Pair a Bluetooth keyboard, pair a Bluetooth mouse, and connect an HDTV through HDMI, Miracast, or Chromecast. At that point, the most apparent problem is the inability of Android prior to 7.0 "Nougat" to display two windows side by side, so you can't see both the document you're reading and the notes you're taking.
And for Let's Encrypt, this would be less than two months.
Allow me to correct my prior comment: About two and a half months is practical. So a shared hosting subscriber would have to remember to renew the certificate and request installation from the provider about five times per year.
ACME CAs such as Let's Encrypt have practical problems in the following situations:
A. The website is hosted on shared hosting, and the shared host offers no way to automatically run Certbot or another ACME client to request and install a certificate. There exist ACME clients that run without superuser privilege, but a provider may offer no way for subscribers to automate uploading a certificate obtained through an ACME client. Until very recently, for example, WebFaction required to manually file a support ticket every time. And for Let's Encrypt, this would be less than two months.
B. The owner of a domain allows users to sign up for subdomains. Let's Encrypt does not offer wildcard certificates and severely limits how many certificates can be issued under a particular domain in one week (source). This has already caused problems, for example, for operators of dynamic DNS services who want to make certificates available to their subscribers.
It it's illegal in your country what good is if Linux can effectively play the disk? Unless one wants to be prosecuted.
Then Windows is for the United States, which is the home country of Slashdot Media, and Linux may be for other countries.
free software is on MKB v28 while new movies are on MKB v57.
This is usually corrected after a certain amount of time...;-)
But "after a certain amount of time", the availability of the movie at rental kiosks is also discontinued. Redbox, for example, holds onto a movie for about one year.
And I guess it takes some time to even play on these, as the content owners won't risk releasing the movie on Windows if it's still on the cinema theaters or even while still a noverlty on cable.
Pay-per-view and BDMV sold to the public come out usually during the same week, with availability in Redbox four weeks later.
That's indeed a good idea and -- provided nothing too special is used -- would also work with Libreoffice, which in my experience handled xlsx well enough to allow to pass in an online course.
Was use of validation macros a requirement for the "online course" that you mentioned?
But then, it's not such a bad idea to leave one keyboard at work and one at home [...] The user would work at home (or at work)
And then what for writing code for hobby projects while riding transit to and from one's day job, which is one thing I use my laptop for? Being limited to work only at home and at the office and nowhere else is a non-starter.
[A limit of one window on the screen] is a software problem
Which the user cannot solve because many device manufacturers don't make it easy to unlock the bootloader, let alone build a custom system software image. Even if they do, it still requires a full backup, wipe, and restore.
and online storage ("the cloud").
At 10 USD per GB of upload or download, using online storage while riding transit can prove cost prohibitive.
some segments are still closed-source only [...] Which "support cost" when people contribute bug squashing for free?
People can contribute bug reports but are technically blocked from contribute bug fixes by unavailability of the application's source code and legally prohibited from doing so by proprietary software license agreements.
We can petition, crowdfund and buy a Linux version
Not if the application's publisher refuses to do so at any price short of half the company's market capitalization. And not even then if the publisher is not publicly traded.
or simply code an alternative
Not if the application's publisher threatens makers of close substitutes with copyright or patent infringement lawsuits. See, for example, Tetris v. Xio, as well as Microsoft's threats against third party implementations of VFAT and exFAT.
then the user must use Linux to play the blue ray, like described over the net.
Which licensed BDMV player does the net recommend? Google linux bdmv player found this six-year-old post which is a reverse engineered player that's "a far shot from proper native support for blu-ray playback" and likely illegal in my country. It also turned up a page last updated in 2016 stating that "no official Blu-ray player software is available on their system". In particular, free software is on MKB v28 while new movies are on MKB v57.
You are aware that lots (and I mean lots as in every single one) site provides a shopping cart, aren't you?
I'm not referring to the buyer's user interface. I'm referring to the seller's user interface to validate a list of products that the seller is uploading to the online sales platform.
It's 2016. We got Chromecast and Bluetooth keyboards & mouses.
