Mark my post as a troll if it makes you feel better, but the simple fact of the matter is that the drivers that NVidia DOES put out are have more features and are more stable than the open source drivers that Intel makes available.
That said, let me join Linus and say "Fuck You" to NVidia for not helping to make drivers available for the Optimus laptop graphics chipset. I have one in my Dell XPS as well, and it sucks that I'm stuck with using the Intel integrated graphics on it.
That only China and Russia (two countries that aren't exactly friendly to the US) are the only ones capable of putting humans in earth orbit at the moment? I know that I would, considering that US satellites fix themselves up there.
I'm hoping that the next US president will feel the same way (whoever they are), and we can get a good old fashioned space race restarted. It would be nice to see US scientists and engineers working on something more important than developing an better iPhone for a change.
I figure that being of the CEO of a company who created both the first tablet and the first smartphone that didn't suck has to be worth a few lines in the history archives a few hundred years from now.
His Pixar work probably deserves a blurb as well... along with his incredible salesman skills that made everything else he did seem far more important that what it actually was.
Gates is just trying NOT to be remembered as CEO of the company who created Windows and Office, two of the most hated software products of all time.
I wouldn't consider the Engadget review to be negative. They tried to use the board for things it wasn't designed to do (like play Youtube or Flash videos), and it failed to do so. Big deal. The people who are actually trying to buy these boards would likely know better.
The reviewer didn't seem to have a clue what they were doing... they complained about having to type in the startx command to start the GUI, for pete's sake. If anything, the review did a better job of making Engadget look bad than the product they were reviewing.
That said, it's easy to think of negative things to say about the Pi... like the lack of supply. I've been on the waiting list for one for over a month now, and I haven't even been given an estimated shipping date at this point.
No offense, but if you saw the lousy job postings that are out there, you would KNOW why they go unfilled.
Most of the stuff that I've seen lately are 3-6 month contract positions out in the middle of nowhere. They only pay $25 an hour, yet still require 5 years of experience in new technologies, several certifications, weekend shifts, AND on-call support hours.
Can someone who works for IBM care to explain how they're planning on enforcing these rules?
Sure, I could see them scanning their employee's laptops to make sure that Dropbox isn't installed, but how are they going to stop you from using iCloud or Siri on your cell phone? I know that IBM certainly didn't pay for MY cell phone or cell phone plan when I worked there, and I sure as hell wouldn't let them install their bloatware security lockdown tools on my personal property.
Come on... were you honestly expecting Apple (the most secretive consumer electronics company on the planet) to announce to the world that they're building a special assembly line for Apple iTV's months before they're ready to ship?
I doubt that Steam is going to fix the Linux gaming issue... odds are that will only be supported on specific distributions with specific software patch levels and even more specific drivers. If you dare to upgrade Ubuntu or install the latest version of NVidia's closed source video card drivers, everything will magically stop working until a patch is available.
Hell... I'll bet that the bleeding edge guys that are using the latest Fedora beta won't even be able to get it to install without various acts of heroism.
What's scary is the number of NEW embedded systems like Point Of Sale, ATM, and factory control systems that are still shipping with Windows XP. There are still a bunch of software vendors that STILL have not updated their software to work with Windows 7.... and Windows 8 is right around the corner.
The car really isn't all that "high tech" once you get past the electric drive train, though. Most of the features that it comes with can be had on a Chevy Cruze that costs roughly half the price if you leave out the tax rebates.
I hear ya.... I needed to scramble this morning to disable this warning message on two dozen kiosk systems, even though I configured Firefox to never check for plug-in updates.
Thank you once again for screwing up my production environments without any warning, Mozilla. I'm switching my kiosks over the Chrome, where the option for disabling plug-in checks actually works as promised.
Yeah... I can't exactly certify my software on the latest version of Firefox when we're doing new releases every 5 months on average and Firefox is doing a new release every 5 WEEKS.
Instead, we're certifying on the ESR release version. Sure, our stuff will probably work on the newer releases, but we can't guarantee it.
