Yeah, B&N didn't have any licensing "rebates" to loose. The OEM license for companies like Dell is in the order of 20$, if they had to pay the consumer market place for it, it would completely eat their profit margins.
As long as they are Open or Free systems you'll be able to create ARAdBlock... Just boycott any non Open and tell your friends and family to do the same.
Stop talking about AR as if it was ubiquitous as the WWW. There is a handful of AR apps that don't interact with each-other, just don't use the ad-ridden ones.
I'm using HD 4850 together with Xorg 1.10.3.901, mesa 7.11 and Linux 3.0. YMMV, but I've been using this (or with a bit earlier versions) setup for the past few months with dual-head setup and have had absolutely no performance problems as long as I stick to 2D (even with KDE4 composing). On my work machine I have an integrated AMD card and have used it with OSS drivers for the past year or more, there were occasional performance problems in the beginning but nothing major, now it's practically flawless, but it's using only two 1280x1024 screens. Even the mouse cursor corruption looks like is finally gone. Window resize is snappy, moving is instantaneous. There are only occasional rendering artifacts with resizing windows (past window content is shown), but it disappears as soon as the window is re-drawn, so it's at most 2, 3 frames at 60fps.
I'd say that the OSS AMD drivers are at least on par with Intel GPU drivers now, feature- and stability-wise. If you don't play 3D games on Linux, don't even look at Catalyst drivers, the headaches they bring are just not worth it.
There have been few additional AMD cards (mostly integrated ones or 3-4 years old) that I used with OSS drivers and haven't had any performance or configuration problems, but I used them only for few hours at most and in single head, low-res setups so can't really vouch for them.
Open AMD drivers are actually usable: KDE4 composing, XV acceleration, not to mention 2D performance.
In fact, I'd say that the OSS drivers have (or at least had 8 months ago when I still struggled with fglrx) better 2D performance, If you have a 4096x1536 desktop you could actually count the seconds it took to move a window. So I'd say that 2D performance is actually more important than 3D performance. If I want to game I run the gaming OS anyway (for 3D intensive stuff).
What is this "20-100GB" you're talking about? It certainly aren't speeds, 10Gbps kit is expensive, 100Gbps is even more so, let alone Internet connection this fast.
You wouldn't be talking about limits too, in Europe they are non-existent in wired connections...
And you have little probability of dealing with MS Office Macros? Hell, writing conditional formulas in spreadsheets!
You have bigger probability of needing programming-related skills than the mentioned Bohr model of the atom. Programming is just as useful in today's world as mathematics, it should be compulsory. Kids don't need to know how to handle pointers, they should understand boolean logic.
Well, I still think that most scientists provided with extra money would spend it on better instruments, hardware or more interns (i.e. not strictly necessary but still useful stuff). Not on Ferraris, mansions, penthouses or just more lobbying to get even more money.
I doubt people would be content with 300x200 monochrome screen in their laptop.
The biggest power drains in laptops are the screens and hard disks. The latter is fixed with SSDs, the former not so much. Though I think it would be actually possible to create a sub 50mW computer if you used e-Ink display, SSD storage and CPU from the article.
Doesn't change the fact, that a). you have the compiler "in your hands" for all of those platforms, and b). those were closed platforms since their beginning.
Sorry, but reading your reply actually made me like you. Must be my highly gestated Asperger's or something else I obviously have.
There's a difference between putting an ad in local newspaper or in private profile and placing a globally writable comment section without moderation. It's not like he was famous even in its local society, let alone to people around the world. That's demanding attention - in harsh words - whoring.
Maybe the Internet desensitized me but I can't see this as anything else but parents trying to make publicity around their kid. That's quite typical, only it's despicable to me considering the kid is dead.
Next thing we well be putting people in prison because they didn't post positive comments on Yet Another Teenage Girl Sweet Duckface Photo...
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Yeah, B&N didn't have any licensing "rebates" to loose. The OEM license for companies like Dell is in the order of 20$, if they had to pay the consumer market place for it, it would completely eat their profit margins.
Not to mention, it bring MS more money than its own Windows Phone business...
Because you can't legally drive the company to the ground with litigation costs alone... Oh wait, you can
As long as they are Open or Free systems you'll be able to create ARAdBlock... Just boycott any non Open and tell your friends and family to do the same.
Stop talking about AR as if it was ubiquitous as the WWW. There is a handful of AR apps that don't interact with each-other, just don't use the ad-ridden ones.
There haven't been even a single 2D performance test in The Fine Article. It all was about 3D performance, power draw and CPU usage.
