Being open also provides a way to provide competition for the people AMD employs to develop their official graphics card drivers, because if an open driver developed by amateurs on their spare time happens to be nearly as good or even better then they may as well be out of a job, and they can't have that. Being open also means that, if the open drivers mature enough so that they are comparable to AMD's official offering, then it will be in AMD's best interests to get directly involved in the development of these open drivers and even abandon their proprietary offering in favour of this project.
TFA clearly states that the majority of the code was released by AMD devs and that they have recently expanded their open source driver team by adding two new members. Are you suggesting that this was all work done by the community? This is definitely not the case. Also, I would imagine that the Gallium3D driver is Linux-only and wouldn't be portable to other platforms, so they would still need the proprietary drivers for Windows.
When you think about it, if support gets better, then Linux could actually have even better AMD graphics support than Windows if Linux has the open option and Windows is stuck with Catalyst.
NoScript works great for that. My first machine is 5 and a half years old and the other is a netbook, but they're still pretty good for loading webpages if you block most of the scripts scripts and Flash. When I try to watch TV shows online though, then they start to struggle. I do my best to use external players if possible (e.g. stream it through mplayer instead of the native Flash player).
I should note that/. sometimes gets really laggy without NoScript. It can completely crash Firefox if I autoscroll sometimes
Americans will have to realize that if they don't take a stand and vote for sensible politicians, then their own qualities of life will suffer. I have no sympathy for them. In a democracy, there's no one to blame for a bad government than the people that voted for them. Of course, whether America really is a democracy or a 'free country' is an open question.
I doubt there'll ever be an ISP that does that, but there are always VPNs. The creators of The Pirate Bay have one - I've been thinking about signing up for it for a long time, but haven't yet cause I haven't had time to pirate much lately... anyways: wiki and their website.
seriously. The level of intellect required for some of the patents they give out to be nonobvious just makes the American government look dumber and dumber.
Using data to improve a product... well it's never been done before with tracking services for an automobile. how novel!
Picture Vista with no back compatibility following on from XP which had 1/3 the market share of OSX. Imagine that all the software already worked on iOS. That's the situation WP7 is in - it's actually easier to run the apps you used on Windows Mobile on Android than on WP7. Even the IHVs like HTC prefer Android because it's free to them and there are no limits on things like the Sense UI. WP7 has ridiculous limits on how much value they can add and they need to rewrite all their WinMo software in C# to make it work.
I'll make the analogy even simpler. Both Vista and WP7 are products that nobody wanted and are doomed to fail. The only reason Vista got anywhere is because MS can coerce the OEMs to do whatever they want. They have no such power in the mobile realm. They have no means to their business model, so how will they possibly survive?
Now we see how Microsoft products compete when they don't have all those corrupt deals that made Windows so dominant. Sure, they have Nokia, but they need an alliance with a carrier too. Makes you wonder how much better off we'd be in the computing world if Windows never happened.
So true. I remember a few weeks ago I wanted to watch a baseball game on espn.com (bless those souls for being the only broadcaster to embrace live streaming over the internet - finally a distributor that provides something customers want!). I was ecstatic and looking forward to it a lot (don't have cable, and watching on the computer is just too damn convenient - plus the MLB package is way too expensive... 100 USD per season).
I turn it on only to find out that I can't watch it because of a blackout. Yeah. Bummer. That was what finally convinced me to get streamtorrent up and running on my Ubuntu box, which I had pulled out many hairs over previously because it was so damn difficult. Well now I got that running, so I won't have to bother doing it the legal way.
You wanna know why I pirate, content companies? Piracy doesn't get blacked out. Yeah, it's not surprising that consumers are gonna go to a source that doesn't block them out for no reason whatsoever. Long story short: if you don't want people to pirate, stop fucking them over.
Well the US government managed to declare a war on terror which is essentially a war on its own citizens given how they've starting tracking them, invading their privacy, and essentially stripping them of any of their human rights (rights provided by the constitution or otherwise). So they've already got their internal war. Not much more for them to do there, all they've got left to do is the same thing for all other nations which they haven't done it to.
I have no trouble artists or producers. You know, people that actually do the work to create content. People with ideas that follow up, work hard, strive and labor through the development process to create something that is worthy and has value.
The people that I don't want to pay are the executives; the ones who pay for lobbyists to dictate draconian civil penalties and censorship of the internet; the ones who force ridiculous DRM which effective shuts out third parties and alternative platforms like Linux; the ones who artificially inflate prices and wonder why developing countries think it's a lot more sensible to pirate instead -- and then crush them with sanctions and the like; the ones who have destroyed creativity by true artists who are independent who seek alternative outlets to get their music heard; the ones who install rootkits on their computer (as if it's theirs to own and not yours); the ones who abuse the legal system to sue people in cases where they did nothing wrong but can't fight anyways because it would be many times more expensive than settling, or because it would be too humiliating and/or time-consuming to fight; and the ones who, as we see here, have bought out the American government and are using it to take over the world.
