Crowdfunding is "also used to try and ensure that people get paid for the work they do writing software, making movies and other media." This was first envisioned in 1999 by Kelsey and Schneier as the street performer protocol and later implemented in platforms such as Kickstarter.
Twitter allows uploads up to 512 MB and 140 seconds, which is an improvement over Vine. But it still has one problem: it allows only MPEG-4 codecs, which are patented in the home country of Twitter and Slashdot.
It's my understanding that elections on a Tuesday were chosen because at the time, they were the weekday on which employees were least likely to receive a weekly paycheck, reducing the risk of employers withholding an entire week's pay as a penalty for voting. Using a weekday instead of a weekend day also avoided preferring the Sabbath regulations of one religion over those of another. And nowadays, if elections were on a Sunday, people would have no way to get to the polls in cities that lack the funding to run their public transportation on Sundays.
For some odd reason the people of Brazil representing the target market are unaware that this product already exists and for less than half the cost? What the hell am I missing here? Are they really charging a 400% markup on the new(er) console because of the addition of an SD card slot?
They're charging 400 percent markup because the manufacturer got it past Brazilian customs and into toy stores.
Then you probably don't know anyone who lives in a country with prohibitive import tariffs on toys. If you had to pay the equivalent of 150 percent sales tax on toys, you might see how $125 comes about: $50 cost of goods plus $75 in import duty and VAT. The people of Brazil through their legislators appear to have chosen to fund the government through import duties, presumably to subsidize the building of a domestic chip fab.
Only for sources enforcing HDCP. The OUYA console had HDCP that even a game's developer could not turn off, and I believe this contributed to its failure to thrive because a game's developer had no way to capture the stream to make a promotional video for YouTube. But the Hi-Def NES (HDMI mod for the Nintendo Entertainment System) doesn't add HDCP to its HDMI output, and neither do the NES-compatible consoles Analogue Nt Mini and RetroUSB AVS.
modern console [...] Power consumption is negligible.
You'd be surprised. "Hardcore" consoles from the past decade (PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One) can burn 100 W or more if made before the process shrinks incorporated in "slim" redesigns.
You probably have the internet connection anyway at a fixed monthly rate.
Unless you live in a rural area, where the monthly data allowance under the "fixed monthly rate" often isn't enough to download modern games. I know nothing about the home Internet market in Brazil, but wireless (satellite or cellular) home Internet plans in the United States tend to run $5 per GB or more.
Buying new games is CAPEX.
Until the game's publisher expressly discontinues online play in favor of its sequels, which is standard practice with league-licensed sport simulations. Then renewing your entitlement to play by buying the sequel becomes OPEX. And with current-generation games well into the double digit GB, CAPEX for new games becomes prohibitive.
Xbox Live/PSN isn't mandatory.
It is if the majority of new multiplayer games support neither split-screen nor LAN play, or for people who don't live near other people who play the same multiplayer game.
And what if a business in the United States buys a business in another country?
I don't know. But as you went on to point out, the sort of micro-ISVs that I'm talking about, with a staff of five or fewer, aren't anywhere near big enough to go on an acquisition spree.
(clicks through) "Debian noroot" for anyone with Lollipop and 1 GB free, with a successor called GNURoot Debian that works on Marshmallow, supports apt-get, and couples with XServer XSDL. Interesting. I'll have to check these out when I get time.
I thought "channels" had two purposes: to show live programs, such as sports, award shows, or political talk; and to get more than one subscriber onto an IP multicast group.
I only recall seeing that on powerup and its a quite easy thing to answer "no" to.
If you happen to be the person in front of it, as opposed to someone else being in front of it when it has restarted to apply kernel, init, or libc updates.
Also, nothing of value should exist on a single storage device. On the road I'll carry an encrypted USB stick to backup important files to periodically. There is not excuse for not having a backup.
That's why I said "lose all uncommitted work and the use of the laptop", not "lose data" altogether. After you return home where you keep your backups, you can restore the OS and restore your data back to the last commit. But until you arrive, you're out of luck unless you carry enough restoration media to restore not only "important files" but also the entire operating system, as turning OS verification back on erases your developer mode image.
Is it about risk? An established company is more of a sure bet than a slot machine could ever be, and an index fund can help spread the risk out across several companies. Or is it about not having enough disposable income to save up for even a tiny number of shares in an index fund?
Monthly data transfer allowance? [...] Are you guys stuck in the 90s or something?
