I don't know. And people with their "keyboard" and "mouse." Idiots I say. The only true way to interact with a computer is by plugging wires into the serial port and generating the necessary electrical pulses myself.
You are either misinformed or a liar. The nVidia Linux drivers support x86, x86-64, and IA-64 architectures. This is actually one more architecture than they support on Windows (no IA-64 for Windows systems).
Well, if you really want to be pedantic, they support ia32, x86-64/AMD64/EMT64, and ia64. They don't support ia-16, ia-8, or ia-4.
I agree it would be nice to see open source replacements for the nVidia drivers, but please lets not spread or further any FUD about the current closed source drivers. nVidia has done a nice job with the drives. I use them without issue on two different x86-64 machines (one AMD, one Intel).
They sure have. Except for the security hole that was there for about 2 years.
First of all, I'm currently using the nvidia drivers on an AMD64, not x86.
It's still x86, just 64-bits. That's like saying real mode isn't x86. Well, it is. It's just 16-bits instead of 32-bits (which is what is normally thought of as "x86").
Second, if nvidia stop supporting the old cards, don't upgrade the driver. Like they're going to put in improvements for TNT cards anyway?
OK, but then you upgrade the kernel and your video card stops working because of interface changes. Now what? In addition the binary drivers had a security hole for more than year until it was finally patched late 2006. If the drivers were open source, they would have been patched much earlier.
One of the problems is that the drivers are x86 only (although there are old and outdated Itanium drivers). Another issue is obsolete video cards. nVidia could one day stop supporting the TNT or GeForce. What do we do then? If there are no open source drivers, we're SOL on updates. If there are open source drivers, then we can make continued improvements when needed.
I switched to a FireGL 8700 (R200-based) for this reason (and it was an upgrade from a GeForce FX 5200). With regards to ATI cards, there are usable and stable open source drivers for all R300-based and lower video cards. Additionally, ATI no longer supports R100-based or lower video cards on Linux. Fortunately, the open source drivers are available to pick up the slack.
This whole thing got me to thinking that maybe I should replace the harddrive in my older laptop with a CF+IDE adaptor. Granted I can't seem to find anything greater than 4GB at stores, but SanDisk does sell 16GB CF cards somewhere. The CF specification has a limit of 137 GB (at least the old specs do). In terms of price, a 2GB CF + IDE adaptor will cost about $40-$50, which isn't too bad.
I have a 7 year-old laptop with a similarly aged drive and the whole thing still works. Will the flash drive last that long given normal to heavy usage?
It's an issue because the general populous isn't as smart as the average slashdotter. That's why stuff like this takes years to get through the FDA precisely because they want as much information to give to people saying that it's safe, no matter how seemingly obvious.
If someone gave you the choice of making $1 billion for making a television show, but the show is pirated to an extent such that over half the people who watch it don't pay you, or making $500 million for making a television show with little or no piracy of it at all with a much, much smaller audience, which would you prefer?
First generation was rather expensive back in 2001. But sales really took off after iTunes and the music store. On the other hand, there wasn't as much hype about it back then either.
That's the way it's always been. Windows XP is at least $99 retail (excluding coupons), whereas with a computer it's actually a lot less. There's also student discounts. Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. are a lot less expensive at the University store than at CompUSA.
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I don't know. And people with their "keyboard" and "mouse." Idiots I say. The only true way to interact with a computer is by plugging wires into the serial port and generating the necessary electrical pulses myself.
Because it'd be even less user friendly than Linux. Plus they'd also require people to run 80386 processors with 4 MB memory, if that.
That's ok, since they're only pretending, the government regulations are also pretend!
Kind of puts Lennon's lyrics to Imagine into perspective as well, eh?
Why, because then no here will read it! Who wants to read about a story regarding Paypal if it doesn't shed Paypal in a bad light?
I'd have to say 'no' unless you want to do development for Cell. Otherwise, it's just another Linux distribution on a PowerPC architecture.
Hmmm... when did the KDE team take over kernel development?!?
Well, if you really want to be pedantic, they support ia32, x86-64/AMD64/EMT64, and ia64. They don't support ia-16, ia-8, or ia-4.
They sure have. Except for the security hole that was there for about 2 years.
It's still x86, just 64-bits. That's like saying real mode isn't x86. Well, it is. It's just 16-bits instead of 32-bits (which is what is normally thought of as "x86").
OK, but then you upgrade the kernel and your video card stops working because of interface changes. Now what? In addition the binary drivers had a security hole for more than year until it was finally patched late 2006. If the drivers were open source, they would have been patched much earlier.
One of the problems is that the drivers are x86 only (although there are old and outdated Itanium drivers). Another issue is obsolete video cards. nVidia could one day stop supporting the TNT or GeForce. What do we do then? If there are no open source drivers, we're SOL on updates. If there are open source drivers, then we can make continued improvements when needed.
I switched to a FireGL 8700 (R200-based) for this reason (and it was an upgrade from a GeForce FX 5200). With regards to ATI cards, there are usable and stable open source drivers for all R300-based and lower video cards. Additionally, ATI no longer supports R100-based or lower video cards on Linux. Fortunately, the open source drivers are available to pick up the slack.
How fast is it?
This whole thing got me to thinking that maybe I should replace the harddrive in my older laptop with a CF+IDE adaptor. Granted I can't seem to find anything greater than 4GB at stores, but SanDisk does sell 16GB CF cards somewhere. The CF specification has a limit of 137 GB (at least the old specs do). In terms of price, a 2GB CF + IDE adaptor will cost about $40-$50, which isn't too bad.
I have a 7 year-old laptop with a similarly aged drive and the whole thing still works. Will the flash drive last that long given normal to heavy usage?
It's called priapism; you might want mosey on over to the emergency room quickly!
Practically everyone who uses xDSL also uses PPP... encapsulated in ethernet frames. So PPP is still around.
I don't know about you, but I am. Ha ha ha.
It's an issue because the general populous isn't as smart as the average slashdotter. That's why stuff like this takes years to get through the FDA precisely because they want as much information to give to people saying that it's safe, no matter how seemingly obvious.
Why, I'd pick that one of course!
Yes indeed.
Why should they remain nameless? Tell us which ones they are so that we can avoid them before signing a contract!!!
Especially those lunchbox-sized Sparcstation IPX/IPC/LX/ZX computers. So cute, even your girlfriend will love'em.
I'm rather impressed with this
I still have an 8-track player and a whole collection of tunes on 8-track tape. And silly people kept saying 8-track was dying...
First generation was rather expensive back in 2001. But sales really took off after iTunes and the music store. On the other hand, there wasn't as much hype about it back then either.
That's the way it's always been. Windows XP is at least $99 retail (excluding coupons), whereas with a computer it's actually a lot less. There's also student discounts. Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. are a lot less expensive at the University store than at CompUSA.
Studies were published in the year 2000. Why is this now getting attention? Actually, come to think of it, I think it got attention back then too.