How many people have you seen actually carrying around a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use with a smartphone in situations where a laptop has traditionally excelled, such as writing and editing long-form text with markup? And for the use case of taking notes about a web page or other document you're reading, how easy is it under stock versions of the popular smartphone operating systems to make both the document and your notes visible on the screen? Android has had tiling window management since Android 7.0 "Nougat", and Samsung has long had the manufacturer-specific tiling window manager that it introduced with Galaxy Note, but Nougat has yet to become widespread on existing devices or even on devices still sold new to the public.
People code applications for Linux
Or they don't because they see more money in making an application for Windows and not Linux than for Linux and not Windows, or even than for both Windows and Linux due to "support cost issues".
and if they're good the distributions include them (what's one more in 50,000+?).
The distributions tend to include only software under a free software license. The economics of games with professional production values, licensed players for major studio movies, and income tax return preparation software sort of rule out a timely release as free software for reasons I've described in this article.
Good luck running a binary for GTK for Windows or Qt for Windows on anything but Windows.
You realize those platforms came from Linux, rigtht?
Even if an application developer uses a platform that came from Linux, the fact that the platform came from Linux is no help to an end user if the developer chooses to publish only a Windows binary because of "support cost issues".
"The default" that you describe leads to prohibitive import duties if not an outright trade embargo. All recent free trade agreements incorporate the Berne Convention by reference.
What application does macOS run that neither Windows nor X11/Linux also runs? The only important one I can think of is Xcode, if you happen to be employed as a developer of applications for Apple platforms.
Then why do laptops with pre-installed GNU/Linux, from companies such as System76, cost twice as much as major brand entry level Windows laptops? And which 10.1-inch or 11.5-inch laptop models with pre-installed GNU/Linux are recommended nowadays?
Even in public departments, where forms are still used, one usually interacts with asp pages (or php) and the resulting filled form is printed to a simple pdf file as a receipt
In some cases this is true. But other cases still rely on PDF form submission from within the PDF reader. In these cases, it's either Adobe Reader or don't do business unless and until the PDF form submission is no longer required, possibly for years.
[Blu-ray] is akin to the IE/Edge-only ability to play HD video from Netflix. It sucks, but in most cases we may need to downgrade the video experience to a lower-quality one (such as the one called "HD-ready", 1280x720)
In the case of movies on disc, which is still an important feature for people who live outside the service area of fiber, cable, and DSL, the next step down from 1920x1080 is DVD, which is 704x480 (or 704x576 if you live in a 50 Hz region).
Actually, that is one reason people started to use.net,.asp or.php-based pages server validation (because a wicked user could bypass local/Excel validation and you'll have to re-validate it again anyway!).
Amazon Marketplace Web Service does revalidate the seller's feed on the server after it has been uploaded. A preliminary validation on the client, however, saves time in two ways: the seller doesn't have to wait for the processing report from the server indicating boneheaded errors, and the prevalidation prevents a clearly malformed feed from counting against a seller's feed upload quota. It's the same concept as validating an HTML form with JavaScript on the client to quickly catch obvious errors before revalidating it on the server to enforce business rules, except JavaScript is replaced with Excel to avoid having to deal with browsers' security restrictions on clipboard use.
And by the way, Windows is also useless if such friends are using Apple (iOS or OS X) based software (or Android-based, BTW).
I was under the impression that many video games were developed for desktop and laptop computers rather than smartphones because not all genres are particularly amenable to control with nothing but the touch screen and device rotation. I was under the further impression that far more games were exclusive to Windows than to macOS.
We probably should stop talking about games on Windows since some time, as the world is moving to more portable platforms
Such as laptop computers that run Windows.
