Indeed, a complete license breakdown would be interesting. But to hazard some guesses...
If you're using open source software, you're probably plugging in various libraries into your app for certain functionality. So most people (myself) included are using LGPL licensed libraries. Then there's zlib's license, which if nothing else is because of the sheer number of people who use, well, zlib. I don't know of too many libraries which use a BSD license, though there are a few which use MIT. There's also Apache, but not many take that either. And yes, there's also GPL, which due to it's happily infectious nature, is probably nto used that much.
The breakdown for the top is probably LGPL on top, then zlib. After that, well, it's hard to say.
So, it seems to me that the problem is that this Chris Pirillo idiot defines consistent, functional, and efficient user interfaces as "Ugly, Boring, & Uninspired".
Maybe he's right. A real man's computer consists of hundreds of tiny little fragments, each of which behaves completely differently and shows no relation or connection to any other fragment. Now that's innovation.
I don't think AMD is planning to win that much. We all know perfectly well (*cough* MS) that anti trust suits don't do anything. I think AMD wants the world to sit up and take notice that they're being squashed, despite their better technology.
In short, they should probably just fire their entire marketing department; the lawyers are doing a better job.
No, it won't. This is for AMD and AMD alone. The barriers to entry are just too high in the x86 market, not because of fab capability but because of IP. AMD and Intel have put fantastic amounts of cash into making up for the failures of the x86 ISA and creating some truly fabulous chips. Any company looking to enter the market now would be years and years behind (even AMD's early designs come from Intel, though that's early history). Via and Transmeta are dying...Via still lives only because its Eden and C3 lines consume very little power relative to the AMD and Intel offerings. Transmeta has nothing to show for itself.
From what I gather, the XBox 360 controllers recharge via USB when you plug them into the console. Presumably PS3 would adopt something similar...it's only the single most obvious thing to do.
It's about damned time that AMD show down Intel's evil empire. AMD's Athlon64 is far superior to P4, they've got the fab capabilities to begin supplying OEMs, and after their new fab is done they'll be ready for the big time. All that stands in their way is Intel's anti competitive practices. I mean, Intel has been known to set pricing on Intel chips based on how many AMD chips your company purchases.
As it turns out, IBM never contributed more than 5% of its fab capabilities to Apple G5s. So, it was not that IBM could not keep up, it was that IBM would not keep up. In short, IBM told Apple to go fuck themselves, and Apple left.
They could try, FieryTrademarkLaw. Or FireFucked. Or FireGenericUnusedAnimal. Or even FireTrademarksSuck. FTS for short. "FTS" really rolls off the tongue just right...
IEBlog on PNG transparency
"The modifications to IE's image pipeline were required because transparency in IE has historically only included palette based transparency or binary transparency. The data structures and image formats necessary to pass around more complex transparency information were not available. Adding this information to the pipeline involved touching how all of the image decoders worked and were displayed. Additionally, functionality to perform the alpha blending needed to be hooked in."
Remember that IE6 is feature frozen right now, and is in a state of security fixes only. All of the new stuff is going into IE7.
TBH though, I don't see the hype. So, it runs Linux, and does absolutely nothing useful. Big freaking deal. Lots of geek points, yes, but minus several million engineer points in the practicality department?
"The idea of open-source software is an amazing one. The fact that Linux isn't much of a commercialized operating system, and you can accomplish day-to-day tasks without too many hassles is an advantage in itself. The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that."
If it was that bloody easy, Linux would've taken over long ago. Poor, poor fools, "Free as in freedom" just doesn't matter to people, so get over it and actually fix the things that are still wrong with Linux.
I don't care. My custom built desktop has more capabilities than a laptop anywhere close to the same price. If you want a less capable, but light and portable laptop, that's all well and good, but screw the rip off "desktop replacement" laptops.
Of course, I did happen to notice this site, Coboc. Basically, DIY laptops. Pretty damn tempting...
I don't get it. If you wanted a low power system, why would you buy the top chip and underclock it?
The Athlon64 4000+ is a Hammer chip, iirc. It's manufactured on a 0.13nm process, and is a slightly older core. Instead of using that chip, why not use the Athlon 3800+? The Winchester and Venice cores are both 0.09nm chips, and run much, much cooler and dissipate much less heat than the Hammer cores. And you can use AMD's Cool n Quiet (aka PowerNow) technology to back off the processor speed to half speed automatically, when the processor isn't seeing heavy use. Coupled with a utility like RMClock on windows or a custom written utility on Linux (if your 2.6 kernel has the necessary options enabled, you simply have to write to some files in/sys), you can undervolt the chip even more than AMD's driver allows. My Athlon64 3200+ spends most of its time at 1 volt, 1 GHz, and it runs at ambient temperature. That's right, the heat generated is so little that on a stock cooler, the processor does not raise its own temperature significantly. And if a 3800+ with CnQ is too powerful, you can back down to the 3500, 3200, or 3000 models, depending on your exact needs.
