Tell that to my friend who has been unemployed for the last year nearly and has his PhD! The guys isn't stupid at all either, the market simply SUCKS in California.
He's obviously not that bright if he's still looking for a job in California. You have no right to whine about unemployment if you insist on living in an area with both a high cost of living and a crappy job market.
Setup of AVG requires you to give them a name and a valid email address (which they check by sending a "serial number", and presumably later spam to death), so it is NOT FREE.
Just because what you give them is not money, that doesn't make the software free (as in beer or speech).
AVG Anti-Virus is as free as NYTimes registration.
I have to use the Green Hills compiler / debugger tools at work.
Trust me, they SUCK.
I could go into many examples of how the product is inferior to even a bunch of xterms running vi and gcc. From dongle/license frustration to waiting twice as long for builds than, say, gcc/make, to getting the right bit of magic scripts to work with their probe, I don't think there is one redeeming thing I can say about it.
Of course this guy is going to disrespect gcc and Linux tools. His own product is horrible.
No, he's right. You're a piece of shit and an idiot. Only an inbred backwoods hillbilly like yourself, one who's never left his home town, would approve of the USA's current strategy of anti-social behavoir with (a.k.a. pissing on) the rest of the world.
The most effective way to strengthen the world for the effects of overconsumption is to spread understanding of the value of money--to teach more consumers to recognize the fiscal unacceptability of being too poor to buy products. Consumers who value money are, in the long term, corporations' best and essential defense.
Someone paid you to make sure kids couldn't see swear words they already know well enough to type in??? Have we gotten this ridiculous in our attempts to "Protect The Children(tm)"?
If I could mod you up I would, and that quote alone is competing for my sig file:
Do you know what the difference between the illegal immigrant house painter that does cash-only jobs and the US programmer that holds your view point is ?
One of them is a pretentious asshole, and may have invested more heavily in formal education.
Really sums it up I'd say, and I'm an american programmer!
I guess a good question would be: Do you have the balls to put SCO on your resume when the company implodes and you are applying at reputable technology companies?
It would be like applying to a government job and admitting you were a sysadmin for High Times. (Ohhhhh I was only doing my job!!!)
Oh, and nobody is comparing you to a Nazi. They are comparing your excuse for what you are doing with the excuse many ex-Nazi's used to justify what they were doing. It's the same excuse many low-level thugs use as justification for working for organized crime... Just doin my job!
It has nothing to do with keeping source code and techniques away from the competition, although the people who decide against releasing sometimes think it is.
Many major graphics card design companies out there use similar techniques in their software. I'd be willing to bet if you compared driver source code between ATI and nVIDIA you would find many many similar techniques. There's very little they can learn from each other at this point, and what techniques _can_ be copied would take development time to _actually_ copy, introduce risk, and not give them a sizeable enough competative advantage to be worth it.
You argue that seeing the source to the driver lets a competitor "skip a very significant portion of the design process for their next card". This is absolute rubbish. The code may give them a glimpse at how the underlying hardware is put together, but this is far from what is required to design and fab a chip.
I used to work for a graphics card company, and knowing what each register does doesn't give me even 1% of the tools required to build even a _clone_ of this 4-year old chip, much less a competitor to todays chips.
The real reason, of course is what others have posted: These guys have some licensed 3rd party source in their drivers which they are not allowed to release.
Many windows programmers approach a problem with the question "What should the user experience?" whereas a UNIX programmer approaches a problem with "What is the data coming in on stdin and what is the data that goes to stdout?"
Windows programmers see the actual data processing as a secondary task that the GUI (and only the GUI) makes happen. Unix programmers see the GUI as a seperate app, which monitors and controls the central data processing app.
The opinion is not contradictory, if your mind is capable of more than Bush's "good or evil" comic-book world view.
If this war was about removing an evil mass-murdering dictator from power, surely the USA must have plans to remove all the evil mass-murdering dictators in the world from power.
