If you can't figure it out then perhaps you're just one of the stupid ones.
The whole point of a general purpose computing device is that it is infinitely flexible. With that, comes a bit of complexity as overhead.
Furthermore, attempting to castrate user interfaces interferes with the whole "infinitely flexible" thing that gives computing devices their biggest value.
"Pandering to idiots" is the most common excuse given for castrating computing systems today and tend to be given by those driving the change rather than those complaining about the change.
The perceived inefficiencies of X are less relevant on gigahertz machines where you've got much more idle CPU horsepower laying around than idle GPU power. Meanwhile, the most interesting GPU features (like vdpau/vaapi) will likely be tossed out in the bargain. Those are things not easily replicated with idle CPU cycles when compared to the main focus of Wayland.
Yes. And it took them about 10 or 15 years of retrofitting it to get it right too.
RDP doesn't demonstrate that the design of Wayland can be half-assed. RDP demonstrates why key X features are still relevant. In fact, they are more relevant than ever.
If anything, the rest of the world has come around to our way of thinking and now we want to abandon it in favor something like VNC running on top of MacOS which is even uglier than what we have now.
The main problem with Wayland is that it will force a hard reset of device drivers.
The state of Linux device drivers will be reset back to 1994. Any progress that has been made in those intervening years will be flushed straight down the toilet. Whatever advantage you gain from flushing X will be undone by poor quality of drivers and incomplete feature support.
Cars that aren't designed to be "cheap" usually fare better than economy cars. It's no so much that smaller cars are smaller. They're also crap designed to make you want a larger car rather than being well designed for their purpose.
Mass market solutions always pander to or exploit idiots. Good marketing tends to win out against good product or even being first to market. So products and solutions that target savvy users tend to be marginalized. Since computing tends to create "compatibility" barriers, this becomes especially problematic.
The sad fact is that most people don't see the danger of broadcasting their lives on the Internet.
So more dangerous solutions proliferate to the detriment of better alternatives.
There has never been in any product area with this sort of certainty. You seem to think you can blindly depend on it, but you can't. You can blissfully blow a lot of money on payware content and still get nothing but crap. Doesn't matter what it is. Films of any sort are the same way. If you pay for something sight unseen, you are likely just throwing your money away.
I don't think any of you twits realize how much work goes into any PhD thesis.
A little programming overhead is not going to be that much of a burden really.
This is why most stuff gets invented. It's really not that much of a tragedy when people who don't specialize in selling a particular technology to others have to develop solutions for themselves involving that technology.
If real people thought like you weenies then we never would have had the original killer app for the PC.
> Within you may find something like an entertainment store > (HMV/Virgin in the UK) who still continue to stock and sell > a surprisingly large amount of these "CDs"
Or not. These are a dying breed and have been quickly disappearing since the turn of the century.
The idea that you might find a media store to fit your description in a randomly selected mall is far from a given.
If patents are really the issue then it doesn't matter what RDBMS you choose to install by default.
That is kind of the whole problem with patents in general. They don't just relate to a particular product. They interfere with your ability to use or build a type of product in general.
People seem to be misunderstanding the scope of patents here.
Cost will always be an issue. There has also been a movement in the industry to support "larger and cheaper" storage. The idea is to have a "tiered" system where you can put your stuff on storage arrays with variable costs depending on your requirements.
The "archive" use case is actually a pretty big one.
"Enterprise" drives tend to be small and expensive to begin with. Moving from one variant of this to another is probably not such a big change after all.
This only works out if you have lots of wasted space in your array.
This still comes down to why you would have used SSD 10 years ago before most slashbots ever even heard of the tech: You simply need the IOPS regardless of cost.
I could see eBay having this requirement. The rest of us not so much.
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Linux is not being held back by avoiding nonsense like Wayland.
That is just mindless "new must be good" simpleton sort of reasoning.
If you can't figure it out then perhaps you're just one of the stupid ones.
The whole point of a general purpose computing device is that it is infinitely flexible. With that, comes a bit of complexity as overhead.
Furthermore, attempting to castrate user interfaces interferes with the whole "infinitely flexible" thing that gives computing devices their biggest value.
"Pandering to idiots" is the most common excuse given for castrating computing systems today and tend to be given by those driving the change rather than those complaining about the change.
This is the real problem.
The perceived inefficiencies of X are less relevant on gigahertz machines where you've got much more idle CPU horsepower laying around than idle GPU power. Meanwhile, the most interesting GPU features (like vdpau/vaapi) will likely be tossed out in the bargain. Those are things not easily replicated with idle CPU cycles when compared to the main focus of Wayland.
