This cult of Apple admirers would be amusing if they weren't potentially so destructive. They seem to blindly follow Apple without actually having any real experience with the product. They just swallow the usual media hype wholesale and then go on to replicate Apple's mistakes.
They also don't understand how an X server relates to the rest of MacOS.
Broad generalizations and assumptions never helps your point. I have worked on kernel and userspace graphics and video overlay drivers for Linux/X11, so I know plenty about how X11 and display servers in general work.
I do have a Mac. I also have a PC running Windows, and one running Linux (and honestly at this point VMs on these machines running more than one OS at a time - with fairly good unity/coherence modes, as long as we are talking display servers and window managers).
Some of us use computers as tools for accomplishing what we want at work, home, entertainment, etc and have no interest in blind Apple admirers OR blind Apple detractors (or Microsoft, or Linux, or any other software for that matter). Why does technology have to be like politics to some people?
(oh, and to your other comment, MacOS is more "UNIX" than Linux is, and is certified SUSv3 (for what that's worth, but it's worth more than your opinion on the matter).
First - it's not a fork. Forks are branches of the code. Wayland is a completely new display server.
And I'll just say I'm glad Apple decided NOT to use X by default on OSX. They managed to create a much more efficient display engine by not continuing to base it on the largely obsolete X protocol. Though, guess what, there is also a perfectly usable backwards-compatible optional X-server you can install if you want (which is a goal of Wayland, and I assume Mir, as well).
His point wasn't that they are inexperienced with X, it's that they are inexperienced with software development in general
Which is just an incorrect point, since as the poster you replied to pointed out these are the SAME PEOPLE who have developed many of the modern enhancements to X that keep it useful today.
How does he make any sense at all when he talks about how great X is and that they should pay attention to those who worked on it when they ARE the people who worked on it?
Not only that, if they host the ads on their server it's impossible to block them, because the ad blockers won't be able to separate them from the actual content. I don't know why server-side ad insertion isn't more popular if sites are really that worried about this.
Of course, there is no reason they can't still track you on the server side, it jut requires a different mechanism to do the tracking (with more support from the content site, of course).
Why bother... Just encrypt it with a random long key that you can't easily memorize and mail the key printed on a piece of paper. Then you can tell them you don't have the password even if they wanted it. I kind of doubt they are going to open up every random letter that goes through the post office.
Though it's all kind of a silly hypothetical. No one at the border wants your actual data anyway, they just want to harass you over not being given access to it.
But from the Wikipedia entry the summary itself links to:
A post-mortem examination showed she had a form of lung cancer called Jaagsiekte,[15] which is a fairly common disease of sheep and is caused by the retrovirus JSRV.[16] Roslin scientists stated that they did not think there was a connection with Dolly being a clone, and that other sheep in the same flock had died of the same disease.[14] Such lung diseases are a particular danger for sheep kept indoors, and Dolly had to sleep inside for security reasons.
Why would you say that? Just to be a dick? Or do you have a point?
I'm not guessing here, it's a FACT I have seen first hand people have their bottles taken from them, with the choice of surrendering them or having them checked or shipped (and yes, they were bought post-security checkpoint from duty free). And I was forced to check mine while paying about $30 for "airline approved wine carriers". Is it an official security policy? Who knows. But it happens.
The whole point of buying alcohol after check-in and security is to bring it on the plane. What elese are you supposed to do with it?
Exactly! It's a total scam that they don't warn you about this when you buy it.
Your baggage is already being loaded and you have no reason to be in the gate area other than fly. So yes you can carry alcohol (say 10 litres of 160 proof Strohrum, if you're travelling inside EU).
I have no idea what EU security requirements are, but at a couple US airports I have seen people first hand who were not allowed to board with bottles of alcohol. They of course said the same thing you did, but talking sense into airport security or airline employees is definitely a futile exercise...
AFAIK you can't carry full bottles of alcohol onto the plane, either. I know several people who bought booze/wine and were refused, and when I put some in my checked luggage they made my buy padded wine carriers AND plastic bags around that. Of course, if you buy your booze post-security you have to be dumb enough to tell the flight attendant or unlucky enough to get a random search. So it's a pretty absurd rule.
