Many of the primary requirements that Wayland targets can not be done with any amount of X11 tweaking without breaking X11.
In X11's current design, certain hardware abilities are an impossibility. Many people outside of the current subset of vocal X11 power users find these missing feature important.
X11 works, but so does an O(!n) algorithm when an O(log(n)) algorithm is available. Why do you think most of the Wayland programmers are actually ex-X11 programmers, because even the creators of X11 think it's bad.
Some people out there actually care not only about what works, but what is best, and for your average desktop use-case Wayland is much better.
If X11 is that important and so many people want it, someone, like you, could easily fork and create their own and maintain it, just don't hold everyone else back.
If you have to pay for the content before you see it, then it won't matter, they already made their money. If you get to see the money before you pay, the average person won't pay.
I don't know about you, but I like knowing that my $400 videocard with hardware 2D acceleration is actually accelerating my desktop, rather than being a paper-weight.
People want free data, but hosting isn't free, so companies can offer "free" by extracting user usage-patterns and/or hosting ads.
End users don't want ads, but you can't get your stuff for free. So offer micro-transactions! Oh, wait... Those can be tracked and have to be tracked, money can't just come from no-where.
Someone responds, but something like bitcoin can allow anonymous transactions. Well, they don't need to track "you", just your habits. You're still no better off than where you were with ads, other than now you need to pay money and have the inconvenience of registering with each site to pay them, even if with an anonymous bitcoin key.
Wait, it gets better. They can just start tracking your keys, and now you give them the same info AND you pay them money. But you can create many more keys for free you say? But all transactions are public, so they can data-mine and link all of the fake-keys to the real person.
In the end, web-sites need to make money. Either you need to pay them indirectly with ads or something similar, or pay them directly with real money. No matter how you pay them, they can track and associate the money with "you", even if "you" is just another anonymous habit-based data-point.
Either way they will track you, but one way will actually cost you money.
$9 gets me around 40 cups of top grade organic coffee. You pay way too much. I would rather get ads from NewEgg letting me know about their newest deals than pay $3 to mostly crap sites.
Binning has been done since the beginning and is being done by every chip manufacturer.. The only difference with the UEFI unlock feature is you don't need to purchase a whole new chip to get an upgrade. I do agree that it is a slippery slope and opens the door for abuse, but most mobile CPUs have more power than most users will ever need.
When you hear stories about someone transferring a sustained 800Gb/s over a single fiber over 2k miles, eventually, hearing about 100Gb links becomes dull.
Even Intel talks about Atom's abysmal performance. The good news is the next gen Atoms will be bringing real performance to low power. They're going to be completely difference archs.
Pretty much this. It was some time in the past year, but I was reading ARMs tech info for some of their poster-child chips that had relatively high performance in low power. Increasing them a small 20% increase in MIPs caused them a 100% increase in power consumption. Many other chips were similar. ARM is great, as long as you don't need "desktop" performance, then its worse than Intel in performance/watt.
They found that on a patch of spacetime moving a significant fraction of the speed of light, an object could accelerate itself to a significant fraction of the speed of light relative to the patch so that an observer far away on a flat patch of spacetime would see the object's clocks run backwards
I was under the impression that time dilation only affects matter moving through space time, and that gravity and frame dragging are not "proper acceleration" and relativity does not apply to this improper form of acceleration.
Same reason why space falling into a black hole can drag an object faster than c.
Just think, if demand was high, Americans would be trying to get good University degrees and filling those jobs.
I don't think I like that idea. I got my degree because I enjoyed it, not because of money. There were a lot of idiots in school and even more out of school. I don't like the idea of people getting degrees "because they're in demand".
If the SSD watched the SATA/etc connection to see if it lost signal, it could assume it needs to get into a safe mode when the connection is lost to the host-controller. Then you could just use dumb in-line temp power to give the drive a little extra time.
Do you think one could just hook a decently strong cap in-line with your power cords that run to the SSDs, use diodes so the power only goes one way, and have those caps augment the caps in-side of the SSDs?
Solar/wind/etc generated electricity and bio-fuels could make food carbon neutral. Growing food is itself carbon neutral, it's the processes around it that are not.
Actually it is, for fiber. 60% of the up-front cost to install a multi-million-dollar fiber network across a city is sending out a tech to hook up the fiber. The other 40% is trenching the fiber city wide and installing the datacenter.
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Many of the primary requirements that Wayland targets can not be done with any amount of X11 tweaking without breaking X11.
In X11's current design, certain hardware abilities are an impossibility. Many people outside of the current subset of vocal X11 power users find these missing feature important.
X11 works, but so does an O(!n) algorithm when an O(log(n)) algorithm is available. Why do you think most of the Wayland programmers are actually ex-X11 programmers, because even the creators of X11 think it's bad.
Some people out there actually care not only about what works, but what is best, and for your average desktop use-case Wayland is much better.
If X11 is that important and so many people want it, someone, like you, could easily fork and create their own and maintain it, just don't hold everyone else back.
