But how much memory can these processes share, so that duplicate content doesn't spill out of RAM and into swap? Reference counting turns copy-on-write into copy-on-read, as Benjamin Peterson explains in a talk about CPython's garbage collector.
HTTPS doesn't "defeat" a caching proxy near the client. It only requires users of said proxy to take the step of trusting the proxy's root certificate. The one thing it "defeats" is an intercepting proxy that tries to hide its existence from its users.
And then end up getting modded down for making uninformed comments on account of not having read the featured article. Several sites admit that they can't tell tracking blocking (such as privacy.trackingprotection.enabled which uses Disconnect's list) from ad blocking, such as WIRED, The Atlantic, and the INQUIRER, and sites like Slashdot continue to link to stories on these sites.
As to refresh, I think that's become a user expectation that you see the most recent information when you pull up a tab.
Has it also "become a user expectation" that you pay once for high-volume (1000 GB/mo) wired Internet access at home and pay again for single digit GB/mo cellular Internet access just to "see the most recent information" rather than what was current when you loaded the page an hour ago before boarding transit?
For one thing, users expect to see thumbnails of huge images, sync status badges on Dropbox or other online backup services, multilingual filenames written in scripts whose coverage requires multiple fonts, etc.
Webpages are live. If I want to look at a chached version, I'll save the webpage locally.
Which extension do you use to save locally all pages that are open in a dozen or so tabs, so that they can be reloaded back into tabs once you are ready to read them? Or do you need to save each page individually, navigating through your file system to find a folder in which to save each?
After paying $40 for an antenna to receive live TV, wouldn't you need to pay $750 more to TiVo to be able to record live TV? That's $200 for the DVR and either $150 per year or $550 one time to make it work.
Get both a laptop and a desktop: the desktop to use at a desk and the laptop to use while away from a desk.
So instead of my current setup where I have a nice high-powered, multi-monitor PC set up and a cheap laptop for travel work
Please forgive my awkward wording, but that's exactly what I was trying to recommend. I was just trying to help you find ways to bring more tasks within the scope of what can be done as "travel work".
You are correct that a Windows laptop, which is capable of running Delphi, is less expensive than a low-end MacBook if you look at hardware alone. But according to the pricing page, a Windows PC with a validly licensed copy of Delphi Professional ($1,264.50) and the Mobile Add-on Pack ($702.00) is more expensive than a comparable Mac with a validly licensed copy of Xcode.
And can Delphi for Windows deploy to iOS devices for testing and package for the App Store?
Avoiding being mugged used to be easy back when there was a category of inexpensive laptops that would comfortably fit in a satchel that isn't obviously a laptop bag. But 10-inch netbooks were discontinued four years ago.
I wouldn't be comfortable with anything beyond a cheap Chromebook on the buses I used to take.
The problem with a Chromebook in developer mode is that its firmware prompts people to wipe the hard drive. So if anybody picks it up, turns it on, and presses Space Enter as prompted, you lose any uncommitted changes, and you also lose the use of the laptop until you return home to reinstall Crouton.
Then replace software for which each seat costs extra with free software or freeware, such as Maya with Blender, your current video editor with Blender, etc. If that doesn't work, do what I do: work on hobby projects during the transit commute, and use only free software and freeware for said projects.
Let me know when Xcode, or any other development environment targeting the smartphone platform with the largest paid app and IAP revenue per user, is ported to anything other than what you call "overpriced Apple products".
Get both a laptop and a desktop: the desktop to use at a desk and the laptop to use while away from a desk. Use version control to keep your projects synchronized between the machines, pulling changes before and pushing them after.
Then find what needs to wait until you reach a desk and make compromises to keep that set small. For video editing, use low-res proxy clips, and for 3D test rendering, use less tesselation and/or low resolution. And for coding, make sure your dependencies are correct, use pimpl and interfaces to minimize what must be recompiled when a private method is refactored, and don't enable link-time optimizations until you get to a desk.
If you drive or ride a bike, there's little benefit. But if you take the bus or train, a laptop may let you remain productive during the commute, which ideally should let you cut an hour off your time at the office.
I imagine that only three wires are coming out of the thing: Thunderbolt, a USB cable to a hub with the input devices on it, and power. At least that's how many wires I connect to my laptop when I dock it.
