I don't see how a constantly updating Windows is much worse than a constantly updating Ubuntu?
No automatic reboots. An update to a userspace library takes effect the next time you start a process that imports a particular library. Kernel and systemd updates take effect only after a reboot, but those are manual.
"Private cloud" means you lease a VPS, such as an AWS EC2 instance, and install an application there. It's useful for keeping personal information within your own country.
Likewise, App Store distribution appeared to be mandatory. I didn't see any mention of Gatekeeper or any way to side load (unsigned) binaries
Then how does Xcode run on this ARM MacBook? Does it connect to the Internet every time the linker runs to submit a copy of the executable to Apple's robo-signing server? That could run up a data bill.
The only reason someone has a need to purchase a real computer now is because they have a real need for processing power (gaming, photo/video editing, developing software, running simulations).
Or they are business people who want to answer email and create other content using a real keyboard. Those users don't need an incredible amount of CPU power, but the laptop form factor is pretty ideal.
Why can't they use, say, an iPad with a keyboard cover?
Almost everything being written now on Windows 10 works fine on Windows 7, there's like what, two new APIs?
Plus the entirety of Universal Windows Platform, for which all applications must be rewritten if they're expected to work on Windows 10 Cloud (aka Crush Steam Edition), which is rumored to be the new name for Windows RT.
World-wide releases are 100% possible now. There isn't a ridiculous overhead cost to doing it like there is with physical media.
There is still an overhead cost for two reasons:
1. Language barriers. To make something practically exclusive to Japan, require fluency in the Japanese language for its use, and use technical and legal means to block fans from making and using infringing fan translations. 2. Countries still don't trust other countries' age rating boards.
iOS is not on desktops quite yet, but it is on a laptop of sorts. Some analysts seem to be under the impression that an iPad with a keyboard cover can replace a laptop for many users.
[A caching proxy at the ISP level] makes sense for mobile ISPs [...] But for wired internet, there is not a big [bandwidth] problem.
Except perhaps in remote areas, particularly in less-developed parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa. If an entire village has only (say) 1.5 Mbps to the Internet, it has to make the best use of that.
Citizens of EU member states still owe use tax when buying services from outside the EU. Unfortunately, the EU's page about this doesn't mention how citizens are supposed to pay VAT for imported services.
It's local. Create a self-signed certificate and add it to your client's certificate store.
This doesn't help in two cases:
1. Devices whose certificate store is managed by the manufacturer, not the device's owner, such as game consoles and other set-top streaming devices 2. BYOD, such as the phone, tablet, or laptop of a friend or relative visiting your house
Then why does each EU member have a separate seat at the UN, while the USA doesn't? Is it only that the USA predates the UN and the EU doesn't? Perhaps they're waiting for Brexit so that the veto power vested in France's permanent seat on the Security Council can be passed to the EU.
People want to buy from a profitable company because a profitable company appears more likely to continue to support its products and to provide its services.
How so? I thought installing another operating system on a Chromebook was possible only if the firmware is set to developer mode, and if the firmware is set to developer mode, it prompts whoever turns it on to press Space then Enter to wipe everything. Someone who picks up your laptop and turns it on won't know to press Ctrl+D or wait 30 seconds for the beeping to stop waking others sleeping in the same household. Instead, he or she will just do what the screen says, not knowing or not caring about the ensuing data loss.
You might think Windows 10 Cloud would be ideal for a K-12 student. But then he takes a programming class in high school and discovers that neither Visual Studio nor any other major IDE with a compiler is available through Windows Store. What's he supposed to do then?
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I don't see how a constantly updating Windows is much worse than a constantly updating Ubuntu?
No automatic reboots. An update to a userspace library takes effect the next time you start a process that imports a particular library. Kernel and systemd updates take effect only after a reboot, but those are manual.
Get some version of Linux instead, I recommend Linux Mint.
Google linux mint laptop leads to Linux Mint's partnership with ThinkPenguin. But there isn't a wide selection of laptops: nothing bigger or smaller than 14 inches. What company that isn't a Linux Mint partner makes laptops that work well with Linux Mint?
What features of Office 2016 does LibreOffice fail to replicate for you? Are you part of the minority who use Access and/or complex Excel macros?
What features of Visual Studio 2017 do the available free IDEs fail to replicate for you?
