A desktop version still doesn't help me. I own a PC, an Audiovox 8610 flip phone, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet running Android "Lollipop". I can't install it on my PC because according to the download page, "WhatsApp must be installed on your phone." I can't install it on my phone because an Audiovox 8610 is not listed as a compatible phone on FAQ #20951556. I can't install it on my tablet because according to FAQ #20951556, "We currently do not support tablets or Wi-Fi only devices, and do not plan to do so in the foreseeable future."
Does "everyone with a phone" in the Netherlands have specifically a smart phone? Or are cellular data plans far cheaper in the Netherlands than in the United States?
there are loads of full-featured webmail clients that work just fine
To me, "just fine" includes the use case of going online to send mail, going offline to read it and compose replies, and going back online to send the replies. That used to be common when dial-up was pay-per-minute. It remains common nowadays on laptops to avoid having to subscribe to cellular Internet to read mail while riding the bus. In theory, webmail could work offline using IndexedDB and Service Workers, but in practice, I doubt that this works across all major browsers and all major webmail providers.
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 for two purposes, one being control of automated generation of spam and the other being advertisement display. Some have offered a free tier with only webmail and a subscription tier with SMTP and IMAP.
Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark (or a substantially similar mark) on competing or related goods and services.
"Infringement" is not the only cause of action for unauthorized use of a trademark. Another is "dilution", which involves use of a famous trademark by another without authorization in a way that diminishes the mark's uniqueness, even in an unrelated field of use. Try selling "Coca-Cola" brand spark plugs, for instance.
I refuse to use it I don't know if you can install it on a wifi-only tablet
I have a Galaxy Tab A. But if an app's manifest sets the telephony permission as "required" rather than "optional", the app won't even show up in the Google Play Store app on the device, and its listing in the web view of Google Play Store will give an error message to the effect "This app is incompatible with all your devices" without even a "Buy a Compatible Device" link.
In addition, I have what some Slashdot users call "an axe to grind": I'm protesting this deliberate incompatibility on principle. Perhaps these service providers don't think they can squeeze enough revenue out of their real customers (namely advertisers) from ads shown to users in the sort of demographics that don't own a smartphone.
surely you could give them your actual number and copy the code they send you over to the cheap phone without cell service.
Vine is run by the same company that runs Twitter. Yesterday when I tried to add my landline as the recovery phone number for my Twitter account, I got an error message to the effect "There was an error sending a text message to that number." (I'm still waiting to hear back from @support about that one.) Not all landline carriers support SMS-to-voice, and even among those that do, not all sites allow sending a message to an SMS-to-voice service.
Certain types of video simply require 20-30Mbps bitrate.
Yet DVD is limited to 9 Mbps including audio, and that's using a video codec two generations older than what is commonly used for Internet streaming video. DVD uses MPEG-2, when H.263-class codecs (Sorenson Spark, DivX, Xvid, Theora) and H.264-class codecs (incl. VP8) have followed it. Does a POV video "require 20-30Mbps bitrate" even in standard definition?
there certainly is no need for proactive server-side scanning
As I read 17 USC 512(i)(1)(B), it requires providers taking advantage of the DMCA's safe harbor to "accommodate[...] standard technical measures", such as automatic identification of works whose copyright is often infringed, so long as said measures do "not impose substantial costs". What did I miss?
and automated take-downs.
Automated notices of claimed infringement wouldn't be quite as necessary if service providers blocked reuploads of the same work after having received "actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing" per 17 USC 512(c)(1)(A). When a service provider takes a work down upon notice of claimed infringement, the same work often remains available on the same provider at other URLs, even if the notice specifies that no accounts on that provider have been licensed to use a particular work. In addition, the work often doesn't stay down when either A. another user reuploads the work, or B. a user whose account had been terminated for repeat infringement creates a new account and reuploads the work. Only proactive or automated systems can make a dent in that sort of infringement.
"Upload only videos you created yourself" rules out videos created by a minor child or videos uploaded by someone acting on behalf of an author without unmetered or at least 100 GB/mo broadband.
Users may "showcase your creative work" but not "upload videos with a commercial intent". The guidelines don't make it easy to tell where Vimeo draws the line between the two.
