If your reply is that maps ought to be native executable applications, then good luck emulating a Windows executable on macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
You DON'T NEED A WEB APP. EVER. It is the most ridiculous way to do anything.
If your primary computing device is a Windows PC, how do you run a mapping application designed for macOS?
If your primary computing device is a Mac, how do you run a mapping application designed for Windows?
If your primary computing device is a smartphone or tablet computer, how do you run a mapping application designed for Windows or macOS?
Telephone in those days also had substantial per-minute charges, especially an international conference call
Here there was never a charge for local calling, going back at least 60 years.
Did this include local conference calling? I know it didn't include long-distance calling or especially international calling when I was growing up. In addition, POTS operated on a live streaming basis as opposed to store-and-forward, requiring all users to be awake and at the phone at the same time.
What type of moron-in-a-hurry would add his bank data to a phone ?
Someone who has an account at a bank that offers an application to deposit paper checks by scanning the front and rear, but which works only on iOS and Android devices with a rear camera, not on desktop computers with a flatbed scanner or webcam.
We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs)
Even if there is no NAT upstream of you, there may still be a stateful firewall upstream of you that performs all functions that a typical NAT gateway performs except for actual address translation.
No CSS, no Javascript, and no ads would mean a lot less concern about bandwidth and latency
Without the possibility of showing messages from sponsors, how should a writer afford to feed herself in order to continue to write?
Consider a mapping web application such as Google Maps. Without the ability to position map pieces with CSS, and without the ability to detect real-time requests for movement within the map, how would that work? It'd have to use buttons for north, south, west, east, zoom in, zoom out, enlarge window horizontally, shrink window horizontally, enlarge window vertically, and shrink window vertically, with a full-page reload for each. And every time you click a result shown on the map, another full-page reload. If you claim that these full-page reloads provide a better user experience than the positioning and scripts that underlie Google Maps, I'd be interested to read how you back up this claim.
If your reply is that maps ought to be native executable applications, then good luck emulating a Windows executable on macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
Now if you'll excuse me my colleagues (normal people) are trying to show me a video on their phone.
It's easier to ask "Can it wait for Wi-Fi?" for a video than for text.
Most people however do not have adverts as the primary bandwidth user.
You'd be surprised at how many text articles on major news sites have video ads between paragraphs nowadays. I used to be able to block them all with Flashblock, and later SWF click-to-play functionality built into Firefox, until browser publishers started making SWF cilck-to-play the default and ad networks wised up. Now I instead use tracking protection built into Firefox, which works because all major video ad providers happen to track users from one site to another.
My US cell phone carrier for instance, T-Mobile, is receiving money from Google to stop counting the bandwidth used by youtube against my quota.
Since when is money exchanged for this? I thought T-Mobile allowed video providers to register for Binge On at no charge. A provider just has to recognize when a stream's connection is being throttled and scale back the stream to no more than 1.5 Mbps.
It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
Maximizing plain UTF-8 text on an ultra-wide display also makes lines of text so long that the user's eyes and brain have trouble finding the next line, often either skipping a line or repeating one. If the plain text viewer application is configured to wrap at a more readable width, up to 80 columns (40em in CSS units), then it wastes just as much horizontal space as a web browser.
Telephone in those days also had substantial per-minute charges, especially an international conference call that would have been the counterpart to something like Usenet or IRC.
After seeing what CBS is doing to Axanar Productions, perhaps AMD wanted to avoid exclusive rights in the "tick, tick, tick" theme song from CBS's 60 Minutes.
People who own only an iPhone, iPad, and game consoles. Apple's App Store Review Guidelines require iOS apps to be "self-contained", meaning an emulator must come with any required ROMs. In practice, this means only a game's publisher can publish an emulator on the App Store.
DeplorableCodeMonkey was suggesting that Nintendo license said games from said companies.
But I agree with you that this wouldn't be practical. When Virtual Console was first announced, GoldenEye and Tetris were listed as examples of games that would be impractical to license. The NES doesn't have GoldenEye, but James Bond Jr. would have the same practical problems.
