``Desktop OpenGL use has never been as dead as it is now?''
Factually, incorrect.
Desktop OpenGL has never been larger than it is now. How come? Apple. Every copy of OS X sold with Macs adds another OpenGL Desktop to the total. Quarter over Quarter Apple's Desktop Market share is growing.
Try again. Apple chaired the OpenGL 3.3 branch. They also chaired the OpenGL 3.1 branch. Khronos is fully embracing the move to OpenCL (another Apple gift) along with AMD. Nvidia is still kicking an screaming and pushing CUDA. PTC is starting to move it's Applications to OS X. It's not because OS X wasn't ready for OpenGL--it's the only Desktop Environment with OpenGL throughout. It was the perceived market share for years and perceived resistance by IT to push OS X. That's all gone. iOS and OS X make it obvious that CAD companies can now push Fat and Thin client tools for their clients and actual technical users giving them a new vertical market for profits.
You lack of what is going on at Cupertino, Khronos, AMD, PTC, Autodesk and more is rather clear.
Being in both Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science I can assure you that Mechanical Engineering has a much greater ceiling on stress and demands. Neither career is rewarding unless you're doing cutting edge research and application development. Both have been devoid of the female gender for decades. I'm in my early 40s. The best place I've worked at for female developers was at NeXT and Apple. The rest of the industry, especially enterprise consulting was noting but a haven for misogynistic bottom feeders who couldn't get a date no matter how much money the make writing mcca solutions.
He's not only an asshole by ignoring the Police Officer's order via 911, he'll be charged with it. He'll also be charged for felony stocking and a few other felony counts. This isn't a single 2nd Degree Murder charge. He'll be looking at 4 or more felony counts on his sheet.
And this is news that I care about? Get back to fusion, code, tech, etc. I can read about this on CNN.
Whose keeping you from skipping the article? Who made you slashdot neighborhood watch police, anyways? Next you'll be hunting down someone who doesn't agree with your choice of distribution of Linux and choice of FOSS licensing.
I'm not from the US. A lot of my understanding of current political issues within the US come from this site. I find considerable value in reading the comments of nerds to issues that may not, in themselves, be News _for_ Nerds.
So add my vote to those saying that this _is_ the sort of thing I want to see on Slashdot (within reason, buyer beware, etc.)
Branch out to actual political law sites for real US Law and Political current events. If you think Slashdot is a broad reflection of the US Political landscape it's not surprising so many countries hate our f'n guts.
If we start accepting news that is for the various sub-nerds then who knows what we will end up with. Slashdot is only for PURE nerds. Do you really want law nerds dating your daughters?
In short, single, 40+, living in a basement and bitching about how come no playmate wants to bang a fat f'n slob?
Grow some class. The fact this site doesn't actually have technical journalists paid to provide articles on all matters regarding technology, from the start, should have been a clue that this place is just a forum for scraped articles aimed at a debate on them. They were predominantly targeted at IT, but it's long since expanded beyond that, even to include a Political Section. And yes, this involves Social Politics that impacts the entire Nation.
He decided to hold his speech in Gettysburg, site of one of the most stupid and bloody charges in military history (uphill across almost a mile of open ground, >50% casualties, and pretty much an entire division's officers wiped out). About the only thing I can think of is that he wanted his campaign to be another example of the Southern Cause, and his ultimate failure just be another step towards the Confederacy's ultimate victory or something.
He thinks of himself on the level of a young Abraham Lincoln. [He hasn't a clue how that would insult Lincoln into beating his ass for it.]
Ron Paul is the best candidate America had in over 50 years.
Thanks! I needed to be reminded people will still vote for bigots in 2012. Anyone who adamantly voted against the Civil Rights Act and has the arrogance to go on national television and say they'd do it again with a 200+ year history of race divisions within the US is something alright, but definitely note the `best candidate' America has had in over 50 years, unless you meant to say, the `worst candidate.' I could go on about his `limited government' while living off the teet of the federal tax payer for 40 years of his life, or the litany of race baiting publications, but you clearly either look passed that or truly don't research your candidates before you decide.
