Its been stated before in interviews with NVIDIA developers that their drivers do share a common code base between all platforms. And as much as i would like to see their own 100% open source driver, I do understand there is likely licensing issues that prohibits that, as well as competitive concerns in releasing the source. Mostly however I hope they keep their promise of 'not helping but nor hindering' the Nouveau project (I mean obviously more on the nor hindering part) Plus I how they would be of any gain by trying to hinder? other than causing a bad relations shit storm amongst the already divided opinions. As for Noveau, it seems from my own and other experiences from Arch Linux forums that its as good as if not better than the xorg-nv driver anyway. Seems they win mostly by not having to spend any development time on it.
Would work for most people for simple convienience. but I personally would not pay unless the quality was at least equal to that of a cd which i could order perhaps for less or same anyway with the actual packaging
lossless (eg FLAC) is not so unreasonable with broadband these days
I am a UK citizen (could be worse) I don't get why everyone is buying these with the two most huge problems. 1. The left button not being aligned with its underneath pressure pad thing. 2. The dead pixels. If all the flat panel manufactures have generally now sorted this out by now. Dead pixels are now very rare for new 17" 19" monitors. the psp must have the most crap quality components when balencing amount of dead pixels / overall pixels / units
now along with my history of Sony hardware dying well before i would have reasonably expected with no obvious hardware flaws, the psp's 2 fatal points nail the coffin shut as to my choice buying one, i'm amazed how many people fork out cash for such crappy designed hardware. Not sure if i feel pity for people who buy this junk
if its possible i am tempted to try mac osx via this method however I would never spend thousands for a mac or anything else just to try a os i've never used. yeah theres the mac mini but I would at least want to buy a more powerful system for my general needs. How does apple expect to sway people like me who would like to try these things and have the cash but are somewhat dubious of parting with alot of money for overpriced hardware that i've used. its very difficalt to get my hands on one to even try. I cant sit in a apple store for 6+ hours to get a feel
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Its been stated before in interviews with NVIDIA developers that their drivers do share a common code base between all platforms. And as much as i would like to see their own 100% open source driver, I do understand there is likely licensing issues that prohibits that, as well as competitive concerns in releasing the source.
Mostly however I hope they keep their promise of 'not helping but nor hindering' the Nouveau project (I mean obviously more on the nor hindering part) Plus I how they would be of any gain by trying to hinder? other than causing a bad relations shit storm amongst the already divided opinions.
As for Noveau, it seems from my own and other experiences from Arch Linux forums that its as good as if not better than the xorg-nv driver anyway.
Seems they win mostly by not having to spend any development time on it.
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am i the only one thinking.. this is a university surely there is the talent to provide their own hosted and competitive system?
Would work for most people for simple convienience. but I personally would not pay unless the quality was at least equal to that of a cd which i could order perhaps for less or same anyway with the actual packaging
lossless (eg FLAC) is not so unreasonable with broadband these days
I am a UK citizen (could be worse)
I don't get why everyone is buying these with the two most huge problems.
1. The left button not being aligned with its underneath pressure pad thing.
2. The dead pixels. If all the flat panel manufactures have generally now sorted this out by now. Dead pixels are now very rare for new 17" 19" monitors. the psp must have the most crap quality components when balencing amount of dead pixels / overall pixels / units
now along with my history of Sony hardware dying well before i would have reasonably expected with no obvious hardware flaws, the psp's 2 fatal points nail the coffin shut as to my choice buying one, i'm amazed how many people fork out cash for such crappy designed hardware. Not sure if i feel pity for people who buy this junk
if its possible i am tempted to try mac osx via this method however I would never spend thousands for a mac or anything else just to try a os i've never used.
yeah theres the mac mini but I would at least want to buy a more powerful system for my general needs.
How does apple expect to sway people like me who would like to try these things and have the cash but are somewhat dubious of parting with alot of money for overpriced hardware that i've used.
its very difficalt to get my hands on one to even try.
I cant sit in a apple store for 6+ hours to get a feel
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=9791
has alot of responces from raster on this subject so its worth a read and there also seems to be some progress on the whole debate
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this is a prime example of how a product fails because of it trying to control the consumer.
I just can't believe how this got past the door isn't market research meant to prevent really stupid products like this
sony can make awesome electronic gear its just the donuts in head office and other depts shoot them selves in the foot