Actually there is no need for them to release open-source drivers. Specs would be enough, considering the number of linux dev who own an nvidia and are annoyed at the lack of open-source drivers, it would only be a matter of time before some appear.
However they won't do that which is undestandable since most of the times these specs can give you quite an insight at what's happenning inside the card.
I find this idea quite interesting, after all we already a standard database tha knows all about what is installed, that would be the filesystem, therefore using an intellignent way to query the filesystem for requirements seems a good way to go.
However wouldn't there be performances problems? I mean running./configure usually take quite some time for most packages, much more so than completely installing a deb or an rpm.
I would say that the problem with rpms is that until quite recently you couldn't find a central repository with regularly updated packages.
As you say half a dozen ditros and half dozen versions of any given packages. WIth a webbased centralized repository, (regularly updated) this wouldn't have had to happen.
This is IMHO the best feature of debian based distros (knoppix, morphix, etc) They can use the debian packages base and add their candy over it.
IOWs if apt4rpm had existed before we would never have had to live in the dependancy hell we are in now
I agree they are all biased.
The best source of informations should only be factual and never be analytical (or at least they should clearly separate facts from analysis). That would _force_ people to think for themselves.
Instead of that journalists always try to add an analysis instead of just reporting the facts. Probably to provide some "added value" compared to their competitors. While this might have originaly been in the readers interest, more and more journalists give analysis even when they don't have any facts, making these along to support their theories. ( remember the comments on 09/11)
I think sources such as Reuters and Associated Press feeds are actually closest to good information sources.
If the hard drive actually shows up as/dev/hde when booting with the debian installer cd, you could try booting the debian installer with the ide=reverse parameter, this should make your drive show up as/dev/hda, by reversing the sort order of the ide controlers
That wouldn't help if your controller actually isn't recognised by the debian boot kernel of course.
Nope, as the parent poster says, SWT uses the system widget. These are pretty high level calls such as : drawx a combobox with such and such properties at this position in reference to this frame.
AWT/SWT only uses low level calls (probably as low as : draw this pixel at x,y with this color) and recreates all the widgets "from scratch". And if you ever have the time, go download the source code of java on sun's website (there is a community edition to download for free ) and take a look at the implementation of swings components, no wonder they are sluggish. I won't even get started on the focus management of swing which is "weird" to say the least.
I agree too.
And you will also soon notice that once you have taken a good sleep pattern you actually work better at _day_
Think also of all the time you will "create" by being almost instantly efficient when you wake up in the morning. That is one case when "better do it today than tomorrow" is wrong actually. Getting regular sleep _is_ the most important.
Accordinf to a french reporter, the USA haven't signed some La Haye agreements which would enable USA citizen to be judged by an international tribunal. Therefore an american citizen has to be judged by an american tribunal. How ever it seems that if this is true they can't ask the international trubinal of La haye to judge Saddam
If this is true, then saddam should be judged in Iraq.
well I don't know if it's true, I haven't been able to find the agreements the reporter referred to. International law is not too well documented for the comment nerd.
Even if IntelliJ is one of the best tools around, it can't be fashionnable as there is no open source version of it (or at least all I could find was a 30 days limited demo version).
Today, open source _is_ fashion. Companies and people ask more and more for Open Source. Whether they are or not related to computer programming (maybe even more so if they aren't).
Additionnaly it seems that community support has become an important requirement for such tools as IDE. And I personally agree with this last point.
I think that having at least a community edition for non commercial use is a good way to get the best of both ways.
Why not have earth recycle the wastes for us ?
Burying it in subduction zones should do the trick. wouldn't it take the wastes even further down in the mantle where they won't bother anyone?
I know the process is slow, but even so it _is_ faster than waiting for the most dangerous wastes to be harmless.
Actually I just checked the sun link you provide and still couldn't find an apparent PPC JVM from sun. I also checked the supported systems page from sun for its JVM and it seems to be confirmed that PPC isn't supported directly from sun.
As for the Apple JVM, I can't test it directly provided I don't own a mac but, the 1.4.2 JVM offered by Apple is a developer preview. It may be as good and as stable as sun's but there are no warranty about it.
Java would of been my next choice if we had to suport macs or linux, but we don't.
Though I like Java very much and would love to be able to agree with you, it must be mentionned that sun doesn't provide a PPC native JVM, and that the other JVM are not as advanced as sun's.
