Anyone remember the Voodoo2's miniGL that was designed from the ground up for Quake2? What's the difference here? We aren't talking about benchmark tampering; they've found a way to optimize their drivers to make Quake3 run faster. Maybe there are geometric instructions that Q3 doesn't make use of that they disable? That would be a good reason for the optimization by executable name; it might not work on other games. Let's not cruxify ATi just yet; they haven't done anything wrong as far as I can tell...
A previous post aptly pointed out that GNU always wants to re-invent the wheel. Linux is fine, but they still want to work on HURD, because Linux isn't made by GNU. KDE is fine, but they still want to work on Gnome, because KDE isn't made by GNU.
You know, this is actually the purpose of GNU, and has always been. This is actually the true spirit of the Free Software Movement, creating the free equivelant of tools that we use everyday. GIMP instead of Photoshop, AbiWord instead of Microsoft Word. Mozilla instead of Internet Explorer. Linux instead of SysV UNIX. XFree86 instead of one of the commercial variants. The list goes on and on and on...
The testing part may not be as easy to disprove, but a blanket patent on the genes for red/green color blindness is impossible due to prior art. Even excluding the living population of this planet, all you would have to do to prove prior art is to find a deceased corpse who had the same color blindness!
Actually, the motherboard is connected to the goldenfingers. On the socket Athlons, there were pins on the datasheets that were marked reserved. When people started playing around with them, they realised that they were the same as the connector on the top of the slot Athlons. The motherboard and BIOS become the goldenfingers device.
Problem: power consumption. It would take only 3 486s to equal the avg power output of an avg Coppermine or Athlon system, but you'd need 12 486s to equal the processing power.
Which brings up another point: having a computer with a CRT in the middle of my studio sort of negates all of the work I've done shielding components and eliminating ground loops. Don't use a CRT then. My weapon of choice to control a Linux/*BSD box is a Palm IIIx with a serial cable and VT100 emulator. I've also got an IBM Z50 WorkPad with a term emulator, but the backlight would prolly kick out EM noise too.
Did anyone see the new job posted at Micro$oft? It was slashdot troll. Only duty is to blindly repost all of their rigged tests any time Linux comes up. Pays $25,000/yr.
I mean, come on. Intel is just pissed off that someone else has better products than they do. AMD's got a faster processor. VIA has a better GTL+ chipset (Apollo 133A). The Joshua could possibly pick up where the Celeron left off. Allowing BX based mobo users an
inexpensive
upgrade path. Joshua should be priced about where Celerons are today. Imagine 8x100.:) BTW, what is the max multiplier on a BX mobo?
Just remember that no major EULA has been tested in court, except under piracy circumstances. And, piracy falls under copyright law. So, most of the clauses of EULAs have not yet been shown to be upheld in court.
I don't think this has anything to do with the current laws, but I don't think you should be able to patent anything you can't create. For instance, you ahould be able to patent an x86 processor design, but not a prime number (it's prime whether or not you discover it), Haley's Comet, the Human Genome (DNA exists whether or not we research it), nuclear resonance, etc. Not that there isn't enough in this world to patent anyway (The method of generating nuclear resonance, a scanner used to analyze the human genome, a computer design used to discover all of the prime numbers, etc.) But really, there are just a few too many goofy patents out there.
Processing power has to be expended on every message, or else Echelon will fail. Let's take your example, that if a person sends out junk headers and such in their e-mail with "tripwords" in it, Echelon will filter them out. OK. Great. We now know that this person is trying to make us waste survelliance time so we'll ignore him. Where is the flaw in this plan? Oh yeah. A terrorist could send out junk mail with junk tripwords in it for a few years, then be relatively secure from the NSA's snooping. That is the problem with this type of system. You have to watch everything, all the time or else you'll miss the most important event, the one you're looking for.
KDE doesn't affect the load caused on the computer by other programs. However, KDE does place a sizeable strain on older x86 hardware w/ slow, small memory subsystems (P133 16mb EDO ram). It's not really possible to have KDE speed up X applications. However, it is possible to clean up the KDE code and have it use less memory and processor time.
