Scratch is localizable, it's actually running in Hungarian on my Debian desktop. Looking at/usr/share/scratch/locale, it's already translated to over 40 languages.
I continue to see Opera fall. It started with the insistance on the MS WIndows ecosystem instead of bringing the incredible functionality of other OS.
Sorry?... I have been using Opera on Linux since the late 90's. FreeBSD and OSX are also supported as was Solaris for a long time. They are also present on cell phones since forever and the browser in the Nintendo Wii is also Opera. I just do not see that great insistence on the MS Windows ecosystem.
What you should have taken from the FAQ answer is that network transparency is not a function of Wayland, it's not a function of the programs running on Wayland, but the renderer. So as long as you have a renderer that supports network transparency, all the Wayland apps are network-transparent. And I am quite willing to bet a larger sum that the default Wayland renderer will be network transparent.
But I'm not about to shut up about it until the "full stack" exists, has all the features X11 had, and performs better.
Helping with the project instead of complaining seems to be a better idea. Just my $0.02.
"Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?
No, that is outside the scope of Wayland."
Really, everybody should read that and understand it, and also its consequences. Frankly, to me, the idea, that by switching to Wayland will somehow mean that you lose network transparency it just as absurd that by switching to X you lose OpenGL support (which is absolutely not a part of the X protocol - X11 came out in 1987, OpenGL in 1992). So while Wayland itself will not support network transparency, the full stack surely will.
Actually, "Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise" is terribly tabloid in itself. It's not about the size of the eyes (eyeballs) but the percentage of the brain used for visual processing.
No, it just does not work like that. To keep the American viewpoint: compare, for example, WWII and the Vietnam War: the losses in WWII were far-far more numerous than in Vietnam, yet people supported it but the USA had to leave Vietnam by popular demand. Why? Because the Americans thought that fighting the Japanese and the Nazis was justified while they found the war in Vietnam unjust. And this was not because soldiers died there - it was because they photos of naked children running from American napalm bombings and unarmed captives shot in the head*. So no, it's not the dying soldiers that turn the tide of public opinion but the images of brutal inhumanities and you can get those images without soldiers being there: the aforementioned photos were taken by reporters and the collateral murder video is the kind of video that drones record. You need those images to stop the war - or to start it.
People in the military need to be injured or killed in war, to remind everyone that it is fucking terrible and that no one should *want* to do it.
It's stupid and counterproductive. Remember the collateral murder video? That shit was done by soldiers that were there and were very much aware that they could be injured or killed. They lost their better self and killed innocent civilians. Do you really want it? Do you really want drunk soldiers raping and pillaging? Really?
No, I do not think so.
Also, history tells us that being personally in the war is not much of a deterrence, people fought wars practically continuously.
The only interesting thing in the whole machine is the display. It has sane proportions (3:2) and it has a very decent resolution (2560x1700). Basically these were the worst problems of the notebooks of the last few years: the 16:9 display that made no sense whatsoever* and the laughably low resolution. Now it seems that these may go away.
*: please note that I'm talking about the really portable size range where basically the keyboard determines the width of the notebook - in this category the displays did not get wide; they got short, with huge unused spaces above and below them.
Actually the connection between republic and democracy is even looser than you seem to suggest: it's not just that a republic is not necessarily a democracy (or not) but a democracy is not necessarily a republic. Case in point, half of the EU is some kind of monarchy (Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, etc) yet they are representative democracies.
People believe in conspiracy theories because it is way much easier than to actually learn the truth. The great thing about conspiracy theories that you don't have to know the actual facts (in the case of many theories it is actually a hindrance), you don't have to be very rigorous with your logic and if there's any hole in the theory you are welcome to make up any explanation. Compare that to the hard work required to be competent in a real area of knowledge.
Also, your reasoning does not make much sense: you cannot trust the authorities so you believe everything the first nut job tells you? Really?
This paper is about the thought processes, not about the actual truth. Actually there are no guarantees that you can not arrive to a right conclusion using flawed reasoning (however, I don't recall conspiracy theory nutjobs speculating about the LIBOR fixing).
For the life of me, I can not fathom why this "there's no scarcity in the digital world" bullshit is so popular on Slashdot. Of course, there is. There is a scarcity of new content. You can make almost unlimited number of copies of old stuff but for new stuff, you have to invest scarce things (if nothing else, someone's time) and that makes it scarce. And frankly, I don't think that anyone shouting "there's no scarcity" would be happy if the only source of his gaming would be another copy of Super Mario Bros.