Therefore the "Write once, run anywhere" credo is pretty flawed when it comes to face the real world. Sun's JVM may run on a PPC in x86 emulated mode but it's slow as hell (A friend of mine, who is a mac user, showed it to me while we were arguing about java)
I think the FSF makes it perfectly clear that they don't like the LGPL. As for the rest, I am mostly documenting myself now as I wish to understand what these licenses really mean. I use for myself some tools distributed, under either the GPL or the LGPL and I want to make sure I understand fully what their licensing implies before I am asked about it in a company (not gonna happen for some time so I should have enough time to get to know what I may be asked to talk about).
It is now more obvious to me why the file bk-3.0.1-x86-static-linux.bin mentionned in BitKeeper's Products.Downloads.html page is nowhere to be found in the Download section (you have to fill a form to get the login and the pass).
They may be in the process of removing it afterthe revisionnists interpretation you mention (I am not aware of these being relatively new to the problem)
Larry eventually responded to a post about reverse engineering by saying (paraphrased) "Legally I must point out that to reverse-engineer the product violates our license. If I don't defend our license when it is challenged then I won't have a leg to stand on should it ever go to a court case."
Please somebody point out the weak link in my reasonning. I can feel it is warped but can't fail it.
BitKeeper is (in at least is GNU/Linux versions) linked against the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is under the LGPL License.
As a result of the previous two, BtKeeper falls under the section 6 of the LGPL.
And Section 6 of the LGPL states:
As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or
link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a
work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work
under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit
modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
engineering for debugging such modifications.
Considering this, can the BitKeeper license really forbid reverse-engineering, and still be allowed to use the GNU C Library ?
I am but a lowly CS student trying to follow the subtleties of software licenses battles, not a lawyer, and my not being a native english speaker may have made me misunderstand the problem.
Hydrogen, unlike fossil fuels, is not an energy source - it merely stores energy produced by some other process (usually fossil fuel or nuclear, sometimes hydro or wind).
This is both right and wrong, though it is true that to create hydrogen we have to input energy, there is a way to use hydrogen that generates much more energy than what was used to create it.
It is called Hydrogen fusion
Even though considering our current technology level we do not control fusion and therefore can't use it in daily applications. I really think that that's the way to go.
IIRC hyrogen fusion generates heat (lots) and helium which can the be reused or even burnt. The main problem is : how to keep it cool enough to be controlled and hot enough to keep fusion going. Some propose tores of plasma
Used in this way, hydrogen IS an energy source, producing much more energy than was stored in it in the first place.
In my perfect world H fusion plant generate enough electricity to power all the electrolysis plants you need, thus allowing the replacement of the oil based economy by an hydrogen based one, much cleaner and reusable.
OTOH, if it's a multiuser computer, you're not likely to dual boot Windows and Linux anyway.:)
And yet, that happens more and more, my school (france) now has all its pc workstations on dual boot NT4/debian. And I heard a few other plans for universities to do so too.
However, the problem in these places is solved either by some kind of netowrk filesystem that allows users to acces their directory from any os (samba, nfs,...) so one might want to try this, but they also offer some kind of webmail system so that users don't have to do these kind of dirty hacks just to have a consistent mail system.
At home I also use IMAP, it is just great, it's a shame its so hard to find a good graphical (I come from windows world so I do like my graphical app sometime) imap client for linux
(sylpheed I tried and don't like, which leaves mozilla-mail and that is what I call heavy taking 2mins just to check mail, I use it anyway, but I can't wait for minotaur).
This is different in the way that LGP is already in for publishing the game when it is completed. They won't have to fight their way through publishing companies to find one that will find their project insteresting among the hundreds such companies must receive each month
In addition, there is a high porbability that as soon as they have something with a shape, they will get subventions from LGP to help finish it
I am an idealist.. and so what? If LGP realy wants tu push Linux games they must know they will have to make a few sacrifices at the beginning. Afteward if they play it well, they will 'own' the linux game market
Read the article, this isn't just text but video and graphics. ASCII isn't going to cut it, and if was just text you'd think we could spring for unicode.
I don't see any problem here, all you have to do is convert every single image whether it be a single or coupled to others in a video in ASCII art:) then you are back to using ASCII only thus easily portable from one machine to the other.(Yes, it can be converted to Unicode art though i don't know if it's as nice as ASCI art)
when only transmitting pings / packets to maintain your ip on the "mesh", use minimal power?
that would be impossible since that case should never happen.
