Today's insufferable entitlement proles would most likely change sides if they were the ones creating and distributing their own unique content
What can said ex-proles do to reliably determine that their own content is in fact "unique," not unwittingly a substantial copy or derivative of an incumbent's work?
What makes Android less useful for some people is that [...] it doesn't attempt to provide the programming languages and core utilities specified by POSIX
Windows isn't a POSIX/linux distribution and 90% of PC's run it.
Windows (except Windows 10 S) also has Visual Studio available without charge, and rebooting a Windows PC doesn't cause the firmware to display prompts that that encourage someone to delete Visual Studio and all your unpushed changes to Visual Studio projects. What's the equivalent on a Chromebook?
And given that nearly every smartphone sold without a fruity logo runs Android
I'm conflicted about this. I know AIDE for Android exists, but I doubt its practicality with a 5-inch screen and juggling four pages of the on-screen keyboard.
if the community wanted the libraries open all weekend, they would simply raise taxes and do it.
Those who cannot afford a home computer and home Internet access nor a smartphone and cellular Internet access probably cannot afford campaign contributions to candidates who promise to fund library service expansion by raising the tax rate on other constituents.
But what executables can you build and run on a Chromebook without first putting it into the fragile developer mode? I call Chromebook developer mode "fragile" because anybody who turns on a Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, and presses Enter as prompted will inadvertently trigger a factory reset.
Then you asked if browsing the web works without an internet connection? Huh?
If you're privately developing a web application, you may want to be able to test it even if you're riding public transportation with no Wi-Fi. Not everybody can afford to either A. move to a city whose public transportation offers Wi-Fi over which to use SSH or B. subscribe to cellular Internet with tethering.
you can install as much as you want of the Ubuntu or Debian userland on top of the ChromeOS-provided kernel.
Until someone else turns it on and follows the prompts.
What about the opposite question. Why do you want a Chromebook?
Because makers of traditional laptops designed for GNU/Linux have as of late left the compact laptop market underserved. System76, for instance, doesn't sell anything smaller than 13 inches. People might be tempted to work around this by installing the "GNURoot Debian" and "XSDL" apps into a Chromebook's Android subsystem.
I couldn't very well do much work on my phone. On a Chromebook I can (mostly I work in a terminal and a web browser).
How much of that can you do away from an Internet connection? Is there a viable pocket-sized, battery-powered server that one could carry in order to use "a terminal and a web browser" with a Chromebook?
What [Android] is not, is a GNU/Linux distribution. As if that mattered.
I agree that GNU proper isn't essential, as other free userspaces such as BusyBox or that of FreeBSD can substitute for GNU. What makes Android less useful for some people is that it's not even a POSIX/Linux distribution, as it doesn't attempt to provide the programming languages and core utilities specified by POSIX unless you install GNU as an app.
The featured article claims that Article 8 of Iran's copyright law mentions an exception for public libraries and educational institutions.
Public libraries, documentation centers, scientific institutions and educational establishments, which are noncommercial, may reproduce protected works by a photographic or similar process, in the numbers necessary, for the purposes of their activities, according to a decree to be issued by the Board of Ministers.
I don't see how it's fundamentally different from sections 108 and 110 of the U.S. copyright statute, which likewise grant exceptions for library and classroom use respectively.
It'd probably take place 20 years after a Gattaca-like scenario, once the patent on editing deleterious alleles out of germline chromosomes has expired, and the procedure becomes affordable to the working class.
Can you explain why [a surcharge for an extremely high-end workstation is] justified?
High core counts expose bugs and inefficient algorithms that might be expensive to fix, such as process destruction being serialized. Price discrimination based on core count applies the benefit principle to the Windows tax, allowing those affected by a particular defect associated with high core counts to foot the bill for its correction.
GNU/Linux is free as long as bootloaders, chipsets, and applications remain compatible. None of those is guaranteed of hardware in U.S. showroom chains.
It is if you have DSL. The voice service bundled with DSL isn't VoIP but POTS. The voice service bundled with cable and FTTH isn't, but it's still a landline in the broader sense of a voice service over a wired physical layer that can send and receive calls to traditional phone numbers at little or no additional charge.
Yes, you can find "nickle and dime you to death" plans, but choosing poorly is still a choice.
If one sends and receives few enough SMS messages and few enough voice calls while away from home that the monthly charge is stlil less than the monthly charge for a unlimited voice and SMS plan, I fail to understand how it's necessarily "choosing poorly".
Though Internet access is a necessity among job seekers in the 2010s, Internet access at home is arguably a luxury, as one can use the Internet at a local public library or restaurant.
Canonical could have worked with Wayland folks to get whatever they needed added to Wayland for their phone project, Canonical coming up with Mir was sheer idiocy
Would this have included binary compatibility with drivers designed to support Android's SurfaceFlinger compositor?
