No doubt, I am cheering the open source drivers to continue their great progress but I can't understand why Nvidia and AMD don't enable EGL extensions on their desktop drivers (especially AMD since I'm a shareholder because they started supporting open source). With Mir and Wayland needing the extensions, Gabe Newell saying Linux is the future of gaming, and the future of Linux windowing being Mir or Wayland, I'm not going to get super excited until one of the Big Two GPU vendors start supporting it.
And I'm hoping it's you, AMD, that will be the first to claim that crown on Linux. Please let it be in the forthcoming hardware Newell mentioned.
I can't remember ever hearing my parents (both teachers) being disappointed about snow days. They love the break away from baby sitting other people's kids too. I doubt this will happen any time soon... what about the poor kids who don't have internet or can't afford broadband? Maybe if the internet were a public utility....
DEC Alpha just died... Compaq couldn't execute with it and HP probably didn't care to. Furthermore, I would bet the patent portfolio sharing contracts between AMD and Intel have so many conditional clauses that should AMD get bought out, their access might dry up. As ARM emerges as a direct competitor to Intel and challenge their monopoly, Intel probably would welcome finally getting rid of the competition who's existence has been beneficial to only for regulatory purposes...
Personally, I'd hate to see ATI's tech be gobbled up and made to wither more than anything else. So far they are the only one's who are publishing their specs for open source developers.
I have two accounts: 1 personal, 1 business -- I just launch an incognito mode window in Chromium and everything has worked fine so far. Definitely a reason I love the Chromium-style ease of incognito mode windows versus Firefox's either-or style.
I didn't read any of the articles linked but I can say from person experience that, even though Practical Common Lisp is available for free on-line (HTML, PDF) I still bought my copy. It is worth every penny. Had it not been available on-line, it probably would've taken me even longer to convince myself to buy it.
Rather than prove that NT could just compete, they wanted a 3D content creation market for windows. So yes they bought Softimage, ported it, then dumped it when it found a buyer. Since windows and x86 hardware were much cheaper than SGI workstations, Alias knew it had to port Maya as well (2.0 I think was the first version for windows) And the rest is in the history books.
So while the ports were initially terrible, the mission was just to get the ball rolling. Thankfully the movie studios hated it too and started asking for Linux when it started becoming viable, and I do think the initial thanks for that go to nvidia.
Move to another country like Japan or South Korea. It would probably be cheaper.
As an American living in Japan, the prospect of moving back to the US is quite dismal when considering broadband. Currently I'm paying about $50/mo. for 50 Mbps ADSL. NTT in the last couple of months has rolled out a fiber optic service for approx $90/mo. at 100Mbps. I don't live in Tokyo or any other big city you might think of when you think of Japan. I live in the boonies of Aomori Prefecture and it is available.
It's a shame and disgrace the US is so far behind... Verizon promoting their FiOS at 5Mbps as top-of-the-line is a joke. But hey, FCC says better deals/competition will come from all the telcom mergers... 10 years from now maybe the US will see 25 Mbps service!
The U.S.S Kittyhawk sank today after RIAA determined it was a playground of copyright theft and all computer systems were summarily destroyed remotely. But rest assured the world is now a safer place now that the floating 'pirate' city is now rusting at the bottom of the sea beside Davey Jones' locker thanks to the heroic efforts of the RIAA. 0 people died.
Editor's Note: copyright offenders are not considered human as stated under the same law that allows copyright owners to enforce computer liquidation and thus cannot be counted in death tolls.
This quote originally appeared in "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective" circa 1982 I believe.
While I haven't read this whole paper and can't say absolutely for sure what the context was, I can conjecture he didn't like the control structure of the language. Dijkstra is pretty well known for his stance on how GOTO statements are very bad. I'm not sure how many programming languages he approved of but I know COBOL and BASIC were 2 that he abhorred and Lisp was probably in the top favored.
I would definitely choose Lisp over Basic anyday, along with most of the other recently popular half-reimplementations of Lisp. Likewise I would choose a time honored and proven good programming book like _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ over the one being reviewed.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC : as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. [E.W. Dijkstra]
On the ReiserFS 4 page you say that the new filesystem uses algorithms allowing the FS to do transactions only databases could do previously. Do you envision ReiserFS 4 being something comparable to MS' "SQL-FS" plans in Longhorn? How would ReiserFS 4 affect regular (oracle, postresql, mysql) database projects/companies?
