Your body is capable of moving without spending a cent or even going outside. There's plenty of exercises you can do in your living room.
Agreed: body weight squats and push-ups work many of the body's long-bone muscle groups. But the opposing motion to pull-ups is chin-ups, which require a bar (which can be found on the playground), and walking requires either a treadmill or a sidewalk or trail and tolerable weather.
The vast majority of the middle class people I'm talking about have a car.
Unless they gave it up to save the monthly payment on fuel, insurance, and parking.
Kids whose own parents don’t drive face bigger hurdles. They face a staggering $6000 bill for driving lessons if they were to do all their hours through a standard driving school.
because they can't comprehend making their own food
That or they can comprehend being threatened with imprisonment when city codes ban gardens.
or exercising without equipment
That depends on weather and on how strict the local police are about giving children priority on public playgrounds.
or getting around without a taxi.
What should they do instead? Ride the bus? Buses in my home town don't operate at night, on Sundays, or on major holidays. Under the "employment at will" principle widespread in the United States, employers can and do exercise their rights to fire employees for notifying them that they aren't available at those times. Many, such as Walmart, also have a "must be available on weekends" policy of refusing to hire applicants who mark down that they aren't available on Sunday.
83% of American households have some form of subscription television service.
And they pay negative dollars per month for this service. Many local cable companies charge less for a bundle of Internet access and the lowest tier of subscription television service (local channels, C-SPAN, public access, and home shopping) than for Internet access alone.
3-4 months of that would cover at least enough of a mid market law firms time to assess the merits of case.
3 to 4 months of negative? Or are you implying that Internet access is not a necessity to find and/or keep a job?
We also have these things called public libraries were ordinary citizens like you or I could get access to either online resources
Good luck with that when the public library has closed for the night or for the weekend by the time you would have arrived there from work.
How do you know Nintendo's forthcoming $60 console doesn't also "use inaccurate software emulation"? Until it ships, nobody will have opened it up to look (except for parties to Nintendo's non-disclosure agreement).
and allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2
and didn't have access to the entire NES library.
Not all third-party publishers of NES games are willing to "allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2". When Nintendo announced Virtual Console for the first time, it mentioned Tetris as one of the games it probably wouldn't be able to license at fair market value.* Or for those third-party games whose copyright owner is unwilling, are you recommending that Nintendo lobby national governments to just take a license under eminent domain?
The Wii did not have a NES controller.
The controller bundled with Nintendo's forthcoming $60 console is compatible with Wii.
Until you close your browser. Or until your browser purges the document from RAM.
Android tablets run the Android operating system. Netbooks made since Windows- and X11/Linux-based netbooks were discontinued at the end of 2012 run either Android or Chrome OS. These mobile operating systems, unlike desktop operating systems, don't regularly use a swap file. Instead, when the device is about to run out of RAM, running applications are given a chance to release memory to the OS before being terminated by the OOM killer. Web browsers on mobile operating systems will react to a "trim memory" event by purging a document loaded in another tab with the intent of reloading it later from the network once the user switches back to that tab. This reloading doesn't work if you happen to be offline when you switch back.
Better yet, they should release an NES mini that has 512MB flash storage and allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2 and download them right to the console.
Even if exclusive franchises per se are illegal, a city can still make a franchise constructively exclusive by requiring all competing franchisees to guarantee a citywide rollout in a time frame faster than any competitor can afford.
"With a Windows laptop or tablet, you aren't tethered to a big-screen TV. You could theoretically take these PlayStation games anywhere"
The article says it requires a DualShock 4 controller. I don't see how that will work with all Windows tablets, especially seeing as ARM-based Windows tablets (like the Surface 1 and 2 non-Pro) allow only XInput controllers (that is, Xbox 360 controllers and one Logitech model).
Now, looking at the Famicom PCB, it should be possible to make a clip-in or pass-through board that attaches to the video chip and produces the HDMI output, all while fitting in the original case. That would be a nice upgrade that people would buy and wouldn't cost too much.
Or you can just load up an original Xbox with a bunch of emulators.
To use an emulator, you need ROMs, and the only legal way to obtain ROMs of most NES games is by dumping your own cartridges pursuant to 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts. A Retrode can dump Super NES, Genesis, and a few other systems with adapters. NES isn't among them. What do you recommend to dump NES?
you are pretty much tied in to what Canonical makes available on their apt repository (or whatever) unless you have a bit of technical ability.
Technically, it does take "a bit of technical ability" to copy and paste a PPA URL into Start > Settings > Software & Updates. But how does this "bit of technical ability" compare to what people normally do with a PC?
I thought Nexus phones had an unlockable bootloader. In theory you can back up your data and the Google Play Store app, wipe and unlock, install a third-party Nougat ROM, and reinstall Google Play Store.
