I can write programs on ChromeOS just as easy as Windows or Mac. ChromeOS is Linux based.
Can you write programs that run in an environment other than a web browser? And can you use languages other than JavaScript (or a language that transpiles to JavaScript)?
If you don't want wibdows 10 don't use it. No one is holding a gun to your head.
Unless no laptop makers are willing to sell me a laptop in a particular form factor with anything other than Windows preinstalled. System76, for instance, lacks anything smaller than 14 inches (source).
Major video game consoles are even more closed and more proprietary than desktop Windows, yet they somehow still have companies developing applications for them.
So far as I can tell, Windows 10 has absolutely no developer advantages at all
In the mobile and server fields, I'd agree. But in the desktop field, the advantage of Windows is in the economies of scale of having far more users than X11/Linux has.
Then how would you recommend that people who purchase a product through a channel other than Amazon verify the purchase to Amazon? Photo of a receipt from Target, Toys R Us, etc.?
As far as I'm aware, Amazon can't verify off-Amazon purchases. The five weekly reviews for non-verified purchases appear to be a concession to allow reviews of products sold through Amazon that were obtained through a channel other than Amazon.
It's a problem the company building the shopping cart should have to solve basically once. And that company is rarely the merchant themselves.
Then perhaps my perspective is distorted from experience in the "rarely", having built shopping cart software for a local retailer several years ago when limits of 3dCart were hurting sales.
That'd be an excuse to introduce something analogous to the German Störerhaftung, which made operators of a guest WLAN liable for copyright infringement and trading of child sexual abuse works done by connected users.
How much does it cost to integrate all these transaction processors, in both programmer wages and cost of hardware on which to test? For example, does a merchant need an iPhone and a Mac to test integration of Apple Pay?
How is a locally owned small business supposed to find the money to hire developers to make three different native apps, one for each mobile platform (Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile)? Don't say PhoneGap because that's conceptually the same as "try[ing] to do everything through a web browser".
So companies should partner with a transaction processor so that they do not have make a new account for a one time purchase. [...] Pick your favorite among the various top 10 or so options.
And have half your customers leave because "your favorite" happens not to coincidentally match theirs. A user tries to check out, and the site accepts PayPal and credit cards, but entering credit card payment credentials is too cumbersome, and the user has been a victim of a PayPal hold.
Perhaps retailers want to try selling to people who can afford their products but not "A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER" or a separate Internet access subscription therefor, or people who are on the go but don't want to carry a big heavy bag whose design screams "THIS IS A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER; PLEASE ROB ME". Over the course of my present job alone, I've seen coworkers in both categories.
Does the tablet on which you "brought quite a bit" run a desktop operating environment, such as Windows? Or does it run a smartphone operating environment, such as iOS or Android? Perhaps purchases on a Surface Pro or Surface 3 get assigned to "desktop" while purchases on an iPad or Galaxy Tab get dumped in "mobile".
As I understand it, by "shopping cart" you're referring to the model in which the store assigns a randomly assigned identifier for a multiset of products that a user is considering buying, and then once the payment is approved for those items, they are moved to a new order. You are correct that this model became popular in the 1990s. But your use of "stuck" as well as "needlessly annoying and/or difficult" implies that there's something wrong with the "shopping cart" model. What has obsoleted it? The "1-Click" model pioneered by Amazon requires first creating a durable account identifier (name and password, backed by an address that can receive email and/or a phone number that can receive SMS) so that products added from the same account are combined into an order at the end of the business day. This works for merchants to which buyers expect to return, such as those you mention (Amazon, Apple and Starbucks). But a lot of people don't want to spend time creating an account with a merchant to which they do not foresee returning.
It is incredible that anyone is still sending SMS in 2016.
Some cellular carriers still offer plans that include talk and text without data, particularly for people who use a cell phone in addition to a landline as opposed to a replacement for a landline. In order to converse with someone on such a plan, you need to be sending SMS.
The use case is hobby coding projects in a language that's nowhere near as complicated to compile as (say) C++. For this kind of work, even an underpowered choice would be better than a device that can neither run Windows apps (even those usable in Wine) nor show two different apps on the screen at once.
