Oh, yeah and I forgot to mention, if you look at the response time for the memory on a lot of "powered by" boards, it's not the same as the official "built by ATI" boards.
My strong advice to anyone that is thinking of getting an ATI is to spend the extra bucks and get yourself the real thing.
Nope. Unfortunately you're wrong. PowerColor's 7500 does not work with any of the available drivers. Buying "Powered by ATI" instead of "Built by ATI" is a complete crapshoot and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the complaints that one hears about ATI are because of these shitty OEM clones. The XFree86 people only work with Built-By-ATI cards and their drivers work _beautifully_ with them. ATI is shooting itself in the foot with the "powered by" stuff.
Huh? It's still rpm (Redhat Package Manager). Admittedly it's a new _version_, Jeff Johnson has been slaving away making this thing kick ass, but it still behaves like rpm.
Now all you have to do is install synaptic and apt4rpm and you've got package-installation and management sewn up!
Hmmm. The site seems to be/.ed at the moment, so there's no way for me to tell if they include archives of the British C64 gaming mag ZZap64, which was a cut above the rest, so here's a link to ZZap64
Myself among them. I will never buy an NVIDIA card as long as their drivers are non-Free. Apart from anything else it means that most major GNU/Linux distribution are going to refuse support because code they can't debug is present in the system. It's just not worth it for me. Matrox and ATI are just fine.
You are correct that NVIDIA distributes binaries only, your companies lawyers are confused. There is no problem with them doing this because their drivers are original works not licensed under the GPL. The only thing that can stop them doing that is if the customers have an ethical objection, and as we've seen a large number don't.
I'm not sure how this is even an issue for your company unless you are not talking about writing your device drivers from scratch, but are instead modifying GPL'ed code with the intent of redistributing it on your hardware. If that's the case then you are legally obliged by the GPL to release the source code for those modifications.
If you're writing your own drivers from scratch then you can do whatever the hell you want with them: it's entirely your own work and you're not stealing from people by taking their GPL'ed work and rebranding it as your own with a few tweaks.
So, where's the issue? Can you clarify exactly what it is that you're doing?
.NET has had this implemented from the word go and what do we get from Red Hat? A hopeless kludge attempting to reverse-engineer the behavior. Linux advocates should stop trying to push compliance with The-Other-OS and develop new strategies instead.
Several German laboratories have already developed innovative foot-pedal interfaces to the kernel and I'd really prefer to see people installing them on their own systems and sending bug reports to the developers.
I'm not sure whether or not increased WiFi ranges are a good thing. This could mean that companies (who are what's being targetted according to the article) will be able to compete for bandwidth over a greater range than ordinary individuals.
Look what happened with Starbucks infringing on a WiFi co-op in Portland. Other companies that wan't to share their signal over a large building and don't particularly care about interfering with the signal outside of that building are sure to implement this technology.
The secret behind the technology is the speed at which the successive impulses are sent -- up to 1,000 Hertz," UCL said in a statement.
Well, I can see that high speed would be essential to this, but what the hell does that have to do with the frequency? Also, is the uniqueness of this project that it's the longest distance that feedback has been attempted over? Because distance surgery / telemedicine has been happening for a while. Or did those earlier attempts not have feedback? I know I attended a demonstration involving localized feedback from a robot using Fast Ethernet over a couple of hundred meters.
Would it be possible to implement a transitional dual scheme to ease people into using it? What I'm thinking of is something like split-DNS where OpenNIC would be queried first to see if the destination host is registered. The fallback would be to use the normal root-servers.
by painting him as a "loose cannon" and "politically naive" is scurrilous. A false binary-opposition is constructed: on the one side the claims of the ICANN monopolists that they are responsible, sober and politically sophisticated and on the other the picture of Auerbach the radical.
The fact is that the ICANN board tried to restrict information that ought to be available to the public let alone an elected board member, the courts found that this was wrong and then the buggers decide to kick him off the board.
Let's get these people under control. It's our friggin internet subsidized with our taxes, populated with our webpages.
If you follow the XML Journal link and look at the "feedback" at the bottom it appears to be the comments that are appearing here on slashdot. Is there some sort of reciprocal exchange of comments going on between the two sites? Is this kosher?
Yeah, but the great thing is they're busy making vim as bloated as emacs, so perhaps there'll be a stalemate in _that_ flamewar! (Don't forget to read the _very_ important information in the last line on the page!).
Thanks for nicely pointing out the main features of the two programs. And for pointing out that they're BOTH GPL'ed now.
For those folks that are saying "what! two whole GPL'ed 3D programs for Linux! what's the need?", take a look at the list here and then tell me there isn't room for a couple more competing GPL'ed programs.
Good luck to both the Blender and Moonlight3D guys.
OK, how about some facts. Can you tell me reasonably accurately how much money you've lost due to your software being pirated? How about how much money Microsoft has lost due to piracy? Is it similar to the amount of money lost by the recording industry due to piracy?
The biggest argument people seem to have for theft of software is that they're only hurting the companies. So why go to jail?