Let's start with Indonesia's "president"... Oh wait, the USA put this evil mass-murdering dictator into power in the first place, so I guess he's exempt.
I'm glad Saddam has been removed from power. Many other people (including me) would also be glad if Bush was removed from power as well. Does that make it right to use military force to do it?
It's that "if you're not with us youre against us" Bush-plomacy that polarizes the world and causes these problems to begin with.
The world's issues make up a large-resolution gray-scale image, but people like you are out to convert it to a 16x16 2-color icon.
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You sound like a the kid in school who is the biggest and meanest jerk but gets away with everything because he and his family are rich. When he asks his mommy why everybody hates him, she says "Oh, they're just jealous, dear." instead of "Stop being such a jerk."
Compare this to OpenGL, which is lagging so far behind that only rare titles take it seriously (Doom3 is the one that springs to mind).
I can only see one property of OpenGL that is "lagging behind" DirectX: Whiz-bang features.
Is OpenGL "lagging behind" DirectX in portability? hardware support? scalability?
I would argue that OpenGL as a general-purpose 3D API is more useful than DirectX soley because it is more widespread. The API is implemented (or implementable) on a more diverse selection of hardware and software platforms than DirectX can ever dream of.
As a Intel-Windows-Cutting-Edge-Game-only API, DirectX is the way to go, but for everything else, we have OpenGL.
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Tell that to my friend who has been unemployed for the last year nearly and has his PhD! The guys isn't stupid at all either, the market simply SUCKS in California.
He's obviously not that bright if he's still looking for a job in California. You have no right to whine about unemployment if you insist on living in an area with both a high cost of living and a crappy job market.
Setup of AVG requires you to give them a name and a valid email address (which they check by sending a "serial number", and presumably later spam to death), so it is NOT FREE.
Just because what you give them is not money, that doesn't make the software free (as in beer or speech).
AVG Anti-Virus is as free as NYTimes registration.
An appropriate term is:
Bullshit Computing
or maybe PADOS "Pump And Dump Our Stock" Computing
I have to use the Green Hills compiler / debugger tools at work.
Trust me, they SUCK.
I could go into many examples of how the product is inferior to even a bunch of xterms running vi and gcc. From dongle/license frustration to waiting twice as long for builds than, say, gcc/make, to getting the right bit of magic scripts to work with their probe, I don't think there is one redeeming thing I can say about it.
Of course this guy is going to disrespect gcc and Linux tools. His own product is horrible.
No, he's right. You're a piece of shit and an idiot. Only an inbred backwoods hillbilly like yourself, one who's never left his home town, would approve of the USA's current strategy of anti-social behavoir with (a.k.a. pissing on) the rest of the world.
The USA philosophy is more like:
The most effective way to strengthen the world for the effects of overconsumption is to spread understanding of the value of money--to teach more consumers to recognize the fiscal unacceptability of being too poor to buy products. Consumers who value money are, in the long term, corporations' best and essential defense.
Clever algorithm, but...
Someone paid you to make sure kids couldn't see swear words they already know well enough to type in??? Have we gotten this ridiculous in our attempts to "Protect The Children(tm)"?
Are you kidding?
The way to a police state has already been paved, the sidewalk poured, the trees planted, and Americans are driving down it in droves!
If I could mod you up I would, and that quote alone is competing for my sig file:
Do you know what the difference between the illegal immigrant house painter that does cash-only jobs and the US programmer that holds your view point is ?
One of them is a pretentious asshole, and may have invested more heavily in formal education.
Really sums it up I'd say, and I'm an american programmer!
I guess a good question would be: Do you have the balls to put SCO on your resume when the company implodes and you are applying at reputable technology companies?
It would be like applying to a government job and admitting you were a sysadmin for High Times. (Ohhhhh I was only doing my job!!!)
Oh, and nobody is comparing you to a Nazi. They are comparing your excuse for what you are doing with the excuse many ex-Nazi's used to justify what they were doing. It's the same excuse many low-level thugs use as justification for working for organized crime... Just doin my job!
