The GIMP has problems, but it's user interface isn't one of them. Stuff like paths and shapes are a pain to do in the GIMP, but I actually love the muli window layout. I find that on a 30" monitor the best way to use the gimp is to make your image take up the full screen space, then set your tools to always on top so they always float above what I'm working on. I can then access my tools whenever I need to and nothing disappears when I don't want it to. It's a brilliant system, very easy to work with.
I'm going to weigh in here. The Nouveau drivers are better than the open source ATi drivers. Simply because, the performance doesn't matter. It's the feature completeness of the drivers that matters. The Nouveau drivers have been very steadily working towards a point where all previous generation cards and the current generation cards have the same feature set at the same time. If you check out the nouveau feature matrix it's a stunning achievement how rapidly they've come to the point they're at. People don't seem to realise that aside from SLI, OpenCL and the hardware reclocking support. The Nouveau drivers are basically feature complete. Noone uses TV out anymore since HDMI/digital video has taken over. Within 2-5 kernel revisions, the reclocking stuff is going to be completed. When that hits, the Nouveau drivers are going to shatter the AMD ones for performance. Already in preliminary testing where reclocking was enabled, the Nvidia cards were performing at or above the level of the nvidia binary blob. When the reclocking support is turned on these cards are going to be running OpenGL 3.3 and probably pushing a lot of GL4 features. The interesting thing is if you check the status matrix, the same level of support exists in current high-end leading Nvidia graphics cards as in the previous generation's cards. This means that the nouveau driver appears to be similar to the Nvidia blob in that it's adapted to support multiple graphics card models easily.
Working pretty well here in Australia, we have the strongest economy in the world and we all get healthcare. Might want to research before you go blowing your horn off. I am a Tax payer, and yes right now I do qualify for unemployment benefits as I was hired on a maternity leave contract which has now expired. When I find my new job I will continue to be "robbed" as you call it. But the reality is it's a system where my tax dollars go towards myself not starving to death if I find myself out of work. It's a system which is a lot better than me picking up a knife and threatening people because I can't get work. Higher crime rates and higher poverty are all that America seems to be getting these days. I'll keep my high taxing country where it's possible to still get ahead and have dreams without being lucky.
The issue is not just mental illness. There are always going to be people who plan massacres. We used to think up ways of doing it without implementing it and I think it is a normal part of human nature. Some people just don't like the bulk of people. Having said that most people grow out of it and don't ever pull off anything. But some people actually go nuts and do go for it. When these people have access to tools to make their plans reality, all hell breaks loose. In my plans we used to make up, we used to put claymores at either end of a shopping mall in rubbish bins, in the middle of the mall we'd fire randomly into the crowd, then detonate the claymores and drop the gun and walk/melt into the hordes of people running. Naturally in my country !America, it's impossible to get a multi-shot firing rifle or claymores so the entire idea was never workable. It amazes me how easy it is to get a hold of multi-shot weapons in America. The amount of media that has the message it's okay to shoot someone if they've wronged you is immense. Combined with easy access to guns and you can see a problem. But the issue itself isn't the media. The ability to express free ideas has always been more important than the ability to own a gun.
Personally I can't wait to get Linux native binaries of this game. Should be possible to port it to some more obscure architectures like PPC and ARM. It's not just for modding an engine, lots of other platforms benefit too. Jedi Academy on Solaris.
With exception for very minor fringe cases, photovoltaics are useless. The future is really in solar thermal energy. Generating multi megawatt amounts of energy. Photovoltaics never had the efficiency or generating capacity to cover everyone's houses.
What's actually being done to prepare against an asteroid strike? Or are our government stooges just planning to throw every nuke we have at this thing?
Hmm.. looks like I need to clean up some of my 19tb server space to make room for super HD content. Considering that a 30TB server costs under $3k now and that you can buy a 4TB hdd for ~$250-$300 (seagate externals, then pop them into your server chassis) This is definatly doable for enthusiast home users. I expect the pirates to be the first adopters along with Anime fans as Drawn animation compresses more easily than live action shows. They were talking about 30-60% file size increases when using current compression methods so I don't see this as being a problem for my SAS RAID6 setup. (Intel SAS Controller with an Intel6-port SAS expander turning 1 sas port into 5 connecting 20 Sata HDDs in a Norco Chassis. Cost approx $1000) I can definately see this as being doable for an enthusiast, but for sure your grandma won't be building it tomorrow.
