I dont know whether the slow speed is due to the crappy Atom CPUs, slow library wireless, or slow Chrome apps.
My laptop has an Atom CPU. I've put a CPU meter in the operating system's notification area to help me tell whether slowness is due to slow Internet (rare) or the slow CPU (more common). Often the slow CPU is busting its ass trying to run JavaScript code with layers upon layers of abstraction, as well as ad exchanges' client-side bidding scripts to find which of a dozen ad networks is willing to pay a fraction of a cent more for an impression on a particular pair of article and user viewing history.
i think is a version that runs most of the applications in the cloud using something like RemoteApp.
Which would be useless for people who are often out of range of a usable Wi-Fi signal.
A device intended for use primarily as a Remote Desktop client might be fine for people who drive and who choose where to eat and shop by the availability of Wi-Fi. But otherwise, good luck using that while riding public transit, or while waiting for your meal in a restaurant that doesn't offer Wi-Fi, or while waiting for your roommate to finish shopping for groceries in a store that doesn't offer Wi-Fi, without paying hundreds of dollars per year for a cellular data plan (or, if you already carry a smartphone with a data plan, for a larger monthly data allowance and a tethering rider).
During the Windows RT era, developers of Windows desktop applications wanted to recompile their applications for ARM. Microsoft wouldn't let them, instead requiring them to port the applications to Windows Runtime and distribute them exclusively through Windows Store. Only Microsoft's own applications (File Explorer, Internet Explorer, and Office) could run on the ARM desktop.
The only thing Windows is good for is running the three decades of old Windows applications that are still hanging around doing useful things. Without that you might as well use Linux.
The other thing Windows is good for is that entry-level laptops warranted to run it are easy to find. Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012. System76 and Dell currently don't have anything below 13 inches or below $700. Installing Linux on Bay Trail devices that shipped with Windows, such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, has left things like Bluetooth, built-in Wi-Fi, webcam, and suspend broken. And before you bust out "Android is Linux; try a tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard":
With Wine it can run more old Windows applications
As I understand it, most Android tablets have ARM CPUs that can't run Wine, which requires a CPU capable of executing i386 instructions. Or were you referring to Wine in an Ubuntu chroot on an Android/x86 device? Or an x86 Chromebook in developer mode, which begs to be erased every time someone turns it on?
But you can download software to make more efficient use of the RAM you have. About two decades ago, Connectix made an installable module for classic Mac OS that overhauled its virtual memory manager, setting up what amounted to a compressed swap file in a RAM disk. It was called RAM Doubler, and in an era of 16 MB RAM, it worked. Years later, the Linux developers reinvented it as zram. (Or were they waiting for Connectix's patent to expire?)
Or you can download 4 GB of DDR using a BitTorrent tracker and play it in StepMania.
Say someone is recording video of a subject that will not fully fit into the frame if the device is held horizontally. The camera's zoom feature is already at its widest. The person holding the camera cannot step back. Does it benefit the public more for an event to be recorded as vertical video or for it not to be recorded at all?
Roku is being careful about ensuring consumer privacy: Users will be required to enable the feature via an opt-in prompt.
Seriously, is nobody else concerned about the privacy implications with always on microphones connected to the internet?
The summary states that the feature is opt-in. Are you concerned about a software defect causing the feature to turn on by itself? Or are you concerned about "required to enable" meaning "this device will cease to function until enabled"?
Exactly. When "good" countries shut down cell phones, they shut down only cell phones and leave landline communication and unlicensed short-range wireless communication (i.e. WLANs) unaffected. When "bad" countries shut down the Internet, they shut down everything.
It's like the short controller cords on the Famicom and the Super Famicom. The length is just fine if the console sits on a kotatsu or coffee table with the video cable reaching from there to your TV.
The whole point of copyright is to create artificial scarcity so that authors are financially motivated.
What "financial[] motivat[ion]" arises from enriching scalpers or from not making a work available at all? The economic goal of "artificial scarcity" could be served just as well by a regime of compulsory licensing with a reasonable royalty payable to the copyright owner, such as mechanical licensing of musical compositions used in sound recordings.
I was under the impression that shutdowns of cellular Internet left wired ISPs unaffected. A protester subscribing to wired Internet service in a particular area could allow other protesters to use his WLAN as an alternative to cellular Internet.
My assumption was that Discovery, Scripps, Disney, NBCUniversal, Turner, Fox, Viacom, and other companies providing channels to cable TV operators would price the ad-free surcharge higher than the current going rate for the equivalent ad time, on grounds that people willing to pay more for ad-free service tend to be richer and more worthy to be the victims of price discrimination. The estimate was based on one HBO price for NBCUniversal channels, one HBO price for ESPN, Freeform, and other Disney channels, one HBO price for TNT, TCM, CNN, and other Turner channels, etc. They'd highball the price of ad-free retransmission consent to build a claim that only a commercially insignificant fraction of the viewer base is willing to pay that much.
