People do not want a box to hook up to their idiot box, they want an idiot box that will do all of it for them
SeaFox makes a good point that if you have a nice display, you might not want to throw it out when your receiver breaks or becomes obsolete, and it's easier to orient an external receiver for good Wi-Fi reception than to do so with a display.
smarter TVs mean the game console is also dying
How well do "smarter TVs" work with two to four remote controls? How responsive are they to player actions on said remote controls? And how does one load a game onto them while living in an area with harshly capped Internet? For those who live too far from the DSLAM, cellular and satellite Internet are often the only options, and they tend to cap home users on the order of 10 GB per month. The major consoles, on the other hand, support loading games through discs.
Sure, I could use the TV as a monitor, but then I wouldn't be able to watch TV!
That's why your TV has more than one input. Plug an RPi, NUC, or other small computer into one video input, and plug your other TV sources into another video input. It's the same way people can play Double Dragon Warrior or Body Harvest Moon on a PlayBox, press a couple buttons, and be watching Monday Night Sportsball on ESPN.* On the other hand:
Right now I'm watching a college football game. Who in their right mind would choose to watch something like that on a tiny laptop screen when there's a huge TV right here in the living room?
Because someone else in the household wants to watch another show broadcast at the same time.
* "Extremely Stupid People's Network", according to Mad
Eight minutes of silent era sight gags with a synchronized sound track. What he wants is the use of the trademarked character designs for the Mouse, Minnie, Pete and the rest.
Said trademarks will probably cease to be distinctive once copyright in the original Mickey trilogy (Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie) expires, which under present law is due to happen in 2024. The Supreme Court of the United States in Dastar v. Fox ruled that a trademark cannot be used as an ersatz copyright.
Then overdeclare for the first couple years. Declare a living wage plus other costs of producing the work. Once a work proves its value or lack thereof, you can correct your declaration in subsequent years, and if it does get bought out, at least the proceeds from the buyout will fund your next work.
I wonder to what extent phrasing a copyright registration requirement as a property tax would allow circumventing the Berne Convention's prohibition on formalities. It worked for the Affordable Care Act's individual shared responsibility mandate.
As I wrote in my article about PHP, some very simple coding standards analogous to those described in Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts will work around most of the stuff described in the "fractal" article. This left six distinct points, some of which PHP 7 addresses to an extent.
Number-like comparison of strings can never be fully turned off. PHP 7 type hints diminish this somewhat, as you at least know what types you are getting in and out of a function.
Parse errors are fatal rather than causing include_once to throw an exception the way Python's import does. PHP 7 converts many fatal errors to engine exceptions.
Inconsistent naming conventions and duplicate functionality. PHP 7 removes some of the duplicate functionality.
Associativity for the ternary ?: operator is on the less useful side. PHP 7 adds an additional null coalescing operator ?? whose associativity is on the useful side.
No keyword arguments. PHP 7 does not change this.
No file-level selection of old or new semantics the way Python has from __future__ import some_feature.
I would say that nodejs is now a better choice for anything that would be otherwise done with php.
Including cost of deployment, especially on a small slice of a leased server? PHP has long had a deployment cost advantage. It also has some very widely used applications. What Node.js based forum software is better than phpBB? What Node.js based wiki software is better than MediaWiki? And what Node.js based blog software is any good?
I'll just stick with iOS, which doesn't have app bloat.
And which doesn't have several categories of apps at all. If you find yourself needing an app in one of those categories, you'll end up right back on Android.
On the other hand, why pay for stuff you don't need?
Because the carrier requires you to. For a long time, carriers would not activate low-minute pay-as-you-go plans with no data on smartphones. Only dumbphones were eligible for plans with no data. Instead, carriers required customers to have high-minute or unmetered plans including data, even if the subscriber already has a landline at home and plans to be near Wi-Fi whenever doing anything requiring an Internet connection. For example, Sprint's Virgin Mobile wouldn't activate a payLo plan on an Android phone, and AT&T has been known to cram a data plan onto a subscriber's bill unless the subscriber performed some obscure trickery involving buying a SIM online and activating it through the Internet before putting it in the phone.
