stock Android supported only one application on the screen at once
My G3 came with Android 5 and supported running two apps side by side
That was a manufacturer customization, not stock Android. Some Samsung devices received a similar customization. Usually it involved zooming out, so as to maintain a requirement in the Android 5 "Lollipop" Compatibility Definition Document (CDD) that the screen size presented to the application not change after installation. But zooming out had the downside of often making text unreadably small. Some implementations, such as Samsung's, additionally allowed applications to opt into a tiling window management by specifying a Samsung-specific tag in the application's manifest file. But any application whose manifest did not specify so could run only in the full screen or zoomed out. In any case, it was not a standard feature of the Android operating system until Android 7 "Nougat".
Uhh, Google Play Store is just an app and is installable on ANY Android distribution.
Installing Google Play Store on a device that is not licensed to run Google Play Store is infringement of copyright, which incurs severe civil and/or criminal penalties under United States law and the laws of other Berne Convention contracting states.
Official Remix OS devices come with Google Play Store.
I just read a couple of Facebook posts from Jide Technology’s Remix OS that say that their latest update to the Remix Mini Android PCs will disable access to Google Mobile Services. What this means is that Google Play, and all Google’s own apps will no longer come installed by default on new Remix Minis, and they will be removed from old ones if their owners install the update.
Do Windows 8 Metro apps fill the screen?
They are not required to. Windows 8 and Windows RT included the "Snap an App" feature, which allowed using three-fourths of the width of the screen for one UWP app and one-fourth for another. Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 made the division more flexible.
Most PCs won't be upgraded to Windows 10 either.
Microsoft provides the means for any owner of a compatible PC to purchase and install the Windows 10 operating system. In fact, for a year, Microsoft ran a promotion where anybody with a valid Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license could obtain a Windows 10 license without charge. In addition, installing Windows 10 preserves the user's documents. With Android devices not called Nexus or Pixel, on the other hand, only the manufacturer can sign OTA updates, not Google. On those devices whose bootloader can be unlocked, installing a different system software image causes the user's data to be wiped. And many manufacturers don't provide a way to unlock a device's bootloader in the first place.
In addition, most people don't need or want a full PC. Most people are happy using a tablet or smartphone.
What do "most people", those who you claim "are happy using a tablet or smartphone", do when they need to type something substantial? Do they buy a Bluetooth keyboard and carry it with them? And how do "most people" take notes on a tablet or smartphone while reading a document on a tablet or smartphone? Do they read the document on the tablet and take notes on the smartphone?
The article "The hidden costs of building an Android device" by Charles Arthur and Samuel Gibbs states that as of three years ago, the compliance testing to qualify for a Google Play license cost tens of thousands of dollars, or on the order of $1 per device. Even though the article states that the amount is payable to approved "third party testing facilities," not directly to Google, the article does not mention how much Google charges said facilities to become approved.
The article "Why Microsoft Makes $5 to $15 From Every Android Device Sold" by Chris Hoffman states that as of three years ago, Microsoft was collecting several dollars in patent royalties for each Android device for the use of patented processes, such as those essential to the FAT file system.
What has changed in the past three years, other than the replacement of a license for the VFAT patent(s) with one for the exFAT patent(s) after the expiry of the former and enshrinement of the latter in the SDXC specification?
UC Berkeley is taking down videos, which are "audiovisual works", not books, which are "literary works". This particular exception to copyright applies only to literary works, not to audiovisual works.
Good luck getting through [...] the semester of introductory programming that all freshmen at a particular college take, with just a Chromebook.
The vast majority of PC and/or cellphone users is not made up of Computer Science students
The majority of kids moving out of their parents' houses and into a freshman dorm are computer science students if only because college imposes it as "general education requirement", much like humanities for engineering students. Even some high schools are making programming a required subject. See, for example, Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code.
But new businesses (parallel = kids moving out of their parents' houses), may well opt for Chromebooks or Macs or 'anything that can run web apps'/.
Good luck getting through a computer science degree in college, or even just the semester of introductory programming that all freshmen at a particular college take, with just a Chromebook.
For how long has Android been usable on the desktop? I can see three possibilities; to which are you referring?
