It depends on what you call "not that expensive". Even a no-name USB flash drive is more expensive than a blank floppy or CD for the purposes of distributing physical copies of data to the public. This includes, for example, distributing source code "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" pursuant to the GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, or another copyleft license.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, with a link to a reliable source of bulk USB flash drives.
If your file is smaller than 1.25 MB, $33 is a lot of money to spend to sneakernet one copy of a file to one person. It was also bigger than many email providers' attachment limit prior to wide availability of Gmail.
So when was the last time that you used a keyboard with a PS/2 connector?
The analogy between the PS/2 to USB transition and the 3.5 mm to Lightning transition is imperfect. First, the governing body for USB (USB Implementers Forum) isn't nearly as dominated by one company as the governing body for Lightning (only Apple). Second, the vast majority of laptops with USB ports still have a barrel connector for power; only Apple is pushing laptops that have only one port to connect both peripherals and the charger.
we can do that ourselves (crowdfunding, or producers taking some of the money from their last project)
Where do producers get money for their first substantial project, in order to 1. inform prospective backers that the project exists in the first place and 2. convince prospective backers that the producers are legitimate?
As I imagine it: The owner of a computing device, such as an employer, can use Secure Boot to lock out people who have momentary physical access to a machine without ownership, such as employees, from using unapproved operating system software.
I'm typing this comment into a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 convertible laptop. Its mainboard has two RAM slots that officially take modules up to 2 GiB, for a total of 4 GiB. So after I have followed your advice to buy more RAM, where should I put it so that the computer can use it?
Can markets do this without there already being some inefficiently managed government-granted exclusive right? For example, local ISPs have been able to assert market power because cities have inefficiently managed their rights of way.
That is long-term abuse. Eventually markets find ways to navigate around abuse. [...] Run Windows programs under Linux? How to run Windows software in Linux: Everything you need to know
Summary of Chris Hoffman's article:
1. Wine 2. Virtual machines 3. Dual-booting
Two methods mentioned in this article require a Windows license, which continues the same sort of abuse. All three continue the alleged abuses of Intel and AMD because they won't work on ARM computers, such as a Raspberry Pi or Pinebook.
What type of expensive IPs are you seeing being applied to cards because I'm not seeing any?
Children's birthday cards with big numbers on them, particularly those by Hallmark or American Greetings, are more likely to have famous cartoon characters.
How the fuck can people live out in these god forsaken backwoods places where you have to drive for a half hour to get to a bodega?
Would you prefer that farmers moved to the city and stopped farming? Then you'd have nothing to eat. Or would you prefer that farmers moved to the city and brought their animals with them?
We have one near us - it’s not a grocery store. It is a great place to buy greeting cards, gift wrap (or gift bags), stuff like that. The kind of stuff which is priced unreasonably high elsewhere.
Your Dollar Tree store might be smaller than the one that's about 1.5 miles from my home. It has a party supplies aisle (as you mentioned), a food aisle (mostly snacks), a health and beauty aisle, a toy aisle, and a few others I'm not remembering. I used to hit their snack aisle once every couple weeks for boxes of raisins and "fruit and grain" bars to take to work (until I learned about ALDI, that is).
Seriously - why should a paper birthday card cost seven or eight bucks?
Much of that goes into licensing the famous cartoon character that appears on an expensive Hallmark greeting card but not on the cheaper cards that Dollar Tree sells for $1.00 and Walmart sells for $0.98.
Niue's TLD.nu became more popular in Scandinavia, as nu means "now" in Swedish, and it was open to individuals before Sweden's own.se was. At one time, many erotic sites for the francophone market were in.nu, as nu means "naked" in French.
To run a web server on a personal domain (aka "IndieWeb"), you first need to be technical enough to do so, and then you need to pay a recurring fee for a domain and hosting. In many cases, this hosting can't be on a Raspberry Pi or other machine in a subscriber's home for any of three reasons:
The router puts the home network behind a NAT, and the user isn't technical enough to know how to forward a port.
The ISP blocks common inbound ports (particularly 443, 80, and 25), or the ISP places an entire neighborhood behind a NAT in order to conserve IPv4 addresses.
The ISP warns and then disconnects home users who "run a server" without first paying to upgrade to business service.
If the most important thing is absolute throughput, then you need to pack like sardines to minimize wait on entry. This is likely never true except in an exceptional place during exceptional demand.
What the featured article refers to as "the city’s busiest transit hubs" you might indeed call "an exceptional place". Besides, the article appears to imply that in JR East's opinion, the most important thing might be neither throughput nor latency but collision safety, particularly for people carrying bulky and/or heavy luggage.
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There are plenty of jobs which don't require having a phone.
In my experience, application forms that allow leaving phone blank are few and far between.
And, you say it as if there aren't basic phones available, whether landline, VoIP, or basic cellular "feature phones."
If one is trained as a smartphone app developer, none of those qualify for testing your product. Food while retraining for a different job is a need.
It depends on what you call "not that expensive". Even a no-name USB flash drive is more expensive than a blank floppy or CD for the purposes of distributing physical copies of data to the public. This includes, for example, distributing source code "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" pursuant to the GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, or another copyleft license.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, with a link to a reliable source of bulk USB flash drives.
If your file is smaller than 1.25 MB, $33 is a lot of money to spend to sneakernet one copy of a file to one person. It was also bigger than many email providers' attachment limit prior to wide availability of Gmail.
