nvidia can always re-write it from scratch. You know you'd think being a computer company they'd find or be able to hiring someone, right?
now compare linux, and Free software, and this so called "protection racket" to what it takes to develop for other platforms such as microsoft or apple, or any of the game consoles and get back to me on "racket".
Or its a racket that we prevent them from running their own racket?
wait, the open source community does write things themselves.
It'd just be easier if it came from the manufacture of the hardware, as the community doesn't have full specs on cards that are NEEDED to write the drivers.
And for the record, the open source nvidia drivers are a fuckton more stable than nvidia's proprietary binaries. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ and they hit a 1.0 stable release recently.
"You can always write your own code." The original topic is that nVidia can't use GPL code in their proprietary drivers, and now they are bitching we are not sharing. irony?
If nvidia doen't want to release their drivers GPL, they always write their own code.
and then will turn around and repeat the FUD about how their closed source project is better, while relying on open code.
the GPL prevents corporate smack talkers from being hypocrites.
it also allows for the "open source" model of business, because instead of suing to keep people from copying you, you can sue for the right to use their innovation. Hence competition happens at a much faster rate, and a bunch of smaller companies can all work together and sell the same product of which they only develop pieces.
"...because it won't, and never will, and because this is the Linux community attempting to force Nvidia to develop open-source drivers"
laughable. we keep on hearing how open source/free softwar developers are incompetitant nin-compoop basement dwellers. Except when corporations want to use Free software in their closed source programs, then its the Free software authors making breakthroughs who are wrong. See if these closed source lackies are so better, why don't they just re-implement the ideas from scratch like FOSS does with priopretary software.
"which is just about the exact opposite of freedom". The only "freedom" we are taking away from nvidia is the freedom to take other people's freedom away. Irony?
What needs to happen is nvidia needs to open source its drivers, like intel does. Intel drivers are far more stable. even open source nouveau drivers are far more stable(albiet feature incomplete, poor 3d performance, no power management, no OpenCL support). The very least is nVidia can release the specs to the noveau team so they can make a feature complete driver.
The first time I heard him on the radio he was complaining about how the tuna hasn't tasted as good since the liberals took the dolphins out of it. He even pantimime'd a little girl
in high pitched badly pantimimed female voice: "mommy this tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to"
in deeper comedically bad feminine voice "well sweetie, thats because the liberals took the dolphins out of it"
Al Gore was a jackass who wanted to protect our children from the evil's of rock music and other non-conformist types.
He and clinton tried banning encryption in 1996 because "terrorists" used it. They all came out in support of the DMCA, which was the SOPA/PIPA of the late 1990s, and other draconnian anti-nerd anti-internet bullshit
I was on/. durring their regime, and I can say niether Gore nor Clinton were spoken of fondly. Nor were any of them remebered as internet heros.
A few of them, you made sense, but I have to point out:
* The FDA has been effective at ensuring that we can buy pharmaceuticals and know that we're getting what we think we're getting instead of quack remedies. Tell that to all the people hooked on psychaitric and pain meds taking recommended doses.
"* The FCC does an excellent job of preventing one radio or TV station from interfering with the broadcasts of another." The also do a fine job keeping independent media off the air. They also do a fine job of censoring broadcasting. They do a fine job in enforcing corporate hegemony on the airwaves. Federalist Complaint Center indeed.
"* The NHTSA does a good job of ensuring that you can drive down an Interstate Highway and be close to certain you won't hit a giant pothole or something and wreck just because of road conditions." Great job on this too. US highways are on par with that of Iraq. No serious, I've been on the roads in both countries. Iraq has the excuse that most of those giant potholes are from bombs exploiding.
"* The VA demonstrably provides more health care bang for the buck than any other system in the US." until they loose your paperwork. Ask any vet how great the VA is.
weren't you the same guy who said that Bill Clinton and Al Gore were great for the internet?
"Grimm, who is the target of a federal investigation involving campaign fundraising" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78751.html
"Linux, an open-source operating system, was installed on Grimm's computers, erasing the hard drive contents, which included polling and voter identification data."
As said earilier it was probably an attempt to cover up data theft, particularly in relation to above, just in time for election season.