Not sure why this is modded informative since it's totally incorrect.
The Parrot AR has autoland and will automatically land when it loses signal. Doesn't have to be a GPS-based return; landing, even if it's just straight down from where it loses connection to the controller, is better than crashing an out of control $300 quadrotor.
And it's not just a "transmitter", it's controlled by WiFi via an iOS or Android app...
No way it's a Parrot at 1750 ft above ground. Standard RF won't work much beyond 400-500 ft (which amateur quadrotor RC pilots consider seriously high altitude), and even at that it's so small it's very hard to control...
Intel has a compiler business but the standard is Microsoft's Visual Studio and Microsoft plans Visual Studio around its own releases, not Intel's.
"The standard"? Eh, for Windows/Desktops, maybe. But gcc and Linux have far surpassed VS and Windows on x86 server hardware (not to mention virtualized x86 hardware!) And actually, the last Win32 port we did used MinGW because it was so much simpler to port in the existing build environment...
And besides, the massive adoption of ARM in mobile devices, ARM and MIPS in consumer electronics, and PPC in game consoles (up to now, at least) shows alternative architectures can flourish and compilers will be developed *if* there is a strong technical or business reason (one other than "Intel wants higher margins").
This single engine lawn dawn thing was a baseless criticism leveled at the F-16 by its competitors, and it stuck. But it was baseless then, and its baseless now.
Not from what I have read. Have you looked up the stats? ~10 F-16 crashes per year for the last few years, mostly due to engine failure. On the other hand, from what I could find there was 1 F-18 crash due to a dual engine failure in the last decade.
Especially since the Reaper, like the Cessna, is not even armed with air-to-air weapons. The only way either of them is going to take out *any* fighter plane is accidentally crashing into it.
Why is that? Planes fly into lightning storms all the time, and it's EXTREMELY rare for one to be hit and disabled by it. In fact estimates are that all commercial planes get hit by lightning an average of once a year, but the last confirmed lightning-related crash was in 1967.
Yep - and gold, uranium, nickel, zinc, copper, timber. Basically it's the second largest country in the world by area but only the 35th most populated. It's pretty much guaranteed to have a shitload of useful resources and a tiny military defending them.
True - and I don't know if it will be strictly "AAA" (though that is a somewhat subjective term, unless the definition just involves amount of money spent making it) - but the Double Fine Adventure project might be close...
Yeah, fine, I admit I used the wrong word, as we are talking about MONEY in this thread, not useless inactive registered users. I should have said most "profitable" MMO in history. Feel free to debate that.
1.- Selling service/support, 2.- selling hardware, and 3.- The tin cup. that's it, that's why despite all those triple A game engines that keep getting donated you'll never see a F/OSS game the quality of Bioshock, because games don't fall under the blessed three and therefor you won't be able to survive. This is why every F/OSS game either has graphics that could be done on an N64 with cycles left over or is yet another DM/CTF Q3 Arena ripoff, because those can be cranked out without nearly the amount of work as something triple A quality.
I mostly agree, except there is quickly becoming a #4 in that list (though you could try fitting it into #1a if you squinted) - microtransactions (see the EA article posted today). Of course, that also requires significant server support and a LOT of upfront risk to assume people will download your game for free and pay you for extra features.
Honestly I hope that does NOT become a viable business model for AAA games, since it's an intrusive and annoying interruption from the potential immersiveness of a good game. Putting them in crappy iOS games is like a plug for Toyota in a stupid TV sitcom - expected and accepted for the mediocre entertainment you get. But Putting it in something considered the best in the industry feels like seeing a blatant 30 second monologue advertising male enhancement pills in the middle of a Pixar movie.
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This cult of Apple admirers would be amusing if they weren't potentially so destructive. They seem to blindly follow Apple without actually having any real experience with the product. They just swallow the usual media hype wholesale and then go on to replicate Apple's mistakes.
They also don't understand how an X server relates to the rest of MacOS.
