And this processing fee still makes echecks impractical for, say, buying access to 1 article on an ad-free website. Instead, to make up for the cost, websites require readers to buy a whole month or maybe a pack of 100 article views at once, even if 29 days or 97 page views will go unused.
Even if an iPad Pro has a USB C port to act as a USB host, just because you've plugged in a standard HID joystick doesn't mean the operating system has to recognize it. That's why I mentioned Windows Store apps, which can use only XInput joysticks, not standard HID joysticks, despite Windows PCs having full USB host support.
Though iOS devices use the MFi joysticks, Windows Store apps use XInput controllers, which in practice means Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers. The point is still that you need to buy an input device specifically for one operating system.
any control device we use to day can be attached to Android or iOS too?
You can connect the joystick you already own to an Android device. Last I checked, you had to buy a specialized "Made for iPhone" joystick for use with iOS apps or Windows Store apps.
How not? Any PC operating system with an MTP client can manage files on Android 4 and later. On Xubuntu, once I ran sudo apt install mtp-tools mtpfs (per this answer), GVFS detected my phone, and "Android/Internal storage" and "Android/SD card" appeared in the file manager.
I have been working with windowed environments since Windows 95, and I've almost always switched between full screen apps - except small ones like a calculator, etc.
The trouble with phone-derived tablet operating systems is that for several years, even "small ones like a calculator" ended up running in the full screen on a 9-10" tablet.
Mine is 1280x1024.
If you're reading a document and taking notes, you could split it between 960x1024 for the document you're reading and 320x1024 (roughly two phones top-to-bottom) for the notes you're taking. That way, you retain both in your visuospatial context. Or you can put two 80-column windows side-by-side, one showing a source code editor and the other a terminal for its output.
Last I checked, someone looking for games on F-Droid would end up disappointed. What would need to change to encourage the development of original Android games distributed as free software?
Your content isn't worth the trouble. Toss me an add and let me see the content.
Some sites don't even toss me an ad. They toss me the URL of a third-party proprietary computer program written in JavaScript that surveils my browsing history across multiple websites and uses the battery life and Internet bandwidth that I pay for to choose an ad from one of a dozen or more ad networks. And if I say no to proprietary software or no to surveillance, these sites are incapable of falling back to a publisher-hosted ad like those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs because interest-based ads pay three times the CPM.
Publishers should learn to code their own pay wall sites.
The problem with each publisher coding its own paywall comes when I want to read only one article or a handful of articles from a given publisher. Because of the roughly 0.30 USD transaction fee that credit card processors charge on top of their 3% cut, news publishers are unlikely to offer articles a la carte.[1] Instead, each publication requires readers to purchase a month's subscription to that publication or perhaps a pack of 100 page views from that publication. But once I've read the three articles that interest me, I can't resell the other 97 page views or 29 days of a subscription or use them with a different publication.
[1] I'm referring to news and news-based editorial, not closed-access academic journals, which tend to charge tens of dollars for a copy of a single article.
When a friend shares with you a link to an article from a paper other than those two, and you go to read it, the paper's publisher is likely to tell you that your subscription is no good there.
Usenet, mailing lists, and web forums provide only "User X has replied to a post by Y on date Z". To me, this implies that X and Y are tied to the same topic, not to each other. For example, this comment doesn't necessarily impart any "friend" relationship between your account and my account. In fact, many such forums have a guideline to the effect "reply to the content, not the person" in order to discourage ad hominems and encourage in their place the respectful behavior that society expects strangers to have in general.
If it cannot be represented as a social graph, then there probably aren't dyadic ties. A "dyadic tie", as I understand it, would be something like the "friend" or "mutual follower" relationship.
there seems to have been some evidence recently that running ads that are heavily personalised/targeted isn't necessarily much more effective than the traditional approach of running your ads in places where your target market are likely to be found.
Which leaves a problem for publishers of general-interest publications. A special-interest publication attracts inherently targeted advertisements, but it may not have sufficient ad sales budget to make advertisers aware of its (smaller) audience. A general-interest publication may have more of an ad sales budget, but an ad that reaches every reader of a general-interest publication is less effective than an ad that reaches only a targeted subset. In fact, Beales and Eisenach report that in 2014, advertisers were paying three times as much to place interest-based ads compared to ads based only on context.
Or should general-interest publications switch to a paywall model, as many sites affiliated with major newspapers and magazines have been doing lately?
Your method forms part of a class that implements an interface including a particular parameter, but your implementation of said interface has no need for that parameter. The compiler issues a warning that your method does not use this parameter, and your policy is to treat all warnings as errors. How do you make your method fit the policy?
