One reason to run Windows 10 happens if System76 doesn't make a laptop in the form factor you want, and other major laptop makers can't be rectumed to certify their chipsets' compatibility with Linux. Unlike preinstalled Windows 10, aftermarket Linux occasionally fails to correctly set up Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sound, webcam, or suspend. You want to run Windows 10 because presumably it's better than not having a computer at all.
In other words, you implemented the plug-in model where each app provides a service to the main app. But how does your main app trigger the installation of sub-apps on the user's device? I thought the user had to confirm installation of all packages through the Google Play Store app unless the user turns on developer-oriented options, such as "Unknown sources" or "Enable USB debugging". Or does turning on a feature that requires a sub-app present a notice of what is about to happen next and then take the user to the sub-app's page in Google Play Store to complete the installation?
That won't work if the firewall drops connections to foreign IPs that have not been returned from a DNS query. When you perform a DNS query, the DNS server would then do three things: check whether the domain is on China's whitelist, return the hostname's IP address if so, and create a whitelist entry on the firewall for the pair of (your IP address, their IP address) if so. It's thus a little bit like carrier-grade NAT, except that DNS lookups are used as the trigger instead of a SYN.
Or perhaps I shouldn't have given the Chinese leadership any ideas...
Even if I already have a phone, that doesn't necessarily make it a compatible phone. It could be an older Android phone. Or it could be a Windows Phone. Or it could even be a flip phone that just makes and receives calls and receives texts, which the carrier is willing to activate without a data plan.
when car's get stolen, the car manufacturer gets to sell a replacement car, covered by insurance. What incentive does the car manufacturer have to build a theft-proof car?
Lower insurance premiums decrease the vehicle's TCO.
Who the fuck pays $15 to rent a movie that you can get at RedBox for $2?
It depends. Redbox has a movie for about a year, after which the $15 has no competition. Brick-and-mortar video stores used to have a new release wall surrounding a "catalog" floor, but Redbox drove them out of business and has no space for "catalog" titles.
Because of the language? Not the violence? [...] I suspect he's associating with Conservative Christians.
Likely. The Bible is full of violence and sex. But there's really only one word in the whole thing that can arguably be called a swear word: In Philippians 3:8, Paul refers to his old life before Christ as "shit" (Greek skubalon). I think they call that a "precision F-strike".
Stream once or twice per month? How low is your monthly data cap?
Data allowances of satellite and fixed cellular Internet service, popular in rural areas unserved by DSL or cable, are on the order of 10 GB per month. (Sources: Exede; Verizon)
But how will the adjustments follow the person from one computer to another, even if the person doesn't have a user account on each computer on which he uses Word? Does it support storing a user's roaming settings in a Microsoft account or something? If not, one reason to stick with the defaults and argue for better defaults is to make it easier to use someone else's computer.
I agree with most of your points. If it wasn't obvious, I want to switch all the things to PC, but certain factors have historically held at least part of my gaming on consoles. So I'm looking for solid solutions to those factors.
How's that 30 Hz slideshow with 4 players on the same console working out?
A lot better than one hour of 60 Hz and three hours of 0 Hz while the others take their turns, I guess.
Most emulators are ILLEGAL due to requiring the ROMS of the machine.
Having the console maker or the game's developer provide the emulator, as in the case of Virtual Console or Namco Museum, sidesteps the BIOS legality issue.
But actually, PC-based console emulators aren't quite as dependent on "ROMs of the machine" as one might guess. Some platforms lack a BIOS, such as Atari 2600 and NES. Some platforms have an IPL roughly the same size as the Toner Loading Program from the Lexmark case, such as Super NES. Some platforms have only a small IPL whose functionality can be trivially reimplemented in native code (high-level emulation, or HLE), such as Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Nintendo 64. Some platforms have a more substantial BIOS that is nevertheless HLE'd accurately enough to run popular games, such as Game Boy Advance. And for those few platforms whose BIOS cannot be HLE'd well due to something like fixed entry addresses, such as Famicom Disk System, there are often solutions to dump your own machine's BIOS pursuant to 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts.
AIM is FAR more important then STRAFING as any mouse player will you.
This is more true in kill-count-driven games than in stealth games. Keyboard-controlled games need "tiptoe key" and "run key" workarounds.
Let's go play Starcraft2 ? Oh wait, you can't do that on a shitty console.
