Programming a modern GPU is a lot easier on an open source system than on a closed one. I think that most position focus on making Windows or OSX drivers. This is not fanboyism, this is pragmatism : if you have the source code of the OS, it is far easier to understand what causes which problem.
Seriously, your privacy is in the hands of your friends of friends. Can anyone guarantee that all his friends of friends are "sophisticated" users?
No matter how hard you try, people with a camera will take shots of you and tag you or will talk about you. No settings will save you from that (I believe you can now deactivate tagging of your name, right?)
Facebook privacy model is broken. Quite possibly by design. If you want privacy about tour friends, your opinions, your sexuality, DO. NOT. USE. FACEBOOK.
Well, we do want an open source system, for a variety of legitimate reasons. NVIDIA's edge is in hardware design, not software design. I, for one, would be happy that they provided an open source driver that give me access to all the 1 year old functionalities of their cards. That would not make them lose any edge.
Also, a thing that NVIDIA probably fails to realize is that open sourcing their drivers will result in far more developers on it, therefore will probably raise their quality.
I honestly doubt that ATI could get an edge from looking at the code of NVIDIA's drivers. Maybe some small marginal improvement but nothing that would improve their hardware.
I think that this argument has been mainly FUD. Linux developers are a small population but they are opinion leaders in the market. The first company that goes open source will probably receive a popularity boost that will offset the little "edge" that they fear losing. Right now, this is Intel, despite very inferior hardwares, that is becoming more popular because of their 100% open source drivers.
I love the irony of saying that high frequency trade is a very good thing while stock markets still close at night. Apparently, a 12 hours timestep wouldn't be that much of a problem...
I loved also how they suspended Apple's quotation before announcing the death of Steve Jobs. It was a proof that the authorities know that a high frequency is a threat to rational decision-making.
Canonical is the missing link, the "last mile" we have been wishing for decades in the linux world. Yes, they "only" pickup the good packages, they "only" make sure that your experience is smooth, and they "only" do some marketing. And these things are the "only" things that linux was lacking to become a success on desktops/laptops
You know, doomsday Cassandras who say that the peak oil will cause a lot of troubles are usually shut down by the argument that "we will find something". Renewables do not cut it (too irregular, unable to absorb nightly peaks even if you are very optimist on efficiency improvements) so it had to be fusion.
If NIF fails, that is one out of three fusion ways that failed. Now we have to put our hopes on ITER (which should not produce any energy before 2030, optimist, on schedule estimation) or Z-pinch machines, which are awesome but do not come with a predictable schedule.
If both fail or if the peak oil hits us hard early (One day, Arabia's oil production will begin to decrease and things will get pretty nasty) we have no backup plans.
I doubt he enjoys being prisoner in an embassy. I doubt he enjoys being unable to ever have sex again without knowing if this is a CIA trap. I doubt he enjoys his wikileaks organization to be labelled half-terrorist and having lost a few millions of donations.
He doesn't enjoy spotlight. He needs it to survive, because otherwise, he will die in an accident without anyone noticing.
There is not enough energy in the universe to store all the informations of the universe in a computer. If you focus on some information (human minds for instance) of special interest to you, on the other hand...
Well, last time I bought a PC (6 months ago) this was about the price factor : PCs of similar performances were half the price of the Apple product.
If you want to recreate the experience of a nice overpriced computer in exchange of slick design while funding an unethical company, Sony should satisfy you. They are usually more expensive but a bit more relialable. And still well below the Apple price (in Japan at least)
You can copy the reciepe all you want. Only some names are controlled because they are tied to some places of production. You can totally make a camembert in USA but you have to call it differently.
Er... you must be atlking about the ICANN and the DNS hierarchy. The US have a control over that because until the wikileaks affair they have done a pretty good job at not meddling with it too much. But this is just a small comfort to have a centralized DNS register. If the US begin to "regulate" that too heavily, be sure that several other registers will appear. It will be a bit more messy but it will remain free.
Sounds trollish but I am serious : come in France, or any European country with sane dispositions. VLC could probably not have existed as a US project, or could not have read DVDs.
Show the US government that software patents hurt innovation so much that it causes migration of innovative firms.
In an interview, one of his team member explained that he was sent to a motion picture "Le Roi et l'Oiseau" to take high-speed pictures of some sequences to understand how the animation could work the way it worked.
When they later said that to the animation studio. They were incredibely flattered. Good to know that now he would be considered a criminal.
When Edison made himself an asshole by enforing heavy IP rights on every movie producers, they fled east coast into Hollywood and spurred creativity. But now the planet is running out of places to run to...
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No. Don't. Organize. lobby. If you can't give time, give money to the applicable non-profit : EFF in US, Quadrature du Net in France.
Our ancestors fought and die for democracy. We have it much easier : we just have to work one or two hours a week to maintain it.
Programming a modern GPU is a lot easier on an open source system than on a closed one. I think that most position focus on making Windows or OSX drivers. This is not fanboyism, this is pragmatism : if you have the source code of the OS, it is far easier to understand what causes which problem.
I disagree. AMD has had open source drivers (and specs) for years now
For old cards only. That is their problem. Old cards are very well supported though.
Tell them to not use facebook.
