It could be made to work with some, but those were usually the exception. It really hated the VIA chipsets because of the way they clocked the CPU as a multiplier of the PCI bus (thus over clocking PCI and AGP with some CPU configurations), but the ALIs weren't too far off Intel's AGP spec.
Apple knows that HFS is in need of replacement, which is why they had a fully functional ZFS on Mac OS X 10.6 at launch, but removed it at the last second because they could never come to licensing terms with Sun.
It is still updated as a forked open source project, and there is a commercial version that has a newer version of pool / ZFS available for purchase.
That's the difference between "gaming" OpenGL ICD and "professional" OpenGL ICD. It's perfectly possible to have a graphics card that rules the roost at rendering AutoCAD and Maya 3D, but suck out loud at gaming framerates. Most of the Quadro line of GPUs are this way - they are optimized for accuracy rather than shoving as many frames out the door as possible.
Because there is absolutely no documentation or support for development on Mac from Apple? They sure don't have a whole section of documentation specifically for OpenGL. Or driver development. Apple also doesn't put hundreds of their engineers in a convention center for a week specifically to answer developer questions every year, or stream any of those sessions for free over the Internet. And they definitely don't have a track at that event specifically for graphics and games. Oh, and no one has ever seen the source code for the kernel inside of Mac OS X either.
Besides, do you really think that if Intel called up Apple and said "Hey, we'd really like to bump up the performance of the integrated GPUs that you're buying on your systems by helping you with some driver optimization for OpenGL" that Apple would reply "Go fuck yourself in your own face, we want slow, inefficient drivers!" ??
Except that nobody that cares about OpenGL performance is using an Intel integrated GPU as their sole source of rendering horsepower. If OpenGL is important to you, you spend the extra money for a real professional-graphics GPU like Quadro or FireGL, since the time saved waiting for things to render literally pays back the card's cost in a few weeks.
Also, there's way more variables in this comparison than the driver, and Intel could also publish their own Mac OS X kexts for their GPUs, like Nvidia and AMD already do.
i740 was AGP only, because Intel was trying to use it as a lever to push people to Slot-1 away from Socket-7, to screw AMD over. Those cards were also notorious for only working in AGP slots that happened to talk to Intel chipsets, and Intel CPUs.
You forgot: (4) a blatently obvious lack of using the "Preview" button on the part of the "editor", and a complete disregard for fixing it after it's been pointed out and tagged as a broken link.
I would have loved to read the article, but there weren't any links in the summary. Well, there was one, but both the submitter and the editor are incompetent at submitting and editing.
Apple also gives Intel plenty of free marketing, and doesnt take any of that Intel Inside co-branding money because of their refusal to put annoying stickers on their product. And don't forget that Apple makes for a decent hedge against Microsoft doing something Intel doesn't like.
Okay. We don't want criminals to get guns - I think we can all agree on that. So let's pass laws against criminals getting guns, because clearly criminals care about breaking the law?
Criminals, by definition, don't give two solid fucks about breaking laws. More laws and mandatory sentencing is not the deterrent people like to think it is. Criminals especially don't give a crap about gun laws if they are part of a criminal enterprise, like selling drugs in poor inner-cities, where assault and murder are tools to be used for maintaining territory and product; because if they get caught, the penalty for assault and murder are far higher than that felony-C weapons charge. Maryland and Illinois have some of the most strict gun control laws on the books, yet Chicago and Baltimore rule the roost in drug-related violence.
Oh, and not doing the assault or murder carries the same or worse penalty for these criminals, and organized crime syndicates (whether talking about the "mob" or drug traffickers) are a lot less dainty about their capital punishment than government is.
And the millions of guns that already exist, including collectors' pieces and artifacts of history that were manufactured in the 1800's - are we to just ban those because they don't meet up with these short-sighted and badly-conceived regulations?
