> Since poor people get most of the benefits the government hands out, it's only fair that they should pay for them.

Yes indeed it makes lots of sense to give people money and then take it back from them!

Would it not be much less hassle and paperwork to simply not give them the money that they would have paid in taxes?

Or perhaps you like the idea of big government churn?

> If you don't exploit all the loopholes you can then you're a fool and your shareholders will crucify you.

And yet somehow it's okay to pay lobbyists

It's not about creature comforts, it's about error rates

Humans are imperfect, they pull the wrong drive out of the wrong server, they forget to power down before pulling, they forget to power back up afterward, they forget to set the BIOS correctly, etc.

The room for improvement is in fewer errors.

If they judge him insane, then he can claim that he was incapable of making the decision to allow the truth serum

If they judge him sane, then he can claim that any information gathered under truth serum is tainted; since he was already sane, the truth serum can only make him less sane.

why not just pay the fee and watch some movies?

netflix, their hands are tied. the content holders want the DRM. No DRM, no neftlix. I am willing to accept that.

save your battles for things that deserve them.

netflix is not the devil. they make it possible for people to watch movies at home

if you want to change the system you are not going to do it by hacking netflix, you are just going to make trouble for everyone. they will not give up, they cannot. you will just force them to spend more engineering time and raise their costs, you will not "save the world" or even a small piece of it.

sure you can spend arbitrary resources decoding their stream and breaking their DRM but you could also just pay the fee, watch some movies, and have a life.

SURE they can tell you what you can do with the hardware you bought, if you want to use their service.

It's no different from the oil company refusing to service you if you mess with your furnace.

You sign the contract, you get something, you give something. You don't HAVE to sign.

why does one need any of those things? The object is to watch the movie, I don't want a copy of it. I don't want to watch it on a wide variety of devices. I want to watch it on my computer.

Performance? My 6 year old opteron with its 7 year old video card can run Netflix on Silverlight on Windows on VMWare on linux and it runs just fine.

Usability? how can it be easier to use netflix? holy cow!

If I wanted more then maybe there would be something to complain about, but I want to watch movies.

It's not their call, it's not their content. They do it because the content owners won't have it any other way.

X windows hasn't changed, why do the arguments need to change?

It's the only explanation I can think of for the defenders of X Windows.

They've been putting up with BAD for so long that they've lost all objectivity.

Google "The Unix Haters Handbook" start reading on page 123

What's the problem if it's all "under the covers" ???

Most users don't give a rat's ass about the display software. It's hidden under many many layers.

Shoot, even application developers should not even care at all. This is why we have toolkits like Qt, so nobody has to care about display software.

And besides, maybe an alternative to wayland will point out its deficiencies and encourage its developers to make it even better!

Believe it or not software projects can coexist! And PLEASE read "The Mythical Man Month" before you start talking about how the Mir developers could be helping the Wayland developers.

That's the difference in a nutshell.

The X protocol is limited by the fact that the whole API has to be serialized, and in many cases, a network round-trip has to be performed even though nothing is drawn on the screen.

And HELLO, accelerated video on the server is not much good when 90% of the latency is in the network. Oh big deal, you optimized the part of the system that least needs it.

really? no problems ever with open source X windows? How about lack of 3-D support? You've never had a monitor sync issue with nouveau? Nouveau works PERFECTLY with ALL of your Nvidia cards? You've never gotten a blank screen from the radeon driver? You're just not looking.