I have no sympathy for the executives of MAFIAA labels, or their equally corrupt lawyers who have done this to us -- real people. I'll do anything I can to avoid giving them my money. I'll support the artists though.
But really, now that I see it, it is a double standard. When I now reflect on it all, it truly doesn't matter whether they are targeting an organization I have no respect for or one I have complete respect for. It is illegal.
Well doesn't the government have a double standard too? Wall Street and The Banks are crashing the US economy (and to an extent, the world's economy too), causing hard-working people to lose their jobs, and is there any regulation against that? Legitimate crimes like intelligence agencies spying on people, things like the outing of Valerie Plame, and no one is ever held responsible? Instead we lock up the evil druggies while banks get bailed out for incredibly risky practices and give them out as bonuses to their executives.
The law just isn't good enough. It doesn't hold accountable people at the top of the chain. The government itself has a double standard which treats its friends with forbearance and everyone else with unconscienable disregard. Now I don't like vigilanteism at all, nor do I think these acts against Sony and the like are appropriate even though well deserved. But to say that it's wrong simply because it's illegal is a giant fallacy. Regurgitated arguments that just because it's against the law doesn't mean it's wrong and etc.
All consoles makers use OpenGL - except Microsoft of course. If Microsoft takes greater advantage in the console arena, it'll mean less developer mindshare on open standards in place of MS's proprietary engines. Fewer GL developers on consoles could translate to fewer GL developers for desktops as well - which is one of the main barriers to companies writing games for Linux and other non-MS platforms.
I guess anyone could give their take on which company is less evil, but it would seem to me that the ramifications of MS dominating in the console arena could be a pretty bad turn for all other gaming platforms. Sure Nintendo is still around but their scope is somewhat different from the other two.
You'd expect an atom to be mostly spherical right? Well if you measure the radius of an atom, you'll find that it can fluctuate. Knowing by how much the radius of an atom fluctuates might, for example, give you an idea of the angular momentum or kinetic energy of its constituent particles. I presume that the size and shape of the electron could fluctuate in similar ways and might give an indication of what physics governs its mechanical properties.
What I'm getting at is that maybe the actual measurement of the electron's radius isn't what's so important; rather it's knowing the deviation in these measurements that might yield some interesting scientific value. Keep in mind that 1e-29m is still over 5 orders of magnitude larger than the Planck length so maybe if we make a little more progress, we'll start seeing some really interesting physics.
I have my ~/.adobe and.macromedia folders linked to a ramdisk. Sometimes it's necessary to allow flash cookies for limited time uses. For example, once southparkstudios.com wouldn't load and temporarily enabling flash cookies resolved the problem (my memory is hazy, but I think this happened about a year and a half ago). Since I turn off my computer every night, it's (hopefully) not a big deal if my cookies are only saved for a few hours/days at a time. Likewise, I think it's relatively safe if I set firefox to save cookies only until my browser closes.
In the US, I find that Sprint is the exception. Try going to their webpage http://now.sprint.com/alltogethernow/index.php?pid=10&INTCID=AB:UEU:HERO:042011:ATNUnlimited:960x320 - they seem to be aware of the fact that they're the only US carrier with legitimate data plans, and they seem to like tooting their horn about it. Makes me wonder why they have a reputation for not doing so well... could be any number of things. Maybe their service isn't the most reliable? Maybe most Americans don't care about such things (wouldn't be surprised)?
I know! What if they instead adopt a square shape instead of an arbitrary rectangular one, and make the arc of the corner extend to the midpoint of each edge? This would give it a distinct, radially symmetric shape which could, in theory, allow the object to exploit its inertia against some surface to create a frictional force which would allow it to transport itself across some distance, while its radially symmetric shape would prevent a loss in momentum due to a normal impact against said surface.
One could then consider attaching another such device via some connecting cable or other solid body. Two of these such devices could then support a platform between them with some load which could be transported using the superior kinematic properties allowed by the shape of this rounded square. One would then have achieved a device (as filed in a separate application) capable of carrying arbitrary objects with non-negligible mass across some distance with significantly reduced input work.
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Being open also provides a way to provide competition for the people AMD employs to develop their official graphics card drivers, because if an open driver developed by amateurs on their spare time happens to be nearly as good or even better then they may as well be out of a job, and they can't have that. Being open also means that, if the open drivers mature enough so that they are comparable to AMD's official offering, then it will be in AMD's best interests to get directly involved in the development of these open drivers and even abandon their proprietary offering in favour of this project.
