I'm a starving college student that knows the law. Even $81 for an 'upgrade' to WinXP Pro is outside of my pocketbook. I also appreciate the freedom of GPL'ed and other Open Source software. Technical problems I can solve -- I was an IT professional. I can choose which distro I want, free as in beer, or for what I would consider a reasonable price (such as the price of a video game; $30 to $50). A lot of things you get what you pay for, but I feel MS rips me off.
Yeah it has some downfalls, but out of all the choices available, Gentoo suits me best. In the future should I find something better, then I'll switch.
To be honest, the closed-source drivers are *better* than what FOSS alternatives offer at this time for Nvidia and ATI. ("But they close their specs!" -- yes they do, but you're geeks right?) If you use a particular card because there are just FOSS drivers avaialable, that's one thing -- if you're deciding to cut out functionality for open drivers, that's totally philisophical and not a technical decision. For those who actually play games on Linux (or FreeBSD in compatibility mode), those evil closed source drivers sure kick the stuffing out of anything in the FOSS community.
If you want to see a shift towards FOSS drivers, the DRI project would appreciate your help. If you want Free to dominate, you need to give people a better decision. Mod me down if you will as anti-FOSS, but I'm not going to sugar coat it.
This will be placed right along side the Atkins diet! It's all a conspiracy by the neo-Zionist Christian Communist Right to get geeks to slim down! Soon there will be no more fat geeks, and then the geeks will marry, and then what will happen to Slashdot!?
Crude oil still needs to be refined. Supply like this can be as tightly controlled as OPEG since the process is under patent -- unless someone ELSE finds a way that is not under the patent, and production can meet or exceeed OPEG -- not to mention REFINERIES need to be placed under more competition -- don't count on artificial crude oil to lower prices any time soon.
And nothing that you don't. That's just smart business catering to the demands of the consumer, and also cutting costs of production. I expect that Apple will make a plentiful profit from this decision.
Here's motovation for you -- criticism. As part of the motovation in Open Source is recognition, the last thing you want is your project to be seen as "This is why you shouldn't use Open Source". On my project I hold everyone to a high standard of quality. This is a high expectation, but a reasonable one if F/OSS wants to make a place in Joe User's machine. I have my family using certain F/OSS on their machines, not because of ideology, but because it's good software. I think that is what the author of the article was trying to get it with "Religious Blindness". "Use Free Software, because it's Free!" imho is an act of faith than an act of judgement.
Mod me down if you will, but I felt it needed to be said.
Is that is it made for pen and paper. Seriously, my project has somewhat of a pen & paper combat and statistic system, but in the end, we're not going to bog the players down in it. Sure there will be some stats visible to the end user, but instead of having "OK Roll to see if you hit!" we'll likely let the user do armed combat. Let the machine calculate weither it can make a block, or have a percentage for taking 1/2 damage and the like.
Don't get me wrong, NWN is a great example of how to put D&D as a video game -- but pen-and-paper games is only best with pen-and-paper the majority of the time. Plus you just can't get a true experience of sitting down with your buddies and having a sadistic GM.;)
No sir! We are the US Dept of Defense are declaring war on the Titans for they might harbor WMD! See with a quarter of their seas being natural gas, we cannot allow their tyranny to continue!
Just because it's the same OS does not imply that it will be a direct comparison -- they are completely different archetectures and can never be directly compared; an indirect comparison is about the best you can do. Still what does it mean? Not a lot, since the archetectures are fundamentally different.
It would be a waste of THG's time when the whole idea was to compare x86 CPUs. Yeah it ignores the PPC -- why? x86 archetecture comparison is an apples to apples comparsion.
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I'm a starving college student that knows the law. Even $81 for an 'upgrade' to WinXP Pro is outside of my pocketbook. I also appreciate the freedom of GPL'ed and other Open Source software. Technical problems I can solve -- I was an IT professional. I can choose which distro I want, free as in beer, or for what I would consider a reasonable price (such as the price of a video game; $30 to $50). A lot of things you get what you pay for, but I feel MS rips me off.
