The only people who care that someone has an Apple product seems to be those who use Android.
And software developers that need to support end users who use macOS or iOS. Even if you can cross-compile using your GNU/Linux PC, it's a bit harder to cross-test. Even if you can afford to rent remote access to someone else's Mac or iPhone, remote access distorts the results of interactive responsiveness testing.
However, were I to try to run Lode Runner from a Mac Classic onto a modern Macbook Air, it wouldn't work.
You'd be incorrect as you can run that Lode Runner on a modern Macbook Air
...using the Mini vMac emulator. But as I understand the CopyRoms procedure, lawful use of Mini vMac requires buying two old Macintosh computers in addition to the MacBook Air: a Macintosh Plus to write the internal ROM to a file on an 800K floppy disk and another Mac with an Ethernet port and a floppy drive that can read 800K disks.
Another emulator that runs Mac software using a reimplemented ROM is Executor, but I don't know whether it builds or runs on recent macOS.
What substantial difference exists between free Chromium and proprietary Google Chrome other than Flash Player, supported CDMs for EME (HTML5 video DRM), and how crashes are reported? Two years from now, Google plans to drop Flash Player from Google Chrome, leaving even less difference.
carriers tend to charge extra for use with a computer.
they also have a feature called "hot spot" that allows other devices to access the phone's internet connection via wifi.
Hotspot is the feature to which I was referring. Cellular carriers in the United States tend to charge extra for a plan that includes hotspot use, particularly one with enough hotspot use in a month to support multiple downloads of a multi-gigabyte semiannual upgrade to the next point release of Ubuntu or Windows 10.
Who created and implemented those drafts [of HTTP/2]?
Google. But who should have created and implemented them, if not Google?
As I understand it, the.dev constraint is enforced in chrome's source code, not in any DNS record
The same is true of other ICANNverse domain names whose owners have set the HSTS preload bit. If you were to create a site called google.com in your air-gapped private parallel internet, the major browsers would force HTTPS on that as well.
Who do you think will define HTML5? It isn't going to be W3C. Or Google saying all http is 'not secure'
"Secure Contexts", a policy to block JavaScript from doing sensitive things on cleartext HTTP sites, is in fact a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Besides, Firefox has similar behavior. Visit some random cleartext site, and to the left of the URL bar, you see a lock with a red slash through it. Click it to show the warning: "Connection Is Not Secure / Logins entered on this page could be compromised."
remember Chrome implements a bunch of standards like SPDY (Google-only extension)
I thought SPDY had been standardized as HTTP/2. Do you refer to old draft versions of the protocol that should have been phased out by now?
and enforcing https on.dev
The owner of any top-level domain can set HSTS preload guidelines for that domain.
except what if I'm not on the public internet?
Use an explicitly reserved TLD, not a TLD that someone else owns. For multicast DNS, use.local; for static allocation on a private DNS server, use.internal.
For the avoidance of doubt: I intended "you" not to refer to Rockoon but instead to generic you, or plural you referring to Slashdot users as a whole.
We are dealing with a specific persons specific comparison.
In context, I read "Broadband" in nehumanuscrede's comment to refer to wired broadband, particularly in that the last line contrasts it with cellular Internet service, concluding that the intent was to compare wired broadband to cellular. Then I recalled similar comparisons in the past, many of which have concluded that cellular offers more instantaneous speed but less total data transfer over the course of a month.
A smaller site with very little relevant traffic from the Union might not be able to afford the $2,700 per year (source: VeraSafe) to comply with the letter of article 27 of the GDPR.
(If you claim that an entity outside the Union selling to customers in the Union or serving ads to viewers in the Union does not need to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27, please begin by explaining how EU courts are likely to define "occasional" for purposes of article 27.)
5gb. I have a hard time imagining using that much data in a month.
Try tethering a couple desktop or laptop computers in a household to your phone and downloading a semiannual Ubuntu upgrade or a semiannual Windows 10 upgrade on each.
The only problem is that it requires Javascript to show contact info, so it doen't work well in text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled.
You mean it doesn't work in obsolete text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled. Modern assistive browsers execute script, as demonstrated in Karl Groves's "Mother Effing Tool Confuser".
In order to count toward not being part of a food desert, these "grocery or convenience stores that sell fresh fruit and vegetables" have to be within 1 mile* of people. In addition, a recently established grocery store might take a while to show up on the survey. For example, an ALDI store near me moved to a different shopping center, and the survey might not have picked it up yet. So which such "areas" are you talking about?
