I don't think WiFi companies will ever Open Source the drivers since this will allow *anyone* to change the chip's power and communication frequency; This ultimately allows *anyone* to listen on any frequency, including the military's.
Wow! I didn't realise that wireless cards included tuners capable of receiving a huge range of frequencies. You would think it would be infinitely easier to only include tuners that could receive the small range of frequencies they actually need.
Oh wait, that's what they do! You're just parroting industry bullshit! Or perhaps you think that the military use the unlicensed 2.4GHz band for their communications?
No, the range of frequencies a wireless card can Rx/Tx are ultimately limited by the tuner hardware. The firmware and drivers may impose stricter limitations, but even with those removed you're not getting far away from 2.4GHz. Although I have verified by experiment that all existing wireless hardware can absorb electromagnetic radiation in the 400-700nm range.
Soon we'll be able to build an anti-gravity machine like that in all the alien flying machines! Bring on the Element 115.
Yeah, yeah, everyone thinks these super-heavy elements are going to have incredible properties (based on pretty much no scientific evidence). I think it's going to be awesome when they're finally synthesised and tested and the announcement reads, "We found they were all pretty much like lead, except a bit heavier. Oh, and they generate anti-gravity. No, only joking about the anti-gravity."
This is by far the best driving game I've ever seen or experienced. If you live for driving games and have an HD display the free demo is worth the cost of a ps3. Nothing comes close. Keep up the good work Sony!
While you're here, do you have any tips on how I can get my parents to buy me a PSP?
If you are about to buy a AMD chip, ensure you buy a AM2 version, this is becuase non-AM2 versions do no support low level Hardware Virtualization (which means that XEN - and competitiors - can only operate in a paravirtualization mode)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and provide copious evidence since you're telling people how to spend their money), but isn't the current hardware virtualisation support in Intel and AMD chips generally considerably slower than paravirtualisation?
Short explanation, it doesn't virtualise everything. Long explanation, I can't be bothered with right now.
-I have clients that are going to love the way the Windows clock works now. They can jump around by month, year, or decade in seconds. Those little things are pretty cool.
Now, if only the decoders would make something of the spaghetti code (encrypted word/s) data of the war/tyranncy/sabotage/game/trauma (I don't know what it is exactly) in Iraq and give some real leadership to our country. And TIVO could gain some market share from civilians and insurgents who had watched YouTube: if Iraq achieves a good state of civility and there aren't any more stunts to video record on YouTube.
I'm curious. Was that an attempt at some kind of satire or were you intending to sound like a 14 year old cocksucker?
Oh, and if you really want to make a difference, the best way is to attempt suicide. Do it with a plastic bag but make sure you're found just before expiring. Far more money will be spent keeping your life support going then you will ever pay in taxes. And that's less money to put towards wars! Come on, don't be selfish you little prick!
I would just like to take the opportunity to state for posterity my sworn belief that Bram Cohen will never do anything else of note no matter how long he lives.
He will join the legions of people that came up with one brilliant invention and then spent the rest of their lives trying to come up with something to match it and failing in the most spectacular way.
See Clive Sinclair.
I don't have any evidence at all. I just have a very strong feeling about this.
No, actually that was the only reason that I started reading this article. Because I knew it would be full of angry Apple fanboys and there is no finer sight on this Earth.
It isn't that hard for someone to write a shell script that, oh say, spidered the USPTO for every patent microsoft has ever filed. I know for a fact that it is very possible, and out of the about 2000 of 5000 patents that I've seen downloaded from the database so far, I've seen some very frightening results. We're not simply talking patents on code, here people. It gets much much worse. Downright fucking scary even.
Congratulations on a very elaborate troll. I didn't actually look at any of your linked pictures, I can tell from your writing style.
Anyone who does waste the time will no doubt find that you have proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that MS hold a lot of patents. Some of them are for really obvious stuff that it is difficult to avoid infringing.
Well fucking done Einstein, do you think nobody knew that before?
Why don't you do the same thing for IBM patents? Maybe you can find their patent for "choosing menu items using a pointer controlled by a mouse". Or any of the other thousands that MS and everyone else infringe on.
Maybe you and your "friend" are genuinely trying to help, but are just retarded drama queens. I don't think so.
The information IS available to anyone with enough shell scripting know-how.
It's available to anyone that knows how to use a search engine, you stupid cock monkey.
PS. Software patents are only valid in the US. The developed World doesn't really give a shit.
