Ok, let's have a contest. Gather a bunch of high schoolers who have some idea how to program in Java, give them the spec for rangeCheck, and see how long it takes them to write it. The winner takes the prize equal to the damages Oracle is asking for. Bonus points if completed in less than 15 minutes.
App is merely the new name for software. It isn't even all that new; weren't we talking about "killer apps" twenty years ago? I, for one, welcome our new, shorter named, software.
As a russian, I would like to take this opportunity to insolently question whether NASA still has any satellites at all, with all the funding cuts and everything.
There is an online service called WinkFlash, where you can directly upload your images and get printed photos back. The quality is excellent, shipping is fast, and you don't have to waste gas driving to a store. My parents used to order a lot from there until they discovered that just showing the pictures on the projector works better.
The man was later tried and sentenced to three hours of hard labor at Burger King, where he will be required to consume six supersized combo meals to atone for his transgression.
Working out takes a lot of time and effort, and while the health benefits peak after only 15 minutes a day of any physical activity, getting and maintaining large muscles takes a lot more than that. Considering that great physical strength is of little use in everyday life, anybody with a brain would see that it is not worth the cost. Of course, you may be working out because you enjoy it, which is fine, but most of us have more interesting things to do with our time.
This finding is sure to enhance my feeling of mental superiority and soothe my hurt feelings the next time I'm stuffed into a locker by a brain damaged jock.
Since when is cryptography NP? Cracking any encrypted message takes a well-defined amount of time, derived from available computing power and the length and complexity of the key. Faster computers will help you here. Better factoring algorithms may help you here. But P=NP will not help you crack anything.
The Olympics used to represent what great physical feats any of us could do if only we got off our lazy butts and exercised. Now they represent the physical achievements of genetic freaks that are largely the product of their natural endowments, and that are impossible to match by an average human being. Sure, it is mildly amusing to find out what the ultimate capabilities of the human body can be once it's engineered for one specific task. But it is certainly not inspiring, and is about as entertaining as seeing the "world's tallest man" at the circus.
Art is a selective recreation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgements.
By a selective recreation art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man's fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes -- of single, disorganized, and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions, and entities -- an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction
These artists mess up the graphics to represent their worldview of what is and what should be. It is obvious to everyone that this means they are Linux users.
It's perfectly acceptable to assume the size of data types, as long as you use the data types with defined sizes, such as uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, and uint64_t. stdint FTW.
Correction: free IPv4 addresses are being exhausted. Once there are no more free addresses, people will start selling them and anybody who really needs them will be able to buy as many as he can afford. Most normal people won't though, being quite happy with NATed connectivity.
A lot of people absolutely *require* network transparency. By dumping network transparency, you're alienating the admins
And I'm sick and tired of admins thinking they are the world. Yes, sysadmins have very specific requirements for their work environment, but if you are an admin, you're a minority in a minority. There are so few of you, it boggles the mind that you think everybody must design every application to accomodate you. Here we have Wayland, which is not designed for you. It gives the vast majority of us, who care about a lightweght GUI, what we want. We don't care that it currently does not support network transparency because outside your sysadmin world pretty much nobody uses it. Why not? Because most of us only have one computer. But what do you care about the majority of computer users? This fancy new UI does not cater to your needs so it must be crap, no matter what anybody else thinks. Grow up, admins. You can still use X.org. Let the rest of us have something we like once in a while.
Alienating the admins who have been promoting Linux on the desktop at organizations worldwide isn't a good thing - you'll force them and their organizations to use something else (likely *BSD).
Yeah, sure you will. Wayland is not Linux, and neither is X.org. Just because we want to use Wayland, doesn't mean you can't keep using X.org if that's what you like. Gees...
"X is bloated and slow" is honestly the biggest load of crap I've seen in my years in computing. Have you ever looked to see the kind of resources required by "modern" technologies? Quartz uses a few times more resources than X11, and the Windows GUI is even worse.
Being fat is unhealthy, no matter how many friends you have who are fatter than you. No, X.org is not the fattest UI out there, but that doesn't mean there is no room for improvement.
X uses considerably fewer resources than my web browser. X is using less than 0.5% of my three-year old system's memory.
X uses enough resources to be incapable of starting instantly. Most people still don't run off an SSD, so loading times are quite noticeable. And resources are not the only thing wrong with X; lack of frame boundaries in the protocol has to be the single reason why X looks so bad and requires each and every app to jump through a boatload of hoops just to refresh the screen without artifacts.
