"They" (one group of kernel devs) didn't have more important things to work on than security in the face of 3d accelerated application support - which is why that group of kernel devs wrote KGI.
Unfortunately "They" (a larger group of kernel devs who only switched out of EGA mode for multiple terminals on one screen, a group that seems to have included Linus Torvalds) thought that companies who were paid to provide realtime 3d rendered displays of data/media for whatever reasons (eg medical visualisation, pilot training, etc), didn't deserve to have security.
I'm not joking, they actually said people who use 3d don't need secure computers and should not be provided with both 3d and security at the expense of running 3d rendering algorithms in ring 0. Even though no KGI drivers did that, at most (a couple of drivers) they fiddled a few words on the card to shift data precalculated in user space onto the card.
This was all because the second, larger, "They" thought that 3D meant "movie rendering" where the networks were already highly secure or "games" where it is only a child's computer and the family didn't share it for internet banking, etc - and nor should they ("Damned families, not giving their children a dedicated computer, they ought to be locked up").
KGI never put graphics into the kernel, it only put mode setting into the kernel and provided a means to communicate with graphics hardware other than dumb MMIO to userspace. Individual drivers could do graphics in the kernel, but most cards could do either dump mapping if it is secure, or userspace could fill a buffer with a list of writes to be done and the driver would check them for safety and then just perform the described writes. Most of the cards that would need a full kernel graphics driver were slower than software rendering.
It's about time, KGI was a patch to Linux many many years ago to enhance Linux graphics support just like combining this kernel modesetting with DRI (except that KGI had decent security measures designed in right from the start).
As usual the old guard says something like "Graphics isn't relevant" and holds back progress for years on end.
> If they have correctly use an independent formalism to verify Hawking radiation
They have not verified Hawking radiation. They did not observe Hawking Radiation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate. They produced a computer program that draws an animation of what Hawking radiation might look like and then watched it - thus they "observed" the radiation just like you or I might observe the existence of Martians by looking at the right Bugs Bunny cartoon ("Look a Martian! And he's wondering where the ka-boom is!")
If Ubuntu's standard development suite is benchmarked virtualising at 1/5 to 1/10 the speed of Microsoft's Development suite, Ubuntu loses.
I mean, 1/5 to 1/10 the speed, Dude. And this existing hardware isn't going away any time soon and it can't just go to landfill for people to replace it. They'll just run Windows and Virtual Server - it's so easy and fast.
Doesn't KVM require virtualisation extensions to run? Will Ubuntu be integrating qemu's CPU virtualisation into the UI they write so it can be used for more than a tiny fraction of the Ubuntu using population?
And nor did his bank. That is the frightening bit. I give my bank details out to people such as letting agencies for credit checks, employers.
If my bank is just like his then they'll be happy to give my money out to all comers. If the account details are all that is supposed to be required to withdraw money, why do I need separate codes for internet and telephone banking?
As an example, due to automation and agricultural techniques, food of the same quality as that available for an hours work 50 years ago should be available for less than an hours work now. It is not, it costs an awful lot more.
"sometimes some control is better than no control."
I would say that no control is impossible - somebody is always in charge. The point of some control is to maintain equality on a real economic basis of value (wealth) exchange rather than allowing inequality based on gaming strategy to cause trivial, legally protected theft.
IE, working generates wealth, and inventing new efficient techniques and automation generates wealth and the markets should be based on those things. Being able to trick people into giving you stuff when you haven't met their criteria is not useful generally so when we, the general population, maintain our markets they shouldn't be based on valuing trickery.
If large firms colluding means I can do less than them except as provided by real economies of scale then it is not free because I am not equally free.
You can't have one person ruling the roost and everybody else subservient and then think they have freedom. Crikey, you must be pro slavery - a free country is one in which people are free to wholly own other people?
We don't have free market capitalism in the western world. Most markets are tightly controlled and made mostly worthless - hence all our technological development hasn't made most of us rich. What happens to us these days doesn't happen in free markets thus the markets are not free.
