X is simultaneously bloated and full of arcane and obsolete junk that nobody uses any more. X hands most of its stuff off to extensions increasing context switching latency. Most apps are passing around massive pixmaps or complex rendering instructions meaning any supposed advantage X used to have from primitive lists has largely disappeared.
It's obviously a bottleneck and this is why Linux devs (including many noted X developers) are keen to get rid of it.
I'm sure it will take Wayland a while to find its feet and for dists to transition fully but when it does Linux will be better for it. Doesn't stop people running X either - it'll just be over Wayland and probably not noticeably different either.
The Vita TV controller comes with a PS3 dual shock controller. Why didn't they use a variant of the PS4 controller with a touch sensitive pad?
It seems pretty dumb to release a box to play Vita or PS4 games that has a controller that can't even replicate most or all of the control surfaces. The Vita even has a rear touch pad though it's probably the front one that matters most. The Vita TV could draw a little circle to indicate where the user is touching on the screen.
The real reason some manufacturers use aluminium is not because it's a better material but because people think it's "expensive" and they can jack up the price of the phone accordingly. Indeed all the wifi / signal problems that aluminium has caused demonstrate it's a pretty shitty material for devices which contain radio antennas. It also gives a convenient but bogus excuse why the back of the device can't be removed to replace the battery or provide an sd slot.
Of course now there is a plastic iPhone there is even less excuse for not including a removable battery or memory slot.
Because it Wayland has less context switches, especially during compositing and doesn't require marshaling data like inputs & coords into some 2D format like X which is too braindead to understand anything else. Basically it's a bottleneck. Most apps aren't even using X primitives anyway - they're throwing pixmaps or complex drawing instructions around which have been generated in an extension like Xrender.
It should make for a much more responsive desktop. It doesn't stop running X apps either since X can run over Wayland. I expect there will be a transition of at least a year or two when most dists are running both by default until they've ported all the mainstream desktop apps over. Then it's likely that X will be something people have to install rather than a core package.
Domestic consumption as in the rice would be predominantly eaten in the country that grew it to alleviate vitamin A and other mineral deficiencies. Note that this rice is targeted for the Philippines and from TFA mention was made of cassava and sweet potatoes for other countries. So it doesn't follow it would be "forcing them to grow cash crops to export" since it's unlikely that was ever the intention.
They haven't "patented life" they have patented one way of countless of increasing the vitamin & iron content of a staple food. If countries don't want to pay a corp which has put millions, possibly billions into developing this crop with the reasonable expectation of profit then they should develop their own alternative or provide their population with education and supplements that they don't go blind or die.
India obviously has the odd loose billion given they've just built a nuclear sub.
Or just pay the going rate and wait for the patent to expire.
Owned for 20 years, or 12 million alive and 10 million sighted children if you prefer. Then anybody can do what they like with the patent. It also doesn't stop some rival from producing a crop with equivalent properties expressed through some other means.
The UK had people on the ballot representing the Conversative Party and the Literal Democrats. One Liberal candidate euro election lost by a margin less than the number who voted for the Literal Democrats. So the UK changed the system so that political parties had to be registered with a name unlikely to cause confusion with other registered parties, otherwise the candidate could only stand as an independent rather than for a party.
I don't see why big tobacco would be against e-cigs. They can sidestep all the tobacco regulation and sell a product the way they used to before the health warnings, taxes and regulation came in. At least for a little while any way.
The problem at this moment is they are being sold as a glamorous replacement for conventional cigarettes. Sexy people looking cool with their e-cigarette in their hands, attractive packaging, celebrity endorsements and all the rest. It's quite obvious they are being promoted much the same way cigarettes used to be as a lifestyle thing not as a smoking cessation product. From a marketing perspective this makes sense - the product is addictive and companies want their marketshare to grow, not be self-limited. But it's not acceptable from a public health perspective.
I think e-cigarettes *could* be as good as nicotine patches for smoking cessation *if* they were promoted and regulated in the same way. But they're not. At least not yet. I expect most countries will crack down on them in due course.
If that's what you think, then you don't understand the market at all. The majority of people haven't a clue what OS is on their phone.
