Since when is any union "extorting" anything? The company management and union reps sit down and NEGOTIATE what the salary and benefit package should be. Exactly where is the "threat". The "real" world has people like Michelle Rhee who fired teachers and principles who would not falsify standardized test scores. The real" world has UPS embezzling of money illegally taken out of the the backside of drivers weekly payroll checks. The real world has company owners using HR information to take multiple credit cards using their employees good credit, deducting FICA, Medicare/Medicaid, Federal/State/Local taxes but never forwarding those taxes and then using the credit cards and money to "enhance" his life style. Maybe you mean when a company "downsizes" it's engineering/technical staff because there isn't enough work to justify keeping the staff, but then apearing before Congress asking for more H1B visa's because they "cann't" find ANY qualifiied engineering/technical staff in the US.
By the way those are only the examples that I have personal knowledge experience with. After 40 years of crap from those "caring and concerned" employers I wish I could belong to a union.
Seems you aren't in touch with how things really work! There are still only a few companies in an area that you can work for. Think the Detroit area or Seattle. If you are a mechanical or aero engineer in Seattle,just how many other companies can you go towork for? Think the Coco Beach area in Florida: Now that the shuttle program has ended just how many jobs are there going to be for the technical staff associated with Shuttle program. I suggest you look at what happens when you try and sell a house now.
Single income familes were able to be middle class 50 years ago, today the bottom of the middle class is ALMOST sustainable for two high-school teachers. Starting high-school teachers (BS 1 to 5 years experience) in my state make $27,000.
Try having a home in Syracuse NY and the only job offer you get is in Rochester NY. You going to try and sell your house in Syracuse in this market or are you going to drive 180 miles a day because transportation "wide scale and leaving your town to find work" is "easy"
Strangest thing about your "suggestions", with the exception of the profit sharing which no company managed by a MBA's would offer because the MBA's wouldn't their "bonus", the points you list are exactly what unions want, but are increasingly not possible because of corporate intransigence
Let's see, the UNION employee's NEGOTIATED a CONTRACT that said the company would pay health care costs in place of salary increase and then the company tried to force UNION employees to pay for health care. YOU object because you don't want to or cann't belong to a union and your CONTRACT does pay you're health care cost AND you don't get a salary increase. You want to break up the unions because of that. To me it sounds like you're jealous and whining becuase you made the wrong choice
No I am quite cognizant of the basic science and how people learn. So you are suggesting that since portions of the theory behind gravity fails at the quantum mechanics level that the theory of intelligent falling down should be taught as well as v=1/2*g*t? You don't feel that it would cause any harm? You don't think that students would be confused when they are taught that science depends on creating a testable hypothesis and then testing the hypothesis and then telling them that suddenly the alternative is a hypothesis that is based on a religous text and is not testable and cannot be verified is on equal footing? So you don't think it would cause confusion to students who are repeatedly told plagerism will get them tossed from school, but it's Ok when you plagerize documents so that you can present a"plausible alternative" Either you are a troll or you are yet ignorant fool who claims the earth is old 6000 years old even though the Chinese have written records much older than that and that New Testament is EXACT LITERAL TRUTH when the New Testament writers themselves say that Jesus spoke in parables.
