we're not going to completely change the entire meaning of the language just to accomodate a religious fringe group who is weirdly obsessed with lack-of-timeshifting. The only people to whom the issue isn't completely irrelevant are sportsfans.
It's not just sports; political talk shows (such as Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity) and entertainment industry awards shows (such as Grammys, Emmys, or Oscars) also have a short shelf life. Political talk shows last longer than sports, maybe about a day, but they too go stale.
I assume your TCP implementation actually guarantees delivery by retrying
Guaranteed delivery by retrying doesn't help when the other party's device changes IP addresses every time it associates to a different hotspot. That needs to be done at a level higher than TCP.
You don't compile on binary Linux distro. You just install and then the installer does its thing and the program is ready.
Provided the application that you want to use happens to be in your distribution's repository. Many distributions reject certain categories of application on principle. For example, Fedora rejects video game console emulators out of fear that Nintendo might cause Red Hat to spend money on a legal defense.
Then be a positive influence on the particular subset of "most people" around you, recommending your own circle of friends to buy from System76 or ThinkPenguin.
If you are running Windows in a virtual machine, that's still a copy of Windows that has to be paid for ($200 per seat for Windows 10 Pro) and kept updated ($/mo to the ISP).
any non-technical person could use dropbox, google drive, OneDrive, box, or a flash drive.
Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box don't make clients for Linux, and Dropbox recently put in a severe limit on how many devices can be associated to one account. That leaves a flash drive. Or what am I missing?
Mobile games port onto the PC and can be successful.
I'm aware that porting touch to mouse or vice versa works well. But I was thinking the other way around: PC to mobile or console to mobile. That would require porting keyboard or gamepad to touch. How would you design practical touch control for an action platformer like Mega Man?
Party games around a shared screen are available on PC but work best around a large screen in a family room. Most PCs aren't connected in that way; I think console is a far superior option for that.
Which again raises the question of how to raise the funds and demonstrate the experience to become licensed on consoles in order to ship the game. Is it the case that a company's first game or two must be in genres other than party?
Everyone with a brain remembers the great betrayal of valve with half-life 2 and cs in 2004 when he launched steam to steal the fucking software and undermine game ownership. The man pioneered walled gardens
Nintendo and Atari were doing the "walled garden" thing roughly two decades before that with the lockout methods in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari 7800 ProSystem consoles. At least if you have a PC running Steam, it won't interfere with installing and running non-Steam applications on the same PC.
I wish I could buy a new laptop or desktop computer off the shelf at Staples or Costco and bring it home and have it boot up into some version of Linux instead of MS Windows.
Then buy your laptop somewhere other than Staples or Costco. Buy one at System76 or ThinkPenguin. Tell both of them that they lost your business because they offered nothing but Windows.
don't kid yourself that a little issues like end-of-support lifetime for a very popular version of Windows will do the trick. Remember, we've already gone through this with Windows XP.
Windows XP end of support drove users to Windows 7, which was at the time seen as a desirable operating system. Windows 10's reputation is nowhere near as good now as Windows 7's was when XP support ended.
Even if people wanted to distributing non-trivial commercial software for Linux it's impossible without releasing a dozen different versions to target a sufficiently wide range of distros and versions.
I thought you just needed to make a build for Flatpak or perhaps for Steam Runtime. What am I missing?
All I want is a computer that can securely have a browser, run emulators for my old school video game roms, play my mp3 collection and play all my movies ripped from DVDs. Can Linux handle all these basic tasks?
The Xubuntu operating system runs (among other things) Firefox browser, VLC media player, Mesen and FCEUX for NES ROMs, Mesen-S and bsnes-plus for Super NES ROMs, and mGBA for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance ROMs. Install Wine, and it also runs BGB for Game Boy debugging, j0CC-FamiTracker for composing chiptune music, and OpenMPT for composing sample-based sequenced music.
Chrome OS is made to run one application: Google Chrome. If you want to run an application other than Google Chrome, you need a different operating system. And if the Chromebook you own was manufactured before Crostini, that isn't likely to happen.
Windows in a VM requires twice the RAM of Windows on metal. If you use a VM, you need RAM for both the host operating system and the guest operating system. If your laptop is already maxed out, that's not fun. Plus you're still paying $200 for a Windows 10 Pro license, plus data overage fees to your ISP when the PC downloads big updates twice a year on Microsoft's schedule.
If a publication has a substantial American readership, how is it "just poor reporting" to report a mass in both 1000 kg metric tons and 907.2 kg American tons?
