In C or Python, running an unsigned integer through (s & (s - 1)) ^ s will give you only the least significant 1 bit (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.). For 60 (0x3C), it gives 4; for 1280 (0x500), it gives 256 (0x100).
If I really need connectivity, I'll tether the phone.
At how much extra per month? (If "none", then what carrier in what country? US cell carriers tend to add a surcharge for tethering.)
Why in heavens name would I want ANYTHING Windows?
Either A. you're being paid to develop applications that run in the copy of Windows already installed on end users' machines, or B. no comparable laptop in stores near you is advertised as being compatible with GNU/Linux.
I'm still using one of the first T100s [...] Never given me any grief.
Last I checked, GNU/Linux on a T100 was missing a whole bunch of stuff. In particular, backlight brightness cannot be controlled, the camera is not detected, and suspend causes a full freeze.
Youd have the option to subscribe to cellular internet.
How much would "subscrib[ing] to cellular internet" cost over the course of this laptop's expected service life? Add it to the sticker price. Or would you instead recommend that people cancel home Internet to make room in the budget for cellular Internet?
Or you could opt to rely on using wifi
Provided Wi-Fi is available. When I'm riding the city bus between home and work, it isn't, as the bus passes by each individual hotspot too quickly for my device to associate. Thus I need a device whose applications support being offline for up to an hour at a time.
(which could even be by tethering ti an existing cell)
Which in turn becomes cost-prohibitive when your cell carrier charges $359.84 per year plus taxes and surcharges for the privilege of "tethering ti an existing cell". (Source)
if that WiFi is getting data from the Internet then it's using some form of paid service too.
But with a two orders of magnitude higher monthly cap (1000 GB/mo instead of 10 GB/mo), and shareable with another member of your household without an additional fee per device.
you can set them up as a personal hotspot for your laptop or other device with no stress.
Does "Add the personal hotspot feature to your plan for only $xx more a month" count as "no stress" to you?
When you get it for "free" by placing a smartphone chip in a laptop format, why the heck not?
I imagine that the expectation of using cellular Internet may make users more willing to accept application lockdown, with the excuse "you can always SSH/X11/VNC/RDP to your home PC or to a cloud server in order to run apps that the OS publisher hasn't approved." A lot of iPad users have fed me that line when I mentioned that a locked-down device wouldn't be suitable for the lightweight hobby coding work that I did on a Dell netbook.
Unlike the streaming boxes, PCs are also useful for gaming, and there are far more PC exclusives than (say) PlayStation 4 exclusives. Many older or indie PC games run fine with integrated graphics, especially since Ivy Bridge.
I feel that the previous two Nintendo consoles (the Wii and Wii-U) are also suitable for your list
Not once Nintendo shuts down Wii Shop Channel at the end of this year. After that point, the YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix clients for Wii will no longer be available to download, and server-side protocol changes may cause previously downloaded clients to cease to function.
Why would someone selling a product purposely include something that runs the risk of the product being unusable by their own customer?
If they didn't, five major western movie distributors would refuse to make their valuable works available for use with the product: Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner. Without support from these distributors, end users are unlikely to buy into a format.
only an idiot would buy content from a place which locked playback to the devices of a single vendor.
By this, you're implying that millions of people who bought an NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, or Nintendo Switch are all idiots. Was this your intent?
Not to mention that any device running Windows (x86 or x86-64), such as the GPD Win 5.5" laptop, is also capable of playing iTunes purchases.
programmability is super high and has a great IDE with a simulator. Anyone can register for a free dev account and play with making apps for the AppleTV
Only if your current computer happens to be both Apple brand and relatively recent. An old Mac won't work, nor will a Windows PC nor a Linux PC.
Until you visit the website for the indie game you want to buy, find the console you own, and see the notice "We are seeking a publisher to bring $game_title to $console_name" or "Interested in $game_title on $console_name? Sign up for our mailing list to be notified of when crowdfunding begins."
I hate watching TV on my computer too; that's why wanda (the hostname of my media computer) runs my TV through HDMI.
Are wanda and your TV in the same room? Last time I checked, adolf and other Slashdot users were objecting like this: "I'm not putting together a living room PC rig just for one game, and I'm not lugging my desktop between rooms or stringing destructive ground-loop-ridden HDMI cables around the house so I can play a game on my PC on my [big TV] in my living room."
