What happens is you run the Enlightenment environment under Wayland instead of Gnome? There has been a lot more work put in over more time so it's probably more stable.
The theory is that it's going to be faster than X. Since the video drivers are mostly cut and pasted from X and there isn't much slowing down in the bits they have left out that has not happened yet.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks they have is that they slow applications they want to display quickly are slow in portions that have nothing to do with displaying to the screen. Saving a few milliseconds in the new gedit starting up (Daniel Stone's strawman to show X is slow) is hard to notice when it still takes seconds to start. If they included their own high speed toolkit instead of letting things use the new slooooow gtk they could target where the bottleneck is, but that gets away from the idea of having a very simple thing instead of just their own X.
They use that one to mock the people who ask for it. See also mocking shaped windows and the Enlightenment window manager, despite the Enlightenment project helping them out a great deal.
Under all the hype and venom it's a framebuffer with the work of other projects such as gtk, enlightenment etc on top, a worthwhile project for some purposes going back to a more simple approach than X , but the hype and venom is really working against them.
Yucca mountain is a bit wet for storing vitrified waste or waste in drums but there are other places and synroc avoids the moisture problem completely. The other problem with Yucca mountain is casino NIMBYs with utterly insane amounts of political power.
I also suggest you look at the Harford website about reprocessing into MOX - a bit of a better idea than expensive 1960s fast breeders that were a dead end and could use hardly any of the waste anyway. The Indians have a breeder reactor design that shows a lot more promise for using spent fuel but it hasn't been built, and even then "Easy... build breeder reactors and process it into more fuel" is incredibly naive.
Seriously guys, I know it's the quick and lazy way to put together a website but it's obvious that this sort of thing is going to happen in that creaking pile of php intentional or otherwise.
Last I saw of WoW it was deliberately cartoony and did not need a top end GPU to be played so it did not matter if the GPU was optimized for a completely different set of operations. Not much memory for textures? Who cares when solid color predominates?
I'm just saying that it having ONLY itself to blame is crap
True there are also the banks and the Republican Party being mostly owned by the oil industry, especially foreign owned portions of the oil industry. And there are others. ONLY was a poor choice but the nuclear lobby has turned into rent seekers and the nuclear industry has eaten it's own children. The only hopes of advancement come from outside, hopefully military spinoffs but even those are more likely to be developed offshore than in the USA.
The drivers are the OS by definition. You can't have it both ways where a web browser is part of the OS and a kernel level driver is not. Also I still see a lot of crashes but then again I see a lot of computers and have a lot of people complain to me when they go wrong, so I don't hear anything from however many people who never see crashes.
On what planet? There are plenty of salt lakes, including the biggest one on the planet, that are full of it. That's without even having to crunch up rock or get it out of seawater.
Gah - seeing it as "high school degree" makes my head hurt but I since you guys call a lot of people that are not in charge of University departments "professor" I should expect a bit of title deflation.
Frequently it is. Where I went to school there were a couple of cronies to a guy in politics who wrote the mathematics textbooks - utter crap in use for thirty years. I learned calculus by rote and had a lookup list in my head to answer questions like a trained parrot. It wasn't until I went to university and got hold of a textbook that actually explained how it worked that I got a grasp, and suddenly the concept was very easy and I could move on to the stuff that was actually non-trivial.
If you can argue that everybody should read some of Shakespeare before they exit high school
Personally I'd say it should be there just to cure people of their fucking spelling bee fixations - Chaucer too if that doesn't work. I'm even more for algebra since it tends to be needed when dealing with physical objects such as woodworking etc. Calculus lets you understand the difference between strength and toughness of materials with a quick glance at a graph (integral of stress versus strain is the area under the curve if it's plotted on a graph - lots under the graph means tough, not much means brittle).
The commies learned it from the Tsar's secret police. Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is very good fiction about the topic which makes you wonder why Tom Clancy ever bothered to write spy novels with something as good as that around.
Good point, for another example ask someone about nuclear waste disposal and it's a good measure if they are a clueless fanboy or actually know something about the topic. "Iz awl fuel dawg" shows a total lack of understanding but sadly seems to be the default level of discussion around here. If they don't know about low level waste (a problem that isn't hard to deal with but is not something that can be used for fuel) then they know little or nothing about nuclear energy other than a gut feel that it is good. That attitude of ignoring waste is counterproductive and held up nuclear waste management for two decades. All Synrok was waiting on was some funding for some final tests. Now it is in use and is part of the now complete answer of "but what about the waste" which until recently could be held as a strong argument against nuclear power.
I have read many of mdsolars posts and have only seen him *being* trolled
A clueless fanboy's definition of a troll is any mention of their pet topic that contains something other than high praise. I wish they would actually learn abut their pet topics and become fanboys with a clue instead, it would cut down on the meaningless noise.
The nuclear industry only has itself to blame. See the lobbying AGAINST the thorium experiment a few years back as an example. They are not a force for progress, they are rent seekers sitting on 1970s technology and fighting change. If we want something modern in a few years time we are going to have to buy it from China or Russia and be opposed by the nuclear lobby at every step.
Be a nuke fanboy as much as you want, or solar or wind, but if you scream about "one true energy" and attack all the others you are evangelizing failure.
Who is telling you that? I know some people on the Chinese side of the border and they have a very different story. Who would go back to starvation and public execution for trying to escape in the first place? Some executions even happen within sight of the Chinese border.
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What happens is you run the Enlightenment environment under Wayland instead of Gnome? There has been a lot more work put in over more time so it's probably more stable.
The theory is that it's going to be faster than X.