Seems to me that the biggest argument is that there aren't actually losses: the people that steal copies of software are people that don't have the money to purchase all that software in the first place anyway. They were never going to be able to afford the 1 Tb of programs, so how are the corporations losing money?
I want those responsible put in jail, just like vandals and other theft and crime.
Sounds like a waste of my tax dollars just so that you can get your revenge on. I don't see how I'm benefitted by locking up some sysadmin that could continue to do his non-violent crime which involves distributing stolen software to people too poor or stupid to buy their own. I'd rather that my tax dollars were spent on breaking up large software companies that monopolize large areas of my marketplace due to their aggressive exploitation of that patent-system and the court-system. I don't give a flying fuck about some dweebs pirating software. They've been pirating since forever and the industry is still here and making a huge amount of money. If you're looking for a subject for self-righteous outrage take a look at how most of the Worldcom, Enron, GlobalCrossing and other mega-cheats are going to get to continue rooking us and raiding our 401Ks while the media distracts us with bullshit about Iraq.
Dr.Cerff would you like to see an expansion of community-run wireless networks and a concommitant addition of bandwidth to the soon-to-be-crowded 2.4 and 5 GHz "free" bandwidths? (This all assumes that you're not happy with how the internet has become dominated by monopolistic cable companies)
Yeah. I have to confess to being a pedant when I'm in a bad mood, but what really bugs me is trying to make a simple point in fancy language. I was annoyed because I had to spend extra time figuring out what the reviewer meant. He obscured his meaning in order to sound smart.
Linux can render the incredibly lifelike texturing and animation exhibited in "Monsters Inc." and "Titanic", yet it can't even open a simple Word document without formatting errors.
Hmm.. this is an interesting claim. I just opened a couple of Word documents in Abiword with no problem. I also opened them in OpenOffice.org with no problem. Yeah, they were both simple documents without tables in them, but they worked fine.
There are myriad competing, mutually incompatible yet separately inadequate office suites
What exactly do you mean by "incompatible" office suites? If you save documents from them in RTF, or ASCII or HTML or whatever then they work just fine.
and X servers (XFree86, MetroX, XiG).
Again, what exactly do you mean by "incompatible" here? Do you just mean "different"? All that MetroX and XiGraphics offer are extra drivers for cards that haven't been (in a limited number of cases) released as drivers for XFree86 yet. Yet I can definitely export a client display from a machine running MetroX onto an XFree86 server and vice-versa. That's because they both use the Open X Protocol. Hard to see how they could be more compatible.
I hope you'll forgive me if I misread your post, but I smell a dirty great big troll here.
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought it would work. Around how long did it take? I should give it a shot just for the interest factor. Have you thought about using XFce as a lightweight desktop? Anyway, thanks for the info, always good to know what can be actually done.
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Oh, yeah and I forgot to mention, if you look at the response time for the memory on a lot of "powered by" boards, it's not the same as the official "built by ATI" boards.
My strong advice to anyone that is thinking of getting an ATI is to spend the extra bucks and get yourself the real thing.
Nope. Unfortunately you're wrong. PowerColor's 7500 does not work with any of the available drivers. Buying "Powered by ATI" instead of "Built by ATI" is a complete crapshoot and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the complaints that one hears about ATI are because of these shitty OEM clones. The XFree86 people only work with Built-By-ATI cards and their drivers work _beautifully_ with them. ATI is shooting itself in the foot with the "powered by" stuff.
Huh? It's still rpm (Redhat Package Manager). Admittedly it's a new _version_, Jeff Johnson has been slaving away making this thing kick ass, but it still behaves like rpm.
Now all you have to do is install synaptic and apt4rpm and you've got package-installation and management sewn up!
Hmmm. The site seems to be /.ed at the moment, so there's no way for me to tell if they include archives of the British C64 gaming mag ZZap64, which was a cut above the rest, so here's a link to ZZap64
Myself among them. I will never buy an NVIDIA card as long as their drivers are non-Free. Apart from anything else it means that most major GNU/Linux distribution are going to refuse support because code they can't debug is present in the system. It's just not worth it for me. Matrox and ATI are just fine.
You are correct that NVIDIA distributes binaries only, your companies lawyers are confused. There is no problem with them doing this because their drivers are original works not licensed under the GPL. The only thing that can stop them doing that is if the customers have an ethical objection, and as we've seen a large number don't.
I'm not sure how this is even an issue for your company unless you are not talking about writing your device drivers from scratch, but are instead modifying GPL'ed code with the intent of redistributing it on your hardware. If that's the case then you are legally obliged by the GPL to release the source code for those modifications.
If you're writing your own drivers from scratch then you can do whatever the hell you want with them: it's entirely your own work and you're not stealing from people by taking their GPL'ed work and rebranding it as your own with a few tweaks.
So, where's the issue? Can you clarify exactly what it is that you're doing?
