Exemption lasts for several seconds after audio stops playing to allow applications to queue the next audio track.
Note that audio is considered audible when and only when Chrome shows the audio icon. Silent audio streams do not grant exemptions.
So there'd have to be actual audio. I have not read Chromium's source code to determine whether it detects the further workaround of inaudibly high frequencies or inaudibly low volumes.
The cost of that computer is insignificant compared to professional software and labor costs.
I guess a hobbyist would see it differently, as might a hobbyist attempting to turn professional for the first time. A programmer attempting to bootstrap a micro-ISV, for example, might develop her first commercial app for Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android first and then put the revenue toward buying the hardware needed to additionally support macOS and iOS.
sometimes I'll listen to a podcast/music in a another tab
Then this does not affect you. From the featured article:
The good news is that background tabs playing audio or maintaining real-time connections like WebSockets or WebRTC won’t be affected by the 1% CPU usage limit.
Why would a web-based frontend to chat use more than 1 percent of CPU time on a desktop or full-size laptop? I could see a problem on a compact laptop with an Atom or ARM CPU, which is designed to sip power rather than run fast.
Well, today's 5400 RPM drives are not the same as yesterday's. Increased density makes them much faster than they used to be
An increase in density increases throughput, not latency. It still takes the same amount of time (up to 60000÷5400 = 11 ms) to spin a particular sector toward the head, plus however long it took the head to move to the appropriate cylinder.
Of course you validate authoritatively on the server. Prevalidation on the client exists so that finding the most common data entry errors doesn't require a round trip to the server and a full page reload.
If you prevalidate on the client side before authoritatively validating on the server side, you rile the anti-JavaScript "I don't want other people running code on my computer" crowd. If you wait until after form submission to validate, you confuse less experienced users who have to look through the entire form to see what they missed.
You really want to build a team, have the occasional meeting over lunch at the local pub. Really want to find the problems? Same thing. After a few drinks, people will say what they really think.
How well does that work when the person in question is Mormon, Muslim, or otherwise tee-totaling? Would treating refusal to drink alcohol as insubordination be actionable as religious discrimination?
I thought that almost every cell phone plan in existence that costs more than $15 a month has unlimited messaging now.
My cell phone plan through T-Mobile USA costs $3 per month. Good luck convincing others to part with an additional $144 per year just to communicate with supremebob.
not attached to your phone number - Why not? Some people don't have email. SMS continues to work for my parents/grandparents. Why should they be forced to 'authenticate' some other way?
Some people in my own family use a landline, or a flip phone with only a numeric keypad, or a cellular phone on a bare-bones plan that charges per SMS message sent or received. (Yes, received. I live in the United States, where it is traditional for each party to pay his own half of airtime, and Slashdot Media is headquartered in the United States.) SMS is inconvenient or impossible for these users.
That's what I felt when the boss at a previous job wanted us to use instant messaging when there was already a phone for urgent things and email for non-urgent matters.
Was one of your co-workers deaf or hard of hearing? If so, the use of instant messaging for urgent things may have been an accommodation for your co-worker's disability, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act or foreign counterparts.
A 13 inch laptop needs a bigger bag than a 10 inch laptop, and a bigger bag visibly specialized for carrying a laptop is a more obvious target for thieves.
Cramming it in a netbook only means you are going to run slow or insecure.
"Slow" is fine if the work I do on it is comparable to the work that one would have done on a comparably clocked Pentium 4. How, then, is it "insecure"?
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I apologize for not having the domain expertise to follow up on the WebSocket hack, but here's what I have for the other.
The "silent audio" you mention probably won't work. I started chasing links from the featured article, "Background tabs & offscreen frames: further plans":
"here" links to "Background Tabs in Chrome 57" stating:
So there'd have to be actual audio. I have not read Chromium's source code to determine whether it detects the further workaround of inaudibly high frequencies or inaudibly low volumes.
The cost of that computer is insignificant compared to professional software and labor costs.
I guess a hobbyist would see it differently, as might a hobbyist attempting to turn professional for the first time. A programmer attempting to bootstrap a micro-ISV, for example, might develop her first commercial app for Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android first and then put the revenue toward buying the hardware needed to additionally support macOS and iOS.
sometimes I'll listen to a podcast/music in a another tab
Then this does not affect you. From the featured article:
Why would a web-based frontend to chat use more than 1 percent of CPU time on a desktop or full-size laptop? I could see a problem on a compact laptop with an Atom or ARM CPU, which is designed to sip power rather than run fast.