For one thing, the computer desk is usually in a separate room from the living room TV, and not everybody has the authority to pull HDMI and USB cables through the wall, especially if they rent or live in a jurisdiction that has made it a crime for anybody but a licensed electrician to pull cables through a wall. For another, a Windows PC usually* can't be used for web browsing or whatever other tasks while it is in use for NES emulation.
* Without paying extra for Remote Desktop and the like.
Who is going to start writing new games for the Nintendo Classic?
Probably the same people who are still writing new games for the original NES in the first place: KHAN Games, Retrotainment, Rainwarrior, and the like.
They got people to purchase old games running on an emulator for $60. Which you can get for free.
Doing it without your ISP threatening to shut off your connection for copyright infringement isn't "for free". Doing it on your living room TV as opposed to your computer desk in another room isn't "for free". A gamepad isn't "for free" either.
A lot of Slashdot users have friends and family members who don't belong on this site by your criterion. They lack the time to set up RetroPie individually for each of them. Besides, I thought an RPi board, case, and controller already cost as much as this Nintendo product, and that's without ROM licenses.
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I remember as a kid that the cool kids had an STP sticker on their bike. Which definitely didn't use any additives like STP.
Did they also hum Stone Temple Pilots songs? If so, STP was probably a reference to that band.
Goldeneye would share more licensing trouble in common with RC Pro Am than James Bond Jr.
I was referring to the Danjaq connection, which is why RC Pro-Am and Perfect Dark appeared in Rare Replay and GoldenEye didn't.
If your reply is that maps ought to be native executable applications, then good luck emulating a Windows executable on macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
You DON'T NEED A WEB APP. EVER. It is the most ridiculous way to do anything.
If your primary computing device is a Windows PC, how do you run a mapping application designed for macOS?
If your primary computing device is a Mac, how do you run a mapping application designed for Windows?
If your primary computing device is a smartphone or tablet computer, how do you run a mapping application designed for Windows or macOS?
Telephone in those days also had substantial per-minute charges, especially an international conference call
Here there was never a charge for local calling, going back at least 60 years.
Did this include local conference calling? I know it didn't include long-distance calling or especially international calling when I was growing up. In addition, POTS operated on a live streaming basis as opposed to store-and-forward, requiring all users to be awake and at the phone at the same time.
Without a contract, I got a pair of $1 android phones when we switched carriers.
And these phones are probably useless on any other carrier. It's subsidized by the expectation of remaining on a data plan with that same carrier.
$300 is about 40cents/day.
Does that include the cost of properly recycling electronic waste?
then the service provider has to approve and push the updates
If my phone is GSM and unlocked, and I have removed the SIM and restarted the phone with no SIM, then who is its "service provider"?
What type of moron-in-a-hurry would add his bank data to a phone ?
Someone who has an account at a bank that offers an application to deposit paper checks by scanning the front and rear, but which works only on iOS and Android devices with a rear camera, not on desktop computers with a flatbed scanner or webcam.
We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs)
Even if there is no NAT upstream of you, there may still be a stateful firewall upstream of you that performs all functions that a typical NAT gateway performs except for actual address translation.
No CSS, no Javascript, and no ads would mean a lot less concern about bandwidth and latency
Without the possibility of showing messages from sponsors, how should a writer afford to feed herself in order to continue to write?
Consider a mapping web application such as Google Maps. Without the ability to position map pieces with CSS, and without the ability to detect real-time requests for movement within the map, how would that work? It'd have to use buttons for north, south, west, east, zoom in, zoom out, enlarge window horizontally, shrink window horizontally, enlarge window vertically, and shrink window vertically, with a full-page reload for each. And every time you click a result shown on the map, another full-page reload. If you claim that these full-page reloads provide a better user experience than the positioning and scripts that underlie Google Maps, I'd be interested to read how you back up this claim.