The EU is collectively the world's largest economy and it is the world's largest single market.
I guess it depends on to what extent the cost of translation into multiple languages affects your product or service. A video game might need to be subtitled and dubbed into multiple languages, and social platforms might end up self-segregating on language lines. China and the United States are larger single-language markets.
but then, only at the end, you say most people use another provider that is even faster.
When you compare plans from DSL and cellular providers, you usually find that DSL is slower at peak transfer (bits per second) but faster at sustained transfer (bits per month) than a similarly priced cellular plan.
My parents can pay for DSL; there's a DSLAM 800yds from their house, or they can use a cell phone. Cell phone is already paid for and works better than the phone company ever has.
A cell phone's screen is also tiny, its operating system limiting, and carriers tend to charge extra for use with a computer.
How is it not a valid business decision to decline to serve some platforms? Nintendo doesn't develop for Xbox One, for instance. I can think of a few other applications that are on Android but not iOS as well.
It's nice not to need a car (I was in that position a decade ago). But why are you so opposed to owning one? To the point where you'd leave the country to avoid owning one?
Some people have a disability that prevents them from driving safely.
Let's assume it takes half a charge to fill the passengers' bladders. Then good luck getting half a recharge on the drive to Walley World to be as fast as a number 1 stop.
App stores plural, or just iOS? As I understand it, an Android app developer can satisfy the "Installation Information" requirement and other GPLv3 requirements by making the application's object code files available to licensed users for relinking with a modified version of the library to form an APK file suitable for installation on any Android device that supports adb install. This should work for any Android app that isn't a subscription video streaming app, a single-player microtransaction-driven game, or something else designed to enforce digital restrictions management against its end user.
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The only people who care that someone has an Apple product seems to be those who use Android.
And software developers that need to support end users who use macOS or iOS. Even if you can cross-compile using your GNU/Linux PC, it's a bit harder to cross-test. Even if you can afford to rent remote access to someone else's Mac or iPhone, remote access distorts the results of interactive responsiveness testing.
However, were I to try to run Lode Runner from a Mac Classic onto a modern Macbook Air, it wouldn't work.
You'd be incorrect as you can run that Lode Runner on a modern Macbook Air
...using the Mini vMac emulator. But as I understand the CopyRoms procedure, lawful use of Mini vMac requires buying two old Macintosh computers in addition to the MacBook Air: a Macintosh Plus to write the internal ROM to a file on an 800K floppy disk and another Mac with an Ethernet port and a floppy drive that can read 800K disks.
Another emulator that runs Mac software using a reimplemented ROM is Executor, but I don't know whether it builds or runs on recent macOS.
What substantial difference exists between free Chromium and proprietary Google Chrome other than Flash Player, supported CDMs for EME (HTML5 video DRM), and how crashes are reported? Two years from now, Google plans to drop Flash Player from Google Chrome, leaving even less difference.
carriers tend to charge extra for use with a computer.
they also have a feature called "hot spot" that allows other devices to access the phone's internet connection via wifi.
Hotspot is the feature to which I was referring. Cellular carriers in the United States tend to charge extra for a plan that includes hotspot use, particularly one with enough hotspot use in a month to support multiple downloads of a multi-gigabyte semiannual upgrade to the next point release of Ubuntu or Windows 10.
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Who created and implemented those drafts [of HTTP/2]?
Google. But who should have created and implemented them, if not Google?
As I understand it, the .dev constraint is enforced in chrome's source code, not in any DNS record
The same is true of other ICANNverse domain names whose owners have set the HSTS preload bit. If you were to create a site called google.com in your air-gapped private parallel internet, the major browsers would force HTTPS on that as well.
Who do you think will define HTML5? It isn't going to be W3C. Or Google saying all http is 'not secure'
"Secure Contexts", a policy to block JavaScript from doing sensitive things on cleartext HTTP sites, is in fact a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Besides, Firefox has similar behavior. Visit some random cleartext site, and to the left of the URL bar, you see a lock with a red slash through it. Click it to show the warning: "Connection Is Not Secure / Logins entered on this page could be compromised."
If you reach the north pole, how far east can you go?
