Most things that need printing are pdfs these days, and if not then of course one starts the application. Hey, don't shoot the messenger, I just reported what I observed.
There's usually a terminal running in her home directory now. I would typically start one whenever I used her computer and she would close it. Now she leaves it open because she likes what you can do with the commands, like scroll back and give the same command again.
The latest iPad sold more than any previous iPad...
Has it now? And what if we see that Android has once again increased its share of the tablet market against Apple, two or three months from now when the effects of hardcore fanboyism and channel stuffing wear off?
I reiterate: increasing the screen resolution by an unnecessarily large amount was a rash decision for which Apple will pay in market share as they discover that the excessive resolution does not in fact improve their experience, whereas the increased weight and battery drain and significantly hotter operation do detract from their experience. And of course, that the new generation of Android tablets does in fact have quad processors whereas Apple only has quad GPUs. Just my prediction of course, you are free to make your own. In any case two things are clear: 1) my post was not a troll except in the eye of Apple camp followers and 2) you are rude and have a foul mouth.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
I do not agree that my post is a troll, Apple mods. Please get this through your koolaid addled skulls: crticism is not trolling. Far from it, I actually complimented Tim Cook for the good work he has done in the aid of ridding us all of the Apple menace.
That post was not a troll either, rather it criticizes the herd of Apple camp followers who stoop to spindoctoring on Slashdot. Which does not look good on Apple either. OK, get this through your snivelling skulls: your behavior makes me more critical of Apple, not less. The more you act like that, the more you firm up my public position that Apple has become an an unethical and immoral organization.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
I do not agree that my post is a troll, Apple mods. Please get this through your koolaid addled skulls: crticism is not trolling. Far from it, I actually complimented Tim Cook for the good work he has done in the aid of ridding us all of the Apple menace.
My wife saw me print a document the other day by typing "lpr name.pdf" and she made me show her how to do it, because it is way faster than starting an application and clicking your way through a bunch of dialogs.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
now they have shifted the goalposts and now the new metric is profitability
Indeed they do and a cynic would interpret that lush profit margin as room for earnings that may evaporate in the face of competitive pressure, with consequent collapse of the stock price.
The whole idea of Android is provide Google with access to a market from which it would otherwise be excluded.
Indeed. The fact that it makes money is a nice bonus, but strictly secondary to beating back the trolls (read Apple) that would otherwise occupy the mobile on ramps.
It seems to me it would also be perfectly legal for the UK to legislate away Amazon's supposed legal right to run a "distribution business" that is more profitable than it claims to be.
Plusses: smaller leaner and simpler code base, backward compatibility for legacy X apps, possibilty of network transparency not based on what was state of the art 30 years ago. Tight integration into linux.
I want more than the possibility of network transparency, I want it to be a proven, reliable fact. And general plaudits about smaller and leaner are uninteresting, I want to know specifically what the design improvements are, not in terms of generalities, but specific, verifiable assertions.
Tight integration into Linux, what is that? Anything different from "actually works"?
You are wrong about needing GLX and QT on the remote machine. Xlib, yes, it must be installed on the remote machine before you can run any X application remotely. Otherwise, to what library would the application link?
X11 doesn't give you network transparency for free, it does it at the cost of being a crummy and overly complex set of ancient technologies that no one uses any more....
Run glxinfo. See where it says "direct rendering: Yes"? That means you are talking nonsense.
Keep in mind that Keith Packard, perhaps the lead dev for Wayland, was also instrumental in making OpenGL direct rendering a reality on Linux. So whatever mistrust I may have about Wayland's design directions, they are tempered by the fact that Keith Packard is involved. Mind you, they need to be tempered a lot more before I stop perceiving this project as mainly a way to interfere with my future productivity.
Downsides include not having any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support. Even supporting something like VNC on top of it would require a lot of internal changes and probably kernel-level support code too, and the developers basically consider this Someone Else's Problem.
Network transparency is essential and it is most definitely the Wayland project's problem to demonstrate clearly how it is to be achieved.
Posted from an Konqueror session running on my home server over a Wifi link to my desktop. Works great. Is essential. Until this works in Wayland, Wayland is broken and should not be deployed except to developers.
Wayland developers have done a poor job of communicating their intentions regarding network transparency. They need to communicate a clear and credible plan that does not attempt to push the problem off to somebody else's project. The plan must not rely on application or per-desktop transparency, but transparency at a common layer that all graphical applications use. And the plan must be executed, mature and reliable before Ubuntu makes the mistake yet again of pushing out something new and shiny before it is ready.
Until I see such a plan it would be foolish for me personally to have a lot of confidence in Wayland. That said, it is about time to take a closer look at the innards and from an opinion that is not second hand about the relative design quality of Wayland vs X. In truth, producing a better design than X is in no way a high bar. But X is mature, it is working now in many different context, and very well. That is a high bar indeed. If there is a credible plan for Wayland to meet that standard I have not seen it. Maybe that is just a failure of communication.
I would have to call your screed uninformed. I am running accelerated 3D right at the moment, using the open source Radeon driver on GLX. No screen tearing, I assure you. In this configuration, OpenGL does not go through "layers and layers", it uploads 3D data directly to the card via DMA like any other high performance 3D setup.
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Unnecessary if you just want to print a pdf in letter size, which is typical.
Most things that need printing are pdfs these days, and if not then of course one starts the application. Hey, don't shoot the messenger, I just reported what I observed.
There's usually a terminal running in her home directory now. I would typically start one whenever I used her computer and she would close it. Now she leaves it open because she likes what you can do with the commands, like scroll back and give the same command again.
You have a foul mouth.
The latest iPad sold more than any previous iPad...
