I view a hyperlink as a form of citation. If European periodical publishers don't want their articles to be cited in other works, let them live with a decrease in their impact factor.
Unless Valve wants to pull a little "Chromebook" move, say a switch that swaps between console mode and desktop mode and suddenly you have an alternate desktop for basic use.
Last time I checked, SteamOS had exactly such a switch: Exit to GNOME.
I don't think Tetris® was ever officially ported to GNU/Linux. The original designer of Tetris is in fact on record as an opponent of free software. He said free software "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market". It makes me wonder why the Free Software Foundation hasn't been sued yet for one of the.el files included with Emacs. The closest to Tetris for Linux is probably EA's port to Android.
If video elements are blocked, how is a site going to display video ads in a browser window? Decode video in JavaScript and send it to a canvas? That's a sure way to get a whole domain added to the scripting blacklist or even overridden at the DNS level. Besides, how are video ads over a UDP-based streaming protocol going to get through to a browser if the browser can't see the Internet other than through a proxy that doesn't understand UDP?
Still not broadband. It's not even what was considered broadband before 2015. Is Comcast trying to inflate the statistic "households to which the incumbent last mile monopoly refuses to provide broadband"?
I think the confusion comes from the use of the term "waifu", which can mean a body pillow printed with a drawing of a Japanese cartoon character that a lonely man wishes he could marry.
"You can always use wifi!" doesn't help if the Wi-Fi router is connected to a satellite modem on a plan with a 10 GB/mo cap because satellite is the only broadband offered in your area that isn't Comcast.
If Comcast actually had the power you think it has, its NBCSN would be able to outbid ESPN for Monday Night Football effective 2021 when the rights come up for sale again.
I wonder if Comcast has internal projections that show the cable TV business -- ie, delivering real-time TV broadcasts -- basically dying over time.
That would depend on NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA dying. These sport promotions have sold long-term exclusive live video rights to national and regional networks commonly included in multichannel pay TV packages.
Do you live in an area whose ILEC is Frontier Communications? Frontier licenses the FiOS brand from Verizon, from which Frontier acquired operations in several markets in June 2010. Frontier might be allowed to extend FiOS-branded fiber to the premises into areas not covered by the agreement between Verizon and Comcast.
So how are filling your broadband requirements now? Isn't funny how in so many areas, the only viable solution for anything other than dialup is comcast?
By choosing employers outside such "so many areas" whenever it comes time to relocate, I'm guessing.
bandwidth suffers from"The Tragedy of the Commons"
Demand for bandwidth also fluctuates over time. Would it be a good idea to reintroduce a distinction between peak time and off-peak time, so that subscribers can schedule their game downloads, purchased movie downloads, major operating system updates, and the like for early mornings? It might even encourage Netflix and its competitors to push their licensors harder for the right to offer a feature to buffer a movie now and watch it later using a lower-bandwidth stream of only decryption keys for each second of video.
Capacity to carry data at peak time is a finite resource. In addition, subscribers to services other than satellite have historically voted with their wallet against "complicated" plans that distinguish peak time from non-peak time because subscribers' attention is another finite resource. This is why satellite ISPs are more likely to offer unmetered early mornings than ISPs using any other last mile.
You play by their rules, or you go play somewhere else.
I recommend everyone do precisely that.
"Go play somewhere else"? Not everybody has the financial resources to just pack up and move out of a Comcast-serviced area. Other Slashdot users have pointed out that finding a new job and a new place to live for your family aren't exactly trivial,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7], especially if the ISP in your new area will likely just get bought.
They probably don't currently have the technology in place to meter during the day, and be unlimited at night.
If unmetered early mornings is easy for satellite ISPs to deploy, why can't a much bigger company such as Comcast put it in place quickly?
Heavy Internet users should consider getting a business account.
Provided your representative is willing to offer a business account to an individual without a business license and a commercially zoned service address.
The way to work around the halting problem is to build a machine that is useful yet less capable than a Turing machine. One example of such a machine is a linear bounded automaton, which is a Turing machine that never moves the pointer past the end of the input. An LBA recognizes context-sensitive languages, and it is equivalent in power to a physical computer, which has limited memory. Halting is solved on an LBA, by making a universal LBA twice as long as the original and running two copies of the program in a tortoise-hare configuration to detect infinite loops.
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I view a hyperlink as a form of citation. If European periodical publishers don't want their articles to be cited in other works, let them live with a decrease in their impact factor.
Unless Valve wants to pull a little "Chromebook" move, say a switch that swaps between console mode and desktop mode and suddenly you have an alternate desktop for basic use.
Last time I checked, SteamOS had exactly such a switch: Exit to GNOME.
Is there a better term than "GNU/Linux" if you're referring to the stack that isn't Android or a special-purpose embedded distro?
