I'll let you in on a secret. It's written in Python, so if you're a really advanced Ubuntu user you might not have to wait for Gutsy in order to run it.
I read many posts on this very forum explaining that it was due to calling home and DRM. Clearly this article is nothing more than a smokescreen.
See, what you're doing here is looking at a load of posts which were either jokes or humorous speculation and suggesting that they were stated as fact. Then you're using your deliberate misunderstanding to insinuate that Slashdot is being unfair to poor little Microsoft and making wild claims.
Of course, it's possible that you are simply unable to interpret other people's meanings and the lameness of your comment is entirely accidental. Maybe you're suffering from that Assburgers Syndrome that everyone on the Internet seems to have these days?
I'd budget $1M/year for a minimum of five years for full-time work on the Hurd. No, it isn't Linux but it is an alternative kernel with interesting features that is sadly stagnating.
No, it doesn't have interesting features. If it had interesting features it would not be stagnating and lacking in developers. OpenBSD is an alternative kernel with interesting features and that is why it has enough developers and support to be usable.
There are no end of unfinished OS projects with a couple of developers that move to a completely different kernel every six months and will never, ever be finished. I don't see how the Hurd stands out from them. I foresee your $5M funding nothing except a huge amount of meetings, committee decisions, politics and rewrites. You'd be better off selecting a random microkernel based OS project on Sourceforge and giving it to them. They might actually produce something.
I don't want to discourage anyone from working on the Hurd if they find it interesting, but giving them $5M and expecting something useful to come out is just ridiculous.
"Intel expects SSE4 optimizations to deliver performance improvements in video authoring, imaging, graphics, video search, off-chip accelerators, gaming and physics applications. Early benchmarks with an SSE4 optimized version of DivX 6.6 Alpha yielded a 116 percent performance improvement due to SSE4 optimizations." Not bad...
Also, Intel have introduced a new instruction for adding sixteen to fourteen and dividing the result by two (ADDFTNSTNDIV2). This has produced a performance increase of up to 12,000% in applications and benchmarks which mainly add sixteen to fourteen and divide the result by two.
The performance gains for more general applications are expected to be slightly lower, although Intel are not releasing any official benchmarks at this time.
All joking aside, DivX always shows massive performance improvements whenever Intel add some new SSE instructions. I can't help wondering if this has less to do with the efficacy of the new instructions and more to do with them not using the existing instructions very well. Let me know when Xvid/x264/FFMPEG release an SSE4 version that's twice as fast and I'll go out and buy one.
I know that I can't play the Oasis album "What's the story (Morning Glory)" on my main hifi as the compression sounds just too strange when played thru a proper amplifier and set of speakers.
Are you sure you don't just find it unlistenable because it's fucking shit?
PZ Meyers is correct, the book author is a crank. The suit is frivolous and doesn't deserve to pass an initial sniff test from a judge. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer prick. It's about time PZ Meyers got slapped for his galloping asshole-ness. The man's blog is dripping in scorn and insults. The quality of the posts and the discourse is no better than a bad old episode of CNN's Crossfire. PZ is a very intelligent man it's too bad he feels the need to dress up his intellect in childish invective.
That's the single most inexcusably incoherent paragraph I've ever read on Slashdot and quite possibly the whole Internet. I have read it several times and still do not have the faintest fucking idea whether you hate the litigant, hate the reviewer, hate both of them or are just utterly incapable of stating your opinions in a manner which meets even the most basic standards of clarity.
Have you considered writing a book about evolution?
It mentions 600-900mhz, is that per core or per total CPU? While 64 900mhz cores sounds nice, 900mhz made up of 64 14mhz cores is kinda pointless.
Each core runs at 600-900MHz. Nobody would release a CPU made of 64 cores at 14MHz and then claim that it was a 900MHz CPU. That is so retarded that even the most suicidal marketing department would balk at the idea.
Seems interesting, would be nice if it comes out at an affordable price.
If it does, it will be in quantities of 1000 or more. They're not going to sell you one.
The T1 was already doing 32, and the new T2 is supporting 256 in a single chip. Just wondering why "TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone", when the mile marker is already at 256?
Because this has 64 cores as opposed to 8 cores on either the T1 or T2?
Because the total number of threads supported by an 8 core T2 is 64 and not 256 as you wrote above?
