So the advantage of "PWAs" is that you can take a website and turn it into an app and make it compatible with any OS? But... websites already do that.
The advantage of a PWA over a website is that a PWA works even when your laptop is not associated to an access point, or when the access point to which it is associated is not in turn connected to the Internet.
ALL operating systems (including Linux) ordinarily need to connect to the internet during boot.
I don't know what distribution you're running, but I haven't noticed this with Debian or Xubuntu. Both boot up and let me launch an IDE just fine while I'm a passenger in a moving vehicle without access to a cell phone on a tethering plan. Sure, it needs an occasional connection to download security updates (and provide optional telemetry through popularity-contest), but not the connection during every boot that you mention.
Anything a laptop can do that your cell phone can't cannot possibly be that important, now can it?
Let me know when Visual Studio runs on a cell phone, even with a Bluetooth keyboard.
I'm aware of AIDE, which allows developing apps for Android on Android. Likewise, Swift Playgrounds allows prototyping apps for iOS on iPad. But I was under the impression that both needed a screen bigger than the 5" of a phone, and tablet stands that I've tried aren't nearly as stable as a laptop's hinge.
[If you shun PWAs because you value offline use, t]hen Windows is not for you
What operating system supported on laptops sold in stores is for me then?
Linux
Now I'm curious as to which store chain you're shopping in that has a Linux laptop in the showroom. Most offers for Linux laptops that I've seen have been mail order, where the customer is expected to place an order for a laptop without ever having seen its screen or touched its keyboard in person. And I doubt that manufacturers of Windows laptops are willing to support the use case of reformatting it, installing Xubuntu, and dealing with hardware incompatibilities that the manufacturer neglected to disclose in the store display.
In U.S. presidential election politics, a "safe state" is a state that consistently elects presidential electors of one party. Contrast with a "swing state", a state whose electors' party affiliation changes from one presidential election to the next. These terms do not appear in the Constitution, nor does the term "College".
Or at least I hope it's a parody, and not a remnant of a time when people paid random hobos to entertain their kids.
Lately, through services such as Lyft, Uber, Fiverr, and Airbnb, the piecework service economy has become the new normal. Thus the era of the hobo, an itinerant who goes from place to place for work, is now.
where I live there are actually attempts to ban clowns and clown costumes because some children are afraid of clowns.
Would it likewise be justifiable to attempt to ban Romani traditional dress because some children are afraid of Romani? Watch clowns fight back by calling whiteface makeup "traditional sunscreen" and oversized clothes "protective loose clothing for the climate change era", in effect painting coulrophobia (fear of clowns) as a xenophobia.
Those who hate cross-site tracking can answer a mix of 1 and 2 in a constent manner.
1. I hate ads. I'd rather pay for my content directly.
I'd rather pay for my content directly, but I'm not buying a month's subscription to ten different sites just to read one article on each of those sites. So how do I spend 1-5 cents on a single article or pay $10 per month for a bundle of sites? Adult Check would have been great for this, but the publisher of Perfect 10 magazine sued it out of business when too many publishers on Adult Check's network displayed infringing photos from the magazine. Google Contributor appears to be ideal except for two things:
1. The same company also operates DoubleClick and AdSense. This makes it more likely that Google will share my article purchase history with its advertising division to trigger "interest-based ads" on third-party sites. 2. Reloading the same article counts as an additional purchase at full price. This disincentivizes publishers from increasing server reliability, as each reload means more revenue.
2. I don't mind ads.
I don't mind ads hosted on the publisher's server because they have no third-party ad network or ad exchange to track "click-stream" (viewing history) across multiple sites. Daring Fireball does it right, selling display ad space directly to advertisers. So does Read the Docs. But I don't see how a smaller publisher can reach advertisers in order to do this.
To avoid the higher royalties that record labels and music publishers impose on jukebox-style services, Pandora's lower service tiers behave more like a radio than like a jukebox. When the user chooses an artist, Pandora automatically builds a format out of recordings similar in genre to those of the chosen artist.