Are you kidding? VNC doesn't even run well enough on a high speed LAN.
RDP might be a worthy example to hold up and to bash X with. VNC is not.
...and all of this ranting argues for an overhaul of xorg rather than dumping it.
Although why you would need to bother with X config files in this day and age is a bit of a mystery.
Yes. And it took them about 10 or 15 years of retrofitting it to get it right too.
RDP doesn't demonstrate that the design of Wayland can be half-assed. RDP demonstrates why key X features are still relevant. In fact, they are more relevant than ever.
If anything, the rest of the world has come around to our way of thinking and now we want to abandon it in favor something like VNC running on top of MacOS which is even uglier than what we have now.
The main problem with Wayland is that it will force a hard reset of device drivers.
The state of Linux device drivers will be reset back to 1994. Any progress that has been made in those intervening years will be flushed straight down the toilet. Whatever advantage you gain from flushing X will be undone by poor quality of drivers and incomplete feature support.
Cars that aren't designed to be "cheap" usually fare better than economy cars. It's no so much that smaller cars are smaller. They're also crap designed to make you want a larger car rather than being well designed for their purpose.
Underpowered economy cars were death traps even before the rise of the SUV.
Even when they run into each other in the absence of any SUVs, they're more deadly.
On a long enough time line, EVERY ONE has something to hide.
That includes the high and mighty. Actually, it's probably even more true for the high and mighty.
Mass market solutions always pander to or exploit idiots. Good marketing tends to win out against good product or even being first to market. So products and solutions that target savvy users tend to be marginalized. Since computing tends to create "compatibility" barriers, this becomes especially problematic.
The sad fact is that most people don't see the danger of broadcasting their lives on the Internet.
So more dangerous solutions proliferate to the detriment of better alternatives.
There has never been in any product area with this sort of certainty. You seem to think you can blindly depend on it, but you can't. You can blissfully blow a lot of money on payware content and still get nothing but crap. Doesn't matter what it is. Films of any sort are the same way. If you pay for something sight unseen, you are likely just throwing your money away.
Sturgeons Law does not discriminate.
Cable channels have to operate under close scrutiny and run the risk of being sued in Memphis for stuff they want to show people in San Francisco.
This is a very old problem. it's also why cable porn is castrated somewhat.
Yes. Because government regulation is just so much worse than a corporate monopoly.
I don't think any of you twits realize how much work goes into any PhD thesis.
A little programming overhead is not going to be that much of a burden really.
This is why most stuff gets invented. It's really not that much of a tragedy when people who don't specialize in selling a particular technology to others have to develop solutions for themselves involving that technology.
If real people thought like you weenies then we never would have had the original killer app for the PC.
> For example, you cannot change location in Nautilus without using magic keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl + L.
Nonsense. If the location bar is visible, you can edit it directly.
That's kind of like making "inaccurate market share comparisons" between Macs and the rest of the computing industry.
Nothing new there...
They are also a great way to legally acquire stuff that can't be found on iTunes.
> Within you may find something like an entertainment store
> (HMV/Virgin in the UK) who still continue to stock and sell
> a surprisingly large amount of these "CDs"
Or not. These are a dying breed and have been quickly disappearing since the turn of the century.
The idea that you might find a media store to fit your description in a randomly selected mall is far from a given.
If patents are really the issue then it doesn't matter what RDBMS you choose to install by default.
That is kind of the whole problem with patents in general. They don't just relate to a particular product. They interfere with your ability to use or build a type of product in general.
People seem to be misunderstanding the scope of patents here.
Yes. RAID drives in a box that isn't really meant to be serviced by the end user.
That's exactly what a small business needs.
That's about the dumbest approach you could take. There are much better ways of going about this even if you choose to fixate on Apple products.
Wasting money is still wasting money, no matter how much you try to rationalize it.
Trivializing money is a mentality that just doesn't end well.
No, not really.
Cost will always be an issue. There has also been a movement in the industry to support "larger and cheaper" storage. The idea is to have a "tiered" system where you can put your stuff on storage arrays with variable costs depending on your requirements.
The "archive" use case is actually a pretty big one.
Yeah. Had forgotten about that part.
"Enterprise" drives tend to be small and expensive to begin with. Moving from one variant of this to another is probably not such a big change after all.
This only works out if you have lots of wasted space in your array.
This still comes down to why you would have used SSD 10 years ago before most slashbots ever even heard of the tech: You simply need the IOPS regardless of cost.
I could see eBay having this requirement. The rest of us not so much.