If Netscape was such a POS what threat was it to Microsoft? All Microsoft had to do was to drive the W3 standards, provide a seamless presentation and get more sales of their platform, but they decided to bury a non-threat, strong-arm OEM vendors and much more.
I love the humor in revisionist history until people take it as factual. Then its a serious problem.
IMO, the fundamental problem with OpenCL is the same as with OpenAL, which is that Operating System vendors don't provide a standard implementation as is done with OpenGL.
(Bus) speed isn't an issue as creating a CPU or GPU context requires a specific creation flag, so one would know what the target platform is.
Embrace and extend. So far I'm seeing C/C++ APIs and of course Apple extends their own with ObjC APIs.
What's stopping you from using the C APIs?
The Core Spec is akin to the OpenGL spec. The custom extensions for Intel, Nvidia and AMD will be based upon their design decisions they implement in their GPUs.
However, the CPU specs for Intel and AMD are there to leverage with OpenCL.
It's amazing what bullshit you Mac fanboys will spew out to defend Apple's shortcomings.
What's amazing is you being a complete douche by flaming someone who a few comments later is vindicated, more formally, with actual facts on the point of this flash. Keep being a dick and thinking Linux invented shells, so on and so forth. I prefer knowing multiple operating systems, how kernels inter-operate with I/O devices and more as progress continues. Then again, there is a growing hard on group of "security experts" who make the Bush administration seem sane by their doomsday scenarios they present.
................obviously..
I'm not talking about Reader. I compared the size of Acrobat with ghostscript, which can also create postscript and PDF documents. It was relevant to GGP because he was talking about PDF bloat from Adobe.
You just need to change in your article the name "linus" by "ingo" and then your post may have some sense. Which shows how much you "know" about the topic.
Linus didn't even bothered with the scheduler, Ingo was the maintainer and it was him who was in charge of deciding what should replace it. It was him who argued, not linus. It was him who ended up admitting that the ideas from Con were good and he wrote the scheduler which is now into the kernel. One that, according to Con, was better than his own scheduler.
Ingo might as well the be the secret lover of Linus or his offspring from a parallel universe. The guy talks so fondly of him you'd think they run through the fields in slow motion towards one another as the Sound of Music is playing in the back drop.
I was under impression that Alan Cox was more involved recently in FreeBSD matters than with Linux anyway.
Perhaps Alan wants to position himself to putting his talents to work at Apple on OS X which will provide him the financial response his hard work has more than earned?
[Canvas] is already supported on Firefox and Webkit-based browsers. This is the most practical advantage it has -- availability in the field.
Except SVG is already supported on Opera, Firefox and Webkit, too, and even in IE via plugins.
The killer app for SVG would be if someone developed an artist-centric development tool like Flash.
I have no idea why you aren't marked as Informative. WebKit of course has SVG built-in. Apple isn't suspending SVG with Canvas.The canvas element represents a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly; and threaten SVG or any other vector based graphics, but most certainly gives a shot in the ass for bitmap'd graphics used for texture fills and more, on the fly, that could add something useful to the Web.
I used to work solely in FORTRAN for simulation work. The big advantage of Fortran90/95 over C is that the compilers are heavily optimized for doing iterated operations over every value of an array. So for say, fluid dynamics, it really is the best. I suspect you might be able achieve a similar speed in C, but that you would have to hand optimise instead (ugh).
I'd mod these comments up but I don't have the points. It's clear this site lacks Mechanical Engineers who all learned Fortran and C.
Here is the growing list of WebKit enabled GNOME applications.
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ApplicationsGtk
I personally like Epiphany 2.27.2 in Debian already being HTML 5 ready and having Font-Face and more just working while I have to wait for Debian to actually get Firefox [Iceweasel] ready. With the most recent major security flaw in Firefox 3.5 I'd expect Debian to wait until FF 3.5.1 is released before I get to have that even in Experimental, let alone Sid.
Do us ex-NeXT employees a favor. Change your handle. You either don't get Steve or were a prick that worked there who everyone thought was a dick and got fired.
It makes perfect sense to put wind farms where the *gasp* wind is.
Sure, but if the wind is so far away that a huge portion of power is lost in transmission, you may want to look for more local sources of power (wind or otherwise).
