Proprietary drivers are against the GNU philosophy, under which Linux is developed and distributed.
The new 2.6 kernel series goes a step further in this direction, by forcing all proprietary drivers (like nvidia-glx) to run at the lowest priority.
Hardware manufactoreres shuold release their drivers open sourced. If they refuse to do this, I will not buy them. Linuxant had a great idea, but it's in the wrong direction.
Before people start replying that I'm a "linux zealot" or Stallman's biatch, let me state this: I am not paying my money for my software: a linux distro and oss replacements for common applications. The least I can do is respect the authors vision and contribute to it. This means promoting open source software by using it, and refusing to run proprietaru software.
What's Forbes' poin after all? In their article they picture the FSF as some kind of Al's Hit squad that settles out any dispute over it's own goods.
It's not like the FSF puts decapitated horse heads in the beds of Cisco CEOs.
It's more like this: I'm a young software programmer. I contributed free software by writing a driver for some random hardware and distributing it under the GPL. Now the manufactorer has taken this driver, modified it to make it work with it's new line of hardware and made it proprietary. Since I am a student I can't afford to pay the costs of a lawsuit against some major hardware manufactorer, so the FSF acts on my behalf to make my rights stand out.
with the complete illustrated feature list. http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/
Loading times seem to have been improved, that's great news since that's what's keeping me using Abiword for common word processing jobs at uni. Let's see if there's already an ebuild for it...
The power distribution cannot be the problem when you have, like me, an active power plant only a few kilometers away and you still have to wait several hours before the electricity comes back again.
if the problem isn't the lack of power, why was did an interruption of power feeding from France cause the entire country to blackout? This raises even more concerns since the power usage was so low...
...blackouts are the result of green political propaganda.
In 1987, following the wave of commotion that swept the country due to the Chernobyl meltdown, the "green" political party, the "Verdi", managed to convince the majority of the population that it was better not to have nuclear power plants here in Italy.
If you travel around Italy you'll see funny signs on approaching a town or city: "This is a denuclearized city".
This is actually the epitome of hypocrisy, because that town or city actually relies on nuclear energy, since it is imported from France, which has over 50 nuclear power plants (many of which located near or on the alpine zone of France, very near to Italy). Thus, that town is producing nuclear waste... but is paying someone just to get over the problem of stocking it.
I'm very concerned about environmental problems, but green "fundamentilists" have even blocked a recent proposal of an wind-powered plant in sourthern Italy. The reason: it blocks the view of the marvellous landscape!
Anyway, the main problem is that oil is too cheap: the majority of our energy plants runs on oil, which is a terrible waste of one of the most precious substances known to mankind. The only solution is to raise the cost of oilperbarrel: a solution that would most consumers don't even want to think about.
something more cpu intensive but still using network resources: SETI anyone?
anyway, I haven't had the time to crunch and digest all these wacky numbers listed in the benchmark, but when I read that "the latest stable 2.4 kernel still out-performs the 2.6.0-test development kernel on a uniprocessor server, but not on a multiprocessor server" it also means that they perform averagely equal on a multiprocessor system, or the latter outperforms the former?
KaZaA wanted to sue Google because it distributed (well, actually hyperlinked.. but that's what they intended in the legal complaint they filed) illegal copies of it's copyrighted property.
Even though the two cases are not instrumentally similiar, I think that's hypocrisy. After all isn't RIAA trying to defend it's own copyrighted property?
I have no doubt that RIAA probably asked Sharman to hand over it's traffic data or implement some system to monitor illegal file-sharing, and KaZaA promptly refused.
I'm not advocating RIAA's recent legal actions, but I don't like the smell of hypocrisy.
'This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems that are out there: Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP... oh and... what's it called... MacOS."
Earthstation 5 also has a FREE multi-user Voice and Video chat system,
FREE Dating system, provides FREE video streaming of first run movies, FREE
ten SEX channels, (...)
(...) and to make our point
very clear that their governing laws and policys have absolutely no meaning to
us here in Palestine
Wait a sec... isn't pornography illegal in muslim countries?
Scandalous behaviour by internet users has been exercising religious authorities in the Middle East for some time. According to a Saudi scholar, internet pornography was even foretold by the Prophet as one of the evils that would occur just before the day of judgement. Article
Where the long arm of the RIAA cannot reach, a fatwa against p2p may kill thousands (literaly).