If you have to pay for the content before you see it, then it won't matter, they already made their money. If you get to see the money before you pay, the average person won't pay.
You mean doing what 95% of the world's computer population does? Ohh sorry, you're talking about what 80% of the Linux population does.
I don't know about you, but I like knowing that my $400 videocard with hardware 2D acceleration is actually accelerating my desktop, rather than being a paper-weight.
People want free data, but hosting isn't free, so companies can offer "free" by extracting user usage-patterns and/or hosting ads.
End users don't want ads, but you can't get your stuff for free. So offer micro-transactions! Oh, wait... Those can be tracked and have to be tracked, money can't just come from no-where.
Someone responds, but something like bitcoin can allow anonymous transactions. Well, they don't need to track "you", just your habits. You're still no better off than where you were with ads, other than now you need to pay money and have the inconvenience of registering with each site to pay them, even if with an anonymous bitcoin key.
Wait, it gets better. They can just start tracking your keys, and now you give them the same info AND you pay them money. But you can create many more keys for free you say? But all transactions are public, so they can data-mine and link all of the fake-keys to the real person.
In the end, web-sites need to make money. Either you need to pay them indirectly with ads or something similar, or pay them directly with real money. No matter how you pay them, they can track and associate the money with "you", even if "you" is just another anonymous habit-based data-point.
Either way they will track you, but one way will actually cost you money.
This is my take on the situation.
$9 gets me around 40 cups of top grade organic coffee. You pay way too much. I would rather get ads from NewEgg letting me know about their newest deals than pay $3 to mostly crap sites.
I got expertexchange added to my Google block list. I haven't seen their results in a long while.
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Binning has been done since the beginning and is being done by every chip manufacturer.. The only difference with the UEFI unlock feature is you don't need to purchase a whole new chip to get an upgrade. I do agree that it is a slippery slope and opens the door for abuse, but most mobile CPUs have more power than most users will ever need.
When you hear stories about someone transferring a sustained 800Gb/s over a single fiber over 2k miles, eventually, hearing about 100Gb links becomes dull.
Even Intel talks about Atom's abysmal performance. The good news is the next gen Atoms will be bringing real performance to low power. They're going to be completely difference archs.
Pretty much this. It was some time in the past year, but I was reading ARMs tech info for some of their poster-child chips that had relatively high performance in low power. Increasing them a small 20% increase in MIPs caused them a 100% increase in power consumption. Many other chips were similar. ARM is great, as long as you don't need "desktop" performance, then its worse than Intel in performance/watt.
Not reading of email is contrary to how Spam filters work. Can't have your cake and eat it to.
Light in a vacuum is the fastest speed
Light between the Casimir plates is less c
Some particles can move through a medium faster than light can move through said medium
The particles are not moving faster than c, just faster than light in that medium.
Strange stuff still happens, but still does not violate c.
They found that on a patch of spacetime moving a significant fraction of the speed of light, an object could accelerate itself to a significant fraction of the speed of light relative to the patch so that an observer far away on a flat patch of spacetime would see the object's clocks run backwards
I was under the impression that time dilation only affects matter moving through space time, and that gravity and frame dragging are not "proper acceleration" and relativity does not apply to this improper form of acceleration.
Same reason why space falling into a black hole can drag an object faster than c.
Just think, if demand was high, Americans would be trying to get good University degrees and filling those jobs.
I don't think I like that idea. I got my degree because I enjoyed it, not because of money. There were a lot of idiots in school and even more out of school. I don't like the idea of people getting degrees "because they're in demand".
If the SSD watched the SATA/etc connection to see if it lost signal, it could assume it needs to get into a safe mode when the connection is lost to the host-controller. Then you could just use dumb in-line temp power to give the drive a little extra time.
Do you think one could just hook a decently strong cap in-line with your power cords that run to the SSDs, use diodes so the power only goes one way, and have those caps augment the caps in-side of the SSDs?
A RAID of SSDs that all fail at the same time because of power failure. Sounds great.
Solar/wind/etc generated electricity and bio-fuels could make food carbon neutral. Growing food is itself carbon neutral, it's the processes around it that are not.
Decomposing bodies release Methane, which is worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas by an order of magnitude. Best you burn them.
P.S. What a morbid discussion.
Non-liquid nitrogen is even cheaper, I go through about 2gal/min of N2 on a regular basis.
I wonder if these ISPs only removed the DNS entry. I wonder if one could just enter in the IP address directly or use OpenDNS.
Actually it is, for fiber. 60% of the up-front cost to install a multi-million-dollar fiber network across a city is sending out a tech to hook up the fiber. The other 40% is trenching the fiber city wide and installing the datacenter.
Should the baby sitter be blamed for handing your child to some random homeless guy or should you blame the homeless guy?
Gross Professional Negligence.
Hashing the password also protects the user on the current website, assuming both the has hand the password are strong.
Add another field to your back-end, next time the user logs in, hash using the new algorithm.