Given the "screw you community" view the project has to anything other than Linux, I really don't see how Wayland will succeed. Few projects do well when they alienate entire communities of developers.
If Linux is rare on the desktop, the rest of the "community", by which you must mean BSD, is truly miniscule. Vanishingly miniscule. As in, you'll be lucky to find a dozen guys using BSD on the desktop. Oh, yeah, you must be a sysadmin, comprising 99% of the BSD using community, and, as I mentioned above, utterly disparaging of anything not written specifically for you.
Grow up. Most people are not sysadmins. People who are not sysadmins and in a unix environment are most likely using Linux. (Yes, there are Mac fans, but they have MacOS and are not interested in using anything else.) These people don't need network transparency. These people are much more interested in having a smoothly drawn desktop, and Wayland can give them that, while using less resources. So stop whining and keep using X.org. Really. Move along. Nothing for you to see here in Wayland.
cars that can autonomously pick up kids from school and be switched into 'sport mode,' where 'the vehicle may navigate through turns at the maximum speed that is safe.'
This is definitely going to be an improvement over those interminably long, boring bus rides I've known as a kid. Think of the children - support hyperspeed school buses!
So what? If you are using BSD, you are perfectly welcome to continue using X.org on it. Wayland in no way "damages" it, it merely aims to replace it on Linux. Are you seriously going to cry "embrace, extend, extinguish", just because Linux developers are not interested in porting their work to your BSD?
While IT professionals at work run X over a network all the time because they have a lot of computers to manage, it is something 99.999% of computer users never do. Home users don't even know what ssh is and even if they did, they'd have no reason to use it. If you are a sysadmin gloating over your domain displayed in a 100-window screen session, Wayland is obviously not for you. It's for the rest of us, who are perfectly willing to give up network transparency to get a lighter, faster windowing system.
It is really disturbing how ready today's generation is to ship grandpa to a nursing home. What happened to family taking care of their own? Dying in bed, surrounded by your loved ones? Or just plain not spending the last decade of your life abandoned in abject loneliness. If only you had enough compassion and gratitude to your parents to take care of them in their old age as they took care of you in your youth. You know it's the right thing to do. It's even in the ten commandments.
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Ok, let's have a contest. Gather a bunch of high schoolers who have some idea how to program in Java, give them the spec for rangeCheck, and see how long it takes them to write it. The winner takes the prize equal to the damages Oracle is asking for. Bonus points if completed in less than 15 minutes.
Hey, don't blame Blizzard for putting in the hard work. It takes time and effort to reverse polish notation.
App is merely the new name for software. It isn't even all that new; weren't we talking about "killer apps" twenty years ago? I, for one, welcome our new, shorter named, software.
As a russian, I would like to take this opportunity to insolently question whether NASA still has any satellites at all, with all the funding cuts and everything.
This is a nice way to get stuck to a light pole when it isn't freezing or you're too squeamish to lick it.
Clearly, you need bigger rocks.
There is an online service called WinkFlash, where you can directly upload your images and get printed photos back. The quality is excellent, shipping is fast, and you don't have to waste gas driving to a store. My parents used to order a lot from there until they discovered that just showing the pictures on the projector works better.
The man was later tried and sentenced to three hours of hard labor at Burger King, where he will be required to consume six supersized combo meals to atone for his transgression.
Working out takes a lot of time and effort, and while the health benefits peak after only 15 minutes a day of any physical activity, getting and maintaining large muscles takes a lot more than that. Considering that great physical strength is of little use in everyday life, anybody with a brain would see that it is not worth the cost. Of course, you may be working out because you enjoy it, which is fine, but most of us have more interesting things to do with our time.
This finding is sure to enhance my feeling of mental superiority and soothe my hurt feelings the next time I'm stuffed into a locker by a brain damaged jock.
Don't worry. For cranky old men like us there is Pentadactyl, a Firefox plugin that gets rid of all that fancy crap and shows an old school interface.
"P. P never changes." in a Ron Perlman voice.
Since when is cryptography NP? Cracking any encrypted message takes a well-defined amount of time, derived from available computing power and the length and complexity of the key. Faster computers will help you here. Better factoring algorithms may help you here. But P=NP will not help you crack anything.
