You're just being short sighted if you don't consider smart-phones and tablet devices to be computer equipment.
Before the iphone, nobody would have considered a non-user-programmable phone a smart-phone, same thing with pda's, tablets etc
no, these things have general purpose input capabilities, general purpose programs and installable 3rd party applications
Without jailbreaking? or requiring cash for the apple development kit and abiding by their rules? apple has set back general purpose computing more than any other company, what they are great at, is making 'appliances'.
The rest of the time is spent doing transforms, running shaders, doing depth testing, etc,
and what do you think those transforms are being done on? large arrays of numbers stored in gpu memory
There once was a time when main memory to GPU memory was a serious throttle, but those days died around AGP 4x and haven't returned.
Ah, this is where the misunderstanding would hvae been, he was likely talking about gpu to gpu memory bandwidth
but the latencies negate any speed gain, same as for processor memory.
The advantage most gpu's have is their memory access patterns are very linear, they already know what they'll be working on next before they're finished what they're doing, so while they're working on what they are they can chuck the next address on the bus so when they're done they have new data.
Yes, however the cheap laser printers while better than cheap inkjets, are worse value for money than the more expensive ones.
I picked up one of these and could not be happier, i have no doubts that the machine will probably last me a decade or more, with proper maintenance.
Yes the price is a little steep $2400AUD, like $2200USD. However it's a true postscript network printer that you'd likely never have to worry about again
This is more a thing of ubuntu than ext4, fedora has been running ext4 for years without issue, granted this is anecdotal with a small sample size of about 20 machines with constant use during that time.
I have a 42U high rack in my room (sane people would put it in the garage) with various hardware in it. Of noteworthyness is the antex 4u22atx case, can fit seven hard drives in it, most motherboards I see only have six or so sata connectors anyway.
Assuming 1.5tb drives, that's 9tb right there. Want more space? add more units and use one of the many clustered filesystems available on linux. Scales up to 100tb easily, well excepting that you'd need more than one power circuit for it all before you even manage to fill the rack.
What I don't understand is how Ubuntu (or OEMs) could take a GNU/Linux base, add non-free and patented components, and sell the result as a unit.
Doesn't the GPL prevent this?
Not at all, so long as they provide source for all the gpl licensed things, people are free to write commercial software for linux just fine.
Using linux syscalls does not make a program gpl, linking to a gpl library does, but that's what the lgpl is for and why most libraries are under the lgpl.
A lot of hardcore FOSS advocates want everything to go open source, but they refuse to see things as they are.
There are open source implementations of h264 just fine, open source is not the issue. Patents are. Patents on software are basically patents on math, and patents on ideas. Which completely corrupted the very concept of patents (designed to be only given on implementations of ideas.. in this instance already covered by copyright).
There are many oss advocates out there that wany everything they use to be oss, but really don't give a crap about software patents. Since if every company followed them, the industry as it is would be destroyed.
or fork Ubuntu(I already see a 'pure' version happening anyway)
What, and wind up with debian unstable like what ubuntu has before it adds proprietary crap? seems rather superfluous. All of the serious innovation happens in fedora first anyway (early adopters get the bugs though).
The biggest one is claiming that Flash is a closed standard - Flash as a standard is open, $free, and Free.
Yes they have released specs, but they are nowhere near detailed enough for a decent actual implementation, if they were gnash wouldn't have to reverse engineer most of the stuff they do.
Letting the users decide is the best option, what's that? the users can't decide because of apple, of course they can, they aren't forced to buy the product. Their own stupid fault if they buy something so locked down and don't like it.
As far as stallman is concerned, it is still another choice, just one that doesn't make sense from the freedom perspective.
like getting out of your car when you have been instructed not to
By the signs that are everywhere? Something tells me if he knew that it was a bad thing and was going to get his ass kicked he wouldn't have done it. More likely something like this occurred, but with obviously worse results.
