Let me try to explain how the present situation fulfills each of the five tying criteria described in the article "Do the Antitrust Laws Prohibit Tying Products or Services Together for Sale?" by Jarod Bona:
"The tied and tying items—that is, the first and second item—must actually be separate items (or services)." They are, as seen by the existence of satellite TV and fiber or DSL Internet in markets that have fiber or whose DSL qualifies as broadband.
"the seller must actually condition the purchase of the first item (or service) on the purchase of the second item (or service)." The seller conditions data transfer greater than the cap on purchase of TV service.
"The seller must have sufficient market power in the market for the tying item" This is true in markets without fiber to the home and whose available DSL service fails to reach 4 Mbps, the minimum to be recognized as broadband for some federal purposes.
Finally, the article describes "The tying arrangement must affect a 'not insubstantial' amount of commerce in the tied item" and "The seller must have an economic interest in both the tied and the tying items" as gimmes.
Which criterion do you feel makes the bundling practice described in the featured article not a case of tying?
The only numbers that matter are a maximum rate throughput available on the network against the current demand of users on the network at that specific time.
In theory, a 300 GB/mo cap translates to a committed information rate just under 1 Mbps, as 1 Mbps * 2629746 seconds/month * 1 GB/8000 Mbit = 329 GB/mo. But consider a situation in which the majority of home subscribers have proven unable to understand 95th percentile burstable billing but can understand metering during peak hours. In a situation like this, what is the way to manage these numbers? But I agree with you that metering at off-peak hours, when neither the upstream nor the last mile is congested, is just a cash cow.
I think the difference is that over-the-top video services are unicast, whereas traditional digital cable television is multicast. Or has accounting for multicast over the public Internet been figured out yet?
Money from fines should be distributed to the citizens as part of the tax process
In effect, fines are already distributed to citizens when the taxing authority doesn't raise the tax rate for the tax year after the fines are collected and deposited to the general fund.
Many restaurants have built ordering apps for smartphones. An ordering kiosk running the same app would be for people like me who haven't already bought a smartphone and a monthly subscription to cellular Internet service.
Got a non-WIRED citation? It and Forbes have a habit of confusing tracking blockers with ad blockers. There's currently no way to say "just give me ads that aren't videos and aren't based on tracking me," and it all feels so hypocritical based on a past review of the Disconnect extension in WIRED.
Your best bet is to simply use whatever the professionals are using
That depends on what the console maker chooses to make available to developers at any given time. During the Xbox 360 generation, developers in the Xbox Live Indie Games program were required to use a different API from what the established studios were using, namely the C# language and the XNA library. (In theory, any language generating verifiably type-safe CIL targeting the.NET Compact Framework could be used, but in practice, the only usable language was C# because the XNA environment lacked other languages' standard libraries.) The requirement of C# made it far more difficult for an indie to make a game work on both Xbox 360 and any non-Microsoft platform without rewriting it by hand, as C# at the time was tied fairly closely to Microsoft platforms.
Your advice applies better nowadays because Mono is more feature complete (including the MonoGame reimplementation of XNA), and the multi-platform Unity 3D engine is popular, and essentially anyone with a Windows Store publisher account can make Xbox One games, even in C++, so long as they're ported to UWP.
The default browser on all of my Android devices is called Browser. Chrome is an add-on.
ALL browsers other than whatever the OEM chooses to install "don't take up space in your Android device's read-only operating system partition".
I was under the impression that since sometime in the Android 4.x series, all phones and tablets that ship with Google Play Store treated Chrome as an OEM default application. Or do you have a habit of switching each of your Android devices to a customized ROM without Gapps once the warranty expires?
Which tools are any good for creating an HTML5 animation? For Flash, one can buy a used copy of Flash CS. But for HTML5, it appears one must buy Adobe Animate, and then because of the Creative Cloud pricing model, buy it again every month.
Flash is a proprietary platform and as such is subject to the proprietor's whims.
Which non-proprietary platform that existed when Flash was popular should web animators have used instead of Flash?
