It's not, and as one of the linked articles pointed out, the ban on booth babes at PAX didn't stop some companies having attractive women there to sell stuff -- the difference being that said women were dressed normally, and actually knew all about what they were selling (that is, they were regular salespeople for the company that happened to be women). If you can't see the difference between that and booth babes then you are part of the problem.

Easy, buddy. Back in the day it was an old joke:

Fanboi: Name one thing that your PC can do that my Mac can't!!
Operator: Right-click.

Today's analog is:

Fanboi: Name one thing that your Android can do that my iPhone can't!!
Operator: Run applications without Apple's permission.

There was a time when displays did everything by passing around rendering primitives -- lines, rectangles, black and white bitmap pattern tiles. At that time it made a lot of sense to integrate network at the low level because you had to figure out how to send and decode all those drawing primitives over the wire.

Display technology moved on. Displays became rich and complex and colourful, and different applications had very different needs and took on more and more of the rendering task themselves and simply pushed bitmap buffers to the display system. Now the task of the display system was to mediate and manage and request complex bitmap buffers from the various clients.

At this point remote display was a matter of having the client send (potentially compressed) bitmap buffers -- let the clients do their own rendering. This is how most remote display systems written in the last 15 years do it. Indeed, that is how X does it these days for most applications: the applications do their own rendering via GTK or QT and Cairo and X pushes the pixmaps down the wire.

If all you are doing is throwing around bitmap buffers, and the display software is simply mediating and displaying those, then remote display doesn't need a whole lot of thought at the display level -- all it has to do is mediate and display the bitmaps it gets from clients. Now, providing a remoting system to let remote clients get their bitmap buffers to the display when requested ... well that's still a thing that needs to be done, but it the base display software doesn't have to care too much about how that gets done.

Think of it as teasing out the layers in the software. The base layer is pushing pixels to the screen (no matter where the data for those pixels came from, remote or local). That's one job: pixels on screen. Focus on that and do it well. Another job is getting the data that the base layer is going to display to it, and you can worry about remote/local differences in that layer.

They have barely given it second thought because they've established that it can be done in principle, and it isn't the stuff they're working on (which is getting the actual display working cleanly and efficiently). They can worry about it when they've gotten the fundamentals pinned down. Do you really want excellent networking for a display system that doesn't display well, or is horribly slow? First things first and all that. As long as nothing they do makes it infeasible, or overly complicated there's no point in worrying about it till the very core functionality is working as they wish.

I've seen demos of Wayland that had per window remoting, including moving and cloning per window across different diplays. Wouldn't it be nice if xmove still actually worked for most applications? If you could just move your application across Xservers as you wished and didn't have to worry about temporary network outages killing you application? Well apparently Wayland can do that. So it seems to me that Wayland has potentially more to offer in terms of network transparency than X. It isn't done yet, so let's wait and see. Everything I've seen looks very promising.

I heard that about GNOME 3.x, but then I actually got around to using it. It didn't have a user switch feature I liked. I just share a computer amongst my family so a fast user switch that listed users and didn't have to go through passwords is fine ... and no longer a provided option.

So I decided to see if there really was anything I could do about it via extensions. I spent a little time researching -- mostly learning javascript, which I didn't know at the time, and a tutorial on how to write extensions. From there is was surprisingly easy to write something that did exactly what I wanted, complete with polling DBUS for a user list. It was the sort of thing I never would have been able to do in GNOME2 if it lacked a feature I wanted: I would have had to hack and recompile code for applets or some such.

To be honest GNOME3 reminded me of the old FVWM days -- you could make it do pretty much anything you wanted if you were willing to roll up your sleeves a little and muck with configuration/scripting. There's a wealth of extreme customisability exposed, it just doesn't have pointy-clicky buttons (you know just like back in the FVWM days when you customised stuff with emacs and .fvwmrc).

I've seen a demo that forwarded individual windows, and moreover managed to move and duplicate the single window over a couple of displays -- like xmove, but working (xmove never worked well, and is unmaintained now), with bonus features. Wayland will have these things in due course.

If he is a US citizen it doesn't matter if he lives in the US or not; he's required to file, including all the foreign bank accounts (even if they are just usual bank accounts for your country of residence. Thus they are just as able to snoop for tax cheats.

A hard limit on the amount? Yes. A hard limit on the value? Not even close. The amount of bitcoins has gone up slowly, but the value has ballooned (or bubbled if you like), and there's no limit on that bubble other than when the hoarders decide to cash out. At that point bitcoins will suffer a brief period of hyperinflation before the hoarding starts again and the whole process repeats.

The type to search applications feature searches more than just application names -- it searches a number of fields in the .desktop files, including application descriptions. Thus a search for "spreadsheet" will bring up LibreOffice Calc for example. Type what you want to do, and you'll find what you want ... that's the theory.

Really? You're on such thin ice at your job that a comment and/or photo on the internet by some random person is going to get you fired? Either you suck at your job, your employer sucks, or you're making several mountain ranges out of a molehill.

