Canvas is for procedurally generating graphics not just displaying something.
Then have the server procedurally generate the graphics, compress them, and send them to the browser. Servers have been procedurally generated graphics long before HTML5.
The impression that I get from a lot of comments lately is that if an application wants to do more than Web 1.0 (navigation and form submission) allows, it ought to be native instead of a web application.
Virtual box is not free. Check the license. You can't use it for commercial purposes without a sun^H oracle contract.
Everything but the Extension Pack is free software under the GNU General Public License version 2. It's like the difference between Chrome and Chromium.
so they are dumping the free upgrades and most likly now bump the prices of the OS
How much of the increase in the price of preinstalled Windows OS would makers of laptop, prebuilt desktop, and all-in-one PCs pass on to end users? How bad does it have to get before laptop makers start bundling a GNU/Linux distribution that can run applications other than the Google Chrome web browser?
GNU/Linux is free software and runs in VirtualBox, which is also free software. What software would you end up having to buy in order to run your GNU/Linux workflow on a Windows PC?
The White House's @POTUS account is a government contract. President Trump's personal account (@realDonaldTrump) is de facto a government contract to the extent that @POTUS is largely composed of Retweets from @realDonaldTrump. When @realDonaldTrump was briefly deactivated, half the Tweets on @POTUS became unavailable during that time.
It's a business that provides services to agencies of the United States Government. The law holds government contractors to a higher standard than other private sector businesses.
1. It's not quite as easy to keep trade secrets secret when employee-owned equipment in a residential area is involved. This extends to both the employer's trade secrets and those of its suppliers. Confidentiality is often cited as a reason that video game console makers didn't open up their platforms to individual developers working from home until a couple years ago.
2. Lab or manufacturing equipment may be too expensive for an individual to purchase.
3. Local, state, or federal zoning regulations require certain jobs to be performed in a commercially zoned area. Good luck running (say) a restaurant or a pharmacy out of your home.
4. Local zoning regulations make it difficult for a wired broadband ISP to lay cable or fiber. This has been the case for Seattle proper, where utility installation requires permission from a supermajority of landowners, and absentee landlords and vacant lots count as a no vote.
5. Distractions from other members of the household, such as demands to do housework. "I 'didn't know' you were on the clock. But could you get off the clock for one minute?" which turns into fifteen.
Legal "streaming sites that cost nothing" lack cable-exclusive series. My roommate appears willing to pay hundreds of dollars a year for the live Rachel Maddow Show.
and we've got a monthly cost of only regular internets.
Unless you live in a city whose ISP has a "buy unmetered Internet, get TV free" policy. Some ISPs are known to impose a harsh "cap" (monthly Internet data transfer volume allowance) on Internet subscribers who don't also subscribe to the same company's multichannel pay TV service.
then all of a sudden all apps dependant on gservices will stop responding or reduce functionality to a "no play services, computer says no" dialog
Then use applications from F-Droid and Amazon Appstore, most of which do not depend on Google Play Services. Or use mobile web applications instead of Google Play Services-dependent native applications.
It's good that it's not the same thing because you can use one pocket folding keyboard with multiple devices, such as a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, and living room computer.
Pirate companies like Netflex, Amazon Prime, or Hulu no longer require you to have entire packages with the cable company
You're right. It's the cable company that requires purchase of an entire TV package before it's willing to sell you a home Internet subscription with a large enough monthly Internet data transfer volume allowance to make Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu worthwhile.
If the "Internet" is all resources that can be accessed through an Internet connection, the "mobile Internet" is the subset of these resources for which access on a smartphone is bearable.
Apps for big services that have a website are almost always a step backwards and are ALWAYS bloated piles of trash compared to what they should be: a tiny extension for the website to access native phone features that web standards don't exist for. Of course, now we've got standards for most of those too, so why do we still need apps for most things AT ALL?
Because a vocal minority of users don't want to run script in the browser, but they are willing to install native apps outside the browser to access the same resources. Many users of sites like Slashdot and SoylentNews consider a native app somehow better for two reasons. First, they're platform-specific, as opposed to necessarily having to go through a least-common-denominator cross-platform compatibility layer. Second, a user can theoretically download the source code of any app on F-Droid and (hire someone to) review it.
For those that need frequent mobile access to a CLI, we have a better solution now that we didn't have then: Tablets. Set up your iPad with an integrated keyboard cover
...and it won't work while you're riding public transit. The App Store Review Guidelines prohibit running many development tools directly on the iPad. A workaround is to use the iPad to connect to an app server elsewhere on the Internet, such as in your home, through SSH, X11, VNC, or RDP. But the recurring fees for cellular Internet access on the iPad and for a dedicated IP on your app server make that workaround expensive. For this use case, a full-fledged compact laptop still beats an iPad.
If you cannot wait until you get to a computer terminal to access information then perhaps you should reconsider your priorities in life.
Someone with two jobs, one a day job in the office and the other working from home, may want to carry a laptop in order to work on the home job while riding public transit to and from the office.
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Canvas is for procedurally generating graphics not just displaying something.
Then have the server procedurally generate the graphics, compress them, and send them to the browser. Servers have been procedurally generated graphics long before HTML5.
The impression that I get from a lot of comments lately is that if an application wants to do more than Web 1.0 (navigation and form submission) allows, it ought to be native instead of a web application.
So make the reverse argument and say, Windows runs in VirtualBox, so just run that on your Linux system if there's Windows stuff that is critical.
The difference is that a Windows PC is more likely than a GNU/Linux PC to already have a Windows license.
Virtual box is not free. Check the license. You can't use it for commercial purposes without a sun^H oracle contract.
Everything but the Extension Pack is free software under the GNU General Public License version 2. It's like the difference between Chrome and Chromium.