I agree. Something has changed in the GOP and not in a good way. And I say that as one who has always voted Republican except for a recent state elections. This is not the Republican party of my father. I can find more and more quotes from past Republicans that refute and denigrate the current GOP mindset. There is something weirdly evil about the GOP now.
The GOP turned into a pile of slime when Reagan won the Presidency and embraced all the far right fringe elements into the fold. The Moral Minority has taken over your party. The Republican Party ceased to be respectable after Eisenhower.
The Democrat party was slime until they embraced Civil Rights and then the Racists started heading over to the GOP who welcomed them with open arms.
The Opel is a much nicer looking car too. The volt was nice when it came out, but it took so long to get to market the style doesn't really have much impact.
This isn't a static solution. The Volt next generations are well underway in their designs and testing.
I am agape at people bragging that they only go to the gas station once a month or so.
Yeah, you buy less gas than me, but you paid nearly $50,000 for a glorified Cavalier.
I'm agast at the ignorance and pessimism as if the year is 1905 and all we need are horses. Grow the hell up. In a world where people routinely lay down $50k+ for a car or worse, lease a car at $1000+ per month you're bitching and down playing the viability of the Volt? BMW, Mercedes, and many other luxury brands are releasing their Hybrids in 2012 and early 2013. Hell, BMW is building out their Carbon Fiber autos in Moses Lake, WA.
Oh yea! I'm using a Pentium Pro and therefore have a right to complain that my decades old set up somehow is relevant to today's demanding new standards.
A bit of history from this NeXT/Apple alumnus. In 1997 Carbon was brought to the WWDC in San Jose as a one year transitional API for the big boys to port their application base over to and then a rapidly phased move to Cocoa. Adobe, Macromedia and others dictated and delayed a lot of OS X maturity by threats to pulling their products from the platform. Microsoft was settling the legal dispute and contractually bound themselves to OS X but refused to go Cocoa.
Apple had no real leverage until iTunes and the iPod.
Instead of being ready when OS X was released for Cocoa apps these companies kicked and screamed all the way.
They whined even more after Carbon 64 bit didn't materialize. By then Apple had all the leverage they needed and when iOS materialized Adobe was the last and most arrogant one to believe Steve had any love loss left for them and their long-time collaboration from Apple->NeXT->Apple. When he publicly denounced Flash Adobe should have already had their app base moved to Cocoa. The days of complaining how difficult it is to maintain Windows and OS X finally fell on completely deaf ears. Adobe will never recover as a major player and will find itself relegated to a second tier if it doesn't make a bold push on OS X and iOS with actual native Apps from top to bottom that leverage pure Cocoa/GCD/OpenCL/OpenGL/CoreFoundation via C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++ in the truest sense of the world. Releasing PDF as an ISO standard was wise, but one done out of threats from competitors. Adobe still has bloated tools whose pricing is going to kill them faster than their competitors, but then again Adobe really seems to love bundles.
You're high if you think Linux hasn't been dwarfed by iOS alone, never mind Android and OS X. Wake me up when hundreds of millions of Linux/glibc consumers arrive.
I could care less if they have a non-binary blob or not. I care about full OpenCL 1.x-2.x/OpenGL 4.x stack support for Linux. Taint the kernel all their want. I want solid drivers that just work.
I'll give it up tomorrow and when the replacement to Bulldozer arrives I am giving up Nvidia. AMD's OpenCL support is far richer and my applications are being designed to leverage OpenCL 1.1/2.0 for Engineering and Solid Modeling.
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We were all so worried about that paltry Patent List, dontcha know.
>>>sixteen colors
You poor souls. My PC had 4096 colors, near-CD-quality sound, and true multitasking (preemptive). In 1985. My PC was a Commodore. ;-)
My NeXTCube with a NeXTDimension board crapped all over your Commodore. Not to mention the OS was lightyears ahead.
Factually, incorrect.
Desktop OpenGL has never been larger than it is now. How come? Apple. Every copy of OS X sold with Macs adds another OpenGL Desktop to the total. Quarter over Quarter Apple's Desktop Market share is growing.