First, to all those who are wondering why we should care what this poster girl might say: spokespersons are there to get the word to the people. Have you ever known a spokesperson to give all the nitty-gritty (geeky) facts? If she can appeal to the masses about what's going on, hopefully the masses will research more. Right now, IMO the masses don't even know what is going on and at the current rate can only get pissed off after the fact.
Second, to the spokesmodel. If you love Lawence Lessig and other copyright guys... you need to start paying more attention to their message. It doesn't appear to me that you have because they/ARE/ trying to get the copyright law changed and you said you didn't want to do that. The message you need to be getting out is the constant amendments to the copyright law with the latest being the Sonny Bono copyright act and the DMCA, are continually increasing the protection duration to extraordinary limits. Currently I believe it's 150 years past the original filers death. Lessig is trying to show that is insane. That is a detriment to the evolution of the collective creativeness of America and the world.
The latest ruling against Lessig by the Supreme court means that we need to show Congress this because the courts aren't going to help. Congress is going to continually listen to the cash flowing from the RIAA and MPAA until our voices raise up. That is what you should be doing.... getting the commoner to care about this and to lend their voice to the cause.
I remember shortly after your capture there were all these stories labeling your story as one of "Samurai vs. Hacker" or something similar. I'm curious to know if you have had any contact with Tsutomu Shimomura, the person who the media portrayed as the one who single-handedly caught you, since you've been out? If so, are you on amicable terms?
I thought for sure, with as much spam as you get, you'd be the first one to try out the bayesian mail filters that Paul Graham wrote about. One of the ones he suggested was CRM114 With a reputed catch rate of 99.8%, do you really not want to try it that much?
Hmmm... sure sounds like a P2P product to me...and we all know that anyone who touches P2P is a criminal. It's only a matter of time before the RIAA swoops down and levies the "everyone is guilty until...er...well forever" tax.
Sounds like we're rehashing what Richard Gabriel stated back in the early 90's: Bad software released early seems to outlive software that is engineered completely before it is released (paraphrased). You can take a look at it here for the complete argument.
Interesting to see how Unix was once viewed in the light M$ is today.
Well I know the theoretical speed is published in the standard... (and I've conveniently forgotten that too) But are there any realistic published speeds? What about speed vs. distance degredation? And speed vs. subscribers in 20 mile radius...etc????
I wouldn't buy a HDTV unless it had 1 or 2 computer montior inputs... maybe 2 analog and 2 DVI... With all this talk about "media hubs" they should be looking at the HDTV to spark some sort of delivery of service. It definitely would be incredibly cool to be playing games at that size...Surf the net... Do some really cool GUI network scan so you can feel like you're are at NASA montioring something important... you get the picture:)
I think it's about time for another "I watch TV for... hours a day" Poll to see how many of us really watch TV. I have maybe one or two shows that I watch a week. (Samurai Jack rocks) other than that I can find all of it on the internet with out the wasted time with ads
You might want to check out Paul Graham's site Especially his downloadable book 'On Lisp' The first chapter of that book has thoughts especially about why planning before implementation isn't really suited for building programs like it is for building dams. Instead he recommends planning as you write code. Of course having a language that is best suited for this style of programming is highly recommended:).
I have to admit that I'm a relative Lisp newbie but the more I study it the more I see why people love it so much...And I yearn to see a Lisp Machine for they were already dead before I knew the power of Lisp.(Wouldn't you like to know why people thought Lisp as OS was superior to Unix?) Paul Graham undoubtedly has a more scholarly explanation of this technique than I can give it credit to in the meager submission..
So when you are weighing all the suggestions on how to streamline those flowcharts give a good look to the one that says throw the flowcharts out the window and let 'code evolution' take place!
It has long been argued that code is a form of free speech and expression. Would this SSSCA or CBDFARDWERTA (emphasis mine:) not be a complete violation of the first amendment on the grounds that using an open source OS is a form of expression / speech? Personally not only do I use an open OS because it is stable, well supported yadda yadda yadda...but it also coincides with my belief that the underlying fundaments of an OS should be open to all software makers large and small. Of course IANAL but this sounds like a prime example of violating my first amendment rights.
The two birds with one stone comment would be to have code declared as a form of speech (bird 1) and because SSSCA restricts freedom of speech it is unconstitutional(bird2).
anyone with some legal exp. does this stand on any kind of solid legal ground?
