I can do all sorts of stuff (work, relax, etc.) while on public transit.
Provided public transit runs where and when you need. Citilink buses in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shut down for the night and have 58 days of scheduled downtime per year (source: fwcitilink.com) so that drivers can be with their families. Also provided you can carry and use a laptop for your work, as many tasks need a mouse, a large screen, or a powerful CPU or GPU.
we spent a few hundred on a sensor that only trips if a car pulls up.
Which puts cyclists like me at a disadvantage. A lot of cities' traffic engineering departments in this country appear not to know how to calibrate their induction loops to recognize a bicycle with its wheels over the crack in the road. Sometimes it won't even recognize a bicycle and a motorcycle put together waiting on the same loop.
Then let me clarify the claim as I understand it: Civilized cities fund wireless Internet access through taxation on grounds of investment in infrastructure used by the labor market.
Other productive things I've done using Xubuntu, a GNU/Linux distribution:
- Develop the menu system for a multiple game cartridge showcasing entries to an NES game programming competition - Develop a few entries for said competition - Program the video games Haunted: Halloween '85 (2015) and its sequel Haunted: Halloween '86 (The Curse of Possum Hollow) (2016) and their asset pipelines for Retrotainment Games
Even if a musical composition and a recording thereof are under one of the Creative Commons licenses, that doesn't guarantee that the composition was in fact original. It could have been subconsciously plagiarized from someone else's composition, as in Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music. Are there practical steps that a songwriter can take to minimize the likelihood of accidental infringement?
It costs little to nothing to send a payment with something like Dash, Bitcoin Cash, Zen Cash, ZCash, or numerous other crypto currencies.
Since when? It costs money to buy or sell cryptocurrency with majority-familiar currency or a different cryptocurrency, and it costs a transaction fee in cryptocurrency to transfer cryptocurrency to a seller's wallet. With Bitcoin, the transaction fee briefly hit the equivalent of 34 USD a year ago.
I would be happy for just more digits on the phone number. If 212-555-1234 goes to me, I want 212-555-1234-98765 to go to my phone and all the rest to go to disappear into a "its lenny" type system.
Something like "If you know your party's extension"?
1. You still need a Mac, which some Slashdot users claim is itself a fashion item. 2. Testing on the simulator doesn't help with CPU performance issues (I doubt it's anywhere near cycle accurate, unlike a PC-based retro console emulator) or with user interface issues related to the difference between multitouch interaction and mouse-and-keyboard interaction. Or is it practical to run the simulator on the Mac and remote desktop to it from an Android device? If so, when was this introduced?
The specs of last year's flagship phones can now be bought for midrange or lowend prices, unless you're that brand conscious
Or unless you're a developer who has been hired to port an application to an operating system that brand conscious end users prefer, in order to take advantage of the greater disposable income of brand conscious end users. Then you need a Mac on which to run Xcode and an iPhone on which to test.
would you buy and carry [a tablet] around in addition to your phone, which you always carry
I did just that back when I carried a flip phone. For years, I chose a flip phone with a separate tablet over a smartphone because it made my cellular bill hundreds of dollars per year smaller. Only a few years ago did it become common for carriers in my home country not to cram data service onto a voice SIM inserted into a smartphone.
What I think would be perfect is something in the form factor of the Yoga Book
Try a Lenovo Yoga or a Dell Inspiron 11. The screen on these convertible laptops folds all the way around to become a tablet. A different convertible laptop geometry existed a decade ago with Lenovo's ThinkPad X61, whose screen turned around and folded over the keyboard.
They fail every usability test to either a phone or a laptop.
Have a laptop and Internet at home, but want to run phone apps without having to pay a cellular bill? Several years ago, a tablet was much cheaper than a phone for this purpose for two reasons: a cellular radio was an extra cost add-on, and major carriers in Slashdot's home country were still structuring the purchase of a phone as a subsidy bundled into a 2-year contract rather than straightforwardly financing a purchase.
Want to carry it around? A phone is easier.
Not much screen real estate for comfortably reading paged media, such as a datasheet, a textbook, a comic book, or the like.
Want to hook it up to a mouse, keyboard, monitor? A laptop is easier.
Not if the application that you want to use is unavailable on Windows, macOS, or X11/Linux because it is exclusive to iOS and Android.
