"Unseating X" is not what Wayland will do, at least not anytime soon. Even X's developers realize that X's architecture has gone a little stale given the current desktop use cases, so they are working to make X a Wayland client. X is likely not going to go away for another 10+ years at least, provided every X app ever developed gets converted into a native Wayland app... And that's a LONG time off on the horizon.
Wayland NAILED it where every attempt to replace X outright prior to it, failed miserably. Wayland is the future only because it allows X programs to run -unmodified-, while at the same time providing a new, more performant window server.
Wayland is the bridge to the future, along with X.
They threw the dirty water out with the baby, a common knee jerk reaction in such cases - they need time to sort it out, so cut'em some slack! I'll bet you all of the sites that were taken down will come back up, minus the libelous content.
You don't want me claiming you're a transsexual on my netsavior-out-of-the-closet.com website, do you, along with other content protecting the rights of transsexuals (unless of course, you are..)?
So what action besides writing about something that you care about have you taken about the Rwandan genocide once u found out about it and what action will you take now that McBride is gone, to, presumably, prevent future McBrides from repeating?
I am not being facetious or mocking - but when someone says they care, which is a word that describes empathic feelings, I find that people do not do much past just saying "I care...". Eg I care to see Obama's healthcare reform get passed. Thus I call those iwe voted in office who can actually do something about the bill's passage, as well as donated 50 to OFA.
I love to see people care but what really moves me is when one does a bit more than just expressing their views on a board where the impact is minimal to nonexistent.
99.9% of murderers get caught because there was a motive to the murder, and motive induces doubt. Hans did have a motive - and whether there was hard evidence linking him to the crime or not, it doesn't place Hans beyond reasonable doubt.
In other words, if 12 people (your peers) agree on their doubts of you, even without the hard evidence linking him to the crime scene, you can kiss your ass good bye.
So the question Hans should've been asking himself before he offed his wife, was "Am I/my story believeable enough to others?" - which he obviously hadn't....
If they come up with a Netflix-like business model, where you can get a certain # of hours per month (or better yet, unlimited, one movie at a time though) for a nominal, flat fee, they will get to live up to their name - they will be a real BLOCKBUSTER!
.. it's also the applications people run/use. Port that to Linux, and I guarantee you this change will be far smoother than you think.
Personally, I'd like to see the OSX type of GUI, PDF-centric all over, but... I'm not sure if Jobs is feeling that generous, yet, to give that away so it can be adapted to Linux.
Desktop apps along with a solid GUI (not necessarily X-based), is the last mile for Linux....to major domination on the desktop.
Your post reminded me of a ST:TNG episode ("Ship in a bottle"), where Prof. Moriarty, a holodeck creation, somehow 'automagically' attains self-awareness and becomes a sentient human being, wishing to get off the holodeck and into the 3D world that Picard and his crew inhabit, but finds it to be an impossible task, even though he shakes down the enterprise after he gets a little annoyed with how little progress the crew has made with helping him get off the ship's holodeck.
I would gladly trade places with Prof Moriarty right now, even though I'm of human form, if I knew I could live inside a machine, as an energy form, be self-aware and in some sense 'immortal' (until you pull the power plug I guess:), rather than wait until my body degrades and rots around age 75-100 (on average).
It seems any 'meaning' a computer is aware or capable of processing, can only be created by humans (e.g. a computer has no inherent creational abilities as humans do). Can one possibly add the 'ultimate' algorithm to mimic _all_ human behavior, 100%, e.g. recreate Mr. Data and his 'positronic matrix' (along with the 'emotion chip')? Sounds great, though I think we're to become Borg (human-machine interface) before we become (or create, rather) Mr. Data (a pure computer application w/out any human component)...
Becoming your own God is cool... but seems hardly attainable so far:).
Well, the litmus test of whether this would be funny is if you were black, and around the age of 13-16. If you are still laughing then, you're free to mod the parent up as 'Funny'.
It's got nothing to do with Slashdot. What's 'funny' is as relative as the universe... If I said some of the thing I find funny, someone may even shoot me... So much for freedom of speech, right?
Do you work for free? Or can you not use an extra $1000/month (or whatever amount)?
I understand the context from which you are calling others 'greedy' - but before you do that, try and have a look in the mirror to see if there was any instance where you may have been less than, shall we say, humble...?
C. C is going to stick around for a while longer before it becomes obsolete. There will always be a need for super-optimized applications, that have to run 'close to the metal', and C is like one step above assembly language, nearly as efficient.
