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Submission + - Vastly improved Raspberry Pi performance with Wayland

Submitted by nekohayo
nekohayo writes: While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation.

Comment Re:Again please... (Score 2, Informative) 455

by applegoddess (#24815025) Attached to: Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing
On a sidenote, the article also notes an issue involving South Korea/Japan and US beef imports. If I remember the South Korea situation correctly, the agreement (or rather, the lifting of the ban on US beef imports) involved the possibility of 30+ month old cattle. The agreement was then revised after much protesting to exclude cattle older than 30 months. 30+ months and less than 24 months in the US are..not exactly the same. I can see why people would be worried then.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/29/skorea.beef/index.html

Until the 2003 ban, South Korea was the third-largest market for U.S. beef exporters. The U.S. beef industry has lost up to $4 billion since the market closed, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

While there is the possibility that the USDA is doing a good thing by doing this, you have to consider the impact this may have on foreign markets concerned about the beef they are importing.
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Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright 176

Posted by kdawson from the how-to-thoroughly-discredit-yourself dept.
word munger writes "Commercial scholarly publishers are beginning to get afraid of the open access movement. They've hired a high-priced consultant to help them sway public opinion in favor of copyright restrictions on taxpayer-funded research. Funny thing is, their own website contains several copyright violations. It seems they pulled their images directly from the Getty Images website — watermarks and all — without paying for their use."

Comment Look at banking (Score 1) 273

by hackrobat (#17407126) Attached to: Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps

>... Will it ever be possible to do away with desktop solutions like Outlook and Thunderbird? Given the nature of the internet, will it ever be possible to truly move to an 'online desktop'?

Look at banking: Where's most/all of your money, in your home, or in the bank? If we can trust financial institutions with almost all of our money, why can't we trust these service providers with our data? What we need is regulation.

Comment I love Gentoo (Score 1) 395

by fox2mike (#9015610) Attached to: Gentoo Linux Musings
I've been using Gentoo for about 4 months now & I really like it. After using RedHat, Fedora(rpm)...Portage is something that is really amazing. In fact this is kind of freaky since I'm giving a seminar in my college on Gentoo today & I did look up the exact same IBM Article a few days back. Really nice to know how it all started off. Thanks to the chap in #gentoo on irc.freenode.net for giving me the link a few days back ;)

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