Its not a leap of faith to look at how our government is increasingly trying to invade and monitor its citizens' privacy and think back to how the Russian government and KGB operated in its prime.
We should be monitoring our government. Not the other way around.
Oh, that's just fine then. Go along with the argument that we should give up all of our rights and privacy under the pretense that it makes us safer and we catch criminals.
I bet you support the 'Fatherland' security act as well.
The big deal is that its a real world number. Yes, the eye can't distinguish much over 30fps, but we aren't concerned with that here. This is simply an established benchmark to tell us how well a card is performing compared to others.
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Supporting evidence of teenager and his 4 friends from the 8x GF4 Review:
Unfortunately, my motherboard does not support an 8X AGP bus, I will only be able to test this card as if it was a 4X AGP card with 128 Mb of RAM.
The only difference between this new card and the old Ti 4200 that they just 'benchmarked' 3 months ago is AGP 8x vs 4x. So because the fastest computer they had in their garage only supports AGP 4x, this really was an absolute waste of my time.
So I'd post the link to the first review of the same card, except that nothing on that site is worth a dime.
This is from the review by Justin Hollands on his website. I have to disagree here.
Let's discuss some examples. One of Raskin's ideas is that we use the same core set of elementary operations for many purposes (one might say across applications). Such operations include: selection, indication, activation, moving, and copying. If we use the same small set of operations across applications, we can learn a keyboard shortcut or have special purpose keys for each, rather than look them up via menu selection using a pointing device. Why do we have all these special-purpose menu items peppering the top of our displays? Raskin argues that they are unnecessary. In a mistaken attempt to provide us with lots of functionality (feature bloat), designers have cobbled together the elementary operations as menu items. But if the elementary operations are well learned, then a rapid series of command keystrokes will be faster than the menu look up and selection.
Revolutionary, right?
Right off the bat, I think of both Windows and Mac (not a GUI linux user) and how they already have much of this built in. On windows, ctrl-x,c,v cut copy and paste respectively. The equivalent in mac os, I believe, is command-x,c,v. Now there are many more like this such as ctrl-a for selecting all items. And the shortcuts work in Word, Explorer, EditPlus, Photoshop, etc. As long as the developer(s) of the application follow the standard, they are available. So that is where this argument is moot. Its not a new idea but one that has been implemented sporadically across applications.
Also, many would agree that the concept of keyboard shortcuts is only awakened in the advanced user. A person that is new to the computer is going to rely almost exlusively on the mouse. Point 'n Click, right? Creating a standard set of keyboard shortcuts (even when there already is an unwritten standard) will not help the beginning computer user.
I don't know, I'm still going to read the book though.
JBoss follows this same idea. The software is open source but the documentation must be paid for. I don't disagree with this because its a business model supporting open source that may work. To JBoss's credit, they do offer a basic manual for free.
Is a video card manufacturer's hardware driver a trade secret?
If it is, then the company only stands to lose because their competitors have access to inner workings.
If the driver is not a trade secret, then by all means let everyone see it. Let everyone hack it.
But I'm not going to piss on someone because they are afraid of loosing their edge in a hugely competitive market.
I haven't missed the point of open source. You've missed the fact that it doesn't work in every situation. I know! Let's open source fighter jets so we can help Boeing build better jets!
That doesn't make any sense at all. The only reason they get a larger user base is if more people buy their video card. If I want one of the best video cards out on the market, I don't base my decision on whether or not I can look at the source for their drivers. I bought the damn thing to play video games.
Okay so maybe RMS might buy nVidia then. (not likely) So what, one more person bought their product? Well shoot, you are right then, it increased their user base!
Sorry those reasons are the same dried up rhetoric being tossed all around. It just doesn't float. Well, hey, thanks for jumping on the bandwagon at least.
I'm not talking about brand new processors here though.
Out of all the people I've talked to or heard speak of putting Yellow Dog or whatever on linux, it was because they had some old mac laying around running OS 8 or something.
Its a way to recycle those old boxes. Besides that, I have no idea why you would put linux on a ppc unless you can get the ppc computer from somewhere other than Apple. Why in the world would you replace OS X with Linux?
The performance difference hasn't been that significant (or really even proven) to warrant paying premium prices for a new dual G4 and then installing linux. It just doesn't make sense.
Can you come up with any reason why they should? They certainly won't make any money from it. If anything, their competitors will gain value by seeing exactly how their hardware layer works.
