Umm.. Maybe you should read those release notes again. The driver with SLI support will be released TOMORROW.
And btw, Nvidia's driver for 8800 cards on Vista works perfectly. I use Vista as a gaming platform, and I'm not seeing ANY of the problems portrayed in the article. Maybe Realtek actually has good drivers.
If I'd had a pool, I'd really jump on this right away. Got to be one of the coolest uses of a swimming pool I've seen so far. An an eco-project to boot! Fantastic:)
The Zalman block thing interested me too, since I have a couple of those. Wish I knew exactly what the nature of the problem he was referring to is, since I don't have any trouble with mine at all.
That's because IE 6.0 PNG support is known to be broken - and doesn't seem to be on Microsofts fix lists at all (Web Standards Project says so, at least).
Sigh. Web Standards are HARD when almost ALL the browsers are borked in some way or another...
Yeah - research as in actually READING the GPL license, which SCO obiviously hasn't done.
SCO itself has created/distributed/resold a Linux product for years (since retracted from the market, ofcourse) - and here is their response to Section 0 of the GPL license:
"
Distributing a product is not the same as contributing to a product," Stowell said Friday. In other words, the mere act of distributing GPL-covered code isn't sufficient; the copyright holder also has to deliberately release the code as open-source, he said. "The copyright holder has to knowingly contribute this code."
And here is Section 0 of the GPL:
"This license applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License." However, Section 6 states,
"Each time you redistribute the program (or any work based on the program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the program."
(snipped from news.com)
Are their lawyers blind, stupid, ignorant, lying SOBs, or just... DUMB??
You're rather missing the point here, I think. The stuff you mention is mostly done at universities & research labs, and by corporations doing embedded (vcr, nailgun, electronic stapler, calculator etc) work or actually developing hardware.
If you need to go down deeply into the bowels of a machine, sure - use assembler or C. That's what they're for. But they are NOT contenders in developing business applications.
He is talking about *businesses* (i.e. FOR PROFIT) doing work on *business applications*. This means boring, dull stuff like invoicing, procurement, human resources, payroll, sales, crm, inventory management, word processing, etc.
You know - the boring things that businesses for some strange reason seem to have a knack for in order to stay in business.
Both Java and.Net are squarely targeted at this kind of development, and so are most commercially available web services (airline times, weather reports, customer data, marketing data and so on).
This is the arena in which most developers work - actually helping to improve business processes for corporations. Not developing some archaic routine to calculate the angle at which a car's suspension system need to be at to attack a particular curve in the best way. That sort of work can be handled (and usually IS handled) by internally developed 4GL languages based on C++ or C.
Excuse me for asking - but I have to disagree with the author here. What does this have to do with trying to slow down the Linux OS?
The source code that Microsoft has released (as Shared Source) is source code for the common language runtime and quite a few of the.Net framework libraries, as well as a version of the C# compiler.
This really has nothing to do with the MS/Linux "battle" (which really doesn't exist anyway, in my opinion - at least not officially).
Well, this isn't really true. IBM, for instance, do make a ton of their own components (chipsets, harddrives, memory chips) - and even sell them to other companies.
As far as I know, so does HP.
This, ofcourse, is particularily true for server-class machines.
Yeah, obviously. That's what it's all about. No need to download the entire CD at one time. Just download what you need when (or just before) you need it. This can be accomplished quite easily, and the software can download stuff in the background while you're doing less network-intensive tasks (like playing in singleplayer mode or designing maps).
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Umm.. Maybe you should read those release notes again. The driver with SLI support will be released TOMORROW.
And btw, Nvidia's driver for 8800 cards on Vista works perfectly. I use Vista as a gaming platform, and I'm not seeing ANY of the problems portrayed in the article. Maybe Realtek actually has good drivers.
Vista no longer requires floppies - it can now also use an USB stick, flash card, cd-rom or "similar device" for this purpose.
If I'd had a pool, I'd really jump on this right away. Got to be one of the coolest uses of a swimming pool I've seen so far. An an eco-project to boot! Fantastic :)
The Zalman block thing interested me too, since I have a couple of those. Wish I knew exactly what the nature of the problem he was referring to is, since I don't have any trouble with mine at all.
That's because IE 6.0 PNG support is known to be broken - and doesn't seem to be on Microsofts fix lists at all (Web Standards Project says so, at least).
Sigh. Web Standards are HARD when almost ALL the browsers are borked in some way or another...
They're not severing all connections with Microsoft.
They're removing the clause in the contract that says "For OS - you can ONLY use Windows" and for "For Office Apps - You Can ONLY use Office XP/2000".
Victor Norman personally, by the way, is apparently an avid Macintosh user.
You're rather missing the point here, I think. The stuff you mention is mostly done at universities & research labs, and by corporations doing embedded (vcr, nailgun, electronic stapler, calculator etc) work or actually developing hardware.
.Net are squarely targeted at this kind of development, and so are most commercially available web services (airline times, weather reports, customer data, marketing data and so on).
If you need to go down deeply into the bowels of a machine, sure - use assembler or C. That's what they're for. But they are NOT contenders in developing business applications.
He is talking about *businesses* (i.e. FOR PROFIT) doing work on *business applications*. This means boring, dull stuff like invoicing, procurement, human resources, payroll, sales, crm, inventory management, word processing, etc.
You know - the boring things that businesses for some strange reason seem to have a knack for in order to stay in business.
Both Java and
This is the arena in which most developers work - actually helping to improve business processes for corporations. Not developing some archaic routine to calculate the angle at which a car's suspension system need to be at to attack a particular curve in the best way. That sort of work can be handled (and usually IS handled) by internally developed 4GL languages based on C++ or C.
Excuse me for asking - but I have to disagree with the author here. What does this have to do with trying to slow down the Linux OS?
.Net framework libraries, as well as a version of the C# compiler.
The source code that Microsoft has released (as Shared Source) is source code for the common language runtime and quite a few of the
This really has nothing to do with the MS/Linux "battle" (which really doesn't exist anyway, in my opinion - at least not officially).
Well, this isn't really true. IBM, for instance, do make a ton of their own components (chipsets, harddrives, memory chips) - and even sell them to other companies.
As far as I know, so does HP.
This, ofcourse, is particularily true for server-class machines.
Yeah, obviously. That's what it's all about. No need to download the entire CD at one time. Just download what you need when (or just before) you need it. This can be accomplished quite easily, and the software can download stuff in the background while you're doing less network-intensive tasks (like playing in singleplayer mode or designing maps).