I got a laptop and went the otherway because i needed a new laptop fast, and i couldnt be less happy with ATI:(. I had beryl working on nvidia back when i had to install proprietary drivers without envy or any of that stuff and they still worked better than ATI do today.
OTOH nvidias commitment to produce stable(ish) drivers means most linux users with nvidia cards ( the 98% that arnt stalmanists can use 3d graphics in X) and much like myself, nvidia couldn't give a flying one about the 2% of 4% of computer users, who cant use them.
There are HCL and its not too hard to look up the vendor of of your wireless, graphics card, small peripherals(web cams) & printers. I think the problem is knowing what hardware is in your laptop more than if its compatible.
I had an intel (gfx) based acer, which i had running on 100% free software (well other than the stuff i installed on it), but RMS would probably of had a fit because i was using proprietor firmware (broadcom cards can work without ndiswrapper but you still need the firmware)
OR the "lets not noob up the interface of a image editor, so any old idiot can use it to get rid of red eye"
Some things are hard, and the best interface to do hard things is a hard one, this isn't just being elitist, I have nothing against joe blogs getting rid of red-eye or making a cool little jpeg logo, but that's now what GIMP is made for, so dont bitch when its not easy.
compensation isn't that much of a sticking point for them. And that's not even mentioning the software they get. 1. try & do something on your computer 2. find you can't 3. write software to do it 4. use it 5. profit
OTOH anybody with access to OpenOffice or ms excel (thats somewhere above 95% of users) already have the tools to develop for VBA.
OTOOH any serious physics programming course is based around java, so why not simply save the programming course for those that want it and let the theoretical/medical/etc physics students get away without learning programming.
Since when? The other software in a TiVo box is copyrighted and not licensed for use in home-built DVRs The GPL only covers GPL software, they are free to do what they want with the rest of their system, the same way Novell, Canonical & Mozilla are free to ship proprietary stuff along with theirs.
Anybody who is the owner of a supercomputer that runs free software can test changes to the software on that supercomputer. And anybody who owns a TiVo-like box is free to test changes to TiVo software. The GPL is about freedom, that freedom includes tat of hardware manufacturers to do what they want on their hardware.
To put it an other way, If you make lazer sharks there is no obligations to give everybody lazer sharks, just to give people the code your running on them, that is the license as Linus understands it anyway.
nobody is suggesting that you use VBA for real work, just to give the students a feel for programming, once they understand the logic they can easily learn other languages if needed.
What is the point of changing free software if one cannot run it? but you can run it, just not on the TIVO. Its about improving the software it doesn't matter if you can run it. What about the supercomputers running linux, are you going to complain because you cant use their improvements too? You can go out and build your on TIVO box.
On which hardware would everybody be able to use the changes? on tivo like hardware, e.g if the TIVO has a nice tv tuner, you could buy that tv tuner and use it in your desktop, if they find a bug in the kernel, that bug gets fixed for everybody.
TIVO didnt violate the license or spirt of the license as linux understood it when he decided to use it.
short answer: No long answer: its very unlikely that a single game will define a genre these days. Sure the magazines will jump on bandwagons about half-life 2, halo, etc, but thats just because they want to sell copies. half-life => nothing new fable => nothing new halo => nothing new half-life 2 => nothing new
if anything interesting happens in gaming its definatly on the fringes, the mods, and the single purpose games. Stuff like Natural selection(RTS,FPS,RPG), cube2 (where you modify levels during the game), etc, but even these fringe games arnt genre changing they just take a tried and tested forumla and add something to it.
The spirit of the GPL is to keep the code open so everybody benefits. For example, if TIVO were to write new device drivers or a nice TV interface, everybody would be able to use them. GPL was always about the code never about the users or the hardware, just because RMS has gone off in a new (IMHO worse) direction doesn't change what the GPL (2) was about, and tivo did not violate that, by locking their hardware
Now in kde4.1 I have to have a big huge ugly black box around my icons...for no reason. I have used KDE for years over gnome, but this change will make me take a look at gnome again. It's a bad decision forcing users to work in a specific way without being able to configure it....Sounds a lot like gnome to me. I switched from gnome to kde because I could actually setup my KDE to be MINE, but now the 'usability' experts are creeping in and taking that away. unless unit kontact is more stable in kde4 i have no reason to switch, and even then ill probably keep kde3 for most parts
How did tivo hijack anything? they used it under the terms it was provided, and made the source changes available.
The GPL says nothing about private use or resale, it just says share the source (well actually, just give the source to the people who you give the product to)
you can ignore overrated? i even double checked my page, because i hate that rating so much, but i couldnt find it, instead i just ignore flamebait and the anon modifier. personally id drop redundant, over/under rated & troll, and add a spam tag, but id also make down moderation cost twice as much as up moderation to stop mods trolling.