As a former goon, and former goonfleet pilot I can say how tightknit that
1. something awful is 2. goonfleet in particular was.
I am still in shock and disbelief that both get into the news, and vile rat will be deeply missed.
Some back story, before there was 4chan, there was something awful. Goons used to do pranks and raids (far more mild that what 4chan/anonymous eventually became). Goons became named "Goons" because they were Lowtax's "goons" who'd invade forums and crash websites. But there were no LOIC, or any other tools. it was just using the/. effect with malice, e.g. hitting the reload button on a site you didn't like until the pipes clogged, at the same time as every other goon. Back in the day, it was very feasible to clog down the low-rent juggalo, furry, pedo, and other stupid sites somethingawful would target. They also asked eachother for advice. traded stories, made confessions, trolled eachother. There was "goon justice", when goons fucked up a pedophile, scammer, spammer, or other internet lowlife. The also did photoshop contests, made memes, and trolled eachother really hard.
There were also pranks, such as habo hotel, and the like.
The Forums "Goons" had a general dislike for the rest of the internet, and would play internet games with other goons, because they disliked the general population of gamers at the time. Goonfleet stuck out because of how harsh the game was, and how goons when from harrassing people in game, to becoming a serious angry force hell bent on serious stellar conquest. EVE is a game where everyone is a ruthless bastard hell bent on conquest, and people fucked with the goons, they pushed back harder. They kept to themselves and disliked outsiders, and took a dim view on the status quo of the EVE eliete(poopsocking pubbies). Goons made a break for power in 2006 and I am proud to say I was there. Other alliances had players with far more skill points(like level), who where more powerful, but goons had numbers, excellent organization, and teamwork. There was a profound sense of "goon nationalism" in the game that we were out to stake our claim and challenge the status quo. leaders had charisma, and leadership skills, but not as much in game skill points. We bucked the pecking order in favor of our own. We let anyone from Something Awful in, while rejecting the most seasoned non-goon EVE players.
The world hated us, but as goons we reveled in their hatred, and it made us closer, stronger, more determined. We had the numbers and were far far far more ruthless than the worst the game had to offer. EVE is not just played online, its played over instanat message, cell phones, text messages, and even in the real world. When we allied with the Russians, we sent a real life delegation to Russia to visit them in person, and they sent one to NY, to shore up in game ties.
We upset some major long standing alliances who had publicly gone on EVE TV to bash us.(Lokta Voltera, Vertas Imortalis) to bash us and our antics. We went on to terminate them with prejudice.
EVE got serious just about the same time goons were almost at the height of their in game power.
Somewhere around 2005, when the internet started getting really "serious" and pranks and raids started to have legal conotations, site founder, lowtax put a halt to raids and pranks. The sense of community remained. But just a reminder before "Anonymous" was "Leigon", we were "40 thousand screaming goons"
RIP VIle Rat. Here is a speech remedial made on teamspeak before the epic battle of XZH-, of which I was a defender. I recorded this as I listened to.
open source projects stay in beta as long as need be, and don't rush to ship 1.0 or major releases until ready.
The good news for us, is that they allow the community to help ironing out the bugs, which for many don't show up until long repeated usage. The more people there are to report failures, the better.
compared this with commerical software. Especially microsoft. They release.0 versions long before they are ready because they release cycles and deadlines.
OpenSSL spent 15 years before a 1.0 release. Noveau almost 10.
I think its a sign of many long standing projects maturing, and that linux is ready for prime time.
Set up your own VPN stateside, and work from there.
I think its the only real legimate way.
Using personal identifiable information through TOR to clearnet is a horrible idea, because of mallaicious exit nodes. TOR is great for anonymous browsing and research.
Setting up your own VPN stateside you exit to clearnet on a network you know is friendly. I think the chineese government will be less likely to mess with you this way. Given that many companies use VPNs this way, its should be very easy to explain this as business as usual.
no one cared about apple before they started threatening people with law suits, squashing tinkerers rights(jailbreakers), or otherwise trying to dictate to the rest of us who are outside their little cult how we program or use our devices.
When they started suing people, thats when we cared. Cause and Effect.
