Last I checked Intel isn't the only game in town for x86 processors.... I see that Athlon based systems are suspiciously absent from VA Linux systems...
HR Giger doing Dune? Yikes! That would be phearsome! I can't even being to imagine the how beautifully evil the Sardaukar and the sandworms would look. Maybe the stilsuits would look really spiffy and lo-tek in a futuristic way if Giger did the designs... Is it too late to get him to design the look and feel of the mini-series that's still in the works? =)
Look at the card list supported in Xi Graphics 3D Accelerated-X and you'll see big name workstation OpenGL cards that previously have not been able to run under Linux. Look at the "Professional" edition of the product and you'll see, "Ability to run multiple windowed 3D renderings", etc. Their main draw is going to be people who can't wait for 3D support from XFree86 and need *real* OpenGL 1.1.1 compliance, not this Mesa 3.0 GL-clone, and also people who will want better support for their expensive workstation graphics cards than what's available elsewhere.:)
Doubt it. I seem to recall reading elsewhere that the reason why XFree86 4.0 would be a big deal was because it would (for companies that support Linux at all) make products like Accelerated-X and Metro-X fear for their product lives. Modularized drivers for not only video, but also pen-tablet input and many other cool things.
Not just a simple installer, which it seems that Loki has relatively provided in GPL form, but there needs to be a way so that people can cleanly remove an application installed with said installer without breaking anything else on the system. I guess this could be done with RPM, but I'm not particularly fond of the RPM package system because it cannot be used on a system that doesn't have the RPM software installed (read: Slackware, Stampede, etc etc -- my favorite distributions because they cut out the bullshit and let me edit settings in sanely organized files!)...
Also, it'd be nice to have a console version of the installation/removal system for those who can't use X for one reason or another.
The installer could include an interface for optinally making the binaries from source, or whatever other steps that are out of the ordinary. Something like "Setup" would be a script for compiling the interface(s) maybe, like the linux kernel has make menuconfig.:)
Such an application would be a great benefit for the community if it were GPL. >=)
I believe Hercules was having difficulties acquiring above average yields of the TNT2 chip for their Dynamite product. Since the TNT2 yields were vastly different on a per-chip basis, they ended up making the chips that could reach higher clock speeds the "Ultra" flavor, etc. A marketing gimmick designed to take attention away from the fact that they were having difficulties in the manufacturing process.
Now don't go ahead and take an anti-nvidia stance here if you make a reply, because 3dfx also shows the same problem in the fact that their V3-3500 product was VERY late to market and including the LCD out raised the price of the board out of the normal person's reach. If 3dfx had just gone for a single high end product like the 3500, they'd be in serious financial trouble right now.
Personally I own a Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra, but the Hercules drivers have been more stable than any other drivers I've used due to the board's extremely high clock and memory speeds. I used to have a very hot case, and I think it may have damage the card..:( I get lock ups in Q3Test every so often, and in other 3D games. (I'm not sure if the problem is only OpenGL, or what at this point, I havent' had time to track it down)
I hope that Guillemot doesn't drop the ball, and continues releasing drivers for the Hercules TNT series boards now that they're is a new reference driver release available on nvidia's web site.
Open source facilitates code proliferation and feature sharing between different applications. What you allow people to do is to create their own vision of what computing should be like. The boys writing Enlightenment would like their desktops to be as much of a piece of art as the underlying kernel.;)
Code reusability comes from coding great modularity. Which is why toolkits exist today. Otherwise everyone would have to write their own for each individual application. People *still* have the OPTION to do so, however it is easier for most people who might want to struggle with just getting the core components of the application finished that their themeable interface doesn't take years to finish. The reason why the filemanager looks to use a new set of widgets is largely reusing the widgets created for the new configuration features of Enlightenment (this is all my speculation, I don't actually know any of this stuff for sure since I'm not exactly a developer...:)
WindowMaker's WINGs toolkit has been used to start several different filemanagers, but the most you can do with it is something that ends up looking like WindowMaker. And to people in the Gnome and KDE camps, they'd rather see all their applications LOOK THE SAME, and work relatively similar to the rest of their desktop environments. A seemless experience with minimal re-training time when installing and using a new application for the first time is an admirable goal.
One of the problems with your suggestion is that "remove the guns" (from the society) is easier said than done. Also, due to what I've already stated (equalization offered by guns, human right to self defense, etc), outlawing guns in the United States at large is not the answer. Tightly controlled access to schools in particular (like we do with airports and courtrooms) is a possible step that could be taken. I won't argue with that.
