The current nVidia drivers do not contain OpenGL support - instead, you get the Microsoft wrapper. However, this very well could be a case of nVidia just giving you the bare minimum to mess around with the beta. So there is still hope..
They say "$x billion worth" - I'd assume Windows servers are a little more expensive than *nix servers due to more licensing. The article doesn't touch on the actual number of servers sold. I've not had experience buying enterprise servers though...
With many educational facilities teaching.NET in the past few years, it makes sense to see a bump in servers which might host ASP.NET. That will only increase, and I bet we'll see even more Windows servers this year.
I guess the cause is probably somewhere in between.
I'd love to see Google win this, but P10 does have a point (even if they are only making it because they want a piece of Google's pie) - should store owners have to place signs saying "no stealing" at their door, or expect to give theives free rein on their stuff?
I do believe Google has good intentions, and they don't even display ads on their image search. And maybe >99% of the web does want it "opt-out", but Google should not be above the law.
CAN see how frequently some query terms occurred.
CANNOT look up an IP and see what they queried
CANNOT look for users who queried for both "TERM A" and "TERM B".
So they can't look up by IP, but it leaves the question: Can they associate individual queries to an IP? What about passport account? Email? He mentions they "CANNOT look for users who queried...", so I assume something is there to differentiate users.
If the government finds queries it thinks incriminates people, can they now go back to MSN and subpoena for personal information?
Maybe there's some hidden legal merit I havn't seen through the/. filter, but the Government's audacity in this situation astonishes me. It seems like they had no legal ground to request this information from search engines, and their following through with a lawsuit when Google saw through their BS is amazing.
I imagine people asking their local photo shop to invade their customer's privacy and give them a few thousand random photos (all for ), then suing when the shop tells them to fuck off.
Indeed. Signing is only important to those who already have the sense to check they are using something from the proper source. To normal people it's just a false sense of security - it's signed so it must be good, right? That of course assumes normal people know what signing is and won't just click OK to everything before reading.
This fits here too, but was originally my argument about a recent announcement that Windows Vista will require all x64 drivers to be signed, which will cost small time developers hundreds every year.
Signing is undoubtedly a good tool but the idea of people relying on it alone for security is stupid.
I was under the impression that ATI had recently announced a CableCard 2.0 USB device for PCs and was looking forward to getting digital HDTV with it in the near future. Did something change?
How is this news? Betas are there for finding bugs. If you don't want to risk more than the usual, how about just not using it?
The past builds were also riddled with bugs, and the IE developers are very involved with testers to fix them. It's not like they're just sitting with their hands over their ears yelling "LA LA LA LA I can't hear you!"
I'll probably be modded to hell for saying this, but I'm of the croud that wants IE to get "good enough".
Firefox was neat but it has never been fast or even adequate at rendering things other than text and has recently come prone to a good deal of bloat. Get me a version that doesn't slow to a crawl with pages heavy with images (seriously- what is it doing, decompressing JPEGs on the fly?) and that doesn't take up hundreds of megs of ram after heavy usage on relatively simple websites, and I'll reconsider my stance.
I'd much prefer to see Firefox fix its flaws than to switch to IE7 when it comes out of beta but somehow that doesn't seem realistic.
whenever a game update comes out steams servers will be flooded and may not let you connect. But steam won't let you run outdated versions, so you are stuck not being able to play anything while you wait for steam to finally do its thing.
the only good thing i've found about steam is being able to install games onto other computers while away from home.
Witness the many gamers who have StarForce installed on their systems. Witness the many iTunes lovers (myself included) who've bought into the DRMed songs Apple offers.
Witness me returning Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory when I realized I wouldn't be able to play it because Starforce loads a driver and doesn't support x64. Probably for the better, considering the mess Starforce has caused for a friend's x86 PCs.
You might wake up someday, but you'll be broke, jobless, a relative idiot, nowhere to live, no friends or family, and maybe will have a crushing medical bill.
Depending on how long your "sleep" is, you will probably wake up to find the world is full of nasty evolved germs to which you have no resistance. Then again if you sleep long enough you might wake up with a immunization for all disease. Scary thought, the first one.
I listen to twit. I tried listening to Security Now but it was all subject matter any seasoned geek would already know - I thought the show was just some random guy who thinks he's a security expert because he knows how to turn encryption on in his wifi router.
You could imagine when a friend brought this backdoor accusation to my attention I thought "so what" and went on with my day. Curiousity got the better of me, and after listening to the audio (assuming all the relevant information on the matter has been presented) it does seem like he may be right. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft has any response to this.
According to him, Windows takes the time to launch a new thread for your code and doesn't give you any context for editing the image. So the theory is solid that it's not just a hidden feature for doing crazy things to the image. This doesn't look like a bug or feature anymore.
Does anyone remember older games having issues like this? It seems now that consoles are internet-ready and the games are patchable, QA testing has been getting pushed back more and more.
Other than the cool factor, the article doesn't touch on what good it will do us to study particles older than the sun. Anyone in the know care to elaborate?
Wrapping OpenGL does suck, but they are also wrapping Direct3D 9 and lower. So it's more than just Carmack's games that won't run at top speed:(
I havn't seen any clear stance on if they will allow hardware vendors to implement their own ICDs for fullscreen mode, but the current LDDM beta drivers from nVidia do not have OpenGL in them.
Actually, testers have been given something kinda like that. It's called Windows Server Core, and it boots up with just a console window open - no start menu, desktop, configuration dialogs, or anything else like that.
Unfortunately it doesn't come with IIS which is a real disappointment though its developers have shown interest in adding additional services.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property Market speak for "Hopefully people will bend over and accept our abuse of an overly generalized patent"?
