why *should* card companies spend money to write drivers for linux when there are going to be enthusiasts that do it for them?
It makes no sense from a company viewpoint, other than to get the support from the 5% of people that are using thier cards with linux. But even so, if an independent driver is written, those people using linux are still going to be buying the company's cards with no out of pocket expense to the company.
It's kinda messed up.
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and dupont can blame mental patient founders
and exxon can blame stricter environmental laws
and honeywell can blame global warming affecting thermostat sales
etc etc
Companies need to evolve to the state of the world, not point fingers about causes (real or imaginary) of thier misfortune. Digital content distribution is real and it is here to stay. It can either be looked at as an opportunity or as a degression; obviously the RIAA sees a degression since it can't rely on its standard business model and can't adapt to the change.
Or pull thier jersey's (or whatever covering they have!) over thier head and spread thier arms out making a "brrrrrrrr" noise and run back to midfield after they score a goal?
just FTP his lecture PDF over an IR connection or have the file avaliable over the inter/intranet so that students can DL it then and there over thier wireless connections? Then use thier tablet PCs, convert the PDF to a bitmap, take notes directly on the tablet PC, and then do a image->text conversion to save your notes onto your computer.
Seems rather simple to me. Just gotta make sure the image->text converter translates integral symbols as such and not as capitol "S"'s.:)
When Turbine demo'ed thier Turbine Game Engine, they demonstrated how flexible it was to script and how dynamic they could make the games.
They came up with an example set of inputs to thier engine and called it Asheron's Call 2. Thier engine is beautiful, thier game design is shit.
So, what people should be hoping is that thier game designers (and artists) [where is devilmouse?] don't drop the ball and make a game worth playing. It *could* give EQ2 a run for its money.
And the reason that I bring up mass production of the stuff is because it is often overlooked. I mean, Kroto and Smaley (the scientists that discovered fullerenes and won the nobel prize for it) analyzed spectrums to determine that there was a new form of carbon, but they couldnt separate it from the 'soot' and noone could really do experiments on it.
I know this because one of my undergrad profs at UofA Dr. Huffman talked about it quite a bit when he was able to use an enzyme to separate the c60 molecules from the soot, enabling a fairly cheap way of producing c60 molecules in bulk. He also showed a viewgraph of the research papers done on fullerenes before and after his discovery was published, and it went from 10000.:P
IIRC, one of the more recent topics in modern biochemistry/biophysics is isolating DNA 'molecules' (about the same size as some of the carbon tubes) and exciting them in different ways. Different ways that include photon and electron scattering (or 'passing electricity').
I'm not too sure on the results, and was too lazy to find the correct terms through google, but i know that single molecule systems have been seen to produce light through electron scattering.
a single molecule emits light whenever it makes a state transition... Its the phenomenon that caused the paradigm shift from classical to quantum mechanics.
Pardon me for being skeptical (I am a theorist, not an experimentalist), but isn't there a revolutionary new 'Carbon Nano-tube Technology' every 2 months? I mean, how many of these technologies will be applicable with thier current specifications?
And not only that, but it seems that nano-tubes are not currently being mass produced in any reasonable way. If they are, why aren't more small graduate materials labratories basing research on them?
I'm not against plausible speculations to applied science, but it just seems that the carbon nano-tube technology is still in its beginning phases, and we won't see these 'small optical fibers' or any other applied devices anytime before 2020.
I'm sure that there were people that said the same thing about Tolkien's works. Like he invented too many 'elvish' words or his 'old language' was too much unlike anything people were familiar with.
Tolkien was a liguist (but not very cunning!:D), and wrote about language, society, and emotions. I suggest you read Gibson teh same way. He is inventing terms, not just because he can, but because the english language needs them to describe the situations that he creates.
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why *should* card companies spend money to write drivers for linux when there are going to be enthusiasts that do it for them?
It makes no sense from a company viewpoint, other than to get the support from the 5% of people that are using thier cards with linux. But even so, if an independent driver is written, those people using linux are still going to be buying the company's cards with no out of pocket expense to the company.
It's kinda messed up.
and dupont can blame mental patient founders
and exxon can blame stricter environmental laws
and honeywell can blame global warming affecting thermostat sales
etc etc
Companies need to evolve to the state of the world, not point fingers about causes (real or imaginary) of thier misfortune. Digital content distribution is real and it is here to stay. It can either be looked at as an opportunity or as a degression; obviously the RIAA sees a degression since it can't rely on its standard business model and can't adapt to the change.
and yet, honda accords with thier electronic keys continue to be the number one stolen vehicle.
its only completly evil if you have something to hide.
we should all live open sourced lives.
when you hardwire things in, you generally do it to speed things up.
i am not that great of a perl coder, but how are there many ways to do that?