Its true, I smashed up my laptop and got it replaced by the con^H^H^H tech guys at the shop I went to get it fixed at. so now ive used in the space of a few months: Intel worked fine with everything Nvidia (desktop) works find with everything (but i dont suspend) ATI crashes Xorg badly & breaks suspend resume.
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why?
if somebody else offered a non-binary blob that supports nvidia cards that means nvidia can forget about Linux entirely.
I got a laptop and went the otherway because i needed a new laptop fast, and i couldnt be less happy with ATI :(. I had beryl working on nvidia back when i had to install proprietary drivers without envy or any of that stuff and they still worked better than ATI do today.
OTOH nvidias commitment to produce stable(ish) drivers means most linux users with nvidia cards ( the 98% that arnt stalmanists can use 3d graphics in X) and much like myself, nvidia couldn't give a flying one about the 2% of 4% of computer users, who cant use them.
There are HCL and its not too hard to look up the vendor of of your wireless, graphics card, small peripherals(web cams) & printers. I think the problem is knowing what hardware is in your laptop more than if its compatible.
I had an intel (gfx) based acer, which i had running on 100% free software (well other than the stuff i installed on it), but RMS would probably of had a fit because i was using proprietor firmware (broadcom cards can work without ndiswrapper but you still need the firmware)
[Citation needed], otherwise your nothing but a troll.
OR the "lets not noob up the interface of a image editor, so any old idiot can use it to get rid of red eye"
Some things are hard, and the best interface to do hard things is a hard one, this isn't just being elitist, I have nothing against joe blogs getting rid of red-eye or making a cool little jpeg logo, but that's now what GIMP is made for, so dont bitch when its not easy.
Even easier to beat, hello mr high tech security cam, allow me to introduce you to mr chewing gum.
1. try & do something on your computer
2. find you can't
3. write software to do it
4. use it
5. profit
OTOH anybody with access to OpenOffice or ms excel (thats somewhere above 95% of users) already have the tools to develop for VBA.
OTOOH any serious physics programming course is based around java, so why not simply save the programming course for those that want it and let the theoretical/medical/etc physics students get away without learning programming.
To put it an other way, If you make lazer sharks there is no obligations to give everybody lazer sharks, just to give people the code your running on them, that is the license as Linus understands it anyway.
I want gaming at the time, but didn't quake have a story line, it just wasn't as good.
or PAX lets not forget about poor little pax.
nobody is suggesting that you use VBA for real work, just to give the students a feel for programming, once they understand the logic they can easily learn other languages if needed.
TIVO didnt violate the license or spirt of the license as linux understood it when he decided to use it.
short answer: No
long answer: its very unlikely that a single game will define a genre these days. Sure the magazines will jump on bandwagons about half-life 2, halo, etc, but thats just because they want to sell copies.
half-life => nothing new
fable => nothing new
halo => nothing new
half-life 2 => nothing new
if anything interesting happens in gaming its definatly on the fringes, the mods, and the single purpose games. Stuff like Natural selection(RTS,FPS,RPG), cube2 (where you modify levels during the game), etc, but even these fringe games arnt genre changing they just take a tried and tested forumla and add something to it.
The spirit of the GPL is to keep the code open so everybody benefits. For example, if TIVO were to write new device drivers or a nice TV interface, everybody would be able to use them. GPL was always about the code never about the users or the hardware, just because RMS has gone off in a new (IMHO worse) direction doesn't change what the GPL (2) was about, and tivo did not violate that, by locking their hardware
How did tivo hijack anything? they used it under the terms it was provided, and made the source changes available.
The GPL says nothing about private use or resale, it just says share the source (well actually, just give the source to the people who you give the product to)
you can ignore overrated? i even double checked my page, because i hate that rating so much, but i couldnt find it, instead i just ignore flamebait and the anon modifier. personally id drop redundant, over/under rated & troll, and add a spam tag, but id also make down moderation cost twice as much as up moderation to stop mods trolling.
oops i must of closed that tab by mistake, you are correct i went though alcohol to ethanol, so that ups me to 8
after RTFA it turns out i was 2 off the best possible:
0.Girisopam
1.Anxiolytic
2.Psychosis
3.Mark Vonnegut
4.Swarthmore College
5.Slashdot effect
Not bad but i welcome our new wikipedia linking robot overloards
not trying hard enough
0.Girisopam
1.Sedative
2.Ethanol
3.Wine
4.Wine_%28disambiguation%29
5.Wine_%28software%29
6.Slashdot
7.slashdot effect
down to 7, and i only tried one route
Its true, I smashed up my laptop and got it replaced by the con^H^H^H tech guys at the shop I went to get it fixed at. so now ive used in the space of a few months:
Intel worked fine with everything
Nvidia (desktop) works find with everything (but i dont suspend)
ATI crashes Xorg badly & breaks suspend resume.
given that he's new to linux, he may consider that a year down the line but for now monoppix is his best bet