For the OSS driver you should have a look at this page.
Normally, my HD4850 would run a ~75 degree C, with the "low" profile the temperature dropped to 40 degree C and all 2D stuff still worked fine.
Even people who are primarily known for their evil often have done good things for the countries they otherwise subjugated. A good example: Adolph Hitler, obviously our poster child for evil, he also orchestrated the building of the autobahn road network in Germany prior to WW2.
Actually, no, Hitler orchestrated nothing, he just happened to come into power around the time the autobahn road network was actually build:
Construction of the Cologne-Bonn autobahn begins in October [1929] - using mostly human labor and very few machines in an effort to create jobs in a period of high unemployment. [...] This first German autobahn segment will be completed in 1932, a year before Hitler comes to power. [emphasis mine]
and
Hitler inaugurates "his" autobahn network with the so-called "first cut of the spade" (erster Spatenstich) near Frankfurt on 23 September [1933]. This would have been impossible without the earlier work of HaFraBa and Stufa in the 1920s.
Any idiot knew back 2 decades ago that computing will move to smaller cheaper and less energy systems.
Too bad they didn't hire more idiots then.
Less energy?
C'mon, you know exactly what he meant: One decade ago I bought a laptop (Toshiba Satellite S3000-214, P3 based) 2.5kg, approx 2000€ and the battery lasted around three hours when used "normally". Now, you can buy a Netbook that that is lighter, cheaper, and also uses less energy providing at least the same performance. Or just look at the N900, it sold for 600€, weight 180g, and without using Wireless or GPS but other apps it usually lasts more then a day without recharging.
Actually, it's worse than zero-sum: As Michael Fitzgerald from the New York Times comments:
[Bessen and Meurer] analyzed data from 1976 to 1999, the most recent year with complete data. They found that starting in the late 1990s, publicly traded companies saw patent litigation costs outstrip patent profits. Specifically, they estimate that about $8.4 billion in global profits came directly from patents held by publicly traded United States companies in 1997, rising to about $9.3 billion in 1999, with two-thirds of the profits going to chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Domestic litigation costs alone, meanwhile, soared to $16 billion in 1999 from $8 billion in 1997.
Things have probably become worse since then. For instance, patent litigation is up: there were 2,318 patent-related suits in 1999, and 2,830 in fiscal 2006 (though that’s down from the peak year, 2004, when 3,075 were filed). Mr. Bessen said awards in patent cases also seemed to be up, though he was less confident in that data. Worse, he says, companies doing the most research and development are sued the most.
After reading TFA: They do not assume that your ISP has this "station", only some ISP. You tag your https request to some unblocked site by using public key code encryption to indicate that you want a secure anonymous connection. When your request packages are routed you might hit a router from an ISP who runs such a "station". This router may identify the tag and and if so, the "station" answers the request by setting up an encrypted between itself and the user (you) who can then use it like a proxy. In other words - the headline is wrong, because you still use a proxy, the only difference is that the IP of the doesn't need to be publicly known. Instead, you need to know the public key of a (group of) station(s) and hope that the traffic gets routes to pass through one of these.
Um, no. The 3D driver in question is the R600 Gallium driver
The Gallium3D driver has been under development for nearly 4 years.
The Documentation for the R6XX has been released in December 2008 and the R6XX/R7XX programming guide in May 2009. It may be that the core Gallium 3D driver is in development for four years, but given the availability of the documentation, the R600 was developed for at most two and a half years. Actually, first support for the HD6000 series of graphics cards was added in January 2011.
The current status is here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt
When all is supported, the version of mesa will jump to 8.0. this month 7.11 will be released, and the next release is to be expected in January/2012.
The binary driver may drop support for older hardware at any point, and the older versions which still support your hardware are unlikely support current kernels or X11 versions.
You can still run a GForce2 on 11.04, so I do not see this as a problem, but a "potential" problem. Some people call that FUD.
Actually, I have a Geforce2 Go in a very old laptop (from 2001, Pentium III based), and suspend or hibernate never worked with the blob, and it never will, because the blob is only updated to support new interfaces. In its time, when I went to travel, I usually used the nv driver to be able to suspend and hibernate properly. Nowadays I can use nouveau, but that driver doesn't support 3D (at least not yet).
Nvidia was first to the party.