I suggest the Northeastern Corridor bring their Power Grid up to 2009 [instead of the 1940s] with redundant regional zones and smart grid management with the focus on optimum distribution before it shoots it's own mouth off and attempts to destroy intelligent power sourcing from the Midwest. The Pacific Northwest will be supporting the Midwest and so will the Southwest, you can count on it.
still full of dickless wankers who are trying to defend a Fundamentalist Fascist with a Messiah Complex as being accountable to that of President Obama. Either this click is full of disgruntled derivatives traders, fraudulent preachers mad about losing their religious funding or a bunch of punks who were born after Reagan finished his second term and haven't a clue about what a clusterf'ck the US has been for the past 40 years. I know I'm missing other collective sheep but it's not hard to see how greed, blind faith and ignorance all tie in together.
P.S. To the original purpose of this thread it never ceases to amaze me the amount of energy wasted on such garbage as attempting to impose a law as this idea while proclaiming to be a free and reasoned set of nations.
It's bad enough the US allowed little messiah to run the nation into the ditch for 8 years while we put up with all the bitching from the EU about it, but you equally have mini-murdochs attempting economic coups of their own in your back yard. Clean up your own s*** and we'll do the same.
Perhaps these folks feel they are tired of having books, journals, magazines and more printed in hopes we all buy those lame ass Kindles.
The day that attempt arrives is the day a new industry of publishing will start making this consortium powerless and holding nothing.
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Exactly, on all points.
Here! Here! I second the motion on MM being a voice of reason.
If Netscape was such a POS what threat was it to Microsoft? All Microsoft had to do was to drive the W3 standards, provide a seamless presentation and get more sales of their platform, but they decided to bury a non-threat, strong-arm OEM vendors and much more.
I love the humor in revisionist history until people take it as factual. Then its a serious problem.
Source: http://developer.amd.com/GPU/ATISTREAMSDKBETAPROGRAM/Pages/default.aspx
Being able to target both Windows and Linux is something outside Apple's platform scope.
IMO, the fundamental problem with OpenCL is the same as with OpenAL, which is that Operating System vendors don't provide a standard implementation as is done with OpenGL.
(Bus) speed isn't an issue as creating a CPU or GPU context requires a specific creation flag, so one would know what the target platform is.
http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/
Embrace and extend. So far I'm seeing C/C++ APIs and of course Apple extends their own with ObjC APIs.
What's stopping you from using the C APIs?
The Core Spec is akin to the OpenGL spec. The custom extensions for Intel, Nvidia and AMD will be based upon their design decisions they implement in their GPUs.
However, the CPU specs for Intel and AMD are there to leverage with OpenCL.
What else do you want?
I stopped caring at this point.
It's amazing what bullshit you Mac fanboys will spew out to defend Apple's shortcomings.
What's amazing is you being a complete douche by flaming someone who a few comments later is vindicated, more formally, with actual facts on the point of this flash. Keep being a dick and thinking Linux invented shells, so on and so forth. I prefer knowing multiple operating systems, how kernels inter-operate with I/O devices and more as progress continues. Then again, there is a growing hard on group of "security experts" who make the Bush administration seem sane by their doomsday scenarios they present.
................obviously.. I'm not talking about Reader. I compared the size of Acrobat with ghostscript, which can also create postscript and PDF documents. It was relevant to GGP because he was talking about PDF bloat from Adobe.
Ghostscript is very nice, but it has a long way to go to support the massive list of ISO standards Adobe has garnered of late with PDF. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/standards.html
Does SumatraPDF and the rest remotely support the following PDF standards? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/standards.html
Acrobat is Acrobat Writer and Professional Pre-press publishing suite.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
Acrobat Reader and Acrobat are not remotely the same beast.
Seriously? KDESU is broken, in the first place.
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=kdesu
You just need to change in your article the name "linus" by "ingo" and then your post may have some sense. Which shows how much you "know" about the topic.
Linus didn't even bothered with the scheduler, Ingo was the maintainer and it was him who was in charge of deciding what should replace it. It was him who argued, not linus. It was him who ended up admitting that the ideas from Con were good and he wrote the scheduler which is now into the kernel. One that, according to Con, was better than his own scheduler.
