Aside from my own (competent) review of the cell processor, the article possibly the most insightful and technically nicely balanced articles posted on slashdot in a long while!
I'll cover more of the Cell's basic architecture, including the mysterious 64-bit POWERPC core that forms the "brains" of this design.
Looking forward to that... I think that many people will be moving to Mac... on cell... likely?
It will swell market demand, and thus prices (bad) It will give you less job security in 10 years (bad) It will annoy the piss out of your as girls use thier l33t laptops as diaries, and put flowers on them 10 year old wardriving kids beating you are HL2... grrrrr...
1 million laptops will be sold on ebay for the price of a concert ticket/belly piercing: GOOD!
For everything else, there is always mastercard fraud.
Although on the surface, I see little to be too excited about, there are some awesome awesome freeware games around, that can take up more of your time than HL2.
I do see the OS gaming catching up with studios, because, by its nature, you can build, recycle, and team up, and make some awesome things.
I wish that game (which I forgot the name of) written in Java (you can find a link on the java.net site) which has key movement and mouse fire, top down maze thingy, was open sourced. It has a great platform for about 6 different games to spawn from the code base.
I am putting together my own 3d based pointy clicky engine... it is slow in coming around, jogl and xith3d no doubt. west side.
This cannot be installed without users knowledge, so technically, it is not any more dangaerous than 'you are saving the file untra l3tt p0rno download + last episode 0f ent3rpr1se.exe'.
So, erm, there. XPI doesn't mean you cannot put shit in there, the same way that.exe doesn't mean you cannot put shit in there.
A zip file can contain any shit you want.
If they are awarding prizes for gratuitous uses of explitives on/., please nominate me, today is a shit day.
Th eonly episode I ever saw was two bad actors in a shuttle, running out of oxygen because a tiny tiny black hole pierced a hole in thier hull, which they used some poncy stupid cheesey spread to fix it...
It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life, I had to shave my cornea just to feel clean again.
This is not a flame, I admit to only seeing about 5% of one episode, but it was so bad that I couldn't watch anymore, I didn't even see the quantum leap dude, and no matter how much quantum leap PWNED I do not want to see this.
Man, this sounds like the last ditch effort to save eldorado!:-)
Why the obsession? Bring back roland rat, I say.
*me realises that slating ST or SW is a complete beg for a -tan(90) mod, and about 50 thousand accounts adding me to thier enemy lists...*
Give me a holographic doctor and a nypho borg *ANYDAY*. (not in the same context *cough*)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!! no really! FUCK ME!!!!
The first version of the chip will run at speeds faster than 4GHz. Engineers were vague about how much faster, but reports from design partners say 4.6GHz is likely. By comparison, the fastest current Pentium PC processor tops out at 3.8GHz.
Cell can process 256 billion calculations per second (256 gigaflops), falling a wee bit short of marketing hyperbole calling it a "supercomputer on a chip." The slowest machine on the current list of the Top 500 supercomputers can do 851 gigaflops.
The chip will have 2.5MB of on-chip memory and have the ability to shuttle data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second, using XDR and FlexIO interface technology licensed from Rambus.
"One of the key messages you hear from the architects of next-generation chips is that their performance is being limited by off-chip bandwidth," said Rich Warmke, product marketing manager at Rambus. "We've really licked that with Cell. One hundred gigabytes per second is really unprecedented in the industry."
The chip will have 234 million transistors, measure 221mm square and be produced using advanced 90-nanometer chipmaking processes. Peter Glaskowsky, a consultant at research company The Envisioneering Group, said he expects Cell production to shift to a 65-nanometer process, however, as IBM introduces the chipmaking technology later this year.
I have so got a boner right now. I want 2 of these.
I do not see the need to stick to ideals in a world of security, use the best tool for the job, and stay vigilant (if OS is the best tool, then only merit it on this, not the fact that it is OS)
...but I have long suspected that there was a simple hack, I read about different url encoding support, and realised that a 'a' charcter can be a multitude of actual encodings, and this would allow you to register a name with the similar lexical morphology.
I thought even using small accented characters (paypal with ^ on the a's) but this obviously uses a's designed to carry an accent, but doesn't secify an accent.
There are probably hundreds more ways you can register a site that is 100% different to a computer, but 100% the same to a human.
Women have the ability to get very cold and produce a cloud that can kill a man using a principle known as PMS.