Imagine what the coverage would be at night when most of the users don't use their devices.
As is said in the article, every user that connects improves the coverage, but any user that disconnects worsens it..
As was already mentionned by a commenter too the security on such networks would be crap, yes using crypto would help, but many country don't allow such crypto yet, and even so what is a good crypto..? can it really run on pdas or cell phones... i mean crypting all data that goes out of your box would require quite some amount of cpu time.
add to this that majors and movie studio will go crazy after reading the article and might well be the first to buy the technology to burry it ASAP
Add to this that routing/relaying DOES use bandwidth so probably you will never see the announced 6Mps or 400Mbps, as i understand it what u will get is 6Mbps shared badwidth and though that is more than enough for a lot of users just using email and browsing the web, file transfers require a lot more than this.
It seems that the digital revolution is reaching the last places it had not yet conquered, whatever the djs use to mix/beatmatch/... their mp3s, doesn't matter. I don't think there is any analog effect that can't be reproduced digitally.
I hope the next revolution in djing will be more video oriented...
what i mean there is that if mixing/beatmatching/... all the usual dj stuff is made easier, Djs will try something more advanced in matching video and sound. I am aware of few djs actually doing this and even fewer doing something really complex with it .
And yet if you ever tried to adapt your milkdrop effects to match songs you will know that the effect is really great. (even better but harder try it with g-force)
milkdrop and gforce are winamp plugins but there are equivalent for xmms and others.
remember the story that ran about mems and empty screens:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/01/232254 &mode=nested&tid=137
now with these it will probably reduce a lot the price for the monitors, and for goggles too, but more important if what was said in the discussion is true even the price for the cameras will go down by quite a lot, if so then using even 9 cams to get a perfet 3D video stream will be fine:)
and then merging these streams in a dual stream each on a projector and then you get stereoscopy
lets dream of a projeting column which you just have to look at at the right angle and you get 3D display of whatever you want video,images,your desktop(which is like hard drive, the more space you have the more space you need)...
well lets stop dreaming?
I personally use Wincvs and plink to do the actual cvs operations
and I use a public/private key pair and pagent to avoid any nasty password prompt
It has been working perfectly for a few months now.
You can find the documentation you need to set this up there: http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_ssh.htm
or there
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?doci d=766&group_id=1
in any case if you want to avoid any such error as you describe I higly recommend you use the private/public key pair and an agent.
Does anyone know how much equipement you need to create these carbon nanotubes. I talde with one of my teacher, who was trying to find a new utility to my school's old white room. But couldn't because of budgetary problems. Now if most of the equipement is already there and there is only a few things to add to create nanotubes, that could be a great idea.
Maybe we could be among the first to build a carbon nanotube based transistor and then chip and then who knows..
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Actually there is no need for them to release open-source drivers. Specs would be enough, considering the number of linux dev who own an nvidia and are annoyed at the lack of open-source drivers, it would only be a matter of time before some appear.
However they won't do that which is undestandable since most of the times these specs can give you quite an insight at what's happenning inside the card.
I find this idea quite interesting, after all we already a standard database tha knows all about what is installed, that would be the filesystem, therefore using an intellignent way to query the filesystem for requirements seems a good way to go.
./configure usually take quite some time for most packages, much more so than completely installing a deb or an rpm.
However wouldn't there be performances problems? I mean running
I would say that the problem with rpms is that until quite recently you couldn't find a central repository with regularly updated packages. As you say half a dozen ditros and half dozen versions of any given packages. WIth a webbased centralized repository, (regularly updated) this wouldn't have had to happen. This is IMHO the best feature of debian based distros (knoppix, morphix, etc) They can use the debian packages base and add their candy over it. IOWs if apt4rpm had existed before we would never have had to live in the dependancy hell we are in now
I agree they are all biased.
The best source of informations should only be factual and never be analytical (or at least they should clearly separate facts from analysis). That would _force_ people to think for themselves.
Instead of that journalists always try to add an analysis instead of just reporting the facts. Probably to provide some "added value" compared to their competitors. While this might have originaly been in the readers interest, more and more journalists give analysis even when they don't have any facts, making these along to support their theories. ( remember the comments on 09/11)
I think sources such as Reuters and Associated Press feeds are actually closest to good information sources.