Yeah it has some downfalls, but out of all the choices available, Gentoo suits me best. In the future should I find something better, then I'll switch.
#pragma! I'm soooooo proud!
To be honest, the closed-source drivers are *better* than what FOSS alternatives offer at this time for Nvidia and ATI. ("But they close their specs!" -- yes they do, but you're geeks right?) If you use a particular card because there are just FOSS drivers avaialable, that's one thing -- if you're deciding to cut out functionality for open drivers, that's totally philisophical and not a technical decision. For those who actually play games on Linux (or FreeBSD in compatibility mode), those evil closed source drivers sure kick the stuffing out of anything in the FOSS community.
If you want to see a shift towards FOSS drivers, the DRI project would appreciate your help. If you want Free to dominate, you need to give people a better decision. Mod me down if you will as anti-FOSS, but I'm not going to sugar coat it.
This will be placed right along side the Atkins diet! It's all a conspiracy by the neo-Zionist Christian Communist Right to get geeks to slim down! Soon there will be no more fat geeks, and then the geeks will marry, and then what will happen to Slashdot!?
I don't think so, but I wouldn't put it past the USPTO.
Crude oil still needs to be refined. Supply like this can be as tightly controlled as OPEG since the process is under patent -- unless someone ELSE finds a way that is not under the patent, and production can meet or exceeed OPEG -- not to mention REFINERIES need to be placed under more competition -- don't count on artificial crude oil to lower prices any time soon.
And nothing that you don't. That's just smart business catering to the demands of the consumer, and also cutting costs of production. I expect that Apple will make a plentiful profit from this decision.
How about a Mr. Fusion?
I'm saving that because it's my backups!
Here's motovation for you -- criticism. As part of the motovation in Open Source is recognition, the last thing you want is your project to be seen as "This is why you shouldn't use Open Source". On my project I hold everyone to a high standard of quality. This is a high expectation, but a reasonable one if F/OSS wants to make a place in Joe User's machine. I have my family using certain F/OSS on their machines, not because of ideology, but because it's good software. I think that is what the author of the article was trying to get it with "Religious Blindness". "Use Free Software, because it's Free!" imho is an act of faith than an act of judgement.
Mod me down if you will, but I felt it needed to be said.
And it will be a cold day in hell when I see a post moderated as a 5, Troll... oh wait...
Don't get me wrong, NWN is a great example of how to put D&D as a video game -- but pen-and-paper games is only best with pen-and-paper the majority of the time. Plus you just can't get a true experience of sitting down with your buddies and having a sadistic GM.
The last time I heard it was after the ENIAC port which is after the PDP-7 which is after...
No sir! We are the US Dept of Defense are declaring war on the Titans for they might harbor WMD! See with a quarter of their seas being natural gas, we cannot allow their tyranny to continue!
They have stock in Microsoft.
With a name like "Pimp Ass Newsreader", it's gotta be good...
I didn't know they weren't using virtual protection methods!
Slashdot has now become... Grokdot! (er... well we could make it Slashlaw, but...)
Now if the Gnome project (and quite honestly every large project) would make a quality team, we could get some serious usability issues ironed out.
Somehow I don't think Google would like receiving a letter off Mognet saying they're being sued.
(For those who don't know, "Mognet" was in Final Fantasy IX)
Do I even want to think of the new positions thought up in zero gravity? *shudders*
Just because it's the same OS does not imply that it will be a direct comparison -- they are completely different archetectures and can never be directly compared; an indirect comparison is about the best you can do. Still what does it mean? Not a lot, since the archetectures are fundamentally different.
It would be a waste of THG's time when the whole idea was to compare x86 CPUs. Yeah it ignores the PPC -- why? x86 archetecture comparison is an apples to apples comparsion.
No we wouldn't have to scorch the sky. After all, where there's no shadow...