All the way to China, because that's where Santa's making his toys now.
remember Chrome implements a bunch of standards like SPDY (Google-only extension)
I thought SPDY had been standardized as HTTP/2. Do you refer to old draft versions of the protocol that should have been phased out by now?
and enforcing https on .dev
The owner of any top-level domain can set HSTS preload guidelines for that domain.
except what if I'm not on the public internet?
Use an explicitly reserved TLD, not a TLD that someone else owns. For multicast DNS, use .local; for static allocation on a private DNS server, use .internal.
When I compare them?
For the avoidance of doubt: I intended "you" not to refer to Rockoon but instead to generic you , or plural you referring to Slashdot users as a whole.
We are dealing with a specific persons specific comparison.
In context, I read "Broadband" in nehumanuscrede's comment to refer to wired broadband, particularly in that the last line contrasts it with cellular Internet service, concluding that the intent was to compare wired broadband to cellular. Then I recalled similar comparisons in the past, many of which have concluded that cellular offers more instantaneous speed but less total data transfer over the course of a month.
A smaller site with very little relevant traffic from the Union might not be able to afford the $2,700 per year (source: VeraSafe) to comply with the letter of article 27 of the GDPR.
(If you claim that an entity outside the Union selling to customers in the Union or serving ads to viewers in the Union does not need to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27, please begin by explaining how EU courts are likely to define "occasional" for purposes of article 27.)
5gb. I have a hard time imagining using that much data in a month.
Try tethering a couple desktop or laptop computers in a household to your phone and downloading a semiannual Ubuntu upgrade or a semiannual Windows 10 upgrade on each.
The only problem is that it requires Javascript to show contact info, so it doen't work well in text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled.
You mean it doesn't work in obsolete text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled. Modern assistive browsers execute script, as demonstrated in Karl Groves's "Mother Effing Tool Confuser".
Not collecting data about users cuts advertising revenue by two-thirds. Would you prefer to pay for websites?
In order to count toward not being part of a food desert, these "grocery or convenience stores that sell fresh fruit and vegetables" have to be within 1 mile* of people. In addition, a recently established grocery store might take a while to show up on the survey. For example, an ALDI store near me moved to a different shopping center, and the survey might not have picked it up yet. So which such "areas" are you talking about?
* Or 10 miles in "rural" census tracts.
The EU is collectively the world's largest economy and it is the world's largest single market.
I guess it depends on to what extent the cost of translation into multiple languages affects your product or service. A video game might need to be subtitled and dubbed into multiple languages, and social platforms might end up self-segregating on language lines. China and the United States are larger single-language markets.
The "I'm out of data for the month" complaints I read in certain online communities show that cellular alone is not satisfying everyone's needs.
A food desert is a place where many people lack access to fresh produce within reasonable walking distance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service maintains a map of census tracts classified as food deserts.
but then, only at the end, you say most people use another provider that is even faster.
When you compare plans from DSL and cellular providers, you usually find that DSL is slower at peak transfer (bits per second) but faster at sustained transfer (bits per month) than a similarly priced cellular plan.
My parents can pay for DSL; there's a DSLAM 800yds from their house, or they can use a cell phone. Cell phone is already paid for and works better than the phone company ever has.
A cell phone's screen is also tiny, its operating system limiting, and carriers tend to charge extra for use with a computer.
How is it not a valid business decision to decline to serve some platforms? Nintendo doesn't develop for Xbox One, for instance. I can think of a few other applications that are on Android but not iOS as well.
Children who are focused and motivated have no problems in this area.
Even if autistic?
It's nice not to need a car (I was in that position a decade ago). But why are you so opposed to owning one? To the point where you'd leave the country to avoid owning one?
Some people have a disability that prevents them from driving safely.
There is no point in using a cross-platform toolkit if you can only target 1 platform. Might as well go fully native.
If you'll be shipping one app on Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, and Android, there's certainly point.
Let's assume it takes half a charge to fill the passengers' bladders. Then good luck getting half a recharge on the drive to Walley World to be as fast as a number 1 stop.
App stores plural, or just iOS? As I understand it, an Android app developer can satisfy the "Installation Information" requirement and other GPLv3 requirements by making the application's object code files available to licensed users for relinking with a modified version of the library to form an APK file suitable for installation on any Android device that supports adb install. This should work for any Android app that isn't a subscription video streaming app, a single-player microtransaction-driven game, or something else designed to enforce digital restrictions management against its end user.