Debugging and maintaining old code that no one is using is annoying and pointless. Particularly when you know you can do better, but are hamstrung by the X11 requirements.
They are moving to a mobile strategy that AFAIK just isn't a prime directive of Wayland
There is nothing that qualifies Mir and disqualifies Wayland for mobile. Hell you can use Xorg in mobile and achieve good results, albeit with unnecessary X11-imposed overhead.
If there's room for more than one IDE, I don't see why there can't be room for more than one compositor.
Compositors are mutually exclusive. You can run any number of IDEs at the same time, compositors are one-at-a-time things.
May the best product win where "win" is defined as the most market share.
The last thing I want to see is someone (who is notorious for being insular) leveraging marketshare to push their internally controlled solution on everyone else.
Additionally, X11 does a lot of things that have been taken over by toolkits. GTK and Qt don't even use X11's drawing and font facilities anymore, they handle it themselves and then dump a buffer for Xorg to display.
This is why Apple likes the US cellular model. They get heavy subsidization via the carriers who lock users in for 2 years and don't see the actual price.
Do you think they just love their customers or maybe if they can drive their competitors out of business they can raise prices later?
Amazon's actions are largely irrelevant because this is about Apple. The DoJ looked at Amazon and concluded their actions weren't illegal. Apple was simply uninterested in competing so they played ringleader in price fixing collusion to protect their profits and avoid having to compete - instead pushing off the costs of competition on the publishers.
Apple said,here is what i am paying, if you let someone else get the book for less, then this is the new price I am paying.
Not correct at all. The rules stated that if any other retailer sold the book for less than what Apple was, Apple could change their price and take it out of the publisher's percentage. Apple was all about protecting their 30% and not actually competing as a retailer.
The community here is doing a good job of driving me away from Slashdot as a source for tech news.
It was never a source for tech news, it's always been a glorified comments section.
Every single story that mentions Microsoft turns into a circle jerk bashing the company.
I see, so criticism of incompetent action is a circle jerk of bashing?
What makes anything Microsoft is doing inherently inferior to Google, Apple or Sony?
The fact that Microsoft's grand Surface experiment was a net loss of money for them? I don't recall any of the others losing cash, and Sony and Apple have both received a shit-ton of (oft deserved) hate.
Other than the stupid decision Microsoft made in offering the Surface RT
Legendarily stupid, and they're going to continue with it as the article highlights. Maybe they'll lose less this time around by producing fewer.
Not to say I don't think the Surface Pro isn't expensive, but it's also far closer to being a proper laptop than the iPad.
Then buy a proper laptop.
You seem annoyed that Microsoft is getting shit because they're moving on to the second iteration of a massive failure. Microsoft is going to be the butt of jokes for a while until they pull out of this dive.
The thing about Ken Thompson's theoretical attack is that it would inevitably be detected. It's an interesting thought experiment, but a functioning example that would be able to discern the right program to attack (and differentiate between a kernel and a userspace application) has not been shown as far as I am aware.
The airlines reject people on the list because no corporation is going to fight the government over something like the no-fly list. It doesn't impact their bottom line in any significant way and I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't forced to check and reject people for being on it by law.
You'll be extremely hard pressed to find a single airline that would let you fly if you were on the no-fly list. The simple reality is that the list has no business existing.
You can drive anywhere in the continental US for a vacation.
You can. That it will take the better part of a week to get from one end of the country to the other (and that again back) is a show stopper.
(I regularly drive for work when it's only 4-6 hours, when I know others would fly for that kind of business trip)
Does your employer reimburse you for the trip, both for gas and mileage? Mine does not for trips over a certain number of miles, so I have to fly anyway, let alone trips across country or internationally.
You must be pretty tough to knock down those straw men!
5.1TWh is probably enough that, with all existing sources of energy, they could fully supply their exports or cut off all imports and have a small surplus. It would be, at most, slightly under 1/9th of what Germany produces on a down month. Note also that the output from solar has dropped, so all told they're at... just under 7 TWh in renewables.
But let's ignore that the vast majority of energy production continues to be fossil fuels, which pollute constantly.
Kleissner said in a message exchange with Ars Technica that the exploit did not currently target the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), but instead went after legacy BIOS.
Apparently you are illiterate. Did you even read your own link?