The only serious contender to replace it in real-time environments is probably Java RTS, but since I haven't played with Java RTS, I can't really say anything... and even if Java RTS takes off, in the end, it still is going to end up looking a lot like C, insofar that garbage collection can not be a part of it, which basically reverts Java to a C-like language, with predictable timing needed for real-time apps.... one of the major reasons Java spread like wildfire was the JVM's garbage collecting capability, which isn't necessarily (to the best of my knowledge) useful in soft/hard real-time envs.
If someone has experience with Java RTS, please share... I'm curious.
I can already see the headlines now - "Dell called Linux nemesis by X, Y or Z", after they discontinue their desktop/laptop Linux PC sales for lack of consumer demand.
Anyone wanna bet on this?:) It's not a long bet, so come on... put your money where your mouth is.
Stop bitching at Microsoft. That's all I can say. If you don't like anything they do, stop using their products (this wasn't aimed at you btw, it is aimed at everyone who "resents" them).
I know someone probably posted this but I'm too lazy to read so I'm gonna run the risk of repeating what's already been said 100 times before - YOU CAN NOT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO!
Handling input as well as storing it in appropriate data structures is, in my ignorant opinion of neuroscience (as well), most likely different, because one involves just input/storage, the other one is using 'algorithms' to solve a particular task at hand.
Rather than be Kurzweill-ish with predictions in his "Singularity Is Near" book, I'll say that we're probably on our way toward becoming Borg-like before we become machines or pure energy with human-like intelligence.
I do believe, lest we kill ourselves in the interim, we will ascend to a greater civilizational existence than what we currently have achieved, perhaps even evolve into a form of energy that can travel the universe at light speeds, while retaining consciousness.
If matter is constant in the universe (one of the theories), then I suppose all we are doing is just transforming it. Or even if it isn't constant, we're transforming what is in the past and bringing that into what we know as the future.
It quite blows my mind when I read Kurzweill actually....
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"Unseating X" is not what Wayland will do, at least not anytime soon. Even X's developers realize that X's architecture has gone a little stale given the current desktop use cases, so they are working to make X a Wayland client. X is likely not going to go away for another 10+ years at least, provided every X app ever developed gets converted into a native Wayland app... And that's a LONG time off on the horizon.
Wayland NAILED it where every attempt to replace X outright prior to it, failed miserably. Wayland is the future only because it allows X programs to run -unmodified-, while at the same time providing a new, more performant window server.
Wayland is the bridge to the future, along with X.
Microsoft tried to kill UNIX and its many flavors since Windows NT 4.0... that turned out well as you can see.
Apple suffers from the all natural opiate of self-love ... or in other words, vanity.
are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
They threw the dirty water out with the baby, a common knee jerk reaction in such cases - they need time to sort it out, so cut'em some slack! I'll bet you all of the sites that were taken down will come back up, minus the libelous content.
You don't want me claiming you're a transsexual on my netsavior-out-of-the-closet.com website, do you, along with other content protecting the rights of transsexuals (unless of course, you are..)?
So what action besides writing about something that you care about have you taken about the Rwandan genocide once u found out about it and what action will you take now that McBride is gone, to, presumably, prevent future McBrides from repeating?
I am not being facetious or mocking - but when someone says they care, which is a word that describes empathic feelings, I find that people do not do much past just saying "I care...". Eg I care to see Obama's healthcare reform get passed. Thus I call those iwe voted in office who can actually do something about the bill's passage, as well as donated 50 to OFA.
I love to see people care but what really moves me is when one does a bit more than just expressing their views on a board where the impact is minimal to nonexistent.
It's TiVo suing AT&T, not the other way around.
Sir, I respectfully beg to differ - you are confusing TiVo with the SCO Group, headed by their troll-in-charge, Darl McBride.
"How would you go about protecting the document and yourself?""
Ensure that the document is truthful, e.g. it is what happened and not some story/opinion/view.
Isn't that just another way of saying, ignorance is bliss? :)
99.9% of murderers get caught because there was a motive to the murder, and motive induces doubt. Hans did have a motive - and whether there was hard evidence linking him to the crime or not, it doesn't place Hans beyond reasonable doubt.
In other words, if 12 people (your peers) agree on their doubts of you, even without the hard evidence linking him to the crime scene, you can kiss your ass good bye.
So the question Hans should've been asking himself before he offed his wife, was "Am I/my story believeable enough to others?" - which he obviously hadn't....
If they come up with a Netflix-like business model, where you can get a certain # of hours per month (or better yet, unlimited, one movie at a time though) for a nominal, flat fee, they will get to live up to their name - they will be a real BLOCKBUSTER!
> my faith in the legal system 'getting the right guy' is almost null
I think Hans Reiser is ecstatic that you are not on his jury then....
.. it's also the applications people run/use. Port that to Linux, and I guarantee you this change will be far smoother than you think.
