You fuckers cant keep forcing us to buy 2524356345868 things we dont want just to get the 1 we do. Its ridiculous.
They can when the 1 is Internet and the 2524356345868 is TV for which they charge you negative dollars: $75/mo for Internet only or $73/mo for Internet and TV.
But is it still significantly cheaper once you've added CBS All Access, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Seeso? Or once you add a season ticket to your local minor league ice hockey team to make up for the lack of NBCSN?
I thought due process in Cloudflare's home country included the right for someone accused of a crime to confront his accuser (U.S. Const., Amendment VI).
Desktop safari uses the KHTML engine, the exact same engine that drives Konqueror and Google-Chrome
Blink (in Chrome) forked from WebKit (in Safari) a while back, and differences have been accumulating between the two.
If your site is javascript heavy and not absolutely standards compliant (which makes you evil)
Do the "standards" to which you refer include W3C Candidate Recommendations or only W3C Recommendations? It makes a difference because many features of the web platform required by Progressive Web Applications are not yet W3C Recommendations, and in my estimation, these features are more likely to differ between WebKit and Blink.
varsity leagues for regular athletic sports have the same restrictions and often charge their members fees for participation as well.
A set of schools that play a ball sport is free to start a new league without having to pay the owner of exclusive rights in the sport. This isn't true of an e-sport.
And yes, there can often be restrictions on who can broadcast what as well, which happens just as often in the professional leagues as well (NFL is a well know abuser to take down "illegal" rebroadcasts. Olympics are another).
The difference is that with ball sports, these rights are controlled only by the league, not by the owner of a whole sport. NFL is one gridiron football league; others exist, and no law prevents a few hundred athletes from starting their own, such as USFL and XFL. Olympics is a league; there are other leagues for every sport contested at IOC events. A game publisher has legal exclusive right over all leagues playing that sport; each league has to either kiss the publisher's behind or stop playing an entire sport.
Last night. I run a catcher program that reads a particular infotainment site's RSS feed and downloads and distills each article to an HTML file so that I can read the articles later on my laptop while offline.
What about if you're a developer who doesn't want to have to buy a copy of Windows solely for the purpose of running Edge because it's the only non-cross-platform rendering engine?
"Only" other than perhaps the Safari branch of Apple WebKit. This makes two out of four current web browser engines that in practice are exclusive to one manufacturer's proprietary operating system: EdgeHTML (Windows only), Apple WebKit (Mac and iOS only), Blink (Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, Android), and Gecko (Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, Android). The only (legal) way to test on all four engines, particularly to cover the slowly increasing difference between Blink and Apple WebKit, is to buy a Mac and a Windows license for it.
If all running applications are 64-bit, the operating system can unload the 32-bit compatibility DLLs from RAM, freeing up more RAM to run applications.
Taken one step further, a fully 64-bit environment can let the operating system publisher remove 32-bit compatibility libraries from secondary storage entirely. This is the excuse that someone on another forum gave. His PC runs 64-bit GNU/Linux, and he's unwilling to use 32-bit applications because they need hundreds of megabytes of 32-bit libraries, even though said 32-bit applications and libraries are distributed as free software.
It appears you'll need a subscription fee of $49 to $99 per year in order to make an unlisted app on one PC and install it on a Windows 10 S laptop. And this will remain the case until Microsoft adds Visual Studio to Windows Store.
If Blizzard makes competitive Starcraft fees problematically high, Riot Games can undercut them
Riot Games is legally prohibited from providing StarCraft. If you're referring to a school dropping one e-sport in favor another, I don't see how skills from one game necessarily transfer any more than skills from baseball transfer to cricket or vice versa.
license for peanuts until the matches can start paying themselves.
In other words, dump licenses until you're a monopoly and then jack up the rates.
Don't competitive gaming leagues already exist? Don't they have rates somewhere?
it should be fairly difficult for this nonsense to be nearly as expensive as the more traditional flavors of college sportsball.
E-sports has one expense that ball sports lack, namely a royalty payable to each game's publisher. The owner of copyright in a proprietary video game has the exclusive right to authorize public performance of its audiovisual work, and a game's publisher can sue any school that streams its matches or makes captures available for later viewing without a license.