What he meant is the HTTP server isn't configured to send torrents with application/x-bittorrent as the Content-Type. Instead, it sends them as a generic application/octet-stream or worse text/plain which Firefox doesn't know what to do with.
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The current nVidia drivers do not contain OpenGL support - instead, you get the Microsoft wrapper. However, this very well could be a case of nVidia just giving you the bare minimum to mess around with the beta. So there is still hope..
I guess the cause is probably somewhere in between.
I'd love to see Google win this, but P10 does have a point (even if they are only making it because they want a piece of Google's pie) - should store owners have to place signs saying "no stealing" at their door, or expect to give theives free rein on their stuff?
I do believe Google has good intentions, and they don't even display ads on their image search. And maybe >99% of the web does want it "opt-out", but Google should not be above the law.
If the government finds queries it thinks incriminates people, can they now go back to MSN and subpoena for personal information?
Maybe there's some hidden legal merit I havn't seen through the /. filter, but the Government's audacity in this situation astonishes me. It seems like they had no legal ground to request this information from search engines, and their following through with a lawsuit when Google saw through their BS is amazing.
I imagine people asking their local photo shop to invade their customer's privacy and give them a few thousand random photos (all for ), then suing when the shop tells them to fuck off.
Indeed. Signing is only important to those who already have the sense to check they are using something from the proper source. To normal people it's just a false sense of security - it's signed so it must be good, right? That of course assumes normal people know what signing is and won't just click OK to everything before reading.
This fits here too, but was originally my argument about a recent announcement that Windows Vista will require all x64 drivers to be signed, which will cost small time developers hundreds every year.
Signing is undoubtedly a good tool but the idea of people relying on it alone for security is stupid.
You may be interested in Goldeneye: Source, if it's the multiplayer you're after.
Let everyone code in their own .NET language, and let everyone use everyones assemblies.
I was under the impression that ATI had recently announced a CableCard 2.0 USB device for PCs and was looking forward to getting digital HDTV with it in the near future. Did something change?
How is this news? Betas are there for finding bugs. If you don't want to risk more than the usual, how about just not using it?
The past builds were also riddled with bugs, and the IE developers are very involved with testers to fix them. It's not like they're just sitting with their hands over their ears yelling "LA LA LA LA I can't hear you!"
I'll probably be modded to hell for saying this, but I'm of the croud that wants IE to get "good enough".
Firefox was neat but it has never been fast or even adequate at rendering things other than text and has recently come prone to a good deal of bloat. Get me a version that doesn't slow to a crawl with pages heavy with images (seriously- what is it doing, decompressing JPEGs on the fly?) and that doesn't take up hundreds of megs of ram after heavy usage on relatively simple websites, and I'll reconsider my stance.
I'd much prefer to see Firefox fix its flaws than to switch to IE7 when it comes out of beta but somehow that doesn't seem realistic.
whenever a game update comes out steams servers will be flooded and may not let you connect. But steam won't let you run outdated versions, so you are stuck not being able to play anything while you wait for steam to finally do its thing.
the only good thing i've found about steam is being able to install games onto other computers while away from home.
Witness the many gamers who have StarForce installed on their systems. Witness the many iTunes lovers (myself included) who've bought into the DRMed songs Apple offers.
Witness me returning Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory when I realized I wouldn't be able to play it because Starforce loads a driver and doesn't support x64. Probably for the better, considering the mess Starforce has caused for a friend's x86 PCs.
You might wake up someday, but you'll be broke, jobless, a relative idiot, nowhere to live, no friends or family, and maybe will have a crushing medical bill.
Depending on how long your "sleep" is, you will probably wake up to find the world is full of nasty evolved germs to which you have no resistance. Then again if you sleep long enough you might wake up with a immunization for all disease. Scary thought, the first one.
I listen to twit. I tried listening to Security Now but it was all subject matter any seasoned geek would already know - I thought the show was just some random guy who thinks he's a security expert because he knows how to turn encryption on in his wifi router.
You could imagine when a friend brought this backdoor accusation to my attention I thought "so what" and went on with my day. Curiousity got the better of me, and after listening to the audio (assuming all the relevant information on the matter has been presented) it does seem like he may be right. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft has any response to this.
According to him, Windows takes the time to launch a new thread for your code and doesn't give you any context for editing the image. So the theory is solid that it's not just a hidden feature for doing crazy things to the image. This doesn't look like a bug or feature anymore.
Does anyone remember older games having issues like this? It seems now that consoles are internet-ready and the games are patchable, QA testing has been getting pushed back more and more.
You can be the smartest guy on the block with many awesome ideas, but it seems to repeatedly be the simplest/dumbest ones which get you rich quick.
Other than the cool factor, the article doesn't touch on what good it will do us to study particles older than the sun. Anyone in the know care to elaborate?
RSS uses XML. XML is, you know, extensible? Why is Microsoft taking advantage of this standard a bad thing?
The senate recently rejected extensions to the patriot act.
Wrapping OpenGL does suck, but they are also wrapping Direct3D 9 and lower. So it's more than just Carmack's games that won't run at top speed :(
I havn't seen any clear stance on if they will allow hardware vendors to implement their own ICDs for fullscreen mode, but the current LDDM beta drivers from nVidia do not have OpenGL in them.
Actually, testers have been given something kinda like that. It's called Windows Server Core, and it boots up with just a console window open - no start menu, desktop, configuration dialogs, or anything else like that.
Unfortunately it doesn't come with IIS which is a real disappointment though its developers have shown interest in adding additional services.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property
Market speak for "Hopefully people will bend over and accept our abuse of an overly generalized patent"?
What he meant is the HTTP server isn't configured to send torrents with application/x-bittorrent as the Content-Type. Instead, it sends them as a generic application/octet-stream or worse text/plain which Firefox doesn't know what to do with.