Personally, I'd like to see the OSX type of GUI, PDF-centric all over, but... I'm not sure if Jobs is feeling that generous, yet, to give that away so it can be adapted to Linux.
Desktop apps along with a solid GUI (not necessarily X-based), is the last mile for Linux....to major domination on the desktop.
Your post reminded me of a ST:TNG episode ("Ship in a bottle"), where Prof. Moriarty, a holodeck creation, somehow 'automagically' attains self-awareness and becomes a sentient human being, wishing to get off the holodeck and into the 3D world that Picard and his crew inhabit, but finds it to be an impossible task, even though he shakes down the enterprise after he gets a little annoyed with how little progress the crew has made with helping him get off the ship's holodeck.
:), rather than wait until my body degrades and rots around age 75-100 (on average).
:).
I would gladly trade places with Prof Moriarty right now, even though I'm of human form, if I knew I could live inside a machine, as an energy form, be self-aware and in some sense 'immortal' (until you pull the power plug I guess
It seems any 'meaning' a computer is aware or capable of processing, can only be created by humans (e.g. a computer has no inherent creational abilities as humans do). Can one possibly add the 'ultimate' algorithm to mimic _all_ human behavior, 100%, e.g. recreate Mr. Data and his 'positronic matrix' (along with the 'emotion chip')? Sounds great, though I think we're to become Borg (human-machine interface) before we become (or create, rather) Mr. Data (a pure computer application w/out any human component)...
Becoming your own God is cool... but seems hardly attainable so far
Well, the litmus test of whether this would be funny is if you were black, and around the age of 13-16. If you are still laughing then, you're free to mod the parent up as 'Funny'.
It's got nothing to do with Slashdot. What's 'funny' is as relative as the universe... If I said some of the thing I find funny, someone may even shoot me... So much for freedom of speech, right?
Do you work for free? Or can you not use an extra $1000/month (or whatever amount)?
...
I understand the context from which you are calling others 'greedy' - but before you do that, try and have a look in the mirror to see if there was any instance where you may have been less than, shall we say, humble...?
It's only fair
C. C is going to stick around for a while longer before it becomes obsolete. There will always be a need for super-optimized applications, that have to run 'close to the metal', and C is like one step above assembly language, nearly as efficient.
The only serious contender to replace it in real-time environments is probably Java RTS, but since I haven't played with Java RTS, I can't really say anything... and even if Java RTS takes off, in the end, it still is going to end up looking a lot like C, insofar that garbage collection can not be a part of it, which basically reverts Java to a C-like language, with predictable timing needed for real-time apps.... one of the major reasons Java spread like wildfire was the JVM's garbage collecting capability, which isn't necessarily (to the best of my knowledge) useful in soft/hard real-time envs.
If someone has experience with Java RTS, please share... I'm curious.
Thanks!
I can already see the headlines now - "Dell called Linux nemesis by X, Y or Z", after they discontinue their desktop/laptop Linux PC sales for lack of consumer demand.
:) It's not a long bet, so come on... put your money where your mouth is.
Anyone wanna bet on this?
Blah - stop bitching at Firefox (which coincidentally applies to MS as well)....
If you dont like something, STOP USING IT!!!!!
Thanks. That's exactly how I should've said it :).
Stop bitching at Microsoft. That's all I can say. If you don't like anything they do, stop using their products (this wasn't aimed at you btw, it is aimed at everyone who "resents" them).
I know someone probably posted this but I'm too lazy to read so I'm gonna run the risk of repeating what's already been said 100 times before - YOU CAN NOT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO!
G'day Bruce!
That's already being solved - http://www.thp.org/.
And the next one is world peace - and if you want to solve that one, join the Landmark Forum.
Handling input as well as storing it in appropriate data structures is, in my ignorant opinion of neuroscience (as well), most likely different, because one involves just input/storage, the other one is using 'algorithms' to solve a particular task at hand.
Rather than be Kurzweill-ish with predictions in his "Singularity Is Near" book, I'll say that we're probably on our way toward becoming Borg-like before we become machines or pure energy with human-like intelligence.
I do believe, lest we kill ourselves in the interim, we will ascend to a greater civilizational existence than what we currently have achieved, perhaps even evolve into a form of energy that can travel the universe at light speeds, while retaining consciousness.
If matter is constant in the universe (one of the theories), then I suppose all we are doing is just transforming it. Or even if it isn't constant, we're transforming what is in the past and bringing that into what we know as the future.
It quite blows my mind when I read Kurzweill actually....
He needs money.
Or not.
"does this mean that we may see a system for human mental storage within our lifetimes?"
/. icon become a reality within the next 20 years.
I don't know that we may see this, but we will definitely see Bill Gates'