It is available for the most popular mobile OS too
I opened Google Play Store on my Galaxy Tab A 8" and searched for apple music. Many of the top 16 results imitated the Apple Music eighth notes icon, but not one was published by Apple. I opened Chrome on the same tablet, navigated to your comment, and clicked the link to the app only to see a notice in Google Play Store: "Your device isn't compatible with this version." Nor does it give me a list of devices, and I've noticed the app is also incompatible with a lot of other Android devices.
Is Apple manufacturing an incompatibility to make Android look more fragmented in order to encourage Android users to switch to iOS on grounds that iOS is less fragmented?
When I checked Google Play Store five minutes ago, I found that Apple Music for Android was incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" tablet (SM-T350) despite that it runs Android 7. What am I missing?
That would be relevant if all Internet services were adequate substitutes for one another. But they are not. In particular, many forms of Internet service are not adequate substitutes for high-volume home Internet service.
You are correct that telephone service and Internet service are not the same thing. But the same companies that own the spectrum used for cellular telephone service also own the spectrum used for cellular Internet service and vice versa. Thus in addition to being providers of cellular telephone service, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are also providers of cellular Internet service, as are MVNOs who sublet their frequencies. Because of the medium's properties, the medium can support only low-volume Internet service.
You are correct that wireless Internet service is Internet service. But because wireless Internet service is low-volume Internet service, it is not an adequate substitute for high-volume Internet service for those residential users whose use cases require high-volume Internet service.
You are correct that business Internet service is Internet service. But it is not an adequate substitute for residential service because I doubt that most users of Internet service are willing to drive to a business location every time they want to use Internet service.
You are further correct that cable and DSL are not the only physical media through which to provide high-volume home Internet service. A third wired medium for high-volume home Internet service in parallel to those two is possible in theory. But the discussion was about cities making deployment of such a parallel medium prohibitively difficult in practice.
I can write a book and not even publish it, just let one person read it and then put it in a closet. I die and somebody finds it. That book will still have my copyrights and the kids will enjoy it for 70 years after I die.
In what way does state recognition of this right "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
The fact that I have never published it, means it was abandoned.
The practical (not legal) difference here is that a company published a work and then unpublished it.
I was referring to SP1 as Mojave because it was released (4 February 2008) shortly before the Mojave Experiment ads aired (July 2008). Therefore participants in the Mojave Experiment were seeing a version of Windows Vista with the SP1 fixes. Their preconceptions were based on RTM and the Mojave results on SP1.
Mojave (Windows Vista SP1) fixed a lot of the technical problems with Windows Vista. Was Windows 7 worth the price of the upgrade from Mojave, other than for three more years of patches?
How else will I get my music in a DRM free, lossless format?
No digital audio format is lossless. CD for instance loses all frequencies above Nyquist.
Want to listen? For the major codecs (MP3, AAC-LC, Vorbis, and Opus), what is the highest bitrate that you can successfully distinguish from the original CD in an ABX test?
Want to transcode? For the common use of "lossless" to refer to 16-bit 44.1 kHz linear PCM as a source for transcoding free of artifacts, you'll still be able to mail-order CDs, just not walk into a Best Buy.
No company or bank or institution should be allowed to have assets totaling more than 2% of the GDP of our country.
Assets and GDP have nothing to do with each other.
That's like saying mass and weight have nothing to do with each other. The thing relating them is a constant of proportionality, in this case the gravitational constant and the planet's radius. Likewise, by Schwarzschild's formula, the maximum mass of a spherical body before it becomes a black hole is proportional to the body's radius, with a constant of proportionality related to the gravitational constant and the speed of light.
140Mandak262Jamuna is trying to establish the financial analog of Schwarzschild's formula relating the maximum assets of a company (in dollars) to a single market's GDP (in dollars per year). Here, the suggested constant of proportionality is 2% of a year or one week.
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Not to mention that popcon actually, apart from being a bloody stupid idea
What means of determining on which packages to spend limited maintenance time is less stupid than popcon?
So the advantage of "PWAs" is that you can take a website and turn it into an app and make it compatible with any OS? But ... websites already do that.
The advantage of a PWA over a website is that a PWA works even when your laptop is not associated to an access point, or when the access point to which it is associated is not in turn connected to the Internet.
But seriously at this point if you have even a bit of technical knowledge what the fuck are you using Windows for
Hardware support on non-Apple, non-mail-order laptops.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
ALL operating systems (including Linux) ordinarily need to connect to the internet during boot.