I think a better starting point for this would be AOSP
One problem that Amazon ran into with the Fire OS devices is that one company isn't allowed to manufacture both Android devices with GMS and AOSP devices without GMS, as that's considered "contributing to fragmentation." So instead, Amazon had Quanta build its Kindle Fire tablet as largely a rework of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Solution: if you have such a limited plan, don't sign up for a service that uses texts as a means of communicating.
Agreed. I was trying to address AC's "Almost everyone I know (it's way over 95%) has SMS at a minimum" claim. I imagine that quite a few subscribers to home Internet access use its bundled voice service as grounds to justify subscribing to a metered cellular plan.
The internet is not an essential item, nor is it a right.
Internet access becomes essential once enough government agencies add a surcharge for filing forms as paper rather than electronically or even eliminate the paper option altogether. This has already started happening, such as with copyright registration at the U.S. Copyright Office.
Actual TVs couldn't show all 720x486 pixels. The analog bandwidth of NTSC RF video is 4.2 MHz, with roughly 0-3.0 MHz for luma and 3.0-4.2 MHz for chroma. The 3.0 MHz limits the usable resolution to 320 pixels across, as anything higher will start to produce color fringes as luma detail mixes into the chroma. (SD viewers can occasionally see fringing on neckties on news channels.) In addition, fine horizontal lines in interlaced video will shimmer on a CRT if not blurred vertically before interlaced sampling. This gives a usable resolution of roughly 320x360 per 480i frame.
A user cannot comment ATALL until they have 50 points.
This must be a bug, as the behavior you describe doesn't match the behavior described in "Help Center > Privileges > comment everywhere": "Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any part of your questions."
If you are seeing behavior other than as described, could you provide a link to the question and a screenshot of the post, including the author box and the missing or grayed out comment link?
What do you mean by that? A user who isn't suspended can comment on his own question or answers to his question or reply to comments on his own answer.
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Today's insufferable entitlement proles would most likely change sides if they were the ones creating and distributing their own unique content
What can said ex-proles do to reliably determine that their own content is in fact "unique," not unwittingly a substantial copy or derivative of an incumbent's work?
What makes Android less useful for some people is that [...] it doesn't attempt to provide the programming languages and core utilities specified by POSIX
Windows isn't a POSIX/linux distribution and 90% of PC's run it.
Windows (except Windows 10 S) also has Visual Studio available without charge, and rebooting a Windows PC doesn't cause the firmware to display prompts that that encourage someone to delete Visual Studio and all your unpushed changes to Visual Studio projects. What's the equivalent on a Chromebook?
And given that nearly every smartphone sold without a fruity logo runs Android
I'm conflicted about this. I know AIDE for Android exists, but I doubt its practicality with a 5-inch screen and juggling four pages of the on-screen keyboard.
If Google would make Crouton install-able to USB (without command line switches)
Agreed. That's my primary complaint about Chromebooks: a Crouton installation is fragile.
if the community wanted the libraries open all weekend, they would simply raise taxes and do it.
Those who cannot afford a home computer and home Internet access nor a smartphone and cellular Internet access probably cannot afford campaign contributions to candidates who promise to fund library service expansion by raising the tax rate on other constituents.
It's Linux. A terminal is the native interface.
But what executables can you build and run on a Chromebook without first putting it into the fragile developer mode? I call Chromebook developer mode "fragile" because anybody who turns on a Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, and presses Enter as prompted will inadvertently trigger a factory reset.
Then you asked if browsing the web works without an internet connection? Huh?
If you're privately developing a web application, you may want to be able to test it even if you're riding public transportation with no Wi-Fi. Not everybody can afford to either A. move to a city whose public transportation offers Wi-Fi over which to use SSH or B. subscribe to cellular Internet with tethering.
you can install as much as you want of the Ubuntu or Debian userland on top of the ChromeOS-provided kernel.
Until someone else turns it on and follows the prompts.
how many students honestly don't have access to a smartphone, personal computer, or a public library? I'm guessing maybe 1 in 10?
I'm guessing that the number goes up sharply on weekends, when public libraries have reduced hours or are closed entirely. (Source: acpl.info)
What about the opposite question. Why do you want a Chromebook?
Because makers of traditional laptops designed for GNU/Linux have as of late left the compact laptop market underserved. System76, for instance, doesn't sell anything smaller than 13 inches. People might be tempted to work around this by installing the "GNURoot Debian" and "XSDL" apps into a Chromebook's Android subsystem.
I couldn't very well do much work on my phone. On a Chromebook I can (mostly I work in a terminal and a web browser).