Or because manufacturers have required you to. There hasn't been a serious Android-powered challenger to the iPod touch, a Wi-Fi-only tablet in the 4 to 5 inch range. The Archos 43 never caught on because of its resistive touch screen (though it worked well with a stylus) and lack of Google Play Store. Samsung tried with the Galaxy Player, but it didn't catch on either, possibly in part because it was stuck on Android 2 and because I never saw them in stores. So people who never plan to connect to a cellular network end up paying for a cellular radio that they don't use.
If you spend more than $200 for a smartphone, you're not only an idiot, but a sucker as well.
Over the course of how long? Even if you buy your phone up front, this $200 budget won't keep your smartphone in service with major U.S. carriers for longer than about four or five months.
Only devices meeting the CDD (Android's compatibility definition) are eligible to include Google Play Store. One of the CDD requirements is that the user be able to adb install homemade APKs.
I mostly loathe my Samsung POS Android phone due to the small internal memory that is larded up with crap I can't delete
Android 5 "Lollipop" introduced a mechanism to let the manufacturer preload apps into the user partition. A factory reset erases them, but when the user connects to Wi-Fi for the first time after a reset, the phone restores the preloaded apps from the Google Play Store server. At least this way, the user can delete the apps from the user partition instead of having the factory version sit in the system partition even after the user has uninstalled updates. I wouldn't be surprised if use of this mechanism became mandatory for OHA members as of Android 6 "Marshmallow".
The copyright treaties define a shorter minimum copyright term for sound recordings than for other kinds of works. In some countries, if a song is written and recorded in the same year, the copyright in the composition expires 50 years after the death of the last surviving songwriter, but the copyright in the sound recording expires far earlier: 50 years after publication. This means someone can lawfully make and sell copies of any pre-1965 musical recording in those countries for only the cost of a license to the composition.
The United States is one huge exception. It applies the same 95-year copyright term to recordings published in 1972 or later as it does to any other work made for hire published in the same year. It also applies state copyright to pre-1972 sound recording copyright, and state copyright isn't subject to the "for limited Times" wording of the copyright clause of its constitution. Federal law has set a date after which state copyright must expire, but that's in 2067 to give them the equivalent of one full federal copyright term after the introduction of federal sound recording copyright.
Anyhow, the problem that I have with sans-serif fonts is that they look childish.
From Slashdot's CSS: body { margin: 0; font:13px/1.5 Arial,sans-serif; background: rgb(204,204,204);} Or is Slashdot likewise childish? Is Volkswagen's branding childish?
That's what you see in books for children, when they are learning to read.
That's not what I remember seeing for the text in The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. It looks like Times.
If this module sees suspicious, malware-looking content (unsigned executables) from unsecure HTTP connections
In other words, it's similar to the "SmartScreen Application Reputation" feature in recent IE and Windows 8 and later. I wonder what it does for unsigned executables from an HTTPS connection with a valid certificate, such as executables that come from Dropbox or an indie game developer's website.
The film and television industry is failing even these buzzwords.
forward-going directionalized mission to be competitive
A mission that the industry is failing.
You can't "be competitive" with piracy if you refuse to make lawful versions of works available. I understand some of the rationale behind the Disney sales moratorium cycle, but where's the authentic DVD of Song of the South?
pledge to demarginalize those on the periphery of the broad customer base
A pledge that the industry is failing.
"Those on the periphery of the broad customer base" demand genuine copies of more obscure TV series like Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. Yet these copies were never made available to the public.
that we feel is essential to the revenue stream
A revenue stream that the industry is leaving on the table.
I recognize that some titles, such as Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, don't have quite enough quantity demanded to justify a full scale production run and retail promotion campaign. But they could still be made available as burn-on-demand DVDs sold directly from the studio's web site.
... that's all we're going to say about that.
In that case, you leave me with no choice but to have the last word.
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People do not want a box to hook up to their idiot box, they want an idiot box that will do all of it for them
SeaFox makes a good point that if you have a nice display, you might not want to throw it out when your receiver breaks or becomes obsolete, and it's easier to orient an external receiver for good Wi-Fi reception than to do so with a display.
smarter TVs mean the game console is also dying
How well do "smarter TVs" work with two to four remote controls? How responsive are they to player actions on said remote controls? And how does one load a game onto them while living in an area with harshly capped Internet? For those who live too far from the DSLAM, cellular and satellite Internet are often the only options, and they tend to cap home users on the order of 10 GB per month. The major consoles, on the other hand, support loading games through discs.
