get the job done? Yes both OS's can do the same stuff, but I can do certain things 10x faster in Windows then linux, and vice versa.
Announcing every day that people some people are converting really seems pointless when almost all the desktops come with Windows. Consider this, if you wait till the end of the month and announced 10,000 people converted to linux, Microsoft could do the same and say that since there were 1,000,000 desktops sold in the month, 1,000,000 people chose Windows. My point of all this.
WHO CARES! Let people chose on their own, don't advertise every single person, because the general population doesn't give care.
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The Penguin logo MUST go ASAP:
WRONG! This is the sort of distinct image Linux needs. I know many people with little computer knowledge who can easily point out Linux information on the net by seeing that nifty little penguin. Although it may not seem professional, why must things have a super-slick advertisement to be noticed and remembered?
4) Direct X - A MAJOR stumbling block on Linux's road to world domination is the lack of Direct X support for Linux:
DirectX isn't the only API's being used to create games. If the developer uses OpenGL, they can easily port their games to Linux using Mesa (an opengl clone). Plus Creative Labs/Loki released OpenAL a 3D Sound Library nearly on par with DirectSound/3D. If you use those two libraries you can have your game work in Win32, MacOS and Linux with minor changes needed for initialiazation. It's the Lazy developers who are the issues, not the OS. Games can be made for many OS's but is it worth the time/money to make them is the bigger question?
If Windows controls 95% of the computer desktop market, it could be hard to persuade the developers to move to Linux, especially when many advocates want things Free/OSS. However on the other hand, it does present a unique business opportunity for the right company to make money.
My personal philosophy is to make good software, have a cheap price, and give lots of features. Making software OSS is in the eyes the beholder. I don't believe in crippling copyrights, but fair ones for both sides. It is unfortunate that mega-corps don't see things this way.
Actually Canada has an elite military wing called JTF2. It replaced our Airborne unit which had some issues in Somalia (too trigger / knife / beating happy). There is only one known image of them in their gear and next to nothing information wise about their operations in Afhganistan.
"I mean, do you want Shakespeare's Hamlet, or a similar play written by some guy"
But consider this, if someone took Hamlet and modified the ending, would Shakespeare be happy about that other person going from town to town being paid to act his version of it and Shakespeare not get any of that money in return?
Shakespeare's work is several hundred years old, so it would be public domain so you cannot easily compare the two. I think the copyright holder should consider putting the work in the hands of the public domain when it expires, but that would be another scenario in which a perfect world would be slightly closer to reality.
"Programmers are morally obligated to give the code to their users"
WRONG! It is at programmers discretion. A progammer wrote the program to fulfill the users requirements for software. It can be interpretted both ways, unless the user specifically wants the source-code, the programmer has no obligation to give it to them.
Generally in contracts I've seen the user retains the rights to that specific binary, but not the source-code. Meaning that the programmer/company can make dirivitives of it, but not hand out the exact same program.
Rather then say open-source every second, in the vastly competitive software development world it is not feasible to say open source all the time. I like open source as much as the next guy, but if they open sourced their program their software technologies could be stolen, and honestly who would know? If they gave the source-code away, even under the GPL, you could modify it and no-one would be the wiser. Yes some people could complain about infringing on the GPL, but if the progammers are good enough at changing things, nobody would know and now your out a good technology.
In a last thought, why is closed-source so bad? If your company spent 5 years and millions on researching an algorithm for X, I personally see no reason why can't make a bit of profit off it and keep it closed source as long as they don't play the patent/copyright/trademark game and take away everyone elses rights to anything similar.
It's a shame that some companies would sink to these levels, but we live in mainly unethical world where business rules everything (or atleast in North America).
After convincing my co-workers to use Fujitsu HDD's, several of our drives began to die. Now my reputation in the office is hurt because of their issues. Then they deny anything is wrong, good one. I'll never recommend using their drives ever again.
It just proves once again that if you have money you are above the law. Sure, a small/meaningless sentence may come down, but realistically Microsoft is not going to change. They now know they can get away with it, so they will continue with their business strategy.
With the recent EU decision with Nintendo, I only hope that the EU will not give into Microsoft and truly give them a punishment. If their that mean to lovable Mario, think about the blue screen of death.
Not to sound like a troll, but I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves? Thats that they always told us in College. Then again, I didn't go to a very reputable college. =D
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Most major manufacturers (Hp, Compaq, IBM, Gateway...) use S3, SiS, Trident, and other cheap video cards and NOT ATI/Nvidia for their base and average PC's. Only the more mid-level to high-end machines have NVidia/ATI cards in them. I've seen some new Pc's with Geforce2's but there it's is not the mainstream shipping card by any means.
