A button where I can download it and play it locally.
Would it be acceptable if the downloadable version of a web application required you to run a webserver on localhost in order to serve the JavaScript files to your browser? Or if you meant a downloadable native app, for which operating system should this native app be produced?
Would it be acceptable if the play button is available without charge but requires JavaScript to use, and the download button works without JavaScript but requires payment to obtain? Or what am I missing?
The whole point is if you are carrying around a laptop shell you may as well carry a lightweight laptop
A laptop shell would probably be a lot cheaper than a lightweight laptop (including the Windows license) and the tethering upgrade for your existing phone's data plan.
Have fun paying $5 for a month's subscription every time you find an article through a search engine or an article shared by a friend through email or social media.
How many of those things do you think Google creates? All of them?
Uh, yeah. Google makes the Android OS and supervises the Nexus phone brand, and it briefly owned Motorola Mobility. Perhaps Etcetera's gripe is that Google owns both the Android business and the DoubleClick and AdWords businesses.
Something has seriously gone off the rails when an ad/image designer either a) cares directly, and/or b) has insight into device power management and usage.
"I've designed an ad and tested it on my phone. Doing it this way makes the battery go from 90% to 85% in x amount of time while displaying the ad on loop; doing it another way makes it take twice as long." Now how is this insight "off the rails"?
Webpages that don't work without JS ARE broken in the first place. The least I'd expect is some kind of minimal functionality, if you can't provide that, ok, it's fine.
I'm interested in implementing "some kind of minimal functionality" for a page on my website. Currently JSNES Arcade requires JavaScript for its core function of interpreting a video game and displaying its graphics. What "kind of minimal functionality" would be appropriate here?
Uhm.. quality websites with well researched articles are generally subscription based
: Which means readers end up turned away when they try to read one article that was found through a search engine or shared through social media. People have shown themselves unwilling to buy a whole month's worth of access just to read one article.
The difference is that online transaction fees are a lot higher than those for a busker operating in person. Someone seeking online donations has to deal with the payment card industry's swipe fees, which can overwhelm the small donations that buskers tend to receive. Bitcoin isn't the answer either, as the Chinese mining cartel has driven up transaction fees to be near those of plastic by refusing to accept the years-overdue hard fork to increase the block size.
If you want me to care about "content creators", you're going to have to call them something other than "content creators". I find that appellation irritating in the extreme.
FSF isn't a big fan of the term "content creator" either, which sounds too much like "happy god". So mentally replace these terms with the terms used in the actual U.S. copyright statute: "creator" becomes "author", and "content" becomes "works".
It says absolutely nothing about what they've done to deserve my money.
With the terminology issue hopefully out of the way: How do we encourage people to continue being an "author of a work of substantial length"?
If user-created works are derivatives of other underlying works, such as fan art of video game characters or videos containing music, don't the authors of said underlying works need to be paid?
You're adding a useless column that has no actual meaning.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're saying you're opposed to surrogate keys in principle. The foreign key link to the users table is what gives a surrogate key meaning.
The downsides are that the tables referencing the user name have to store the user name (but that's probably capped at 30 characters or so)
A column holding up to 30 UTF-32 characters takes 120 bytes, compared to an integer that takes 8, or 4 if you don't expect half the global population to create an account. Even if you use UTF-8, you still have to allocate 120 bytes because code points above U+10000 (mostly emoji and lesser-used Chinese and Japanese ideograms) take four code units.
These would be more than offset by the fact that you can completely avoid a join in many cases since you already have the user name directly in the table you're querying.
And then you have to balance the practical problem that propagating a primary key change places locks in the majority of tables in the system against the cost of a join to a table that's probably already cached in all servers' RAM. In fact, factoring usernames out to a separate table could be seen as compression for all other tables, allowing more of their rows to be kept in RAM.
Yeah, MS thinks that phone toys and desktop power systems (gaming, non-linear editing, content creation) are somehow exactly the same, and therefore need a similar toy interface meant for a 4 inch screen.
Does an 10-12 inch laptop with a touch screen more closely resemble "desktop power systems" or "phone toys"? There are arguments for both:
Like desktop power systems
The screen is big enough to hold two 80-column text editor or terminal windows side by side. And the screen is also big enough for small windowed "accessory" apps, as proven by "desk accessories" on the single-tasking operating system of the original Macintosh with a 9" black and white screen. (DAs ran in the running application's process; MultiFinder didn't land until System 5 and was optional before 7.)
