they won't have to scale and extend the way they think they might
Wow, talk about short sighted.
Good design is important for maintainability and scalability, yes. But it's *FAR MORE* important for testability.
Abstract classes, interfaces, etc, encourage loose coupling between code, and *that* leads to code that's unit testable. It *also* happens to produce code that's generally modular, extensible, and easily refactored. But that's just a pleasant side-effect.
While you're not wrong, per se, you do seem to be a bit behind the times...
And every single one of your "counter-arguments" is absurd. Why did you even bother? I mean, really, you couldn't spend the time to come up with something at least seemingly lucid? I mean, really...
If you think email is going away, you're delusional.
If you think DNS isn't used for round-robin load-balancing and failover, you haven't resolved www.google.com... ever.
If you think "Virtual hosting sucks" and that "That could stop and only the providers would notice or care", you live in a fantasy world.
In both cases, after the trial, several jurors said that they were horrified, and that if they had had any idea of the full facts, they would have voted differently.
If this information was so important, why didn't the prosecution bring it up? Why didn't they appeal? Demand a mistrial? Go to the media?
Could it be that the information was bad? Perhaps illegally obtained?
No. That can't be it. There can't be a good reason the information was omitted. No, the *judge* is simply biased.
Good lord I hope you never land on a jury... the last thing we need is morons like you looking up colloquial definitions of legal terms, and then making decisions based on bad information you looked up on some random jackass' website.
Some of the cables shed light on why closing down Guantanamo is so hard.
Agreed. Why? Because the US doesn't have the balls to try them as criminals. If they're criminals, trial and imprisonment are perfectly reasonable, and the US should have no need to attempt to return them to their country of origin. If they're innocent, the US should have no trouble returning them to their country of origin.
But, of course, the US government is spineless, the citizenry doubly so.
While he himself didn't go to the US, the drugs were traced back to him and US agents had him extradited to the States where he spent several years in prison - and that was in the late 1980's.
Sure, but in that case, one can reasonably argue that he was involved in illegal activity in the United States itself. Assange, OTOH, has done nothing on US soil.
'course, he hasn't broken any US laws, either, but that doesn't stop people from demanding blood.
So... your solution to providing access to higher education without limiting it to the rich, or saddling people with massive debt, is to either a) put people through the military (translation, have the government pay for it, anyway), or b) limit it to the top few percent who can gain access to scholarships.
Err... you mean the models the conspiracy theorists like to believe exist, which would link solar activity to global warming? The ones that would've predicted a decline in the warming trend over the last solar minimum. A decline that, well, didn't happen?
Oh ffs... yes, I'm sure all NoScript users disable all javascript on all sites all the time.
Please.
Hell, I have NoScript automatically whitelist all subdomains, specifically because I *want* JS to work, I just don't third-party crap to work (unless I've whitelisted it).
This first shows up as a micro-crunch - being 12 days short of being able to pay rent is enough for people to lose their homes
This isn't a "micro-crunch", this is evidence of someone who's failed at life.
The lack of a controlled budget, proper savings, and an emergency fund to cover off surprises is illustrative of a financial illness for which credit card use is a symptom, not a cure.
Credit cards have their use, yes, primarily in the avenue of consumer protection (it's far easier to convince a CC company to reverse a charge than a bank to give you your savings back). But they are *not* useful as a financial crutch, as they simply act to exacerbate the problem by adding unmanageable debt to the equation.
Yeah, I'm not getting one of these things until the pixel density jumps up a fair bit... 1024xanything is just absurd for a device like this. At an absolute bare minimum, 1366x768 (or 1366x1024, for a 4x3-form-factor device) IPS seems like a no-brainer.
Virtualization, in my server/workstation experience, has three major benefits
And yet you don't mention sandboxing, which is one of the things this article touches on.
*Many* people around here have advocated VMs as a way to protect your personal data from potentially malicious software, to the point of even suggesting browsers should be run under such an environment. The fact that *you* don't see that as a benefit doesn't mean said benefit doesn't exist.