Far more appropriate anyway. Far more terrifying do an image search for "steve balmer", and the guy has a look on his face like he's about to kill you.
I don't think he smiles, except in a great mischeivious smile like his about to kill you smile.
Back when he was VP in the 1990s, he was the one responsible for most of the FUD and disinformation anyway. Now this horrible piece of failure is at the helm.
American Celebrities and their big media handlers rush to support punk rockers locked up in Russia.
After spending 30+ years trying to crush punk rock in the states in everyway imaginable. Many punk rockers got far worse treatment HERE for FAR LESS than what pussy riot is getting today.
With exception to users of massive networks that have justification for their Class A and Bs, we need to recind ownership of unsued class A and Bs, or in case of partial use, let them keep using what they have already.
We need to split partially used Class As (0-126) into Class Bs and Cs into unused class Bs and Cs for redistribution.
Since the advent of subnets, classful routing is unneccary and outdated.
Being a programmer is nothing more than being able to memorize the basics of flow control, learn new langauges, while using and constantly reffering to a refrence guide, and rote memorization of a few basic commands and techniques.
Oh its really easy to just be a programmer.
The real question is:
What does it take to be a good programmer? Or at least someone who codes at the bare minimum talent level that effort is not entirely wasted and foward progress is still being being made?
That is someone who in addition to the above, needs innovation, critical thinking skills, ingenunity, and the ability to re-write the rule book when and if appropriate.
Slashdot Mirror
If copyrights are done with, GPL is obsolete.
where are mod points when you need them +1 good sir
No one is forcing anyone to use DMA-BUF
nvidia can always re-write it from scratch. You know you'd think being a computer company they'd find or be able to hiring someone, right?
now compare linux, and Free software, and this so called "protection racket" to what it takes to develop for other platforms such as microsoft or apple, or any of the game consoles and get back to me on "racket".
Or its a racket that we prevent them from running their own racket?
wait, the open source community does write things themselves.
It'd just be easier if it came from the manufacture of the hardware, as the community doesn't have full specs on cards that are NEEDED to write the drivers.
And for the record, the open source nvidia drivers are a fuckton more stable than nvidia's proprietary binaries.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ and they hit a 1.0 stable release recently.
"You can always write your own code."
The original topic is that nVidia can't use GPL code in their proprietary drivers, and now they are bitching we are not sharing. irony?
If nvidia doen't want to release their drivers GPL, they always write their own code.
and then will turn around and repeat the FUD about how their closed source project is better, while relying on open code.
the GPL prevents corporate smack talkers from being hypocrites.
it also allows for the "open source" model of business, because instead of suing to keep people from copying you, you can sue for the right to use their innovation. Hence competition happens at a much faster rate, and a bunch of smaller companies can all work together and sell the same product of which they only develop pieces.
"...because it won't, and never will, and because this is the Linux community attempting to force Nvidia to develop open-source drivers"
laughable. we keep on hearing how open source/free softwar developers are incompetitant nin-compoop basement dwellers. Except when corporations want to use Free software in their closed source programs, then its the Free software authors making breakthroughs who are wrong. See if these closed source lackies are so better, why don't they just re-implement the ideas from scratch like FOSS does with priopretary software.
"which is just about the exact opposite of freedom".
The only "freedom" we are taking away from nvidia is the freedom to take other people's freedom away. Irony?
What needs to happen is nvidia needs to open source its drivers, like intel does. Intel drivers are far more stable. even open source nouveau drivers are far more stable(albiet feature incomplete, poor 3d performance, no power management, no OpenCL support). The very least is nVidia can release the specs to the noveau team so they can make a feature complete driver.
also, stewart's audience knows this.
I am pretty sure limbaugh knows this.
In fact he can be quite funny.
The first time I heard him on the radio he was complaining about how the tuna hasn't tasted as good since the liberals took the dolphins out of it. He even pantimime'd a little girl
in high pitched badly pantimimed female voice:
"mommy this tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to"
in deeper comedically bad feminine voice
"well sweetie, thats because the liberals took the dolphins out of it"
I was DYING.
"Really, I'm not joking. It WILL work!"
