Cable television used to be ad-free. Eventually most basic cable networks in the United States introduced ads, on ostensible grounds that neither ads alone nor the retransmission royalty alone could fully fund the production of video works with the quality that subscribers expect. I suspect that NicknameUnavailable's fear is that if the ads on free Prime Video become acceptable, paid Prime Video will end up with ads as well.
ObTopic: Windows 10 tracks you. Even on the lowest telemetry settings available in Windows 10 Home, Windows sends a list of every application and device driver on your machine to Microsoft.
Other than to generate most of it at the power plant and only a small fraction in the residence where the heat is used. A natural gas furnace is less expensive to operate than an electric heater, even though only 80 percent of the free energy in the gas goes to heat (with the other 20 percent out the exhaust pipe), because all the heat generation happens in the residence.
Some entire genres tend to be underrepresented on PC. Take platform fighting
PC has Skullgirls, Streetfighter, Tekken etc.
Those are flat-stage fighting games. A platform fighter, by contrast, includes tactical use of the terrain (the "platforms") for aerial attacks and the like.
No mods means less cheating in online pickup matches.
Software whitelist means no need for an antivirus.
Developer and game approval process means less chaff to sort through in the console's app store, avoiding analysis paralysis and cheap knockoffs.
Standardized hardware means less chance of game misbehavior due to inadvertent reliance on un- or underspecified driver behavior.
Games tend to be more integrated with a single platform-wide achievement tracker.
Though same-screen multiplayer has become less common than it was in (say) the Nintendo 64 era, it was still more common than on PC last I checked.
Some entire genres tend to be underrepresented on PC. Take platform fighting: The PlayStation 3 counterpart to Super Smash Bros. series is PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, but what's the PC counterpart?
The result of such will be that the user will run into third-party digital restrictions management and anti-cheat software that explicitly forbids use of Wine.
Many games sold on Steam lack a port to Linux. When a particular game neither is ported to Linux or works in Wine, the choices are either A. use Windows in a VM on a PC with two GPUs (one for each OS) and a CPU with VT-d (to forward the guest OS's GPU commands to the second GPU) or B. give up.
we are supposed to believe that humans in the Star Trek future have magically gotten over their animal instincts and tribalism. So why not also getting over the need for tactile controls?
To get over that, you must first get over the need to do something whilst looking at something else. That's easier said than done until neural interfaces become practical.
I thought National Amusements owned a controlling interest in both CBS and Paramount. Or is this issue not important enough for the board to force a license?
They have flat touch screens. A century later and they are back to big clunky buttons
Thank goodness. At least with buttons, your fingers can feel which of several adjacent buttons you'll be pressing before you press it. Take a 21st century example: How many people prefer to type on the flat screen of a Galaxy Tab or iPad compared to a physical keyboard? Or how many people prefer to look away from the road to operate an automobile's touch-driven climate control?
Boot Camp gives a penalty of being offline for two minutes, which interrupts your music stream and your text or voice chat, as well as having to sign into all your websites again because your browser session ended when you restarted your computer.
For the benefit of others considering Boot Camp, please answer the following question: How do I cut and paste between applications running in different operating systems in Boot Camp? Or if this is not possible, what should I do instead of cut and paste for such a situation?
This has a drastically lower completion rate than sending a link because many new users cannot figure out how to copy the code (the whole code and nothing but the code, except perhaps leading and trailing whitespace) from the email, find the form on the website in which to paste the code, and paste and submit the code. This is especially true for non-technical users and users of a touch-driven pocket computer with a 4 to 6 inch display.
or do like services used to do and send both the link and a code.
If the vast majority of users start following Mike Van Pelt's advice to "most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email," this is still ineffective. The link is useless because the user is following Mike Van Pelt's advice, and the code alone has a low completion rate as mentioned earlier.
Also you don't have to build a music library exclusively by iTunes or Amazon, cheaper alternatives are available.
Namely?
(I'm excluding methods that blatantly infringe copyright from the discussion because if I recommend them to someone, I could incur secondary liability for inducing infringement.)
In case this isn't an attempt to Gish gallop, I'll do my best to refute each:
Bag groceries
Despite cashiering and bagging groceries being permitted occupations, this is impractical for two reasons. As I understand it, retail grocery stores are reluctant to hire someone only to bag for an entire shift. Someone hired in part to bag is expected to fulfill duties elsewhere in the store when there is less demand for bagging staff. As I mentioned earlier, business insurers don't want 14 and 15 year olds handling cash, and retrieving goods from the warehouse is illegal. From Indiana Department of Labor: Child Labor FAQs:
Warehousing and storage is strictly prohibited for a 14 or 15 year old.
For this reason, in order to increase flexibility of the duties that each employee may perform during his or her shift, many employers set a blanket policy of not hiring anyone under 16.
