"NVIDA has targeted its multimedia accelerators at the mainstream PC market. This market consists of the Windows 9x and Windows NT operating systems. NVIDIA has full resources dedicated to tuning performance and quality under these operating systems. NVIDIA does not offer register level programming guides for development of other operating systems or applications at this time."
What a stupid policy. Will these HW companies never learn...?
pre-5 was the first one to work for me, so obviously they still have a few issues to work out! I'd rather they release 20 "pre" instead of taking the Microsoft route and calling a buggy product final.
The person who said "There are too many chiefs and not enough indians" is TOTALLY correct. A quick search on freshmeat returns fifteen of these "instant message" projects under development right now that all do pretty much the same things.
To the programmers working on these projects: It's noble that you are committing your time to cool and open projects like this, but don't you think you could get more done if you all worked together rather than seperately?
An even more disturbing thing I have noticed about these projects is the fact that many of them are being developed under the Windoze paradigm where the interface is closely tied to the implementation, rather than the unix model where the interface, implementation, and underlying libs are seperate components.
For instance, download a few of these projects and check them out. All of them include their own implementation of the ICQ protocol. People, the ICQ protocol is the same regardless of whether you are using Qt or GTK! Why can't we develop a libicq and a libaim THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON? This way the protocol and the interface can be worked on in parallel by different teams!
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Who cares what the guys opinions are? I'm sure if Bill Gates was a tree-hugging hippy we would still think he's a monopolistic bastard :)
From that URL:
"NVIDA has targeted its multimedia accelerators at the mainstream PC market. This market consists of the Windows 9x and Windows NT operating systems. NVIDIA has full resources dedicated to tuning performance and quality under these operating systems. NVIDIA does not offer register level programming guides for development of other operating systems or applications at this time."
What a stupid policy. Will these HW companies never learn...?
It's called a Makefile.
Good to see the Mozilla project actually taking shape. Maybe it will even be compilable soon...
;-)
pre-5 was the first one to work for me, so obviously they still have a few issues to work out! I'd rather they release 20 "pre" instead of taking the Microsoft route and calling a buggy product final.
There is only a shortage of programmers willing to work for peanuts.
The person who said "There are too many chiefs and not enough indians" is TOTALLY correct. A quick search on freshmeat returns fifteen of these "instant message" projects under development right now that all do pretty much the same things.
To the programmers working on these projects: It's noble that you are committing your time to cool and open projects like this, but don't you think you could get more done if you all worked together rather than seperately?
An even more disturbing thing I have noticed about these projects is the fact that many of them are being developed under the Windoze paradigm where the interface is closely tied to the implementation, rather than the unix model where the interface, implementation, and underlying libs are seperate components.
For instance, download a few of these projects and check them out. All of them include their own implementation of the ICQ protocol. People, the ICQ protocol is the same regardless of whether you are using Qt or GTK! Why can't we develop a libicq and a libaim THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON? This way the protocol and the interface can be worked on in parallel by different teams!
Am I the only one that feels this way?