I'm interested. Is there a quality native PC game comparable to Smash Bros. series? Or is that part of said "limited place"?
Anyone who has written assembler knows that modern static analysis and optimising compilers will write far better code than the average assembler programmer
What you say may very well be true on 32- and 64-bit targets, such as x86, PowerPC, ARM, x86-64, and AArch64. But on 8- and 16-bit targets, which C compilers for MOS 6502, Zilog Z80, WDC 65816, and MC68000 beat assembly?
I tried cc65 to target 6502, but I found two sources of slowness: the recursion assumption and the 16-bit index assumption. It assumes that all functions shall be recursive, which forces stack-based code because a stack is the only way to assure recursion safety for auto variables, and stack-based code is very slow on 6502. There exist fast ways to allocate auto variables in an acyclic call graph, such as by allocating local variables of functions at the same call depth as an overlapping union of static allocations, but cc65 offers no way to disable the assumption of recursion. cc65 also assumes that all array indices shall be 16 bits in width, because C specifies that indices shall be promoted to at least int which shall be at least 16 bits wide, even though indexing wider than 8 bits cannot be done with the 6502's address generator unit alone.
Perhaps part of the confusion is whether the alternative to a gaming PC is owning only a console or owning both a console and a hand-me-down PC that doesn't play recent games.
No mods [ins]is supposed to[/ins] means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers [ins]but yet cheaters still abound[/ins]
FTFY.
I'm out of the loop, but what form of console cheating is still viable long-term other than standbying (interfering with the opposing side's Internet connection)?
Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy
Which has two drawbacks: an unfair accuracy advantage for player 1 compared to players 2, 3, and 4 on the same machine, and the fact that movement is still digital. W, A, S, and D aren't pressure-sensitive.
Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as/. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.
Consoles have supported text input through a USB keyboard since the PS2 and the Wii, just not always game input. Besides, a console owner's existing non-gaming PC is still very suitable for Arqade, GameFAQs, reddit, SoylentNews, and Slashdot.
Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs
And which some Slashdot regulars claim should stay on PCs because they're not as "innovate" as some people think. Many are either knockoffs of existing games (like Emacs Tetris) or reportedly comparable to 1983-1984 crash crap.
Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits
Some Slashdot regulars would call this lack of entry barrier a drawback, as it turns the PC game market into the 1983-1984 Atari market.
Aren't overpriced like consoles
How much does a gaming PC with "their favorite case" cost, especially compared to a PlayStation 4? And how much do four upgrades from a non-gaming PC to a gaming PC cost, compared to one console and four controllers? And the Steam sales have to be pretty deep to make a 4-pack as cheap as one console disc.
*Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC
* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.
"GIMPed"? You chose an interesting word. A console owner's existing non-gaming PC can run GIMP and all of the other non-gaming applications you mention.
TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!
Wii pioneered emulation without having to break the law by downloading ROMs from shady Internet sources. Plus even the dinky little 1.6 GHz Atom in a six-year-old netbook can run an emulator suitable for most pre-1995 games, such as FCEUX or no$sns.
Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle
How is DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 not an "artificial upgrade cycle"?
Android devices pretty much all support bluetooth gamepads
Android system updates have a habit of breaking apps that act as drivers for Bluetooth gamepads. For example, large changes to the Bluetooth stack from Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" to Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean II" broke the Wiimote Controller app permanently, and the app had already been broken on several phone models. The Sixaxis Controller app purports to connect connects official Dual Shock 3 controllers to select Android devices. But it requires a rooted phone, has to have a second app just to check its compatibility with your particular phone, and is reported to fail on Android 6 "Marshmallow" and later.
I think it's time to shop for a good mobile controller.
The problem with doing that is lack of network effects. Until MOGA and other manufacturers of clip-on gamepads start releasing sales figures for clip-on gamepads, developers of well-known games aren't going to feel it worthwhile to their games to mobile platforms whose only other app-usable input device is a flat sheet of glass. This means there won't be a lot of quality games that support "a good mobile controller" unless it can be shown that a lot of people other than you are similarly shopping.
Or when and where has such a manufacturer released sales figures?
If Apple was serious about the iPad being the thing that would phase out laptops or be the next generation of whatever then they need to drop the price by _a lot_.
And Apple would also have to port Xcode to iOS so that you can make iPad apps on an iPad. This is already possible on Surface (which runs Visual Studio) and Android (which runs AIDE), but the strict W^X policy of iOS makes it impossible on an iPad.