Q: Are 14 and 15 year olds allowed to use a lawn mower or weed cutter? A: No. Minors 14 and 15 years old are prohibited from operating most power-driven machinery, including lawn mowers, tractors or weed cutters, in conjunction with any business.
babysit
How does a child under 16 normally go about learning to babysit and finding babies to sit? Besides, what if the babysitter needs to reach something on a high shelf? He or she can't use a ladder. From Indiana Department of Labor: Child Labor FAQs:
Any duties that require the use of a ladder, scaffold or a substitute for such equipment is prohibited for 14 and 15 year olds.
the school's principal needs to issue a work permit for any employee under 18, and as I understand the law of my state, he can refuse to for any reason.
Q: How does a minor obtain a work permit? A: Nearly all minors ages 14 through 17 who wish to work in Indiana are required to obtain a work permit. Work permits are obtained from the accredited high school in the school district where the minor resides. To obtain a work permit, a minor must first be hired by an employer. The employer must provide the accredited school with written notice that they intend to hire the minor, as well as the hours the minor will work and the types of duties the minor will perform. [...] If the minor does not attend the accredited high school or is homeschooled, the minor may be required to provide a letter from his/her school stating that the minor is in good academic and attendance standing.
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Q: My high school principal refuses to issue a work permit for me. What can I do? A: Work Permits are issued through accredited schools in Indiana. These schools have total discretion to refuse or revoke a work permit based on poor academics or attendance. If your school refuses your work permit for these reasons, there is no other office or agency that may issue the work permit. If you feel this rule is being applied unfairly, we would recommend speaking with the school principal or contacting the superintendent or the school board for the school district. If the high school is refusing to issue the work permit for any other reason besides academics or attendance, please contact the Bureau of Child Labor by phone at (317) 232-2655 or by e-mail at childlabor@dol.in.gov.
In theory, this gives the principal the power to require an A+ GPA and zero absences, excused or unexcused, since 9th grade.
And most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email.
I agree with respect to links in emails that the user isn't expecting to receive. But your shouting of "ANY" connotes an absolute rule. When you sign up on a website, how do you go about confirming the ability of the address associated with your new account to receive emails (especially password reset tickets) at a particular address without clicking the confirmation link in an email?
What is "a Windows laptop" anyway. It's not like the OS and the hardware form a holy bond of matrimony.
A Windows laptop is one whose hardware has working Windows drivers. A Linux laptop is one whose hardware has working Linux and X.Org drivers. Many Windows 8 and 10 PCs, especially tablets with a detachable keyboard, have had serious incompatibilities with X11/Linux. And in most parts of the United States, you're unlikely to see a penguin logo on a laptop in a showroom. (Instead, you see the logo of Chrome OS on laptops designed to run one application and one application only: Google Chrome.)
Fan-created game mods do not install on PS4 versions of games. Indie games* also tend to be PC first or PC only far more often than PS4 first or PS4 only.
* As defined by ceoyoyo: video games from studios with no access to venture capital.
the money he makes working at his after-school job.
In other words, you're making him sit on his hands until age 16 when he becomes legally eligible for an "after-school job." Though many jurisdictions allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work as an employee in occupations free of hazard, at least one duty of most entry-level unskilled jobs is 16+ by law or by insurance policy. In fast food, for example, every position other than cashier is 16+ by law because of hazards involved in food preparation, and cashier is 16+ because the business insurer doesn't think children under 16 can accurately handle money. That leaves newspaper carrier, but with the contraction in print news following a decline in readership and the relatively jobless recovery, grown-ups tend to crowd children out of those few newspaper carrier positions that remain.
In addition, the school's principal needs to issue a work permit for any employee under 18, and as I understand the law of my state, he can refuse to for any reason.
Other than that they've already blown their game money on buying the popular games, rather than the unpopular games that the "weird kid in that anti-DRM cult" is buying.
So the only way to acquire music or other material to listen to for entertainment is through streaming services and digital purchases? Riiiiiight. Countless hours of music on physical media all around the world, so abundant people build libraries of the stuff
I'm referring to the cost of "build[ing] libraries of the stuff." Since iTunes and Amazon MP3 became popular, how many people are willing to buy a $12.99 album for the one or two good songs on it?
God forbid someone takes it to the next level and decides to compose music intended to be listened and distribuited for free!
Say I were to go this route. What steps should I take to ensure that I'm not infringing someone's copyright by inadvertently making the melody of my piece of music too similar to that of a piece of music whose copyright someone else owns? See for example Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music.
it doesn't even need to be digital or computerized.
high capacity portable audio players that work completely offline - CD, flash memory and hard drive based.
Compact Disc Digital Audio is digital. So are SSD and HDD audio players.
Google is making billions off of ads and selling your (and your kids) data.
