I can buy a "sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input" at any big box store or on Amazon, take in my car anywhere I want, including my cabin in the woods if I'm so inclined.
How did your cabin in the woods end up having electric power to run your monitor? Perhaps a similar chain of events leading to its having electric power could be adapted to providing it with Internet access.
In the other chain of replies, you cited names of logical fallacies. This indicates to me that you desire a more rigorous argument rather than a casual one. Per your request, I will attempt a more rigorous argument. There are two options for a third business model: it can be one for publishing information, or it can be one for something other than publishing information. I will handle each of these possibilities:
Assume the third business model is a business model for publishing information
Both advertising and subscriptions existed for decades before the Internet. It is possible for a third to be discovered in the remainder of your lifetime, but because it has not already been discovered, I don't see it as likely. Probability matters because a rational investor shuns a business whose revenue source is unlikely to be discovered.
Assume the third business model is a business model for something other than publishing information
If an existing business publishing information in exchange for advertising were to switch to such a business model, such as a news site becoming a butcher shop, it would not be able to repurpose a substantial fraction of its existing assets for the new line of business.
As for the "side door" business, I can express the idea that I believe the author was trying to get across in terms of butcher shops. Like web sites that publish information in exchange for a subscription fee, butcher shops typically have a minimum order size to account for the overhead of processing the payments of its customers.
Some people live outside the service area of cable and DSL but can get a mobile data signal. But I will acknowledge that this edge case might not be common enough to warrant investment.
If you have access to a sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input, then you probably have access to an Internet connection with a wired last mile in addition to your mobile Internet connection. An Internet connection with a wired last mile will more than likely be priced much lower per gigabyte.
Are you claiming that graphics drivers under GNU/Linux cannot tell whether the same process allocated two different chunks of video memory? If so, this is a security advantage of Windows over GNU/Linux, and GNU/Linux developers need to get their act together to fix it.
there is even some *value* in not clearing it, as for algorithmic iterations sometimes you can save the cost of populating and freeing memory blocks if you know you will get the same pieces of RAM
Jesus Christ! There are people who know how to program on this site. You're going to give someone a heart attack with comments like that!
I don't think gwolf was referring to exploiting the undefined behavior of use after free. I think it was more along the lines of object pooling.
The GPU, unlike the system / main CPU doesn't necessarily have overview of the applications that are using memory
I thought per-process allocation of video memory was one of the big changes from Windows XP and DirectX 9 to Windows Vista and DirectX 10 that required changes to drivers to support the new Windows display driver model (WDDM).
Consider the following policy: If a process requests video memory, and all of this memory previously belonged to the same process, don't clear it. Otherwise, zero it. And while the GPU is idle, zero some of the memory released by processes in the background, especially by processes that have ended. How would such a policy interfere with "high performance rendering for your video games"?
People who don't run a server or a torrent client use near zero data while sleeping. Last-mile Internet connections are usually considered "burstable". So perhaps it can be thought of as 0.067 Mbps burstable to whatever rate while you're actively using the connection.
In practice, "peak periods" would probably end up interpreted as those periods when the tower to which your device is associated is at or very near capacity, as opposed to those periods when said tower has unused time slots. Unused time slots on a tower probably happen most often in early mornings local time. Perhaps you wanted AT&T to spell it out as satellite ISPs do, where "peak" means 5 AM to midnight and off-peak data is not metered at all.
It seems like a good way is to simply assume your keys have a short lifetime (perhaps a few days), and obtain new ones on expiry.
Twitter's reply was phrased such that Twitter would ban the developer from creating new keys if it has to expire the new keys because the new keys leaked.
The event 30 years ago still has effects 30 years after said event, and the event 20 years ago still has effects 20 years after said event. These K-12 CS efforts are an attempt to undo the damage of the events 30 and 20 years ago.
The problem isn't so much that BASIC went away as computers not being shipped with an accessible language anymore.
Lisp
Which Lisp interpreter shipped, and was easy for users to find, on the affected computers? The summary states that these include Macs prior to OS X and Windows PCs starting with Windows 95.
The statement you wrote about the article's title is true in the literal sense. But I doubt that the intent of the article was to encourage to encourage people to leave the industry of publishing information entirely. Evidence that this was not the intent is the quotation in the lead section: "since the dawn of publishing periodicals there have really been only two business models" (my emphasis). But just to be sure, I will forward your suggestion to leave publishing to the article's comment section for clarification on whether that was the intent of the article.