I run a large academic server with Suse Linux. We will not re-new the license. We will not accept any updates from Novell/Suse as they are, in our opinion, contaminated with M$ code and are trojans for the Gate's monopoly.
Firstly, that's a lousy fucking poem. It doesn't even rhyme.
Secondly, what do you mean by a "large academic server"? Is it a) A box which serves large academics. b) A large box which serves normal sized academics. c) Something you made up to make you sound like a sysadmin when you are in fact a 14 year old virgin whose systems experience extends to both XBox and PS2.
The anti-Sony and PS3 crap that has littered Slashdot over the past year and a half has done absolutely nothing to change anyones mind.
No, probably not. After all there is an almost unlimited supply of corporate obsessed freaks who's happiness depends on the success/failure or a particular product.
But I'll tell you what has changed my mind. Yes, Mr Anonymous Sony Fanboy Troll - it's you! Previously I couldn't give a fuck which games system sold the most units any more than I cared which Barbie doll sold the best. But your well reasoned contributions have convinced me that every one who works for, or is in any way associated with, Sony must die a slow lingering death.
If you believe him switch to BSD, if you don't, sit back and enjoy the popcorn.
How exactly have you come to the conclusion that BSD doesn't infringe the same patents? I mean you do know what patents are don't you?
They're not saying that Linux contains copied Windows code. They're saying that the ways in which it does certain things may infringe on their patents. And if that's true you can bet that the patents will be so general that BSD infringes them too.
So did you base your FUD-laden statement on the certain knowledge that BSD does everything in a way that couldn't possibly infringe any of their patents (even though you don't know which patents he is talking about)? Or do you simply think that nobody gives enough of a fuck about BSD to try and stop it?
Performance in XGL/AIGLX is very nice though. In fact it ran smoother on an i810 than it did on my GeForce 5700. Try it if you don't believe me.
We know the performance of any Intel graphics chip will suck in games, but not everyone cares.
In fact, if you drew a Venn diagram containing two sets - a) people who use Linux and b) people who must get every last frame per second in the latest games, I don't think they'd overlap much. Actually I suspect it would look like a pair of breasts.
Also you're not taking into account the fact that you can buy the highest of high end ATI cards and the performance will still suck under Linux. Although ATI have made great strides in the area of making Linux drivers that might actually work, the performance has remained absolutely static throughout every release (generally one third to one half the performance under Windows). So much so, that one wonders if there is something funny going on. Go have a look at the ATI Linux driver reviews at Phoronix.com. They do comparative benchmarks from one release to the next, resulting in the flattest fucking bar graphs you ever will see. It must take real programming effort to so studiously avoid even minor perfomance improvements.
So in summary, fuck ATI and now that AMD have bought them, fuck them too. In fact I've just bought a C2D so I guess I probably have.
People who are not creative undervalue creativity. This is not surprising.
Yes, quite right - fuck those members of the uncreative underclass. I don't know how artistes like you can even stand to inhabit the same planet. We must all look forward to the day when the creatives take their rightful place at the top of society and keep those filthy Moorlocks in check.
And what do you do that's so creative? Oh, I see. You make fucking Lego "sculptures". Your ability to stick children's toys together into vaguely recognisable shapes surely buys you a lifetime membership of the intellectual elite. And I see we may soon get that Lego sculpture of Abston Bed & Breakfast that the Tate Gallery has been crying out for.
Fuck you and fuck your half assed elitist ideas. I only wish you could see yourself through the eyes of others.
Even if the EU were more economically powerful than it is, I doubt that it could afford option #2
Before assuming that the EU is a relatively insignificant part of Microsoft's market which they could easily do without, you may want to work out the total population of the EU. Then calculate what percentage of the developed World's population (i.e. the people who actually pay for expensive operating systems and office software) it makes up.
Of course, being American you will probably first want to find an atlas and work out what country the EU is in.
Believe it or not, processors [for instance] are not perfect and require patching or tweaking to work with given chipset combos (e.g. adjusting timing, turning on/off features, etc).
When you say patching you mean uploading microcode updates. This is always done by the OS, not the BIOS.
And when you say adjusting timing I can only assume that you mean DRAM timing. LinuxBIOS takes account of that. That's why a different version is required for each motherboard it supports.
I'd rather have a "slower" bios that detects my processors properly than a free bios that skips all that "junk".
LinuxBIOS is generally used in massive clusters. The project was started at Los Alamos. I suppose they must have much lower standards than you do.
