The prisoners and the light bulb (which I can't quite remember). Where the prisoners get released after each one has switched the light on. You get a best of 2n-2 for this 2n for switching on and off and -2 because of the first and last prisoner.
The third pararagraph clearly shows that micorosft has Extra terestrial relations [satan maybe]
"When contacted by ET, Microsoft India president Rajiv Nair was somewhat cagey. Although he didn't deny the move, he merely said, "We are evaluating the idea (of sharing the source code)." However, sources in the company said that MS is already in talks with the government to work out the modalities of sharing the source code. It's learnt that MS worldwide program manager for shared source program, Jason Matusow, was recently in India to work out the modalities."
If i have a PPC running linux or I'm using kernel 2.5.x or I'm running hurd(i know poor example) or It's a friday not a thursday then the binary drivers are no good so I'll pick a different GFX card.
SFAIK ATI drivers arn't open-source, there binary too.
ATI, Matrox and nVidia only release part of the spec for there hardware, which is one of the reasons why the OSS drivers arn't that fast.
ATI has a different chip set (an ATI one), so there's going to be a lot!!! of stuff in the Nvidia drivers that are useless for ATI.
I think that anyone who can put a GPU together can a: reverse-engineer the drivers b: write good drivers themselfs.
OK maybe ATI had some bad staff to start off with or didn't realise the importance of the drivers quality (we've got a good card, the drivers can't make that much differnace).
complete bolx, 1: any competitor can reverse engineer the driver. 2: If the drivers were open (under some reasonable license)
A: a competitor would have to open there drivers if they used the code
B: It would be harder for a competitor to claim they hadn't looked at the code. etc.........
My fat hairy ass, do you really think that they don't know how the hardware layer works, I'm sure they've got a lot more ability to reverse engineere anything than nVidia can produce.
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Ok, I GPL myself.
I am now a virus eating away at you profit.
It seems to me that RMS needs to come up with a GPL for scientific discoveries and inventions.
The human genome should have been GPL'd not BSD'd
That life scientists would be physicists if they went to 'that' level of tolerance.
n.b. it's also far from pratical is not impossible.
in Soviet Russia the robot butter fly's you.
The prisoners and the light bulb (which I can't quite remember).
Where the prisoners get released after each one has switched the light on.
You get a best of 2n-2 for this
2n for switching on and off and -2 because of the first and last prisoner.
The worst case could be infinate.
The third pararagraph clearly shows that micorosft has Extra terestrial relations [satan maybe]
"When contacted by ET, Microsoft India president Rajiv Nair was somewhat cagey. Although he didn't deny the move, he merely said, "We are evaluating the idea (of sharing the source code)." However, sources in the company said that MS is already in talks with the government to work out the modalities of sharing the source code. It's learnt that MS worldwide program manager for shared source program, Jason Matusow, was recently in India to work out the modalities."
Which say,
Part 1:
US company X patents somthing that Indian company Y is already doing.
Company X then uses wipo so stop company Y infringing it's patent.
Part 2:
US company X patents a drug for an illness that is rife in India.
Althought the drug costs $0.001 per hit to manufacture the company charges $50 per hit.
And you wander why India doesn't bow down to the US patent system.
No but I can reverse engineer Microsoft Access, or the gs7070 ADSL chipset if you like....
Oh and about the penis, I can send you pictures if you want to feel like yove got somthing missing.
Next time pick on someone you own 'size'
if it were anyless competitive then we'd have another monopoly.
......
ummm..... nVidia (1) ATI (2) Matrox (kinda 3)
So if nVidia eats ATI the competition is down too... lets see Matrox which is more or less zero.
Linux is starting to push into the 3D design market, good GFX cards are important there.
If i have a PPC running linux or I'm using kernel 2.5.x or I'm running hurd(i know poor example) or It's a friday not a thursday then the binary drivers are no good so I'll pick a different GFX card.
SFAIK ATI drivers arn't open-source, there binary too.
ATI, Matrox and nVidia only release part of the spec for there hardware, which is one of the reasons why the OSS drivers arn't that fast.
ATI has a different chip set (an ATI one), so there's going to be a lot!!! of stuff in the Nvidia drivers that are useless for ATI.
I think that anyone who can put a GPU together can
a: reverse-engineer the drivers
b: write good drivers themselfs.
OK maybe ATI had some bad staff to start off with or didn't realise the importance of the drivers quality (we've got a good card, the drivers can't make that much differnace).
It saves them time fixing bugs, proting etc... potentially giving them a higher usebase.
Remember when windows wouldn't boot if your PC was too fast because a timing loop resulted in a DIV/0.
........' though.
SMP in the linux kernel being experemental.
There are lots of drivers out there that don't support SMP.
I think he may have been having a wank when he wrote 'I guess I'll have
complete bolx,
1: any competitor can reverse engineer the driver.
2: If the drivers were open (under some reasonable license)
A: a competitor would have to open there drivers if they used the code
B: It would be harder for a competitor to claim they hadn't looked at the code.
etc.........
also I don't believe that they relese full specs.
My fat hairy ass, do you really think that they don't know how the hardware layer works, I'm sure they've got a lot more ability to reverse engineere anything than nVidia can produce.
hopefully enough money that they wouldn't use it ;->
or just swap the wires on the motor.
The register has evil flash pop-over adverts, that expand over the page your reading if your mouse happens to drift in the direction of the add.
You should have kept quite and popped down the patent office, either you'd be rich or have the power to stop advertisers using this method.
Yeh, the price of videos dropped to something reasonanble, thanks to DVD's i have a large video collection.
Cool, I can play that on the guitar.
Come on James, you know you want me.
...'which would have served TV and music',
Well I'm glad that one didn't make it up there, sweet justice.
You what, havn't you see optical Record Players, no needle.
In Soviet Russia the records played with you.....
Come on try harder....