I realise that some patients could be annoying hypochondriacs and very persistent, as well as people showing chronic conditions which don't respond to anything. But I see no reason that a GP in the course of his regular appointments (i.e. not clinical trials or whatever) should prescribe placebos that the illness does not warrant.
It's completely unethical IMO - almost as bad as if a GP prescribed someone homoeopathic medicine. Perhaps some GPs consider it the lesser of two evils, that if they prescribe the person the placebo they're saving them from the potential side effects and risk that a real drug might bring along with it and also saving the NHS some money at the same time. Regardless of the reason, the proper answer is the GPs should work on their "bedside manner" to convey that there is nothing to be gained from prescribing something if the illness is either psychosomatic or wouldn't respond.
Perhaps the only way to stop it from happening is for chemists to refuse to fill such prescriptions or for the government to ban them from doing so except for clinical trials.
That's why I suggested In the extremely unlikely event that the link was relevant to the thread, it could be rescued by designated moderators.
Same goes for the usual racist dross that mods find themselves marking down on every new story. Why bother requiring intervention - just get rank it down and let a mod rescue it if and only if it was somehow relevant.
There is a difference between censorship and moderation. I see no issue with slashdot insta-modding particular kinds of post down to -1, without requiring human mods to do it, e.g. anything linking to goatsex for example or posts with certain keywords that appear within 30 minutes of a story going live.
They could even rank it down to a -2 which is only visible to the randomly designated mods so they can rescue posts that end up there without subjecting everyone else to that shit.
Diesel cars are quite popular in Ireland. I own one I can say it drives pretty much like a petrol vehicle. It's not slow, it's not loud, it starts the same. It's just a car. Where it scores points is it has good fuel consumption (30% better than petrol engines in the same range), lower emissions (meaning lower road tax) and the fuel is taxed for less too. As a consequence of their popularity in Europe diesels tend to cost little more than their petrol counterparts.
Unless I were buying a car too small to accommodate a diesel engine, or a performance car, or a hybrid, I would see absolutely no reason to favour petrol any more. It beggars belief there wouldn't be greater demand for the fuel in the US, especially given the country's penchant for larger vehicles - SUVs and trucks where the fuel savings would be massive.
I like iGoogle too and I do not understand what they expect users to use instead when it goes. I like having a home page where I can slap together some news panels, some rss feeds, some stock info, weather etc. and have it all in a single page load. There is no single Google app for Windows or Android that does that.
I'll have to pick up and move over to Yahoo or MSN or something which offers this home page functionality. And my activity on Google will diminish accordingly. While I'm sure I'll still Google a lot, it certainly won't be to the extent that I did previously. It's not like Bing is a bad search engine anyway.
Your argument is bizarre. Whatever APIs Wayland exposes will be the ones a toolkit will call. It doesn't mean the toolkit must be explicitly aware of running locally or remotely. It's also pretty strange to cite cross platform toolkits that specialize in supporting in multiple backends and shielding client code from the nitty gritty as an argument against Wayland. It's precisely because of toolkits that moving is feasible.
Could? How about will? Every X11 app *will* be network transparent. Every Wayland app *could* be network transparent. See the difference?
Not really. Wayland isn't finished. There are numerous ways that network transparency could be built over it assuming people weren't happy with other ways of remoting which won't suddenly disappear just because the local desktop is Wayland, or Windows, or OS X.
Android runs over QNX, at least in the Playbook / BB10. If they can do it, there is no reason someone else couldn't. Could probably port it over to any Unix-ish kernel assuming it had the drivers to power the hardware.
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
Most apps can be killed by opening the apps task manager and just swiping them away. It doesn't work for background services which are doing stuff like streaming or downloading so in those cases the app itself has to have an explicit action. Most apps do not need an explicit action.
MTP looks great on paper, in practice it is dog slow and buggy. Back to the drawing board please.
I expect this was forced by Microsoft going after people using FAT32 in their devices. Devices which don't have an external SD can use some other FS present a facade onto it via MTP. I do think it's a bit shit though, especially for archives since they must be copied off the drive before they can be opened.
Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
The kernel is a Linux kernel, the remainder is BSD. It would be equally valid to say it's BSD really. Not that I think anybody has been hiding the fact that there is a Linux kernel in there.
Android is not a community project. Fix that.
Tell that to the XDA and Cyanogenmod developers. Both attract substantial community development support.
Largely it doesn't matter. User land is BSD based. Google could potentially shift the thing lock stock and barrel to some other kernel as long as they had the drivers for the new kernel. It's sort of happened already - PlayBook OS and BB10 run a ported Android subsystem over QNX. Apps largely have no reason to even care. I'm kind of surprised that nobody has ported Dalvik and the Android APIs that an app sees and made them run over a standard desktop.
