Right, because responding with 'No, sorry, but this one is nonsense' is SO time consuming. How on earth can the heads of office be expected to spend tens of seconds a day responding to the less important issues on their mere $200,000 a year salaries?! Obviously it was a clear case of either increase the threshold or increase their salaries to compensate. We all know how The People would cry foul if the poor deprived politicians tried to seek fair compensation for their seconds of hard work per day in the current economic climate.
A friend of mine also found a vuln and was able to easily break in to his Samsung tv at home from his office and turn on the camera in his new 'smart tv' (not sure if it's the same vuln or not though as the article doesn't give specifics). He reported it to Samsung over 6 months ago, repeatedly, and nothing was ever done or even acknowledged. He tried calling their various national and international offices, sent emails, spoke to local reps.. nothing. Maybe now they'll be forced to actually do something about these problems. Or, maybe people will stop buying them if enough awareness is raised.
Don't be so naive. They're the ones who created it. I researched it too and I say this may be true. It may also be a terrorist and may be responsible for the GFC.
I believed this jazz and bought an AMD/ATI laptop after being bitten by nVidia's optimus comment (my nvidia laptop got stolen). Now I miss my nvidia laptop. The Radeon driver is really lacking, has a very high battery consumption, doesn't work well with many applications. The fglrx (proprietary) driver won't work with several Xorg version without that considered a major bug by the dev team.
This has been my experience as well. AMD's linux driver is very woeful at the moment and they have shown VERY little sign of even caring. Just check the number of issues reported at cchtml.com, which AMD have been shown to read and even respond to, but are still unfixed and not even slated to be fixed any time soon. I hear the open source driver is making leaps and bounds but it's still not as polished as Intel's.
The alternative is to use bumblebee on nvidia proprietary driver, which drains battery but allows to enjoy a decent graphical acceleration.
I use this currently, and it actually works pretty well. Muxless gpu switching is a godsend over the old approach. Also, 'bumblebee' only uses more battery than vanilla Intel when you/choose/ to run a 3d app on the nvidia discrete gpu. If your app doesn't require the grunt, just launch it normally instead of via 'optirun' and battery life remains the same as any other Intel gpu. But the option for more power is there should you ever want it. I really like this setup. For someone who might have actual need of a high performance GPU (ie with steam coming soon) this is the setup I would recommend.
There is in fact a substantial difference between 'meth' and clinical dextroamphetamine, both in effect and side effect. No one in the entire fucking world prescribes 'meth' for attention deficit disorders. Doing so would be completely ruinous.
I wouldn't claim the current-gen consoles actually really do anything more than run video games. Not in any meaningful way anyway. PS3 used to do more but Sony made sure they got rid of that
I suppose you're one of those types who like the artificial film grain added to modern digitally captured and/or digitally synthesized movies to intentionally add noise and reduce signal quality? Skeuomorphisms are by definition anachronisms. They need to be removed. Penetrative sex on the other hand is timeless, such as reading and watching movies. A better analogy is how the money-spending, laborious conversation and tedious mind games leading up to penetrative sex could be removed and doing so would enhance the experience while simultaneously making it more efficient thus allowing you to have higher quality penetrative sex far more frequently. Likewise, removing annoying and time consuming page-turn animations actually enhances the reading experience while making it more efficient.
Eve isn't a 'space sim', it's a 3rd person stats-focussed numbers game like any of the other dozens of 3rd person 'RPG' engines out there that happens to have a spacey theme
As a meat eater myself and sibling to a die-hard vegan, I can honestly say non-meat eaters still retain all those characteristics in full effect. And I can tell you now that even with my abnormally high testosterone and sex drive, I'm an honest person and have never sexually assaulted anyone. Unless they explicitly asked me to first. Chemicals may set the stage for our lives but we still choose how they play out. Blaming behavior on diet is just a pathetic excuse to shirk responsibility. No court on earth would buy such an excuse, nor should they. And since this book appears to have a religious slant - remember that Eve allegedly gave in to temptation despite being completely vegan. But what's religion without a bit of self contradiction?