No you are very confused and unable to function in the world
Let's try this again. I have not attempted nor suggested silencing anyone. Rather I pointed that Creationist/Dominionist do follow the teachings they claim to and love toplay the martyr. If you were a Christian you would recognize the word phylacteries, where it came from and the meaning. Further you would recognize who and what the Scribes and Pharisees were and what they preached. Specifically the Pharasees were a a jewish sect that had a "sense of superiority to the heathen and idolatrous nations among whom their lot was cast came to be one of their main characteristics. In the time of Our Lord such was their power and prestige that they sat and taught in "Moses' seat". This prestige naturally engendered arrogance and conceit, and led to a perversion in many respects of the conservative ideals of which they had been such staunch supporters." In many passages of the Gospels, Christ is quoted as warning the multitude against them in scathing terms. "The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten in the chair of Moses . All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say and do not. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes. And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi" (Matthew 23:1-8). Then follows the terrible arraignment of the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, their rapacity, and their blindness (ibid., 13-36). There is not a better description of modern day Creationists/Dominionist. The nice thing about the US is that I can believe what I believe and you can believe what you believe in and we can live together in peace. Unfortunately that is not what Creationist/Domionists want. Very specifically In the context of American evangelical efforts to penetrate and transform public life, the distinguishing mark of a creationist/dominionist is a commitment to building society that that is self-consciously defined as exclusively creationist/dominionist, and dependent specifically on the work of creastionist/dominionist, rather than based on a broader consensus. These modern day Pharasees celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe that the United States once was, and should once again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy. These modern day Pharasses promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity, very specifically Catholics and they endorse theocratic visions. In simple terms these self-proclaimed martyrs want to shove their religion down everyones throat. Say and believe what you want, but do not force me to believe in this non-Christian nonsense. If Catholics, Lutherans, and other major religons of the world believe that our faith teaches how to live and science teaches about our world why do the creationist/dominionist feel that they have the ONLY solution. Major players in this drive to shove this brand of theocracy down everyones thoat are people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy
More drivel from a right wing idealogue. Let's see Lindzen (MIT) is a rabid global warming denier, yet he continues to publish in major American Meteorological Society (AMS) journals. Then there is John Christy (UAH) another rabid global warming denier, yet he continues to receive NASA funding and publishes in AMS journals. William Gray (CSU) continues to publish and receive funding while dening global warming. On the other hand scientists do mock Hawkeye Pierce and Mickey Mouse, two of the 30,000 world famous climate scientists denying global warmimg according to the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Yes scientists are angry because Edward Wegman testified before Congress that based on "his" research global warming wasn't occurring, but "his" work was plagerized from oil/gas industry documents. Yes`, scientists are upset when Gerhard Gerlich, PhD in physics, denies that the first and second of thermodynamics don't exist. Based on you thinking because there are some parts of the theory of gravity that break down at the microscopic level we should also be teaching the theory of intelligent falling down along with gravity in Physics classes
Another dominionist/creationist troll. He wasn';t talking about religon he was railing against the actions of a very small vocal minority of a very minor sect who's stated goal is to enforce their views that are not supported by the very document they espouse on everyone. Creationist are not Christians in any sense of the word, they are modern day scribes and pharisees adding more gold to their phylacteries
Please read the TFA before you post more of your creationist/dominionist drivel. The SCIENCE TEACHER told
"his students that “real” scientists try to disprove the theory of evolution. “Contrast that with creationists,” he told his students. “They never try to disprove creationism. They’re all running around trying to prove it. That’s deduction. It’s not science. Scientifically, it’s nonsense.”
This is not a statement about religon, it is statement about how science is conducted: You pose an hypothesis and then attempt to prove the hypothesis wrong. You look for evidence that the hypothesis is right or wrong. This is not how creationism works. Creationism starts with the ASSUMPTION and then does everything POLITICALLY possible to prevent anyone from pointing out the glaringly obvious errors, exactly the technique used in this case. Strange the Creationist keep insisting that the earth is only 6000 years old, but there are many examples of Chinese cultural artifacts and written documents dating back to 6000BC, ie., 8000 years ago,
An yes the coach should be in jail for pushing his particular religon on his students.
Your starting with the false premise that it is just "a few morons". The problem is that I see talking on the phone while putting on makeup, talking on the phone and texting at least once a mile on the drive to/fromwork every day. It used to be when a you saw someone driving eracticaly the question was "is he drunken?" then it became "is he on a cell phone", now it is is he on a cell and using a tablet or second cell phone?
Yet another childish rant.
Given that your sysadmin skill level is approaching that of a script-kidde, one day we'll meet when you and precious scripts screwup so badly I get hired to clean up your mess. Considering I get calls like that mutliple times a day from companies who's MCSA only knows a couple of buttons to press before panicing and really screwing the pooch, it won't be long
Two points: Once, obvously you are still living in your mothers basement with your "dolls" given your use of foul language and likely don't have much experience dealing with hundreds of systems. Yes I mostly administer AIX/HPUX/Solaris/*BSD systems, but the MBA lusers insist on "real workstations" that run a "RealOS" Yes I have to restore these systems nearly daily because the "RealOS" is borken that they rarely get through a week without being so corrupted that I cann't let them on the network. These "real workstations" are new Dell Precision T3500's with the"latest RealOS" so don't try the get better hardware bovine excrement. Read what I wrote,
"you must have some sort of miracle network and hardware that can shove an entire image down to the disk, write it to the disk and restart in under 10 minutes."
