A while ago, a friend sent me a link to a Flash presentation of a speech by Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig on free culture, given at Oscon 2002 but the issues are still very current. In his beautiful and moving half hour speech, Lessig touches on the history and evolution of copyright law, […]

NetzNetz is an Austrian community of net art groups, -initiatives and technicians, which is working on an interesting and ambitious alternative to the current system of distribution of government grant money for net art projects in Vienna. Instead of relying on the local government to remain up to date on technical developments, able to judge […]

Gathering some more information via various forums reveals that:
* As pointed out yesterday, full-screen applications such as most games will not be affected by Vista’s performance hit when running OpenGL software with aero.
* Said performance hit will only take place with the standard OpenGL drivers supplied by Microsoft. Those will indeed be stuck at OpenGL […]

According to the OpenGL website, Microsoft is apparently planning to continue its long tradition of crippling competing technology (remember DR DOS?) by design, with its forthcoming Windows successor Vista/Longhorn.
OpenGL is, in layman’s terms, a standardized means by which software can access your graphics hardware in order to render high-performance 3d (and 2d) graphics. It is […]