Actually the entire problem with Macintosh Steam is ASPYR Media. Those asshats want to run their own shitty web based store and aren't allowing Steam to publish any of their native ports. Since Most companies port to Mac through ASPYR they have the Mac market by the Balls. Linux doesn't have this problem most ports were done in-house by their respective companies or done by the now dead Loki Software. As far as I am aware those rights reverted back to the original software makers when Loki went Bankrupt. Games like Unreal Tournament1/2003/2004, and Quake/Doom's Linux ports should be coming to Steam.
More importantly... Nouveau is starting to become performance competitive with the Nvidia Binary Blob. As Mesa adds features and rapidly catches upto the closed drivers, it'll surpass them for performance if not features. The time is coming quickly when the drivers built into Linux will be better than the official ones.
it was an idea before it's time. The phones needed more ram and more storage to be useful. 1gb of ram just wasn't enough to drive X11 and be responsive. The thing was always running out of memory and it stopped firefox from being usable on it.I loved my lapdock but the limitations were obvious. They need to revive the concept in about 3 years time and make a phone with 4-16gb of ram, when 128-256gb micro sd cards are affordable for users. Then it could replace a laptop. I can see the potential of the webdock to be a fantastic device, but right now it's too hamstrung by physical limitations.
I would get GNUStep finished, throw in the whole kitchen sink, get all the video decoder/encoder features implemented, get gnustep's web browser completed, and get the desktop components super polished and complete. Finish the System Preferences.app for gnustep etc. It's the best desktop system noone uses and the only real option linux has to take massive market/mindshare away from Microsoft.
Start charging $20-50 per game in Australia right now. I've been Grey market importing PS3 titles, I own over 26 games. The price is right at the UK level of $20-50/game. I'll never pay your bullshit $110 game prices. Don't even try to justify that bullshit to me.
Why does anyone need nuclear power? Solar salt thermal plants can do baseload electricity already. There's a proposal to convert Australia to 100% solar thermal/0 carbon emissions in a 10 year time frame and it only costs $400 Billion. That completely eliminates our greenhouse gas issues. http://www.http//beyondzeroemissions.org Nuclear/Oil/Gas really are dead end Technologies. We should be conserving nuclear resources for long-haul space travel instead of burning our only real means off this rock.
Uh.... considering Glide was the first and only 3D api for quite a while and it was later followed by DirectX/OpenGL. That's quite wrong. Also, Microsoft went into a deal with SGI to create a 3d API based on OpenGL which Microsoft Cynically shitcanned/backstabbed SGI on.
Bring Back Wing Commander, Story, plot, character development, Drama, and Death, all on the highest resolution screen at the time... I miss that series more than any other. I'm fedup with half assed attempts at games. Bring Back the Confederation's war against the Kilrathi, the great space Crusade:(
I definately agree with this, just look at Mechwarrior: Living Legends. Noone was making a modern Mechwarrior game so the fans made it. FOSS really needs to start targetting tools and dead genres. Linux already runs about 90% of the flight games out there, they just need to really polish/support force feedback/input configuration. I've been trialing things like thurstmaster HOTAS Cougar gear, and Microsoft Sidewinder force feedback sticks for years now and it's definately close to being a superior experience to Windows in these genres.
For years there has always been the problem of the closed source drivers not supporting the console framebuffer properly. I think if NVIDIA had a proper console framebuffer it would go a long way to making the linux experience smoother. Honestly that's always been my biggest gripe with the drivers. Under X11 the drivers support pretty much everything I want to use. But as soon as I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 everything turns to shit. Also, I've noticed that the SLI performance boost doesn't appear to exist at least on 460gtx hardware. I have dual GPUs but on linux there doesn't appear to be a noticeable improvement in wine or even opengl linux applications with SLI enabled.
