Do you think consumer electronics that have seen a nominal amount of usage over 20 years will be still working? Probably not, and that includes your telephone example.
Ever seen a Model 500 telephone or one of it's successors? Chances are that they are well over 20 years old. Some that are still in use may have been 20 years old 20 years ago.
The OP said "I want a working browser. It should be fast and stable. And I want to share bookmarks and the keyring in a save way between all my accounts." Saying he basically wants Chrome was not saying that he specifically wanted Chrome, rather Chrome met all his requirements.
AFAIK, no, there is no limit on the number of attempts. Perhaps there is with the number of attempts at entering a password, but just canceling out I don't believe so.
Well it'll cost you an extra £11 a month on your telephone bill. Oh you have a problem now?.
Except it won't be an extra £11 a month. If £175m isn't enough, lets make it an order of magnitude larger to ensure that there will be enough with £1.75b There's 100m+ phone lines in the UK, so £1.75b / 12 months / 100m lines = £1.46 a month. Add in the 20m+ homes that have internet subscriptions, not to mention the number of commercial subscribers and you're barely above an extra £1 a month. Most probably wouldn't notice a £1 "government compliance and regulation fee" or whatever they call it in the UK.
I don't know how easy it is to get administrator privileges under Windows now
If the user has the privileges of Administrator, a UAC pop up window shows and asks the user if they want to allow the program admin access. If the user doesn't have privileges, it asks for the admin password to temporarily gain privileges.
So you're warned, but most users probably are the admin user so it's pretty common that people just click through it granting permission.
I would still argue that > is better than GT though. The reason is that reading the meaning from a symbol comes more natural to the brain than reading letters, which is then turned into a sound/word, which then is turned into a meaning. This mean a symbol like > takes less energy for the brain to read and it becomes easier and faster to read the code.
If that was the case, instead of an if-statement we should have a ? (boolean expression) statement. Instead of push/pop or enqueue/dequeue we should have +(object and -(object). There should be no keywords and they should only be keysymbols because "meaning from a symbome comes more natural to the brain..."
"So aside from these three choices, there is really not enough choice for devices."
Or are you saying those three choices are no good? Each of them will do the job perfectly. Can't speak for Ceton or TiVo myself but have heard good things about cablecard capability of both. Have a couple of HDHomeRuns here; both work without complaint or crashing.
In the case of TiVO, there's only one DVR STB option...them. It's whatever they want and if you don't like it, tough. Some option. Plus you get the option of paying an addtional $14.99/month|$149.99/year|$599.99/device lifetime (Oh what a deal!)
With Ceton and HDHomeRun, you have the choice of once piece of software, WMC, for copy-once channels. It's a dated list, but back around when I had my Prime, here was an example of the state of copy-once/copy-freely then. It's a mishmash between cable providers and even sometimes within the same provider in different locals there were differences. Search Comcast's forms for "copy flag" and there's a constant stream of threads about flags randomly changing for no reason, cards needing to be constantly "sent some signals to fix the issue", etc. Even if once you do get your box working then you have to make sure WMC works, all your drives are secured and compatible with PlayReady or whatever it was called, and then you could (hopefully) use WMC as a DVR. That is until Windows 10 came out.
I don't want the FCC or the CableCo to force support of anything 3rd party, let alone supporting software package(s). Make them do that and they'll just support the most basic, horrible, outdated software package that turns people off to the idea. And supporting one software over another is just favoritism towards that package and leaves any competitors, larger or small, out in the cold.
It should be no different than cable modems, get anything on their supported list.
Their "support list " is Model XYZ cable card. Insert cable card. Doesn't work? Tough shit. This cable card works find in OUR equipment and the card is certified cablecard compliant...
That's basically what happened when M-cards came out and things were flaky for a while.
Copy once, WTF did we forget that whole time format shifting from the 80's? We need to be able to get DRM free copies of whatever we legally have access to.
Preaching to the choir, but content producers got their way once digital copies that could be copied an infinite number of times without loss in quality became economical.
Cablecards were suppose to usher in the great revolution in consumer set top boxes, breaking free the need to rely on cable companies expensive STB rentals. Aside from Tivos, Ceton InfiniTV products, and Silicondust HDHomeRun Prime, there's really not much out there for a compelling consume device.
WMC was the only HTPC-related software that was certified to play encrypted non-copy-freely channels from a InfiniTV and HDHomeRun. And with many content providers/cable companies marking many/most/all channels copy-once, it really hurt the usefulness. Extenders for WMC were basically a non-starter, and with Microsoft killing WMC in Windows 10, it'll be all but dead in the near future.
Cable companies and content producers aren't going to let up on their demands for DRM/restricting content/etc. STB mandates aren't going to suddenly open up a market that was already extremely tepid. And even if the mandates were passed, cable companies will do everything in their power to find loopholes around them, actively discourage customers from using 3rd party devices, offering no support for them if not outright lying about being able to use them, or otherwise making it a PITA to try to use one.