But look at the games that have any success on mobile devices, all free to play and short level durations.
That's due in part to the limits of touch-only input. The only discrete physical controls on the device are system controls: sleep, quit, and volume. This leaves a flat sheet of glass, which works fine for point-and-click games such as those DS games that use only the stylus. It also works well for space shoot-em-ups, where the bottom of the screen acts as a trackpad to move the player's ship. But it isn't conducive to making quick and accurate move, jump, and fire controls for something like Mega Man. Hence platformers have to be simplified to endless runners with aforementioned "short level durations." There exist "Made for iPod" gamepads, but until the manufacturers of those gamepads release sales figures, developers are less likely to see economic sense in porting long-form Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita games to iOS.
I see two problems with hosting your videos yourself. First, you may have a hard time getting found in the first place because the related videos column on YouTube shows only other videos on the same service. You may have to throw teasers on YouTube whose description links to the full video. Second, because advertisers don't know you exist, you'll have a hard time selling your preroll ad inventory, and without ads, you'll see a big S3 bill from Amazon if your video does go viral.
You can instead shun the App Store and develop web applications that run in Safari. In fact, the original iPhone didn't even have an App Store; the plan was that all third-party applications would be web applications.
Use an ACME client to obtain a domain-validated certificate without charge from the Let's Encrypt CA. If you have a VPS or bigger on its own IP address, you can install the official Let's Encrypt client. If you have shared hosting, you can install the sudo-less client, put the resulting ACME response page at the appropriate well-known URL (instead of running sudo python), grab the certificate, and then file a support ticket with your host to get the installed.
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One reason to run Windows 10 happens if System76 doesn't make a laptop in the form factor you want, and other major laptop makers can't be rectumed to certify their chipsets' compatibility with Linux. Unlike preinstalled Windows 10, aftermarket Linux occasionally fails to correctly set up Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sound, webcam, or suspend. You want to run Windows 10 because presumably it's better than not having a computer at all.
In other words, you implemented the plug-in model where each app provides a service to the main app. But how does your main app trigger the installation of sub-apps on the user's device? I thought the user had to confirm installation of all packages through the Google Play Store app unless the user turns on developer-oriented options, such as "Unknown sources" or "Enable USB debugging". Or does turning on a feature that requires a sub-app present a notice of what is about to happen next and then take the user to the sub-app's page in Google Play Store to complete the installation?
That won't work if the firewall drops connections to foreign IPs that have not been returned from a DNS query. When you perform a DNS query, the DNS server would then do three things: check whether the domain is on China's whitelist, return the hostname's IP address if so, and create a whitelist entry on the firewall for the pair of (your IP address, their IP address) if so. It's thus a little bit like carrier-grade NAT, except that DNS lookups are used as the trigger instead of a SYN.
Or perhaps I shouldn't have given the Chinese leadership any ideas...
Wisely, the app comes with minimal permissions and you need to enable further permissions as scripts require them.
How does that work on devices to which Android 6 "Marshmallow" (with its fine-grained permissions framework) has not yet been ported?
Even if I already have a phone, that doesn't necessarily make it a compatible phone. It could be an older Android phone. Or it could be a Windows Phone. Or it could even be a flip phone that just makes and receives calls and receives texts, which the carrier is willing to activate without a data plan.
when car's get stolen, the car manufacturer gets to sell a replacement car, covered by insurance. What incentive does the car manufacturer have to build a theft-proof car?
Lower insurance premiums decrease the vehicle's TCO.
That'll be $3,240 per sustained Mbps. We take credit cards.
(Show your work: 86400 seconds per day, times 30 days per month, times $10 per GB, times 1 GB per 8000 Mbit)
Who the fuck pays $15 to rent a movie that you can get at RedBox for $2?
It depends. Redbox has a movie for about a year, after which the $15 has no competition. Brick-and-mortar video stores used to have a new release wall surrounding a "catalog" floor, but Redbox drove them out of business and has no space for "catalog" titles.
Because of the language? Not the violence? [...] I suspect he's associating with Conservative Christians.
Likely. The Bible is full of violence and sex. But there's really only one word in the whole thing that can arguably be called a swear word: In Philippians 3:8, Paul refers to his old life before Christ as "shit" (Greek skubalon). I think they call that a "precision F-strike".