on a medium customarily used for software interchange
I would think that 'customarily' implies conventional, not proprietary.. Of course like all words these can be interpreted multiple ways. Wish to test it and see what the courts do?:)
That is oversimplifying it too much. It does also state that if you make changes and distribute to anyone as binary or otherwise, you have to make those changes available to any third party, not just the recipient of the binaries, as per:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
So these people who want a 'fully open cpu' expect someone to put up large amounts of money to design, fabricate and mass-produce - enough production to drive down the per-unit costs to hobbyist-attainable levels - while exposing themselves to almost guaranteed direct competition against them using their own IP, all out of their own pocket so the hobbyist doesn't have to pay? How is that ever going to work? If you can't afford to fabricate a design *anyway* what point is there to having the design 'fully open' in the first place? I'd much prefer a refined, *well documented* core I can easily use wherever I want cheaply than having hdl to something I can never turn into tangible silicon. I'm not saying these recent ARM applications processors are well documented by the way. There's plenty of room for improvement there. Specially with the GPU interfaces. I just think people need to take a step back and realize 'fully open' isn't anywhere near as useful as 'well documented and production-grade'
I'm pretty sure you're able to fabricate the OR1200 HDL into an ASIC on your own if you wish. I'm not aware of the difficulty or costs in doing this as I've never fab'd a logic design but technically there's nothing stopping you. If I recall, the OR1200 has already been ASIC-proven.
Complete rubbish. You can turn off the final carriage return in nanorc - it's there because a lot of scripted config file parsers require it. I bet you didn't even know nano can do regex search&replace either. ps: "real engineers don't blame their tools" *happily employed developer and sysadmin of 20+ years who uses nano*
They provide an enjoyable experience, without stupid UI shenanigans.
Well, except for that ugly cashew thing persistently visible on the desktop I never use and killing off the only plasma plugin that would let you hide it.. But that's the only shenanigan really. Stupid cashew.
I never said China was dangerous. I was just stating a fact that releasing the VHDL for their ASICS would be commercial suicide, and that releasing source doesn't prove there's no backdoors in the silicon. It's a futile exercise on the part of *both* sides. It boils down to nothing but America trying to defend it's own businesses and market share - not national security.
Please 'take your own medicine' and apply some critical thinking before making assumptions and lumping me in one category or another. And FYI, my wife is Chinese and I go there a lot to visit my delightful in-laws. I'm also American. Amazing eh?...
I hear you, honestly, but do keep in mind that sometimes change can be a good thing too. If they do it right, and it works everywhere, and gives you everything you had before but more.. why hold back? Sure, stay with what works for you for now but don't write off your options forever-more just because they're not there yet. I remember a time when I wouldn't own any phone but a Nokia, and wouldn't use a laptop because they were too underpowered and the screens were terrible. I wouldn't use anything that wasn't x86 and 32bit due to compatibility and stability. I wouldn't use wifi when ethernet was available because it was way slower and unreliable. I wouldn't consider using the internet on a phone due to cost and performance. All that's changed now and I couldn't be happier that it has
Remote vanilla X11 over even today's internet is fucking slow as balls and about as painful as being kicked in them. Even on a lan it can be pain if your client is generating too many unneeded events (try eclipse over ssh x11 forwarding some time). X11 does facilitate the use of, say, NX and VNC though to mitigate the problem. Does Wayland? If so then bring it on I say. As long as the end result is the same or better, how is it a bad thing?
Pretty sure using an API isn't covered by the scope of the copyright license anyway. If it were then glibc would be in DEEEEP shit. In fact, iirc glibc and linux *set the precedent* on this issue in the first place when they chose to be unix compatible and clone libc. Seems to me like Alan Cox is just having a tantrum about nothing ? And forgetting his roots in the process I guess.