1. Does Linux need another compiler? Yes, competition is what linux is all about (IMHO).
2. Does Linux need a commercial compiler that performs xyz times better than GCC?Yes! While GCC has helped get linux where it is today we all know it has short comings. If you have a compiler that would help games / graphics perform better and get big name developers to develop for linux then by all means do it!!
3. Can I expect my super duper compiler to be accepted by the general linux community and have the kernel programmed in it??Uh. most likely not. However it would be great if this compiler (or maybe a version of this compiler) had a license friendly enough that if someone chose to purchase and develop with it they would be able to distribute the source code under a license they choose.
Bottom Line is in order to be a team player don't be afraid to bring a commercial compiler, by all means do port it to other architectures (x86, PPC, etc), allow us to choose which license we code under if we do purchase your compiler, and hey if you feel that there is something that GCC should have to make linux a better place and then by all means feel free to donate:)
I agree with this structure as well. The Internet is a global system (hence the Inter- as in International). Every country should have control over their domain. That way they could see as to how they want to make second level domains. That way there would be no ICANN to worry about. And when users complain "The web address is too long" first we tell them "Hey everyone who doesn't live in the US already has to type the long addresses" and second forward looking browsers like Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror will implement a region look up URL filter. This will allow you to tell the browser what country you live in and it will automatically fill in the.us,.uk,.jp at the end of each URL. Then if you want to go outside the country you are in you just have to type the whole thing including country code.
Of course this seems like extra steps for the browsers but knowing how stupid/lazy the typical american surfer is (yeah the ones who don't know what USENET or IRC is) I think it would be met with favorable reviews.
And the forseeable unfortunate side-effect of this is that countries that like to sensor people, we all know who they are, will be able to filter / firewall people out a lot easier. But compared to this massive mess of disorganization I believe that would be worth the risk at this point.
I am not a nuclear physicist....could someone who is more qualified explain the importance of this? Does it mean we can get more energy than previous materials?
Or are we gonna see all of fort knox melted down so mister Dubya Bu$h can blow up china and make a nuclear winter that lasts even longer than the 60's estimates?
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No doubt, I am cheering the open source drivers to continue their great progress but I can't understand why Nvidia and AMD don't enable EGL extensions on their desktop drivers (especially AMD since I'm a shareholder because they started supporting open source). With Mir and Wayland needing the extensions, Gabe Newell saying Linux is the future of gaming, and the future of Linux windowing being Mir or Wayland, I'm not going to get super excited until one of the Big Two GPU vendors start supporting it.
And I'm hoping it's you, AMD, that will be the first to claim that crown on Linux. Please let it be in the forthcoming hardware Newell mentioned.
I can't remember ever hearing my parents (both teachers) being disappointed about snow days. They love the break away from baby sitting other people's kids too. I doubt this will happen any time soon... what about the poor kids who don't have internet or can't afford broadband? Maybe if the internet were a public utility....
DEC Alpha just died ... Compaq couldn't execute with it and HP probably didn't care to. Furthermore, I would bet the patent portfolio sharing contracts between AMD and Intel have so many conditional clauses that should AMD get bought out, their access might dry up. As ARM emerges as a direct competitor to Intel and challenge their monopoly, Intel probably would welcome finally getting rid of the competition who's existence has been beneficial to only for regulatory purposes...
Personally, I'd hate to see ATI's tech be gobbled up and made to wither more than anything else. So far they are the only one's who are publishing their specs for open source developers.
I have two accounts: 1 personal, 1 business -- I just launch an incognito mode window in Chromium and everything has worked fine so far. Definitely a reason I love the Chromium-style ease of incognito mode windows versus Firefox's either-or style.
*tap tap tap tap tap*... What the...
*taptaptap tap tap tap*... damn...
*tap tap tap taptaptaptap*.... crap...
uh judge, I have searched my memory and I honestly have no recollection of the pass phrase.
I didn't read any of the articles linked but I can say from person experience that, even though Practical Common Lisp is available for free on-line (HTML, PDF) I still bought my copy. It is worth every penny. Had it not been available on-line, it probably would've taken me even longer to convince myself to buy it.
Rather than prove that NT could just compete, they wanted a 3D content creation market for windows. So yes they bought Softimage, ported it, then dumped it when it found a buyer. Since windows and x86 hardware were much cheaper than SGI workstations, Alias knew it had to port Maya as well (2.0 I think was the first version for windows) And the rest is in the history books.
So while the ports were initially terrible, the mission was just to get the ball rolling. Thankfully the movie studios hated it too and started asking for Linux when it started becoming viable, and I do think the initial thanks for that go to nvidia.