It is uncertain as to how this can affect the environments, but some studies suggest that many bearded white coats steer clear of such PMS capable females.
If the bank gives an API to your cash, you are responsible for its usage, and they are responsible for making it secure, for correct usage.
The virus basically made a correct usage. I would say Microsoft were to blame.
Think of this. You use an ATM, and you get mugged while using it.
Is this an unsecure API to your cash? They shoudl make each transaction pass a turin test (CAPTAPTHHP whatever the dumb-shit acronym is) so make automated transactions on human API's less possible.
One time pins that require a human to do something at least.
The bank cannot be held responsible, for one, this guy may be in cahoots with the.ru's , and if not it wo't take much imagination for poeple to have thier machines hijacked.
For the bold italic gay comment you are wrong wrong wrong. You do not have to have a virus scanner installed, or a firewall.
There should be a legal definition (not Microsofts current plight to legally wash thier hands of security (thier solution)) for software acting as it should, and sale of software should state 'this is secure' and there should be a heirarchical contract of libraries and vendors, and each security flaw shoudl be tracke dand the blame assigned.
Outlook isn't vunerable to worms, it is just a published API that happy programs can call to do anything they want.
A wrom isn't a worm if it contains no burrowing code, if it just calls an open API then it is a client.
In todays world it is feasible to write an honest program that makes a mistake, and triggers a alrge scale problem in a deployed environment, these end is lawsuits, why don't the mistakes Microsoft make end in lawsuits?
The guy is responsible for not being buyer beware. He can blame Microsoft for having an open published API and selling him an OS that does not wokr as advertised.
You have to have blame in the right places. The bank made their 'correct usage' fair and secure, his correct usage was just fraudulent beyond his control.
If someone stole his laptop, then as far as the bank is concerned, someone stole his wallet.
Matsushita, which sells its products under the Panasonic brand
I certainly won't be buying anything Panasonic for a long while. I hope that by making it a public disgrace for a company to endanger 78% of the installed office environments in Japan (think what loss of productivity would occur if they spread enough FUD to make those people buy thier product, and install it, and learn it?).
Japan has a very honourable work ethic in terms of employee/employer relations, they value the company, so the political fall out over this may yet to come.
Matsushita Electric Industrial? Any large sums of money being placed from a certain MSFT?
Micorosft suddenly 'licensed' thier help patent to fund thier lawers?
I say, if the shit hits the fan, the company shoudl open source the software to GNU, and then.jp people can download the software sans help icon for free, and kick the bastard competition in the nuts, with steel toe caps.
The the company can run support and customisation for all users who now have the free version.
Then when the other company goes bust, they can start selling newer versions.
...about the release of predictions and the scientific community.
What you don't realise, that people in 1975 had different computers and no doubt different understandings, and different measuring techniques, and fewer floaty things orbiting our planet.
Sometimes you can cry wolf 2^32 times, and just before the overflow the worlf actually shows up and sinks one of your newly aquired MMORPG islands.
Part of the repeated crying of climate change is because industry, and politics, wanted it to go away.
I disagree, I honestly believe that if.Net was better than Java he would say so, but then also say, you can take that proprietary nice.Net solution, and then work with it, or use Java with an established JCP, and huge industry support blah blah.
Even if.Net was anything Java is (language + libraries + portability) it wouldn't affect the viability of Java.
You sound like you just spend some $$$ of some online.Net certification. Good luck to you.
Gates:SPIEGEL:... but in the realm of normal personal computers, they don't play a large role worldwide.
Gates: The truth is: the fewer operating systems there are within a company, the better it is from a security point of view.
SPIEGEL: I beg your pardon?
Gates: Simply because one must spend billions of dollars to ensure the security of each individual system. Our company has an unbelievable number of people who are solely responsible for this type of security around the clock.
Hahahahhaahha, well it is true, just look at the new module for credit card processing in bugzilla.... ssh issue? Heck, I have spent at least 1 billion dollars securing my distro...
The Gates himself advocates the use of linux!
Gates: If everything runs under the same platform, however, you can better concentrate resources and more quickly repair errors. For instance, in a hospital where different systems are used, a single problem in one section cause the other systems to crash. Thus, from a security standpoint it is always better to focus on one system.
That one platform is obvioulsy GNU/Linux! You can infer it from his doodles.