Then what's a better term for "Linux systems with a GUI that aren't Android or Chrome OS"?
It means keeping one pair for every three pairs she orders.
Windows 7 worked well enough
Past tense. What do you plan on doing in January 2020 (2 years and 2 months from now) once security updates for Windows 7 cease to be produced?
so they are dumping the free upgrades and most likly now bump the prices of the OS
How much of the increase in the price of preinstalled Windows OS would makers of laptop, prebuilt desktop, and all-in-one PCs pass on to end users? How bad does it have to get before laptop makers start bundling a GNU/Linux distribution that can run applications other than the Google Chrome web browser?
GNU/Linux is free software and runs in VirtualBox, which is also free software. What software would you end up having to buy in order to run your GNU/Linux workflow on a Windows PC?
The White House's @POTUS account is a government contract. President Trump's personal account (@realDonaldTrump) is de facto a government contract to the extent that @POTUS is largely composed of Retweets from @realDonaldTrump. When @realDonaldTrump was briefly deactivated, half the Tweets on @POTUS became unavailable during that time.
Twitter unconscionably restricts users's free speech to fewer than 255 characters. We demand the full 8-bit width of a one-byte length descriptor.
Individual characters in Tweets are from a set larger than 255, <cough>unlike on Slashdot...</cough>
It's a business - not the government.
It's a business that provides services to agencies of the United States Government. The law holds government contractors to a higher standard than other private sector businesses.
A few reasons:
1. It's not quite as easy to keep trade secrets secret when employee-owned equipment in a residential area is involved. This extends to both the employer's trade secrets and those of its suppliers. Confidentiality is often cited as a reason that video game console makers didn't open up their platforms to individual developers working from home until a couple years ago.
2. Lab or manufacturing equipment may be too expensive for an individual to purchase.
3. Local, state, or federal zoning regulations require certain jobs to be performed in a commercially zoned area. Good luck running (say) a restaurant or a pharmacy out of your home.
4. Local zoning regulations make it difficult for a wired broadband ISP to lay cable or fiber. This has been the case for Seattle proper, where utility installation requires permission from a supermajority of landowners, and absentee landlords and vacant lots count as a no vote.
5. Distractions from other members of the household, such as demands to do housework. "I 'didn't know' you were on the clock. But could you get off the clock for one minute?" which turns into fifteen.
Meh, just using streaming sites that cost nothing
Legal "streaming sites that cost nothing" lack cable-exclusive series. My roommate appears willing to pay hundreds of dollars a year for the live Rachel Maddow Show.
and we've got a monthly cost of only regular internets.
Unless you live in a city whose ISP has a "buy unmetered Internet, get TV free" policy. Some ISPs are known to impose a harsh "cap" (monthly Internet data transfer volume allowance) on Internet subscribers who don't also subscribe to the same company's multichannel pay TV service.
its not a "World Series" if its only played in America
Then perhaps the Toronto Blue Jays need to start winning more American League championships.
A TiVo box that can record cable also costs $750: roughly $200 for the hardware plus $550 for the All-In Plan.
then all of a sudden all apps dependant on gservices will stop responding or reduce functionality to a "no play services, computer says no" dialog
Then use applications from F-Droid and Amazon Appstore, most of which do not depend on Google Play Services. Or use mobile web applications instead of Google Play Services-dependent native applications.
It's good that it's not the same thing because you can use one pocket folding keyboard with multiple devices, such as a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, and living room computer.
Pirate companies like Netflex, Amazon Prime, or Hulu no longer require you to have entire packages with the cable company
You're right. It's the cable company that requires purchase of an entire TV package before it's willing to sell you a home Internet subscription with a large enough monthly Internet data transfer volume allowance to make Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu worthwhile.
All of the "better options" that have keyboards are also way too big to carry everywhere you go.
You could buy a foldable keyboard by Geyes that fits in your pocket, as recommended by DrYak. But that doesn't solve the by-design OS limits.
If the "Internet" is all resources that can be accessed through an Internet connection, the "mobile Internet" is the subset of these resources for which access on a smartphone is bearable.
Apps for big services that have a website are almost always a step backwards and are ALWAYS bloated piles of trash compared to what they should be: a tiny extension for the website to access native phone features that web standards don't exist for. Of course, now we've got standards for most of those too, so why do we still need apps for most things AT ALL?
Because a vocal minority of users don't want to run script in the browser, but they are willing to install native apps outside the browser to access the same resources. Many users of sites like Slashdot and SoylentNews consider a native app somehow better for two reasons. First, they're platform-specific, as opposed to necessarily having to go through a least-common-denominator cross-platform compatibility layer. Second, a user can theoretically download the source code of any app on F-Droid and (hire someone to) review it.
For those that need frequent mobile access to a CLI, we have a better solution now that we didn't have then: Tablets. Set up your iPad with an integrated keyboard cover
...and it won't work while you're riding public transit. The App Store Review Guidelines prohibit running many development tools directly on the iPad. A workaround is to use the iPad to connect to an app server elsewhere on the Internet, such as in your home, through SSH, X11, VNC, or RDP. But the recurring fees for cellular Internet access on the iPad and for a dedicated IP on your app server make that workaround expensive. For this use case, a full-fledged compact laptop still beats an iPad.
If you cannot wait until you get to a computer terminal to access information then perhaps you should reconsider your priorities in life.
Someone with two jobs, one a day job in the office and the other working from home, may want to carry a laptop in order to work on the home job while riding public transit to and from the office.
At home, do you choose a 5" or 36" screen?
It depends on whether another member of the household has claimed use of the 36" screen before me.
But not on Slashdot, whose support for non-ASCII code points, such as U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, is intentionally incomplete.