Like phone toys
These laptops have touch input. And the screen isn't big enough to hold two full pages side by side.
What would you propose? An integer with the IDENTITY flag set that auto increments and has no actual meaning?
Yes. For example, a user with username sexconker could have user ID 1179573. Store user ID in most places, and the username is an INNER JOIN psn_users_basic away. Here, psn_users_basic holds the most commonly used columns of a user's profile, with less commonly used ones in a separate table, whether flat or sparse (EAV).
The limit to individual authors is the record human lifespan. "Life" for works of corporate authorship is reckoned at a fixed 25 years after publication or 50 years after creation, whatever comes first.
As for retrospective extensions, so long as the term is finite at any given moment, and so long as nobody manages to prove what the Supreme Court in Eldred called "legislative misbehavior" on Congress's part, the term complies with the "limited Times" restriction. The Copyright Term Extension Act was ruled a one-time harmonization to the copyright term in the European Union. But I imagine that a further extension prior to 2024 would be stronger evidence of "legislative misbehavior".
A veto from President Clinton could not have stopped the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from becoming law, as it passed both houses through voice vote. A voice vote requires 80 percent assent in each house, a veto override only 67 percent.
Because the law has criminal penalties. Suing the sitting Attorney General for an injunction on enforcing a law is the standard legal fiction used to challenge a criminal statute's constitutionality in the United States.
I don't recall copyright having an amendment. Don't Constitutional rights trump pretty much everything else, period?
Copyright is one of the enumerated powers of Congress (U.S. Const. I.8): "The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This power is subject to other rights retained by the people, such as freedom from Congressional interference with freedom of speech (U.S. Const. Amendment I).
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It look better if the comment describes the actual effect that calling the function would have, plus what each argument means.
A button where I can download it and play it locally.
Would it be acceptable if the downloadable version of a web application required you to run a webserver on localhost in order to serve the JavaScript files to your browser? Or if you meant a downloadable native app, for which operating system should this native app be produced?
Would it be acceptable if the play button is available without charge but requires JavaScript to use, and the download button works without JavaScript but requires payment to obtain? Or what am I missing?
The whole point is if you are carrying around a laptop shell you may as well carry a lightweight laptop
A laptop shell would probably be a lot cheaper than a lightweight laptop (including the Windows license) and the tethering upgrade for your existing phone's data plan.
Have fun paying $5 for a month's subscription every time you find an article through a search engine or an article shared by a friend through email or social media.
How many of those things do you think Google creates? All of them?
Uh, yeah. Google makes the Android OS and supervises the Nexus phone brand, and it briefly owned Motorola Mobility. Perhaps Etcetera's gripe is that Google owns both the Android business and the DoubleClick and AdWords businesses.
Something has seriously gone off the rails when an ad/image designer either a) cares directly, and/or b) has insight into device power management and usage.
"I've designed an ad and tested it on my phone. Doing it this way makes the battery go from 90% to 85% in x amount of time while displaying the ad on loop; doing it another way makes it take twice as long." Now how is this insight "off the rails"?
How about getting rid of advertising entirely
How about sites go behind a paywall so you don't have to read them? We could start with...
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Webpages that don't work without JS ARE broken in the first place. The least I'd expect is some kind of minimal functionality, if you can't provide that, ok, it's fine.
I'm interested in implementing "some kind of minimal functionality" for a page on my website. Currently JSNES Arcade requires JavaScript for its core function of interpreting a video game and displaying its graphics. What "kind of minimal functionality" would be appropriate here?
Uhm.. quality websites with well researched articles are generally subscription based
:
Which means readers end up turned away when they try to read one article that was found through a search engine or shared through social media. People have shown themselves unwilling to buy a whole month's worth of access just to read one article.
and like any busker, beg for money.
The difference is that online transaction fees are a lot higher than those for a busker operating in person. Someone seeking online donations has to deal with the payment card industry's swipe fees, which can overwhelm the small donations that buskers tend to receive. Bitcoin isn't the answer either, as the Chinese mining cartel has driven up transaction fees to be near those of plastic by refusing to accept the years-overdue hard fork to increase the block size.
If you want me to care about "content creators", you're going to have to call them something other than "content creators". I find that appellation irritating in the extreme.
FSF isn't a big fan of the term "content creator" either, which sounds too much like "happy god". So mentally replace these terms with the terms used in the actual U.S. copyright statute: "creator" becomes "author", and "content" becomes "works".