The problem isn't that you're blocking the obnoxious caller on the bus with the jammer, but that you're probably also blocking half a dozen other people who are trying to check their e-mail or read Facebook on their smartphones. They're not doing anything wrong, so there is no reason to punish them.
There is a reason these things are illegal, ya know.
I wonder how many legitimate file sharing customers of Megaupload (like indie rock bands and open source software projects) started moving their files over the Rapidshare, only to get screwed AGAIN by these download transfer caps?
I wonder which free storage service is going to be next to cave to legal threats from the **AA's. Dropbox? MediaFire? SkyDrive?
Spending the time to set up a private FTP server of your own for private file transfers suddenly doesn't sound like a bad idea anymore...
Using Fedora for this kind of scares me as well, since it's only supported for 2 releases. By the time you finish customizing the distribution to meet your particular application's needs, you probably have six months of OS support left. That's fine for garage tinkerers, but lousy if you're thinking of building a commercial product out of these boards.
Is anyone trying to use an alternate distribution for these boards like an Ubuntu LTS release?
What I loved is when some dumb kid put down MY e-mail address when creating his MySpace account, and I started getting his messages. All I needed to do was click the "I forgot my password" link and enter my e-mail address to change the password on his... er.. my account.
I wonder if his friends enjoyed the messages I sent them as much as the spam his friends sent me:)
Back when they were trying to pass the Communications Decency Act back in 1996, a bunch of the major web sites changed their pages to black backgrounds and included a link explaining why they were doing it. I remember that really getting my attention the day I went to Yahoo (remember when Yahoo was important?) and seeing that for the first time.
If someone like Google or Facebook did that to protest SOPA today, I guarantee that it would get major news attention.
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Mark my post as a troll if it makes you feel better, but the simple fact of the matter is that the drivers that NVidia DOES put out are have more features and are more stable than the open source drivers that Intel makes available.
That said, let me join Linus and say "Fuck You" to NVidia for not helping to make drivers available for the Optimus laptop graphics chipset. I have one in my Dell XPS as well, and it sucks that I'm stuck with using the Intel integrated graphics on it.
I have nothing but problems with Intel's drivers not working right under Linux... I only wish that they were as stable as NVidia's drivers.
That only China and Russia (two countries that aren't exactly friendly to the US) are the only ones capable of putting humans in earth orbit at the moment? I know that I would, considering that US satellites fix themselves up there.
I'm hoping that the next US president will feel the same way (whoever they are), and we can get a good old fashioned space race restarted. It would be nice to see US scientists and engineers working on something more important than developing an better iPhone for a change.
I figure that being of the CEO of a company who created both the first tablet and the first smartphone that didn't suck has to be worth a few lines in the history archives a few hundred years from now.
His Pixar work probably deserves a blurb as well... along with his incredible salesman skills that made everything else he did seem far more important that what it actually was.
Gates is just trying NOT to be remembered as CEO of the company who created Windows and Office, two of the most hated software products of all time.
I wouldn't consider the Engadget review to be negative. They tried to use the board for things it wasn't designed to do (like play Youtube or Flash videos), and it failed to do so. Big deal. The people who are actually trying to buy these boards would likely know better.
The reviewer didn't seem to have a clue what they were doing... they complained about having to type in the startx command to start the GUI, for pete's sake. If anything, the review did a better job of making Engadget look bad than the product they were reviewing.
That said, it's easy to think of negative things to say about the Pi... like the lack of supply. I've been on the waiting list for one for over a month now, and I haven't even been given an estimated shipping date at this point.
No offense, but if you saw the lousy job postings that are out there, you would KNOW why they go unfilled.
Most of the stuff that I've seen lately are 3-6 month contract positions out in the middle of nowhere. They only pay $25 an hour, yet still require 5 years of experience in new technologies, several certifications, weekend shifts, AND on-call support hours.
Yeah... thanks, but no thanks.
Can someone who works for IBM care to explain how they're planning on enforcing these rules?
Sure, I could see them scanning their employee's laptops to make sure that Dropbox isn't installed, but how are they going to stop you from using iCloud or Siri on your cell phone? I know that IBM certainly didn't pay for MY cell phone or cell phone plan when I worked there, and I sure as hell wouldn't let them install their bloatware security lockdown tools on my personal property.
