No, that's a different project. As the only one from Utah directly working on this project, I can tell you it wasn't me. Utah has another project that is also quite interesting. csafe is involved in simulating explosions and fires. It was likely someone working on that.
Absolutely right. What superficially appears to be an act of benevolence toward a troubled rival really amounts to nothing more than a publicity grab. Red Hat gets good thoughts absolutely free of charge in exchange for a worthless offer that will never be accepted.
It boggles my mind as to how a member of one oft-persecuted minority group (Mormons) can justify persecuting another minority group.
Truly, you make a very good point.
This is all OT and I should just ignore it like a good little slashdotter, but I just can't. I feel compelled to interject that not all mormons feel as Card does. I am a straight LDS (that means mormon) male currently living with four gay LDS roommates. I sympathize with them. I talk with them. I campaign with them to change things. They are all openly gay and devoutly LDS. Of course it causes conflicts, but that's what community is for. Card's views should NOT be held as those of the church as a whole
While I'm getting modded down as OT anyway, I should add that I find the various openly derrogatory comments about mormons whenever the subject comes up very hurtful. I don't understand why if someone were to mock the Jewish faith he/she would be resoundingly rebutted, but when it comes to mormons, we're fair game. Sure there are some things about religion that seem silly. Such is true of any religion. That's hardly justification for deriding that which is different.
PS - why the _HELL_ is Slashdot having an applet in the ads? It freezes up my browser in Windows for a while. It's getting to be a pain. At the very least, provide some way of turning off Applet ads.
There is a way. http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
Go crazy with that if you want to. I particularly like ggovernment.com. Clearly google is planning on starting their own "ggovernment" to overthrow conventional governments and take over the world. They must be stopped!
If by "make it into an OS" you mean when will graphics vendors provide drivers that support GLSL, the OpenGL high level shading spec and highlight of GL 2.0, then it's already happened. NVidia supports GLSL and so does 3DLabs. I don't know about ATI, I'll ask them tomorrow.
Now come on. This is easy to criticize without further investigation, but there is some sense to it. First off, it's not intended as a real program but as a sample template from which to build other applications off of in the way that complies with all the standards. Second, there is a certain amount of overhead for any well-documented project that accounts for multiple runtime environments. In this case, the overhead greatly outweighs the content because the content is intentionally insignificant. For any real project of a decent size, this amount of documentation and build tools is trivial. I, for one, greatly appreciate the GNU auto tools. They may be an excessively large hammer for certain jobs, but they can be very helpful in automating the compilation of applications that would be unwieldy and frustrating otherwise. Further, I'm sure the international community appreciates applications that take different locales into account and shun the ethnocentricity that pervades certain continents on our shared planet.
I don't think I'd say he's taking the "moral high ground" at all. He's a hypocrite. He tries to argue that music piracy is alright(ish) because it could prompt you to buy more music by the slighted artist. I fail to see such clear distinctions between music and software piracy. If one is wrong, so is the other. If pirating music may make you want to buy future and past albums, pirating software my put you on the lookout for expansions and additional titles by the same developers. You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth to try to win the support of music file sharers by sidestepping the moral issue there. It's self-serving and less than honest.
I think this is another sad example of the results of our consumer culture. People can't define their lives by their own accomplishments or experiences, so they latch on to some franchise and derive their sense of existence from that.
Break away! Do something spontaneous! Define your own life. Don't let George Lucus, Steven Spielburg, John Carmack, Gene Roddenbery or anyone else dictate your existence through the fictions they create. If you like fiction, create your own. Make your own adventures. Be an individual. You'll be happier in the end.
I have little sympathy for Telefonica. This is a classic example of the complacency large, monopolistic corporation causing their customers to suffer. Telefonica was the only phone company under Franco and even ~thirty years after he's gone, it's still nearly the only act in town. It's the equivalent of the original Bell telco for Spain. Since their meager competition can't seem to jog them into rational behavior, maybe this will serve as a wake up call to so they might actually start serving their customers instead of exploiting them.
The first Star Wars movie was a good adaptation of (Atari's?) fly-down-a-trench-and-shoot-things game.
It was made for Atari and Colecovision systems, but it was made by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers snagged a lot of good movie tie-ins in the early days and really made some decent games out of them.
If they think it worth the journey, the Utah Salt Flats would be an ideal location to test the full-size car. 30,000 acres of perfectly flat earth ought to be enough to elminate any chance of damaging anything larger than a dirt clod. The location is often used for drag racing and testing experimental vehicles.