How do you know you don't want to see them?
Name 5 of those thousands of movies that came out of Bollywood this year without doing a web search.
You can't, can you? So STFU.
How did I know someone would run this through a compiler?? Actually, I forgot to include the appropriate header, so it's only one error!
Undoubtedly()
{
when();
you = measure(quality);
in.defects();
per->lines_of(code, anyone);
can = write(good, solid, code);
}
It has nothing to do with keeping source code and techniques away from the competition, although the people who decide against releasing sometimes think it is.
Many major graphics card design companies out there use similar techniques in their software. I'd be willing to bet if you compared driver source code between ATI and nVIDIA you would find many many similar techniques. There's very little they can learn from each other at this point, and what techniques _can_ be copied would take development time to _actually_ copy, introduce risk, and not give them a sizeable enough competative advantage to be worth it.
You argue that seeing the source to the driver lets a competitor "skip a very significant portion of the design process for their next card". This is absolute rubbish. The code may give them a glimpse at how the underlying hardware is put together, but this is far from what is required to design and fab a chip.
I used to work for a graphics card company, and knowing what each register does doesn't give me even 1% of the tools required to build even a _clone_ of this 4-year old chip, much less a competitor to todays chips.
The real reason, of course is what others have posted: These guys have some licensed 3rd party source in their drivers which they are not allowed to release.
Mike Oldfield (and probably others) solved this problem years ago when he recorded "Amarok" as a single 60-minute long track.
What I find scary is that there are people out there willing to pay 70 dollars a month for TELEVISION!
Sure it also includes the "premium" channels but:
70 dollars a month for the privilege of being able to suckle at the electric teat every night???
INSANE.
Many windows programmers approach a problem with the question "What should the user experience?" whereas a UNIX programmer approaches a problem with "What is the data coming in on stdin and what is the data that goes to stdout?"
Windows programmers see the actual data processing as a secondary task that the GUI (and only the GUI) makes happen. Unix programmers see the GUI as a seperate app, which monitors and controls the central data processing app.
The opinion is not contradictory, if your mind is capable of more than Bush's "good or evil" comic-book world view.
If this war was about removing an evil mass-murdering dictator from power, surely the USA must have plans to remove all the evil mass-murdering dictators in the world from power.
Let's start with Indonesia's "president"... Oh wait, the USA put this evil mass-murdering dictator into power in the first place, so I guess he's exempt.
I'm glad Saddam has been removed from power. Many other people (including me) would also be glad if Bush was removed from power as well. Does that make it right to use military force to do it?
It's that "if you're not with us youre against us" Bush-plomacy that polarizes the world and causes these problems to begin with.
The world's issues make up a large-resolution gray-scale image, but people like you are out to convert it to a 16x16 2-color icon.
You sound like a the kid in school who is the biggest and meanest jerk but gets away with everything because he and his family are rich. When he asks his mommy why everybody hates him, she says "Oh, they're just jealous, dear." instead of "Stop being such a jerk."
Compare this to OpenGL, which is lagging so far behind that only rare titles take it seriously (Doom3 is the one that springs to mind).
I can only see one property of OpenGL that is "lagging behind" DirectX: Whiz-bang features.
Is OpenGL "lagging behind" DirectX in portability? hardware support? scalability?
I would argue that OpenGL as a general-purpose 3D API is more useful than DirectX soley because it is more widespread. The API is implemented (or implementable) on a more diverse selection of hardware and software platforms than DirectX can ever dream of.
As a Intel-Windows-Cutting-Edge-Game-only API, DirectX is the way to go, but for everything else, we have OpenGL.
I thought it was:
http://goatse.cx
I know I felt polluted after seeing that.
WOW.
This article probably uses every single one of GNU's "Confusing or loaded words and phrases". Congratulations to the author for showing his utter lack of bias...
Why is this a troll? Is it the poster's name that gave him away?
Wow, talk about someone who doesn't get the point.