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Right, because responding with 'No, sorry, but this one is nonsense' is SO time consuming. How on earth can the heads of office be expected to spend tens of seconds a day responding to the less important issues on their mere $200,000 a year salaries?! Obviously it was a clear case of either increase the threshold or increase their salaries to compensate. We all know how The People would cry foul if the poor deprived politicians tried to seek fair compensation for their seconds of hard work per day in the current economic climate.
A friend of mine also found a vuln and was able to easily break in to his Samsung tv at home from his office and turn on the camera in his new 'smart tv' (not sure if it's the same vuln or not though as the article doesn't give specifics). He reported it to Samsung over 6 months ago, repeatedly, and nothing was ever done or even acknowledged. He tried calling their various national and international offices, sent emails, spoke to local reps.. nothing. Maybe now they'll be forced to actually do something about these problems. Or, maybe people will stop buying them if enough awareness is raised.
Don't be so naive. They're the ones who created it. I researched it too and I say this may be true. It may also be a terrorist and may be responsible for the GFC.
I believed this jazz and bought an AMD/ATI laptop after being bitten by nVidia's optimus comment (my nvidia laptop got stolen). Now I miss my nvidia laptop. The Radeon driver is really lacking, has a very high battery consumption, doesn't work well with many applications. The fglrx (proprietary) driver won't work with several Xorg version without that considered a major bug by the dev team.
This has been my experience as well. AMD's linux driver is very woeful at the moment and they have shown VERY little sign of even caring. Just check the number of issues reported at cchtml.com, which AMD have been shown to read and even respond to, but are still unfixed and not even slated to be fixed any time soon. I hear the open source driver is making leaps and bounds but it's still not as polished as Intel's.
The alternative is to use bumblebee on nvidia proprietary driver, which drains battery but allows to enjoy a decent graphical acceleration.
I use this currently, and it actually works pretty well. Muxless gpu switching is a godsend over the old approach. Also, 'bumblebee' only uses more battery than vanilla Intel when you /choose/ to run a 3d app on the nvidia discrete gpu. If your app doesn't require the grunt, just launch it normally instead of via 'optirun' and battery life remains the same as any other Intel gpu. But the option for more power is there should you ever want it. I really like this setup. For someone who might have actual need of a high performance GPU (ie with steam coming soon) this is the setup I would recommend.
There is in fact a substantial difference between 'meth' and clinical dextroamphetamine, both in effect and side effect. No one in the entire fucking world prescribes 'meth' for attention deficit disorders. Doing so would be completely ruinous.
I wouldn't claim the current-gen consoles actually really do anything more than run video games. Not in any meaningful way anyway. PS3 used to do more but Sony made sure they got rid of that
I suppose you're one of those types who like the artificial film grain added to modern digitally captured and/or digitally synthesized movies to intentionally add noise and reduce signal quality? Skeuomorphisms are by definition anachronisms. They need to be removed. Penetrative sex on the other hand is timeless, such as reading and watching movies. A better analogy is how the money-spending, laborious conversation and tedious mind games leading up to penetrative sex could be removed and doing so would enhance the experience while simultaneously making it more efficient thus allowing you to have higher quality penetrative sex far more frequently. Likewise, removing annoying and time consuming page-turn animations actually enhances the reading experience while making it more efficient.
Eve isn't a 'space sim', it's a 3rd person stats-focussed numbers game like any of the other dozens of 3rd person 'RPG' engines out there that happens to have a spacey theme
As a meat eater myself and sibling to a die-hard vegan, I can honestly say non-meat eaters still retain all those characteristics in full effect. And I can tell you now that even with my abnormally high testosterone and sex drive, I'm an honest person and have never sexually assaulted anyone. Unless they explicitly asked me to first. Chemicals may set the stage for our lives but we still choose how they play out. Blaming behavior on diet is just a pathetic excuse to shirk responsibility. No court on earth would buy such an excuse, nor should they. And since this book appears to have a religious slant - remember that Eve allegedly gave in to temptation despite being completely vegan. But what's religion without a bit of self contradiction?