I don't know what distribution you're running, but I haven't noticed this with Debian or Xubuntu. Both boot up and let me launch an IDE just fine while I'm a passenger in a moving vehicle without access to a cell phone on a tethering plan. Sure, it needs an occasional connection to download security updates (and provide optional telemetry through popularity-contest), but not the connection during every boot that you mention.
Anything a laptop can do that your cell phone can't cannot possibly be that important, now can it?
Let me know when Visual Studio runs on a cell phone, even with a Bluetooth keyboard.
I'm aware of AIDE, which allows developing apps for Android on Android. Likewise, Swift Playgrounds allows prototyping apps for iOS on iPad. But I was under the impression that both needed a screen bigger than the 5" of a phone, and tablet stands that I've tried aren't nearly as stable as a laptop's hinge.
[If you shun PWAs because you value offline use, t]hen Windows is not for you
What operating system supported on laptops sold in stores is for me then?
Linux
Now I'm curious as to which store chain you're shopping in that has a Linux laptop in the showroom. Most offers for Linux laptops that I've seen have been mail order, where the customer is expected to place an order for a laptop without ever having seen its screen or touched its keyboard in person. And I doubt that manufacturers of Windows laptops are willing to support the use case of reformatting it, installing Xubuntu, and dealing with hardware incompatibilities that the manufacturer neglected to disclose in the store display.
PWAs use IndexedDB to store user data locally.
What operating system supported on laptops sold in stores is for me then? Chrome OS's offline support is entirely based on PWAs.
Each PWA contains a Service Worker, a locally cached web server written in JavaScript that runs the offline portion of the app.
In U.S. presidential election politics, a "safe state" is a state that consistently elects presidential electors of one party. Contrast with a "swing state", a state whose electors' party affiliation changes from one presidential election to the next. These terms do not appear in the Constitution, nor does the term "College".
Not entirely sure it would be considered IP infringement if you are using photos in public domain or that you've taken yourself.
A work that does not infringe copyright under 17 USC can still infringe right of publicity under the personality rights laws of the several states.
Or is it damning of the way the states have implemented the Electoral College to deny suffrage to residents of "safe states"?
Or at least I hope it's a parody, and not a remnant of a time when people paid random hobos to entertain their kids.
Lately, through services such as Lyft, Uber, Fiverr, and Airbnb, the piecework service economy has become the new normal. Thus the era of the hobo, an itinerant who goes from place to place for work, is now.
Do they want to be a marketplace of ideas [...] Or do they want to be a "trusted source and safe place"
I don't see how it'd be inconsistent to claim that YouTube as a whole is intended to be the former but YouTube Kids is intended to be the latter.
where I live there are actually attempts to ban clowns and clown costumes because some children are afraid of clowns.
Would it likewise be justifiable to attempt to ban Romani traditional dress because some children are afraid of Romani? Watch clowns fight back by calling whiteface makeup "traditional sunscreen" and oversized clothes "protective loose clothing for the climate change era", in effect painting coulrophobia (fear of clowns) as a xenophobia.
Those who hate cross-site tracking can answer a mix of 1 and 2 in a constent manner.
1. I hate ads. I'd rather pay for my content directly.
I'd rather pay for my content directly, but I'm not buying a month's subscription to ten different sites just to read one article on each of those sites. So how do I spend 1-5 cents on a single article or pay $10 per month for a bundle of sites? Adult Check would have been great for this, but the publisher of Perfect 10 magazine sued it out of business when too many publishers on Adult Check's network displayed infringing photos from the magazine. Google Contributor appears to be ideal except for two things:
1. The same company also operates DoubleClick and AdSense. This makes it more likely that Google will share my article purchase history with its advertising division to trigger "interest-based ads" on third-party sites.
2. Reloading the same article counts as an additional purchase at full price. This disincentivizes publishers from increasing server reliability, as each reload means more revenue.
2. I don't mind ads.
I don't mind ads hosted on the publisher's server because they have no third-party ad network or ad exchange to track "click-stream" (viewing history) across multiple sites. Daring Fireball does it right, selling display ad space directly to advertisers. So does Read the Docs. But I don't see how a smaller publisher can reach advertisers in order to do this.