But apparently, it has been demonstrated that the "billions off of ads and selling your (and your kids) data" that "Google is making" are insufficient to hire an army of human reviewers to review every minute of video uploaded to YouTube for age appropriateness.
For one thing, DRM-free multiplayer games can still require Wine-incompatible anti-cheat software. For another, two players cannot play a multiplayer game together if they are using different games, and if only one member of a circle of local friends plays DRM-free games exclusively, he is unlikely to find other players of the same multiplayer game in the same circle in order to set up a LAN match.
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Cable television used to be ad-free. Eventually most basic cable networks in the United States introduced ads, on ostensible grounds that neither ads alone nor the retransmission royalty alone could fully fund the production of video works with the quality that subscribers expect. I suspect that NicknameUnavailable's fear is that if the ads on free Prime Video become acceptable, paid Prime Video will end up with ads as well.
Is that why you are also promoting the tracking of people across the Internet?
I'm not promoting it as much as trying to see why phozz bare feels justified in not caring that he is being tracked.
ObTopic: Windows 10 tracks you. Even on the lowest telemetry settings available in Windows 10 Home, Windows sends a list of every application and device driver on your machine to Microsoft.
It's hard to 'inefficiently' generate heat.
Other than to generate most of it at the power plant and only a small fraction in the residence where the heat is used. A natural gas furnace is less expensive to operate than an electric heater, even though only 80 percent of the free energy in the gas goes to heat (with the other 20 percent out the exhaust pipe), because all the heat generation happens in the residence.
Some entire genres tend to be underrepresented on PC. Take platform fighting
PC has Skullgirls, Streetfighter, Tekken etc.
Those are flat-stage fighting games. A platform fighter, by contrast, includes tactical use of the terrain (the "platforms") for aerial attacks and the like.
The console advantages, as I understand them, revolve around ease of use.
The result of such will be that the user will run into third-party digital restrictions management and anti-cheat software that explicitly forbids use of Wine.
Many games sold on Steam lack a port to Linux. When a particular game neither is ported to Linux or works in Wine, the choices are either A. use Windows in a VM on a PC with two GPUs (one for each OS) and a CPU with VT-d (to forward the guest OS's GPU commands to the second GPU) or B. give up.
I wanted to replace my kid's laptop with Linux
The Roblox site says Mac is supported.
I don't know much about it; what doesn't work?
thereitis wants to run the game on a PC running Linux, not on a Mac.
we are supposed to believe that humans in the Star Trek future have magically gotten over their animal instincts and tribalism. So why not also getting over the need for tactile controls?
To get over that, you must first get over the need to do something whilst looking at something else. That's easier said than done until neural interfaces become practical.
I thought National Amusements owned a controlling interest in both CBS and Paramount. Or is this issue not important enough for the board to force a license?
They have flat touch screens. A century later and they are back to big clunky buttons
Thank goodness. At least with buttons, your fingers can feel which of several adjacent buttons you'll be pressing before you press it. Take a 21st century example: How many people prefer to type on the flat screen of a Galaxy Tab or iPad compared to a physical keyboard? Or how many people prefer to look away from the road to operate an automobile's touch-driven climate control?
Boot Camp gives a penalty of being offline for two minutes, which interrupts your music stream and your text or voice chat, as well as having to sign into all your websites again because your browser session ended when you restarted your computer.
For the benefit of others considering Boot Camp, please answer the following question: How do I cut and paste between applications running in different operating systems in Boot Camp? Or if this is not possible, what should I do instead of cut and paste for such a situation?
Send a code instead of a link
This has a drastically lower completion rate than sending a link because many new users cannot figure out how to copy the code (the whole code and nothing but the code, except perhaps leading and trailing whitespace) from the email, find the form on the website in which to paste the code, and paste and submit the code. This is especially true for non-technical users and users of a touch-driven pocket computer with a 4 to 6 inch display.
or do like services used to do and send both the link and a code.
If the vast majority of users start following Mike Van Pelt's advice to "most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email," this is still ineffective. The link is useless because the user is following Mike Van Pelt's advice, and the code alone has a low completion rate as mentioned earlier.
Also you don't have to build a music library exclusively by iTunes or Amazon, cheaper alternatives are available.
Namely?
(I'm excluding methods that blatantly infringe copyright from the discussion because if I recommend them to someone, I could incur secondary liability for inducing infringement.)
