Money buys admiration, I suppose. Gates is also perceived as being very smart; and, to be fair, he is a very smart man. You try building an empire as huge and powerful as Microsoft was at its height of power and influence based only on technological and business accumen. It's not so easy.
Heh. NVidia obviously does take Linux serious, because they continue to put out good, working drivers with each subsequent release, and are obviously the only cards to get for Linux users that needs working, stable 3D, such as those doing 3D CAD.
I've been using NVidia cards for more than 10 years and I've never had a single X server crash related to NVidia's drivers. The two times I tried AMD/ATI cards, I threw my hands up after numerous X server crashes.
On the other hand, any manufacturer doing this will now have a driver that _would_ work on Linux with probably minimal changes, except it has to be open sourced to be allowed to run on Linux.
Not so. CUPS is dual licensed; the parts that let you write drivers are LGPL, while the rest of the distrtibution is GPL. That maans that you can write proprietary CUPS drivers regardless of platform. Printer manufacturers don't write Linux drivers because they don't want to support it. They write OS X drivers because they can't ignore the professional graphics and desktop publishing market, most of whom are still on Macs.
Right, but the problem still isn't OpenGL vs. D3D. I've used both D3D and OpenGL in Wine on nVidia; OpenGL is a bit faster than D3D (due to the fact that isn't translated), but both are equally stable.
Sure one is open-source and one isn't but I doubt that's the reason one work better than the other?
Even that's not accurate. There is also a proprietary AMD/ATI driver (fglrx) for ATI cards and it isn't really any better than the open source driver in terms of stability.
AMD does for their ATI cards. Unfortunately, none of the ATI drivers -- including the proprietary fglrx -- are exactly known for their rock solid stability.
Well, he forbids Iranians from staying in hotels used by Buddhists, prohibits the wearing of neckties, and banned the teaching of music to children. Sounds pretty nuts to me.
There's nothing wrong with the word 'doer', however saying "Israeli is the doer" doesn't quite make sense. That would be like saying "American is the doer."
Perhaps they meant to say that "the Israelis are the doer" or "the Israeli government is the doer" or simply "Israel is the doer".
The thought that they might be building one is why we're so determined to stop them from enriching uranium that could be used for weapons.
Well, if you knew just how crazy the Ayotollah is, you'd probably want to prevent any possibility of him having nuclear weapons under his control, too.
Not so. The U.S. crushed the Iraqi Army and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein very quickly. Occupying Iraq is another matter, one that the U.S. military has never really been good at doing because they've never been equipped or trained for it.
As for the "stone age country," I assume you're talking about Afghanistan. The U.S. is not losing badly in Afghanistan; the U.S. military has not achieved its objectives, sure, but our nation's objectives in Afghanistan primarily revolve around the capture of Osama bin Laden, who may nor may not even be alive. Finding international terrorists as smart as bin Laden is simply not an easy task; other countries seeking Osama bin Laden also haven't captured him either.
According to their website, Safari is supported, so Chrome is likely to work. If the site refuses to let you in, just use one of the extensions for changing the user agent string.
I use Chrome. I haven't found many sites on the public Internet that don't work with Chrome; mainly a few niche sites that still require IE or ActiveX. Chrome benefits from the fact that it uses the same rendering engine as Apple's Safari.
On no grounds. U.S. officials have not shown that Assange has committed a single crime in the U.S. He is merely wanted here for questioning, probably to prosecute those who did violate U.S. law, such as any of Bradley Manning's co-conspirators or to find out who leaked the Iraq war logs, the U.S. diplomatic cables, etc.
Gitmo is a facility of the U.S. Navy; I doubt he'd be held there as he's wanted by the Department of Justice, not the Pentagon.
Agreed. They're illegible even if I view them in the latest version of Adobe Reader on either Linux or Windows. They're not images, though, they're text rotated using PostScript/PDF commands. Any reports from the iPeople? It may be a font issue.
Exactly. There is no conflict of interest. It isn't like you can either be in the iPhone camp or the Android camp and never the twain shall meet.
Verizon customers asked for an iPhone, they delivered it. End of story. Do you think for one second they'll stop selling the Motorola Droid phones? Of course they won't. Verizon never met a dollar they didn't like.
Over the last year, analysts and pundits insisted that Apple would never launch an iPhone on Verizon’s outdated CDMA network. Instead they said Verizon would launch the iPhone on its lighting fast LTE 4G network... they were wrong. Why did Verizon launch on the older, slower nextwork? "The first gen LTE chipsets force design changes we wouldn't make," said Apple's Tim Cook. "And Verizon customers told us they want the iPhone now. I can't tell you the number of times we've been asked, 'when will it work on Verizon.'"
