Enjoy not being able to afford high-speed Internet access anymore once your ISP loses the economies of scale to deliver what you wish to view because other subscribers have canceled their Internet subscriptions after seeing that the things they wish to view have vanished from the Internet.
Why do you need termination of viewing privileges?
Because the studios charge a greater royalty for a transaction equivalent to a purchase of a DVD than for a transaction equivalent to a rental of a DVD.
Just consider every rental a purchase and be done with it.
A video service offering only purchases would probably fail would because few people are willing to pay $15 to watch a movie.
Stop trying to force outdated business models onto modern tech.
What makes EME worse than its predecessors Flash and Silverlight? Or how would you recommend implementing video rental, including termination of viewing privileges at the expiry of the rental period, without EME?
Once someone finishes viewing works, what device should he use to create other works, such as replying to mail, commenting on news, or drawing his own art? Or perhaps by "content consumption", you were implying that people are content to view works created by others rather than participating in creation. If so, why does this remain the case?
my parents got a new laptop only because their last desktop died and only for certain things. They use their tablets/phones for things like checking mail and reading news.
I don't seem to understand the use case for using a phone for those things. To me, checking mail involves replying to mail, and reading news involves commenting on news, as we are doing right now. Using a tablet or phone for that is painful, especially without a Bluetooth keyboard.
Most of us already know that gaming engines are compiled and optimized for the most common processor out there. An that is a quad core intel based system.
Gamers, content producers, and scientific researchers are really the only fields left to push the boundaries of computational power.
Your use of the term "content producers" causes me a bit of anxiety. Why isn't everyone a participant in our shared culture, or a "content producer" as you call it?
If you can plug a cartridge into a game console, you can build a modern PC.
I can plug an Eskimo Bob or Haunted: Halloween '85 cartridge into a Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck. I even know to use a cotton swab rather than blowing. But I haven't seen (in person) anyone who built his own laptop from a "barebook".
If at some point the build-your-own market no longer exists, will I still be able to buy an off the-shelf machine? If not, will I be able to buy a laptop that I can plug a mouse and a full sized keyboard into? If yes to either of those, I'll be happy. The only scenario I really wouldn't like would be being stuck with some handheld thing and the only input device is a touch screen.
Or if you can buy a "laptop", but it runs a locked-down mobile operating system that behaves as if it were a tablet with a USB keyboard and trackpad plugged into it, or it doesn't run any applications other than a web browser.
They probably have at least one computer or laptop in the house if they really need to type up a paper, but after school most people only have to do that sort of thing at work.
If you work from home, you need to type things up at home.
Linux is much better at using RAM for disk cache, and no matter how slow my hard drive is and no matter how fast your SSD is, my RAM is still faster than your SSD.
You still get a ton of compulsory misses when you restart the computer after a security update to Linux or other sufficiently low-level components. You also see capacity misses if your PC's motherboard doesn't take more than 2 or 4 GB of RAM, which I still see on laptops sold in 2017. An SSD substantially reduces the penalty for these misses.
In addition, though caches help with reads, they don't help quite as much with writes. Many applications call sync after a write to allow new information to hit oxide even in case of subsequent power loss. This forces the disk cache to behave as write-through instead of write-back, for which RAM won't help much. You see this, for example, when running sudo apt upgrade to install security updates.
And it has Windows, which for all its faults is still a real OS (unlike what you get on Chromebooks, e.g.).
As wierd_w explained to me at length, you can put a real OS on a Chromebook. First enable developer mode, enable legacy boot from within developer mode, and disable developer mode. Then you can dual-boot Chrome OS on the internal drive with Gallium, a real OS based on Xubuntu, on a flash drive that fits in your Chromebook's USB port. Just press Ctrl+L at startup when you want to boot from the external drive.
None of those things require a smartphone, or even a wireless phone. A landline would suffice.
A landline suffices if it is available. But landlines, payphones in particular, have since been removed from places where they used to be available, on grounds of insufficient revenue to continue maintenance once enough users had switched to mobile phones. And once a landline is no longer available, it no longer suffices.
Couple all this with the fact that most smartphones can't be completely turned off, can be remotely turned on
With most modern PCs supporting wake on LAN, how are they substantially different?
The site operator's business model is not my problem.
Enjoy not being able to find a piece of information anymore because the operator of the site on which it had been hosted has since gone out of business.
One of the reasons that I avoid subscription services is because I don't want to store my data on third-party servers if at all avoidable.
I can see how you might come by this preference not to outsource services, in part to avoid having to rely on services funded through cryptocurrency mining on users' devices. Now I'm curious about how to make this avoidance more practical for others, such as non-technical members of your family or mine. Who handles your website, your mail, your chat logs, and your offsite backup, including keeping the data synchronized across your PC and your phone?
I am extremely familiar with most operating systems outside of Apple's.
