You're misinterpreting... I was agreeing with you about X fanboys who always cry about "network transparency" when X hasn't been network transparent for years & years. Any modern X server is just shooting bitmaps over a network link in a less efficient manner than RDP.

Your sig says: Censorship is obscene.

Well it looks like you self-censored my post by not bothering to read past the first couple of lines and also censored an X developer who agrees with me and not you. So, aside from admitting that you are obscene, please list your evidence and credentials for why you are right and a guy who has been deeply involved in developing X for over 10 years is stupid....

Starting in 2008 RDP doesn't require this either, please go read all about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol#Version_6.1

Even better... watch the full video and you'll note that any version of X that isn't in a museum does not actually implement network transparency anymore (instead it's more of a network fallback to a less-capable graphics display).

We don't Salute You!

For the next 100 posts whining about how this isn't exactly like forwarding an Xterm over an SSH tunnel (think about how stupid that is for a second)... X IS NOT NETWORK TRANSPARENT

What? That a lie! 1985 sez X is network transparent!
Well guess what: Modern versions of X are *not* network transparent anymore because to use any of the modern features of X that make using a modern Linux desktop even remotely enjoyable, you are breaking the classic backwards server-client paradigm of X. Sure, there's still a fallback mode for transferring data over networks, but lots and lots of modern features that you expect in a modern desktop GUI break in the process, which is *not* transparency, but is instead more of a network fallback.

Frankly, having tried to use both X and RDP over real connections using the real Internet, I'd take RDP any day of the week. I still remember the finger-pointing amongst developers of different projects when I pointed out that packets were being sent over the network each and every time my cursor blinked. Get over it guys, 1985 wasn't the be-all end-all pinnacle of graphics development.

Still don't believe me? How about clicking the link to Dan's talk about X where he says the exact same thing I just said. He's only been working on X development for over 10 years though, so I'm sure that some guy who sorta got X forwarding working over a gigabit link is much much more informed that he is....

Oh wait... the collective has decided that windmills == good and fracking == bad so anyone claiming windmill sickness is lying while anyone claiming that fracking sets your Everclear.. uh I mean "water" on fire in a youtube video is right!

I wish every single Wayland hater would be forced to watch that video and then think logically before making ignorant posts...

For all the screaming about MIR (from the exact same people who say that we need "competition" for MS/Apple/etc.), I really hope that the competition part of MIR finally gets the Wayland developers to stop screwing around with Wayland like its a toy and get it to the point where it can actually be deployed in real systems. And yes, despite the chagrin of the religious radicals on this site, that means opening up dialogs with AMD and Nvidia to get driver support too.

If Canonical's move actually spurs Wayland development, then Mir is a success and a positive contribution to the open source world.

Unless it can detect chairs (mid-flight of course), then I don't see it being much use for Microsoft!

[awk] is not designed for reuse in [my dishawasher] to achieve [cure for cancer].

Therefore awk does not follow the UNIX philosophy. Lather, rinse, repeat for any and all UNIX utilities, functions, etc.

Oh any "everything is a file" is a lie too. I can't open a TCP connection by opening a file, I have to use sockets, which are a different paradigm. Don't even get me started on shared memory!

On Linux using the pepperflash plugins, lots & lots of zombie processes get created and aren't even killed after you exit the browser. When I noticed 5GB of memory usage on an empty desktop, I realized that Chromium is a pro-zombie browser.

If you bothered to RTFA, you'd see that 500 superhornets are in active service right now. The "Superhornet" isn't really that new and it has issues such as it is still too-short ranged although an improvement over the original F-18, and it suffers from the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none capability profile. However, it is real, it is proven, and it can likely receive some halfway decent upgrades without costing anywhere near as much as the F-35.

Did I ever say the infrastructure is fine? NO
I said: Obama wanted "stimulus" to "rebuild infrastructure" He got it. Now all of the sudden it's like that stimulus never happened and he has amnesia about it. Could it be that it was completely wasted on things like.. overpriced routers... instead of being spent on the precious "infrastructure" like we were promised? Could it be that West Virginia's government didn't want to use all that taxpayer money it got for something useful? Could it be that handing gobs of cash to unaccountable politicians is just as bad an idea as giving liquor and card keys to teenagers?

I'm holding the government bureacrats and Cisco's feet to the fire on this one BUT... if Cisco hadn't sold "oversized" routers to those government agencies, we'd just be hearing about how Cisco intentionally pawned off "insufficiently specced gear" that would be "obsolete overnight" on the West Virginia government instead... there's no way to win with an inherently bad idea.

Speaking of which, after over $1 Trillion in stimulus to "rebuild infrastructure" (yeah right), the State of the Union address was asking for more money to... rebuild infrastructure. Did it already fall apart again?

Cortex-M operates in a completely different market than the stated market that Intel wants to reach... and BTW that market isn't insanely profitable for even an IP-only company like ARM. The Intel-fanboy response to your ARM-fanboy propaganda would be to say that ARM has no products that are even a bad imitation of Intel's high-end Xeon chips, which is equally as true and equally as irrelevant.

As for the Krait == A15 business, that is complete and utter bunk. Review after review after review have shown these things:
  1. Krait's power efficiency is somewhat better than Medfield's (not miraculously better).
  2. Medfield definitely outperforms Krait.
  3. The A15's are way ahead of Krait in both performance, but also in having a much higher power draw.
    4. Once and for all, just because Qualcomm licensed the ARM instruction set does *not* mean that Krait == A15. Krait == Krait and that is all. It would be just as correct (read: completely wrong) to say that the Atom chips are "Haswell styled" because they have the same core instruction set... no they are not.