Netflix and Amazon might survive, seeing as they offer subscription services. But I imagine many would feel unwilling to cut the cord if YouTube and other ad-supported services were no longer an option for at least some of the programming they view.
I think you're confusing "tracking", with "ads". Those two aren't the same thing.
Advertisers suffer from the same confusion. Publishing consultant Oliver von Wersch put it this way: "the common perception in the market is there's no advertising without tracking. Deactivating tracking in the browser is a de facto ad blocker."[1] This is because the revenue for ads based on tracking is three times that for ads not based on tracking.[2]
I doubt that there would be enough demand among home users for "the 'academic' Internet" alone to support the continued availability of home broadband
OK, cool, let's go there.
If the academic and subscription Internet alone cannot sustain enough home broadband subscriptions, "go there" would involve having to ride your bike or the bus to the library in order to use the Internet. Would you find that acceptable?
But what does any of this have to do with whether it makes sense to run applications on one's computer?
I was seeing if I could rescue some underlying point from Anonymous Coward's comment despite its (mis)use of the term "apps" to mean "applications downloaded from an app store". With "apps" redefined thus, the claim becomes as follows:
On devices whose OS ships with both a web browser and a client to download paid applications from a repository, native applications exist because corporations found the web sandbox too restrictive, and wanted to suck up vastly more data (especially accurate location data). All applications in those repositories are malware.
Take ads out of equation and you get the "academic" internet again.
Internet and HTTP browsing predated online ads. By far.
That was what hjf referred to as "the 'academic' Internet". If the Internet were to suddenly contract to "the 'academic' Internet" tomorrow, I doubt that there would be enough demand among home users for "the 'academic' Internet" alone to support the continued availability of home broadband Internet service.
Correct. But did an app store, which I define as an interactive package manager for optionally proprietary, optionally commercial, downloadable applications on residential computing devices, predate the web?
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Last I checked, echecks lacked the 3% take but retained an interchange fee on the order of 30 cents, calling it the automated clearinghouse (ACH) processing fee.
And this processing fee still makes echecks impractical for, say, buying access to 1 article on an ad-free website. Instead, to make up for the cost, websites require readers to buy a whole month or maybe a pack of 100 article views at once, even if 29 days or 97 page views will go unused.
With which online stores do you use personal checks "all the time"?
Even if an iPad Pro has a USB C port to act as a USB host, just because you've plugged in a standard HID joystick doesn't mean the operating system has to recognize it. That's why I mentioned Windows Store apps, which can use only XInput joysticks, not standard HID joysticks, despite Windows PCs having full USB host support.
I still think OSX will be depreciated and replaced with IOS
I'll believe that when an iPad user can make an App Store-worthy app within Swift Playgrounds alone without having to round-trip it through Xcode.
Though iOS devices use the MFi joysticks, Windows Store apps use XInput controllers, which in practice means Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers. The point is still that you need to buy an input device specifically for one operating system.
any control device we use to day can be attached to Android or iOS too?
You can connect the joystick you already own to an Android device. Last I checked, you had to buy a specialized "Made for iPhone" joystick for use with iOS apps or Windows Store apps.
How not? Any PC operating system with an MTP client can manage files on Android 4 and later. On Xubuntu, once I ran sudo apt install mtp-tools mtpfs (per this answer), GVFS detected my phone, and "Android/Internal storage" and "Android/SD card" appeared in the file manager.
I have been working with windowed environments since Windows 95, and I've almost always switched between full screen apps - except small ones like a calculator, etc.
The trouble with phone-derived tablet operating systems is that for several years, even "small ones like a calculator" ended up running in the full screen on a 9-10" tablet.
Mine is 1280x1024.
If you're reading a document and taking notes, you could split it between 960x1024 for the document you're reading and 320x1024 (roughly two phones top-to-bottom) for the notes you're taking. That way, you retain both in your visuospatial context. Or you can put two 80-column windows side-by-side, one showing a source code editor and the other a terminal for its output.
1923 is also when US copyright expiration was held up for two decades on account of Gershwin and Disney.
Last I checked, someone looking for games on F-Droid would end up disappointed. What would need to change to encourage the development of original Android games distributed as free software?
Your content isn't worth the trouble. Toss me an add and let me see the content.
Some sites don't even toss me an ad. They toss me the URL of a third-party proprietary computer program written in JavaScript that surveils my browsing history across multiple websites and uses the battery life and Internet bandwidth that I pay for to choose an ad from one of a dozen or more ad networks. And if I say no to proprietary software or no to surveillance, these sites are incapable of falling back to a publisher-hosted ad like those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs because interest-based ads pay three times the CPM.