Hogwash. Pretty much everyone who buys a smart phone knows at least if its an iPhone, a Windows Phone or an Android phone. And even if they are completely ignorant they can be guided by the salesman to the platforms which has the "most apps" on it. It is quite obvious that Android would have been a better fit for Nokia.
Your shouts of bullshit might have more resonance if not for the fact that Nokia lost money hand over fist and just got bought up by Microsoft.
As for Android, it's a very simple thing to understand - people want Android. A phone which doesn't provide Android compatibility is in serious trouble. Nokia could have provided plenty of value add to attract people to its phones over the opposition. It could have provided a Symbian compatibility runtime for legacy users, enterprise functionality for corps, offline satnav & maps and of course its hardware. All while letting people run the same apps as other handsets.
They didn't do this and they suffered the consequences.
Nokia may have left it late to adopt a decent smartphone OS but they could have turned the ship around. The problem putting it bluntly is they backed the wrong smartphone OS. They forced consumers to make a choice between Nokia hardware and an OS with few apps, or another handset with an OS with plenty of apps. Unsurprisingly consumers chose the latter option.
That's great except I expressly said the credit card doesn't work and a prepaid card in Ireland isn't going to be much good for purchases in other countries. And even if I bought a card in USD, if I didn't use up the precise amount I'd be losing out, not to mention any fees or other nasty conditions.
I've also tried Entropay for USD transactions and it is the most aggravating service I've had the displeasure to use. If you fail to use a card in some arbitrary period of time they freeze the card and you have to fuck around sending passport scans to renable it.
All to avoid a service which happens to work quite well for me.
I find my 10" Asus to be a bit bulky to haul around as a tablet but with the keyboard plugged in, it's a little on the small side. I think if I bought a Windows (not RT) tablet, I would do so with one eye on using it as a PC with a desktop and desktop apps. So 10" would be a bare minimum and possibly 11" or 12" would be slightly more comfortable. I'm not sure why Microsoft even bothers with RT any more.
I use PayPal when I can because I don't like having to be hand out my credit card number to every web site I want to do business with or filling out my billing details each time. Also my card and address are in Ireland and lots of sites either don't let me enter the info properly in the billing details, or wait until I have entered the detail and clicked "Pay Now" to turn around and point blank refuse to process the order. I've even seen a few sites which whack a "processing fee" onto a credit card but not a PayPal purchase.
So it's convenient. At the same time, if Visa or Mastercard produced a system which worked as reliably I'd probably use that instead. PayPal is after all trying to be yet another middleman.
I really don't get the mad rush to buy any new console. If I bought a XB1 or a PS4 at launch, at best I'd be paying a premium for a console with only a handful of games to play for months. At worst I could suffer a broken online experience, glitchy firmware (with frequent updates), and possibly even glitchy or bricked hardware.
It took both the XBox 360 and PS3 nearly a year to gather enough titles to justify themselves as platforms and look at all the problems that the 360 had with it's ring of death and grindy DVD drives. The PS3 merely suffered from a high price but it was still a reason to hold back.
I'm sure if either console is successful they'll still be making them 6 or 12 months down the line. No reason to rush.
These cubes could serve as media players, or browsing PCs or just as unobtrusive mail/file/web servers. I'm not sure what's stopping you throwing a Raspberry Pi or some other board into a ruggedized cabinet into the wall of your home if you so wished.
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It's obviously a bottleneck and this is why Linux devs (including many noted X developers) are keen to get rid of it.
I'm sure it will take Wayland a while to find its feet and for dists to transition fully but when it does Linux will be better for it. Doesn't stop people running X either - it'll just be over Wayland and probably not noticeably different either.
It seems pretty dumb to release a box to play Vita or PS4 games that has a controller that can't even replicate most or all of the control surfaces. The Vita even has a rear touch pad though it's probably the front one that matters most. The Vita TV could draw a little circle to indicate where the user is touching on the screen.
Of course now there is a plastic iPhone there is even less excuse for not including a removable battery or memory slot.
It should make for a much more responsive desktop. It doesn't stop running X apps either since X can run over Wayland. I expect there will be a transition of at least a year or two when most dists are running both by default until they've ported all the mainstream desktop apps over. Then it's likely that X will be something people have to install rather than a core package.