Chrome OS, not Chrome the browser. Basically Google has two operating systems, Android and Chrome OS with a substantial overlap of functionality competing in with each other and on similar devices. It's incredibly divisive and silly and they should have merged the two efforts a long time ago.
These days people don't write X11 applications - they write QT apps or GTK apps. For the majority of them it is probably a matter of changing some compiler and linker settings and they'd work as well against an implementation bound to Wayland. Besides, it's not infeasible that the first thing the QT / GTK runtime does is check for a DISPLAY environment variable and uses a different backend depending on what it says.
As for network transparency, I just said it. X11 can run on top. Or VNC. Or NX. Or whatever transport Wayland provides which could involve shifting bitmap deltas around the network for each surface or extending the rendering pipeline to the client. Perhaps it could even be smart enough to support different strategies. depending on the capabilities of the server and the client and the speed of the network connecting them.
No you don't. What your local GNOME is running over is entirely immaterial if you're running apps hosted by another machine. And there is nothing to stop Linux supporting multiple desktops. Or for Wayland providing something analogous to X11. Or of using VNC in the meantime. It's a fuss over nothing. If someone desperately wants remote apps, there are numerous ways it could be achieved without hobbling the entire desktop with an arcane, cruft laden bottleneck.
And relying on a bloated 3d stack just to draw a damn window isn't a bottleneck?
No it isn't. Modern PCs with a modern GPU will put the windows contents into a texture. Drawing a window is just a matter of telling the GPU to draw a quad with a texture. Drawing them in 3d is just means passing a model-view-projection matrix into the shader at the same time which is something that would happen anyway. 3d is literally for free. And while 3d might be a gimmick, the matrix could be used to render thumbnails, or a gnome shell view of the desktop or whatever.
The fact is that even with X11, modern PCs are using compositors and OpenGL to do the hard work. X11 just makes it jump through extra hoops to get there, and it impedes the desktop in other ways, e.g. click on the screen with the mouse and X11 wants to hit test the coords to send it to the right window but if the window is transformed it has no idea which window it hit. So desktops have to hack around that limitation.
No you can't. This is one of the #1 pieces of FUD about Wayland.
It's not FUD, X11 can run over the top of Windows and OS X. For people whining about needing to run remote apps they can use X11 just as they do now. Or VNC. Or NX. Or whatever transport Wayland provides.
So, how do I get an OSX app up on my Linux box over here using X11?
You fail to comprehend. Though I'm sure there are remote desktop apps for OS X that would serve your purpose, VNC for example. And for Windows.
We have VNC already to show us how much that sucks.
Then don't use it FFS, use X11. Over Wayland. It's not rocket science to understand.
The point (which was a joke) is that if you can effectively kill the other fork then their currency becomes worthless and the additional scarcity of coins on your fork doubles their value. I realise there are all kinds of things wrong with this statement.
I think it's less about the server crashing and more about the fact that modern apps and widgets do their level best to bypass as much of X as possible. They use free type for fonts, cairo for drawing bitmaps, QT / GTK for their widgets, GPU surfaces for windows, extensions for compositing and damage. X is basically this thing which routes keyboard & mouse inputs in one direction and has some hooks to tell the compositor to repaint in the other. The rest is just a bunch of dead code and restrictions getting in the way and slowing everything down.
You could be doing those things over wayland. I can run X11 over Windows or OS X. I assume exactly the same will be possible over Wayland. Not to mention network transports for Wayland at some point - if a window is just as a surface, there is no reason the surface can't be coming from over the network from somewhere else.
No. X11 is a bottle neck. It thinks in 2D, it's full of redundant baggage which nobody uses and all those processes introduce latency. Even X11 developers recognize that it's an impediment in a modern desktop which is why some prominent ones have endorsed work on Wayland.
I wonder what an SEO could do for its money which is actually acceptable to Google's aims of delivering relevant search results. They might optimise the site so it loads fast, or that the landing page includes relevant keywords, or that content is frequently updated - things like that. It doesn't seem like rocket science though and I expect Google and Bing offer tips which enable sites to do these things for themselves.
It's the scummier things that some SEOs might do which make them the enemy of search engines - padding sites with meta tags, astroturfing, incestuously linking to the site from shill sites, hiring people to do automated +1 ranking, spamming forums & blogs with links, click jacking and any other scummy practice they can come up with. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these tactics actually count against a site's relevance if they are discovered.
Why didn't they haul the worst offenders into an office and require them to explain why they weren't logging on for the days they don't show up on VPN. They could sack them on the spot and make an example of them.
