A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out arbitrary sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The iPad is not a computer because it is very restricted/limited (apps are restricted to the walled garden of Apple's App Store for example).
What you say is true of an iPad that is not connected to a Mac. But an iPad connected to a Mac is a "computer" by your definition.
I guess it's like Python pass, which allows filling a syntax slot that requires a compound statement (such as catching an exception or defining a dummy function or class) but otherwise is like writing the constant None on a line by itself.
These are hospitals we're talking about, and medical equipment tends to have fewer providers because its manufacture and sale is restricted by national regulation. When all three regulator-approved providers of a particular component that is essential to your business require "buying into a locked in ecosystem", then "[n]ot buying into a locked in ecosystem" means going out of business.
availability [of free software for a field] is affected by the correlation of coding ability with interest in that field. This correlation is high in text editors, operating system kernels, web servers. Low in image editors, CAD software, tax software.
A lot of coders are also gamers. So why aren't there more notable free video games that aren't clones of tabletop games, clones of old arcade games, or text-based turn-based roguelikes? Where are the free MMOs to replace the pay-to-play MMOs, which are "Forced Subscription-Only Software"?
But god help the poor soul who wants to do anything offline/locally with a Chromebook without flashing Linux onto it.
Then buy a Chromebook for the purpose of turning the write-protect screw and flashing Linux onto it. What's the practical problem with that? Compare to Nintendo DS, many of whose users flashed customized "FlashMe" firmware onto their systems.
you are looking at the iPad Pro as the replacement already in place, for the MB Air.
I'll believe that once Xcode is ported to iPad Pro. Having to either shell out for a MacBook Pro or be tied to the office is going to hurt a lot of iPhone and iPad app developers' work flow.
Some municipalities even explicitly require AutoCAD/Revit files as part of the deliverables.
Ask such municipalities for a copy of complete specifications of the file formats in question, so that your service can comply with the municipality's requirements. If you did, what was the reply?
Making your product compatible with a competitor's file format - a necessary step in "breaking into" a deeply entrenched market like AutoDesk - will likely result in lawsuits and possibly run afoul of DMCA laws.
I thought the DMCA had an explicit exception for reverse engineering for interoperability in 17 USC 1201(f).
There is no way I would ever use proprietary software for anything mission critical again.
Would that include your CPU's microcode, your motherboard's BIOS or UEFI, or the driver for its GPU or WLAN chipset? If, say, you have a computer that performs this poorly if switched to free software (no suspend, no backlight brightness control, no Bluetooth, no webcam, proprietary audio, proprietary WLAN), with what computer of a similar form factor (tablet with attachable keyboard) would you replace it?
You have the resources to absorb the additional hit to your business while you play with options for migrating away from it.
What evidence have you of this? Or in "the additional hit to your business", did you intend to include winding down the business entirely and taking up a completely different profession? That's what bingoUV recommended: professional journalists who can no longer make revenue from advertisements or subscriptions ought to give up journalism and take up (for example) butchering meat.
At least in the case of photoshop, you have the option to export your data in open (jpeg, png etc) formats for use in other tools.
But does this export preserve layers? Otherwise, it's like saying you can downmix a multitrack recording to WAV as a means o migrating from proprietary digital audio workstation software.
That would at least require some workaround for lack of support for macros in third-party XLSM workbooks. For example, Amazon's "Listing Loader", a product offer feed prevalidator provided by Amazon to third-party sellers on its platform, is an Excel workbook with macros. Without the prevalidator, the only way to validate your product offer information against Amazon's schema is to try uploading it, and a failed upload counts against your seller account's upload quota.
particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system
And this is the reason these devices need to run Linux, or another open-source OS
In the long term, I agree that free software is the answer. In the short term, needs to use its paid-for peripherals.
Thank you for volunteering to foot the bill to replace a multi-ten-thousand-pound peripheral that's mechanically working but has no driver for new Windows with a multi-ten-thousand-pound replacement that has a driver for new Windows.
"At least one" could refer to one air-gapped PC in the whole department that runs a particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system at a reasonable or any price.
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A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out arbitrary sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The iPad is not a computer because it is very restricted/limited (apps are restricted to the walled garden of Apple's App Store for example).
What you say is true of an iPad that is not connected to a Mac. But an iPad connected to a Mac is a "computer" by your definition.
I guess it's like Python pass, which allows filling a syntax slot that requires a compound statement (such as catching an exception or defining a dummy function or class) but otherwise is like writing the constant None on a line by itself.
[Shutdowns due to power fluctuation from an aging battery] is a bug that came in out of band that we didn't plan for in sprint planning.
Then why wasn't it planned for in AT&T planning?
Apple doesn't use glue, per se, anymore (they use adhesive strips that are similar to the 3M "Command" adhesive)
In other words, after saving the world from the DOS prompt back in 1984, Apple is back to using the DOS prompt.