What about the blue screen of death?
Hey! We're not nerds. We're geeks!
The Olympics used to represent what great physical feats any of us could do if only we got off our lazy butts and exercised. Now they represent the physical achievements of genetic freaks that are largely the product of their natural endowments, and that are impossible to match by an average human being. Sure, it is mildly amusing to find out what the ultimate capabilities of the human body can be once it's engineered for one specific task. But it is certainly not inspiring, and is about as entertaining as seeing the "world's tallest man" at the circus.
These artists mess up the graphics to represent their worldview of what is and what should be. It is obvious to everyone that this means they are Linux users.
It's perfectly acceptable to assume the size of data types, as long as you use the data types with defined sizes, such as uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, and uint64_t. stdint FTW.
Of course. Just use the simple command Ctrl+A+Shift+R+o+AltGr+s+k+y!
Emacs: the ultimate tool that lets a person use all three of his hands.
Correction: free IPv4 addresses are being exhausted. Once there are no more free addresses, people will start selling them and anybody who really needs them will be able to buy as many as he can afford. Most normal people won't though, being quite happy with NATed connectivity.
And I'm sick and tired of admins thinking they are the world. Yes, sysadmins have very specific requirements for their work environment, but if you are an admin, you're a minority in a minority. There are so few of you, it boggles the mind that you think everybody must design every application to accomodate you. Here we have Wayland, which is not designed for you. It gives the vast majority of us, who care about a lightweght GUI, what we want. We don't care that it currently does not support network transparency because outside your sysadmin world pretty much nobody uses it. Why not? Because most of us only have one computer. But what do you care about the majority of computer users? This fancy new UI does not cater to your needs so it must be crap, no matter what anybody else thinks. Grow up, admins. You can still use X.org. Let the rest of us have something we like once in a while.
Yeah, sure you will. Wayland is not Linux, and neither is X.org. Just because we want to use Wayland, doesn't mean you can't keep using X.org if that's what you like. Gees...
Being fat is unhealthy, no matter how many friends you have who are fatter than you. No, X.org is not the fattest UI out there, but that doesn't mean there is no room for improvement.
X uses enough resources to be incapable of starting instantly. Most people still don't run off an SSD, so loading times are quite noticeable. And resources are not the only thing wrong with X; lack of frame boundaries in the protocol has to be the single reason why X looks so bad and requires each and every app to jump through a boatload of hoops just to refresh the screen without artifacts.
If Linux is rare on the desktop, the rest of the "community", by which you must mean BSD, is truly miniscule. Vanishingly miniscule. As in, you'll be lucky to find a dozen guys using BSD on the desktop. Oh, yeah, you must be a sysadmin, comprising 99% of the BSD using community, and, as I mentioned above, utterly disparaging of anything not written specifically for you.
Grow up. Most people are not sysadmins. People who are not sysadmins and in a unix environment are most likely using Linux. (Yes, there are Mac fans, but they have MacOS and are not interested in using anything else.) These people don't need network transparency. These people are much more interested in having a smoothly drawn desktop, and Wayland can give them that, while using less resources. So stop whining and keep using X.org. Really. Move along. Nothing for you to see here in Wayland.
This is definitely going to be an improvement over those interminably long, boring bus rides I've known as a kid. Think of the children - support hyperspeed school buses!
So what? If you are using BSD, you are perfectly welcome to continue using X.org on it. Wayland in no way "damages" it, it merely aims to replace it on Linux. Are you seriously going to cry "embrace, extend, extinguish", just because Linux developers are not interested in porting their work to your BSD?
While IT professionals at work run X over a network all the time because they have a lot of computers to manage, it is something 99.999% of computer users never do. Home users don't even know what ssh is and even if they did, they'd have no reason to use it. If you are a sysadmin gloating over your domain displayed in a 100-window screen session, Wayland is obviously not for you. It's for the rest of us, who are perfectly willing to give up network transparency to get a lighter, faster windowing system.
It is really disturbing how ready today's generation is to ship grandpa to a nursing home. What happened to family taking care of their own? Dying in bed, surrounded by your loved ones? Or just plain not spending the last decade of your life abandoned in abject loneliness. If only you had enough compassion and gratitude to your parents to take care of them in their old age as they took care of you in your youth. You know it's the right thing to do. It's even in the ten commandments.