Develop desktop applications that run on users' PCs, without having to issue a copy of VirtualBox and Linux to each user
I'd say that's what Firefox, Chrome and Libreoffice are (no virtualization involved),
As for Chrome, Google has announced a plan to phase out Chrome Apps on all platforms other than Chrome OS. This puts it in the same category as Firefox. As for Firefox, the Web platform is still missing many features for security reasons, such as clipboard access, access to specialized devices that use USB or Bluetooth connections, and ability to connect to servers operated by unaffiliated third parties such as those running protocols other than HTTP or without a CORS header. Besides, you'd still need to either have users install an HTTP server on localhost to serve the application to Firefox or include the cost of a cellular data plan in the price of the application. As for LibreOffice, more Windows users use Excel than it, and choosing to support Excel and not LibreOffice rather than LibreOffice and not Excel saves support costs.
but actually anyone can do it by opting between the two major toolkits (gtk or Qt).
Good luck running a binary for GTK for Windows or Qt for Windows on anything but Windows. Or did you mean developers should spill their trade secrets by publishing source code for users o
That avoids trademark infringement, not copyright infringement. See Tetris v. Xio, about a deliberately renamed video game workalike. In order not to infringe, it probably has to be as different from Java as C# is.
In practice, "desktop Linux" implies GNU/Linux and X11/Linux. But given the level of pedantry among some Slashdot users, I personally tend to be more careful lest I run into people who sincerely suggest to use an Android tablet with a keyboard as a close substitute for an X11/Linux laptop.
Linux has [...] more support for hardware than Windows
Granted, with respect to all hardware in existence. But which has more support for hardware sold in Best Buy, Staples, or other major U.S. retail electronics chains in the fourth quarter of 2016? Because that's what the typical home or small office user considering a switch from Windows to X11/Linux is up against.
* PDF, not just viewing, but form filling and submission. I'm told recent Evince and Okular can fill forms to some extent, but it's not complete. * Watch local BDMV (Blu-ray Disc) * Fill in Amazon's Excel spreadsheets with validation macros * Debug NES programs (FCEUX SDL version lacks a debugger, but FCEUX in Wine has one) * Play online multiplayer with friends who own copies of Windows PC games that happen not to have been ported to Linux * Develop desktop applications that run on users' PCs, without having to issue a copy of VirtualBox and Linux to each user
The wording of the letter implies that a driver assistance device may be deemed "defective" even if "drivers will use your product in a manner that exceeds its intended purpose". The list of requested information includes basic specifications of the device, such as what it does, which vehicles it is for, how it is installed, how it is used, under what conditions it can be used, detailed results of testing in all such conditions, what it ends up doing when it shuts off, what it ends up doing if installed in an unsupported vehicle, detailed results of testing for compliance with each element of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, how it interacts with rearview mirrors, when it goes on sale, and the name of every entity that will sell the device.
My understanding of Comma leaving the U.S. market is that it lacks the money to perform exhaustive tests, especially on all unsupported vehicles, and to hire legal counsel to interpret the FMVSS (49 CFR 571) and other pertinent regulations.
Google DID rip Oracle off [...] and they should have to pay
Then how should interoperability with a platform implemented as copyrighted computer programs be achieved, other than through copying the interfaces needed to interoperate with other software developed for the platform? If you believe instead that one ought not to attempt to interoperate in the first place, then how does it benefit the public to give a platform's owner the power to chill interoperability through copyright law?
One practical problem with an alternative implementation of the Java platform is that a developer is forbidden to distribute an incomplete, work-in-progress implementation to the public. Per the "License for the Distribution of Compliant Implementations" in the Limited License Grant of the Java Language Specification, only a complete implementation that "fully implements the Specification including all its required interfaces and functionality" and passes the test suite may be published. This forces all alternative implementations into a cathedral model rather than a bazaar model and places an entry barrier of having to find a huge chunk of funding before having a chance to receive any related revenue. Further more, the test suite itself appears to be incompatible with permissive free software licenses.
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Pair a Bluetooth keyboard, pair a Bluetooth mouse, and connect an HDTV through HDMI, Miracast, or Chromecast. At that point, the most apparent problem is the inability of Android prior to 7.0 "Nougat" to display two windows side by side, so you can't see both the document you're reading and the notes you're taking.
And for Let's Encrypt, this would be less than two months.
Allow me to correct my prior comment: About two and a half months is practical. So a shared hosting subscriber would have to remember to renew the certificate and request installation from the provider about five times per year.
Let's Encrypt, motherfucker.