You are neglecting several other key brands of cards which are used in some cases way more then NVidia / ATI. Matrox for instance is used primarily for Digital Editing, and general 2D Graphics work because of it's fabulous image quality. 3D Labs makes great 3D CAD/Imaging (as in Production Rendering) cards which give all sorts of shader/gl extension benefits not scene on regular cards. Evans and Sutherland make good Cad cards. SGI makes good rendering cards, same as Sun.
Nvidia and ATI are good gaming cards, but they are not the only manufacturers of video cards. Their cards are built for gaming. They may work your latest pirated copy of 3d studio max/maya/animation master/lightwave/truespace, but it doesn't mean it's good at it. Far from it actually.
If your so happy about the card, why did you use anonymous? This would indicate you don't want the rest of the population knowing you like ATI. =D
So the Nazi's exterminating of 6 million jews was not evil?
Does this mean we can compare the importance of a $600 video card to the extermination of millions of lives?
Generally an epic battle involves a good force and an evil force alaa Axis and Allies in World War 2.
This is just a commercial battle of products, seen by every other commercial product on the market. It's not a milestone by any means.
Much like the War on Terrorism, there is no clear enemy, therefore there is no war.
Must every article talk about the benefits of Linux and Open Source. As a developer I like Linux because it's a good alternative to Windows, however, I'm not a fan of the Open Source idea.
Yes, open source has it's merits and people who work on the open projects should be commended for all their great work, but it starts to get annoying when people expect everything on Linux to be free and open source.
I've been wanting to write Linux Gui code a long time, however the only Gui toolkits which allow closed source for commercial use are too much money to pay, so I am detered from developing with them. Perhaps a bit of commercialization of things could help Linux?
This brings me to my main question. Is Open Source a requirement for Linux to succeed in the Operating System business, or is it just a selling point?
Yes, but they are tread on dangerous waters because it's a clone to OpenGL. And if you knew anything about Mesa, you would know that Brian Paul (the maker of Mesa) said not to call it MesaGL because it would violate copyrights from SGI. Straight from their site:
"Please do not refer to the library as MesaGL (for legal reasons). It's just Mesa or The Mesa 3-D graphics library. "
That aside, Mesa supports almost all the functionality, but does not support certain extensions such as ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM which had Microsoft patents in it. If you'll notice on the Mesa website only NV_VERTEX_PROGRAM is there, which would indicate that the NVidia vertex program extension probably still uses Microsoft IP which forbids NVidia from Open Sourcing it.
YES you can use the Linksys USB Ethernet card, because I am doing this. I have a my PS2 running through my Linksys router (w/DHCP) to my DSL line and it works perfectly. I just set the games to automatic detection (dhcp) and it connects fine. It's nifty works with Tony Hawk 3/4 and SOCOMM. Ofcourse it'll probably work with more games, but these are the only ones I have with Internet Caps.
Free Software / Oper-source isn't the answer to all life's problems. Although it's a great thing, many business modals do not revolve around giving their trade-secrets away. Besides, from what I have seen there are no elaborate RDE's available with the possible exception of Glade but then your code must be OSS.
That pain in your crotch is from 27 years of build-up due to lack of sex life. I perscribe taking many woman out to dinner, and get plenty of sex.
Thats because anything with the words RMS, Linus, or Linux automatic victories in the battle against Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Not every news clipping is a major milestone in the histroy of linux or open source.
That sounds like a great idea, but it's NOT going to happen. Microsoft, SGI, S3, Intel, ATI, and other ALL own patents inside OpenGL. Some like ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM, an essential for the OpenGL 1.4 specification is *apparently from ARB meetings* owned IP from Microsoft, which means NVidia has to license the technology to use it. Do you really think Microsoft gives two shits about making their source-code open when they are fighting like hell to get others closed? What serious benefit in a realistic business sense would it have for them?
It's great to say OPEN SOURCE everything, but in the real world, companies cannot simply give away trade secrets, patent info, algorithms just to help the enemy.
If your looking for 2D Image Quality, buy a Matrox video card. Their video cards aren't fast at 3D, but have far superior visual quality and are the video cards of choice for many PC graphics artists.
For one thing, the fuel they use costs something around $10,000 per pound of cargo/payload so if one astronaut is 180lbs, then the cost to put one person is space would be something like $1,800,000 for that one person in fuel alone.
Then consider the training. The astronauts are trained usually for 6 months before a mission. If there are 5 trainers and each one makes $30,000 the trainers for the mission would cost $75,000 in salary.
It adds up pretty quickly...
Because they developers live with their parents, have no social lives, and wear the same clothes, making their paychecks very reasonable when they have no overhead costs at home.
In their case, they made a good choice, but Linux and/or Open-Source is not the answer to every question.