But apart from your facts and opinions being a load of bollocks, I thought your post had a lot of merit.
I do hope you're right about all this. I really do.
Do you know why? Because it looks like you've been on Slashdot quite a while. And the thing is, you've rather gone out on a limb here. So I feel obliged to copy your comment and file it away.
And if in future it turns out that you're wrong, I'm afraid I'm going to have to post it as a reply to every comment you make. I imagine it will get quite annoying.
In the interests of full disclosure, I'd just like to say that I don't own a console, will never own a console and could not give the slightest shit which corporation sells the most units to the most consumers.
I do however enjoy humiliating people who show an inexplicable attraction to commercial entities.
See you soon, Slashcrap
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A lot of Slashdot users are bashing this company because it has created an expensive and sort of pointless product.
I'm bashing them because of the incredible waste of materials that would result if these actually sell (which of course they won't). Apart from all the crap that will end up in landfills, most people simply don't appreciate the amount of energy that goes into manufacturing the components in something like a BluRay player.
I'm not going to suggest that this kind of thing should be banned or in any way prevented.
It's just that I'd quite like it if a truly horrible accident befell the person who thought it up. Preferably something involving rats.
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I don't think WiFi companies will ever Open Source the drivers since this will allow *anyone* to change the chip's power and communication frequency; This ultimately allows *anyone* to listen on any frequency, including the military's.
Wow! I didn't realise that wireless cards included tuners capable of receiving a huge range of frequencies. You would think it would be infinitely easier to only include tuners that could receive the small range of frequencies they actually need.
Oh wait, that's what they do! You're just parroting industry bullshit! Or perhaps you think that the military use the unlicensed 2.4GHz band for their communications?
No, the range of frequencies a wireless card can Rx/Tx are ultimately limited by the tuner hardware. The firmware and drivers may impose stricter limitations, but even with those removed you're not getting far away from 2.4GHz. Although I have verified by experiment that all existing wireless hardware can absorb electromagnetic radiation in the 400-700nm range.
Soon we'll be able to build an anti-gravity machine like that in all the alien flying machines! Bring on the Element 115.
Yeah, yeah, everyone thinks these super-heavy elements are going to have incredible properties (based on pretty much no scientific evidence). I think it's going to be awesome when they're finally synthesised and tested and the announcement reads, "We found they were all pretty much like lead, except a bit heavier. Oh, and they generate anti-gravity. No, only joking about the anti-gravity."
This is by far the best driving game I've ever seen or experienced. If you live for driving games and have an HD display the free demo is worth the cost of a ps3. Nothing comes close. Keep up the good work Sony!
While you're here, do you have any tips on how I can get my parents to buy me a PSP?
Hooray! Microsoft has acknowledged the survivability of Linux! Who'd-a-thunk-it?
He then went on to say "But of course everyone knows we're a very shortsighted company".
Plus I've seen USB cables that could link two computers, as with a laplink or a crossover ethernet cable.
Which has nothing to do with the comment you're replying to since it's just a cable with a built-in host controller.
If you are about to buy a AMD chip, ensure you buy a AM2 version, this is becuase non-AM2 versions do no support low level Hardware Virtualization (which means that XEN - and competitiors - can only operate in a paravirtualization mode)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and provide copious evidence since you're telling people how to spend their money), but isn't the current hardware virtualisation support in Intel and AMD chips generally considerably slower than paravirtualisation?
Short explanation, it doesn't virtualise everything. Long explanation, I can't be bothered with right now.
Bleeding edge is fine, but there's got to be a reason.
It's been released so that people like you can run it because it sounds new and shiny, see no visible improvements and have their profile trashed.
Then they can whine about it in public forums totally oblivious to the fact that it's an ALPHA release for developers with warnings all over it.
Oh, and people that use the phrase "value-add" without irony should be sterilised for the good of humanity.
Look, it doesn't matter how cool this hack is or all the applications it opens up.
The fact is that the Wiimote is completely the wrong shade of white and doesn't even conform to the Apple human interface guidelines.
Frankly they should all be burnt.
-I have clients that are going to love the way the Windows clock works now. They can jump around by month, year, or decade in seconds. Those little things are pretty cool.
Scrape the bottom of the barrel much?
netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp
This was one of the first commands I ran after Vista installed, and the difference is noticable.
You could be a little bit more specific about what "noticeable" means. Was it good or bad?
