Not every "service that can't be overwhelmed" is equally accessible to users across all networks. I'm under the impression that S3 is accessible to more users than BitTorrent.
If they do not understand the difference between a laptop OS and desktop OS
Did you really mean "laptop"? Apple's traditional laptop, the MacBook, comes with a desktop OS, but its detachable, the iPad Pro, comes with a locked-down phone OS.
then I might question why they are in the Computer Science program in the first place
The same reason students study six tragic plays by William Shakespeare: required for diploma.
then when she gets into her school's computer lab, pull down the code from the git server, and build it and run it and debug it there at school.
In other words, she would have to do the majority of iteratively improving the program, and thus the majority of her homework, at school. There isn't much time for this between when the school bus arrives and when is expected to be in class for homeroom and first period, or between when last period lets out and when the school bus leaves. The only workaround I can think of for this involves using an iPad as an SSH terminal, connecting to a server operated by the school. Not only does this method require the parent to buy Internet access at home or trust the child to walk to and from a public library (on those days when it's even open after school), but it also doesn't appear to cover programs with graphical output once the class reaches that chapter.
you're probably a pretty shit-tier developer.
Capped property taxes often won't pay for more than "shit-tier" tools.
And in the era of "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework? Raspberry Pi?
Every child should code is your starting premise. Not everyone agrees with you. Your initial premise is not necessarily accepted as true.
Let me rephrase: And now that governments are adopting policies that "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework?
My meaning of consumer is the vernacular meaning of consumer.
The closest sense I could find on the linked page was "2. Economics. a person or organization that uses a commodity or service." Just to be certain that we are free from equivocation, is this sense what you meant?
PCs were the only solution to certain problems for a long time: How do you interact with a website? How do you answer email?
And in the era of "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework? Raspberry Pi?
For some consumers, yes, they'll need documents, spreadsheets, and gaming
I think the idea is that at some point everyone will become among "some consumers". But perhaps your use of "consumer", meaning someone who only views works created by others and does not create works, is misleading.
These products [iPad and MacBook] should remain separate.
Where does this leave a high school student who has received an iPad as a gift only to discover that it's not suitable for the programming homework that her computer science teacher has assigned?
There has also been a lot of convergence in OSX/iOS development tools over the last few xcode releases.
I'll believe the convergence once Xcode runs on iPad Pro. In theory, I could run Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, Code::Blocks, or any other IDE for Windows on a Surface Pro or Surface Book. Even Android has AIDE, an app for apping apps.
The composition copyright owner can only require compensation from the remixer.
You appear to refer to compulsory licensing of cover versions pursuant to 17 USC 115 and foreign counterparts, commonly called the "mechanical license". At roughly ten cents per download plus the overhead of paperwork, this royalty can be far more than an individual remixer can likely afford.
when it comes to the people who are plowing the cable into the ground and lashing up the fiber on the poles, that shit is ridiculously expensive
I've said it before: When the city is doing road work for other reasons, it can bury a half dozen conduits at the same time for later sale to utilities who pull their own fiber through those conduits.
The trend of presenting info only as a video disappoints me. For those who cannot watch video, such as while on break at work or on a metered connection, is there a transcript?
The publishers of the games whose music is ReMixed still own the composition copyright in their games' music. They could clamp down on OCR at any moment if they wanted.
In this analogy, there are four competing processing plants (VZW, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile) that determine the wholesale price, and there are plenty of MVNOs that determine the retail price.
I can't think of any off the top of my head. But about a decade and a half ago, there was a proposal called Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act to make each of the several states in the United States such a jurisdiction: Why We Must Fight UCITA
Those niches exist but you chose a poor example. Android = Linux... it is the dominate platform in that market.
I apologize for moving the goalposts, but thank you for proving RMS's point about the importance of the term GNU/Linux, which I had carelessly neglected to use. Android uses the kernel Linux, but it is not compatible with applications designed for Steam Runtime or any other applications designed for GNU/Linux. One could port a GNU/Linux application to Android, but then Android's all maximized all the time window management policy starts to get in the way. What good is it when a calculator fills the 10 to 12 inch screen of a tablet, covering up whatever else you were working on?
I have two tablets, one a detachable ASUS that was the best performing detachable available running any platform when I bought it sitting in my living room right now The same model could be purchased with Microsoft's option but that offers poor app support and slower performance on the same hardware.