In all fairness for Windows - downloaded free zonealarm and AVG Free Edition, and FireFox, and windows commander, and open office...and trillian *thinks* oh and thunderbird... how much of windows is actually left?:-)
borg: In some areas, the bad boys are also terribly clever -- and occasionally more crafty than we had expected..de news: Those who send spam advertising e-mails for example.
borg: I don't want to minimize the problem at all.
---------
Oh, good, perhaps you should preinstall 'SPAM Marketing' and 100 million email addresses in the next Windows edition.
I think he meant he doesn't want to underestimate the problem? Is this interview originally in English, then translated to German, then translated back to English?
"Even Microsoft seems to have first become aware of the danger after Sept. 11."
Yeah, we need some really tight anti-aviation security for windows now...
Is Sept. 11th a magic catch all:
*insert industry here* should have woken up to *insert issue here* after Sept. 11th.
For example:
The rare fruit preserves industry should have woken up to the problems of shifting climatic changing since Sept. 11th"
No, I didn't think so. I do not think that many Al Qaeda training camps are wired up with an OC12 and some uber geek types playing TA and writing syn attack code, shouting "OMG!!111 J1had!11 You are teh suck!" on irc channels and usenet.
If you try and sell an island, it will first become infected with rabbid biting moneys, and then sink into the sea, not with a amagnficent effect or fanfare, but that annotin "gwpfffit" noise that comes with windows.
Then your nickname will be "I was pwned, and all I got was this t-shirt" at which point your character will be wearing a T-shirt with "Pwn3d!" written on it.
Take care of your island, and it will be nice to you.
which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.
Yes, they all do, and thank fuck for that, else we would have net worms and trojans and shit spreading through unchecked buffers left right and center.
Don't just tack some bullshit to the end of the story.
The fact is, we do not have to sanity check every 3 lines of code. New languages are called new languages for a reason.
Also, I think Gosling (who has produced a language that 10 if not 100's of millions use) knows a *little* tiny bit more than you about languages, and your highschool hacker C coding isn't something to brag about.
And if you do read the google blog about the tags you can use to stop google indexing it.
It is a good askslash, but really, I hate technology in the hands of those who cannot use it... tell me what software you are using so I can shit through thier letter box.
It was evident from about 3 minutes before the big bang that ref. lists and blog comments would be misused for spam, so why did these developers act so slowly, and why do I still find open blogs...
A german company does some ace blog software, free, that just has a simple non google friendly url redirect, and doesn't allow you to put anything between [a...] and [/a] tags, just link (what you wanted there, url it leads to).
Too many vain people run open comment forums on thier trite blogs. (not saying yours is)
But to be honest the average 13 year old girl who runs her own 'look I have pink nails and a fake belly button ring, OMG!11111' blog probably has more knowledge of how to fight spam than you, you are a disgrace to the male gentalia, and to all thick rimmed geeks everywhere.
Go and play some golf.
hoho what a flamebait troll I am today, come on, half was insightful, 25% funny at least...:-)
Me: I have been reading that Microsoft have been buying patent rights from SGI over OpenGL specs, not developing them, just buying them Poor-Asshole-Microsoft-Employee-Trying-To-Pi tch-.n et: Erm oh, erm Me: So what is the plan? kill all completition in graphics libraries? stop all development of hardware accellerated 3d on linux? PAMETTP.N: Erm oh erm, why would we do that? Me: *stabbing ball point pen into eye socket of PAMETTP.N* die mother fucker die die die! DIE!
And they say games make people violent, tsk!:-):-):-0
But in the minutes of the OpenGL developer meeting, it's clear that Microsoft has staked an IP claim on portions of the OpenGL spec, and it's willing to license it's patents on RAND terms.
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I want 2 of them, yesterday.
... on cell... likely?
Aside from my own (competent) review of the cell processor, the article possibly the most insightful and technically nicely balanced articles posted on slashdot in a long while!
I'll cover more of the Cell's basic architecture, including the mysterious 64-bit POWERPC core that forms the "brains" of this design.
Looking forward to that... I think that many people will be moving to Mac
It will swell market demand, and thus prices (bad) ...
It will give you less job security in 10 years (bad)
It will annoy the piss out of your as girls use thier l33t laptops as diaries, and put flowers on them
10 year old wardriving kids beating you are HL2... grrrrr
1 million laptops will be sold on ebay for the price of a concert ticket/belly piercing: GOOD!