It occurred to me pretty quickly that it was fake, but while it *is* topical it doesn't appear to be satire to me.
The reason is that he is not playing the part of a pundit, he normally plays the part of Steve Jobs, but in these lawsuit stories he *is* a pundit and is writing them *as* the actor (himself) claiming that he is being sued for his regular act. This isn't satire and he could get into an awful lot of trouble for it.
Since it doesn't seem to be satire, I'd say he *should* get into an awful lot of trouble for it.
> Slashdotting a server wasn't much of a threat back then - what with all twelve of you hitting the poor server at the time.
Ah, but the most interesting articles were always hosted on the other side of some geezer's dialup so we could still do our worst:) The internet was still made out of spit and duct tape back then. I was on a T1 shared with about 50 people at work, so I was one of the lucky ones. I remember dreaming of having a T1 at home but it would have cost 70,000 GBP to install it and not much less per year for rental. How I laugh when I think how much bandwidth I have now:)
:) I started seeing the world through a comforting green haze in 1997 too:)
> I remember no such timeframe,
Maybe it was my youthful optimism then:) But now that the BBC rarely has articles after slashdot - rather slashdot links to the BBCs third hand reporting - I recall those days with great fondness.
Mind you, back then I used to read freshmeat every day too:)
Nah, it was much better right at the start before we had uids. There were few dupes, articles were really techie, and articles were always here before the mainstream news got them.
Assuming the same price per litre as current Li-Ion (a big assumption) you would need about 200 charge/discharge cycles to match the tesla roadster's current batteries on price per mile, I think.
According to the teacher's statement the student was not told to use IE, the student was told to do his work - the student explained that he/was/ doing his work and how it was possible with firefox. The teacher did *not* claim that he/she then explained that the coursework must be done using IE - this is not documented in the explanation of the reason for the detention (and since the student would need a clear instruction of what to do before being able to do it, one would think that this should have been the reason).
It seems like this student still hasn't been told what he's in detention for - you'd expect that to be in his letter home. The letter just says he wasn't doing his work... but he was:/
My old mum gave me my brother's lunchbox once, containing a sandwich filler that made me puke on contact and still does 25 years later. The teacher insisted that my mother could never make an error that would cause such an effect on me (even after I said that the lunchboxes were outwardly identical). 30 seconds later I destroyed four peoples meals and made the classroom stink of vomit for the rest of the day.
Don't just assume that because somebody is getting on in years that they are automatically honourable, super-intelligent, and infinitely wise. There is no statutory cull of wankers at 18 so they go on and get jobs and some of them become teachers.
Some teachers are great, though. I got a pat on the back for wrestling in class, knocking tables over and stuff, because the person I was fighting needed somebody to stand up to him:) Still had to go over to the science building to clean tabletops though:)
The negative effects perceived to be the fault of a "strong" dollar are actually because most Americans (ie, those who use dollars) demand a higher standard of living, better working conditions, and fewer working hours than in China and India. If the value of the dollar halves but the Americans using the dollar still require the standards they currently have then, before long, the export price of US made goods will simply double measured in dollars and stay the same measured in other currencies.
You *do*, though, get a short period of profit until everybody realises they are piling far more wealth into buying US made goods than they used to - that can be enough to avert a depression in the worst of times. However, when there is a depression hitting the US, other governments will devalue their currencies so they don't have to wait for their domestic markets to notice what's happening. In that scenario, though, Americans *will* stop demanding their current lifestyle, so products will be made much cheaper. You don't get to stay so wealthy, I'm afraid, not without a war over trade, you've overspent and must now pull in your belts.
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and "jubilee clip"
"They" (one group of kernel devs) didn't have more important things to work on than security in the face of 3d accelerated application support - which is why that group of kernel devs wrote KGI.
