The only thing I would like to see is a free software/free driver challenge between the two.
Well that would be a walkover because nVidia doesn't play in that category. Whatever you may have heard of the Nouveau driver, it is not done by nVidia, they don't want the project, they don't help them with documentation, specifications or answer questions. It is not in any shape or form nVidia's project.
The only thing nVidia has open sourced - and even that is arguable since it was obfuscated - is an extremely simple 2D only driver, which is in maintenance mode and will never support Fermi+ graphics cards, DisplayPort or any form of acceleration. Now they ask you to limp on the VESA driver until you can install their proprietary driver.
As a user, it doesn't matter who wrote the driver. All that matters is how well it works, with or without the support of nVidia.
To be honest I don't get the Nouveau project at all, fair enough maybe these people have nVidia cards they want to make work but it looks like mission impossible. At least with AMD you do have the company's specs and backing and still it seems a very hard problem to solve. And you could work on all the common issues in the open source stack, of which there are plenty...
What makes you think it's "mission impossible"? Just take a look at recent 3D benchmarks; Nouveau's 3D performance is already competitive with the nVidia blob on virtually all recent cards except the very high-end ones.
Sure, it's far from having feature parity with the blob in most areas. I'm aware that it has stability issues on some hardware. But its mission of usable drivers for nVidia hardware is far from impossible - the progress that has already been made is impressive, and it's getting better very fast.
Is Greek still called Greek in Greece, or do they just called it language?
Is English still called English in [insert English-speaking country], or do they just call it language?
"Greek" in Greek is "". (Note: the preview of this post does not show any of the Greek characters in the quotes, so if you don't see them either, it is just another case of Slashdot 3.0's extreme bugginess.)
That's a somewhat FUD'ish response. There are plenty of BSD users who contribute back. I'd say that one advantage is that you don't have a 3rd party (FSF) dictating terms to you, in particular a 3rd party that is on a quasi-religious campaign. I know the FSF claims otherwise, but they are not the free'er license.
The FSF does not control or even sponsor the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel is the only component that is replaced in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. As the name would imply, the FSF-controlled GNU software is still there.
Okay, first of all. Things in science are not "proven" in the sense that there is some point when you say "Well, that's 100% positive". As much as any theory can be proven evolution has been proven.
Secondly, "it's still a theory" indicates a woeful ignorance of what a scientific theory is. Theory, in science, isn't some wild-assed guess. It is well supported by multiple streams of evidence. What you're committing is the etymological fallacy, conflating two different definitions of a word.
Defining science as its common usage, "branches of study that relate to phenomena of the material universe and their laws" [Wikipedia], evolution is not a scientific theory.
It is intended to answer the question of how life came to exist, which is a historical question (how did this come about) rather than a scientific one (how does the universe work). The fact that some science is used in explaining the theory of evolution does not make it a scientific theory.
I wonder if Google and Ask utilize some form of question parsing in their searches. After all, a name like "Ask.com" simply begs for users to type their searches in the form of a question, and I wouldn't be surprised if many Google searches are typed that way too.
It's likely that they see themselves as losing money from homebrew as well, since an important part of their revenue from the PS3 is extracting licensing fees for every piece of software published on the platform.
It's already been done for the original repositories; they've been uploaded to Gitorious, which is hosted outside of the US.
A remaining problem, though, is that all forks of the repositories were also taken down. Those weren't uploaded to Gitorious, and there were too many of them to count.
I don't know much about Prison Planet, but I can nonetheless tell that your argument is completely flawed.
Why is it that Anon. Cowards also resemble KKK members I've spoken to?
(i.e. Hate filled and desiring to destroy freedom for people they hate.)
NOBODY deserves to be cnesored just because of their political views. Bu;t then if you had lived in 1930s Germany and watche dyour Jeswish neighbors carted saway, you'd probably say "Those people are stupid! They deserve it! Siloence them!!!!"
Anokn. Coward == KKK.
As the Anonymous Coward already pointed out, Prison Planet is not being "censored" because of its political views. People actually read Google News - if Prison Planet material is BS, there is no reason for it to be on Google News, which is intended to be a reliable source for news. And the AC already pointed out the flaw in your YouTube "censorship" logic - you violate the TOS, your YouTube account is removed; nothing new there.