For everything else, there is always mastercard fraud.
Yes and you could also download dialer.exe, britney_spears_naked.exe and a host of other fun things, does this mean you P2P app is insecure?
If britney_spears_nude.exe deleted firefox off your system, is that firefox's fault?
It is worrying if IE can be made to auto install XPI files on firefox... unless firefox always give the warning...
activex triggering a xpi install.... *shudder*
Although on the surface, I see little to be too excited about, there are some awesome awesome freeware games around, that can take up more of your time than HL2.
I do see the OS gaming catching up with studios, because, by its nature, you can build, recycle, and team up, and make some awesome things.
I wish that game (which I forgot the name of) written in Java (you can find a link on the java.net site) which has key movement and mouse fire, top down maze thingy, was open sourced. It has a great platform for about 6 different games to spawn from the code base.
I am putting together my own 3d based pointy clicky engine... it is slow in coming around, jogl and xith3d no doubt. west side.
Has no mention of spyware for firefox, perhaps it has been delayed. If you could contact the publishers and ask for a timeframe it would be nice.
Seriously, FUD: hey, if you use FireFox it will end up pig-shit like IE!
FireFox has some neat features, like, erm, not having active X. Yes I bet there are expoits, but I bet they get patched.
If people can have a solid, transparent auto-update, that would PWN!
just make sure it uses a 1 time auth system to stop people spoofing dns or some shizzle.
belch.
This cannot be installed without users knowledge, so technically, it is not any more dangaerous than 'you are saving the file untra l3tt p0rno download + last episode 0f ent3rpr1se.exe'.
.exe doesn't mean you cannot put shit in there.
/., please nominate me, today is a shit day.
So, erm, there. XPI doesn't mean you cannot put shit in there, the same way that
A zip file can contain any shit you want.
If they are awarding prizes for gratuitous uses of explitives on
Th eonly episode I ever saw was two bad actors in a shuttle, running out of oxygen because a tiny tiny black hole pierced a hole in thier hull, which they used some poncy stupid cheesey spread to fix it...
:-)
It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life, I had to shave my cornea just to feel clean again.
This is not a flame, I admit to only seeing about 5% of one episode, but it was so bad that I couldn't watch anymore, I didn't even see the quantum leap dude, and no matter how much quantum leap PWNED I do not want to see this.
Man, this sounds like the last ditch effort to save eldorado!
Why the obsession? Bring back roland rat, I say.
*me realises that slating ST or SW is a complete beg for a -tan(90) mod, and about 50 thousand accounts adding me to thier enemy lists...*
Give me a holographic doctor and a nypho borg *ANYDAY*. (not in the same context *cough*)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!! no really! FUCK ME!!!!
The first version of the chip will run at speeds faster than 4GHz. Engineers were vague about how much faster, but reports from design partners say 4.6GHz is likely. By comparison, the fastest current Pentium PC processor tops out at 3.8GHz.
Cell can process 256 billion calculations per second (256 gigaflops), falling a wee bit short of marketing hyperbole calling it a "supercomputer on a chip." The slowest machine on the current list of the Top 500 supercomputers can do 851 gigaflops.
The chip will have 2.5MB of on-chip memory and have the ability to shuttle data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second, using XDR and FlexIO interface technology licensed from Rambus.
"One of the key messages you hear from the architects of next-generation chips is that their performance is being limited by off-chip bandwidth," said Rich Warmke, product marketing manager at Rambus. "We've really licked that with Cell. One hundred gigabytes per second is really unprecedented in the industry."
The chip will have 234 million transistors, measure 221mm square and be produced using advanced 90-nanometer chipmaking processes. Peter Glaskowsky, a consultant at research company The Envisioneering Group, said he expects Cell production to shift to a 65-nanometer process, however, as IBM introduces the chipmaking technology later this year.
I have so got a boner right now. I want 2 of these.
a) it does the job
b) see a.
I do not see the need to stick to ideals in a world of security, use the best tool for the job, and stay vigilant (if OS is the best tool, then only merit it on this, not the fact that it is OS)
...but I have long suspected that there was a simple hack, I read about different url encoding support, and realised that a 'a' charcter can be a multitude of actual encodings, and this would allow you to register a name with the similar lexical morphology.
I thought even using small accented characters (paypal with ^ on the a's) but this obviously uses a's designed to carry an accent, but doesn't secify an accent.
