The acceleration is now accessible by the client program as it draws into it's own frame buffer. On modern systems the client program can use the GPU as a resource to compute it's own results.

Wayland mostly is providing a way of telling a central service how to combine the client's frame buffer with all the other clients into the image put on the screen.

I believe it is perfectly legal to make legislation that alters what powers a government department has.

There are other reasons this is horse shit but that is not one of them.

Again I am thoroughly confused. You suggest obvious and quite logical and good ideas such as "volume caps" and then act like they are evil without any explanation, just an apparent deep belief on your part that they are somehow obviously "bad".

And exactly why is "metered access" bad? You talked a lot about it but nowhere explained why it is bad, you just seemed to have made an assumption that everybody will think it is bad.

It is pretty obvious from other sales of bandwidth that the actual solution will be a fixed price for up to a threshold which exceeds what most people use, and metering after that. I think that would be an excellent way to charge for internet access.

It would also put some pressure on bloated web sites and ads if people realized they may actually be paying more to download it all.

Town name?

What about the conduit monopoly?

Oh, let's fix that by allowing more than one conduit, maybe by making a much bigger conduit to carry them.

Uh oh, what about the "bigger conduit" monopoly?

Can you read? The original post says "or the time window for them to do so expires". There is a drop dead date.

First of all, let me say I agree it's a pretty ridiculous situation.

But my point was asking whether $6/test was the actual cost or not, and this shows that it clearly is not. He manufactured 500 tests from 1962 to 1963, for a total cost of $6000. He obviously was not counting the cost of the rental house or his own salary.

I'm not saying $262 was a fair price, but at the same time, we don't know what the ultimate low price would be for the privately manufactured test. As the story says, "There was no pricing provision, an omission that Guthrie later deeply regretted."

I find it pretty amazing that a smart guy would say "Hey can you guys please manufacture this for me, and I don't care what it costs. Here's an exclusive deal!"

In light of these details, I don't think this anecdote provides a very good case for your claim that private industry isn't as great as it thinks it is at cost containment.

Wrong, things like skin lighteners and hair conditioners are huge in non-white cultures as well. Maybe you need to hang out with some other "tribes" -- like try visiting your local Indian grocery store. You'll see far more skin lightening products than at any store commonly frequented by whites.

That would be an interesting addition. I'd also like to see how varying the color of the player's character affects the results. In computer games, teams are often identified by color (red vs blue) so you'll be more cautious when someone of a different color appears -- they could be about to attack you. Also a racially neutral test where the characters are a completely artificial color like bright green would be good to include.

You don't have to hide the extensions in order to make the GUI not change them. Just prevent the user from editing that part of the filename.

You are describing some sort of standard for magic cookies. This could easily be merged with the existing use of magic cookies.

There is however somewhat of a standard now: the first 4 bytes are a 4-letter code for the file type. Lots of image formats, in particular, use this.

Unix-like has stupid warts too, try creating a file named "-r" in a directory full of important sub-folders then delete it.

  % rm -- -r

It also shows that the non-profit / academic market isn't as great as they think they are. At the end of the day they chose to contract out that work instead of having that doctor continue making kits for $5. That's on them. Perhaps it was greed, perhaps they rationalized it and said "Your time is better spent back in the lab, and anyway if we get $100/kit we can use that money to fund more development."

I would also question the $5 price. Was that a nominal fee or did it actually cover materials and labor? It sounds like a case of "Hey guys I'll just make these kits until the manufacturer fixes their problems. I keep getting paid right? Okay cool." Obviously not sustainable.

Sounds like a straw man argument. Nobody is saying geniuses are self-sufficient islands. And it seems silly to conflate the ideas of "self-made man" and "genius" anyhow.

The special thing about geniuses is that they are rare. The guy who crafted the first violin that Mozart ever heard was probably a fine craftsman. But there are hundreds or thousands of other fine craftsmen who could have made just as good of a violin.

The farmers who grew the food that Mozart ate were good, hard working people. But there were thousands or millions or other good, hard working people who could have grown that food.

But there weren't many (if any) other people who could have taken Mozart's place. There is other good music, but it even looking at other musical geniuses it wouldn't be the *same* music, whereas the potato I have with my dinner could be any of a million other potatoes and I wouldn't even care.