Because you care about your PC not turning into a botnet zombie.
"Extended support" is the period during which Microsoft provides security updates for a Windows operating system. Once security updates cease for Windows 7 in 2010, you can assume that connecting a PC running Windows 7 to the Internet will cause it to become compromised through a vulnerability that Microsoft is unwilling to fix.
You do realize it's possible to change the operating system a machine ships with, right?
Installing a different operating system doesn't change the warranty. If a PC is warranted to run Windows, changing this warranty is something only its manufacturer, as the guarantor, can do. Some PCs that ship with Windows have major features not working under GNU/Linux, such as WLAN, Bluetooth, audio, or suspend. As I understand it, very few makers of these PCs are willing to allow incompatibility with GNU/Linux as a valid excuse to return a PC for a refund or replacement.
I thought Apple stopped maintaining that years ago. This article from nearly two years ago calls it "abandoned" and not updated since May 9, 2012. Or do there exist polyfills for everything introduced since then?
You can get by with Chrome for most of your Safari testing (and it has a great mobile device screen simulator built-in) since there's so little difference.
Until one of those "little difference[s]" introduced since the fork between Blink and Apple WebKit hits your application hard, particularly a web API that Apple entirely refuses to support as a means of encouraging developers to develop a native app instead.
Desktop Safari and Xcode are Mac-exclusive. Without them, you can't test a web application, in desktop Safari, debug a web application in mobile Safari, or develop native applications for Mac and iOS.
Are you referring to replacing Windows 10 with Windows 7 and using it until 2020 when extended support ends? Or are you referring to laptops warranted to run GNU/Linux, which are available only through mail order, not in a showroom near you?
In which case their older machines (ie pre-windows 10) almost certainly allow disabling of secure boot. Problem solved.
The real problem is incompatible hardware in general. I agree with you that as of the second quarter of 2017, Secure Boot is not the dominant point of incompatibility between GNU/Linux and used PCs. But as PCs designed for Windows 7 or Windows 8 continue to fail over the years, inflexible Secure Boot will be yet another hardware incompatibility that makes a suitable PC harder to come by.
[People trying GNU/Linux for the first time on an existing PC] is a tiny minority of the PC market
A tiny but influential minority.
and of those who care, the information tends to be discoverable.
"I have discovered that the PC I own is incompatible with GNU/Linux. Now what should I do to obtain the funding to purchase a compatible PC?"
Then you do what everyone else does when buying any product which may not fully meet their requirements... compromise.
In other words, one can reasonably conclude that Windows is better than GNU/Linux for some laptop users for two reasons. First, laptops warranted to run Windows fit more easily in bulk- or weight-restricted luggage than laptops warranted to run GNU/Linux. Second, the lower hardware purchase price gives a Windows laptop a lower total cost of ownership than a GNU/Linux laptop for any user not on a harshly metered Internet connection.
good luck finding parts from which to build a compact laptop.
In addition many manufacturers will build you a workstation to your requirements, you just have to make it worth their while to do it.
Looks at list of laptops sold by System76 How would an individual go about "mak[ing] it worth their while" for System76, ZaReason, ThinkPenguin, and other Linux laptop makers to make a laptop smaller than 13 inches?
Looks at pricing of base configuration of said System76 laptops What goes into a Linux laptop to make it cost as much as two or three entry-level Windows laptops?
We sign our own images. The only code that will run is stuff signed by the appropriate key.
Provided that the manufacturer has deigned to let you trust your own key as opposed to Microsoft's key. As of Windows 10, Microsoft is allowing PC makers and motherboard makers to prevent the user from turning off or otherwise reconfiguring Secure Boot. And if you had intended to work around this by building your own computer, good luck finding parts from which to build a compact laptop.
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You fuckers cant keep forcing us to buy 2524356345868 things we dont want just to get the 1 we do. Its ridiculous.
They can when the 1 is Internet and the 2524356345868 is TV for which they charge you negative dollars: $75/mo for Internet only or $73/mo for Internet and TV.
Netflix is less than 1/10th that.
But is it still significantly cheaper once you've added CBS All Access, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Seeso? Or once you add a season ticket to your local minor league ice hockey team to make up for the lack of NBCSN?