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I think it's a good idea with one major caveat - when they setup their site, they must provide no way of posting semi-anonymous comments to videos.
I mean, just imagine doing this on YouTube. People would watch the video and be educated. Then they'd glance down at the comments and instantly become retarded. I believe that personally, I have lost at least 30 IQ points from accidentally reading YouTube comments.
It would be naive to assume that the same people won't shamble over to the new site and drool all over everything.
Simply block all changes that contain upside down question marks and prevent users signing up if they have more than five first names and three surnames.
and did away with the aging x86 instruction set and came up with something new.
Yeah, I know, Intel tried with Itanium.
They already did. I believe the 486 was the last CPU to run x86 instructions natively. Everything since the Pentium has decoded them to a RISC like ISA which can be changed every generation if desired. The only drawback is that a relatively small area of the chip needs to be dedicated to decoding x86 instructions to whatever the internal ISA is.
And guess what? One of the things that people dislike about x86 is the variable length instructions. Turns out that it actually leads to more compact code. And the speed gains from reduced cache usage more than make up for the effort and chip real estate expended on those decoders.
So let's stick with x86 for now, since the gains you foresee are either non-existent or tiny and are never, ever going to outweigh the drawbacks.
IMHO the networking stack is quite uninteresting. On the bottom, it's constrained by the networking protocols and network interfaces.
Yes, the Linux network stack has always been constrained by the fact that it has to handle networking.
I contributed a series of highly innovative patches that added 3D Graphics and AJAX support to the Linux TCP/IP stack. Were those kernel developers interested? Were they fuck.
Just another reason why Linux will continue to lag behind Windows and OSX in the innovation stakes.
The rumours of the death of *BSD systems are overblown and premature. The so called facts from the above "anonymous coward" are not facts at all but simply an opinion expressed by someone with an agenda.
When I see a BSD user being so defensive in response to one of the World's oldest and most obvious trolls, I can only draw one conclusion - BSD must be dying.
this post requires a "short sighted" mod. Its been out just a hair over a month... And the 3rd party app scene is already bustling. Just because you dont have an ounce of imagination or innovation in you doesnt mean that someone else couldn't look at the platform and devise a way to make it work, and work well.
Yes, that's right. It was Apple's imagination and innovation that caused them to lock down the iPhone to prevent 3rd Party apps being run on it.
Of course, I'm sure you would say that Apple applied only the most basic of protections so that they could appear to pay lip service to the demands of the big, bad cellphone companies while secretly hoping that it would be hacked asap. But you have to believe that don't you? The only alternative is the truth - that Apple lock down all of their stuff as tightly as they can in order to prevent any unsanctioned usage, but are really, really, ground breakingly shit at it. And you can hardly believe anything that suggests Apple aren't very good at something can you?
My Sparc Classic would takes minutes to establish an SSH2 connection. those big keys take a while, SSH1 was nice and fast. (50MHz no cache, no FPU)
Are you absolutely positive that it wasn't just trying to do a reverse DNS query for a host that didn't have a reverse DNS entry? That being the cause of multi-minute SSH logon delays in approximately 99.9999% of cases.
Which is more likely? That SSHv2 uses PKI algorithms so different to SSHv1 that it takes orders of magnitude more time to do the processing? Or that they made reverse DNS lookups the default in v2?
Keep OS X and just run linux in VMWare Fusion. OS X has its perks... if Apple releases firmware updates, you'll get them. If you're running linux, you won't.
A better solution is to run OSx86 (OSX hacked to run on non-Apple hardware) under VMWare on Linux :
I'm not saying it's necessarily technically better, but when you tell Mac zealots what you're doing a lot of them will get so angry that a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage becomes quite likely.
Why would you want to replace OS/X with Linux? Thats like replacing a shiny new Mercedez-Benz with a rebuilt Chevy.
It seems to me that the obvious benefit here would be the ability to run MacOSX apps without being identified with a community largely made up of smug cocksuckers.
I know a number of non-geeks who don't even know what Linux is, yet they will gladly confirm that they have no intention of buying a Mac, because Mac owners tend to be annoyingly smug and gay. Personally I think the whole Mac users = gay thing is extremely offensive and shouldn't be said. The suggestion that homosexuals are more likely than straight people to drink the Apple kool-aid is a terrible slur on an otherwise fine and upstanding group of people.
