Cool. XGI took a very old version of the SiS driver, stripped out many useful features, uglyfied the code beyond belief and calls this *their* effort of open source development.
And the worst part is that my name is all across "their" source.
Finally, probably needless to say, the 3D part is not included.
A civilized country would NEVER extradite one of their own citizens on this basis. This is really an interesting and rather scaring precedent.
However, perhaps the Aussies just did it to save themselves the trouble of the CIA kidnapping the guy out of their prison. Don't laugh, this HAS happended (at least in one European country which often is wrongly associated with Kangaroos)
Yawn. SiS video bridges have had YPbPr output since 1999, and that S4 doesn't seem any faster than any current non-ATI/NV mainstream card (Parhelia, SiS Xabre, Via, SiS 66x/760, XGI - yes, there are XGI cards available, even with a linux driver, not entirely open source, though). Why exactly is this news?
Assembly will educate your logic and your ability to think like the very machine does. Compilers, in the long run, just fade out that close feeling for effective code and noone - ever - can convince me that a compiler can optimize code better than a good assembly programmer.
Being an assembly junkie myself, having won all benchmarks ever, still dreaming about the CPU cycles saved when using a moveq instead of move.l, I think assembly never will die out.
SMON, where are you. And O.M.A., I hope you rest in peace.
The US have a history of getting what they want, even if that means abducting the person in question behind the other nation authorities's back. I know what I am talking about. (No, it wasn't me, but one of my clients)
,8 was the floppy, the additional,1 meant to load the program to a different memory location than the BASIC start (which was 0x800 IIRC). This allowed programs, amongst others, to auto-start (if, for example, overwriting the irq vector in the zero page).
Looking at the more or less crappy DRI drivers available currently, I doubt that OpenGL (based on DRI, ie open source) will ever suit as a stable ground for a secure and stable windowing system. Not even mentioning that vendors don't release docs (especially on the 3D part of the hardware) these days.
Slashdot Mirror
PS: They = SiS + XGI
They have a cross-licensing agreement. SiS will release stripped-down XGI hardware in the future under their brand.
Cool. XGI took a very old version of the SiS driver, stripped out many useful features, uglyfied the code beyond belief and calls this *their* effort of open source development.
And the worst part is that my name is all across "their" source.
Finally, probably needless to say, the 3D part is not included.
A civilized country would NEVER extradite one of their own citizens on this basis. This is really an interesting and rather scaring precedent. However, perhaps the Aussies just did it to save themselves the trouble of the CIA kidnapping the guy out of their prison. Don't laugh, this HAS happended (at least in one European country which often is wrongly associated with Kangaroos)
Yawn. SiS video bridges have had YPbPr output since 1999, and that S4 doesn't seem any faster than any current non-ATI/NV mainstream card (Parhelia, SiS Xabre, Via, SiS 66x/760, XGI - yes, there are XGI cards available, even with a linux driver, not entirely open source, though). Why exactly is this news?
> when was the last time you thought "This word processor just doesn't respond to my keypresses fast enough."
Yesterday, when using quanta 3.2.2.
> that the 90's guerilla engineering training has brought us.
Yeah, quite VISUAL, isn't it.
Assembly will educate your logic and your ability to think like the very machine does. Compilers, in the long run, just fade out that close feeling for effective code and noone - ever - can convince me that a compiler can optimize code better than a good assembly programmer. Being an assembly junkie myself, having won all benchmarks ever, still dreaming about the CPU cycles saved when using a moveq instead of move.l, I think assembly never will die out. SMON, where are you. And O.M.A., I hope you rest in peace.
The US have a history of getting what they want, even if that means abducting the person in question behind the other nation authorities's back. I know what I am talking about. (No, it wasn't me, but one of my clients)
,8 was the floppy, the additional ,1 meant to load the program to a different memory location than the BASIC start (which was 0x800 IIRC). This allowed programs, amongst others, to auto-start (if, for example, overwriting the irq vector in the zero page).
Looking at the more or less crappy DRI drivers available currently, I doubt that OpenGL (based on DRI, ie open source) will ever suit as a stable ground for a secure and stable windowing system. Not even mentioning that vendors don't release docs (especially on the 3D part of the hardware) these days.