"this rice is targeted" -> "this rice trial is targeted"
Domestic consumption as in the rice would be predominantly eaten in the country that grew it to alleviate vitamin A and other mineral deficiencies. Note that this rice is targeted for the Philippines and from TFA mention was made of cassava and sweet potatoes for other countries. So it doesn't follow it would be "forcing them to grow cash crops to export" since it's unlikely that was ever the intention.
I assume this rice given its properties was largely developed for domestic consumption so I don't see that your point is valid.
India obviously has the odd loose billion given they've just built a nuclear sub.
Or just pay the going rate and wait for the patent to expire.
Owned for 20 years, or 12 million alive and 10 million sighted children if you prefer. Then anybody can do what they like with the patent. It also doesn't stop some rival from producing a crop with equivalent properties expressed through some other means.
The UK had people on the ballot representing the Conversative Party and the Literal Democrats. One Liberal candidate euro election lost by a margin less than the number who voted for the Literal Democrats. So the UK changed the system so that political parties had to be registered with a name unlikely to cause confusion with other registered parties, otherwise the candidate could only stand as an independent rather than for a party.
You would have saved yourself a lot of typing if you read the second half of my post. i.e. for people who don't know the sales person can guide them.
I don't see why big tobacco would be against e-cigs. They can sidestep all the tobacco regulation and sell a product the way they used to before the health warnings, taxes and regulation came in. At least for a little while any way.
I think e-cigarettes *could* be as good as nicotine patches for smoking cessation *if* they were promoted and regulated in the same way. But they're not. At least not yet. I expect most countries will crack down on them in due course.
Wow that's very civic minded of you.
There aren't any free libraries - even if you're not paying for them in any way, somebody is.
Sure but now you're paying for 2 libraries.
If that's what you think, then you don't understand the market at all. The majority of people haven't a clue what OS is on their phone.
Hogwash. Pretty much everyone who buys a smart phone knows at least if its an iPhone, a Windows Phone or an Android phone. And even if they are completely ignorant they can be guided by the salesman to the platforms which has the "most apps" on it. It is quite obvious that Android would have been a better fit for Nokia.
As for Android, it's a very simple thing to understand - people want Android. A phone which doesn't provide Android compatibility is in serious trouble. Nokia could have provided plenty of value add to attract people to its phones over the opposition. It could have provided a Symbian compatibility runtime for legacy users, enterprise functionality for corps, offline satnav & maps and of course its hardware. All while letting people run the same apps as other handsets.
They didn't do this and they suffered the consequences.
Nokia may have left it late to adopt a decent smartphone OS but they could have turned the ship around. The problem putting it bluntly is they backed the wrong smartphone OS. They forced consumers to make a choice between Nokia hardware and an OS with few apps, or another handset with an OS with plenty of apps. Unsurprisingly consumers chose the latter option.
I've also tried Entropay for USD transactions and it is the most aggravating service I've had the displeasure to use. If you fail to use a card in some arbitrary period of time they freeze the card and you have to fuck around sending passport scans to renable it.
All to avoid a service which happens to work quite well for me.
I find my 10" Asus to be a bit bulky to haul around as a tablet but with the keyboard plugged in, it's a little on the small side. I think if I bought a Windows (not RT) tablet, I would do so with one eye on using it as a PC with a desktop and desktop apps. So 10" would be a bare minimum and possibly 11" or 12" would be slightly more comfortable. I'm not sure why Microsoft even bothers with RT any more.
Why so sirius?
Because it frequently sells stuff cheaper than other places.
So it's convenient. At the same time, if Visa or Mastercard produced a system which worked as reliably I'd probably use that instead. PayPal is after all trying to be yet another middleman.
It took both the XBox 360 and PS3 nearly a year to gather enough titles to justify themselves as platforms and look at all the problems that the 360 had with it's ring of death and grindy DVD drives. The PS3 merely suffered from a high price but it was still a reason to hold back.
I'm sure if either console is successful they'll still be making them 6 or 12 months down the line. No reason to rush.
These cubes could serve as media players, or browsing PCs or just as unobtrusive mail/file/web servers. I'm not sure what's stopping you throwing a Raspberry Pi or some other board into a ruggedized cabinet into the wall of your home if you so wished.