Problem solved, and without several pages of blathering about underclocking.
This is a great achievement, a real milestone in the progress of computing.
There's also another research team out in california, studying whether or not slashdot editors are capable of posting a story without simply recopying the first couple lines of the article verbatim. Unfortunately, there has been no progress, and it's believed that they may be working towards a dead end.
As usual, the title of a slashdot article has no relevant whatsoever to the article's content. The article is called "Basics of Modern Intel CPUs", which suggests an informative doc about modern x86 architecture, discussing superscalar out-of-order multiple dispatch execution cores, the differences between the Prescott (Pentium 4) and Dothan (Pentium M) pipelines, how things like double pumped ALUs function, and so forth.
Instead, I'm sent to this mediocre and decent but altogether unremarkable document describing 4 sockets used by Intel chips. Thanks guys. Can't wait till an article on how to recognize PCI vs AGP vs PCI-E comes out, and you name it "Basics of modern GPUs".
It's interesting that they're doing this. I've been playing with OOo 2.0 beta lately, both under windows and *nix. I'm an Office user, but a home user, not a power user (I'm not a business dealing in several hundred page docs, I just do my homework). And I basically can't see any particular difference between the two packages. I have Office 2000, and so I'm using it, but I'd probably be perfectly comfortable using only OOo (2.0, I hate 1.1)
Anyway, my point is that MS is making it clear that they're not threatened by competing packages, and I'm not entirely sure why not. OOo could easily replace Office for many (I hesitate to say most) users, and if we switch to totally open formats, they'll be able to interoperate without any difficulties. I'm not trying to say that OOo is in a position to hurt Office...but I'm curious if it might be. MS doesn't seem to think so, and I'm really, really wondering what makes them so nonchalant.
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Indeed, a complete license breakdown would be interesting. But to hazard some guesses... If you're using open source software, you're probably plugging in various libraries into your app for certain functionality. So most people (myself) included are using LGPL licensed libraries. Then there's zlib's license, which if nothing else is because of the sheer number of people who use, well, zlib. I don't know of too many libraries which use a BSD license, though there are a few which use MIT. There's also Apache, but not many take that either. And yes, there's also GPL, which due to it's happily infectious nature, is probably nto used that much. The breakdown for the top is probably LGPL on top, then zlib. After that, well, it's hard to say.
Wait wait wait wait wait...
You mean the discounts Intel is being sued for?
So, it seems to me that the problem is that this Chris Pirillo idiot defines consistent, functional, and efficient user interfaces as "Ugly, Boring, & Uninspired".
Maybe he's right. A real man's computer consists of hundreds of tiny little fragments, each of which behaves completely differently and shows no relation or connection to any other fragment. Now that's innovation.
Why would a casual gamer pay $10 a month to play a game?
That makes no sense at all.
Another day, another court case.
I just...stopped caring months ago. Everybody knows it'll end in nothing happening at all. The only people who walk away happy are the lawyers.
I don't think AMD is planning to win that much. We all know perfectly well (*cough* MS) that anti trust suits don't do anything. I think AMD wants the world to sit up and take notice that they're being squashed, despite their better technology.
In short, they should probably just fire their entire marketing department; the lawyers are doing a better job.
No, it won't. This is for AMD and AMD alone. The barriers to entry are just too high in the x86 market, not because of fab capability but because of IP. AMD and Intel have put fantastic amounts of cash into making up for the failures of the x86 ISA and creating some truly fabulous chips. Any company looking to enter the market now would be years and years behind (even AMD's early designs come from Intel, though that's early history). Via and Transmeta are dying...Via still lives only because its Eden and C3 lines consume very little power relative to the AMD and Intel offerings. Transmeta has nothing to show for itself.
Based on conversations with some friends with access to the XBox 360 dev kits, the compilers are currently...not so good.
From what I gather, the XBox 360 controllers recharge via USB when you plug them into the console. Presumably PS3 would adopt something similar...it's only the single most obvious thing to do.
I still swear by dual shock 2, although I really really like my thrustmaster PC controller. The rubber grips are especially nice.
It's about damned time that AMD show down Intel's evil empire. AMD's Athlon64 is far superior to P4, they've got the fab capabilities to begin supplying OEMs, and after their new fab is done they'll be ready for the big time. All that stands in their way is Intel's anti competitive practices. I mean, Intel has been known to set pricing on Intel chips based on how many AMD chips your company purchases.
Maybe Yahoo and Google should just merge and get it over with.
Fuck Slashdot.
Allow me to be the first to say...