What they have seen with their camera sensors we people wouldn't believe. [...] All those moments will be lost in time
I thought sync to Google Drive was designed to prevent this loss.
Less popular channels are often delivered through "switched digital video" (SDV), which delivers only those channels that someone in a particular neighborhood is watching. It's more like multicast video-on-demand, such as pay-per-view boxing, than like traditional digital cable TV channels.
To improve the median quality of games available for their platforms, console makers do background checks on their authorized developers to ensure some minimal level of experience and financial stability. So if a developer is making the jump from PC or smartphones to consoles for the first time, its qualification to develop on one console might still be pending, and the game might hit one console's download store before the developer gets a chance to start on a port to the other(s).
If a third-party game is exclusive to a Nintendo platform, it may rely on the specialized input devices of that platform, such as the Wii Remote motion controller, the Wii U GamePad tablet controller, or the physical buttons that a Nintendo 3DS has and the vast majority of smartphones for the western market lack.
Will games necessarily be locked out of 4K, or are most AAA games just too graphically complex for it? If the latter, then perhaps some of those cross-platform games that display in 1080p even on the slightly slower Xbox One might be patchable to display in at least 1440p on the revised PlayStation 4.
Are console exclusives written anymore without ownership or heavy incentivization from the console manufacturers?
There were third-party games released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 but not PC. One of these was Red Dead Redemption. There are also third-party games released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One but not PC. One of these is Mortal Kombat XL. This number increases if your home PC runs anything other than Windows. Did you also mean to count handheld games for PlayStation Vita or Nintendo 3DS?
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Your body is capable of moving without spending a cent or even going outside. There's plenty of exercises you can do in your living room.
Agreed: body weight squats and push-ups work many of the body's long-bone muscle groups. But the opposing motion to pull-ups is chin-ups, which require a bar (which can be found on the playground), and walking requires either a treadmill or a sidewalk or trail and tolerable weather.
The vast majority of the middle class people I'm talking about have a car.
Unless they gave it up to save the monthly payment on fuel, insurance, and parking.
If you're too poor to get a $1000 loan for a car
You'd still need a license to drive it. In jurisdictions that mandate a particular number of hours of supervised driving on a learner's permit, doing supervised driving with an instructor can cost thousands of dollars:
because they can't comprehend making their own food
That or they can comprehend being threatened with imprisonment when city codes ban gardens.
or exercising without equipment
That depends on weather and on how strict the local police are about giving children priority on public playgrounds.
or getting around without a taxi.
What should they do instead? Ride the bus? Buses in my home town don't operate at night, on Sundays, or on major holidays. Under the "employment at will" principle widespread in the United States, employers can and do exercise their rights to fire employees for notifying them that they aren't available at those times. Many, such as Walmart, also have a "must be available on weekends" policy of refusing to hire applicants who mark down that they aren't available on Sunday.
83% of American households have some form of subscription television service.
And they pay negative dollars per month for this service. Many local cable companies charge less for a bundle of Internet access and the lowest tier of subscription television service (local channels, C-SPAN, public access, and home shopping) than for Internet access alone.
3-4 months of that would cover at least enough of a mid market law firms time to assess the merits of case.
3 to 4 months of negative? Or are you implying that Internet access is not a necessity to find and/or keep a job?
We also have these things called public libraries were ordinary citizens like you or I could get access to either online resources
Good luck with that when the public library has closed for the night or for the weekend by the time you would have arrived there from work.
It's not always a matter of not being able to manage one's own money as much as not having a way to earn enough money to manage in the first place.
The Wii used inaccurate software emulation
How do you know Nintendo's forthcoming $60 console doesn't also "use inaccurate software emulation"? Until it ships, nobody will have opened it up to look (except for parties to Nintendo's non-disclosure agreement).
and allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2
and didn't have access to the entire NES library.
Not all third-party publishers of NES games are willing to "allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2". When Nintendo announced Virtual Console for the first time, it mentioned Tetris as one of the games it probably wouldn't be able to license at fair market value.* Or for those third-party games whose copyright owner is unwilling, are you recommending that Nintendo lobby national governments to just take a license under eminent domain?
The Wii did not have a NES controller.
The controller bundled with Nintendo's forthcoming $60 console is compatible with Wii.
* Not counting Tetris Party on WiiWare, which was years later, twice as expensive as NES VC games, and broken in the same way as most other Tetris games since 2001.
I don't think Windows RT can see generic HID devices. Only desktop apps for Windows on x86 or x86-64 can.
Ah, the browser tab
Until you close your browser. Or until your browser purges the document from RAM.
