They sell cards based on minute performance boosts over their competition, less than a percent in some marginal cases. These differences are usually found in their drivers, which improve over time. Check out THG to see this in action. You'll notice they always mention the drivers used, and occassionally will drop back to a previous driver for better performance.
If you make them open source the driver code then it levels their playing field with the competetion (who are not open source). The competition can optimise their own code based on NVidias code factoring. If ATI can get just a single percent improvement over NVidia they will automatically sell more units. This is how NVidia stands to lose over open sourcing the drivers. Me, personally, I don't mind a little closed source on my box if it means I can play Unreal Tournament "The way it was meant to be played"; on GNU/Linux:-)
lol! Sorry, I keep forgetting about our new OS X brethren. It's great to have the Apple clan as part of the *nix family. Let's hope some of Apple's design skillz wears off on *nix, because that is the only area in which we are currently weak.
Don't get me wrong, I too have fond memories of playing Sopwith in shades of amber using a CGA emulator, but frankly I think your rose-tinted spectacles are interfering with your hindsight.;)
Perhaps my glasses have a tinge of rose to them, but I do seem to recall the herc card as having better text modes than the plain old VGA. The resolution is only half the game, the other part is the quality of the outputs, and the fonts used for text display. I know it crapped all over the CGA/EGA boards, and am pretty certain I preferred it to the VGA, even though VGA had colour and graphics. Herc had better text display, it was sharper, clearer. Of course, I could be completely mistaken, because it was the late 80's after all;->
If it was easier, or better (for me), then I would have done that. BTW MDI refers to window layout within a single app, so your suggestion wouldn't really work in any case, but I get what you're saying.
The reason it works for me is spatial. I know when I want the command line it's in the top left corner screen, mail is top right, web is bottom left, all others bottom right. Easy:->
I have a logitec webcam that the bastaards stopped developing drivers for after Win95. I've basically had to bin it, even though it was quite decent because I can't get driver support.
I have a theory: lowered barriers of entry. *nix has always been harder, requiring more work, less spoonfeeding, and more study to get good at. Every time I scratch my *nix itch I find more and more arcana under the surface. By contrast, Windows is infamously easy to set up and admin (a single box). The graphical tools and good integration (or lowered software choice) can make even a noob feel like an admin. The use of wizards makes more difficult tasks, like setting up a CA seem like they are easier. Windows does this to a lot of admin tasks, but it doesn't scale out to multiple machines very well.
With all the companies cashing in on training we then get a flood of barely trained admins who fill up the workplace. Because there is a surplus of these Windows admins business' believe it is easier to get a good (subjective) Windows admin, rather than a rare, but usually considered more capable, *nix admin. This drives them more and more into Windows territory, since once they spike that first rush of Windows into their infrastructure, it's hard for them to stop, even when they realise they are causing themselves long term damage.
We saw this effect with the release of VB, making any old Joe think he was a coder, and remember the flood of completely shit VB craplets that soon followed. It's this same principle, lowered barriers of entry lead to lowered quality.
Hah, VGA (Video Graphics Array, not Very Good Adapter) is primitive in comparision to a lovely Hercules mono card. Now that was real luxury. Better text fonts, sharper image, ahhh memories.
I'll second that one. With my browser on one desk, mail client on another, a terminal on a third, and misc apps on the fourth, I can have heaps more real estate for each program. I reserve a little strip down the side for Gaim and put that on all desks. Hey presto, a really usable desk. My only complaint is I haven't worked out (read, haven't looked for) the key combo under KDE to switch between the desks. Alt-tab is local to the desk, so it is less useful to me now since 3 of the desks only hold 1 main program. Any suggestions from the Slash crowd?
Witches were herbalists, spiritualists, natural healers, and all around wise women. They do not, and have never consorted with the devil. They worship nature spirits, if any at all. Christians, simply don't like people who have different beliefs, so the Christians tortured and murdered them to protect their own interests.Galileo wanted to steal faith from 'true believers'.Galileo was a scientist and an atronomer. Once again his beliefs threatened the hegemony of the church. The church believed the earth was the centre of the solar system and he believed it was the sun.
'Blacks' wanted to steal the 'obvious superiority' away from the 'whites'.
Hmmm, too hot an issue to even post on I think. Tempers will flare.
Americans wanted to steal about half of the British Empire.
