Although the US government is being paid by the student, I would be surprised if it makes a long-term profit from all the loans it gives with generous interest rates to students with little or no credit history.
I'm not an expert on this, though.
At least in the US, when buying a new computer from a store, you're pretty much forced to buy either Windows or OS X. Even if you want to run Linux on your computer, you'll have to buy a license for one of those operating systems (probably Windows) with the computer.
There's no need for a fork. If anyone shows an interest in making one of the old drivers compatible with the current driver interface (there were some recent driver API changes in texture mapping) and maintain it, then it will be added back to the Mesa tree as long as it's maintained and doesn't stay broken.
It's making it impossible to change the driver interface, for one thing. As new features are added to Mesa, the driver interface has to change. Using the same driver interface for i965 and the Gallium state tracker that's used on a 3dfx Voodoo card creates some problems due to the vast differences in how those generations of hardware work.
Since the drivers for all of that old hardware were unmaintained, they were hurting anyone who needed to change the driver interface for any reason, because it would sometimes require changing the ancient drivers for which no one has the hardware.
Removing unencumbered open code/GUI/interface etc. which is known to work for no good reason is unhealthy.
No, it's not "known to work". That's the problem. No one ever tests with those drivers anymore, they break frequently, and no one fixes them. That's why they were removed. If anyone cares enough to fix and maintain them instead of just complaining on Slashdot, they will be added back to the tree.
The idea is that if you have ancient hardware, you check out a Mesa version from git that works with your hardware. You can run old versions of Mesa just fine on newer X servers and kernels.
Most or all of these drivers were already broken because no one cared enough to maintain them or even test them from time to time. Anyone who needs the old drivers can compile out an older version of Mesa from git and run that. Which they already had to do.
It was also said that if someone comes along who is actually interested in maintaining one of the removed drivers, that the driver would be restored to the source tree.
Government should raise taxes on gasoline so that people drive less, not force them to drive inappropriate vehicles because of mandates. The result will be much better.
There's no need. The price of gasoline has gone up faster than the government or anyone else would have dreamed of 10 years ago. The price of gasoline tripling hasn't really stopped that many people from driving as one would expect. It just increased the profit margins of the oil companies.
Why do the Slashdot editors keep posting InfoWorld links? The submitter's name is even linked to the InfoWorld homepage, so they're just giving free traffic away to the site.
Depends on the authorities. I don't see why Google would be inclined to pay attention to a demand from a municipal government with no regulatory authority or control over it.
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Although the US government is being paid by the student, I would be surprised if it makes a long-term profit from all the loans it gives with generous interest rates to students with little or no credit history. I'm not an expert on this, though.
2009 was when the number of quakes in Oklahoma jumped to more than 1000. November 5, 2011 is when the magnitude 5.6 earthquake happened.
They don't own the copyright to all of the open source Radeon code. Some of it was done by community developers or developers for Red Hat and VMware.
My guess would be no.
At least in the US, when buying a new computer from a store, you're pretty much forced to buy either Windows or OS X. Even if you want to run Linux on your computer, you'll have to buy a license for one of those operating systems (probably Windows) with the computer.
People didn't give that up. Congress gave it up for us, and people vote based on other issues.
It was removed from Google's app store. Google is a US company and has to follow US laws. It's still available outside the app store.
You mean copyright trolling, not patent trolling.
Or just use a new distro and compile and install Mesa yourself. It's not that hard.
There's no need for a fork. If anyone shows an interest in making one of the old drivers compatible with the current driver interface (there were some recent driver API changes in texture mapping) and maintain it, then it will be added back to the Mesa tree as long as it's maintained and doesn't stay broken.
It's making it impossible to change the driver interface, for one thing. As new features are added to Mesa, the driver interface has to change. Using the same driver interface for i965 and the Gallium state tracker that's used on a 3dfx Voodoo card creates some problems due to the vast differences in how those generations of hardware work.
Since the drivers for all of that old hardware were unmaintained, they were hurting anyone who needed to change the driver interface for any reason, because it would sometimes require changing the ancient drivers for which no one has the hardware.
Removing unencumbered open code/GUI/interface etc. which is known to work for no good reason is unhealthy.
No, it's not "known to work". That's the problem. No one ever tests with those drivers anymore, they break frequently, and no one fixes them. That's why they were removed. If anyone cares enough to fix and maintain them instead of just complaining on Slashdot, they will be added back to the tree.
The idea is that if you have ancient hardware, you check out a Mesa version from git that works with your hardware. You can run old versions of Mesa just fine on newer X servers and kernels.
Most or all of these drivers were already broken because no one cared enough to maintain them or even test them from time to time. Anyone who needs the old drivers can compile out an older version of Mesa from git and run that. Which they already had to do.
It was also said that if someone comes along who is actually interested in maintaining one of the removed drivers, that the driver would be restored to the source tree.
Nothing to see here, move along.
since the media is so in bed with Google.
Not true at all. Especially not for the American media conglomerates.
Wrong story...
Government should raise taxes on gasoline so that people drive less, not force them to drive inappropriate vehicles because of mandates. The result will be much better.
There's no need. The price of gasoline has gone up faster than the government or anyone else would have dreamed of 10 years ago. The price of gasoline tripling hasn't really stopped that many people from driving as one would expect. It just increased the profit margins of the oil companies.
I wish.
I've never really tried Mono, but I understand it has very good .NET support these days:
The easiest way to describe what Mono currently supports is: Everything in .NET 4.0 except WPF, EntityFramework and WF, limited WCF.
Mono runs on OSX, Linux, and the BSDs. And even on Windows.
You should actually try it, especially on non-Windows. I've never seen an application written for .NET that works out of the box with Mono on Linux.
Why do the Slashdot editors keep posting InfoWorld links? The submitter's name is even linked to the InfoWorld homepage, so they're just giving free traffic away to the site.
Nope. Sound cards haven't had game ports for years.
The equation in the original post says that, but the post he replied to (incorrectly) says the equation should be different.
It would be missing a colon in that case.
Depends on the authorities. I don't see why Google would be inclined to pay attention to a demand from a municipal government with no regulatory authority or control over it.
Outlook is not the only native email client, you know.