I'll take this as "I have a Windows PC, a GNU/Linux PC, and an Android phone or tablet." With that in mind:
If a service can be accessed through a progressive web app, a macOS app, or an iOS app, which would you choose?
Well, I won't rent applications, so both of those are nonstarters for me. If the app is really worth paying for, I'd prefer to pay a higher fee and be able to use what I bought forever in the future, if I so desire.
Users of subscription web applications pay not only for the application but also for the storage of their backed-up or shared documents and the Internet bandwidth to move them among their devices and between them and their colleagues. A lifetime subscription to backup, sync, and sharing services for an application might be equivalent to several years of lease of these services. With that in mind:
Would you prefer to access a service through a progressive web app without charge, a native application licensed for life for $49.90 with ads, or a native application licensed for life for $99.90 with no ads?
I'll answer that once you explain how a site's operator can count viewers who have scrolled down to the ad unit without script. An advertiser doesn't want to pay for an impression that the viewer hasn't seen, and usually a script tracks visibility.
What , the Android and iOS keyboards aren’t hard enough?
It's not that they're hard as much as that they're flat.
"Touch typing", or typing while focusing on the document instead of the input device, requires feeling the edges of the keys in order to line up the fingers over each desired key, as opposed to adjacent keys or adjacent space without keys (a "whiff"). The flat sheet of glass in front of an on-screen keyboard fails to give this sort of tactile positioning feedback.
Personally, being unable to use progressive web apps is my preferred compromise.
For future reference, so that I can make examples in comments more relevant, which operating system do your primary PC and your primary mobile device run?
And how would you react if it became commonplace for sites to make a progressive web app available without charge but charge money for the native app? Would you pay $4.99 (limited ads) or $9.99 (ad-free) per platform per year to continue using an application?
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Enjoy not being able to afford high-speed Internet access anymore once your ISP loses the economies of scale to deliver what you wish to view because other subscribers have canceled their Internet subscriptions after seeing that the things they wish to view have vanished from the Internet.
Why do you need termination of viewing privileges?
Because the studios charge a greater royalty for a transaction equivalent to a purchase of a DVD than for a transaction equivalent to a rental of a DVD.
Just consider every rental a purchase and be done with it.
A video service offering only purchases would probably fail would because few people are willing to pay $15 to watch a movie.
Stop trying to force outdated business models onto modern tech.
Tell that to the studios.
What makes EME worse than its predecessors Flash and Silverlight? Or how would you recommend implementing video rental, including termination of viewing privileges at the expiry of the rental period, without EME?
The question must be asked, why are you pressing Ctrl+Q.
Because I am reaching for Ctrl+Tab to switch to the next tab or Ctrl+W to close a tab and missing, instead by accident pressing the key between them.
I think this is a user error.
How would I go about making my copy of Firefox 57 resilient to this sort of error that I have identified?
Good luck doing any substantial programming on a pocket BSD machine.
The 1974 vehicle you cite is also from the last model year prior to the introduction of government-imposed corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards. So is the decline of station wagons based on lack of demand, or is it based on CAFE forcing automakers to redesignate their larger family vehicles as "trucks", leading to the SUV fad?
People never liked the x86 PC, but had to have them to use the Internet's content consumption aspects.
A creative work isn't "content" to fill a box, nor is it "consumed" by viewing it. With that out of the way, assuming "content consumption" refers to viewing works made by others:
Once someone finishes viewing works, what device should he use to create other works, such as replying to mail, commenting on news, or drawing his own art? Or perhaps by "content consumption", you were implying that people are content to view works created by others rather than participating in creation. If so, why does this remain the case?
my parents got a new laptop only because their last desktop died and only for certain things. They use their tablets/phones for things like checking mail and reading news.
I don't seem to understand the use case for using a phone for those things. To me, checking mail involves replying to mail, and reading news involves commenting on news, as we are doing right now. Using a tablet or phone for that is painful, especially without a Bluetooth keyboard.
Most of us already know that gaming engines are compiled and optimized for the most common processor out there. An that is a quad core intel based system.
Since when? I thought the AMD Jaguar processor in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which is about the same as a pair of Athlon 5150s, was the most common current-generation x86-64 video gaming processor.
Gamers, content producers, and scientific researchers are really the only fields left to push the boundaries of computational power.
Your use of the term "content producers" causes me a bit of anxiety. Why isn't everyone a participant in our shared culture, or a "content producer" as you call it?
If you can plug a cartridge into a game console, you can build a modern PC.
I can plug an Eskimo Bob or Haunted: Halloween '85 cartridge into a Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck. I even know to use a cotton swab rather than blowing. But I haven't seen (in person) anyone who built his own laptop from a "barebook".
If at some point the build-your-own market no longer exists, will I still be able to buy an off the-shelf machine? If not, will I be able to buy a laptop that I can plug a mouse and a full sized keyboard into? If yes to either of those, I'll be happy. The only scenario I really wouldn't like would be being stuck with some handheld thing and the only input device is a touch screen.