Ask your System Administrator and the people that manage the network your toy sits what that means. That's what has to be done to "real workstations" running a "RealOS"
The real question is what happens to everybodies work when you do "a system restore" and you must have some sort of miracle network and hardware that can shove an entire image down to the disk, write it to the disk and restart in under 10 minutes. Yeah we know that 90% of the world uses windows and that's why we have so many problems with spam, ddos, virus etc, Please go back to restoring you systems in under ten minutes MULTIPLE TIMES a day because the average time that windows system remain uncompromised is about 10 minutes ( http://isc.sans.edu/survivaltime.html)
No trolling: just tired of "power users" talking about how much they "know". Let's try this again. You say "it's about eliminating flicker/redrawing issues like the ones I have with X right now." My claim it isn't a problem with X11 it is as you correctly state "it's all about rendering graphics correctly in Linux" The problem you claim you want fix with wayland isn't a problem with X11 but a problem with linux. AS YOU YOURSELF SAY. Fix linux in particular the device drivers and the problems go away. Once again the flickering/redrawing issues don't occur with AIX/HPUX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/OS-X, just linux
Are you running KDE? Are you using compiz? Are you using an implementation of X11 that follows the API? Are you running linux. If you answered yes to any of the preceding there lies your problem not X11. The problem doesn't lay with X11 it lays with the poorly written linux graphics card drivers and an even more poor X11 implementation. If I can run X11 without flickering/redrawing issues on a Sun 3/50. or an g4 based Mac-mini or a pentium-4 with an ATI-Rage card running FreeBSD or Solaris maybe it's time for you look into why your vaunted linux is doing so poorly. Try removing some of the dead code in the linux graphic card drivers. Every time I compare a linux driver to a Solaris/BSD driver for the same card I wonder how the linux driver even compiles
It isn't an issue of embracing progress, moving from the original unix V7 filesystem to the Berkley FFS to Sun ZFS is progress, moving from manual parallelization to autoparallelization is progress, moving from a CLI to windowing based systems is progress, all the extra eyecandy that was add in Gnome3/KDE4 is not progress, it a bunch of wankers trying to outdo each other with special effects.
Yes keep going exactly how is Wayland an improvement? The answer is it isn't. All it does is encourage the lame-assed linux "developers" to continue down the path of eyecandy rather than useability, flexibility and conservation of resources.
Strange I had a Sparcstation 1 in the late 80's which had much less horsepower than a mid-90's pentium and not only did X11 start fast, I could compile X11, run X11, read netnews all at the same time no problems. Me thinks you're memory has more than just bit rot
Hurray! some one else get's it! Yes, the dumbed down linux weenies who think they are hotshot programmers because they spent a few hours playing with the windowing theme have screwed the pouch. I really don't care if my xterm is transparent, or sings or dances or has any window animations at all. I need the graphics card to be able to animate a 3-D plume of hazardous materials in real-time not stuttering because some lame-assed linux developer thinks my windows should rotate and disappear in a puff when I move the cursor out of the window.
Yeah we know that linux is the only "real" OS and that it is completely open-source and that linux developers wrote their network drivers without help from anyone. Think OpenBSD
Of course not, with windows-7 you cann't tell the difference between a crashed machine and one that is running the way it's supposed to. It's too busy sending spam and acting as a node in a DDOS attack
Right! Follow the data, the problem is this isn't data it is a really bad analysis. Back in January Andy Dressler of Texas A&M shredded both Lindzen and Spencer ( http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/). Andy demonstrated how really flawed both Lindzen's and Spencer's analysis. Quoting Andy Dressler
Correlation does not prove causality. Period. I honestly cannot
believe you want to argue this point. The fact that you do lays bare
the intellectual bankruptcy of your “clouds cause climate change”
hypothesis. It’s now evident that there really is no actual physical
evidence to support it.