It says absolutely nothing about what they've done to deserve my money.
With the terminology issue hopefully out of the way: How do we encourage people to continue being an "author of a work of substantial length"?
served from the same domain as the rest of the content
Once this is the case, how will publishers* be able to reassure advertisers that reported impressions and clicks are real, not fraudulent?
* In ad industry jargon, a "publisher" is the operator of a site on which ads are placed.
If user-created works are derivatives of other underlying works, such as fan art of video game characters or videos containing music, don't the authors of said underlying works need to be paid?
You're adding a useless column that has no actual meaning.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're saying you're opposed to surrogate keys in principle. The foreign key link to the users table is what gives a surrogate key meaning.
The downsides are that the tables referencing the user name have to store the user name (but that's probably capped at 30 characters or so)
A column holding up to 30 UTF-32 characters takes 120 bytes, compared to an integer that takes 8, or 4 if you don't expect half the global population to create an account. Even if you use UTF-8, you still have to allocate 120 bytes because code points above U+10000 (mostly emoji and lesser-used Chinese and Japanese ideograms) take four code units.
These would be more than offset by the fact that you can completely avoid a join in many cases since you already have the user name directly in the table you're querying.
And then you have to balance the practical problem that propagating a primary key change places locks in the majority of tables in the system against the cost of a join to a table that's probably already cached in all servers' RAM. In fact, factoring usernames out to a separate table could be seen as compression for all other tables, allowing more of their rows to be kept in RAM.
I installed Win 10 on several AMD based systems [...] I would not count on the NVDA tool to work on Win 10 any time soon
That makes me wonder: Why does NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) share its name with NVIDIA's stock ticker symbol?
Yeah, MS thinks that phone toys and desktop power systems (gaming, non-linear editing, content creation) are somehow exactly the same, and therefore need a similar toy interface meant for a 4 inch screen.
Does an 10-12 inch laptop with a touch screen more closely resemble "desktop power systems" or "phone toys"? There are arguments for both:
Like desktop power systems The screen is big enough to hold two 80-column text editor or terminal windows side by side. And the screen is also big enough for small windowed "accessory" apps, as proven by "desk accessories" on the single-tasking operating system of the original Macintosh with a 9" black and white screen. (DAs ran in the running application's process; MultiFinder didn't land until System 5 and was optional before 7.) Like phone toys These laptops have touch input. And the screen isn't big enough to hold two full pages side by side.sexconker ( 1179573 ) wrote:
What would you propose?
An integer with the IDENTITY flag set that auto increments and has no actual meaning?
Yes. For example, a user with username sexconker could have user ID 1179573. Store user ID in most places, and the username is an INNER JOIN psn_users_basic away. Here, psn_users_basic holds the most commonly used columns of a user's profile, with less commonly used ones in a separate table, whether flat or sparse (EAV).
Has anyone published statistics of how often an override succeeds after a voice-voted bill is vetoed?
It sounds more like an unlimited time to authors
The limit to individual authors is the record human lifespan. "Life" for works of corporate authorship is reckoned at a fixed 25 years after publication or 50 years after creation, whatever comes first.
As for retrospective extensions, so long as the term is finite at any given moment, and so long as nobody manages to prove what the Supreme Court in Eldred called "legislative misbehavior" on Congress's part, the term complies with the "limited Times" restriction. The Copyright Term Extension Act was ruled a one-time harmonization to the copyright term in the European Union. But I imagine that a further extension prior to 2024 would be stronger evidence of "legislative misbehavior".
If you want to use a portion of DRM proctected film in your own film (as part of a narrative etc), you can't do that
For educational fair use, the MPAA encourages teachers to cam the monitor.
A veto from President Clinton could not have stopped the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from becoming law, as it passed both houses through voice vote. A voice vote requires 80 percent assent in each house, a veto override only 67 percent.
I am unsure why the DOJ is on the list.
Because the law has criminal penalties. Suing the sitting Attorney General for an injunction on enforcing a law is the standard legal fiction used to challenge a criminal statute's constitutionality in the United States.
I don't recall copyright having an amendment. Don't Constitutional rights trump pretty much everything else, period?
Copyright is one of the enumerated powers of Congress (U.S. Const. I.8): "The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This power is subject to other rights retained by the people, such as freedom from Congressional interference with freedom of speech (U.S. Const. Amendment I).
Water and sewer service is mature enough not to have installation problems comparable to "the DSLAM is full".