If these are sold to consumers (It says education market but will they be sold retail?) they will be a big hit and an utter disaster as soon as the proud new owners start trying to install regular Windows software.
Even in the education market, I don't necessarily see them taking off until Microsoft makes Visual Studio available through Windows Store. K-8 maybe, but in high school (grades 9-12), teachers and administrators expect student devices to support the course materials for "introduction to computer science" type classes.
And while chrome OS can be locked down just as much by IT admins, it's not mandatory and you can install from third parties, and yes, you can run competing web browsers as a native app and even configure it as the default browser.
How does that work? I thought Chrome OS had only two ways to run native applications other than Chrome itself:
A. Native Client (NaCl), which requires applications to be ported and made available through Chrome Web Store. I'm not aware of any third-party browsers that have been, and I'm not even sure whether it allows JavaScript JIT. Besides, Google has deprecated Native Client in favor of Emscripten, which compiles C++ to JavaScript or WebAssembly. B. Developer mode, which causes the firmware to display prominent self-destruct instructions for 30 seconds (to the effect "Press Space then Enter for a factory reset") during the boot process.
you had to be in developer mode to use any native application other than Chrome, and developer mode caused the firmware to display prominent self-destruct instructions for 30 seconds during the boot process. Or what competing
Thus making it no better or worse visually than HEIC, which is also based on HEVC intra frames. HEIC's political advantage over BPG, however, is its backing by MPEG.
Fortunately, AV1 is licensed under royalty-free terms
How can the parties participating in AOMedia be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover AV1?
Microsoft and other proponents of VC-1 (SMPTE 421M) thought it too was royalty-free until the patent holders came out of the woodwork, pulled allegedly essential patents out of their waste chutes, and formed a patent pool in MPEG LA.
At one point, there was a push to make Slash support Unicode better. That ended when vandals figured out how to use bidirectional override code points to spoof moderation scores and otherwise wreck Slashdot's layout. Others used the new code points to post obscene "ASCII art".* That led to a code point whitelist and a halt on further development of Unicode support in Slash.
Rehash, a fork of Slash maintained by SoylentNews PBC, fully supports UTF-8. I don't know exactly what it does with current and future directionality control characters.
* I mean ASCII art in the broad sense: use of characters from other blocks for their glyphs rather than their meaning, in the same way that ASCII art in the strict sense uses Basic Latin.
Western Digital recently announced that it will be using RISC-V processors in its storage products
thegarbz wrote:
nearly all [companies that fund development of free software and similarly licensed tech projects] do so as a means to an end rather than as an end itself. Designing a CPU is and end.
Designing an embedded CPU is a means. The product in which it is embedded is an end. See, for example, RISC-V in Western Digital hard drives.
Often videos will contain text intended for the viewer to read that does not resolve at 480p also
Which videos are those? The most text-heavy videos I watch are tech support scam baiting videos by Lewis's Tech and Each&Everything, and I can make those out comfortably even at 480p. Besides, I thought text needed to be sized for 480p even if only to be readable by a viewer on the sofa across the living room from the TV.
The summary states that the patch is for Google Play Services, an application included with most non-Amazon Android devices sold outside the China market.
Even 1.5 Mbps is enough for a decent standard-definition stream. To put 1.5 Mbps in perspective: For a long time, the warez scene transcoded DVD movies to 1 CD, which for a 90-minute movie means (700 * 8) / (90 * 60) = 1 Mbps, and that was with Xvid, an MPEG-4 ASP encoder. Nowadays we have AVC and VP8, which provide greater picture quality per bit than ASP.
If you require both high definition and large selection, consider it next time you move.
If it's your own server with your own cert, you can decide for yourself if you want to trust the self signed cert that you created.
Provided that the devices you use allow you to install the root certificate of your private CA, as opposed to "protecting" the user from surreptitious installation of a MITM root by malware.
That's true of applications that fit within the constraints of 100% Pure Java. Many do not and must therefore use JNI to access platform features that Oracle has not exposed through the Java standard library. For instance, does Java have native joystick support without a third-party native component such as JInput?
ReactOS's user environment is Wine. As I understand it, the most significant theoretical advantage of ReactOS over Wine on X11/Linux is ability to run apps that depend on bespoke drivers, such as the client for updating a GPS device, fitness tracker, or iProduct. If Linux supports your hardware, you're probably better off sticking with the more mature operating environment.