Also have to make sure not to scare of the elements of the left that also want this and find a way we can all work together to end this spy state.
the problem is mainstream politicians who want to keep this will do their best to make it a dividing issue to prevent it from happening.
I've been saying this for years, the REAL issues aren't brought up in the debates.
They are queitly mumbled under the breath of canidates, and dissenters are put on "lists", and harrassed.
Al Gore was a jackass who wanted to protect our children from the evil's of rock music and other non-conformist types.
/. durring their regime, and I can say niether Gore nor Clinton were spoken of fondly. Nor were any of them remebered as internet heros.
He and clinton tried banning encryption in 1996 because "terrorists" used it. They all came out in support of the DMCA, which was the SOPA/PIPA of the late 1990s, and other draconnian anti-nerd anti-internet bullshit
I was on
because given prohabition of other dangerous substance this approach
1. never works
2. causes more problems than it solves.
A few of them, you made sense, but I have to point out:
* The FDA has been effective at ensuring that we can buy pharmaceuticals and know that we're getting what we think we're getting instead of quack remedies.
Tell that to all the people hooked on psychaitric and pain meds taking recommended doses.
"* The FCC does an excellent job of preventing one radio or TV station from interfering with the broadcasts of another."
The also do a fine job keeping independent media off the air. They also do a fine job of censoring broadcasting. They do a fine job in enforcing corporate hegemony on the airwaves. Federalist Complaint Center indeed.
"* The NHTSA does a good job of ensuring that you can drive down an Interstate Highway and be close to certain you won't hit a giant pothole or something and wreck just because of road conditions."
Great job on this too. US highways are on par with that of Iraq. No serious, I've been on the roads in both countries. Iraq has the excuse that most of those giant potholes are from bombs exploiding.
"* The VA demonstrably provides more health care bang for the buck than any other system in the US."
until they loose your paperwork. Ask any vet how great the VA is.
weren't you the same guy who said that Bill Clinton and Al Gore were great for the internet?
"Grimm, who is the target of a federal investigation involving campaign fundraising"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78751.html
"Linux, an open-source operating system, was installed on Grimm's computers, erasing the hard drive contents, which included polling and voter identification data."
As said earilier it was probably an attempt to cover up data theft, particularly in relation to above, just in time for election season.
As a former goon, and former goonfleet pilot I can say how tightknit that
/. effect with malice, e.g. hitting the reload button on a site you didn't like until the pipes clogged, at the same time as every other goon. Back in the day, it was very feasible to clog down the low-rent juggalo, furry, pedo, and other stupid sites somethingawful would target. They also asked eachother for advice. traded stories, made confessions, trolled eachother. There was "goon justice", when goons fucked up a pedophile, scammer, spammer, or other internet lowlife. The also did photoshop contests, made memes, and trolled eachother really hard.
1. something awful is
2. goonfleet in particular was.
I am still in shock and disbelief that both get into the news, and vile rat will be deeply missed.
Some back story, before there was 4chan, there was something awful. Goons used to do pranks and raids (far more mild that what 4chan/anonymous eventually became). Goons became named "Goons" because they were Lowtax's "goons" who'd invade forums and crash websites. But there were no LOIC, or any other tools. it was just using the
There were also pranks, such as habo hotel, and the like.
The Forums "Goons" had a general dislike for the rest of the internet, and would play internet games with other goons, because they disliked the general population of gamers at the time. Goonfleet stuck out because of how harsh the game was, and how goons when from harrassing people in game, to becoming a serious angry force hell bent on serious stellar conquest. EVE is a game where everyone is a ruthless bastard hell bent on conquest, and people fucked with the goons, they pushed back harder. They kept to themselves and disliked outsiders, and took a dim view on the status quo of the EVE eliete(poopsocking pubbies). Goons made a break for power in 2006 and I am proud to say I was there. Other alliances had players with far more skill points(like level), who where more powerful, but goons had numbers, excellent organization, and teamwork. There was a profound sense of "goon nationalism" in the game that we were out to stake our claim and challenge the status quo. leaders had charisma, and leadership skills, but not as much in game skill points. We bucked the pecking order in favor of our own. We let anyone from Something Awful in, while rejecting the most seasoned non-goon EVE players.