I don't think Tetris® was ever officially ported to GNU/Linux. The original designer of Tetris is in fact on record as an opponent of free software. He said free software "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market". It makes me wonder why the Free Software Foundation hasn't been sued yet for one of the .el files included with Emacs. The closest to Tetris for Linux is probably EA's port to Android.
"EA's port: It's in the game."
If video elements are blocked, how is a site going to display video ads in a browser window? Decode video in JavaScript and send it to a canvas? That's a sure way to get a whole domain added to the scripting blacklist or even overridden at the DNS level. Besides, how are video ads over a UDP-based streaming protocol going to get through to a browser if the browser can't see the Internet other than through a proxy that doesn't understand UDP?
1024 bytes per day isn't broadband? Are you sure?
Yes, I'm sure. I cited a news article that cites FCC rulings.
Still not broadband. It's not even what was considered broadband before 2015. Is Comcast trying to inflate the statistic "households to which the incumbent last mile monopoly refuses to provide broadband"?
I think the confusion comes from the use of the term "waifu", which can mean a body pillow printed with a drawing of a Japanese cartoon character that a lonely man wishes he could marry.
Paying for GBs per month is only tangentially related to peek capacity.
But with most subscribers rejecting peak and off-peak billing, "tangentially related" is all the related that carriers have left.
Then set up a local proxy that blocks video MIME types and/or a browser extension that blocks video elements.
If you can get television and internet for the same price as you can just get internet and netflix then why wouldnt you just pay one bill for more?
Because someone wants the shows exclusive to Netflix more than the shows exclusive to Streampix.
"You can always use wifi!" doesn't help if the Wi-Fi router is connected to a satellite modem on a plan with a 10 GB/mo cap because satellite is the only broadband offered in your area that isn't Comcast.
Push the rate limit too low and it no longer qualifies under the FCC definition of broadband service.
If Comcast actually had the power you think it has, its NBCSN would be able to outbid ESPN for Monday Night Football effective 2021 when the rights come up for sale again.
I wonder if Comcast has internal projections that show the cable TV business -- ie, delivering real-time TV broadcasts -- basically dying over time.
That would depend on NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA dying. These sport promotions have sold long-term exclusive live video rights to national and regional networks commonly included in multichannel pay TV packages.
Do you live in an area whose ILEC is Frontier Communications? Frontier licenses the FiOS brand from Verizon, from which Frontier acquired operations in several markets in June 2010. Frontier might be allowed to extend FiOS-branded fiber to the premises into areas not covered by the agreement between Verizon and Comcast.
So how are filling your broadband requirements now?
Isn't funny how in so many areas, the only viable solution for anything other than dialup is comcast?
By choosing employers outside such "so many areas" whenever it comes time to relocate, I'm guessing.
bandwidth suffers from"The Tragedy of the Commons"
Demand for bandwidth also fluctuates over time. Would it be a good idea to reintroduce a distinction between peak time and off-peak time, so that subscribers can schedule their game downloads, purchased movie downloads, major operating system updates, and the like for early mornings? It might even encourage Netflix and its competitors to push their licensors harder for the right to offer a feature to buffer a movie now and watch it later using a lower-bandwidth stream of only decryption keys for each second of video.
Capacity to carry data at peak time is a finite resource. In addition, subscribers to services other than satellite have historically voted with their wallet against "complicated" plans that distinguish peak time from non-peak time because subscribers' attention is another finite resource. This is why satellite ISPs are more likely to offer unmetered early mornings than ISPs using any other last mile.
How do you burn through 300 GB in a week?
By having more than one person in the household, for one. If one copy of Netflix downloads 1 GB/hr, three will download 3 GB/hr.
You play by their rules, or you go play somewhere else.
I recommend everyone do precisely that.
"Go play somewhere else"? Not everybody has the financial resources to just pack up and move out of a Comcast-serviced area. Other Slashdot users have pointed out that finding a new job and a new place to live for your family aren't exactly trivial,[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7], especially if the ISP in your new area will likely just get bought.
They probably don't currently have the technology in place to meter during the day, and be unlimited at night.
If unmetered early mornings is easy for satellite ISPs to deploy, why can't a much bigger company such as Comcast put it in place quickly?
Heavy Internet users should consider getting a business account.
Provided your representative is willing to offer a business account to an individual without a business license and a commercially zoned service address.
The way to work around the halting problem is to build a machine that is useful yet less capable than a Turing machine. One example of such a machine is a linear bounded automaton, which is a Turing machine that never moves the pointer past the end of the input. An LBA recognizes context-sensitive languages, and it is equivalent in power to a physical computer, which has limited memory. Halting is solved on an LBA, by making a universal LBA twice as long as the original and running two copies of the program in a tortoise-hare configuration to detect infinite loops.
You start by killing the numerous clones of popular apps.
Then Apple would have to kill itself, as iOS is based on FreeBSD, and *BSD is a clone of UNIX.
Since when can you app apps in an iPad app? I thought only Android could do that.