Android tablets run the Android operating system. Netbooks made since Windows- and X11/Linux-based netbooks were discontinued at the end of 2012 run either Android or Chrome OS. These mobile operating systems, unlike desktop operating systems, don't regularly use a swap file. Instead, when the device is about to run out of RAM, running applications are given a chance to release memory to the OS before being terminated by the OOM killer. Web browsers on mobile operating systems will react to a "trim memory" event by purging a document loaded in another tab with the intent of reloading it later from the network once the user switches back to that tab. This reloading doesn't work if you happen to be offline when you switch back.
Better yet, they should release an NES mini that has 512MB flash storage and allow people to buy games for a $1 or $2 and download them right to the console.
That was called a Wii.
Even if exclusive franchises per se are illegal, a city can still make a franchise constructively exclusive by requiring all competing franchisees to guarantee a citywide rollout in a time frame faster than any competitor can afford.
"With a Windows laptop or tablet, you aren't tethered to a big-screen TV. You could theoretically take these PlayStation games anywhere"
The article says it requires a DualShock 4 controller. I don't see how that will work with all Windows tablets, especially seeing as ARM-based Windows tablets (like the Surface 1 and 2 non-Pro) allow only XInput controllers (that is, Xbox 360 controllers and one Logitech model).
Several NES games that I owned as a kid happen not to be on that list of 30.
Now, looking at the Famicom PCB, it should be possible to make a clip-in or pass-through board that attaches to the video chip and produces the HDMI output, all while fitting in the original case. That would be a nice upgrade that people would buy and wouldn't cost too much.
That's called the Hi-Def NES board by Kevtris.
This makes their approach not much different from software emulators
Other than 1. less lag, and 2. compatibility with the "mapper" hardware inside all NES-compatible Game Paks now known or hereinafter devised.
Or you can just load up an original Xbox with a bunch of emulators.
To use an emulator, you need ROMs, and the only legal way to obtain ROMs of most NES games is by dumping your own cartridges pursuant to 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts. A Retrode can dump Super NES, Genesis, and a few other systems with adapters. NES isn't among them. What do you recommend to dump NES?
More speed means more data can be transferred means an amount of data transferred is less valuable.
More data can be transferred means more customers, not more data per customer.
Solution: Make a browser extension that pauses the Internet connection after each 1 MB until "Continue" is pressed.
dressed in yellow tunics, smiling, singing "Hare Krishna"
And then ending up sued by someone smiling and singing "dulang dulang dulang".
What right did Microsoft have to get technology encumbered by its patents included as a mandatory part of the SDXC spec?
you are pretty much tied in to what Canonical makes available on their apt repository (or whatever) unless you have a bit of technical ability.
Technically, it does take "a bit of technical ability" to copy and paste a PPA URL into Start > Settings > Software & Updates. But how does this "bit of technical ability" compare to what people normally do with a PC?
The landfill will be full of Nexus 5 models.
I thought Nexus phones had an unlockable bootloader. In theory you can back up your data and the Google Play Store app, wipe and unlock, install a third-party Nougat ROM, and reinstall Google Play Store.
What they have seen with their camera sensors we people wouldn't believe. [...] All those moments will be lost in time
I thought sync to Google Drive was designed to prevent this loss.
Less popular channels are often delivered through "switched digital video" (SDV), which delivers only those channels that someone in a particular neighborhood is watching. It's more like multicast video-on-demand, such as pay-per-view boxing, than like traditional digital cable TV channels.
To improve the median quality of games available for their platforms, console makers do background checks on their authorized developers to ensure some minimal level of experience and financial stability. So if a developer is making the jump from PC or smartphones to consoles for the first time, its qualification to develop on one console might still be pending, and the game might hit one console's download store before the developer gets a chance to start on a port to the other(s).
If a third-party game is exclusive to a Nintendo platform, it may rely on the specialized input devices of that platform, such as the Wii Remote motion controller, the Wii U GamePad tablet controller, or the physical buttons that a Nintendo 3DS has and the vast majority of smartphones for the western market lack.
Will games necessarily be locked out of 4K, or are most AAA games just too graphically complex for it? If the latter, then perhaps some of those cross-platform games that display in 1080p even on the slightly slower Xbox One might be patchable to display in at least 1440p on the revised PlayStation 4.
Does that leave only select PC game developers that are open to licensing their works for amateur derivatives?
Are console exclusives written anymore without ownership or heavy incentivization from the console manufacturers?
There were third-party games released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 but not PC. One of these was Red Dead Redemption. There are also third-party games released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One but not PC. One of these is Mortal Kombat XL. This number increases if your home PC runs anything other than Windows. Did you also mean to count handheld games for PlayStation Vita or Nintendo 3DS?