They make it difficult to ship source only drivers too, and not all drivers get accepted into the kernel tree, and which manufacturers do you see falling over themselves to get the kernel developers to support the driver instead of themselves.
And yes, making it difficult is not impossible to ship binary drivers is a bad thing, any driver even a slightly buggy one (and don't tell me all the drivers in the kernel are stable and have no bugs) is better that no driver at all.
All I want is a linux that works with my hardware without me having to fuck around and write my own drivers etc... and the big thing that's holding that back is no stability in the kernel.
Manufacturers won't support linux in the same way as they do windows until the Linux ABI is as stable as the one in windows. Hell, there's no point releasing a driver on an installation disk (even in source code format) the way the kernel ABI/API changes all the time, I have enough grief with ATI/NVIdia drivers and their updated all the time.
now all we need is hardware vendors to notice this and start releasing drivers for the 2.6.16 kernel knowing that the api/abi isn't going to change all the time
There was a period of time when 3D graphics programming didn't require much maths at all, all the work was done by the pipeline you didn't need to write shaders so no maths there and all the transforms were done by the graphics card so no linear algebra.
Shaders kinda flipped the whole needing to know maths thing on it's head, but there are plenty of books out there with ready made solutions for most shader effects that you can think of so unless your in the rare position of making something truly original you don't need that much maths to do 3d programming.
DirectX 10 isn't so different from DirectX 9, it's basically DirectX 9 without the fixed function pipeline, or in other words you have to use shaders for everything and can't rely on the driver doing even the most basic of texturing &co outside of shaders.
This makes the pipeline cleaner than that of DirectX 9 and is supposed to give a performance increase when you're dealing with vast numbers of objects.
They've also added geometry shaders which may be useful for some games and can't be done in directx 9, I don't expect that many games to be making use of them for quite a while so there's no reason for any game to be directx 10 only.
I may have passed of Copyright extensions in return for no DRM, but copyright extensions and more censorship, that's a great way for them to get my vote.
BTW the conservatives are the opposition and aren't in government.
The way the 'war' in Iraq is going it won't be long before more people have died after Sadam than while he was in power. and they chopped his head off.
So long as the malicious site isn't on HTTPS you should get a url referrer with the request that doesn't look like the one you'd expect to get from a legitimate request.
Whatever you do don't post something that mentions religion, you usually get to +5 but end up in the red by the end of the day once all the religious weirdos have had their way with their mod points.
Yes, I expect this to get modded down to oblivion even though as the parent states the post is mostly factual.
If it doesn't currently work and your prepared to do a bit of hacking you should be able to get it to work. When I was working on wine I found that 'most' applications I was working on only needed a few tweeks / native dlls to wine to get them to startup YMMV, then it's just a case of fixing the bugs until you get the application stable enough for your needs.
If you do need native dlls instead of Wines ones then that's probably a good place to start hacking since you've got youself a good test bed in the native dll.
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And how do you suppose I got a programming job with no formal qualifications?
and that white people come from adam and eve who were made from mud, and black people came from monkies.
This may sound like a troll, but it's what she actually thinks.
Yep, I ripped a DRM crippled song from itunes yesterday by using the record what you hear option on my sound card.
A background task that's taking 100% cpu is perfectly fine, so long as it is a background task and is running on a below normal priority.
I frequently make processes that run at 100% CPU run as a background task.
I seem to remember that sun was working on an opensource DRM based on Java called Dream
Last time I checked you could disagree with the EULA, send the Vista disk back to M$ and get your money back and then install ubuntu. Why not do that?
They make it difficult to ship source only drivers too, and not all drivers get accepted into the kernel tree, and which manufacturers do you see falling over themselves to get the kernel developers to support the driver instead of themselves.
And yes, making it difficult is not impossible to ship binary drivers is a bad thing, any driver even a slightly buggy one (and don't tell me all the drivers in the kernel are stable and have no bugs) is better that no driver at all.
All I want is a linux that works with my hardware without me having to fuck around and write my own drivers etc... and the big thing that's holding that back is no stability in the kernel.
Manufacturers won't support linux in the same way as they do windows until the Linux ABI is as stable as the one in windows. Hell, there's no point releasing a driver on an installation disk (even in source code format) the way the kernel ABI/API changes all the time, I have enough grief with ATI/NVIdia drivers and their updated all the time.
and that's ignoring the fact that NO2 and Ketamine are great recreational drugs as well as anaesthetics.
Take a sample of 10000 people / companies.
Ask them if they use Linux of not
Extrapolate the results.
Seems to work when there counting all kinds of other things that don't have a direct method of counting them.
now all we need is hardware vendors to notice this and start releasing drivers for the 2.6.16 kernel knowing that the api/abi isn't going to change all the time
There was a period of time when 3D graphics programming didn't require much maths at all, all the work was done by the pipeline you didn't need to write shaders so no maths there and all the transforms were done by the graphics card so no linear algebra.
Shaders kinda flipped the whole needing to know maths thing on it's head, but there are plenty of books out there with ready made solutions for most shader effects that you can think of so unless your in the rare position of making something truly original you don't need that much maths to do 3d programming.
DirectX 10 isn't so different from DirectX 9, it's basically DirectX 9 without the fixed function pipeline, or in other words you have to use shaders for everything and can't rely on the driver doing even the most basic of texturing &co outside of shaders.
This makes the pipeline cleaner than that of DirectX 9 and is supposed to give a performance increase when you're dealing with vast numbers of objects.
They've also added geometry shaders which may be useful for some games and can't be done in directx 9, I don't expect that many games to be making use of them for quite a while so there's no reason for any game to be directx 10 only.
I may have passed of Copyright extensions in return for no DRM, but copyright extensions and more censorship, that's a great way for them to get my vote.
BTW the conservatives are the opposition and aren't in government.
The way the 'war' in Iraq is going it won't be long before more people have died after Sadam than while he was in power. and they chopped his head off.
Just think about that for a while.
So your saying Godwin's law doesn't apply to Bush or Blair either?
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So long as the malicious site isn't on HTTPS you should get a url referrer with the request that doesn't look like the one you'd expect to get from a legitimate request.
Whatever you do don't post something that mentions religion, you usually get to +5 but end up in the red by the end of the day once all the religious weirdos have had their way with their mod points.
Yes, I expect this to get modded down to oblivion even though as the parent states the post is mostly factual.
When an egg is ferterlised there is a calcium flush that runs through it, this is caused by the 'intent' of the chemicals on the sperm.
Humans don't have the ability to replicate themselfs without a food source.
Everything depends upon something else to replicate.
Your point is?
They were in Austria.
Funny you should say that, there's a group that are taking the BBC to court for anti-trust violations over the iPlayer.
If it doesn't currently work and your prepared to do a bit of hacking you should be able to get it to work. When I was working on wine I found that 'most' applications I was working on only needed a few tweeks / native dlls to wine to get them to startup YMMV, then it's just a case of fixing the bugs until you get the application stable enough for your needs.
If you do need native dlls instead of Wines ones then that's probably a good place to start hacking since you've got youself a good test bed in the native dll.
I'm going to start working on wine again soon (I know I keep saying that!!!)
I had a few ideas for optimization / performance improvements a while back and I'll see if there still applicable to the current tree.