Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?
No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients. It's an interesting challenge, a very big task and it's hard to get right, but essentially orthogonal to what Wayland tries to acheive. This doesn't mean that remote rendering won't be possible with Wayland, it just means that you will have to put a remote rendering server on top of Wayland. One such server could be the X.org server, but other options include an RDP server, a VNC server or somebody could even invent their own new remote rendering model. Which is a feature when you think about it; layering X.org on top of Wayland has very little overhead, but the other types of remote rendering servers no longer requires X.org, and experimenting with new protocols is easier.
Divesting something only means creating a harder time competing for all relevant parties . The operating systems that are popular on clients also tend to be popular on servers. They're all based around Linux technology. We happen to build our server business on Windows technology. It creates dis-synergy in fact to split our server and enterprise business from our client business.
Oh I don't know Call me cynical, but I think it'll be released then, whether it's ready or not I think it's a good bet that they want to release at the same time as Ubuntu's next LTS (in October '12) to try and steal their thunder
A browser plugin designed to play embedded HTML5 video HTML5 video, whose selling point is to provide video without the need for a browser plugin
I think this just about tops MS and their opaque-binary embedded XML
Re:Need a better client-side scripting language
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Javascript != Java Oracle has no sway over javascript
Need a better client-side scripting language
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Why, oh why did javascript become the defacto client-side scripting language for the browser If you want to scale horizontally across multi-cores, you need a language that allows easy multi-threading and concurrency About the only thing JS offers for concurrency is that horrid settimeout function
What we need is a better scripting language Why not incorporate a Python interpreter into browsers, and develop a stripped down sub-set of python for use on the web I see no technical issues in doing this, only trying to battle the inertia of JS
You have the right to remain silent, unless they want something from you, in which case silence is an additional crime you've just committed in full and flagrant view of a police officer
Or perhaps those ISPs *have* caved, and started passing information direct to the studios meaning there's no need for ACS:Law to target their customers
the sort of vinyl records that typically sell are not the manufactured pop that studios are trying to save Often times, the artists who release stuff on record are not signed to a major label, but to independent labels Trust me, no n-sync song has ever been pressed to vinyl
If indeed "hackers admit [you're] doing a better job making [your] products more secure than anyone else" then that just means your product is less secure in the first place, and you have to do more work to patch the holes
Other OS's need not put so much effort in on a release-by-release basis the basic security of Unix was the there 35-40 years ago, and remains largely the same
Extra security features (SELinix, AppArmor, non-root-X, etc.) come along every so often but agreed, no-one puts the sheer level of effort into security (largely in vain) as MS
well, it's emulating a platform API (as opposed to hardware) call it a compatibility or translation layer if you wish but it is an emulator (just not the regular (slow) kind)
Oh come on, there's always going to be a market for support especially in businesses
Most people do not have the skills to administer a system / network of systems Most businesses are not in the tech field It is far more cost effective to hire a third party company to provide support than to employ someone in-house
This goes for any service, not just IT
I don't think anybody should pirate anything
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'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that
Really? Funny old world, isn't it I distinctly remember EA being sued a while ago for copyright infringement. They used a piece of music in their games without permission from the composer Anyway...
Just 6 months after the announcement to monitor their network for illegal filesharers, Virgin Media has seen a dramatic decline in subscribers. 90% of their top tier customers (renting 20Mb/sec) have canceled their subscriptions This figure is similar (82%) for their 10Mb/sec tier
Furthermore, the cost of the controversial detection methods (Deep Packet Inspection) has meant that the company has had to increase monthly subscription costs across all tiers by 10-20% This has seen decline (albeit much smaller, at 47%) in their lowest tier of service
Ubuntu seems to have hit the big time, riding off the Win7 release. There's half-a-dozen mainstream news sources that are mentioning Ubuntu in their coverage of Win7, some are even holding it above MS's OS
"Free" may do, but "open source" seems (in my (limited) experience, anyway) to have the opposite effect. People using the phrase to describe positive changes in systems well outside of the computing field.
Open source government Open source business procedures Open source voting Etc. Etc.
I've seen the phrase used to describe anything that's purposefully transparent in it's operation. Transparent for the reassurance of a fair procedure, with no hidden motive or agenda Transparent for the purposes of encouraging constructive criticism and improvement from end-users / participants Transparent because it's cheaper than a PR company, and can achieve the same end-results
I think people will understand what an "open source" operating system is, and more importantly, understand the potential benefits that it can bring
Weird to think that a term coined in the computing field, and only adopted by other fields much later, may become accepted by the public purely because of the "borrowed" usage by others But anyhow...