If the hard drive actually shows up as /dev/hde when booting with the debian installer cd, you could try booting the debian installer with the ide=reverse parameter, this should make your drive show up as /dev/hda, by reversing the sort order of the ide controlers
That wouldn't help if your controller actually isn't recognised by the debian boot kernel of course.
Nope, as the parent poster says, SWT uses the system widget. These are pretty high level calls such as : drawx a combobox with such and such properties at this position in reference to this frame.
AWT/SWT only uses low level calls (probably as low as : draw this pixel at x,y with this color) and recreates all the widgets "from scratch". And if you ever have the time, go download the source code of java on sun's website (there is a community edition to download for free ) and take a look at the implementation of swings components, no wonder they are sluggish. I won't even get started on the focus management of swing which is "weird" to say the least.
I agree too.
And you will also soon notice that once you have taken a good sleep pattern you actually work better at _day_
Think also of all the time you will "create" by being almost instantly efficient when you wake up in the morning. That is one case when "better do it today than tomorrow" is wrong actually. Getting regular sleep _is_ the most important.
Accordinf to a french reporter, the USA haven't signed some La Haye agreements which would enable USA citizen to be judged by an international tribunal. Therefore an american citizen has to be judged by an american tribunal. How ever it seems that if this is true they can't ask the international trubinal of La haye to judge Saddam
If this is true, then saddam should be judged in Iraq.
well I don't know if it's true, I haven't been able to find the agreements the reporter referred to. International law is not too well documented for the comment nerd.
You forget a big point.
Even if IntelliJ is one of the best tools around, it can't be fashionnable as there is no open source version of it (or at least all I could find was a 30 days limited demo version).
Today, open source _is_ fashion. Companies and people ask more and more for Open Source. Whether they are or not related to computer programming (maybe even more so if they aren't).
Additionnaly it seems that community support has become an important requirement for such tools as IDE. And I personally agree with this last point. I think that having at least a community edition for non commercial use is a good way to get the best of both ways.
Why not have earth recycle the wastes for us ?
Burying it in subduction zones should do the trick. wouldn't it take the wastes even further down in the mantle where they won't bother anyone?
I know the process is slow, but even so it _is_ faster than waiting for the most dangerous wastes to be harmless.
I second that.
I would love to see such a section go live.
Actually I just checked the sun link you provide and still couldn't find an apparent PPC JVM from sun. I also checked the supported systems page from sun for its JVM and it seems to be confirmed that PPC isn't supported directly from sun.
As for the Apple JVM, I can't test it directly provided I don't own a mac but, the 1.4.2 JVM offered by Apple is a developer preview. It may be as good and as stable as sun's but there are no warranty about it.
Therefore the "Write once, run anywhere" credo is pretty flawed when it comes to face the real world. Sun's JVM may run on a PPC in x86 emulated mode but it's slow as hell (A friend of mine, who is a mac user, showed it to me while we were arguing about java)
Thanks for your explanations.
I think the FSF makes it perfectly clear that they don't like the LGPL. As for the rest, I am mostly documenting myself now as I wish to understand what these licenses really mean. I use for myself some tools distributed, under either the GPL or the LGPL and I want to make sure I understand fully what their licensing implies before I am asked about it in a company (not gonna happen for some time so I should have enough time to get to know what I may be asked to talk about).
It is now more obvious to me why the file bk-3.0.1-x86-static-linux.bin mentionned in BitKeeper's Products.Downloads.html page is nowhere to be found in the Download section (you have to fill a form to get the login and the pass). They may be in the process of removing it afterthe revisionnists interpretation you mention (I am not aware of these being relatively new to the problem)
Please somebody point out the weak link in my reasonning. I can feel it is warped but can't fail it.
And Section 6 of the LGPL states
Considering this, can the BitKeeper license really forbid reverse-engineering, and still be allowed to use the GNU C Library ?
I am but a lowly CS student trying to follow the subtleties of software licenses battles, not a lawyer, and my not being a native english speaker may have made me misunderstand the problem.
No they won't, they will just use the pistons as thermal dissipators for their 4GHz clocked 3GHz Itaniums or Opterons
This is both right and wrong, though it is true that to create hydrogen we have to input energy, there is a way to use hydrogen that generates much more energy than what was used to create it.
It is called Hydrogen fusion
Even though considering our current technology level we do not control fusion and therefore can't use it in daily applications. I really think that that's the way to go.
