Why haven't new games been written in HTML5 instead of Flash? And why haven't old games been ported from HTML5 to Flash? I imagine that the ability to extract more revenue from advertisers by showing ads to users of phones and tablets would be reason enough to port games. Or are these the kinds of games that doesn't translate well to the no-hover, no-keyboard, fat-finger input model of phones and tablets?
Basic income and other social safety net programs behave as an investment in preventing crimes of desperation for survival ("gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat" as Aladdin puts it). Would it be more of a tax burden to provide basic income or to expand the police state? Arguing that the police state provides jobs is a broken window fallacy.
If you're laid off as a victim of general contraction in your industry, how do you continue to make ends meet until you find the next job that pays a living wage, if you ever eventually find such a job? Other comments to this story talk of not being able to find such a job because of age discrimination against people who retrain for a different industry mid-career.
I'd prefer people who don't think they deserve a house, 2.5 kids and two cars on minimum wage to not serve me food.
If a couple buys a house on mortgage, buy a couple used cars, and have kids, and then lose their jobs, should they sell their house and put their kids up for adoption?
Wait until you have the financial stability to be able to devote time and resources to raising a child..
If by "financial stability" you mean the ability to provide for a spouse and children despite an extended period of being laid off, then very few people have the resources to retire while still of childbearing age.
each time I'min the US I'm wondering how places that obviously don't do more than heat up pre-made food are allowed to call themselves "restaurant"
A TV ad for Steak 'n Shake parodied this, calling the big quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains "workaurants", where you have to work through the line and then work to carry your food to your table and your rubbish to the bin. At a sit-down restaurant like SnS or a drive-in like Sonic, on the other hand, you rest and let the server do the work.
rent: $950 / month for a modest 2 bedroom apartment in a 100+ year old triplex made of wood. Not exactly the best apartment around.
To fix that, you could move to a different market where demand for apartments is lower.
mobile phone: $80 / month
MVNOs such as Straight Talk tend to charge about half that. Or are you including the amortized cost of a handset in your "mobile phone" line and that of a PC in your "internet" line, rather than just the service itself?
The drawback being you have to live in [...] frozen
A lot of Disney fans would love to live in Frozen, which is set in Bergen in southern Norway, two countries to the west of Finland. Is the climate of Finland really that much worse than that of Norway?
You don't have to buy the most expensive/latest TiVo to get the benefits of their new skip capability.
But you do need to buy TiVo service, and I seem to remember a sub costing $600 even on a device that isn't "the most expensive/latest".
Also, you can get the service as a subscription model.
If you're willing to pay $150 per year (source) for the use of a DVR, you might as well get the cable company's DVR, especially if you can bundle the federally mandated basic service (just locals, C-SPAN, and public access) with your existing Internet access from the same cable company. It's fewer boxes by your TV, and possibly more likely to support oddball cases such as SDV than putting a CableCARD access card in a TiVo DVR.
Then the hard part becomes affording a lawyer to find where "without cloning it to the point of [infringement]" is likely to lie. For example, the featured article recommends porting Tetris, but The Tetris Company is known to patrol Google Play Store and has successfully sued a cloner (Tetris v. Xio).
I can think of a couple practical problems with porting such a game.
First, a lot of these "open source games" have only the program available under a free software license, with the assets remaining under "all rights reserved" terms. Doom (1993) is in this position, as shown by the DMCA notice that Id Software's parent company sent to Mozilla Corporation about a JavaScript port thereof.
Second, on the whole, a game with both a free program and free assets is likely to be less attractive than a comparable proprietary game due to the lower production values associated with a project that had to be done in spare time due to lack of revenue. Gratis without libre is easy; libre without gratis is not solved to my knowledge.
there are also games in this nice thing called the public domain.
True, but these games aren't video games. The copyright term in Slashdot's home country is 95 years for pre-1978 works and works made for hire, and any game that old would have been developed before the invention of microprocessor-driven video games in the mid-1970s. But if the intended suggestion was to port a classic board game to Android, I can accept that.
My contract (the one that I personally drew up with my lawyer) makes that impossible.
Not everybody is at the same stage in their respective career. When you entered the workforce for the first time, were you likewise under a contract drawn up with your lawyer in a similar manner?
Uh, no. To be your own boss you just have to have a product (or be marketing scum) and an internet connection.
You still need tools with which to make the product, and you need a channel through which to make the product available to the end user. For example, in the market for video games for consoles, a gatekeeper controls the availability of devkits and the download store through which your game is made available for purchase.
