Journal npsimons's Journal: Slashdot, you've really let yourself go 1
I thought slashdot had hit bottom, but apparently I was wrong. I can't friend/unfriend or foe/unfoe people anymore here. On top of that, it's become even closer to useless because of all the Apple fanboys, Microsoft shills and just flat out trolls. I keep coming back to upvote posts that speak truth to FUD, but then I see informative posts like this marked as troll. Why do I even bother? Oh, that's right, I keep getting mod points.
I'll keep upvoting good posts, but don't count on me to read other comments; there are better forums than slashdot around.
X isn't network transparent (Score:2)
I just finished watching this talk by Daniel Stone [youtube.com], who has been working on X for 10 years, and he agrees with the poster you called a troll. He says that X's days of network transparency are behind it - it basically behaves more like an inefficient VNC unless you are using ancient Motif apps.