Ultimately it's not going to work because rebuilding roads to fit all this crap underneath them would be insanely expensive compared to pretty much any other alternative. It might be viable in towns where the roads are close to capacity all the time, but stringing up overhead electrical cables would almost certainly be much cheaper. The idea that you'd rip up hundreds of miles of road between two North American cities to fit complex electrical systems under them so a few dozen trucks an hour could drive along there using electricity rather than diesel is simply laughable.
Since a typical electric car needs about 5x as many fill-ups as a typical gasoline car, you'd need five times as much 'refuelling' capacity. And since they take about ten times as long to charge, those cars would be staying at those 'refuelling' stations for ten times as long.
Electric cars are a silly idea until we have Mr Fusion units or batteries made from unicorn farts.
I'm guessing you won't lose millions of dollars if your Xeon system keeps crashing due to overlocking it to save a few hundred dollars over buying a faster CPU in the first place.
Real servers running real applications that make real money aren't overclocked.
Is this the part where we pretend that the X application that you want to forward to another machine is doing anything other than copying a framebuffer around?
No, you don't need to pretend that, because it's not what the apps I use are doing. That's pretty clear when you see how responsive most X apps are over a LAN when compared to VNC.
But feel free to learn something about how X works sometime, before claiming that Wayland (aka 'Let's copy Windows now it's becoming obsolete') is oh so much better.
I just wanted to say that's one of the best articles I've ever read on how 'UI designers' have screwed up the world's computers. One of the things I hate most about Windows is when I'm trying to do something and suddenly it's asking me to configure a feature I've never used before which I couldn't give a crap about and just want to work so I can get my job done.
And I haven't got a clue why they insist on threatening my productivity. I don't understand what they stand to gain by inconveniencing me. It feels like I'm being punished, and I don't know why.
They made the mistake of hiring 'UI designers'.
Imagine you're a 'UI designer'. Do you:
1. Say 'that UI is just about perfect, lets change a few pixels here and there and call it done' and find yourself on welfare the next week.
Or
2. Say 'that UI sucks, it's got too many options, it's confusing to users, we should throw it all away and build a completely new UI with all these fancy hidden windows that I'll have to design and a bazillion new icons that make no sense to anyone but me' and have a job for years before you say 'that UI sucks, let's redesign it all over again'?
How do I run a Wayland app on my Ubuntu server and display the output on a Windows laptop without resorting to a hideous kludge like VNC?
Let's look at the FAQ, shall we?
"No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients."
So basically, the answer is 'that's hard, so I'm not doing it. I'll rely on everyone else to write that code for me and since everyone will write their own, nothing will be able to talk to anything else.'
Wayland is throwing away the biggest single strength of X in an era where the world is becoming more and more networked and the ability to run software on one machine while displaying on another is more and more important. But that's not surprising, since the original X came out when users were getting more and more power on their desktop and didn't need to run their apps on a powerful central server to display on a dumb X terminal.
The reason RHEL users want the network transparency that X provides is so they don't have to run an X SERVER on their servers in order to run graphical programs when they have to do so.
Since you're apparently a Wayland fanatic, I guess you can't be expected to understand how X works or why Wayland breaks so much that we do on a regular basis.
Harper wouldn't be in power if the left-wing parties hadn't joined a bizarre suicide pact to force yet another bloody election that no-one wanted.
Besides, all governments love spying on people whenever they can get away with it. At least with a center-ish government in power, the left-wing media will oppose them rather than blindly go along.
Wow, that's a lot, right!? Weeeeelllll...... not so much after you deduct author's living expenses while writing the book, the salaries of editors, typesetters, and other people involved in the production of that final.epub file, and less still after you calculate the distributor's cut - Amazon, Apple, B&N, and others don't sell that book for free.
Uh, what? A writer whose e-book sells 50,000 copies at $9 with a typical trade publishing deal makes about $68,000 after giving $12,000 to their agent. Amazon makes about $135,000. That leaves $235,000 to the publisher.
Do you really, seriously believe that editing a book, formatting it as an.epub and sticking a cover on costs $235,000?
Uh, you do realise many of us use Xbmc on a TV with a remote, right? I don't want sixty icons across the screen that I can't read from the sofa, so the 'ribbon' interface works pretty well there.