Broad generalizations and assumptions never helps your point. I have worked on kernel and userspace graphics and video overlay drivers for Linux/X11, so I know plenty about how X11 and display servers in general work.
I do have a Mac. I also have a PC running Windows, and one running Linux (and honestly at this point VMs on these machines running more than one OS at a time - with fairly good unity/coherence modes, as long as we are talking display servers and window managers).
Some of us use computers as tools for accomplishing what we want at work, home, entertainment, etc and have no interest in blind Apple admirers OR blind Apple detractors (or Microsoft, or Linux, or any other software for that matter). Why does technology have to be like politics to some people?
(oh, and to your other comment, MacOS is more "UNIX" than Linux is, and is certified SUSv3 (for what that's worth, but it's worth more than your opinion on the matter).
First - it's not a fork. Forks are branches of the code. Wayland is a completely new display server.
And I'll just say I'm glad Apple decided NOT to use X by default on OSX. They managed to create a much more efficient display engine by not continuing to base it on the largely obsolete X protocol. Though, guess what, there is also a perfectly usable backwards-compatible optional X-server you can install if you want (which is a goal of Wayland, and I assume Mir, as well).
His point wasn't that they are inexperienced with X, it's that they are inexperienced with software development in general
Which is just an incorrect point, since as the poster you replied to pointed out these are the SAME PEOPLE who have developed many of the modern enhancements to X that keep it useful today.
How does he make any sense at all when he talks about how great X is and that they should pay attention to those who worked on it when they ARE the people who worked on it?
Not only that, if they host the ads on their server it's impossible to block them, because the ad blockers won't be able to separate them from the actual content. I don't know why server-side ad insertion isn't more popular if sites are really that worried about this.
Of course, there is no reason they can't still track you on the server side, it jut requires a different mechanism to do the tracking (with more support from the content site, of course).
Why bother... Just encrypt it with a random long key that you can't easily memorize and mail the key printed on a piece of paper. Then you can tell them you don't have the password even if they wanted it. I kind of doubt they are going to open up every random letter that goes through the post office.
Though it's all kind of a silly hypothetical. No one at the border wants your actual data anyway, they just want to harass you over not being given access to it.
Or at least the Chrome OS developers could give the Android developers a few pointers...
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/07/apple-android-malware/
Apparently Dolly just didn't like staying outdoors. It's called argylaphobia.
But from the Wikipedia entry the summary itself links to:
A post-mortem examination showed she had a form of lung cancer called Jaagsiekte,[15] which is a fairly common disease of sheep and is caused by the retrovirus JSRV.[16] Roslin scientists stated that they did not think there was a connection with Dolly being a clone, and that other sheep in the same flock had died of the same disease.[14] Such lung diseases are a particular danger for sheep kept indoors, and Dolly had to sleep inside for security reasons.
Why would you say that? Just to be a dick? Or do you have a point?
I'm not guessing here, it's a FACT I have seen first hand people have their bottles taken from them, with the choice of surrendering them or having them checked or shipped (and yes, they were bought post-security checkpoint from duty free). And I was forced to check mine while paying about $30 for "airline approved wine carriers". Is it an official security policy? Who knows. But it happens.
The whole point of buying alcohol after check-in and security is to bring it on the plane. What elese are you supposed to do with it?
Exactly! It's a total scam that they don't warn you about this when you buy it.
Your baggage is already being loaded and you have no reason to be in the gate area other than fly. So yes you can carry alcohol (say 10 litres of 160 proof Strohrum, if you're travelling inside EU).
I have no idea what EU security requirements are, but at a couple US airports I have seen people first hand who were not allowed to board with bottles of alcohol. They of course said the same thing you did, but talking sense into airport security or airline employees is definitely a futile exercise...
AFAIK you can't carry full bottles of alcohol onto the plane, either. I know several people who bought booze/wine and were refused, and when I put some in my checked luggage they made my buy padded wine carriers AND plastic bags around that. Of course, if you buy your booze post-security you have to be dumb enough to tell the flight attendant or unlucky enough to get a random search. So it's a pretty absurd rule.