ACME CAs such as Let's Encrypt have practical problems in the following situations:
A. The website is hosted on shared hosting, and the shared host offers no way to automatically run Certbot or another ACME client to request and install a certificate. There exist ACME clients that run without superuser privilege, but a provider may offer no way for subscribers to automate uploading a certificate obtained through an ACME client. Until very recently, for example, WebFaction required to manually file a support ticket every time. And for Let's Encrypt, this would be less than two months.
B. The owner of a domain allows users to sign up for subdomains. Let's Encrypt does not offer wildcard certificates and severely limits how many certificates can be issued under a particular domain in one week (source). This has already caused problems, for example, for operators of dynamic DNS services who want to make certificates available to their subscribers.
Stop babbling about client certs.
Why?
It it's illegal in your country what good is if Linux can effectively play the disk? Unless one wants to be prosecuted.
Then Windows is for the United States, which is the home country of Slashdot Media, and Linux may be for other countries.
free software is on MKB v28 while new movies are on MKB v57.
This is usually corrected after a certain amount of time... ;-)
But "after a certain amount of time", the availability of the movie at rental kiosks is also discontinued. Redbox, for example, holds onto a movie for about one year.
And I guess it takes some time to even play on these, as the content owners won't risk releasing the movie on Windows if it's still on the cinema theaters or even while still a noverlty on cable.
Pay-per-view and BDMV sold to the public come out usually during the same week, with availability in Redbox four weeks later.
That's indeed a good idea and -- provided nothing too special is used -- would also work with Libreoffice, which in my experience handled xlsx well enough to allow to pass in an online course.
Was use of validation macros a requirement for the "online course" that you mentioned?
But then, it's not such a bad idea to leave one keyboard at work and one at home [...] The user would work at home (or at work)
And then what for writing code for hobby projects while riding transit to and from one's day job, which is one thing I use my laptop for? Being limited to work only at home and at the office and nowhere else is a non-starter.
[A limit of one window on the screen] is a software problem
Which the user cannot solve because many device manufacturers don't make it easy to unlock the bootloader, let alone build a custom system software image. Even if they do, it still requires a full backup, wipe, and restore.
and online storage ("the cloud").
At 10 USD per GB of upload or download, using online storage while riding transit can prove cost prohibitive.
some segments are still closed-source only [...] Which "support cost" when people contribute bug squashing for free?
People can contribute bug reports but are technically blocked from contribute bug fixes by unavailability of the application's source code and legally prohibited from doing so by proprietary software license agreements.
We can petition, crowdfund and buy a Linux version
Not if the application's publisher refuses to do so at any price short of half the company's market capitalization. And not even then if the publisher is not publicly traded.
or simply code an alternative
Not if the application's publisher threatens makers of close substitutes with copyright or patent infringement lawsuits. See, for example, Tetris v. Xio , as well as Microsoft's threats against third party implementations of VFAT and exFAT.
then the user must use Linux to play the blue ray, like described over the net.
Which licensed BDMV player does the net recommend? Google linux bdmv player found this six-year-old post which is a reverse engineered player that's "a far shot from proper native support for blu-ray playback" and likely illegal in my country. It also turned up a page last updated in 2016 stating that "no official Blu-ray player software is available on their system". In particular, free software is on MKB v28 while new movies are on MKB v57.
You are aware that lots (and I mean lots as in every single one) site provides a shopping cart, aren't you?
I'm not referring to the buyer's user interface. I'm referring to the seller's user interface to validate a list of products that the seller is uploading to the online sales platform.
It's 2016. We got Chromecast and Bluetooth keyboards & mouses.
How many people have you seen actually carrying around a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use with a smartphone in situations where a laptop has traditionally excelled, such as writing and editing long-form text with markup? And for the use case of taking notes about a web page or other document you're reading, how easy is it under stock versions of the popular smartphone operating systems to make both the document and your notes visible on the screen? Android has had tiling window management since Android 7.0 "Nougat", and Samsung has long had the manufacturer-specific tiling window manager that it introduced with Galaxy Note, but Nougat has yet to become widespread on existing devices or even on devices still sold new to the public.