TFA clearly states that the majority of the code was released by AMD devs and that they have recently expanded their open source driver team by adding two new members. Are you suggesting that this was all work done by the community? This is definitely not the case. Also, I would imagine that the Gallium3D driver is Linux-only and wouldn't be portable to other platforms, so they would still need the proprietary drivers for Windows.
When you think about it, if support gets better, then Linux could actually have even better AMD graphics support than Windows if Linux has the open option and Windows is stuck with Catalyst.
NoScript works great for that. My first machine is 5 and a half years old and the other is a netbook, but they're still pretty good for loading webpages if you block most of the scripts scripts and Flash. When I try to watch TV shows online though, then they start to struggle. I do my best to use external players if possible (e.g. stream it through mplayer instead of the native Flash player).
I should note that /. sometimes gets really laggy without NoScript. It can completely crash Firefox if I autoscroll sometimes
Americans will have to realize that if they don't take a stand and vote for sensible politicians, then their own qualities of life will suffer. I have no sympathy for them. In a democracy, there's no one to blame for a bad government than the people that voted for them. Of course, whether America really is a democracy or a 'free country' is an open question.
$5 for the patents.
$15 for the whole operating system.
So by those numbers, one would infer that 33% of the value of MS's OS is held in patents.
I hope that those numbers are seriously wrong. Then again, getting $5/phone for doing nothing is pretty outrageous
Because a watt-second is so small a unit it's practically useless outside academia.
Isn't that true for basically everything in academia? =D
I doubt there'll ever be an ISP that does that, but there are always VPNs. The creators of The Pirate Bay have one - I've been thinking about signing up for it for a long time, but haven't yet cause I haven't had time to pirate much lately... anyways: wiki and their website.
STOP GIVING OUT OBVIOUS PATENTS
seriously. The level of intellect required for some of the patents they give out to be nonobvious just makes the American government look dumber and dumber.
Using data to improve a product... well it's never been done before with tracking services for an automobile. how novel!
It's ridiculous how much they spend on defense.
So many world problems would be solved if the US would demilitarize.
Picture Vista with no back compatibility following on from XP which had 1/3 the market share of OSX. Imagine that all the software already worked on iOS. That's the situation WP7 is in - it's actually easier to run the apps you used on Windows Mobile on Android than on WP7. Even the IHVs like HTC prefer Android because it's free to them and there are no limits on things like the Sense UI. WP7 has ridiculous limits on how much value they can add and they need to rewrite all their WinMo software in C# to make it work.
I'll make the analogy even simpler. Both Vista and WP7 are products that nobody wanted and are doomed to fail. The only reason Vista got anywhere is because MS can coerce the OEMs to do whatever they want. They have no such power in the mobile realm. They have no means to their business model, so how will they possibly survive?
Now we see how Microsoft products compete when they don't have all those corrupt deals that made Windows so dominant. Sure, they have Nokia, but they need an alliance with a carrier too. Makes you wonder how much better off we'd be in the computing world if Windows never happened.
So true. I remember a few weeks ago I wanted to watch a baseball game on espn.com (bless those souls for being the only broadcaster to embrace live streaming over the internet - finally a distributor that provides something customers want!). I was ecstatic and looking forward to it a lot (don't have cable, and watching on the computer is just too damn convenient - plus the MLB package is way too expensive... 100 USD per season).
I turn it on only to find out that I can't watch it because of a blackout. Yeah. Bummer. That was what finally convinced me to get streamtorrent up and running on my Ubuntu box, which I had pulled out many hairs over previously because it was so damn difficult. Well now I got that running, so I won't have to bother doing it the legal way.
You wanna know why I pirate, content companies? Piracy doesn't get blacked out. Yeah, it's not surprising that consumers are gonna go to a source that doesn't block them out for no reason whatsoever. Long story short: if you don't want people to pirate, stop fucking them over.
Well the US government managed to declare a war on terror which is essentially a war on its own citizens given how they've starting tracking them, invading their privacy, and essentially stripping them of any of their human rights (rights provided by the constitution or otherwise). So they've already got their internal war. Not much more for them to do there, all they've got left to do is the same thing for all other nations which they haven't done it to.
I have no trouble artists or producers. You know, people that actually do the work to create content. People with ideas that follow up, work hard, strive and labor through the development process to create something that is worthy and has value.
The people that I don't want to pay are the executives; the ones who pay for lobbyists to dictate draconian civil penalties and censorship of the internet; the ones who force ridiculous DRM which effective shuts out third parties and alternative platforms like Linux; the ones who artificially inflate prices and wonder why developing countries think it's a lot more sensible to pirate instead -- and then crush them with sanctions and the like; the ones who have destroyed creativity by true artists who are independent who seek alternative outlets to get their music heard; the ones who install rootkits on their computer (as if it's theirs to own and not yours); the ones who abuse the legal system to sue people in cases where they did nothing wrong but can't fight anyways because it would be many times more expensive than settling, or because it would be too humiliating and/or time-consuming to fight; and the ones who, as we see here, have bought out the American government and are using it to take over the world.
