"Suppose you create and design feature X into your chipset. You might find, via a lawsuit, that feature X is patented by company Y. I've talked to vendors who would like to open their hardware but are scared to do so for this very reason -- they might have designed a patented feature into their hardware without realizing it."
Or they could simply change their default security policy to not give users and viruses/trojans they download the access to screw with these files in the first place.
Comparing himself to Micheal Jordan? Oh puh-leeze. Jordan could piss in a bottle and sell it as perfume. This "professional gamer" is worth nothing compared to a real athlete.
The article was probably submitted by someone who didn't know about the patch (minion.de). And that's not uncommon, a lot of people were waiting for *official* support or just didn't scour the web for the Minion patches, like this guy, perhaps.
If it makes you feel better, programs from 1995 tend to run a lot faster on modern hardware. Gzip a kernel on a 66MHz Pentium and then on 2GHz Opteron and you'll see what I mean.
It seems that it would take one hell of a scanner to produce a passable currency note with the really, really tiny writing. Shouldn't that be enough of a deterrent for a while longer? I don't doubt that some people have that sort of equipment, but it's not like you can go to Best Buy, pick up a scanner on sale, and start counterfeiting money.
I know AOL bashing is a treasured hobby of many Slashdotters, but based on those numbers it seems that they're doing a fairly good job at blocking spam. Especially since they're a huge ISP who has to be conservative with their spam blocking techniques.
...would do something to increase performance. Why do people insist on giving a bunch of dumb circuits aesthetic appeal? Actually, aesthetic appeal is kind of cool. But why do people insist on paying rediclous amounts of money for something that doesn't increase performance?
From the article: "That effort, expected to be launched later this year, will move data at 10 gigabytes per second, 60 times faster than the Little GLORIAD."
"B" means "bytes," at least in this case. Though it would've been nice for a Slashdot editor to clear this ambiguity.
Me too. I've run nVidia drivers on everything from an Intel 440BX chipset (Abit BH6, BE6), a GeForce DDR on a KT133 chipset and an AMD 760 chipset (Asus A7V133, forgot the name of the 760 mainboard, it was an Asus), AMD 760-MP (Tyan Thunder K7), SiS735 (ECS K7S5A, SiS745 (ECS K7S6A), AMD 8151 (Tyan S2885), and a number of Dells and other systems at work that use various Intel chipsets. I've used almost all models of their cards in Linux since the TNT2, and haven't had any problems outside the learning curve for configuring X to work (Change three lines in the XF86Config-4 config file).
I know nobody's perfect, but I really do think a lot of people get way over-critical of nVidia at times. Slashdotters can bitch about anything.
>>For example, what is the Linux driver situation with latest ATI cards?
I haven't tried the X driver in a long time, so I won't comment on that. However, ATi has released their own proprietary driver which I've heard many good things about.
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Keep an eye on Tyan and IWill.
This guy seems to have it right:
"Suppose you create and design feature X into your chipset. You might find, via a lawsuit, that feature X is patented by company Y. I've talked to vendors who would like to open their hardware but are scared to do so for this very reason -- they might have designed a patented feature into their hardware without realizing it."
That's not a contribution to Linux, though.
>>They are a funny people. This would never have happened in the good old US of A. Oh, wait...
You mean like how Lindows was forced to change their name in the good old US of A? Oh, wait...
Or they could simply change their default security policy to not give users and viruses/trojans they download the access to screw with these files in the first place.
You'll still need to download the tarball and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles.
Comparing himself to Micheal Jordan? Oh puh-leeze. Jordan could piss in a bottle and sell it as perfume. This "professional gamer" is worth nothing compared to a real athlete.
The article was probably submitted by someone who didn't know about the patch (minion.de). And that's not uncommon, a lot of people were waiting for *official* support or just didn't scour the web for the Minion patches, like this guy, perhaps.
Because we all know that running a binary driver under Windows is less of a sin in the OSS Nazi church than running a binary driver under Linux.
BTW--Go here if you want performance under Linux.
Right here :)
>>Sounds like they are using LinuxBIOS plus some apps for the quick boot option.
What makes you think that? Just because they use Linux as part of their project does not mean they're necessarily using LinuxBIOS.
Besides, if they are then where's the source code? There is that little issue about the GPL...
If it makes you feel better, programs from 1995 tend to run a lot faster on modern hardware. Gzip a kernel on a 66MHz Pentium and then on 2GHz Opteron and you'll see what I mean.
You're not supposed to lie to a court.
As you can tell, IANAL.
...unless you're running one of these :)
It seems that it would take one hell of a scanner to produce a passable currency note with the really, really tiny writing. Shouldn't that be enough of a deterrent for a while longer? I don't doubt that some people have that sort of equipment, but it's not like you can go to Best Buy, pick up a scanner on sale, and start counterfeiting money.
I can't seem to say the name out loud without it sounding like "Ape Extreme."
I'm guessing that English is not the native tongue of the guy who named this thing.
More likely, they got sick of people sending them fried chips expecting them to be replaced when the warrenty was clearly voided through misuse.
Check out Cornell University some time, they do their clustering in Windows.
I know AOL bashing is a treasured hobby of many Slashdotters, but based on those numbers it seems that they're doing a fairly good job at blocking spam. Especially since they're a huge ISP who has to be conservative with their spam blocking techniques.
...would do something to increase performance. Why do people insist on giving a bunch of dumb circuits aesthetic appeal? Actually, aesthetic appeal is kind of cool. But why do people insist on paying rediclous amounts of money for something that doesn't increase performance?
TFA also says that's for little GLORIAD.
From the article: "That effort, expected to be launched later this year, will move data at 10 gigabytes per second, 60 times faster than the Little GLORIAD."
"B" means "bytes," at least in this case. Though it would've been nice for a Slashdot editor to clear this ambiguity.
Me too. I've run nVidia drivers on everything from an Intel 440BX chipset (Abit BH6, BE6), a GeForce DDR on a KT133 chipset and an AMD 760 chipset (Asus A7V133, forgot the name of the 760 mainboard, it was an Asus), AMD 760-MP (Tyan Thunder K7), SiS735 (ECS K7S5A, SiS745 (ECS K7S6A), AMD 8151 (Tyan S2885), and a number of Dells and other systems at work that use various Intel chipsets. I've used almost all models of their cards in Linux since the TNT2, and haven't had any problems outside the learning curve for configuring X to work (Change three lines in the XF86Config-4 config file).
I know nobody's perfect, but I really do think a lot of people get way over-critical of nVidia at times. Slashdotters can bitch about anything.
>>For example, what is the Linux driver situation with latest ATI cards?
I haven't tried the X driver in a long time, so I won't comment on that. However, ATi has released their own proprietary driver which I've heard many good things about.
You're kidding, right? Those cards are on part with the GeForce SDR.