.NET has had this implemented from the word go and what do we get from Red Hat? A hopeless kludge attempting to reverse-engineer the behavior. Linux advocates should stop trying to push compliance with The-Other-OS and develop new strategies instead.
Several German laboratories have already developed innovative foot-pedal interfaces to the kernel and I'd really prefer to see people installing them on their own systems and sending bug reports to the developers.
I'm not sure whether or not increased WiFi ranges are a good thing. This could mean that companies (who are what's being targetted according to the article) will be able to compete for bandwidth over a greater range than ordinary individuals.
Look what happened with Starbucks infringing on a WiFi co-op in Portland. Other companies that wan't to share their signal over a large building and don't particularly care about interfering with the signal outside of that building are sure to implement this technology.
Durex? Doesn't that help protect against the transmission of viruses? Fsck yeah! I'll take one of those!
Ah, thank you. Sampling frequency increases the granularity of the feedback then. Makes sense.
Would it be possible to implement a transitional dual scheme to ease people into using it? What I'm thinking of is something like split-DNS where OpenNIC would be queried first to see if the destination host is registered. The fallback would be to use the normal root-servers.
by painting him as a "loose cannon" and "politically naive" is scurrilous. A false binary-opposition is constructed: on the one side the claims of the ICANN monopolists that they are responsible, sober and politically sophisticated and on the other the picture of Auerbach the radical.
The fact is that the ICANN board tried to restrict information that ought to be available to the public let alone an elected board member, the courts found that this was wrong and then the buggers decide to kick him off the board.
Let's get these people under control. It's our friggin internet subsidized with our taxes, populated with our webpages.
If you follow the XML Journal link and look at the "feedback" at the bottom it appears to be the comments that are appearing here on slashdot. Is there some sort of reciprocal exchange of comments going on between the two sites? Is this kosher?
Have you actually done this or are you speculating that it _should_ work this way? Because it's pretty cool if you did get it to work.
Yeah, but the great thing is they're busy making vim as bloated as emacs, so perhaps there'll be a stalemate in _that_ flamewar! (Don't forget to read the _very_ important information in the last line on the page!).
Thanks for nicely pointing out the main features of the two programs. And for pointing out that they're BOTH GPL'ed now.
For those folks that are saying "what! two whole GPL'ed 3D programs for Linux! what's the need?", take a look at the list here and then tell me there isn't room for a couple more competing GPL'ed programs.
Good luck to both the Blender and Moonlight3D guys.
It's not retroactive. So if the new Uber-GPL license were non-acceptable to you and to everyone else then they could just .... not use it!
Seems to me that the biggest argument is that there aren't actually losses: the people that steal copies of software are people that don't have the money to purchase all that software in the first place anyway. They were never going to be able to afford the 1 Tb of programs, so how are the corporations losing money?
Sounds like a waste of my tax dollars just so that you can get your revenge on. I don't see how I'm benefitted by locking up some sysadmin that could continue to do his non-violent crime which involves distributing stolen software to people too poor or stupid to buy their own. I'd rather that my tax dollars were spent on breaking up large software companies that monopolize large areas of my marketplace due to their aggressive exploitation of that patent-system and the court-system. I don't give a flying fuck about some dweebs pirating software. They've been pirating since forever and the industry is still here and making a huge amount of money. If you're looking for a subject for self-righteous outrage take a look at how most of the Worldcom, Enron, GlobalCrossing and other mega-cheats are going to get to continue rooking us and raiding our 401Ks while the media distracts us with bullshit about Iraq.Sort of like a man swimming in a sewer claiming that he feels dirty because he's got a turd in his hand isn't it?
Dr.Cerff would you like to see an expansion of community-run wireless networks and a concommitant addition of bandwidth to the soon-to-be-crowded 2.4 and 5 GHz "free" bandwidths? (This all assumes that you're not happy with how the internet has become dominated by monopolistic cable companies)
Yeah. I have to confess to being a pedant when I'm in a bad mood, but what really bugs me is trying to make a simple point in fancy language.
I was annoyed because I had to spend extra time figuring out what the reviewer meant. He obscured his meaning in order to sound smart.
Hmm.. this is an interesting claim. I just opened a couple of Word documents in Abiword with no problem. I also opened them in OpenOffice.org with no problem. Yeah, they were both simple documents without tables in them, but they worked fine.
What exactly do you mean by "incompatible" office suites? If you save documents from them in RTF, or ASCII or HTML or whatever then they work just fine.
Again, what exactly do you mean by "incompatible" here? Do you just mean "different"? All that MetroX and XiGraphics offer are extra drivers for cards that haven't been (in a limited number of cases) released as drivers for XFree86 yet. Yet I can definitely export a client display from a machine running MetroX onto an XFree86 server and vice-versa. That's because they both use the Open X Protocol. Hard to see how they could be more compatible.
I hope you'll forgive me if I misread your post, but I smell a dirty great big troll here.
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought it would work. Around how long did it take? I should give it a shot just for the interest factor. Have you thought about using XFce as a lightweight desktop? Anyway, thanks for the info, always good to know what can be actually done.