Remix OS
Remix OS came out 14 months ago but lacks Google Mobile Services. Without access to Google Play Store, where do Remix OS users find apps to install?
Stock Android 6 "Marshmallow" or earlier
If you open the calculator app, does it fill the screen? Is there a way to make it not fill the screen?
Stock Android 7 "Nougat" or later
Devices still for sale today are unlikely to get an OTA upgrade to Nougat.
You appear to be under the impression that Android is free software, and therefore, the royalty for putting Android on a device is zero. AOSP is free software, but Google Play Store and Google Play Services are not. Furthermore, makers of Android devices with a microSD slot that supports SDXC have to pay an exFAT patent royalty to Microsoft.
Another big problem with the Android userland is that from the start through Android 6 "Marshmallow", stock Android supported only one application on the screen at once, as opposed to the tiling or floating window management policies that X11 window managers for GNU/Linux support. Got your phone plugged into a 1080p monitor? You can't view a web browser or PDF reader in half or your notetaking app in the other half. Using a 10" tablet? Enjoy your 10" full-screen calculator app. Android 7 "Nougat" finally fixes this, but existing devices are unlikely to get an official update to Nougat.
DVR's are somewhat expensive (I can build one for around $300 CAD).
This is for a DVR that can record only free-to-air channels, correct? Because now that Microsoft has removed Windows Media Center from Windows 10, I'm not aware of any current PC operating system that is certified to record from a CableCARD tuner.
How much of this is because TiVo charges $750 for the DVR, comprising $200 for the hardware and $550 for the required program guide subscription? That could buy several years of Netflix.
Given that the NAS owner in your story will be using a self-signed cert (if he wasn't, then he would have been issued one by a Big CA, and he would already have a domain & etc...) and would _already_ be clicking through a "THIS IS A SELF-SIGNED CERT, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA DO THIS!?!?!?" warning
The NAS owner in my story was previously using cleartext HTTP. Switching from cleartext HTTP to HTTPS requires buying a domain.
It's just a warning. And, I think you can just click the box that says "always trust this certificate."
Do the web browsers in video game consoles and set-top streaming boxes even have this box to check? If not, you can't use a self-signed certificate to stream to them from your NAS.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for an authorized entity to reproduce or to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published, nondramatic literary work if such copies or phonorecords are reproduced or distributed in specialized formats exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities.
If you work the evening shift, your trip out still contributes to the evening rush hour. If you work the overnight shift, your trip back in still contributes to the morning rush hour. If you use your car only on Sundays, you still need to pay for maintenance and insurance on a car. And when you have a car, you drive your car.
Firefox 52.0 ESR implements a "This connection is not secure" warning for non-secure pages that require user logins
Imagine for a moment that you're seeing this notice on your home NAS. You'd consider making it secure, but a secure page requires a TLS certificate. Because friends and family bring their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops to access your home server, you don't want them to have to first install an internal root certificate. A TLS certificate that others already trust requires a domain because the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbids issuing a certificate for a made-up TLD or a private IPv4 address (such as 192.168/16). So now it appears everyone with a home server will have to buy a domain in order to make this go away.
If you live in a city that doesn't run its buses from 8:45 PM to 5:45 AM (source), and you're given hours at night, you need a car in order not to have to spend the majority of your paycheck on a taxi or lose your job. If you live in a city that doesn't run its buses on Sundays, and you're given hours on Sunday, you need a car in order not to have to spend the majority of your paycheck on a taxi or lose your job.
and idiots living one hour away from work that are the problem.
A lot of jobs don't pay enough to rent a place to live closer to work. How are people "idiots" for taking advantage of a sharp gradient in annual housing costs? Perhaps the real "idiots" serve on the city's zoning board that created this situation.
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Lolno. All it requires is creation of a local CA and signing a TLS cert with that CA.
How do you plan to install said local CA's root certificate on each device brought by a visitor to your home?
stock Android supported only one application on the screen at once
My G3 came with Android 5 and supported running two apps side by side
That was a manufacturer customization, not stock Android. Some Samsung devices received a similar customization. Usually it involved zooming out, so as to maintain a requirement in the Android 5 "Lollipop" Compatibility Definition Document (CDD) that the screen size presented to the application not change after installation. But zooming out had the downside of often making text unreadably small. Some implementations, such as Samsung's, additionally allowed applications to opt into a tiling window management by specifying a Samsung-specific tag in the application's manifest file. But any application whose manifest did not specify so could run only in the full screen or zoomed out. In any case, it was not a standard feature of the Android operating system until Android 7 "Nougat".
so you are a liar.
