Between a journaling filesystem like Ext2 or ReiserFS and magic sysrq key you should not be losing data to crashes while testing drivers. On the other hand, if you were getting random crashes and had apps with unsaved data, all you can do to protect against that is save often.
Do you own an ATI graphics card? Have you ever had to deal with fglrx? It doesn't play nice with radeonfb (for framebuffer console). It doesn't play nice with suspend2 (for hibernate/sleep). That simply would not happen with a driver in the kernel tree. (I cannot speak for the nVidia drivers as I have not had as much experience with them.)
In my experience, open source drivers Just Work(tm).
I got a Dell Inspiron 6000 a bit over a year ago and I dual boot XP / Gentoo Linux. I choose to go with the ATI Mobile X300 (M300) graphics cards, and I say you made the right choice. In order to get it to play nice with radeonfb, I have to disable hardware acceleration. Before I had hibernate working, but it is not working with the currently installed version of fglrx (not the latest anymore, I think). I am definitely never buying an ATI graphics card again, and after this announcement, I may seriously consider Intel's offerings.
You are correct. The current nv and radeon projects would be greatly aided by official documentation from nVidia and ATI. I believe they have requested such information and those companies have refused to provide it.
Out of order packets are easily noticed by either (1) numbering packets in sequence (TCP does this) or (2) timestamping packets at a higher level (if you got packets out of order, then you must have been using UDP).
Since you mention it, I have to ask: Why does my laptop have a 15.4" 1920x1200 screen when in order to get the same res on a desktop I would have to get a 24" screen? Obviously the tech exists to make the same 15.4" screen on a stand with a DVI plug in it, so why can't I buy it?
I think you are misunderstanding me. The ISP is certainly paying someone for their bandwidth. I'm sure they would like any way to cut costs. For most ISPs that seems to be capping heavy p2p users so they do not use as much bandwidth.
But it could save bandwidth for the ISP. Any transfers they can keep within their own network are transfers they do not have to pay someone else for. As to whether that outweighs the reasons you give against implementing caching remains to be seen.
I disagree. You have made it quite clear to campaigns A and B that you support the issues of campaign C. Voting for a lesser evil in an election where there is a third party canidate that you actually agree with is nonsensical. Even if that candidate is never elected, they major parties may see that their platform has appeal and adopt parts of it (or, at least, pretend to).
Obviously, there are more issues to an election than who is making phone calls (which I think was your point). On the other hand, recorded phone calls are annoying and seem unprofessional to me.
You make good points. Maybe the solution is to decrease the cost of developing and releasing a game. That way new ideas could be made into small, cheap games for a small audience without being a loss. It sounds like XBox Live Arcade has already done this. I remember hearing about at least one original new puzzle game for XBLA. Nintendo has also expressed interest in this market for their Virtual Console on the Wii. Maybe in the future, new gameplay concept will get a "testing" phase on a disc-less distribution system and then be picked up by a bigger developer/producer for a larger game and full-scale distribution if it turns out to be a good/popular idea.
I own a Dell laptop, too. The first thing I did when I got it was to backup the hard drive (so I would have all the proper drivers) and reinstall Windows. I was also setting it up for dual booting Windows XP Pro/Gentoo Linux, so it was a lot easier that way, but it certainly got rid of all of the Dell junk.
Although fans have been referring to the remote controller as the revmote/wiimote since it was announced, Nintendo has consistantly refused to use that terminology. On their website they use the term "controller" and call the Wii's the "Wii Remote". In interviews that I have read, the Nintendo people always use that term and not "wiimote".
I did not say that I thought DirectX was definitely better, just that I would expect big game devs to know what they are doing and do the proper research on what libraries to use. It is entirely possible that they don't and just pay attention to Microsoft's marketing instead.
I hadn't thought about that, but the XBox probably does have some effect on the issue. I doubt that games coded for the PS3 could be easily ported to anything else because its multiprocessor architecture makes it pretty unique.
The libraries exist under Linux in the form of OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, etc. These libraries have Windows versions. NWN and Doom 3 have native Linux binaries. It can be done. On the other hand, the fact that DirectX is so popular seems to imply that it is a better product. I would expect that the game devs looking for the maximum preformance would be using whichever libraries deliver the best preformance and would do the work to figure out which libraries those are. Then again, I am not a game developer.
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And those are some of the same reasons why ATI and nVidia do not open source their drivers, so asking for just the docs is not much different.
I apologize. I did not know that. But if that is the case, then why does it not support 3D acceleration?
Between a journaling filesystem like Ext2 or ReiserFS and magic sysrq key you should not be losing data to crashes while testing drivers. On the other hand, if you were getting random crashes and had apps with unsaved data, all you can do to protect against that is save often.
