My question is: will there be decent Linux drivers for this (R300) sucker? Otherwise, I'm just limited to nVIDIAs for good gaming graphics. (or am i missing something?)
RedHat should join the United Linux front/consortium. If it means changing their package manager to something better, they should go for it. Maybe instead of the Redhat Package Manager they should transition to the General or GNU Package Manager.
I hope having a chip out like this doesn't affect the adoption of OpenGL 2.0 by other card/chip manufacturers. I also hope OpenGL 2.0 won't be to 3DLabs what Direct3D/X is to Micro$oft.
For all you people planning on purchasing NWN (for Linux or otherwise), give some thought to supporting vendors like Tuxgames (http://www.tuxgames.com/) and other Linux Vendors. I've already pre-ordered mine from them
It seems that everywhere I look (mailing lists, etc.), developers are switching to KDE for one reason or another. How does the Gnome foundation or even Ximian plan to answer some of their complaints and attract more developers? (ie. lack of documentation, slow to catch up versions of C++ libs, answer to KParts and KDCOP, etc.)
I think it's a good idea that RedHat is coming out with a new version of their distro now. What with all the security patches and all. Especially the zlib problem which affected a lot of their packages. The updates to RH7.2 is actually quite hefty now.
Although Sun engineers are handling the boards, the direction of Java is mostly influenced by the general public through the Java Community Process (See http://www.jcp.org/). Sun simply acts as an arbiter and caretaker.
If there are any good ideas in C#, there's really no reason it couldn't be adopted by Java. Someone just has to submit a request
Of course, with the recent spate of attacks on Microsoft IIS and its penchance for being cracked, I would say that for now it would be a great security risk.
I haven't heard a lot of new vulnerabilities in Apache, though
I thought Q3A game quality depended on the CPU to video card bandwidth as well as the 3d processing power of the processor. I assumed as well that the original poster's idea was to offload all the 3D computations off of the video card and onto the system (which he planned to cluster. Let's assume that his cluster had high bandwidth between them)
In an entirely 2D application, how fast can the system update the ENTIRE video buffer (all 1024x768 pixels say) in a given amount of time?
If the processing was offloaded to the system and all one needed to do was to reflect the changes in the video buffer, wouldn't that help to alleviate the 3D processing bottleneck?
While I normally take issue with the way Linus bullies a kernel issue based on what he perceives is technical merit, I have to agree with him on this one. First, if a better way of doing things has been found, even though it's in the middle of a stable series, it should be changed in order not to propagate wrong coding. I've been coding for a long time now and I still believe that if an error, bug or better coding scheme is found, it be implemented as soon as possible.
The problem with leaving the change till the 2.5 series is that the 2.5 series is nowhere in sight and development kernels usually take more than a year to cycle through (no matter what the kernel hackers say). The fact that 2.5 hasn't even begun may be an indicator of how long 2.5 will take to finish.
Everyone who runs Linux or who would want to see Linux drivers should send a petition for one (service@accessDTV.com and support@accessDTV.com... better addresses if you can find it). I know I will.
My bad.. it says GPRS-upgradeable (or somesuch). As it is, it's a GSM 900/1900 phone.
I think that would make it sufficient as a worldphone (where GSM is concerned) as most countries either support 900/1800 (Europe/Asia) or 1900 (America)
What makes them (Apple) think that they'll win the video format standard battle? I think Microsoft has more clout.
No matter. I'm just thanking my lucky stars. Hopefully, the next video (streaming or otherwise) standards isn't bogged down by blind copyright protection schemes or crippling mechanisms
After the Sept. 11 incident at the WTC, I felt some emotions towards those events. Slight emotions of anger, frustration and perhaps fear. It seemed so distant.
Now after hearing about this latest law passed by the U.S. Senate, I feel even more fearful for myself and my friends. I work in the computer industry and because of that engage in various computing activities. It's in the U.S. government's and people's history to engage in the most far-fetched criminal charges against individuals (see Sklyarov and Prof. Felten). Now I'm afraid that what is an innocent gesture might be misconstrued as a felony, and the chances of this happening has increased with all this wire-tapping. Unfortunately, it costs money just to prove one's innocence! This one small move by the gov't. has achieved what all the distant stories of terrorism has failed to do, so far: scare me in my everyday living.
