If there is a "Windows 10 compatible" sticker for example, you won't be able to run Debian on it. If there is a "Windows 8 compatible" sticker, you may or may not be able to, depending on what that OEM decided to do, so will need a bit of research.
Source?
Microsoft required x86 and x86-64 PCs with the "Windows 8 compatible" sticker to ship with Secure Boot on but let the owner turn it off in the UEFI configuration form. Microsoft eased this requirement for x86 and x86-64 PCs with the "Windows 10 compatible" sticker: they must ship with Secure Boot on but configurability is up to the preference of the manufacturer. In either case, even if Secure Boot can be turned off, that doesn't mean that things like backlight brightness, audio, WLAN, Bluetooth, and suspend will work correctly.
How horrible that consumers are given the choice as to which OEM to buy from, and can presumably determine if a new machine meets their needs or not in this regard
Provided they have the budget for a new machine in the first place.
Checking before buying doesn't work in several situations. One is switching from Windows to Linux or from Windows to a Windows/Linux dual boot without wanting to have to buy all new hardware. Another is minors and charities, which tend to depend on donations of random hardware by those who haven't done research. A third is when after doing the research, you conclude that no manufacturers offer Linux-friendly laptop or convertible laptop/tablet PCs in a particular size range factor with a warranty in your country.
Here's a crazy idea: if you don't like a product or the terms it is offered under, don't buy or otherwise use it.
That's difficult when a product is tied to another product that is a necessity. A portion of the price of food I buy at a grocery store goes toward the performance royalty for the non-free background music that the store plays.
There is a non-walled garden option and they opted not to buy it.
Between the April 2010 release of the iPad and the January 2011 introduction of the Motorola Xoom, the first Android tablet with Android Market, what was the viable non-walled-garden alternative to the iPad? People who entered the tablet market in that nine-month period got locked into a walled garden.
Games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS are designed to be played offline at least in part. Games for mobile phones have no such requirement for certification.
Your cell phone also probably costs a lot more to run per month than a Nintendo 2DS/3DS or Nintendo Switch does. Many cell phone games such as Super Mario Run depend on a continuous Internet connection even in single-player mode. This requires players to pay a cellular ISP for a data plan, which often costs hundreds of US dollars per year, in order to play outside the range of home or restaurant Wi-Fi.
They understand emulation. They also understand that legally running a nonfree game in an emulator in Slashdot's home country requires buying an authentic copy of the game and dumping it to a ROM image yourself, not downloading someone else's ROM image from the Internet. See 17 USC 117(a)(1) and UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.
I think AC #54319087 was proposing a repeal of three-generation copyright in favor of a return to the copyright term under the Copyright Act of 1790, which was 28 (not 25) years with a maintenance due after 14.
Another example is DreamHost, a sponsor of Let's Encrypt. Or any VPS provider such as Amazon EC2. I'd be interested to see which popular shared hosting services don't offer HTTPS at no extra charge by now.
If there are 67 million home LANs in a country, activating TLS on all of them would represent a $1 billion windfall for the domain registrar industry just for that country.
Shirley anyone posting in a forum uses a thow away email and fake name.
That's not my name, and more and more sites are using blacklist services to identify and reject throw-away e-mail domains, such as Block Disposable Email.
the sites they are visiting independently use Google services in some sort of hosting capacity
This is in fact the case. One possible reason for this is that Google's AdSense was the one of the first major ad networks (if not the first) to support HTTPS, beginning in September 2013. Other sites are hosted on Blogspot or Google App Engine, or they include YouTube embeds, Google "+1" buttons, jQuery from Google's CDN, Google Fonts, reCAPTCHA, or Google Analytics.
Telemetry in pre-release builds of Firefox defaults on. Telemetry in release builds of Firefox defaults off. I imagine that most users of web browsers are not developers. I imagine that most non-developer end users of web browsers use release builds.