Because commercial use of the VirtualBox extension pack for more than 30 days requires paying $5,000 to One Rich American Called Larry Ellison. (This breaks down as $50 per user with a minimum order quantity of 100 users.) I'd be interested to read about your workarounds for the missing features of VirtualBox that are provided only by the extension pack.
or something
Three reasons. First, Linux + Wine uses less RAM than Linux + Windows would. If I end up thrashing swap despite having maxed out the RAM in my laptop, I'd have to buy a whole new laptop. Second, a Windows license costs $119.99. Third, Windows 10 snitches on users even when telemetry is set to basic, sending a list of all installed applications and device drivers to the mothership.
I just checked, and the text is indeed out of date. I was able to set up 2FA for my account by using a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (an Android tablet with Google Play) as my second factor instead of a cell phone.
the price difference between my pay-as-you-go plan and your unlimited plan is $32 per month or $384 per year. I'm interested to read a good case for how 2FA would be worth that much to me.
Penny wise and pound foolish I would say....
Through this cliche', I assume you are claiming that 2FA is in fact worth the price of receiving a text message every time you log in. I'm interested to read details of your reasoning beyond just this cliche'.
Slashdot Mirror
Currently you can buy a "bit" (A millionth of a BTC) for around a penny.....
But how much will it cost in transaction fees to ship that "bit" to your wallet?
both the core software and the store were built by Apple.
The Store yes. But early versions of iTunes (pre-Store) were clearly a fork of SoundJam MP, whose developers Apple hired.
If these are sold to consumers (It says education market but will they be sold retail?) they will be a big hit and an utter disaster as soon as the proud new owners start trying to install regular Windows software.
Even in the education market, I don't necessarily see them taking off until Microsoft makes Visual Studio available through Windows Store. K-8 maybe, but in high school (grades 9-12), teachers and administrators expect student devices to support the course materials for "introduction to computer science" type classes.
And while chrome OS can be locked down just as much by IT admins, it's not mandatory and you can install from third parties, and yes, you can run competing web browsers as a native app and even configure it as the default browser.
How does that work? I thought Chrome OS had only two ways to run native applications other than Chrome itself:
A. Native Client (NaCl), which requires applications to be ported and made available through Chrome Web Store. I'm not aware of any third-party browsers that have been, and I'm not even sure whether it allows JavaScript JIT. Besides, Google has deprecated Native Client in favor of Emscripten, which compiles C++ to JavaScript or WebAssembly.
B. Developer mode, which causes the firmware to display prominent self-destruct instructions for 30 seconds (to the effect "Press Space then Enter for a factory reset") during the boot process.
you had to be in developer mode to use any native application other than Chrome, and developer mode caused the firmware to display prominent self-destruct instructions for 30 seconds during the boot process. Or what competing
I seem to remember Google's 2013 license from MPEG LA only covering VP8 and one successor, not what amounts to VP10. From the WebM project's announcement of the license, with my emphasis:
BPG is based on HEVC.
Thus making it no better or worse visually than HEIC, which is also based on HEVC intra frames. HEIC's political advantage over BPG, however, is its backing by MPEG.
Fortunately, AV1 is licensed under royalty-free terms
How can the parties participating in AOMedia be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover AV1?
Microsoft and other proponents of VC-1 (SMPTE 421M) thought it too was royalty-free until the patent holders came out of the woodwork, pulled allegedly essential patents out of their waste chutes, and formed a patent pool in MPEG LA.
At one point, there was a push to make Slash support Unicode better. That ended when vandals figured out how to use bidirectional override code points to spoof moderation scores and otherwise wreck Slashdot's layout. Others used the new code points to post obscene "ASCII art".* That led to a code point whitelist and a halt on further development of Unicode support in Slash.
Rehash, a fork of Slash maintained by SoylentNews PBC, fully supports UTF-8. I don't know exactly what it does with current and future directionality control characters.
* I mean ASCII art in the broad sense: use of characters from other blocks for their glyphs rather than their meaning, in the same way that ASCII art in the strict sense uses Basic Latin.
Unless you think that general-purpose computing systems are going away (I don't)
Some people in favor of making computing safer for non-technical users by curating all publicly available software more thoroughly want the general-purpose computer to go away, with the exception of software development companies and software engineering departments of accredited postsecondary schools. See "Lockdown" by Cory Doctorow, "Civil War" by Cory Doctorow, and "On The War On General Purpose Computing" by Jon Evans.