Spencer did not at the time nor does he now understand that correlation does not prove causality. The "paper" he published was not reviewed in shape or fashion, rather it was printed in a self-publishing rag that is supported by the Heartland Institute, a oil/gas industry supported climate denial noise machine. Spencer is not a NASA employee, rather he is a UAH embaressment. He did not collaborate with NASA scientists rather he used NASA data publicaly available. The Yahoo announcement was by a SPPI/Heartland Institute.
So Yes let's follow the data rather than listening to an Oil/gas industry spokesperson
No it didn't take law suites or anything other than the scientists and administrators getting fed up with the likes Tony Watts.Mark Morano, Steve Miloy and Steve McIntyre. Steve McIntyre posted on his web pages that his readers should flood CRU with the English equivalent of a FOIA request. The stated intent was to prevent scientists for conducting any further work. Steve McIntyre coordinated the filing of the FOIA requests. Not so strangely 39% of the UK FOIA requests came from outside the UK and hence not a legal request and 39% of the FOIA requests came via the email from untraceable addresses. Go ahead and tell me again how this wasn't a coordinated attack on CRU, how/why CRU should respond to a threat from an unknown/untraceable source and how/why they should respond to requests from someone who's stated reason for the request was to delay any further research. Maybe CRU knew that Willis Eschenback had deliberately packed 60 FOIA requests in a single day and did so across multiple days to tie up administrators handling the requests. Then Willis was able to whine and moan about how CRU didn't respond in a timely fashion.
If these people were really critics there wouldn't be a problem, they are not they are paid shills trying to harass people.
Nothing like a little bovine excrement from the Linsux's crowd which is where this. steaming pile came from. Because Schwartz "greeted the news with 'heartfelt congratulations." doesn't say or even imply that he gave google the OK to steal Sun's intellectual property. Of course Sun was pleased that google was going to use java in android, that would mean a lot of new revenue for Sun in the form of licensing fees and per unit fees. If somebody announce that they were going to sell a new product that used my technology and patents I'd be thrilled too, UNTIL I FOUND OUT THEY REFUSED TO PAY THE LICENSING FEES AND WERE STEALING MY TECHNOLOGY. I'm not a big fan of Oracle, but googlescrewed the pooch on this one.
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Since when is any union "extorting" anything? The company management and union reps sit down and NEGOTIATE what the salary and benefit package should be. Exactly where is the "threat". The "real" world has people like Michelle Rhee who fired teachers and principles who would not falsify standardized test scores. The real" world has UPS embezzling of money illegally taken out of the the backside of drivers weekly payroll checks. The real world has company owners using HR information to take multiple credit cards using their employees good credit, deducting FICA, Medicare/Medicaid, Federal/State/Local taxes but never forwarding those taxes and then using the credit cards and money to "enhance" his life style. Maybe you mean when a company "downsizes" it's engineering/technical staff because there isn't enough work to justify keeping the staff, but then apearing before Congress asking for more H1B visa's because they "cann't" find ANY qualifiied engineering/technical staff in the US. By the way those are only the examples that I have personal knowledge experience with. After 40 years of crap from those "caring and concerned" employers I wish I could belong to a union.
Seems you aren't in touch with how things really work! There are still only a few companies in an area that you can work for. Think the Detroit area or Seattle. If you are a mechanical or aero engineer in Seattle,just how many other companies can you go towork for? Think the Coco Beach area in Florida: Now that the shuttle program has ended just how many jobs are there going to be for the technical staff associated with Shuttle program. I suggest you look at what happens when you try and sell a house now. Single income familes were able to be middle class 50 years ago, today the bottom of the middle class is ALMOST sustainable for two high-school teachers. Starting high-school teachers (BS 1 to 5 years experience) in my state make $27,000. Try having a home in Syracuse NY and the only job offer you get is in Rochester NY. You going to try and sell your house in Syracuse in this market or are you going to drive 180 miles a day because transportation "wide scale and leaving your town to find work" is "easy" Strangest thing about your "suggestions", with the exception of the profit sharing which no company managed by a MBA's would offer because the MBA's wouldn't their "bonus", the points you list are exactly what unions want, but are increasingly not possible because of corporate intransigence
No the union members live in the real world, you are just jealous that you don't
Let's see, the UNION employee's NEGOTIATED a CONTRACT that said the company would pay health care costs in place of salary increase and then the company tried to force UNION employees to pay for health care. YOU object because you don't want to or cann't belong to a union and your CONTRACT does pay you're health care cost AND you don't get a salary increase. You want to break up the unions because of that. To me it sounds like you're jealous and whining becuase you made the wrong choice
No I am quite cognizant of the basic science and how people learn. So you are suggesting that since portions of the theory behind gravity fails at the quantum mechanics level that the theory of intelligent falling down should be taught as well as v=1/2*g*t? You don't feel that it would cause any harm? You don't think that students would be confused when they are taught that science depends on creating a testable hypothesis and then testing the hypothesis and then telling them that suddenly the alternative is a hypothesis that is based on a religous text and is not testable and cannot be verified is on equal footing? So you don't think it would cause confusion to students who are repeatedly told plagerism will get them tossed from school, but it's Ok when you plagerize documents so that you can present a"plausible alternative" Either you are a troll or you are yet ignorant fool who claims the earth is old 6000 years old even though the Chinese have written records much older than that and that New Testament is EXACT LITERAL TRUTH when the New Testament writers themselves say that Jesus spoke in parables. No you are very confused and unable to function in the world
