This would be worth a subscription if there was more of it (not more of the same but more in a similar vein of geekiness). REAL geek news! None of that Kayz crap or friking freshmen case mods with melted plastic and neon bulbs. Let them come and stare in awe as the fail to grok the code because the wasted their lives drilling holes in their PC case.
How can someone pull the code like this? There must be a copy, heck it might even remain in the cvs database, put it back in there, and if the project leads don't want it in then fork the project. This is exactly why we like the license the way it is, so this sort of thing can't be done unilaterally to a project you rely on.
Why do these pseudo intellectual elitists insist on agrandizing something as simple as a good movie?
I watched Spider Man cartoons as a kid, almost everyone I know did. The movie was true to the comic, had great special effects, the plot really worked well, and the characters and dialog and delivery was the right mix of real vs comic. Some of the treatment was exceptionally good, like the wrestling cage match & the first costume and added a modernity that broadened the appeal of the movie and character.
No need to bolster flawed archetypal myth stories to explain this. Spider man does not match an archetypal mythology, if you insist it does then I can make the same case about just about any movie, good, bad or indifferent.
Why don't you go pick a real stinker of a movie that bombed and explain how it matches some archetypal mythology? Because you'd look pretty dumb to most people, about as dumb as you look to anyone with a clue when you do it with Spider Man.
No it's a libertarian rallying cry. Newt Gingritch and other rebublicans are for smaller government but Stallmans politics are clearly Libertarian with a left leaning.
Well nobody is going to run around decapitating you with a light saber or shooting you with a blaster in the UK, but it's actually quite fashionable with some in the UK to 'nut' someone, risking breaking their nose or worse in the process. This was probably why this bit of violence was considered realistic enough to be cut.
It looks like they haven't learned their lesson. This is clearly illegal, they need to be stopped again.
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Two wrongs have never made a right. You're still a scum bag exploiting the deaths of thousands.
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No you classified it as terrorism to evoke the visceral reaction to the word and associate their deet with a more heinous crime thereby exploiting the deaths of thousands murdered by real terrorism. We know what terrorism is. We don't need self serving nuts to hijack the word and present bad company behaviour as something worse than it is. They did what they did, what they did was not terrorism in any form.
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Oh please. Take your hate crime agenda and shove it. The fact that he lied does not make this a hate crime you moron. What are you the thought police? Locked up forever? You're as bad as he is you fruitbar.
I dunno about you but I am furious about this. These bast#rds actually changed their charge from fraud or trespass after the fact. So they have him arrested telling the cops he has a fraudulent receipt, then they later have the charge changed to trespass claiming he refused to leave, which is a transparent fabrication.
Buy from best buy and have them throw a series of trumped up charges at you. God I hope this guy gets a good lawyer and sues them for false arrest. Damn, I'm FURIOUS at this, the dirty SOBs, I hope they arrest the damned store manager for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
They accepted the payment. Consumers have rights, and just because some guy sticks something on a web site does not make it a binding contract and even if it were it wouldn't make it a legally enforceable contract. You have rights, some company can't just expunge those with a URL somewhere, that goes double if they accept credit card payment. Besides, they had a customer arrested and charged with tresspass. This is a *disgrace*. Where does it say "we reserve the right to haul you off to jail on a false charge of fraud if you dare to ask for the product you ordered". Are you asleep at the keyboard?
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The store manager actually mislead the police and had the guy arrested claiming his online receipt was false. This is an absolute outrage. On top of this he got done for criminal trespass for being in a store! This is sickening. I hope this guy get's a good lawyer and sues the store and the manager. How low can a company sink?
Laptop driver support is uniquely problematic because the hardware & firmware varies significantly from OEM to OEM. Getting recent driver support on Laptops is problematic even on Windows.
Most of those professional cards had no commitment from the IHVs many of the 'pro' drivers are half assed and created by throwing money and some specs at a 3rd party driver developer, they are ALWAYS in a distant second place to their Windows efforts. NVIDIA have great drivers for a four main reasons I'd say. Firstly they got of to a good start with SGI helping them before SGI bailed on yet another plan, secondly the are cash rich and able to spend the resources, thirdly and probably most importantly they reuse a MOST of the driver code from their windows code base and finally they seem to have a genuine appreciation that Linux support is a good strategic move for their business (for whatever reason).
P.S. The real issue is not whether it works with some future version of X, that changes infrequently and I get all the functionality I need today. The real issue is do I get support for hardware features in the product I purchased. With NVIDIA the answer is a resounding YES. I get FULL hardware support, with antialiasing, register combiners programmability, you name it. That is not true with other vendors. There are a lot of people commenting here when they don't know an OpenGL extension from a desktop theme. When I say NVIDIAs drivers are great there's more than some mantra "open source = best" backing it up.
I disagree, NVIDIA are very prompt with their driver support, and they include the entire hardware interface, so they don't have to merge with something like the DRI.
Many vendors including NVIDIA have thrown some cash at developers, for example Precision Insight before VA Linux destroyed the company. SGI even gave them some cash. That's actually easier than a real commitment of company manpower.
You don't understand the complexity of developing high quality functional OpenGL drivers. Each card requires a major project if you are going to do more than support a core subset of what the hardware is really capable of.
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I think my 'y' key is acting up. I'll have a few more beers and get back to you on that.
This would be worth a subscription if there was more of it (not more of the same but more in a similar vein of geekiness). REAL geek news! None of that Kayz crap or friking freshmen case mods with melted plastic and neon bulbs. Let them come and stare in awe as the fail to grok the code because the wasted their lives drilling holes in their PC case.