Sure, I could use the TV as a monitor, but then I wouldn't be able to watch TV!
That's why your TV has more than one input. Plug an RPi, NUC, or other small computer into one video input, and plug your other TV sources into another video input. It's the same way people can play Double Dragon Warrior or Body Harvest Moon on a PlayBox, press a couple buttons, and be watching Monday Night Sportsball on ESPN.* On the other hand:
Right now I'm watching a college football game. Who in their right mind would choose to watch something like that on a tiny laptop screen when there's a huge TV right here in the living room?
Because someone else in the household wants to watch another show broadcast at the same time.
* "Extremely Stupid People's Network", according to Mad
Even with hyperinflation, it still costs the prevailing wage for a document preparer to file the renewal forms on a copyright owner's behalf.
Eight minutes of silent era sight gags with a synchronized sound track. What he wants is the use of the trademarked character designs for the Mouse, Minnie, Pete and the rest.
Said trademarks will probably cease to be distinctive once copyright in the original Mickey trilogy (Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie) expires, which under present law is due to happen in 2024. The Supreme Court of the United States in Dastar v. Fox ruled that a trademark cannot be used as an ersatz copyright.
Copyright would be a personal right of the creator of work, held by that person alone and expiring with the creator.
God help you if a hitman is cheaper than what you ask for a license.
Then overdeclare for the first couple years. Declare a living wage plus other costs of producing the work. Once a work proves its value or lack thereof, you can correct your declaration in subsequent years, and if it does get bought out, at least the proceeds from the buyout will fund your next work.
2% property tax is nothing compared to what IP owners pay -- 20 to 50% in income and sales taxes
People who use both property to make a living have to pay both property tax on the property and income tax on the income.
when they sell their products.
How much does a copyright owner pay when he does not sell his products? That the answer is presently nothing is the problem.
I wonder to what extent phrasing a copyright registration requirement as a property tax would allow circumventing the Berne Convention's prohibition on formalities. It worked for the Affordable Care Act's individual shared responsibility mandate.
As I wrote in my article about PHP, some very simple coding standards analogous to those described in Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts will work around most of the stuff described in the "fractal" article. This left six distinct points, some of which PHP 7 addresses to an extent.
I would say that nodejs is now a better choice for anything that would be otherwise done with php.
Including cost of deployment, especially on a small slice of a leased server? PHP has long had a deployment cost advantage. It also has some very widely used applications. What Node.js based forum software is better than phpBB? What Node.js based wiki software is better than MediaWiki? And what Node.js based blog software is any good?
I'll just stick with iOS, which doesn't have app bloat.
And which doesn't have several categories of apps at all. If you find yourself needing an app in one of those categories, you'll end up right back on Android.
On the other hand, why pay for stuff you don't need?
Because the carrier requires you to. For a long time, carriers would not activate low-minute pay-as-you-go plans with no data on smartphones. Only dumbphones were eligible for plans with no data. Instead, carriers required customers to have high-minute or unmetered plans including data, even if the subscriber already has a landline at home and plans to be near Wi-Fi whenever doing anything requiring an Internet connection. For example, Sprint's Virgin Mobile wouldn't activate a payLo plan on an Android phone, and AT&T has been known to cram a data plan onto a subscriber's bill unless the subscriber performed some obscure trickery involving buying a SIM online and activating it through the Internet before putting it in the phone.
Or because manufacturers have required you to. There hasn't been a serious Android-powered challenger to the iPod touch, a Wi-Fi-only tablet in the 4 to 5 inch range. The Archos 43 never caught on because of its resistive touch screen (though it worked well with a stylus) and lack of Google Play Store. Samsung tried with the Galaxy Player, but it didn't catch on either, possibly in part because it was stuck on Android 2 and because I never saw them in stores. So people who never plan to connect to a cellular network end up paying for a cellular radio that they don't use.
