You might not have heard, but these days the X.Org Foundation is the one running the show and making the reference implementation (latest being X11R7.2 as of now). If you've used a desktop-oriented distribution of Linux within the last five years, chances are that it came equipped with it as the default choice.
In any case, I'm not exactly sure about what cause would be served by changing the base protocol.
If you find the consequences of the BSD license troublesome and think that contributing back should be mandated, maybe you should look into other alternatives? If you explicitly permit all uses, you also have to put up with the ones you might find disagreeable or uncomfortable - it's the flipside of "more free".
Sun Tzu also wrote that one of the most important things in war is to divide the enemy wherever possible, and to prevent the enemy from forming alliances with anyone.
On the other hand, jabbing a knife into sand is going to end you up with a very dull knife.
MS-DOS 1.0 was Herbert Hoover, aloof to the problems of the common man but friend of the engineer in all of us.
No offense intended, but a poor and relatively featureless CP/M clone, paired with the IBM-PC due to contractual gameplay, surely rather makes the engineer in all of us clench his coffee-stained teeth at the mere thought of it.
Thank you for your vigilance and cooperation, citizen. Your generous compensation will be arriving shortly in the form of official Entertainment Credits, which you will be able to exchange for viewings of your choice at your nearest licensed terminal.
Remember: unregistered distribution is an act of treason. Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
This, combined with ample of evidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, would seem to imply that homosexuality is quite natural -- and that therefore the classification of it as immoral is a rather odd invention of mankind.
Ouch. Citing naturalism as a basis for any ethical argument is really just asking for trouble. Ethics are a property of human societies, and you can find practically endless numbers of examples from the rest of nature that support either socially acceptable or condemnable behaviour. Take your pick of incest, theft, murder and cannibalism, for starters.
Homosexuality may have been a matter of moral consensus, but nowadays it's more of a social issue, pitting individual freedom against the peace of mind of some subcultural groups. Given how much time people spend saying that the former is a fundamental basis of our civilization and society, I think it's kind of sad to see these debates even going on.
A frog is not as intelligent because... he doesn't need to be that smart and reasoning to survive.
Conversely, our small rodent-like ancestors most probably didn't need intelligence to survive either. The fact that you're asking questions on Slashdot and quoting a member of your species who survives by ranting in front of an audience just happens to be an effect of how things turned out to be.
Nature doesn't assign reasons or intentions for the existence of things. That's us.
I agree. Bloat is such an easy word to just throw around, especially since it seems that you don't need any justification to use it anymore. I'm quite certain that the GP doesn't have the faintest idea of how the new implementations of these old features compare to their previous equivalents - on the other hand, there's long been a consensus that bookmark management needed an overhaul.
But I guess that's how it goes when you get popular enough. Improve or not, someone's going to hate you anyway.
Lots of music releases on the net are also made in (and sometimes available only as) Ogg Vorbis as well. A few indie net radios offer Ogg streams for much better quality than the regular MP3 encoding on lower bitrates. I doubt that "nerds" would be the only consumers of those.
Far too few users bother to suggest interface simplification,or even know how to advocate it.
It doesn't really help that there's a loud movement of parrots marching against what they see as "interface nazism" and anything that might take away from their perception of choice - which means making your default interface akin to Windows, after you've installed the motherload of like totally necessary tweaking tools and exploded it into a primal mass of chaos with a cherry on top of the kitchen sink.
Mac OS X is still the strongest competitor to Windows on the desktop, and Apple practically were the interface nazi party up and until they decided that lots of pretty trinkets make for easier marketing. Fringe power users might want to get out of their basements and notice that they aren't the target audience for everything.
Here, the graphics card difference is much larger, although the X1400 is still in the "Very Low End" range for Graphics - this is worth $50 at most, which is still less than the $80 difference. And, of course, the Intel card is better in that it actually works well on Ubuntu.
For example, does it really matter if my GUI code runs in 20 cycles vs 4000 cycles? No, it won't make any difference at all -- the bottle neck here is how fast a user can click (and how fast the graphic card can render all those "special" effects users seem to love these days).
On the other hand, the more applications I run concurrently, the more resources are wasted by your lazy GUI code and the quicker I'll be wasting my time waiting for things to happen. Luckily, the slowdown hasn't really kept up with hardware development and I actually can run several applications concurrently, as opposed to the earlier days of the GUI.