Many U.S. ISPs do in fact have pricing structures stuck in the 1990s, in particular satellite and cellular ISPs with their 10 GB/mo caps and $5 to $10 per GB overage fees.
You don't even need to move anywhere because we have this incredibly powerful communication method called Internet
A business still has to follow the law of the country where it is located. A business in the United States is forbidden to distribute applications that infringe U.S. software patents even to users in countries that do not recognize software patents.
besides, AFAIU you don't cease to be a taxpayer just because you're outside the US
As I understand it, U.S. tax on foreign citizens' income applies only to tax obligation, not to differences in patent law.
We have here what is called unlocked phones
We have those, but a phone manufacturer has the right as a private sector company to choose whether or not to offer an unlocked version of a particular model in a particular country. Google has chosen not to with the Pixel in the United States.
Linux can be installed on an old 10" laptop, even if it is discontinued.
My concern is about when the hardware fails. If a laptop is still under warranty, its manufacturer will repair or replace it. The laptop I currently use came with a standard 1-year warranty and an optional second year, which I purchased. Then when its power jack became unusably loose, a Dell technician came out to my house to open it up and swap the power jack. But now it's more than six years old, and I fear what might happen to it next.
there are ways to install an entire Linux distribution (terminals, vim and the kitchen sink) on Android.
It's a 120 mm diameter sandwich of polycarbonate and aluminum that goes in the DVD reader attached to your device's USB port. A $40 DVD reader can prove cheaper than overage fees assessed by your ISP for exceeding your Internet access subscription's monthly data transfer allowance.
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Crowdfunding is "also used to try and ensure that people get paid for the work they do writing software, making movies and other media." This was first envisioned in 1999 by Kelsey and Schneier as the street performer protocol and later implemented in platforms such as Kickstarter.
HDCP is a broken technology. A simple cheap splitter
...is likely to be stopped at the border by customs.
If you really want to go DIY, intercepting the output to the processor in a monitor also works.
The vast majority of cable DVR users are unwilling to tear apart a monitor and tap the buses.
Twitter allows uploads up to 512 MB and 140 seconds, which is an improvement over Vine. But it still has one problem: it allows only MPEG-4 codecs, which are patented in the home country of Twitter and Slashdot.
Twitter has been around for a decade, and some people still just don't get it, they don't understand why people use it
Do "people" use it, or is Twitter all just one person with numerous sock puppets?
Buses in Fort Wayne, Indiana, don't run on Sundays or six major holidays. (Source) But this Election Day, they're running at zero fare.
It's my understanding that elections on a Tuesday were chosen because at the time, they were the weekday on which employees were least likely to receive a weekly paycheck, reducing the risk of employers withholding an entire week's pay as a penalty for voting. Using a weekday instead of a weekend day also avoided preferring the Sabbath regulations of one religion over those of another. And nowadays, if elections were on a Sunday, people would have no way to get to the polls in cities that lack the funding to run their public transportation on Sundays.
Not everybody works from 9 AM local time to 5 PM local time. You'd still have to do as you do today: memorize each contact's work hours.
Is it Summer Time in springtime?
For some odd reason the people of Brazil representing the target market are unaware that this product already exists and for less than half the cost? What the hell am I missing here? Are they really charging a 400% markup on the new(er) console because of the addition of an SD card slot?
They're charging 400 percent markup because the manufacturer got it past Brazilian customs and into toy stores.
Did this come about when the patent on Connectix RAM Doubler software expired, allowing the creation of zswap?
And due to Brazilian import tariffs, it'll probably end up at $150 if it ever gets there.
Then you probably don't know anyone who lives in a country with prohibitive import tariffs on toys. If you had to pay the equivalent of 150 percent sales tax on toys, you might see how $125 comes about: $50 cost of goods plus $75 in import duty and VAT. The people of Brazil through their legislators appear to have chosen to fund the government through import duties, presumably to subsidize the building of a domestic chip fab.
HDMI is DRMed garbage
Only for sources enforcing HDCP. The OUYA console had HDCP that even a game's developer could not turn off, and I believe this contributed to its failure to thrive because a game's developer had no way to capture the stream to make a promotional video for YouTube. But the Hi-Def NES (HDMI mod for the Nintendo Entertainment System) doesn't add HDCP to its HDMI output, and neither do the NES-compatible consoles Analogue Nt Mini and RetroUSB AVS.
modern console [...] Power consumption is negligible.