No, it is my error, it should have read HISTORY TEACHER
Let's try this again. I have not attempted nor suggested silencing anyone. Rather I pointed that Creationist/Dominionist do follow the teachings they claim to and love toplay the martyr. If you were a Christian you would recognize the word phylacteries, where it came from and the meaning. Further you would recognize who and what the Scribes and Pharisees were and what they preached. Specifically the Pharasees were a a jewish sect that had a "sense of superiority to the heathen and idolatrous nations among whom their lot was cast came to be one of their main characteristics. In the time of Our Lord such was their power and prestige that they sat and taught in "Moses' seat". This prestige naturally engendered arrogance and conceit, and led to a perversion in many respects of the conservative ideals of which they had been such staunch supporters." In many passages of the Gospels, Christ is quoted as warning the multitude against them in scathing terms. "The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten in the chair of Moses . All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say and do not. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes. And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi" (Matthew 23:1-8). Then follows the terrible arraignment of the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy, their rapacity, and their blindness (ibid., 13-36). There is not a better description of modern day Creationists/Dominionist. The nice thing about the US is that I can believe what I believe and you can believe what you believe in and we can live together in peace. Unfortunately that is not what Creationist/Domionists want. Very specifically In the context of American evangelical efforts to penetrate and transform public life, the distinguishing mark of a creationist/dominionist is a commitment to building society that that is self-consciously defined as exclusively creationist/dominionist, and dependent specifically on the work of creastionist/dominionist, rather than based on a broader consensus. These modern day Pharasees celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe that the United States once was, and should once again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy. These modern day Pharasses promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity, very specifically Catholics and they endorse theocratic visions. In simple terms these self-proclaimed martyrs want to shove their religion down everyones throat. Say and believe what you want, but do not force me to believe in this non-Christian nonsense. If Catholics, Lutherans, and other major religons of the world believe that our faith teaches how to live and science teaches about our world why do the creationist/dominionist feel that they have the ONLY solution. Major players in this drive to shove this brand of theocracy down everyones thoat are people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy
More drivel from a right wing idealogue. Let's see Lindzen (MIT) is a rabid global warming denier, yet he continues to publish in major American Meteorological Society (AMS) journals. Then there is John Christy (UAH) another rabid global warming denier, yet he continues to receive NASA funding and publishes in AMS journals. William Gray (CSU) continues to publish and receive funding while dening global warming. On the other hand scientists do mock Hawkeye Pierce and Mickey Mouse, two of the 30,000 world famous climate scientists denying global warmimg according to the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Yes scientists are angry because Edward Wegman testified before Congress that based on "his" research global warming wasn't occurring, but "his" work was plagerized from oil/gas industry documents. Yes`, scientists are upset when Gerhard Gerlich, PhD in physics, denies that the first and second of thermodynamics don't exist. Based on you thinking because there are some parts of the theory of gravity that break down at the microscopic level we should also be teaching the theory of intelligent falling down along with gravity in Physics classes
Another dominionist/creationist troll. He wasn';t talking about religon he was railing against the actions of a very small vocal minority of a very minor sect who's stated goal is to enforce their views that are not supported by the very document they espouse on everyone. Creationist are not Christians in any sense of the word, they are modern day scribes and pharisees adding more gold to their phylacteries
Please read the TFA before you post more of your creationist/dominionist drivel. The SCIENCE TEACHER told "his students that “real” scientists try to disprove the theory of evolution. “Contrast that with creationists,” he told his students. “They never try to disprove creationism. They’re all running around trying to prove it. That’s deduction. It’s not science. Scientifically, it’s nonsense.” This is not a statement about religon, it is statement about how science is conducted: You pose an hypothesis and then attempt to prove the hypothesis wrong. You look for evidence that the hypothesis is right or wrong. This is not how creationism works. Creationism starts with the ASSUMPTION and then does everything POLITICALLY possible to prevent anyone from pointing out the glaringly obvious errors, exactly the technique used in this case. Strange the Creationist keep insisting that the earth is only 6000 years old, but there are many examples of Chinese cultural artifacts and written documents dating back to 6000BC, ie., 8000 years ago, An yes the coach should be in jail for pushing his particular religon on his students.