People code applications for Linux
Or they don't because they see more money in making an application for Windows and not Linux than for Linux and not Windows, or even than for both Windows and Linux due to "support cost issues".
and if they're good the distributions include them (what's one more in 50,000+?).
The distributions tend to include only software under a free software license. The economics of games with professional production values, licensed players for major studio movies, and income tax return preparation software sort of rule out a timely release as free software for reasons I've described in this article.
Good luck running a binary for GTK for Windows or Qt for Windows on anything but Windows.
You realize those platforms came from Linux, rigtht?
Even if an application developer uses a platform that came from Linux, the fact that the platform came from Linux is no help to an end user if the developer chooses to publish only a Windows binary because of "support cost issues".
"The default" that you describe leads to prohibitive import duties if not an outright trade embargo. All recent free trade agreements incorporate the Berne Convention by reference.
What application does macOS run that neither Windows nor X11/Linux also runs? The only important one I can think of is Xcode, if you happen to be employed as a developer of applications for Apple platforms.
Does GIMP's UI remain poor even after turning on Windows > Single Window Mode? If so, what are your specific UI annoyances with GIMP and Blender?
Using pentominoes instead of tetrominoes would be non-infringing. The underlying game play would be the same
That'd be like saying gridiron (American) football would play the same way with a soccer ball as it does with the present prolate spheroid.
Could you run an FTP or SSH/SFTP server on your Windows file server, so that the Mac user can connect using a publicly documented protocol?
On July 20, 2015, eBay spun off PayPal.
A USB keyboard from a garage sale should still work.
Then why do laptops with pre-installed GNU/Linux, from companies such as System76, cost twice as much as major brand entry level Windows laptops? And which 10.1-inch or 11.5-inch laptop models with pre-installed GNU/Linux are recommended nowadays?
Since when does it not work to download WNIC drivers on a different PC or using wired Ethernet?
tl;dr: Windows for new hardware that doesn't use a generic class driver and Linux for hand-me-downs.
With what source of funding shall this be sorted out?
Even in public departments, where forms are still used, one usually interacts with asp pages (or php) and the resulting filled form is printed to a simple pdf file as a receipt
In some cases this is true. But other cases still rely on PDF form submission from within the PDF reader. In these cases, it's either Adobe Reader or don't do business unless and until the PDF form submission is no longer required, possibly for years.
[Blu-ray] is akin to the IE/Edge-only ability to play HD video from Netflix. It sucks, but in most cases we may need to downgrade the video experience to a lower-quality one (such as the one called "HD-ready", 1280x720)
In the case of movies on disc, which is still an important feature for people who live outside the service area of fiber, cable, and DSL, the next step down from 1920x1080 is DVD, which is 704x480 (or 704x576 if you live in a 50 Hz region).
Actually, that is one reason people started to use .net, .asp or .php-based pages server validation (because a wicked user could bypass local/Excel validation and you'll have to re-validate it again anyway!).
Amazon Marketplace Web Service does revalidate the seller's feed on the server after it has been uploaded. A preliminary validation on the client, however, saves time in two ways: the seller doesn't have to wait for the processing report from the server indicating boneheaded errors, and the prevalidation prevents a clearly malformed feed from counting against a seller's feed upload quota. It's the same concept as validating an HTML form with JavaScript on the client to quickly catch obvious errors before revalidating it on the server to enforce business rules, except JavaScript is replaced with Excel to avoid having to deal with browsers' security restrictions on clipboard use.
And by the way, Windows is also useless if such friends are using Apple (iOS or OS X) based software (or Android-based, BTW).
I was under the impression that many video games were developed for desktop and laptop computers rather than smartphones because not all genres are particularly amenable to control with nothing but the touch screen and device rotation. I was under the further impression that far more games were exclusive to Windows than to macOS.
We probably should stop talking about games on Windows since some time, as the world is moving to more portable platforms
Such as laptop computers that run Windows.