Slashdot Mirror
From the Wayland FAQ
https://groups.google.com/group/wayland-display-server/web/frequently-askeds-questions
...Steve Ballmer said that (paraphrasing) Linux is what all our competitors use
This was in response to a question by their stockholders about the possibility of breaking the company up
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/11/ballmer-and-gates-heres-why-were.html
Oh I don't know
Call me cynical, but I think it'll be released then, whether it's ready or not
I think it's a good bet that they want to release at the same time as Ubuntu's next LTS (in October '12) to try and steal their thunder
A browser plugin designed to play embedded HTML5 video
HTML5 video, whose selling point is to provide video without the need for a browser plugin
I think this just about tops MS and their opaque-binary embedded XML
Javascript != Java
Oracle has no sway over javascript
Why, oh why did javascript become the defacto client-side scripting language for the browser
If you want to scale horizontally across multi-cores, you need a language that allows easy multi-threading and concurrency
About the only thing JS offers for concurrency is that horrid settimeout function
What we need is a better scripting language
Why not incorporate a Python interpreter into browsers, and develop a stripped down sub-set of python for use on the web
I see no technical issues in doing this, only trying to battle the inertia of JS
You have the right to remain silent, unless they want something from you, in which case silence is an additional crime you've just committed in full and flagrant view of a police officer
Or perhaps those ISPs *have* caved, and started passing information direct to the studios
meaning there's no need for ACS:Law to target their customers
maybe I didn't mean nsync
Boyzone, or something
I don't know
the sort of vinyl records that typically sell are not the manufactured pop that studios are trying to save
Often times, the artists who release stuff on record are not signed to a major label, but to independent labels
Trust me, no n-sync song has ever been pressed to vinyl
I haven't read TFA yet
but wouldn't this have been a prime use-case for Wine on Windows?
If indeed "hackers admit [you're] doing a better job making [your] products more secure than anyone else"
then that just means your product is less secure in the first place, and you have to do more work to patch the holes
Other OS's need not put so much effort in on a release-by-release basis
the basic security of Unix was the there 35-40 years ago, and remains largely the same
Extra security features (SELinix, AppArmor, non-root-X, etc.) come along every so often
but agreed, no-one puts the sheer level of effort into security (largely in vain) as MS
It (re-)implements a platform API
it seeks to equal (and / or surpass) the canonical implementation
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emulate
anyway, I've lost this
Hackers are nasty people who break into systems
English = en/us
Wine is not an emulator
well, it's emulating a platform API (as opposed to hardware)
call it a compatibility or translation layer if you wish
but it is an emulator
(just not the regular (slow) kind)
Oh come on,
there's always going to be a market for support
especially in businesses
Most people do not have the skills to administer a system / network of systems
Most businesses are not in the tech field
It is far more cost effective to hire a third party company to provide support than to employ someone in-house
This goes for any service, not just IT
Really? Funny old world, isn't it
I distinctly remember EA being sued a while ago for copyright infringement.
They used a piece of music in their games without permission from the composer
Anyway...
Linux MCE is an integrated bundle of software.
The PVR part is MythTV, so may be be what the OP is looking for
I personally love Myth, and wouldn't change it for anything
but saying that, I use it as a media front-end only (no broadcast TV)
Try Be
www.bethere.co.uk
Excellent service
27th May 2010
Just 6 months after the announcement to monitor their network for illegal filesharers, Virgin Media has seen a dramatic decline in subscribers.
90% of their top tier customers (renting 20Mb/sec) have canceled their subscriptions
This figure is similar (82%) for their 10Mb/sec tier
Furthermore, the cost of the controversial detection methods (Deep Packet Inspection) has meant that the company has had to increase monthly subscription costs across all tiers by 10-20%
This has seen decline (albeit much smaller, at 47%) in their lowest tier of service
I'm foreign, so you'll have to explain,
what is a moonie? (sounds like some '70s kids show)
Ubuntu seems to have hit the big time, riding off the Win7 release.
There's half-a-dozen mainstream news sources that are mentioning Ubuntu in their coverage of Win7, some are even holding it above MS's OS
Eg.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/26/kellner-linux-hits-user-nerve/
"Free" may do,
but "open source" seems (in my (limited) experience, anyway) to have the opposite effect.
People using the phrase to describe positive changes in systems well outside of the computing field.
Open source government
Open source business procedures
Open source voting
Etc.
Etc.
I've seen the phrase used to describe anything that's purposefully transparent in it's operation.
Transparent for the reassurance of a fair procedure, with no hidden motive or agenda
Transparent for the purposes of encouraging constructive criticism and improvement from end-users / participants
Transparent because it's cheaper than a PR company, and can achieve the same end-results
I think people will understand what an "open source" operating system is, and more importantly, understand the potential benefits that it can bring
Weird to think that a term coined in the computing field, and only adopted by other fields much later, may become accepted by the public purely because of the "borrowed" usage by others
But anyhow...
Since when has Linux /not/ played nicely with windows?
It's the other direction that's strewn with landmines
Never miss again, with the RJX-21 Laser Scope
http://xkcd.com/101/
The print version needs to weigh a ton
In an online store, offer a low cost trolley to wheel the book around in
The digital edition needs to be 100Gb in size
In an online store, offer a low cost memory stick to house the book