Slashdot user FunkSoulBrother would "be shocked if there were 150,000 Home Theater PCs properly installed and powerful enough for gaming on the continent."
Trying to use a smart phone to control something is amazingly clumsy, especially if you've got the lights dim. Ie, turn on phone, unlock phone (slow if it's a pin), get eyes to adjust to light, push pause about 7 seconds too late.
Grab an old smartphone, set that up as your remote control with KDE Connect (works AMAZINGLY well)
Are you counting unlocking your phone and contracting your pupils as part of "works AMAZINGLY well"? A smartphone as a remote can't be operated by feel, as its input surface is a flat sheet of glass.
Incidentally, this is also why phone games tend to be dumbed down, as a "virtual gamepad" setup of looking at the action on the top of the screen while controlling your character's movement and attacks with a gamepad on the bottom doesn't work so well when you can't feel where the buttons are.
Apparently it is news to people that the Irish have Semitic and North African admixture
This is true even of their traditional languages. Irish is Indo-European, while Semitic languages are in the unrelated Afro-Asiatic family. Yet the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland share several key grammatical features with Semitic languages. Perhaps these features were shared alongside the mixture of genes.
How much does it cost to buy downloads of as many songs as are on an entire radio station's playlist?
And that's provided the artist or his label even allows purchase instead of rental, and I'm told some do not. Kanye West's The Life of Pablo, for instance, was released to the Tidal streaming service several weeks before it was available for purchase. Prince's The Black Album appears to still be exclusive to Tidal except for a few limited edition CD pressings.
In Chrome or Firefox, when I middle-click "Reply to This", it bypasses the AJAX-based inline reply form of D2, instead opening a stand-alone reply form in a new window. It contains the (read-only) text of the parent comment, a text input labeled "Subject", a text area labeled "Comment", a checkbox labeled "No Karma Bonus", a checkbox labeled "Post Anonymously", a select element for changing how HTML is interpreted, and submit buttons labeled "Preview" and "Submit". (If script is enabled, it also contains a button labeled "Quote" that copies your comment into the text area labeled "Comment".) Each preview reloads the parent comment and the form. I just entered this very comment into this stand-alone reply form, which dates from the D1 (pre-AJAX) era and which still works.
Rehash, the fork of Slash used on SoylentNews, handles it differently. It has no inline reply form; "Reply to This" instead leads to the D1 reply form. Once I have previewed and submitted the comment, the discussion reloads, scrolled to the fragment identifier of my new comment.
Since when does reporting a functionality gap in the new one not count as helping make the new one? Or are you trying to imply that it is the duty of developers of extensions written in the JavaScript language to learn the C++ language, the Rust language, and the browser codebase, and contribute code to the browser itself?
I see your point in general, but I'd like to point out that the noscript web in 2018 is not quite the web circa 1997. A lot of things that used to require script no longer do, thanks to improvements in HTML and CSS. For example, show/hide buttons don't require script if a page can style the sibling of a checkbox or radio button. The same is true of animated transitions, as well as styling a page differently for different viewport sizes. HTML5 also includes declarative form input validation attributes that reduce the need for script when pre-validating user input before submission to a server that performs authoritative validation. These include required, pattern, min, max, and step.
Does an application developed in Xamarin Forms work on a Chromebook?
Besides, use of Xamarin Forms requires not only the annual subscription for Xamarin Forms but also the annual subscription for a software publisher certificate on each platform. A web application requires only a domain ($15/year), a TLS certificate (without charge through Let's Encrypt), and web hosting, which you need anyway to promote your native application and to distribute it on platforms without an App Store (Windows desktop, AOSP, and X11/Linux if your application is not free software).
What URL should a website include that causes the browser to launch whatever map software is already installed on a device running Windows, macOS, or X11/Linux?
Slashdot Mirror
In C or Python, running an unsigned integer through (s & (s - 1)) ^ s will give you only the least significant 1 bit (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.). For 60 (0x3C), it gives 4; for 1280 (0x500), it gives 256 (0x100).
with ubiquitous WiFi
Depends on the city. Some cities' public transit systems provide Wi-Fi to riders; other cities' do not. Citilink in Fort Wayne, Indiana, does not.
If I really need connectivity, I'll tether the phone.
At how much extra per month? (If "none", then what carrier in what country? US cell carriers tend to add a surcharge for tethering.)
Why in heavens name would I want ANYTHING Windows?