We've seen what you've done with that half, and on behalf of the British Empire I would like to say "you are welcome to keep it".
2. In the right circumstances, I fully support preemptive war...
Expanding on this idea, the person who you shoot at, who may or may not be armed, is going to be seriously wounded or killed by your actions. An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. Too many innocent and often unarmed people, mostly black or minority, have been shot by people such as yourself (grandparent post) who are only too willing to justify pulling a trigger in the name of...whatever cause you feel you are defending.
4. Avoid torturing? Good advice, and probably followed by the vast, overwhelming majority. But defining torture... and whether it's ever permissible is a great debate.
Hmmf, the Clinton defense, define sex. Ok, you've got to stop watching 24 and start to base your opinions on how life is in the real world. You can't undo the torture if the person is innocent. You taint yourself and your cause by stooping to the use of techniques like torture. These are the very reasons why America invaded Iraq, supposedly, remember - Axis of Evil and all that. Torture is never, under any circumstances either legal or moraaly acceptable.
Let's explore the concept with a more realistic situation than the nuclear bomb which is often trotted out as justification for the mental/physical humiliation, degradation and injury inflicted on others. Scenario: terror attack on London underground target. Actually, this happens quite often so it's a reasonable scenario...trust me, I live here, and use the underground daily so I have a stake in this. Say for instance you know a group called The Irish Arab Reformation Group or the IAR for short is planning an attack in a few weeks time. When do you start the torture? Do you get onto it now, to leave yourself some room to breathe or are you going to start pulling fingernails and using sleep depreivation straight away to weaken your opponent. Perhaps the attack will be moved forward because you have captured some key players now, quick let's break out the torture instruments, it's good enough for Sadaam and co, it's good enough for us.
In Europe we abide by the Geneva convention and other international laws on human rights and abuses thereof. We don't ship people off to a foreign country with weak laws on human rights and *then* torture them. Torture can never be justified since it is a tool of the very people you are trying to protect your people from...and from becoming.
Finally, a little Buddhist philosophy to explain why I feel strongly about this "What we do to others, we do to ourselves." We are all connected.
Careful, they probably already have submarine patents on this very app. I'd disappear if I were you, make a run for Mexico, it's cheaper than being sued by a company with $40billion in the bank.
Your memory seems to be a little fuzzy here. We didn't choose to buy MS DOS. Each PC sold back then was required to be sold with an OS, and that was inevitably either PC-DOS or MS-DOS, with MS-DOS being the one most commonly available. Let me re-iterate, you could not purchase a PC without buying the OS at the time of purchase.
Gates on the other hand, has stated that he is always wondering which garage is going to emit something that will undermine the business. I'm not an apologist for Microsoft. The company has done some stupid things. Just not as consistently as the competition.
The reason he wants to know the location of the garage is so he can start to place pressure on the competition and preferably squeeze them out of the market any way he can. He is actively working against the current "garage" programmers who are working on Linux and other free technologies. Gates is not well known in the market for his good business ethics.
I would hate to then lose my wallet containing said $100 card in it, since it would likely be treated the same as lost cash. A micropayment system that allowed me to spend cash throughout the month, and then billed my Visa at the end of that month would suit me fine. That said, I'm a cheapskate, so would probably just find a free version of the info somewhere online. Why pay for someone to package it nicely, when some 1337 h4x0r has done up a crummy looking speeeelling eros fueled page? Peer to peer is the model for the millenium, and not just file swapping, but knowledge swapping.
so while you sit there at your Linux box saying "no adware in here" the reality is you have no idea whats contained in those files as the actual components that do the decoding of the streams is closed source and will likely never be open.
I feel pretty certain I will be able to tell if it's got adware in it...because...it will display ads. Perhaps you are inferring that we can't tell if it has spyware. All I can say is snort.
Ahem, you don't put $3million into your local WestPac savings account. You place it into an investment portfolio that will yield much better returns than the pittence the bank passes on.
I wish someone would show me a door with 135million dollars behind it. Surely that would be enough compensation, it's more money than I could ever spend in a lifetime.
It's useful in the same way a CRT is useful...you can watch TV on it. I've been saving up for a while in the hope of buying a projector and screen, and this is just the icing on the cake. The advantage of a screen and projector is:
Huge picture
You can roll the screen up when it's not in use
This is pretty much perfect for someone like me who lives in a small London flat, but would like to see a decent sized image when watching their DVD collection.