That they don't mention the GATOS project, a group that was implementing video capture drivers for Linux for the ATI All-In-Wonder, AIW Pro, and ATI-TV. We pushed for close to a year to get any sort of specs for the video capture chipset and the I2S interface. But we wern't a corporation and they wouldn't release the specs because it was protected under the terms of their contract, or so they said. Funny, where did that contract go?
I second this. At Ease is one of the best complete security enviroments I know of. It's extremely difficult for the novice to break an At Ease setup (Impossible, I would say except you can't be certain when it comes to comptuers), and not easy for the computer expert to crack. It takes a person that owns a Mac or can get access to a boot disk to break it. And then, all the sysadmin has to do is remove the floppy drive. At Ease is simple, yet elegant and quick. Too bad its ugly as hell.
But if we still followed the old scheme, I couldn't have my own domain name. I'm not a commercial entity, and I'm not a non-profit orginaziation. I don't provide network access (Except myown) and I'm not a state or local government. So, I couldn't register as.com,.org,.net,.oh.us, or.gov. What would we have, terrymathews.private? I much prefer chipzilla.com. Chipzilla.com-opening soon
I believe so. Look in the program linux_logo (Ships with Linux-Mandrake 6). Using vi, I found the lines where it has the processor name and the cute little tag-line. Intel-GenuineIntel, Cyrix-CyrixInstead, etc. Funny, there is a Transmeta line. Transmeta-TransmetaNow!
Be very, very careful with telnet. Unless you know what you're doing, it is all plain-text. Capturing packets from a telnet connection on your network is very simple, and they are in a nearly human-readable form immediately. You're best bet would be to setup a web proxy on a server you are familiar with (maybe a comp at home). Config the proxy to run through Apache and make it https://. Then you can use hotmail and read the web, and all a packet scanner would get out of it is complete garbage.
1984 is not being used as evidence of something that is going on right now. However, sometime in the future our world may become like the world of 1984. It does not happen often, but sometimes a piece of written work is a fair description of something that is not known at the time. For example, the book The Titan and the ship The Titanic. As long as we can understand Winston Smith and believe he was in the right, Big Brother does not exist and we still have our individual rights to freedom of thought.
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And neither is cheating. Didn't realize how drastic the difference was...
http://www.3dcenter.de/artikel/2001/10-24_a.php
Anyone remember the Voodoo2's miniGL that was designed from the ground up for Quake2? What's the difference here? We aren't talking about benchmark tampering; they've found a way to optimize their drivers to make Quake3 run faster. Maybe there are geometric instructions that Q3 doesn't make use of that they disable? That would be a good reason for the optimization by executable name; it might not work on other games. Let's not cruxify ATi just yet; they haven't done anything wrong as far as I can tell...
Nice try, but Dr. _Matthews_ was the founder of Newbridge Networks. One too many t's.
Didn't know you were a Slashdotter. Welcome to the club. Just remeber: karma is your friend.
Of course not. No one has ever hidden the fact that /. favors Linux. If you want to read pro-Microsoft, go to www.ntcompatible.com
The testing part may not be as easy to disprove, but a blanket patent on the genes for red/green color blindness is impossible due to prior art. Even excluding the living population of this planet, all you would have to do to prove prior art is to find a deceased corpse who had the same color blindness!
Except for the small problem that the NeoGeo is 10^16 times more powerful than the GameBoy.
Actually, the motherboard is connected to the goldenfingers. On the socket Athlons, there were pins on the datasheets that were marked reserved. When people started playing around with them, they realised that they were the same as the connector on the top of the slot Athlons. The motherboard and BIOS become the goldenfingers device.
Problem: power consumption. It would take only 3 486s to equal the avg power output of an avg Coppermine or Athlon system, but you'd need 12 486s to equal the processing power.
Which brings up another point: having a computer with a CRT in the middle of my studio sort of negates all of the work I've done shielding components and eliminating ground loops. Don't use a CRT then. My weapon of choice to control a Linux/*BSD box is a Palm IIIx with a serial cable and VT100 emulator. I've also got an IBM Z50 WorkPad with a term emulator, but the backlight would prolly kick out EM noise too.