Ingo might as well the be the secret lover of Linus or his offspring from a parallel universe. The guy talks so fondly of him you'd think they run through the fields in slow motion towards one another as the Sound of Music is playing in the back drop.
I was under impression that Alan Cox was more involved recently in FreeBSD matters than with Linux anyway.
Perhaps Alan wants to position himself to putting his talents to work at Apple on OS X which will provide him the financial response his hard work has more than earned?
[Canvas] is already supported on Firefox and Webkit-based browsers. This is the most practical advantage it has -- availability in the field.
Except SVG is already supported on Opera, Firefox and Webkit, too, and even in IE via plugins.
The killer app for SVG would be if someone developed an artist-centric development tool like Flash.
I have no idea why you aren't marked as Informative. WebKit of course has SVG built-in. Apple isn't suspending SVG with Canvas.The canvas element represents a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly; and threaten SVG or any other vector based graphics, but most certainly gives a shot in the ass for bitmap'd graphics used for texture fills and more, on the fly, that could add something useful to the Web.
I used to work solely in FORTRAN for simulation work. The big advantage of Fortran90/95 over C is that the compilers are heavily optimized for doing iterated operations over every value of an array. So for say, fluid dynamics, it really is the best. I suspect you might be able achieve a similar speed in C, but that you would have to hand optimise instead (ugh).
I'd mod these comments up but I don't have the points. It's clear this site lacks Mechanical Engineers who all learned Fortran and C.
Normal people don't understand Physics let alone the Law.
Konqueror did not begat WebKit. KHTML/KJS begat WebKit.
Nice try.
Here is the growing list of WebKit enabled GNOME applications.
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ApplicationsGtk
I personally like Epiphany 2.27.2 in Debian already being HTML 5 ready and having Font-Face and more just working while I have to wait for Debian to actually get Firefox [Iceweasel] ready. With the most recent major security flaw in Firefox 3.5 I'd expect Debian to wait until FF 3.5.1 is released before I get to have that even in Experimental, let alone Sid.
Much of GNOME is moving to WebKit for their HTML needs in it's help system.
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ApplicationsGtk
"I may not be a fancy big New York Country Lawyer or anything,"
The lawyer wasn't a big New York Country Lawyer either.
There's a /reason/ why Fark has a Florida tag.
-- BMO
What is this big New York Country Lawyer thing we keep talking about? City, yes. Country, no.
Do us ex-NeXT employees a favor. Change your handle. You either don't get Steve or were a prick that worked there who everyone thought was a dick and got fired.
Sir Thomas Paine gave us, ``The United States of America.''
It makes perfect sense to put wind farms where the *gasp* wind is.
Sure, but if the wind is so far away that a huge portion of power is lost in transmission, you may want to look for more local sources of power (wind or otherwise).
I suggest the Northeastern Corridor bring their Power Grid up to 2009 [instead of the 1940s] with redundant regional zones and smart grid management with the focus on optimum distribution before it shoots it's own mouth off and attempts to destroy intelligent power sourcing from the Midwest. The Pacific Northwest will be supporting the Midwest and so will the Southwest, you can count on it.
still full of dickless wankers who are trying to defend a Fundamentalist Fascist with a Messiah Complex as being accountable to that of President Obama. Either this click is full of disgruntled derivatives traders, fraudulent preachers mad about losing their religious funding or a bunch of punks who were born after Reagan finished his second term and haven't a clue about what a clusterf'ck the US has been for the past 40 years. I know I'm missing other collective sheep but it's not hard to see how greed, blind faith and ignorance all tie in together.
P.S. To the original purpose of this thread it never ceases to amaze me the amount of energy wasted on such garbage as attempting to impose a law as this idea while proclaiming to be a free and reasoned set of nations.
It's bad enough the US allowed little messiah to run the nation into the ditch for 8 years while we put up with all the bitching from the EU about it, but you equally have mini-murdochs attempting economic coups of their own in your back yard. Clean up your own s*** and we'll do the same.
Perhaps these folks feel they are tired of having books, journals, magazines and more printed in hopes we all buy those lame ass Kindles.
The day that attempt arrives is the day a new industry of publishing will start making this consortium powerless and holding nothing.
I tried to go once, but it turned out that the tickets are $19 bucks. Is it worth the price?
If $19 is too much you have more pressing concerns than being enriched with history and science.