Even if Intel's new chipsets turn out to be faster than NVidia, open source or not, if they don't offer multiple DVI or VGA connectors for multihead setups, Nvidia will be getting my money.
The best activation system I've dealt with firsthand from a big vendor is Adobe CS2 - it allows DE-activation for license transfers, EXCELLENT.
But here's a question regarding Activation: What happens in a few years when Microsoft discontinues Activation support? 10 years from now? Will the activation servers run forever, or will Microsoft quit activating the software? I should download the VLK edition of Windows XP just to ensure that I can still run XP when they decide to not allow activations any longer.
What is more important: showing up at meetings to "look busy" to the suits, or actually getting your real work done to make your deliverables ready ON TIME?
This has been addressed before. nVIDIA cannot open up the source to their drivers because of source code included from their 3DFX acquisition. They have stated time and time again, they would LOVE to open it up, but they legally cannot.
Bull----. If they "acquired" 3DFX property, they OWN it. If they OWN the "IP" then there is NO legal issue blocking them from opening up the source.
However, if it is "licensed" (-sic), then they ought to set up a second engineering team, give them notes on the architecture (but include no reference to any of the "licensed" code), then have them reengineer the drivers from scratch. There you have it, now legally clean drivers they own outright and can "legally" GPL.
It may be.01% of the PC gamer market but with this kind of offering they stand a good chance of capturing 100% of a niche market: visualization workstations, where they are willing to pay a premium to buy top of the line $500, $1,000, or even more expensive cards where the profit margin may be 500% rather than 5% to 10% on a $50 card.
Why blow money on an outdated (and yet current offering?) SGI workstation when you can get better performance out of a quad-(dual core) (8-way processing) PC? The question is though (having not RTFA yet): will this work on Linux, and what boards offer four PCI-E x16 slots? It's hard enough to find a GOOD board with just TWO PCI-E x16 slots with stable SLI while offering plenty of other standard PCI and a couple of PCI-E x8 or x4 slots.
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kind of shit. Why the hell do you fucking spammers think that anyone will ever buy from you? I am SICK of training and retraining and retraining spamassassin for every new tactic you guys get. NO one here is going to buy your shit so knock it off already.
I'd love to switch back to ASSP - - spamassassin just isn't working out for us.:( When we were on Exchange with ASSP filtering out spam, only ONE spam a week, IF that, ever made it through. Spamassassin, at least out of the box, is not nearly as effective.
No two companies store similar settings the same way. Oh sure, it's generally in a hierarchical format (pretty much by force), but look under each app's directory. Some vendors obfuscate settings, others maintain very organized and easy-to-follow keys, and others use a very flat structure with a mish-mash of understandable and cryptic keys and values.
Also, how do you send your config to someone else? Sure, you might be able to export the registry, but that's not workable with quite a few applications.
What is the complexity of choosing, say, three to five "supported" distributions plus "best effort" for others versus Windows, which consists of five or six server editions and four desktop editions (soon to be at least seven desktop editions), along with iffy-quality device drivers?
Of course you have to have a clue to install Linux, which is why all these MCSE dorks are whinning and complaining.
Actually, it's more often EASIER to install Linux than Windows. Linux installers typically make intelligent choices for you when you accept the defaults, plus if you have to add a driver for Windows to see the HDD controller it get sometimes get a bit tricky, especially if the hardware vendor throws drivers for all variants on the floppy."oops, the first driver didn't work. Second one didn't either. What card is this again? WTF, there are four different revs of that model, and to find out which I have to pull the card out?"
And then you have the controllers which will work in the Server OS but will not boot the server OS, but will allow Home/Pro to boot (yes, I know, buy a real hardware RAID, but show me the mom&pop shop folks who are willing to pay for actual server hardware. . . ), further complicating the process.
Windows' installer is not simple compared to Linux's - or at least compared to the distributions non-elitists run.
If you use an apostrophe, it should be '60s, not 60's. This drives me absolutely NUTS as even folks with Phds on autmotive and aviation mailing lists get it wrong. You'd think that if they managed to write their thesis and have it accepted, they can get a simple spelling convention right.
If you forgo the apostrophe, it would be 60s, if you feel the need to use an apostrophe (to be more correct) it's '60s, because you're forming a kind of abbreviation or variation on a contraction - e.g., dropping the 19 from 1960s.
Novell will have counterclaims as well, much larger claims than IBM's. Remember that SCO is in breach of contract with Novell, not having forked over the UNIX license fees they have collected.
If the GOP actually stuck to their platform you would be right. However the Bush administration is every bit as fascist as any communist dictator could ever hope to strive to be.
BOTH extremes use different justifications but arrive at the same end result: total surveillance and total control. The "liberal" exrtremists do it "for the children" and to make everyone equal (save the few in power who are a bit more "equal" than the rest - not very liberal, right?), and put laws into place to favor minorities to "level the playing field" regardless of merit or lack thereof. The "right" extremists want to legislate "morality" and enforce it, sometimes through extreme measures. Today's GOP is not conservative at all; - they are every bit as much into government control as, say, Stalin or Mao Tse Tung was.
