That's a very good explanation about why my phone which was advertised as one of the best performing on the market should be permanently gimped in a way that isn't in my control but my car should have a button to allow it to edge out performance. Thankyou for your insight and the value you brought to this discussion.
I think about this every time some one slashdot says the word "Republican" or "Democrat". But hey you're probably right, after all in the past 20 years all republican presidents have been aggressive war mongers so I imagine it would appear to be bias.
Wow you get those two out of them? Forget the speed, the issues around hardware access, the issues on on exclusive access that creates a huge security issue for lockscreens, the inability to use most of the buttons on a laptop while a locked session is in progress (but yes having to open up and login to a device just to hit the volume down key is totally what we expect from modern 2018 systems).
I'm not going to repeat them all here (because who has the time), this horse has been beaten to death so often it is now a goo of red puree mushed into the carpets. Feel free to google it,... but I'm sure you won't.
The current Apple iPhone is reasonable. Seriously they even include a pulltab on the cable to make the process of replacing it easy. Get yourself the appropriate tools (a whole $10 on ebay) and you can replace the battery in your home without issue.
Or if you have Parkinson disease just take it to any of those little phone shops. They'll replace the battery while you wait.
The authorities here on Slashdot have repeatedly said that right now was the golden age of BSD due to Debian's adoption systemd. There are no Linux users left. BSD is the only system that remains in widespread use.
Actually I think it's more like "think of the security hole". I can't say I disagree with the fact that old software should use the modern way of interacting with a modern system if it wants to work for users.
Expecting full backwards compatibility for everything for ever just invites any script kiddy to take over your computer. It's amazing how we're progressive about protocol adoption and depreciation in Linux,... until it comes to some GUI application that hasn't gotten its act together in the past several years.
Wayland lags behind X functionality in both network awareness and driver support
So things that matter to users of LTS releases and pretty much no one else?
In the meantime there's a laundry list of reasons X.org is a horrible system to use on a desktop. Which is also why you'll see Wayland as the default in 18.10 again.
from what looked like suicidal commitment to a bad idea
So you mean you didn't read the post? The only reason they stepped back from Wayland is because it specifically breaks screen sharing and many developers have not ported their programs to the Wayland way of doing it, as well as architectural issues with Gnome Shell which can bring down the system and are due to be fixed in 4.0
If you think this is some massive backflip and a thumbs up to X.Org, you're going to be very upset when Ubuntu 18.10 is released.
... the Wayland devs kept telling us that no one cares about remoting with X which is why they hardly bothered to work on that side of it. Were they wrong?? Say it ain't so!
Not at all. Remote desktop was always important to a subset of users that were not at all targeted by Wayland. Those same users happen to also be the ones who would use LTS releases of Ubuntu.
If you read the original post they will use Wayland as defaults on all other releases and specifically rushed Wayland to 17.10 to gauge if it will be a default in 18.04LTS. But there are some features that need to be worked on before it will be suitable for LTS release.
Various vested interests have been plying the X Windows is dead, Wayland is the way forward line for a few years now.
And they are right for the use cases they presented. Unfortunately those use cases do not overlap with the use cases of those who jump only between LTS releases of Ubuntu.
WOW! So to be clear, what does Geico do again? Does it fix this situation or cause it? I'm genuinely confused as to why I should download Geico. What was shown in the advertisement seemed to be a horrible experience with no indication that the app would change that at all.
I'm not being funny here. That advert told me nothing about the product other than associate it with a really annoying scenario. Is it a replacement for Skype? Does it invoke a sense of dread without needing to attend a meeting? What did it win an award for? Whoever came up with this should honestly not be in marketing.
Well the current president is comparing nuclear button sizes with a hostile state. The previous republican president waged war on terror, and started a war in Iraq, the republican before that joined the USA in the Gulf War, and the republican before that waged war on drugs.
To be clear you have a colossal idiot bragging about the size of his nuclear button while actively threatening a hostile nuclear capable state that is allied with a very large nuclear capable state.
So for a given rounding error I would say the prediction is pretty damn dire. It may not be worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it sure as hell is worse than some other country simply doing a few tests.
Credibility? You mean having a loonie bragging about the size of his nuclear button while actively taunting a hostile nuclear state isn't grounds for having the same doomsday threat level as we had in the cold war?
Are people just desensitised to the possibility of nuclear war or what?
ready-made "all-day breakfast" sandwich, crammed with egg, bacon and sausage.
Otherwise commonly known as not a fucking sandwich. Which leads to this interesting conclusion: Ready made calorie bomb made with ingredients from an entire meal and is definitely not a sandwich has higher carbon emissions than a sandwich.
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And IBM Power8 and Power9 are also affected by Meltdown, and Oracle has refused to talk about any SPARC systems which are not currently in support.
A joke you won't get.
Sigh, I was aiming for funny but I hit clueless millennial. :-)
You have no idea what you're talking about and
That's a very good explanation about why my phone which was advertised as one of the best performing on the market should be permanently gimped in a way that isn't in my control but my car should have a button to allow it to edge out performance. Thankyou for your insight and the value you brought to this discussion.
need to shut up.
Yes you really really should.
Nothing to do with you. Everything to do with the idiotic parent I was replying to.
There's no deeper thought
I think about this every time some one slashdot says the word "Republican" or "Democrat". But hey you're probably right, after all in the past 20 years all republican presidents have been aggressive war mongers so I imagine it would appear to be bias.