Whenever I hear of a large software company suddenly saying they're now a devices and services company, I have to wonder if they have a good grasp on what's happening.
Microsoft want to become Apple.
Which they might be able to do if Steve Jobs' head in a jar was running them. But no chance with Ballmer.
This is a strong overstatement, if M$ never released another version of windows you would still find windows being installed on new machine 30 years from now.
We still have a Windows 95 machine kicking around because it has specialised hardware for which drivers are only available for Windows 95 (it might run on 98, but who knows?). But that doesn't help Microsoft make money.
I tend to agree that they should just have called Windows 7 done, sacked most of the developers and made as much money as possible shipping the same product until it became irrelevant, but that would have been a hard sell internally.
Are conditions really bad enough to stop people flying?
Um, yes.
I used to fly for fun: when I lived near London I'd fly to New York for a long weekend, for example. But now I only fly when I have to, entirely because of the security theater and its insane and randomly varying rules.
This has nothing to do with sales taxes. That's a few percent.
Uh, you are aware that Amazon's profit margins are typically only 'a few percent'?
The brick and mortar stores who complained that Amazon was unfairly competing with them by not charging sales tax are now going to find themselves having to compete with Amazon when they have local operations and same-day delivery. Good luck with that.
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You've obviously missed the stories about the police wanting kill switches in cars so they don't have to chase them any more.
The problem with argument by absurdity is that the government has probably already come up with the idea.
On the other hand, you could use it to nuke your own phone if the police had seized it and were using it to find evidence against you...
Yeah, right. You really believe the police won't have a kill-switch kill-switch?
Ultimately it's not going to work because rebuilding roads to fit all this crap underneath them would be insanely expensive compared to pretty much any other alternative. It might be viable in towns where the roads are close to capacity all the time, but stringing up overhead electrical cables would almost certainly be much cheaper. The idea that you'd rip up hundreds of miles of road between two North American cities to fit complex electrical systems under them so a few dozen trucks an hour could drive along there using electricity rather than diesel is simply laughable.
Since a typical electric car needs about 5x as many fill-ups as a typical gasoline car, you'd need five times as much 'refuelling' capacity. And since they take about ten times as long to charge, those cars would be staying at those 'refuelling' stations for ten times as long.
Electric cars are a silly idea until we have Mr Fusion units or batteries made from unicorn farts.
I remember paying twice as much for my Pentium-4 as I did for my i7. Yet when I bought the P4, AMD were competitive, and today they're not.
AMD are largely irrelevant; Intel's real competition is ARM.
I'm guessing you won't lose millions of dollars if your Xeon system keeps crashing due to overlocking it to save a few hundred dollars over buying a faster CPU in the first place.
Real servers running real applications that make real money aren't overclocked.
Is this the part where we pretend that the X application that you want to forward to another machine is doing anything other than copying a framebuffer around?
No, you don't need to pretend that, because it's not what the apps I use are doing. That's pretty clear when you see how responsive most X apps are over a LAN when compared to VNC.
But feel free to learn something about how X works sometime, before claiming that Wayland (aka 'Let's copy Windows now it's becoming obsolete') is oh so much better.
I just wanted to say that's one of the best articles I've ever read on how 'UI designers' have screwed up the world's computers. One of the things I hate most about Windows is when I'm trying to do something and suddenly it's asking me to configure a feature I've never used before which I couldn't give a crap about and just want to work so I can get my job done.
Except the big selling point of Linux on the desktop is that it's NOT Windows 8.
Since Red Hat paid for Gnome 3, I think they'd be a bit too embarassed to switch to MATE. Which, IMHO, is the best desktop around now.
And I haven't got a clue why they insist on threatening my productivity. I don't understand what they stand to gain by inconveniencing me. It feels like I'm being punished, and I don't know why.
They made the mistake of hiring 'UI designers'.
Imagine you're a 'UI designer'. Do you:
1. Say 'that UI is just about perfect, lets change a few pixels here and there and call it done' and find yourself on welfare the next week.