Not really, the early Matrox cards (like the Mystique, G200/G400) had nearly complete FOSS support, only dual head with video out needed a proprietary library in the beginning, I think it was because of Macrovision. Later, with the framebuffer device one could actually use the second screen without this blob. That was arond 1998 when NVIDIA promised FOSS drivers and dumped some obfuscated code on the utha-glx project. Then they started to give out blobs, and they where buggy - at least when you wanted SMP support. 2002 someone sponsored the development of FOSS drivers for the ATI R200 series cards, I think the base for the good R300 support also stems from that time. It was only around that time, when the NVIDIA drivers finally became stable on SMP.
Of course it is also true that there are no FOSS drivers for newer Matrox cards and the closed ATI drivers sucked big time until AMD stepped in. When they announced their FOSS strategy in 2008, I was just putting a new computer together and so I decided to get an ATI-AMD card to support the cause. I use the blob, and one could really see it improving significantly since.
When NO ONE was supporting Linux, they had a solid driver, with real support. It was even current! Now we have this new player at the party who ignored FOSS for almost all of it's history.
It is true that there was a time, when NVIDIA was the only reliable option when you wanted decent 3D on Linux, but AMD was always supportive of FOSS and Linux, and when they bought ATI, they proved it by starting to make their blob usable, and also by supporting the development of free drivers.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites".
The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others...
"One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.
I can imagine people hiring the cheapest lawyer possible because, hey, even if I lose, I'm only paying a couple grand.
And what about people who choose to represent themselves?
What you forget that this is only about the court costs and not about the penalty. If you lose you will still have to pay whatever penalty the court decides.
As a long time C++ guy (Borland C++ days), I look at some of these features and think "so what?" (Lambda functions, please.) [...] the STL and made my life much easier - after I got the hang of the way the STL implemented things such as "iterators" and the gotchas associated with them.
When you use iterators, then you probably use algorithms like transform or for_each. for these, lambdas are a perfect supplement.
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... display screens that are more square than rectangular ...
http://www.mathopenref.com/square.html
A square can be thought of as a special case of other quadrilaterals, for example:
oh Apple
How do you come by that they need a bailout? AMD's profits, forecasts exceed projections, share price jumps (10/27/2011).
Some judge probably will. Remember Obelix versus MobiliX?
When your economy is far from optimal, the value of capitalism is real and beneficial.
As far as I can see, the economy is currently really fucked up. Could you elaborate what part of capitalism is now valuable?
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.
As such it is not incompatible with agnosticism. Just look up agnostic atheism.
It is also possible to be agnostic and still believe in a deity. Therefore, being agnostic is no really a rebellion against religion.
For the OSS driver you should have a look at this page. Normally, my HD4850 would run a ~75 degree C, with the "low" profile the temperature dropped to 40 degree C and all 2D stuff still worked fine.
Even people who are primarily known for their evil often have done good things for the countries they otherwise subjugated. A good example: Adolph Hitler, obviously our poster child for evil, he also orchestrated the building of the autobahn road network in Germany prior to WW2.
Actually, no, Hitler orchestrated nothing, he just happened to come into power around the time the autobahn road network was actually build:
Construction of the Cologne-Bonn autobahn begins in October [1929] - using mostly human labor and very few machines in an effort to create jobs in a period of high unemployment. [...] This first German autobahn segment will be completed in 1932, a year before Hitler comes to power. [emphasis mine]
and
Hitler inaugurates "his" autobahn network with the so-called "first cut of the spade" (erster Spatenstich) near Frankfurt on 23 September [1933]. This would have been impossible without the earlier work of HaFraBa and Stufa in the 1920s.
reference
Well, in this article they did some statistics and claim that it's better to sit in the back.
... and disable x11 :) ...
... but I need X11 to open all these terminals!
Any idiot knew back 2 decades ago that computing will move to smaller cheaper and less energy systems.
Too bad they didn't hire more idiots then.
Less energy?
C'mon, you know exactly what he meant: One decade ago I bought a laptop (Toshiba Satellite S3000-214, P3 based) 2.5kg, approx 2000€ and the battery lasted around three hours when used "normally". Now, you can buy a Netbook that that is lighter, cheaper, and also uses less energy providing at least the same performance. Or just look at the N900, it sold for 600€, weight 180g, and without using Wireless or GPS but other apps it usually lasts more then a day without recharging.