If you want to be a true conservative (e.g., for small government, NO government interference in private lives, no tax-and-spend mentality, a true FAIR tax which hits the poor and rich alike, leaving the middle class with sufficient funds to help the needy of their own free will, discrimination based on MERIT alone and not favor or disfavor one based on superficial bullshit like skin color, etc.) then you should entertain becoming a libertarian.
$.02 (Signed, a registered republican, changing affiliation to libertarian in October due to disgust with the GOP's current neo-con stance)
When a jury judges the law as unjust or unconstitutional, there can be no violation of the law. What "precedent" could be any more clear than a jury saying effectively "this law sucks ass and therefore we are striking it from the books. Have a nice day." When the law is removed, any DA would have a hard time proving guilt of breaking any such law.
Most (all?) DVRs lack the programmability and sync-to-recorder capabilities that mid-to-high end CD players have. Also, what about mobile use? I'm not replacing the head unit in my car. Amps, speakers, etc. sure but the stock head unit STAYS because it was designed specifically to match the dashboard's motif. This limits me to CD, tape, and radio (sure, I suppose a portable player plus an Irock would work. . . with decreased FM fidelity)
The consumer in question has already paid for their DVD and it's licence to use the content, so all CC are doing is taking the effort out of the consumer's choice to exercise their right to fair use of their legally licenced content. Of course the MPAA don't see this.
The consumer in question has already paid for their DVD and it's licence to use the content, so all CC are doing is taking the effort out of the consumer's choice to exercise their right to fair use of their legally purchased content. Of course the MPAA don't see this.
I corrected your typo for you.
DVDs are commodity goods sold over the counter, not works for hire, and not contracts. You OWN the copy of the content, NOT license it. You are restricted from making copies outside of Fair Use until the copyright expires, but you OWN that copy.
If it were a work for hire, then ownership vs. licensing would be in accordance with the contract.
Yes, it's strange from our perspective, but keep in mind that we now have a concept for the mathematical value of "zero" and not all ancient cultures dealt with anything but positive whole numbers.
I guess I am getting old, and I'll gladly take my sysadmin paycheck for monkeying with Linux, Solaris, BSD, and any other *NIX variant that gets the job done, but for general stuff, I'll just buy a computer that just works. No spyware, no viruses, no popups, none of that crap.
From that perspective, Windows is good for job security!;)
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Even if Intel's new chipsets turn out to be faster than NVidia, open source or not, if they don't offer multiple DVI or VGA connectors for multihead setups, Nvidia will be getting my money.
The best activation system I've dealt with firsthand from a big vendor is Adobe CS2 - it allows DE-activation for license transfers, EXCELLENT.
But here's a question regarding Activation: What happens in a few years when Microsoft discontinues Activation support? 10 years from now? Will the activation servers run forever, or will Microsoft quit activating the software? I should download the VLK edition of Windows XP just to ensure that I can still run XP when they decide to not allow activations any longer.
You don't "license" commodity goods, you BUY them. Don't fall for the doublespeak in their brainwashing efforts.
Since when is the typical phone grounded?
Worthless.
Your bravery is astounding. Watch the AC bravely run away, away!
(AC: "I didn't!")
Meh. Monty Python reference in response to AC is a waste.
What is more important: showing up at meetings to "look busy" to the suits, or actually getting your real work done to make your deliverables ready ON TIME?
Bull----. If they "acquired" 3DFX property, they OWN it. If they OWN the "IP" then there is NO legal issue blocking them from opening up the source.
However, if it is "licensed" (-sic), then they ought to set up a second engineering team, give them notes on the architecture (but include no reference to any of the "licensed" code), then have them reengineer the drivers from scratch. There you have it, now legally clean drivers they own outright and can "legally" GPL.
It may be .01% of the PC gamer market but with this kind of offering they stand a good chance of capturing 100% of a niche market: visualization workstations, where they are willing to pay a premium to buy top of the line $500, $1,000, or even more expensive cards where the profit margin may be 500% rather than 5% to 10% on a $50 card.
Why blow money on an outdated (and yet current offering?) SGI workstation when you can get better performance out of a quad-(dual core) (8-way processing) PC? The question is though (having not RTFA yet): will this work on Linux, and what boards offer four PCI-E x16 slots? It's hard enough to find a GOOD board with just TWO PCI-E x16 slots with stable SLI while offering plenty of other standard PCI and a couple of PCI-E x8 or x4 slots.
Wait! I'm getting an idea! ...nope, false alarm ...yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! let's call this, uh, a, um, Real-time Spam Black list?
kind of shit. Why the hell do you fucking spammers think that anyone will ever buy from you?
I am SICK of training and retraining and retraining spamassassin for every new tactic you guys get. NO one here is going to buy your shit so knock it off already.