...we will read an interview with hotdude@kazaa about
- him sharing music on kazaa
- getting sued, losing $$$ to RIAA
- converting his musical tastes from Micheal Bolton to Machinae Supremacy
- him speaking out at the Assembly Chip Tune compo on the merits of freely downloadble music
Yes it does. Actually, it would be more correct to rephrase "adware" with "spyware" since software developed by Gator or Digital Brliiance actually spies on you, instead of simply showing ads (as any normal browser would do while browsing the web: in that sense, browsers are 'passive adware').
Obviously, DivX staff would never do that since "spyware" would turn off a lot of potential downloads. However, EULAs aren't very informative on what kind of activity you are permitting this software to do in exchange for you right to use DivX Pro. If it's true that programmers should get something out of their hard work (and DivX devs should with doubt), it's also true that the user should be correctly informed and be allowed to completely opt-out if he wishes. No Gator or Digital Brilliance program allows you to do that.
DivX 5.0.5 is still available for Linux here, no adware attached. Actually, it would be quite funny if adware was included as that would be the first case of linux adware afaik.
DooM wasn't _that_ groundbreaking
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Masters of Doom
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· Score: 1
History seems to have forgotten the _real_ prototypes of modern, first-person shooters: the "Freescape" series of games that Incentive software developed in the eighties. These games featured a fully featured 3D environment and point-and-click shooter action.
While DooM is remembered for uniting groundbreaking technology, unlimited playability and innovative marketing, it _has_ not invented the genre.
To me, failing to credit this company and these games, which undoubtly inspired Looking Glass Studios (and therefore inspired John Carmack), lowers the journalistic value of this book. Games like Total Eclipse or Dark Side should have been mentioned, because these games, even if they ran on now obsolete hardware like the Amiga and the C64, provided the inspirational vision that made all Quake, Unreal and Thief possible.
Actually, it is widely known that similiar hardware performs differently. Two identically configured boxes might have a difference in performance (not counting stability, of course) of as much as 5%. So how well a "a particular piece of hardware performs in relation to (it's theoretical self)" might prove interesting. Would it annoy you to find out that your box performs badly in relation to other computers of the same series. I'd say yes.
No big deal, but since everybody is concerned with numbers, I just wanted to point this out.
Slashdot Mirror
... Gabe Newel thinks of this...
Proprietary drivers are against the GNU philosophy, under which Linux is developed and distributed.
The new 2.6 kernel series goes a step further in this direction, by forcing all proprietary drivers (like nvidia-glx) to run at the lowest priority.
Hardware manufactoreres shuold release their drivers open sourced. If they refuse to do this, I will not buy them. Linuxant had a great idea, but it's in the wrong direction.
Before people start replying that I'm a "linux zealot" or Stallman's biatch, let me state this: I am not paying my money for my software: a linux distro and oss replacements for common applications. The least I can do is respect the authors vision and contribute to it. This means promoting open source software by using it, and refusing to run proprietaru software.
>Because I don't live on caffiene, I don't play Quake, I don't read Slashdot, and I hate Linux.
If you don't read slashdot, why are you replying this news?
What's Forbes' poin after all? In their article they picture the FSF as some kind of Al's Hit squad that settles out any dispute over it's own goods.
It's not like the FSF puts decapitated horse heads in the beds of Cisco CEOs.
It's more like this: I'm a young software programmer. I contributed free software by writing a driver for some random hardware and distributing it under the GPL. Now the manufactorer has taken this driver, modified it to make it work with it's new line of hardware and made it proprietary. Since I am a student I can't afford to pay the costs of a lawsuit against some major hardware manufactorer, so the FSF acts on my behalf to make my rights stand out.
with the complete illustrated feature list.s /1.1/
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/feature
Loading times seem to have been improved, that's great news since that's what's keeping me using Abiword for common word processing jobs at uni. Let's see if there's already an ebuild for it...
The power distribution cannot be the problem when you have, like me, an active power plant only a few kilometers away and you still have to wait several hours before the electricity comes back again.
if the problem isn't the lack of power, why was did an interruption of power feeding from France cause the entire country to blackout? This raises even more concerns since the power usage was so low...
...blackouts are the result of green political propaganda.
... but is paying someone just to get over the problem of stocking it.
In 1987, following the wave of commotion that swept the country due to the Chernobyl meltdown, the "green" political party, the "Verdi", managed to convince the majority of the population that it was better not to have nuclear power plants here in Italy.
If you travel around Italy you'll see funny signs on approaching a town or city: "This is a denuclearized city".
This is actually the epitome of hypocrisy, because that town or city actually relies on nuclear energy, since it is imported from France, which has over 50 nuclear power plants (many of which located near or on the alpine zone of France, very near to Italy). Thus, that town is producing nuclear waste
I'm very concerned about environmental problems, but green "fundamentilists" have even blocked a recent proposal of an wind-powered plant in sourthern Italy. The reason: it blocks the view of the marvellous landscape!
