The movie Titanic was rendered, in no small part, with Amigas running AREXX to control the per-frame rendering and result submission. Many Amiga applications included an AREXX interface port (I used the one in the terminal emulator for automated dialing).
PC-DOS 6 (The IBM release, that also included CDROM drivers, and came on CD), had an IBM port of mainframe REXX, as well.
If all of the competent people working on Wayland would stop wasting time on it and improve the X server, think how much better it might be.
Wayland lacks absolutely necessary features (true "over the net" and root window access, for example) for a significant number of applications and users. Until it has those, even if only through X emulation, it is simply not ready for use by me, and a lot of people like me.
Cover of The Wizard of ID #3:
Voice of alarm outside the window "The peasants are revolting!" and the king, inside "You can say that again."
I was going to try out Netflix right after the post-Christmas AV rebuild. Not now, though. I was fine with the A-only, but the "we can't (be bothered to) to find (or pay) local talent" is more than enough to offset that.
It's disheartening that the ( insert epithet ) that are busy commoditizing our lives are perturbed by the ( other epithet ) that are spying on us. A pox on all their houses.
Yeah, mounted shares (NFS, in particular) are nearly always the preferred solution. OTOH, there are some devices. like a Marantz "Internet Tuner", that do speak DLNA, but not shares. Mostly, though, many of the devices have pointless DLNA quirks and limited codec sets, regardless of access method.
If they'd put a Apple-centric front end on RTP/RTSP, then there would have been compatibility AND interoperability, rather than pure "get the suckers' money".
Last century, we had all of this capability, working, as RTP and RTSP. Of course, since that wasn't HTML-based (for very good reasons), we eneded up with DLNA, supported by hundreds, if not thousands, of devices from various vendors. Of course, Apple couldn't do anything already working and standard, which would mess up their revenue model of locking in the fanboys, so they came up with yet another protocol, as did Microsoft. Further, there are a few other minor players (Sonos, for example) that also created their own revenue-protection scheme.
WTF!?
I sincerely hope this company dies quickly, and their devices are orphaned and useless.
'In the RP paradigm, you can create complex applications from a series of simple declarative statements.
It's too bad the Newton wasn't just a hypercard engine, preloaded with a couple of removable apps.
That's too simplified (as is this reply).
It is not that one is A and the other B when posted; rather that they are each an AB, which, when revealed, resolves to an A or B. That resolution then also resolves the other, but, that information must be communicated "faster than light", which is currently not supposed to be possible (if FTL information transfer really worked, all sorts of wierd stuff ensues, incuding the possible destruction of the universe).
By proposing a sort of "worm hole" which, in effect, creates a single particle string with just the endpoints noticable by us as distinct particles, the entangled endpoint-tunnel-endpoint can transfer information outside the four-dimensional universe' ligh-speed limitation.
Not having reached the point that I can ignore all external stimuli, that sounds like a place I could work on inner stillness, at least. Too bad it's so far from where I live; I'd like to try a few individual hours.
I suspect the hottest question around Apple today is "who forgot to pay the Parliament's members bribes?" (or, at least, make the appropriate "campaign contributions", as we prefer to call them here in the USofA).
It's "Yet Another Back Door", which they might get around to disclosing if enough non-MS and non-Gov't exploits are published. It's no different from the DX9 kernel modules looking for MP3s with executable streams.
The crackers don't have to compromise MS products, they just have to find the existing back doors and use them.
"I have just as much authority as the Pope, but fewer people believe it."
George Carlin
If any other bunch of zealots, domestic or foreign, created enough chaos to shut down significant amounts of the US Federal Government, they'd be labelled as terrorists, hunted down and shot.
Why not the Members of the House that have done the same?
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
