I understand that people need to be able to earn a living, but we tend to create scarcity in order to create profit. Think of the cost of reproducing a film these days, or an mp3, do you think each copy is worth the fee charged for it?
It's not only the reproduction costs but it also includes the value of the hard work of the artist.
At first glance it would seem that "no one loses anything" when you make a copy of some song. But it's kind of like making fake money -- no one loses money if you print money, but in the end the value of the money decreases due to inflation. It's the same for music: if enough people just take a free copy, the value of the music decreases. Then the artist and/or record company do not see feasible to produce that artist's music anymore.
How would you guarantee such a tracking device resists all possible sabotage efforts?
That kind of mindset seems to be common in Slashdot. "If something is not completely perfect, it's completely useless." Many times comes up in security-related articles.
Translation: I'm a Redmond shill trying to sound reasonable, but I can't help but make blatantly pro-Redmond statements like "significantly better than a comparative Tablet OS"
Do you have any fucking shame? More importantly, do you think we're fucking idiots that we don't recognize you for who you are?
Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one.MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs.
So what! At least it can hold a full song. Put a good song there and enjoy. It's better than having 760,000 misc songs which I never have time to listen to anyway.
What I find odd these days that you can get, for example "128GB" SSDs, which size being a power of 2 would suggest them also using megabytes of 1 048 576 bytes, but no, that is a 128 000 000 000 byte drive.
Any actual real world data (read: benchmarks that show a practically useful improvement) to back that up ? Also, Wayland removes support for 2D acceleration, and existing X applications would have to use an emulation layer, that is, running an instance of X on top of Wayland.
I do not have. I base that only on what I have heard.
no tearing problems
Can be fixed without replacing X, and is a minor issue anyway.
Not a minor issue at all. Of default Linux installations, only Compiz-based ones can reliably prevent tearing. Mutter tears slightly, but it can be fixed with some configuration. XFCE tears because the default compositor uses XRender (the default compositor can be replaced with Compton to fix the issue). KDE tears by default on some systems unless "full screen repaints" is selected. LXDE does not ship with a compositor and all so it tears greatly. So tearing can be avoided with careful setup with X.org too, but it is not something that "just works". Not a minor issue as you say.
smooth compositing and desktop effects
These are generally among the first things I disable when installing a Linux distribution. The fewer useless and performance/reliability crippling gimmicks there are enabled, the better it is for practical usability.
A little bit of glitter does not hamper usability. It's nice to have zoom animations for window minimize/restore, and a fade out effect for menus. Those run reliably and smoothly on Windows 7/8 even on low end hardware. Put a Linux desktop on a low-end Atom/Bobcat system and the same effects are choppy and take more system resources.
old legacy X11 crap thrown away.
In other words: no backward compatibility with existing software. Well, one can always just run the Windows version with Wine (I already do it sometimes, since it can be easier than solving Linux dependency mess). Or just wipe Linux and use Windows instead, where one can actually expect applications to work out of the box, even after a long time.
That is certainly true, but after the transition phase, I believe we can adapt most open source software to be Wayland-compatible.
It has never bothered me that much. Even for a long time before this mobile craze, people often called desktop applications "apps". Just a shorthand for "application".
Even if you went down to 1 fps, you could get tearing.
All you need is a situation where the GPU is sending the current frame to the monitor, but at the same time the framebuffer gets updated with new content from the video player application.
But the monitor always keeps a little break after drawing each frame. In other words, it waits a small time. When vsync is enabled, the framebuffer is quickly updated during this small break.
Often there is also doublebuffering (or even triplebuffering), which means that the app has plenty of time to draw to the another buffer without interfering with the monitor image. When vsync occurs, the buffers can just be swapped.
How about backing up only the crown jewels of the collection?
Make a directory like/entertainment/premium and put the best stuff there, with a 4 TB limit. Rotate two external 4 TB HDDs and copy the stuff over periodically. Put a little sticker or some other mark on the newest, so you remember which one it is. If your main RAID array fails, build a new one, and restore the premium stuff from the most recent one of the two external disks.
Qt is my golden standard too, but in case of Chrome, it does not matter much. Go with "Aura" if it makes them happy. I mean, how many UI widgets do you see in Chrome anyway? There's the tab bar, pop-up menu, and some little popup thingies here and there. Everything else is a web page, which is rendered with its own engine.
Now we just need to standardize on a desktop environment, and Linux will actually be a nice OS for the masses./cue the "But choice is good!" crowd. Yeah, choice is good, but fragmentation is FAR worse than having no choices, when it comes to operating systems.
Maybe SteamOS (and whichever desktop it uses, currently GNOME3) will simply become the de facto standard.
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I understand that people need to be able to earn a living, but we tend to create scarcity in order to create profit. Think of the cost of reproducing a film these days, or an mp3, do you think each copy is worth the fee charged for it?
It's not only the reproduction costs but it also includes the value of the hard work of the artist.
At first glance it would seem that "no one loses anything" when you make a copy of some song. But it's kind of like making fake money -- no one loses money if you print money, but in the end the value of the money decreases due to inflation. It's the same for music: if enough people just take a free copy, the value of the music decreases. Then the artist and/or record company do not see feasible to produce that artist's music anymore.
