It has a header with a documented pin-out. If you're among the target audience for these boards, then you'll probably be able to have a board fabricated for your uses.

I miss standard expansion capabilities.

Then stick with standard hardware.

That's an idiotic "rule of thumb."

The nice thing about Firefox is that even Nightly, after Australis has arrived, can be configured to look none-too-different than it did in Firefox 3.5.

Chrome? Unity? Office? Windows 8? No real choice in the matter?

Firefox? As you like it.

it does not allow applications to be displayed on a remote desktop and for example VNC has to be used instead.

This isn't necessarily true. It simply does not provide a method for remoting of applications. However, given Wayland's nature it's likely that any remote Wayland solution will be more efficient than VNC and even X forwarding, rather than less.

No, it seems that half of the people reading this article crawled out from under a rock in the last couple weeks.

if they're right then we need Mir for Linux on smart phones.

That was one of the claims that Canonical made with no supporting evidence whatsoever. Ironically, Canonical made that claim, but Jolla shipped Wayland on their handset first - and the library that makes it possible to use Android drivers was developed by one of their engineers for use with Wayland.

Mir may be useful, but Canonical marred its release badly.

I think we need both to compete.

Why? Given they both solve the same problem, but one has wide support and has shipped on devices, what use is the other?

Some of the early limitations proposed in Wayland were frankly, utter shit, and it was only pressure to lift their game that led to them being dropped.

Mir did not appear until way, way late in Wayland's game, and it appeared with a lot of terribly uninformed commentary from Canonical regarding how Wayland worked.

This is no different than the leftists who screamed bloody murder about the PATRIOT Act because they said Bush could use it as a tool for GOP villainy who've themselves are now tight lipped in the face of ObamaNation corruption and worse.

Always amusing to see ACs spouting off with broad brushes and other batshit insanity. CAUSE EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POLITICS RIGHT!

Microsoft would have to back down on the hard lock-down they impose via SecureBoot, first.

Bullshit. Herd immunity is a critical by-product of individual immunizations, and allows those who can't be (or by biological fluke, don't get) immunized.

Or you could go exercise.

Unless you've done the research and experimentation yourself, you don't understand the science either, you just choose to believe it.

That's bullshit, frankly. It's possible to understand the science despite not having done the research and experimentation personally. SuperKendall's pretty much 100% full of shit.

This has nothing to do with science and everything to do with people not trusting the government.

No, it has everything to do with people unable to think critically about the messages being directed towards them and choosing to place all blame on the government, right or wrong.

Doesn't it suck when you use products from companies that are borderline hostile to their customers on a given platform?

No, this is akin to the Lexmark case back in 2005 where they used a chip to detect and reject 3rd party cartridges in an effort to protect their ink-selling business model. Thankfully they lost that case so I imagine that whatever "solution" GMCR comes up with will be handily defeated and the 3rd party pod market will continue unabated.

And when the lawsuits fly, their victim can cite that case and have the suit dismissed.

Or, you know, NOT having children also eliminates the perpetuation of a disease.

Or we could solve the problem instead of simply going "oh you should just not have children."

Why some people think this planet is in such dire need of more inhabitants that they'd go to lengths such as these just blows my mind.

Because it's an inherent drive in most living creatures. Feel free to start with yourself, however.

Before we bring more life into this world, we need to address the suffering of those who are already here.

Addressing the suffering of those who are here has no bearing on bringing in more life, nor are they mutually exclusive.