Try again. Apple chaired the OpenGL 3.3 branch. They also chaired the OpenGL 3.1 branch. Khronos is fully embracing the move to OpenCL (another Apple gift) along with AMD. Nvidia is still kicking an screaming and pushing CUDA. PTC is starting to move it's Applications to OS X. It's not because OS X wasn't ready for OpenGL--it's the only Desktop Environment with OpenGL throughout. It was the perceived market share for years and perceived resistance by IT to push OS X. That's all gone. iOS and OS X make it obvious that CAD companies can now push Fat and Thin client tools for their clients and actual technical users giving them a new vertical market for profits.
You lack of what is going on at Cupertino, Khronos, AMD, PTC, Autodesk and more is rather clear.
Nice accurrate summary with one painful caveat: It's not `sale' ... but `sell' (e.g., ...Apple never intended to `sell' DRM free music...)
Being in both Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science I can assure you that Mechanical Engineering has a much greater ceiling on stress and demands. Neither career is rewarding unless you're doing cutting edge research and application development. Both have been devoid of the female gender for decades. I'm in my early 40s. The best place I've worked at for female developers was at NeXT and Apple. The rest of the industry, especially enterprise consulting was noting but a haven for misogynistic bottom feeders who couldn't get a date no matter how much money the make writing mcca solutions.
He's not only an asshole by ignoring the Police Officer's order via 911, he'll be charged with it. He'll also be charged for felony stocking and a few other felony counts. This isn't a single 2nd Degree Murder charge. He'll be looking at 4 or more felony counts on his sheet.
And this is news that I care about? Get back to fusion, code, tech, etc. I can read about this on CNN.
Whose keeping you from skipping the article? Who made you slashdot neighborhood watch police, anyways? Next you'll be hunting down someone who doesn't agree with your choice of distribution of Linux and choice of FOSS licensing.
I'm not from the US. A lot of my understanding of current political issues within the US come from this site. I find considerable value in reading the comments of nerds to issues that may not, in themselves, be News _for_ Nerds. So add my vote to those saying that this _is_ the sort of thing I want to see on Slashdot (within reason, buyer beware, etc.)
Branch out to actual political law sites for real US Law and Political current events. If you think Slashdot is a broad reflection of the US Political landscape it's not surprising so many countries hate our f'n guts.
From the length and vacuous content I bet you're a real playa with the ladies, eh?
If we start accepting news that is for the various sub-nerds then who knows what we will end up with. Slashdot is only for PURE nerds. Do you really want law nerds dating your daughters?
In short, single, 40+, living in a basement and bitching about how come no playmate wants to bang a fat f'n slob?
Stuff that matters for Americans, more like it.
As a rest-of-the-world'er, this sort of news doesn't matter to us in the slightest. And there is nothing in TFA that would interest nerds either.
Slashdot's parent company is an American Corporation. Your point?
Grow some class. The fact this site doesn't actually have technical journalists paid to provide articles on all matters regarding technology, from the start, should have been a clue that this place is just a forum for scraped articles aimed at a debate on them. They were predominantly targeted at IT, but it's long since expanded beyond that, even to include a Political Section. And yes, this involves Social Politics that impacts the entire Nation.
F) Penn Jillette style atheist nerd free love libertarian
Is that in ``Super Focus?''
He decided to hold his speech in Gettysburg, site of one of the most stupid and bloody charges in military history (uphill across almost a mile of open ground, >50% casualties, and pretty much an entire division's officers wiped out). About the only thing I can think of is that he wanted his campaign to be another example of the Southern Cause, and his ultimate failure just be another step towards the Confederacy's ultimate victory or something.
He thinks of himself on the level of a young Abraham Lincoln. [He hasn't a clue how that would insult Lincoln into beating his ass for it.]
Ron Paul is the best candidate America had in over 50 years.
Thanks! I needed to be reminded people will still vote for bigots in 2012. Anyone who adamantly voted against the Civil Rights Act and has the arrogance to go on national television and say they'd do it again with a 200+ year history of race divisions within the US is something alright, but definitely note the `best candidate' America has had in over 50 years, unless you meant to say, the `worst candidate.' I could go on about his `limited government' while living off the teet of the federal tax payer for 40 years of his life, or the litany of race baiting publications, but you clearly either look passed that or truly don't research your candidates before you decide.