Has it now? And what if we see that Android has once again increased its share of the tablet market against Apple, two or three months from now when the effects of hardcore fanboyism and channel stuffing wear off?
I reiterate: increasing the screen resolution by an unnecessarily large amount was a rash decision for which Apple will pay in market share as they discover that the excessive resolution does not in fact improve their experience, whereas the increased weight and battery drain and significantly hotter operation do detract from their experience. And of course, that the new generation of Android tablets does in fact have quad processors whereas Apple only has quad GPUs. Just my prediction of course, you are free to make your own. In any case two things are clear: 1) my post was not a troll except in the eye of Apple camp followers and 2) you are rude and have a foul mouth.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
I do not agree that my post is a troll, Apple mods. Please get this through your koolaid addled skulls: crticism is not trolling. Far from it, I actually complimented Tim Cook for the good work he has done in the aid of ridding us all of the Apple menace.
That post was not a troll either, rather it criticizes the herd of Apple camp followers who stoop to spindoctoring on Slashdot. Which does not look good on Apple either. OK, get this through your snivelling skulls: your behavior makes me more critical of Apple, not less. The more you act like that, the more you firm up my public position that Apple has become an an unethical and immoral organization.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
I do not agree that my post is a troll, Apple mods. Please get this through your koolaid addled skulls: crticism is not trolling. Far from it, I actually complimented Tim Cook for the good work he has done in the aid of ridding us all of the Apple menace.
My wife saw me print a document the other day by typing "lpr name.pdf" and she made me show her how to do it, because it is way faster than starting an application and clicking your way through a bunch of dialogs.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted. Oh, and not give it a proper name. Let's see how that works out.
I can say this much in favor of Tim Cook: he did a great job of setting the stage for further gains by Android.
I disagree. Apple is following the formula of Microsoft, which is to abide by no morals and have no shame.
now they have shifted the goalposts and now the new metric is profitability
Indeed they do and a cynic would interpret that lush profit margin as room for earnings that may evaporate in the face of competitive pressure, with consequent collapse of the stock price.
Were it not for Android ever more closely copying iPhone he wouldn't have been asked to leave.
Your usual clueless drivel. Apple never asked Eric Schmidt to leave their board, government pressure did.
The whole idea of Android is provide Google with access to a market from which it would otherwise be excluded.
Indeed. The fact that it makes money is a nice bonus, but strictly secondary to beating back the trolls (read Apple) that would otherwise occupy the mobile on ramps.
Why are people modding this person as a troll?
Calling a troll a troll perhaps.
My initial thought was to wonder why they didn't get back to a runway, if they had time to dump fuel like that.
Maybe the glide angle of an unpowered F18 is roughly 45 degrees?
There was also apparently a fuel dump...
I will guess that the fuel dump was intentional, a (successful) attempt to limit the severity of damage, knowing that the plane was going down.
I view it in simple terms: exploiting a loophole to evade taxes.
It seems to me it would also be perfectly legal for the UK to legislate away Amazon's supposed legal right to run a "distribution business" that is more profitable than it claims to be.
"Too big to tax".
Go away troll.
Plusses: smaller leaner and simpler code base, backward compatibility for legacy X apps, possibilty of network transparency not based on what was state of the art 30 years ago. Tight integration into linux.
I want more than the possibility of network transparency, I want it to be a proven, reliable fact. And general plaudits about smaller and leaner are uninteresting, I want to know specifically what the design improvements are, not in terms of generalities, but specific, verifiable assertions.
Tight integration into Linux, what is that? Anything different from "actually works"?
You are wrong about needing GLX and QT on the remote machine. Xlib, yes, it must be installed on the remote machine before you can run any X application remotely. Otherwise, to what library would the application link?
X11 doesn't give you network transparency for free, it does it at the cost of being a crummy and overly complex set of ancient technologies that no one uses any more....
Run glxinfo. See where it says "direct rendering: Yes"? That means you are talking nonsense.
Keep in mind that Keith Packard, perhaps the lead dev for Wayland, was also instrumental in making OpenGL direct rendering a reality on Linux. So whatever mistrust I may have about Wayland's design directions, they are tempered by the fact that Keith Packard is involved. Mind you, they need to be tempered a lot more before I stop perceiving this project as mainly a way to interfere with my future productivity.
Downsides include not having any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support. Even supporting something like VNC on top of it would require a lot of internal changes and probably kernel-level support code too, and the developers basically consider this Someone Else's Problem.
Network transparency is essential and it is most definitely the Wayland project's problem to demonstrate clearly how it is to be achieved.
Posted from an Konqueror session running on my home server over a Wifi link to my desktop. Works great. Is essential. Until this works in Wayland, Wayland is broken and should not be deployed except to developers.
Wayland developers have done a poor job of communicating their intentions regarding network transparency. They need to communicate a clear and credible plan that does not attempt to push the problem off to somebody else's project. The plan must not rely on application or per-desktop transparency, but transparency at a common layer that all graphical applications use. And the plan must be executed, mature and reliable before Ubuntu makes the mistake yet again of pushing out something new and shiny before it is ready.
Until I see such a plan it would be foolish for me personally to have a lot of confidence in Wayland. That said, it is about time to take a closer look at the innards and from an opinion that is not second hand about the relative design quality of Wayland vs X. In truth, producing a better design than X is in no way a high bar. But X is mature, it is working now in many different context, and very well. That is a high bar indeed. If there is a credible plan for Wayland to meet that standard I have not seen it. Maybe that is just a failure of communication.
I would have to call your screed uninformed. I am running accelerated 3D right at the moment, using the open source Radeon driver on GLX. No screen tearing, I assure you. In this configuration, OpenGL does not go through "layers and layers", it uploads 3D data directly to the card via DMA like any other high performance 3D setup.