That freaking kicks ass.
As it turns out, IBM never contributed more than 5% of its fab capabilities to Apple G5s. So, it was not that IBM could not keep up, it was that IBM would not keep up. In short, IBM told Apple to go fuck themselves, and Apple left.
They could try, FieryTrademarkLaw. Or FireFucked. Or FireGenericUnusedAnimal. Or even FireTrademarksSuck. FTS for short. "FTS" really rolls off the tongue just right...
Typical slashdot ignorant idiot.
IEBlog on PNG transparency
"The modifications to IE's image pipeline were required because transparency in IE has historically only included palette based transparency or binary transparency. The data structures and image formats necessary to pass around more complex transparency information were not available. Adding this information to the pipeline involved touching how all of the image decoders worked and were displayed. Additionally, functionality to perform the alpha blending needed to be hooked in."
Remember that IE6 is feature frozen right now, and is in a state of security fixes only. All of the new stuff is going into IE7.
You can also install it on a dead badger.
TBH though, I don't see the hype. So, it runs Linux, and does absolutely nothing useful. Big freaking deal. Lots of geek points, yes, but minus several million engineer points in the practicality department?
"The idea of open-source software is an amazing one. The fact that Linux isn't much of a commercialized operating system, and you can accomplish day-to-day tasks without too many hassles is an advantage in itself. The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that."
If it was that bloody easy, Linux would've taken over long ago. Poor, poor fools, "Free as in freedom" just doesn't matter to people, so get over it and actually fix the things that are still wrong with Linux.
According to the link on his name, he's a contributor to XEmacs and Moz.
An XEmacs contributor switches to a more useful system. I love the irony.
I don't care. My custom built desktop has more capabilities than a laptop anywhere close to the same price. If you want a less capable, but light and portable laptop, that's all well and good, but screw the rip off "desktop replacement" laptops.
Of course, I did happen to notice this site, Coboc. Basically, DIY laptops. Pretty damn tempting...
I don't get it. If you wanted a low power system, why would you buy the top chip and underclock it?
/sys), you can undervolt the chip even more than AMD's driver allows. My Athlon64 3200+ spends most of its time at 1 volt, 1 GHz, and it runs at ambient temperature. That's right, the heat generated is so little that on a stock cooler, the processor does not raise its own temperature significantly. And if a 3800+ with CnQ is too powerful, you can back down to the 3500, 3200, or 3000 models, depending on your exact needs.
The Athlon64 4000+ is a Hammer chip, iirc. It's manufactured on a 0.13nm process, and is a slightly older core. Instead of using that chip, why not use the Athlon 3800+? The Winchester and Venice cores are both 0.09nm chips, and run much, much cooler and dissipate much less heat than the Hammer cores. And you can use AMD's Cool n Quiet (aka PowerNow) technology to back off the processor speed to half speed automatically, when the processor isn't seeing heavy use. Coupled with a utility like RMClock on windows or a custom written utility on Linux (if your 2.6 kernel has the necessary options enabled, you simply have to write to some files in
Problem solved, and without several pages of blathering about underclocking.
This is a great achievement, a real milestone in the progress of computing.
There's also another research team out in california, studying whether or not slashdot editors are capable of posting a story without simply recopying the first couple lines of the article verbatim. Unfortunately, there has been no progress, and it's believed that they may be working towards a dead end.
In other news...
As usual, the title of a slashdot article has no relevant whatsoever to the article's content. The article is called "Basics of Modern Intel CPUs", which suggests an informative doc about modern x86 architecture, discussing superscalar out-of-order multiple dispatch execution cores, the differences between the Prescott (Pentium 4) and Dothan (Pentium M) pipelines, how things like double pumped ALUs function, and so forth.
Instead, I'm sent to this mediocre and decent but altogether unremarkable document describing 4 sockets used by Intel chips. Thanks guys. Can't wait till an article on how to recognize PCI vs AGP vs PCI-E comes out, and you name it "Basics of modern GPUs".
It's interesting that they're doing this. I've been playing with OOo 2.0 beta lately, both under windows and *nix. I'm an Office user, but a home user, not a power user (I'm not a business dealing in several hundred page docs, I just do my homework). And I basically can't see any particular difference between the two packages. I have Office 2000, and so I'm using it, but I'd probably be perfectly comfortable using only OOo (2.0, I hate 1.1)
Anyway, my point is that MS is making it clear that they're not threatened by competing packages, and I'm not entirely sure why not. OOo could easily replace Office for many (I hesitate to say most) users, and if we switch to totally open formats, they'll be able to interoperate without any difficulties. I'm not trying to say that OOo is in a position to hurt Office...but I'm curious if it might be. MS doesn't seem to think so, and I'm really, really wondering what makes them so nonchalant.