What are you proposing? Metal detectors at the playground entrance?
I find it ironic that "God fearing" citizens wield weapons. Praise Jesus! Lets all shoot us some deer! Oops, didn't mean to shoot you, Jed!
Now son, guns aren't meant to be played with. When you turn 16, I'll get you that 12 gauge shotgun you've been wanting all these years!
... and no, guns kill people when people have guns. Guns make it REALLY REALLY EASY to kill. Why the hell do you think they were created? To replace the longbow and crossbow with a miniature/handheld cannon concept! I don't see people walking around modern times with a longbow or crossbow (unless they're in the SCA or at a RenFair) and I don't see people sporting cannons in their hall closet as a measure to thwart intruders in their house.
In the olden days (dark ages to the renn period) only people with money owned swords, probably paid some outlandish sword tax, and used them for two things. Keeping bandits after their money at bay, who would likely be armed with daggers or something similar, and dueling to "defend my lady's honor".
I find it ironic that today its harder to get a permit to carry a bladed weapon than it is to carry a gun. (Hello all you Texans!)
Political apathy -- 'American', just like apple pie! (too bad apple pie wasn't invented in the US!)
Actually the reason why I don't give a fuck about these incidents like Littleton is because the media always blows them way out of proportion in an effort to gain ratings. Wake up and smell the coffee people! CNN goes for the headline shocking stories too! Its a business!
Their interviews with figures such as the Woz, the brilliant scientists who are usually not in the limelight (like those working on cold fusion and teleportation), not to mention articles written by Gibson (you rule!) usually make the cover price and gimmicky columns (memes, wired/tired, etc) worth dealing with. The meaty stuff is nice, the rest is gloss-over material.
Anyway, back on topic though, I like the Ronald Reagan INWO card that describes him as being completely covered in Teflon. LOL The card had a piccy of a monkey on his shoulder too...
I created special cards like my "Milk & Cheese" card, paying tribute to many hours of laughter from precious Slave Labor comics and playing them into my Discordian takeover of the world.
IMHO Enlightenment is a fairly innovative product that I have not seen a full featured alternative in any shape or form. Their dedication to wiping the slate clean and rewriting their code for efficiency is amazing.
But your argument does not shed any light on your theory that GPL stifles creativity. You're beginning to sound like Microsoft claiming that the DoJ is "restricting their freedom to innovate" by putting them on trial for monopoly-like business practices.
I personally don't see how any particular license could stifle creativity and I'll point to commercial games as an example.
/me goes back to playing Final Fantasy VIII and twiddling with E.
So don't use a GPL'd product as your base. Look at the code, see how it works, then develop something new using insights gained from looking at open source. I thought that was the whole point of it all. You can *see* the source, and because the original author wants the software to be *free* (as in non-proprietary) then it will stay that what no matter who picks up the product for maintenance after he is done working on it. His work isn't wasted feeding the greed of another individual. If you want to make $$$ off something like that, go start from scratch and code a competing product. Although I'd advise coming up with features that make your particular product worth the money people would spend on it.
What 3Com is doing with their drivers is ensuring that no third party vendor will take their drivers and make a commercial version that has "new features" and "enhancements" and end up giving 3Com tech support grief, etc. I believe its the only way if you want to do an open-source release and still prevent that kind of thing...?
While I think its a nice idea to hide the moderated values when surfing as a moderator, I don't think its very good to restrict AC's. Also, it may duplicate a lot of work to hide the moderated values when surfing as a moderator... some troll posts will be giving *far* too much attention.;)
There are quite a few "cheap unix-wannabe knockoff"'s in the open source *BSD camp. Promote your OS of choice through giving examples of where the OS shines, not by slamming other OS's. People don't like propaganda or FUD no matter *who* it comes from.
An OpenBSD box would probably be nice and secure though with "only httpd".:)
Well, just as WoTC looks like they didn't kill off everything cool and are doing a good job with TSR's product line, now we have to fret about Hasbro screwing everything up again.:(
How is this offtopic? Whoever moderated this post sucks! I don't believe Code Fusion supports ObjC but I wonder if there are any IDE's for Linux out there that *do*?
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Last I checked Intel isn't the only game in town for x86 processors.... I see that Athlon based systems are suspiciously absent from VA Linux systems...
HR Giger doing Dune? Yikes! That would be phearsome! I can't even being to imagine the how beautifully evil the Sardaukar and the sandworms would look. Maybe the stilsuits would look really spiffy and lo-tek in a futuristic way if Giger did the designs... Is it too late to get him to design the look and feel of the mini-series that's still in the works? =)
I'm sorry, I was referring to the GLX drivers released for the TNT series of cards and their interaction with Mesa.