Anyway this whole "dark matter" thing sounds to me like the hypothetical "aether"
And every time I read that, it sounds to me like another arrogant, know-it-all Slashdotter who thinks he's smarter than the thousands and thousands of PhD's who've studied this topic... despite only knowing enough about DM to state that it 'has to do with gravity', while not even 'understanding 'the "dark energy" part or how that's measured'.
Hey, it's an underserved demographic. People who completely ignore science, hard evidence, and rational thought need entertainment too, and what the heck!
What, are the cable news channels not good enough for these people??
Any time anyone says you "JUST" have to do X to get Y you can bet you aren't dealing with a person who knows what is actually involved or who will be doing the real work.
You'd be wrong. And a presumptive jackass, too.
As for the rest of your post, it's basically content-less bitching. The simple fact is, there *is* a simple transition mechanism available (X-over-Wayland). How "hard" or "easy" it will be to port apps to the Wayland backend will depend entirely on the quality of the implementation. But there is nothing fundamentally tricky involved.
I'm not saying one way or the other their reasons, but at almost literally a dime a dozen (gigabytes), "storage limitations" are an extremely poor excuse.
Not if the data is mirrored across a large number of servers, all of which would have to be upgraded. It's just simpler to move the "less popular" content out of the way.
That said, this is a guess. All I'm saying is that there are *many* possible reasons why WL may have pulled the other stuff. "They're anti-American" seems the *least* plausible, IMHO.
Personally, I find it fascinating that the author repeatedly states that WikiLeaks and its supporters are members of the (presumably pejorative) "hard left"...
Because once the toolkits are migrated over to have native Wayland backends, they feel it'll provide a better user experience. Will that be true? I don't know, I haven't looked too deeply at Wayland.
The point is, there *is* a migration path. But they fully intend for migration to happen, at least for Gnome/Gtk and KDE/Qt applications.
Maybe so and I do not applaud this behaviour but please don't generalize the entire organisation for a slip-up in a TITLE
Funny how you conveniently forget they also initially only released an *edited* copy of the video... but other than that, yeah, they totally weren't editorializing...
Yes, and at one point you could actually ACCESS those non-US-gov't leaks. Now however, all that is on their website is the last few gigantic anti-US leaks. Thoughts on why that might be?
Storage limitations are the most obvious. With limited disk space, you prioritize the popular stuff, and like it or not, that's the US Iraq and cable leaks.
Let's face it, there's no other *good* reason. Bias makes no sense... the material was there before. So, what, they suddenly became rabidly anti-American overnight, and decided to express that by removing non-US-related material? Please.
Apps usually don't talk directly to X11. The GUI toolkit does. If Ubuntu can get QT and GTK+ ported to Wayland (which has already been underway for a while) then most apps are merely a recompile (plus some minor tweaking) away from being native Wayland apps.
You don't even need to recompile. Those apps are dynamically linked to their respective toolkit libraries. So long as the libraries maintain ABI compatibility, they can implement a new rendering subsystem, and the apps would never know.
There doesn't need to be. Just provide an X server on top of the Wayland graphics engine, and continue to use your old X apps. This allows for an easy transition to Wayland for those apps that would benefit from it.
Furthermore, if you implement said support down at the toolkit level (ie, Gtk and Qt), the apps needn't even realize they're running over Wayland.
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they won't have to scale and extend the way they think they might
Wow, talk about short sighted.
Good design is important for maintainability and scalability, yes. But it's *FAR MORE* important for testability.
Abstract classes, interfaces, etc, encourage loose coupling between code, and *that* leads to code that's unit testable. It *also* happens to produce code that's generally modular, extensible, and easily refactored. But that's just a pleasant side-effect.
In short, simple is good. Simplistic is not.
While you're not wrong, per se, you do seem to be a bit behind the times...