Because making a web app in JavaScript is cheaper than making five native apps, one each for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, and Android.
[My Mac] has some software I must use that is not available on the Windows platform.
For future reference, what might that happen to be? I mentioned Xcode because it's probably the most salient example of such to Slashdot users.
let's just hope that as many manufacturers as possible survive as long as possible to avoid establishing one of them as the WD of NAND.
I thought SanDisk was the WD of NAND since May 2016
Well, today's 5400 RPM drives are not the same as yesterday's. Increased density makes them much faster than they used to be
An increase in density increases throughput, not latency. It still takes the same amount of time (up to 60000÷5400 = 11 ms) to spin a particular sector toward the head, plus however long it took the head to move to the appropriate cylinder.
The price of a Mac includes an Xcode license. If you don't need Xcode, consider buying something other than a Mac.
Of course you validate authoritatively on the server. Prevalidation on the client exists so that finding the most common data entry errors doesn't require a round trip to the server and a full page reload.
If you prevalidate on the client side before authoritatively validating on the server side, you rile the anti-JavaScript "I don't want other people running code on my computer" crowd. If you wait until after form submission to validate, you confuse less experienced users who have to look through the entire form to see what they missed.
You really want to build a team, have the occasional meeting over lunch at the local pub. Really want to find the problems? Same thing. After a few drinks, people will say what they really think.
How well does that work when the person in question is Mormon, Muslim, or otherwise tee-totaling? Would treating refusal to drink alcohol as insubordination be actionable as religious discrimination?
More than half of humanity has a cell phone, and you can call them instantly if you have their phone number.
And if they still have minutes left on their plan for the month, in the case of calling North Americans.
I thought that almost every cell phone plan in existence that costs more than $15 a month has unlimited messaging now.
My cell phone plan through T-Mobile USA costs $3 per month. Good luck convincing others to part with an additional $144 per year just to communicate with supremebob.
Or, just use SMS that works with everyone everywhere
Except for landline-using members of my family.
not attached to your phone number - Why not? Some people don't have email. SMS continues to work for my parents/grandparents. Why should they be forced to 'authenticate' some other way?
Some people in my own family use a landline, or a flip phone with only a numeric keypad, or a cellular phone on a bare-bones plan that charges per SMS message sent or received. (Yes, received. I live in the United States, where it is traditional for each party to pay his own half of airtime, and Slashdot Media is headquartered in the United States.) SMS is inconvenient or impossible for these users.
1. The question specified "not attached to your phone number".
2. Prohibitive tolls for international calls.
3. Deaf or hard of hearing contacts.
I am signed into Skype using the third-party SkypeWeb plug-in for Pidgin, which supports the JSON protocol that Skype for Web uses.
That's what I felt when the boss at a previous job wanted us to use instant messaging when there was already a phone for urgent things and email for non-urgent matters.
Was one of your co-workers deaf or hard of hearing? If so, the use of instant messaging for urgent things may have been an accommodation for your co-worker's disability, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act or foreign counterparts.
Yes, we did warn 1991 about 2/26. The net effect was to delay the destruction of the World Trade Center to 2001.
accidentally infringing copyright
Then do something original instead
What steps can I take to ensure that I "do something original"?
Then get a low end laptop or a used old one.
A 13 inch laptop needs a bigger bag than a 10 inch laptop, and a bigger bag visibly specialized for carrying a laptop is a more obvious target for thieves.
Cramming it in a netbook only means you are going to run slow or insecure.
"Slow" is fine if the work I do on it is comparable to the work that one would have done on a comparably clocked Pentium 4. How, then, is it "insecure"?
Because the cartels have millions if not billions of times more money than any individual.
Why can't constituents pool their money to outbuy the cartels?
Tablets and ebook readers already do everything the so called "netbook" does.
Including running a text editor, GCC, Python, and Wine? Because that's what I run in Xubuntu on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012.
No laptop user would choose it unless they very literally can't afford anything better
The only "serious" (i.e. non-Atom) 10 inch laptops that I'm aware of are Panasonic's expensive "Let's Note" laptops sold only in the Japanese market. Prices start at $1,200, and I wouldn't be able to buy one with a warranty anyway because I live in the United States, not Japan.
Besides, aren't Chromebooks the current day netbooks?
Not as long as destruction of your Crouton installation is as easy as following the prompts to press Space Enter.