on a medium customarily used for software interchange
I would think that 'customarily' implies conventional, not proprietary.. Of course like all words these can be interpreted multiple ways. Wish to test it and see what the courts do? :)
The fun bit is, according to the LKML thread, Redhat *are* a customer of theirs anyway :)
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
What planet do you live on? I wish to move there
So these people who want a 'fully open cpu' expect someone to put up large amounts of money to design, fabricate and mass-produce - enough production to drive down the per-unit costs to hobbyist-attainable levels - while exposing themselves to almost guaranteed direct competition against them using their own IP, all out of their own pocket so the hobbyist doesn't have to pay? How is that ever going to work? If you can't afford to fabricate a design *anyway* what point is there to having the design 'fully open' in the first place? I'd much prefer a refined, *well documented* core I can easily use wherever I want cheaply than having hdl to something I can never turn into tangible silicon. I'm not saying these recent ARM applications processors are well documented by the way. There's plenty of room for improvement there. Specially with the GPU interfaces. I just think people need to take a step back and realize 'fully open' isn't anywhere near as useful as 'well documented and production-grade'
I'm pretty sure you're able to fabricate the OR1200 HDL into an ASIC on your own if you wish. I'm not aware of the difficulty or costs in doing this as I've never fab'd a logic design but technically there's nothing stopping you. If I recall, the OR1200 has already been ASIC-proven.
There are x86 GPUs besides Intel, Nvidia, and AMD? I see the odd Matrox card once in a while but I wouldn't game on those anyway
Complete rubbish. You can turn off the final carriage return in nanorc - it's there because a lot of scripted config file parsers require it. I bet you didn't even know nano can do regex search&replace either. ps: "real engineers don't blame their tools" *happily employed developer and sysadmin of 20+ years who uses nano*
They provide an enjoyable experience, without stupid UI shenanigans.
Well, except for that ugly cashew thing persistently visible on the desktop I never use and killing off the only plasma plugin that would let you hide it.. But that's the only shenanigan really. Stupid cashew.
And Cisco and ..
Yeah I guess Motorola are defunct, right?
I never said China was dangerous. I was just stating a fact that releasing the VHDL for their ASICS would be commercial suicide, and that releasing source doesn't prove there's no backdoors in the silicon. It's a futile exercise on the part of *both* sides. It boils down to nothing but America trying to defend it's own businesses and market share - not national security.
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Please 'take your own medicine' and apply some critical thinking before making assumptions and lumping me in one category or another. And FYI, my wife is Chinese and I go there a lot to visit my delightful in-laws. I'm also American. Amazing eh?
Plus it would mean we could just fabricate new asics from their designs and not pay them, something they probably (and rightfully) don't want
Never say never :)
I hear you, honestly, but do keep in mind that sometimes change can be a good thing too. If they do it right, and it works everywhere, and gives you everything you had before but more.. why hold back? Sure, stay with what works for you for now but don't write off your options forever-more just because they're not there yet. I remember a time when I wouldn't own any phone but a Nokia, and wouldn't use a laptop because they were too underpowered and the screens were terrible. I wouldn't use anything that wasn't x86 and 32bit due to compatibility and stability. I wouldn't use wifi when ethernet was available because it was way slower and unreliable. I wouldn't consider using the internet on a phone due to cost and performance. All that's changed now and I couldn't be happier that it has
Remote vanilla X11 over even today's internet is fucking slow as balls and about as painful as being kicked in them. Even on a lan it can be pain if your client is generating too many unneeded events (try eclipse over ssh x11 forwarding some time). X11 does facilitate the use of, say, NX and VNC though to mitigate the problem. Does Wayland? If so then bring it on I say. As long as the end result is the same or better, how is it a bad thing?
Pretty sure using an API isn't covered by the scope of the copyright license anyway. If it were then glibc would be in DEEEEP shit. In fact, iirc glibc and linux *set the precedent* on this issue in the first place when they chose to be unix compatible and clone libc. Seems to me like Alan Cox is just having a tantrum about nothing ? And forgetting his roots in the process I guess.