First, if the copyright holder doesn't want to distribute the film, they have the right to make that decision.
How does giving them "the right to make that decision" "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", as the preamble to the copyright clause of the United States Constitution puts it? What benefit does the public derive from a dog in the manger?
Second, for the specific content you mention, you can buy DVDs online.
The DVDs I found of Song of the South and Spartakus and... don't appear to be licensed by the copyright owners. The DVD of Emperor of the Night is authentic, but it's region coded to be unplayable in Slashdot's home country.
Does community college have a tuition bubble too? If not, I was under the impression that the path was like this (source:
1. Get a job that needs a high school diploma. 2. Use that to put yourself through a 2-year community college. 3. Get a job that needs 2 years of college. 4. Use that and your transferred community college credits at an in-state college and finish your degree.
You can get pretty much all the videos/movies/music you want online with no hassles if you're willing to pay about $100-200 in monthly subscription fees.
Which of these subscriptions includes access to the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (with English audio)? Or did you intend your "pretty much" hedge to cover such cases?
Second, videos can be deliberately mis-encoded, with the purported solution being to download a "codec pack" that turns out to be a trojan.
Third, videos can be deliberately mis-encoded to exploit vulnerabilities in parsing of video streams, audio streams, subtitle streams, or the container that multiplexes them. Not all users are up-to-date on patches, particularly when the patch is buried in a service pack in the hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes.
Particular when the "security questions" used as a faux second factor for authentication on many services include "What is your favorite movie?", as I discovered yesterday when creating an account on a web-based income tax return preparation service.
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I dont know whether the slow speed is due to the crappy Atom CPUs, slow library wireless, or slow Chrome apps.
My laptop has an Atom CPU. I've put a CPU meter in the operating system's notification area to help me tell whether slowness is due to slow Internet (rare) or the slow CPU (more common). Often the slow CPU is busting its ass trying to run JavaScript code with layers upon layers of abstraction, as well as ad exchanges' client-side bidding scripts to find which of a dozen ad networks is willing to pay a fraction of a cent more for an impression on a particular pair of article and user viewing history.
Do you use a smartphone? The internet? Then you are being tracked.
I don't use a smartphone or the internet.
That was a joke, right? Slashdot is on the Internet.
i think is a version that runs most of the applications in the cloud using something like RemoteApp.
Which would be useless for people who are often out of range of a usable Wi-Fi signal.
A device intended for use primarily as a Remote Desktop client might be fine for people who drive and who choose where to eat and shop by the availability of Wi-Fi. But otherwise, good luck using that while riding public transit, or while waiting for your meal in a restaurant that doesn't offer Wi-Fi, or while waiting for your roommate to finish shopping for groceries in a store that doesn't offer Wi-Fi, without paying hundreds of dollars per year for a cellular data plan (or, if you already carry a smartphone with a data plan, for a larger monthly data allowance and a tethering rider).
During the Windows RT era, developers of Windows desktop applications wanted to recompile their applications for ARM. Microsoft wouldn't let them, instead requiring them to port the applications to Windows Runtime and distribute them exclusively through Windows Store. Only Microsoft's own applications (File Explorer, Internet Explorer, and Office) could run on the ARM desktop.
The only thing Windows is good for is running the three decades of old Windows applications that are still hanging around doing useful things. Without that you might as well use Linux.
The other thing Windows is good for is that entry-level laptops warranted to run it are easy to find. Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012. System76 and Dell currently don't have anything below 13 inches or below $700. Installing Linux on Bay Trail devices that shipped with Windows, such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA, has left things like Bluetooth, built-in Wi-Fi, webcam, and suspend broken. And before you bust out "Android is Linux; try a tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard":
With Wine it can run more old Windows applications
As I understand it, most Android tablets have ARM CPUs that can't run Wine, which requires a CPU capable of executing i386 instructions. Or were you referring to Wine in an Ubuntu chroot on an Android/x86 device? Or an x86 Chromebook in developer mode, which begs to be erased every time someone turns it on?
You don't "download more RAM" you idiot.
But you can download software to make more efficient use of the RAM you have. About two decades ago, Connectix made an installable module for classic Mac OS that overhauled its virtual memory manager, setting up what amounted to a compressed swap file in a RAM disk. It was called RAM Doubler, and in an era of 16 MB RAM, it worked. Years later, the Linux developers reinvented it as zram. (Or were they waiting for Connectix's patent to expire?)
Or you can download 4 GB of DDR using a BitTorrent tracker and play it in StepMania.
Emulators are a crime.
U.S. courts disagreed with you in the cases of Connectix Virtual Game Station and Bleem!.
Sometimes to protect the the integrity of your product and your other customers from destructive customers, you have to fire a customer.