The one weakness of Let's Encrypt is sites on a home LAN that don't have a fully qualified domain. To pass the DNS challenge of Let's Encrypt, you first have to buy a domain. Or is every head of household who owns a router, printer, or NAS supposed to spend $15 per year on a domain?
ISPs will often charge dedicated IP and/or certificate maintenance fees
That hasn't been the case since April 2014, when extended support for Internet Explorer on Windows XP ended. Since then, all supported web browsers in wide use have supported Server Name Indication (SNI), which allows the TLS client to specify for which hostname the server should try to present a certificate. WebFaction, for instance, has offered TLS+SNI hosting at no additional charge.
"But I want to support 3-year-old unpatched IE/XP!" I don't recommend this, because a browser that neither receives security updates nor has been formally proven secure is presumed vulnerable to man-in-the-browser attacks.
As far as I can tell, it's to encourage cost-push inflation. If the cost of living is closer to equal everywhere, employers will have to pay wages that are closer to equal.
Unless a work includes material licensed under terms that require payment of residuals per copy, all the work involved in production, editing, and mastering is a sunk cost that was covered by the work's crowdfunding campaign. The marginal cost of distributing a copy of a work is the cost of transmitting it over the Internet, for which AWS charges 0.09 USD per GB.
The real market price is different in England vs Croatia.
But why is this the case? Why is Croatian labor less valuable than English labor? Does the difference arise from ocean proximity or from proficiency in the language of the economically powerful United States?
They are "essential" in the same sense that a college textbook is "essential": a student in a music or film analysis class gets a 0 on his homework unless he buys a copy.
If you live in an area where all grocery stores play background music, music is also "essential" because a fraction of what you pay for food goes toward licensing background music, and food is essential.
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If there is a "Windows 10 compatible" sticker for example, you won't be able to run Debian on it.
If there is a "Windows 8 compatible" sticker, you may or may not be able to, depending on what that OEM decided to do, so will need a bit of research.
Source?
Microsoft required x86 and x86-64 PCs with the "Windows 8 compatible" sticker to ship with Secure Boot on but let the owner turn it off in the UEFI configuration form. Microsoft eased this requirement for x86 and x86-64 PCs with the "Windows 10 compatible" sticker: they must ship with Secure Boot on but configurability is up to the preference of the manufacturer. In either case, even if Secure Boot can be turned off, that doesn't mean that things like backlight brightness, audio, WLAN, Bluetooth, and suspend will work correctly.
How horrible that consumers are given the choice as to which OEM to buy from, and can presumably determine if a new machine meets their needs or not in this regard
Provided they have the budget for a new machine in the first place.
Checking before buying doesn't work in several situations. One is switching from Windows to Linux or from Windows to a Windows/Linux dual boot without wanting to have to buy all new hardware. Another is minors and charities, which tend to depend on donations of random hardware by those who haven't done research. A third is when after doing the research, you conclude that no manufacturers offer Linux-friendly laptop or convertible laptop/tablet PCs in a particular size range factor with a warranty in your country.
The volume is why I don't buy e-books anymore, except for by authors I already know.
That can work depending on how you discover new authors. How do you do so?
Here's a crazy idea: if you don't like a product or the terms it is offered under, don't buy or otherwise use it.
That's difficult when a product is tied to another product that is a necessity. A portion of the price of food I buy at a grocery store goes toward the performance royalty for the non-free background music that the store plays.
There is a non-walled garden option and they opted not to buy it.
Between the April 2010 release of the iPad and the January 2011 introduction of the Motorola Xoom, the first Android tablet with Android Market, what was the viable non-walled-garden alternative to the iPad? People who entered the tablet market in that nine-month period got locked into a walled garden.
My recent subjects are: [...] SMB1/2/3
Windows file sharing or the Super Mario Bros. series?
Games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS are designed to be played offline at least in part. Games for mobile phones have no such requirement for certification.