And the last two "PC"s that I bought were Chromebooks, since that's what the kids use at school. I have an old Core2Duo workstation with plenty of RAM set up for the kids that almost never gets powered on because the kids use the Chromebooks, despite being less capable and having a tiny screen.
Given recent initiatives to teach the basics of programming in high school, will the kids still be able to use their Chromebooks for that, especially offline while riding the bus to and from school?
There are smaller controllers designed for smartphones.
Yet I haven't seen the manufacturer of any such controller release sales figures. If end users don't own a controller, developers are unlikely to target it.
Apple doesn't allow emulators on the App store
I was under the impression that Apple's guidelines allowed emulators so long as the app is "self-contained" (as defined in rule 2.5.2). A game's publisher can satisfy this by distributing the ROM and emulator together in one app. SEGA has ported several of its games to iOS using an emulator in this manner.
First of all, the summary links a Fortune article that quotes Bloomberg. If you're going to say Bloomberg reported something, why not link to the Bloomberg article?
Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE
Perhaps Fortune reported the story while it was still exclusive to the Terminal and then edited the links in once the story hit Bloomberg.com.
Also, why are the reviews so bad from a user perspective?
Probably a result of users' realization that they will need to pay for a data plan at hundreds of dollars per year in order to play the game outside home, because of the game's Assassin's Creed Unity/SimCity (2013)-style requirement for a continuous Internet connection during gameplay, even in the single-player World Tour mode.
How do you carry the phone and the Bluetooth controller at once?
And how many other people own and are willing to regularly use such a controller? Are there enough customers to sustain a substantial market for such games? One user does not a market make.
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But how much memory can these processes share, so that duplicate content doesn't spill out of RAM and into swap? Reference counting turns copy-on-write into copy-on-read, as Benjamin Peterson explains in a talk about CPython's garbage collector.
HTTPS doesn't "defeat" a caching proxy near the client. It only requires users of said proxy to take the step of trusting the proxy's root certificate. The one thing it "defeats" is an intercepting proxy that tries to hide its existence from its users.
And then end up getting modded down for making uninformed comments on account of not having read the featured article. Several sites admit that they can't tell tracking blocking (such as privacy.trackingprotection.enabled which uses Disconnect's list) from ad blocking, such as WIRED, The Atlantic, and the INQUIRER, and sites like Slashdot continue to link to stories on these sites.
As to refresh, I think that's become a user expectation that you see the most recent information when you pull up a tab.
Has it also "become a user expectation" that you pay once for high-volume (1000 GB/mo) wired Internet access at home and pay again for single digit GB/mo cellular Internet access just to "see the most recent information" rather than what was current when you loaded the page an hour ago before boarding transit?
For one thing, users expect to see thumbnails of huge images, sync status badges on Dropbox or other online backup services, multilingual filenames written in scripts whose coverage requires multiple fonts, etc.
Webpages are live. If I want to look at a chached version, I'll save the webpage locally.
Which extension do you use to save locally all pages that are open in a dozen or so tabs, so that they can be reloaded back into tabs once you are ready to read them? Or do you need to save each page individually, navigating through your file system to find a folder in which to save each?
We've got Freesat here, 200+ channels free-to-air beamed down from space.
"Cord cutting" is when you either subscribe to zero paid media services or a limited number of cheaper on demand streaming alternatives (Netflix).
wonkey_monkey's point is that in Britain, not all satellite TV is "paid media services".
After paying $40 for an antenna to receive live TV, wouldn't you need to pay $750 more to TiVo to be able to record live TV? That's $200 for the DVR and either $150 per year or $550 one time to make it work.
Get both a laptop and a desktop: the desktop to use at a desk and the laptop to use while away from a desk.
So instead of my current setup where I have a nice high-powered, multi-monitor PC set up and a cheap laptop for travel work
Please forgive my awkward wording, but that's exactly what I was trying to recommend. I was just trying to help you find ways to bring more tasks within the scope of what can be done as "travel work".
You are correct that a Windows laptop, which is capable of running Delphi, is less expensive than a low-end MacBook if you look at hardware alone. But according to the pricing page, a Windows PC with a validly licensed copy of Delphi Professional ($1,264.50) and the Mobile Add-on Pack ($702.00) is more expensive than a comparable Mac with a validly licensed copy of Xcode.