Your starting with the false premise that it is just "a few morons". The problem is that I see talking on the phone while putting on makeup, talking on the phone and texting at least once a mile on the drive to/fromwork every day. It used to be when a you saw someone driving eracticaly the question was "is he drunken?" then it became "is he on a cell phone", now it is is he on a cell and using a tablet or second cell phone?
Yet another childish rant. Given that your sysadmin skill level is approaching that of a script-kidde, one day we'll meet when you and precious scripts screwup so badly I get hired to clean up your mess. Considering I get calls like that mutliple times a day from companies who's MCSA only knows a couple of buttons to press before panicing and really screwing the pooch, it won't be long
Two points: Once, obvously you are still living in your mothers basement with your "dolls" given your use of foul language and likely don't have much experience dealing with hundreds of systems. Yes I mostly administer AIX/HPUX/Solaris/*BSD systems, but the MBA lusers insist on "real workstations" that run a "RealOS" Yes I have to restore these systems nearly daily because the "RealOS" is borken that they rarely get through a week without being so corrupted that I cann't let them on the network. These "real workstations" are new Dell Precision T3500's with the"latest RealOS" so don't try the get better hardware bovine excrement. Read what I wrote, "you must have some sort of miracle network and hardware that can shove an entire image down to the disk, write it to the disk and restart in under 10 minutes." Ask your System Administrator and the people that manage the network your toy sits what that means. That's what has to be done to "real workstations" running a "RealOS"
The real question is what happens to everybodies work when you do "a system restore" and you must have some sort of miracle network and hardware that can shove an entire image down to the disk, write it to the disk and restart in under 10 minutes. Yeah we know that 90% of the world uses windows and that's why we have so many problems with spam, ddos, virus etc, Please go back to restoring you systems in under ten minutes MULTIPLE TIMES a day because the average time that windows system remain uncompromised is about 10 minutes ( http://isc.sans.edu/survivaltime.html)
No trolling: just tired of "power users" talking about how much they "know". Let's try this again. You say "it's about eliminating flicker/redrawing issues like the ones I have with X right now." My claim it isn't a problem with X11 it is as you correctly state "it's all about rendering graphics correctly in Linux" The problem you claim you want fix with wayland isn't a problem with X11 but a problem with linux. AS YOU YOURSELF SAY. Fix linux in particular the device drivers and the problems go away. Once again the flickering/redrawing issues don't occur with AIX/HPUX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/OS-X, just linux
Are you running KDE? Are you using compiz? Are you using an implementation of X11 that follows the API? Are you running linux. If you answered yes to any of the preceding there lies your problem not X11. The problem doesn't lay with X11 it lays with the poorly written linux graphics card drivers and an even more poor X11 implementation. If I can run X11 without flickering/redrawing issues on a Sun 3/50. or an g4 based Mac-mini or a pentium-4 with an ATI-Rage card running FreeBSD or Solaris maybe it's time for you look into why your vaunted linux is doing so poorly. Try removing some of the dead code in the linux graphic card drivers. Every time I compare a linux driver to a Solaris/BSD driver for the same card I wonder how the linux driver even compiles It isn't an issue of embracing progress, moving from the original unix V7 filesystem to the Berkley FFS to Sun ZFS is progress, moving from manual parallelization to autoparallelization is progress, moving from a CLI to windowing based systems is progress, all the extra eyecandy that was add in Gnome3/KDE4 is not progress, it a bunch of wankers trying to outdo each other with special effects.
