At least with Windows, you can be sure that there will be a driver for each piece of hardware in your computer for the version of Windows that came with it. GNU/Linux, on the other hand, doesn't ship on PCs available in major retail chains. Mail-order GNU/Linux PC brands such as System76 have two problems: you're buying sight unseen with no way to test the screen or keyboard, and because of their lack of volume, they're usually a lot more expensive than a Windows PC of comparable size.
Have a external non-programmable card plugged in do a challenge response authentication.
I'm not so sure to what extent cardmembers would be willing to carry around an EMV card reader in case they want to buy something online with a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
You may be right for re-broadcasted pro sporting events, but there's a huge market for streaming rights live pro sports.
Even if a particular streaming provider has exclusive rights to the live events of a particular league, no league has a monopoly on a sport. Pro baseball had the National League and American League competing until they officially merged into Major League Baseball. Pro American football had the NFL competing at various times with the AAFC and AFL until they merged, with the short-lived USFL and XFL also making appearances. Pro basketball had the NBL absorb two other competing leagues (BAA and ABA) to form the NBA. And in each case, the pro league(s) competed with the NCAA for viewers.
But with e-sports, a game's publisher can use copyright to make all other leagues illegal.
Which incidentally I see as one thing keeping e-sports from reaching the same prestige as traditional sports any time soon. Nobody has the exclusive right to stream basketball matches, for example.
I wasn't aware that U.S. carriers were even allowing international calls by default without letting the subscriber set up and agree to a rate plan for them. Otherwise, an app that takes the dialer permission for itself would just get "This number is blocked."
Unlocking the bootloader and flashing a ROM requires a backup, wipe, and restore. What's the easiest way for a user to be sure that a backup tool downloaded from Google Play Store actually saved everything in a way that it can restore?
Many Android devices have a guaranteed update period of time. eg: 2 years for the Moto G (180$).
Is that two years after you buy one new or just two years after release day? Some carriers sell previous generation phones as entry-level devices. They're "new" in the sense of never having been used since burn-in by the manufacturer, but they're new old stock.
I thought the majority of smartphones were on plans with unlimited talk and text by now, and that major U.S. carriers were making pay-per-minute plans available only for dumbphones.
I just tested it, and Twitter counts code points. An emoji takes four uint8_t code units in UTF-8 or two uint16_t code units in UTF-16. This means it counts each Chinese character as one character. However, a character with a combining diacritic counts as two. I can't give examples here because of the whitelist that Slashdot implemented to shut out bidirectional control characters and what used to be called ASCII art.
I don't get why cell phone manufacturers don't have a feature to record a proper horizontal video while holding the phone vertically.
Because the Android CDD requires the camera to have the same orientation as the screen. Section 7.5.5 (Camera Orientation) states:
Both front- and rear-facing cameras, if present, MUST be oriented so that the long dimension of the camera aligns with the screen’s long dimension. That is, when the device is held in the landscape orientation, cameras MUST capture images in the landscape orientation. This applies regardless of the device’s natural orientation; that is, it applies to landscape-primary devices as well as portrait-primary devices.
So in the CDD's terms, what you're asking for is a way to crop 9:16 video down to 4:3 while recording it.
Twitter doesn't have a real name policy, just a policy not to mislead. Twitter has one-way following, as opposed to mutual friendship. And somehow the FSF feels a lot more comfortable with Twitter than with Facebook.
I don't see it as "suicide" any more than being able to attach photos to a Tweet was. You'd get the headline in the Tweet and the article in an attached text file.
Why not instead put the blame on the free software community for failing to produce HTML tools that live up to the feature set and usability of Adobe CS6?
Right off the bat, [StumbleUpon users are] told to cough up your Facebook account or leave.
I got "Or sign up with e-mail" below the Facebook button.
It might depend on from what part of the world you are viewing the site, as I know another service (Gmail) makes a backup mobile phone number required or optional depending on the user's location. Where are you? I'm in the midwestern USA.
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Until you end up on video sites that say "Please reenable Flash" on those browsers for which the site doesn't say "Please install our app".
At least with Windows, you can be sure that there will be a driver for each piece of hardware in your computer for the version of Windows that came with it. GNU/Linux, on the other hand, doesn't ship on PCs available in major retail chains. Mail-order GNU/Linux PC brands such as System76 have two problems: you're buying sight unseen with no way to test the screen or keyboard, and because of their lack of volume, they're usually a lot more expensive than a Windows PC of comparable size.
