Even if that were to happen tommorow, most of the linux users would buy nvidia cards, creating an uphill battle for ATI to gain marketshare. No, I think that ATI is counting on linux not being a gaming market, cause they'd lose out if it became one. If they cared about even a potential, or future linxu market they'd be playing nice right now, it wouldn't even cost much to improve thier linux drivers.
There is starting to be alot of fusion of CGI into anime these days. Like for impressive scenary, or scenes that have alot of geometry in them, while the characters(humans, animals whatever) are still of analog style.
my palm m125. Not color, and the res is probably lower than you want, but it suits my needs perfectly. I just pop in some good rechargeable batterries, and it lasts for about a week when reading every day. Btw, weasel reader can't be beat for ebook reading software on the palm, and you can convert pretty much any format into it's format.
" Games need good vidcard drivers and that requires getting ati and nvidia on board with optimized linux drivers Though this last point is somthing of a chicken/egg problem as is the next point."
I can't speak for Ati, but nvidia drivers are easy to install, and have performance about equal to the windows drivers(depending on the game tested it can be a bit faster or slower, and the slower games are probably the fault of an unoptimised port).
But without these things, the employers would likely be facing the guillotine quite often. The government creates stability by giving quality of life to the masses, and safety to the rich.
Yeah, that offtopic mod was pretty lame, especially since my later post didn't receive the same treatment, or worse. Now THIS post right here is genuinely offtopic!
Yeah, well I DID write it before you, my connection just went out in the middle of submit, and resumed later. Sorry if I didn't take the precautio of pressing the stop button before I reconnected.
As someone new to GFX editing, and having used photoshop, and gimp, for about 5 hours each, I can say that The Gimp interface isn't as bad as all these long time photoshop users always whine about. I can do the same tasks in each app, with about the same difficulty and time taken. The Gimp is all I need, not being a pro. I'll probably get flamed for this by all the people who can't except that an experience contrary to thiers is possible, and the people who have been using photoshop so long, that they don't realize how much time it's taken them to gain thier profficiency and intuitive feel for it's UI.
Strange how all the people modded up so far have listed windows apps. Maybe slashdot isn't the monoculture you believe(or maybe it is, but on the windows side like most of the world).
Anyway, here is my Linux list(no windows list, sorry.);
I'll consider bash, the gnu toolchain etc as part of the system.
1)X
2)fluxbox
3)xmms
4)kde
5)firefox
6)gaim
7)Quake3
8)The Gimp
9)OpenOffice.org
10)Kdevelop
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11)Xchat
12)Ltris
13)Inkscape
14)K3b
15)Gnome
You sure do worship the current economic system don't you. Of what use is the purchase, production, transport, transaction, and thier economic spinoffs? I've always thought that the only sane way to judge usefulness is in terms of the species, afterall survival and expansion/improvement of the species is a very strong natural instinct in non brainwashed, non sociopathic individuals, coming right after self-preservation in most people(insert debate about viral contents of our DNA here). I have no loyalty at all to the economy, but I do much more to help the species than most millionairs, heck with my high quality DNA even the act of reproducing enriches the future of humanity more than most people ever will. You don't fool anybody with your advocacy of death to people who don't want to serve your ends.
I've seen mid range p4's choke just booting up windowsXP, and people forced to upgrade to run the OS. This was of coarse due to huge levels of spyware/crapware , but still I think that people will always want a faster machine whether it is driven by gaming or not.
True. Does the fish really recongnize it's own mortality, does a fish try to squirm away out of discomfort, instinct, or actual fear of death. Thanks for bringing up the quality of metaphysical discussion here at slashdot, although valid sometimes the paradoxi of soviet russia get a little worn out.
If that were to happen, couldn't the OSS projects effected act only in countries without software patents, and let the ones in facist countries take responsability as a user, but not risk the project as a whole?
Murdock is also a content creator(or owner of content creation companies) thus this may be a bad thing, it may come with unrealistic restrictions that will sour the average consumer to the whole idea of pvr.
" Honestly readers, which is a more pressing problem? The evil genius residing in Seatle, or the thousands of people dieing in Ethiopia? "
These people specialize in linux, and they donated thier time and knowledge, they gave what they have to give, what have you done to help those people? As well, if the Ethiopian government can save liscence money by using linux in it's operations, then that's more money they can spend on more humanitarian causes.
Actually this is just in time. In the article(I actually read it!) it says that ethiopia will in the not too distant future have to abide by copyright law, and thata their government can't afford to pay for all the liscenses they would need right now, and also, if they look for alternatives in the future, it would be nice for there to actually be one present, unlike in the IT industry development of the richer nations over a decade ago.