And every single one of your "counter-arguments" is absurd. Why did you even bother? I mean, really, you couldn't spend the time to come up with something at least seemingly lucid? I mean, really...
If you think email is going away, you're delusional.
If you think DNS isn't used for round-robin load-balancing and failover, you haven't resolved www.google.com... ever.
If you think "Virtual hosting sucks" and that "That could stop and only the providers would notice or care", you live in a fantasy world.
In both cases, after the trial, several jurors said that they were horrified, and that if they had had any idea of the full facts, they would have voted differently.
If this information was so important, why didn't the prosecution bring it up? Why didn't they appeal? Demand a mistrial? Go to the media?
Could it be that the information was bad? Perhaps illegally obtained?
No. That can't be it. There can't be a good reason the information was omitted. No, the *judge* is simply biased.
Yeah. Sure, buddy. Sure.
Good lord I hope you never land on a jury... the last thing we need is morons like you looking up colloquial definitions of legal terms, and then making decisions based on bad information you looked up on some random jackass' website.
Some of the cables shed light on why closing down Guantanamo is so hard.
Agreed. Why? Because the US doesn't have the balls to try them as criminals. If they're criminals, trial and imprisonment are perfectly reasonable, and the US should have no need to attempt to return them to their country of origin. If they're innocent, the US should have no trouble returning them to their country of origin.
But, of course, the US government is spineless, the citizenry doubly so.
While he himself didn't go to the US, the drugs were traced back to him and US agents had him extradited to the States where he spent several years in prison - and that was in the late 1980's.
Sure, but in that case, one can reasonably argue that he was involved in illegal activity in the United States itself. Assange, OTOH, has done nothing on US soil.
'course, he hasn't broken any US laws, either, but that doesn't stop people from demanding blood.
Says the guy who evidentally doesn't realize DNS is more than just a simple name-IP mapping scheme.
DNS is what allows your email client to figure out who the mail exchanger is for a domain. Without it, email wouldn't work.
DNS allows for failover and round-robin load balancing for services.
DNS and the Host header make HTTP virtual hosting possible.
Dynamic DNS allows one to have a constant, logical name, even if an underlying IP is changing.
I'm sure there are many others... these are just the first few that immediately come to mind.
So... your solution to providing access to higher education without limiting it to the rich, or saddling people with massive debt, is to either a) put people through the military (translation, have the government pay for it, anyway), or b) limit it to the top few percent who can gain access to scholarships.
Uhuh. Screwy, indeed.
So, just OOC, which one did *you* do?
Err... you mean the models the conspiracy theorists like to believe exist, which would link solar activity to global warming? The ones that would've predicted a decline in the warming trend over the last solar minimum. A decline that, well, didn't happen?
*Those* models?
Oh ffs... yes, I'm sure all NoScript users disable all javascript on all sites all the time.
Please.
Hell, I have NoScript automatically whitelist all subdomains, specifically because I *want* JS to work, I just don't third-party crap to work (unless I've whitelisted it).
This first shows up as a micro-crunch - being 12 days short of being able to pay rent is enough for people to lose their homes
This isn't a "micro-crunch", this is evidence of someone who's failed at life.
The lack of a controlled budget, proper savings, and an emergency fund to cover off surprises is illustrative of a financial illness for which credit card use is a symptom, not a cure.
Credit cards have their use, yes, primarily in the avenue of consumer protection (it's far easier to convince a CC company to reverse a charge than a bank to give you your savings back). But they are *not* useful as a financial crutch, as they simply act to exacerbate the problem by adding unmanageable debt to the equation.
Yeah, I'm not getting one of these things until the pixel density jumps up a fair bit... 1024xanything is just absurd for a device like this. At an absolute bare minimum, 1366x768 (or 1366x1024, for a 4x3-form-factor device) IPS seems like a no-brainer.
Virtualization, in my server/workstation experience, has three major benefits
And yet you don't mention sandboxing, which is one of the things this article touches on.