The trouble is, no one music download service has everything students are apt to want. I listen to some pretty obscure music that isn't likely to be supported by any major download service. It's called college rock for a reason. As a result, someone like me might be prone to resort to less legally sound methods to get their music. So the school would be back where it started having to decide if it's worth spending even more money to try to preserve their bandwidth for acedemic pursuits by force or let it slide and risk the RIAA breathing down their necks, threatening legal action, and bringing spurious lawsuits that they just don't have the resources to defend themselves from regardless of the merit.
The phantom is the darling device of many haptics researchers right now. It is pretty much exactly what you'd expect a 3D mouse to be. It's price pretty much limits its market to researchers and serious artists at the moment. I've had the chance to play with it and I can tell you that it's a fun little toy. No one has built a desktop for it yet though.
No one is trying to take your b00bies away. If you want them, you can have them. That's your right. However, recognize that there are people out there who are offended by such things and regret that there are so many films that feature boobies or other naughty bits ruining, by their estimation, an otherwise good movie. This is the market that this player is for. Don't think of your mother trying to censor your entertainment intake. Think of poor granny who'd have a coronary if she saw the unedited version of Chicago.
No one is forcing you to buy this player. In fact, corporations are trying to take that option from you. I'd rather the choice between naughty and nice DVD players even if I always choose the naughty ones rather than only have one choice because Hollywood says I can't have the nice one.
I sure hope WP for Linux is cheaper than what they're asking for what they've got now. I love wordperfect. For Windows, it's my word processor of choice. My main gripe about OO.o is that it tries to mimic Word's organization and functionality rather than WP's, but for $300 (USD), I'll stick with OO. I think most Linux users are with me. Maybe they'll have a student discount or allow you to pick it up for a measly $20 when purchased with hardware like you used to be able to with WP 10. I'm hoping. I'd really like to see this take off.
My father is a Nuclear Engineer. He had this to say about the article:
There are two major approaches to fusion: Inertial Confinement and Magnetic Confinement. The facility at Livermore discussed in this article is part of the inertial confinement effort. I visited this facility quite a few years ago when they were building the NOVA facility which was mentioned in the article. The basic idea is to compress and heat a target pellet and hope that it stays together long enough to fuse before blowing apart - hence the "inertia" in its name. My personal opinion is that this method has less chance of being used for commercial electricity production than magnetic confinement fusion concepts. I think that this method has a pretty good chance to form the basis of some fantastic weapon for attacking threats coming from space. Once the tecnical hurdles are crossed, fusion will still face a huge economic problem. The facilities, either magnetic or inertial, have huge construction costs. I do believe that we will persevere and cross all of these hurdles. One driving force is happening now. The price of gas is going up. When other forms of energy get prohibitively expensive, the governments of the world will increase their support for fusion research and the problems will be solved. Fusion has considerable advantages of limitless cheap fuel, very low and easily managed radioactive waste products, very safe facilities, and no chance of proliferation of weapons-grade material. It will be great when we are able to achieve it, but I'm not expecting that to happen very soon. I once bet a colleague that we would see a commercial fusion power plant before I retired. I will concede that I have lost that bet. I hope that we will see it before my children are all retired but I'm not very confident even of that.
I seem to remember that HP offered a Linux pre-installed option years ago, but dropped it due to lack of interest. It's an ironic turn of events that now that Linux is under fire they should choose to return to it.
I would be very interested to see what this could mean for the fate of AOLServer. AOLServer is AOL's open source server that they have maintained as OSS despite the tide of naysayers when they acquired it. I, for one, would be very amused to see MS maintain an open source project, but realistically, acquisition would likely mean replacing this, and any other non-MS software with their MS "equivalents".
When you and everyone else stops patronizing organizations that produce such hardware in favor of open alternatives. Supporting OSS is fine, but something needs to be said for supporting the same ideals in the hardware domain.
Yes, there are binary-only ATI drivers. No, I don't know how well they work.
The real disadvantage to them is that they are only available in RPMs. So users of non-RPM based systems are just out of luck.
It's important to note as well that companies do not shirk away from open source drivers because they expect to make any money from the drivers themselves. The code in the driver reveals volumes about how the operation of the hardware works. That's what they want to keep secret from their competitors.
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No, that's a different project. As the only one from Utah directly working on this project, I can tell you it wasn't me. Utah has another project that is also quite interesting. csafe is involved in simulating explosions and fires. It was likely someone working on that.
Absolutely right. What superficially appears to be an act of benevolence toward a troubled rival really amounts to nothing more than a publicity grab. Red Hat gets good thoughts absolutely free of charge in exchange for a worthless offer that will never be accepted.