I've followed this topic for years and honestly, I don't think this is a problem anymore. Nouveau is making ridiculously fast progress on supporting modern cards and hardware features that I just don't see this as being a problem within 1-2 years. I think if people really want nvidia open source support they should just back the crap out of nouveau since they've almost got full support for all the cards anyway. I am much more interested in seeing nouveau complete 3d support across their cards rather than focus on peripheral things like Optimus. Considering that they don't have to implement OpenGL 4, and that that is where Gallium3d's devs are working I think the future of these drivers is looking pretty good.
Doesn't this make it easier to Weaponize Ebola? You'd be pretty stupid to release ebola on your enemy if you weren't sure your own population wouldn't get infected. But if there's a cure, you can mass produce it for your own people and unleash the virus on your enemies...
People seem to confuse the Law with Morality and Justice a lot. Laws are not always Just or Moral. Following the Law isn't always the Moral or Just thing to do. Where is the morality in allowing someone to die because you're not legally obligated to help them? Where is the justice in laws that allow you to manipulate and steal from other people? Laws are just rules which the people in power at any given point in time have decided to set for people to follow. It is up to individuals to decide which laws should and should not be followed. If the government makes a law that makes it legal to kill someone, that doesn't make it Moral, Just, or even right. History has many examples of Unjust laws that people followed, many laws are made to be broken by people because they are badly written legislation. People who fail to understand these concepts usually end up being the patsies who wonder how Hitler, Stalin, and Mao got into power, and how did the country go so wrong? The answers are pretty simple. Not every Law should be followed. Not every criminal branded as such by the state is a bad person out to do you harm.
I like nuclear technology a lot. A lot. But I don't think we should be using it for electricity generation, Why? Because when we leave this little ball to explore the universe, we are going to be travelling far away from our star. Batteries aren't going to be enough. Solar won't cut it. We'll need a stable energy source that can last millenia to power our ships through the galaxy and only nuclear is capable of it. Should we really be rushing to burn all of that non-renewable fuel for tasks which frankly prudent use of solar salt thermal generators can accomplish the same ends? Not to mention that digging nuclear materials out of the ground still involves mining/consuming a raw material for energy and at some point that energy source will run out. Nuclear is no cure for our long term energy needs, it'll just result in a new energy crisis when all the easily available uranium/thorium is expended. It's time some truly long term planning was actually used by governments.
Valve need to be able to back this up with ID Software/Epic games on the linux version. If the Linux native quake 1/2/3/4, Doom 1/2/3, Wolfenstein/RTCW games are available on steam, along with UT2k3/UT2k4/UT99 that would be a much better incentive for people to join the store. Source engine games are awesome. But as a Mac gamer I was very disappointed to see that half the games that have native ports, aren't available on the store for mac. I know Aspyr were trying to launch their own terrible competing service. I hope the Linux Steam system can dodge those issues since most linux ports of games are done in-house, or by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon. Also, it'd be nice to see some of the DOSBox game releases on Steam appear on linux. It's not that hard to setup dosbox for Linux, and all those titles run fine. Ultimately Steam on Linux can only be a good thing, I hope that it will finally goad Blizzard into action on its Linux offerings.
Virtual Machines are still not an answer, not yet anyway. Until there's a Voodoo 2 gpu emulator in the virtual machine that handles directx 1-7, opengl 1.2 and Glide. Old applications simply will not all run. Win9x doesn't work properly in virtual machines even now 15 years on. You still can't play Warhammer Dark Omen with all it's options just like a bare metal Pentium 2 running windows 98 with a Voodoo card can. This is a hurdle that honestly should have been fixed years ago. Wine has the same problem. There are many old applications it doesn't support because they never finished Directx 1-7 support. http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo. Until they get graphics cards properly working in virtual machines it's not ready to be used. Gallium3D is going to make linux able to run Directx 10/11 applications work in virtual machines by directly forwarding commands from the virtual machine to the graphics card, but there are at this stage AFAIK no plans to support older titles. The closest thing I've seen around is Dosbox has some voodoo 2 patches but they're very unsupported, you can't just apt-get install dosbox-voodoo and get a working install at this stage. Also running windows 9x while patchable, is unsupported by Dosbox at this stage. It would be nice if virtualbox would pick up some of this work to fix gpu support. But I suspect noone is interested in making old software work:(
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The GIMP has problems, but it's user interface isn't one of them. Stuff like paths and shapes are a pain to do in the GIMP, but I actually love the muli window layout. I find that on a 30" monitor the best way to use the gimp is to make your image take up the full screen space, then set your tools to always on top so they always float above what I'm working on. I can then access my tools whenever I need to and nothing disappears when I don't want it to. It's a brilliant system, very easy to work with.
