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  • Originally posted by V!NCENT View Post
    Hey we sell this car, but you can only drive routes we provided you clearance for. You want to use this Jeep on the highway? No realy, you can only take it ofroading because we advertise it to be usefull for ofroading. Oh you don't like that? But it's so good for ofroading! No realy, why should we tell you how to put it in eco mode, while it's so great for ofroading! Yes you could use it to drive on roads, but we're not goi to tell you where the controlls are for that. Why? Because we're too busy SUCKING, ofcourse!
    lol... you're totally out there.

    Don't buy NVIDIA.

    For those who don't place a priority on the things you do, they can purchase NVIDIA if they want.

    The consumer choices made in the market will guide the way.

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    • Originally posted by johnc View Post
      lol... you're totally out there.

      Don't buy NVIDIA.

      For those who don't place a priority on the things you do, they can purchase NVIDIA if they want.

      The consumer choices made in the market will guide the way.
      It appears that the market agrees that nVidia SUCKS

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      • Originally posted by V!NCENT View Post
        It appears that the market agrees that nVidia SUCKS
        http://vr-zone.com/articles/jon-pedd...ced/16037.html
        That may be true... but probably for different reasons than you think it sucks.

        And NVIDIA is going to have a much harder time in the desktop / laptop markets since IGP products are going to increase in popularity. (And Intel refused to license x86 to NVIDIA, so they have no hope in the IGP market.) However, getting in on the ground floor of the ARM SoC business was a good move for them.

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        • Originally posted by asdx
          I understand the firmware blobs aren't part of the kernel and that they run directly in the card. But why does the kernel has to ship them in the same project? Why couldn't they create another project for those blobs?

          Some people think now that Linux isn't a free project anymore for this reason, what about that? Aren't they infringing with the GPLv2 by shipping Linux with these blobs?

          All this stuff is pissing me off.
          Where does the GPLv2 say that you can't ship a Linux kernel with a binary driver?

          That would be a major problem for Android.

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          • It would depend on the driver / firmware blob they're distributing and the license associated with it I would think.

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            • Originally posted by johnc View Post
              That may be true... but probably for different reasons than you think it sucks.
              Like what? Not for closed driver reasons? Let's hear what the Android crowd has to say about that:


              And then what about John Carmack, who cries for low level, direct access to graphics cards on PC's? He really raged (pun intended) with the last id's release about the abstractions of graphics card drivers slowing down performance to such an extend that he favors Intel graphics because Intel lets him actually access the low level memmory management and memmory blitting, without having the graphics driver needing to load an entire tile of texture memmory before a single pixel can be read out (see also Battlefiel 3 PC horrors):
              I have high hopes that because it is all integrated memory, Intel will be able to lead the way with surfacing and direct access. That will give them the opportunity to sometimes take console developers who are used to this lower level access and maybe have something -shock of shocks- run better on Intel’s Integrated Graphics part than the much more expensive NVIDIA or AMD card that has all the layers of driver overhead.
              John Carmack Interview: GPU Race, Intel Graphics, Ray Tracing, Voxels and more! Last week we were in Dallas, Texas covering Quakecon 2011 as well as hosting

              And now that AMD allows direct access with Fusion and documentation, where does that leave nVidia?

              Face it man, nVidia realy does SUCK. PS: They are the new 3dfx. I hope you will not clamp onto a GeForce like the 3dfx fans clamp onto their Voodoo's, and just move on.
              Last edited by V!NCENT; 21 June 2012, 04:47 PM.

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              • Originally posted by V!NCENT View Post
                Like what? Not for closed driver reasons? Let's hear what the Android crowd has to say about that:
                http://forums.developer.nvidia.com/d...ra-2-3-etc-/p1
                The chart you posted... the GPU market distribution has nothing to do with open vs closed drivers, as 99% of that market doesn't even have access to open drivers.

                And then what about John Carmack, who cries for low level, direct access to graphics cards on PC's? He really raged (pun intended) with the last id's release about the abstractions of graphics card drivers slowing down performance to such an extend that he favors Intel graphics because Intel lets him actually access the low level memmory management and memmory blitting, without having the graphics driver needing to load an entire tile of texture memmory before a single pixel can be read out (see also Battlefiel 3 PC horrors):

                John Carmack Interview: GPU Race, Intel Graphics, Ray Tracing, Voxels and more! Last week we were in Dallas, Texas covering Quakecon 2011 as well as hosting

                And now that AMD allows direct access with Fusion and documentation, where does that leave nVidia?

                Face it man, nVidia realy does SUCK. PS: They are the new 3dfx. I hope you will not clamp onto a GeForce like the 3dfx fans clamp onto their Voodoo's, and just move on.
                He is referring to the advantages of IGPs.

                What advice would you give to NVIDIA, who have no chance of creating an IGP in the x86 space?

                You are not seriously suggesting that if NVIDIA offered specs and documentation that the open source community could provide a better-performing driver than the one released by NVIDIA?

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                • Ohh, and I'll buy the best GPU for the job, depending on what my needs are for the particular system I'm building.

                  I am not beholden to NVIDIA or any other GPU vendor. I balance the needs with costs and will buy the best one for me.

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                  • Another one of my major concerns is for old hardware support. All hardware gets old, and I can't afford to upgrade whenever something new comes out, so I find it to be very important. While it's true that the open source Radeon drivers do a fine job with supporting archaic hardware, the same is not true for AMD's proprietary alternative, fglrx. Nvidia however has been fairly good about maintaining support for older hardware. While this is not related at all to open source vs closed source, I think it's a definite plus of Nvidia's closed source driver, and has kept me a happy customer.

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                    • Originally posted by kotakotakota View Post
                      Another one of my major concerns is for old hardware support. All hardware gets old, and I can't afford to upgrade whenever something new comes out, so I find it to be very important. While it's true that the open source Radeon drivers do a fine job with supporting archaic hardware, the same is not true for AMD's proprietary alternative, fglrx. Nvidia however has been fairly good about maintaining support for older hardware. While this is not related at all to open source vs closed source, I think it's a definite plus of Nvidia's closed source driver, and has kept me a happy customer.
                      Yes, they are a bit overdue with dropping support for their cards, aren't they? I expect that by next year, all cards older than the 200 series will be dropped from active support. They already dropped support twice for older hardware, after all.

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