SLS -> Redhat -> Mandrake -> Mandriva -> Mageia but that is just my main home computer.... I use all types of distros. RHEL at work on servers. CentOS and Scientific Linux on other servers. Mandriva and Fedora on workstations. Ubuntu and Fedora on my netbook. And lots of others.
Choice is good and I tend to see advantages of the different distros in different use applications, although it can be confusing at times.
If I were forced to use only ONE distro on all machines, I would probably pick Mageia right now since it tends to meet most needs without being trendy but also being very open, flexible, and easy. But I am glad I am not forced to use only one.
Oh you are very correct and I was in error. Sorry about that. I knew there was something wrong when I posted but wasn't sure what. Damn.
In any case, the flavor and point of my post was still valid- the Samsung quad is still a previous generation ARM, like the NVidia, and unlike the S4. And it is the S4 that is in all the Samsung Galaxy III's, not the quad core chip.... and the dual core S4 generally outperforms both the Samsung quad and the NVidia quad (it wins in ALL single core tests and comes close in most multithreaded tests).
And you are also right that the article and summary contain almost no useful information at all.
Please note the summary is obviously about the "International" version of the Galaxy SIII.
The USA version of the Galaxy SIII, and the Evo LTE, and the One X all use the faster Qualcomm S4 chip, not the Tegra 3 they are trying to compare against. And "twice the RAM" should generally have nothing to do with performance.
What does this all mean? Generally, that the high-end [USA] Android phones perform easily as well as the new iphone 5.
Well, the technology difference between X/NX/NC and VNC are huge. One is compressed widgets, the other is bitmap copying. I would think that X/NX/NC would all be much faster than VNC, but I have not compared them all to each other.
Are you saying you tested NX and don't think it solves high latency issues? It should.... I know several people who think it is fantastic. I suppose it also depends on just how high the latency/low the bandwidth is.
In many areas, Sprint's 3G speeds are quite slow. Unfortunately, they are here too. The main problem is that Sprint is over-subscribed. But not all areas are slow. Plus, the areas that had WiMax had plenty of speed. Unfortunately, I am also in an area that never got WiMax. PLUS the LTE areas are very fast. Unfortunately, we don't have that yet either... but it is due pretty soon (thank God).
I will point out that there was and is no cap or throttling on Sprint's WiMax or LTE...
There are none right now (since there is really no Wayland). But the whole point of Wayland would be to compile the apps without X11 support. Otherwise, why bother with Wayland at all?
People who don't understand what you said have never used thin clients. We still use them at work and they are great for particular situations. For example- one host manages the login process and window manager and apps are launched on various different hosts and displayed and the user doesn't know they aren't all local on their machine.
X11 might be old, but the architecture is still completely valid. Instead, people are trying to away and destroying forward compatibility. All they chant is how it will be possible to run Wayland apps in an Xserver running under Wayland. But that does NOTHING for apps that are designed for and compiled for Wayland. THEY will have zero network transparency and will not run on remote Xservers.
What should have been the goal is upgrading X11 to perhaps something like X12.
There is nothing "wrong" with X11 that upgrading the protocol won't help. Wayland is an abomination that I hope fails because it is trying to solve problems by creating a whole bunch of new ones.
Saying Mac OS X version 10 is just stupid. That is saying Mac OS version 10 version 10. When it becomes 10.10 then Mac OSX 10.10t would be "Mac OS version 10 version 10.10.
I can't wait for them to come out with Mac OS version 11. Maybe then they can drop the damn "X". Or perhaps they will call it MacOSXI and the cluless can say "Oooh, have have O S Echs Eye".
Maybe you can believe the promises of the Dutch police, but if this were in the USA, I would say there was not a chance in HELL the data would really be destroyed.
I suspect it would not only be kept locally, but probably snarfed by the state police, FBI, DHS, CIA, and/or whatever.
Bingo. It probably is just an excuse to make more money.
Personally, I can't stand ANY multiplayer games. Not sure exactly why, I guess I prefer to compete against fixed challenges and at my own pace. I am probably in the minority, but I certainly can't be alone.
It took dozens and dozens of years to FINALLY get HDTV out there and available and affordable also also have content. The idea of breaking all the standards yet again is unnerving.
I can't see any reason for these UHDTV's at all. On smaller sets, consumers can barely tell the difference between SD and 720P. On larger sets they probably can't even tell the difference between 720P and 1080I/P.
Really, for television, unless you have a 100+ inch TV and are sitting rather close, more than 1080P is just a uber-geek thing.
Even worse is when this "database of ruin" makes FALSE categorizations/predictions about an individual and then treats them as such. It already happens.
Welcome to the future- guilty without proof, guilty until proven innocent, guilty without due process, guilty by association, guilty without even knowing it.
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SLS -> Redhat -> Mandrake -> Mandriva -> Mageia
but that is just my main home computer.... I use all types of distros. RHEL at work on servers. CentOS and Scientific Linux on other servers. Mandriva and Fedora on workstations. Ubuntu and Fedora on my netbook. And lots of others.
Choice is good and I tend to see advantages of the different distros in different use applications, although it can be confusing at times.
If I were forced to use only ONE distro on all machines, I would probably pick Mageia right now since it tends to meet most needs without being trendy but also being very open, flexible, and easy. But I am glad I am not forced to use only one.
>"Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT"
Um.... Duh???
Did anyone really expect anything else?