Your military friend was likely flagged as military when tickets were purchased/obtained,
This would also explain why on average I get searched every second flight, silly me had assumed it was illegal or some such to target people specifically in 'random' searches, and that it was just suspect looking young males getting picked out by a guy.
If you take actions that reasonably would be perceived as a threat, it does not matter if you are non-violent.
I have an example of a situation where by your logic a person should have been beaten to a pulp, and wasn't.
A friend (in the military) was travelling by air interstate when subjected to a random bag scan by the explosive detectors. Having taken that bag to the range it of course went off.
What occurred was he was taken off for questioning, and released after everything was checked into, total loss of two hours of time, no physical altercations, etc. I'm guessing having explosives detectors go off at an airport would constitute a 'threat' in your eyes? keeping a cool mind while maintaining control of a situation is better than doing something stupid the first moment something strikes you as out of whack.
Put yourself in the officer's shoes.
If I was an officer, why would I want to engage in physical violence where there is no need?
Appears I missed the 'it is sad' part, but read all else, my mistake, makes you not like it but yet you still endorse it, odd.
For the second point, police officers do not need to wait until someone takes action against them.
So it is acceptable then to use force/pepper spray/taser on otherwise peaceful people? This is what I had issue with. If a person is calm, non violent and not running away, how can force be justified?
It promotes the mindset of 'beat up first, oh shit, sorry guy' which seems fine and dandy to you, oh well, perhaps some day you will be subjected to it yourself.
Getting beaten up for stepping out of your car comes under this same guise, if he was running away restraint could be justified, but a beating for stepping out of a car? come on.
That you find this acceptable anywhere at any time 'as a precaution' speaks volumes about you more than anything else.
Society has changed. People used to respect police officers, and the risk to an officer used to be much lower.
It's still less dangerous than being a construction worker or cabbie, what effective police need to do is maintain control of the situation without resorting to physical violence. Any point where it devolves into violence where none is shown by another party is a failure on the police officers behalf.
I think what you mean is. "He has been found guilty" yes it is a small difference, but it changes semantics completely. You or I cannot be completely sure on the matter because the fact is we were not directly involved.
The prior poster did have a point, but he didn't express what he meant terribly well, yes your prior response to him was accurate, however irrelevant to the point he was trying (and likely failed) to convey.
People who are found guilty get put in jail, and are termed criminals, but being found guilty and actually being guilty are two separate things, there is still the possibility (however likely or unlikely) that he is not. To say that he deserves to be in jail while there is still the possibility of him being not guilty is what the prior poster had issue with.
Flex is an sdk, not a spec. Massive difference, recommend googling it.
But in another note adobe have released specs for flash, but far from complete ones, the specs they did release were years behind what the gnash team had already reverse engineered.
Canada and Australia still recognize the queen as their head of state. The brits never pissed them off enough to rebel, hell the US even tried invading canada because they still supported the brits.
What does Google gain from people using its free apps on other platforms?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
MW3 was horrid, MW4 was quite a bit better than 3.
Depends on perspective I guess, I found mech warrior 4 to be a lot more arcade like lessening but of course not removing the strategy aspect. Also, to me the mechs felt like tonka toys in 4, instead of a lumbering 50 something tonne machine with a nuclear reactor at it's core.
That's the source code for mechcommander 2 not mechcommander, still very neat but if it was the first game I imagine it would already be ported to linux.
You are forgetting, microsoft bought out FASA which made the actual good mechwarrior games.. mechwarrior 4 was a piece of crap compared to 3. (yes 3 has the microsoft logo on it, however microsoft only bought it just before it was published so had no actual development on the game.)
In this sense they are only evil in the ' awesome game company x gets bought out by EA, loses all credibility' sense
Not quite, at least you have full specs for it unlike flash, we have OSS implementations of it, etc. Tell me when gnash can run eveything the latest flash version can (or even a version behind) and then they would be more similar.
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You're just being short sighted if you don't consider smart-phones and tablet devices to be computer equipment.