I thought due process in Cloudflare's home country included the right for someone accused of a crime to confront his accuser (U.S. Const., Amendment VI).
Desktop safari uses the KHTML engine, the exact same engine that drives Konqueror and Google-Chrome
Blink (in Chrome) forked from WebKit (in Safari) a while back, and differences have been accumulating between the two.
If your site is javascript heavy and not absolutely standards compliant (which makes you evil)
Do the "standards" to which you refer include W3C Candidate Recommendations or only W3C Recommendations? It makes a difference because many features of the web platform required by Progressive Web Applications are not yet W3C Recommendations, and in my estimation, these features are more likely to differ between WebKit and Blink.
Are you sure Apple doesn't deliberately disable parts of WebKit, particularly on iOS?
varsity leagues for regular athletic sports have the same restrictions and often charge their members fees for participation as well.
A set of schools that play a ball sport is free to start a new league without having to pay the owner of exclusive rights in the sport. This isn't true of an e-sport.
And yes, there can often be restrictions on who can broadcast what as well, which happens just as often in the professional leagues as well (NFL is a well know abuser to take down "illegal" rebroadcasts. Olympics are another).
The difference is that with ball sports, these rights are controlled only by the league, not by the owner of a whole sport. NFL is one gridiron football league; others exist, and no law prevents a few hundred athletes from starting their own, such as USFL and XFL. Olympics is a league; there are other leagues for every sport contested at IOC events. A game publisher has legal exclusive right over all leagues playing that sport; each league has to either kiss the publisher's behind or stop playing an entire sport.
When was the last time anyone opened an .htm file?
Last night. I run a catcher program that reads a particular infotainment site's RSS feed and downloads and distills each article to an HTML file so that I can read the articles later on my laptop while offline.
What about if you're a developer who doesn't want to have to buy a copy of Windows solely for the purpose of running Edge because it's the only non-cross-platform rendering engine?
"Only" other than perhaps the Safari branch of Apple WebKit. This makes two out of four current web browser engines that in practice are exclusive to one manufacturer's proprietary operating system: EdgeHTML (Windows only), Apple WebKit (Mac and iOS only), Blink (Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, Android), and Gecko (Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux, Android). The only (legal) way to test on all four engines, particularly to cover the slowly increasing difference between Blink and Apple WebKit, is to buy a Mac and a Windows license for it.
Step 4) WIth the manufacturer's warranty having been voided, how do you fix a broken hinge or power jack?
"UEFI error: Secure boot failed."
If all running applications are 64-bit, the operating system can unload the 32-bit compatibility DLLs from RAM, freeing up more RAM to run applications.
Taken one step further, a fully 64-bit environment can let the operating system publisher remove 32-bit compatibility libraries from secondary storage entirely. This is the excuse that someone on another forum gave. His PC runs 64-bit GNU/Linux, and he's unwilling to use 32-bit applications because they need hundreds of megabytes of 32-bit libraries, even though said 32-bit applications and libraries are distributed as free software.
They're still trying to salvage their "take a cut from every sale" strategy of copying Apple
Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade preceded Apple's iOS App Store in this respect.
It appears you'll need a subscription fee of $49 to $99 per year in order to make an unlisted app on one PC and install it on a Windows 10 S laptop. And this will remain the case until Microsoft adds Visual Studio to Windows Store.
If Blizzard makes competitive Starcraft fees problematically high, Riot Games can undercut them
Riot Games is legally prohibited from providing StarCraft. If you're referring to a school dropping one e-sport in favor another, I don't see how skills from one game necessarily transfer any more than skills from baseball transfer to cricket or vice versa.
license for peanuts until the matches can start paying themselves.
In other words, dump licenses until you're a monopoly and then jack up the rates.
Don't competitive gaming leagues already exist? Don't they have rates somewhere?
Professional leagues run into the same problem. See Ars Technica's article about e-sports copyright.
How about "ball sports are less likely than e-sports to get you sued for copyright infringement if you stream your matches publicly"?
it should be fairly difficult for this nonsense to be nearly as expensive as the more traditional flavors of college sportsball.