I'm going to weigh in here. The Nouveau drivers are better than the open source ATi drivers. Simply because, the performance doesn't matter. It's the feature completeness of the drivers that matters. The Nouveau drivers have been very steadily working towards a point where all previous generation cards and the current generation cards have the same feature set at the same time. If you check out the nouveau feature matrix it's a stunning achievement how rapidly they've come to the point they're at. People don't seem to realise that aside from SLI, OpenCL and the hardware reclocking support. The Nouveau drivers are basically feature complete. Noone uses TV out anymore since HDMI/digital video has taken over. Within 2-5 kernel revisions, the reclocking stuff is going to be completed. When that hits, the Nouveau drivers are going to shatter the AMD ones for performance. Already in preliminary testing where reclocking was enabled, the Nvidia cards were performing at or above the level of the nvidia binary blob. When the reclocking support is turned on these cards are going to be running OpenGL 3.3 and probably pushing a lot of GL4 features. The interesting thing is if you check the status matrix, the same level of support exists in current high-end leading Nvidia graphics cards as in the previous generation's cards. This means that the nouveau driver appears to be similar to the Nvidia blob in that it's adapted to support multiple graphics card models easily.
Working pretty well here in Australia, we have the strongest economy in the world and we all get healthcare. Might want to research before you go blowing your horn off. I am a Tax payer, and yes right now I do qualify for unemployment benefits as I was hired on a maternity leave contract which has now expired. When I find my new job I will continue to be "robbed" as you call it. But the reality is it's a system where my tax dollars go towards myself not starving to death if I find myself out of work. It's a system which is a lot better than me picking up a knife and threatening people because I can't get work. Higher crime rates and higher poverty are all that America seems to be getting these days. I'll keep my high taxing country where it's possible to still get ahead and have dreams without being lucky.
The issue is not just mental illness. There are always going to be people who plan massacres. We used to think up ways of doing it without implementing it and I think it is a normal part of human nature. Some people just don't like the bulk of people. Having said that most people grow out of it and don't ever pull off anything. But some people actually go nuts and do go for it. When these people have access to tools to make their plans reality, all hell breaks loose. In my plans we used to make up, we used to put claymores at either end of a shopping mall in rubbish bins, in the middle of the mall we'd fire randomly into the crowd, then detonate the claymores and drop the gun and walk/melt into the hordes of people running. Naturally in my country !America, it's impossible to get a multi-shot firing rifle or claymores so the entire idea was never workable. It amazes me how easy it is to get a hold of multi-shot weapons in America. The amount of media that has the message it's okay to shoot someone if they've wronged you is immense. Combined with easy access to guns and you can see a problem. But the issue itself isn't the media. The ability to express free ideas has always been more important than the ability to own a gun.
Personally I can't wait to get Linux native binaries of this game. Should be possible to port it to some more obscure architectures like PPC and ARM. It's not just for modding an engine, lots of other platforms benefit too. Jedi Academy on Solaris.
With exception for very minor fringe cases, photovoltaics are useless. The future is really in solar thermal energy. Generating multi megawatt amounts of energy. Photovoltaics never had the efficiency or generating capacity to cover everyone's houses.
What's actually being done to prepare against an asteroid strike? Or are our government stooges just planning to throw every nuke we have at this thing?
Hmm.. looks like I need to clean up some of my 19tb server space to make room for super HD content. Considering that a 30TB server costs under $3k now and that you can buy a 4TB hdd for ~$250-$300 (seagate externals, then pop them into your server chassis) This is definatly doable for enthusiast home users. I expect the pirates to be the first adopters along with Anime fans as Drawn animation compresses more easily than live action shows. They were talking about 30-60% file size increases when using current compression methods so I don't see this as being a problem for my SAS RAID6 setup. (Intel SAS Controller with an Intel6-port SAS expander turning 1 sas port into 5 connecting 20 Sata HDDs in a Norco Chassis. Cost approx $1000) I can definately see this as being doable for an enthusiast, but for sure your grandma won't be building it tomorrow.
