> No. There's a legally-recognised difference between importing for personal use and importing for resale.
Which is a completely bogus trampling of my personal property rights. Property is property. If you start with this special circumstances crap you undermine the entire economy.
This is something that the Robber Barons and their shills don't seem to get. The ultimate benefactor of personal liberty is COMMERCE.
It takes a lot to balance out all of the hypocrites that want to treat out planet like a toilet while pretending they defend the values of the Boy Scouts.
Except these aren't CEOs. These are entrepenuers. These are guys that founded companies. They aren't just some guy that came in later to babysit someone else's creation.
> Definitely not. 32GB cache drives force you to buy an overpriced motherboard
No. They just require that you have a decent amount of SATA ports.
Considering that one of the cheapest motherboards I could lay my hands on 6 years ago had 6 SATA ports on it, this should not be a problem.
Although you can never trust the name brand pre-packaged kit. Some of those machines are like oversized Mac Minis. Then again, SATA cards are cheap too making expansion possible even on some lame-*ss Compaq.
I usually retire them for being too small before they actually fail. Although I do have a few older ones that I've kept around because they continue to chug along and simply haven't generated any SMART warnings yet.
It will be about 5 years before any of my SSDs or Hybrid drives have been in service as long. It will be awhile before ANYONE can say that actually.
That's the problem with the newest shiny shiny. No track record yet.
> X can be very, very slow over a typical DSL or cable connection if using anything more complicated than an xterm.
Caching and compression solve that problem quite nicely. The end result is something that is perkier across two relatively slow Internet endpoints than VNC is across a Gigabit LAN.
> and the point of this is to increase interoperability.
This does squat for increasing interoperability. It doesn't really change much of anything actually. The real problem is that it demonstrates a fundemental philosophical shift on the part of those entrusted with looking after web standards.
The web is no longer an open medium designed to be usable by anyone with any browser.
No, it's just another content consumption medium now. It's just cable TV.
The old status quo was fine. The corner case of media consumption was isolated while still being accommodated.
There was simply no need to "swim in the kool-aid" here.
This will not make Netflix any more accessible to Linux and will likely only make more of the web INaccessable to Linux and other alternative and non-corporate players.
> I consider myself a power user and was horrified of the Dash and other things. AFter using those for awhile,
The dash is a solution in search of a problem.
It is something that should be an optional extra rather than the sole thing that is forced on you with older interfaces being sabotaged by unnecessary architectural decisions.
"You will like it eventually if it's forced on you" is hardly a compelling argument.
That's the beauty of X. I can run a GUI on a machine that doesn't even have a framebuffer and I can do so from the other side of the planet.
When this comes up in the "inevitable future", will I be stuck running an entire desktop environment on that router and replicating that entire desktop through something like VNC?
Lavabit being "in contempt" regarding the first request in no way justifies the second.
This is just more of this sort of post-factum argumentation that is so common everywhere lately. You even see it at the level of the SCOTUS. Some goal is declared supremely important and then the law is distorted to fit that objective rather than to actually honestly examine if that objective is even legal to begin with.
You seem to be the clueless moron that thinks that network transparency is irrelevant.
We're living in the age of the Internet and the fucking cloud and you idiots want to skimp on network transparency. The world has finally caught up from the Unix vision of 20 and 30 years ago and you want to abandon it.
I don't give a shit what clueless amateurs try to say. I've worked with this stuff personally and professionally for over 20 years. I've seen the remote GUI concept blossom from a fringe Unixism to something that is commonplace and taken for granted.
If you are unwilling to acknowledge that, I doubt that you've ever stepped one foot into a corporate computing environment.
An article about what's happening at Popular Science INC seems to fall into that category. NPR covered it for the same exact reasons. Covering it her is "within scope" regardless of how many people get their panties in a bunch.
This overly inclusive version of the term Troll you are using is a barrier to meangingful discourse. Anything worth discussing will likely "offend" someone eventually.
What I find shocking here that they can't manage to exploit technology to solve this problem for them. They are a science publication but hold onto this silly notion that they have waste resources on moderation. They are much like many journalists that present a portrayal of the state of the art that is 10 or 20 years out of date.
You can run pretty much everything ever developed in terms of DOS and Windows games. Some of these you can even emulate under other operating systems quite effectively.
Compact PCs tend to be more expensive and less flexible. Unless you are talking about a compact form factor that you can already build your own boxes with now, I would expect Steam boxes to be MORE rather than less than your typical extreme bargain bin machine.
Anything much bigger than an Asrock or Zotac is going to have trouble getting much traction in living room.
VNC is a joke. It can't even manage simple things across a LAN. On the other hand, X can handle media intensive applications under the same conditions.
X isn't designed well for the WAN but it's an easy enough problem to solve.
So X runs better across the Internet than VNC does across the LAN.
Regardless, the X approach to network transparency is now the norm rather than the exception. If you gut Linux in this regard you are putting it at a disadvantage and setting it back 20 years.
You've got to be very effective at insulating yourself from the world at large if you think otherwise.
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Legality has nothing to do with morality.
Rape is a violent sex crime. Copying something is not.
If you are trying to morally equate those two then you are a sociopath and a jackass.
> No. There's a legally-recognised difference between importing for personal use and importing for resale.
Which is a completely bogus trampling of my personal property rights. Property is property. If you start with this special circumstances crap you undermine the entire economy.
This is something that the Robber Barons and their shills don't seem to get. The ultimate benefactor of personal liberty is COMMERCE.
It takes a lot to balance out all of the hypocrites that want to treat out planet like a toilet while pretending they defend the values of the Boy Scouts.