Seriously, your privacy is in the hands of your friends of friends. Can anyone guarantee that all his friends of friends are "sophisticated" users?
No matter how hard you try, people with a camera will take shots of you and tag you or will talk about you. No settings will save you from that (I believe you can now deactivate tagging of your name, right?)
Facebook privacy model is broken. Quite possibly by design. If you want privacy about tour friends, your opinions, your sexuality, DO. NOT. USE. FACEBOOK.
These things are promised since decades, progress have been made, but get there first, they are reachable and world-changing.
Well, we do want an open source system, for a variety of legitimate reasons. NVIDIA's edge is in hardware design, not software design. I, for one, would be happy that they provided an open source driver that give me access to all the 1 year old functionalities of their cards. That would not make them lose any edge.
Also, a thing that NVIDIA probably fails to realize is that open sourcing their drivers will result in far more developers on it, therefore will probably raise their quality.
I honestly doubt that ATI could get an edge from looking at the code of NVIDIA's drivers. Maybe some small marginal improvement but nothing that would improve their hardware.
I think that this argument has been mainly FUD. Linux developers are a small population but they are opinion leaders in the market. The first company that goes open source will probably receive a popularity boost that will offset the little "edge" that they fear losing. Right now, this is Intel, despite very inferior hardwares, that is becoming more popular because of their 100% open source drivers.
I love the irony of saying that high frequency trade is a very good thing while stock markets still close at night. Apparently, a 12 hours timestep wouldn't be that much of a problem...
I loved also how they suspended Apple's quotation before announcing the death of Steve Jobs. It was a proof that the authorities know that a high frequency is a threat to rational decision-making.
Canonical is the missing link, the "last mile" we have been wishing for decades in the linux world. Yes, they "only" pickup the good packages, they "only" make sure that your experience is smooth, and they "only" do some marketing. And these things are the "only" things that linux was lacking to become a success on desktops/laptops
And the desktop PCs will become again what they were 20 years ago : a tool for programmers and tinkerers. The price will probably go up also.
A designer I know handles strips of "dislike" stickers, to put on advertisements in the street. I have a roll in my bag...
Any idea?
You know, doomsday Cassandras who say that the peak oil will cause a lot of troubles are usually shut down by the argument that "we will find something". Renewables do not cut it (too irregular, unable to absorb nightly peaks even if you are very optimist on efficiency improvements) so it had to be fusion.
If NIF fails, that is one out of three fusion ways that failed. Now we have to put our hopes on ITER (which should not produce any energy before 2030, optimist, on schedule estimation) or Z-pinch machines, which are awesome but do not come with a predictable schedule.
If both fail or if the peak oil hits us hard early (One day, Arabia's oil production will begin to decrease and things will get pretty nasty) we have no backup plans.
I doubt he enjoys being prisoner in an embassy. I doubt he enjoys being unable to ever have sex again without knowing if this is a CIA trap. I doubt he enjoys his wikileaks organization to be labelled half-terrorist and having lost a few millions of donations.
He doesn't enjoy spotlight. He needs it to survive, because otherwise, he will die in an accident without anyone noticing.
I totally agree, we should need. But we do need.
I thought at this point is had become obvious that quantum cryptography was just a nice scam to fund fundamental physics research?
Well then you can argue that any system is a simulation of itself, don't you?
There is not enough energy in the universe to store all the informations of the universe in a computer.
If you focus on some information (human minds for instance) of special interest to you, on the other hand...
Well, last time I bought a PC (6 months ago) this was about the price factor : PCs of similar performances were half the price of the Apple product.
If you want to recreate the experience of a nice overpriced computer in exchange of slick design while funding an unethical company, Sony should satisfy you. They are usually more expensive but a bit more relialable. And still well below the Apple price (in Japan at least)
You can copy the reciepe all you want. Only some names are controlled because they are tied to some places of production. You can totally make a camembert in USA but you have to call it differently.
Er... you must be atlking about the ICANN and the DNS hierarchy. The US have a control over that because until the wikileaks affair they have done a pretty good job at not meddling with it too much. But this is just a small comfort to have a centralized DNS register. If the US begin to "regulate" that too heavily, be sure that several other registers will appear. It will be a bit more messy but it will remain free.
Without fees. I have a bitcoin account (takes 5 minutes to set up, really) I can do the rest by myself if it would cost me 50$ for a 2000$ transfer.
"A nun, a gardener, and a house painter go into a nuclear facility, guess what is the joke?"
"Security."
Sounds trollish but I am serious : come in France, or any European country with sane dispositions. VLC could probably not have existed as a US project, or could not have read DVDs.
Show the US government that software patents hurt innovation so much that it causes migration of innovative firms.
In an interview, one of his team member explained that he was sent to a motion picture "Le Roi et l'Oiseau" to take high-speed pictures of some sequences to understand how the animation could work the way it worked.
When they later said that to the animation studio. They were incredibely flattered. Good to know that now he would be considered a criminal.
When Edison made himself an asshole by enforing heavy IP rights on every movie producers, they fled east coast into Hollywood and spurred creativity. But now the planet is running out of places to run to...
You have expressed your opposition to software patents. Do you have a plan?