I'm referring to Windows laptops such as the ASUS EeeBook X205TA and its detachable cousin the Transformer Book T100TA. These ship with Windows 8.1 or 10, not Android. What you have is probably the ASUS Transformer TF101 or TF103C, the Android-based cousin of the T100TA. Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure it suffers from "full screen calculator syndrome", unlike the Windows laptops. Do games designed for SteamOS run at all on it?
The fact you assumed you could [defenestrate any random Windows PC] and can point out specific examples where it didn't work is only highlighting a feature of linux. It is highly portable and works across such a wide range of hardware
Just because a device runs the kernel Linux doesn't help if the device runs only a crippled userland that can't show multiple apps at once. It's the user interface equivalent of not being able to walk and chew gum.
You get the lower power and lack of versatility of consoles
I was under the impression that SteamOS supported community-created mods, unlike consoles, and had an Exit to GNOME option unlike consoles since the release of PlayStation 3 system software 3.21.
You either use another OS or you're a software pirate, so your post is completely irrelevant.
You appear to have forgotten a third option: someone else is paying for Anonymous Coward #50924157's copy of Windows. This is likely the publisher of trialware bundled with a name brand PC. I can tell that publishers of trialware for Windows fully subsidize Windows because GNU/Linux PCs from companies such as System76 tend to cost more than Windows PCs with equivalent specifications. The maker of PCs that ship with GNU/Linux cannot collect revenue from trialware publishers because trialware publishers are on the whole unwilling to port their products to GNU/Linux.
Nowhere. I've just noticed this "everybody uses a desktop, and nobody needs to use a laptop because everybody drives" mentality, and I felt like reminding people that laptops still existed. I have a family member who uses a laptop and reading glasses and may benefit from a solution that works on laptops as well.
Does the "giant $400 monitor" come with a battery? If not, it won't help laptop users as much as font size options will. And no, OS X isn't the only operating system with font size options.
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Not every "service that can't be overwhelmed" is equally accessible to users across all networks. I'm under the impression that S3 is accessible to more users than BitTorrent.
If they do not understand the difference between a laptop OS and desktop OS
Did you really mean "laptop"? Apple's traditional laptop, the MacBook, comes with a desktop OS, but its detachable, the iPad Pro, comes with a locked-down phone OS.
then I might question why they are in the Computer Science program in the first place
The same reason students study six tragic plays by William Shakespeare: required for diploma.
then when she gets into her school's computer lab, pull down the code from the git server, and build it and run it and debug it there at school.
In other words, she would have to do the majority of iteratively improving the program, and thus the majority of her homework, at school. There isn't much time for this between when the school bus arrives and when is expected to be in class for homeroom and first period, or between when last period lets out and when the school bus leaves. The only workaround I can think of for this involves using an iPad as an SSH terminal, connecting to a server operated by the school. Not only does this method require the parent to buy Internet access at home or trust the child to walk to and from a public library (on those days when it's even open after school), but it also doesn't appear to cover programs with graphical output once the class reaches that chapter.
you're probably a pretty shit-tier developer.
Capped property taxes often won't pay for more than "shit-tier" tools.
And in the era of "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework? Raspberry Pi?
Every child should code is your starting premise. Not everyone agrees with you. Your initial premise is not necessarily accepted as true.
Let me rephrase: And now that governments are adopting policies that "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework?
My meaning of consumer is the vernacular meaning of consumer.
The closest sense I could find on the linked page was "2. Economics. a person or organization that uses a commodity or service." Just to be certain that we are free from equivocation, is this sense what you meant?
Feeling lucky? First result for bluetooth model m
PCs were the only solution to certain problems for a long time: How do you interact with a website? How do you answer email?
And in the era of "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework? Raspberry Pi?
For some consumers, yes, they'll need documents, spreadsheets, and gaming
I think the idea is that at some point everyone will become among "some consumers". But perhaps your use of "consumer", meaning someone who only views works created by others and does not create works, is misleading.
These products [iPad and MacBook] should remain separate.
Where does this leave a high school student who has received an iPad as a gift only to discover that it's not suitable for the programming homework that her computer science teacher has assigned?
There has also been a lot of convergence in OSX/iOS development tools over the last few xcode releases.
I'll believe the convergence once Xcode runs on iPad Pro. In theory, I could run Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, Code::Blocks, or any other IDE for Windows on a Surface Pro or Surface Book. Even Android has AIDE, an app for apping apps.
Apps!
The composition copyright owner can only require compensation from the remixer.