. . . BNF director Jean-Noel Jeanneney . . .
At first read, I wondered why Backus-Naur Form needed a director.
^_^
Truly, you make a very good point.
This is all OT and I should just ignore it like a good little slashdotter, but I just can't. I feel compelled to interject that not all mormons feel as Card does. I am a straight LDS (that means mormon) male currently living with four gay LDS roommates. I sympathize with them. I talk with them. I campaign with them to change things. They are all openly gay and devoutly LDS. Of course it causes conflicts, but that's what community is for. Card's views should NOT be held as those of the church as a whole
While I'm getting modded down as OT anyway, I should add that I find the various openly derrogatory comments about mormons whenever the subject comes up very hurtful. I don't understand why if someone were to mock the Jewish faith he/she would be resoundingly rebutted, but when it comes to mormons, we're fair game. Sure there are some things about religion that seem silly. Such is true of any religion. That's hardly justification for deriding that which is different.
PS - why the _HELL_ is Slashdot having an applet in the ads? It freezes up my browser in Windows for a while. It's getting to be a pain. At the very least, provide some way of turning off Applet ads.
There is a way.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
Google has also registered:
t .com
ghoroscope.comn d.com
galbums.com
gbackup.com
gbeam.com
ggovernmen
ggroups.com
ghomepage.com
ghomepages.com
glistings.com
gschedule.com
gse
gtaxes.com
Go crazy with that if you want to. I particularly like ggovernment.com. Clearly google is planning on starting their own "ggovernment" to overthrow conventional governments and take over the world. They must be stopped!
If by "make it into an OS" you mean when will graphics vendors provide drivers that support GLSL, the OpenGL high level shading spec and highlight of GL 2.0, then it's already happened. NVidia supports GLSL and so does 3DLabs. I don't know about ATI, I'll ask them tomorrow.
sadangel
-- from Siggraph
Now come on. This is easy to criticize without further investigation, but there is some sense to it.
First off, it's not intended as a real program but as a sample template from which to build other applications off of in the way that complies with all the standards.
Second, there is a certain amount of overhead for any well-documented project that accounts for multiple runtime environments. In this case, the overhead greatly outweighs the content because the content is intentionally insignificant. For any real project of a decent size, this amount of documentation and build tools is trivial.
I, for one, greatly appreciate the GNU auto tools. They may be an excessively large hammer for certain jobs, but they can be very helpful in automating the compilation of applications that would be unwieldy and frustrating otherwise.
Further, I'm sure the international community appreciates applications that take different locales into account and shun the ethnocentricity that pervades certain continents on our shared planet.
I don't think I'd say he's taking the "moral high ground" at all. He's a hypocrite. He tries to argue that music piracy is alright(ish) because it could prompt you to buy more music by the slighted artist.
I fail to see such clear distinctions between music and software piracy. If one is wrong, so is the other. If pirating music may make you want to buy future and past albums, pirating software my put you on the lookout for expansions and additional titles by the same developers.
You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth to try to win the support of music file sharers by sidestepping the moral issue there. It's self-serving and less than honest.
I think this is another sad example of the results of our consumer culture. People can't define their lives by their own accomplishments or experiences, so they latch on to some franchise and derive their sense of existence from that.
Break away! Do something spontaneous! Define your own life. Don't let George Lucus, Steven Spielburg, John Carmack, Gene Roddenbery or anyone else dictate your existence through the fictions they create. If you like fiction, create your own. Make your own adventures. Be an individual. You'll be happier in the end.
I have little sympathy for Telefonica. This is a classic example of the complacency large, monopolistic corporation causing their customers to suffer. Telefonica was the only phone company under Franco and even ~thirty years after he's gone, it's still nearly the only act in town. It's the equivalent of the original Bell telco for Spain. Since their meager competition can't seem to jog them into rational behavior, maybe this will serve as a wake up call to so they might actually start serving their customers instead of exploiting them.
Umm, I thought this was brought up before, the earth is ROUND. That is all, breaks over.
No it's not
The first Star Wars movie was a good adaptation of (Atari's?) fly-down-a-trench-and-shoot-things game.
It was made for Atari and Colecovision systems, but it was made by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers snagged a lot of good movie tie-ins in the early days and really made some decent games out of them.
If they think it worth the journey, the Utah Salt Flats would be an ideal location to test the full-size car. 30,000 acres of perfectly flat earth ought to be enough to elminate any chance of damaging anything larger than a dirt clod. The location is often used for drag racing and testing experimental vehicles.