Publishers should learn to code their own pay wall sites.
The problem with each publisher coding its own paywall comes when I want to read only one article or a handful of articles from a given publisher. Because of the roughly 0.30 USD transaction fee that credit card processors charge on top of their 3% cut, news publishers are unlikely to offer articles a la carte.[1] Instead, each publication requires readers to purchase a month's subscription to that publication or perhaps a pack of 100 page views from that publication. But once I've read the three articles that interest me, I can't resell the other 97 page views or 29 days of a subscription or use them with a different publication.
[1] I'm referring to news and news-based editorial, not closed-access academic journals, which tend to charge tens of dollars for a copy of a single article.
I subscribe to two major papers.
When a friend shares with you a link to an article from a paper other than those two, and you go to read it, the paper's publisher is likely to tell you that your subscription is no good there.
Usenet, mailing lists, and web forums provide only "User X has replied to a post by Y on date Z". To me, this implies that X and Y are tied to the same topic, not to each other. For example, this comment doesn't necessarily impart any "friend" relationship between your account and my account. In fact, many such forums have a guideline to the effect "reply to the content, not the person" in order to discourage ad hominems and encourage in their place the respectful behavior that society expects strangers to have in general.
If it cannot be represented as a social graph, then there probably aren't dyadic ties. A "dyadic tie", as I understand it, would be something like the "friend" or "mutual follower" relationship.
A race between two threads that call a language's equivalent of malloc or free can certainly corrupt their shared heap.
there seems to have been some evidence recently that running ads that are heavily personalised/targeted isn't necessarily much more effective than the traditional approach of running your ads in places where your target market are likely to be found.
Which leaves a problem for publishers of general-interest publications. A special-interest publication attracts inherently targeted advertisements, but it may not have sufficient ad sales budget to make advertisers aware of its (smaller) audience. A general-interest publication may have more of an ad sales budget, but an ad that reaches every reader of a general-interest publication is less effective than an ad that reaches only a targeted subset. In fact, Beales and Eisenach report that in 2014, advertisers were paying three times as much to place interest-based ads compared to ads based only on context.
Or should general-interest publications switch to a paywall model, as many sites affiliated with major newspapers and magazines have been doing lately?
All warnings should still be errors
Your method forms part of a class that implements an interface including a particular parameter, but your implementation of said interface has no need for that parameter. The compiler issues a warning that your method does not use this parameter, and your policy is to treat all warnings as errors. How do you make your method fit the policy?
What makes you think even cellular carriers would see enough demand for the academic Internet if that were all there were?
Netflix and Amazon might survive, seeing as they offer subscription services. But I imagine many would feel unwilling to cut the cord if YouTube and other ad-supported services were no longer an option for at least some of the programming they view.
I think you're confusing "tracking", with "ads". Those two aren't the same thing.
Advertisers suffer from the same confusion. Publishing consultant Oliver von Wersch put it this way: "the common perception in the market is there's no advertising without tracking. Deactivating tracking in the browser is a de facto ad blocker."[1] This is because the revenue for ads based on tracking is three times that for ads not based on tracking.[2]
[1] "Mobile ad blocking is becoming a bigger threat" by Lucinda Southern
[2] "An Empirical Analysis of the Value of Information Sharing in the Market for Online Content" by Beales and Eisenach
I doubt that there would be enough demand among home users for "the 'academic' Internet" alone to support the continued availability of home broadband
OK, cool, let's go there.
If the academic and subscription Internet alone cannot sustain enough home broadband subscriptions, "go there" would involve having to ride your bike or the bus to the library in order to use the Internet. Would you find that acceptable?
But what does any of this have to do with whether it makes sense to run applications on one's computer?
I was seeing if I could rescue some underlying point from Anonymous Coward's comment despite its (mis)use of the term "apps" to mean "applications downloaded from an app store". With "apps" redefined thus, the claim becomes as follows:
On devices whose OS ships with both a web browser and a client to download paid applications from a repository, native applications exist because corporations found the web sandbox too restrictive, and wanted to suck up vastly more data (especially accurate location data). All applications in those repositories are malware.
Take ads out of equation and you get the "academic" internet again.
Internet and HTTP browsing predated online ads. By far.
That was what hjf referred to as "the 'academic' Internet". If the Internet were to suddenly contract to "the 'academic' Internet" tomorrow, I doubt that there would be enough demand among home users for "the 'academic' Internet" alone to support the continued availability of home broadband Internet service.
Applications existed before the web did.
Correct. But did an app store, which I define as an interactive package manager for optionally proprietary, optionally commercial, downloadable applications on residential computing devices, predate the web?