Potatoes are grown using commercial fertilizers. Fertilizer contains Potassium to promote leaf growth, which promotes bigger, healthier potatoes. Potassium naturally has a radioactive isotope, K40. There will be some uptake of K40 in each potato.
Here is a paper about theorizing that the lung cancer caused by smoking, is mostly caused by radioactive phosphates taken up by the tobacco plant due to heavy use of phosphate-rich fertilizers used to make bigger tobacco leafs, which also happen to contain Lead-210 and Polonium-210. These radioactive heavy metals build up in the soil over years of fertilizer use.
There is a difference between electromagnetic radiation and ionizing radiation.
One is just radio or light waves, and is harmless below certain amplitudes that you don't see in common products. The other is bits of atoms flying off, causing biological changes on a cellular level, and those materials are highly restricted.
Which category do you think a television falls into?
I don't want to have a fucking Skype session while I watch football, I want to watch football when I want to watch football. I don't want to give up valuable real estate to a fucking web browser when I'm watching a movie, I want to concentrate on the movie.
In fact, I would contend that the director did a shitty job of making the movie if you can only half-way pay attention for a few minutes while cocking about on the Internet and not miss something.
I don't want my saved games "in the cloud" where I can't access them if my ISP takes a shit. If you're going to put half a terabyte of disk in the thing, let me save a few 1MB save files on it. In fact, my Xbox360 is one of the few electronic things I can still use if my ISP takes a shit these days. They already tried this with "Games for Windows" a couple years back, and it was terrible. In Fallout 3, you could get into the game, and tell it to load the game before it completed your login to Live, and it would load a game from weeks ago if you were playing the DLC.
I'll let others talk about the rest of it - I don't have any feelings one way or the other about other "features."
So if the Senate wants to convene the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in order to investigate all this tax avoidance and grill some executives... wouldn't it be a much better use of their time to propose and vote on legislation to revise the tax code that allows these loopholes to exist to begin with?
If only Congress wasn't as worried about how it looks like their doing their job, and instead was worried about actually doing their job...
Blackberry is on the way down. They may recover, or they may completely implode and go the way of Nortel. Would you rather have support for other certified devices in place before they implode, or have a notoriously inefficient and prone to corruption entity like the Department of Defense rush to slap together something afterward?
It's smart to hedge bets sometimes.
(This post contains forward looking statements that may not come to pass, regarding the implosion of RIM / BlackBerry)
Part of the DISA configuration requirements is a management server. Thats enterprise hardware and a service agreement. There will also be funded training for use of the management server. Not to mention some poor SOB will gain an additional side-duty.
So you dump the BES and use an MDM server that talks to Android, iOS, and Blackberry. There are plenty to choose from.
Or, they will do what enterprises across the world are doing - open up a secure way for Android (via Touchdown, but some devices do whole-device encryption to a standard that counts now) and iOS to collect mail / contacts / calendars through MDM profiles, and when everyone switches away from Blackberry, shut down their BES environment and count the savings.
We did that last year in this here Fortune-20 company. The users love it, because they get to use a device they actually like, which they get to go out and choose. The bean counters love it, because we're not paying out the ass for BES and corporate-owned Blackberries that get dropped / crushed / lost. Instead, it's an easy-to-budget stipend to approved users, and a one-time capital cost to stand up the MDM solution, with a small recurring "annual support agreement" expense.
They did this for Mac OS X back in 10.5 when they got their official UNIX stamp. Not surprising that they would go after an organization that literally prints money to spend on stuff.
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It could be made to work with some, but those were usually the exception. It really hated the VIA chipsets because of the way they clocked the CPU as a multiplier of the PCI bus (thus over clocking PCI and AGP with some CPU configurations), but the ALIs weren't too far off Intel's AGP spec.
Apple knows that HFS is in need of replacement, which is why they had a fully functional ZFS on Mac OS X 10.6 at launch, but removed it at the last second because they could never come to licensing terms with Sun.