Yes, someone lost their job in this incident, but given that only one of the two male developers involved were fired I presume there's rather more detail here that we're not privy to. Did Adria over-react? Yes. But let's be honest: all she really did was complain about some people on the internet. She didn't demand they be fired, she didn't try and DDoS their company, etc. She did a thoughtless thing without considering the consequences -- you know, kind of like loudly making crude jokes in mixed company is a thoughtless thing that doesn't consider the consequences. Over-reacting to her particular stupid mistake is just as stupid as her own over-reaction to the guys stupid mistake. How about we all just grow up and move on.

It's a net win - just like factory automation reducing the number of factory workers is a net win. Also, Walmart really pisses off hipsters, so it's twice as good

Yeah, I fucking replaced ten people with one robot, and I was the last manufacturing business in town. It's a win-win! Well, if you count me twice. Which I do.

Higher taxes for everyone else comes from voting for bigger government, not from Walmarts.

Oh, Fuck. Off. When Walmart drives out all of the Mom and Pops where any slacker in the 90s could earn 9-12 dollars an hour can't make 7.50 an hour plus benefits because instead of the store being a little lax on inventory, or God Forbid you had to wait an entire week to get that thing you saw in the catalog, we decided to get everything fast and now and made like shit by child laborers in southeast asia. And we got to buy the Waltons a goddamn hawaiian island so they can drink themselves to death in front of a nice view.

Gee, for me, there's a downside in that scenario. But as long as we get more efficient, everything's good for everyone equally, right?

You have to make a lifestyle change. If you eat shit, and you sit there like a pile of shit, you will look like a pile of shit, and you will feel like a pile of shit.

We are mammals, and we aren't supposed to sit inside all day. We need to move around and get some sun, or our biological systems are going to continue to store fat like it's winter. Without Vitamin D and exposure to fresh air instead of the toxic inside environments we work in, including low levels of oxygen due to poor ventilation, we have trouble getting all of our biological systems to run like they are supposed to.

I am in a constant battle with my weight, which I am usually on the losing side of. When I cut out all sugar, including sugar in coffee, and I focus on eating vegetables and non-meat sources of protein, I feel like absolute hell for three days and then I feel amazing until I start eating crap again. This time around I'm going kind of nuts with pressed kale/apple/carrot juices and very little meat. The change is astounding. Within a week all of the weird aches and pains I had, including some of my back pain, began to disappear. (I am down to a BMI of 30 from 36, and still trending down).

I really think the Western diet starves us of basic building blocks for repairing and maintaining our bodies, and as we discover more about our symbiotic relationship with bacteria, I bet they will find out that the ingestion of products (sugar, processed flour, etc) that easily turn into glucose make our symbiotic bacteria go apeshit and stop serving their purpose. It's like stuffing petri dishes into your body and hosting a microbiological world war.

The funny thing is that once I rid my tongue of the expectation of a wall of salt and fat and sugar, healthy foods that seemed bland are suddenly rich with flavors and it's no problem snacking on carrots and raw broccoli with hummus or whatever and staying away from sugar drinks which are now overly sweet. I can get an Americano with a touch of milk and it tastes like chocolate if the beans are good. Roasted whole vegetables (which I am trying to learn how to cook myself) are as satisfying as any fast food meal, but I don't feel like shit an hour later.

Probably the best side affect is that my body now tells me when it's full. Two years ago I could eat an entire pizza without really thinking about it. Now I can have a bowl full of vegetables and feel more satisfied. (Not sure what the science behind that is, exactly, but it works.)

Mass produced foods are designed to addict, and kicking that addiction is just as important as kicking a smoking habit, if not more. Once I hit my target BMI, if I can stay on track, I will introduce a small amount of meat back into my diet, but I'm fairly convinced that processed sugar and processed wheat are literally poison for our mammalian biological systems. Now that it's out of mine, I don't have to think about going outside. Getting up and moving around is no longer a chore. It's actually becoming a joy that I haven't felt since I was a kid and spent every possible moment outside.

Anyway, tl:dr; Pollan seems to be right. Eat lots of veggies, a little bit of dairy, and a tinier bit of meat. Drink water. Go outside. Do not drink sodas or eat fast food, ever. If you put garbage in your body, your body will turn into garbage.

I got provided with 2 24" widescreen monitors, which gives pemty of screen real-estate, but makes for very wide anglew viewing. After a period of frustration with panning my eyes across the width of them I realised I could orient them vertically since they were on rotatable mounts. This turned out to be great -- the extra height fits more lines of code on screen at a time, and works nicely dual screen. I reccomend such a setup to anyone.

I'm sure some bitcoins will remain in circulation, and they will get divided into ever finer fractions to provide the requisite liquidity to be a currency at the scale they wish to be. Then eventually the deflation will have gone far enough that a hoarder will decide to cash out. Then, when everyone has been trading in .0001 bitcoins, they'll sell their 1000 bitcoins for a lot of cash and bitcoins will suffer from a sudden massive bout of inflation as the money supply expands by orders of magnitude in an uncontrolled fashion. Then the deflation will kick in again until ...

All the bitcoin fanatics saying that deflation is good and inflation is the root of all evil ... they're missing the point: bitcoin is going to suffer from inflation, just a sudden unpredictable rampant uncontrolled bursts -- and that's the inflation that really sucks. Slow, small scale predictable controlled inflation can be accepted, large scale unpredictable uncontrolled inflation is what causes panics, crashes and economic mayhem.