Part of it depends on which GUI library you expect the Python program to use to elicit commands from the user and present results to the user. Out of the box, Python ships with only Tkinter, which can't even handle Unicode code points outside the basic multilingual plane. (See for example bug 30019 and the other bugs that its comment by Terry J. Reedy cites.) I imagine a lot of users would prefer something made with wxWidgets, GTK, or Qt.
Or you can use the ldd command to determine what shared libraries it links to and whether they can be found on the system. [...] You have to resort to DLL dependency walkers.
What's ldd other than a dependency walker?
I think part of the difference is that under Windows, the mentality is that the publisher of a particular application is responsible for quality control as to the inclusion of shared libraries needed to make the application operate on a freshly installed copy of Windows. If you're missing a library, you're supposed to get it from the installer that the publisher provided. If an application fails to run after its installer has completed, its installer is inadequate, and the user should ask for repair or refund.
It sounds like you object to the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act entirely. How would you recommend to create conditions that allow self-sufficiency for blind people other than by encouraging manufacturers to employ them in making office supplies, as Skilcraft does?
If only the government could get office suppies by Prime the taxpayers would save billions.
Under the AbilityOne program established by the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act, the U.S. government prefers to buy office supplies made by blind people as a subsidy for their employment. Do Skilcraft and other manufacturers employing blind people sell on Amazon?
You really have to reach sub-microsecond for anyone to notice.
Though UNIX timestamps avoid DST trouble, using UNIX timestamps for anything sub-second is vulnerable to problems around leap seconds. UNIX timestamps represent UTC imperfectly: they treat instants during the leap second as part of the preceding or following second. The same is true of subtracting UTC times to form an interval, unless your UTC library uses an up-to-date table of historical and announced leap seconds.
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I can do all sorts of stuff (work, relax, etc.) while on public transit.
Provided public transit runs where and when you need. Citilink buses in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shut down for the night and have 58 days of scheduled downtime per year (source: fwcitilink.com) so that drivers can be with their families. Also provided you can carry and use a laptop for your work, as many tasks need a mouse, a large screen, or a powerful CPU or GPU.
we spent a few hundred on a sensor that only trips if a car pulls up.
Which puts cyclists like me at a disadvantage. A lot of cities' traffic engineering departments in this country appear not to know how to calibrate their induction loops to recognize a bicycle with its wheels over the crack in the road. Sometimes it won't even recognize a bicycle and a motorcycle put together waiting on the same loop.
Then let me clarify the claim as I understand it: Civilized cities fund wireless Internet access through taxation on grounds of investment in infrastructure used by the labor market.
However, the market has decided that it's easier to fund the development of bad software than good software. How could one go about changing that?
Other productive things I've done using Xubuntu, a GNU/Linux distribution:
- Develop the menu system for a multiple game cartridge showcasing entries to an NES game programming competition
- Develop a few entries for said competition
- Program the video games Haunted: Halloween '85 (2015) and its sequel Haunted: Halloween '86 (The Curse of Possum Hollow) (2016) and their asset pipelines for Retrotainment Games
So what should a songwriter do to avoid being sued?
Just because a musical composition and a recording are commercially licensed doesn't guarantee it was original and not stolen from others either.
Unlike a free license, a commercial license may provide a warranty of provenance, giving you someone to sue if you get sued.
Even if a musical composition and a recording thereof are under one of the Creative Commons licenses, that doesn't guarantee that the composition was in fact original. It could have been subconsciously plagiarized from someone else's composition, as in Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music. Are there practical steps that a songwriter can take to minimize the likelihood of accidental infringement?
It costs little to nothing to send a payment with something like Dash, Bitcoin Cash, Zen Cash, ZCash, or numerous other crypto currencies.
Since when? It costs money to buy or sell cryptocurrency with majority-familiar currency or a different cryptocurrency, and it costs a transaction fee in cryptocurrency to transfer cryptocurrency to a seller's wallet. With Bitcoin, the transaction fee briefly hit the equivalent of 34 USD a year ago.
It's a good thing that there is no such thing as "Intellectual Property".
That means the GPL doesn't exist.
The GNU General Public License exists. It is a license under copyright.
As I understand it, Errol's point is that copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and right of publicity are more different than they are alike. In any case, they're more different than would justify an umbrella term like "intellectual property".
Are you in the international tourism industry? If so, ask your phone company to unblock incoming international calls.
I would be happy for just more digits on the phone number. If 212-555-1234 goes to me, I want 212-555-1234-98765 to go to my phone and all the rest to go to disappear into a "its lenny" type system.
Something like "If you know your party's extension"?
