Which is far more fundamentally efficient: sending a few specific drawing commands only when something changes? or transmitting multiple bitmaps of the whole screen (even just compressed deltas) every second?
Also,X isupports the resolution of the remote display, and only sends the application's wndow. VNC can only give you the server's whole desktop at whatever resolution the sending side supports. Lets not even get into the associated security issues of showing a whole desktop.
>> Unfortunately, Linux has progressed very little since 2000
It actually has. It has added a shit ton of stuff under the covers, but if you're talking about the user experience of most distros, then maybe you have a point, but I'm actually glad about that. I think the old/simple GUI model that most distros use is already pretty much perfect for productivity, at least for me. If you look at the way Windows has gone since XP, IMHO its actually gotten far more clunky and far less productive with each iteration as there's just way more "helpful" crap getting in your way all the time, such as the annoying brainfart of whenever you try and do anything, instead of actually doing anything, Windows keeps popping up dialog boxes asking if you're really sure, You can't even turn it off. I mean WTF.
>> Meanwhile MS Office has improved massively,
Not in my opinion. Word especially is still as fucking awkward and broke to use as ever. I find Libre Office much more intuitive, The only problem I have with Libre Office is that it pretty much copies the crap MS Office paradigm, instead of having done something much better instead, which would not have been hard.
shame on me for thinking that ISPs suddenly struggling to maintain service and net neutrality now going to a senate vote is anything but a complete coincidence.
Systemd is an unstable, buggy, and a giant pain in the ass piece of shit.
It boggles my mind why the big distros ever jumped on it, but I can't wait for the day when they eventually get over the whole fad and move back to simple startup scripts.
Watch the video. They are clearly primarily aiming at watching TV on mobile devices, ie. phones. Doing anything with or over cable seems at best likely to be secondary to their main strategy.
It seems to me that hacking Google or Amazon might actually be significantly harder than hacking some poorly-run Government IT dept. I mean look at the whole Hillary mail server fiasco.
>> Neither Fox nor CNN have any programs I'd personally watch. Both of them are straight up propaganda for the RNC and DNC respectively.
I feel the same way about MSNBC and WaPo. Talk about obvious left-wing agendas. Rachel Maddow is an especially bad joke. No actual news reporting at all, just radical blowhard opinions and braindead editorial commentary. She might as well be on The View.
The entire US media has become a joke and has totally lost all credibility. I wish the government would step in and do something to literally force the media to maintain professional standards of sticking to truly unbiased and fact-based news reporting, instead of regurgitating fabricated bullshit and opinion pieces. Clearly leaving it to self-regulation is no longer even close to a viable option.
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Which is far more fundamentally efficient: sending a few specific drawing commands only when something changes? or transmitting multiple bitmaps of the whole screen (even just compressed deltas) every second?
Also,X isupports the resolution of the remote display, and only sends the application's wndow. VNC can only give you the server's whole desktop at whatever resolution the sending side supports. Lets not even get into the associated security issues of showing a whole desktop.
QT is a hideous viral mess.
Performance. Bandwidth efficiency. Better integrated. Better for doing things like remote displays from embedded devices.
Give them a few more decades and they might finally support remote displays.
you forgot the solar companies.
As for the so-called "affordable" model 3 being "a wonder", that's quite a stretch.
http://bgr.com/2017/11/13/tesl...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/0...
https://seekingalpha.com/artic...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/1...
>> Unfortunately, Linux has progressed very little since 2000
It actually has. It has added a shit ton of stuff under the covers, but if you're talking about the user experience of most distros, then maybe you have a point, but I'm actually glad about that. I think the old/simple GUI model that most distros use is already pretty much perfect for productivity, at least for me. If you look at the way Windows has gone since XP, IMHO its actually gotten far more clunky and far less productive with each iteration as there's just way more "helpful" crap getting in your way all the time, such as the annoying brainfart of whenever you try and do anything, instead of actually doing anything, Windows keeps popping up dialog boxes asking if you're really sure, You can't even turn it off. I mean WTF.
>> Meanwhile MS Office has improved massively,
Not in my opinion. Word especially is still as fucking awkward and broke to use as ever. I find Libre Office much more intuitive, The only problem I have with Libre Office is that it pretty much copies the crap MS Office paradigm, instead of having done something much better instead, which would not have been hard.
>> isn't this an arguably *good* thing in support of non-net-neutrality?
Not really. I never gave any of those companies permission to spy on me. That has nothing to do with how much bandwidth they get.
..then why can't they provide the user with a simple switch to blacklist them entirely?
> That doesn't mean all bills on the subject will be horrible.
Maybe, but anything from Blackburn will be.
"she thinks it's the ISPs' job to police content, and voted to kill the Broadband Privacy Rule".
It's pretty obvious who owns her corrupt ass.
>> you can't in-place upgrade a Windows 32bit OS to Windows 64bit OS.
Admittedly its a pain in the ass to reinstall windows, but anybody still running 32 bit windows on a 64-bit CPU is a freak.
Just because they're scientists doesn't make them any less corruptible or fallible.
> ... only if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks.
Why does that not make me feel even slightly safe?
Wow I remember cable. People are still on it?
What would a hypervisor running on a really low performance cpu be any good for?
shame on me for thinking that ISPs suddenly struggling to maintain service and net neutrality now going to a senate vote is anything but a complete coincidence.
Systemd is an unstable, buggy, and a giant pain in the ass piece of shit.
It boggles my mind why the big distros ever jumped on it, but I can't wait for the day when they eventually get over the whole fad and move back to simple startup scripts.
> What the fuck is he doing that fucks up Windows so bad?
Trying to use it to do anything well?
Watch the video. They are clearly primarily aiming at watching TV on mobile devices, ie. phones. Doing anything with or over cable seems at best likely to be secondary to their main strategy.
they could just install a few speakers outside and play a really annoying song over and over.
so he was bricking IOT devices just to warn people of a potential threat of their IOT devices being bricked. Apparently logic isn't his strong point.
Really AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Sprint are on their own standard.
It seems to me that hacking Google or Amazon might actually be significantly harder than hacking some poorly-run Government IT dept. I mean look at the whole Hillary mail server fiasco.
>> claims that it can "uncarrier" TV the way it did with wireless service
It already did what now? Wireless still seems like a giant tripartate monopoly to me.
>> Neither Fox nor CNN have any programs I'd personally watch. Both of them are straight up propaganda for the RNC and DNC respectively.
I feel the same way about MSNBC and WaPo. Talk about obvious left-wing agendas. Rachel Maddow is an especially bad joke. No actual news reporting at all, just radical blowhard opinions and braindead editorial commentary. She might as well be on The View.
The entire US media has become a joke and has totally lost all credibility. I wish the government would step in and do something to literally force the media to maintain professional standards of sticking to truly unbiased and fact-based news reporting, instead of regurgitating fabricated bullshit and opinion pieces. Clearly leaving it to self-regulation is no longer even close to a viable option.
Ivan is that you?