Unfortunately "They" (a larger group of kernel devs who only switched out of EGA mode for multiple terminals on one screen, a group that seems to have included Linus Torvalds) thought that companies who were paid to provide realtime 3d rendered displays of data/media for whatever reasons (eg medical visualisation, pilot training, etc), didn't deserve to have security.
I'm not joking, they actually said people who use 3d don't need secure computers and should not be provided with both 3d and security at the expense of running 3d rendering algorithms in ring 0. Even though no KGI drivers did that, at most (a couple of drivers) they fiddled a few words on the card to shift data precalculated in user space onto the card.
This was all because the second, larger, "They" thought that 3D meant "movie rendering" where the networks were already highly secure or "games" where it is only a child's computer and the family didn't share it for internet banking, etc - and nor should they ("Damned families, not giving their children a dedicated computer, they ought to be locked up").
Crazy
KGI never put graphics into the kernel, it only put mode setting into the kernel and provided a means to communicate with graphics hardware other than dumb MMIO to userspace. Individual drivers could do graphics in the kernel, but most cards could do either dump mapping if it is secure, or userspace could fill a buffer with a list of writes to be done and the driver would check them for safety and then just perform the described writes. Most of the cards that would need a full kernel graphics driver were slower than software rendering.
It's about time, KGI was a patch to Linux many many years ago to enhance Linux graphics support just like combining this kernel modesetting with DRI (except that KGI had decent security measures designed in right from the start).
As usual the old guard says something like "Graphics isn't relevant" and holds back progress for years on end.
If they're vibrating as if at -400F then aren't they simply at -400F?
> If they have correctly use an independent formalism to verify Hawking radiation
They have not verified Hawking radiation. They did not observe Hawking Radiation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate. They produced a computer program that draws an animation of what Hawking radiation might look like and then watched it - thus they "observed" the radiation just like you or I might observe the existence of Martians by looking at the right Bugs Bunny cartoon ("Look a Martian! And he's wondering where the ka-boom is!")
If Ubuntu's standard development suite is benchmarked virtualising at 1/5 to 1/10 the speed of Microsoft's Development suite, Ubuntu loses.
I mean, 1/5 to 1/10 the speed, Dude. And this existing hardware isn't going away any time soon and it can't just go to landfill for people to replace it. They'll just run Windows and Virtual Server - it's so easy and fast.
Doesn't KVM require virtualisation extensions to run? Will Ubuntu be integrating qemu's CPU virtualisation into the UI they write so it can be used for more than a tiny fraction of the Ubuntu using population?
I think I've just cum.
There's an ocean between /me/ and Great Britain too, but that's because I drank 5 litres of water today and I just wet myself.
And nor did his bank. That is the frightening bit. I give my bank details out to people such as letting agencies for credit checks, employers.
If my bank is just like his then they'll be happy to give my money out to all comers. If the account details are all that is supposed to be required to withdraw money, why do I need separate codes for internet and telephone banking?
You lose your cool points. That was CGI. Show me a real one and you can have your points back.
This is just another crackpot perpetual moisten machine.
As an example, due to automation and agricultural techniques, food of the same quality as that available for an hours work 50 years ago should be available for less than an hours work now. It is not, it costs an awful lot more.
"sometimes some control is better than no control."
I would say that no control is impossible - somebody is always in charge. The point of some control is to maintain equality on a real economic basis of value (wealth) exchange rather than allowing inequality based on gaming strategy to cause trivial, legally protected theft.
IE, working generates wealth, and inventing new efficient techniques and automation generates wealth and the markets should be based on those things. Being able to trick people into giving you stuff when you haven't met their criteria is not useful generally so when we, the general population, maintain our markets they shouldn't be based on valuing trickery.
If large firms colluding means I can do less than them except as provided by real economies of scale then it is not free because I am not equally free.
You can't have one person ruling the roost and everybody else subservient and then think they have freedom. Crikey, you must be pro slavery - a free country is one in which people are free to wholly own other people?