Look at the card list supported in Xi Graphics 3D Accelerated-X and you'll see big name workstation OpenGL cards that previously have not been able to run under Linux. Look at the "Professional" edition of the product and you'll see, "Ability to run multiple windowed 3D renderings", etc. Their main draw is going to be people who can't wait for 3D support from XFree86 and need *real* OpenGL 1.1.1 compliance, not this Mesa 3.0 GL-clone, and also people who will want better support for their expensive workstation graphics cards than what's available elsewhere. :)
Doubt it. I seem to recall reading elsewhere that the reason why XFree86 4.0 would be a big deal was because it would (for companies that support Linux at all) make products like Accelerated-X and Metro-X fear for their product lives. Modularized drivers for not only video, but also pen-tablet input and many other cool things.
The only 3dfx cards that support in a window rendering are the Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, and Voodoo 3 series cards.
Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 use a pass-through trick to send their video signals to the monitor, therefore only being able to display in fullscreen mode.
Too bad the drivers for Mesa are much slower than the OpenGL ICD included in the Windows version of the Detonator drivers. :P
Not just a simple installer, which it seems that Loki has relatively provided in GPL form, but there needs to be a way so that people can cleanly remove an application installed with said installer without breaking anything else on the system. I guess this could be done with RPM, but I'm not particularly fond of the RPM package system because it cannot be used on a system that doesn't have the RPM software installed (read: Slackware, Stampede, etc etc -- my favorite distributions because they cut out the bullshit and let me edit settings in sanely organized files!)...
:)
Also, it'd be nice to have a console version of the installation/removal system for those who can't use X for one reason or another.
The installer could include an interface for optinally making the binaries from source, or whatever other steps that are out of the ordinary.
Something like "Setup" would be a script for compiling the interface(s) maybe, like the linux kernel has make menuconfig.
Such an application would be a great benefit for the community if it were GPL. >=)
It'd be like InstallShield, but done *better*.
Most things on the internet seem more like a suppository.
I believe Hercules was having difficulties acquiring above average yields of the TNT2 chip for their Dynamite product. Since the TNT2 yields were vastly different on a per-chip basis, they ended up making the chips that could reach higher clock speeds the "Ultra" flavor, etc. A marketing gimmick designed to take attention away from the fact that they were having difficulties in the manufacturing process.
:( I get lock ups in Q3Test every so often, and in other 3D games. (I'm not sure if the problem is only OpenGL, or what at this point, I havent' had time to track it down)
Now don't go ahead and take an anti-nvidia stance here if you make a reply, because 3dfx also shows the same problem in the fact that their V3-3500 product was VERY late to market and including the LCD out raised the price of the board out of the normal person's reach. If 3dfx had just gone for a single high end product like the 3500, they'd be in serious financial trouble right now.
Personally I own a Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra, but the Hercules drivers have been more stable than any other drivers I've used due to the board's extremely high clock and memory speeds. I used to have a very hot case, and I think it may have damage the card..
I hope that Guillemot doesn't drop the ball, and continues releasing drivers for the Hercules TNT series boards now that they're is a new reference driver release available on nvidia's web site.
Open source facilitates code proliferation and feature sharing between different applications. What you allow people to do is to create their own vision of what computing should be like. The boys writing Enlightenment would like their desktops to be as much of a piece of art as the underlying kernel. ;)
Code reusability comes from coding great modularity. Which is why toolkits exist today. Otherwise everyone would have to write their own for each individual application. People *still* have the OPTION to do so, however it is easier for most people who might want to struggle with just getting the core components of the application finished that their themeable interface doesn't take years to finish. The reason why the filemanager looks to use a new set of widgets is largely reusing the widgets created for the new configuration features of Enlightenment (this is all my speculation, I don't actually know any of this stuff for sure since I'm not exactly a developer...:)
WindowMaker's WINGs toolkit has been used to start several different filemanagers, but the most you can do with it is something that ends up looking like WindowMaker. And to people in the Gnome and KDE camps, they'd rather see all their applications LOOK THE SAME, and work relatively similar to the rest of their desktop environments. A seemless experience with minimal re-training time when installing and using a new application for the first time is an admirable goal.
One of the problems with your suggestion is that "remove the guns" (from the society) is easier said than done. Also, due to what I've already stated (equalization offered by guns, human right to self defense, etc), outlawing guns in the United States at large is not the answer. Tightly controlled access to schools in particular (like we do with airports and courtrooms) is a possible step that could be taken. I won't argue with that.