No, it's usually not a good option for a publication to ignore the USA entirely. This is because on a GDP per language basis, the USA is probably the largest market in the world. Its GDP of 19.39 trillion USD is still bigger than China's (12.25 trillion USD), India's (2.60 trillion USD), and the EU's (18.5 trillion USD), and far bigger than any of the 24 language areas within the EU.
focus on building a brand, community and successful product within the more accessible markets first - mobile or PC.
In principle, I'm inclined to agree. In practice, I'm interested to read how you would recommend to solve the following hurdles when bringing a handheld-style game to mobile or a console-style game to PC:
Input on mobile differs greatly from input on Nintendo handhelds. A flat sheet of glass is all you have. Or is there a market for mobile games that require or at least strongly recommend purchasing and pairing an external gamepad?
Are PC gamers willing to buy party games based on in-person interaction around a shared screen?
You think a customer on TMobile will be able to subscribe to Sling? Hell no! They're going to block every other streaming video service so you will take their Level3 or nothing.
That's not what T-Mobile has in place. The "Binge On" feature of T-Mobile plans doesn't count video against subscribers' cap so long as it's 1.5 Mbps or lower. (The vast majority of 480p video using AVC or VP8 is lower than that.) Binge On is open to any video provider that's willing to join. And I see no reason for this to end any time soon, even with the Sprint merger, as it'd break the "we're not AT&T" draw of the T-Mobile brand.
hell...AT&T is already walking down the path of making DirecTV an exclusive product that will require their network. Sure, that's a few years down the road...but they've effectively launched the very last satellite. Once the current fleet is dead...they'll be streaming only.
Some rural customers have satellite television from DirecTV because they live outside the service footprint of AT&T's high-volume Internet and IPTV service. Should DirecTV stop offering satellite television, that'll just leave Dish with a bunch of new customers.
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Any why doesn't everyone do what I did and turn a $100 DirecTV bill (no premium channels, DVR, HD) into a $30 Sling bill (ditto)?
My roommate watches Washington Journal, C-SPAN's call-in morning show. Sling Blue + News Extra doesn't offer C-SPAN.
one company has a monopoly in my area and can charge whatever the hell they like because there is no competition allowed by the government.
How often have you raised this issue at town hall meetings?
Subscribe to a different service each month. Most Internet VOD services haven't given deep annual discounts yet.
we're not going to completely change the entire meaning of the language just to accomodate a religious fringe group who is weirdly obsessed with lack-of-timeshifting. The only people to whom the issue isn't completely irrelevant are sportsfans.
It's not just sports; political talk shows (such as Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity) and entertainment industry awards shows (such as Grammys, Emmys, or Oscars) also have a short shelf life. Political talk shows last longer than sports, maybe about a day, but they too go stale.
If people who worship the G-d of Abraham are so rich, why haven't more people converted?
I assume your TCP implementation actually guarantees delivery by retrying
Guaranteed delivery by retrying doesn't help when the other party's device changes IP addresses every time it associates to a different hotspot. That needs to be done at a level higher than TCP.
You don't compile on binary Linux distro. You just install and then the installer does its thing and the program is ready.
Provided the application that you want to use happens to be in your distribution's repository. Many distributions reject certain categories of application on principle. For example, Fedora rejects video game console emulators out of fear that Nintendo might cause Red Hat to spend money on a legal defense.
How does one keep music playback, open web pages, chat sessions, and the like running over a reboot into the other operating system?
Drop to she'll on ChromeOS... It's Linux.
And discover that you can't do much in said shell without putting it in developer mode, which puts your data at risk of being wiped by accident.
Then be a positive influence on the particular subset of "most people" around you, recommending your own circle of friends to buy from System76 or ThinkPenguin.
If you are running Windows in a virtual machine, that's still a copy of Windows that has to be paid for ($200 per seat for Windows 10 Pro) and kept updated ($/mo to the ISP).
any non-technical person could use dropbox, google drive, OneDrive, box, or a flash drive.
Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box don't make clients for Linux, and Dropbox recently put in a severe limit on how many devices can be associated to one account. That leaves a flash drive. Or what am I missing?
Mobile games port onto the PC and can be successful.
I'm aware that porting touch to mouse or vice versa works well. But I was thinking the other way around: PC to mobile or console to mobile. That would require porting keyboard or gamepad to touch. How would you design practical touch control for an action platformer like Mega Man?
Party games around a shared screen are available on PC but work best around a large screen in a family room. Most PCs aren't connected in that way; I think console is a far superior option for that.
Which again raises the question of how to raise the funds and demonstrate the experience to become licensed on consoles in order to ship the game. Is it the case that a company's first game or two must be in genres other than party?
Which wiping all data doesn't matter since everything is in the cloud.
