Frankly I don't see much in the new Gnome that makes it worth bringing to any platform. I just wish the same effort being put into making broken UI concepts work on various gnu projects was put into GNUstep and GNU projects.
I run Linux as a desktop environment at work in my job as a sysadmin, the only time I ever fire up a Windows VM is for goto assist sessions. RDP/VNC/TeamViewer work fine for remote desktop, vmware web view works fine for server admin, I use Office 365 Web and OWA for e-mail, and I have had Evolution configured for Office 365 exchange support. The groupware stuff is a total myth, it works.
Is the single most bullshit answer ever. Are you people fucking serious? When has having children ever been a hindrance to entering a field such as medicine, law, or science? Women do all of these jobs without issue. That is the dumbest answer I've ever seen. It's also sexist as hell, I'm a guy and I'm not stupid enough to follow that line of reasoning.
Lack of interest maybe, social stigma, quite possibly, there's also a huge battery of people saying no no no no no don't do STEM, only guys can do it. It's the man's field.
Personally I think it's a lack of parents encouragement. Guys giving up computer time to their sisters, social sexism against women, and a lack of desire due to the above from women themselves. I work for an IT company, it's honestly a hostile workplace. If we ever hired a woman we would get sued to shit for the stuff I hear every day at work.
Nope, Microsoft don't provide many drivers for most hardware. Linux is supporting far more platforms/hardware drivers directly in kernel compared to Microsoft. All the Xerox/HP/Canon/NVIDIA/ATI/Intel/Philips/NEC/Toshiba/TV Tuner/Sound drivers for windows are third party drivers. It's no longer a Microsoft vs Linux issue, it hasn't been for a long time. It's all about the apps. Windows itself is incompatible with many pieces of hardware (forced obsolescence) Mainly because third parties decided to drop support around 64-bit or a newer Windows version.(I'm looking at you HP, dropping network scanning from windows 7 64-bit on certain printers) The same manufacturers who refuse to support Linux funnily enough don't support their Windows products well either. The hardware support claim is a furphy. All the large scale corporate printers/photocopiers/POS systems I've encountered have full Linux support. The only thing holding Linux back is stuff like frontline service applications written in.NET/Win32 that aren't getting ported over. More OSS software that can drop in and take over corporate software deployments is what's needed. Samba 4 and OpenExchange server are BIG steps in the right direction and we are seriously evaluating these for corporate widespread deployments.
Frankly at this point, I'd rather the Chinese have my data to be honest. They won't share it with the Australian/Five eyes governments, and since I live ina Five eyes country, that works better for me. It's not like they'll put me in a prison from China for some BS they find on my phone. My own government on the other hand is much more likely to screw up my life using my own private data.
The crash scene is a crime scene and all the bodies and bits should be left in place. Russia lost all credibility the second they started moving bits around.
You've got it backwards dude... Unix Sysadmins have long ponytail hair... Everyone knows that. Just checkout Johnathon Schwartz to see what I'm talking about.
Get howto program Linux games, and get a copy of the OpenGL spec. That's about all you need. It tells you howto setup the engine for proper operation. Swap out the 2D renderer from the book with a 3D renderer you write yourself. Simple enough.
I'd also add that considering the NVIDIA Binary blob works on FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, and Linux as well as Windows, that it is well engineered. The AMD/ATi driver doesnt' even work correctly on Linux, and Apple had to write their own driver for Mac OSX. There is an officially available (from nvidia.com) driver for Mac OSX for their Quadro cards. It is pretty obvious that AMD/ATi has always favored Windows/Microsoft and has put minimal effort into supporting Unix based platforms. Now they're reaping what they've sown and everyone's trying to defend them?
No. You don't get to abandon a platform for years, then try to claim victimhood status for your own poor business choices. That's doesn't fly.
Intel is having their first crack at this graphics stuff within the i915-current drivers. They're solid, reliable, a little lacking in features. But overall it works. My code written for Linux works on both nvidia and Intel. Not sure why the fact it breaks on AMD doesn't shout to people that AMD is the problem, but there you go.
