You're an idiot. HDLC is High Level Data Link Control, a serial data protocol. There was never a DRM by that name, except in poster's mind. Maybe you mean HDMI. Here's an idea. Before you make an ass out of yourself, make sure you know something about the subject.
Shuttleworth clearly does not believe the desktop or even traditional notebooks are a market worth pursuing. He is only interested in tablets, netbooks, and other low end crap. So he doesn't give a crap if the new interface is a bust on real computers.
Redhat is entirely the right answer for servers that need support. You won't be sorry if you go with Redhat. Even for servers for which the upfront expense of prepaid service is not supportable, I prefer Redhat clones such as CentOS, Scientific Linux, and PUIAS Linux.
I suspect I am anticipating the answer to this, but then why does the CUPS homepage/ say "CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems."
1) Yes, I watch video on linux, and you know what? It works fine, just the way it is. I don't believe there is a problem with sound on linux. 2) Nobody much writes to the X API directly, but guess what, GTK and QT end up going to X, and X is doing the job just fine. 3) You're probably right, with today's megadeath overkill computer hardware, likely another layer getting in the way of the display is not going to be too bad a performance hit. I'm still against the idea on the pointlessness of it. 4) I do realize that a single API for both display and printing, a la Windows GDI, theoretically simplifies things, but when you think about it, paging vs scrolling represents such a fundamental difference in paradigm between the two media that you're going to end up with a lot of parallel code anyway. I pretty much never print to anything except a PDF file, so I tend to minimize the whole issue of printing in my mind. The correct way to combine the two would have been to use Postscript for both. Gee, NeXT got that right. With today's hardware it would work fine. 5) You're right, maybe I will get over it all in time, but jeeze, what a waste when there are much more pressing issues.
Wayland can go to hell. There is absolutely no reason to couple the display, audio, and printing. None. There is nothing whatsoever in common between display and audio, and only a broad connection between display and printing (they both produce something you can see, but printing is STATIC, and printing is already handled just fine by CUPS. Hell, Apple DEVELOPED cups for OSX and linux and bsd picked it up because it made sense and solved a real problem).
Just because you already have layers running on layers (that are intelligently designed, and each having a purpose), is no reason to add another layer which has no basis for existing. In OSX, X11 programs are already stepchildren that don't integrate properly with the rest of the system, because the system is "too good for them" (in the royal sense, not the true sense).
I will not run X11 on top of another layer as long as I am able to choose not to. If that means deserting one linux distro for another, or even deserting linux in favor of bsd, so be it. I may even be forced to eat Wayland if everybody adopts it and I can't avoid it. But it won't be willingly, and it will be with the realization that I've been force fed crap.
Now if you want to reverse this insanity and run this Wayland crap on top of a proper X11, I have no problem with that. I will just bloody well ignore it.
Out of which orifice did you pull that figure? And how many multiples of current retail cost per kWh would it be costing us steady state? We'll never know, because you didn't offer anything in support.
This is a good point. The bureaucratic tail wags the governmental dog. The governments have created eternal monsters which have become invulnerable to change and control. This is as true for the various so-called democracies and republics as it is for the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes; as it was for the USSR. Everywhere there exists only one form of yolk on the people. Vast, self perpetuating, self serving, evil, corrupt, bureaucracies with the mere surface trappings of various forms of governments supposedly in charge, but in reality cardboard cutouts in macabre dioramas such as Congress and the White House.
Those of us who struggle to expose it and fix it before it is too late do not gain traction. Therefore there will be only one final recourse, and when it comes, it is going to reach out and touch the whole putrid, degenerate structure. Heads will topple to the ground in a continuous roar like surf on the beach. And not one left will regret that day.
Absurd. Jesus Christ, ALL aircraft fuel tanks were unarmored in WW-II. An aircraft has to be light. Armor is incredibly heavy; they hadn't any kevlar. Armor was used very judiciously, mostly confined to small slabs around the pilot. I think what you're looking for is the fact they were not self-sealing. They didn't have any armor for the pilot, or fire extinguishers either. None of this was a "defect." It was not a matter of stupidity or incompetence. They made a deliberate decision to value speed, maneuverability, and range over protection. The plane that doesn't get hit is the one that survives, and the Zero was superbly maneuverable, and they ripped the opposition to shreds early in the war.
The A6M5b of 1944 finally did have an "armored" glass windscreen and fire extinguishers, but it was lack of infrastructure for pilot training, and lack of numbers that continued to give them the disadvantage.
They didn't have better tech in general; they mostly had a lot of flashy tech of questionable value and negligible quantity. In one widely used item they were hugely ahead: the MG-42 machine gun. It replaced a host of varied automatic weapons carried by the Allies, and was far, far superior to any of them.
The V-1 and V-2 were vast wastes of resources which they only undertook because they couldn't field a competitive air force after a couple of years outside their own territory, or even over their own territory later in the war. They could meet any two of fighter characteristics: speed, maneuverability, and range, but the P-51 had all three.