What benefit would it give you? Oh, now you can see how someone writes video drivers? Well, nVidia is in the market to educate people. They're in the market to make video cards.
I believe the technology from laptops and tablets is going to merge. When you look at a tablet, there is nothing fancy about it other than its thin form factor and the fact that you can write on the screen.
There will be a nice median where these are successful. The tablet that has the keyboard that folds around to the back just like a notebook will be king. You have the best of both worlds at that point. A standard laptop, and the form factor of a tablet pc when you need it.
The most revolutionary item is the fact that you can write on the screen. Too bad tablets weren't the originator of that idea. So the whole thing is really an evolution of the laptop from way back when it was just a 50 pound PC with a handle.
The reason the software sucks isn't that you have a PHB, it's that you lack discipline to find and fix all your bugs.
I'm sorry, but there are other factors besides lack of discipline. One, in particular, is called: 'Get the fscking program out by this date or you're fired and we lose our market share'. That's one in which you have no particular control over. Its not a PHB, its the market itself.
These communities shun both compressed files like.mp3 and trading anything that has been released commercially. What you do get is great recordings of live music from bands like U2, DMB, Grateful Dead, etc.
That's funny...
You may be a proponent of lossless formats and a self proclaimed audiophile, but you are listening to recorded *concerts*.
Now I may not be the smartest man alive, but I have been to a few concerts in my days. Not a single one I would listen to over the studio recorded version.
What a waste of bandwidth. Its like, hey you can't polish a turd.
Its not okay to violate a contract with your ISP or break copyright laws.
I think the only argument is whether or not the punishment was reasonable and if it wasn't, how can a corporation bring to bear such wanton grief on these few individuals?
And let's face it, the idea of writing your EJB and then deploying it on any EJBServer using any DB backend is a pipedream as well. So consider the problems with that, then imagine multiplying them by the number of different distributed architectures you want to support...forget it.
Really? All you need is a nice persistance layer like Toplink. It creates and manages the abstraction you need.
What's the point of all this anyway? Abstraction isn't always needed... the appropriate platform, code for it, optimize for it, test on it. Don't target 5 when you only need 1.
And you use Java? I'm sure what you just said was exactly what Gosling had in mind...
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Its not a leap of faith to look at how our government is increasingly trying to invade and monitor its citizens' privacy and think back to how the Russian government and KGB operated in its prime.
We should be monitoring our government. Not the other way around.
I bet you support the 'Fatherland' security act as well.
The big deal is that its a real world number. Yes, the eye can't distinguish much over 30fps, but we aren't concerned with that here. This is simply an established benchmark to tell us how well a card is performing compared to others.
Unfortunately, my motherboard does not support an 8X AGP bus, I will only be able to test this card as if it was a 4X AGP card with 128 Mb of RAM.
The only difference between this new card and the old Ti 4200 that they just 'benchmarked' 3 months ago is AGP 8x vs 4x. So because the fastest computer they had in their garage only supports AGP 4x, this really was an absolute waste of my time.
So I'd post the link to the first review of the same card, except that nothing on that site is worth a dime.
Let's discuss some examples. One of Raskin's ideas is that we use the same core set of elementary operations for many purposes (one might say across applications). Such operations include: selection, indication, activation, moving, and copying. If we use the same small set of operations across applications, we can learn a keyboard shortcut or have special purpose keys for each, rather than look them up via menu selection using a pointing device. Why do we have all these special-purpose menu items peppering the top of our displays? Raskin argues that they are unnecessary. In a mistaken attempt to provide us with lots of functionality (feature bloat), designers have cobbled together the elementary operations as menu items. But if the elementary operations are well learned, then a rapid series of command keystrokes will be faster than the menu look up and selection.
Revolutionary, right?
Right off the bat, I think of both Windows and Mac (not a GUI linux user) and how they already have much of this built in. On windows, ctrl-x,c,v cut copy and paste respectively. The equivalent in mac os, I believe, is command-x,c,v. Now there are many more like this such as ctrl-a for selecting all items. And the shortcuts work in Word, Explorer, EditPlus, Photoshop, etc. As long as the developer(s) of the application follow the standard, they are available. So that is where this argument is moot. Its not a new idea but one that has been implemented sporadically across applications.
Also, many would agree that the concept of keyboard shortcuts is only awakened in the advanced user. A person that is new to the computer is going to rely almost exlusively on the mouse. Point 'n Click, right? Creating a standard set of keyboard shortcuts (even when there already is an unwritten standard) will not help the beginning computer user.
