We have to pay to develop software now? We can't use our own tools?
That's been true since iOS 2. In addition to a device on which to test, you have to buy a Mac (in addition to whatever other brand of computer you might already own) and a $99 per year certificate once you're ready to publish.
If a window spans two screens that have different DPI values, how should the window system behave?
If a PC is connected to a physically large monitor, such as an HDTV, the user is likely to be sitting significantly farther away than arm's length. If the virtual DPI is then set equal to the physical DPI, body text drawn under the assumption that the display is at least 72 dpi is unlikely to be readable.
Of considerable concern is the court’s conclusion that the availability of a Nintendo-approved interoperability approach would be enough to eliminate the availability of the anti-circumvention interoperability exception. The court stated: "the Applicant’s evidence establishes that there are legitimate paths for developers to develop software on its consoles without circumventing the Applicant’s TPMs. There is no need for any TPM circumvention to achieve interoperability"
First, because today I can go to Dell.com and buy an XPS 13, and I see no announcement of plans for that to change. Second, because K-12 and undergraduate need to be able to obtain at least a Raspberry Pi in order to teach students to program, and these are also available to the public, and I see no announcement of plans for that to change. Third, because the possibility remains of importing them from China, and I see no announcement of plans to block Chinese computers at customs.
I kill off all media sites that don't provide for a comment section
That depends on what you call "media sites". Do Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and the like have public comment sections? And who do you expect to pay for engineering, securing, and moderating each site's comment section? Would you blacklist my website because pages outside the wiki area have no comment section?
I don't generally kill off advertisers unless they misbehave
I rely on the blocking list used by Firefox Tracking Protection, which mostly consist of advertisers that "misbehave" by tracking users.
Any auto-play video is enough to get me to add a source to the hosts file
Including sites like YouTube.com?
Actually been thinking about publishing the "doesn't allow comments" section
I just wonder what use such a list would be. At least one other Slashdot user has claimed that, for example, because Disqus makes money from tracking users across sites, Disqus comments are worse than not bothering to engineer a commenting module at all.
Hangouts, Skype, and other video chat applications encode video in real time during a call. Or do you claim that most use only the text and audio features of those applications?
It was a crap move by Microsoft to sneakily renege on their advertised support schedule for Windows 7. "Yes, sure we support Windows 7 over the agreed lifecycle, but don't dare buy a new PC".
I at first understood it to mean that Microsoft includes new support for brand new PC hardware during the "mainstream support" phase, which for Windows 7 ended in January 2015 (source). The rest is extended support, which is mostly security updates and updates to the means of delivering security updates. But then I saw that Windows 8.1 is not getting hardware enablement while still in its mainstream support phase.
NOT forcing some 96dpi default just because some moron webdesigners weren't able to design things that scale
Then what should be the default? A 1080p panel with a (1920^2+1080^2)^.5/96 = 23 inch diagonal visible image size does indeed display 96 dpi. Should a user instead be shown an eye chart when logging in for the first time in order to set the display's virtual density?
When my mother can use it without me walking her through changing her monitor resolution
In Xubuntu, it's Start > Settings > Display. But because modern monitors have fixed pixels, you usually want to keep it at the highest supported resolution and change the scaling. That's in Start > Settings > Appearance > Fonts. And in either case, I'd have to do the same amount of "walking her through" under Windows.
actually with the advent of streaming everything, and instant replays of entire gaming sessions
How long will this remain true once video game publishers crack down on infringement of the publisher's exclusive right to perform a video game or audiovisual work publicly?
How is it "uninformed" to notify the editors of a problem with the article's availability, particularly on a discussion system that offers no mechanism to contact them privately?
Rendering and video encoding is not an end-user application
Watch for "no true Scotsman" fallacies. How exactly do you define "an end-user application"? One focused on viewing works of authorship made by others rather than creating works?
Every ten years, state legislatures and governors have the indirect power to declare war. Here are the steps:
1. Wait for a substantial increase or decrease in the state's population. 2. Redraw House districts in favor of the major political party more likely to declare war. 3. Wait for the new House to take office and pressure the Senate to join the House in declaring war.
I thought The Huffington Post already killed its comment section back in late 2013, when it added a requirement to link each comment account to a "verified" Facebook account. This in effect requires all commenters to subscribe to SMS-capable mobile phone service and share both the mobile phone number and Huffington Post identity with Facebook Inc.
I guess people assume net debt, which would exclude debt that the U.S. government owes itself. So they're probably trying to answer the related question: "Who holds the most U.S. Treasury debt, excluding debt held by another U.S. government agency or by the Federal Reserve System?"