The lack of a shutdown is can be quite annoying too. I use my Pi with Raspbmc and you're supposed to select "Power off" from the XBMC menu but it just halts the kernel and the box stays on. So you have to physically pull the plug out when the board is halted.
I'm looking for a hard on / off switches dongle for USB but it would be nice to have a soft power button that could figure out the Pi was in a shut down state and cut the power after some period of inactivity. Maybe the USB charge cable does data too and can send a power-down signal to some simple dongle implementing a soft power switch. Or maybe a dongle containing a dsp could be triggered to soft shutdown through some distinct and recognizable power draw pattern that the Pi could generate when it halts.
EU has been on Microsoft's case for a long time for various monopolistic practices (many which the US lacked the balls to pursue) and putting a browser choice into the OS was one of the terms of settlement amongst others. It's hardly surprising that since Microsoft "forgot" to implement the dialog for a whole 14 months that the EU would smack them with a large fine.
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It's completely unethical IMO - almost as bad as if a GP prescribed someone homoeopathic medicine. Perhaps some GPs consider it the lesser of two evils, that if they prescribe the person the placebo they're saving them from the potential side effects and risk that a real drug might bring along with it and also saving the NHS some money at the same time. Regardless of the reason, the proper answer is the GPs should work on their "bedside manner" to convey that there is nothing to be gained from prescribing something if the illness is either psychosomatic or wouldn't respond.
Perhaps the only way to stop it from happening is for chemists to refuse to fill such prescriptions or for the government to ban them from doing so except for clinical trials.
That's why I suggested In the extremely unlikely event that the link was relevant to the thread, it could be rescued by designated moderators. Same goes for the usual racist dross that mods find themselves marking down on every new story. Why bother requiring intervention - just get rank it down and let a mod rescue it if and only if it was somehow relevant.
They could even rank it down to a -2 which is only visible to the randomly designated mods so they can rescue posts that end up there without subjecting everyone else to that shit.
Unless I were buying a car too small to accommodate a diesel engine, or a performance car, or a hybrid, I would see absolutely no reason to favour petrol any more. It beggars belief there wouldn't be greater demand for the fuel in the US, especially given the country's penchant for larger vehicles - SUVs and trucks where the fuel savings would be massive.
I'll have to pick up and move over to Yahoo or MSN or something which offers this home page functionality. And my activity on Google will diminish accordingly. While I'm sure I'll still Google a lot, it certainly won't be to the extent that I did previously. It's not like Bing is a bad search engine anyway.
Could? How about will? Every X11 app *will* be network transparent. Every Wayland app *could* be network transparent. See the difference?
Not really. Wayland isn't finished. There are numerous ways that network transparency could be built over it assuming people weren't happy with other ways of remoting which won't suddenly disappear just because the local desktop is Wayland, or Windows, or OS X.
Android runs over QNX, at least in the Playbook / BB10. If they can do it, there is no reason someone else couldn't. Could probably port it over to any Unix-ish kernel assuming it had the drivers to power the hardware.
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
Most apps can be killed by opening the apps task manager and just swiping them away. It doesn't work for background services which are doing stuff like streaming or downloading so in those cases the app itself has to have an explicit action. Most apps do not need an explicit action.
MTP looks great on paper, in practice it is dog slow and buggy. Back to the drawing board please.
I expect this was forced by Microsoft going after people using FAT32 in their devices. Devices which don't have an external SD can use some other FS present a facade onto it via MTP. I do think it's a bit shit though, especially for archives since they must be copied off the drive before they can be opened.
Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
The kernel is a Linux kernel, the remainder is BSD. It would be equally valid to say it's BSD really. Not that I think anybody has been hiding the fact that there is a Linux kernel in there.
Android is not a community project. Fix that.
Tell that to the XDA and Cyanogenmod developers. Both attract substantial community development support.
Largely it doesn't matter. User land is BSD based. Google could potentially shift the thing lock stock and barrel to some other kernel as long as they had the drivers for the new kernel. It's sort of happened already - PlayBook OS and BB10 run a ported Android subsystem over QNX. Apps largely have no reason to even care. I'm kind of surprised that nobody has ported Dalvik and the Android APIs that an app sees and made them run over a standard desktop.
Chrome OS, not Chrome the browser. Basically Google has two operating systems, Android and Chrome OS with a substantial overlap of functionality competing in with each other and on similar devices. It's incredibly divisive and silly and they should have merged the two efforts a long time ago.