I'd love to switch back to ASSP - - spamassassin just isn't working out for us.
Have you ever even looked at the registry?
No two companies store similar settings the same way. Oh sure, it's generally in a hierarchical format (pretty much by force), but look under each app's directory. Some vendors obfuscate settings, others maintain very organized and easy-to-follow keys, and others use a very flat structure with a mish-mash of understandable and cryptic keys and values.
Also, how do you send your config to someone else? Sure, you might be able to export the registry, but that's not workable with quite a few applications.
What is the complexity of choosing, say, three to five "supported" distributions plus "best effort" for others versus Windows, which consists of five or six server editions and four desktop editions (soon to be at least seven desktop editions), along with iffy-quality device drivers?
Actually, it's more often EASIER to install Linux than Windows. Linux installers typically make intelligent choices for you when you accept the defaults, plus if you have to add a driver for Windows to see the HDD controller it get sometimes get a bit tricky, especially if the hardware vendor throws drivers for all variants on the floppy."oops, the first driver didn't work. Second one didn't either. What card is this again? WTF, there are four different revs of that model, and to find out which I have to pull the card out?"
And then you have the controllers which will work in the Server OS but will not boot the server OS, but will allow Home/Pro to boot (yes, I know, buy a real hardware RAID, but show me the mom&pop shop folks who are willing to pay for actual server hardware. . . ), further complicating the process.
Windows' installer is not simple compared to Linux's - or at least compared to the distributions non-elitists run.
If you use an apostrophe, it should be '60s, not 60's. This drives me absolutely NUTS as even folks with Phds on autmotive and aviation mailing lists get it wrong. You'd think that if they managed to write their thesis and have it accepted, they can get a simple spelling convention right.
If you forgo the apostrophe, it would be 60s, if you feel the need to use an apostrophe (to be more correct) it's '60s, because you're forming a kind of abbreviation or variation on a contraction - e.g., dropping the 19 from 1960s.
Am I a sucker because I buy distributions I use on a daily basis to help ensure that the distributions continue to exist?
Novell will have counterclaims as well, much larger claims than IBM's. Remember that SCO is in breach of contract with Novell, not having forked over the UNIX license fees they have collected.
If the GOP actually stuck to their platform you would be right. However the Bush administration is every bit as fascist as any communist dictator could ever hope to strive to be.
BOTH extremes use different justifications but arrive at the same end result: total surveillance and total control. The "liberal" exrtremists do it "for the children" and to make everyone equal (save the few in power who are a bit more "equal" than the rest - not very liberal, right?), and put laws into place to favor minorities to "level the playing field" regardless of merit or lack thereof. The "right" extremists want to legislate "morality" and enforce it, sometimes through extreme measures. Today's GOP is not conservative at all; - they are every bit as much into government control as, say, Stalin or Mao Tse Tung was.
If you want to be a true conservative (e.g., for small government, NO government interference in private lives, no tax-and-spend mentality, a true FAIR tax which hits the poor and rich alike, leaving the middle class with sufficient funds to help the needy of their own free will, discrimination based on MERIT alone and not favor or disfavor one based on superficial bullshit like skin color, etc.) then you should entertain becoming a libertarian.
$.02 (Signed, a registered republican, changing affiliation to libertarian in October due to disgust with the GOP's current neo-con stance)
When a jury judges the law as unjust or unconstitutional, there can be no violation of the law. What "precedent" could be any more clear than a jury saying effectively "this law sucks ass and therefore we are striking it from the books. Have a nice day." When the law is removed, any DA would have a hard time proving guilt of breaking any such law.
Isn't that cute? Some dumbass carries out a personal attack hiding behind AC. Awwww.
Most (all?) DVRs lack the programmability and sync-to-recorder capabilities that mid-to-high end CD players have. Also, what about mobile use? I'm not replacing the head unit in my car. Amps, speakers, etc. sure but the stock head unit STAYS because it was designed specifically to match the dashboard's motif. This limits me to CD, tape, and radio (sure, I suppose a portable player plus an Irock would work. . . with decreased FM fidelity)
The consumer in question has already paid for their DVD and it's licence to use the content, so all CC are doing is taking the effort out of the consumer's choice to exercise their right to fair use of their legally purchased content. Of course the MPAA don't see this.
I corrected your typo for you.
DVDs are commodity goods sold over the counter, not works for hire, and not contracts. You OWN the copy of the content, NOT license it. You are restricted from making copies outside of Fair Use until the copyright expires, but you OWN that copy.
If it were a work for hire, then ownership vs. licensing would be in accordance with the contract.
So, in your calendar system, there will be a year zero?
(there is no 0BC/0AD it skips from 1BC to 1AD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
Yes, it's strange from our perspective, but keep in mind that we now have a concept for the mathematical value of "zero" and not all ancient cultures dealt with anything but positive whole numbers.
From that perspective, Windows is good for job security!
The newest Flash version for Linux is Flash 7.