I see now where people are taking that "X is not network transparent" line out of context without understanding how silly it is out of context. I'd say almost all commercial applications on X do not use the newer rendering schemes at all, so in office environments where network transparency matters it's still there. Sure - the new gnome3 stuff has it done via a hack but how many people are really using that sort of stuff over a remote link?
I suggest people watch this and try to understand it instead of just taking away sound bites.

I wish the rabid fanboys here would actually watch that video and take Daniel Stone's advice instead of all the made up rubbish and "X sux" bullshit.

Still a long long long way from the implication above that nearly all of the X devs are working on Wayland - however I will look those people up. On another story some idiot used "evidence" of some cut and pasted decade old code to give "proof" that Keith Packard was currently working on Wayland.

How about you turn that boundless energy and motivation into something useful and start developing for Wayland instead of just shouting about it?
Think of it - you can still be a fanboy but you'll be able to argue from a base of understanding instead of just making silly things up that the developers wound find embarrassing.

You've been a bit unreliable here so please supply a quote.

Benchmarks please.

who thinks X is perfect in its present form

Meanwhile take a look at all the noise generated when I merely pointed out that Wayland was not perfect on day one and has improved since.

They've just codified what ends up happening if you annoy people by taking their photo just about anywhere else. There's plenty of examples in a lot of place where if it was escalated to the Police then people were asked to delete their photos no matter what the law is.
If you are especially masochistic take a camera with a telephoto lens to a beach and see how much force is used to apprehend you.

There was a udev thing. It's fixed now. Why the foaming at the mouth?

Republicans.

The Democrats, as a solid Left party, know full well that the GOP is a moderate Left party hoping to ditch its fringe Conservative wing and has no burning desire to turn anything back. So even if the public punishes the Dems one eensy weensy election cycle for screwing them over so grandly, the GOP won't do anything about it, they'll just do nothing, meanwhile the Left will remind everyone what racists and woman haters and dirty air lovers etc. Republicans are. So then 2 years later people will just vote the Dems back in control. A short timeout is a tiny price to pay to put the country on the road to socialized medicine in particular and more looking to and accepting of a strong federal government for things in general. The Left won't show it (keep 'em fooled, all the time) but they're ecstatic.

Yes we get it. The name is different and the bait is different even if the process is the same.

Who would have thought, when Slashdot first posted about Bitcoin

Probably a lot of us, but we probably expected different articles about a giant ponzi scheme collapsing instead.

Because the government that issues it has the most powerful military force in human history

But China could have a bigger one in a decade if they work at it, yet that's not going to make people respect it's currency any more than today.
Also think about the 1920-30s when US currency was so well respected that when the US economy crashed it had global consequences. The US didn't have such a huge military back then.
Try thinking about trade instead of guns. I'm sure you'll work it out.

I have trouble understanding why the US dollar has value

People like it.
It's the network effect in action.

Certainly, but it has nothing to do with what I wrote above does it? They were selling quite well before they pulled the android transformers and released the win8 ones. My point was about the pressure most likely exerted to remove a successful product from the market and not about whether the new, less successful one is technically better or not (it may be but it's not selling as well at the moment).
The eeePC backflip was overt and happened over the period of a lunchtime meeting with MS execs at a trade show (complete with a humbling public apology to MS from the CEO of ASUS) - this more recent one is less obvious but still looks like a sign of pressure.