Actually the entire problem with Macintosh Steam is ASPYR Media. Those asshats want to run their own shitty web based store and aren't allowing Steam to publish any of their native ports. Since Most companies port to Mac through ASPYR they have the Mac market by the Balls. Linux doesn't have this problem most ports were done in-house by their respective companies or done by the now dead Loki Software. As far as I am aware those rights reverted back to the original software makers when Loki went Bankrupt. Games like Unreal Tournament1/2003/2004, and Quake/Doom's Linux ports should be coming to Steam.
More importantly... Nouveau is starting to become performance competitive with the Nvidia Binary Blob. As Mesa adds features and rapidly catches upto the closed drivers, it'll surpass them for performance if not features. The time is coming quickly when the drivers built into Linux will be better than the official ones.
it was an idea before it's time. The phones needed more ram and more storage to be useful. 1gb of ram just wasn't enough to drive X11 and be responsive. The thing was always running out of memory and it stopped firefox from being usable on it.I loved my lapdock but the limitations were obvious. They need to revive the concept in about 3 years time and make a phone with 4-16gb of ram, when 128-256gb micro sd cards are affordable for users. Then it could replace a laptop. I can see the potential of the webdock to be a fantastic device, but right now it's too hamstrung by physical limitations.
I would get GNUStep finished, throw in the whole kitchen sink, get all the video decoder/encoder features implemented, get gnustep's web browser completed, and get the desktop components super polished and complete. Finish the System Preferences.app for gnustep etc. It's the best desktop system noone uses and the only real option linux has to take massive market/mindshare away from Microsoft.
Start charging $20-50 per game in Australia right now. I've been Grey market importing PS3 titles, I own over 26 games. The price is right at the UK level of $20-50/game. I'll never pay your bullshit $110 game prices. Don't even try to justify that bullshit to me.
Why does anyone need nuclear power? Solar salt thermal plants can do baseload electricity already. There's a proposal to convert Australia to 100% solar thermal/0 carbon emissions in a 10 year time frame and it only costs $400 Billion. That completely eliminates our greenhouse gas issues. http://www.http//beyondzeroemissions.org Nuclear/Oil/Gas really are dead end Technologies. We should be conserving nuclear resources for long-haul space travel instead of burning our only real means off this rock.
Uh.... considering Glide was the first and only 3D api for quite a while and it was later followed by DirectX/OpenGL. That's quite wrong. Also, Microsoft went into a deal with SGI to create a 3d API based on OpenGL which Microsoft Cynically shitcanned/backstabbed SGI on.
Bring Back Wing Commander, Story, plot, character development, Drama, and Death, all on the highest resolution screen at the time... I miss that series more than any other. I'm fedup with half assed attempts at games. Bring Back the Confederation's war against the Kilrathi, the great space Crusade :(
There IS a Descent 3 1.5 patch in the works.. might be a good time to Buy Descent 3 from GOG.com..
I definately agree with this, just look at Mechwarrior: Living Legends. Noone was making a modern Mechwarrior game so the fans made it. FOSS really needs to start targetting tools and dead genres. Linux already runs about 90% of the flight games out there, they just need to really polish/support force feedback/input configuration. I've been trialing things like thurstmaster HOTAS Cougar gear, and Microsoft Sidewinder force feedback sticks for years now and it's definately close to being a superior experience to Windows in these genres.
For years there has always been the problem of the closed source drivers not supporting the console framebuffer properly. I think if NVIDIA had a proper console framebuffer it would go a long way to making the linux experience smoother. Honestly that's always been my biggest gripe with the drivers. Under X11 the drivers support pretty much everything I want to use. But as soon as I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 everything turns to shit. Also, I've noticed that the SLI performance boost doesn't appear to exist at least on 460gtx hardware. I have dual GPUs but on linux there doesn't appear to be a noticeable improvement in wine or even opengl linux applications with SLI enabled.