Except these aren't CEOs. These are entrepenuers. These are guys that founded companies. They aren't just some guy that came in later to babysit someone else's creation.
These people actually built something.
Labeling these people as CEOs is very misleading.
> but then again, the average user can still install everything on their C: drive without making any changes from the default installation.
It's 2013 and this is still a consideration?
That's just plain sad.
> Definitely not. 32GB cache drives force you to buy an overpriced motherboard
No. They just require that you have a decent amount of SATA ports.
Considering that one of the cheapest motherboards I could lay my hands on 6 years ago had 6 SATA ports on it, this should not be a problem.
Although you can never trust the name brand pre-packaged kit. Some of those machines are like oversized Mac Minis. Then again, SATA cards are cheap too making expansion possible even on some lame-*ss Compaq.
I have plenty of Seagate drives.
I usually retire them for being too small before they actually fail. Although I do have a few older ones that I've kept around because they continue to chug along and simply haven't generated any SMART warnings yet.
It will be about 5 years before any of my SSDs or Hybrid drives have been in service as long. It will be awhile before ANYONE can say that actually.
That's the problem with the newest shiny shiny. No track record yet.
So these people are Barney Fife.
> X can be very, very slow over a typical DSL or cable connection if using anything more complicated than an xterm.
Caching and compression solve that problem quite nicely. The end result is something that is perkier across two relatively slow Internet endpoints than VNC is across a Gigabit LAN.
It was THE WEB.
There's a difference you know.
> and the point of this is to increase interoperability.
This does squat for increasing interoperability. It doesn't really change much of anything actually. The real problem is that it demonstrates a fundemental philosophical shift on the part of those entrusted with looking after web standards.
The web is no longer an open medium designed to be usable by anyone with any browser.
No, it's just another content consumption medium now. It's just cable TV.
The old status quo was fine. The corner case of media consumption was isolated while still being accommodated.
There was simply no need to "swim in the kool-aid" here.
This will not make Netflix any more accessible to Linux and will likely only make more of the web INaccessable to Linux and other alternative and non-corporate players.
This is the exact opposite of "getting rid of Flash".
> I consider myself a power user and was horrified of the Dash and other things. AFter using those for awhile,
The dash is a solution in search of a problem.
It is something that should be an optional extra rather than the sole thing that is forced on you with older interfaces being sabotaged by unnecessary architectural decisions.
"You will like it eventually if it's forced on you" is hardly a compelling argument.
Ubuntu is Steam's reference platform so that's hardly surprising.
That's the beauty of X. I can run a GUI on a machine that doesn't even have a framebuffer and I can do so from the other side of the planet.
When this comes up in the "inevitable future", will I be stuck running an entire desktop environment on that router and replicating that entire desktop through something like VNC?
Yeeech!
Lavabit being "in contempt" regarding the first request in no way justifies the second.
This is just more of this sort of post-factum argumentation that is so common everywhere lately. You even see it at the level of the SCOTUS. Some goal is declared supremely important and then the law is distorted to fit that objective rather than to actually honestly examine if that objective is even legal to begin with.
"We must do X, therefore we will ignore the law"
Same nonsense, different day.
It's almost like there's more than one person wandering around.
It looked like I responded to the wrong person.
You seem to be the clueless moron that thinks that network transparency is irrelevant.
We're living in the age of the Internet and the fucking cloud and you idiots want to skimp on network transparency. The world has finally caught up from the Unix vision of 20 and 30 years ago and you want to abandon it.
Make it MORE network friendly not LESS.
> What's with you?
I don't give a shit what clueless amateurs try to say. I've worked with this stuff personally and professionally for over 20 years. I've seen the remote GUI concept blossom from a fringe Unixism to something that is commonplace and taken for granted.
If you are unwilling to acknowledge that, I doubt that you've ever stepped one foot into a corporate computing environment.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
An article about what's happening at Popular Science INC seems to fall into that category. NPR covered it for the same exact reasons. Covering it her is "within scope" regardless of how many people get their panties in a bunch.
This overly inclusive version of the term Troll you are using is a barrier to meangingful discourse. Anything worth discussing will likely "offend" someone eventually.
Sounds a lot like Popular Science really.
What I find shocking here that they can't manage to exploit technology to solve this problem for them. They are a science publication but hold onto this silly notion that they have waste resources on moderation. They are much like many journalists that present a portrayal of the state of the art that is 10 or 20 years out of date.
Terribly ironic really.
No. The real flipside is PS3 and PS4 games.
You can run pretty much everything ever developed in terms of DOS and Windows games. Some of these you can even emulate under other operating systems quite effectively.
It's like a PS4 that can run ANY Sony game ever.
Compact PCs tend to be more expensive and less flexible. Unless you are talking about a compact form factor that you can already build your own boxes with now, I would expect Steam boxes to be MORE rather than less than your typical extreme bargain bin machine.
Anything much bigger than an Asrock or Zotac is going to have trouble getting much traction in living room.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
VNC is a joke. It can't even manage simple things across a LAN. On the other hand, X can handle media intensive applications under the same conditions.
X isn't designed well for the WAN but it's an easy enough problem to solve.
So X runs better across the Internet than VNC does across the LAN.
Regardless, the X approach to network transparency is now the norm rather than the exception. If you gut Linux in this regard you are putting it at a disadvantage and setting it back 20 years.
You've got to be very effective at insulating yourself from the world at large if you think otherwise.
> Why are two competing display server stacks considered a problem in this case?
Device drivers. The display server isn't just another piece of user level software. It drives one of the key bits of hardware in the entire system.
It can quite literally mean the difference between a machine being very respectable or being a doorstop.