Well, obviously I would also hire a personal forklift driver, which would always say "here's your song, sir".
How would you guarantee such a tracking device resists all possible sabotage efforts?
That kind of mindset seems to be common in Slashdot. "If something is not completely perfect, it's completely useless." Many times comes up in security-related articles.
I do have Firefox occasionally go to "not responding".
Translation: I'm a Redmond shill trying to sound reasonable, but I can't help but make blatantly pro-Redmond statements like "significantly better than a comparative Tablet OS"
Do you have any fucking shame? More importantly, do you think we're fucking idiots that we don't recognize you for who you are?
Frankly, yours was quite stupid comment too.
Some particular reason you chose to spend money instead of getting the free and open-source Classic Start Menu (from Classic Shell)?
Just a quick nitpick: Classic Shell is still free but the recent versions are no longer open source.
Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs.
So what! At least it can hold a full song. Put a good song there and enjoy. It's better than having 760,000 misc songs which I never have time to listen to anyway.
What I find odd these days that you can get, for example "128GB" SSDs, which size being a power of 2 would suggest them also using megabytes of 1 048 576 bytes, but no, that is a 128 000 000 000 byte drive.
Much better performance
Any actual real world data (read: benchmarks that show a practically useful improvement) to back that up ? Also, Wayland removes support for 2D acceleration, and existing X applications would have to use an emulation layer, that is, running an instance of X on top of Wayland.
I do not have. I base that only on what I have heard.
no tearing problems
Can be fixed without replacing X, and is a minor issue anyway.
Not a minor issue at all. Of default Linux installations, only Compiz-based ones can reliably prevent tearing. Mutter tears slightly, but it can be fixed with some configuration. XFCE tears because the default compositor uses XRender (the default compositor can be replaced with Compton to fix the issue). KDE tears by default on some systems unless "full screen repaints" is selected. LXDE does not ship with a compositor and all so it tears greatly. So tearing can be avoided with careful setup with X.org too, but it is not something that "just works". Not a minor issue as you say.
smooth compositing and desktop effects
These are generally among the first things I disable when installing a Linux distribution. The fewer useless and performance/reliability crippling gimmicks there are enabled, the better it is for practical usability.
A little bit of glitter does not hamper usability. It's nice to have zoom animations for window minimize/restore, and a fade out effect for menus. Those run reliably and smoothly on Windows 7/8 even on low end hardware. Put a Linux desktop on a low-end Atom/Bobcat system and the same effects are choppy and take more system resources.
old legacy X11 crap thrown away.
In other words: no backward compatibility with existing software. Well, one can always just run the Windows version with Wine (I already do it sometimes, since it can be easier than solving Linux dependency mess). Or just wipe Linux and use Windows instead, where one can actually expect applications to work out of the box, even after a long time.
That is certainly true, but after the transition phase, I believe we can adapt most open source software to be Wayland-compatible.
Much better performance, no tearing problems, smooth compositing and desktop effects, old legacy X11 crap thrown away.
Those modern user agent strings always give me a belly laugh.
It has never bothered me that much. Even for a long time before this mobile craze, people often called desktop applications "apps". Just a shorthand for "application".
That is also because the graphical interface is so clunky to use that people simply resort to using the keyboard.
Even if you went down to 1 fps, you could get tearing.
All you need is a situation where the GPU is sending the current frame to the monitor, but at the same time the framebuffer gets updated with new content from the video player application.
But the monitor always keeps a little break after drawing each frame. In other words, it waits a small time. When vsync is enabled, the framebuffer is quickly updated during this small break.
Often there is also doublebuffering (or even triplebuffering), which means that the app has plenty of time to draw to the another buffer without interfering with the monitor image. When vsync occurs, the buffers can just be swapped.
Nope.
Maybe, but in that case you could simply get a NUC instead.
I want to forcefully cram more and more uninteresting but useful-in-theory information to my brain until I lose my mind.
Monitors?
Now? Intel GPU support has been excellent under Linux even back when the crusty GMA chips were all we had.
That's why it is supposed to be used with caution, as no 'rm' supports it. ;)
md prnt dwn
How about backing up only the crown jewels of the collection?
Make a directory like /entertainment/premium and put the best stuff there, with a 4 TB limit. Rotate two external 4 TB HDDs and copy the stuff over periodically. Put a little sticker or some other mark on the newest, so you remember which one it is. If your main RAID array fails, build a new one, and restore the premium stuff from the most recent one of the two external disks.
Same in Finnish: "matematiikka", a singular.
Qt is my golden standard too, but in case of Chrome, it does not matter much. Go with "Aura" if it makes them happy. I mean, how many UI widgets do you see in Chrome anyway? There's the tab bar, pop-up menu, and some little popup thingies here and there. Everything else is a web page, which is rendered with its own engine.
Now we just need to standardize on a desktop environment, and Linux will actually be a nice OS for the masses. /cue the "But choice is good!" crowd. Yeah, choice is good, but fragmentation is FAR worse than having no choices, when it comes to operating systems.
Maybe SteamOS (and whichever desktop it uses, currently GNOME3) will simply become the de facto standard.