So when was the last time that you used a keyboard with a PS/2 connector?
The analogy between the PS/2 to USB transition and the 3.5 mm to Lightning transition is imperfect. First, the governing body for USB (USB Implementers Forum) isn't nearly as dominated by one company as the governing body for Lightning (only Apple). Second, the vast majority of laptops with USB ports still have a barrel connector for power; only Apple is pushing laptops that have only one port to connect both peripherals and the charger.
at home people connect to bluetooth speakers
Unless the listener is using headphones so as not to distract someone else in the house who is working from home.
Similar in modern cars
Replacing a non-modern car with a modern car just for its Bluetooth receiver is probably not practical. People still use aux in or even tape adapters.
Well, smartphones aren't needed, either. Like them, it is a want.
No phone, no job. No job, no food until you can find a different one. Is it still a want?
The vast majority of FM radio is ads 24/7. Even the music is ads for the albums the songs are on.
I don't buy phones that don't have one.
Tell that to someone who resolved not to buy phones that lack a QWERTY keyboard.
Correct. In theory, an employer can use Secure Boot to allow only the employer's GNU/Linux distribution and lock out unlicensed copies of Windows.
X61 will support 8GB of RAM.
The official specs say two 2 GB modules, but this may have been because Lenovo lacked 4 GB modules to test with. Are there increased crashes or other misbehaviors when using two 4 GB modules in an X61?
The ISP blocks common inbound ports (particularly 443, 80, and 25)
it's useful as an email domain.
How is your home server going to send or receive email if the ISP blocks port 25 "for spam prevention purposes"?
we can do that ourselves (crowdfunding, or producers taking some of the money from their last project)
Where do producers get money for their first substantial project, in order to 1. inform prospective backers that the project exists in the first place and 2. convince prospective backers that the producers are legitimate?
As I imagine it: The owner of a computing device, such as an employer, can use Secure Boot to lock out people who have momentary physical access to a machine without ownership, such as employees, from using unapproved operating system software.
I'm typing this comment into a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 convertible laptop. Its mainboard has two RAM slots that officially take modules up to 2 GiB, for a total of 4 GiB. So after I have followed your advice to buy more RAM, where should I put it so that the computer can use it?
Markets encourage bad behaving monopolies
Can markets do this without there already being some inefficiently managed government-granted exclusive right? For example, local ISPs have been able to assert market power because cities have inefficiently managed their rights of way.
That is long-term abuse. Eventually markets find ways to navigate around abuse. [...] Run Windows programs under Linux? How to run Windows software in Linux: Everything you need to know
Summary of Chris Hoffman's article:
1. Wine
2. Virtual machines
3. Dual-booting
Two methods mentioned in this article require a Windows license, which continues the same sort of abuse. All three continue the alleged abuses of Intel and AMD because they won't work on ARM computers, such as a Raspberry Pi or Pinebook.
What type of expensive IPs are you seeing being applied to cards because I'm not seeing any?
Children's birthday cards with big numbers on them, particularly those by Hallmark or American Greetings, are more likely to have famous cartoon characters.
It's a contraction of "Albrechts Discount". Long ago it split into two companies, and one of the two operates in the States as "Trader Joe's".
How the fuck can people live out in these god forsaken backwoods places where you have to drive for a half hour to get to a bodega?
Would you prefer that farmers moved to the city and stopped farming? Then you'd have nothing to eat. Or would you prefer that farmers moved to the city and brought their animals with them?
Compromise: how about a two-fifty store?
You'd probably like Five Below if there's one in your area. Or try Dollar General or Family Dollar.
We have one near us - it’s not a grocery store. It is a great place to buy greeting cards, gift wrap (or gift bags), stuff like that. The kind of stuff which is priced unreasonably high elsewhere.
Your Dollar Tree store might be smaller than the one that's about 1.5 miles from my home. It has a party supplies aisle (as you mentioned), a food aisle (mostly snacks), a health and beauty aisle, a toy aisle, and a few others I'm not remembering. I used to hit their snack aisle once every couple weeks for boxes of raisins and "fruit and grain" bars to take to work (until I learned about ALDI, that is).
Seriously - why should a paper birthday card cost seven or eight bucks?
Much of that goes into licensing the famous cartoon character that appears on an expensive Hallmark greeting card but not on the cheaper cards that Dollar Tree sells for $1.00 and Walmart sells for $0.98.
Niue's TLD .nu became more popular in Scandinavia, as nu means "now" in Swedish, and it was open to individuals before Sweden's own .se was. At one time, many erotic sites for the francophone market were in .nu, as nu means "naked" in French.
To run a web server on a personal domain (aka "IndieWeb"), you first need to be technical enough to do so, and then you need to pay a recurring fee for a domain and hosting. In many cases, this hosting can't be on a Raspberry Pi or other machine in a subscriber's home for any of three reasons:
this is the one where Conan pursued the Doctor to the safety of
Was this before or after Conan's fight with Jay Leno?
If the most important thing is absolute throughput, then you need to pack like sardines to minimize wait on entry. This is likely never true except in an exceptional place during exceptional demand.
What the featured article refers to as "the city’s busiest transit hubs" you might indeed call "an exceptional place". Besides, the article appears to imply that in JR East's opinion, the most important thing might be neither throughput nor latency but collision safety, particularly for people carrying bulky and/or heavy luggage.