From the summary:
Western Digital recently announced that it will be using RISC-V processors in its storage products
thegarbz wrote:
nearly all [companies that fund development of free software and similarly licensed tech projects] do so as a means to an end rather than as an end itself. Designing a CPU is and end.
Designing an embedded CPU is a means. The product in which it is embedded is an end. See, for example, RISC-V in Western Digital hard drives.
You can't use an ARM instruction set without a license from ARM.
As the ARM ISA overall has passed its twentieth birthday, and ARMv4 shapes up to follow suit very soon, which exclusive right would ARM assert?
In the United States, that's illegal. They can't force you to use the dealer for service
Yet John Deere has been doing just that by asserting anti-circumvention law on its tractors' firmware. Which cases have defined the boundary between Magnuson-Moss and the DMCA?
Often videos will contain text intended for the viewer to read that does not resolve at 480p also
Which videos are those? The most text-heavy videos I watch are tech support scam baiting videos by Lewis's Tech and Each&Everything, and I can make those out comfortably even at 480p. Besides, I thought text needed to be sized for 480p even if only to be readable by a viewer on the sofa across the living room from the TV.
The summary states that the patch is for Google Play Services, an application included with most non-Amazon Android devices sold outside the China market.
Why is it unacceptable to view the aforementioned YouTube channels in standard definition?
Even 1.5 Mbps is enough for a decent standard-definition stream. To put 1.5 Mbps in perspective: For a long time, the warez scene transcoded DVD movies to 1 CD, which for a 90-minute movie means (700 * 8) / (90 * 60) = 1 Mbps, and that was with Xvid, an MPEG-4 ASP encoder. Nowadays we have AVC and VP8, which provide greater picture quality per bit than ASP.
If you require both high definition and large selection, consider it next time you move.
In select countries, YouTube Red allows downloading a video in advance to watch offline later.
bitcoin exchange rate to USD/EUR/JPY stays within 10 percent over a 12 month window
slashdot: bitcoin has arrived. who'd've thought?
Good luck getting that to happen though.
If it's your own server with your own cert, you can decide for yourself if you want to trust the self signed cert that you created.
Provided that the devices you use allow you to install the root certificate of your private CA, as opposed to "protecting" the user from surreptitious installation of a MITM root by malware.
That's true of applications that fit within the constraints of 100% Pure Java. Many do not and must therefore use JNI to access platform features that Oracle has not exposed through the Java standard library. For instance, does Java have native joystick support without a third-party native component such as JInput?
ReactOS's user environment is Wine. As I understand it, the most significant theoretical advantage of ReactOS over Wine on X11/Linux is ability to run apps that depend on bespoke drivers, such as the client for updating a GPS device, fitness tracker, or iProduct. If Linux supports your hardware, you're probably better off sticking with the more mature operating environment.
why not just run Windows in VirtualBox
Because commercial use of the VirtualBox extension pack for more than 30 days requires paying $5,000 to One Rich American Called Larry Ellison. (This breaks down as $50 per user with a minimum order quantity of 100 users.) I'd be interested to read about your workarounds for the missing features of VirtualBox that are provided only by the extension pack.
or something
Three reasons. First, Linux + Wine uses less RAM than Linux + Windows would. If I end up thrashing swap despite having maxed out the RAM in my laptop, I'd have to buy a whole new laptop. Second, a Windows license costs $119.99. Third, Windows 10 snitches on users even when telemetry is set to basic, sending a list of all installed applications and device drivers to the mothership.
and if you still have it, that Sublime CD you borrowed.
Since when does Sublime come on CD-ROM?
(I don't practice Santeri'a either.)
I just checked, and the text is indeed out of date. I was able to set up 2FA for my account by using a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (an Android tablet with Google Play) as my second factor instead of a cell phone.
Twitter has some catching up to do.
the price difference between my pay-as-you-go plan and your unlimited plan is $32 per month or $384 per year. I'm interested to read a good case for how 2FA would be worth that much to me.
Penny wise and pound foolish I would say....
Through this cliche', I assume you are claiming that 2FA is in fact worth the price of receiving a text message every time you log in. I'm interested to read details of your reasoning beyond just this cliche'.