What are you proposing? Metal detectors at the playground entrance?
I find it ironic that "God fearing" citizens wield weapons. Praise Jesus! Lets all shoot us some deer! Oops, didn't mean to shoot you, Jed!
Now son, guns aren't meant to be played with. When you turn 16, I'll get you that 12 gauge shotgun you've been wanting all these years!
You people make me sick.
... and no, guns kill people when people have guns. Guns make it REALLY REALLY EASY to kill. Why the hell do you think they were created? To replace the longbow and crossbow with a miniature/handheld cannon concept! I don't see people walking around modern times with a longbow or crossbow (unless they're in the SCA or at a RenFair) and I don't see people sporting cannons in their hall closet as a measure to thwart intruders in their house.
In the olden days (dark ages to the renn period) only people with money owned swords, probably paid some outlandish sword tax, and used them for two things. Keeping bandits after their money at bay, who would likely be armed with daggers or something similar, and dueling to "defend my lady's honor".
I find it ironic that today its harder to get a permit to carry a bladed weapon than it is to carry a gun. (Hello all you Texans!)
Political apathy -- 'American', just like apple pie! (too bad apple pie wasn't invented in the US!)
Actually the reason why I don't give a fuck about these incidents like Littleton is because the media always blows them way out of proportion in an effort to gain ratings. Wake up and smell the coffee people! CNN goes for the headline shocking stories too! Its a business!
Mass media brainwashes the masses.
Their interviews with figures such as the Woz, the brilliant scientists who are usually not in the limelight (like those working on cold fusion and teleportation), not to mention articles written by Gibson (you rule!) usually make the cover price and gimmicky columns (memes, wired/tired, etc) worth dealing with. The meaty stuff is nice, the rest is gloss-over material.
Anyway, back on topic though, I like the Ronald Reagan INWO card that describes him as being completely covered in Teflon. LOL
The card had a piccy of a monkey on his shoulder too...
I created special cards like my "Milk & Cheese" card, paying tribute to many hours of laughter from precious Slave Labor comics and playing them into my Discordian takeover of the world.
Remember! King Kong died for your sins!!
IMHO Enlightenment is a fairly innovative product that I have not seen a full featured alternative in any shape or form. Their dedication to wiping the slate clean and rewriting their code for efficiency is amazing.
But your argument does not shed any light on your theory that GPL stifles creativity. You're beginning to sound like Microsoft claiming that the DoJ is "restricting their freedom to innovate" by putting them on trial for monopoly-like business practices.
I personally don't see how any particular license could stifle creativity and I'll point to commercial games as an example.
/me goes back to playing Final Fantasy VIII and twiddling with E.
So don't use a GPL'd product as your base.
Look at the code, see how it works, then develop something new using insights gained from looking at open source. I thought that was the whole point of it all. You can *see* the source, and because the original author wants the software to be *free* (as in non-proprietary) then it will stay that what no matter who picks up the product for maintenance after he is done working on it. His work isn't wasted feeding the greed of another individual. If you want to make $$$ off something like that, go start from scratch and code a competing product. Although I'd advise coming up with features that make your particular product worth the money people would spend on it.
What 3Com is doing with their drivers is ensuring that no third party vendor will take their drivers and make a commercial version that has "new features" and "enhancements" and end up giving 3Com tech support grief, etc. I believe its the only way if you want to do an open-source release and still prevent that kind of thing...?
While I think its a nice idea to hide the moderated values when surfing as a moderator, I don't think its very good to restrict AC's. Also, it may duplicate a lot of work to hide the moderated values when surfing as a moderator... some troll posts will be giving *far* too much attention. ;)
There are quite a few "cheap unix-wannabe knockoff"'s in the open source *BSD camp. Promote your OS of choice through giving examples of where the OS shines, not by slamming other OS's. People don't like propaganda or FUD no matter *who* it comes from.
:)
An OpenBSD box would probably be nice and secure though with "only httpd".
Well, just as WoTC looks like they didn't kill off everything cool and are doing a good job with TSR's product line, now we have to fret about Hasbro screwing everything up again. :(
How is this offtopic? Whoever moderated this post sucks! I don't believe Code Fusion supports ObjC but I wonder if there are any IDE's for Linux out there that *do*?
Woops! Looks like newer home page is linked lower down a few more comments... www.kdevelop.org
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No, Code Fusion is *not* GPL.
Quoting from the FAQ on www.cygnus.com/codefusion/faq.html#4
"...commercial Linux IDE..."