If your reply is that maps ought to be native executable applications, then good luck emulating a Windows executable on macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
Now if you'll excuse me my colleagues (normal people) are trying to show me a video on their phone.
It's easier to ask "Can it wait for Wi-Fi?" for a video than for text.
Most people however do not have adverts as the primary bandwidth user.
You'd be surprised at how many text articles on major news sites have video ads between paragraphs nowadays. I used to be able to block them all with Flashblock, and later SWF click-to-play functionality built into Firefox, until browser publishers started making SWF cilck-to-play the default and ad networks wised up. Now I instead use tracking protection built into Firefox, which works because all major video ad providers happen to track users from one site to another.
My US cell phone carrier for instance, T-Mobile, is receiving money from Google to stop counting the bandwidth used by youtube against my quota.
Since when is money exchanged for this? I thought T-Mobile allowed video providers to register for Binge On at no charge. A provider just has to recognize when a stream's connection is being throttled and scale back the stream to no more than 1.5 Mbps.
It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
Maximizing plain UTF-8 text on an ultra-wide display also makes lines of text so long that the user's eyes and brain have trouble finding the next line, often either skipping a line or repeating one. If the plain text viewer application is configured to wrap at a more readable width, up to 80 columns (40em in CSS units), then it wastes just as much horizontal space as a web browser.
Telephone in those days also had substantial per-minute charges, especially an international conference call that would have been the counterpart to something like Usenet or IRC.
Yes. Some people just want an MFing website. Others are willing to spend an extra 151 bytes on making it readable.
Even showing and hiding replies can be done without script in 98 percent of browsers, using a small amount of CSS3 to restyle a checkbox.
As I understand it, Lumpy is claiming that Ryzen beats rebranded Core M CPUs but not enthusiast-class i5 and i7 CPUs.
After seeing what CBS is doing to Axanar Productions, perhaps AMD wanted to avoid exclusive rights in the "tick, tick, tick" theme song from CBS's 60 Minutes.
Nintendo has the longest, largest, and most voluminous history of going after fan sequels and the like of anyone.
Longer than, say, The Tetris Company?
promptly closing holes in the Wii
Sony did this first with PSP firmware cat-and-mouse.
People who own only an iPhone, iPad, and game consoles. Apple's App Store Review Guidelines require iOS apps to be "self-contained", meaning an emulator must come with any required ROMs. In practice, this means only a game's publisher can publish an emulator on the App Store.
DeplorableCodeMonkey was suggesting that Nintendo license said games from said companies.
But I agree with you that this wouldn't be practical. When Virtual Console was first announced, GoldenEye and Tetris were listed as examples of games that would be impractical to license. The NES doesn't have GoldenEye, but James Bond Jr. would have the same practical problems.
For one thing, the computer desk is usually in a separate room from the living room TV, and not everybody has the authority to pull HDMI and USB cables through the wall, especially if they rent or live in a jurisdiction that has made it a crime for anybody but a licensed electrician to pull cables through a wall. For another, a Windows PC usually* can't be used for web browsing or whatever other tasks while it is in use for NES emulation.
* Without paying extra for Remote Desktop and the like.
Who is going to start writing new games for the Nintendo Classic?
Probably the same people who are still writing new games for the original NES in the first place: KHAN Games, Retrotainment, Rainwarrior, and the like.
They got people to purchase old games running on an emulator for $60. Which you can get for free.
Doing it without your ISP threatening to shut off your connection for copyright infringement isn't "for free". Doing it on your living room TV as opposed to your computer desk in another room isn't "for free". A gamepad isn't "for free" either.
A lot of Slashdot users have friends and family members who don't belong on this site by your criterion. They lack the time to set up RetroPie individually for each of them. Besides, I thought an RPi board, case, and controller already cost as much as this Nintendo product, and that's without ROM licenses.
I'm criticizing them for not having the ability to reinvent the wheel if necessary, such as in a disaster that takes out local access to the Internet.