The Allies had better radar, a better all-around fighter (the P-51), better bombers by far, a jeep better than the Kübelwagen, a better battle rifle, proximity-fused artillery far superior to the time fuzes the Germans had to be content with, tanks that didn't break down continually. Lots of better tech that actually mattered. We had jet fighters (not a well-known fact) but chose not to deploy them because we were content to use ordinary piston-engine fighters to pick off their jets like a shooting gallery while they were in their landing pattern.
Shakespeare had one of his characters in the play Henry VI utter "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Of course no one would urge that in real life. But it seems like Shakespeare missed a couple of even bigger evil bastard fuck-ups from hell. Politicians and bureaucrats.
To moderators: parent is INCORRECT. Don't mod someone informative when they are telling a FALSEHOOD. Parent only made a mistake, which is entirely understandable and forgivable, but MODERATORS made MONKEYS of themselves.
Read TFA. Read it for COMPREHENSION.
Microsoft limit: 500 aggregate recipients per mailbox per day.
Intermedia's (competitor) limit: 500 recipients per individual email, but unlimited aggregate.
FWIW, seems to me parent has taken Intermedia's policy and exactly inverted it. That's incorrect on two counts.
Heh, fortunately for the average slashdotter, he doesn't have to go outside to experience cosmic radiation. It is capable of penetrating quite deep underground; certainly into the basement.
It's bullshit of course. The USGS was established in 1879 for good and sufficient reasons of its own. It predated NOAA by over 90 years, and could be restored to an independent administration just as it was prior to 1970.
Bullshit. You don't think weather and hurricanes were being forecast before 1970? That was when a bloke name of Nixon decided he wasn't spending enough money already and proposed creating NOAA.
You'd be wrong. The first dedicated weather reconnaissance squadron was created in 1944. Hurricane hunter aircraft were active in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. The first weather satellite was orbited in 1960, and many others followed. All without NOAA.
NOAA is a layer of bureaucracy which somehow we did without prior to 1970. You remember, the entire period when the US was booming. NOAA is currently busy wiping out some long established fishing industries. Paul has studied the whole system of bureaucracies and concluded this is one which it would improve efficiency to do without. If you have other information, by all means produce it. It's going to be a tough sell to analytical thinking people, though. It's well known that larger bureaucracies pyramid waste and always find more and more things to stick their nose into.
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Agreed, but we're guessing.
You're an idiot. HDLC is High Level Data Link Control, a serial data protocol. There was never a DRM by that name, except in poster's mind. Maybe you mean HDMI. Here's an idea. Before you make an ass out of yourself, make sure you know something about the subject.
HDLC? What are you going on about? I rather presume you mean HDMI, but there's no way to be sure.
Shuttleworth clearly does not believe the desktop or even traditional notebooks are a market worth pursuing. He is only interested in tablets, netbooks, and other low end crap. So he doesn't give a crap if the new interface is a bust on real computers.
Redhat is entirely the right answer for servers that need support. You won't be sorry if you go with Redhat. Even for servers for which the upfront expense of prepaid service is not supportable, I prefer Redhat clones such as CentOS, Scientific Linux, and PUIAS Linux.
I suspect I am anticipating the answer to this, but then why does the CUPS homepage/ say "CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems."
1) Yes, I watch video on linux, and you know what? It works fine, just the way it is. I don't believe there is a problem with sound on linux.
2) Nobody much writes to the X API directly, but guess what, GTK and QT end up going to X, and X is doing the job just fine.
3) You're probably right, with today's megadeath overkill computer hardware, likely another layer getting in the way of the display is not going to be too bad a performance hit. I'm still against the idea on the pointlessness of it.
4) I do realize that a single API for both display and printing, a la Windows GDI, theoretically simplifies things, but when you think about it, paging vs scrolling represents such a fundamental difference in paradigm between the two media that you're going to end up with a lot of parallel code anyway. I pretty much never print to anything except a PDF file, so I tend to minimize the whole issue of printing in my mind. The correct way to combine the two would have been to use Postscript for both. Gee, NeXT got that right. With today's hardware it would work fine.
5) You're right, maybe I will get over it all in time, but jeeze, what a waste when there are much more pressing issues.
Wayland can go to hell. There is absolutely no reason to couple the display, audio, and printing. None. There is nothing whatsoever in common between display and audio, and only a broad connection between display and printing (they both produce something you can see, but printing is STATIC, and printing is already handled just fine by CUPS. Hell, Apple DEVELOPED cups for OSX and linux and bsd picked it up because it made sense and solved a real problem).
Just because you already have layers running on layers (that are intelligently designed, and each having a purpose), is no reason to add another layer which has no basis for existing. In OSX, X11 programs are already stepchildren that don't integrate properly with the rest of the system, because the system is "too good for them" (in the royal sense, not the true sense).
I will not run X11 on top of another layer as long as I am able to choose not to. If that means deserting one linux distro for another, or even deserting linux in favor of bsd, so be it. I may even be forced to eat Wayland if everybody adopts it and I can't avoid it. But it won't be willingly, and it will be with the realization that I've been force fed crap.
Now if you want to reverse this insanity and run this Wayland crap on top of a proper X11, I have no problem with that. I will just bloody well ignore it.