Also, car analogies suck so badly that daring to post one in 2007 actually makes me embarrassed for you. It's just inviting people to reply and say that the Mercedes would only run on Apple authorised roads and would have a battery that can't be replaced, while the Chevy is free, reliable, costs nothing to upgrade and doesn't come with a non-removable bumper sticker that says "Elitist Twat" in big letters.
Any thoughts from anyone on how DPI would affect encrypted traffic?
Mark it as encrypted traffic and give it the lowest possible priority on their network unless you pay extra for a business plan, or however else they choose to rape you.
Even minimal packet loss slows down normal TCP traffic pretty badly. The effect on VPN tunneled traffic is best described as catastrophic. It's that whole TCP on TCP problem (and no, using UDP encapsulation for the VPN traffic will not help).
Assuming it's adopted, the 40gb standard may be the first Ethernet standard to have widespread fraud in the capabilities of hardware sold. Lots of hardware will be built that can't even come close to actually getting 40 gigabits advertised. Why? Many motherboards still can't utilize the full 10gbps even if the card can.
And who exactly do you think is going to make a motherboard with a 40Gb Ethernet connection in the next 5 years? Are there any motherboard designers who were dropped on their heads as babies?
This standard is not being designed in order to lower your Quake 4 pings. It is for use on backbones served by extremely high-end routers and switches.
By the time it filters down to the consumer level, I'm sure your 96 core box with 128 lane UlatraPCI-e 4 slots will be more than capable of handling it.
I wonder if it has something to do with latency. Maybe the 40Gb connections are faster because they have a simpler routing protocol or they use smaller packet sizes with no CRC. I haven't been able to get through to the actual proposed spec yet, so it's hard to say...
As a general rule, Ethernet does not concern itself with routing protocols. It's to do with that whole "layering" thing you may have heard of. It's really quite popular in the world of networking.
And I would bet a whole lot of money that they aren't going to drop frame checksums from any new Ethernet standard either, unless they've taken to holding their meetings in the local crackhouse.
I don't know what percentage of Dell laptops might use broadcom wifi, but it would be nice for a big name to pressure them into making usable linux drivers.
It would be better for them to provide some financial support for the people developing the existing in-kernel OSS drivers for the Broadcom chipsets. It would be a lot easier to make those perfect than it would be to get any support from Broadcom.
They seem to be doing extremely well as it is for a reverse engineering project.
ATI has had proprietary linux drivers for quite some time now, and as somebody who's used them for about 4 years, I can say they've come a long was in terms of performance.
Are you sure you mean performance? Because the performance of their Linux drivers has remained absolutely static for the past two years at around 50% of their Windows drivers. Have a look at some of the Phoronix.com ATI year in review articles where they benchmark all of the releases from the last 12 months. You will never see a flatter set of graphs in your life. That has always seemed highly suspicious to me. Surely the performance should change a bit, even if it's just by accident?
If you mean that the performance has improved, in the sense that you can now get them to work the majority of the time, then I have no arguments.
The more a piece of software makes use of a certain OS's API and specific device control structure, the harder it is to make it portable. Everything to do with how the software interacts with the operating system, and optimizations made therein, have to be re-written, and linux has a very very different device node structure than windows!
My understanding is that the Nvidia proprietary OpenGL driver code is pretty much the same for Windows and Linux, with a relatively small compatibility layer that deals with the different kernels. What does the OS have to do other than provide DMA functions, do the PCI setup and generally just getting out of the way and letting the driver talk directly to the card? I'm betting that's orders of magnitude less code than the OpenGL part of the driver. And what exactly do device nodes have to do with it? Do you think the driver just pipes its output to/dev/agpgart and lets the kernel sort it all out?
I just sent an email to their people asking if they would be willing to do a live interview to clear some of the fraud questions up. We'll see how it goes I suppose. If they agree, I will get the interview up and posted on YouTube and UStream asap.
Thank you, random Internet guy! I see that you have a blog and I will therefore implicitly trust any material you produce. Make sure you put it on YouTube though, because it's impossible for anything fake to be posted there. The hordes of highly intelligent and intellectual YouTube comment writers would catch it immediately.
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Wait for Gutsy and use clive...
I'll let you in on a secret. It's written in Python, so if you're a really advanced Ubuntu user you might not have to wait for Gutsy in order to run it.
