There are no "code monkeys" for the same reason why there are no human calculators and tape operators -- tools reached the point where it makes no sense to dedicate people to implementation because communication of "architects" with those people causes more effort and greater possibility of mistakes than just having the same developer doing design and implementation. Anyone who pretends that this distinction still exists, is a charlatan.
Really? I have a pen camera that I don't have to hold out to record with.
Yes, you do unless you want to record the floor.
I have a harness for my GoPro that doesn't require me to hold it out in front.
Those cameras are easily visible, and if they weren't there would be just as much backlash against them.
I have a pair of sunglasses with a camera built in that doesn't require me to hold it out.
And using those is considered just as bad than any other kind of recording.
I can even record on my phone without anyone knowing because it just looks like I'm using my phone.
No you can't, phones are designed to make cameras absolutely blatantly obvious. If they weren't, there would be a lot of places where they would be banned.
But if something is crap, I'll call it crap - i don't particularly care who is responsible for it. X11 is crap.
And KDE is crap, too, right? And XFCE. Gnome2 was also some unusable crap that you could never use. And everything else, except glorious Windows... Oh please, be honest, tell us how you feel about everything that is not your comfortable, intuitive Microsoft desktop.
VNC is crap too, but performs somewhat better than X
VNC only performs better than X when used over high-latency lines, or if you have only seen X running on a live CD, with crippled drivers. Or, of course, if your "X" is actually some half-assedly done Windows-based X server.
If water is indeed contaminated, the amount of energy alone required for such a process' will exceed the amount of the energy produced. The only way any "cost" will be involved, is if one entity enriches itself by selling gas, while another, likely the public, will have to do the cleanup.
One can argue that on average the cost of keeping the probability of contamination low, and cost of cleanup multiplied by a probability of contamination would be still below the energy cost, even considering the possibility of the contamination, however what you said is pure nonsense, and it reveals complete ignorance of anything that determines "cost" of anything. Hint: it's not the amount of whining you have to perform for daddy to pay for a new car, or whatever the fuck you feel entitled to.
Having used PCAnywhere, VNC, X11, ICA, RDP, and PCoIP - X11 rates last in terms of performance. It rates last in terms of features.
That's because you used it as if it's PCAnywhere -- to run a single application, over a long, high-latency line. What is not what X11 is for (but X11-based NX is).
Why such obsession with the government? As bad as US government is, I have more trust in the worst of the government than the best of private businesses. Government at least has to be corrupt or controlled by nutty ideologues to be irresponsible (granted, this is often the case). But businesses have just as much power and none of the responsibility to begin with. Whatever responsibility they may have, is imposed by the government.
So no, as uncomfortable it may make me feel, I would rather trust a cop standing on a street corner with a camera pointing at me, than Google with storing recording of absolutely everything everywhere. And I like plenty of things that Google does.
You have to visibly hold a camera in front of you, to record. I am sure, people would be just as much against a line of handbags or lapel pins with built-in cameras.
Especially considering that Pi would be a perfect example of a device that benefits from X11-style remote applications -- being based on a video decoder SoC, it has somewhat nice GPU but tiny CPU.
I don't care as much about applications that I use now, as about applications that will be written in the future but will be crippled by Wayland. Use one of them, and X11 remote access is broken forever, for everything.
They can mandate that any device that has any kind of computer control (what now means, anything more complex than all-mechanical kitchen faucet) will have to have "certified" hardware-software "solution", that the only providers of such solutions will be Sony and Microsoft, and every other company providing such "solutions" will have to be approved by incumbents (who would only approve their own resellers).
I suggest looking at the purpose of this thing -- then you will find out that whatever you are trying to build, is impossible (full emulation of a real-life network, secure sandbox environment, etc.), or does not require virtualization (everything else).
I would think that studying how fast a 1-year-old learns to say "mine" compared to "ours" would refute such a claim...
One year old babies neither talk, nor have a concept of other people being their peers.