Comparing someone to the KKK is not a way to refute an argument, especially when your comparison is completely baseless. It's a way to be a troll.
And that should be considered a serious problem, because even high school students who do take their high school education seriously are adversely affected by how not seriously everyone around them takes it. And that factor is affected generally by how rich and/or white your neighborhood is.
In addition to that, high school students who take their education seriously are affected adversely by teachers who don't. There are many high school teachers who have an unjustifiably low opinion of their students. They're convinced that high school students are mindless dummies who are capable of no intelligent activity beyond regurgitating information - and acting on this theory, they eliminate any element of actual teaching/learning from their course material in favor of a "here is information, you must memorize, you must pass test" approach. That, in turn, interferes with the education of the students who actually do care.
These are often the same teachers that demand complete respect from students while giving none in return. They don't realize that they don't even deserve respect.
From my experience and observations, most high school teachers are not like this, but the above profile does describe a minority significant enough to interfere with the quality of education. And that's not even taking into consideration the teachers (at least in the US) who base their curricula on the contents of horribly inadequate state-administered tests.
Honestly, the BEST thing you could have done for them would have been to deface their accounts, disclosing that they were warned in advance but "too stupid" to take the threat seriously.
No, that's the worst thing anyone could have done. Trying to "educate" random strangers by defacing their property and interfering with their lives reeks of arrogance. Why do you think you know what's best for other people better than they do, and what gives you the right to force your opinion on them?
If you deface their accounts and they lose their jobs because of it, I doubt they'll be very thankful.
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The only thing I would like to see is a free software/free driver challenge between the two.
Well that would be a walkover because nVidia doesn't play in that category. Whatever you may have heard of the Nouveau driver, it is not done by nVidia, they don't want the project, they don't help them with documentation, specifications or answer questions. It is not in any shape or form nVidia's project.
The only thing nVidia has open sourced - and even that is arguable since it was obfuscated - is an extremely simple 2D only driver, which is in maintenance mode and will never support Fermi+ graphics cards, DisplayPort or any form of acceleration. Now they ask you to limp on the VESA driver until you can install their proprietary driver.
As a user, it doesn't matter who wrote the driver. All that matters is how well it works, with or without the support of nVidia.
To be honest I don't get the Nouveau project at all, fair enough maybe these people have nVidia cards they want to make work but it looks like mission impossible. At least with AMD you do have the company's specs and backing and still it seems a very hard problem to solve. And you could work on all the common issues in the open source stack, of which there are plenty...
What makes you think it's "mission impossible"? Just take a look at recent 3D benchmarks; Nouveau's 3D performance is already competitive with the nVidia blob on virtually all recent cards except the very high-end ones.
Sure, it's far from having feature parity with the blob in most areas. I'm aware that it has stability issues on some hardware. But its mission of usable drivers for nVidia hardware is far from impossible - the progress that has already been made is impressive, and it's getting better very fast.
Stop being so pessimistic. This is a very good thing if you look at it from a different perspective: "RIAA doubled mankind's GDP with a single lawsuit
That wouldn't affect GDP. GDP measures the monetary value of final goods and services produced, not the amount of money transferred between parties.
The White House is a building. It represents the executive branch of the US federal government.
Buildings don't have opinions, so which part of the executive branch is pushing for this?
secret static void main(String[] args) {
throw new SecuirtyException("sorry, spelling is not for the public");
}
FTFY
The MPEG-LA is not actually affiliated with MPEG or ISO.
Is Greek still called Greek in Greece, or do they just called it language?
Is English still called English in [insert English-speaking country], or do they just call it language?
"Greek" in Greek is "". (Note: the preview of this post does not show any of the Greek characters in the quotes, so if you don't see them either, it is just another case of Slashdot 3.0's extreme bugginess.)
Come to think of it I am not sure why George W. Bush is relevant, I'm pretty sure he lost the last election and the US has a President called Obama.
I'm pretty sure he didn't even run in the last election since US Presidents are limited to two terms.
Seriously. Where the hell are these people who immediately empty their recycle bins every time they delete a file. That's completely fucking nuts.
Here. I often empty my Trash (not using Windows) immediately after deleting a file. And yes, it is nuts.
That's a somewhat FUD'ish response. There are plenty of BSD users who contribute back. I'd say that one advantage is that you don't have a 3rd party (FSF) dictating terms to you, in particular a 3rd party that is on a quasi-religious campaign. I know the FSF claims otherwise, but they are not the free'er license.