The trouble is, no one music download service has everything students are apt to want. I listen to some pretty obscure music that isn't likely to be supported by any major download service. It's called college rock for a reason. As a result, someone like me might be prone to resort to less legally sound methods to get their music. So the school would be back where it started having to decide if it's worth spending even more money to try to preserve their bandwidth for acedemic pursuits by force or let it slide and risk the RIAA breathing down their necks, threatening legal action, and bringing spurious lawsuits that they just don't have the resources to defend themselves from regardless of the merit.
Cheap: no. Easy to use: fairly. 3D: oh yeah.
The phantom is the darling device of many haptics researchers right now. It is pretty much exactly what you'd expect a 3D mouse to be. It's price pretty much limits its market to researchers and serious artists at the moment. I've had the chance to play with it and I can tell you that it's a fun little toy. No one has built a desktop for it yet though.
No one is trying to take your b00bies away. If you want them, you can have them. That's your right. However, recognize that there are people out there who are offended by such things and regret that there are so many films that feature boobies or other naughty bits ruining, by their estimation, an otherwise good movie. This is the market that this player is for. Don't think of your mother trying to censor your entertainment intake. Think of poor granny who'd have a coronary if she saw the unedited version of Chicago.
No one is forcing you to buy this player. In fact, corporations are trying to take that option from you. I'd rather the choice between naughty and nice DVD players even if I always choose the naughty ones rather than only have one choice because Hollywood says I can't have the nice one.
I sure hope WP for Linux is cheaper than what they're asking for what they've got now. I love wordperfect. For Windows, it's my word processor of choice. My main gripe about OO.o is that it tries to mimic Word's organization and functionality rather than WP's, but for $300 (USD), I'll stick with OO. I think most Linux users are with me. Maybe they'll have a student discount or allow you to pick it up for a measly $20 when purchased with hardware like you used to be able to with WP 10. I'm hoping. I'd really like to see this take off.
Well, Microsoft won't disappear due to this.
No. They'll just pay someone else to try to sue Linux into obscurity.
I don't know. Two solid years of selling by William H Gates III doesn't seem to have daunted Microsoft investors much.
My father is a Nuclear Engineer. He had this to say about the article:
There are two major approaches to fusion: Inertial Confinement and Magnetic Confinement. The facility at Livermore discussed in this article is part of the inertial confinement effort. I visited this facility quite a few years ago when they were building the NOVA facility which was mentioned in the article. The basic idea is to compress and heat a target pellet and hope that it stays together long enough to fuse before blowing apart - hence the "inertia" in its name. My personal opinion is that this method has less chance of being used for commercial electricity production than magnetic confinement fusion concepts. I think that this method has a pretty good chance to form the basis of some fantastic weapon for attacking threats coming from space. Once the tecnical hurdles are crossed, fusion will still face a huge economic problem. The facilities, either magnetic or inertial, have huge construction costs. I do believe that we will persevere and cross all of these hurdles. One driving force is happening now. The price of gas is going up. When other forms of energy get prohibitively expensive, the governments of the world will increase their support for fusion research and the problems will be solved. Fusion has considerable advantages of limitless cheap fuel, very low and easily managed radioactive waste products, very safe facilities, and no chance of proliferation of weapons-grade material. It will be great when we are able to achieve it, but I'm not expecting that to happen very soon. I once bet a colleague that we would see a commercial fusion power plant before I retired. I will concede that I have lost that bet. I hope that we will see it before my children are all retired but I'm not very confident even of that.
I seem to remember that HP offered a Linux pre-installed option years ago, but dropped it due to lack of interest. It's an ironic turn of events that now that Linux is under fire they should choose to return to it.
I would be very interested to see what this could mean for the fate of AOLServer. AOLServer is AOL's open source server that they have maintained as OSS despite the tide of naysayers when they acquired it. I, for one, would be very amused to see MS maintain an open source project, but realistically, acquisition would likely mean replacing this, and any other non-MS software with their MS "equivalents".
When you and everyone else stops patronizing organizations that produce such hardware in favor of open alternatives. Supporting OSS is fine, but something needs to be said for supporting the same ideals in the hardware domain.
Yes, there are binary-only ATI drivers. No, I don't know how well they work.
The real disadvantage to them is that they are only available in RPMs. So users of non-RPM based systems are just out of luck.
It's important to note as well that companies do not shirk away from open source drivers because they expect to make any money from the drivers themselves. The code in the driver reveals volumes about how the operation of the hardware works. That's what they want to keep secret from their competitors.