I read many posts on this very forum explaining that it was due to calling home and DRM. Clearly this article is nothing more than a smokescreen.
See, what you're doing here is looking at a load of posts which were either jokes or humorous speculation and suggesting that they were stated as fact. Then you're using your deliberate misunderstanding to insinuate that Slashdot is being unfair to poor little Microsoft and making wild claims.
Of course, it's possible that you are simply unable to interpret other people's meanings and the lameness of your comment is entirely accidental. Maybe you're suffering from that Assburgers Syndrome that everyone on the Internet seems to have these days?
I'd budget $1M/year for a minimum of five years for full-time work on the Hurd. No, it isn't Linux but it is an alternative kernel with interesting features that is sadly stagnating.
No, it doesn't have interesting features. If it had interesting features it would not be stagnating and lacking in developers. OpenBSD is an alternative kernel with interesting features and that is why it has enough developers and support to be usable.
There are no end of unfinished OS projects with a couple of developers that move to a completely different kernel every six months and will never, ever be finished. I don't see how the Hurd stands out from them. I foresee your $5M funding nothing except a huge amount of meetings, committee decisions, politics and rewrites. You'd be better off selecting a random microkernel based OS project on Sourceforge and giving it to them. They might actually produce something.
I don't want to discourage anyone from working on the Hurd if they find it interesting, but giving them $5M and expecting something useful to come out is just ridiculous.
"Intel expects SSE4 optimizations to deliver performance improvements in video authoring, imaging, graphics, video search, off-chip accelerators, gaming and physics applications. Early benchmarks with an SSE4 optimized version of DivX 6.6 Alpha yielded a 116 percent performance improvement due to SSE4 optimizations." Not bad...
Also, Intel have introduced a new instruction for adding sixteen to fourteen and dividing the result by two (ADDFTNSTNDIV2). This has produced a performance increase of up to 12,000% in applications and benchmarks which mainly add sixteen to fourteen and divide the result by two.
The performance gains for more general applications are expected to be slightly lower, although Intel are not releasing any official benchmarks at this time.
All joking aside, DivX always shows massive performance improvements whenever Intel add some new SSE instructions. I can't help wondering if this has less to do with the efficacy of the new instructions and more to do with them not using the existing instructions very well. Let me know when Xvid/x264/FFMPEG release an SSE4 version that's twice as fast and I'll go out and buy one.
I know that I can't play the Oasis album "What's the story (Morning Glory)" on my main hifi as the compression sounds just too strange when played thru a proper amplifier and set of speakers.
Are you sure you don't just find it unlistenable because it's fucking shit?
PZ Meyers is correct, the book author is a crank. The suit is frivolous and doesn't deserve to pass an initial sniff test from a judge. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer prick. It's about time PZ Meyers got slapped for his galloping asshole-ness. The man's blog is dripping in scorn and insults. The quality of the posts and the discourse is no better than a bad old episode of CNN's Crossfire. PZ is a very intelligent man it's too bad he feels the need to dress up his intellect in childish invective.
That's the single most inexcusably incoherent paragraph I've ever read on Slashdot and quite possibly the whole Internet. I have read it several times and still do not have the faintest fucking idea whether you hate the litigant, hate the reviewer, hate both of them or are just utterly incapable of stating your opinions in a manner which meets even the most basic standards of clarity.
Have you considered writing a book about evolution?
It mentions 600-900mhz, is that per core or per total CPU? While 64 900mhz cores sounds nice, 900mhz made up of 64 14mhz cores is kinda pointless.
Each core runs at 600-900MHz. Nobody would release a CPU made of 64 cores at 14MHz and then claim that it was a 900MHz CPU. That is so retarded that even the most suicidal marketing department would balk at the idea.
Seems interesting, would be nice if it comes out at an affordable price.
If it does, it will be in quantities of 1000 or more. They're not going to sell you one.
The T1 was already doing 32, and the new T2 is supporting 256 in a single chip. Just wondering why "TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone", when the mile marker is already at 256?
Because this has 64 cores as opposed to 8 cores on either the T1 or T2?
Because the total number of threads supported by an 8 core T2 is 64 and not 256 as you wrote above?
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Woodchip likes to dress up in women's clothes and spends approximately 90% of his waking hours searching for furry porn on other people's DeviantArt pages.
Hope you like the new version!
PS. I don't drink.