How can someone pull the code like this? There must be a copy, heck it might even remain in the cvs database, put it back in there, and if the project leads don't want it in then fork the project. This is exactly why we like the license the way it is, so this sort of thing can't be done unilaterally to a project you rely on.
Why do these pseudo intellectual elitists insist on agrandizing something as simple as a good movie?
I watched Spider Man cartoons as a kid, almost everyone I know did. The movie was true to the comic, had great special effects, the plot really worked well, and the characters and dialog and delivery was the right mix of real vs comic. Some of the treatment was exceptionally good, like the wrestling cage match & the first costume and added a modernity that broadened the appeal of the movie and character.
No need to bolster flawed archetypal myth stories to explain this. Spider man does not match an archetypal mythology, if you insist it does then I can make the same case about just about any movie, good, bad or indifferent.
Why don't you go pick a real stinker of a movie that bombed and explain how it matches some archetypal mythology? Because you'd look pretty dumb to most people, about as dumb as you look to anyone with a clue when you do it with Spider Man.
Their logs let them know where the originating link is from so they DO KNOW where the traffic is from.
It's free vs proprietary, not free vs commercial. Free software can be sold commercially and used in commercial environments.
No it's a libertarian rallying cry. Newt Gingritch and other rebublicans are for smaller government but Stallmans politics are clearly Libertarian with a left leaning.
So how long before a copycat who isn't so benevolent causes mayhem by modifying a sign that deliberately messes things up?
Well nobody is going to run around decapitating you with a light saber or shooting you with a blaster in the UK, but it's actually quite fashionable with some in the UK to 'nut' someone, risking breaking their nose or worse in the process. This was probably why this bit of violence was considered realistic enough to be cut.
It looks like they haven't learned their lesson. This is clearly illegal, they need to be stopped again.
Two wrongs have never made a right. You're still a scum bag exploiting the deaths of thousands.
No you classified it as terrorism to evoke the visceral reaction to the word and associate their deet with a more heinous crime thereby exploiting the deaths of thousands murdered by real terrorism. We know what terrorism is. We don't need self serving nuts to hijack the word and present bad company behaviour as something worse than it is. They did what they did, what they did was not terrorism in any form.
Oh please. Take your hate crime agenda and shove it. The fact that he lied does not make this a hate crime you moron. What are you the thought police? Locked up forever? You're as bad as he is you fruitbar.
I dunno about you but I am furious about this. These bast#rds actually changed their charge from fraud or trespass after the fact. So they have him arrested telling the cops he has a fraudulent receipt, then they later have the charge changed to trespass claiming he refused to leave, which is a transparent fabrication.
Buy from best buy and have them throw a series of trumped up charges at you. God I hope this guy gets a good lawyer and sues them for false arrest. Damn, I'm FURIOUS at this, the dirty SOBs, I hope they arrest the damned store manager for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
They accepted the payment. Consumers have rights, and just because some guy sticks something on a web site does not make it a binding contract and even if it were it wouldn't make it a legally enforceable contract. You have rights, some company can't just expunge those with a URL somewhere, that goes double if they accept credit card payment. Besides, they had a customer arrested and charged with tresspass. This is a *disgrace*. Where does it say "we reserve the right to haul you off to jail on a false charge of fraud if you dare to ask for the product you ordered". Are you asleep at the keyboard?
The store manager actually mislead the police and had the guy arrested claiming his online receipt was false. This is an absolute outrage. On top of this he got done for criminal trespass for being in a store! This is sickening. I hope this guy get's a good lawyer and sues the store and the manager. How low can a company sink?
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The original question (and article) was about hardware manufacturers who support Linux, nothing in there about BSD.
I think you are in the extreme minority.
Laptop driver support is uniquely problematic because the hardware & firmware varies significantly from OEM to OEM. Getting recent driver support on Laptops is problematic even on Windows.
Most of those professional cards had no commitment from the IHVs many of the 'pro' drivers are half assed and created by throwing money and some specs at a 3rd party driver developer, they are ALWAYS in a distant second place to their Windows efforts. NVIDIA have great drivers for a four main reasons I'd say. Firstly they got of to a good start with SGI helping them before SGI bailed on yet another plan, secondly the are cash rich and able to spend the resources, thirdly and probably most importantly they reuse a MOST of the driver code from their windows code base and finally they seem to have a genuine appreciation that Linux support is a good strategic move for their business (for whatever reason).
P.S. The real issue is not whether it works with some future version of X, that changes infrequently and I get all the functionality I need today. The real issue is do I get support for hardware features in the product I purchased. With NVIDIA the answer is a resounding YES. I get FULL hardware support, with antialiasing, register combiners programmability, you name it. That is not true with other vendors. There are a lot of people commenting here when they don't know an OpenGL extension from a desktop theme. When I say NVIDIAs drivers are great there's more than some mantra "open source = best" backing it up.
I disagree, NVIDIA are very prompt with their driver support, and they include the entire hardware interface, so they don't have to merge with something like the DRI.
Many vendors including NVIDIA have thrown some cash at developers, for example Precision Insight before VA Linux destroyed the company. SGI even gave them some cash. That's actually easier than a real commitment of company manpower.
Sigh. Please don't confuse my thoughts with yours. You're welcome to your thoughts and feel free to expound on them, just don't ascribe them to me.
You don't understand the complexity of developing high quality functional OpenGL drivers. Each card requires a major project if you are going to do more than support a core subset of what the hardware is really capable of.