Actually Ozzy Osbourne is a perfect example of a pretty much talentless person making a career by using other people's talent. But maybe that in itself is a talent:)
Actually, S3 texture compression is also available as an third party add-on to the Mesa libraries, or was the last time I checked. It worked also with ATI cards.
The problem with the otherwise good approach you described is the lack of hardware documentation. And reverse-engineering is very difficult with the increasing amount of functionality gfx chips hold. And the implementation of that functionality might still be actually illegal without a proper license from the IP holders...
But maybe Mesa and 3d driver libraries could be more modular in a linux kernel sort-of style so that the approach you described would be easier to take.
Then they are useless to you and they always will be. The reason for closed drivers is intellectual property, to put it very shortly. AMD does not own all of the hardware and logic in these graphics chips, instead they license it. They are not allowed to just hand it over to OS people, no matter now much they huff and puff.
For example, S3 owns several patents for texture compression although I'm not sure they even make graphics chips anymore. Do you really think they will give that away for free? Why would they?
Back in the BBS days most computers could not even replay MP3 music. And with 14kbps modems, downloading a 5 megabyte MP3 would have been REALLY slow.
Napster was brought online in June 1999, so I guess record companies did not really care about it "in the 90s".
How about some kind of warning systems for low quality hand cam versions of those, um, Linux images?
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Here in Finland front door are always very sturdy. Not to keep the dishonest out, but to keep the
cold out during winters. Trust me, you do not break doors by kicking here only your foot. You have to go for the lock, or try to lift the door off it's hinges some how.
Most worth stealing and new cars also already have an electric key, so you can not pick the lock... because there really is no lock to pick.
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Locks also keep dishonest people from stealing things from honest people.
This may lead to Samba branching. I'm a not an expert on GPLv2, buy can't someone simply juust take the existing Samba CVS code and create a "new" Samba and stay with the GPLv2?
Ummm... how does being "open" improve the user experience? Openmoko hasn't a change of a snowball in hell. For one, it's yet another stupidly named open source product.
Well, it had triangle subdivision, algorithms stuff for continuous surface and angle calculations and texture coordinate balancing, but nothing complicated. This was in 1993.
Computer science should give people tools and ideas to seek answers to questions that go beyond software engineering, but are solvable by computational power. For some, these tools require advanced math but not for others. It depends on the area of research. Mine is health care, so math is not really an issue. There's a lot of theoretical stuff behind software integration, also. Don't get me wrong, I do have a lesser degree (cum laude) in mathematics, but just have never needed it in real life and work...
There's math and then there's advanced math. I once built a simple 3d modelling software (used 3d Studio mesh file format), and got by just using basic trigonometry and algebra. This stuff does not have to be taught in an university.
I hate to burst your bubble, but at least here in Finland just about everyone agrees higher taxes are justified on the basis of great public healthcare and education for everyone. No, I have no idea what you are talking about "worse results in upper and upper middle class". Maye they are secretly sorry not being able to buy a new BMW every year or something.
Oh yeah, we don't need guns either.
Wow, I just had mine. Not from email, but you just posted it to Slashdot, and thanks to the kind people giving it +5 Funny, it actually got through! Nice going!
Maybe, but I think the most important feature MySQL has to offer is that it's free. And even more important than GPL licensing is the fact that because it's free, there's a huge user community on the Internet, which provides free help. Just Google it up.
I don't know if the users/companies that ACTUALLY bring money to the MySQL company, care about the fact that mysql is open source. They are buying a product, not open source mentality.
And besides, most people using open source software would regard mysql as a "gift". After all, it's free.
So what does the CPU do when a single operation takes several clock cycles to complete? It processes your machine code instruction, thus interpreting it. Machine code (and registers, for example) is also an abstraction of the tasks CPU is really doing. Even if this is really the lowest level of programming (apart micro code and such), it is still being interpreted by the CPU.
But what if the strcat routine implementation is super optimized for a specific architecture? In addition, sometimes it really is required your code is as short as possible. Further more, the more you "optimize" your code, the more bugs you are also likely to introduce into the code.
And besides, you z80 programming requirement does NOT give any implication of how the computer actually works. Machine code is just another programming language and is interpreted by the CPU.
Can you also shoe a horse? Can you build a car? Can you build a house for your family? Can you build a tube amplifier? And for the record, what is this "rewiring a home for a phone service"? Every person I know has a cell phone, so that would make your "fixing the tech" rather obsolete.
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If Wine is a coding masterpiece, then Windows itself must be... even bigger masterpiece as it works a lot better than Wine?
Actually Ozzy Osbourne is a perfect example of a pretty much talentless person making a career by using other people's talent. But maybe that in itself is a talent :)
The fact you got +5 Informative for your comment makes baby Jesus cry.
