What's all this, first there's an article about a patent troll and the discussion goes about nothing but communism, and then there's a post about Microsoft stealing code and the discussion goes about China! Why can't I see discussions about the topic anymore?
Apparently it is, it would be very interesting to know why exactly this works. I mean, seriously, comments almost never get deleted here, right? (unless it's related to scientology?). And you can post as anomymous coward without logging in? It's a miracle that it isn't full of crap posts and automated spam messages.
Hardware video card support is pretty darn important these days, especially with more and more calculations (even not graphics related) being possible on the GPU and non-game applications using 3D acceleration to render 2D things faster, so I really, really, hope that Linux (and the free software in general) will have a good solution to run stuff on any GPU as good as it can run stuff on a CPU right now, because otherwise it'll lag behind and prevent applications that use that instead of the classical CPU + software rendered 2D graphics combination.
I'm a Linux user using the official binary NVidia drivers, they work good - very good even, many modern Windows games work in Wine without any performance loss.
How do the Nouveau Nvidia drivers compare to the official ones? Do they have the same performance, no little annoying bugs or differences, etc...?
"The technology is available on Windows 7, Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded CE". I find this as technological as a fork or a pencil are "a technology". Why do trivial things so often get called "the technology"?
I'm not sure how bad it is, but if someone types your name in google and the ONLY thing they find is that one thing you don't, then it'll stand out. Try to use your name for everything, so that those things appear first in the results.
-Would you like to clean up your desktop icons now?
-NO!
-Are you sure you want to change the extension of this file?
-YES!
-Your body language shows you're getting nervous. Would you like to play some Patience now?
-NO! AAAAARGH!
Geeks by definition (or at least what used to be the definition...) were socially inept but good at some narrow technical or artistic field. For some reason, there came a sort of "geek" identity which (maybe due some movies?) became "cool". And then suddenly people who have nothing to do with the group of people described above call themselves "geek". And that's how you get this...
Why do processors need decimal number support? 10 is just an arbitrary number humans picked because they happen to have 10 fingers. There's no connection between that and computers.
Yeah, it's weird, a browser ballot screen???
Wouldn't it make much more sense if they required IE to be distributed in a way similar to the other browsers? That is, no mentioning of IE at all anywhere in Windows. Users who want it can download it somewhere. And to be able to do that, a text-only browser is in Windows created only for the purpose of downloading software.
If all journalism comes from blogging instead of professional newspapers by professional journalists, the news people read will be much less controlled, and probably have much more varied opinions. Which of both is best? You decide.
Patenting grand unified theory, no matter how many years it takes to find, has no meaning. You can't use the grand unified theory. You can't patent gravity either. The grand unified theory is running the universe right now, so there's prior art.
I'd like to know this guys opinion on straightforward software patents like "the hyperlink", the virtual "shopping cart",..., and "patent holding" companies.
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What's all this, first there's an article about a patent troll and the discussion goes about nothing but communism, and then there's a post about Microsoft stealing code and the discussion goes about China! Why can't I see discussions about the topic anymore?
Look under the "religious" projects. Finally a Christmas card that looks more geeky than the "iphone with cardboard" posted earlier on /.
Apparently it is, it would be very interesting to know why exactly this works. I mean, seriously, comments almost never get deleted here, right? (unless it's related to scientology?). And you can post as anomymous coward without logging in? It's a miracle that it isn't full of crap posts and automated spam messages.
Hardware video card support is pretty darn important these days, especially with more and more calculations (even not graphics related) being possible on the GPU and non-game applications using 3D acceleration to render 2D things faster, so I really, really, hope that Linux (and the free software in general) will have a good solution to run stuff on any GPU as good as it can run stuff on a CPU right now, because otherwise it'll lag behind and prevent applications that use that instead of the classical CPU + software rendered 2D graphics combination.
I'm a Linux user using the official binary NVidia drivers, they work good - very good even, many modern Windows games work in Wine without any performance loss.
How do the Nouveau Nvidia drivers compare to the official ones? Do they have the same performance, no little annoying bugs or differences, etc...?
"The technology is available on Windows 7, Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Embedded CE".
I find this as technological as a fork or a pencil are "a technology". Why do trivial things so often get called "the technology"?
I'm not sure how bad it is, but if someone types your name in google and the ONLY thing they find is that one thing you don't, then it'll stand out. Try to use your name for everything, so that those things appear first in the results.
-Would you like to clean up your desktop icons now? -NO! -Are you sure you want to change the extension of this file? -YES! -Your body language shows you're getting nervous. Would you like to play some Patience now? -NO! AAAAARGH!
You mean: Winrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Apparently glueing some paper around an iPhone is frontpage material these days :(
Geeks by definition (or at least what used to be the definition...) were socially inept but good at some narrow technical or artistic field. For some reason, there came a sort of "geek" identity which (maybe due some movies?) became "cool". And then suddenly people who have nothing to do with the group of people described above call themselves "geek". And that's how you get this...
I see it now! I wish I could mod this reply up.
Why do processors need decimal number support? 10 is just an arbitrary number humans picked because they happen to have 10 fingers. There's no connection between that and computers.
Yeah, it's weird, a browser ballot screen??? Wouldn't it make much more sense if they required IE to be distributed in a way similar to the other browsers? That is, no mentioning of IE at all anywhere in Windows. Users who want it can download it somewhere. And to be able to do that, a text-only browser is in Windows created only for the purpose of downloading software.
Good to see that something else than the closed iPhone can be flashy and cool! :)
Well, depends if the radio tower is sending frequencies upwards or only to the sides.
An XML file with a flipped bit can be restored just as well by a human being, than a painting of Rubens that is damaged a bit.
If all journalism comes from blogging instead of professional newspapers by professional journalists, the news people read will be much less controlled, and probably have much more varied opinions. Which of both is best? You decide.
Just don't compress anything, if a bit corrupts in a non compressed bitmap file or in a plain .txt file, no more than 1 pixel or letter is lost.
For the one time that an obvious bogus patent is actually useful (hooray, no more spam!), they toss it!
That sounds easy. Or do you have to solve 100 quests before being able to hug one player?
No, blue please. With sparkles. Because I came with my bike. Thank you!
Patenting grand unified theory, no matter how many years it takes to find, has no meaning. You can't use the grand unified theory. You can't patent gravity either. The grand unified theory is running the universe right now, so there's prior art.
I'd like to know this guys opinion on straightforward software patents like "the hyperlink", the virtual "shopping cart", ..., and "patent holding" companies.
How about GNU Hurd, that's something really different.