Or if you can buy a "laptop", but it runs a locked-down mobile operating system that behaves as if it were a tablet with a USB keyboard and trackpad plugged into it, or it doesn't run any applications other than a web browser.
They probably have at least one computer or laptop in the house if they really need to type up a paper, but after school most people only have to do that sort of thing at work.
If you work from home, you need to type things up at home.
What fraction of your assembly orders involve laptops as opposed to desktops? I know barebone laptops exist, but I'm curious how common they are.
I'm not sure what you mean by "aren't 4 years old". The Curse of Possum Hollow was released in 2016 and runs on anything with an NES emulator.
Linux is much better at using RAM for disk cache, and no matter how slow my hard drive is and no matter how fast your SSD is, my RAM is still faster than your SSD.
You still get a ton of compulsory misses when you restart the computer after a security update to Linux or other sufficiently low-level components. You also see capacity misses if your PC's motherboard doesn't take more than 2 or 4 GB of RAM, which I still see on laptops sold in 2017. An SSD substantially reduces the penalty for these misses.
In addition, though caches help with reads, they don't help quite as much with writes. Many applications call sync after a write to allow new information to hit oxide even in case of subsequent power loss. This forces the disk cache to behave as write-through instead of write-back, for which RAM won't help much. You see this, for example, when running sudo apt upgrade to install security updates.
And it has Windows, which for all its faults is still a real OS (unlike what you get on Chromebooks, e.g.).
As wierd_w explained to me at length, you can put a real OS on a Chromebook. First enable developer mode, enable legacy boot from within developer mode, and disable developer mode. Then you can dual-boot Chrome OS on the internal drive with Gallium, a real OS based on Xubuntu, on a flash drive that fits in your Chromebook's USB port. Just press Ctrl+L at startup when you want to boot from the external drive.
None of those things require a smartphone, or even a wireless phone. A landline would suffice.
A landline suffices if it is available. But landlines, payphones in particular, have since been removed from places where they used to be available, on grounds of insufficient revenue to continue maintenance once enough users had switched to mobile phones. And once a landline is no longer available, it no longer suffices.
Couple all this with the fact that most smartphones can't be completely turned off, can be remotely turned on
With most modern PCs supporting wake on LAN, how are they substantially different?
The site operator's business model is not my problem.
Enjoy not being able to find a piece of information anymore because the operator of the site on which it had been hosted has since gone out of business.
One of the reasons that I avoid subscription services is because I don't want to store my data on third-party servers if at all avoidable.
I can see how you might come by this preference not to outsource services, in part to avoid having to rely on services funded through cryptocurrency mining on users' devices. Now I'm curious about how to make this avoidance more practical for others, such as non-technical members of your family or mine. Who handles your website, your mail, your chat logs, and your offsite backup, including keeping the data synchronized across your PC and your phone?
I am extremely familiar with most operating systems outside of Apple's.
I'll take this as "I have a Windows PC, a GNU/Linux PC, and an Android phone or tablet." With that in mind:
If a service can be accessed through a progressive web app, a macOS app, or an iOS app, which would you choose?
Well, I won't rent applications, so both of those are nonstarters for me. If the app is really worth paying for, I'd prefer to pay a higher fee and be able to use what I bought forever in the future, if I so desire.
Users of subscription web applications pay not only for the application but also for the storage of their backed-up or shared documents and the Internet bandwidth to move them among their devices and between them and their colleagues. A lifetime subscription to backup, sync, and sharing services for an application might be equivalent to several years of lease of these services. With that in mind:
Would you prefer to access a service through a progressive web app without charge, a native application licensed for life for $49.90 with ads, or a native application licensed for life for $99.90 with no ads?
Why not have ads that don't require Javascript?
I'll answer that once you explain how a site's operator can count viewers who have scrolled down to the ad unit without script. An advertiser doesn't want to pay for an impression that the viewer hasn't seen, and usually a script tracks visibility.
What about the battery power of your mobile phone that is being drained?
Flip phone. No web, no mining.
What , the Android and iOS keyboards aren’t hard enough?
It's not that they're hard as much as that they're flat.
"Touch typing", or typing while focusing on the document instead of the input device, requires feeling the edges of the keys in order to line up the fingers over each desired key, as opposed to adjacent keys or adjacent space without keys (a "whiff"). The flat sheet of glass in front of an on-screen keyboard fails to give this sort of tactile positioning feedback.
Personally, being unable to use progressive web apps is my preferred compromise.
For future reference, so that I can make examples in comments more relevant, which operating system do your primary PC and your primary mobile device run?
And how would you react if it became commonplace for sites to make a progressive web app available without charge but charge money for the native app? Would you pay $4.99 (limited ads) or $9.99 (ad-free) per platform per year to continue using an application?