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Even if that were to happen tommorow, most of the linux users would buy nvidia cards, creating an uphill battle for ATI to gain marketshare. No, I think that ATI is counting on linux not being a gaming market, cause they'd lose out if it became one. If they cared about even a potential, or future linxu market they'd be playing nice right now, it wouldn't even cost much to improve thier linux drivers.
There is starting to be alot of fusion of CGI into anime these days. Like for impressive scenary, or scenes that have alot of geometry in them, while the characters(humans, animals whatever) are still of analog style.
my palm m125. Not color, and the res is probably lower than you want, but it suits my needs perfectly. I just pop in some good rechargeable batterries, and it lasts for about a week when reading every day. Btw, weasel reader can't be beat for ebook reading software on the palm, and you can convert pretty much any format into it's format.
But without these things, the employers would likely be facing the guillotine quite often. The government creates stability by giving quality of life to the masses, and safety to the rich.
Yeah, that offtopic mod was pretty lame, especially since my later post didn't receive the same treatment, or worse. Now THIS post right here is genuinely offtopic!
Gimp 2.0 has a top menu to access features just like photoshop, in addition to the right click method.
Yeah, well I DID write it before you, my connection just went out in the middle of submit, and resumed later. Sorry if I didn't take the precautio of pressing the stop button before I reconnected.
How about Achilles?
As someone new to GFX editing, and having used photoshop, and gimp, for about 5 hours each, I can say that The Gimp interface isn't as bad as all these long time photoshop users always whine about. I can do the same tasks in each app, with about the same difficulty and time taken. The Gimp is all I need, not being a pro. I'll probably get flamed for this by all the people who can't except that an experience contrary to thiers is possible, and the people who have been using photoshop so long, that they don't realize how much time it's taken them to gain thier profficiency and intuitive feel for it's UI.
Strange how all the people modded up so far have listed windows apps. Maybe slashdot isn't the monoculture you believe(or maybe it is, but on the windows side like most of the world). Anyway, here is my Linux list(no windows list, sorry.);
I'll consider bash, the gnu toolchain etc as part of the system.
1)X
2)fluxbox
3)xmms
4)kde
5)firefox
6)gaim
7)Quake3
8)The Gimp
9)OpenOffice.org
10)Kdevelop
-----
11)Xchat
12)Ltris
13)Inkscape
14)K3b
15)Gnome
You sure do worship the current economic system don't you. Of what use is the purchase, production, transport, transaction, and thier economic spinoffs? I've always thought that the only sane way to judge usefulness is in terms of the species, afterall survival and expansion/improvement of the species is a very strong natural instinct in non brainwashed, non sociopathic individuals, coming right after self-preservation in most people(insert debate about viral contents of our DNA here). I have no loyalty at all to the economy, but I do much more to help the species than most millionairs, heck with my high quality DNA even the act of reproducing enriches the future of humanity more than most people ever will. You don't fool anybody with your advocacy of death to people who don't want to serve your ends.
I've seen mid range p4's choke just booting up windowsXP, and people forced to upgrade to run the OS. This was of coarse due to huge levels of spyware/crapware , but still I think that people will always want a faster machine whether it is driven by gaming or not.
True. Does the fish really recongnize it's own mortality, does a fish try to squirm away out of discomfort, instinct, or actual fear of death. Thanks for bringing up the quality of metaphysical discussion here at slashdot, although valid sometimes the paradoxi of soviet russia get a little worn out.
Integration to MSN messenger, and being accesible by the default start page on IE, seem to be the most common reasons I hear.
If that were to happen, couldn't the OSS projects effected act only in countries without software patents, and let the ones in facist countries take responsability as a user, but not risk the project as a whole?
It seems to me like thier are alot of xbox and halo fans here at slashdot. Not unanimous support of coarse.
Murdock is also a content creator(or owner of content creation companies) thus this may be a bad thing, it may come with unrealistic restrictions that will sour the average consumer to the whole idea of pvr.
How can anybody feel sorry for apple though? They don't even have an iTunes version available for linux.
My soundcard works fine in windows98, and linux, but not in XP, please don't make false definitive statements.
Dennis Miller turned conservative? I've never seen a more hateful, less funny "comedian" ever.
Those people don't get modded up though, now do they.
So should slashdot get rid of anonymous posting? Obviously nothing bad could come of it right?
Actually this is just in time. In the article(I actually read it!) it says that ethiopia will in the not too distant future have to abide by copyright law, and thata their government can't afford to pay for all the liscenses they would need right now, and also, if they look for alternatives in the future, it would be nice for there to actually be one present, unlike in the IT industry development of the richer nations over a decade ago.