..yeah, but there's a niche in the market for an honest news-reporting newspaper, which they've settled into nicely in Chicago. If they start going pop then they'll find themselves competing with tabloids for less money. It's in their interest to stay quality.
So if companies and individuals worldwide are willing to free themselves from proprietary graphics card designs so that their software will work better, then they're probably willing to invest a billion dollars or more, for it.
I think you're making an unwarranted connection between how much it would have cost to build Linux commercially and how much Linux is actually worth. Though it may have taken a billion dollars of work, if it only carves out 500 million of wealth in its lifetime then investors certainly wouldn't be kicking themselves wishing they'd invested a billion. Doing a billion dollars of work doesn't guarantee you profit: a thousand people sitting around prime factorizing The Largest Number Ever Discovered for 50k/yr * 20yr certainly isn't worth at least a billion dollars. And even if you're doing something promising like open-sourcing your hardware, it's a lot to risk.
I was just pointing out that tons of money is being spent so the technology is advancing. Graphics hardware really is amazing; is your car superceded every 2 years by newer models with 10 times as much horsepower? Do "car textbooks" still teach carburetors while mechanics scratch their heads and wonder what happened to the thing with the air holes? Nvidia is making their own products obsolete every few years by their frenetic pace of research, but nobody really knows what they're up to.
Just because you used a compiler-compiler toolchain to chew up your OpenGL book and spit out a hardware spec doesn't mean you have an opengl card. Implementing OpenGL efficiently isn't just a "big job" it's essentially the entire field of computer graphics hardware.
Well obviously it's of academic interest. American consumers have sunk billions into video card research and for the most part the implementations are shrouded in mystery locked up in labs. Nobody un-NDA-bound really knows how to build these things: computer graphics is a highly specialized and difficult problem for hardware engineers. The real interest is in making a hardware design that actually works well and then writing up the design in abstract, not to actually make working video cards.
Also I guess it's useful to hammer out some foundational "building blocks" and make them available freely so that entry into video card research is easier.
Isn't VGA a very thoroughly documented and widely implemented standard?
Also, they can't possibly approach competing with NVidia or ATI and I doubt anyone's going to shell out a billion dollars to build a plant to make their cards. If they're just playing around with FGPAs then this isn't really a serious "Open Graphics Card"... performance will be terrible.
Your argument might be relevant if you restart your computer every time you want to open a document. Also your Windows probably loads all sorts of crap when it boots; clean it out and it competes handily with Linux. Also OO is slooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. AbiWord 4 life.
Sure, how much clearer can it get than "all men are created equal"? Well, they really meant all white male landowners are created equal. Trial by jury and due process - Sure, it's in the constitution! Well... if you're not an enemy combatant. Torture? Absolutely illegal- oh you meant waterboarding, that's not torture. Cruel and unusual punishment? What are you talking about, the lethal injection is quite painless and execution can hardly be called historically unusual.
The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes... land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
No silly, it doesn't say anything about spending 4 trillion yen per year on self defense forces.
The key is to have specific laws in legalese (that are flexible enough to remain relevant..) that the press can summarize in plain english/spanish.
I'm no javascript guru but I'd be careful around those top and self and child objects. Aren't there security issues with accessing session cookies and SIDs in URLs from parent/child frames? Or does it restrict by domain?
Flash and Java don't count because you already use and trust them. Web apps can take advantage of the already-installed plugins and run without executing untrusted code. But if you have to install a whole new plugin then you might as well just run Q3 standalone.
Or you could just put the "automotive class trim" over it to fool the $12/hr security guard and not have to deal with all the drama, and if you're accused of espionage then peel it off for a minute and stick a pencil through it.
Linux does have some good timekiller games. nethack, openarena, quarry (with gnu go), enigma, xmoto... I also have UT installed with the Loki Games install script
I meant in terms of running malicious code not in messing with settings and things. But you're right, malware could just run gksu and the user would happily enter their password. If the malware was specifically written for ubuntu.
If they can find a file in explorer they can find a key in the registry. Not that you ever need to open the registry.
Yes you shouldn't ever need to see past the control panels but when you do, on Windows essentially everything is graphical (with a few things exposed via command line) while on Linux essentially everything is command line (with a few things exposed graphically). The difference is that, unless they're really senile or stupid, people can figure things out graphically. There are only so many controls to click and options to select and you can narrow it down considerably by knowing what a few of the terms mean.
The command line approach puts everything in front of you and lets someone who knows command line fu to hammer out powerful commands rapidly without digging through a dozen nested menus but you can't be a clueless user figuring out a minor problem by clicking a few suggestive looking buttons. You need hand holding all the way.
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..yeah, but there's a niche in the market for an honest news-reporting newspaper, which they've settled into nicely in Chicago. If they start going pop then they'll find themselves competing with tabloids for less money. It's in their interest to stay quality.