I recently tried to reduce the MTU size on a server 6000 miles away via the following command :
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200
But I forgot to type the "mtu" part.
The difference was definitely noticeable. No, not in a good way.
Amazing what cryptanalysis can do!
Now, if only the decoders would make something of the spaghetti code (encrypted word/s) data of the war/tyranncy/sabotage/game/trauma (I don't know what it is exactly) in Iraq and give some real leadership to our country. And TIVO could gain some market share from civilians and insurgents who had watched YouTube: if Iraq achieves a good state of civility and there aren't any more stunts to video record on YouTube.
I'm curious. Was that an attempt at some kind of satire or were you intending to sound like a 14 year old cocksucker?
Oh, and if you really want to make a difference, the best way is to attempt suicide. Do it with a plastic bag but make sure you're found just before expiring. Far more money will be spent keeping your life support going then you will ever pay in taxes. And that's less money to put towards wars! Come on, don't be selfish you little prick!
I would just like to take the opportunity to state for posterity my sworn belief that Bram Cohen will never do anything else of note no matter how long he lives.
He will join the legions of people that came up with one brilliant invention and then spent the rest of their lives trying to come up with something to match it and failing in the most spectacular way.
See Clive Sinclair.
I don't have any evidence at all. I just have a very strong feeling about this.
"Despite the iFanboy jabber"
Did anybody else stop reading after that?
No, actually that was the only reason that I started reading this article. Because I knew it would be full of angry Apple fanboys and there is no finer sight on this Earth.
It isn't that hard for someone to write a shell script that, oh say, spidered the USPTO for every patent microsoft has ever filed. I know for a fact that it is very possible, and out of the about 2000 of 5000 patents that I've seen downloaded from the database so far, I've seen some very frightening results. We're not simply talking patents on code, here people. It gets much much worse. Downright fucking scary even.
Congratulations on a very elaborate troll. I didn't actually look at any of your linked pictures, I can tell from your writing style.
Anyone who does waste the time will no doubt find that you have proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that MS hold a lot of patents. Some of them are for really obvious stuff that it is difficult to avoid infringing.
Well fucking done Einstein, do you think nobody knew that before?
Why don't you do the same thing for IBM patents? Maybe you can find their patent for "choosing menu items using a pointer controlled by a mouse". Or any of the other thousands that MS and everyone else infringe on.
Maybe you and your "friend" are genuinely trying to help, but are just retarded drama queens. I don't think so.
The information IS available to anyone with enough shell scripting know-how.
It's available to anyone that knows how to use a search engine, you stupid cock monkey.
PS. Software patents are only valid in the US. The developed World doesn't really give a shit.
I run a large academic server with Suse Linux.
We will not re-new the license. We will not
accept any updates from Novell/Suse as they
are, in our opinion, contaminated with M$ code
and are trojans for the Gate's monopoly.
Firstly, that's a lousy fucking poem. It doesn't even rhyme.
Secondly, what do you mean by a "large academic server"? Is it
a) A box which serves large academics.
b) A large box which serves normal sized academics.
c) Something you made up to make you sound like a sysadmin when you are in fact a 14 year old virgin whose systems experience extends to both XBox and PS2.
The anti-Sony and PS3 crap that has littered Slashdot over the past year and a half has done absolutely nothing to change anyones mind.
No, probably not. After all there is an almost unlimited supply of corporate obsessed freaks who's happiness depends on the success/failure or a particular product.
But I'll tell you what has changed my mind. Yes, Mr Anonymous Sony Fanboy Troll - it's you! Previously I couldn't give a fuck which games system sold the most units any more than I cared which Barbie doll sold the best. But your well reasoned contributions have convinced me that every one who works for, or is in any way associated with, Sony must die a slow lingering death.
Do you get a bonus for that?
If you believe him switch to BSD, if you don't, sit back and enjoy the popcorn.
How exactly have you come to the conclusion that BSD doesn't infringe the same patents? I mean you do know what patents are don't you?
They're not saying that Linux contains copied Windows code. They're saying that the ways in which it does certain things may infringe on their patents. And if that's true you can bet that the patents will be so general that BSD infringes them too.
So did you base your FUD-laden statement on the certain knowledge that BSD does everything in a way that couldn't possibly infringe any of their patents (even though you don't know which patents he is talking about)? Or do you simply think that nobody gives enough of a fuck about BSD to try and stop it?
Too bad they suck.
Performance in XGL/AIGLX is very nice though. In fact it ran smoother on an i810 than it did on my GeForce 5700. Try it if you don't believe me.