We don't have free market capitalism in the western world. Most markets are tightly controlled and made mostly worthless - hence all our technological development hasn't made most of us rich. What happens to us these days doesn't happen in free markets thus the markets are not free.
> As far as I can tell, the olpc blows the Nokia internet tablet pc out of the water.
But it doesn't blow the Nokia IT out of my pocket where it very neatly fits.
It occurred to me pretty quickly that it was fake, but while it *is* topical it doesn't appear to be satire to me.
The reason is that he is not playing the part of a pundit, he normally plays the part of Steve Jobs, but in these lawsuit stories he *is* a pundit and is writing them *as* the actor (himself) claiming that he is being sued for his regular act. This isn't satire and he could get into an awful lot of trouble for it.
Since it doesn't seem to be satire, I'd say he *should* get into an awful lot of trouble for it.
> Slashdotting a server wasn't much of a threat back then - what with all twelve of you hitting the poor server at the time.
:) The internet was still made out of spit and duct tape back then. I was on a T1 shared with about 50 people at work, so I was one of the lucky ones. I remember dreaming of having a T1 at home but it would have cost 70,000 GBP to install it and not much less per year for rental. How I laugh when I think how much bandwidth I have now :)
Ah, but the most interesting articles were always hosted on the other side of some geezer's dialup so we could still do our worst
:) I started seeing the world through a comforting green haze in 1997 too :)
:) But now that the BBC rarely has articles after slashdot - rather slashdot links to the BBCs third hand reporting - I recall those days with great fondness.
:)
> I remember no such timeframe,
Maybe it was my youthful optimism then
Mind you, back then I used to read freshmeat every day too
Nah, it was much better right at the start before we had uids. There were few dupes, articles were really techie, and articles were always here before the mainstream news got them.
It's not like the good old days any more.
Assuming the same price per litre as current Li-Ion (a big assumption) you would need about 200 charge/discharge cycles to match the tesla roadster's current batteries on price per mile, I think.
According to the teacher's statement the student was not told to use IE, the student was told to do his work - the student explained that he /was/ doing his work and how it was possible with firefox. The teacher did *not* claim that he/she then explained that the coursework must be done using IE - this is not documented in the explanation of the reason for the detention (and since the student would need a clear instruction of what to do before being able to do it, one would think that this should have been the reason).
:/
:) Still had to go over to the science building to clean tabletops though :)
It seems like this student still hasn't been told what he's in detention for - you'd expect that to be in his letter home. The letter just says he wasn't doing his work... but he was
My old mum gave me my brother's lunchbox once, containing a sandwich filler that made me puke on contact and still does 25 years later. The teacher insisted that my mother could never make an error that would cause such an effect on me (even after I said that the lunchboxes were outwardly identical). 30 seconds later I destroyed four peoples meals and made the classroom stink of vomit for the rest of the day.
Don't just assume that because somebody is getting on in years that they are automatically honourable, super-intelligent, and infinitely wise. There is no statutory cull of wankers at 18 so they go on and get jobs and some of them become teachers.
Some teachers are great, though. I got a pat on the back for wrestling in class, knocking tables over and stuff, because the person I was fighting needed somebody to stand up to him
The negative effects perceived to be the fault of a "strong" dollar are actually because most Americans (ie, those who use dollars) demand a higher standard of living, better working conditions, and fewer working hours than in China and India. If the value of the dollar halves but the Americans using the dollar still require the standards they currently have then, before long, the export price of US made goods will simply double measured in dollars and stay the same measured in other currencies.
You *do*, though, get a short period of profit until everybody realises they are piling far more wealth into buying US made goods than they used to - that can be enough to avert a depression in the worst of times. However, when there is a depression hitting the US, other governments will devalue their currencies so they don't have to wait for their domestic markets to notice what's happening. In that scenario, though, Americans *will* stop demanding their current lifestyle, so products will be made much cheaper. You don't get to stay so wealthy, I'm afraid, not without a war over trade, you've overspent and must now pull in your belts.