If this card gets produced and sells reasonably well, ATI and Nvidia will be able to kill it easily by open-sourcing their own drivers, even just for their older cards.
That said, at the end of the day, the project would have benefitted the community.
...we would be able to produce enough of _everything_ for _everyone_. Don't tell me that won't change things...
We're *currently* able to produce enough of everything for everyone - within reason, that is. Food production, for example - we as a planet could easily feed the entire human race, and feed it well. But for various reasons, we don't.
Will nanotech make production so trivial that some threshold will be crossed, and suddenly we actually *will* provide everyone with everything they need? Or will "various reasons" still get in the way?
A steel door closed and the captain was on his own again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.
"Hmmm," he said, "lack the synergistic, results-driven leverage that will incentivize their paradigm shift..." He considered this for a moment, and then closed the book with a grim smile.
Everyone's a nerd because some bits of sci-fi culture have made it into the mainstream? Bull. Everyone who called me for help this year because they'd (insert blurb from Computer Stupidities here) had seen the Matrix, too.
I remember a really nifty piece of software called DigiGuide, which would automatically retrieve TV listings for you and sort and display them however you wanted. It was really useful, and free, and I thought it was great. Then one day, version 2 decided to upgrade itself to version 3, without warning me, without waiting for approval, and without giving me a chance to say no. Sure enough, version 3 was unusable; it was clunky, unstable, and half the time it took my pc down with it. I stopped using DigiGuide immediately, and I'll never use it again. Any computer I own is mine, and I alone say what software will run on it.
And they're shit. My ntl Pace box takes ages to change channels, and its GUI is unbelievably slow and badly designed (organising the list of channels is a nightmare). And I have to reboot it every week, because in that time it somehow loses the ability to give me anything other than a black screen, which nothing but a power cycle or reboot will solve.
Incidentally, the engineer who came to fix my setup the first time this happened showed up within three hours of my call to ntl, and he gave me some good tips in exchange for a Win2k cd. Befriend your support people, folks; it's the best way to be.
Has there been any comment from the manufacturers and/or retailers of smart card equipment? DirecTV is presumably having an adverse effect on their sales, not to mention their reputations, given that they're suing thousands of people just for making a purchase.
Seems to me that if Linus can't escape responsibility for distributing code belonging to SCO simply because it was someone else who added it to the Linux kernel, then SCO can't escape having released their own code under the GPL as part of their Linux distribution simply because they didn't know it was in there.
If he can't say, "Well, I didn't know it was in there," then neither can they...
"Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. This was no accident. Suburbs are deliberately designed to exclude the outside world, because it contains things that could endanger children."
"Growing up it all seems so one-sided,
Opinions all provided,
The future pre-decided,
Detached and subdivided
in the mass production zone.
Nowhere is the dreamer
or the misfit so alone..."
The OS itself and its subsystems (GSM/GPRS, IR/BT, camera, voice recognition, etc) aren't written in Java; they're written in very tight, small, fast code, usually C or C++ with bits of assembler. But the phone supports a Java engine so it can run Java apps, which makes it easy for 3rd party developers to target the phone. Like Microsoft did with Windows in the 90's: encourage the developer community, and your product gains mindshare.
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If this card gets produced and sells reasonably well, ATI and Nvidia will be able to kill it easily by open-sourcing their own drivers, even just for their older cards.
That said, at the end of the day, the project would have benefitted the community.
Since no one seems to have posted this yet:
Going Way Off-Road
Well, let's see. Hands up everyone who wants to email anyone at Microsoft?
(tumbleweed rolls by...)
We're *currently* able to produce enough of everything for everyone - within reason, that is. Food production, for example - we as a planet could easily feed the entire human race, and feed it well. But for various reasons, we don't.
Will nanotech make production so trivial that some threshold will be crossed, and suddenly we actually *will* provide everyone with everything they need? Or will "various reasons" still get in the way?