Before the iphone, nobody would have considered a non-user-programmable phone a smart-phone, same thing with pda's, tablets etc
no, these things have general purpose input capabilities, general purpose programs and installable 3rd party applications
Without jailbreaking? or requiring cash for the apple development kit and abiding by their rules? apple has set back general purpose computing more than any other company, what they are great at, is making 'appliances'.
The rest of the time is spent doing transforms, running shaders, doing depth testing, etc,
and what do you think those transforms are being done on? large arrays of numbers stored in gpu memory
There once was a time when main memory to GPU memory was a serious throttle, but those days died around AGP 4x and haven't returned.
Ah, this is where the misunderstanding would hvae been, he was likely talking about gpu to gpu memory bandwidth
but the latencies negate any speed gain, same as for processor memory.
The advantage most gpu's have is their memory access patterns are very linear, they already know what they'll be working on next before they're finished what they're doing, so while they're working on what they are they can chuck the next address on the bus so when they're done they have new data.
Yes, however the cheap laser printers while better than cheap inkjets, are worse value for money than the more expensive ones.
I picked up one of these and could not be happier, i have no doubts that the machine will probably last me a decade or more, with proper maintenance.
Yes the price is a little steep $2400AUD, like $2200USD. However it's a true postscript network printer that you'd likely never have to worry about again
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and the implementation is already protected by copyright, so really this is just lawyers being lawyers and looking after their own.
This is more a thing of ubuntu than ext4, fedora has been running ext4 for years without issue, granted this is anecdotal with a small sample size of about 20 machines with constant use during that time.
I have a 42U high rack in my room (sane people would put it in the garage) with various hardware in it. Of noteworthyness is the antex 4u22atx case, can fit seven hard drives in it, most motherboards I see only have six or so sata connectors anyway.
Assuming 1.5tb drives, that's 9tb right there. Want more space? add more units and use one of the many clustered filesystems available on linux. Scales up to 100tb easily, well excepting that you'd need more than one power circuit for it all before you even manage to fill the rack.
What I don't understand is how Ubuntu (or OEMs) could take a GNU/Linux base, add non-free and patented components, and sell the result as a unit. Doesn't the GPL prevent this?
Not at all, so long as they provide source for all the gpl licensed things, people are free to write commercial software for linux just fine.
Using linux syscalls does not make a program gpl, linking to a gpl library does, but that's what the lgpl is for and why most libraries are under the lgpl.
A lot of hardcore FOSS advocates want everything to go open source, but they refuse to see things as they are.
There are open source implementations of h264 just fine, open source is not the issue. Patents are. Patents on software are basically patents on math, and patents on ideas. Which completely corrupted the very concept of patents (designed to be only given on implementations of ideas.. in this instance already covered by copyright).
There are many oss advocates out there that wany everything they use to be oss, but really don't give a crap about software patents. Since if every company followed them, the industry as it is would be destroyed.
or fork Ubuntu(I already see a 'pure' version happening anyway)
What, and wind up with debian unstable like what ubuntu has before it adds proprietary crap? seems rather superfluous. All of the serious innovation happens in fedora first anyway (early adopters get the bugs though).
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The biggest one is claiming that Flash is a closed standard - Flash as a standard is open, $free, and Free.
Yes they have released specs, but they are nowhere near detailed enough for a decent actual implementation, if they were gnash wouldn't have to reverse engineer most of the stuff they do.
Letting the users decide is the best option, what's that? the users can't decide because of apple, of course they can, they aren't forced to buy the product. Their own stupid fault if they buy something so locked down and don't like it.
As far as stallman is concerned, it is still another choice, just one that doesn't make sense from the freedom perspective.
like getting out of your car when you have been instructed not to
By the signs that are everywhere? Something tells me if he knew that it was a bad thing and was going to get his ass kicked he wouldn't have done it. More likely something like this occurred, but with obviously worse results.