Out of which orifice did you pull that figure? And how many multiples of current retail cost per kWh would it be costing us steady state? We'll never know, because you didn't offer anything in support.
This is a good point. The bureaucratic tail wags the governmental dog. The governments have created eternal monsters which have become invulnerable to change and control. This is as true for the various so-called democracies and republics as it is for the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes; as it was for the USSR. Everywhere there exists only one form of yolk on the people. Vast, self perpetuating, self serving, evil, corrupt, bureaucracies with the mere surface trappings of various forms of governments supposedly in charge, but in reality cardboard cutouts in macabre dioramas such as Congress and the White House.
Those of us who struggle to expose it and fix it before it is too late do not gain traction. Therefore there will be only one final recourse, and when it comes, it is going to reach out and touch the whole putrid, degenerate structure. Heads will topple to the ground in a continuous roar like surf on the beach. And not one left will regret that day.
There are high value "networks" in Sudan? Seriously? High value anything?
I say give them a point for each of the three categories they fit!
Absurd. Jesus Christ, ALL aircraft fuel tanks were unarmored in WW-II. An aircraft has to be light. Armor is incredibly heavy; they hadn't any kevlar. Armor was used very judiciously, mostly confined to small slabs around the pilot. I think what you're looking for is the fact they were not self-sealing. They didn't have any armor for the pilot, or fire extinguishers either. None of this was a "defect." It was not a matter of stupidity or incompetence. They made a deliberate decision to value speed, maneuverability, and range over protection. The plane that doesn't get hit is the one that survives, and the Zero was superbly maneuverable, and they ripped the opposition to shreds early in the war.
The A6M5b of 1944 finally did have an "armored" glass windscreen and fire extinguishers, but it was lack of infrastructure for pilot training, and lack of numbers that continued to give them the disadvantage.
They didn't have better tech in general; they mostly had a lot of flashy tech of questionable value and negligible quantity. In one widely used item they were hugely ahead: the MG-42 machine gun. It replaced a host of varied automatic weapons carried by the Allies, and was far, far superior to any of them.
The V-1 and V-2 were vast wastes of resources which they only undertook because they couldn't field a competitive air force after a couple of years outside their own territory, or even over their own territory later in the war. They could meet any two of fighter characteristics: speed, maneuverability, and range, but the P-51 had all three.
The Allies had better radar, a better all-around fighter (the P-51), better bombers by far, a jeep better than the Kübelwagen, a better battle rifle, proximity-fused artillery far superior to the time fuzes the Germans had to be content with, tanks that didn't break down continually. Lots of better tech that actually mattered. We had jet fighters (not a well-known fact) but chose not to deploy them because we were content to use ordinary piston-engine fighters to pick off their jets like a shooting gallery while they were in their landing pattern.
Shakespeare had one of his characters in the play Henry VI utter "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Of course no one would urge that in real life. But it seems like Shakespeare missed a couple of even bigger evil bastard fuck-ups from hell. Politicians and bureaucrats.
It's still WRONG. Mod me down some more, assholes.
300 pounds!!! Jesus. That's not luggable by anybody except the incredible hulk.
To moderators: parent is INCORRECT. Don't mod someone informative when they are telling a FALSEHOOD. Parent only made a mistake, which is entirely understandable and forgivable, but MODERATORS made MONKEYS of themselves.
Read TFA. Read it for COMPREHENSION.
Microsoft limit: 500 aggregate recipients per mailbox per day.
Intermedia's (competitor) limit: 500 recipients per individual email, but unlimited aggregate.
FWIW, seems to me parent has taken Intermedia's policy and exactly inverted it. That's incorrect on two counts.
Heh, fortunately for the average slashdotter, he doesn't have to go outside to experience cosmic radiation. It is capable of penetrating quite deep underground; certainly into the basement.
How the hell would we know that? We can't see your face, you know.
ZOMG!!!11one. Paul would dissolve the USGS?
It's bullshit of course. The USGS was established in 1879 for good and sufficient reasons of its own. It predated NOAA by over 90 years, and could be restored to an independent administration just as it was prior to 1970.
Bullshit. You don't think weather and hurricanes were being forecast before 1970? That was when a bloke name of Nixon decided he wasn't spending enough money already and proposed creating NOAA.
You'd be wrong. The first dedicated weather reconnaissance squadron was created in 1944. Hurricane hunter aircraft were active in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. The first weather satellite was orbited in 1960, and many others followed. All without NOAA.
NOAA is a layer of bureaucracy which somehow we did without prior to 1970. You remember, the entire period when the US was booming. NOAA is currently busy wiping out some long established fishing industries. Paul has studied the whole system of bureaucracies and concluded this is one which it would improve efficiency to do without. If you have other information, by all means produce it. It's going to be a tough sell to analytical thinking people, though. It's well known that larger bureaucracies pyramid waste and always find more and more things to stick their nose into.
To: the government of France. The ISP's may not say it, so I will. PISS OFF.
And completely inexplicably so.
Sounds like a driver issue. I would be more interested in how it works with linux.