To head off "juris-my-diction" replies: Though BBC is a British company, Google is a US company. And if you claim that a copyright owner could sue Google in Britain over the creation of the lip-reading model and win, I'm interested in how your theory connects with how the British Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act defines a derivative work.
A lip reading model is probably too transformative to qualify as a derivative work of the TV shows. And if that argument fails, Google had a license not from the copyright owners but from the federal government pursuant to 17 USC 107. This is the same license that Google used when reusing method signatures from the standard class library of Oracle's Java platform, and this case should be even clearer because the TV shows aren't reproduced verbatim in the model.
I got most of my music on CD about 10-20 years ago, and right now I'm lucky if I spend more than $30/year on any new music.
If you're trying out different musical genres, it'll cost you far more than $30 per year.
and then putting up with outages and dead spots (which are common where I live)
Again, offline mode in the rental services works around this: download at home where your cap is 1000 GB/mo, then stream without using any cellular data.
You could allow a call to go to voice mail and then return it once you reach a gas station through the next exit. Or how is that more dangerous than talking while driving or using the breakdown lane?
A few months ago, I was trying to record myself on a treadmill demonstrating a few unusual gaits. (In this continuity, Silly Walks is an agency under the Ministry of Health.) But the room wasn't deep enough for my camcorder on a tripod to capture both the head and feet, even with the zoom set to widest. So instead, I had to set it to portrait. What would you have done instead?
I'm just guessing.... that maaaaybe CODiNE doesn't read the article often?
"The guidelines for smartphones call for features able to differentiate between drivers and passengers"
How the proposal accommodates passengers was the first thing I looked for in the featured article. I know it's not behind a "we require you to let us track you" wall like WIRED and the INQUIRER have, as I was able to read it with Firefox Tracking Protection turned on. Or is it behind a metered or country-specific paywall?
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I can write programs on ChromeOS just as easy as Windows or Mac. ChromeOS is Linux based.
Can you write programs that run in an environment other than a web browser? And can you use languages other than JavaScript (or a language that transpiles to JavaScript)?
If you don't want wibdows 10 don't use it. No one is holding a gun to your head.
Unless no laptop makers are willing to sell me a laptop in a particular form factor with anything other than Windows preinstalled. System76, for instance, lacks anything smaller than 14 inches (source).
Major video game consoles are even more closed and more proprietary than desktop Windows, yet they somehow still have companies developing applications for them.
So far as I can tell, Windows 10 has absolutely no developer advantages at all
In the mobile and server fields, I'd agree. But in the desktop field, the advantage of Windows is in the economies of scale of having far more users than X11/Linux has.
Then how would you recommend that people who purchase a product through a channel other than Amazon verify the purchase to Amazon? Photo of a receipt from Target, Toys R Us, etc.?
As far as I'm aware, Amazon can't verify off-Amazon purchases. The five weekly reviews for non-verified purchases appear to be a concession to allow reviews of products sold through Amazon that were obtained through a channel other than Amazon.
It's a problem the company building the shopping cart should have to solve basically once. And that company is rarely the merchant themselves.
Then perhaps my perspective is distorted from experience in the "rarely", having built shopping cart software for a local retailer several years ago when limits of 3dCart were hurting sales.
That'd be an excuse to introduce something analogous to the German Störerhaftung, which made operators of a guest WLAN liable for copyright infringement and trading of child sexual abuse works done by connected users.
They could ban failure to associate your VPN with a good faith business license number.
How much does it cost to integrate all these transaction processors, in both programmer wages and cost of hardware on which to test? For example, does a merchant need an iPhone and a Mac to test integration of Apple Pay?
How is a locally owned small business supposed to find the money to hire developers to make three different native apps, one for each mobile platform (Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile)? Don't say PhoneGap because that's conceptually the same as "try[ing] to do everything through a web browser".
So companies should partner with a transaction processor so that they do not have make a new account for a one time purchase. [...] Pick your favorite among the various top 10 or so options.