I don't know, I'm still going to read the book though.
JBoss follows this same idea. The software is open source but the documentation must be paid for. I don't disagree with this because its a business model supporting open source that may work. To JBoss's credit, they do offer a basic manual for free.
But I'll still be getting crap about the Swedish made penis cream because this is not an international organization.
Sorry dude, MPAA forever.
Note: I hate the MPAA, but I love Tolkien. I hate the RIAA, but I love my music.
Is a video card manufacturer's hardware driver a trade secret?
If it is, then the company only stands to lose because their competitors have access to inner workings.
If the driver is not a trade secret, then by all means let everyone see it. Let everyone hack it.
But I'm not going to piss on someone because they are afraid of loosing their edge in a hugely competitive market.
I haven't missed the point of open source. You've missed the fact that it doesn't work in every situation. I know! Let's open source fighter jets so we can help Boeing build better jets!
So how many bugs to you find in ATI's drivers?
potentially giving them a higher usebase.
That doesn't make any sense at all. The only reason they get a larger user base is if more people buy their video card. If I want one of the best video cards out on the market, I don't base my decision on whether or not I can look at the source for their drivers. I bought the damn thing to play video games.
Okay so maybe RMS might buy nVidia then. (not likely) So what, one more person bought their product? Well shoot, you are right then, it increased their user base!
Sorry those reasons are the same dried up rhetoric being tossed all around. It just doesn't float. Well, hey, thanks for jumping on the bandwagon at least.
Out of all the people I've talked to or heard speak of putting Yellow Dog or whatever on linux, it was because they had some old mac laying around running OS 8 or something.
Its a way to recycle those old boxes. Besides that, I have no idea why you would put linux on a ppc unless you can get the ppc computer from somewhere other than Apple. Why in the world would you replace OS X with Linux?
The performance difference hasn't been that significant (or really even proven) to warrant paying premium prices for a new dual G4 and then installing linux. It just doesn't make sense.
Is there something I'm missing?
Why should they release the drivers as Open Source?
Whoops, that should be: *not* in the market to educate.
I don't think so. Its more like the fact that you can better performance from x86 systems just as cheaply.
Can you come up with any reason why they should? They certainly won't make any money from it. If anything, their competitors will gain value by seeing exactly how their hardware layer works.
What benefit would it give you? Oh, now you can see how someone writes video drivers? Well, nVidia is in the market to educate people. They're in the market to make video cards.
There will be a nice median where these are successful. The tablet that has the keyboard that folds around to the back just like a notebook will be king. You have the best of both worlds at that point. A standard laptop, and the form factor of a tablet pc when you need it.
The most revolutionary item is the fact that you can write on the screen. Too bad tablets weren't the originator of that idea. So the whole thing is really an evolution of the laptop from way back when it was just a 50 pound PC with a handle.
Send me a check in the mail for whatever you want plus 5% commission and shipping charges and I'll send you back your buy.
I'm sorry, but there are other factors besides lack of discipline. One, in particular, is called: 'Get the fscking program out by this date or you're fired and we lose our market share'. That's one in which you have no particular control over. Its not a PHB, its the market itself.
That's funny...
You may be a proponent of lossless formats and a self proclaimed audiophile, but you are listening to recorded *concerts*.
Now I may not be the smartest man alive, but I have been to a few concerts in my days. Not a single one I would listen to over the studio recorded version.
What a waste of bandwidth. Its like, hey you can't polish a turd.
The same here. You are punished appropriately for what the crime was and what was involved.
You aren't given the death penalty for stealing 5000 dollars. The same as you aren't fined for murdering someone.
Its the *appropriate* punishment for what you did that counts.
Its not okay to violate a contract with your ISP or break copyright laws.
I think the only argument is whether or not the punishment was reasonable and if it wasn't, how can a corporation bring to bear such wanton grief on these few individuals?
What is viable is sucking cold air in through a port lower on the card and blowing hot air out the top port of the card.
Didn't I read somewhere that heat rises?
Really? All you need is a nice persistance layer like Toplink. It creates and manages the abstraction you need.
What's the point of all this anyway? Abstraction isn't always needed... the appropriate platform, code for it, optimize for it, test on it. Don't target 5 when you only need 1.
And you use Java? I'm sure what you just said was exactly what Gosling had in mind...
Well, if you install it now, by the time they get out of college, they just might have mastered it.