There are probably hundreds more ways you can register a site that is 100% different to a computer, but 100% the same to a human.
tsk
Women have the ability to get very cold and produce a cloud that can kill a man using a principle known as PMS.
It is uncertain as to how this can affect the environments, but some studies suggest that many bearded white coats steer clear of such PMS capable females.
I think we don't need to hear another Linux is a kernel definition, like I said, even GNU/HURD will be called Linux by the media:
"A new version of Linux was released today, codenamed GNU/HURD" or some lame, we don't care, does it play solitaire type headline.
So, yes, I think we all know that Linux is a large kernel.
If the bank gives an API to your cash, you are responsible for its usage, and they are responsible for making it secure, for correct usage.
.ru's , and if not it wo't take much imagination for poeple to have thier machines hijacked.
The virus basically made a correct usage. I would say Microsoft were to blame.
Think of this. You use an ATM, and you get mugged while using it.
Is this an unsecure API to your cash? They shoudl make each transaction pass a turin test (CAPTAPTHHP whatever the dumb-shit acronym is) so make automated transactions on human API's less possible.
One time pins that require a human to do something at least.
The bank cannot be held responsible, for one, this guy may be in cahoots with the
For the bold italic gay comment you are wrong wrong wrong. You do not have to have a virus scanner installed, or a firewall.
There should be a legal definition (not Microsofts current plight to legally wash thier hands of security (thier solution)) for software acting as it should, and sale of software should state 'this is secure' and there should be a heirarchical contract of libraries and vendors, and each security flaw shoudl be tracke dand the blame assigned.
Outlook isn't vunerable to worms, it is just a published API that happy programs can call to do anything they want.
A wrom isn't a worm if it contains no burrowing code, if it just calls an open API then it is a client.
In todays world it is feasible to write an honest program that makes a mistake, and triggers a alrge scale problem in a deployed environment, these end is lawsuits, why don't the mistakes Microsoft make end in lawsuits?
The guy is responsible for not being buyer beware. He can blame Microsoft for having an open published API and selling him an OS that does not wokr as advertised.
You have to have blame in the right places. The bank made their 'correct usage' fair and secure, his correct usage was just fraudulent beyond his control.
If someone stole his laptop, then as far as the bank is concerned, someone stole his wallet.
Buyer beware.
Matsushita, which sells its products under the Panasonic brand
I certainly won't be buying anything Panasonic for a long while. I hope that by making it a public disgrace for a company to endanger 78% of the installed office environments in Japan (think what loss of productivity would occur if they spread enough FUD to make those people buy thier product, and install it, and learn it?).
Japan has a very honourable work ethic in terms of employee/employer relations, they value the company, so the political fall out over this may yet to come.
Matsushita Electric Industrial? Any large sums of money being placed from a certain MSFT?
.jp people can download the software sans help icon for free, and kick the bastard competition in the nuts, with steel toe caps.
Micorosft suddenly 'licensed' thier help patent to fund thier lawers?
I say, if the shit hits the fan, the company shoudl open source the software to GNU, and then
The the company can run support and customisation for all users who now have the free version.
Then when the other company goes bust, they can start selling newer versions.
Thats capitalism for you.
...about the release of predictions and the scientific community.
What you don't realise, that people in 1975 had different computers and no doubt different understandings, and different measuring techniques, and fewer floaty things orbiting our planet.
Sometimes you can cry wolf 2^32 times, and just before the overflow the worlf actually shows up and sinks one of your newly aquired MMORPG islands.
Part of the repeated crying of climate change is because industry, and politics, wanted it to go away.
I disagree, I honestly believe that if .Net was better than Java he would say so, but then also say, you can take that proprietary nice .Net solution, and then work with it, or use Java with an established JCP, and huge industry support blah blah.
.Net was anything Java is (language + libraries + portability) it wouldn't affect the viability of Java.
.Net certification. Good luck to you.
Even if
You sound like you just spend some $$$ of some online
Gates:SPIEGEL: ... but in the realm of normal personal computers, they don't play a large role worldwide.
:-)
Gates: The truth is: the fewer operating systems there are within a company, the better it is from a security point of view.
SPIEGEL: I beg your pardon?
Gates: Simply because one must spend billions of dollars to ensure the security of each individual system. Our company has an unbelievable number of people who are solely responsible for this type of security around the clock.