It is still updated as a forked open source project, and there is a commercial version that has a newer version of pool / ZFS available for purchase.
That's the difference between "gaming" OpenGL ICD and "professional" OpenGL ICD. It's perfectly possible to have a graphics card that rules the roost at rendering AutoCAD and Maya 3D, but suck out loud at gaming framerates. Most of the Quadro line of GPUs are this way - they are optimized for accuracy rather than shoving as many frames out the door as possible.
Now only if everything on Steam would run on all platforms that can run Steam...
(Mac OS X suffers from the same effect.)
Because there is absolutely no documentation or support for development on Mac from Apple? They sure don't have a whole section of documentation specifically for OpenGL. Or driver development. Apple also doesn't put hundreds of their engineers in a convention center for a week specifically to answer developer questions every year, or stream any of those sessions for free over the Internet. And they definitely don't have a track at that event specifically for graphics and games. Oh, and no one has ever seen the source code for the kernel inside of Mac OS X either.
Besides, do you really think that if Intel called up Apple and said "Hey, we'd really like to bump up the performance of the integrated GPUs that you're buying on your systems by helping you with some driver optimization for OpenGL" that Apple would reply "Go fuck yourself in your own face, we want slow, inefficient drivers!" ??
Nvidia does:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-313.01.01f03-driver.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
Okay, sure.
Except that nobody that cares about OpenGL performance is using an Intel integrated GPU as their sole source of rendering horsepower. If OpenGL is important to you, you spend the extra money for a real professional-graphics GPU like Quadro or FireGL, since the time saved waiting for things to render literally pays back the card's cost in a few weeks.
Also, there's way more variables in this comparison than the driver, and Intel could also publish their own Mac OS X kexts for their GPUs, like Nvidia and AMD already do.
This whole story is a load of shit.
i740 was AGP only, because Intel was trying to use it as a lever to push people to Slot-1 away from Socket-7, to screw AMD over. Those cards were also notorious for only working in AGP slots that happened to talk to Intel chipsets, and Intel CPUs.
Yeah, I supported one of those products long ago - the Diamond Stealth II G460.
Different kernels.
Different user environment.
Different services running.
Different implementations of the OpenGL API
But I'm sure it's the driver, and only the driver making the difference here. What a ridiculous comparison.
You forgot: (4) a blatently obvious lack of using the "Preview" button on the part of the "editor", and a complete disregard for fixing it after it's been pointed out and tagged as a broken link.
Psh. They do that shit on every other episode of CSI. And clearly if the under-funded police can do that, then anyone can do that.
Wake up and smell the erosion of rights!
I would have loved to read the article, but there weren't any links in the summary. Well, there was one, but both the submitter and the editor are incompetent at submitting and editing.
Apple also gives Intel plenty of free marketing, and doesnt take any of that Intel Inside co-branding money because of their refusal to put annoying stickers on their product. And don't forget that Apple makes for a decent hedge against Microsoft doing something Intel doesn't like.
Me too. And I still don't know wtf it is, or why I should care.
Okay. We don't want criminals to get guns - I think we can all agree on that. So let's pass laws against criminals getting guns, because clearly criminals care about breaking the law?
Criminals, by definition, don't give two solid fucks about breaking laws. More laws and mandatory sentencing is not the deterrent people like to think it is. Criminals especially don't give a crap about gun laws if they are part of a criminal enterprise, like selling drugs in poor inner-cities, where assault and murder are tools to be used for maintaining territory and product; because if they get caught, the penalty for assault and murder are far higher than that felony-C weapons charge. Maryland and Illinois have some of the most strict gun control laws on the books, yet Chicago and Baltimore rule the roost in drug-related violence.
Oh, and not doing the assault or murder carries the same or worse penalty for these criminals, and organized crime syndicates (whether talking about the "mob" or drug traffickers) are a lot less dainty about their capital punishment than government is.