These are hospitals we're talking about, and medical equipment tends to have fewer providers because its manufacture and sale is restricted by national regulation. When all three regulator-approved providers of a particular component that is essential to your business require "buying into a locked in ecosystem", then "[n]ot buying into a locked in ecosystem" means going out of business.
availability [of free software for a field] is affected by the correlation of coding ability with interest in that field. This correlation is high in text editors, operating system kernels, web servers. Low in image editors, CAD software, tax software.
A lot of coders are also gamers. So why aren't there more notable free video games that aren't clones of tabletop games, clones of old arcade games, or text-based turn-based roguelikes? Where are the free MMOs to replace the pay-to-play MMOs, which are "Forced Subscription-Only Software"?
"I am a paying customer. How much do you charge for the GIMP version?"
"I am a paying customer. How much do you charge for the Krita version?"
But god help the poor soul who wants to do anything offline/locally with a Chromebook without flashing Linux onto it.
Then buy a Chromebook for the purpose of turning the write-protect screw and flashing Linux onto it. What's the practical problem with that? Compare to Nintendo DS, many of whose users flashed customized "FlashMe" firmware onto their systems.
You could export each layer/track to a separate file.
Is that one command for the whole project to produce a folder full of PNGs or WAVs, or is it one command per layer or track?
What's a computer?
The device on which the apps in the App Store are built.
you are looking at the iPad Pro as the replacement already in place, for the MB Air.
I'll believe that once Xcode is ported to iPad Pro. Having to either shell out for a MacBook Pro or be tied to the office is going to hurt a lot of iPhone and iPad app developers' work flow.
Some municipalities even explicitly require AutoCAD/Revit files as part of the deliverables.
Ask such municipalities for a copy of complete specifications of the file formats in question, so that your service can comply with the municipality's requirements. If you did, what was the reply?
Making your product compatible with a competitor's file format - a necessary step in "breaking into" a deeply entrenched market like AutoDesk - will likely result in lawsuits and possibly run afoul of DMCA laws.
I thought the DMCA had an explicit exception for reverse engineering for interoperability in 17 USC 1201(f).
2. The 400 or so extensions people wrote for PS to automate many of the tasks that don't work in other products.
Have you asked the authors of each of these "400 or so extensions" for either source code, a GIMP port, or a Krita port?
In the world of web animation, Adobe Animate CC has the advantage over Flash CS that it can export to HTML5.
There is no way I would ever use proprietary software for anything mission critical again.
Would that include your CPU's microcode, your motherboard's BIOS or UEFI, or the driver for its GPU or WLAN chipset? If, say, you have a computer that performs this poorly if switched to free software (no suspend, no backlight brightness control, no Bluetooth, no webcam, proprietary audio, proprietary WLAN), with what computer of a similar form factor (tablet with attachable keyboard) would you replace it?
You have the resources to absorb the additional hit to your business while you play with options for migrating away from it.
What evidence have you of this? Or in "the additional hit to your business", did you intend to include winding down the business entirely and taking up a completely different profession? That's what bingoUV recommended: professional journalists who can no longer make revenue from advertisements or subscriptions ought to give up journalism and take up (for example) butchering meat.
At least in the case of photoshop, you have the option to export your data in open (jpeg, png etc) formats for use in other tools.
But does this export preserve layers? Otherwise, it's like saying you can downmix a multitrack recording to WAV as a means o migrating from proprietary digital audio workstation software.
All of these software applications offer export options which would allow you to stop using their software.
But are these exports 1. lossless (as opposed to printing to PDF, which destroys editability), and 2. in a publicly documented format?
That would at least require some workaround for lack of support for macros in third-party XLSM workbooks. For example, Amazon's "Listing Loader", a product offer feed prevalidator provided by Amazon to third-party sellers on its platform, is an Excel workbook with macros. Without the prevalidator, the only way to validate your product offer information against Amazon's schema is to try uploading it, and a failed upload counts against your seller account's upload quota.
particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system
And this is the reason these devices need to run Linux, or another open-source OS
In the long term, I agree that free software is the answer. In the short term, needs to use its paid-for peripherals.
Or they could blacklist the bidirectional and combining diacritic stuff and allow the rest.
Which fails when the next version of Unicode comes out, adding more bidi and diacritic code points.
Thank you for volunteering to foot the bill to replace a multi-ten-thousand-pound peripheral that's mechanically working but has no driver for new Windows with a multi-ten-thousand-pound replacement that has a driver for new Windows.
"At least one" could refer to one air-gapped PC in the whole department that runs a particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system at a reasonable or any price.
It exists and was created by human beings.
(That is, unless by "designed" you mean "designed well by a true Scotsman.")