But to set that up you need knowledge of how to set permissions
All you really need to do is set up suexec. Then your CGI and FastCGI scripts run as you, and the ACME client running as you can write to the challenge folder that you own.
You need to prove to Let's encrypt that you own the domain. For that you have to add a special file to a special place inside the http accessible part of the website. This special file can only be added by root.
Why can't a process running under the user account of the website's owner write to a folder owned by the website's owner? As far as I can tell, the only part that ought to need superuser privilege is configuring the web server to use a particular certificate.
Other than that there are multiple ACME clients available if you dont like one you can use others as well.
The shared hosting provider WebFaction refuses to make automatic Let's Encrypt support available or let users programmatically upload a private key and certificate. Instead, the user has to submit a support ticket every time the certificate changes. This led to the creation of a passive-aggressive ACME client called letsencrypt-webfaction, which automates obtaining the certificate and filing a support ticket every two months.
That and Newgrounds. How much of Newgrounds has been remade in HTML5+JS+Canvas, if any? Rendering a Flash vector animation to MP4 bloats it by a factor of about ten in my tests.
What other browser is available for the Chromebook that was issued to you? Or what other browser doesn't take up space in your Android device's read-only operating system partition?
So yes, for a naive user who doesn't know anything, then not doing anything in parallel is best: just do what the user is currently looking at. But this attitude that "everyone is stupid" is terribly dismissive and very unfair.
Unfair to whom? The business reality is that time is money, and naive users outnumber aware users to such an extent that a business will earn more money by just not spending time on accommodating aware users than by implementing measures to retain aware users. I know many of us don't want to hear it, but as C____C____ and other regulars have repeated over the years, Slashdot's core demographic is a minority and an edge case.
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I imagine this was before the era when downloadable games in Steam or the PS3 store routinely exceeded 25 GB. Was that around 2009 or so?
Let me try to explain how the present situation fulfills each of the five tying criteria described in the article "Do the Antitrust Laws Prohibit Tying Products or Services Together for Sale?" by Jarod Bona:
Which criterion do you feel makes the bundling practice described in the featured article not a case of tying?
The only numbers that matter are a maximum rate throughput available on the network against the current demand of users on the network at that specific time.
In theory, a 300 GB/mo cap translates to a committed information rate just under 1 Mbps, as 1 Mbps * 2629746 seconds/month * 1 GB/8000 Mbit = 329 GB/mo. But consider a situation in which the majority of home subscribers have proven unable to understand 95th percentile burstable billing but can understand metering during peak hours. In a situation like this, what is the way to manage these numbers? But I agree with you that metering at off-peak hours, when neither the upstream nor the last mile is congested, is just a cash cow.
And then you have to pay $600 (the price of a TiVo All-In subscription) for the privilege of having a fast-forward button to press.
I think the difference is that over-the-top video services are unicast, whereas traditional digital cable television is multicast. Or has accounting for multicast over the public Internet been figured out yet?
except the sat provider didn't offer internet at the time.
And even among those that do, such as Exede, the price per gigabyte is comparable to that of cellular Internet.
Money from fines should be distributed to the citizens as part of the tax process
In effect, fines are already distributed to citizens when the taxing authority doesn't raise the tax rate for the tax year after the fines are collected and deposited to the general fund.
If this couple did not save enough to see them through 2 or 3 months at minimum until they find other work
The economic correction of 2008 kept a lot of people out of full-wage work for far longer than "2 or 3 months at minimum".
Many restaurants have built ordering apps for smartphones. An ordering kiosk running the same app would be for people like me who haven't already bought a smartphone and a monthly subscription to cellular Internet service.
Got a non-WIRED citation? It and Forbes have a habit of confusing tracking blockers with ad blockers. There's currently no way to say "just give me ads that aren't videos and aren't based on tracking me," and it all feels so hypocritical based on a past review of the Disconnect extension in WIRED.
If you don't have permission to port it then tough luck.
How does this attitude "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", as the U.S. Constitution puts it?
Heil Environmental Industries Ltd. is a company that makes garbage collection trucks.