It gets rather irritating to see headlines every day about a couple of people converting. Must every little action in the Linux community be treated as a major milestone?
I like linux, but honestly it is not the best OS in existence. There is no perfect OS in this world, although some would have you believe different.
Rather then always point out the same ridiculous arguments that Linux is better, Windows sux, open-source is better then closed source, why not just accept that people use what they need to get the job done? Yes both OS's can do the same stuff, but I can do certain things 10x faster in Windows then linux, and vice versa.
Announcing every day that people some people are converting really seems pointless when almost all the desktops come with Windows. Consider this, if you wait till the end of the month and announced 10,000 people converted to linux, Microsoft could do the same and say that since there were 1,000,000 desktops sold in the month, 1,000,000 people chose Windows. My point of all this.
WHO CARES! Let people chose on their own, don't advertise every single person, because the general population doesn't give care.
The Penguin logo MUST go ASAP:
WRONG! This is the sort of distinct image Linux needs. I know many people with little computer knowledge who can easily point out Linux information on the net by seeing that nifty little penguin. Although it may not seem professional, why must things have a super-slick advertisement to be noticed and remembered?
4) Direct X - A MAJOR stumbling block on Linux's road to world domination is the lack of Direct X support for Linux:
DirectX isn't the only API's being used to create games. If the developer uses OpenGL, they can easily port their games to Linux using Mesa (an opengl clone). Plus Creative Labs/Loki released OpenAL a 3D Sound Library nearly on par with DirectSound/3D. If you use those two libraries you can have your game work in Win32, MacOS and Linux with minor changes needed for initialiazation. It's the Lazy developers who are the issues, not the OS. Games can be made for many OS's but is it worth the time/money to make them is the bigger question?
If Windows controls 95% of the computer desktop market, it could be hard to persuade the developers to move to Linux, especially when many advocates want things Free/OSS. However on the other hand, it does present a unique business opportunity for the right company to make money.
My personal philosophy is to make good software, have a cheap price, and give lots of features. Making software OSS is in the eyes the beholder. I don't believe in crippling copyrights, but fair ones for both sides. It is unfortunate that mega-corps don't see things this way.
Actually Canada has an elite military wing called JTF2. It replaced our Airborne unit which had some issues in Somalia (too trigger / knife / beating happy). There is only one known image of them in their gear and next to nothing information wise about their operations in Afhganistan.
"I mean, do you want Shakespeare's Hamlet, or a similar play written by some guy"
But consider this, if someone took Hamlet and modified the ending, would Shakespeare be happy about that other person going from town to town being paid to act his version of it and Shakespeare not get any of that money in return?
Shakespeare's work is several hundred years old, so it would be public domain so you cannot easily compare the two. I think the copyright holder should consider putting the work in the hands of the public domain when it expires, but that would be another scenario in which a perfect world would be slightly closer to reality.
"Programmers are morally obligated to give the code to their users"
WRONG! It is at programmers discretion. A progammer wrote the program to fulfill the users requirements for software. It can be interpretted both ways, unless the user specifically wants the source-code, the programmer has no obligation to give it to them.
Generally in contracts I've seen the user retains the rights to that specific binary, but not the source-code. Meaning that the programmer/company can make dirivitives of it, but not hand out the exact same program.
Rather then say open-source every second, in the vastly competitive software development world it is not feasible to say open source all the time. I like open source as much as the next guy, but if they open sourced their program their software technologies could be stolen, and honestly who would know? If they gave the source-code away, even under the GPL, you could modify it and no-one would be the wiser. Yes some people could complain about infringing on the GPL, but if the progammers are good enough at changing things, nobody would know and now your out a good technology.
In a last thought, why is closed-source so bad? If your company spent 5 years and millions on researching an algorithm for X, I personally see no reason why can't make a bit of profit off it and keep it closed source as long as they don't play the patent/copyright/trademark game and take away everyone elses rights to anything similar.
It's a shame that some companies would sink to these levels, but we live in mainly unethical world where business rules everything (or atleast in North America).
After convincing my co-workers to use Fujitsu HDD's, several of our drives began to die. Now my reputation in the office is hurt because of their issues. Then they deny anything is wrong, good one. I'll never recommend using their drives ever again.
It just proves once again that if you have money you are above the law. Sure, a small/meaningless sentence may come down, but realistically Microsoft is not going to change. They now know they can get away with it, so they will continue with their business strategy.
With the recent EU decision with Nintendo, I only hope that the EU will not give into Microsoft and truly give them a punishment. If their that mean to lovable Mario, think about the blue screen of death.
Not to sound like a troll, but I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves? Thats that they always told us in College. Then again, I didn't go to a very reputable college. =D
Big Brother is everywhere. In canada they want to make all ISP's log all data sent/received...Now thats Big Brother.