Where's the situation where it isn't preferable to just walk over to the couch and use the TV and controller?
It's for people who don't live alone. If a PlayStation 4 console can use your phone as a monitor, two people in the household can experience Sony at once. While you play a PlayStation 4 game, someone else can use the TV to play a game on a PlayStation 3 console that's still hooked up, watch a Columbia movie on cable, IPTV, or Blu-ray Disc, or even just watch Jeopardy!.
Apple has traditionally followed distinct rules for third-party applications on macOS compared to iOS. I don't expect this to change, except perhaps as part of the rumored transition of Mac hardware to ARM CPUs.
Apart from the ludicrous 200-fold asymmetric data throughput on home cable Internet connections, the other technical limit stopping this is the problem of indicating to the player where his or her thumbs are relative to the on-screen controls on a flat sheet of glass.
Really? Like we don't already have 4G which is more than enough for most of people
Much of it depends on to what extent the greater theoretical capacity of 5G translates into higher monthly data usage quotas offered by cellular ISPs. "Unlimited" plans in USA carry a big asterisk about hotspot use.
"But ultimately Bdeir felt that she could not explain away the showâ(TM)s mistake, or blame herself, or her organizationâ(TM)s size, or the fact that English isnâ(TM)t her first language." She could not... wait, what?
Wrapping each noun phrase in a variable: "she could not explain away A, or blame B, C, or D" Distributive law: "she could not explain away A, or blame B, or blame C, or blame D"
Thus I parse it as Bdeir having felt that she could not do any of these: - explain away the show's mistake - blame herself - blame her organization's size - blame the fact that English isn't her first language
IDing a computer that looks at X, and IDing that same computer as signed into FB as Joe Schmo (at the same time?) is a clear way to link Joe Schmo to X.
It doesn't work so well when Joe Schmo logs into Facebook from the same public library computer from which other patrons log into Facebook.
You appear to suggest that users "name and shame and boycott" any website that relies on an ad network or ad exchange. Let's assume for purposes of argument that you operate a website or web application, and you want to fund the website's operation while avoiding this boycott. What would be your next step?
An ad is a message from a sponsor displayed in exchange for the sponsor's payment to a publisher (the operator of a website). If ads were banned, far more sites would have a paywall.
Sorry, but if you work for an analytics company, or an internet ad company, you really are a sack of shit
Then let's discuss how to make "Internet ad companies" and the "sack[s] of shit" who work for them obsolete. It sounds like you and other Slashdot users like you want one of three things to happen: either A. you want to keep ads but destroy "Internet ad companies", or B. you want to fund the operation of websites through payments from users, or C. you want to fund the operation of websites through some means other than ads or paywalls.
In case A, each website would have to hire, much as in the good old days of print advertising in newspapers. This means each website would need to hire an ad sales team to make prospective advertisers aware of the existence of that website's ad space. How would you suggest to make this practical for smaller websites?
In case B, I'm interested to see how you would circumvent banks' fees for accepting electronic payment. Pay-per-page is untenable because of the 30 cent fee that the acquiring bank takes on top of each transaction. So is paying for a pack of 100 articles on a particular site, as someone who pays $5.00 for the minimum 100-article pack just to read four articles would see 96 article view credits go to waste.
As for case C, could you explain what you had in mind? Shut down any site that doesn't have a shopping cart and isn't run by a nonprofit organization or as an individual's hobby?
Why does any website need to be told what your window size is anyway
In order to choose the correct size of image to present to you, so that you don't end up wasting metered bandwidth downloading photos big enough to fill a 4K monitor just to display them on a smartphone's 480x800 pixel display.
A student will still need to buy an authentic TI-83/84 or TI-89 calculator for standardized testing because the College Board's SAT rules ban QWERTY keyboards and touch screens.
Don't buy that console, buy the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc.
This works only if the manufacturer continues to manufacture "the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc." When Microsoft's Xbox division first floated always-online DRM in the Xbox One prior to release, the head of Xbox suggested with a straight face that users stuck behind capped or no Internet can stick with the Xbox 360. (Source: "Xbox chief: we have a product for people who can't get online, it's called Xbox 360" by Daniel Cooper)
After all these decades there's still no viable FOSS business model that has produced any decent gaming systems or games.
