Based on the git log of Minix, there are multiple people contributing patches. I would think you'd need to get a contract with more or less every contributor that shows up in the "git blame" of the used release.
It would be very cool (although unlikely) if Intel etched the license in one of the metal layers of the CPU.
Are the management engine binaries stored in the CPU or are they loaded from the motherboard? If the latter, the CPU doesn't ship with Minix and the notices should come with the motherboard, right?
Besides that, I did some very recent Intel CPU benchmarking as I tried to figure out IPC gains over CPU generations. I ran my benchmarks on GCC 4.8/4.9/5.2 and LLVM 3.6 on Nehalem and Ivy Bridge. I also included march=generic vs march=native. Quick summary: For generic integer/floating-point code, the Intel Core-i7 CPUs don't actually benefit much from optimizations for newer architectures, especially on x86-64. The exception here is that 32-bit generic FPU x87 code is slower than SSE2, but the latter is always available in x86-64. Actually, sometimes GCC even produced worse code for march=native on Ivy Bridge.
The above actually makes sense to me. Starting from Nehalem, the internal CPU microarchitecture hasn't changed that much and the new instructions tend to be quite specific. Of course the newer generations have lots of small optimizations, more op execution units, bigger reorder buffers and caches, a bit faster ALUs and other units, and so on. But nothing drastic that would require a new instruction scheduler, for example. Pentium 4 was, of course, a completely different beast that tends to perform badly if the code is not targeted properly due to its excessive pipeline length.
OTOH, for specialized things such as video decoding/encoding, the libraries tend to do run-time CPU detection and use different code paths based on what is available. For example, FFmpeg does this (or at least mplayer did), and AFAIK OpenSSL does this for AES, too.
Bottom line: So, even if I'm a Gentoo user, I wouldn't worry too much about march=generic.
and the whistleblower candidate will be properly flagged, monitored, caught in action, and silently jailed before he/she manages to release anything to the public.
Besides, I was talking about a worldwide fingerprint db. I, for example, am not a US citizen.
Anyway, my concern is not NSA. My main concern is organized crime. In the future we're likely to have lots of gadgets unlocked by a fingerprint. Cars, house door locks, whatever. When phones have built-in capabilities for transmitting fingerprints to centralized databases, it's only a matter of time until someone is able to tap into that data. Someone breaks into your house and your insurance company won't pay for damages because the fingerprint sensor says you let them in...
And you honestly think that NSA or whatever won't be able to fetch that data from the phone?
One day someone leaves a bag full of stuff with fingerprints somewhere, then they'll have all the justification they need for a worldwide fingerprint db...
Gentoo 64-bit on Core-i7 + NVIDIA GTX 260. I played Serious Sam 3 during the beta and I just tested the original Half-life yesterday. I have experienced no serious problems, only some minor Gentoo packaging-related glitches early December during the beta. Yesterday I installed the Steam client to my laptop (Ivy Bridge, Intel HD4000, Gentoo) and the installation went smoothly from the steam portage layout. HL seemed to ran fine on that machine, too.
I played Serious Sam 3 month ago during the beta. Bought yesterday SS3 DLC plus the original Half-life. The latter seems to run perfectly on my Intel HD4000-based laptop (SS3 will surely not...)
I'd expect that some of the big titles are bound to come to Linux if and when Steambox finds traction. Many of the big titles are already ported to Mac OSX, which of course, means OpenGL instead of DirectX.
I look for the day when I can finally and permanently delete my Windows partition, which exists solely for gaming purposes.
I read the same interview. To me, it seems that the director does not really know much about copyrights and is doing his best to avoid direct answers to simple questions. His best is not very good, though.
Basically he's saying that it's OK to rip the layout and the source code of a web site if you change the logo. And that there's no ideological problem whatsoever. I wonder whether anyone is going to cite that in legal cases against TTVK...
If electric consumption is to be reduced, why tax/ban/restrict devices instead of taxing electricity more? Now people building game rigs are going for 300W SLI solutions instead of 200W high-end card solutions. But of course, people need electricity for "real" work, so it should not be taxed as is.
The same kind of lawmaker idiocy has infected car markets, at least here in Finland. New cars are taxed based on their manufacturer-claimed, usually quite unrealistic CO2 pollution values. But it's the fuel that produces CO2, so why not tax fuel (more) instead of cars. Now people with old gas guzzlers don't have the money or the will to upgrade to a newer, cleaner equivalent.
All this regulatory nonsense is just making the system more complex for no real reason while providing unnecessary loopholes.
Ignorant flamer lol.
At least here in Finland, you can get iPad/browser/whatever versions of the major newspapers and magazines if you want to. Been like that for years.
Nokia E90 + PuTTY for S60 works for me. It's got physical QWERTY keyboard and 800 x 352 screen resolution is enough for decent terminal sizes. I use 6x13 font for 133x27.
I was just thinking that occasionally Linux runs Windows applications better than Windows. So, could I use Wine on Windows 7 and forget all about that VM hassle and sluggishness?
Slashdot Mirror
I've survived quite nicely. Thanks for asking.
Based on the git log of Minix, there are multiple people contributing patches. I would think you'd need to get a contract with more or less every contributor that shows up in the "git blame" of the used release.
It would be very cool (although unlikely) if Intel etched the license in one of the metal layers of the CPU.