I think it's a good idea with one major caveat - when they setup their site, they must provide no way of posting semi-anonymous comments to videos.
I mean, just imagine doing this on YouTube. People would watch the video and be educated. Then they'd glance down at the comments and instantly become retarded. I believe that personally, I have lost at least 30 IQ points from accidentally reading YouTube comments.
It would be naive to assume that the same people won't shamble over to the new site and drool all over everything.
Simply block all changes that contain upside down question marks and prevent users signing up if they have more than five first names and three surnames.
Except on the Spanish version, obviously.
and did away with the aging x86 instruction set and came up with something new.
Yeah, I know, Intel tried with Itanium.
They already did. I believe the 486 was the last CPU to run x86 instructions natively. Everything since the Pentium has decoded them to a RISC like ISA which can be changed every generation if desired. The only drawback is that a relatively small area of the chip needs to be dedicated to decoding x86 instructions to whatever the internal ISA is.
And guess what? One of the things that people dislike about x86 is the variable length instructions. Turns out that it actually leads to more compact code. And the speed gains from reduced cache usage more than make up for the effort and chip real estate expended on those decoders.
So let's stick with x86 for now, since the gains you foresee are either non-existent or tiny and are never, ever going to outweigh the drawbacks.
IMHO the networking stack is quite uninteresting. On the bottom, it's constrained by the networking protocols and network interfaces.
Yes, the Linux network stack has always been constrained by the fact that it has to handle networking.
I contributed a series of highly innovative patches that added 3D Graphics and AJAX support to the Linux TCP/IP stack. Were those kernel developers interested? Were they fuck.
Just another reason why Linux will continue to lag behind Windows and OSX in the innovation stakes.
The rumours of the death of *BSD systems are overblown and premature. The so called facts from the above "anonymous coward" are not facts at all but simply an opinion expressed by someone with an agenda.
When I see a BSD user being so defensive in response to one of the World's oldest and most obvious trolls, I can only draw one conclusion - BSD must be dying.
this post requires a "short sighted" mod. Its been out just a hair over a month ... And the 3rd party app scene is already bustling. Just because you dont have an ounce of imagination or innovation in you doesnt mean that someone else couldn't look at the platform and devise a way to make it work, and work well.
Yes, that's right. It was Apple's imagination and innovation that caused them to lock down the iPhone to prevent 3rd Party apps being run on it.
Of course, I'm sure you would say that Apple applied only the most basic of protections so that they could appear to pay lip service to the demands of the big, bad cellphone companies while secretly hoping that it would be hacked asap. But you have to believe that don't you? The only alternative is the truth - that Apple lock down all of their stuff as tightly as they can in order to prevent any unsanctioned usage, but are really, really, ground breakingly shit at it. And you can hardly believe anything that suggests Apple aren't very good at something can you?
My Sparc Classic would takes minutes to establish an SSH2 connection. those big keys take a while, SSH1 was nice and fast. (50MHz no cache, no FPU)
Are you absolutely positive that it wasn't just trying to do a reverse DNS query for a host that didn't have a reverse DNS entry? That being the cause of multi-minute SSH logon delays in approximately 99.9999% of cases.
Which is more likely? That SSHv2 uses PKI algorithms so different to SSHv1 that it takes orders of magnitude more time to do the processing? Or that they made reverse DNS lookups the default in v2?
Keep OS X and just run linux in VMWare Fusion. OS X has its perks... if Apple releases firmware updates, you'll get them. If you're running linux, you won't.
P age
A better solution is to run OSx86 (OSX hacked to run on non-Apple hardware) under VMWare on Linux :
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_
I'm not saying it's necessarily technically better, but when you tell Mac zealots what you're doing a lot of them will get so angry that a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage becomes quite likely.
Can I have a +5 Informative Troll, please?
Why would you want to replace OS/X with Linux? Thats like replacing a shiny new Mercedez-Benz with a rebuilt Chevy.
It seems to me that the obvious benefit here would be the ability to run MacOSX apps without being identified with a community largely made up of smug cocksuckers.
I know a number of non-geeks who don't even know what Linux is, yet they will gladly confirm that they have no intention of buying a Mac, because Mac owners tend to be annoyingly smug and gay. Personally I think the whole Mac users = gay thing is extremely offensive and shouldn't be said. The suggestion that homosexuals are more likely than straight people to drink the Apple kool-aid is a terrible slur on an otherwise fine and upstanding group of people.
