Comment Re:wayland (Score -1, Troll) 259
Then you are among those who will always complain about things that did not come from Microsoft.
Then you are among those who will always complain about things that did not come from Microsoft.
with sockets
...and shared memory.
Really, it's done already, and better than anything current "architects" can ever do.
Good luck doing anything remotely bandwidth intensive or latency sensitive over the flaky as fuck USB-Ethernet on the B.
Evidence?
Having used PCAnywhere, VNC, X11, ICA, RDP, and PCoIP - X11 rates last in terms of performance. It rates last in terms of features.
That's because you used it as if it's PCAnywhere -- to run a single application, over a long, high-latency line. What is not what X11 is for (but X11-based NX is).
Why such obsession with the government? As bad as US government is, I have more trust in the worst of the government than the best of private businesses. Government at least has to be corrupt or controlled by nutty ideologues to be irresponsible (granted, this is often the case). But businesses have just as much power and none of the responsibility to begin with. Whatever responsibility they may have, is imposed by the government.
So no, as uncomfortable it may make me feel, I would rather trust a cop standing on a street corner with a camera pointing at me, than Google with storing recording of absolutely everything everywhere. And I like plenty of things that Google does.
You have to visibly hold a camera in front of you, to record.
I am sure, people would be just as much against a line of handbags or lapel pins with built-in cameras.
Especially considering that Pi would be a perfect example of a device that benefits from X11-style remote applications -- being based on a video decoder SoC, it has somewhat nice GPU but tiny CPU.
I don't care as much about applications that I use now, as about applications that will be written in the future but will be crippled by Wayland. Use one of them, and X11 remote access is broken forever, for everything.
Of course, they can!
They can mandate that any device that has any kind of computer control (what now means, anything more complex than all-mechanical kitchen faucet) will have to have "certified" hardware-software "solution", that the only providers of such solutions will be Sony and Microsoft, and every other company providing such "solutions" will have to be approved by incumbents (who would only approve their own resellers).
I suggest looking at the purpose of this thing -- then you will find out that whatever you are trying to build, is impossible (full emulation of a real-life network, secure sandbox environment, etc.), or does not require virtualization (everything else).
He is not capable of any major harm of course,
then:
I just worry one day I'm gonna hear about another nutcase shooting spree, and hear his name as the culprit...
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he is convinced he has Asperger's (he doesn't display any symptoms except "being smart",
and immediately then:
which he isn't at all)
Huh?
I would think that studying how fast a 1-year-old learns to say "mine" compared to "ours" would refute such a claim...
One year old babies neither talk, nor have a concept of other people being their peers.
Anyway, ownership behaviour seem to me to be quite related, whether they are claimed by an individual, a family, a company or a state. "Theft" from such an "owner" seem to be met with similar emotional responses across all such owner classes.
No, that's a much more fundamental concept of causing harm. Taking away something a person needs, harms him regardless of any "ownership" involved.
and given time we can slowly move to using metric all of the time if we want. The most effective change happens so slowly that you can't pinpoint when exactly it happened. Since there's no urgency here, it will be fine if it takes another generation or so to fully transition.
You don't understand. It takes a generation after the point when using the wrong system will get you fined, laughed at, or punched in the face. Otherwise the old system, no matter how idiotic, continues to perpetuate itself indefinitely.
For the purpose of "too cold" and "too hot", -15 and +40 (or -20 and +35 for me) numbers work just fine.
Slavery worked great, too, and then you had an attempt of secession and a huge war about it.
I don't want to be young again, I just don't want to get any older.