And the millions of guns that already exist, including collectors' pieces and artifacts of history that were manufactured in the 1800's - are we to just ban those because they don't meet up with these short-sighted and badly-conceived regulations?
Potatoes are grown using commercial fertilizers. Fertilizer contains Potassium to promote leaf growth, which promotes bigger, healthier potatoes. Potassium naturally has a radioactive isotope, K40. There will be some uptake of K40 in each potato.
Here is a paper about theorizing that the lung cancer caused by smoking, is mostly caused by radioactive phosphates taken up by the tobacco plant due to heavy use of phosphate-rich fertilizers used to make bigger tobacco leafs, which also happen to contain Lead-210 and Polonium-210. These radioactive heavy metals build up in the soil over years of fertilizer use.
There is a difference between electromagnetic radiation and ionizing radiation.
One is just radio or light waves, and is harmless below certain amplitudes that you don't see in common products. The other is bits of atoms flying off, causing biological changes on a cellular level, and those materials are highly restricted.
Which category do you think a television falls into?
How about product-induced ADD?
I don't want to have a fucking Skype session while I watch football, I want to watch football when I want to watch football. I don't want to give up valuable real estate to a fucking web browser when I'm watching a movie, I want to concentrate on the movie.
In fact, I would contend that the director did a shitty job of making the movie if you can only half-way pay attention for a few minutes while cocking about on the Internet and not miss something.
I don't want my saved games "in the cloud" where I can't access them if my ISP takes a shit. If you're going to put half a terabyte of disk in the thing, let me save a few 1MB save files on it. In fact, my Xbox360 is one of the few electronic things I can still use if my ISP takes a shit these days. They already tried this with "Games for Windows" a couple years back, and it was terrible. In Fallout 3, you could get into the game, and tell it to load the game before it completed your login to Live, and it would load a game from weeks ago if you were playing the DLC.
I'll let others talk about the rest of it - I don't have any feelings one way or the other about other "features."
So if the Senate wants to convene the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in order to investigate all this tax avoidance and grill some executives... wouldn't it be a much better use of their time to propose and vote on legislation to revise the tax code that allows these loopholes to exist to begin with?
If only Congress wasn't as worried about how it looks like their doing their job, and instead was worried about actually doing their job...
Because we all know that Africa and former Soviet republics are teeming with 3D printers.
No, wait, they are teeming with AK47s. AK's, AK's, AK's for days.
Blackberry is on the way down. They may recover, or they may completely implode and go the way of Nortel. Would you rather have support for other certified devices in place before they implode, or have a notoriously inefficient and prone to corruption entity like the Department of Defense rush to slap together something afterward?
It's smart to hedge bets sometimes.
(This post contains forward looking statements that may not come to pass, regarding the implosion of RIM / BlackBerry)
Part of the DISA configuration requirements is a management server. Thats enterprise hardware and a service agreement. There will also be funded training for use of the management server. Not to mention some poor SOB will gain an additional side-duty.
So you dump the BES and use an MDM server that talks to Android, iOS, and Blackberry. There are plenty to choose from.
Gosh, that was hard.
Or, they will do what enterprises across the world are doing - open up a secure way for Android (via Touchdown, but some devices do whole-device encryption to a standard that counts now) and iOS to collect mail / contacts / calendars through MDM profiles, and when everyone switches away from Blackberry, shut down their BES environment and count the savings.
We did that last year in this here Fortune-20 company. The users love it, because they get to use a device they actually like, which they get to go out and choose. The bean counters love it, because we're not paying out the ass for BES and corporate-owned Blackberries that get dropped / crushed / lost. Instead, it's an easy-to-budget stipend to approved users, and a one-time capital cost to stand up the MDM solution, with a small recurring "annual support agreement" expense.
They did this for Mac OS X back in 10.5 when they got their official UNIX stamp. Not surprising that they would go after an organization that literally prints money to spend on stuff.