If you've ever lurked Doom9, you'll realize that AMD/ATi cards are very narrow in the types of AVC files they will accelerate, when compared to nVidia. And this is on the well supported and well funded Windows side.
They might have some support in the drivers, but Linux video acceleration is a clusterfuck, some really convoluted setup that makes PulseAudio/ALSA look like a sane design.
In Windows, video players will simply drop to software decoding if it can hardware decode, but in Linux, the video players try to hardware decode anyways, resulting in garbled video.
My nicest card is AMD, but my ancient Pentium 4 with a NV 8400 can DxVA more files... and it needs to.
I believe it was really the Tivozation rule of GPLv3 that forced FreeBSD to abandon GCC in their base. FreeBSD wanted to ensure that a specific version of GCC would be in their highly integrated base operating system. The FreeBSD base has no real comparable analogue in the Linux world, but its a system that is tested and designed to work together from the pseudocode to the final compiled product. GPLv3, with its Tivozation clause, however, made this tying together essentially illegal.
Also the BSDs have long since desired to remove GCC from their base system simply because it has a different license than the rest of the base. They attempted using PCC, but the code it produced was not optimized to a level comparable with GCC. clang/LLVM however, is both BSD licensed and produces well optimized code. Its also newer and cleaner code; sometimes rebuilding everything from scratch helps (though usually not).
Nothing uses your silly 1950s technology, since shortwave receivers are vastly more expensive than GPS receivers due to economy of scale, and also less accurate. Welcome to the 21st century.
The thing is GPS technology is in tons of random electronics. Since GPS satellites are essentially transmit their identification and an accurate time, GPS is used to keep time in everything from ATMs to our power grid to consumer "atomic" clocks.
Cellphones also use GPS signals to triangulate their position on earth, so that they can connect to the nearest tower with minimal power. This is more FCC doing its real job, protecting everyone from this interference shit.
I feel that nVidia uses the same drivers for all operating systems. The core doesn't change, it just has a wrapper to interface with X/DirectX/Quartz. They just update the core significantly once in a while, to the point it can't interface with older cards.
That's why the occasionally have huge issues.
College classes don't really teach you much; you have to read by yourself and do the homework to benefit. This isn't high school.
Also if a fucking screensaver distracts you, you have ADHD. Get some Adderall for yourself.
BSD's UNIX code was replaced in accordance to the terms of settlement of USL v BSDi. Though this case happened almost 17 years ago, so the patents in question are probably no longer enforceable.
Why don't they release it in the open standard PDF, with annotations for the handwritten notes, which I believe are in the in the standard. (I might be wrong.)
WiFi support will be slightly better in 8.0. They have support for the Intel 4965 at least. I don't enjoy compiling though, so I'll probably continue to use Archlinux.
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Most slashdot.org users including myself have screens that are at least 1280 pixels wide. Even you netbook users have 600 pixels. The New Yorker's website only use like 400 pixels, and leaves the rest to white space. THEY DON'T EVEN USE THE SPACE FOR ADS.
Unless they develop a mostly working implementation of Flash, I don't see any point choosing them over Mozilla or Opera or Konqueror. They can optimize the rest of the browsing components all they want, but Flash is now the weakest link in the components needed to view the web in all its glory. Though a new faster JavaScript engine is nice too.
Gaming usually better on Windows, since DirectX actually uses the new features on the GPUs where as Linux's OpenGL hasn't evolved quite as much, since it is primarily used in proprietary 3D CAD programs, which requires a stable codebase. The huge differences in between major DirectX versions does tend to screw up everything though.
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People with them are probably the first cyborgs.
This is the kind of research that creates Skynet. I don't want adaptive problem solving robots. I don't want to live in post-nuclear wasteland.
How interoperable are the European and American GPS systems?
Can = CAN'T
If you've ever lurked Doom9, you'll realize that AMD/ATi cards are very narrow in the types of AVC files they will accelerate, when compared to nVidia. And this is on the well supported and well funded Windows side.
They might have some support in the drivers, but Linux video acceleration is a clusterfuck, some really convoluted setup that makes PulseAudio/ALSA look like a sane design.
In Windows, video players will simply drop to software decoding if it can hardware decode, but in Linux, the video players try to hardware decode anyways, resulting in garbled video.