You'd be surprised. "Hardcore" consoles from the past decade (PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One) can burn 100 W or more if made before the process shrinks incorporated in "slim" redesigns.
You probably have the internet connection anyway at a fixed monthly rate.
Unless you live in a rural area, where the monthly data allowance under the "fixed monthly rate" often isn't enough to download modern games. I know nothing about the home Internet market in Brazil, but wireless (satellite or cellular) home Internet plans in the United States tend to run $5 per GB or more.
Buying new games is CAPEX.
Until the game's publisher expressly discontinues online play in favor of its sequels, which is standard practice with league-licensed sport simulations. Then renewing your entitlement to play by buying the sequel becomes OPEX. And with current-generation games well into the double digit GB, CAPEX for new games becomes prohibitive.
Xbox Live/PSN isn't mandatory.
It is if the majority of new multiplayer games support neither split-screen nor LAN play, or for people who don't live near other people who play the same multiplayer game.
And what if a business in the United States buys a business in another country?
I don't know. But as you went on to point out, the sort of micro-ISVs that I'm talking about, with a staff of five or fewer, aren't anywhere near big enough to go on an acquisition spree.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuntubuntu&hl=en
"Ubuntu is for cunts"?
(clicks through)
"Debian noroot" for anyone with Lollipop and 1 GB free, with a successor called GNURoot Debian that works on Marshmallow, supports apt-get, and couples with XServer XSDL. Interesting. I'll have to check these out when I get time.
I thought "channels" had two purposes: to show live programs, such as sports, award shows, or political talk; and to get more than one subscriber onto an IP multicast group.
DIY DVRs don't work with cable boxes that apply DTCP or HDCP to all outputs.
I only recall seeing that on powerup and its a quite easy thing to answer "no" to.
If you happen to be the person in front of it, as opposed to someone else being in front of it when it has restarted to apply kernel, init, or libc updates.
Also, nothing of value should exist on a single storage device. On the road I'll carry an encrypted USB stick to backup important files to periodically. There is not excuse for not having a backup.
That's why I said "lose all uncommitted work and the use of the laptop", not "lose data" altogether. After you return home where you keep your backups, you can restore the OS and restore your data back to the last commit. But until you arrive, you're out of luck unless you carry enough restoration media to restore not only "important files" but also the entire operating system, as turning OS verification back on erases your developer mode image.
Is it about risk? An established company is more of a sure bet than a slot machine could ever be, and an index fund can help spread the risk out across several companies. Or is it about not having enough disposable income to save up for even a tiny number of shares in an index fund?
Monthly data transfer allowance? [...] Are you guys stuck in the 90s or something?
Many U.S. ISPs do in fact have pricing structures stuck in the 1990s, in particular satellite and cellular ISPs with their 10 GB/mo caps and $5 to $10 per GB overage fees.
You don't even need to move anywhere because we have this incredibly powerful communication method called Internet
A business still has to follow the law of the country where it is located. A business in the United States is forbidden to distribute applications that infringe U.S. software patents even to users in countries that do not recognize software patents.
besides, AFAIU you don't cease to be a taxpayer just because you're outside the US
As I understand it, U.S. tax on foreign citizens' income applies only to tax obligation, not to differences in patent law.
We have here what is called unlocked phones
We have those, but a phone manufacturer has the right as a private sector company to choose whether or not to offer an unlocked version of a particular model in a particular country. Google has chosen not to with the Pixel in the United States.
Linux can be installed on an old 10" laptop, even if it is discontinued.
My concern is about when the hardware fails. If a laptop is still under warranty, its manufacturer will repair or replace it. The laptop I currently use came with a standard 1-year warranty and an optional second year, which I purchased. Then when its power jack became unusably loose, a Dell technician came out to my house to open it up and swap the power jack. But now it's more than six years old, and I fear what might happen to it next.
there are ways to install an entire Linux distribution (terminals, vim and the kitchen sink) on Android.
Do these "ways" require root?
Did you ask the editor who reverted that change to explain the reversion? If you ask, wait a week, and try the edit again, the burden falls on the reverting user to explain why the edit should not stick.
From the linked page:
Then why can't the worker become an investor by using a portion of wages to slowly accumulate stock?
It's a 120 mm diameter sandwich of polycarbonate and aluminum that goes in the DVD reader attached to your device's USB port. A $40 DVD reader can prove cheaper than overage fees assessed by your ISP for exceeding your Internet access subscription's monthly data transfer allowance.