Anyway, ownership behaviour seem to me to be quite related, whether they are claimed by an individual, a family, a company or a state. "Theft" from such an "owner" seem to be met with similar emotional responses across all such owner classes.
No, that's a much more fundamental concept of causing harm. Taking away something a person needs, harms him regardless of any "ownership" involved.
and given time we can slowly move to using metric all of the time if we want. The most effective change happens so slowly that you can't pinpoint when exactly it happened. Since there's no urgency here, it will be fine if it takes another generation or so to fully transition.
You don't understand. It takes a generation after the point when using the wrong system will get you fined, laughed at, or punched in the face. Otherwise the old system, no matter how idiotic, continues to perpetuate itself indefinitely.
If it left you crippled instead of dead, yes. However sane governments just have enough taxes to deal with the consequences of natural diasters instead of having "asteroid insurance", "crazy guy with a gun insurance", "tiger insurance", etc.
Of course, they do! They just pay everything to their executives.
In general, the idea of "profit" as something objective and measureable is completely idiotic for most of the modern companies, because a sizeable chunk of what is expense for the company, is income for the people who are in control of it.
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Congratulations, you (and possibly your whole team) are incompetent.
It's what the ideas of modules and interfaces are for.
There are no "code monkeys" for the same reason why there are no human calculators and tape operators -- tools reached the point where it makes no sense to dedicate people to implementation because communication of "architects" with those people causes more effort and greater possibility of mistakes than just having the same developer doing design and implementation. Anyone who pretends that this distinction still exists, is a charlatan.
Metric system is in the best interest of blacks?
Really? I have a pen camera that I don't have to hold out to record with.
Yes, you do unless you want to record the floor.
I have a harness for my GoPro that doesn't require me to hold it out in front.
Those cameras are easily visible, and if they weren't there would be just as much backlash against them.
I have a pair of sunglasses with a camera built in that doesn't require me to hold it out.
And using those is considered just as bad than any other kind of recording.
I can even record on my phone without anyone knowing because it just looks like I'm using my phone.
No you can't, phones are designed to make cameras absolutely blatantly obvious. If they weren't, there would be a lot of places where they would be banned.
I'm not quite sure where you get the idea that I'm a windows fan. I am platform agnostic and use whatever fits the purpose.
The only possible way for you to see worse X11 performance than everything else you mentioned, is by using Windows everywhere.
I'm actually a FreeBSD + Mac user at home a mixed environment (FreeBSD/Linux/vSphere/Windows) at work to pay the bills.
Yeah right. You have VM disk image with FreeBSD. Or had. Somewhere. Maybe.
None of my current platforms of choice can run Wayland, and currently on FreeBSD, X11 is the only option. It's still crap.
If that was true, you would not post this crap, or anything at all, in this thread. If you are not a Microsoft fanboy, you are their shill.
But if something is crap, I'll call it crap - i don't particularly care who is responsible for it. X11 is crap.
And KDE is crap, too, right? And XFCE. Gnome2 was also some unusable crap that you could never use. And everything else, except glorious Windows...
Oh please, be honest, tell us how you feel about everything that is not your comfortable, intuitive Microsoft desktop.
VNC is crap too, but performs somewhat better than X
VNC only performs better than X when used over high-latency lines, or if you have only seen X running on a live CD, with crippled drivers. Or, of course, if your "X" is actually some half-assedly done Windows-based X server.
Cost? Cost?????? Are you fucking insane?
If water is indeed contaminated, the amount of energy alone required for such a process' will exceed the amount of the energy produced. The only way any "cost" will be involved, is if one entity enriches itself by selling gas, while another, likely the public, will have to do the cleanup.
One can argue that on average the cost of keeping the probability of contamination low, and cost of cleanup multiplied by a probability of contamination would be still below the energy cost, even considering the possibility of the contamination, however what you said is pure nonsense, and it reveals complete ignorance of anything that determines "cost" of anything. Hint: it's not the amount of whining you have to perform for daddy to pay for a new car, or whatever the fuck you feel entitled to.