The FSF does not control or even sponsor the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel is the only component that is replaced in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. As the name would imply, the FSF-controlled GNU software is still there.
Okay, first of all. Things in science are not "proven" in the sense that there is some point when you say "Well, that's 100% positive". As much as any theory can be proven evolution has been proven.
Secondly, "it's still a theory" indicates a woeful ignorance of what a scientific theory is. Theory, in science, isn't some wild-assed guess. It is well supported by multiple streams of evidence. What you're committing is the etymological fallacy, conflating two different definitions of a word.
Defining science as its common usage, "branches of study that relate to phenomena of the material universe and their laws" [Wikipedia], evolution is not a scientific theory.
It is intended to answer the question of how life came to exist, which is a historical question (how did this come about) rather than a scientific one (how does the universe work). The fact that some science is used in explaining the theory of evolution does not make it a scientific theory.
I wonder if Google and Ask utilize some form of question parsing in their searches. After all, a name like "Ask.com" simply begs for users to type their searches in the form of a question, and I wouldn't be surprised if many Google searches are typed that way too.
It's likely that they see themselves as losing money from homebrew as well, since an important part of their revenue from the PS3 is extracting licensing fees for every piece of software published on the platform.
It's already been done for the original repositories; they've been uploaded to Gitorious, which is hosted outside of the US. A remaining problem, though, is that all forks of the repositories were also taken down. Those weren't uploaded to Gitorious, and there were too many of them to count.
On the other hand, as a response to Sony's takedown notice, they started posting all of their DMCA takedown notices publicly. That's what enabled me to find this information in the first place.
...so, where are the fully open-source OpenGL library + drivers that has more features than (or even just feature parity with) DirectX 11?
Oh, I see.
Where is the fully open-source DirectX 11 library + drivers that has feature parity with anything? (d3d1x lacks working drivers, so don't mention it.)
Oh, I see.
Why is it that Anon. Cowards also resemble KKK members I've spoken to? (i.e. Hate filled and desiring to destroy freedom for people they hate.)
NOBODY deserves to be cnesored just because of their political views. Bu;t then if you had lived in 1930s Germany and watche dyour Jeswish neighbors carted saway, you'd probably say "Those people are stupid! They deserve it! Siloence them!!!!"
Anokn. Coward == KKK.
As the Anonymous Coward already pointed out, Prison Planet is not being "censored" because of its political views. People actually read Google News - if Prison Planet material is BS, there is no reason for it to be on Google News, which is intended to be a reliable source for news. And the AC already pointed out the flaw in your YouTube "censorship" logic - you violate the TOS, your YouTube account is removed; nothing new there.
Comparing someone to the KKK is not a way to refute an argument, especially when your comparison is completely baseless. It's a way to be a troll.
Concocation? You mean concatenation?
And that should be considered a serious problem, because even high school students who do take their high school education seriously are adversely affected by how not seriously everyone around them takes it. And that factor is affected generally by how rich and/or white your neighborhood is.
In addition to that, high school students who take their education seriously are affected adversely by teachers who don't. There are many high school teachers who have an unjustifiably low opinion of their students. They're convinced that high school students are mindless dummies who are capable of no intelligent activity beyond regurgitating information - and acting on this theory, they eliminate any element of actual teaching/learning from their course material in favor of a "here is information, you must memorize, you must pass test" approach. That, in turn, interferes with the education of the students who actually do care. These are often the same teachers that demand complete respect from students while giving none in return. They don't realize that they don't even deserve respect. From my experience and observations, most high school teachers are not like this, but the above profile does describe a minority significant enough to interfere with the quality of education. And that's not even taking into consideration the teachers (at least in the US) who base their curricula on the contents of horribly inadequate state-administered tests.
Honestly, the BEST thing you could have done for them would have been to deface their accounts, disclosing that they were warned in advance but "too stupid" to take the threat seriously.
No, that's the worst thing anyone could have done. Trying to "educate" random strangers by defacing their property and interfering with their lives reeks of arrogance. Why do you think you know what's best for other people better than they do, and what gives you the right to force your opinion on them?
If you deface their accounts and they lose their jobs because of it, I doubt they'll be very thankful.