*Many* people around here have advocated VMs as a way to protect your personal data from potentially malicious software, to the point of even suggesting browsers should be run under such an environment. The fact that *you* don't see that as a benefit doesn't mean said benefit doesn't exist.
Anyway this whole "dark matter" thing sounds to me like the hypothetical "aether"
And every time I read that, it sounds to me like another arrogant, know-it-all Slashdotter who thinks he's smarter than the thousands and thousands of PhD's who've studied this topic... despite only knowing enough about DM to state that it 'has to do with gravity', while not even 'understanding 'the "dark energy" part or how that's measured'.
Hey, it's an underserved demographic. People who completely ignore science, hard evidence, and rational thought need entertainment too, and what the heck!
What, are the cable news channels not good enough for these people??
That's called dynamic range, and it's the exact *opposite* problem of commercials, which compress everything so they seem louder.
$200 million junkets to India
Aww, you swallowed the Tea Party kool-aid. How cute.
Seriously, dude, turn off the FOX News and the Druge Report. It's rotting your brain.
You're a manager, aren't you?
Any time anyone says you "JUST" have to do X to get Y you can bet you aren't dealing with a person who knows what is actually involved or who will be doing the real work.
You'd be wrong. And a presumptive jackass, too.
As for the rest of your post, it's basically content-less bitching. The simple fact is, there *is* a simple transition mechanism available (X-over-Wayland). How "hard" or "easy" it will be to port apps to the Wayland backend will depend entirely on the quality of the implementation. But there is nothing fundamentally tricky involved.
I'm not saying one way or the other their reasons, but at almost literally a dime a dozen (gigabytes), "storage limitations" are an extremely poor excuse.
Not if the data is mirrored across a large number of servers, all of which would have to be upgraded. It's just simpler to move the "less popular" content out of the way.
That said, this is a guess. All I'm saying is that there are *many* possible reasons why WL may have pulled the other stuff. "They're anti-American" seems the *least* plausible, IMHO.
Personally, I find it fascinating that the author repeatedly states that WikiLeaks and its supporters are members of the (presumably pejorative) "hard left"...
Then why ditch Xorg?
Because once the toolkits are migrated over to have native Wayland backends, they feel it'll provide a better user experience. Will that be true? I don't know, I haven't looked too deeply at Wayland.
The point is, there *is* a migration path. But they fully intend for migration to happen, at least for Gnome/Gtk and KDE/Qt applications.
Maybe so and I do not applaud this behaviour but please don't generalize the entire organisation for a slip-up in a TITLE
Funny how you conveniently forget they also initially only released an *edited* copy of the video... but other than that, yeah, they totally weren't editorializing...
Yes, and at one point you could actually ACCESS those non-US-gov't leaks. Now however, all that is on their website is the last few gigantic anti-US leaks. Thoughts on why that might be?
Storage limitations are the most obvious. With limited disk space, you prioritize the popular stuff, and like it or not, that's the US Iraq and cable leaks.
Let's face it, there's no other *good* reason. Bias makes no sense... the material was there before. So, what, they suddenly became rabidly anti-American overnight, and decided to express that by removing non-US-related material? Please.
Apps usually don't talk directly to X11. The GUI toolkit does. If Ubuntu can get QT and GTK+ ported to Wayland (which has already been underway for a while) then most apps are merely a recompile (plus some minor tweaking) away from being native Wayland apps.
You don't even need to recompile. Those apps are dynamically linked to their respective toolkit libraries. So long as the libraries maintain ABI compatibility, they can implement a new rendering subsystem, and the apps would never know.
Are there any Wayland native apps yet?
There doesn't need to be. Just provide an X server on top of the Wayland graphics engine, and continue to use your old X apps. This allows for an easy transition to Wayland for those apps that would benefit from it.
Furthermore, if you implement said support down at the toolkit level (ie, Gtk and Qt), the apps needn't even realize they're running over Wayland.