To avoid the higher royalties that record labels and music publishers impose on jukebox-style services, Pandora's lower service tiers behave more like a radio than like a jukebox. When the user chooses an artist, Pandora automatically builds a format out of recordings similar in genre to those of the chosen artist.
It is available for the most popular mobile OS too
I opened Google Play Store on my Galaxy Tab A 8" and searched for apple music. Many of the top 16 results imitated the Apple Music eighth notes icon, but not one was published by Apple. I opened Chrome on the same tablet, navigated to your comment, and clicked the link to the app only to see a notice in Google Play Store: "Your device isn't compatible with this version." Nor does it give me a list of devices, and I've noticed the app is also incompatible with a lot of other Android devices.
Is Apple manufacturing an incompatibility to make Android look more fragmented in order to encourage Android users to switch to iOS on grounds that iOS is less fragmented?
When I checked Google Play Store five minutes ago, I found that Apple Music for Android was incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" tablet (SM-T350) despite that it runs Android 7. What am I missing?
"The service" means "internet service."
That would be relevant if all Internet services were adequate substitutes for one another. But they are not. In particular, many forms of Internet service are not adequate substitutes for high-volume home Internet service.
You are correct that telephone service and Internet service are not the same thing. But the same companies that own the spectrum used for cellular telephone service also own the spectrum used for cellular Internet service and vice versa. Thus in addition to being providers of cellular telephone service, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are also providers of cellular Internet service, as are MVNOs who sublet their frequencies. Because of the medium's properties, the medium can support only low-volume Internet service.
You are correct that wireless Internet service is Internet service. But because wireless Internet service is low-volume Internet service, it is not an adequate substitute for high-volume Internet service for those residential users whose use cases require high-volume Internet service.
You are correct that business Internet service is Internet service. But it is not an adequate substitute for residential service because I doubt that most users of Internet service are willing to drive to a business location every time they want to use Internet service.
You are further correct that cable and DSL are not the only physical media through which to provide high-volume home Internet service. A third wired medium for high-volume home Internet service in parallel to those two is possible in theory. But the discussion was about cities making deployment of such a parallel medium prohibitively difficult in practice.
I can write a book and not even publish it, just let one person read it and then put it in a closet. I die and somebody finds it. That book will still have my copyrights and the kids will enjoy it for 70 years after I die.
In what way does state recognition of this right "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"?
The fact that I have never published it, means it was abandoned.
The practical (not legal) difference here is that a company published a work and then unpublished it.
I was referring to SP1 as Mojave because it was released (4 February 2008) shortly before the Mojave Experiment ads aired (July 2008). Therefore participants in the Mojave Experiment were seeing a version of Windows Vista with the SP1 fixes. Their preconceptions were based on RTM and the Mojave results on SP1.
Mojave (Windows Vista SP1) fixed a lot of the technical problems with Windows Vista. Was Windows 7 worth the price of the upgrade from Mojave, other than for three more years of patches?
How else will I get my music in a DRM free, lossless format?
No digital audio format is lossless. CD for instance loses all frequencies above Nyquist.
Want to listen? For the major codecs (MP3, AAC-LC, Vorbis, and Opus), what is the highest bitrate that you can successfully distinguish from the original CD in an ABX test?
Want to transcode? For the common use of "lossless" to refer to 16-bit 44.1 kHz linear PCM as a source for transcoding free of artifacts, you'll still be able to mail-order CDs, just not walk into a Best Buy.
No company or bank or institution should be allowed to have assets totaling more than 2% of the GDP of our country.
Assets and GDP have nothing to do with each other.
That's like saying mass and weight have nothing to do with each other. The thing relating them is a constant of proportionality, in this case the gravitational constant and the planet's radius. Likewise, by Schwarzschild's formula, the maximum mass of a spherical body before it becomes a black hole is proportional to the body's radius, with a constant of proportionality related to the gravitational constant and the speed of light.
140Mandak262Jamuna is trying to establish the financial analog of Schwarzschild's formula relating the maximum assets of a company (in dollars) to a single market's GDP (in dollars per year). Here, the suggested constant of proportionality is 2% of a year or one week.