Real standards? Like what, HTML5 ECE? You're going to end up with a completely closed binary blob via that path as well. Of course, Netflix has already chosen which ECE module they're going to use -- Microsoft's. So zero problems solved, and now we have yet another plugin API.
quite likely this is going to be the first record-breaker that fails.
Fails?
A lot of people will for the first time have supported a failing project with considerable money.
There's a difference between a project that fails, and a project whose crowdsourcing effort is unsuccessful. As of yet no project I've contributed to has failed. This will simply be the first one that did not (and I had every reason to believe would not) achieve its funding goal.
This is a nebulous speculative design that may or may not be awesome in a years time.
If that. Or it may fall in line with what's on-par for what's available in a year's time. Either way, I tossed in because I wanted something not Android/iOS/Windows Phone and, worst comes to worst, I can use Android and tinker with the other end (since it'll work anyway.)
Microsoft did 75x this with Surface and is taking a very public beating for having failed.
Microsoft also wrote down $900M on the ridiculous over production of Surface RT devices, which ate up all of the Surface revenues. They failed spectacularly while this hasn't even gotten off the ground yet.
Samsung sold about 20m units (1,000x as much gross revenue as this project) in only 2 months of the S4 and Apple sold 50m iPhone 5s in it's first quarter. The market as a whole can't even distinguish if this is signal or noise.
So the only possible way for this to exist is to instantly compete with Apple and Samsung or... what? It's insta-doomed? Logic like that is what kills markets and makes them stagnant ("don't you dare attempt to enter and bring something new to a market, you're already dead cause you're not huge!")
Remember the original Google Nexus? It was such a failure that Google licensed off the brand and is now relying on other companies to make the hardware.
The original Nexus was made by HTC. They've always done that.
If there were a market for performance luxury phones the $10,000 Vertus wouldn't be absolute shit.
There's an upper limit on what you get for your money. Vertu devices are for those with too much money and not enough sense. Smartphone hardware peaks at around $800 these days, after that you're just burning money.
Probably no better or worse than that, given that the phone you link uses a Mediatek SoC with a PowerVR GPU, which guarantees at least one closed source blob. This phone would probably end up in the same state.
So everyone is deserving of abusive, sociopathic behavior? Even the indie developers whose team is small?
Extreme cases of abuse aside, all criticism is they get is deserved.
No. This is about the studios and developers being undeservedly abused and harassed. Not criticism but blatant abuse from immature children masquerading as adults who have no mental capacity for filtering their insane behavior. It's probably the same lack of mental facilities that cause others to abuse women who stand up for themselves.
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Debugging and maintaining old code that no one is using is annoying and pointless. Particularly when you know you can do better, but are hamstrung by the X11 requirements.
There is nothing that qualifies Mir and disqualifies Wayland for mobile. Hell you can use Xorg in mobile and achieve good results, albeit with unnecessary X11-imposed overhead.
Compositors are mutually exclusive. You can run any number of IDEs at the same time, compositors are one-at-a-time things.
The last thing I want to see is someone (who is notorious for being insular) leveraging marketshare to push their internally controlled solution on everyone else.
Care to supply actual evidence of these claims? Because anyone can make wild claims, what gets attention is evidence, which your post is lacking.
Additionally, X11 does a lot of things that have been taken over by toolkits. GTK and Qt don't even use X11's drawing and font facilities anymore, they handle it themselves and then dump a buffer for Xorg to display.
This is why Apple likes the US cellular model. They get heavy subsidization via the carriers who lock users in for 2 years and don't see the actual price.
Amazon's actions are largely irrelevant because this is about Apple. The DoJ looked at Amazon and concluded their actions weren't illegal. Apple was simply uninterested in competing so they played ringleader in price fixing collusion to protect their profits and avoid having to compete - instead pushing off the costs of competition on the publishers.
Not correct at all. The rules stated that if any other retailer sold the book for less than what Apple was, Apple could change their price and take it out of the publisher's percentage. Apple was all about protecting their 30% and not actually competing as a retailer.
It was never a source for tech news, it's always been a glorified comments section.
I see, so criticism of incompetent action is a circle jerk of bashing?
The fact that Microsoft's grand Surface experiment was a net loss of money for them? I don't recall any of the others losing cash, and Sony and Apple have both received a shit-ton of (oft deserved) hate.
Legendarily stupid, and they're going to continue with it as the article highlights. Maybe they'll lose less this time around by producing fewer.