Not exactly "nobody", but I imagine that the majority of TV watchers aren't willing to pay $200-$300 for a TiVo device and $600 more for a subscription to the required service. Or to which competing "digital recording device" do you refer?
Context for moderators: WhatsApp is an instant messaging application. Someone doesn't like instant messaging because he doesn't like automatically notifying others when he has read others' messages. But some bosses prefer instant messaging with their telecommuting employees specifically because of this sort of notification and may use failure to notify as grounds for punitive measures. Anonymous Coward #52091613 replied:
Changing the boss or becoming your own boss seems like the right reply to that.
To change the boss, you have to first quit. It's harder to (legally) quit if you're a contractor than if you're an at-will employee, and telecommuters are somewhat more likely to be contractors. Besides, once you do quit, you aren't necessarily guaranteed to find other work in your specialty, and even if you do, your new boss may impose the same requirement of notification on read.
And to become your own boss, you need enough experience in the industry that suppliers are willing to deal with you. For example, suppliers in some industries (such as video game development) are known to offer required tools only to professionals with verifiable experience. You also need enough management experience to run your business. In addition, the clients of your newly formed company may impose the same requirement of notification on read.
A native mail user agent is supposed to communicate with the mail server using SMTP AUTH for outgoing mail and IMAP for incoming mail. But historically, webmail providers have declined to deploy these protocols
unless things have changed, Thunderbird allows toggling online/offline mode.
That's what I was referring to, so long as your mail provider supports Thunderbird. Many don't, instead expecting users to read mail in a browser window while connected so that the provider can show ads.
You can analyze a behavior of a program that is free software.* But because WhatsApp is proprietary, there remains a possibility that it leaks your logs to a third party.
* Please no arguments from the halting problem. Rice's theorem requires generality, and a practical decider is allowed to instead return "Too complex; please refactor".
Until your boss, with whom you are corresponding through IM while working from home, treats your "_I_ will decide who and when someone gets to know I read their message" attitude as "not being a team player".
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How about they implement blocking autorun of all videos by default unless you whitelist a site.
Settings > Advanced Settings > Privacy | Content Settings button -> Plugins: "Let me choose when to run plugin content".
Does this or any other setting of Chrome block automatic playback of non-plugin video content, especially <video> elements in HTML?
Why haven't new games been written in HTML5 instead of Flash? And why haven't old games been ported from HTML5 to Flash? I imagine that the ability to extract more revenue from advertisers by showing ads to users of phones and tablets would be reason enough to port games. Or are these the kinds of games that doesn't translate well to the no-hover, no-keyboard, fat-finger input model of phones and tablets?
The problem is that there would be more spending (demand) but no more production.
Automation already causes more production with a given amount of labor. UBI would be phased in alongside such increases in labor productivity.
Basic income and other social safety net programs behave as an investment in preventing crimes of desperation for survival ("gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat" as Aladdin puts it). Would it be more of a tax burden to provide basic income or to expand the police state? Arguing that the police state provides jobs is a broken window fallacy.
If you're laid off as a victim of general contraction in your industry, how do you continue to make ends meet until you find the next job that pays a living wage, if you ever eventually find such a job? Other comments to this story talk of not being able to find such a job because of age discrimination against people who retrain for a different industry mid-career.
I'd prefer people who don't think they deserve a house, 2.5 kids and two cars on minimum wage to not serve me food.
If a couple buys a house on mortgage, buy a couple used cars, and have kids, and then lose their jobs, should they sell their house and put their kids up for adoption?
If a restaurant were to set a policy "You must own an iPhone or iPad to eat here", how much business would this decision cause it to forgo?
The source you cited offers no way to purchase an individual article.
Wait until you have the financial stability to be able to devote time and resources to raising a child..
If by "financial stability" you mean the ability to provide for a spouse and children despite an extended period of being laid off, then very few people have the resources to retire while still of childbearing age.
each time I'min the US I'm wondering how places that obviously don't do more than heat up pre-made food are allowed to call themselves "restaurant"
A TV ad for Steak 'n Shake parodied this, calling the big quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains "workaurants", where you have to work through the line and then work to carry your food to your table and your rubbish to the bin. At a sit-down restaurant like SnS or a drive-in like Sonic, on the other hand, you rest and let the server do the work.
rent: $950 / month for a modest 2 bedroom apartment in a 100+ year old triplex made of wood. Not exactly the best apartment around.
To fix that, you could move to a different market where demand for apartments is lower.
mobile phone: $80 / month
MVNOs such as Straight Talk tend to charge about half that. Or are you including the amortized cost of a handset in your "mobile phone" line and that of a PC in your "internet" line, rather than just the service itself?