I agree. Something has changed in the GOP and not in a good way. And I say that as one who has always voted Republican except for a recent state elections. This is not the Republican party of my father. I can find more and more quotes from past Republicans that refute and denigrate the current GOP mindset. There is something weirdly evil about the GOP now.
The GOP turned into a pile of slime when Reagan won the Presidency and embraced all the far right fringe elements into the fold. The Moral Minority has taken over your party. The Republican Party ceased to be respectable after Eisenhower.
The Democrat party was slime until they embraced Civil Rights and then the Racists started heading over to the GOP who welcomed them with open arms.
The Opel is a much nicer looking car too. The volt was nice when it came out, but it took so long to get to market the style doesn't really have much impact.
This isn't a static solution. The Volt next generations are well underway in their designs and testing.
I am agape at people bragging that they only go to the gas station once a month or so.
Yeah, you buy less gas than me, but you paid nearly $50,000 for a glorified Cavalier.
I'm agast at the ignorance and pessimism as if the year is 1905 and all we need are horses. Grow the hell up. In a world where people routinely lay down $50k+ for a car or worse, lease a car at $1000+ per month you're bitching and down playing the viability of the Volt? BMW, Mercedes, and many other luxury brands are releasing their Hybrids in 2012 and early 2013. Hell, BMW is building out their Carbon Fiber autos in Moses Lake, WA.
This is just the beginning.
http://www.bmwblog.com/2011/09/01/bmw-group-sgl-group-joint-venture-opens-the-new-moses-lake-plant/
Oh yea! I'm using a Pentium Pro and therefore have a right to complain that my decades old set up somehow is relevant to today's demanding new standards.
A bit of history from this NeXT/Apple alumnus. In 1997 Carbon was brought to the WWDC in San Jose as a one year transitional API for the big boys to port their application base over to and then a rapidly phased move to Cocoa. Adobe, Macromedia and others dictated and delayed a lot of OS X maturity by threats to pulling their products from the platform. Microsoft was settling the legal dispute and contractually bound themselves to OS X but refused to go Cocoa.
Apple had no real leverage until iTunes and the iPod.
Instead of being ready when OS X was released for Cocoa apps these companies kicked and screamed all the way.
They whined even more after Carbon 64 bit didn't materialize. By then Apple had all the leverage they needed and when iOS materialized Adobe was the last and most arrogant one to believe Steve had any love loss left for them and their long-time collaboration from Apple->NeXT->Apple. When he publicly denounced Flash Adobe should have already had their app base moved to Cocoa. The days of complaining how difficult it is to maintain Windows and OS X finally fell on completely deaf ears. Adobe will never recover as a major player and will find itself relegated to a second tier if it doesn't make a bold push on OS X and iOS with actual native Apps from top to bottom that leverage pure Cocoa/GCD/OpenCL/OpenGL/CoreFoundation via C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++ in the truest sense of the world. Releasing PDF as an ISO standard was wise, but one done out of threats from competitors. Adobe still has bloated tools whose pricing is going to kill them faster than their competitors, but then again Adobe really seems to love bundles.
You're high if you think Linux hasn't been dwarfed by iOS alone, never mind Android and OS X. Wake me up when hundreds of millions of Linux/glibc consumers arrive.
I could care less if they have a non-binary blob or not. I care about full OpenCL 1.x-2.x/OpenGL 4.x stack support for Linux. Taint the kernel all their want. I want solid drivers that just work.
I'll give it up tomorrow and when the replacement to Bulldozer arrives I am giving up Nvidia. AMD's OpenCL support is far richer and my applications are being designed to leverage OpenCL 1.1/2.0 for Engineering and Solid Modeling.
Nice to see Einstein is still making an impact on lives 60 years later.
Clearly, Einstein wasn't much for contractions. He must have subscribed to the Donald Trump school of, ``Your Fired.''
Perhaps a third party publisher who believes they own the rights to publish the writings does, but it sure as hell won't be Apple.