Say someone is recording video of a subject that will not fully fit into the frame if the device is held horizontally. The camera's zoom feature is already at its widest. The person holding the camera cannot step back. Does it benefit the public more for an event to be recorded as vertical video or for it not to be recorded at all?
Roku is being careful about ensuring consumer privacy: Users will be required to enable the feature via an opt-in prompt.
Seriously, is nobody else concerned about the privacy implications with always on microphones connected to the internet?
The summary states that the feature is opt-in. Are you concerned about a software defect causing the feature to turn on by itself? Or are you concerned about "required to enable" meaning "this device will cease to function until enabled"?
Exactly. When "good" countries shut down cell phones, they shut down only cell phones and leave landline communication and unlicensed short-range wireless communication (i.e. WLANs) unaffected. When "bad" countries shut down the Internet, they shut down everything.
the controller cable is way too short.
It's like the short controller cords on the Famicom and the Super Famicom. The length is just fine if the console sits on a kotatsu or coffee table with the video cable reaching from there to your TV.
The whole point of copyright is to create artificial scarcity so that authors are financially motivated.
What "financial[] motivat[ion]" arises from enriching scalpers or from not making a work available at all? The economic goal of "artificial scarcity" could be served just as well by a regime of compulsory licensing with a reasonable royalty payable to the copyright owner, such as mechanical licensing of musical compositions used in sound recordings.
$10 to $15 per month would get you the equivalent of one channel. That's how much it costs for, say, HBO Now or CBS All Access.
I was under the impression that shutdowns of cellular Internet left wired ISPs unaffected. A protester subscribing to wired Internet service in a particular area could allow other protesters to use his WLAN as an alternative to cellular Internet.
Would you prefer that it be $150 per month?
That number seems totally made up.
My assumption was that Discovery, Scripps, Disney, NBCUniversal, Turner, Fox, Viacom, and other companies providing channels to cable TV operators would price the ad-free surcharge higher than the current going rate for the equivalent ad time, on grounds that people willing to pay more for ad-free service tend to be richer and more worthy to be the victims of price discrimination. The estimate was based on one HBO price for NBCUniversal channels, one HBO price for ESPN, Freeform, and other Disney channels, one HBO price for TNT, TCM, CNN, and other Turner channels, etc. They'd highball the price of ad-free retransmission consent to build a claim that only a commercially insignificant fraction of the viewer base is willing to pay that much.
First, if the copyright holder doesn't want to distribute the film, they have the right to make that decision.
How does giving them "the right to make that decision" "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", as the preamble to the copyright clause of the United States Constitution puts it? What benefit does the public derive from a dog in the manger?
Second, for the specific content you mention, you can buy DVDs online.
The DVDs I found of Song of the South and Spartakus and... don't appear to be licensed by the copyright owners. The DVD of Emperor of the Night is authentic, but it's region coded to be unplayable in Slashdot's home country.
Does community college have a tuition bubble too? If not, I was under the impression that the path was like this (source:
1. Get a job that needs a high school diploma.
2. Use that to put yourself through a 2-year community college.
3. Get a job that needs 2 years of college.
4. Use that and your transferred community college credits at an in-state college and finish your degree.
If I take yourproperty and immediately destroy it, I've still stolen it even though I don't have it.
For what it's worth, the legal term for altering someone else's physical property is "conversion", and that too is distinct from theft.
You can get pretty much all the videos/movies/music you want online with no hassles if you're willing to pay about $100-200 in monthly subscription fees.
Which of these subscriptions includes access to the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (with English audio)? Or did you intend your "pretty much" hedge to cover such cases?
Piracy is not theft. Nor is murder, jaywalking, trespass, or driving while using a mobile phone.
However, copyright infringement resembles trespass more than it resembles theft.
the way to get back at them is simply to not watch the movies or listen to the music.
And flunk out of school because you got a 0 on homework assignments to view and analyze particular films.
Maybe you should stop executing your movies?
First, a lot of people are "executing [their] movies" without even being aware of the possibility of executing a movie. By default, Windows Media Player and possibly other video players supporting WMV digital restrictions management will attempt to automatically acquire a license when playing videos restricted by DRM. This process has been shown to lead to malware installation.
Second, videos can be deliberately mis-encoded, with the purported solution being to download a "codec pack" that turns out to be a trojan.
Third, videos can be deliberately mis-encoded to exploit vulnerabilities in parsing of video streams, audio streams, subtitle streams, or the container that multiplexes them. Not all users are up-to-date on patches, particularly when the patch is buried in a service pack in the hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes.
The "attack" is described in the rationale for the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which was a response to the release of D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork's video rental history and its publication in Washington City Paper before his unsuccessful nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Particular when the "security questions" used as a faux second factor for authentication on many services include "What is your favorite movie?", as I discovered yesterday when creating an account on a web-based income tax return preparation service.