Enjoy paying $/mo extra for "Real Phone Notification Service Surcharge".
1. You still need a Mac, which some Slashdot users claim is itself a fashion item.
2. Testing on the simulator doesn't help with CPU performance issues (I doubt it's anywhere near cycle accurate, unlike a PC-based retro console emulator) or with user interface issues related to the difference between multitouch interaction and mouse-and-keyboard interaction. Or is it practical to run the simulator on the Mac and remote desktop to it from an Android device? If so, when was this introduced?
and pay pennies a month for phone service anywhere I have LTE signal.
How much are you paying for the LTE signal?
Anything you can do on a tablet, you can do 100x times faster on a desktop
Including entertain yourself at the grocery store while waiting for your carpooling roommate to finish shopping and meet you by the checkout?
The specs of last year's flagship phones can now be bought for midrange or lowend prices, unless you're that brand conscious
Or unless you're a developer who has been hired to port an application to an operating system that brand conscious end users prefer, in order to take advantage of the greater disposable income of brand conscious end users. Then you need a Mac on which to run Xcode and an iPhone on which to test.
would you buy and carry [a tablet] around in addition to your phone, which you always carry
I did just that back when I carried a flip phone. For years, I chose a flip phone with a separate tablet over a smartphone because it made my cellular bill hundreds of dollars per year smaller. Only a few years ago did it become common for carriers in my home country not to cram data service onto a voice SIM inserted into a smartphone.
What I think would be perfect is something in the form factor of the Yoga Book
Try a Lenovo Yoga or a Dell Inspiron 11. The screen on these convertible laptops folds all the way around to become a tablet. A different convertible laptop geometry existed a decade ago with Lenovo's ThinkPad X61, whose screen turned around and folded over the keyboard.
They fail every usability test to either a phone or a laptop.
Have a laptop and Internet at home, but want to run phone apps without having to pay a cellular bill? Several years ago, a tablet was much cheaper than a phone for this purpose for two reasons: a cellular radio was an extra cost add-on, and major carriers in Slashdot's home country were still structuring the purchase of a phone as a subsidy bundled into a 2-year contract rather than straightforwardly financing a purchase.
Want to carry it around? A phone is easier.
Not much screen real estate for comfortably reading paged media, such as a datasheet, a textbook, a comic book, or the like.
Want to hook it up to a mouse, keyboard, monitor? A laptop is easier.
Not if the application that you want to use is unavailable on Windows, macOS, or X11/Linux because it is exclusive to iOS and Android.
Part of it depends on which GUI library you expect the Python program to use to elicit commands from the user and present results to the user. Out of the box, Python ships with only Tkinter, which can't even handle Unicode code points outside the basic multilingual plane. (See for example bug 30019 and the other bugs that its comment by Terry J. Reedy cites.) I imagine a lot of users would prefer something made with wxWidgets, GTK, or Qt.
Or you can use the ldd command to determine what shared libraries it links to and whether they can be found on the system.
[...]
You have to resort to DLL dependency walkers.
What's ldd other than a dependency walker?
I think part of the difference is that under Windows, the mentality is that the publisher of a particular application is responsible for quality control as to the inclusion of shared libraries needed to make the application operate on a freshly installed copy of Windows. If you're missing a library, you're supposed to get it from the installer that the publisher provided. If an application fails to run after its installer has completed, its installer is inadequate, and the user should ask for repair or refund.
It sounds like you object to the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act entirely. How would you recommend to create conditions that allow self-sufficiency for blind people other than by encouraging manufacturers to employ them in making office supplies, as Skilcraft does?
If only the government could get office suppies by Prime the taxpayers would save billions.
Under the AbilityOne program established by the Javits-Wagner-O'Day act, the U.S. government prefers to buy office supplies made by blind people as a subsidy for their employment. Do Skilcraft and other manufacturers employing blind people sell on Amazon?
You really have to reach sub-microsecond for anyone to notice.
Though UNIX timestamps avoid DST trouble, using UNIX timestamps for anything sub-second is vulnerable to problems around leap seconds. UNIX timestamps represent UTC imperfectly: they treat instants during the leap second as part of the preceding or following second. The same is true of subtracting UTC times to form an interval, unless your UTC library uses an up-to-date table of historical and announced leap seconds.
I agree that assuming "not synthetic = safer" is a fallacy. But in this particular case, Apeel's coating is extracted from fruits that are already Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) by national food regulators.