IIRC hyrogen fusion generates heat (lots) and helium which can the be reused or even burnt. The main problem is : how to keep it cool enough to be controlled and hot enough to keep fusion going. Some propose tores of plasma
Used in this way, hydrogen IS an energy source, producing much more energy than was stored in it in the first place.
In my perfect world H fusion plant generate enough electricity to power all the electrolysis plants you need, thus allowing the replacement of the oil based economy by an hydrogen based one, much cleaner and reusable.
OTOH, if it's a multiuser computer, you're not likely to dual boot Windows and Linux anyway. :)
And yet, that happens more and more, my school (france) now has all its pc workstations on dual boot NT4/debian. And I heard a few other plans for universities to do so too.
However, the problem in these places is solved either by some kind of netowrk filesystem that allows users to acces their directory from any os (samba, nfs,...) so one might want to try this, but they also offer some kind of webmail system so that users don't have to do these kind of dirty hacks just to have a consistent mail system.
At home I also use IMAP, it is just great, it's a shame its so hard to find a good graphical (I come from windows world so I do like my graphical app sometime) imap client for linux (sylpheed I tried and don't like, which leaves mozilla-mail and that is what I call heavy taking 2mins just to check mail, I use it anyway, but I can't wait for minotaur).
This is different in the way that LGP is already in for publishing the game when it is completed.
.. and so what? If LGP realy wants tu push Linux games they must know they will have to make a few sacrifices at the beginning. Afteward if they play it well, they will 'own' the linux game market
They won't have to fight their way through publishing companies to find one that will find their project insteresting among the hundreds such companies must receive each month
In addition, there is a high porbability that as soon as they have something with a shape, they will get subventions from LGP to help finish it
I am an idealist
I don't see any problem here, all you have to do is convert every single image whether it be a single or coupled to others in a video in ASCII art
that would be impossible since that case should never happen.
Imagine what the coverage would be at night when most of the users don't use their devices.
As is said in the article, every user that connects improves the coverage, but any user that disconnects worsens it
add to this that majors and movie studio will go crazy after reading the article and might well be the first to buy the technology to burry it ASAP
Add to this that routing/relaying DOES use bandwidth so probably you will never see the announced 6Mps or 400Mbps, as i understand it what u will get is 6Mbps shared badwidth and though that is more than enough for a lot of users just using email and browsing the web, file transfers require a lot more than this.
It seems that the digital revolution is reaching the last places it had not yet conquered, whatever the djs use to mix/beatmatch/... their mp3s, doesn't matter. I don't think there is any analog effect that can't be reproduced digitally. I hope the next revolution in djing will be more video oriented ...
what i mean there is that if mixing/beatmatching/... all the usual dj stuff is made easier, Djs will try something more advanced in matching video and sound. I am aware of few djs actually doing this and even fewer doing something really complex with it .
And yet if you ever tried to adapt your milkdrop effects to match songs you will know that the effect is really great. (even better but harder try it with g-force)
milkdrop and gforce are winamp plugins but there are equivalent for xmms and others.
remember the story that ran about mems and empty screens :4 &mode=nested&tid=137 :)
and then merging these streams in a dual stream each on a projector and then you get stereoscopy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/01/23225
now with these it will probably reduce a lot the price for the monitors, and for goggles too, but more important if what was said in the discussion is true even the price for the cameras will go down by quite a lot, if so then using even 9 cams to get a perfet 3D video stream will be fine
lets dream of a projeting column which you just have to look at at the right angle and you get 3D display of whatever you want video,images,your desktop(which is like hard drive, the more space you have the more space you need)...
well lets stop dreaming?
I personally use Wincvs and plink to do the actual cvs operations and I use a public/private key pair and pagent to avoid any nasty password prompt :i d=766&group_id=1
It has been working perfectly for a few months now.
You can find the documentation you need to set this up there
http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_ssh.htm
or there
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?doc
in any case if you want to avoid any such error as you describe I higly recommend you use the private/public key pair and an agent.
Does anyone know how much equipement you need to create these carbon nanotubes. I talde with one of my teacher, who was trying to find a new utility to my school's old white room. But couldn't because of budgetary problems. Now if most of the equipement is already there and there is only a few things to add to create nanotubes, that could be a great idea. Maybe we could be among the first to build a carbon nanotube based transistor and then chip and then who knows ..