As for network transparency, I just said it. X11 can run on top. Or VNC. Or NX. Or whatever transport Wayland provides which could involve shifting bitmap deltas around the network for each surface or extending the rendering pipeline to the client. Perhaps it could even be smart enough to support different strategies. depending on the capabilities of the server and the client and the speed of the network connecting them.
No you don't. What your local GNOME is running over is entirely immaterial if you're running apps hosted by another machine. And there is nothing to stop Linux supporting multiple desktops. Or for Wayland providing something analogous to X11. Or of using VNC in the meantime. It's a fuss over nothing. If someone desperately wants remote apps, there are numerous ways it could be achieved without hobbling the entire desktop with an arcane, cruft laden bottleneck.
And relying on a bloated 3d stack just to draw a damn window isn't a bottleneck?
No it isn't. Modern PCs with a modern GPU will put the windows contents into a texture. Drawing a window is just a matter of telling the GPU to draw a quad with a texture. Drawing them in 3d is just means passing a model-view-projection matrix into the shader at the same time which is something that would happen anyway. 3d is literally for free. And while 3d might be a gimmick, the matrix could be used to render thumbnails, or a gnome shell view of the desktop or whatever.
The fact is that even with X11, modern PCs are using compositors and OpenGL to do the hard work. X11 just makes it jump through extra hoops to get there, and it impedes the desktop in other ways, e.g. click on the screen with the mouse and X11 wants to hit test the coords to send it to the right window but if the window is transformed it has no idea which window it hit. So desktops have to hack around that limitation.
No you can't. This is one of the #1 pieces of FUD about Wayland.
It's not FUD, X11 can run over the top of Windows and OS X. For people whining about needing to run remote apps they can use X11 just as they do now. Or VNC. Or NX. Or whatever transport Wayland provides.
So, how do I get an OSX app up on my Linux box over here using X11?
You fail to comprehend. Though I'm sure there are remote desktop apps for OS X that would serve your purpose, VNC for example. And for Windows.
We have VNC already to show us how much that sucks.
Then don't use it FFS, use X11. Over Wayland. It's not rocket science to understand.
The point (which was a joke) is that if you can effectively kill the other fork then their currency becomes worthless and the additional scarcity of coins on your fork doubles their value. I realise there are all kinds of things wrong with this statement.
I think it's less about the server crashing and more about the fact that modern apps and widgets do their level best to bypass as much of X as possible. They use free type for fonts, cairo for drawing bitmaps, QT / GTK for their widgets, GPU surfaces for windows, extensions for compositing and damage. X is basically this thing which routes keyboard & mouse inputs in one direction and has some hooks to tell the compositor to repaint in the other. The rest is just a bunch of dead code and restrictions getting in the way and slowing everything down.
You could be doing those things over wayland. I can run X11 over Windows or OS X. I assume exactly the same will be possible over Wayland. Not to mention network transports for Wayland at some point - if a window is just as a surface, there is no reason the surface can't be coming from over the network from somewhere else.
No. X11 is a bottle neck. It thinks in 2D, it's full of redundant baggage which nobody uses and all those processes introduce latency. Even X11 developers recognize that it's an impediment in a modern desktop which is why some prominent ones have endorsed work on Wayland.
Post 0.8 users - if you fuck over the people on the earlier bitcoin format, the value of your bitcoins effectively DOUBLES!
0.8 and prior users - if you fuck over the people on the later bitcoin format, the value of your bitcoins effectively DOUBLES!
Just ask yourself what Ayn Rand would do in the same situation.
It's the scummier things that some SEOs might do which make them the enemy of search engines - padding sites with meta tags, astroturfing, incestuously linking to the site from shill sites, hiring people to do automated +1 ranking, spamming forums & blogs with links, click jacking and any other scummy practice they can come up with. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these tactics actually count against a site's relevance if they are discovered.
Whatever drugs you're getting are clearly not the right ones.
Why didn't they haul the worst offenders into an office and require them to explain why they weren't logging on for the days they don't show up on VPN. They could sack them on the spot and make an example of them.
I have one of those, unfortunately it's behind the TV.
I'm looking for a hard on / off switches dongle for USB but it would be nice to have a soft power button that could figure out the Pi was in a shut down state and cut the power after some period of inactivity. Maybe the USB charge cable does data too and can send a power-down signal to some simple dongle implementing a soft power switch. Or maybe a dongle containing a dsp could be triggered to soft shutdown through some distinct and recognizable power draw pattern that the Pi could generate when it halts.
EU has been on Microsoft's case for a long time for various monopolistic practices (many which the US lacked the balls to pursue) and putting a browser choice into the OS was one of the terms of settlement amongst others. It's hardly surprising that since Microsoft "forgot" to implement the dialog for a whole 14 months that the EU would smack them with a large fine.