But some older restrictions appear to been loosened:
For six years (July 2008 through October 2014), the Vimeo guidelines also stated "No screen-captures of video games or gameplay videos", which meant video game reviews must be posted to a service other than Vimeo.
Until recently apparently, users of iOS and Android were blocked from viewing the video unless the uploader subscribed to Vimeo Plus at the time of the upload.
You mentioned plural "more options out there". Which of said "more options" fills these gaps in what Vimeo allows users to post?
as bad as 4G coverage is in some places, for most of the population "offline" is happening less and less and the trend will continue.
You appear to assume that "most of the population" that uses a laptop outside home and the office also subscribes to mobile broadband for the laptop, accessed through a USB 4G modem, a mobile hotspot device, or a smartphone with a data plan that includes tethering. Can you show evidence of such subscriptions? If someone (such as myself) currently does not subscribe to mobile broadband, how wise would it be to drop 300 GB/mo home Internet in favor of 5 GB/mo mobile Internet?
Which make and model? I searched Google for 10 dollar android phone and found several results talking about the same $9.82 LG L16 and L15G on TracFone that Walmart sold in November of last year. Among these results was an article warning me that the offer resembled a clearance and thus unlikely to remain available. The starter Android phone recommended in the article was a Posh Orion Mini, which Amazon shows for $50.
never activate or buy time for it
I fear that trying to run one of these apps without cellular service won't get past the app's "please enter the validation code texted to you to confirm that you're a real person" screen.
All I really care about at a fundamental working level is Emacs (I'm a writer and text mode suits me for many things). My seven year old Acer netbook works fine for these simple needs
My needs aren't much higher than yours, other than that I use Xfce. What do you plan to buy once your Acer netbook breaks, now that the product category is largely discontinued?
Now boot up windows 95, fire up IE4 and post a reply to me from that machine. I dare ya.
That might have worked when Slashdot Media was still owned by Dice and redirecting most HTTPS page views to HTTP, as Slashdot still supports basic functionality without JavaScript. But now that Slashdot redirects HTTP to HTTPS, Internet Explorer 4 is unlikely to support the required TLS version and cipher suite.
I will never again use Windows - simply waiting on the system to die on me and moving to Linux [if there is an option to run my beloved very old windows games like Alpha Centauri that I am done].
a good number people now who consider obtaining a new PC, or an upgraded PC will usually build one from scratch for 1/3 of the cost.
Can you give me a good example of a retail laptop and a comparable "barebook" build for one-third the cost, including the price of an operating system compatible with the applications that someone already uses?
Since everything is going web application, there is little reason to have a beefy desktop system.
Unless a user wants an application on a laptop to continue to work while the user is riding the bus to or from work and thus away from usable Wi-Fi. The severely limited offline support on a Chromebook was a big part of Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign.
Maybe we should just add smartphones to the definition of "PCs" (a device you can carry in your pocket does seem to be a "personal" device, anyway) and go on with life?
I don't consider a device a fully "personal computer" unless the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. Because of its cryptographic lockdown, an iPhone or iPad is a "personal computer" only when paired with a Mac on which to run Xcode. An Android device has a better chance of being a personal computer given the existence of AIDE to create apps directly on a tablet, not to mention the ability to build apps on any old hand-me-down desktop or laptop PC.
Other than an SSD, what can a typical user add to a laptop that already has maxed RAM? I imagine most laptops don't support a lot of different CPUs, graphics cards, or internal network cards.
As software companies are forced to write for less horsepower to have good applications on the mobile devices the side-effect is supporting slower, older computers.
Either that or the application is made available only for the mobile device. For example, you can't use Vine, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, or many banks' check deposit applications on a webcam-equipped PC; you need either iOS or Android with Google Play. You can't even comment on a Vine or Instagram post if you don't own an iPhone or an Android phone because they require all commenters to have first created an account inside the app.
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A desktop version still doesn't help me. I own a PC, an Audiovox 8610 flip phone, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet running Android "Lollipop". I can't install it on my PC because according to the download page, "WhatsApp must be installed on your phone." I can't install it on my phone because an Audiovox 8610 is not listed as a compatible phone on FAQ #20951556. I can't install it on my tablet because according to FAQ #20951556, "We currently do not support tablets or Wi-Fi only devices, and do not plan to do so in the foreseeable future."