I've followed this topic for years and honestly, I don't think this is a problem anymore. Nouveau is making ridiculously fast progress on supporting modern cards and hardware features that I just don't see this as being a problem within 1-2 years. I think if people really want nvidia open source support they should just back the crap out of nouveau since they've almost got full support for all the cards anyway. I am much more interested in seeing nouveau complete 3d support across their cards rather than focus on peripheral things like Optimus. Considering that they don't have to implement OpenGL 4, and that that is where Gallium3d's devs are working I think the future of these drivers is looking pretty good.
Doesn't this make it easier to Weaponize Ebola? You'd be pretty stupid to release ebola on your enemy if you weren't sure your own population wouldn't get infected. But if there's a cure, you can mass produce it for your own people and unleash the virus on your enemies...
People seem to confuse the Law with Morality and Justice a lot. Laws are not always Just or Moral. Following the Law isn't always the Moral or Just thing to do. Where is the morality in allowing someone to die because you're not legally obligated to help them? Where is the justice in laws that allow you to manipulate and steal from other people? Laws are just rules which the people in power at any given point in time have decided to set for people to follow. It is up to individuals to decide which laws should and should not be followed. If the government makes a law that makes it legal to kill someone, that doesn't make it Moral, Just, or even right. History has many examples of Unjust laws that people followed, many laws are made to be broken by people because they are badly written legislation. People who fail to understand these concepts usually end up being the patsies who wonder how Hitler, Stalin, and Mao got into power, and how did the country go so wrong? The answers are pretty simple. Not every Law should be followed. Not every criminal branded as such by the state is a bad person out to do you harm.
I like nuclear technology a lot. A lot. But I don't think we should be using it for electricity generation, Why? Because when we leave this little ball to explore the universe, we are going to be travelling far away from our star. Batteries aren't going to be enough. Solar won't cut it. We'll need a stable energy source that can last millenia to power our ships through the galaxy and only nuclear is capable of it. Should we really be rushing to burn all of that non-renewable fuel for tasks which frankly prudent use of solar salt thermal generators can accomplish the same ends? Not to mention that digging nuclear materials out of the ground still involves mining/consuming a raw material for energy and at some point that energy source will run out. Nuclear is no cure for our long term energy needs, it'll just result in a new energy crisis when all the easily available uranium/thorium is expended. It's time some truly long term planning was actually used by governments.
Valve need to be able to back this up with ID Software/Epic games on the linux version. If the Linux native quake 1/2/3/4, Doom 1/2/3, Wolfenstein/RTCW games are available on steam, along with UT2k3/UT2k4/UT99 that would be a much better incentive for people to join the store. Source engine games are awesome. But as a Mac gamer I was very disappointed to see that half the games that have native ports, aren't available on the store for mac. I know Aspyr were trying to launch their own terrible competing service. I hope the Linux Steam system can dodge those issues since most linux ports of games are done in-house, or by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon. Also, it'd be nice to see some of the DOSBox game releases on Steam appear on linux. It's not that hard to setup dosbox for Linux, and all those titles run fine. Ultimately Steam on Linux can only be a good thing, I hope that it will finally goad Blizzard into action on its Linux offerings.
Virtual Machines are still not an answer, not yet anyway. Until there's a Voodoo 2 gpu emulator in the virtual machine that handles directx 1-7, opengl 1.2 and Glide. Old applications simply will not all run. Win9x doesn't work properly in virtual machines even now 15 years on. You still can't play Warhammer Dark Omen with all it's options just like a bare metal Pentium 2 running windows 98 with a Voodoo card can. This is a hurdle that honestly should have been fixed years ago. Wine has the same problem. There are many old applications it doesn't support because they never finished Directx 1-7 support. http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo. Until they get graphics cards properly working in virtual machines it's not ready to be used. Gallium3D is going to make linux able to run Directx 10/11 applications work in virtual machines by directly forwarding commands from the virtual machine to the graphics card, but there are at this stage AFAIK no plans to support older titles. The closest thing I've seen around is Dosbox has some voodoo 2 patches but they're very unsupported, you can't just apt-get install dosbox-voodoo and get a working install at this stage. Also running windows 9x while patchable, is unsupported by Dosbox at this stage. It would be nice if virtualbox would pick up some of this work to fix gpu support. But I suspect noone is interested in making old software work :(