Damnit, I wish I could edit postings. I meant to say "And it is the S4 that is in all the USA Samsung Galaxy III's, not the quad core chip.."
Oh you are very correct and I was in error. Sorry about that. I knew there was something wrong when I posted but wasn't sure what. Damn.
In any case, the flavor and point of my post was still valid- the Samsung quad is still a previous generation ARM, like the NVidia, and unlike the S4. And it is the S4 that is in all the Samsung Galaxy III's, not the quad core chip.... and the dual core S4 generally outperforms both the Samsung quad and the NVidia quad (it wins in ALL single core tests and comes close in most multithreaded tests).
And you are also right that the article and summary contain almost no useful information at all.
Exactly, which was the whole point of MY post.
Please note the summary is obviously about the "International" version of the Galaxy SIII.
The USA version of the Galaxy SIII, and the Evo LTE, and the One X all use the faster Qualcomm S4 chip, not the Tegra 3 they are trying to compare against. And "twice the RAM" should generally have nothing to do with performance.
What does this all mean? Generally, that the high-end [USA] Android phones perform easily as well as the new iphone 5.
Well, the technology difference between X/NX/NC and VNC are huge. One is compressed widgets, the other is bitmap copying. I would think that X/NX/NC would all be much faster than VNC, but I have not compared them all to each other.
Are you saying you tested NX and don't think it solves high latency issues? It should.... I know several people who think it is fantastic. I suppose it also depends on just how high the latency/low the bandwidth is.
I am really struggling to figure out how this posting/article fits with Slashdot at all.
High latency/low bandwidth can be fixed using X11 with schemes like NX, which are very effective:
http://freenx.berlios.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoMachine
http://www.nomachine.com/
Here is your answer: http://www.nomachine.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoMachine http://freenx.berlios.de/
And it is still X11, and it really works. So yes, it can be done.
In many areas, Sprint's 3G speeds are quite slow. Unfortunately, they are here too. The main problem is that Sprint is over-subscribed. But not all areas are slow. Plus, the areas that had WiMax had plenty of speed. Unfortunately, I am also in an area that never got WiMax. PLUS the LTE areas are very fast. Unfortunately, we don't have that yet either... but it is due pretty soon (thank God).
I will point out that there was and is no cap or throttling on Sprint's WiMax or LTE...
There are none right now (since there is really no Wayland). But the whole point of Wayland would be to compile the apps without X11 support. Otherwise, why bother with Wayland at all?
+1
People who don't understand what you said have never used thin clients. We still use them at work and they are great for particular situations. For example- one host manages the login process and window manager and apps are launched on various different hosts and displayed and the user doesn't know they aren't all local on their machine.
X11 might be old, but the architecture is still completely valid. Instead, people are trying to away and destroying forward compatibility. All they chant is how it will be possible to run Wayland apps in an Xserver running under Wayland. But that does NOTHING for apps that are designed for and compiled for Wayland. THEY will have zero network transparency and will not run on remote Xservers.
What should have been the goal is upgrading X11 to perhaps something like X12.
+1
There is nothing "wrong" with X11 that upgrading the protocol won't help. Wayland is an abomination that I hope fails because it is trying to solve problems by creating a whole bunch of new ones.
>"While that does not seem like much, with unlimited plans gone and data caps in style that could pose potential problems for some heavy data users."
I guess the author never heard of Sprint, which has unlimited plans and without data caps or throttling.
Perhaps the statement was out of context, I don't know. But it is misleading.
+1 I wish I had mod points.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" makes me want to barf.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin.
Perfect point.
Saying Mac OS X version 10 is just stupid. That is saying Mac OS version 10 version 10. When it becomes 10.10 then Mac OSX 10.10t would be "Mac OS version 10 version 10.10.
I can't wait for them to come out with Mac OS version 11. Maybe then they can drop the damn "X". Or perhaps they will call it MacOSXI and the cluless can say "Oooh, have have O S Echs Eye".
Maybe you can believe the promises of the Dutch police, but if this were in the USA, I would say there was not a chance in HELL the data would really be destroyed.
I suspect it would not only be kept locally, but probably snarfed by the state police, FBI, DHS, CIA, and/or whatever.
Sorry to sound so jaded.
Well said
>"You don't like being killed after a couple of minutes over and over and over and over again? :-)"
LOL!!!! OK, that might be part of it too :)
Bingo. It probably is just an excuse to make more money.
Personally, I can't stand ANY multiplayer games. Not sure exactly why, I guess I prefer to compete against fixed challenges and at my own pace. I am probably in the minority, but I certainly can't be alone.
It took dozens and dozens of years to FINALLY get HDTV out there and available and affordable also also have content. The idea of breaking all the standards yet again is unnerving.
I can't see any reason for these UHDTV's at all. On smaller sets, consumers can barely tell the difference between SD and 720P. On larger sets they probably can't even tell the difference between 720P and 1080I/P.
Really, for television, unless you have a 100+ inch TV and are sitting rather close, more than 1080P is just a uber-geek thing.
I was wondering the same thing. I didn't mean it to be funny. I read it a few more times and just don't see it as humorous.
Even worse is when this "database of ruin" makes FALSE categorizations/predictions about an individual and then treats them as such. It already happens.
Welcome to the future- guilty without proof, guilty until proven innocent, guilty without due process, guilty by association, guilty without even knowing it.
>"Later in life it leads to abnormal masturbation, reduced sexual pleasure, and reduced pleasure of your female partner. "
You are speaking as if those are facts. They are not.