Is there a better way of reporting serious errors such as this without running a risk of being moderated to -1 after they get fixed, as I was?
Whose internal docs, and whose news operation? The Slashdot headline lacks any clue that the subject is Facebook.
The drawback being you have to live in [...] frozen
A lot of Disney fans would love to live in Frozen, which is set in Bergen in southern Norway, two countries to the west of Finland. Is the climate of Finland really that much worse than that of Norway?
You don't have to buy the most expensive/latest TiVo to get the benefits of their new skip capability.
But you do need to buy TiVo service, and I seem to remember a sub costing $600 even on a device that isn't "the most expensive/latest".
Also, you can get the service as a subscription model.
If you're willing to pay $150 per year (source) for the use of a DVR, you might as well get the cable company's DVR, especially if you can bundle the federally mandated basic service (just locals, C-SPAN, and public access) with your existing Internet access from the same cable company. It's fewer boxes by your TV, and possibly more likely to support oddball cases such as SDV than putting a CableCARD access card in a TiVo DVR.
Last, they have sales on a regular basis
Sales on only the hardware or also on the sub?
Then the hard part becomes affording a lawyer to find where "without cloning it to the point of [infringement]" is likely to lie. For example, the featured article recommends porting Tetris, but The Tetris Company is known to patrol Google Play Store and has successfully sued a cloner (Tetris v. Xio).
amazingly, there are open source games.
I can think of a couple practical problems with porting such a game.
there are also games in this nice thing called the public domain.
True, but these games aren't video games. The copyright term in Slashdot's home country is 95 years for pre-1978 works and works made for hire, and any game that old would have been developed before the invention of microprocessor-driven video games in the mid-1970s. But if the intended suggestion was to port a classic board game to Android, I can accept that.
Mr. Vonnegut says you can kiss Breakfast of Champions' asshole. (SFW)
The hard part of porting a popular app from one platform to another isn't the programming part as much as the negotiating a license part.
My contract (the one that I personally drew up with my lawyer) makes that impossible.
Not everybody is at the same stage in their respective career. When you entered the workforce for the first time, were you likewise under a contract drawn up with your lawyer in a similar manner?
Uh, no. To be your own boss you just have to have a product (or be marketing scum) and an internet connection.
You still need tools with which to make the product, and you need a channel through which to make the product available to the end user. For example, in the market for video games for consoles, a gatekeeper controls the availability of devkits and the download store through which your game is made available for purchase.
Not exactly "nobody", but I imagine that the majority of TV watchers aren't willing to pay $200-$300 for a TiVo device and $600 more for a subscription to the required service. Or to which competing "digital recording device" do you refer?
Context for moderators: WhatsApp is an instant messaging application. Someone doesn't like instant messaging because he doesn't like automatically notifying others when he has read others' messages. But some bosses prefer instant messaging with their telecommuting employees specifically because of this sort of notification and may use failure to notify as grounds for punitive measures. Anonymous Coward #52091613 replied:
Changing the boss or becoming your own boss seems like the right reply to that.
To change the boss, you have to first quit. It's harder to (legally) quit if you're a contractor than if you're an at-will employee, and telecommuters are somewhat more likely to be contractors. Besides, once you do quit, you aren't necessarily guaranteed to find other work in your specialty, and even if you do, your new boss may impose the same requirement of notification on read.
And to become your own boss, you need enough experience in the industry that suppliers are willing to deal with you. For example, suppliers in some industries (such as video game development) are known to offer required tools only to professionals with verifiable experience. You also need enough management experience to run your business. In addition, the clients of your newly formed company may impose the same requirement of notification on read.
A native mail user agent is supposed to communicate with the mail server using SMTP AUTH for outgoing mail and IMAP for incoming mail. But historically, webmail providers have declined to deploy these protocols
unless things have changed, Thunderbird allows toggling online/offline mode.
That's what I was referring to, so long as your mail provider supports Thunderbird. Many don't, instead expecting users to read mail in a browser window while connected so that the provider can show ads.
You can analyze a behavior of a program that is free software.* But because WhatsApp is proprietary, there remains a possibility that it leaks your logs to a third party.
* Please no arguments from the halting problem. Rice's theorem requires generality, and a practical decider is allowed to instead return "Too complex; please refactor".
Until your boss, with whom you are corresponding through IM while working from home, treats your "_I_ will decide who and when someone gets to know I read their message" attitude as "not being a team player".