Then you are among those who will always complain about things that did not come from Microsoft.
with sockets
...and shared memory.
Really, it's done already, and better than anything current "architects" can ever do.
Good luck doing anything remotely bandwidth intensive or latency sensitive over the flaky as fuck USB-Ethernet on the B.
Evidence?
Having used PCAnywhere, VNC, X11, ICA, RDP, and PCoIP - X11 rates last in terms of performance. It rates last in terms of features.
That's because you used it as if it's PCAnywhere -- to run a single application, over a long, high-latency line. What is not what X11 is for (but X11-based NX is).
Why such obsession with the government? As bad as US government is, I have more trust in the worst of the government than the best of private businesses. Government at least has to be corrupt or controlled by nutty ideologues to be irresponsible (granted, this is often the case). But businesses have just as much power and none of the responsibility to begin with. Whatever responsibility they may have, is imposed by the government.
So no, as uncomfortable it may make me feel, I would rather trust a cop standing on a street corner with a camera pointing at me, than Google with storing recording of absolutely everything everywhere. And I like plenty of things that Google does.
You have to visibly hold a camera in front of you, to record.
I am sure, people would be just as much against a line of handbags or lapel pins with built-in cameras.
Especially considering that Pi would be a perfect example of a device that benefits from X11-style remote applications -- being based on a video decoder SoC, it has somewhat nice GPU but tiny CPU.
I don't care as much about applications that I use now, as about applications that will be written in the future but will be crippled by Wayland. Use one of them, and X11 remote access is broken forever, for everything.
Of course, they can!
They can mandate that any device that has any kind of computer control (what now means, anything more complex than all-mechanical kitchen faucet) will have to have "certified" hardware-software "solution", that the only providers of such solutions will be Sony and Microsoft, and every other company providing such "solutions" will have to be approved by incumbents (who would only approve their own resellers).
I suggest looking at the purpose of this thing -- then you will find out that whatever you are trying to build, is impossible (full emulation of a real-life network, secure sandbox environment, etc.), or does not require virtualization (everything else).
He is not capable of any major harm of course,
then:
I just worry one day I'm gonna hear about another nutcase shooting spree, and hear his name as the culprit...
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he is convinced he has Asperger's (he doesn't display any symptoms except "being smart",
and immediately then:
which he isn't at all)
Huh?
I would think that studying how fast a 1-year-old learns to say "mine" compared to "ours" would refute such a claim...
One year old babies neither talk, nor have a concept of other people being their peers.
Anyway, ownership behaviour seem to me to be quite related, whether they are claimed by an individual, a family, a company or a state. "Theft" from such an "owner" seem to be met with similar emotional responses across all such owner classes.
No, that's a much more fundamental concept of causing harm. Taking away something a person needs, harms him regardless of any "ownership" involved.
and given time we can slowly move to using metric all of the time if we want. The most effective change happens so slowly that you can't pinpoint when exactly it happened. Since there's no urgency here, it will be fine if it takes another generation or so to fully transition.
You don't understand. It takes a generation after the point when using the wrong system will get you fined, laughed at, or punched in the face. Otherwise the old system, no matter how idiotic, continues to perpetuate itself indefinitely.
For the purpose of "too cold" and "too hot", -15 and +40 (or -20 and +35 for me) numbers work just fine.
Slavery worked great, too, and then you had an attempt of secession and a huge war about it.
If it left you crippled instead of dead, yes. However sane governments just have enough taxes to deal with the consequences of natural diasters instead of having "asteroid insurance", "crazy guy with a gun insurance", "tiger insurance", etc.
Of course, they do! They just pay everything to their executives.
In general, the idea of "profit" as something objective and measureable is completely idiotic for most of the modern companies, because a sizeable chunk of what is expense for the company, is income for the people who are in control of it.