Your military friend was likely flagged as military when tickets were purchased/obtained,
This would also explain why on average I get searched every second flight, silly me had assumed it was illegal or some such to target people specifically in 'random' searches, and that it was just suspect looking young males getting picked out by a guy.
If you take actions that reasonably would be perceived as a threat, it does not matter if you are non-violent.
I have an example of a situation where by your logic a person should have been beaten to a pulp, and wasn't.
A friend (in the military) was travelling by air interstate when subjected to a random bag scan by the explosive detectors. Having taken that bag to the range it of course went off.
What occurred was he was taken off for questioning, and released after everything was checked into, total loss of two hours of time, no physical altercations, etc. I'm guessing having explosives detectors go off at an airport would constitute a 'threat' in your eyes? keeping a cool mind while maintaining control of a situation is better than doing something stupid the first moment something strikes you as out of whack.
Put yourself in the officer's shoes.
If I was an officer, why would I want to engage in physical violence where there is no need?
Appears I missed the 'it is sad' part, but read all else, my mistake, makes you not like it but yet you still endorse it, odd.
For the second point, police officers do not need to wait until someone takes action against them.
So it is acceptable then to use force/pepper spray/taser on otherwise peaceful people? This is what I had issue with. If a person is calm, non violent and not running away, how can force be justified?
It promotes the mindset of 'beat up first, oh shit, sorry guy' which seems fine and dandy to you, oh well, perhaps some day you will be subjected to it yourself.
Getting beaten up for stepping out of your car comes under this same guise, if he was running away restraint could be justified, but a beating for stepping out of a car? come on.
beating someone senseless as a safety precaution.
That you find this acceptable anywhere at any time 'as a precaution' speaks volumes about you more than anything else.
Society has changed. People used to respect police officers, and the risk to an officer used to be much lower.
It's still less dangerous than being a construction worker or cabbie, what effective police need to do is maintain control of the situation without resorting to physical violence. Any point where it devolves into violence where none is shown by another party is a failure on the police officers behalf.
Terry belongs in jail.
This is an assumption based on the next part
He is also guilty.
I think what you mean is. "He has been found guilty" yes it is a small difference, but it changes semantics completely. You or I cannot be completely sure on the matter because the fact is we were not directly involved.
The prior poster did have a point, but he didn't express what he meant terribly well, yes your prior response to him was accurate, however irrelevant to the point he was trying (and likely failed) to convey.
People who are found guilty get put in jail, and are termed criminals, but being found guilty and actually being guilty are two separate things, there is still the possibility (however likely or unlikely) that he is not. To say that he deserves to be in jail while there is still the possibility of him being not guilty is what the prior poster had issue with.
Flex is an sdk, not a spec. Massive difference, recommend googling it.
But in another note adobe have released specs for flash, but far from complete ones, the specs they did release were years behind what the gnash team had already reverse engineered.
Canada and Australia still recognize the queen as their head of state. The brits never pissed them off enough to rebel, hell the US even tried invading canada because they still supported the brits.
What does Google gain from people using its free apps on other platforms?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
MW3 was horrid, MW4 was quite a bit better than 3.
Depends on perspective I guess, I found mech warrior 4 to be a lot more arcade like lessening but of course not removing the strategy aspect. Also, to me the mechs felt like tonka toys in 4, instead of a lumbering 50 something tonne machine with a nuclear reactor at it's core.
That's the source code for mechcommander 2 not mechcommander, still very neat but if it was the first game I imagine it would already be ported to linux.
You are forgetting, microsoft bought out FASA which made the actual good mechwarrior games.. mechwarrior 4 was a piece of crap compared to 3. (yes 3 has the microsoft logo on it, however microsoft only bought it just before it was published so had no actual development on the game.)
In this sense they are only evil in the ' awesome game company x gets bought out by EA, loses all credibility' sense
h.264 is actually no less proprietary than Flash.
Not quite, at least you have full specs for it unlike flash, we have OSS implementations of it, etc. Tell me when gnash can run eveything the latest flash version can (or even a version behind) and then they would be more similar.