If you spend more than $200 for a smartphone, you're not only an idiot, but a sucker as well.
Over the course of how long? Even if you buy your phone up front, this $200 budget won't keep your smartphone in service with major U.S. carriers for longer than about four or five months.
Only devices meeting the CDD (Android's compatibility definition) are eligible to include Google Play Store. One of the CDD requirements is that the user be able to adb install homemade APKs.
Don't forget, the top phone brands are all busy neutering their phones by removing all the most useful features, such as an SD card slot
The SD Card Association already did that, by requiring SD licensees to license Microsoft's exFAT patent or not be able to use cards bigger than 32 GB.
I mostly loathe my Samsung POS Android phone due to the small internal memory that is larded up with crap I can't delete
Android 5 "Lollipop" introduced a mechanism to let the manufacturer preload apps into the user partition. A factory reset erases them, but when the user connects to Wi-Fi for the first time after a reset, the phone restores the preloaded apps from the Google Play Store server. At least this way, the user can delete the apps from the user partition instead of having the factory version sit in the system partition even after the user has uninstalled updates. I wouldn't be surprised if use of this mechanism became mandatory for OHA members as of Android 6 "Marshmallow".
The copyright treaties define a shorter minimum copyright term for sound recordings than for other kinds of works. In some countries, if a song is written and recorded in the same year, the copyright in the composition expires 50 years after the death of the last surviving songwriter, but the copyright in the sound recording expires far earlier: 50 years after publication. This means someone can lawfully make and sell copies of any pre-1965 musical recording in those countries for only the cost of a license to the composition.
The United States is one huge exception. It applies the same 95-year copyright term to recordings published in 1972 or later as it does to any other work made for hire published in the same year. It also applies state copyright to pre-1972 sound recording copyright, and state copyright isn't subject to the "for limited Times" wording of the copyright clause of its constitution. Federal law has set a date after which state copyright must expire, but that's in 2067 to give them the equivalent of one full federal copyright term after the introduction of federal sound recording copyright.
You do realize that a usb OTA television adapter can be had for 20 dollars or less right?
And how much for another computer in the living room to drive this adapter?
Anyhow, the problem that I have with sans-serif fonts is that they look childish.
From Slashdot's CSS: body { margin: 0; font:13px/1.5 Arial,sans-serif; background: rgb(204,204,204);} Or is Slashdot likewise childish? Is Volkswagen's branding childish?
That's what you see in books for children, when they are learning to read.
That's not what I remember seeing for the text in The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. It looks like Times.
Was it familiar because Google is bringing its branding more in line with that of the Alphabet holding company that owns it?
Windows Media Center has been removed from Windows 10. Besides, I haven't seen anyone in my area willing to buy a PC to devote to OTA DVR duty.
I still run Cyberdog on my System 7 Quadra box. What options do I have?
Buy a modern Mac mini and see how many of the apps on your Quadra also run in Basilisk II.
If this module sees suspicious, malware-looking content (unsigned executables) from unsecure HTTP connections
In other words, it's similar to the "SmartScreen Application Reputation" feature in recent IE and Windows 8 and later. I wonder what it does for unsigned executables from an HTTPS connection with a valid certificate, such as executables that come from Dropbox or an indie game developer's website.
The film and television industry is failing even these buzzwords.
forward-going directionalized mission to be competitive
A mission that the industry is failing.
You can't "be competitive" with piracy if you refuse to make lawful versions of works available. I understand some of the rationale behind the Disney sales moratorium cycle, but where's the authentic DVD of Song of the South?
pledge to demarginalize those on the periphery of the broad customer base
A pledge that the industry is failing.
"Those on the periphery of the broad customer base" demand genuine copies of more obscure TV series like Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. Yet these copies were never made available to the public.
that we feel is essential to the revenue stream
A revenue stream that the industry is leaving on the table.
I recognize that some titles, such as Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, don't have quite enough quantity demanded to justify a full scale production run and retail promotion campaign. But they could still be made available as burn-on-demand DVDs sold directly from the studio's web site.
In that case, you leave me with no choice but to have the last word.
Why is that all you're going to say about that? Are you Forrest Gump from the "Viet-fucking-nam" scene or something?