"Private cloud" means you lease a VPS, such as an AWS EC2 instance, and install an application there. It's useful for keeping personal information within your own country.
Likewise, App Store distribution appeared to be mandatory. I didn't see any mention of Gatekeeper or any way to side load (unsigned) binaries
Then how does Xcode run on this ARM MacBook? Does it connect to the Internet every time the linker runs to submit a copy of the executable to Apple's robo-signing server? That could run up a data bill.
Apple doesn't really want to eliminate macOS until it announces Xcode for iPad. Compare the Surface Pro and Surface 3, which can run Visual Studio.
[Anus alert II: I'm nitpicking your nitpick.]
and when I asked for a Big Mac at Burger King, they rang up the wrong burger
Go into BK and ask for a Big King.
The only reason someone has a need to purchase a real computer now is because they have a real need for processing power (gaming, photo/video editing, developing software, running simulations).
Or they are business people who want to answer email and create other content using a real keyboard. Those users don't need an incredible amount of CPU power, but the laptop form factor is pretty ideal.
Why can't they use, say, an iPad with a keyboard cover?
Almost everything being written now on Windows 10 works fine on Windows 7, there's like what, two new APIs?
Plus the entirety of Universal Windows Platform, for which all applications must be rewritten if they're expected to work on Windows 10 Cloud (aka Crush Steam Edition), which is rumored to be the new name for Windows RT.
World-wide releases are 100% possible now. There isn't a ridiculous overhead cost to doing it like there is with physical media.
There is still an overhead cost for two reasons:
1. Language barriers. To make something practically exclusive to Japan, require fluency in the Japanese language for its use, and use technical and legal means to block fans from making and using infringing fan translations.
2. Countries still don't trust other countries' age rating boards.
Steam is a service provided through the Internet. How is it "caught in customs"?
Hopefully if they hit this bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.
Does this mean Netflix is next?
iOS is not on desktops quite yet, but it is on a laptop of sorts. Some analysts seem to be under the impression that an iPad with a keyboard cover can replace a laptop for many users.
[A caching proxy at the ISP level] makes sense for mobile ISPs [...] But for wired internet, there is not a big [bandwidth] problem.
Except perhaps in remote areas, particularly in less-developed parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa. If an entire village has only (say) 1.5 Mbps to the Internet, it has to make the best use of that.
Citizens of EU member states still owe use tax when buying services from outside the EU. Unfortunately, the EU's page about this doesn't mention how citizens are supposed to pay VAT for imported services.
It's local. Create a self-signed certificate and add it to your client's certificate store.
This doesn't help in two cases:
1. Devices whose certificate store is managed by the manufacturer, not the device's owner, such as game consoles and other set-top streaming devices
2. BYOD, such as the phone, tablet, or laptop of a friend or relative visiting your house
If the government would keep their dirty hands out of the mobile communications market
Then nobody would be able to get a signal through as the carriers step on each other's spectrum.
Then why does each EU member have a separate seat at the UN, while the USA doesn't? Is it only that the USA predates the UN and the EU doesn't? Perhaps they're waiting for Brexit so that the veto power vested in France's permanent seat on the Security Council can be passed to the EU.
Let me rephrase:
Tablets that run applications sold through Google Play Store sold more units than tablets that run applications sold through Apple's App Store.
People want to buy from a profitable company because a profitable company appears more likely to continue to support its products and to provide its services.
I hear they're coming out with Soylent Green in a few months.
No, Soylent Red. Slashdot Green.
And in corporate networks, its possible to have MITM'ing proxies, adding certificates to the trust store.
How long before home and mobile ISPs require this of their subscribers in order to avoid a "direct connection surcharge"?
What was then known as iPhone OS closed up what was then known as Mac OS X.
You can install Steam OS on Chromebooks
How so? I thought installing another operating system on a Chromebook was possible only if the firmware is set to developer mode, and if the firmware is set to developer mode, it prompts whoever turns it on to press Space then Enter to wipe everything. Someone who picks up your laptop and turns it on won't know to press Ctrl+D or wait 30 seconds for the beeping to stop waking others sleeping in the same household. Instead, he or she will just do what the screen says, not knowing or not caring about the ensuing data loss.
You might think Windows 10 Cloud would be ideal for a K-12 student. But then he takes a programming class in high school and discovers that neither Visual Studio nor any other major IDE with a compiler is available through Windows Store. What's he supposed to do then?