Are the management engine binaries stored in the CPU or are they loaded from the motherboard? If the latter, the CPU doesn't ship with Minix and the notices should come with the motherboard, right?
Well, these just happened to be on my Gentoo boxes, and therefore, of interest.
I run Gentoo!!!
Besides that, I did some very recent Intel CPU benchmarking as I tried to figure out IPC gains over CPU generations. I ran my benchmarks on GCC 4.8/4.9/5.2 and LLVM 3.6 on Nehalem and Ivy Bridge. I also included march=generic vs march=native. Quick summary: For generic integer/floating-point code, the Intel Core-i7 CPUs don't actually benefit much from optimizations for newer architectures, especially on x86-64. The exception here is that 32-bit generic FPU x87 code is slower than SSE2, but the latter is always available in x86-64. Actually, sometimes GCC even produced worse code for march=native on Ivy Bridge.
The above actually makes sense to me. Starting from Nehalem, the internal CPU microarchitecture hasn't changed that much and the new instructions tend to be quite specific. Of course the newer generations have lots of small optimizations, more op execution units, bigger reorder buffers and caches, a bit faster ALUs and other units, and so on. But nothing drastic that would require a new instruction scheduler, for example. Pentium 4 was, of course, a completely different beast that tends to perform badly if the code is not targeted properly due to its excessive pipeline length.
OTOH, for specialized things such as video decoding/encoding, the libraries tend to do run-time CPU detection and use different code paths based on what is available. For example, FFmpeg does this (or at least mplayer did), and AFAIK OpenSSL does this for AES, too.
Bottom line: So, even if I'm a Gentoo user, I wouldn't worry too much about march=generic.
I run Gentoo on my primary machines. Any guesses?
So, in 2013 there was a record 9 cases where criminals used FOSS?
and the whistleblower candidate will be properly flagged, monitored, caught in action, and silently jailed before he/she manages to release anything to the public.
Luckily, NSA and TSA are not considered non-essential government services?
I want one!!!
Besides, I was talking about a worldwide fingerprint db. I, for example, am not a US citizen.
Anyway, my concern is not NSA. My main concern is organized crime. In the future we're likely to have lots of gadgets unlocked by a fingerprint. Cars, house door locks, whatever. When phones have built-in capabilities for transmitting fingerprints to centralized databases, it's only a matter of time until someone is able to tap into that data. Someone breaks into your house and your insurance company won't pay for damages because the fingerprint sensor says you let them in...
And you honestly think that NSA or whatever won't be able to fetch that data from the phone?
One day someone leaves a bag full of stuff with fingerprints somewhere, then they'll have all the justification they need for a worldwide fingerprint db...
You want to get rid of the TSA?
Don't fly.
It's that simple.
No it's not. TSA is expanding to provide its services outside airports. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-elliott/the-tsa-wants-to-be-every_b_2393332.html
Gentoo 64-bit on Core-i7 + NVIDIA GTX 260. I played Serious Sam 3 during the beta and I just tested the original Half-life yesterday. I have experienced no serious problems, only some minor Gentoo packaging-related glitches early December during the beta. Yesterday I installed the Steam client to my laptop (Ivy Bridge, Intel HD4000, Gentoo) and the installation went smoothly from the steam portage layout. HL seemed to ran fine on that machine, too.
I played Serious Sam 3 month ago during the beta. Bought yesterday SS3 DLC plus the original Half-life. The latter seems to run perfectly on my Intel HD4000-based laptop (SS3 will surely not...)
I'd expect that some of the big titles are bound to come to Linux if and when Steambox finds traction. Many of the big titles are already ported to Mac OSX, which of course, means OpenGL instead of DirectX.
I look for the day when I can finally and permanently delete my Windows partition, which exists solely for gaming purposes.
I read the same interview. To me, it seems that the director does not really know much about copyrights and is doing his best to avoid direct answers to simple questions. His best is not very good, though.
Basically he's saying that it's OK to rip the layout and the source code of a web site if you change the logo. And that there's no ideological problem whatsoever. I wonder whether anyone is going to cite that in legal cases against TTVK...
Yes. My first impression was: Why was this even slashdotted? Who cares anymore?
Seems to be a trend. I too moved to XFCE ~1-2 years ago
If electric consumption is to be reduced, why tax/ban/restrict devices instead of taxing electricity more? Now people building game rigs are going for 300W SLI solutions instead of 200W high-end card solutions. But of course, people need electricity for "real" work, so it should not be taxed as is.
The same kind of lawmaker idiocy has infected car markets, at least here in Finland. New cars are taxed based on their manufacturer-claimed, usually quite unrealistic CO2 pollution values. But it's the fuel that produces CO2, so why not tax fuel (more) instead of cars. Now people with old gas guzzlers don't have the money or the will to upgrade to a newer, cleaner equivalent.
All this regulatory nonsense is just making the system more complex for no real reason while providing unnecessary loopholes.
Ignorant flamer lol. At least here in Finland, you can get iPad/browser/whatever versions of the major newspapers and magazines if you want to. Been like that for years.
Nokia E90 + PuTTY for S60 works for me. It's got physical QWERTY keyboard and 800 x 352 screen resolution is enough for decent terminal sizes. I use 6x13 font for 133x27.
I was just thinking that occasionally Linux runs Windows applications better than Windows. So, could I use Wine on Windows 7 and forget all about that VM hassle and sluggishness?