Develop desktop applications that run on users' PCs, without having to issue a copy of VirtualBox and Linux to each user
I'd say that's what Firefox, Chrome and Libreoffice are (no virtualization involved),
As for Chrome, Google has announced a plan to phase out Chrome Apps on all platforms other than Chrome OS. This puts it in the same category as Firefox. As for Firefox, the Web platform is still missing many features for security reasons, such as clipboard access, access to specialized devices that use USB or Bluetooth connections, and ability to connect to servers operated by unaffiliated third parties such as those running protocols other than HTTP or without a CORS header. Besides, you'd still need to either have users install an HTTP server on localhost to serve the application to Firefox or include the cost of a cellular data plan in the price of the application. As for LibreOffice, more Windows users use Excel than it, and choosing to support Excel and not LibreOffice rather than LibreOffice and not Excel saves support costs.
but actually anyone can do it by opting between the two major toolkits (gtk or Qt).
Good luck running a binary for GTK for Windows or Qt for Windows on anything but Windows. Or did you mean developers should spill their trade secrets by publishing source code for users o
So just don't call it Java.
That avoids trademark infringement, not copyright infringement. See Tetris v. Xio , about a deliberately renamed video game workalike. In order not to infringe, it probably has to be as different from Java as C# is.
In practice, "desktop Linux" implies GNU/Linux and X11/Linux. But given the level of pedantry among some Slashdot users, I personally tend to be more careful lest I run into people who sincerely suggest to use an Android tablet with a keyboard as a close substitute for an X11/Linux laptop.
Linux has [...] more support for hardware than Windows
Granted, with respect to all hardware in existence. But which has more support for hardware sold in Best Buy, Staples, or other major U.S. retail electronics chains in the fourth quarter of 2016? Because that's what the typical home or small office user considering a switch from Windows to X11/Linux is up against.
Try these:
* PDF, not just viewing, but form filling and submission. I'm told recent Evince and Okular can fill forms to some extent, but it's not complete.
* Watch local BDMV (Blu-ray Disc)
* Fill in Amazon's Excel spreadsheets with validation macros
* Debug NES programs (FCEUX SDL version lacks a debugger, but FCEUX in Wine has one)
* Play online multiplayer with friends who own copies of Windows PC games that happen not to have been ported to Linux
* Develop desktop applications that run on users' PCs, without having to issue a copy of VirtualBox and Linux to each user
Was Dalvik written with the intention of running regular Java programs on it?
As I understand it, it was written with the intent of running existing pure-Java libraries, even if not their GUI front-ends.
The wording of the letter implies that a driver assistance device may be deemed "defective" even if "drivers will use your product in a manner that exceeds its intended purpose". The list of requested information includes basic specifications of the device, such as what it does, which vehicles it is for, how it is installed, how it is used, under what conditions it can be used, detailed results of testing in all such conditions, what it ends up doing when it shuts off, what it ends up doing if installed in an unsupported vehicle, detailed results of testing for compliance with each element of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, how it interacts with rearview mirrors, when it goes on sale, and the name of every entity that will sell the device.
My understanding of Comma leaving the U.S. market is that it lacks the money to perform exhaustive tests, especially on all unsupported vehicles, and to hire legal counsel to interpret the FMVSS (49 CFR 571) and other pertinent regulations.
Google DID rip Oracle off [...] and they should have to pay
Then how should interoperability with a platform implemented as copyrighted computer programs be achieved, other than through copying the interfaces needed to interoperate with other software developed for the platform? If you believe instead that one ought not to attempt to interoperate in the first place, then how does it benefit the public to give a platform's owner the power to chill interoperability through copyright law?
One practical problem with an alternative implementation of the Java platform is that a developer is forbidden to distribute an incomplete, work-in-progress implementation to the public. Per the "License for the Distribution of Compliant Implementations" in the Limited License Grant of the Java Language Specification, only a complete implementation that "fully implements the Specification including all its required interfaces and functionality" and passes the test suite may be published. This forces all alternative implementations into a cathedral model rather than a bazaar model and places an entry barrier of having to find a huge chunk of funding before having a chance to receive any related revenue. Further more, the test suite itself appears to be incompatible with permissive free software licenses.