Wow you get those two out of them? Forget the speed, the issues around hardware access, the issues on on exclusive access that creates a huge security issue for lockscreens, the inability to use most of the buttons on a laptop while a locked session is in progress (but yes having to open up and login to a device just to hit the volume down key is totally what we expect from modern 2018 systems).
I'm not going to repeat them all here (because who has the time), this horse has been beaten to death so often it is now a goo of red puree mushed into the carpets. Feel free to google it, ... but I'm sure you won't.
What's "reasonable"?
The current Apple iPhone is reasonable. Seriously they even include a pulltab on the cable to make the process of replacing it easy. Get yourself the appropriate tools (a whole $10 on ebay) and you can replace the battery in your home without issue.
Or if you have Parkinson disease just take it to any of those little phone shops. They'll replace the battery while you wait.
I'd argue this would be an expensive but good idea anyway
The major vendors (including Apple and Samsung) already have this. Users just don't give enough shits to use it.
The authorities here on Slashdot have repeatedly said that right now was the golden age of BSD due to Debian's adoption systemd. There are no Linux users left. BSD is the only system that remains in widespread use.
but you need to "think of the children"
Actually I think it's more like "think of the security hole". I can't say I disagree with the fact that old software should use the modern way of interacting with a modern system if it wants to work for users.
Expecting full backwards compatibility for everything for ever just invites any script kiddy to take over your computer. It's amazing how we're progressive about protocol adoption and depreciation in Linux, ... until it comes to some GUI application that hasn't gotten its act together in the past several years.
Wayland lags behind X functionality in both network awareness and driver support
So things that matter to users of LTS releases and pretty much no one else?
In the meantime there's a laundry list of reasons X.org is a horrible system to use on a desktop. Which is also why you'll see Wayland as the default in 18.10 again.
from what looked like suicidal commitment to a bad idea
So you mean you didn't read the post? The only reason they stepped back from Wayland is because it specifically breaks screen sharing and many developers have not ported their programs to the Wayland way of doing it, as well as architectural issues with Gnome Shell which can bring down the system and are due to be fixed in 4.0
If you think this is some massive backflip and a thumbs up to X.Org, you're going to be very upset when Ubuntu 18.10 is released.
... the Wayland devs kept telling us that no one cares about remoting with X which is why they hardly bothered to work on that side of it. Were they wrong?? Say it ain't so!
Not at all. Remote desktop was always important to a subset of users that were not at all targeted by Wayland. Those same users happen to also be the ones who would use LTS releases of Ubuntu.
If you read the original post they will use Wayland as defaults on all other releases and specifically rushed Wayland to 17.10 to gauge if it will be a default in 18.04LTS. But there are some features that need to be worked on before it will be suitable for LTS release.
But by all means smug on.
Various vested interests have been plying the X Windows is dead, Wayland is the way forward line for a few years now.
And they are right for the use cases they presented. Unfortunately those use cases do not overlap with the use cases of those who jump only between LTS releases of Ubuntu.
Then either there was something wrong with your printer or your guest is a complete moron.
Well fuck, normally I recommend Apple products to complete morons because computers are hard. What are we to do now?
If you spend your time searching for solutions to basic wireless problems on stackoverflow your time is worthless regardless of which system you use.
WOW! So to be clear, what does Geico do again? Does it fix this situation or cause it? I'm genuinely confused as to why I should download Geico. What was shown in the advertisement seemed to be a horrible experience with no indication that the app would change that at all.
I'm not being funny here. That advert told me nothing about the product other than associate it with a really annoying scenario. Is it a replacement for Skype? Does it invoke a sense of dread without needing to attend a meeting? What did it win an award for? Whoever came up with this should honestly not be in marketing.
Well the current president is comparing nuclear button sizes with a hostile state. The previous republican president waged war on terror, and started a war in Iraq, the republican before that joined the USA in the Gulf War, and the republican before that waged war on drugs.
#cherrypickingforfun.
To be clear you have a colossal idiot bragging about the size of his nuclear button while actively threatening a hostile nuclear capable state that is allied with a very large nuclear capable state.
So for a given rounding error I would say the prediction is pretty damn dire. It may not be worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it sure as hell is worse than some other country simply doing a few tests.
Credibility? You mean having a loonie bragging about the size of his nuclear button while actively taunting a hostile nuclear state isn't grounds for having the same doomsday threat level as we had in the cold war?
Are people just desensitised to the possibility of nuclear war or what?
ready-made "all-day breakfast" sandwich, crammed with egg, bacon and sausage.
Otherwise commonly known as not a fucking sandwich. Which leads to this interesting conclusion: Ready made calorie bomb made with ingredients from an entire meal and is definitely not a sandwich has higher carbon emissions than a sandwich.
We are so clever! Science!
For the love of god, don't these idiots have something more important to do? How much do we pay these idiots anyway?
Like what? I mean it's not like Trump is passing any useful legislation in his presidency.
Firefox does this to stop bogging down the browser playing many GIFs at a time. It still loads downloads them completely in the background.
But tell me I have to lock up my phone in a "pouch" and you can shove your concert where the sun doesn't shine.
If people were decent then we wouldn't need rules about decency.
You know, for a Known Nutter you're making a surprising amount of sense :-)