The Chinese think it is unlucky to be facing with your back to the door of the room. It also shows you to be of low standing. It is bad feng shui, so re-arrange your desk to face the door. You'll notice the VP and other higher officials all face the door - you should do the same.
I solved the problem the easy and reliable way. I just registered my own domain and set up my own SMTP server. I control the domain so it can never change, and I can have any and every email address I like. I got a fixed IP from my ISP (Bulldog, excellent service if you're in London) and set up a DNS entry to point to my home machine. Voila, an email address that I can guarantee will always be hosted the way I want it to be. Granted, this is way too much work for the average Joe, but it is ideal for techies.
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If you make them open source the driver code then it levels their playing field with the competetion (who are not open source). The competition can optimise their own code based on NVidias code factoring. If ATI can get just a single percent improvement over NVidia they will automatically sell more units. This is how NVidia stands to lose over open sourcing the drivers. Me, personally, I don't mind a little closed source on my box if it means I can play Unreal Tournament "The way it was meant to be played"; on GNU/Linux :-)
lol! Sorry, I keep forgetting about our new OS X brethren. It's great to have the Apple clan as part of the *nix family. Let's hope some of Apple's design skillz wears off on *nix, because that is the only area in which we are currently weak.
You believe correct-) Forgive my outburst of extreme laziness, but it's simply one of those things I haven't gotten round to googling yet.
Perhaps my glasses have a tinge of rose to them, but I do seem to recall the herc card as having better text modes than the plain old VGA. The resolution is only half the game, the other part is the quality of the outputs, and the fonts used for text display. I know it crapped all over the CGA/EGA boards, and am pretty certain I preferred it to the VGA, even though VGA had colour and graphics. Herc had better text display, it was sharper, clearer. Of course, I could be completely mistaken, because it was the late 80's after all ;->
The reason it works for me is spatial. I know when I want the command line it's in the top left corner screen, mail is top right, web is bottom left, all others bottom right. Easy :->
I have a logitec webcam that the bastaards stopped developing drivers for after Win95. I've basically had to bin it, even though it was quite decent because I can't get driver support.
KDM, GDM, Postfix, etc.
With all the companies cashing in on training we then get a flood of barely trained admins who fill up the workplace. Because there is a surplus of these Windows admins business' believe it is easier to get a good (subjective) Windows admin, rather than a rare, but usually considered more capable, *nix admin. This drives them more and more into Windows territory, since once they spike that first rush of Windows into their infrastructure, it's hard for them to stop, even when they realise they are causing themselves long term damage.
We saw this effect with the release of VB, making any old Joe think he was a coder, and remember the flood of completely shit VB craplets that soon followed. It's this same principle, lowered barriers of entry lead to lowered quality.
Hah, VGA (Video Graphics Array, not Very Good Adapter) is primitive in comparision to a lovely Hercules mono card. Now that was real luxury. Better text fonts, sharper image, ahhh memories.
I'll second that one. With my browser on one desk, mail client on another, a terminal on a third, and misc apps on the fourth, I can have heaps more real estate for each program. I reserve a little strip down the side for Gaim and put that on all desks. Hey presto, a really usable desk. My only complaint is I haven't worked out (read, haven't looked for) the key combo under KDE to switch between the desks. Alt-tab is local to the desk, so it is less useful to me now since 3 of the desks only hold 1 main program. Any suggestions from the Slash crowd?
Witches were herbalists, spiritualists, natural healers, and all around wise women. They do not, and have never consorted with the devil. They worship nature spirits, if any at all. Christians, simply don't like people who have different beliefs, so the Christians tortured and murdered them to protect their own interests.Galileo wanted to steal faith from 'true believers'.Galileo was a scientist and an atronomer. Once again his beliefs threatened the hegemony of the church. The church believed the earth was the centre of the solar system and he believed it was the sun.
'Blacks' wanted to steal the 'obvious superiority' away from the 'whites'.
Hmmm, too hot an issue to even post on I think. Tempers will flare.
Americans wanted to steal about half of the British Empire.
We've seen what you've done with that half, and on behalf of the British Empire I would like to say "you are welcome to keep it".
Expanding on this idea, the person who you shoot at, who may or may not be armed, is going to be seriously wounded or killed by your actions. An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. Too many innocent and often unarmed people, mostly black or minority, have been shot by people such as yourself (grandparent post) who are only too willing to justify pulling a trigger in the name of...whatever cause you feel you are defending.