Using a hash, the syntax is:
document{$formname}{$elementname}{VALUE};
???
/* this post was here */
Or pull thier jersey's (or whatever covering they have!) over thier head and spread thier arms out making a "brrrrrrrr" noise and run back to midfield after they score a goal?
just FTP his lecture PDF over an IR connection or have the file avaliable over the inter/intranet so that students can DL it then and there over thier wireless connections? Then use thier tablet PCs, convert the PDF to a bitmap, take notes directly on the tablet PC, and then do a image->text conversion to save your notes onto your computer.
:)
/., so we can extrapolate technology some!
Seems rather simple to me. Just gotta make sure the image->text converter translates integral symbols as such and not as capitol "S"'s.
It is
The title of the other book got that damn Biz Markee song stuck in my head.
"You say hes just a geek.
But you say hes just a geek,
But you say hes just a geek."
Yeah yeah, OT I know.
When Turbine demo'ed thier Turbine Game Engine, they demonstrated how flexible it was to script and how dynamic they could make the games.
They came up with an example set of inputs to thier engine and called it Asheron's Call 2. Thier engine is beautiful, thier game design is shit.
So, what people should be hoping is that thier game designers (and artists) [where is devilmouse?] don't drop the ball and make a game worth playing. It *could* give EQ2 a run for its money.
you could walk into intel's clean room and tell them tehy aren't scientists. hell, they might get upset if you did.
they are engineers.
Scientist : design.
Engineers : implementation.
Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for "Ghost and Goblins 2003".
Note: I'm sure there is one or many sequels to that fine game, but noone ever played them because they were probably rehashes of the same thing.
I use G&G as an example because it's my all time favorite Capcom console game (damn that first level!).
no, all mac users are 'normal people' that don't always know too much about computers.
The Switch ads said so.
It makes sense. :)
:P
;)
And the reason that I bring up mass production of the stuff is because it is often overlooked. I mean, Kroto and Smaley (the scientists that discovered fullerenes and won the nobel prize for it) analyzed spectrums to determine that there was a new form of carbon, but they couldnt separate it from the 'soot' and noone could really do experiments on it.
I know this because one of my undergrad profs at UofA Dr. Huffman talked about it quite a bit when he was able to use an enzyme to separate the c60 molecules from the soot, enabling a fairly cheap way of producing c60 molecules in bulk. He also showed a viewgraph of the research papers done on fullerenes before and after his discovery was published, and it went from 10000.
So yeah, have fun with your problem sets.
No, its not.
IIRC, one of the more recent topics in modern biochemistry/biophysics is isolating DNA 'molecules' (about the same size as some of the carbon tubes) and exciting them in different ways. Different ways that include photon and electron scattering (or 'passing electricity').
I'm not too sure on the results, and was too lazy to find the correct terms through google, but i know that single molecule systems have been seen to produce light through electron scattering.
a single molecule emits light whenever it makes a state transition... Its the phenomenon that caused the paradigm shift from classical to quantum mechanics.
That can't be the point.
Pardon me for being skeptical (I am a theorist, not an experimentalist), but isn't there a revolutionary new 'Carbon Nano-tube Technology' every 2 months? I mean, how many of these technologies will be applicable with thier current specifications?
And not only that, but it seems that nano-tubes are not currently being mass produced in any reasonable way. If they are, why aren't more small graduate materials labratories basing research on them?
I'm not against plausible speculations to applied science, but it just seems that the carbon nano-tube technology is still in its beginning phases, and we won't see these 'small optical fibers' or any other applied devices anytime before 2020.
I'm sure that there were people that said the same thing about Tolkien's works. Like he invented too many 'elvish' words or his 'old language' was too much unlike anything people were familiar with.
:D), and wrote about language, society, and emotions. I suggest you read Gibson teh same way. He is inventing terms, not just because he can, but because the english language needs them to describe the situations that he creates.
Tolkien was a liguist (but not very cunning!
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x86 architecture is brand new!
ask them what it means to have a linearly dependent matrix.
They should at least say one thing, and it shouldn't be "I don't know any linear algebra".
The reporter must have tried to copy and paste the LaTex code. ;)
there would also be no ad revenue. :\
it also probably didn't calculate double precision number correctly past the 13th decimal.
;)
you should check, then get back to your HP-UX dealer.