Where, exactly, is the theft in renting the property?
Technically, copyright infringement isn't theft. Offering TV at a negative price to cable Internet subscribers is tying or dumping, not extortion. And in the same way, owner-absent short-term sublets are evasion of hotel tax, not theft. But morally, tax evasion could be thought of as like a theft from the other residents of the state, who have made a decision through their elected representatives to tax a particular behavior.
Joe Sixpack rents a place, but then he "has to cancel" and leave early *cough*. He pays the owner an "early-termination penalty", and then the owner would, of course, relist the room to be rented.
Where is the crime, and how would anyone prove that anything illegal had occurred?
The proof is that the property's owner failed to document good cause for early termination with more than three-fourths of the lease term remaining by five out of six sublessees of the same property. An allowance for "good cause" isn't a bright line, I'll grant, but it's like the difference between an excused absence from school in states with truancy laws and an unexcused absence.
Co-worker friends who are non-gamers don't help for this. I'll have to figure out how to approach my co-workers to ask if they're at all interested in gaming.
or at the bar/club/activity that takes place outside of your own home?
Finding a physical third place is the one thing I haven't figured out, especially for someone such as myself who has chosen not to drink alcohol and isn't interested in the more cult-like aspects of religious organizations such as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Online gaming with friends who moved away often becomes impractical due to time zone differences, intercontinental Internet latency, not owning the same games, or owning the same games but not on the same platform.
Of course, this being Nintendo, they're probably going to put serious limits on communication with strangers, ostensibly to keep children from adding would-be abusers to a friends list.
If I want to play with others, I'll stick with local
I'm curious as to how single adults find partners for local multiplayer after leaving school. Other gamers on Slashdot keep telling me local is for kids' after-school play dates and online in pickup groups of strangers is for adults.
And Apple has even more ARM experience. The iPhone is a successor to Apple's earlier Newton MessagePad, which was probably the first ARM-powered mobile device.
Strictly speaking the Genesis was more powerful than the SNES, processor-wise.
In some ways, the Genesis's Motorola 68000 CPU was more efficient, particularly with 16-bit multiplication and division and 32-bit addition and subtraction. In other ways, it was tied with the Super NES's WDC 65816 despite the latter's 8-bit bus because the 68000 could access memory only every fourth cycle. Overall memory bandwidth was roughly the same in both systems, both for access by the CPU and for DMA to video memory.
You and in10se should consider upgrading from a video game console to a home theater PC (HTPC) with a BD-ROM drive and HDCP-capable HDMI or DVI display. It offers full HD video output, DVD-Video playback, BD-Video playback, Netflix playback, HBO GO playback, streaming from other devices, and DVR.* It also offers a good game library through GOG and Steam, user programmability in user mode under Windows,** and user programmability in both user and kernel mode under GNU/Linux.
* Recording encrypted cable is no longer supported as of Windows 10. ** Kernel mode driver development by individuals is no longer supported as of Windows 10. It is available only for corporations and LLCs holding an EV code signing certificate.
They will lose to the mobile market when in portable mode
How so? Currently "the mobile market" is centered around touch screen gaming, which is far from ideal for game genres that aren't point-and-click or continuous runners. Even the widely panned Turbo Touch 360 would make a better game controller than the flat sheet of glass that is a typical smartphone or tablet. True, clip-on gamepads for iOS and Android are available from brands such as MOGA, but I haven't seen any manufacturer release sales figures. In fact, I'm surprised about the lack of figures on MOGA's developer landing page because I figured that a manufacturer of clip-on gamepads would use installed base to court game developers.
How can you do that when it will likely cost at least as much as a typical tablet, because it will have faster graphics hardware?
The Nexus 7 (2012) tablet by ASUS had a Tegra 3 chipset, the latest at the time, and launched at $220. Or is the latest Tegra expected to cost more in 2017 than the Tegra 3 cost in 2012?
The NES Game Pak edge connector has three parts: the CPU part, the PPU (Picture Processing Unit) part, and the CIC (Checking Integrated Circuit) part. Bad CIC connection (pins 34, 35, 70, and 71) causes blinking, as you mentioned. But bad CPU connection (pins 2-15 and 38-50) freezes the Control Deck on a blank screen, and bad PPU connection (pins 21-33 and 56-69) causes scrambled tiles, vertical lines, and even freezes in some games.