"We want British people flying to the States to feel secure when they travel.
That is the best way to counter terrorism."
Yep, that's it - the best way to stop terrorism is to make us all feel nice and snug and safe.
And of course, the best way to do that is to treat us all like criminals.
A steel door closed and the captain was on his own again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.
"Hmmm," he said, "lack the synergistic, results-driven leverage that will incentivize their paradigm shift..." He considered this for a moment, and then closed the book with a grim smile.
Death's too good for them," he said.
"Iraq's 2 person LUG"
And they say there are no pioneers or new frontiers left. Those guys must be real troopers.
Everyone's a nerd because some bits of sci-fi culture have made it into the mainstream? Bull. Everyone who called me for help this year because they'd (insert blurb from Computer Stupidities here) had seen the Matrix, too.
"being remotely displayed here suing NX"
Wow, brand new and being sued already. Who told SCO about these people, then?
...he thought. That means he did it twice. At least.
And I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft - oh wait...
Exactly.
I remember a really nifty piece of software called DigiGuide, which would automatically retrieve TV listings for you and sort and display them however you wanted. It was really useful, and free, and I thought it was great. Then one day, version 2 decided to upgrade itself to version 3, without warning me, without waiting for approval, and without giving me a chance to say no. Sure enough, version 3 was unusable; it was clunky, unstable, and half the time it took my pc down with it. I stopped using DigiGuide immediately, and I'll never use it again. Any computer I own is mine, and I alone say what software will run on it.
"We don't need a standard - we have Pace :o)"
And they're shit. My ntl Pace box takes ages to change channels, and its GUI is unbelievably slow and badly designed (organising the list of channels is a nightmare). And I have to reboot it every week, because in that time it somehow loses the ability to give me anything other than a black screen, which nothing but a power cycle or reboot will solve.
Incidentally, the engineer who came to fix my setup the first time this happened showed up within three hours of my call to ntl, and he gave me some good tips in exchange for a Win2k cd. Befriend your support people, folks; it's the best way to be.
[big robot voice] "...Please put down your weapon. You now have twenty seconds to comply..."
Has there been any comment from the manufacturers and/or retailers of smart card equipment? DirecTV is presumably having an adverse effect on their sales, not to mention their reputations, given that they're suing thousands of people just for making a purchase.
"...based on information from the Symantec's DeepSight Threat Management System,"
Did anyone else read that as "DeepShit Threat Management" ?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88
Yup, my hard drive did that a few weeks ago...
Sendo haven't gone under; they've signed up with Nokia and Symbian to produce a Series 60 phone.
Seems to me that if Linus can't escape responsibility for distributing code belonging to SCO simply because it was someone else who added it to the Linux kernel, then SCO can't escape having released their own code under the GPL as part of their Linux distribution simply because they didn't know it was in there.
If he can't say, "Well, I didn't know it was in there," then neither can they...
Commas, periods, and semicolons, oh my!
Commas, periods, and semicolons, oh my!
Commas, periods, and semicolons, oh my!
My word, an American who can spot sarcasm ;)
Does it have themes? Please tell me it has themes!
"Almost a day ago..."
Ahh, I remember it like it was yesterday, oh wait...
"Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. This was no accident. Suburbs are deliberately designed to exclude the outside world, because it contains things that could endanger children."
"Growing up it all seems so one-sided,
Opinions all provided,
The future pre-decided,
Detached and subdivided
in the mass production zone.
Nowhere is the dreamer
or the misfit so alone..."
- Rush, "Subdivisions"
The OS itself and its subsystems (GSM/GPRS, IR/BT, camera, voice recognition, etc) aren't written in Java; they're written in very tight, small, fast code, usually C or C++ with bits of assembler. But the phone supports a Java engine so it can run Java apps, which makes it easy for 3rd party developers to target the phone. Like Microsoft did with Windows in the 90's: encourage the developer community, and your product gains mindshare.