Then why does the master device for an account's private key have to be a smartphone? Why can't the desktop be the master device?
Does "everyone with a phone" in the Netherlands have specifically a smart phone? Or are cellular data plans far cheaper in the Netherlands than in the United States?
there are loads of full-featured webmail clients that work just fine
To me, "just fine" includes the use case of going online to send mail, going offline to read it and compose replies, and going back online to send the replies. That used to be common when dial-up was pay-per-minute. It remains common nowadays on laptops to avoid having to subscribe to cellular Internet to read mail while riding the bus. In theory, webmail could work offline using IndexedDB and Service Workers, but in practice, I doubt that this works across all major browsers and all major webmail providers.
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 for two purposes, one being control of automated generation of spam and the other being advertisement display. Some have offered a free tier with only webmail and a subscription tier with SMTP and IMAP.
Prior art is a Patent law concept.
And in the United States, a type designer secures exclusive rights in his new typeface by applying for a design patent.
Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark (or a substantially similar mark) on competing or related goods and services .
"Infringement" is not the only cause of action for unauthorized use of a trademark. Another is "dilution", which involves use of a famous trademark by another without authorization in a way that diminishes the mark's uniqueness, even in an unrelated field of use. Try selling "Coca-Cola" brand spark plugs, for instance.
She is trying to pass as "Sue Google"
Would Barney Google need to "pass"?
I refuse to use it I don't know if you can install it on a wifi-only tablet
I have a Galaxy Tab A. But if an app's manifest sets the telephony permission as "required" rather than "optional", the app won't even show up in the Google Play Store app on the device, and its listing in the web view of Google Play Store will give an error message to the effect "This app is incompatible with all your devices" without even a "Buy a Compatible Device" link.
In addition, I have what some Slashdot users call "an axe to grind": I'm protesting this deliberate incompatibility on principle. Perhaps these service providers don't think they can squeeze enough revenue out of their real customers (namely advertisers) from ads shown to users in the sort of demographics that don't own a smartphone.
surely you could give them your actual number and copy the code they send you over to the cheap phone without cell service.
Vine is run by the same company that runs Twitter. Yesterday when I tried to add my landline as the recovery phone number for my Twitter account, I got an error message to the effect "There was an error sending a text message to that number." (I'm still waiting to hear back from @support about that one.) Not all landline carriers support SMS-to-voice, and even among those that do, not all sites allow sending a message to an SMS-to-voice service.
Certain types of video simply require 20-30Mbps bitrate.
Yet DVD is limited to 9 Mbps including audio, and that's using a video codec two generations older than what is commonly used for Internet streaming video. DVD uses MPEG-2, when H.263-class codecs (Sorenson Spark, DivX, Xvid, Theora) and H.264-class codecs (incl. VP8) have followed it. Does a POV video "require 20-30Mbps bitrate" even in standard definition?
there certainly is no need for proactive server-side scanning
As I read 17 USC 512(i)(1)(B), it requires providers taking advantage of the DMCA's safe harbor to "accommodate[...] standard technical measures", such as automatic identification of works whose copyright is often infringed, so long as said measures do "not impose substantial costs". What did I miss?
and automated take-downs.
Automated notices of claimed infringement wouldn't be quite as necessary if service providers blocked reuploads of the same work after having received "actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing" per 17 USC 512(c)(1)(A). When a service provider takes a work down upon notice of claimed infringement, the same work often remains available on the same provider at other URLs, even if the notice specifies that no accounts on that provider have been licensed to use a particular work. In addition, the work often doesn't stay down when either A. another user reuploads the work, or B. a user whose account had been terminated for repeat infringement creates a new account and reuploads the work. Only proactive or automated systems can make a dent in that sort of infringement.
What makes you think the established record labels and movie studios won't patrol Amazon's service at least as harshly as they patrol YouTube?
Vimeo's guidelines reject certain categories of video entirely.
But some older restrictions appear to been loosened:
You mentioned plural "more options out there". Which of said "more options" fills these gaps in what Vimeo allows users to post?
as bad as 4G coverage is in some places, for most of the population "offline" is happening less and less and the trend will continue.