We know the performance of any Intel graphics chip will suck in games, but not everyone cares.
In fact, if you drew a Venn diagram containing two sets - a) people who use Linux and b) people who must get every last frame per second in the latest games, I don't think they'd overlap much. Actually I suspect it would look like a pair of breasts.
Also you're not taking into account the fact that you can buy the highest of high end ATI cards and the performance will still suck under Linux. Although ATI have made great strides in the area of making Linux drivers that might actually work, the performance has remained absolutely static throughout every release (generally one third to one half the performance under Windows). So much so, that one wonders if there is something funny going on. Go have a look at the ATI Linux driver reviews at Phoronix.com. They do comparative benchmarks from one release to the next, resulting in the flattest fucking bar graphs you ever will see. It must take real programming effort to so studiously avoid even minor perfomance improvements.
So in summary, fuck ATI and now that AMD have bought them, fuck them too. In fact I've just bought a C2D so I guess I probably have.
People who are not creative undervalue creativity. This is not surprising.
Yes, quite right - fuck those members of the uncreative underclass. I don't know how artistes like you can even stand to inhabit the same planet. We must all look forward to the day when the creatives take their rightful place at the top of society and keep those filthy Moorlocks in check.
And what do you do that's so creative? Oh, I see. You make fucking Lego "sculptures". Your ability to stick children's toys together into vaguely recognisable shapes surely buys you a lifetime membership of the intellectual elite. And I see we may soon get that Lego sculpture of Abston Bed & Breakfast that the Tate Gallery has been crying out for.
Fuck you and fuck your half assed elitist ideas. I only wish you could see yourself through the eyes of others.
Even if the EU were more economically powerful than it is, I doubt that it could afford option #2
Before assuming that the EU is a relatively insignificant part of Microsoft's market which they could easily do without, you may want to work out the total population of the EU. Then calculate what percentage of the developed World's population (i.e. the people who actually pay for expensive operating systems and office software) it makes up.
Of course, being American you will probably first want to find an atlas and work out what country the EU is in.
Believe it or not, processors [for instance] are not perfect and require patching or tweaking to work with given chipset combos (e.g. adjusting timing, turning on/off features, etc).
When you say patching you mean uploading microcode updates. This is always done by the OS, not the BIOS.
And when you say adjusting timing I can only assume that you mean DRAM timing. LinuxBIOS takes account of that. That's why a different version is required for each motherboard it supports.
I'd rather have a "slower" bios that detects my processors properly than a free bios that skips all that "junk".
LinuxBIOS is generally used in massive clusters. The project was started at Los Alamos. I suppose they must have much lower standards than you do.
But apart from your facts and opinions being a load of bollocks, I thought your post had a lot of merit.
Dear Frobozz0,
I do hope you're right about all this. I really do.
Do you know why? Because it looks like you've been on Slashdot quite a while. And the thing is, you've rather gone out on a limb here. So I feel obliged to copy your comment and file it away.
And if in future it turns out that you're wrong, I'm afraid I'm going to have to post it as a reply to every comment you make. I imagine it will get quite annoying.
In the interests of full disclosure, I'd just like to say that I don't own a console, will never own a console and could not give the slightest shit which corporation sells the most units to the most consumers.
I do however enjoy humiliating people who show an inexplicable attraction to commercial entities.
See you soon,
Slashcrap
A lot of Slashdot users are bashing this company because it has created an expensive and sort of pointless product.
I'm bashing them because of the incredible waste of materials that would result if these actually sell (which of course they won't). Apart from all the crap that will end up in landfills, most people simply don't appreciate the amount of energy that goes into manufacturing the components in something like a BluRay player.
I'm not going to suggest that this kind of thing should be banned or in any way prevented.
It's just that I'd quite like it if a truly horrible accident befell the person who thought it up. Preferably something involving rats.
I have to be within a couple of feet of the balloon to pop it.
So the beam has spread significantly within a couple of feet? I'm no expert, but that sounds like a pretty lame product.
Your common laser pointers are less than 5 mW. This violet one is close to 200 mW.
Oh, so that's why my BluRay player keeps evaporating all my discs!
My apologies, I should have clarified... you know... little words, etc...
Dude, you don't need to apologise for me making fun of you.
I feel all guilty now.
Wait, was that some kind of reverse psychology shit? Have I just been trolled?
You sick bastard!
I kid, I kid.