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You might not have heard, but these days the X.Org Foundation is the one running the show and making the reference implementation (latest being X11R7.2 as of now). If you've used a desktop-oriented distribution of Linux within the last five years, chances are that it came equipped with it as the default choice.
In any case, I'm not exactly sure about what cause would be served by changing the base protocol.
If you find the consequences of the BSD license troublesome and think that contributing back should be mandated, maybe you should look into other alternatives? If you explicitly permit all uses, you also have to put up with the ones you might find disagreeable or uncomfortable - it's the flipside of "more free".
Possibly so, but the bandwidth impact of on-demand streaming isn't among them.
Not to pick a nit, but I assume you meant to say "not just any userland application can access it."
Nope. Then again, libraries pay fees to the copyright owners in proportion with the loaning rates, at least in the part of the world where I live.
Not a new idea, anyway. Electrolasers are a whole class of directed-energy weapons.
Is this some kind of SGML lobby ploy to induce confusion between HTML and future versions of the actual XHTML standard?
On the other hand, jabbing a knife into sand is going to end you up with a very dull knife.
No offense intended, but a poor and relatively featureless CP/M clone, paired with the IBM-PC due to contractual gameplay, surely rather makes the engineer in all of us clench his coffee-stained teeth at the mere thought of it.
There is nothing to worry about. Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
Thank you for your vigilance and cooperation, citizen. Your generous compensation will be arriving shortly in the form of official Entertainment Credits, which you will be able to exchange for viewings of your choice at your nearest licensed terminal.
Remember: unregistered distribution is an act of treason. Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
Ouch. Citing naturalism as a basis for any ethical argument is really just asking for trouble. Ethics are a property of human societies, and you can find practically endless numbers of examples from the rest of nature that support either socially acceptable or condemnable behaviour. Take your pick of incest, theft, murder and cannibalism, for starters.
Homosexuality may have been a matter of moral consensus, but nowadays it's more of a social issue, pitting individual freedom against the peace of mind of some subcultural groups. Given how much time people spend saying that the former is a fundamental basis of our civilization and society, I think it's kind of sad to see these debates even going on.
I'd top that one with Planescape: Torment. That game has some of the best storytelling I've come across in any game, RPG or not.
Also, bonus points in my book for the setting not being Forgotten Realms, with a slight setback due to the existence of a sewer quest.
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Conversely, our small rodent-like ancestors most probably didn't need intelligence to survive either. The fact that you're asking questions on Slashdot and quoting a member of your species who survives by ranting in front of an audience just happens to be an effect of how things turned out to be.
Nature doesn't assign reasons or intentions for the existence of things. That's us.
Where was the rush, did they have funding issues or perhaps some other reason for an externally-set deadline?
(Not trolling, mind you, merely curious.)
But if the police police police police, who will police the police police?
Nah, I'm more of a DnB guy lately. Zack de la Rocha manages to make every song sound the same, anyway.
I thought they were more of a satire of dim-witted "righties", but to each his own I suppose.
I agree. Bloat is such an easy word to just throw around, especially since it seems that you don't need any justification to use it anymore. I'm quite certain that the GP doesn't have the faintest idea of how the new implementations of these old features compare to their previous equivalents - on the other hand, there's long been a consensus that bookmark management needed an overhaul.
But I guess that's how it goes when you get popular enough. Improve or not, someone's going to hate you anyway.
Lots of music releases on the net are also made in (and sometimes available only as) Ogg Vorbis as well. A few indie net radios offer Ogg streams for much better quality than the regular MP3 encoding on lower bitrates. I doubt that "nerds" would be the only consumers of those.
It doesn't really help that there's a loud movement of parrots marching against what they see as "interface nazism" and anything that might take away from their perception of choice - which means making your default interface akin to Windows, after you've installed the motherload of like totally necessary tweaking tools and exploded it into a primal mass of chaos with a cherry on top of the kitchen sink.
Mac OS X is still the strongest competitor to Windows on the desktop, and Apple practically were the interface nazi party up and until they decided that lots of pretty trinkets make for easier marketing. Fringe power users might want to get out of their basements and notice that they aren't the target audience for everything.
I think I had similar discussions on a school yard around the same time.
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On the other hand, the more applications I run concurrently, the more resources are wasted by your lazy GUI code and the quicker I'll be wasting my time waiting for things to happen. Luckily, the slowdown hasn't really kept up with hardware development and I actually can run several applications concurrently, as opposed to the earlier days of the GUI.