You appear to assume that "most of the population" that uses a laptop outside home and the office also subscribes to mobile broadband for the laptop, accessed through a USB 4G modem, a mobile hotspot device, or a smartphone with a data plan that includes tethering. Can you show evidence of such subscriptions? If someone (such as myself) currently does not subscribe to mobile broadband, how wise would it be to drop 300 GB/mo home Internet in favor of 5 GB/mo mobile Internet?
Optical drive can be turned into a 2nd HDD bay with a simple adapter
Provided your laptop has an optical drive in the first place. Many don't nowadays, especially models smaller than 17 inches.
There are laptops with upgradeable graphics, look up the MXM standard
Provided your laptop 1. is among those that use MXM and 2. lacks an MXM whitelist.
Wireless networking can be upgraded if you do so desire, since it's almost always on a mini-PCI(e) card
Provided your laptop lacks an mini-PCIe whitelist. A lot have a whitelist to appease national radio regulators.
You can buy a 'burner' Android phone for $10
Which make and model? I searched Google for 10 dollar android phone and found several results talking about the same $9.82 LG L16 and L15G on TracFone that Walmart sold in November of last year. Among these results was an article warning me that the offer resembled a clearance and thus unlikely to remain available. The starter Android phone recommended in the article was a Posh Orion Mini, which Amazon shows for $50.
never activate or buy time for it
I fear that trying to run one of these apps without cellular service won't get past the app's "please enter the validation code texted to you to confirm that you're a real person" screen.
So to ensure I understand and can summarize this to others, an automatic goes at least P, R, N, D, L, where L = engine braking. Did I miss anything?
All I really care about at a fundamental working level is Emacs (I'm a writer and text mode suits me for many things). My seven year old Acer netbook works fine for these simple needs
My needs aren't much higher than yours, other than that I use Xfce. What do you plan to buy once your Acer netbook breaks, now that the product category is largely discontinued?
Now boot up windows 95, fire up IE4 and post a reply to me from that machine. I dare ya.
That might have worked when Slashdot Media was still owned by Dice and redirecting most HTTPS page views to HTTP, as Slashdot still supports basic functionality without JavaScript. But now that Slashdot redirects HTTP to HTTPS, Internet Explorer 4 is unlikely to support the required TLS version and cipher suite.
I will never again use Windows - simply waiting on the system to die on me and moving to Linux [if there is an option to run my beloved very old windows games like Alpha Centauri that I am done] .
Alpha Centauri is rated silver in AppDB. Load Xubuntu on a USB stick, sudo apt-get install wine, and see what you can run.
a good number people now who consider obtaining a new PC, or an upgraded PC will usually build one from scratch for 1/3 of the cost.
Can you give me a good example of a retail laptop and a comparable "barebook" build for one-third the cost, including the price of an operating system compatible with the applications that someone already uses?
Since everything is going web application, there is little reason to have a beefy desktop system.
Unless a user wants an application on a laptop to continue to work while the user is riding the bus to or from work and thus away from usable Wi-Fi. The severely limited offline support on a Chromebook was a big part of Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign.
Maybe we should just add smartphones to the definition of "PCs" (a device you can carry in your pocket does seem to be a "personal" device, anyway) and go on with life?
I don't consider a device a fully "personal computer" unless the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. Because of its cryptographic lockdown, an iPhone or iPad is a "personal computer" only when paired with a Mac on which to run Xcode. An Android device has a better chance of being a personal computer given the existence of AIDE to create apps directly on a tablet, not to mention the ability to build apps on any old hand-me-down desktop or laptop PC.
When the OS starts costing more than the CPU....
Then it's time to consider whether Debian with apt-get install wine can run your applications or close enough substitutes.
Other than an SSD, what can a typical user add to a laptop that already has maxed RAM? I imagine most laptops don't support a lot of different CPUs, graphics cards, or internal network cards.
As software companies are forced to write for less horsepower to have good applications on the mobile devices the side-effect is supporting slower, older computers.
Either that or the application is made available only for the mobile device. For example, you can't use Vine, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, or many banks' check deposit applications on a webcam-equipped PC; you need either iOS or Android with Google Play. You can't even comment on a Vine or Instagram post if you don't own an iPhone or an Android phone because they require all commenters to have first created an account inside the app.