Your cell phone also probably costs a lot more to run per month than a Nintendo 2DS/3DS or Nintendo Switch does. Many cell phone games such as Super Mario Run depend on a continuous Internet connection even in single-player mode. This requires players to pay a cellular ISP for a data plan, which often costs hundreds of US dollars per year, in order to play outside the range of home or restaurant Wi-Fi.
They understand emulation. They also understand that legally running a nonfree game in an emulator in Slashdot's home country requires buying an authentic copy of the game and dumping it to a ROM image yourself, not downloading someone else's ROM image from the Internet. See 17 USC 117(a)(1) and UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.
I think AC #54319087 was proposing a repeal of three-generation copyright in favor of a return to the copyright term under the Copyright Act of 1790, which was 28 (not 25) years with a maintenance due after 14.
Another example is DreamHost, a sponsor of Let's Encrypt. Or any VPS provider such as Amazon EC2. I'd be interested to see which popular shared hosting services don't offer HTTPS at no extra charge by now.
If there are 67 million home LANs in a country, activating TLS on all of them would represent a $1 billion windfall for the domain registrar industry just for that country.
Shirley anyone posting in a forum uses a thow away email and fake name.
That's not my name, and more and more sites are using blacklist services to identify and reject throw-away e-mail domains, such as Block Disposable Email.
the sites they are visiting independently use Google services in some sort of hosting capacity
This is in fact the case. One possible reason for this is that Google's AdSense was the one of the first major ad networks (if not the first) to support HTTPS, beginning in September 2013. Other sites are hosted on Blogspot or Google App Engine, or they include YouTube embeds, Google "+1" buttons, jQuery from Google's CDN, Google Fonts, reCAPTCHA, or Google Analytics.
The WordPress or Joomla site, where you're not entering any personal information and therefore have no need for HTTPS
If a site has a comment section, you are providing at least some personal information every time you post a comment.
Telemetry in pre-release builds of Firefox defaults on.
Telemetry in release builds of Firefox defaults off.
I imagine that most users of web browsers are not developers.
I imagine that most non-developer end users of web browsers use release builds.
The one weakness of Let's Encrypt is sites on a home LAN that don't have a fully qualified domain. To pass the DNS challenge of Let's Encrypt, you first have to buy a domain. Or is every head of household who owns a router, printer, or NAS supposed to spend $15 per year on a domain?
ISPs will often charge dedicated IP and/or certificate maintenance fees
That hasn't been the case since April 2014, when extended support for Internet Explorer on Windows XP ended. Since then, all supported web browsers in wide use have supported Server Name Indication (SNI), which allows the TLS client to specify for which hostname the server should try to present a certificate. WebFaction, for instance, has offered TLS+SNI hosting at no additional charge.
"But I want to support 3-year-old unpatched IE/XP!"
I don't recommend this, because a browser that neither receives security updates nor has been formally proven secure is presumed vulnerable to man-in-the-browser attacks.
If a future offering from Xbox is the Netflix of video games, then what's the YouTube of video games?
As far as I can tell, it's to encourage cost-push inflation. If the cost of living is closer to equal everywhere, employers will have to pay wages that are closer to equal.
How does one city become a tech hub and another city become not a tech hub?
Unless a work includes material licensed under terms that require payment of residuals per copy, all the work involved in production, editing, and mastering is a sunk cost that was covered by the work's crowdfunding campaign. The marginal cost of distributing a copy of a work is the cost of transmitting it over the Internet, for which AWS charges 0.09 USD per GB.
The real market price is different in England vs Croatia.
But why is this the case? Why is Croatian labor less valuable than English labor? Does the difference arise from ocean proximity or from proficiency in the language of the economically powerful United States?
However, unless those works are also essential
They are "essential" in the same sense that a college textbook is "essential": a student in a music or film analysis class gets a 0 on his homework unless he buys a copy.
If you live in an area where all grocery stores play background music, music is also "essential" because a fraction of what you pay for food goes toward licensing background music, and food is essential.
What's the difference between what you describe and Google News?