I have no sympathy for the executives of MAFIAA labels, or their equally corrupt lawyers who have done this to us -- real people. I'll do anything I can to avoid giving them my money. I'll support the artists though.
But really, now that I see it, it is a double standard. When I now reflect on it all, it truly doesn't matter whether they are targeting an organization I have no respect for or one I have complete respect for. It is illegal.
Well doesn't the government have a double standard too? Wall Street and The Banks are crashing the US economy (and to an extent, the world's economy too), causing hard-working people to lose their jobs, and is there any regulation against that? Legitimate crimes like intelligence agencies spying on people, things like the outing of Valerie Plame, and no one is ever held responsible? Instead we lock up the evil druggies while banks get bailed out for incredibly risky practices and give them out as bonuses to their executives.
The law just isn't good enough. It doesn't hold accountable people at the top of the chain. The government itself has a double standard which treats its friends with forbearance and everyone else with unconscienable disregard. Now I don't like vigilanteism at all, nor do I think these acts against Sony and the like are appropriate even though well deserved. But to say that it's wrong simply because it's illegal is a giant fallacy. Regurgitated arguments that just because it's against the law doesn't mean it's wrong and etc.
It's true - just like Muslim extremists flip a shit over drawings of Muhammed, the Western world does likewise over images of child sexuality.
We're just as bad as them.
All consoles makers use OpenGL - except Microsoft of course. If Microsoft takes greater advantage in the console arena, it'll mean less developer mindshare on open standards in place of MS's proprietary engines. Fewer GL developers on consoles could translate to fewer GL developers for desktops as well - which is one of the main barriers to companies writing games for Linux and other non-MS platforms.
I guess anyone could give their take on which company is less evil, but it would seem to me that the ramifications of MS dominating in the console arena could be a pretty bad turn for all other gaming platforms. Sure Nintendo is still around but their scope is somewhat different from the other two.
[talking out of my ass here, IANA physicist]
You'd expect an atom to be mostly spherical right? Well if you measure the radius of an atom, you'll find that it can fluctuate. Knowing by how much the radius of an atom fluctuates might, for example, give you an idea of the angular momentum or kinetic energy of its constituent particles. I presume that the size and shape of the electron could fluctuate in similar ways and might give an indication of what physics governs its mechanical properties.
What I'm getting at is that maybe the actual measurement of the electron's radius isn't what's so important; rather it's knowing the deviation in these measurements that might yield some interesting scientific value. Keep in mind that 1e-29m is still over 5 orders of magnitude larger than the Planck length so maybe if we make a little more progress, we'll start seeing some really interesting physics.
I have my ~/.adobe and .macromedia folders linked to a ramdisk. Sometimes it's necessary to allow flash cookies for limited time uses. For example, once southparkstudios.com wouldn't load and temporarily enabling flash cookies resolved the problem (my memory is hazy, but I think this happened about a year and a half ago). Since I turn off my computer every night, it's (hopefully) not a big deal if my cookies are only saved for a few hours/days at a time. Likewise, I think it's relatively safe if I set firefox to save cookies only until my browser closes.
I prefer to pretend that the 6-month releases don't exist. As far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu is only released once every other year! :D
Yes, but you can add different repositories if you like. With Apple, they're sure to enforce that they're the only one.
Bulldozer will be AM3+ but it has very good forwards and backwards compatibility with AM3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM3%2B
They're making billions. I have no sympathy for them if they refuse to put it to good use.
world governments
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I fail to see the difference...
In the US, I find that Sprint is the exception. Try going to their webpage http://now.sprint.com/alltogethernow/index.php?pid=10&INTCID=AB:UEU:HERO:042011:ATNUnlimited:960x320 - they seem to be aware of the fact that they're the only US carrier with legitimate data plans, and they seem to like tooting their horn about it. Makes me wonder why they have a reputation for not doing so well... could be any number of things. Maybe their service isn't the most reliable? Maybe most Americans don't care about such things (wouldn't be surprised)?
I know! What if they instead adopt a square shape instead of an arbitrary rectangular one, and make the arc of the corner extend to the midpoint of each edge? This would give it a distinct, radially symmetric shape which could, in theory, allow the object to exploit its inertia against some surface to create a frictional force which would allow it to transport itself across some distance, while its radially symmetric shape would prevent a loss in momentum due to a normal impact against said surface.
One could then consider attaching another such device via some connecting cable or other solid body. Two of these such devices could then support a platform between them with some load which could be transported using the superior kinematic properties allowed by the shape of this rounded square. One would then have achieved a device (as filed in a separate application) capable of carrying arbitrary objects with non-negligible mass across some distance with significantly reduced input work.
Wow. Apple is truly enabling innovation!