Or
2. Say 'that UI sucks, it's got too many options, it's confusing to users, we should throw it all away and build a completely new UI with all these fancy hidden windows that I'll have to design and a bazillion new icons that make no sense to anyone but me' and have a job for years before you say 'that UI sucks, let's redesign it all over again'?
So, where's Wayland's network transparency?
How do I run a Wayland app on my Ubuntu server and display the output on a Windows laptop without resorting to a hideous kludge like VNC?
Let's look at the FAQ, shall we?
"No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients."
So basically, the answer is 'that's hard, so I'm not doing it. I'll rely on everyone else to write that code for me and since everyone will write their own, nothing will be able to talk to anything else.'
Wayland is throwing away the biggest single strength of X in an era where the world is becoming more and more networked and the ability to run software on one machine while displaying on another is more and more important. But that's not surprising, since the original X came out when users were getting more and more power on their desktop and didn't need to run their apps on a powerful central server to display on a dumb X terminal.
Retard.
The reason RHEL users want the network transparency that X provides is so they don't have to run an X SERVER on their servers in order to run graphical programs when they have to do so.
Since you're apparently a Wayland fanatic, I guess you can't be expected to understand how X works or why Wayland breaks so much that we do on a regular basis.
Harper wouldn't be in power if the left-wing parties hadn't joined a bizarre suicide pact to force yet another bloody election that no-one wanted.
Besides, all governments love spying on people whenever they can get away with it. At least with a center-ish government in power, the left-wing media will oppose them rather than blindly go along.
Using their software...which I can't use on my Linux system ;-)
Kindle software for Windows runs in Wine.
But it's a crappy e-book reader.
Wow, that's a lot, right!? Weeeeelllll...... not so much after you deduct author's living expenses while writing the book, the salaries of editors, typesetters, and other people involved in the production of that final .epub file, and less still after you calculate the distributor's cut - Amazon, Apple, B&N, and others don't sell that book for free.
Uh, what? A writer whose e-book sells 50,000 copies at $9 with a typical trade publishing deal makes about $68,000 after giving $12,000 to their agent. Amazon makes about $135,000. That leaves $235,000 to the publisher.
Do you really, seriously believe that editing a book, formatting it as an .epub and sticking a cover on costs $235,000?
Oh, apparently you do.
Uh, you do realise many of us use Xbmc on a TV with a remote, right? I don't want sixty icons across the screen that I can't read from the sofa, so the 'ribbon' interface works pretty well there.
It does rather suck on Android, though.
Ditto. I was using XFCE on Ubuntu for a while, but eventually gave in and install Mint and MATE. It's a much better interface all round.
I don't know about Photoshop, but Gimp also has the worst UI of any software I've used on a semi-regular basis.
Whenever I hear of a large software company suddenly saying they're now a devices and services company, I have to wonder if they have a good grasp on what's happening.
Microsoft want to become Apple.
Which they might be able to do if Steve Jobs' head in a jar was running them. But no chance with Ballmer.
This is a strong overstatement, if M$ never released another version of windows you would still find windows being installed on new machine 30 years from now.
We still have a Windows 95 machine kicking around because it has specialised hardware for which drivers are only available for Windows 95 (it might run on 98, but who knows?). But that doesn't help Microsoft make money.
I tend to agree that they should just have called Windows 7 done, sacked most of the developers and made as much money as possible shipping the same product until it became irrelevant, but that would have been a hard sell internally.
Well in most Australian states, it's now illegal to carry even a small Swiss Army style keychain knife anywhere, Period.
Well, that's Crocodile Dundee fscked then.
How many terrorists have the Israelis caught at airports?
I don't mean that as a rhetorical question, but I don't remember them doing so any time in the last couple of decades.
Are conditions really bad enough to stop people flying?
Um, yes.
I used to fly for fun: when I lived near London I'd fly to New York for a long weekend, for example. But now I only fly when I have to, entirely because of the security theater and its insane and randomly varying rules.
This has nothing to do with sales taxes. That's a few percent.
Uh, you are aware that Amazon's profit margins are typically only 'a few percent'?
The brick and mortar stores who complained that Amazon was unfairly competing with them by not charging sales tax are now going to find themselves having to compete with Amazon when they have local operations and same-day delivery. Good luck with that.