... and they found it early.
After reading TFA: They do not assume that your ISP has this "station", only some ISP. You tag your https request to some unblocked site by using public key code encryption to indicate that you want a secure anonymous connection. When your request packages are routed you might hit a router from an ISP who runs such a "station". This router may identify the tag and and if so, the "station" answers the request by setting up an encrypted between itself and the user (you) who can then use it like a proxy. In other words - the headline is wrong, because you still use a proxy, the only difference is that the IP of the doesn't need to be publicly known. Instead, you need to know the public key of a (group of) station(s) and hope that the traffic gets routes to pass through one of these.
You've probably been mislead: This is the current feature matrix.
Um, no. The 3D driver in question is the R600 Gallium driver
The Gallium3D driver has been under development for nearly 4 years.
The Documentation for the R6XX has been released in December 2008 and the R6XX/R7XX programming guide in May 2009. It may be that the core Gallium 3D driver is in development for four years, but given the availability of the documentation, the R600 was developed for at most two and a half years. Actually, first support for the HD6000 series of graphics cards was added in January 2011.
The current status is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt When all is supported, the version of mesa will jump to 8.0. this month 7.11 will be released, and the next release is to be expected in January/2012.
The binary driver may drop support for older hardware at any point, and the older versions which still support your hardware are unlikely support current kernels or X11 versions.
You can still run a GForce2 on 11.04, so I do not see this as a problem, but a "potential" problem. Some people call that FUD.
Actually, I have a Geforce2 Go in a very old laptop (from 2001, Pentium III based), and suspend or hibernate never worked with the blob, and it never will, because the blob is only updated to support new interfaces. In its time, when I went to travel, I usually used the nv driver to be able to suspend and hibernate properly. Nowadays I can use nouveau, but that driver doesn't support 3D (at least not yet).
Nvidia was first to the party.
Not really, the early Matrox cards (like the Mystique, G200/G400) had nearly complete FOSS support, only dual head with video out needed a proprietary library in the beginning, I think it was because of Macrovision. Later, with the framebuffer device one could actually use the second screen without this blob. That was arond 1998 when NVIDIA promised FOSS drivers and dumped some obfuscated code on the utha-glx project. Then they started to give out blobs, and they where buggy - at least when you wanted SMP support. 2002 someone sponsored the development of FOSS drivers for the ATI R200 series cards, I think the base for the good R300 support also stems from that time. It was only around that time, when the NVIDIA drivers finally became stable on SMP.
Of course it is also true that there are no FOSS drivers for newer Matrox cards and the closed ATI drivers sucked big time until AMD stepped in. When they announced their FOSS strategy in 2008, I was just putting a new computer together and so I decided to get an ATI-AMD card to support the cause. I use the blob, and one could really see it improving significantly since.
When NO ONE was supporting Linux, they had a solid driver, with real support. It was even current! Now we have this new player at the party who ignored FOSS for almost all of it's history.
It is true that there was a time, when NVIDIA was the only reliable option when you wanted decent 3D on Linux, but AMD was always supportive of FOSS and Linux, and when they bought ATI, they proved it by starting to make their blob usable, and also by supporting the development of free drivers.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites". The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others... "One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.
Source: http://boingboing.net/2010/04/28/music-industry-spoke.html
How we can expect small startups to survive in this environment is totally beyond me.
You can't and that's the whole point of it - to make it difficult for newcomers.
..., but as it stands today software is patentable.
Not where I come from.
It's just like these things never happen ...
I'd prefer the use of a phrase book ;)
I can imagine people hiring the cheapest lawyer possible because, hey, even if I lose, I'm only paying a couple grand. And what about people who choose to represent themselves?
What you forget that this is only about the court costs and not about the penalty. If you lose you will still have to pay whatever penalty the court decides.
Must be the Nokia syndrome creeping over to Redmond: start some new technology, and then dump it ...
just trolling :)
As a long time C++ guy (Borland C++ days), I look at some of these features and think "so what?" (Lambda functions, please.) [...] the STL and made my life much easier - after I got the hang of the way the STL implemented things such as "iterators" and the gotchas associated with them.
When you use iterators, then you probably use algorithms like transform or for_each. for these, lambdas are a perfect supplement.