And have half your customers leave because "your favorite" happens not to coincidentally match theirs. A user tries to check out, and the site accepts PayPal and credit cards, but entering credit card payment credentials is too cumbersome, and the user has been a victim of a PayPal hold.
Perhaps retailers want to try selling to people who can afford their products but not "A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER" or a separate Internet access subscription therefor, or people who are on the go but don't want to carry a big heavy bag whose design screams "THIS IS A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER; PLEASE ROB ME". Over the course of my present job alone, I've seen coworkers in both categories.
Why can't the site read your device's GPS and present a list of nearby shipping destinations?
Does the tablet on which you "brought quite a bit" run a desktop operating environment, such as Windows? Or does it run a smartphone operating environment, such as iOS or Android? Perhaps purchases on a Surface Pro or Surface 3 get assigned to "desktop" while purchases on an iPad or Galaxy Tab get dumped in "mobile".
As I understand it, by "shopping cart" you're referring to the model in which the store assigns a randomly assigned identifier for a multiset of products that a user is considering buying, and then once the payment is approved for those items, they are moved to a new order. You are correct that this model became popular in the 1990s. But your use of "stuck" as well as "needlessly annoying and/or difficult" implies that there's something wrong with the "shopping cart" model. What has obsoleted it? The "1-Click" model pioneered by Amazon requires first creating a durable account identifier (name and password, backed by an address that can receive email and/or a phone number that can receive SMS) so that products added from the same account are combined into an order at the end of the business day. This works for merchants to which buyers expect to return, such as those you mention (Amazon, Apple and Starbucks). But a lot of people don't want to spend time creating an account with a merchant to which they do not foresee returning.
It is incredible that anyone is still sending SMS in 2016.
Some cellular carriers still offer plans that include talk and text without data, particularly for people who use a cell phone in addition to a landline as opposed to a replacement for a landline. In order to converse with someone on such a plan, you need to be sending SMS.
So how do I get all my regular Skype contacts to likewise switch to Ekiga?
The use case is hobby coding projects in a language that's nowhere near as complicated to compile as (say) C++. For this kind of work, even an underpowered choice would be better than a device that can neither run Windows apps (even those usable in Wine) nor show two different apps on the screen at once.
To head off "juris-my-diction" replies: Though BBC is a British company, Google is a US company. And if you claim that a copyright owner could sue Google in Britain over the creation of the lip-reading model and win, I'm interested in how your theory connects with how the British Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act defines a derivative work.
A lip reading model is probably too transformative to qualify as a derivative work of the TV shows. And if that argument fails, Google had a license not from the copyright owners but from the federal government pursuant to 17 USC 107. This is the same license that Google used when reusing method signatures from the standard class library of Oracle's Java platform, and this case should be even clearer because the TV shows aren't reproduced verbatim in the model.
I got most of my music on CD about 10-20 years ago, and right now I'm lucky if I spend more than $30/year on any new music.
If you're trying out different musical genres, it'll cost you far more than $30 per year.
and then putting up with outages and dead spots (which are common where I live)
Again, offline mode in the rental services works around this: download at home where your cap is 1000 GB/mo, then stream without using any cellular data.
You could allow a call to go to voice mail and then return it once you reach a gas station through the next exit. Or how is that more dangerous than talking while driving or using the breakdown lane?
A few months ago, I was trying to record myself on a treadmill demonstrating a few unusual gaits. (In this continuity, Silly Walks is an agency under the Ministry of Health.) But the room wasn't deep enough for my camcorder on a tripod to capture both the head and feet, even with the zoom set to widest. So instead, I had to set it to portrait. What would you have done instead?
I'm just guessing.... that maaaaybe CODiNE doesn't read the article often?
"The guidelines for smartphones call for features able to differentiate between drivers and passengers"
How the proposal accommodates passengers was the first thing I looked for in the featured article. I know it's not behind a "we require you to let us track you" wall like WIRED and the INQUIRER have, as I was able to read it with Firefox Tracking Protection turned on. Or is it behind a metered or country-specific paywall?