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFre...
This is an example, notice where it says run MAKE and MAKE INSTALL. And you had to do it multiple times, in different folders... and half the time it broke. And you didn't know why. Absolute madness.
You've always had to compile the interface layer between NVIDIA's blob and XFree86. Dont' even make me go into how complicated and messy that process was. The installer script is so much easier than the shit we used to deal with back in the TNT2/geforce 2 days.
Frankly, it's time to stop blaming NVIDIA and start blaming ATi, yes everyone likes the underdog. But in this case seriously? They had 20 years to get OpenGL correct. Noone has been blocking them from writing their own drivers for Linux/Mac/Windows. Frankly I think that ATi has made a huge engineering mistake by only focusing on Win32 and by not supporting Unix from day one as a first class citizen, they've shot themselves in the foot, now they expect the industry to clean up the mess by conforming to ATi. I don't recall NVIDIA anywhere holding a shotgun to our heads and demanding we use OpenGL or else. They just made OpenGL available and importantly WORKING.
OpenGL wasn't even NVIDIA's project originally, it's inherited from SGI. They've had approximately 20-25 years to implement an open spec, and they've failed to do so at every step. I've been watching the last 13 years as NVIDIA grew from a buggy hard to compile mess on Linux to the stable, fully featured driver it is now. ATi has never pulled off a competent GL implementation in all those years. Now people want to bring in conspiracy theories about NVIDIA blocking ATi from developing software? What a joke.
1. Whenever I talk about Linux/computer programming, there are a very small number of people that have been interested in the topics. Some are women, the vast majority are men.
2. Computers are expensive as a hobby. Sure they've gotten a lot cheaper, but you're still paying several grand to enjoy the hobby properly.
Now I don't profess to know the US situation (Australian here), but in my experience, I had to use my computer constantly while growing up in the 1990's (I'm 28 years old) Computers when I started (1993/1994) cost $4000+ and have dropped significantly over time. Is it possible that we see less use of computers within groups within America that didn't have as much money in the 1990s? It's hard to use a computer every day if you don't have the money to buy one?
I think lack of access has been the primary reason for these gender imbalances. I also think that there's been a rapid shift in the last decade. I remember about 10 years ago noone used Linux, only nerds and CS people. But in the last 5 years the use of it has grown dramatically. I think the same has been happening for women using computers. I think that in the next 10-20 years this issue will go away, purely because people can now afford and use computers on a daily basis, so anyone can get into the hobby.
As a child my sister was very athletic and I was more into using and hogging the computer. I think now that computers have gotten so cheap, most people are buying computers for all their kids, so none of them gets left out (a boy can't monopolise his sister's machine if he's using his own). I think that this is what will end the gender/racial imbalances in computing.
When are people going to wake up to the fact that the ITER is only funded because the idiots spent billions on it, and have no choice now but to make it actually work. The russians started experimenting with Tokomaks in the 1970s and the US having to stick it to the commies rushed in with money to compete. 40 years later with no end in sight, we're still here trying to make a broken idea work. ITER is one of the actual cases of the government spending stupid amounts of money on a project with no proven success.
The same amount of funding spread across the other fusion projects would quite likely have resulted in a usable reactor by now. Hell the Polywell guys reckoned 100 million would have built a power plant using their reactor design. A smaller figure would prove net power according to Robert Bussard.
It's not blocking progress. It's blocking anti-competitive poor practice. There's a very big difference there. There is no improvement to anyone to be gained from letting a lock-in solution take hold. Microsoft are a great example of this, by locking in gaming for the last 15 years, they've held back the development of gaming toolkits and graphics development on other platforms. Work which now has to be done quickly to provide an alternative platform to windows because they've decided they don't need the PC gaming market anymore.