For one thing, how to work around the lack of nondestructive filtering. Photoshop has had adjustment layers since version 5. Not CS5, actual 5, well over a decade ago.
It becomes your problem when the majority of sites on a search result page start demanding a monthly subscription. You click the back button and the second result, and it too demands a monthly subscription. Likewise with the third. How many paywalls are you going to bounce off before you give up on using the web?
One option for me would be to rewrite routebuilder to run on another mapping platform, but with an infant at home and a full-time job, I frankly don’t have the time or energy.
I don't see why that site needs Google Maps specifically. Just exchange it for other service.
Because you, Anonymous Coward, haven't offered your services to port it within 14 days. Also because I'm the wrong person for the job at the moment, having never written a line of OSM code.
I am not 100 percent sure of what you're trying to say, but I get the impression that you're insinuating that operators of web sites whose content isn't compelling enough to be worth a whole month's subscription ought to try becoming butchers instead of operating web sites. Do I understand you correctly?
Because mom's skills and dad's skills are needed in different states. One difference between now and the 1930s WPA is that women are more likely to work other than as homemakers. And because a lot of people value keeping in touch with the family beyond the nuclear family.
This means people will end up sucked into the echo chamber of one single publication's editorial bias.
They don't now?
To say that having to pay for content causes siloing is nonsense in the light of the current system of 'free' echo chambers.
The difference is that in an ad-supported environment, they can click over to another site (a different silo) and view its possibly opposing bias at a negligible marginal cost. With all-you-can-eat paywalls, this becomes cost prohibitive.
When you click on [a web page], you reach one of the servers serving pages of XYZ.com. This server is the front door
So why should someone who wants to enter through a particular business's front door even once have to purchase an entire month's or even a year's worth of leave to enter through that business's front door? Now multiply this by a dozen front doors visited in a single day.
Every industry devised, at least once, a "heretofore never invented model". Nothing unimaginable about it.
What might this model be that you have devised that none other in the industry has?
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I can buy a "sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input" at any big box store or on Amazon, take in my car anywhere I want, including my cabin in the woods if I'm so inclined.
How did your cabin in the woods end up having electric power to run your monitor? Perhaps a similar chain of events leading to its having electric power could be adapted to providing it with Internet access.
In the other chain of replies, you cited names of logical fallacies. This indicates to me that you desire a more rigorous argument rather than a casual one. Per your request, I will attempt a more rigorous argument. There are two options for a third business model: it can be one for publishing information, or it can be one for something other than publishing information. I will handle each of these possibilities:
Assume the third business model is a business model for publishing information Both advertising and subscriptions existed for decades before the Internet. It is possible for a third to be discovered in the remainder of your lifetime, but because it has not already been discovered, I don't see it as likely. Probability matters because a rational investor shuns a business whose revenue source is unlikely to be discovered. Assume the third business model is a business model for something other than publishing information If an existing business publishing information in exchange for advertising were to switch to such a business model, such as a news site becoming a butcher shop, it would not be able to repurpose a substantial fraction of its existing assets for the new line of business.As for the "side door" business, I can express the idea that I believe the author was trying to get across in terms of butcher shops. Like web sites that publish information in exchange for a subscription fee, butcher shops typically have a minimum order size to account for the overhead of processing the payments of its customers.
Feel free to mention a language you think is more suitable to get a new programmer going.
Lisp
Feel free to mention a popular operating system with a Lisp REPL.
Some people live outside the service area of cable and DSL but can get a mobile data signal. But I will acknowledge that this edge case might not be common enough to warrant investment.
WTF do they think will happen with the 4K video they want to tell us they can do?
It'll be sent over U-verse wired Internet, which is cheaper per GB than the cellular network.
Stream everything from the cloud to a tiny little screen? Why the hell would I want to do that?
I imagine it's for passengers on long car or bus trips. But for that, picture quality comparable to DVD ought to be enough.
If you have access to a sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input, then you probably have access to an Internet connection with a wired last mile in addition to your mobile Internet connection. An Internet connection with a wired last mile will more than likely be priced much lower per gigabyte.
Are you claiming that graphics drivers under GNU/Linux cannot tell whether the same process allocated two different chunks of video memory? If so, this is a security advantage of Windows over GNU/Linux, and GNU/Linux developers need to get their act together to fix it.
there is even some *value* in not clearing it, as for algorithmic iterations sometimes you can save the cost of populating and freeing memory blocks if you know you will get the same pieces of RAM
Jesus Christ! There are people who know how to program on this site. You're going to give someone a heart attack with comments like that!