4. Avoid torturing? Good advice, and probably followed by the vast, overwhelming majority. But defining torture... and whether it's ever permissible is a great debate.
Hmmf, the Clinton defense, define sex. Ok, you've got to stop watching 24 and start to base your opinions on how life is in the real world. You can't undo the torture if the person is innocent. You taint yourself and your cause by stooping to the use of techniques like torture. These are the very reasons why America invaded Iraq, supposedly, remember - Axis of Evil and all that. Torture is never, under any circumstances either legal or moraaly acceptable.
Let's explore the concept with a more realistic situation than the nuclear bomb which is often trotted out as justification for the mental/physical humiliation, degradation and injury inflicted on others. Scenario: terror attack on London underground target. Actually, this happens quite often so it's a reasonable scenario...trust me, I live here, and use the underground daily so I have a stake in this. Say for instance you know a group called The Irish Arab Reformation Group or the IAR for short is planning an attack in a few weeks time. When do you start the torture? Do you get onto it now, to leave yourself some room to breathe or are you going to start pulling fingernails and using sleep depreivation straight away to weaken your opponent. Perhaps the attack will be moved forward because you have captured some key players now, quick let's break out the torture instruments, it's good enough for Sadaam and co, it's good enough for us.
In Europe we abide by the Geneva convention and other international laws on human rights and abuses thereof. We don't ship people off to a foreign country with weak laws on human rights and *then* torture them. Torture can never be justified since it is a tool of the very people you are trying to protect your people from...and from becoming.
Finally, a little Buddhist philosophy to explain why I feel strongly about this "What we do to others, we do to ourselves." We are all connected.
Careful, they probably already have submarine patents on this very app. I'd disappear if I were you, make a run for Mexico, it's cheaper than being sued by a company with $40billion in the bank.
Your memory seems to be a little fuzzy here. We didn't choose to buy MS DOS. Each PC sold back then was required to be sold with an OS, and that was inevitably either PC-DOS or MS-DOS, with MS-DOS being the one most commonly available. Let me re-iterate, you could not purchase a PC without buying the OS at the time of purchase.
The reason he wants to know the location of the garage is so he can start to place pressure on the competition and preferably squeeze them out of the market any way he can. He is actively working against the current "garage" programmers who are working on Linux and other free technologies. Gates is not well known in the market for his good business ethics.
Instead of going out for Dim Sum you stay home and watch DRM $um instead.
I would hate to then lose my wallet containing said $100 card in it, since it would likely be treated the same as lost cash. A micropayment system that allowed me to spend cash throughout the month, and then billed my Visa at the end of that month would suit me fine. That said, I'm a cheapskate, so would probably just find a free version of the info somewhere online. Why pay for someone to package it nicely, when some 1337 h4x0r has done up a crummy looking speeeelling eros fueled page? Peer to peer is the model for the millenium, and not just file swapping, but knowledge swapping.
Yeh, stop being such a pikey with our modern English.
I feel pretty certain I will be able to tell if it's got adware in it...because...it will display ads. Perhaps you are inferring that we can't tell if it has spyware. All I can say is snort.
Ahem, you don't put $3million into your local WestPac savings account. You place it into an investment portfolio that will yield much better returns than the pittence the bank passes on.
I wish someone would show me a door with 135million dollars behind it. Surely that would be enough compensation, it's more money than I could ever spend in a lifetime.
Huge picture
You can roll the screen up when it's not in use
This is pretty much perfect for someone like me who lives in a small London flat, but would like to see a decent sized image when watching their DVD collection.
The Chinese think it is unlucky to be facing with your back to the door of the room. It also shows you to be of low standing. It is bad feng shui, so re-arrange your desk to face the door. You'll notice the VP and other higher officials all face the door - you should do the same.
Also perfectly legit for you *not* to upgrade to the adware version if it ever gets released. Upgrades are not compulsory you know.
I solved the problem the easy and reliable way. I just registered my own domain and set up my own SMTP server. I control the domain so it can never change, and I can have any and every email address I like. I got a fixed IP from my ISP (Bulldog, excellent service if you're in London) and set up a DNS entry to point to my home machine. Voila, an email address that I can guarantee will always be hosted the way I want it to be. Granted, this is way too much work for the average Joe, but it is ideal for techies.