Did you try scrolling to the bottom and clicking "Load More Comments"?
Yet they're valuable enough to sue someone who finds them valuable and for that reason ports them without permission.
Then spend one man-year writing a transpiler that turns VB6 code into something modern.
Your best bet is to simply use whatever the professionals are using
That depends on what the console maker chooses to make available to developers at any given time. During the Xbox 360 generation, developers in the Xbox Live Indie Games program were required to use a different API from what the established studios were using, namely the C# language and the XNA library. (In theory, any language generating verifiably type-safe CIL targeting the .NET Compact Framework could be used, but in practice, the only usable language was C# because the XNA environment lacked other languages' standard libraries.) The requirement of C# made it far more difficult for an indie to make a game work on both Xbox 360 and any non-Microsoft platform without rewriting it by hand, as C# at the time was tied fairly closely to Microsoft platforms.
Your advice applies better nowadays because Mono is more feature complete (including the MonoGame reimplementation of XNA), and the multi-platform Unity 3D engine is popular, and essentially anyone with a Windows Store publisher account can make Xbox One games, even in C++, so long as they're ported to UWP.
The default browser on all of my Android devices is called Browser. Chrome is an add-on.
ALL browsers other than whatever the OEM chooses to install "don't take up space in your Android device's read-only operating system partition".
I was under the impression that since sometime in the Android 4.x series, all phones and tablets that ship with Google Play Store treated Chrome as an OEM default application. Or do you have a habit of switching each of your Android devices to a customized ROM without Gapps once the warranty expires?
So make it an HTML5 animation.
Which tools are any good for creating an HTML5 animation? For Flash, one can buy a used copy of Flash CS. But for HTML5, it appears one must buy Adobe Animate, and then because of the Creative Cloud pricing model, buy it again every month.
Flash is a proprietary platform and as such is subject to the proprietor's whims.
Which non-proprietary platform that existed when Flash was popular should web animators have used instead of Flash?
No one's going to port from HTML5 to Flash.
My fault. The title was correct; the body was not. Let me correct myself: Why don't more old Flash games get officially ported to HTML5?
But to set that up you need knowledge of how to set permissions
All you really need to do is set up suexec. Then your CGI and FastCGI scripts run as you, and the ACME client running as you can write to the challenge folder that you own.
You need to prove to Let's encrypt that you own the domain. For that you have to add a special file to a special place inside the http accessible part of the website. This special file can only be added by root.
Why can't a process running under the user account of the website's owner write to a folder owned by the website's owner? As far as I can tell, the only part that ought to need superuser privilege is configuring the web server to use a particular certificate.
Other than that there are multiple ACME clients available if you dont like one you can use others as well.
The shared hosting provider WebFaction refuses to make automatic Let's Encrypt support available or let users programmatically upload a private key and certificate. Instead, the user has to submit a support ticket every time the certificate changes. This led to the creation of a passive-aggressive ACME client called letsencrypt-webfaction, which automates obtaining the certificate and filing a support ticket every two months.
That and Newgrounds. How much of Newgrounds has been remade in HTML5+JS+Canvas, if any? Rendering a Flash vector animation to MP4 bloats it by a factor of about ten in my tests.
The NWS has a link on the radar pages that says "Standard Edition," which allows you to switch to an animated GIF.
That works. Thank you.
I use the $10 Radarscope app, which is far superior and has far more products.
Products not including an upgrade to Donkey Kong , I assume.
What other browser is available for the Chromebook that was issued to you? Or what other browser doesn't take up space in your Android device's read-only operating system partition?
So yes, for a naive user who doesn't know anything, then not doing anything in parallel is best: just do what the user is currently looking at. But this attitude that "everyone is stupid" is terribly dismissive and very unfair.
Unfair to whom? The business reality is that time is money, and naive users outnumber aware users to such an extent that a business will earn more money by just not spending time on accommodating aware users than by implementing measures to retain aware users. I know many of us don't want to hear it, but as C____C____ and other regulars have repeated over the years, Slashdot's core demographic is a minority and an edge case.