Yes keep going exactly how is Wayland an improvement? The answer is it isn't. All it does is encourage the lame-assed linux "developers" to continue down the path of eyecandy rather than useability, flexibility and conservation of resources.
Strange I had a Sparcstation 1 in the late 80's which had much less horsepower than a mid-90's pentium and not only did X11 start fast, I could compile X11, run X11, read netnews all at the same time no problems. Me thinks you're memory has more than just bit rot
Riiight! That's why linux developers stripped out the BSD license out of code and put in their GPL into it. Just so they respect the "users" freedom
Hurray! some one else get's it! Yes, the dumbed down linux weenies who think they are hotshot programmers because they spent a few hours playing with the windowing theme have screwed the pouch. I really don't care if my xterm is transparent, or sings or dances or has any window animations at all. I need the graphics card to be able to animate a 3-D plume of hazardous materials in real-time not stuttering because some lame-assed linux developer thinks my windows should rotate and disappear in a puff when I move the cursor out of the window.
Yeah we know that linux is the only "real" OS and that it is completely open-source and that linux developers wrote their network drivers without help from anyone. Think OpenBSD
Of course not, with windows-7 you cann't tell the difference between a crashed machine and one that is running the way it's supposed to. It's too busy sending spam and acting as a node in a DDOS attack
Right! Follow the data, the problem is this isn't data it is a really bad analysis. Back in January Andy Dressler of Texas A&M shredded both Lindzen and Spencer ( http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/). Andy demonstrated how really flawed both Lindzen's and Spencer's analysis. Quoting Andy Dressler Correlation does not prove causality. Period. I honestly cannot believe you want to argue this point. The fact that you do lays bare the intellectual bankruptcy of your “clouds cause climate change” hypothesis. It’s now evident that there really is no actual physical evidence to support it. Spencer did not at the time nor does he now understand that correlation does not prove causality. The "paper" he published was not reviewed in shape or fashion, rather it was printed in a self-publishing rag that is supported by the Heartland Institute, a oil/gas industry supported climate denial noise machine. Spencer is not a NASA employee, rather he is a UAH embaressment. He did not collaborate with NASA scientists rather he used NASA data publicaly available. The Yahoo announcement was by a SPPI/Heartland Institute. So Yes let's follow the data rather than listening to an Oil/gas industry spokesperson
No it didn't take law suites or anything other than the scientists and administrators getting fed up with the likes Tony Watts.Mark Morano, Steve Miloy and Steve McIntyre. Steve McIntyre posted on his web pages that his readers should flood CRU with the English equivalent of a FOIA request. The stated intent was to prevent scientists for conducting any further work. Steve McIntyre coordinated the filing of the FOIA requests. Not so strangely 39% of the UK FOIA requests came from outside the UK and hence not a legal request and 39% of the FOIA requests came via the email from untraceable addresses. Go ahead and tell me again how this wasn't a coordinated attack on CRU, how/why CRU should respond to a threat from an unknown/untraceable source and how/why they should respond to requests from someone who's stated reason for the request was to delay any further research. Maybe CRU knew that Willis Eschenback had deliberately packed 60 FOIA requests in a single day and did so across multiple days to tie up administrators handling the requests. Then Willis was able to whine and moan about how CRU didn't respond in a timely fashion. If these people were really critics there wouldn't be a problem, they are not they are paid shills trying to harass people.
Nothing like a little bovine excrement from the Linsux's crowd which is where this. steaming pile came from. Because Schwartz "greeted the news with 'heartfelt congratulations." doesn't say or even imply that he gave google the OK to steal Sun's intellectual property. Of course Sun was pleased that google was going to use java in android, that would mean a lot of new revenue for Sun in the form of licensing fees and per unit fees. If somebody announce that they were going to sell a new product that used my technology and patents I'd be thrilled too, UNTIL I FOUND OUT THEY REFUSED TO PAY THE LICENSING FEES AND WERE STEALING MY TECHNOLOGY. I'm not a big fan of Oracle, but googlescrewed the pooch on this one.