Yes, at least for the desktop line. Because for my needs, the integrated graphics are more than enough. Very low power requirements and not having to have a bulky card keeping the overall volume of the case minimal are more important.
Why is "performance under stress" a relevant metric? I do almost all my coding alone in a quiet office, and can't imagine a realistic situation that would have someone looking over my shoulder and telling me to hurry up.
So you've never coded something that worked fine until it went into production on that one machine that was slightly different then your dev and staging machines? Or the external webservice your code relied on decided to no longer exist or change APIs and management or your customers are demanding that it be fixed yesterday? Or you have a deadline of today but the code just isn't ready?
You may not literally have someone looking over your shoulder telling you to hurry up, but I have a hard time imagining a corporate programming job that doesn't have times where "performance under stress" isn't an issue.
I love to hate on Comcast as much as anyone, but the quote in the summary really was taken out of context.
There's also this: "If a customer calls in with any questions associated with the usage policy and how it relates to Net Neutrality, Netflix or observations about how XFINITY services are or are not counted relative to third party services, do not address these items with the customer."
The full quote from the document is:
Third Party Services: If a customer calls in with any questions associated with the usage policy and how it relates to Net Neutrality, Netflix or observations about how XFINITY services are or are not counted relative to third party services, do not address these items with the consumer. Immediately escalate to the Customer Security Assurance (CAS) Team.
Leaving off the last sentence escalating the call to someone who is more thoroughly trained in how to bullshit the customer changes the narrative. Without it, it sounds like the policy is to just ignore the customer.
There is something fundamentally suspicious when there is no all-up posting made. You have to download a rather large number of chunks to get the whole thing.
Or you could just download the zip file of all the chapters that is at the bottom of the page.
Poor New Zealand, currently under cyberattack. Downloaded the first 1.6MB of the zip files fine, struggled for the next.4MB, and then proceeded to terminate the connection.
How do you define success? As of late October, Apple music had 15 million users, of which 6.5m were paying and 40% of users dropped their subscription after the free trial ran out. iTunes has 800m registered accounts so that's less that 1/10th of 1% paying customers for their user base, or just under 2% of their user base that even tried it during the free intro. By those measures, yeah, not all that much of a success especially since Apple wanted 100m subscribers.
Spotify has 75m users of which 20m are paying. The entire industry is reported to have around 41m paying subscribers. 12% market share isn't awful, but it's not a slayer.
I'll leave what I originally said stand. Netflix doesn't have anything to worry about.
And extrapolate that to a very low likelihood that anyone would bother to take the time to attack my server.
An exposed server is scanned, if not "attacked" almost immediately anymore. Before moving the default port for my ssh server from 22 I had nearly a constant flow of attempts to break into my "home server". Seeing attempts to log in with usernames of administrator, oracle, mysql, dba, etc as well as common names always made me chuckle. Now I consider it a really lame attempt at breaking into my server, but I'd still say it was an attack.
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Ever seen a Model 500 telephone or one of it's successors? Chances are that they are well over 20 years old. Some that are still in use may have been 20 years old 20 years ago.
The OP said "I want a working browser. It should be fast and stable. And I want to share bookmarks and the keyring in a save way between all my accounts." Saying he basically wants Chrome was not saying that he specifically wanted Chrome, rather Chrome met all his requirements.
So you basically want Chrome then?
AFAIK, no, there is no limit on the number of attempts. Perhaps there is with the number of attempts at entering a password, but just canceling out I don't believe so.
Except it won't be an extra £11 a month. If £175m isn't enough, lets make it an order of magnitude larger to ensure that there will be enough with £1.75b There's 100m+ phone lines in the UK, so £1.75b / 12 months / 100m lines = £1.46 a month. Add in the 20m+ homes that have internet subscriptions, not to mention the number of commercial subscribers and you're barely above an extra £1 a month. Most probably wouldn't notice a £1 "government compliance and regulation fee" or whatever they call it in the UK.
If the user has the privileges of Administrator, a UAC pop up window shows and asks the user if they want to allow the program admin access. If the user doesn't have privileges, it asks for the admin password to temporarily gain privileges.
So you're warned, but most users probably are the admin user so it's pretty common that people just click through it granting permission.
Aside from the "War on Terror", what of any of those things is really new in the past 40+ years?
You'd never make it past voir dire.
That's what plant guns, drugs, "failure to signal", and "he was reaching for something...." are for. It's the get-out-of-jail-free-card equivalent.
Then they raid/confiscate with a FISA warrant.
If that was the case, instead of an if-statement we should have a ? (boolean expression) statement. Instead of push/pop or enqueue/dequeue we should have +(object and -(object). There should be no keywords and they should only be keysymbols because "meaning from a symbome comes more natural to the brain..."