And can Delphi for Windows deploy to iOS devices for testing and package for the App Store?
Assuming you don't get mugged for the laptop.
Avoiding being mugged used to be easy back when there was a category of inexpensive laptops that would comfortably fit in a satchel that isn't obviously a laptop bag. But 10-inch netbooks were discontinued four years ago.
I wouldn't be comfortable with anything beyond a cheap Chromebook on the buses I used to take.
The problem with a Chromebook in developer mode is that its firmware prompts people to wipe the hard drive. So if anybody picks it up, turns it on, and presses Space Enter as prompted, you lose any uncommitted changes, and you also lose the use of the laptop until you return home to reinstall Crouton.
Then replace software for which each seat costs extra with free software or freeware, such as Maya with Blender, your current video editor with Blender, etc. If that doesn't work, do what I do: work on hobby projects during the transit commute, and use only free software and freeware for said projects.
Let me know when Xcode, or any other development environment targeting the smartphone platform with the largest paid app and IAP revenue per user, is ported to anything other than what you call "overpriced Apple products".
Then use the iPad pro?
Let me know when Xcode is ported to iOS.
In my experience, video on Twitter begins to play once it is fully scrolled in.
Get both a laptop and a desktop: the desktop to use at a desk and the laptop to use while away from a desk. Use version control to keep your projects synchronized between the machines, pulling changes before and pushing them after.
Then find what needs to wait until you reach a desk and make compromises to keep that set small. For video editing, use low-res proxy clips, and for 3D test rendering, use less tesselation and/or low resolution. And for coding, make sure your dependencies are correct, use pimpl and interfaces to minimize what must be recompiled when a private method is refactored, and don't enable link-time optimizations until you get to a desk.
If you drive or ride a bike, there's little benefit. But if you take the bus or train, a laptop may let you remain productive during the commute, which ideally should let you cut an hour off your time at the office.
I imagine that only three wires are coming out of the thing: Thunderbolt, a USB cable to a hub with the input devices on it, and power. At least that's how many wires I connect to my laptop when I dock it.
And if you need to use it while commuting on public transit or while traveling on an airplane or passenger rail, then what?
And the last two "PC"s that I bought were Chromebooks, since that's what the kids use at school. I have an old Core2Duo workstation with plenty of RAM set up for the kids that almost never gets powered on because the kids use the Chromebooks, despite being less capable and having a tiny screen.
Given recent initiatives to teach the basics of programming in high school, will the kids still be able to use their Chromebooks for that, especially offline while riding the bus to and from school?
There are smaller controllers designed for smartphones.
Yet I haven't seen the manufacturer of any such controller release sales figures. If end users don't own a controller, developers are unlikely to target it.
Apple doesn't allow emulators on the App store
I was under the impression that Apple's guidelines allowed emulators so long as the app is "self-contained" (as defined in rule 2.5.2). A game's publisher can satisfy this by distributing the ROM and emulator together in one app. SEGA has ported several of its games to iOS using an emulator in this manner.
Sony tried that. It was an Android phone with a slide-out PSP Go-style gamepad, called the Xperia Play. It didn't do so well.
Flappy Bird was just a dumbed-down version of Balloon Trip from Nintendo's Balloon Fight anyway, dodging pipes instead of moving sparks.
First of all, the summary links a Fortune article that quotes Bloomberg. If you're going to say Bloomberg reported something, why not link to the Bloomberg article?
From the Bloomberg article:
Perhaps Fortune reported the story while it was still exclusive to the Terminal and then edited the links in once the story hit Bloomberg.com.
Also, why are the reviews so bad from a user perspective?
Probably a result of users' realization that they will need to pay for a data plan at hundreds of dollars per year in order to play the game outside home, because of the game's Assassin's Creed Unity/SimCity (2013)-style requirement for a continuous Internet connection during gameplay, even in the single-player World Tour mode.
How do you carry the phone and the Bluetooth controller at once?
And how many other people own and are willing to regularly use such a controller? Are there enough customers to sustain a substantial market for such games? One user does not a market make.