My nicest card is AMD, but my ancient Pentium 4 with a NV 8400 can DxVA more files... and it needs to.
I believe it was really the Tivozation rule of GPLv3 that forced FreeBSD to abandon GCC in their base. FreeBSD wanted to ensure that a specific version of GCC would be in their highly integrated base operating system. The FreeBSD base has no real comparable analogue in the Linux world, but its a system that is tested and designed to work together from the pseudocode to the final compiled product. GPLv3, with its Tivozation clause, however, made this tying together essentially illegal.
Also the BSDs have long since desired to remove GCC from their base system simply because it has a different license than the rest of the base. They attempted using PCC, but the code it produced was not optimized to a level comparable with GCC. clang/LLVM however, is both BSD licensed and produces well optimized code. Its also newer and cleaner code; sometimes rebuilding everything from scratch helps (though usually not).
Mainly... its often slower C/C++, so the simple presence of the Java icon makes both programmers and users exasperated and annoyed.
Secondly, people hate it the same reason colleges love it, it forces sane programming techniques, like Pascal did.
Thirdly, it is abstracted away from machine code, so you cannot understand what your algorithms do in assembly.
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Nothing uses your silly 1950s technology, since shortwave receivers are vastly more expensive than GPS receivers due to economy of scale, and also less accurate. Welcome to the 21st century.
No idea why ATMs need GPS, but... some went offline when the US Navy was playing with their jammer off the coast of San Diego, CA, USA. Link
The thing is GPS technology is in tons of random electronics. Since GPS satellites are essentially transmit their identification and an accurate time, GPS is used to keep time in everything from ATMs to our power grid to consumer "atomic" clocks.
Cellphones also use GPS signals to triangulate their position on earth, so that they can connect to the nearest tower with minimal power. This is more FCC doing its real job, protecting everyone from this interference shit.
I feel that nVidia uses the same drivers for all operating systems. The core doesn't change, it just has a wrapper to interface with X/DirectX/Quartz. They just update the core significantly once in a while, to the point it can't interface with older cards. That's why the occasionally have huge issues.
Pretty sure FreeNAS moved to Linux.
College classes don't really teach you much; you have to read by yourself and do the homework to benefit. This isn't high school. Also if a fucking screensaver distracts you, you have ADHD. Get some Adderall for yourself.
BSD's UNIX code was replaced in accordance to the terms of settlement of USL v BSDi. Though this case happened almost 17 years ago, so the patents in question are probably no longer enforceable.
... and not a single mention of the Pareto Principle.
It can also detect the spirochetes that cause syphillis, Treponema palladium.
Why don't they release it in the open standard PDF, with annotations for the handwritten notes, which I believe are in the in the standard. (I might be wrong.)
WiFi support will be slightly better in 8.0. They have support for the Intel 4965 at least. I don't enjoy compiling though, so I'll probably continue to use Archlinux.
Most slashdot.org users including myself have screens that are at least 1280 pixels wide. Even you netbook users have 600 pixels. The New Yorker's website only use like 400 pixels, and leaves the rest to white space. THEY DON'T EVEN USE THE SPACE FOR ADS.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a submarine. http://valleywag.com/tech/wealth/paul-allen-lives-in-a-yellow-submarine-276738.php A yellow submarine.
Unless they develop a mostly working implementation of Flash, I don't see any point choosing them over Mozilla or Opera or Konqueror. They can optimize the rest of the browsing components all they want, but Flash is now the weakest link in the components needed to view the web in all its glory. Though a new faster JavaScript engine is nice too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.N.T.I.S.
I wonder if this exoskeleton has Tasers installed, and allows the user's brain to interface with computers.
Why in the world would you want it to? KDE 3.5.7 FTW for now. KDE 4.4 maybe. Maybe.
Uhhh...... I was using 3.5.9 before I made the switch to 4.1. What distro are you using... Corel Linux?
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.9.php
Gaming usually better on Windows, since DirectX actually uses the new features on the GPUs where as Linux's OpenGL hasn't evolved quite as much, since it is primarily used in proprietary 3D CAD programs, which requires a stable codebase. The huge differences in between major DirectX versions does tend to screw up everything though.