That might be good for the comment section of the site hosting the article, where everybody in the comment section is presumed to have access to the article. It might not be ideal for a third-party comment section such as Slashdot, which is known to link to articles that I'm not allowed to read. Some articles are behind a different paywall from the one to which I already subscribe. Others require users of anti-tracking extensions to whitelist the site, thereby causing the browser to communicate with sites that track readers from one site to another. Still others are videos, which tend to lack complete descriptions and transcripts for users with disabilities, users in a quiet environment, and users who can read faster than they can listen.
But you can't run photoshop or skyrim on a netbook.
I agree that netbooks from their heyday (2008 to 2012) aren't suitable for recent AAA video games. This is because their chipsets tend to have Intel GMA, the predecessor of Intel HD Graphics, and GMA is by and large limited to the capabilities of OpenGL 1.4. Nor do I have experience with Adobe® Photoshop® software because I am not a licensee of that proprietary applciation. But I did useful work in GIMP on a Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook from 2010 yesterday, and over the past several years, I've used GIMP to prepare graphical assets for several commercially published video games. Is Photoshop that much more CPU-hungry than GIMP? Furthermore, I have run a C compiler (DJGPP, a port of GCC to MS-DOS) on a hand-me-down PC from the 1990s with a 25 MHz 486SX CPU and 8 MB of RAM and executed its output. What, other than artificial cryptographic lockdown, makes an ARM SoC from 2012 less powerful than a mid-1990s PC?
Who else made full-fledged(windows-based) tablet laptops for $900 in 2012? Nobody.
The same governments that you claim will impose a developer licensure regime and outsource its administration to a local subsidiary of an American corporation will also require the ability to make and use classified software for national defense purposes.
And why should they contribute money to the Wine project when they can buy off-the-shelf an OS that just works
In later stages of the rumored plan, editions of Windows below Enterprise will completely block installation of desktop applications, with the override tied to Windows Server and a volume license of Windows Enterprise. At this point, if the publisher of the application on which the business relies does not make it available to existing licensees through the Windows Store, Windows will no longer be "an OS that just works".
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We have to pay to develop software now? We can't use our own tools?
That's been true since iOS 2. In addition to a device on which to test, you have to buy a Mac (in addition to whatever other brand of computer you might already own) and a $99 per year certificate once you're ready to publish.
If a window spans two screens that have different DPI values, how should the window system behave?
If a PC is connected to a physically large monitor, such as an HDTV, the user is likely to be sitting significantly farther away than arm's length. If the virtual DPI is then set equal to the physical DPI, body text drawn under the assumption that the display is at least 72 dpi is unlikely to be readable.
From the featured article:
Nintendo's policy during the Wii's commercial lifetime was that only a company with "relevant video game industry experience" and a dedicated office detached from any residence had such "legitimate paths". This came to a head in 2009 when Nintendo's denial of a devkit to a home-based video game studio run by programmer Robert Pelloni made the news.
(Nintendo has since substantially loosened this policy, and Pelloni has since admitted that he should have released it on PC first.)
First, because today I can go to Dell.com and buy an XPS 13, and I see no announcement of plans for that to change.
Second, because K-12 and undergraduate need to be able to obtain at least a Raspberry Pi in order to teach students to program, and these are also available to the public, and I see no announcement of plans for that to change.
Third, because the possibility remains of importing them from China, and I see no announcement of plans to block Chinese computers at customs.
I kill off all media sites that don't provide for a comment section
That depends on what you call "media sites". Do Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and the like have public comment sections? And who do you expect to pay for engineering, securing, and moderating each site's comment section? Would you blacklist my website because pages outside the wiki area have no comment section?
I don't generally kill off advertisers unless they misbehave
I rely on the blocking list used by Firefox Tracking Protection, which mostly consist of advertisers that "misbehave" by tracking users.
Any auto-play video is enough to get me to add a source to the hosts file
Including sites like YouTube.com?
Actually been thinking about publishing the "doesn't allow comments" section
I just wonder what use such a list would be. At least one other Slashdot user has claimed that, for example, because Disqus makes money from tracking users across sites, Disqus comments are worse than not bothering to engineer a commenting module at all.
think about how few do things like video encoding
Hangouts, Skype, and other video chat applications encode video in real time during a call. Or do you claim that most use only the text and audio features of those applications?
It was a crap move by Microsoft to sneakily renege on their advertised support schedule for Windows 7. "Yes, sure we support Windows 7 over the agreed lifecycle, but don't dare buy a new PC".
I at first understood it to mean that Microsoft includes new support for brand new PC hardware during the "mainstream support" phase, which for Windows 7 ended in January 2015 (source). The rest is extended support, which is mostly security updates and updates to the means of delivering security updates. But then I saw that Windows 8.1 is not getting hardware enablement while still in its mainstream support phase.