Erwin sure can't get it right. Almost century trying to escape their elephant hanging history and now this... (google hanged elephant)
Move to another country like Japan or South Korea. It would probably be cheaper.
As an American living in Japan, the prospect of moving back to the US is quite dismal when considering broadband. Currently I'm paying about $50/mo. for 50 Mbps ADSL. NTT in the last couple of months has rolled out a fiber optic service for approx $90/mo. at 100Mbps. I don't live in Tokyo or any other big city you might think of when you think of Japan. I live in the boonies of Aomori Prefecture and it is available.
Click and be jealous/angry (if you're american) http://flets.com/english/opt/charge_opt_hf.html (there is still an ISP charge on top of this number which is why I said ~$90 earlier)
It's a shame and disgrace the US is so far behind... Verizon promoting their FiOS at 5Mbps as top-of-the-line is a joke. But hey, FCC says better deals/competition will come from all the telcom mergers... 10 years from now maybe the US will see 25 Mbps service!
The U.S.S Kittyhawk sank today after RIAA determined it was a playground of copyright theft and all computer systems were summarily destroyed remotely. But rest assured the world is now a safer place now that the floating 'pirate' city is now rusting at the bottom of the sea beside Davey Jones' locker thanks to the heroic efforts of the RIAA. 0 people died.
Editor's Note: copyright offenders are not considered human as stated under the same law that allows copyright owners to enforce computer liquidation and thus cannot be counted in death tolls.
This quote originally appeared in "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective" circa 1982 I believe.
While I haven't read this whole paper and can't say absolutely for sure what the context was, I can conjecture he didn't like the control structure of the language. Dijkstra is pretty well known for his stance on how GOTO statements are very bad. I'm not sure how many programming languages he approved of but I know COBOL and BASIC were 2 that he abhorred and Lisp was probably in the top favored.
I would definitely choose Lisp over Basic anyday, along with most of the other recently popular half-reimplementations of Lisp. Likewise I would choose a time honored and proven good programming book like _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ over the one being reviewed.
From SICP:
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC : as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. [E.W. Dijkstra]
On the ReiserFS 4 page you say that the new filesystem uses algorithms allowing the FS to do transactions only databases could do previously. Do you envision ReiserFS 4 being something comparable to MS' "SQL-FS" plans in Longhorn? How would ReiserFS 4 affect regular (oracle, postresql, mysql) database projects/companies?
First, to all those who are wondering why we should care what this poster girl might say: spokespersons are there to get the word to the people. Have you ever known a spokesperson to give all the nitty-gritty (geeky) facts? If she can appeal to the masses about what's going on, hopefully the masses will research more. Right now, IMO the masses don't even know what is going on and at the current rate can only get pissed off after the fact.
/ARE/ trying to get the copyright law changed and you said you didn't want to do that. The message you need to be getting out is the constant amendments to the copyright law with the latest being the Sonny Bono copyright act and the DMCA, are continually increasing the protection duration to extraordinary limits. Currently I believe it's 150 years past the original filers death. Lessig is trying to show that is insane. That is a detriment to the evolution of the collective creativeness of America and the world.
Second, to the spokesmodel. If you love Lawence Lessig and other copyright guys... you need to start paying more attention to their message. It doesn't appear to me that you have because they
The latest ruling against Lessig by the Supreme court means that we need to show Congress this because the courts aren't going to help. Congress is going to continually listen to the cash flowing from the RIAA and MPAA until our voices raise up. That is what you should be doing.... getting the commoner to care about this and to lend their voice to the cause.
I remember shortly after your capture there were all these stories labeling your story as one of "Samurai vs. Hacker" or something similar. I'm curious to know if you have had any contact with Tsutomu Shimomura, the person who the media portrayed as the one who single-handedly caught you, since you've been out? If so, are you on amicable terms?
I thought for sure, with as much spam as you get, you'd be the first one to try out the bayesian mail filters that Paul Graham wrote about. One of the ones he suggested was CRM114 With a reputed catch rate of 99.8%, do you really not want to try it that much?
Hmmm... sure sounds like a P2P product to me...and we all know that anyone who touches P2P is a criminal. It's only a matter of time before the RIAA swoops down and levies the "everyone is guilty until...er...well forever" tax.
Sounds like we're rehashing what Richard Gabriel stated back in the early 90's: Bad software released early seems to outlive software that is engineered completely before it is released (paraphrased). You can take a look at it here for the complete argument.