In the case of TiVO, there's only one DVR STB option...them. It's whatever they want and if you don't like it, tough. Some option. Plus you get the option of paying an addtional $14.99/month|$149.99/year|$599.99/device lifetime (Oh what a deal!)
With Ceton and HDHomeRun, you have the choice of once piece of software, WMC, for copy-once channels. It's a dated list, but back around when I had my Prime, here was an example of the state of copy-once/copy-freely then. It's a mishmash between cable providers and even sometimes within the same provider in different locals there were differences. Search Comcast's forms for "copy flag" and there's a constant stream of threads about flags randomly changing for no reason, cards needing to be constantly "sent some signals to fix the issue", etc. Even if once you do get your box working then you have to make sure WMC works, all your drives are secured and compatible with PlayReady or whatever it was called, and then you could (hopefully) use WMC as a DVR. That is until Windows 10 came out.
You're funny.
I don't want the FCC or the CableCo to force support of anything 3rd party, let alone supporting software package(s). Make them do that and they'll just support the most basic, horrible, outdated software package that turns people off to the idea. And supporting one software over another is just favoritism towards that package and leaves any competitors, larger or small, out in the cold.
Their "support list " is Model XYZ cable card. Insert cable card. Doesn't work? Tough shit. This cable card works find in OUR equipment and the card is certified cablecard compliant...
That's basically what happened when M-cards came out and things were flaky for a while.
Preaching to the choir, but content producers got their way once digital copies that could be copied an infinite number of times without loss in quality became economical.
Cablecards were suppose to usher in the great revolution in consumer set top boxes, breaking free the need to rely on cable companies expensive STB rentals. Aside from Tivos, Ceton InfiniTV products, and Silicondust HDHomeRun Prime, there's really not much out there for a compelling consume device.
WMC was the only HTPC-related software that was certified to play encrypted non-copy-freely channels from a InfiniTV and HDHomeRun. And with many content providers/cable companies marking many/most/all channels copy-once, it really hurt the usefulness. Extenders for WMC were basically a non-starter, and with Microsoft killing WMC in Windows 10, it'll be all but dead in the near future.
Cable companies and content producers aren't going to let up on their demands for DRM/restricting content/etc. STB mandates aren't going to suddenly open up a market that was already extremely tepid. And even if the mandates were passed, cable companies will do everything in their power to find loopholes around them, actively discourage customers from using 3rd party devices, offering no support for them if not outright lying about being able to use them, or otherwise making it a PITA to try to use one.
Yes, at least for the desktop line. Because for my needs, the integrated graphics are more than enough. Very low power requirements and not having to have a bulky card keeping the overall volume of the case minimal are more important.
Put an electronic lock on the door that uses his code for unlocking it.
So you've never coded something that worked fine until it went into production on that one machine that was slightly different then your dev and staging machines? Or the external webservice your code relied on decided to no longer exist or change APIs and management or your customers are demanding that it be fixed yesterday? Or you have a deadline of today but the code just isn't ready?
You may not literally have someone looking over your shoulder telling you to hurry up, but I have a hard time imagining a corporate programming job that doesn't have times where "performance under stress" isn't an issue.
I love to hate on Comcast as much as anyone, but the quote in the summary really was taken out of context.
The full quote from the document is:
Leaving off the last sentence escalating the call to someone who is more thoroughly trained in how to bullshit the customer changes the narrative. Without it, it sounds like the policy is to just ignore the customer.
You must be new here. No it can't.
Introducing a bill doesn't require the approval of 218+51+1 individuals, all with their own personal agendas as well as that of their political party.
Or you could just download the zip file of all the chapters that is at the bottom of the page.
Poor New Zealand, currently under cyberattack. Downloaded the first 1.6MB of the zip files fine, struggled for the next .4MB, and then proceeded to terminate the connection.
I wonder if that attack was part of the TPP deal.
How do you define success? As of late October, Apple music had 15 million users, of which 6.5m were paying and 40% of users dropped their subscription after the free trial ran out. iTunes has 800m registered accounts so that's less that 1/10th of 1% paying customers for their user base, or just under 2% of their user base that even tried it during the free intro. By those measures, yeah, not all that much of a success especially since Apple wanted 100m subscribers.
Spotify has 75m users of which 20m are paying. The entire industry is reported to have around 41m paying subscribers. 12% market share isn't awful, but it's not a slayer.
I'll leave what I originally said stand. Netflix doesn't have anything to worry about.
An exposed server is scanned, if not "attacked" almost immediately anymore. Before moving the default port for my ssh server from 22 I had nearly a constant flow of attempts to break into my "home server". Seeing attempts to log in with usernames of administrator, oracle, mysql, dba, etc as well as common names always made me chuckle. Now I consider it a really lame attempt at breaking into my server, but I'd still say it was an attack.