Insults are uncalled for.
Uhh, Google Play Store is just an app and is installable on ANY Android distribution.
Installing Google Play Store on a device that is not licensed to run Google Play Store is infringement of copyright, which incurs severe civil and/or criminal penalties under United States law and the laws of other Berne Convention contracting states.
Official Remix OS devices come with Google Play Store.
That was true prior to Remix OS 2.0.307. As of Remix OS 2.0.307 and later, Google Play Store is no longer included in Remix OS. From the article "Remix Mini users will lose access to Google Play if they install the latest Remix OS update" by Osarumen Osamuyi:
Do Windows 8 Metro apps fill the screen?
They are not required to. Windows 8 and Windows RT included the "Snap an App" feature, which allowed using three-fourths of the width of the screen for one UWP app and one-fourth for another. Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 made the division more flexible.
Most PCs won't be upgraded to Windows 10 either.
Microsoft provides the means for any owner of a compatible PC to purchase and install the Windows 10 operating system. In fact, for a year, Microsoft ran a promotion where anybody with a valid Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license could obtain a Windows 10 license without charge. In addition, installing Windows 10 preserves the user's documents. With Android devices not called Nexus or Pixel, on the other hand, only the manufacturer can sign OTA updates, not Google. On those devices whose bootloader can be unlocked, installing a different system software image causes the user's data to be wiped. And many manufacturers don't provide a way to unlock a device's bootloader in the first place.
In addition, most people don't need or want a full PC. Most people are happy using a tablet or smartphone.
What do "most people", those who you claim "are happy using a tablet or smartphone", do when they need to type something substantial? Do they buy a Bluetooth keyboard and carry it with them? And how do "most people" take notes on a tablet or smartphone while reading a document on a tablet or smartphone? Do they read the document on the tablet and take notes on the smartphone?
Google Play is "free as in beer".
The article "The hidden costs of building an Android device" by Charles Arthur and Samuel Gibbs states that as of three years ago, the compliance testing to qualify for a Google Play license cost tens of thousands of dollars, or on the order of $1 per device. Even though the article states that the amount is payable to approved "third party testing facilities," not directly to Google, the article does not mention how much Google charges said facilities to become approved.
The article "Why Microsoft Makes $5 to $15 From Every Android Device Sold" by Chris Hoffman states that as of three years ago, Microsoft was collecting several dollars in patent royalties for each Android device for the use of patented processes, such as those essential to the FAT file system.
What has changed in the past three years, other than the replacement of a license for the VFAT patent(s) with one for the exFAT patent(s) after the expiry of the former and enshrinement of the latter in the SDXC specification?
UC Berkeley is taking down videos, which are "audiovisual works", not books, which are "literary works". This particular exception to copyright applies only to literary works, not to audiovisual works.
kids moving out of their parents' houses
Good luck getting through [...] the semester of introductory programming that all freshmen at a particular college take, with just a Chromebook.
The vast majority of PC and/or cellphone users is not made up of Computer Science students
The majority of kids moving out of their parents' houses and into a freshman dorm are computer science students if only because college imposes it as "general education requirement", much like humanities for engineering students. Even some high schools are making programming a required subject. See, for example, Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code.
But new businesses (parallel = kids moving out of their parents' houses), may well opt for Chromebooks or Macs or 'anything that can run web apps'/.
Good luck getting through a computer science degree in college, or even just the semester of introductory programming that all freshmen at a particular college take, with just a Chromebook.
For how long has Android been usable on the desktop? I can see three possibilities; to which are you referring?