If everything gets wiped while you're on the road, that's $10 per GB of cellular data to restore everything from the cloud.
Everyone with a brain remembers the great betrayal of valve with half-life 2 and cs in 2004 when he launched steam to steal the fucking software and undermine game ownership. The man pioneered walled gardens
Nintendo and Atari were doing the "walled garden" thing roughly two decades before that with the lockout methods in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari 7800 ProSystem consoles. At least if you have a PC running Steam, it won't interfere with installing and running non-Steam applications on the same PC.
I wish I could buy a new laptop or desktop computer off the shelf at Staples or Costco and bring it home and have it boot up into some version of Linux instead of MS Windows.
Then buy your laptop somewhere other than Staples or Costco. Buy one at System76 or ThinkPenguin. Tell both of them that they lost your business because they offered nothing but Windows.
don't kid yourself that a little issues like end-of-support lifetime for a very popular version of Windows will do the trick. Remember, we've already gone through this with Windows XP.
Windows XP end of support drove users to Windows 7, which was at the time seen as a desirable operating system. Windows 10's reputation is nowhere near as good now as Windows 7's was when XP support ended.
Even if people wanted to distributing non-trivial commercial software for Linux it's impossible without releasing a dozen different versions to target a sufficiently wide range of distros and versions.
I thought you just needed to make a build for Flatpak or perhaps for Steam Runtime. What am I missing?
All I want is a computer that can securely have a browser, run emulators for my old school video game roms, play my mp3 collection and play all my movies ripped from DVDs. Can Linux handle all these basic tasks?
The Xubuntu operating system runs (among other things) Firefox browser, VLC media player, Mesen and FCEUX for NES ROMs, Mesen-S and bsnes-plus for Super NES ROMs, and mGBA for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance ROMs. Install Wine, and it also runs BGB for Game Boy debugging, j0CC-FamiTracker for composing chiptune music, and OpenMPT for composing sample-based sequenced music.
Most Chromebooks support Android apps
Only if they're from Google Play Store. In order to sideload Android applications onto a Chromebook, you have to put the Chromebook in developer mode, and a Chromebook in developer mode will prompt whoever turns it on to wipe all data.
Chrome OS is made to run one application: Google Chrome. If you want to run an application other than Google Chrome, you need a different operating system. And if the Chromebook you own was manufactured before Crostini, that isn't likely to happen.
Windows in a VM requires twice the RAM of Windows on metal. If you use a VM, you need RAM for both the host operating system and the guest operating system. If your laptop is already maxed out, that's not fun. Plus you're still paying $200 for a Windows 10 Pro license, plus data overage fees to your ISP when the PC downloads big updates twice a year on Microsoft's schedule.
If a publication has a substantial American readership, how is it "just poor reporting" to report a mass in both 1000 kg metric tons and 907.2 kg American tons?
No, it's usually not a good option for a publication to ignore the USA entirely. This is because on a GDP per language basis, the USA is probably the largest market in the world. Its GDP of 19.39 trillion USD is still bigger than China's (12.25 trillion USD), India's (2.60 trillion USD), and the EU's (18.5 trillion USD), and far bigger than any of the 24 language areas within the EU.
focus on building a brand, community and successful product within the more accessible markets first - mobile or PC.
In principle, I'm inclined to agree. In practice, I'm interested to read how you would recommend to solve the following hurdles when bringing a handheld-style game to mobile or a console-style game to PC:
Input on mobile differs greatly from input on Nintendo handhelds. A flat sheet of glass is all you have. Or is there a market for mobile games that require or at least strongly recommend purchasing and pairing an external gamepad?
Are PC gamers willing to buy party games based on in-person interaction around a shared screen?
You think a customer on TMobile will be able to subscribe to Sling? Hell no! They're going to block every other streaming video service so you will take their Level3 or nothing.
That's not what T-Mobile has in place. The "Binge On" feature of T-Mobile plans doesn't count video against subscribers' cap so long as it's 1.5 Mbps or lower. (The vast majority of 480p video using AVC or VP8 is lower than that.) Binge On is open to any video provider that's willing to join. And I see no reason for this to end any time soon, even with the Sprint merger, as it'd break the "we're not AT&T" draw of the T-Mobile brand.
hell...AT&T is already walking down the path of making DirecTV an exclusive product that will require their network. Sure, that's a few years down the road...but they've effectively launched the very last satellite. Once the current fleet is dead...they'll be streaming only.
Some rural customers have satellite television from DirecTV because they live outside the service footprint of AT&T's high-volume Internet and IPTV service. Should DirecTV stop offering satellite television, that'll just leave Dish with a bunch of new customers.