Stream once or twice per month? How low is your monthly data cap?
Data allowances of satellite and fixed cellular Internet service, popular in rural areas unserved by DSL or cable, are on the order of 10 GB per month. (Sources: Exede; Verizon)
The Autocorrect options are very adjustable.
But how will the adjustments follow the person from one computer to another, even if the person doesn't have a user account on each computer on which he uses Word? Does it support storing a user's roaming settings in a Microsoft account or something? If not, one reason to stick with the defaults and argue for better defaults is to make it easier to use someone else's computer.
I agree with most of your points. If it wasn't obvious, I want to switch all the things to PC, but certain factors have historically held at least part of my gaming on consoles. So I'm looking for solid solutions to those factors.
How's that 30 Hz slideshow with 4 players on the same console working out?
A lot better than one hour of 60 Hz and three hours of 0 Hz while the others take their turns, I guess.
Most emulators are ILLEGAL due to requiring the ROMS of the machine.
Having the console maker or the game's developer provide the emulator, as in the case of Virtual Console or Namco Museum, sidesteps the BIOS legality issue.
But actually, PC-based console emulators aren't quite as dependent on "ROMs of the machine" as one might guess. Some platforms lack a BIOS, such as Atari 2600 and NES. Some platforms have an IPL roughly the same size as the Toner Loading Program from the Lexmark case, such as Super NES. Some platforms have only a small IPL whose functionality can be trivially reimplemented in native code (high-level emulation, or HLE), such as Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Nintendo 64. Some platforms have a more substantial BIOS that is nevertheless HLE'd accurately enough to run popular games, such as Game Boy Advance. And for those few platforms whose BIOS cannot be HLE'd well due to something like fixed entry addresses, such as Famicom Disk System, there are often solutions to dump your own machine's BIOS pursuant to 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts.
AIM is FAR more important then STRAFING as any mouse player will you.
This is more true in kill-count-driven games than in stealth games. Keyboard-controlled games need "tiptoe key" and "run key" workarounds.
Let's go play Starcraft2 ? Oh wait, you can't do that on a shitty console.
I'm interested. Is there a quality native PC game comparable to Smash Bros. series? Or is that part of said "limited place"?
Anyone who has written assembler knows that modern static analysis and optimising compilers will write far better code than the average assembler programmer
What you say may very well be true on 32- and 64-bit targets, such as x86, PowerPC, ARM, x86-64, and AArch64. But on 8- and 16-bit targets, which C compilers for MOS 6502, Zilog Z80, WDC 65816, and MC68000 beat assembly?
I tried cc65 to target 6502, but I found two sources of slowness: the recursion assumption and the 16-bit index assumption. It assumes that all functions shall be recursive, which forces stack-based code because a stack is the only way to assure recursion safety for auto variables, and stack-based code is very slow on 6502. There exist fast ways to allocate auto variables in an acyclic call graph, such as by allocating local variables of functions at the same call depth as an overlapping union of static allocations, but cc65 offers no way to disable the assumption of recursion. cc65 also assumes that all array indices shall be 16 bits in width, because C specifies that indices shall be promoted to at least int which shall be at least 16 bits wide, even though indexing wider than 8 bits cannot be done with the 6502's address generator unit alone.
Perhaps part of the confusion is whether the alternative to a gaming PC is owning only a console or owning both a console and a hand-me-down PC that doesn't play recent games.
No mods [ins]is supposed to[/ins] means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers [ins]but yet cheaters still abound[/ins]
FTFY.
I'm out of the loop, but what form of console cheating is still viable long-term other than standbying (interfering with the opposing side's Internet connection)?
Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy
Which has two drawbacks: an unfair accuracy advantage for player 1 compared to players 2, 3, and 4 on the same machine, and the fact that movement is still digital. W, A, S, and D aren't pressure-sensitive.
Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.
Consoles have supported text input through a USB keyboard since the PS2 and the Wii, just not always game input. Besides, a console owner's existing non-gaming PC is still very suitable for Arqade, GameFAQs, reddit, SoylentNews, and Slashdot.
Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs
And which some Slashdot regulars claim should stay on PCs because they're not as "innovate" as some people think. Many are either knockoffs of existing games (like Emacs Tetris) or reportedly comparable to 1983-1984 crash crap.
Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits
Some Slashdot regulars would call this lack of entry barrier a drawback, as it turns the PC game market into the 1983-1984 Atari market.
Aren't overpriced like consoles
How much does a gaming PC with "their favorite case" cost, especially compared to a PlayStation 4? And how much do four upgrades from a non-gaming PC to a gaming PC cost, compared to one console and four controllers? And the Steam sales have to be pretty deep to make a 4-pack as cheap as one console disc.
*Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC
* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.
"GIMPed"? You chose an interesting word. A console owner's existing non-gaming PC can run GIMP and all of the other non-gaming applications you mention.
TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!
Wii pioneered emulation without having to break the law by downloading ROMs from shady Internet sources. Plus even the dinky little 1.6 GHz Atom in a six-year-old netbook can run an emulator suitable for most pre-1995 games, such as FCEUX or no$sns.
Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle
How is DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 not an "artificial upgrade cycle"?
Android devices pretty much all support bluetooth gamepads
Android system updates have a habit of breaking apps that act as drivers for Bluetooth gamepads. For example, large changes to the Bluetooth stack from Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" to Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean II" broke the Wiimote Controller app permanently, and the app had already been broken on several phone models. The Sixaxis Controller app purports to connect connects official Dual Shock 3 controllers to select Android devices. But it requires a rooted phone, has to have a second app just to check its compatibility with your particular phone, and is reported to fail on Android 6 "Marshmallow" and later.
I think it's time to shop for a good mobile controller.
The problem with doing that is lack of network effects. Until MOGA and other manufacturers of clip-on gamepads start releasing sales figures for clip-on gamepads, developers of well-known games aren't going to feel it worthwhile to their games to mobile platforms whose only other app-usable input device is a flat sheet of glass. This means there won't be a lot of quality games that support "a good mobile controller" unless it can be shown that a lot of people other than you are similarly shopping.
Or when and where has such a manufacturer released sales figures?
The "PCMR" crowd may need to address what consoles do above and beyond PCs (source):
Likewise, the mobile industry may need to address what handheld consoles do above and beyond iPhone and Android phones:
I'm curious as to which laptop you have that takes a "$300 Discrete GPU upgrade". Or are you trying to compare laptop apples to desktop oranges?
If Apple was serious about the iPad being the thing that would phase out laptops or be the next generation of whatever then they need to drop the price by _a lot_.
And Apple would also have to port Xcode to iOS so that you can make iPad apps on an iPad. This is already possible on Surface (which runs Visual Studio) and Android (which runs AIDE), but the strict W^X policy of iOS makes it impossible on an iPad.
But look at the games that have any success on mobile devices, all free to play and short level durations.
That's due in part to the limits of touch-only input. The only discrete physical controls on the device are system controls: sleep, quit, and volume. This leaves a flat sheet of glass, which works fine for point-and-click games such as those DS games that use only the stylus. It also works well for space shoot-em-ups, where the bottom of the screen acts as a trackpad to move the player's ship. But it isn't conducive to making quick and accurate move, jump, and fire controls for something like Mega Man. Hence platformers have to be simplified to endless runners with aforementioned "short level durations." There exist "Made for iPod" gamepads, but until the manufacturers of those gamepads release sales figures, developers are less likely to see economic sense in porting long-form Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita games to iOS.
I see two problems with hosting your videos yourself. First, you may have a hard time getting found in the first place because the related videos column on YouTube shows only other videos on the same service. You may have to throw teasers on YouTube whose description links to the full video. Second, because advertisers don't know you exist, you'll have a hard time selling your preroll ad inventory, and without ads, you'll see a big S3 bill from Amazon if your video does go viral.
Why keep art hidden away so it will never be seen or enjoyed.
Ostensibly because keeping it away "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by not competing with the same author's or same publisher's other works that are released.
In your cover scenario, it would still be due to him recording something without permission: the songwriter's permission.
You can instead shun the App Store and develop web applications that run in Safari. In fact, the original iPhone didn't even have an App Store; the plan was that all third-party applications would be web applications.
Use an ACME client to obtain a domain-validated certificate without charge from the Let's Encrypt CA. If you have a VPS or bigger on its own IP address, you can install the official Let's Encrypt client. If you have shared hosting, you can install the sudo-less client, put the resulting ACME response page at the appropriate well-known URL (instead of running sudo python), grab the certificate, and then file a support ticket with your host to get the installed.