NOT forcing some 96dpi default just because some moron webdesigners weren't able to design things that scale
Then what should be the default? A 1080p panel with a (1920^2+1080^2)^.5/96 = 23 inch diagonal visible image size does indeed display 96 dpi. Should a user instead be shown an eye chart when logging in for the first time in order to set the display's virtual density?
When my mother can use it without me walking her through changing her monitor resolution
In Xubuntu, it's Start > Settings > Display. But because modern monitors have fixed pixels, you usually want to keep it at the highest supported resolution and change the scaling. That's in Start > Settings > Appearance > Fonts. And in either case, I'd have to do the same amount of "walking her through" under Windows.
actually with the advent of streaming everything, and instant replays of entire gaming sessions
How long will this remain true once video game publishers crack down on infringement of the publisher's exclusive right to perform a video game or audiovisual work publicly?
Too bad Ryzen only supports Windows 10
Source? My sources say GNU/Linux runs on it.
How is it "uninformed" to notify the editors of a problem with the article's availability, particularly on a discussion system that offers no mechanism to contact them privately?
Rendering and video encoding is not an end-user application
Watch for "no true Scotsman" fallacies. How exactly do you define "an end-user application"? One focused on viewing works of authorship made by others rather than creating works?
7) What does the fox say?
The answer: "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was."
Every ten years, state legislatures and governors have the indirect power to declare war. Here are the steps:
1. Wait for a substantial increase or decrease in the state's population.
2. Redraw House districts in favor of the major political party more likely to declare war.
3. Wait for the new House to take office and pressure the Senate to join the House in declaring war.
The U.S. Republican Party did this in 2010, calling it the Redistricting Majority Project.
I thought The Huffington Post already killed its comment section back in late 2013, when it added a requirement to link each comment account to a "verified" Facebook account. This in effect requires all commenters to subscribe to SMS-capable mobile phone service and share both the mobile phone number and Huffington Post identity with Facebook Inc.
I guess people assume net debt, which would exclude debt that the U.S. government owes itself. So they're probably trying to answer the related question: "Who holds the most U.S. Treasury debt, excluding debt held by another U.S. government agency or by the Federal Reserve System?"
I assumed it was an allusion to the limit of 0.08 percent blood alcohol content for drivers on highways in the United States.
I've written programs, but not programs to build hosts files. I have, however, written an article about the pros and cons of using programs like APK's.
Likewise why post comments on an article one haven't even read?
That depends on the answer to the following question: Where else should one post a comment that one cannot read the article?
Bad idea. This is Slashdot.
That might be good for the comment section of the site hosting the article, where everybody in the comment section is presumed to have access to the article. It might not be ideal for a third-party comment section such as Slashdot, which is known to link to articles that I'm not allowed to read. Some articles are behind a different paywall from the one to which I already subscribe. Others require users of anti-tracking extensions to whitelist the site, thereby causing the browser to communicate with sites that track readers from one site to another. Still others are videos, which tend to lack complete descriptions and transcripts for users with disabilities, users in a quiet environment, and users who can read faster than they can listen.
But you can't run photoshop or skyrim on a netbook.
I agree that netbooks from their heyday (2008 to 2012) aren't suitable for recent AAA video games. This is because their chipsets tend to have Intel GMA, the predecessor of Intel HD Graphics, and GMA is by and large limited to the capabilities of OpenGL 1.4. Nor do I have experience with Adobe® Photoshop® software because I am not a licensee of that proprietary applciation. But I did useful work in GIMP on a Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook from 2010 yesterday, and over the past several years, I've used GIMP to prepare graphical assets for several commercially published video games. Is Photoshop that much more CPU-hungry than GIMP? Furthermore, I have run a C compiler (DJGPP, a port of GCC to MS-DOS) on a hand-me-down PC from the 1990s with a 25 MHz 486SX CPU and 8 MB of RAM and executed its output. What, other than artificial cryptographic lockdown, makes an ARM SoC from 2012 less powerful than a mid-1990s PC?
Who else made full-fledged(windows-based) tablet laptops for $900 in 2012? Nobody.
How much of this is because PC makers were deliberately discontinuing netbooks to chase the higher profit margin associated with premium tablets?
The same governments that you claim will impose a developer licensure regime and outsource its administration to a local subsidiary of an American corporation will also require the ability to make and use classified software for national defense purposes.
Dyn is just as vulnerable as AWS.
And why should they contribute money to the Wine project when they can buy off-the-shelf an OS that just works
In later stages of the rumored plan, editions of Windows below Enterprise will completely block installation of desktop applications, with the override tied to Windows Server and a volume license of Windows Enterprise. At this point, if the publisher of the application on which the business relies does not make it available to existing licensees through the Windows Store, Windows will no longer be "an OS that just works".