Also, car analogies suck so badly that daring to post one in 2007 actually makes me embarrassed for you. It's just inviting people to reply and say that the Mercedes would only run on Apple authorised roads and would have a battery that can't be replaced, while the Chevy is free, reliable, costs nothing to upgrade and doesn't come with a non-removable bumper sticker that says "Elitist Twat" in big letters.
Any thoughts from anyone on how DPI would affect encrypted traffic?
Mark it as encrypted traffic and give it the lowest possible priority on their network unless you pay extra for a business plan, or however else they choose to rape you.
Even minimal packet loss slows down normal TCP traffic pretty badly. The effect on VPN tunneled traffic is best described as catastrophic. It's that whole TCP on TCP problem (and no, using UDP encapsulation for the VPN traffic will not help).
Assuming it's adopted, the 40gb standard may be the first Ethernet standard to have widespread fraud in the capabilities of hardware sold. Lots of hardware will be built that can't even come close to actually getting 40 gigabits advertised. Why? Many motherboards still can't utilize the full 10gbps even if the card can.
And who exactly do you think is going to make a motherboard with a 40Gb Ethernet connection in the next 5 years? Are there any motherboard designers who were dropped on their heads as babies?
This standard is not being designed in order to lower your Quake 4 pings. It is for use on backbones served by extremely high-end routers and switches.
By the time it filters down to the consumer level, I'm sure your 96 core box with 128 lane UlatraPCI-e 4 slots will be more than capable of handling it.
I wonder if it has something to do with latency. Maybe the 40Gb connections are faster because they have a simpler routing protocol or they use smaller packet sizes with no CRC. I haven't been able to get through to the actual proposed spec yet, so it's hard to say...
As a general rule, Ethernet does not concern itself with routing protocols. It's to do with that whole "layering" thing you may have heard of. It's really quite popular in the world of networking.
And I would bet a whole lot of money that they aren't going to drop frame checksums from any new Ethernet standard either, unless they've taken to holding their meetings in the local crackhouse.
I don't know what percentage of Dell laptops might use broadcom wifi, but it would be nice for a big name to pressure them into making usable linux drivers.
It would be better for them to provide some financial support for the people developing the existing in-kernel OSS drivers for the Broadcom chipsets. It would be a lot easier to make those perfect than it would be to get any support from Broadcom.
They seem to be doing extremely well as it is for a reverse engineering project.
ATI has had proprietary linux drivers for quite some time now, and as somebody who's used them for about 4 years, I can say they've come a long was in terms of performance.
/dev/agpgart and lets the kernel sort it all out?
Are you sure you mean performance? Because the performance of their Linux drivers has remained absolutely static for the past two years at around 50% of their Windows drivers. Have a look at some of the Phoronix.com ATI year in review articles where they benchmark all of the releases from the last 12 months. You will never see a flatter set of graphs in your life. That has always seemed highly suspicious to me. Surely the performance should change a bit, even if it's just by accident?
If you mean that the performance has improved, in the sense that you can now get them to work the majority of the time, then I have no arguments.
The more a piece of software makes use of a certain OS's API and specific device control structure, the harder it is to make it portable. Everything to do with how the software interacts with the operating system, and optimizations made therein, have to be re-written, and linux has a very very different device node structure than windows!
My understanding is that the Nvidia proprietary OpenGL driver code is pretty much the same for Windows and Linux, with a relatively small compatibility layer that deals with the different kernels. What does the OS have to do other than provide DMA functions, do the PCI setup and generally just getting out of the way and letting the driver talk directly to the card? I'm betting that's orders of magnitude less code than the OpenGL part of the driver. And what exactly do device nodes have to do with it? Do you think the driver just pipes its output to
I suspect that any money you spend on this scam will go towards buying crank and high class prostitutes for the CEO.
I just sent an email to their people asking if they would be willing to do a live interview to clear some of the fraud questions up. We'll see how it goes I suppose. If they agree, I will get the interview up and posted on YouTube and UStream asap.
Thank you, random Internet guy! I see that you have a blog and I will therefore implicitly trust any material you produce. Make sure you put it on YouTube though, because it's impossible for anything fake to be posted there. The hordes of highly intelligent and intellectual YouTube comment writers would catch it immediately.