E-sports has one expense that ball sports lack, namely a royalty payable to each game's publisher. The owner of copyright in a proprietary video game has the exclusive right to authorize public performance of its audiovisual work, and a game's publisher can sue any school that streams its matches or makes captures available for later viewing without a license.
Why would I care when 'Extended Support' ends??
Because you care about your PC not turning into a botnet zombie.
"Extended support" is the period during which Microsoft provides security updates for a Windows operating system. Once security updates cease for Windows 7 in 2010, you can assume that connecting a PC running Windows 7 to the Internet will cause it to become compromised through a vulnerability that Microsoft is unwilling to fix.
laptops warranted to run GNU/Linux
You do realize it's possible to change the operating system a machine ships with, right?
Installing a different operating system doesn't change the warranty. If a PC is warranted to run Windows, changing this warranty is something only its manufacturer, as the guarantor, can do. Some PCs that ship with Windows have major features not working under GNU/Linux, such as WLAN, Bluetooth, audio, or suspend. As I understand it, very few makers of these PCs are willing to allow incompatibility with GNU/Linux as a valid excuse to return a PC for a refund or replacement.
Safari for Windows
I thought Apple stopped maintaining that years ago. This article from nearly two years ago calls it "abandoned" and not updated since May 9, 2012. Or do there exist polyfills for everything introduced since then?
You can get by with Chrome for most of your Safari testing (and it has a great mobile device screen simulator built-in) since there's so little difference.
Until one of those "little difference[s]" introduced since the fork between Blink and Apple WebKit hits your application hard, particularly a web API that Apple entirely refuses to support as a means of encouraging developers to develop a native app instead.
A developer has to use the Apple ecosystem because his users are tied to the Apple ecosystem.
Desktop Safari and Xcode are Mac-exclusive. Without them, you can't test a web application, in desktop Safari, debug a web application in mobile Safari, or develop native applications for Mac and iOS.
Are you referring to replacing Windows 10 with Windows 7 and using it until 2020 when extended support ends? Or are you referring to laptops warranted to run GNU/Linux, which are available only through mail order, not in a showroom near you?
In which case their older machines (ie pre-windows 10) almost certainly allow disabling of secure boot. Problem solved.
The real problem is incompatible hardware in general. I agree with you that as of the second quarter of 2017, Secure Boot is not the dominant point of incompatibility between GNU/Linux and used PCs. But as PCs designed for Windows 7 or Windows 8 continue to fail over the years, inflexible Secure Boot will be yet another hardware incompatibility that makes a suitable PC harder to come by.
[People trying GNU/Linux for the first time on an existing PC] is a tiny minority of the PC market
A tiny but influential minority.
and of those who care, the information tends to be discoverable.
"I have discovered that the PC I own is incompatible with GNU/Linux. Now what should I do to obtain the funding to purchase a compatible PC?"
Then you do what everyone else does when buying any product which may not fully meet their requirements... compromise.
In other words, one can reasonably conclude that Windows is better than GNU/Linux for some laptop users for two reasons. First, laptops warranted to run Windows fit more easily in bulk- or weight-restricted luggage than laptops warranted to run GNU/Linux. Second, the lower hardware purchase price gives a Windows laptop a lower total cost of ownership than a GNU/Linux laptop for any user not on a harshly metered Internet connection.
good luck finding parts from which to build a compact laptop.
In addition many manufacturers will build you a workstation to your requirements, you just have to make it worth their while to do it.
Looks at list of laptops sold by System76
How would an individual go about "mak[ing] it worth their while" for System76, ZaReason, ThinkPenguin, and other Linux laptop makers to make a laptop smaller than 13 inches?
Looks at pricing of base configuration of said System76 laptops
What goes into a Linux laptop to make it cost as much as two or three entry-level Windows laptops?
We sign our own images. The only code that will run is stuff signed by the appropriate key.
Provided that the manufacturer has deigned to let you trust your own key as opposed to Microsoft's key. As of Windows 10, Microsoft is allowing PC makers and motherboard makers to prevent the user from turning off or otherwise reconfiguring Secure Boot. And if you had intended to work around this by building your own computer, good luck finding parts from which to build a compact laptop.