I don't think gwolf was referring to exploiting the undefined behavior of use after free. I think it was more along the lines of object pooling.
The GPU, unlike the system / main CPU doesn't necessarily have overview of the applications that are using memory
I thought per-process allocation of video memory was one of the big changes from Windows XP and DirectX 9 to Windows Vista and DirectX 10 that required changes to drivers to support the new Windows display driver model (WDDM).
Consider the following policy: If a process requests video memory, and all of this memory previously belonged to the same process, don't clear it. Otherwise, zero it. And while the GPU is idle, zero some of the memory released by processes in the background, especially by processes that have ended. How would such a policy interfere with "high performance rendering for your video games"?
People who don't run a server or a torrent client use near zero data while sleeping. Last-mile Internet connections are usually considered "burstable". So perhaps it can be thought of as 0.067 Mbps burstable to whatever rate while you're actively using the connection.
In practice, "peak periods" would probably end up interpreted as those periods when the tower to which your device is associated is at or very near capacity, as opposed to those periods when said tower has unused time slots. Unused time slots on a tower probably happen most often in early mornings local time. Perhaps you wanted AT&T to spell it out as satellite ISPs do, where "peak" means 5 AM to midnight and off-peak data is not metered at all.
It seems like a good way is to simply assume your keys have a short lifetime (perhaps a few days), and obtain new ones on expiry.
Twitter's reply was phrased such that Twitter would ban the developer from creating new keys if it has to expire the new keys because the new keys leaked.
The event 30 years ago still has effects 30 years after said event, and the event 20 years ago still has effects 20 years after said event. These K-12 CS efforts are an attempt to undo the damage of the events 30 and 20 years ago.
The problem isn't so much that BASIC went away as computers not being shipped with an accessible language anymore.
Lisp
Which Lisp interpreter shipped, and was easy for users to find, on the affected computers? The summary states that these include Macs prior to OS X and Windows PCs starting with Windows 95.
The statement you wrote about the article's title is true in the literal sense. But I doubt that the intent of the article was to encourage to encourage people to leave the industry of publishing information entirely. Evidence that this was not the intent is the quotation in the lead section: "since the dawn of publishing periodicals there have really been only two business models" (my emphasis). But just to be sure, I will forward your suggestion to leave publishing to the article's comment section for clarification on whether that was the intent of the article.
Would this tab be within a site or across sites? Each has its own practical problems, and once you clarify, I'll do my best to explain these problems.
Can you quantify what was so hard to learn?
For one thing, how to work around the lack of nondestructive filtering. Photoshop has had adjustment layers since version 5. Not CS5, actual 5, well over a decade ago.
It becomes your problem when the majority of sites on a search result page start demanding a monthly subscription. You click the back button and the second result, and it too demands a monthly subscription. Likewise with the third. How many paywalls are you going to bounce off before you give up on using the web?
In that case: Butcher is a red herring because while it is a business model, it is not an information publication business model.
One option for me would be to rewrite routebuilder to run on another mapping platform, but with an infant at home and a full-time job, I frankly don’t have the time or energy.
I don't see why that site needs Google Maps specifically. Just exchange it for other service.
Because you, Anonymous Coward, haven't offered your services to port it within 14 days. Also because I'm the wrong person for the job at the moment, having never written a line of OSM code.
I am not 100 percent sure of what you're trying to say, but I get the impression that you're insinuating that operators of web sites whose content isn't compelling enough to be worth a whole month's subscription ought to try becoming butchers instead of operating web sites. Do I understand you correctly?
Why can't their families relocate with them?
Because mom's skills and dad's skills are needed in different states. One difference between now and the 1930s WPA is that women are more likely to work other than as homemakers. And because a lot of people value keeping in touch with the family beyond the nuclear family.
This means people will end up sucked into the echo chamber of one single publication's editorial bias.
They don't now?
To say that having to pay for content causes siloing is nonsense in the light of the current system of 'free' echo chambers.
The difference is that in an ad-supported environment, they can click over to another site (a different silo) and view its possibly opposing bias at a negligible marginal cost. With all-you-can-eat paywalls, this becomes cost prohibitive.
When you click on [a web page], you reach one of the servers serving pages of XYZ.com. This server is the front door
So why should someone who wants to enter through a particular business's front door even once have to purchase an entire month's or even a year's worth of leave to enter through that business's front door? Now multiply this by a dozen front doors visited in a single day.
Every industry devised, at least once, a "heretofore never invented model". Nothing unimaginable about it.
What might this model be that you have devised that none other in the industry has?