You might see two kinds of replies:
"What do you mean NetHack is not 'decent'?"
"And because video games cannot be sustainably produced as free software, video games ought to cease to exist. Instead, both users and developers ought to consider getting a life." (AC, AC, alexo)
Seriously, though... when was the last time you bought a game on a physical disk?
Bought a game on disc? I admit it's been probably a couple years since I last bought a PlayStation 2 game at a thrift shop. Bought a game on cartridge? Just last year (2018) I bought a used loose copy of Bubble Ghost, and I have a new CIB copy of Family Picross preordered.
Young people [...] watch movies on their 5 inch phone screen that has a big crack running across it from when they dropped it. They'll do this while sitting in a room with a 50" TV.
I'd bet it's because someone older is using the 50" TV at the time, and this older person has priority to select the programming on the 50" TV on account of being older.
I'm having trouble understanding your thought process, as M$ is the name of a string variable in line-numbered BASIC. Did you mean "BASIC programmers are edgelords"? Or "People who use a term for Microsoft that calls to mind its roots as a publisher of BASIC interpreters are edgelords"?
Probably pushing about 350 pounds with a closet full of fedoras.
I'm not sure what being able to bench press 350 lb and in charge of a rack or two of servers running RPM-based GNU/Linux has to do with anything.
They'd download content and layers if and when they're needed, not all at the beginning.
In that case, for gamers who happen to live outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, and DSL, it could take months to play through a game while staying under the monthly cap that satellite and cellular ISPs impose on their subscribers.
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What exactly do you mean by "freetard"? It's not in Merriam-Webster's dictionary.
Where's the situation where it isn't preferable to just walk over to the couch and use the TV and controller?
It's for people who don't live alone. If a PlayStation 4 console can use your phone as a monitor, two people in the household can experience Sony at once. While you play a PlayStation 4 game, someone else can use the TV to play a game on a PlayStation 3 console that's still hooked up, watch a Columbia movie on cable, IPTV, or Blu-ray Disc, or even just watch Jeopardy!.
Then why allow Steam on Macs?
Apple has traditionally followed distinct rules for third-party applications on macOS compared to iOS. I don't expect this to change, except perhaps as part of the rumored transition of Mac hardware to ARM CPUs.
Apart from the ludicrous 200-fold asymmetric data throughput on home cable Internet connections, the other technical limit stopping this is the problem of indicating to the player where his or her thumbs are relative to the on-screen controls on a flat sheet of glass.
Really? Like we don't already have 4G which is more than enough for most of people
Much of it depends on to what extent the greater theoretical capacity of 5G translates into higher monthly data usage quotas offered by cellular ISPs. "Unlimited" plans in USA carry a big asterisk about hotspot use.
"But ultimately Bdeir felt that she could not explain away the showâ(TM)s mistake, or blame herself, or her organizationâ(TM)s size, or the fact that English isnâ(TM)t her first language." She could not ... wait, what?
Wrapping each noun phrase in a variable:
"she could not explain away A, or blame B, C, or D"
Distributive law:
"she could not explain away A, or blame B, or blame C, or blame D"
Thus I parse it as Bdeir having felt that she could not do any of these:
- explain away the show's mistake
- blame herself
- blame her organization's size
- blame the fact that English isn't her first language
IDing a computer that looks at X, and IDing that same computer as signed into FB as Joe Schmo (at the same time?) is a clear way to link Joe Schmo to X.
It doesn't work so well when Joe Schmo logs into Facebook from the same public library computer from which other patrons log into Facebook.
You appear to suggest that users "name and shame and boycott" any website that relies on an ad network or ad exchange. Let's assume for purposes of argument that you operate a website or web application, and you want to fund the website's operation while avoiding this boycott. What would be your next step?
An ad is a message from a sponsor displayed in exchange for the sponsor's payment to a publisher (the operator of a website). If ads were banned, far more sites would have a paywall.
DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) wrote:
So congratulations, idiots. You just gave advertisers a way to target Firefox users even if they use a fake user agent string.