RMS is right in this case, DRM just harms everyone. Now Linux might play some more videos, but everyone who wants to run Amiga or Haiku, or another platform will be shutout from accessing that content. This is why DRM is stupid, it keeps the vendor/platform lock in going. For no good reason. It has never stopped pirates from doing their thing.
End Corporate Personhood while you're there Mr Lessig, It's about time that more power was allocated back to the Voters of the United States. Where the USA leads, other countries will follow. Don't bother trying to amend things like gun laws, or drug laws etc in the constitution. Just focus on smashing corporate personhood. Hell a Constitutiional amendment to end it needs to happen.
I doubt any of this will get too far. I mean if the games, tv and book industries wanted to commit suicide, they'd just end up driving hobbyists to make their own entertainment: Queue the explosive rise of open source gaming. Now I'm not suggesting we're going to see a sudden explosion now. I don't think those industries are quite that stupid. But I think if they actually did decide to go stupid-crazy, the bulk of people would just start hacking their own content and releasing it. People like games and modding, but if push came to shove, they'd make more open source projects if they had to get around restrictive stupid crap.
Welcome to the JSF: Why make two companies compete for funding when you can just pay them both, and end up with a shittier version of two planes to choose from!
Game design explained in one post:
Make a loop, inside that loop, put graphics in it's own loop, input handling in a loop, sound in a loop and networking in a loop. Start writing your game.
Seriously fuck these people who say you can't do it. Fuck the courses and training. Just make a game. features, and what you want to put in it, are a matter of what you choose to throw in and what things you like. Commercial game development is different, but then it always has been. Still the indie scene seems to work well for a lot of people these days. If you want tp make games, there's nothing stopping anyone. The instructions are on google. How to program linux games by Loki software is a great intro. They designed it around 2d games, but the theory is exactly the same for 3d. You just have a 3d graphics loop rather than a 2d graphics one. I recommend the OpenAL,OpenGL and SDL tutorials and books.
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Frankly I don't see much in the new Gnome that makes it worth bringing to any platform. I just wish the same effort being put into making broken UI concepts work on various gnu projects was put into GNUstep and GNU projects.
I run Linux as a desktop environment at work in my job as a sysadmin, the only time I ever fire up a Windows VM is for goto assist sessions. RDP/VNC/TeamViewer work fine for remote desktop, vmware web view works fine for server admin, I use Office 365 Web and OWA for e-mail, and I have had Evolution configured for Office 365 exchange support. The groupware stuff is a total myth, it works.
Is the single most bullshit answer ever. Are you people fucking serious? When has having children ever been a hindrance to entering a field such as medicine, law, or science? Women do all of these jobs without issue. That is the dumbest answer I've ever seen. It's also sexist as hell, I'm a guy and I'm not stupid enough to follow that line of reasoning. Lack of interest maybe, social stigma, quite possibly, there's also a huge battery of people saying no no no no no don't do STEM, only guys can do it. It's the man's field. Personally I think it's a lack of parents encouragement. Guys giving up computer time to their sisters, social sexism against women, and a lack of desire due to the above from women themselves. I work for an IT company, it's honestly a hostile workplace. If we ever hired a woman we would get sued to shit for the stuff I hear every day at work.
Why would they bother to support a UN treaty? They're like the biggest rogue state on the planet.
Nope, Microsoft don't provide many drivers for most hardware. Linux is supporting far more platforms/hardware drivers directly in kernel compared to Microsoft. All the Xerox/HP/Canon/NVIDIA/ATI/Intel/Philips/NEC/Toshiba/TV Tuner/Sound drivers for windows are third party drivers. It's no longer a Microsoft vs Linux issue, it hasn't been for a long time. It's all about the apps. Windows itself is incompatible with many pieces of hardware (forced obsolescence) Mainly because third parties decided to drop support around 64-bit or a newer Windows version.(I'm looking at you HP, dropping network scanning from windows 7 64-bit on certain printers) The same manufacturers who refuse to support Linux funnily enough don't support their Windows products well either. The hardware support claim is a furphy. All the large scale corporate printers/photocopiers/POS systems I've encountered have full Linux support. The only thing holding Linux back is stuff like frontline service applications written in .NET/Win32 that aren't getting ported over. More OSS software that can drop in and take over corporate software deployments is what's needed. Samba 4 and OpenExchange server are BIG steps in the right direction and we are seriously evaluating these for corporate widespread deployments.