Do you own an ATI graphics card? Have you ever had to deal with fglrx? It doesn't play nice with radeonfb (for framebuffer console). It doesn't play nice with suspend2 (for hibernate/sleep). That simply would not happen with a driver in the kernel tree. (I cannot speak for the nVidia drivers as I have not had as much experience with them.)
In my experience, open source drivers Just Work(tm).
I got a Dell Inspiron 6000 a bit over a year ago and I dual boot XP / Gentoo Linux. I choose to go with the ATI Mobile X300 (M300) graphics cards, and I say you made the right choice. In order to get it to play nice with radeonfb, I have to disable hardware acceleration. Before I had hibernate working, but it is not working with the currently installed version of fglrx (not the latest anymore, I think). I am definitely never buying an ATI graphics card again, and after this announcement, I may seriously consider Intel's offerings.
You are correct. The current nv and radeon projects would be greatly aided by official documentation from nVidia and ATI. I believe they have requested such information and those companies have refused to provide it.
Why does it matter? All the important information is sent over HTTPS, probably with 256-bit AES encryption. If you can crack that, the NSA is hiring.
Out of order packets are easily noticed by either (1) numbering packets in sequence (TCP does this) or (2) timestamping packets at a higher level (if you got packets out of order, then you must have been using UDP).
You make a good point. I was thinking about IE's weird CSS interpretations.
Since you mention it, I have to ask: Why does my laptop have a 15.4" 1920x1200 screen when in order to get the same res on a desktop I would have to get a 24" screen? Obviously the tech exists to make the same 15.4" screen on a stand with a DVI plug in it, so why can't I buy it?
I think you are misunderstanding me. The ISP is certainly paying someone for their bandwidth. I'm sure they would like any way to cut costs. For most ISPs that seems to be capping heavy p2p users so they do not use as much bandwidth.
But it could save bandwidth for the ISP. Any transfers they can keep within their own network are transfers they do not have to pay someone else for. As to whether that outweighs the reasons you give against implementing caching remains to be seen.
Taking your post one step further, you could simply serve a different site to GoogleBot. After all, it identifies itself quite clearly.
W3C's standards are documented. IE's "standards" are not.
I am pretty sure that MySpace does not allow users under 16 to sign up for accounts, so anyone under 16 simply lies about their age.
I disagree. You have made it quite clear to campaigns A and B that you support the issues of campaign C. Voting for a lesser evil in an election where there is a third party canidate that you actually agree with is nonsensical. Even if that candidate is never elected, they major parties may see that their platform has appeal and adopt parts of it (or, at least, pretend to).
Obviously, there are more issues to an election than who is making phone calls (which I think was your point). On the other hand, recorded phone calls are annoying and seem unprofessional to me.
Candidate C.
You make good points. Maybe the solution is to decrease the cost of developing and releasing a game. That way new ideas could be made into small, cheap games for a small audience without being a loss. It sounds like XBox Live Arcade has already done this. I remember hearing about at least one original new puzzle game for XBLA. Nintendo has also expressed interest in this market for their Virtual Console on the Wii. Maybe in the future, new gameplay concept will get a "testing" phase on a disc-less distribution system and then be picked up by a bigger developer/producer for a larger game and full-scale distribution if it turns out to be a good/popular idea.
So, my DVD drive without a region set cannot read CSS-encrypted DVDs bit for bit? What exactly am I playing/decrypting in software then?
And yet they still do not have reasonable rules like forbidding riders...
I own a Dell laptop, too. The first thing I did when I got it was to backup the hard drive (so I would have all the proper drivers) and reinstall Windows. I was also setting it up for dual booting Windows XP Pro/Gentoo Linux, so it was a lot easier that way, but it certainly got rid of all of the Dell junk.
Although fans have been referring to the remote controller as the revmote/wiimote since it was announced, Nintendo has consistantly refused to use that terminology. On their website they use the term "controller" and call the Wii's the "Wii Remote". In interviews that I have read, the Nintendo people always use that term and not "wiimote".
I did not say that I thought DirectX was definitely better, just that I would expect big game devs to know what they are doing and do the proper research on what libraries to use. It is entirely possible that they don't and just pay attention to Microsoft's marketing instead.
I hadn't thought about that, but the XBox probably does have some effect on the issue. I doubt that games coded for the PS3 could be easily ported to anything else because its multiprocessor architecture makes it pretty unique.
The libraries exist under Linux in the form of OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, etc. These libraries have Windows versions. NWN and Doom 3 have native Linux binaries. It can be done. On the other hand, the fact that DirectX is so popular seems to imply that it is a better product. I would expect that the game devs looking for the maximum preformance would be using whichever libraries deliver the best preformance and would do the work to figure out which libraries those are. Then again, I am not a game developer.