You appear to refer to compulsory licensing of cover versions pursuant to 17 USC 115 and foreign counterparts, commonly called the "mechanical license". At roughly ten cents per download plus the overhead of paperwork, this royalty can be far more than an individual remixer can likely afford.
when it comes to the people who are plowing the cable into the ground and lashing up the fiber on the poles, that shit is ridiculously expensive
I've said it before: When the city is doing road work for other reasons, it can bury a half dozen conduits at the same time for later sale to utilities who pull their own fiber through those conduits.
Then why not put the update installer on a service that can't be overwhelmed, such as Amazon S3? Or is S3/CloudFront too expensive for Wargaming?
See the following video for more info.
The trend of presenting info only as a video disappoints me. For those who cannot watch video, such as while on break at work or on a metered connection, is there a transcript?
OCRemixes legally obtainable library
The publishers of the games whose music is ReMixed still own the composition copyright in their games' music. They could clamp down on OCR at any moment if they wanted.
In addition to install images of GNU/Linux distributions, the LibreOffice suite's installer is available as a torrent.
In this analogy, there are four competing processing plants (VZW, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile) that determine the wholesale price, and there are plenty of MVNOs that determine the retail price.
I can't think of any off the top of my head. But about a decade and a half ago, there was a proposal called Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act to make each of the several states in the United States such a jurisdiction: Why We Must Fight UCITA
But the browser you build is not a Firefox® browser. Instead, Gentoo users have to go the Iceweasel route.
Those niches exist but you chose a poor example. Android = Linux... it is the dominate platform in that market.
I apologize for moving the goalposts, but thank you for proving RMS's point about the importance of the term GNU/Linux, which I had carelessly neglected to use. Android uses the kernel Linux, but it is not compatible with applications designed for Steam Runtime or any other applications designed for GNU/Linux. One could port a GNU/Linux application to Android, but then Android's all maximized all the time window management policy starts to get in the way. What good is it when a calculator fills the 10 to 12 inch screen of a tablet, covering up whatever else you were working on?
I have two tablets, one a detachable ASUS that was the best performing detachable available running any platform when I bought it sitting in my living room right now The same model could be purchased with Microsoft's option but that offers poor app support and slower performance on the same hardware.
I'm referring to Windows laptops such as the ASUS EeeBook X205TA and its detachable cousin the Transformer Book T100TA. These ship with Windows 8.1 or 10, not Android. What you have is probably the ASUS Transformer TF101 or TF103C, the Android-based cousin of the T100TA. Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure it suffers from "full screen calculator syndrome", unlike the Windows laptops. Do games designed for SteamOS run at all on it?
The fact you assumed you could [defenestrate any random Windows PC] and can point out specific examples where it didn't work is only highlighting a feature of linux. It is highly portable and works across such a wide range of hardware
Just because a device runs the kernel Linux doesn't help if the device runs only a crippled userland that can't show multiple apps at once. It's the user interface equivalent of not being able to walk and chew gum.
You get the lower power and lack of versatility of consoles
I was under the impression that SteamOS supported community-created mods, unlike consoles, and had an Exit to GNOME option unlike consoles since the release of PlayStation 3 system software 3.21.
Never paid for windows since xp. You were saying?
You either use another OS or you're a software pirate, so your post is completely irrelevant.
You appear to have forgotten a third option: someone else is paying for Anonymous Coward #50924157's copy of Windows. This is likely the publisher of trialware bundled with a name brand PC. I can tell that publishers of trialware for Windows fully subsidize Windows because GNU/Linux PCs from companies such as System76 tend to cost more than Windows PCs with equivalent specifications. The maker of PCs that ship with GNU/Linux cannot collect revenue from trialware publishers because trialware publishers are on the whole unwilling to port their products to GNU/Linux.
Most people have gone console for gaming.
Except without a ` key, how do you get a console on a console game?
In essentially every other area [than video games,] windows offers the relatively painful experience.
Unless you're dealing with a market segment dominated by Linux-incompatible chipsets, such as the detachable laptop/tablet market.
Who the heck orders an OS box shipped these days instead of instant download?
People behind metered Internet access, for one. See a story a couple months ago about surprise overages caused by Microsoft preing an instant Windows download.
Enlarging a picture using the monitor's built-in scaler makes it no longer nice, clean, crisp, square pixels but instead blur on top of blur.
Nowhere. I've just noticed this "everybody uses a desktop, and nobody needs to use a laptop because everybody drives" mentality, and I felt like reminding people that laptops still existed. I have a family member who uses a laptop and reading glasses and may benefit from a solution that works on laptops as well.
Does the "giant $400 monitor" come with a battery? If not, it won't help laptop users as much as font size options will. And no, OS X isn't the only operating system with font size options.