Either A. you're being paid to develop applications that run in the copy of Windows already installed on end users' machines, or B. no comparable laptop in stores near you is advertised as being compatible with GNU/Linux.
I'm still using one of the first T100s [...] Never given me any grief.
Last I checked, GNU/Linux on a T100 was missing a whole bunch of stuff. In particular, backlight brightness cannot be controlled, the camera is not detected, and suspend causes a full freeze.
Youd have the option to subscribe to cellular internet.
How much would "subscrib[ing] to cellular internet" cost over the course of this laptop's expected service life? Add it to the sticker price. Or would you instead recommend that people cancel home Internet to make room in the budget for cellular Internet?
Or you could opt to rely on using wifi
Provided Wi-Fi is available. When I'm riding the city bus between home and work, it isn't, as the bus passes by each individual hotspot too quickly for my device to associate. Thus I need a device whose applications support being offline for up to an hour at a time.
(which could even be by tethering ti an existing cell)
Which in turn becomes cost-prohibitive when your cell carrier charges $359.84 per year plus taxes and surcharges for the privilege of "tethering ti an existing cell". (Source)
if that WiFi is getting data from the Internet then it's using some form of paid service too.
But with a two orders of magnitude higher monthly cap (1000 GB/mo instead of 10 GB/mo), and shareable with another member of your household without an additional fee per device.
you can set them up as a personal hotspot for your laptop or other device with no stress.
Does "Add the personal hotspot feature to your plan for only $xx more a month" count as "no stress" to you?
When you get it for "free" by placing a smartphone chip in a laptop format, why the heck not?
I imagine that the expectation of using cellular Internet may make users more willing to accept application lockdown, with the excuse "you can always SSH/X11/VNC/RDP to your home PC or to a cloud server in order to run apps that the OS publisher hasn't approved." A lot of iPad users have fed me that line when I mentioned that a locked-down device wouldn't be suitable for the lightweight hobby coding work that I did on a Dell netbook.
macOS Sierra system requirements on Mac mini: Mid 2010 or newer. My Mac mini is from 2009, the last model with the optical drive.
But why is it desirable that interactive entertainment be treated specially compared to noninteractive entertainment?
Unlike the streaming boxes, PCs are also useful for gaming, and there are far more PC exclusives than (say) PlayStation 4 exclusives. Many older or indie PC games run fine with integrated graphics, especially since Ivy Bridge.
I feel that the previous two Nintendo consoles (the Wii and Wii-U) are also suitable for your list
Not once Nintendo shuts down Wii Shop Channel at the end of this year. After that point, the YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix clients for Wii will no longer be available to download, and server-side protocol changes may cause previously downloaded clients to cease to function.
Why would someone selling a product purposely include something that runs the risk of the product being unusable by their own customer?
If they didn't, five major western movie distributors would refuse to make their valuable works available for use with the product: Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner. Without support from these distributors, end users are unlikely to buy into a format.
only an idiot would buy content from a place which locked playback to the devices of a single vendor.
By this, you're implying that millions of people who bought an NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, or Nintendo Switch are all idiots. Was this your intent?
Not to mention that any device running Windows (x86 or x86-64), such as the GPD Win 5.5" laptop, is also capable of playing iTunes purchases.
programmability is super high and has a great IDE with a simulator. Anyone can register for a free dev account and play with making apps for the AppleTV
Only if your current computer happens to be both Apple brand and relatively recent. An old Mac won't work, nor will a Windows PC nor a Linux PC.
but if I wanted to play games, I'd get a console.
Until you visit the website for the indie game you want to buy, find the console you own, and see the notice "We are seeking a publisher to bring $game_title to $console_name" or "Interested in $game_title on $console_name? Sign up for our mailing list to be notified of when crowdfunding begins."
Xbox One X. Now with Kodi.
Kodi is a great solution for streaming "open" channels and stuff from your local media library, but it doesn't really do Netflix
The Xbox One X does both Kodi and Netflix.
I hate watching TV on my computer too; that's why wanda (the hostname of my media computer) runs my TV through HDMI.
Are wanda and your TV in the same room? Last time I checked, adolf and other Slashdot users were objecting like this: "I'm not putting together a living room PC rig just for one game, and I'm not lugging my desktop between rooms or stringing destructive ground-loop-ridden HDMI cables around the house so I can play a game on my PC on my [big TV] in my living room."