Come on... were you honestly expecting Apple (the most secretive consumer electronics company on the planet) to announce to the world that they're building a special assembly line for Apple iTV's months before they're ready to ship?
If 80's movies have taught us anything, they're also good at popping giant balls of popcorn and destroying the homes of asshole professors.
I doubt that Steam is going to fix the Linux gaming issue... odds are that will only be supported on specific distributions with specific software patch levels and even more specific drivers. If you dare to upgrade Ubuntu or install the latest version of NVidia's closed source video card drivers, everything will magically stop working until a patch is available.
Hell... I'll bet that the bleeding edge guys that are using the latest Fedora beta won't even be able to get it to install without various acts of heroism.
Not really... Even back in 1999, 1024x768 on a 17" flat screen CRT was the most common screen resolution.
What's scary is the number of NEW embedded systems like Point Of Sale, ATM, and factory control systems that are still shipping with Windows XP. There are still a bunch of software vendors that STILL have not updated their software to work with Windows 7.... and Windows 8 is right around the corner.
Enron, MCI-Worldcom, AIG, etc...
The car really isn't all that "high tech" once you get past the electric drive train, though. Most of the features that it comes with can be had on a Chevy Cruze that costs roughly half the price if you leave out the tax rebates.
This plug-in block warning doesn't seem to be version specific. I've seen it happen on versions of Firefox as old as version 3.6.
I hear ya.... I needed to scramble this morning to disable this warning message on two dozen kiosk systems, even though I configured Firefox to never check for plug-in updates.
Thank you once again for screwing up my production environments without any warning, Mozilla. I'm switching my kiosks over the Chrome, where the option for disabling plug-in checks actually works as promised.
Yeah... I can't exactly certify my software on the latest version of Firefox when we're doing new releases every 5 months on average and Firefox is doing a new release every 5 WEEKS.
Instead, we're certifying on the ESR release version. Sure, our stuff will probably work on the newer releases, but we can't guarantee it.
The problem isn't that you're blocking the obnoxious caller on the bus with the jammer, but that you're probably also blocking half a dozen other people who are trying to check their e-mail or read Facebook on their smartphones. They're not doing anything wrong, so there is no reason to punish them.
There is a reason these things are illegal, ya know.
I wonder how many legitimate file sharing customers of Megaupload (like indie rock bands and open source software projects) started moving their files over the Rapidshare, only to get screwed AGAIN by these download transfer caps?
I wonder which free storage service is going to be next to cave to legal threats from the **AA's. Dropbox? MediaFire? SkyDrive?
Spending the time to set up a private FTP server of your own for private file transfers suddenly doesn't sound like a bad idea anymore...
Using Fedora for this kind of scares me as well, since it's only supported for 2 releases. By the time you finish customizing the distribution to meet your particular application's needs, you probably have six months of OS support left. That's fine for garage tinkerers, but lousy if you're thinking of building a commercial product out of these boards.
Is anyone trying to use an alternate distribution for these boards like an Ubuntu LTS release?
Umm.... that's a HUGE stretch. Twenty years ago, people were still using CompuServe and Prodigy. Look what happened to them!
What I loved is when some dumb kid put down MY e-mail address when creating his MySpace account, and I started getting his messages. All I needed to do was click the "I forgot my password" link and enter my e-mail address to change the password on his... er.. my account.
I wonder if his friends enjoyed the messages I sent them as much as the spam his friends sent me :)
I don't see Corning Corporation on the list, which puzzles me. I thought that Apple uses Gorilla Glass in a bunch of their products?
Back when they were trying to pass the Communications Decency Act back in 1996, a bunch of the major web sites changed their pages to black backgrounds and included a link explaining why they were doing it. I remember that really getting my attention the day I went to Yahoo (remember when Yahoo was important?) and seeing that for the first time.
If someone like Google or Facebook did that to protest SOPA today, I guarantee that it would get major news attention.
We know what they are, but we've been using them to play Battlefield 3 or create phony "untraceable" currency for drug dealers instead.