Since the video drivers are mostly cut and pasted from X and there isn't much slowing down in the bits they have left out that has not happened yet.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks they have is that they slow applications they want to display quickly are slow in portions that have nothing to do with displaying to the screen. Saving a few milliseconds in the new gedit starting up (Daniel Stone's strawman to show X is slow) is hard to notice when it still takes seconds to start. If they included their own high speed toolkit instead of letting things use the new slooooow gtk they could target where the bottleneck is, but that gets away from the idea of having a very simple thing instead of just their own X.
They use that one to mock the people who ask for it.
See also mocking shaped windows and the Enlightenment window manager, despite the Enlightenment project helping them out a great deal.
Under all the hype and venom it's a framebuffer with the work of other projects such as gtk, enlightenment etc on top, a worthwhile project for some purposes going back to a more simple approach than X , but the hype and venom is really working against them.
What unsolved problem does Wayland address?
No one has any difficulty securely running GUIs across networks.
Give them a chance to get it working on the desktop first :)
Yucca mountain is a bit wet for storing vitrified waste or waste in drums but there are other places and synroc avoids the moisture problem completely.
The other problem with Yucca mountain is casino NIMBYs with utterly insane amounts of political power.
I also suggest you look at the Harford website about reprocessing into MOX - a bit of a better idea than expensive 1960s fast breeders that were a dead end and could use hardly any of the waste anyway. The Indians have a breeder reactor design that shows a lot more promise for using spent fuel but it hasn't been built, and even then "Easy... build breeder reactors and process it into more fuel" is incredibly naive.
Seriously guys, I know it's the quick and lazy way to put together a website but it's obvious that this sort of thing is going to happen in that creaking pile of php intentional or otherwise.
Last I saw of WoW it was deliberately cartoony and did not need a top end GPU to be played so it did not matter if the GPU was optimized for a completely different set of operations. Not much memory for textures? Who cares when solid color predominates?
True there are also the banks and the Republican Party being mostly owned by the oil industry, especially foreign owned portions of the oil industry. And there are others. ONLY was a poor choice but the nuclear lobby has turned into rent seekers and the nuclear industry has eaten it's own children. The only hopes of advancement come from outside, hopefully military spinoffs but even those are more likely to be developed offshore than in the USA.
WoW and minecraft are games too. I don't know what WoW needs now but it used to run on not very high end Macs.
That said, of course Oculus needs a serious amount of GPU grunt.
The drivers are the OS by definition. You can't have it both ways where a web browser is part of the OS and a kernel level driver is not.
Also I still see a lot of crashes but then again I see a lot of computers and have a lot of people complain to me when they go wrong, so I don't hear anything from however many people who never see crashes.
On what planet? There are plenty of salt lakes, including the biggest one on the planet, that are full of it. That's without even having to crunch up rock or get it out of seawater.
Because we already have graphite the way you suggest and this is about doing something new.
Yes but it's just a big Harrier to me.
Weird how we got that in 1967 and nothing better than it since.
Gah - seeing it as "high school degree" makes my head hurt but I since you guys call a lot of people that are not in charge of University departments "professor" I should expect a bit of title deflation.
Frequently it is. Where I went to school there were a couple of cronies to a guy in politics who wrote the mathematics textbooks - utter crap in use for thirty years. I learned calculus by rote and had a lookup list in my head to answer questions like a trained parrot. It wasn't until I went to university and got hold of a textbook that actually explained how it worked that I got a grasp, and suddenly the concept was very easy and I could move on to the stuff that was actually non-trivial.
Personally I'd say it should be there just to cure people of their fucking spelling bee fixations - Chaucer too if that doesn't work.
I'm even more for algebra since it tends to be needed when dealing with physical objects such as woodworking etc. Calculus lets you understand the difference between strength and toughness of materials with a quick glance at a graph (integral of stress versus strain is the area under the curve if it's plotted on a graph - lots under the graph means tough, not much means brittle).
Sounds good - outsource prosperity to China and join the third world.
What's with the idiot that thinks you can do much with statistics without some algebra and calculus to go with it?
The commies learned it from the Tsar's secret police.
Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is very good fiction about the topic which makes you wonder why Tom Clancy ever bothered to write spy novels with something as good as that around.
Good point, for another example ask someone about nuclear waste disposal and it's a good measure if they are a clueless fanboy or actually know something about the topic. "Iz awl fuel dawg" shows a total lack of understanding but sadly seems to be the default level of discussion around here. If they don't know about low level waste (a problem that isn't hard to deal with but is not something that can be used for fuel) then they know little or nothing about nuclear energy other than a gut feel that it is good.
That attitude of ignoring waste is counterproductive and held up nuclear waste management for two decades. All Synrok was waiting on was some funding for some final tests. Now it is in use and is part of the now complete answer of "but what about the waste" which until recently could be held as a strong argument against nuclear power.
A clueless fanboy's definition of a troll is any mention of their pet topic that contains something other than high praise.
I wish they would actually learn abut their pet topics and become fanboys with a clue instead, it would cut down on the meaningless noise.
The nuclear industry only has itself to blame. See the lobbying AGAINST the thorium experiment a few years back as an example. They are not a force for progress, they are rent seekers sitting on 1970s technology and fighting change.
If we want something modern in a few years time we are going to have to buy it from China or Russia and be opposed by the nuclear lobby at every step.
Be a nuke fanboy as much as you want, or solar or wind, but if you scream about "one true energy" and attack all the others you are evangelizing failure.
Who is telling you that? I know some people on the Chinese side of the border and they have a very different story. Who would go back to starvation and public execution for trying to escape in the first place? Some executions even happen within sight of the Chinese border.
I worked as an engineer in manufacturing before moving to IT due to the lack of jobs in manufacturing so I know what you mean to a painful level.
With posters like the above brainfart I'm pretty fucking happy it doesn't exist.