Slashdot user FunkSoulBrother would "be shocked if there were 150,000 Home Theater PCs properly installed and powerful enough for gaming on the continent."
As recently as two and a half years ago, Slashdot user avandesande wondered: "Who wants a computer in their living room?"
What has changed since then?
Trying to use a smart phone to control something is amazingly clumsy, especially if you've got the lights dim. Ie, turn on phone, unlock phone (slow if it's a pin), get eyes to adjust to light, push pause about 7 seconds too late.
Grab an old smartphone, set that up as your remote control with KDE Connect (works AMAZINGLY well)
Are you counting unlocking your phone and contracting your pupils as part of "works AMAZINGLY well"? A smartphone as a remote can't be operated by feel, as its input surface is a flat sheet of glass.
Incidentally, this is also why phone games tend to be dumbed down, as a "virtual gamepad" setup of looking at the action on the top of the screen while controlling your character's movement and attacks with a gamepad on the bottom doesn't work so well when you can't feel where the buttons are.
You act like you never heard of torrenting
The artists in question do not make the works in question lawfully available to the public through BitTorrent.
How much does it cost to buy downloads
You act like you never heard of [...] downloading
If I hadn't heard of it, I probably wouldn't be asking about it.
Apparently it is news to people that the Irish have Semitic and North African admixture
This is true even of their traditional languages. Irish is Indo-European, while Semitic languages are in the unrelated Afro-Asiatic family. Yet the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland share several key grammatical features with Semitic languages. Perhaps these features were shared alongside the mixture of genes.
Keep your music on your device.
How much does it cost to buy downloads of as many songs as are on an entire radio station's playlist?
And that's provided the artist or his label even allows purchase instead of rental, and I'm told some do not. Kanye West's The Life of Pablo, for instance, was released to the Tidal streaming service several weeks before it was available for purchase. Prince's The Black Album appears to still be exclusive to Tidal except for a few limited edition CD pressings.
Slashdot does indeed degrade gracefully.
In Chrome or Firefox, when I middle-click "Reply to This", it bypasses the AJAX-based inline reply form of D2, instead opening a stand-alone reply form in a new window. It contains the (read-only) text of the parent comment, a text input labeled "Subject", a text area labeled "Comment", a checkbox labeled "No Karma Bonus", a checkbox labeled "Post Anonymously", a select element for changing how HTML is interpreted, and submit buttons labeled "Preview" and "Submit". (If script is enabled, it also contains a button labeled "Quote" that copies your comment into the text area labeled "Comment".) Each preview reloads the parent comment and the form. I just entered this very comment into this stand-alone reply form, which dates from the D1 (pre-AJAX) era and which still works.
Rehash, the fork of Slash used on SoylentNews, handles it differently. It has no inline reply form; "Reply to This" instead leads to the D1 reply form. Once I have previewed and submitted the comment, the discussion reloads, scrolled to the fragment identifier of my new comment.
Since when does reporting a functionality gap in the new one not count as helping make the new one? Or are you trying to imply that it is the duty of developers of extensions written in the JavaScript language to learn the C++ language, the Rust language, and the browser codebase, and contribute code to the browser itself?
I see your point in general, but I'd like to point out that the noscript web in 2018 is not quite the web circa 1997. A lot of things that used to require script no longer do, thanks to improvements in HTML and CSS. For example, show/hide buttons don't require script if a page can style the sibling of a checkbox or radio button. The same is true of animated transitions, as well as styling a page differently for different viewport sizes. HTML5 also includes declarative form input validation attributes that reduce the need for script when pre-validating user input before submission to a server that performs authoritative validation. These include required, pattern, min, max, and step.
literally runs on all platforms
Does an application developed in Xamarin Forms work on a Chromebook?
Besides, use of Xamarin Forms requires not only the annual subscription for Xamarin Forms but also the annual subscription for a software publisher certificate on each platform. A web application requires only a domain ($15/year), a TLS certificate (without charge through Let's Encrypt), and web hosting, which you need anyway to promote your native application and to distribute it on platforms without an App Store (Windows desktop, AOSP, and X11/Linux if your application is not free software).
What operating system should developers of applications be using instead? FreeBSD?
The best map software runs on devices.
What URL should a website include that causes the browser to launch whatever map software is already installed on a device running Windows, macOS, or X11/Linux?