Remix OS Remix OS came out 14 months ago but lacks Google Mobile Services. Without access to Google Play Store, where do Remix OS users find apps to install? Stock Android 6 "Marshmallow" or earlier If you open the calculator app, does it fill the screen? Is there a way to make it not fill the screen? Stock Android 7 "Nougat" or later Devices still for sale today are unlikely to get an OTA upgrade to Nougat.You appear to be under the impression that Android is free software, and therefore, the royalty for putting Android on a device is zero. AOSP is free software, but Google Play Store and Google Play Services are not. Furthermore, makers of Android devices with a microSD slot that supports SDXC have to pay an exFAT patent royalty to Microsoft.
Another big problem with the Android userland is that from the start through Android 6 "Marshmallow", stock Android supported only one application on the screen at once, as opposed to the tiling or floating window management policies that X11 window managers for GNU/Linux support. Got your phone plugged into a 1080p monitor? You can't view a web browser or PDF reader in half or your notetaking app in the other half. Using a 10" tablet? Enjoy your 10" full-screen calculator app. Android 7 "Nougat" finally fixes this, but existing devices are unlikely to get an official update to Nougat.
DVR's are somewhat expensive (I can build one for around $300 CAD).
This is for a DVR that can record only free-to-air channels, correct? Because now that Microsoft has removed Windows Media Center from Windows 10, I'm not aware of any current PC operating system that is certified to record from a CableCARD tuner.
How much of this is because TiVo charges $750 for the DVR, comprising $200 for the hardware and $550 for the required program guide subscription? That could buy several years of Netflix.
Given that the NAS owner in your story will be using a self-signed cert (if he wasn't, then he would have been issued one by a Big CA, and he would already have a domain & etc...) and would _already_ be clicking through a "THIS IS A SELF-SIGNED CERT, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA DO THIS!?!?!?" warning
The NAS owner in my story was previously using cleartext HTTP. Switching from cleartext HTTP to HTTPS requires buying a domain.
It's just a warning. And, I think you can just click the box that says "always trust this certificate."
Do the web browsers in video game consoles and set-top streaming boxes even have this box to check? If not, you can't use a self-signed certificate to stream to them from your NAS.
Overage fees assessed by an ISP are generally not refundable.
The relevant statute is Title 17, United States Code, Section 121: Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction for blind or other people with disabilities. It begins as follows:
If you work the evening shift, your trip out still contributes to the evening rush hour. If you work the overnight shift, your trip back in still contributes to the morning rush hour. If you use your car only on Sundays, you still need to pay for maintenance and insurance on a car. And when you have a car, you drive your car.
Someone who works days Wednesday through Sunday both is affected by Sunday downtime and contributes to rush hour traffic.
Firefox 52.0 ESR implements a "This connection is not secure" warning for non-secure pages that require user logins
Imagine for a moment that you're seeing this notice on your home NAS. You'd consider making it secure, but a secure page requires a TLS certificate. Because friends and family bring their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops to access your home server, you don't want them to have to first install an internal root certificate. A TLS certificate that others already trust requires a domain because the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbids issuing a certificate for a made-up TLD or a private IPv4 address (such as 192.168/16). So now it appears everyone with a home server will have to buy a domain in order to make this go away.
Then take one that does
Provided you have enough self-marketing skills to get more than one job offer. That doesn't come naturally to many in Slashdot's demographic.
Last week we had the first of what we're calling "Car-Magedon" occur here.
Perhaps you could take out your frustration by playing Carmageddon.
This is the approach here; wide enough to catch cars, but so wide that emergency vehicles like ambulances and fire engines aren't inconvenienced.
Police cruisers are both cars and emergency vehicles.
Speed bumps are not the answer because they also impede emergency first responders.
it's selfish people who don't use mass transit
If you live in a city that doesn't run its buses from 8:45 PM to 5:45 AM (source), and you're given hours at night, you need a car in order not to have to spend the majority of your paycheck on a taxi or lose your job. If you live in a city that doesn't run its buses on Sundays, and you're given hours on Sunday, you need a car in order not to have to spend the majority of your paycheck on a taxi or lose your job.
and idiots living one hour away from work that are the problem.
A lot of jobs don't pay enough to rent a place to live closer to work. How are people "idiots" for taking advantage of a sharp gradient in annual housing costs? Perhaps the real "idiots" serve on the city's zoning board that created this situation.
figure out all those Tool lyrics
Why are your hands covered in sheep blood and gum?