Not sure why this is modded informative since it's totally incorrect.
The Parrot AR has autoland and will automatically land when it loses signal. Doesn't have to be a GPS-based return; landing, even if it's just straight down from where it loses connection to the controller, is better than crashing an out of control $300 quadrotor.
And it's not just a "transmitter", it's controlled by WiFi via an iOS or Android app...
No way it's a Parrot at 1750 ft above ground. Standard RF won't work much beyond 400-500 ft (which amateur quadrotor RC pilots consider seriously high altitude), and even at that it's so small it's very hard to control...
Intel has a compiler business but the standard is Microsoft's Visual Studio and Microsoft plans Visual Studio around its own releases, not Intel's.
"The standard"? Eh, for Windows/Desktops, maybe. But gcc and Linux have far surpassed VS and Windows on x86 server hardware (not to mention virtualized x86 hardware!) And actually, the last Win32 port we did used MinGW because it was so much simpler to port in the existing build environment...
And besides, the massive adoption of ARM in mobile devices, ARM and MIPS in consumer electronics, and PPC in game consoles (up to now, at least) shows alternative architectures can flourish and compilers will be developed *if* there is a strong technical or business reason (one other than "Intel wants higher margins").
This single engine lawn dawn thing was a baseless criticism leveled at the F-16 by its competitors, and it stuck. But it was baseless then, and its baseless now.
Not from what I have read. Have you looked up the stats? ~10 F-16 crashes per year for the last few years, mostly due to engine failure. On the other hand, from what I could find there was 1 F-18 crash due to a dual engine failure in the last decade.
No, everyone knows World War III will be fought by semi-autonomous robots and cyborgs!
Especially since the Reaper, like the Cessna, is not even armed with air-to-air weapons. The only way either of them is going to take out *any* fighter plane is accidentally crashing into it.
Why is that? Planes fly into lightning storms all the time, and it's EXTREMELY rare for one to be hit and disabled by it. In fact estimates are that all commercial planes get hit by lightning an average of once a year, but the last confirmed lightning-related crash was in 1967.
Yep - and gold, uranium, nickel, zinc, copper, timber. Basically it's the second largest country in the world by area but only the 35th most populated. It's pretty much guaranteed to have a shitload of useful resources and a tiny military defending them.
Or more accurately, they are getting boned because EVERYONE has a competing service. Barrier to entry on this concept is near zero.
Or even if all that disappeared he might be able to barely squeak by with the $30M he already cashed out...
True - and I don't know if it will be strictly "AAA" (though that is a somewhat subjective term, unless the definition just involves amount of money spent making it) - but the Double Fine Adventure project might be close...
Yeah, I don't know where they got the HR 845 from. The bill is real, though:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:hr6245:
Yeah, fine, I admit I used the wrong word, as we are talking about MONEY in this thread, not useless inactive registered users. I should have said most "profitable" MMO in history. Feel free to debate that.
1.- Selling service/support, 2.- selling hardware, and 3.- The tin cup. that's it, that's why despite all those triple A game engines that keep getting donated you'll never see a F/OSS game the quality of Bioshock, because games don't fall under the blessed three and therefor you won't be able to survive. This is why every F/OSS game either has graphics that could be done on an N64 with cycles left over or is yet another DM/CTF Q3 Arena ripoff, because those can be cranked out without nearly the amount of work as something triple A quality.
I mostly agree, except there is quickly becoming a #4 in that list (though you could try fitting it into #1a if you squinted) - microtransactions (see the EA article posted today). Of course, that also requires significant server support and a LOT of upfront risk to assume people will download your game for free and pay you for extra features.
Honestly I hope that does NOT become a viable business model for AAA games, since it's an intrusive and annoying interruption from the potential immersiveness of a good game. Putting them in crappy iOS games is like a plug for Toyota in a stupid TV sitcom - expected and accepted for the mediocre entertainment you get. But Putting it in something considered the best in the industry feels like seeing a blatant 30 second monologue advertising male enhancement pills in the middle of a Pixar movie.