Do you think any end user cares? The nvidia binary driver provides hardware accelerated playback of all high-def formats. The open source one doesn't. That's all that matters.
Hmm, looks like I was right. You probably googled and saw those ancient comparisons from 2007. Here is a modern day comparison showing that the binary driver rapes nouveau in 2d performance.
In terms of performance, however, it’s clear that nouveau has a ways to go, at least on my hardware. I used glxgears (yes, it’s not a good tool for benchmarking overall video performance, but it’s a useful basis for standardized comparison of FPS rates under different video drivers) to measure video frames per second under the nouveau, nv and nvidia (closed-source) drivers. The tests were run with desktop effects turned off and the system idling. The average FPS rates were as follows: nouveau: 355.3 nv: 475.8 nvidia (version 96, from Ubuntu repositories): 1993
The people who are using nvidia's driver obviously care about 3d performance otherwise they'd already be using the open source driver with 2d support. Also, I doubt nouveau has the hardware accelerated playback of mpeg-2, vc-1 and h.264 like the closed drivers.
So if the software in your repo is a year out of date and you want something more recent it should be made as hard as possible to do so? What an asinine view.
One major difference is that malware on Windows can screw up the entire system where Linux will most likely only screw up one profile.
If that is the case they are running their system incorrectly. Windows has supported limited-priviledged accounts since Win2k. It's not Microsoft's fault if no one uses this properly. On my Win7 box it wouldn't be able to screw up the entire system since I have proper priviledges set for the account I use.
The judge never said that fair use would be a justifiable defense for the case at hand, but that for some future case it could be a justifiable defense.
So do many consoles. Thanks for bringing up a worthless point.
You're the one who made the worthless point to begin with. I never once said consoles were superior to PCs or whatever nonsense you appear to be attacking. The only thing I said was that PS3 and 360 games can be patched to fix bugs contrary to what the poster I was responding to claimed. All the rest of the stuff you posted was irrelevant nonsense.
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Because using lies and hoaxes to spread the word of Jeebus is somewhat hypocritical?
He was using it as a way to prosthelytize for jeebus.
So not supporting strict ACID and/or parts of ANSI SQL can allow databases to perform faster.
Yeah and who needs dumb things like data consistency and prevention of data corruption?
It's kdawson. 5 time winner of the "Worst Slashdot Editor of All Time" award.
Because otherwise they'd have to admit that all their years diddling around with a toy database was all for naught?
Do you think any end user cares? The nvidia binary driver provides hardware accelerated playback of all high-def formats. The open source one doesn't. That's all that matters.
Hmm, looks like I was right. You probably googled and saw those ancient comparisons from 2007. Here is a modern day comparison showing that the binary driver rapes nouveau in 2d performance.
In terms of performance, however, it’s clear that nouveau has a ways to go, at least on my hardware. I used glxgears (yes, it’s not a good tool for benchmarking overall video performance, but it’s a useful basis for standardized comparison of FPS rates under different video drivers) to measure video frames per second under the nouveau, nv and nvidia (closed-source) drivers. The tests were run with desktop effects turned off and the system idling. The average FPS rates were as follows:
nouveau: 355.3
nv: 475.8
nvidia (version 96, from Ubuntu repositories): 1993
or 2D it's already better.
Do you have any benchmarks that aren't 2+ years old and were comparing nouveau to the ancient NV drivers?
The people who are using nvidia's driver obviously care about 3d performance otherwise they'd already be using the open source driver with 2d support. Also, I doubt nouveau has the hardware accelerated playback of mpeg-2, vc-1 and h.264 like the closed drivers.
Yeah because no open source drivers ever crash or anything. Oh wait...
Which is a distinction most people won't care about when their "gratis" driver can't properly play their 3d games.
If all that mattered was that it was free you might as well stick to the generic 2d drivers. Most people want performant 3d drivers.
Because of this, I'm going with ATI next time, I've heard they're way more Linux friendly now.
Have fun enjoying your extremely crappy drivers. Both the open source and the proprietary ATI drivers suck.
No, we are forced to subsidize the corn-based ethanol producers. There is no choose in this when the money comes from our taxes.
How do the Nouveau Nvidia drivers compare to the official ones?
Slower on every machine I've tested.
Sure that isn't infinite. But our solar system will be long gone before all 3.06 x 10^614 different arrangements could possibly be all worked through.
All this is necessary because kids never hang out with older kids in REAL LIFE and hear those words from them!
Or from their own parents.
No, he can't. It's a widespread internet rumor that no one actually can provide real evidence for.
So if the software in your repo is a year out of date and you want something more recent it should be made as hard as possible to do so? What an asinine view.
One major difference is that malware on Windows can screw up the entire system where Linux will most likely only screw up one profile.
If that is the case they are running their system incorrectly. Windows has supported limited-priviledged accounts since Win2k. It's not Microsoft's fault if no one uses this properly. On my Win7 box it wouldn't be able to screw up the entire system since I have proper priviledges set for the account I use.
I don't know about you but my perception of the world doesn't even involve everything being red and blue.
The other kind doesn't make nVIDIA money by being able to sell their expensive glasses?
The term you were thinking of is "windbag".
The judge never said that fair use would be a justifiable defense for the case at hand, but that for some future case it could be a justifiable defense.
So do many consoles. Thanks for bringing up a worthless point.
You're the one who made the worthless point to begin with. I never once said consoles were superior to PCs or whatever nonsense you appear to be attacking. The only thing I said was that PS3 and 360 games can be patched to fix bugs contrary to what the poster I was responding to claimed. All the rest of the stuff you posted was irrelevant nonsense.