The PPU failure mode doesn't happen on later Nintendo systems, which have no dedicated PPU bus; all video memory is internal to the console. (In fact, the NES and Neo Geo AES are the only major home consoles to bring the address and data bus for the PPU to the cart edge.) Nor can CPU and CIC connection failure be distinguished on Super NES and Nintendo 64, where the lock chip in the console holds the CPU in constant reset until the CIC pair authenticates. The Game Boy connector has only a CPU bus, and the system authenticates the cartridge by matching the logo data. (Incidentally, Sega's similar Trademark Security System got ruled unenforceable in U.S. courts; see Sega v. Accolade and Lexmark v. Static Control Components.) Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS use block storage, similar to CF or SD, with an encrypted bus.
The Microsoft Surface Pro tablet is a mobile device with a detachable keyboard controller. So is a smartphone or tablet with a clip-on MOGA controller.
Then use what instead to play games while away from a monitor and wall power? If a PlayStation Vita, I reiterate the previous question: "Does the PlayStation Vita have a good selection of games?"
Besides you either use a table for the laptop, hence the playstation is not a problem
A bag to carry a laptop, a PlayStation 4 console, and a monitor is much bigger and (once filled) much heavier than a bag to carry only a laptop.
or end up with slowly baked smelly neither regions
Has anyone reading this filed bug reports in the public bug trackers of Evince and Okular asking them to either add support for Tesseract or fix whatever is "horrible" about the UI of their Tesseract integration?
Most people seem to have cellular internet access nowadays.
And for the rest of people, do you expect them to subscribe (or to renew a subscription that has lapsed) before buying a laptop or peripheral? Besides, how should they find a compatible cellular modem to get cellular Internet access on their laptops in the first place?
Forgive the "jumping off a cliff argument", but if all my friends are playing games not ported to X11/Linux, how should I go about finding new friends with whom to play X11/Linux-compatible games online?
And as long as Win32 exists, so does non-UWP development.
Not if the executable loader offers no access to the underlying Win32 subsystem to apps that aren't first-party. That's what happened with Windows RT. If Windows RT allowed Win32 access, developers could flip the switch in Visual Studio from Win32/x86 to Win32/ARM, recompile, and ship. But instead, Microsoft chose to lock down access to Win32 in Windows RT and allow only what are now called UWP apps.
I got one of those Belkin wifi cards that are USB powered and plug into the ethernet port.
Then you occupy two USB ports, one for the Ethernet adapter (which many laptops omit nowadays) and one for the USB-powered WLAN adapter. And you still need a driver for the Ethernet adapter.
Why the hell do all the linux PDF's viewers not have OCR?
Two guesses: Patents, and not enough ability and interest among corporate or volunteer contributors to produce a high-quality OCR engine as free software.
What can't be done with Regedit can be done with a custom app that I can build myself.
Unless it requires something at the driver level. Windows 10 64-bit can no longer normally run drivers developed by individuals. Instead, it requires drivers to have been digitally signed with an EV certificate, and I'm told EV certificates are available only to established corporations and LLCs.
Normally, you plug something in and it works great. If it doesn't then you probably should have researched your purchase better.
How should someone inside Staples looking for a new laptop or a new peripheral "have researched your purchase better"? It's not like there's a penguin on the box. Not everybody wants to buy a laptop without first trying its screen and keyboard and end up stuck owning something ergonomically unacceptable, and same day delivery from a web shop is often cost prohibitive.
I thought both macOS and X11/Linux used CUPS for printing, and CUPS supported all PostScript printers, and laser printers were more likely to support PostScript. In addition, HP explicitly supports CUPS on Linux through HPLIP. Or are 11x17 color lasers the exception? Or what else am I missing?
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Where, exactly, is the theft in renting the property?
Technically, copyright infringement isn't theft. Offering TV at a negative price to cable Internet subscribers is tying or dumping, not extortion. And in the same way, owner-absent short-term sublets are evasion of hotel tax, not theft. But morally, tax evasion could be thought of as like a theft from the other residents of the state, who have made a decision through their elected representatives to tax a particular behavior.