Isn't this just another problem for encrypted darknets to solve?
Frankly at this point, I'd rather the Chinese have my data to be honest. They won't share it with the Australian/Five eyes governments, and since I live ina Five eyes country, that works better for me. It's not like they'll put me in a prison from China for some BS they find on my phone. My own government on the other hand is much more likely to screw up my life using my own private data.
The crash scene is a crime scene and all the bodies and bits should be left in place. Russia lost all credibility the second they started moving bits around.
Clearly some rights just aren't worth protecting because they come at too much expense.
You've got it backwards dude... Unix Sysadmins have long ponytail hair... Everyone knows that. Just checkout Johnathon Schwartz to see what I'm talking about.
Follow the Herd? you must be GNU here?
Get howto program Linux games, and get a copy of the OpenGL spec. That's about all you need. It tells you howto setup the engine for proper operation. Swap out the 2D renderer from the book with a 3D renderer you write yourself. Simple enough.
I'd also add that considering the NVIDIA Binary blob works on FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, and Linux as well as Windows, that it is well engineered. The AMD/ATi driver doesnt' even work correctly on Linux, and Apple had to write their own driver for Mac OSX. There is an officially available (from nvidia.com) driver for Mac OSX for their Quadro cards. It is pretty obvious that AMD/ATi has always favored Windows/Microsoft and has put minimal effort into supporting Unix based platforms. Now they're reaping what they've sown and everyone's trying to defend them? No. You don't get to abandon a platform for years, then try to claim victimhood status for your own poor business choices. That's doesn't fly. Intel is having their first crack at this graphics stuff within the i915-current drivers. They're solid, reliable, a little lacking in features. But overall it works. My code written for Linux works on both nvidia and Intel. Not sure why the fact it breaks on AMD doesn't shout to people that AMD is the problem, but there you go.
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFre... This is an example, notice where it says run MAKE and MAKE INSTALL. And you had to do it multiple times, in different folders... and half the time it broke. And you didn't know why. Absolute madness.
You've always had to compile the interface layer between NVIDIA's blob and XFree86. Dont' even make me go into how complicated and messy that process was. The installer script is so much easier than the shit we used to deal with back in the TNT2/geforce 2 days.
Frankly, it's time to stop blaming NVIDIA and start blaming ATi, yes everyone likes the underdog. But in this case seriously? They had 20 years to get OpenGL correct. Noone has been blocking them from writing their own drivers for Linux/Mac/Windows. Frankly I think that ATi has made a huge engineering mistake by only focusing on Win32 and by not supporting Unix from day one as a first class citizen, they've shot themselves in the foot, now they expect the industry to clean up the mess by conforming to ATi. I don't recall NVIDIA anywhere holding a shotgun to our heads and demanding we use OpenGL or else. They just made OpenGL available and importantly WORKING. OpenGL wasn't even NVIDIA's project originally, it's inherited from SGI. They've had approximately 20-25 years to implement an open spec, and they've failed to do so at every step. I've been watching the last 13 years as NVIDIA grew from a buggy hard to compile mess on Linux to the stable, fully featured driver it is now. ATi has never pulled off a competent GL implementation in all those years. Now people want to bring in conspiracy theories about NVIDIA blocking ATi from developing software? What a joke.