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Money buys admiration, I suppose. Gates is also perceived as being very smart; and, to be fair, he is a very smart man. You try building an empire as huge and powerful as Microsoft was at its height of power and influence based only on technological and business accumen. It's not so easy.
To be fair, I think Canada and Mexico have lasted quite a bit longer than a week or two.
Doesn't HP make most of Brother's printers?
You mean like when I added print server functionality to my existing Cisco/Linksys NAS 200 by installing CUPS and usblp on it instead of buying a separate print server?
Yeah, you're right. ;)
Heh. NVidia obviously does take Linux serious, because they continue to put out good, working drivers with each subsequent release, and are obviously the only cards to get for Linux users that needs working, stable 3D, such as those doing 3D CAD.
I've been using NVidia cards for more than 10 years and I've never had a single X server crash related to NVidia's drivers. The two times I tried AMD/ATI cards, I threw my hands up after numerous X server crashes.
For clarity: printer manufacturers other than HP don't write Linux drivers.... :)
Not so. CUPS is dual licensed; the parts that let you write drivers are LGPL, while the rest of the distrtibution is GPL. That maans that you can write proprietary CUPS drivers regardless of platform. Printer manufacturers don't write Linux drivers because they don't want to support it. They write OS X drivers because they can't ignore the professional graphics and desktop publishing market, most of whom are still on Macs.
Right, but the problem still isn't OpenGL vs. D3D. I've used both D3D and OpenGL in Wine on nVidia; OpenGL is a bit faster than D3D (due to the fact that isn't translated), but both are equally stable.
Even that's not accurate. There is also a proprietary AMD/ATI driver (fglrx)
for ATI cards and it isn't really any better than the open source driver in terms of stability.
AMD does for their ATI cards. Unfortunately, none of the ATI drivers -- including the proprietary fglrx -- are exactly known for their rock solid stability.
Well, he forbids Iranians from staying in hotels used by Buddhists, prohibits the wearing of neckties, and banned the teaching of music to children. Sounds pretty nuts to me.
There's nothing wrong with the word 'doer', however saying "Israeli is the doer" doesn't quite make sense. That would be like saying "American is the doer."
Perhaps they meant to say that "the Israelis are the doer" or "the Israeli government is the doer" or simply "Israel is the doer".
Well, if you knew just how crazy the Ayotollah is, you'd probably want to prevent any possibility of him having nuclear weapons under his control, too.
Not so. The U.S. crushed the Iraqi Army and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein very quickly. Occupying Iraq is another matter, one that the U.S. military has never really been good at doing because they've never been equipped or trained for it.
As for the "stone age country," I assume you're talking about Afghanistan. The U.S. is not losing badly in Afghanistan; the U.S. military has not achieved its objectives, sure, but our nation's objectives in Afghanistan primarily revolve around the capture of Osama bin Laden, who may nor may not even be alive. Finding international terrorists as smart as bin Laden is simply not an easy task; other countries seeking Osama bin Laden also haven't captured him either.
No wonder corporate shops don't allow Chrome.
That's kind of silly question isn't it? It's a Web browser. People use it browse the Web, obviously. Duh.
According to their website, Safari is supported, so Chrome is likely to work. If the site refuses to let you in, just use one of the extensions for changing the user agent string.
Well, while the VAX wasn't autistic, it certainly its users weren't playing with a full DEC, either.
I use Chrome. I haven't found many sites on the public Internet that don't work with Chrome; mainly a few niche sites that still require IE or ActiveX. Chrome benefits from the fact that it uses the same rendering engine as Apple's Safari.
Just to clarify: they may try to prosecute Assange, but I'm pretty sure they'd be unable to do so as Assange himself has not violated U.S. laws.
On no grounds. U.S. officials have not shown that Assange has committed a single crime in the U.S. He is merely wanted here for questioning, probably to prosecute those who did violate U.S. law, such as any of Bradley Manning's co-conspirators or to find out who leaked the Iraq war logs, the U.S. diplomatic cables, etc.
Gitmo is a facility of the U.S. Navy; I doubt he'd be held there as he's wanted by the Department of Justice, not the Pentagon.
Like I thought. It's a font issue. What font is it?
Linux/Windows people: If you want to view these things, you need to get some Mac fonts.
Agreed. They're illegible even if I view them in the latest version of Adobe Reader on either Linux or Windows. They're not images, though, they're text rotated using PostScript/PDF commands. Any reports from the iPeople? It may be a font issue.
Exactly. There is no conflict of interest. It isn't like you can either be in the iPhone camp or the Android camp and never the twain shall meet.
Verizon customers asked for an iPhone, they delivered it. End of story. Do you think for one second they'll stop selling the Motorola Droid phones? Of course they won't. Verizon never met a dollar they didn't like.
FTFA:
It ain't 4G, so no simultaneous voice and data.