Joe Sixpack rents a place, but then he "has to cancel" and leave early *cough*. He pays the owner an "early-termination penalty", and then the owner would, of course, relist the room to be rented.
Where is the crime, and how would anyone prove that anything illegal had occurred?
The proof is that the property's owner failed to document good cause for early termination with more than three-fourths of the lease term remaining by five out of six sublessees of the same property. An allowance for "good cause" isn't a bright line, I'll grant, but it's like the difference between an excused absence from school in states with truancy laws and an unexcused absence.
You don't make new friends at work
Co-worker friends who are non-gamers don't help for this. I'll have to figure out how to approach my co-workers to ask if they're at all interested in gaming.
or at the bar/club/activity that takes place outside of your own home?
Finding a physical third place is the one thing I haven't figured out, especially for someone such as myself who has chosen not to drink alcohol and isn't interested in the more cult-like aspects of religious organizations such as Jehovah's Witnesses.
It was the first user of an ARM CPU in a mobile device prior to the Game Boy Advance that came to mind.
You don't have friends already?
Correct.
Did everyone you went to school with die after you left school?
No. But that's not the point because death is not the only way to lose contact with a former classmate.
I mean local as in "C'mon over over man, we'll have some [insert drink of choice here] and play a few rounds of [game you all enjoy]!"
And my question is how people who already graduated from college find people with whom to do that.
Online gaming with friends who moved away often becomes impractical due to time zone differences, intercontinental Internet latency, not owning the same games, or owning the same games but not on the same platform.
Of course, this being Nintendo, they're probably going to put serious limits on communication with strangers, ostensibly to keep children from adding would-be abusers to a friends list.
If I want to play with others, I'll stick with local
I'm curious as to how single adults find partners for local multiplayer after leaving school. Other gamers on Slashdot keep telling me local is for kids' after-school play dates and online in pickup groups of strangers is for adults.
And Apple has even more ARM experience. The iPhone is a successor to Apple's earlier Newton MessagePad, which was probably the first ARM-powered mobile device.
Strictly speaking the Genesis was more powerful than the SNES, processor-wise.
In some ways, the Genesis's Motorola 68000 CPU was more efficient, particularly with 16-bit multiplication and division and 32-bit addition and subtraction. In other ways, it was tied with the Super NES's WDC 65816 despite the latter's 8-bit bus because the 68000 could access memory only every fourth cycle. Overall memory bandwidth was roughly the same in both systems, both for access by the CPU and for DMA to video memory.
You and in10se should consider upgrading from a video game console to a home theater PC (HTPC) with a BD-ROM drive and HDCP-capable HDMI or DVI display. It offers full HD video output, DVD-Video playback, BD-Video playback, Netflix playback, HBO GO playback, streaming from other devices, and DVR.* It also offers a good game library through GOG and Steam, user programmability in user mode under Windows,** and user programmability in both user and kernel mode under GNU/Linux.
* Recording encrypted cable is no longer supported as of Windows 10.
** Kernel mode driver development by individuals is no longer supported as of Windows 10. It is available only for corporations and LLCs holding an EV code signing certificate.
They will lose to the mobile market when in portable mode
How so? Currently "the mobile market" is centered around touch screen gaming, which is far from ideal for game genres that aren't point-and-click or continuous runners. Even the widely panned Turbo Touch 360 would make a better game controller than the flat sheet of glass that is a typical smartphone or tablet. True, clip-on gamepads for iOS and Android are available from brands such as MOGA, but I haven't seen any manufacturer release sales figures. In fact, I'm surprised about the lack of figures on MOGA's developer landing page because I figured that a manufacturer of clip-on gamepads would use installed base to court game developers.
How can you do that when it will likely cost at least as much as a typical tablet, because it will have faster graphics hardware?
The Nexus 7 (2012) tablet by ASUS had a Tegra 3 chipset, the latest at the time, and launched at $220. Or is the latest Tegra expected to cost more in 2017 than the Tegra 3 cost in 2012?
The NES Game Pak edge connector has three parts: the CPU part, the PPU (Picture Processing Unit) part, and the CIC (Checking Integrated Circuit) part. Bad CIC connection (pins 34, 35, 70, and 71) causes blinking, as you mentioned. But bad CPU connection (pins 2-15 and 38-50) freezes the Control Deck on a blank screen, and bad PPU connection (pins 21-33 and 56-69) causes scrambled tiles, vertical lines, and even freezes in some games.