How much of that can you do away from an Internet connection? Is there a viable pocket-sized, battery-powered server that one could carry in order to use "a terminal and a web browser" with a Chromebook?
What [Android] is not, is a GNU/Linux distribution. As if that mattered.
I agree that GNU proper isn't essential, as other free userspaces such as BusyBox or that of FreeBSD can substitute for GNU. What makes Android less useful for some people is that it's not even a POSIX/Linux distribution, as it doesn't attempt to provide the programming languages and core utilities specified by POSIX unless you install GNU as an app.
The featured article claims that Article 8 of Iran's copyright law mentions an exception for public libraries and educational institutions.
I don't see how it's fundamentally different from sections 108 and 110 of the U.S. copyright statute, which likewise grant exceptions for library and classroom use respectively.
Still waiting for a "eugenics gone right" story..
It'd probably take place 20 years after a Gattaca-like scenario, once the patent on editing deleterious alleles out of germline chromosomes has expired, and the procedure becomes affordable to the working class.
Can you explain why [a surcharge for an extremely high-end workstation is] justified?
High core counts expose bugs and inefficient algorithms that might be expensive to fix, such as process destruction being serialized. Price discrimination based on core count applies the benefit principle to the Windows tax, allowing those affected by a particular defect associated with high core counts to foot the bill for its correction.
GNU/Linux is free as long as bootloaders, chipsets, and applications remain compatible. None of those is guaranteed of hardware in U.S. showroom chains.
Now of course, for a small fee, users could add extra hardware.
"Screw all that nickel and diming. I'm trying something GNU."
People need to learn that they need to pay for software.
All too true. Freedom isn't free.
[opens Debian donation form and donates half the price of a Windows 10 license]
Someone following AC #55336919's thought processes might counter that the Amish manage to thrive without tying their homes to public utilities.
I hate to tell you, but VoIP is not "landline".
It is if you have DSL. The voice service bundled with DSL isn't VoIP but POTS. The voice service bundled with cable and FTTH isn't, but it's still a landline in the broader sense of a voice service over a wired physical layer that can send and receive calls to traditional phone numbers at little or no additional charge.
Yes, you can find "nickle and dime you to death" plans, but choosing poorly is still a choice.
If one sends and receives few enough SMS messages and few enough voice calls while away from home that the monthly charge is stlil less than the monthly charge for a unlimited voice and SMS plan, I fail to understand how it's necessarily "choosing poorly".
Though Internet access is a necessity among job seekers in the 2010s, Internet access at home is arguably a luxury, as one can use the Internet at a local public library or restaurant.
Canonical could have worked with Wayland folks to get whatever they needed added to Wayland for their phone project, Canonical coming up with Mir was sheer idiocy
Would this have included binary compatibility with drivers designed to support Android's SurfaceFlinger compositor?
I think a better starting point for this would be AOSP
One problem that Amazon ran into with the Fire OS devices is that one company isn't allowed to manufacture both Android devices with GMS and AOSP devices without GMS, as that's considered "contributing to fragmentation." So instead, Amazon had Quanta build its Kindle Fire tablet as largely a rework of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Solution: if you have such a limited plan, don't sign up for a service that uses texts as a means of communicating.
Agreed. I was trying to address AC's "Almost everyone I know (it's way over 95%) has SMS at a minimum" claim. I imagine that quite a few subscribers to home Internet access use its bundled voice service as grounds to justify subscribing to a metered cellular plan.
The internet is not an essential item, nor is it a right.
Internet access becomes essential once enough government agencies add a surcharge for filing forms as paper rather than electronically or even eliminate the paper option altogether. This has already started happening, such as with copyright registration at the U.S. Copyright Office.
Actual TVs couldn't show all 720x486 pixels. The analog bandwidth of NTSC RF video is 4.2 MHz, with roughly 0-3.0 MHz for luma and 3.0-4.2 MHz for chroma. The 3.0 MHz limits the usable resolution to 320 pixels across, as anything higher will start to produce color fringes as luma detail mixes into the chroma. (SD viewers can occasionally see fringing on neckties on news channels.) In addition, fine horizontal lines in interlaced video will shimmer on a CRT if not blurred vertically before interlaced sampling. This gives a usable resolution of roughly 320x360 per 480i frame.
A user cannot comment ATALL until they have 50 points.
This must be a bug, as the behavior you describe doesn't match the behavior described in "Help Center > Privileges > comment everywhere": "Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any part of your questions."
If you are seeing behavior other than as described, could you provide a link to the question and a screenshot of the post, including the author box and the missing or grayed out comment link?
What do you mean by that? A user who isn't suspended can comment on his own question or answers to his question or reply to comments on his own answer.
Among the legitimate answers, "Hard to tell, they're both pretty shitty" is probably the closest.