In case this isn't an attempt to Gish gallop, I'll do my best to refute each:
Bag groceries
Despite cashiering and bagging groceries being permitted occupations, this is impractical for two reasons. As I understand it, retail grocery stores are reluctant to hire someone only to bag for an entire shift. Someone hired in part to bag is expected to fulfill duties elsewhere in the store when there is less demand for bagging staff. As I mentioned earlier, business insurers don't want 14 and 15 year olds handling cash, and retrieving goods from the warehouse is illegal. From Indiana Department of Labor: Child Labor FAQs:
For this reason, in order to increase flexibility of the duties that each employee may perform during his or her shift, many employers set a blanket policy of not hiring anyone under 16.
mow lawns
Illegal. From Indiana Department of Labor: Child Labor FAQs:
babysit
How does a child under 16 normally go about learning to babysit and finding babies to sit? Besides, what if the babysitter needs to reach something on a high shelf? He or she can't use a ladder. From Indiana Department of Labor: Child Labor FAQs:
stuff envelopes for business advertising
Google stuffing envelopes business turns up articles warning that this line of business is a scam. See warning on Single Moms Income and warning on FTC.
data entry
That tends to get outsourced offshore nowadays. Instead of being done in Indiana, it gets scanned here and sent to India.
little league ref
Requires an interest in baseball and local demand.
the school's principal needs to issue a work permit for any employee under 18, and as I understand the law of my state, he can refuse to for any reason.
Indiana is another:
In theory, this gives the principal the power to require an A+ GPA and zero absences, excused or unexcused, since 9th grade.
Gaming on a laptop is like taking a go-cart on a street race
On that note, what's a good Mario Kart clone for a laptop? Is there something better than SuperTuxKart that's widely played?
And most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email.
I agree with respect to links in emails that the user isn't expecting to receive. But your shouting of "ANY" connotes an absolute rule. When you sign up on a website, how do you go about confirming the ability of the address associated with your new account to receive emails (especially password reset tickets) at a particular address without clicking the confirmation link in an email?
What is "a Windows laptop" anyway.
It's not like the OS and the hardware form a holy bond of matrimony.
A Windows laptop is one whose hardware has working Windows drivers. A Linux laptop is one whose hardware has working Linux and X.Org drivers. Many Windows 8 and 10 PCs, especially tablets with a detachable keyboard, have had serious incompatibilities with X11/Linux. And in most parts of the United States, you're unlikely to see a penguin logo on a laptop in a showroom. (Instead, you see the logo of Chrome OS on laptops designed to run one application and one application only: Google Chrome.)
get a console
Fan-created game mods do not install on PS4 versions of games. Indie games* also tend to be PC first or PC only far more often than PS4 first or PS4 only.
* As defined by ceoyoyo: video games from studios with no access to venture capital.
the primary reason he wants Windows instead of a MacBook is gaming.
You install Windows in the VM on a Linux host, not the other way around.
How efficiently do games that tax the GPU work in a virtual machine nowadays?
Our 14-year-old
the money he makes working at his after-school job.
In other words, you're making him sit on his hands until age 16 when he becomes legally eligible for an "after-school job." Though many jurisdictions allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work as an employee in occupations free of hazard, at least one duty of most entry-level unskilled jobs is 16+ by law or by insurance policy. In fast food, for example, every position other than cashier is 16+ by law because of hazards involved in food preparation, and cashier is 16+ because the business insurer doesn't think children under 16 can accurately handle money. That leaves newspaper carrier, but with the contraction in print news following a decline in readership and the relatively jobless recovery, grown-ups tend to crowd children out of those few newspaper carrier positions that remain.
In addition, the school's principal needs to issue a work permit for any employee under 18, and as I understand the law of my state, he can refuse to for any reason.
Other than that they've already blown their game money on buying the popular games, rather than the unpopular games that the "weird kid in that anti-DRM cult" is buying.
So the only way to acquire music or other material to listen to for entertainment is through streaming services and digital purchases? Riiiiiight. Countless hours of music on physical media all around the world, so abundant people build libraries of the stuff
I'm referring to the cost of "build[ing] libraries of the stuff." Since iTunes and Amazon MP3 became popular, how many people are willing to buy a $12.99 album for the one or two good songs on it?
God forbid someone takes it to the next level and decides to compose music intended to be listened and distribuited for free!
Say I were to go this route. What steps should I take to ensure that I'm not infringing someone's copyright by inadvertently making the melody of my piece of music too similar to that of a piece of music whose copyright someone else owns? See for example Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music.
it doesn't even need to be digital or computerized.
high capacity portable audio players that work completely offline - CD, flash memory and hard drive based.
Compact Disc Digital Audio is digital. So are SSD and HDD audio players.
Google is making billions off of ads and selling your (and your kids) data.
But apparently, it has been demonstrated that the "billions off of ads and selling your (and your kids) data" that "Google is making" are insufficient to hire an army of human reviewers to review every minute of video uploaded to YouTube for age appropriateness.
For one thing, DRM-free multiplayer games can still require Wine-incompatible anti-cheat software. For another, two players cannot play a multiplayer game together if they are using different games, and if only one member of a circle of local friends plays DRM-free games exclusively, he is unlikely to find other players of the same multiplayer game in the same circle in order to set up a LAN match.