Well, actually, there's not much of a change in the mindset: in the heydays of the space race, almost exactly 50 years ago, on January 15, 1973 the Lunkhod 2 landed on Moon - it was the second "robot" (it was more of an RC car) that Russia sent to the Moon (the first one landed in 1970). So the "why send humans when you can just send robots" is not really a new question.
The dollar has value because it can pay a dollars worth of taxes.
That's a typically American belief and not really true. The dollar has value because it is accepted as having value - and, BTW, the same is true for gold. If there were some kind of hyperinflation in the USA the dollar would become worthless (as in no shopkeeper would accept it) despite the fact that you still would have to pay taxes in it.
When Germany jumped into the eurozone, adoption of the euro was extremely slow until the year that Germany required all taxes be paid in euros, and in that year almost everyone converted.
That's utter bullshit. On 01.01.2002 the Euro became THE German currency and that was it, period. And before that there was no Euro in cash form, so no, there was no "adoption period".
in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
Problem is, only widespread connection problem I have encountered in the real world is BGA packages breaking off the mobo in laptops. Considering this, I prefer sockets to keep connections intact.
When my house is made of steel and concrete, it's not on fire
Well, it can be. Around here there are lots of high-rise buildings built of steel-reinforced concrete. Let me tell you: they can burn. Not the concrete, mind you, but all the stuff that's in there, their burning generates enough heat that the fire can spread in the building.
I am again and again surprised by the inability of the Slashdot crowd to grasp such a simple concept as "first to file" and keeping spouting idiotic comments about it. If you think that "first to X" has anything to do with open source software, you failed to grasp it.
Let me elaborate a little: this firstness only applies when two people/groups try to patent the very same thing at (roughly) the same time. Since open source authors generally do not patent anything, it does not affect them. It also does not affect the prior art rule - if it's already public knowledge, you can't patent it (or at least you should not be able as per the rules).
Actually your comment is a very nice example of what/. has come to: a lot of users who are unable to grasp even relatively simple technical matters. For what it's worth, he is recommending to handle the problem the same way as bastions of "userfriendliness" and "non-linuxness" (namely the gaming consoles: Xbox, Playstation, Wii) handle it.
Is it just me, or does this thing really looks like four fullHD 42" panels put together in a single frame? Granted, it needs some new electronics to control it, but it does not strike me as something revolutionary, just an application of existing technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly :)
Scratch is localizable, it's actually running in Hungarian on my Debian desktop. Looking at /usr/share/scratch/locale, it's already translated to over 40 languages.
Sorry?... I have been using Opera on Linux since the late 90's. FreeBSD and OSX are also supported as was Solaris for a long time. They are also present on cell phones since forever and the browser in the Nintendo Wii is also Opera.
I just do not see that great insistence on the MS Windows ecosystem.
What you should have taken from the FAQ answer is that network transparency is not a function of Wayland, it's not a function of the programs running on Wayland, but the renderer. So as long as you have a renderer that supports network transparency, all the Wayland apps are network-transparent. And I am quite willing to bet a larger sum that the default Wayland renderer will be network transparent.
Helping with the project instead of complaining seems to be a better idea. Just my $0.02.
Well, I should quote the Wayland FAQ here:
"Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?
No, that is outside the scope of Wayland."
Really, everybody should read that and understand it, and also its consequences. Frankly, to me, the idea, that by switching to Wayland will somehow mean that you lose network transparency it just as absurd that by switching to X you lose OpenGL support (which is absolutely not a part of the X protocol - X11 came out in 1987, OpenGL in 1992). So while Wayland itself will not support network transparency, the full stack surely will.
Actually, "Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise" is terribly tabloid in itself. It's not about the size of the eyes (eyeballs) but the percentage of the brain used for visual processing.
No, it just does not work like that. To keep the American viewpoint: compare, for example, WWII and the Vietnam War: the losses in WWII were far-far more numerous than in Vietnam, yet people supported it but the USA had to leave Vietnam by popular demand.
Why?
Because the Americans thought that fighting the Japanese and the Nazis was justified while they found the war in Vietnam unjust. And this was not because soldiers died there - it was because they photos of naked children running from American napalm bombings and unarmed captives shot in the head*. So no, it's not the dying soldiers that turn the tide of public opinion but the images of brutal inhumanities and you can get those images without soldiers being there: the aforementioned photos were taken by reporters and the collateral murder video is the kind of video that drones record. You need those images to stop the war - or to start it.
*: and they did not had the context for it
It's stupid and counterproductive.
Remember the collateral murder video? That shit was done by soldiers that were there and were very much aware that they could be injured or killed. They lost their better self and killed innocent civilians. Do you really want it? Do you really want drunk soldiers raping and pillaging? Really?