1. Whenever I talk about Linux/computer programming, there are a very small number of people that have been interested in the topics. Some are women, the vast majority are men. 2. Computers are expensive as a hobby. Sure they've gotten a lot cheaper, but you're still paying several grand to enjoy the hobby properly. Now I don't profess to know the US situation (Australian here), but in my experience, I had to use my computer constantly while growing up in the 1990's (I'm 28 years old) Computers when I started (1993/1994) cost $4000+ and have dropped significantly over time. Is it possible that we see less use of computers within groups within America that didn't have as much money in the 1990s? It's hard to use a computer every day if you don't have the money to buy one? I think lack of access has been the primary reason for these gender imbalances. I also think that there's been a rapid shift in the last decade. I remember about 10 years ago noone used Linux, only nerds and CS people. But in the last 5 years the use of it has grown dramatically. I think the same has been happening for women using computers. I think that in the next 10-20 years this issue will go away, purely because people can now afford and use computers on a daily basis, so anyone can get into the hobby. As a child my sister was very athletic and I was more into using and hogging the computer. I think now that computers have gotten so cheap, most people are buying computers for all their kids, so none of them gets left out (a boy can't monopolise his sister's machine if he's using his own). I think that this is what will end the gender/racial imbalances in computing.
When are people going to wake up to the fact that the ITER is only funded because the idiots spent billions on it, and have no choice now but to make it actually work. The russians started experimenting with Tokomaks in the 1970s and the US having to stick it to the commies rushed in with money to compete. 40 years later with no end in sight, we're still here trying to make a broken idea work. ITER is one of the actual cases of the government spending stupid amounts of money on a project with no proven success. The same amount of funding spread across the other fusion projects would quite likely have resulted in a usable reactor by now. Hell the Polywell guys reckoned 100 million would have built a power plant using their reactor design. A smaller figure would prove net power according to Robert Bussard.
THIS. E-sports is the next big media spectacle. It's like the Olympics, for people who can't enjoy sports but who enjoy watching gaming.
It's not blocking progress. It's blocking anti-competitive poor practice. There's a very big difference there. There is no improvement to anyone to be gained from letting a lock-in solution take hold. Microsoft are a great example of this, by locking in gaming for the last 15 years, they've held back the development of gaming toolkits and graphics development on other platforms. Work which now has to be done quickly to provide an alternative platform to windows because they've decided they don't need the PC gaming market anymore.
RMS is right in this case, DRM just harms everyone. Now Linux might play some more videos, but everyone who wants to run Amiga or Haiku, or another platform will be shutout from accessing that content. This is why DRM is stupid, it keeps the vendor/platform lock in going. For no good reason. It has never stopped pirates from doing their thing.
End Corporate Personhood while you're there Mr Lessig, It's about time that more power was allocated back to the Voters of the United States. Where the USA leads, other countries will follow. Don't bother trying to amend things like gun laws, or drug laws etc in the constitution. Just focus on smashing corporate personhood. Hell a Constitutiional amendment to end it needs to happen.
I doubt any of this will get too far. I mean if the games, tv and book industries wanted to commit suicide, they'd just end up driving hobbyists to make their own entertainment: Queue the explosive rise of open source gaming. Now I'm not suggesting we're going to see a sudden explosion now. I don't think those industries are quite that stupid. But I think if they actually did decide to go stupid-crazy, the bulk of people would just start hacking their own content and releasing it. People like games and modding, but if push came to shove, they'd make more open source projects if they had to get around restrictive stupid crap.
Welcome to the JSF: Why make two companies compete for funding when you can just pay them both, and end up with a shittier version of two planes to choose from!
Game design explained in one post: Make a loop, inside that loop, put graphics in it's own loop, input handling in a loop, sound in a loop and networking in a loop. Start writing your game. Seriously fuck these people who say you can't do it. Fuck the courses and training. Just make a game. features, and what you want to put in it, are a matter of what you choose to throw in and what things you like. Commercial game development is different, but then it always has been. Still the indie scene seems to work well for a lot of people these days. If you want tp make games, there's nothing stopping anyone. The instructions are on google. How to program linux games by Loki software is a great intro. They designed it around 2d games, but the theory is exactly the same for 3d. You just have a 3d graphics loop rather than a 2d graphics one. I recommend the OpenAL,OpenGL and SDL tutorials and books.