Pray, friends, that you won't be the next victim the gov't. sets its eyes on. It's not as far-fetched as it used to seem (see Brian West)
I have no angst against commercial software. My problem is unfair tactics and proprietary software aimed at locking others out. This is a compiler, folks! Unless they start "extending" C or the ELF format, it's actually a good idea.
For the record, I've bought and paid for 4 Linux games and am evaluating CodeWeaver's plugin. I know other people who are also willing to pay for good Linux software (I've already made my willingness to pay for RogerWilco for Linux to the developers). So let's not be hasty saying Linux users' won't go for it
Personally, (aside from MS's other immoral and unfair practices) I have no problem with MS giving IE away from free... it's BUNDLING it with the OS. Most people wouldn't take the time to download other browsers because IE's already there.
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1) Take actions to prevent the conditions that breed terrorism and show the people of the world that we pay more than lip service to the idea of 'defending liberty'.
One thing to consider is that some of the conditions are beyond our control. Religious fanaticism is tantamount to being illogical. What we think is the "decent thing" or "common sense" to do may have no value whatsoever to some people.
Tell me... how can we control greed in people? Assuming our own corporations start behaving humanitarianly (preposterous), do you think we could influence others? (even more preposterous)
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My question is: will there be decent Linux drivers for this (R300) sucker? Otherwise, I'm just limited to nVIDIAs for good gaming graphics. (or am i missing something?)
If there was any doubt of it before, this finally proves it: John Carmack, You Da Man!
I've been reading the OpenGL 2.0 whitepaper and it has a lot of things I like. Let's just hope that 3DLabs, et al. will finish with it soon.
RedHat should join the United Linux front/consortium. If it means changing their package manager to something better, they should go for it. Maybe instead of the Redhat Package Manager they should transition to the General or GNU Package Manager.
Slashdot effect does it again. I just see the MS IIS "web site is busy" page. I hope they don't run the ship's computers on any MS product.
You must be referring to 3Dfx (who, though still alive, I think, aren't much in the running anymore)
Are the OpenGL 2.0 specifications done, yet?
I hope having a chip out like this doesn't affect the adoption of OpenGL 2.0 by other card/chip manufacturers. I also hope OpenGL 2.0 won't be to 3DLabs what Direct3D/X is to Micro$oft.
For all you people planning on purchasing NWN (for Linux or otherwise), give some thought to supporting vendors like Tuxgames (http://www.tuxgames.com/) and other Linux Vendors. I've already pre-ordered mine from them
It seems that everywhere I look (mailing lists, etc.), developers are switching to KDE for one reason or another. How does the Gnome foundation or even Ximian plan to answer some of their complaints and attract more developers? (ie. lack of documentation, slow to catch up versions of C++ libs, answer to KParts and KDCOP, etc.)
I think it's a good idea that RedHat is coming out with a new version of their distro now. What with all the security patches and all. Especially the zlib problem which affected a lot of their packages. The updates to RH7.2 is actually quite hefty now.
Can you tell us a little more about the "+patches"? Like which version of the VM are you using? Whose tree is it most closest to? Etc.
I don't think it was so much as money "floating around" as it was "money not floating in" ... as in sufficient to keep the company's efforts going.
That's just a hunch, though
The NeverWinter Nights DM Module Editor MIGHT be released for Linux after all!!!! Yahoo!!!!
They wrote the toolset in Borland C++. A release of it for Linux, they said, would depend on whether Borland would release a C++ compiler.
Three cheers for Borland! Three cheers for that Canuck company, Bioware!
Although Sun engineers are handling the boards, the direction of Java is mostly influenced by the general public through the Java Community Process (See http://www.jcp.org/). Sun simply acts as an arbiter and caretaker.
If there are any good ideas in C#, there's really no reason it couldn't be adopted by Java. Someone just has to submit a request
Of course, with the recent spate of attacks on Microsoft IIS and its penchance for being cracked, I would say that for now it would be a great security risk.