Anyway, the main problem is that oil is too cheap: the majority of our energy plants runs on oil, which is a terrible waste of one of the most precious substances known to mankind. The only solution is to raise the cost of oilperbarrel: a solution that would most consumers don't even want to think about.
...Al Capone become the King of Chicago?
yeah, particularly considering the fact that Minix is a modular kernel, while Linux a monolithic one.
something more cpu intensive but still using network resources: SETI anyone?
anyway, I haven't had the time to crunch and digest all these wacky numbers listed in the benchmark, but when I read that "the latest stable 2.4 kernel still out-performs the 2.6.0-test development kernel on a uniprocessor server, but not on a multiprocessor server" it also means that they perform averagely equal on a multiprocessor system, or the latter outperforms the former?
KaZaA wanted to sue Google because it distributed (well, actually hyperlinked.. but that's what they intended in the legal complaint they filed) illegal copies of it's copyrighted property.
Even though the two cases are not instrumentally similiar, I think that's hypocrisy. After all isn't RIAA trying to defend it's own copyrighted property?
I have no doubt that RIAA probably asked Sharman to hand over it's traffic data or implement some system to monitor illegal file-sharing, and KaZaA promptly refused.
I'm not advocating RIAA's recent legal actions, but I don't like the smell of hypocrisy.
'This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems that are out there: Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP ... oh and... what's it called... MacOS."
yes, the MCSE: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer,
the guy frequently compared to the MCC: McDonalds Certified Chef.
myself
unleash teh script kiddies!
.. free software's way ahead.
Richard Stallman did that ages ago...
...nobody will complain that geeks don't wear deodorant.
SOFTWARE crashes YOU!
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Earthstation 5 also has a FREE multi-user Voice and Video chat system, FREE Dating system, provides FREE video streaming of first run movies, FREE ten SEX channels, (...)
(...) and to make our point very clear that their governing laws and policys have absolutely no meaning to us here in Palestine
Wait a sec... isn't pornography illegal in muslim countries?
Scandalous behaviour by internet users has been exercising religious authorities in the Middle East for some time. According to a Saudi scholar, internet pornography was even foretold by the Prophet as one of the evils that would occur just before the day of judgement.
Article
Where the long arm of the RIAA cannot reach, a fatwa against p2p may kill thousands (literaly).
...we will read an interview with hotdude@kazaa about
- him sharing music on kazaa
- getting sued, losing $$$ to RIAA
- converting his musical tastes from Micheal Bolton to Machinae Supremacy
- him speaking out at the Assembly Chip Tune compo on the merits of freely downloadble music
?
Yes it does. Actually, it would be more correct to rephrase "adware" with "spyware" since software developed by Gator or Digital Brliiance actually spies on you, instead of simply showing ads (as any normal browser would do while browsing the web: in that sense, browsers are 'passive adware').
Obviously, DivX staff would never do that since "spyware" would turn off a lot of potential downloads. However, EULAs aren't very informative on what kind of activity you are permitting this software to do in exchange for you right to use DivX Pro. If it's true that programmers should get something out of their hard work (and DivX devs should with doubt), it's also true that the user should be correctly informed and be allowed to completely opt-out if he wishes. No Gator or Digital Brilliance program allows you to do that.
Right.
DivX 5.0.5 is still available for Linux here, no adware attached. Actually, it would be quite funny if adware was included as that would be the first case of linux adware afaik.
History seems to have forgotten the _real_ prototypes of modern, first-person shooters: the "Freescape" series of games that Incentive software developed in the eighties. These games featured a fully featured 3D environment and point-and-click shooter action.
While DooM is remembered for uniting groundbreaking technology, unlimited playability and innovative marketing, it _has_ not invented the genre.
To me, failing to credit this company and these games, which undoubtly inspired Looking Glass Studios (and therefore inspired John Carmack), lowers the journalistic value of this book. Games like Total Eclipse or Dark Side should have been mentioned, because these games, even if they ran on now obsolete hardware like the Amiga and the C64, provided the inspirational vision that made all Quake, Unreal and Thief possible.
Actually, it is widely known that similiar hardware performs differently. Two identically configured boxes might have a difference in performance (not counting stability, of course) of as much as 5%. So how well a "a particular piece of hardware performs in relation to (it's theoretical self)" might prove interesting. Would it annoy you to find out that your box performs badly in relation to other computers of the same series. I'd say yes.
No big deal, but since everybody is concerned with numbers, I just wanted to point this out.