The world hated us, but as goons we reveled in their hatred, and it made us closer, stronger, more determined. We had the numbers and were far far far more ruthless than the worst the game had to offer. EVE is not just played online, its played over instanat message, cell phones, text messages, and even in the real world. When we allied with the Russians, we sent a real life delegation to Russia to visit them in person, and they sent one to NY, to shore up in game ties.
We upset some major long standing alliances who had publicly gone on EVE TV to bash us.(Lokta Voltera, Vertas Imortalis) to bash us and our antics. We went on to terminate them with prejudice.
EVE got serious just about the same time goons were almost at the height of their in game power.
Somewhere around 2005, when the internet started getting really "serious" and pranks and raids started to have legal conotations, site founder, lowtax put a halt to raids and pranks. The sense of community remained. But just a reminder before "Anonymous" was "Leigon", we were "40 thousand screaming goons"
RIP VIle Rat. Here is a speech remedial made on teamspeak before the epic battle of XZH-, of which I was a defender. I recorded this as I listened to.
http://www.favupload.com/audio/6704/
Same Country that wants assange on funny smelling charges of "rape", just raided his server room.
furthermore
two words "Bud Dwyer"
open source projects stay in beta as long as need be, and don't rush to ship 1.0 or major releases until ready.
.0 versions long before they are ready because they release cycles and deadlines.
The good news for us, is that they allow the community to help ironing out the bugs, which for many don't show up until long repeated usage. The more people there are to report failures, the better.
compared this with commerical software. Especially microsoft. They release
OpenSSL spent 15 years before a 1.0 release. Noveau almost 10.
I think its a sign of many long standing projects maturing, and that linux is ready for prime time.
Set up your own VPN stateside, and work from there.
I think its the only real legimate way.
Using personal identifiable information through TOR to clearnet is a horrible idea, because of mallaicious exit nodes. TOR is great for anonymous browsing and research.
Setting up your own VPN stateside you exit to clearnet on a network you know is friendly. I think the chineese government will be less likely to mess with you this way. Given that many companies use VPNs this way, its should be very easy to explain this as business as usual.
no one cared about apple before they started threatening people with law suits, squashing tinkerers rights(jailbreakers), or otherwise trying to dictate to the rest of us who are outside their little cult how we program or use our devices.
When they started suing people, thats when we cared. Cause and Effect.
then change the borg icon to Balmers head.
Far more appropriate anyway. Far more terrifying do an image search for "steve balmer", and the guy has a look on his face like he's about to kill you.
I don't think he smiles, except in a great mischeivious smile like his about to kill you smile.
Back when he was VP in the 1990s, he was the one responsible for most of the FUD and disinformation anyway. Now this horrible piece of failure is at the helm.
or even better,
American Celebrities and their big media handlers rush to support punk rockers locked up in Russia.
After spending 30+ years trying to crush punk rock in the states in everyway imaginable. Many punk rockers got far worse treatment HERE for FAR LESS than what pussy riot is getting today.
Jello biafra and the 1986 obscentiy suit anyone?
combined keyboard, monitor, mouse, AND UPS into one easy to cary package.
the UPS part is a must for unreliable electricity.
depending on what your budget is, how about a single large, UPS for the entire room? or even a small generator?
With exception to users of massive networks that have justification for their Class A and Bs, we need to recind ownership of unsued class A and Bs, or in case of partial use, let them keep using what they have already.
We need to split partially used Class As (0-126) into Class Bs and Cs into unused class Bs and Cs for redistribution.
Since the advent of subnets, classful routing is unneccary and outdated.
Cue some communist jokes now.
Being a programmer is nothing more than being able to memorize the basics of flow control, learn new langauges, while using and constantly reffering to a refrence guide, and rote memorization of a few basic commands and techniques.
Oh its really easy to just be a programmer.
The real question is:
What does it take to be a good programmer? Or at least someone who codes at the bare minimum talent level that effort is not entirely wasted and foward progress is still being being made?
That is someone who in addition to the above, needs innovation, critical thinking skills, ingenunity, and the ability to re-write the rule book when and if appropriate.