I'm using HD 4850 together with Xorg 1.10.3.901, mesa 7.11 and Linux 3.0. YMMV, but I've been using this (or with a bit earlier versions) setup for the past few months with dual-head setup and have had absolutely no performance problems as long as I stick to 2D (even with KDE4 composing). On my work machine I have an integrated AMD card and have used it with OSS drivers for the past year or more, there were occasional performance problems in the beginning but nothing major, now it's practically flawless, but it's using only two 1280x1024 screens. Even the mouse cursor corruption looks like is finally gone. Window resize is snappy, moving is instantaneous. There are only occasional rendering artifacts with resizing windows (past window content is shown), but it disappears as soon as the window is re-drawn, so it's at most 2, 3 frames at 60fps.
I'd say that the OSS AMD drivers are at least on par with Intel GPU drivers now, feature- and stability-wise. If you don't play 3D games on Linux, don't even look at Catalyst drivers, the headaches they bring are just not worth it.
There have been few additional AMD cards (mostly integrated ones or 3-4 years old) that I used with OSS drivers and haven't had any performance or configuration problems, but I used them only for few hours at most and in single head, low-res setups so can't really vouch for them.
Open AMD drivers are actually usable: KDE4 composing, XV acceleration, not to mention 2D performance.
In fact, I'd say that the OSS drivers have (or at least had 8 months ago when I still struggled with fglrx) better 2D performance, If you have a 4096x1536 desktop you could actually count the seconds it took to move a window. So I'd say that 2D performance is actually more important than 3D performance. If I want to game I run the gaming OS anyway (for 3D intensive stuff).
Showdowns between C*Os and boards of directors? take-all-my-money.jpg
Though I'm quite sure that it will be regular employees only, even not lawyers.
If you'd make high quality stuff and cheaper than people would come to your country and buy it. (even to later sell it on eBay with an additional fee)
And then fiscal year end will become a Red Letter Day...
There are always ways around the system. The bigger the possible savings the more money you have to pay for the leech^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers.
In the end the only people with more money are the lawyers
Where's the popcorn when I need it?! Ah! Here it is! Now the show may begin!
What is this "20-100GB" you're talking about? It certainly aren't speeds, 10Gbps kit is expensive, 100Gbps is even more so, let alone Internet connection this fast.
You wouldn't be talking about limits too, in Europe they are non-existent in wired connections...
If only software could display different GUI depending on set options...
And you have little probability of dealing with MS Office Macros? Hell, writing conditional formulas in spreadsheets!
You have bigger probability of needing programming-related skills than the mentioned Bohr model of the atom. Programming is just as useful in today's world as mathematics, it should be compulsory. Kids don't need to know how to handle pointers, they should understand boolean logic.
All CA certificates can sign certificates for any and all domains. There's nothing that can stop them in X.509 from this.
Well, I still think that most scientists provided with extra money would spend it on better instruments, hardware or more interns (i.e. not strictly necessary but still useful stuff). Not on Ferraris, mansions, penthouses or just more lobbying to get even more money.
I doubt people would be content with 300x200 monochrome screen in their laptop.
The biggest power drains in laptops are the screens and hard disks. The latter is fixed with SSDs, the former not so much. Though I think it would be actually possible to create a sub 50mW computer if you used e-Ink display, SSD storage and CPU from the article.
Doesn't change the fact, that a). you have the compiler "in your hands" for all of those platforms, and b). those were closed platforms since their beginning.
It's not file copy, it's iperf, it generates data (all zeros).
Yeah, yeah, because all the small problems with Vista DP were fixed in RTM, oh wait...
Sorry, but reading your reply actually made me like you. Must be my highly gestated Asperger's or something else I obviously have.
There's a difference between putting an ad in local newspaper or in private profile and placing a globally writable comment section without moderation. It's not like he was famous even in its local society, let alone to people around the world. That's demanding attention - in harsh words - whoring.
Maybe the Internet desensitized me but I can't see this as anything else but parents trying to make publicity around their kid. That's quite typical, only it's despicable to me considering the kid is dead.
Next thing we well be putting people in prison because they didn't post positive comments on Yet Another Teenage Girl Sweet Duckface Photo...
It has already been written in a portable manner, it's Linux FFS!
Linux uses exactly the same file system drivers when it's running on s390, x86 and ARM.
Mplayer and ffdshow can be compiled on about 24 different architectures!
I'd suggest lowering the intake of Microsoft marketing department sewage and their idea of "portability".