Then buy a proper laptop.
You seem annoyed that Microsoft is getting shit because they're moving on to the second iteration of a massive failure. Microsoft is going to be the butt of jokes for a while until they pull out of this dive.
No, the date of expiration just needs to be independent of the lifespan of the author. And it used to be.
Hahahah, someone citing a post on freerepublic. Congratulations, you just obliterated any and all credibility you may have ever had.
The thing about Ken Thompson's theoretical attack is that it would inevitably be detected. It's an interesting thought experiment, but a functioning example that would be able to discern the right program to attack (and differentiate between a kernel and a userspace application) has not been shown as far as I am aware.
The airlines reject people on the list because no corporation is going to fight the government over something like the no-fly list. It doesn't impact their bottom line in any significant way and I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't forced to check and reject people for being on it by law.
You'll be extremely hard pressed to find a single airline that would let you fly if you were on the no-fly list. The simple reality is that the list has no business existing.
You can, but as I noticed (and was suspicious of at first) when I got my new laptop, they try to present the Windows Account as necessary.
At least in my case, each service has its own password.
Only Windows Phone and iOS devices are walled gardens. As for my credit card, by that logic so is my browser via Amazon.
So in other words the Windows Account is useless, but it looks great on Microsoft's numbers!
You can. That it will take the better part of a week to get from one end of the country to the other (and that again back) is a show stopper.
Does your employer reimburse you for the trip, both for gas and mileage? Mine does not for trips over a certain number of miles, so I have to fly anyway, let alone trips across country or internationally.
The TSA needs to be destroyed in-situ.
s/solar has dropped/wind has dropped/
You must be pretty tough to knock down those straw men!
5.1TWh is probably enough that, with all existing sources of energy, they could fully supply their exports or cut off all imports and have a small surplus. It would be, at most, slightly under 1/9th of what Germany produces on a down month. Note also that the output from solar has dropped, so all told they're at... just under 7 TWh in renewables.
But let's ignore that the vast majority of energy production continues to be fossil fuels, which pollute constantly.
*http://www.iea.org/stats/surveys/mes.pdf
It's a real OS with artificial barriers put in place to drive users into Microsoft's walled garden.
Apparently you are illiterate. Did you even read your own link?
Real standards? Like what, HTML5 ECE? You're going to end up with a completely closed binary blob via that path as well. Of course, Netflix has already chosen which ECE module they're going to use -- Microsoft's. So zero problems solved, and now we have yet another plugin API.
Fails?
There's a difference between a project that fails, and a project whose crowdsourcing effort is unsuccessful. As of yet no project I've contributed to has failed. This will simply be the first one that did not (and I had every reason to believe would not) achieve its funding goal.
If that. Or it may fall in line with what's on-par for what's available in a year's time. Either way, I tossed in because I wanted something not Android/iOS/Windows Phone and, worst comes to worst, I can use Android and tinker with the other end (since it'll work anyway.)
Microsoft also wrote down $900M on the ridiculous over production of Surface RT devices, which ate up all of the Surface revenues. They failed spectacularly while this hasn't even gotten off the ground yet.
So the only possible way for this to exist is to instantly compete with Apple and Samsung or... what? It's insta-doomed? Logic like that is what kills markets and makes them stagnant ("don't you dare attempt to enter and bring something new to a market, you're already dead cause you're not huge!")
The original Nexus was made by HTC. They've always done that.
There's an upper limit on what you get for your money. Vertu devices are for those with too much money and not enough sense. Smartphone hardware peaks at around $800 these days, after that you're just burning money.
Probably no better or worse than that, given that the phone you link uses a Mediatek SoC with a PowerVR GPU, which guarantees at least one closed source blob. This phone would probably end up in the same state.
So everyone is deserving of abusive, sociopathic behavior? Even the indie developers whose team is small?
No. This is about the studios and developers being undeservedly abused and harassed. Not criticism but blatant abuse from immature children masquerading as adults who have no mental capacity for filtering their insane behavior. It's probably the same lack of mental facilities that cause others to abuse women who stand up for themselves.
Because Constitutionally protected rights are conditional, right? And collective punishment is a-ok, isn' it?
So why did no one bother to ensure there was a link to the article from which the submission was plucked? Stop being so sloppy, Unknown Lamer.