But that hasn't traditionally been the case so our laws aren't really fit for this kind of market.
I don't think OpenOffice loads the JRE unless you're trying to use a feature that requires it (media player, weird scripting support)
I think you're making an unwarranted connection between how much it would have cost to build Linux commercially and how much Linux is actually worth. Though it may have taken a billion dollars of work, if it only carves out 500 million of wealth in its lifetime then investors certainly wouldn't be kicking themselves wishing they'd invested a billion. Doing a billion dollars of work doesn't guarantee you profit: a thousand people sitting around prime factorizing The Largest Number Ever Discovered for 50k/yr * 20yr certainly isn't worth at least a billion dollars. And even if you're doing something promising like open-sourcing your hardware, it's a lot to risk.
I was just pointing out that tons of money is being spent so the technology is advancing. Graphics hardware really is amazing; is your car superceded every 2 years by newer models with 10 times as much horsepower? Do "car textbooks" still teach carburetors while mechanics scratch their heads and wonder what happened to the thing with the air holes? Nvidia is making their own products obsolete every few years by their frenetic pace of research, but nobody really knows what they're up to.
Just because you used a compiler-compiler toolchain to chew up your OpenGL book and spit out a hardware spec doesn't mean you have an opengl card. Implementing OpenGL efficiently isn't just a "big job" it's essentially the entire field of computer graphics hardware.
Well obviously it's of academic interest. American consumers have sunk billions into video card research and for the most part the implementations are shrouded in mystery locked up in labs. Nobody un-NDA-bound really knows how to build these things: computer graphics is a highly specialized and difficult problem for hardware engineers. The real interest is in making a hardware design that actually works well and then writing up the design in abstract, not to actually make working video cards.
Also I guess it's useful to hammer out some foundational "building blocks" and make them available freely so that entry into video card research is easier.
Isn't VGA a very thoroughly documented and widely implemented standard?
... performance will be terrible .
Also, they can't possibly approach competing with NVidia or ATI and I doubt anyone's going to shell out a billion dollars to build a plant to make their cards. If they're just playing around with FGPAs then this isn't really a serious "Open Graphics Card"
Your argument might be relevant if you restart your computer every time you want to open a document. Also your Windows probably loads all sorts of crap when it boots; clean it out and it competes handily with Linux. Also OO is slooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. AbiWord 4 life.
I'm interested to see how Microsoft names its proprietary extensions to the Open Document Format.
Where's that bridge you were going to sell me?
He wasn't some armchair blogger he was actually the one being sued. Who has more right to defend the defendant than the defendant himself?!
No silly, it doesn't say anything about spending 4 trillion yen per year on self defense forces.
The key is to have specific laws in legalese (that are flexible enough to remain relevant..) that the press can summarize in plain english/spanish.
I'm no javascript guru but I'd be careful around those top and self and child objects. Aren't there security issues with accessing session cookies and SIDs in URLs from parent/child frames? Or does it restrict by domain?
So essentially challenging evidence gathering methods is insufficient, but making colorful posters and waving around a PhD is fine?
Not when you've invested as much as id has in wooing our crowd with open sourcinq quake 3
There is an "auto update" feature. You automatically download resources from the server when you don't have them locally.
Flash and Java don't count because you already use and trust them. Web apps can take advantage of the already-installed plugins and run without executing untrusted code. But if you have to install a whole new plugin then you might as well just run Q3 standalone.
Or you could just put the "automotive class trim" over it to fool the $12/hr security guard and not have to deal with all the drama, and if you're accused of espionage then peel it off for a minute and stick a pencil through it.
Linux does have some good timekiller games. nethack, openarena, quarry (with gnu go), enigma, xmoto... I also have UT installed with the Loki Games install script
./configure should configure the make script right? You don't need to manually use flags.
I meant in terms of running malicious code not in messing with settings and things. But you're right, malware could just run gksu and the user would happily enter their password. If the malware was specifically written for ubuntu.
Cookies lying around can attract bugs ;)
If they can find a file in explorer they can find a key in the registry. Not that you ever need to open the registry.
Yes you shouldn't ever need to see past the control panels but when you do, on Windows essentially everything is graphical (with a few things exposed via command line) while on Linux essentially everything is command line (with a few things exposed graphically). The difference is that, unless they're really senile or stupid, people can figure things out graphically. There are only so many controls to click and options to select and you can narrow it down considerably by knowing what a few of the terms mean.
The command line approach puts everything in front of you and lets someone who knows command line fu to hammer out powerful commands rapidly without digging through a dozen nested menus but you can't be a clueless user figuring out a minor problem by clicking a few suggestive looking buttons. You need hand holding all the way.
Not sure what you mean by "we all"