No, I do not think so.
Also, history tells us that being personally in the war is not much of a deterrence, people fought wars practically continuously.
The only interesting thing in the whole machine is the display.
It has sane proportions (3:2) and it has a very decent resolution (2560x1700). Basically these were the worst problems of the notebooks of the last few years: the 16:9 display that made no sense whatsoever* and the laughably low resolution. Now it seems that these may go away.
*: please note that I'm talking about the really portable size range where basically the keyboard determines the width of the notebook - in this category the displays did not get wide; they got short, with huge unused spaces above and below them.
Actually the connection between republic and democracy is even looser than you seem to suggest: it's not just that a republic is not necessarily a democracy (or not) but a democracy is not necessarily a republic. Case in point, half of the EU is some kind of monarchy (Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, etc) yet they are representative democracies.
People believe in conspiracy theories because it is way much easier than to actually learn the truth. The great thing about conspiracy theories that you don't have to know the actual facts (in the case of many theories it is actually a hindrance), you don't have to be very rigorous with your logic and if there's any hole in the theory you are welcome to make up any explanation. Compare that to the hard work required to be competent in a real area of knowledge.
Also, your reasoning does not make much sense: you cannot trust the authorities so you believe everything the first nut job tells you? Really?
This paper is about the thought processes, not about the actual truth. Actually there are no guarantees that you can not arrive to a right conclusion using flawed reasoning (however, I don't recall conspiracy theory nutjobs speculating about the LIBOR fixing).
I herd you like conspiration theories
That is certainly a lot more modern, than silicone, which is about 14 billion years old.
Could we skip this bullshit? This nanopaper most certainly don't have too much in common with the paper made 2000 years ago.
For the life of me, I can not fathom why this "there's no scarcity in the digital world" bullshit is so popular on Slashdot. Of course, there is. There is a scarcity of new content. You can make almost unlimited number of copies of old stuff but for new stuff, you have to invest scarce things (if nothing else, someone's time) and that makes it scarce.
And frankly, I don't think that anyone shouting "there's no scarcity" would be happy if the only source of his gaming would be another copy of Super Mario Bros.
Well, actually, there's not much of a change in the mindset: in the heydays of the space race, almost exactly 50 years ago, on January 15, 1973 the Lunkhod 2 landed on Moon - it was the second "robot" (it was more of an RC car) that Russia sent to the Moon (the first one landed in 1970).
So the "why send humans when you can just send robots" is not really a new question.
That's a typically American belief and not really true. The dollar has value because it is accepted as having value - and, BTW, the same is true for gold. If there were some kind of hyperinflation in the USA the dollar would become worthless (as in no shopkeeper would accept it) despite the fact that you still would have to pay taxes in it.
That's utter bullshit. On 01.01.2002 the Euro became THE German currency and that was it, period. And before that there was no Euro in cash form, so no, there was no "adoption period".
Because they:
1. Don't care much about that difference
and
2. Buy lots of them in which case it's a saving of not 10$ but 30% - and that's a lot.
I wonder how many /. readers realise, that KOHCTPYKTOR is basically "constructor" in lowercase Cyrillic letters.
Problem is, only widespread connection problem I have encountered in the real world is BGA packages breaking off the mobo in laptops. Considering this, I prefer sockets to keep connections intact.
You mean just the same way as it happened with humans?...
Well, it can be. Around here there are lots of high-rise buildings built of steel-reinforced concrete. Let me tell you: they can burn. Not the concrete, mind you, but all the stuff that's in there, their burning generates enough heat that the fire can spread in the building.
I am again and again surprised by the inability of the Slashdot crowd to grasp such a simple concept as "first to file" and keeping spouting idiotic comments about it.
If you think that "first to X" has anything to do with open source software, you failed to grasp it.
Let me elaborate a little: this firstness only applies when two people/groups try to patent the very same thing at (roughly) the same time. Since open source authors generally do not patent anything, it does not affect them. It also does not affect the prior art rule - if it's already public knowledge, you can't patent it (or at least you should not be able as per the rules).
Actually your comment is a very nice example of what /. has come to: a lot of users who are unable to grasp even relatively simple technical matters.
For what it's worth, he is recommending to handle the problem the same way as bastions of "userfriendliness" and "non-linuxness" (namely the gaming consoles: Xbox, Playstation, Wii) handle it.
Is it just me, or does this thing really looks like four fullHD 42" panels put together in a single frame? Granted, it needs some new electronics to control it, but it does not strike me as something revolutionary, just an application of existing technology.