It probably should be called "the dollar-that-was-once-mighty".
Actually, S3 texture compression is also available as an third party add-on to the Mesa libraries, or was the last time I checked. It worked also with ATI cards. The problem with the otherwise good approach you described is the lack of hardware documentation. And reverse-engineering is very difficult with the increasing amount of functionality gfx chips hold. And the implementation of that functionality might still be actually illegal without a proper license from the IP holders... But maybe Mesa and 3d driver libraries could be more modular in a linux kernel sort-of style so that the approach you described would be easier to take.
Then they are useless to you and they always will be. The reason for closed drivers is intellectual property, to put it very shortly. AMD does not own all of the hardware and logic in these graphics chips, instead they license it. They are not allowed to just hand it over to OS people, no matter now much they huff and puff. For example, S3 owns several patents for texture compression although I'm not sure they even make graphics chips anymore. Do you really think they will give that away for free? Why would they?
Back in the BBS days most computers could not even replay MP3 music. And with 14kbps modems, downloading a 5 megabyte MP3 would have been REALLY slow. Napster was brought online in June 1999, so I guess record companies did not really care about it "in the 90s".
How about some kind of warning systems for low quality hand cam versions of those, um, Linux images?
Here in Finland front door are always very sturdy. Not to keep the dishonest out, but to keep the cold out during winters. Trust me, you do not break doors by kicking here only your foot. You have to go for the lock, or try to lift the door off it's hinges some how. Most worth stealing and new cars also already have an electric key, so you can not pick the lock... because there really is no lock to pick.
Locks also keep dishonest people from stealing things from honest people.
This may lead to Samba branching. I'm a not an expert on GPLv2, buy can't someone simply juust take the existing Samba CVS code and create a "new" Samba and stay with the GPLv2?
Yes, and "NEO1973" is for the 33 year old geeks.
Ummm... how does being "open" improve the user experience? Openmoko hasn't a change of a snowball in hell. For one, it's yet another stupidly named open source product.
Well, it had triangle subdivision, algorithms stuff for continuous surface and angle calculations and texture coordinate balancing, but nothing complicated. This was in 1993. Computer science should give people tools and ideas to seek answers to questions that go beyond software engineering, but are solvable by computational power. For some, these tools require advanced math but not for others. It depends on the area of research. Mine is health care, so math is not really an issue. There's a lot of theoretical stuff behind software integration, also. Don't get me wrong, I do have a lesser degree (cum laude) in mathematics, but just have never needed it in real life and work...
There's math and then there's advanced math. I once built a simple 3d modelling software (used 3d Studio mesh file format), and got by just using basic trigonometry and algebra. This stuff does not have to be taught in an university.
I hate to burst your bubble, but at least here in Finland just about everyone agrees higher taxes are justified on the basis of great public healthcare and education for everyone. No, I have no idea what you are talking about "worse results in upper and upper middle class". Maye they are secretly sorry not being able to buy a new BMW every year or something. Oh yeah, we don't need guns either.
Wow, I just had mine. Not from email, but you just posted it to Slashdot, and thanks to the kind people giving it +5 Funny, it actually got through! Nice going!
Maybe, but I think the most important feature MySQL has to offer is that it's free. And even more important than GPL licensing is the fact that because it's free, there's a huge user community on the Internet, which provides free help. Just Google it up.
I don't know if the users/companies that ACTUALLY bring money to the MySQL company, care about the fact that mysql is open source. They are buying a product, not open source mentality. And besides, most people using open source software would regard mysql as a "gift". After all, it's free.
Well done! This is exactly the attitude that will keep p2p networks open and running forevar!
Neuromancer is a good example of a book that really sucks but is still great in a certain context. Mainly amongst the geeks.
So what does the CPU do when a single operation takes several clock cycles to complete? It processes your machine code instruction, thus interpreting it. Machine code (and registers, for example) is also an abstraction of the tasks CPU is really doing. Even if this is really the lowest level of programming (apart micro code and such), it is still being interpreted by the CPU.
But what if the strcat routine implementation is super optimized for a specific architecture? In addition, sometimes it really is required your code is as short as possible. Further more, the more you "optimize" your code, the more bugs you are also likely to introduce into the code. And besides, you z80 programming requirement does NOT give any implication of how the computer actually works. Machine code is just another programming language and is interpreted by the CPU.
Can you also shoe a horse? Can you build a car? Can you build a house for your family? Can you build a tube amplifier? And for the record, what is this "rewiring a home for a phone service"? Every person I know has a cell phone, so that would make your "fixing the tech" rather obsolete.