Targeting "Firefox users" isn't as valuable as targeting "D. B. A. Moran" who lives on 484 38th Street, apartment 79.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
Sorry, but if you work for an analytics company, or an internet ad company, you really are a sack of shit
Then let's discuss how to make "Internet ad companies" and the "sack[s] of shit" who work for them obsolete. It sounds like you and other Slashdot users like you want one of three things to happen: either A. you want to keep ads but destroy "Internet ad companies", or B. you want to fund the operation of websites through payments from users, or C. you want to fund the operation of websites through some means other than ads or paywalls.
In case A, each website would have to hire, much as in the good old days of print advertising in newspapers. This means each website would need to hire an ad sales team to make prospective advertisers aware of the existence of that website's ad space. How would you suggest to make this practical for smaller websites?
In case B, I'm interested to see how you would circumvent banks' fees for accepting electronic payment. Pay-per-page is untenable because of the 30 cent fee that the acquiring bank takes on top of each transaction. So is paying for a pack of 100 articles on a particular site, as someone who pays $5.00 for the minimum 100-article pack just to read four articles would see 96 article view credits go to waste.
As for case C, could you explain what you had in mind? Shut down any site that doesn't have a shopping cart and isn't run by a nonprofit organization or as an individual's hobby?
Why does any website need to be told what your window size is anyway
In order to choose the correct size of image to present to you, so that you don't end up wasting metered bandwidth downloading photos big enough to fill a 4K monitor just to display them on a smartphone's 480x800 pixel display.
A student will still need to buy an authentic TI-83/84 or TI-89 calculator for standardized testing because the College Board's SAT rules ban QWERTY keyboards and touch screens.
Why would it cost $15k for the manufacturer to provide the server software for a user to run locally
A license for the server software would cost $15,000 ostensibly to pay the pensions of the developers.
Also, did you fail to recognise a Back to the Future reference?
Particularly seeing as the story was posted on Marty Gras.
But now it's Ash Wednesday, and people have Pokémon and The Addams Family on the brain instead.
Then let's get everybody we can to click the link, in order to destroy the value of the information that someone happens to have clicked the link.
So why are not ROM SD-cards, or forcibly write-protected regular SD-cards a thing?
Are Nintendo Switch Game Cards close enough?
Don't buy that console, buy the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc.
This works only if the manufacturer continues to manufacture "the slightly more expensive version that still has the disc." When Microsoft's Xbox division first floated always-online DRM in the Xbox One prior to release, the head of Xbox suggested with a straight face that users stuck behind capped or no Internet can stick with the Xbox 360. (Source: "Xbox chief: we have a product for people who can't get online, it's called Xbox 360" by Daniel Cooper)
After all these decades there's still no viable FOSS business model that has produced any decent gaming systems or games.
You might see two kinds of replies:
Seriously, though... when was the last time you bought a game on a physical disk?
Bought a game on disc? I admit it's been probably a couple years since I last bought a PlayStation 2 game at a thrift shop. Bought a game on cartridge? Just last year (2018) I bought a used loose copy of Bubble Ghost, and I have a new CIB copy of Family Picross preordered.
Young people [...] watch movies on their 5 inch phone screen that has a big crack running across it from when they dropped it. They'll do this while sitting in a room with a 50" TV.
I'd bet it's because someone older is using the 50" TV at the time, and this older person has priority to select the programming on the 50" TV on account of being older.
M$ is something an edgelord would say.
I'm having trouble understanding your thought process, as M$ is the name of a string variable in line-numbered BASIC. Did you mean "BASIC programmers are edgelords"? Or "People who use a term for Microsoft that calls to mind its roots as a publisher of BASIC interpreters are edgelords"?
Probably pushing about 350 pounds with a closet full of fedoras.
I'm not sure what being able to bench press 350 lb and in charge of a rack or two of servers running RPM-based GNU/Linux has to do with anything.
Does cellular even have "uncapped times", or is that something only satellite ISPs do?
They'd download content and layers if and when they're needed, not all at the beginning.
In that case, for gamers who happen to live outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, and DSL, it could take months to play through a game while staying under the monthly cap that satellite and cellular ISPs impose on their subscribers.
Some Steam games have DRM. Some don't.
Most do, or most don't?