Interesting to see how Unix was once viewed in the light M$ is today.
Well I know the theoretical speed is published in the standard... (and I've conveniently forgotten that too) But are there any realistic published speeds? What about speed vs. distance degredation? And speed vs. subscribers in 20 mile radius ...etc????
I wouldn't buy a HDTV unless it had 1 or 2 computer montior inputs... maybe 2 analog and 2 DVI... With all this talk about "media hubs" they should be looking at the HDTV to spark some sort of delivery of service. It definitely would be incredibly cool to be playing games at that size...Surf the net... Do some really cool GUI network scan so you can feel like you're are at NASA montioring something important... you get the picture :)
I think it's about time for another "I watch TV for ... hours a day" Poll to see how many of us really watch TV. I have maybe one or two shows that I watch a week. (Samurai Jack rocks) other than that I can find all of it on the internet with out the wasted time with ads
You might want to check out Paul Graham's site Especially his downloadable book 'On Lisp' The first chapter of that book has thoughts especially about why planning before implementation isn't really suited for building programs like it is for building dams. Instead he recommends planning as you write code. Of course having a language that is best suited for this style of programming is highly recommended :).
I have to admit that I'm a relative Lisp newbie but the more I study it the more I see why people love it so much...And I yearn to see a Lisp Machine for they were already dead before I knew the power of Lisp.(Wouldn't you like to know why people thought Lisp as OS was superior to Unix?) Paul Graham undoubtedly has a more scholarly explanation of this technique than I can give it credit to in the meager submission..
So when you are weighing all the suggestions on how to streamline those flowcharts give a good look to the one that says throw the flowcharts out the window and let 'code evolution' take place!
It has long been argued that code is a form of free speech and expression. Would this SSSCA or CBDFARDWERTA (emphasis mine :) not be a complete violation of the first amendment on the grounds that using an open source OS is a form of expression / speech? Personally not only do I use an open OS because it is stable, well supported yadda yadda yadda...but it also coincides with my belief that the underlying fundaments of an OS should be open to all software makers large and small. Of course IANAL but this sounds like a prime example of violating my first amendment rights.
The two birds with one stone comment would be to have code declared as a form of speech (bird 1) and because SSSCA restricts freedom of speech it is unconstitutional(bird2).
anyone with some legal exp. does this stand on any kind of solid legal ground?
1. Does Linux need another compiler?
Yes, competition is what linux is all about (IMHO).
2. Does Linux need a commercial compiler that performs xyz times better than GCC? Yes! While GCC has helped get linux where it is today we all know it has short comings. If you have a compiler that would help games / graphics perform better and get big name developers to develop for linux then by all means do it!!
3. Can I expect my super duper compiler to be accepted by the general linux community and have the kernel programmed in it?? Uh. most likely not. However it would be great if this compiler (or maybe a version of this compiler) had a license friendly enough that if someone chose to purchase and develop with it they would be able to distribute the source code under a license they choose.
Bottom Line is in order to be a team player don't be afraid to bring a commercial compiler, by all means do port it to other architectures (x86, PPC, etc), allow us to choose which license we code under if we do purchase your compiler, and hey if you feel that there is something that GCC should have to make linux a better place and then by all means feel free to donate :)
I agree with this structure as well. The Internet is a global system (hence the Inter- as in International). Every country should have control over their domain. That way they could see as to how they want to make second level domains. That way there would be no ICANN to worry about. And when users complain "The web address is too long" first we tell them "Hey everyone who doesn't live in the US already has to type the long addresses" and second forward looking browsers like Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror will implement a region look up URL filter. This will allow you to tell the browser what country you live in and it will automatically fill in the .us, .uk, .jp at the end of each URL. Then if you want to go outside the country you are in you just have to type the whole thing including country code.
Of course this seems like extra steps for the browsers but knowing how stupid/lazy the typical american surfer is (yeah the ones who don't know what USENET or IRC is) I think it would be met with favorable reviews.
And the forseeable unfortunate side-effect of this is that countries that like to sensor people, we all know who they are, will be able to filter / firewall people out a lot easier. But compared to this massive mess of disorganization I believe that would be worth the risk at this point.
I am not a nuclear physicist....could someone who is more qualified explain the importance of this? Does it mean we can get more energy than previous materials?
Or are we gonna see all of fort knox melted down so mister Dubya Bu$h can blow up china and make a nuclear winter that lasts even longer than the 60's estimates?
Just curious :)