I haven't heard a lot of new vulnerabilities in Apache, though
Just throwing some ideas around here.
I thought Q3A game quality depended on the CPU to video card bandwidth as well as the 3d processing power of the processor. I assumed as well that the original poster's idea was to offload all the 3D computations off of the video card and onto the system (which he planned to cluster. Let's assume that his cluster had high bandwidth between them)
In an entirely 2D application, how fast can the system update the ENTIRE video buffer (all 1024x768 pixels say) in a given amount of time?
If the processing was offloaded to the system and all one needed to do was to reflect the changes in the video buffer, wouldn't that help to alleviate the 3D processing bottleneck?
Why the heck don't they call "campaign contributions" by their right name? Bribes. (I'm no lawyer)
While I normally take issue with the way Linus bullies a kernel issue based on what he perceives is technical merit, I have to agree with him on this one. First, if a better way of doing things has been found, even though it's in the middle of a stable series, it should be changed in order not to propagate wrong coding. I've been coding for a long time now and I still believe that if an error, bug or better coding scheme is found, it be implemented as soon as possible.
The problem with leaving the change till the 2.5 series is that the 2.5 series is nowhere in sight and development kernels usually take more than a year to cycle through (no matter what the kernel hackers say). The fact that 2.5 hasn't even begun may be an indicator of how long 2.5 will take to finish.
Everyone who runs Linux or who would want to see Linux drivers should send a petition for one (service@accessDTV.com and support@accessDTV.com ... better addresses if you can find it). I know I will.
My bad .. it says GPRS-upgradeable (or somesuch). As it is, it's a GSM 900/1900 phone.
I think that would make it sufficient as a worldphone (where GSM is concerned) as most countries either support 900/1800 (Europe/Asia) or 1900 (America)
It's GPRS. Fido (in Calgary) mentioned they'll be rolling out their GPRS service Real Soon Now.
What makes them (Apple) think that they'll win the video format standard battle? I think Microsoft has more clout.
No matter. I'm just thanking my lucky stars. Hopefully, the next video (streaming or otherwise) standards isn't bogged down by blind copyright protection schemes or crippling mechanisms
After the Sept. 11 incident at the WTC, I felt some emotions towards those events. Slight emotions of anger, frustration and perhaps fear. It seemed so distant.
Now after hearing about this latest law passed by the U.S. Senate, I feel even more fearful for myself and my friends. I work in the computer industry and because of that engage in various computing activities. It's in the U.S. government's and people's history to engage in the most far-fetched criminal charges against individuals (see Sklyarov and Prof. Felten). Now I'm afraid that what is an innocent gesture might be misconstrued as a felony, and the chances of this happening has increased with all this wire-tapping. Unfortunately, it costs money just to prove one's innocence! This one small move by the gov't. has achieved what all the distant stories of terrorism has failed to do, so far: scare me in my everyday living.
Pray, friends, that you won't be the next victim the gov't. sets its eyes on. It's not as far-fetched as it used to seem (see Brian West)
I have no angst against commercial software. My problem is unfair tactics and proprietary software aimed at locking others out. This is a compiler, folks! Unless they start "extending" C or the ELF format, it's actually a good idea.
For the record, I've bought and paid for 4 Linux games and am evaluating CodeWeaver's plugin. I know other people who are also willing to pay for good Linux software (I've already made my willingness to pay for RogerWilco for Linux to the developers). So let's not be hasty saying Linux users' won't go for it
Personally, (aside from MS's other immoral and unfair practices) I have no problem with MS giving IE away from free ... it's BUNDLING it with the OS. Most people wouldn't take the time to download other browsers because IE's already there.
1) Take actions to prevent the conditions that breed terrorism and show the people of the world that we pay more than lip service to the idea of 'defending liberty'.
... how can we control greed in people? Assuming our own corporations start behaving humanitarianly (preposterous), do you think we could influence others? (even more preposterous)
One thing to consider is that some of the conditions are beyond our control. Religious fanaticism is tantamount to being illogical. What we think is the "decent thing" or "common sense" to do may have no value whatsoever to some people.
Tell me