The PPU failure mode doesn't happen on later Nintendo systems, which have no dedicated PPU bus; all video memory is internal to the console. (In fact, the NES and Neo Geo AES are the only major home consoles to bring the address and data bus for the PPU to the cart edge.) Nor can CPU and CIC connection failure be distinguished on Super NES and Nintendo 64, where the lock chip in the console holds the CPU in constant reset until the CIC pair authenticates. The Game Boy connector has only a CPU bus, and the system authenticates the cartridge by matching the logo data. (Incidentally, Sega's similar Trademark Security System got ruled unenforceable in U.S. courts; see Sega v. Accolade and Lexmark v. Static Control Components.) Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS use block storage, similar to CF or SD, with an encrypted bus.
The Microsoft Surface Pro tablet is a mobile device with a detachable keyboard controller. So is a smartphone or tablet with a clip-on MOGA controller.
Easy, you no longer use you laptop to play games.
Then use what instead to play games while away from a monitor and wall power? If a PlayStation Vita, I reiterate the previous question: "Does the PlayStation Vita have a good selection of games?"
Besides you either use a table for the laptop, hence the playstation is not a problem
A bag to carry a laptop, a PlayStation 4 console, and a monitor is much bigger and (once filled) much heavier than a bag to carry only a laptop.
or end up with slowly baked smelly neither regions
What makes you think that?
Has anyone reading this filed bug reports in the public bug trackers of Evince and Okular asking them to either add support for Tesseract or fix whatever is "horrible" about the UI of their Tesseract integration?
Most people seem to have cellular internet access nowadays.
And for the rest of people, do you expect them to subscribe (or to renew a subscription that has lapsed) before buying a laptop or peripheral? Besides, how should they find a compatible cellular modem to get cellular Internet access on their laptops in the first place?
Forgive the "jumping off a cliff argument", but if all my friends are playing games not ported to X11/Linux, how should I go about finding new friends with whom to play X11/Linux-compatible games online?
And as long as Win32 exists, so does non-UWP development.
Not if the executable loader offers no access to the underlying Win32 subsystem to apps that aren't first-party. That's what happened with Windows RT. If Windows RT allowed Win32 access, developers could flip the switch in Visual Studio from Win32/x86 to Win32/ARM, recompile, and ship. But instead, Microsoft chose to lock down access to Win32 in Windows RT and allow only what are now called UWP apps.
I got one of those Belkin wifi cards that are USB powered and plug into the ethernet port.
Then you occupy two USB ports, one for the Ethernet adapter (which many laptops omit nowadays) and one for the USB-powered WLAN adapter. And you still need a driver for the Ethernet adapter.
Why the hell do all the linux PDF's viewers not have OCR?
Two guesses: Patents, and not enough ability and interest among corporate or volunteer contributors to produce a high-quality OCR engine as free software.
What can't be done with Regedit can be done with a custom app that I can build myself.
Unless it requires something at the driver level. Windows 10 64-bit can no longer normally run drivers developed by individuals. Instead, it requires drivers to have been digitally signed with an EV certificate, and I'm told EV certificates are available only to established corporations and LLCs.
Normally, you plug something in and it works great. If it doesn't then you probably should have researched your purchase better.
How should someone inside Staples looking for a new laptop or a new peripheral "have researched your purchase better"? It's not like there's a penguin on the box. Not everybody wants to buy a laptop without first trying its screen and keyboard and end up stuck owning something ergonomically unacceptable, and same day delivery from a web shop is often cost prohibitive.
I thought both macOS and X11/Linux used CUPS for printing, and CUPS supported all PostScript printers, and laser printers were more likely to support PostScript. In addition, HP explicitly supports CUPS on Linux through HPLIP. Or are 11x17 color lasers the exception? Or what else am I missing?
The average person the street gave up on all the windows drama and just got a Xbox or Playstation [...] People are fed up with microsoft
If "[p]eople are fed up with [M]icrosoft", then why did they buy an Xbox 360 instead of a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox One instead of a PlayStation 4?