In the meantime, until Edge gains support for content-blocking plug-ins, you can keep the worst ad networks from resolving at the DNS level.
Have a external non-programmable card plugged in do a challenge response authentication.
I'm not so sure to what extent cardmembers would be willing to carry around an EMV card reader in case they want to buy something online with a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
You may be right for re-broadcasted pro sporting events, but there's a huge market for streaming rights live pro sports.
Even if a particular streaming provider has exclusive rights to the live events of a particular league, no league has a monopoly on a sport. Pro baseball had the National League and American League competing until they officially merged into Major League Baseball. Pro American football had the NFL competing at various times with the AAFC and AFL until they merged, with the short-lived USFL and XFL also making appearances. Pro basketball had the NBL absorb two other competing leagues (BAA and ABA) to form the NBA. And in each case, the pro league(s) competed with the NCAA for viewers.
But with e-sports, a game's publisher can use copyright to make all other leagues illegal.
Yes I know buying things online counts, but there is a solution for that too.
Namely?
What else would I need to block at the carrier other than 1-900 and international calls?
Which incidentally I see as one thing keeping e-sports from reaching the same prestige as traditional sports any time soon. Nobody has the exclusive right to stream basketball matches, for example.
I wasn't aware that U.S. carriers were even allowing international calls by default without letting the subscriber set up and agree to a rate plan for them. Otherwise, an app that takes the dialer permission for itself would just get "This number is blocked."
Unlocking the bootloader and flashing a ROM requires a backup, wipe, and restore. What's the easiest way for a user to be sure that a backup tool downloaded from Google Play Store actually saved everything in a way that it can restore?
Android is open sores.
First-stage bootloaders often are not. Nor are device drivers on most phones. And that's even without considering Google Play Store/Services.
Many Android devices have a guaranteed update period of time. eg: 2 years for the Moto G (180$).
Is that two years after you buy one new or just two years after release day? Some carriers sell previous generation phones as entry-level devices. They're "new" in the sense of never having been used since burn-in by the manufacturer, but they're new old stock.
My phone makes calls that cost money
I thought the majority of smartphones were on plans with unlimited talk and text by now, and that major U.S. carriers were making pay-per-minute plans available only for dumbphones.
I just tested it, and Twitter counts code points. An emoji takes four uint8_t code units in UTF-8 or two uint16_t code units in UTF-16. This means it counts each Chinese character as one character. However, a character with a combining diacritic counts as two. I can't give examples here because of the whitelist that Slashdot implemented to shut out bidirectional control characters and what used to be called ASCII art.
a twitter feed with 50 headlines saying "Important: read this" is pretty useless.
Unfollow anyone who can't be taught how to write a headline.
Buzzfeed Considering Long Form Printed Publication
Cracked is way ahead of them. The De-Textbook
I don't get why cell phone manufacturers don't have a feature to record a proper horizontal video while holding the phone vertically.
Because the Android CDD requires the camera to have the same orientation as the screen. Section 7.5.5 (Camera Orientation) states:
So in the CDD's terms, what you're asking for is a way to crop 9:16 video down to 4:3 while recording it.
Twitter doesn't have a real name policy, just a policy not to mislead. Twitter has one-way following, as opposed to mutual friendship. And somehow the FSF feels a lot more comfortable with Twitter than with Facebook.
I don't see it as "suicide" any more than being able to attach photos to a Tweet was. You'd get the headline in the Tweet and the article in an attached text file.
Would Beetlejuice announce his retirement?
I'm still wondering if and when Mozilla will give gecko a good ole rewrite.
I thought that's what the Rust language and Servo engine were for.
HTML4 has been superseded by HTML5. To which specific non-conformances do you refer?
Why not instead put the blame on the free software community for failing to produce HTML tools that live up to the feature set and usability of Adobe CS6?
Have you filed a bug?
Bugzilla doesn't take anonymous reports. I have an account, but Bugzilla won't let me log in, instead telling me my password isn't complex enough.
Right off the bat, [StumbleUpon users are] told to cough up your Facebook account or leave.
I got "Or sign up with e-mail" below the Facebook button.
It might depend on from what part of the world you are viewing the site, as I know another service (Gmail) makes a backup mobile phone number required or optional depending on the user's location. Where are you? I'm in the midwestern USA.