Hahahahhaahha, well it is true, just look at the new module for credit card processing in bugzilla.... ssh issue? Heck, I have spent at least 1 billion dollars securing my distro...
The Gates himself advocates the use of linux!
Gates: If everything runs under the same platform, however, you can better concentrate resources and more quickly repair errors. For instance, in a hospital where different systems are used, a single problem in one section cause the other systems to crash. Thus, from a security standpoint it is always better to focus on one system.
That one platform is obvioulsy GNU/Linux! You can infer it from his doodles.
In all fairness for Windows - downloaded free zonealarm and AVG Free Edition, and FireFox, and windows commander, and open office...and trillian *thinks* oh and thunderbird... how much of windows is actually left?
borg: In some areas, the bad boys are also terribly clever -- and occasionally more crafty than we had expected. .de news: Those who send spam advertising e-mails for example.
borg: I don't want to minimize the problem at all.
---------
Oh, good, perhaps you should preinstall 'SPAM Marketing' and 100 million email addresses in the next Windows edition.
I think he meant he doesn't want to underestimate the problem? Is this interview originally in English, then translated to German, then translated back to English?
Seems that way...
"Even Microsoft seems to have first become aware of the danger after Sept. 11."
Yeah, we need some really tight anti-aviation security for windows now...
Is Sept. 11th a magic catch all:
*insert industry here* should have woken up to *insert issue here* after Sept. 11th.
For example:
The rare fruit preserves industry should have woken up to the problems of shifting climatic changing since Sept. 11th"
No, I didn't think so. I do not think that many Al Qaeda training camps are wired up with an OC12 and some uber geek types playing TA and writing syn attack code, shouting "OMG!!111 J1had!11 You are teh suck!" on irc channels and usenet.
If you try and sell an island, it will first become infected with rabbid biting moneys, and then sink into the sea, not with a amagnficent effect or fanfare, but that annotin "gwpfffit" noise that comes with windows.
Then your nickname will be "I was pwned, and all I got was this t-shirt" at which point your character will be wearing a T-shirt with "Pwn3d!" written on it.
Take care of your island, and it will be nice to you.
which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.
/.
Yes, they all do, and thank fuck for that, else we would have net worms and trojans and shit spreading through unchecked buffers left right and center.
Don't just tack some bullshit to the end of the story.
The fact is, we do not have to sanity check every 3 lines of code. New languages are called new languages for a reason.
Also, I think Gosling (who has produced a language that 10 if not 100's of millions use) knows a *little* tiny bit more than you about languages, and your highschool hacker C coding isn't something to brag about.
Sorry, but fuck me for stupid one liners on
And if you do read the google blog about the tags you can use to stop google indexing it.
...] and [/a] tags, just link (what you wanted there, url it leads to).
:-)
It is a good askslash, but really, I hate technology in the hands of those who cannot use it... tell me what software you are using so I can shit through thier letter box.
It was evident from about 3 minutes before the big bang that ref. lists and blog comments would be misused for spam, so why did these developers act so slowly, and why do I still find open blogs...
A german company does some ace blog software, free, that just has a simple non google friendly url redirect, and doesn't allow you to put anything between [a
Too many vain people run open comment forums on thier trite blogs. (not saying yours is)
But to be honest the average 13 year old girl who runs her own 'look I have pink nails and a fake belly button ring, OMG!11111' blog probably has more knowledge of how to fight spam than you, you are a disgrace to the male gentalia, and to all thick rimmed geeks everywhere.
Go and play some golf.
hoho what a flamebait troll I am today, come on, half was insightful, 25% funny at least...
Me: I have been reading that Microsoft have been buying patent rights from SGI over OpenGL specs, not developing them, just buying themi tch-.n et: Erm oh, erm
:-) :-) :-0
Poor-Asshole-Microsoft-Employee-Trying-To-P
Me: So what is the plan? kill all completition in graphics libraries? stop all development of hardware accellerated 3d on linux?
PAMETTP.N: Erm oh erm, why would we do that?
Me: *stabbing ball point pen into eye socket of PAMETTP.N* die mother fucker die die die! DIE!
And they say games make people violent, tsk!
clickety click
But in the minutes of the OpenGL developer meeting, it's clear that Microsoft has staked an IP claim on portions of the OpenGL spec, and it's willing to license it's patents on RAND terms.