Did anyone see the new job posted at Micro$oft? It was slashdot troll. Only duty is to blindly repost all of their rigged tests any time Linux comes up. Pays $25,000/yr.
- inexpensive
upgrade path. Joshua should be priced about where Celerons are today. Imagine 8x100.Just remember that no major EULA has been tested in court, except under piracy circumstances. And, piracy falls under copyright law. So, most of the clauses of EULAs have not yet been shown to be upheld in court.
I don't think this has anything to do with the current laws, but I don't think you should be able to patent anything you can't create. For instance, you ahould be able to patent an x86 processor design, but not a prime number (it's prime whether or not you discover it), Haley's Comet, the Human Genome (DNA exists whether or not we research it), nuclear resonance, etc. Not that there isn't enough in this world to patent anyway (The method of generating nuclear resonance, a scanner used to analyze the human genome, a computer design used to discover all of the prime numbers, etc.) But really, there are just a few too many goofy patents out there.
./configure;make;make install
:)
Processing power has to be expended on every message, or else Echelon will fail. Let's take your example, that if a person sends out junk headers and such in their e-mail with "tripwords" in it, Echelon will filter them out. OK. Great. We now know that this person is trying to make us waste survelliance time so we'll ignore him. Where is the flaw in this plan? Oh yeah. A terrorist could send out junk mail with junk tripwords in it for a few years, then be relatively secure from the NSA's snooping. That is the problem with this type of system. You have to watch everything, all the time or else you'll miss the most important event, the one you're looking for.
KDE doesn't affect the load caused on the computer by other programs. However, KDE does place a sizeable strain on older x86 hardware w/ slow, small memory subsystems (P133 16mb EDO ram). It's not really possible to have KDE speed up X applications. However, it is possible to clean up the KDE code and have it use less memory and processor time.
That they don't mention the GATOS project, a group that was implementing video capture drivers for Linux for the ATI All-In-Wonder, AIW Pro, and ATI-TV. We pushed for close to a year to get any sort of specs for the video capture chipset and the I2S interface. But we wern't a corporation and they wouldn't release the specs because it was protected under the terms of their contract, or so they said. Funny, where did that contract go?
I second this. At Ease is one of the best complete security enviroments I know of. It's extremely difficult for the novice to break an At Ease setup (Impossible, I would say except you can't be certain when it comes to comptuers), and not easy for the computer expert to crack. It takes a person that owns a Mac or can get access to a boot disk to break it. And then, all the sysadmin has to do is remove the floppy drive. At Ease is simple, yet elegant and quick. Too bad its ugly as hell.
But if we still followed the old scheme, I couldn't have my own domain name. I'm not a commercial entity, and I'm not a non-profit orginaziation. I don't provide network access (Except myown) and I'm not a state or local government. So, I couldn't register as .com, .org, .net, .oh.us, or .gov. What would we have, terrymathews.private? I much prefer chipzilla.com. Chipzilla.com-opening soon
I believe so. Look in the program linux_logo (Ships with Linux-Mandrake 6). Using vi, I found the lines where it has the processor name and the cute little tag-line. Intel-GenuineIntel, Cyrix-CyrixInstead, etc. Funny, there is a Transmeta line. Transmeta-TransmetaNow!
Be very, very careful with telnet. Unless you know what you're doing, it is all plain-text. Capturing packets from a telnet connection on your network is very simple, and they are in a nearly human-readable form immediately. You're best bet would be to setup a web proxy on a server you are familiar with (maybe a comp at home). Config the proxy to run through Apache and make it https://. Then you can use hotmail and read the web, and all a packet scanner would get out of it is complete garbage.
Richard Nixon
1984 is not being used as evidence of something that is going on right now. However, sometime in the future our world may become like the world of 1984. It does not happen often, but sometimes a piece of written work is a fair description of something that is not known at the time. For example, the book The Titan and the ship The Titanic. As long as we can understand Winston Smith and believe he was in the right, Big Brother does not exist and we still have our individual rights to freedom of thought.