I'm pretty sure you can have DSL without POTS for a good number of years now.
Availability of naked DSL depends on the jurisdiction and on the phone company's policy. If a phone company charges $30 for a residential POTS line, $60 for residential naked DSL, or $30 for DSL for residential POTS subscribers, then naked DSL doesn't save any money.
I'm aware of that. But what other vendor were you thinking of? The phone company that wants to bundle DSL with a POTS line? The other half of the phone company that wants to bundle data over fiber to the home with a land line and pay TV over the same fiber? A cellular or satellite Internet provider whose monthly data transfer allowance is barely adequate even to keep the operating systems of all PCs in a household updated during a semiannual release window?
If there's no native app for it to begin with then clearly I never had the "possibility of doing a particular task" both ways in the first place.
In theory, you had the possibility of buying a second computer on which to run the application designed for that make of computer.
In the same way, trying to shove all native applications onto the web basically amounts to reinventing the operating system inside a browser - a dramatically more confining ecosystem.
You are correct that Java, Flash, Silverlight, and JavaScript with the HTML DOM all act as an inner platform. The "dramatically more confining ecosystem" exists for privilege separation reasons: the app player attempts to act as a sandbox. It also exists to isolate the application from operating system and instruction set dependencies, so that the application need not be remade for each underlying operating system and instruction set.
I've encountered one such situation, involving applications that happen not to be built on a multi-platform framework. Say a particular application is available as a macOS app or a web app. How is the web app "10,000 times shittier" than not being able to use the app at all because it's not made for your platform?
Or if you're a Mac user: Say a particular application is available as a Windows app or a web app. How is the web app "10,000 times shittier" than not being able to use the app at all because it's not made for your platform?
Would you download and install an app for participating in Slashdot?
My internet comes from the phone company. Ironically, there is no phone line
So your phone company isn't selling you DSL and giving you a POTS line that you don't use at no extra charge? Because that's what some phone companies do, and it'd be analogous to what some cable companies do with their bundle structures.
Correct me if I am misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're saying that both native applications and web applications are uselessly unsafe. What should one use instead?
They MUST pay the content providers for the programming/channels they carry.
A lot of which they recoup by selling ad time on those channels. Typical retransmission agreements allow cable system operators to replace a few commercials per hour.
We don't want it. We want on-demand. We want a back catalog.
A valid criticism of satellite television. But cable offers a fairly large selection of video on demand, but the studios won't let the networks offer all episodes of all seasons because that would unfairly compete with DVD box set sales.
Youtube Live is already a thing.
Not in my ZIP code, according to YouTube TV's signup form.
The ESPN and individual sport broadcast apps are a thing.
And the first thing users see is "Sign in with the username and password issued by your participating multichannel pay TV provider."
But now that Flash is dead and Oracle is doing its best to kill Java with some ridiculous licensing plans, Javascript remains the only sensible vector.
How is it not "sensible" to download, optionally compile, and install a native application and run it in a container?
I know, Booo Javascript sucks! However Javascript is better then Sliverlight, Flash, Active X, Java Applets, in terms of keeping the web platform open, while offering the features most people wanted.
Some Slashdot users would claim that web applications written in JavaScript are still inferior to native applications made with Qt or another multi-platform GUI framework and distributed to the public in the form of source code under a free software license. They see the web not as an application platform but as a platform for publishing documents.
Comcast appears not to allow third parties to offer service over its last mile. Competing ISPs are MVNOs, which insist on limiting my household's Internet data transfer to a handful of gigabytes per month. A startup company seeking access to lay its own fiber over city rights of way would probably end up unable to satisfy an unreasonably rapid citywide buildout schedule. I'm aware that some cities require franchisees to build out the network over the whole city in order to ensure that the service reaches less affluent areas, but I'm under the impression that some cities have required this to happen sooner than a startup's capex budget permits as an anti-competitive means to circumvent the federal ban on exclusive cable franchises.
A couple days ago, YouTube TV's signup form told me YouTube TV is not available in my ZIP code.
Hulu Live
No C-SPAN, no The Weather Channel. My roommate watches Washington Journal on C-SPAN, and the live stream on C-SPAN's website is available only to authenticated subscribers to participating multichannel pay television providers.
DirectTV Now
The $40 per month plan lacks The Weather Channel, and I doubt the $55 per month plan would save anything compared to the difference between Internet only from Comcast and Internet plus TV from Comcast. In addition, the fade-in effect when switching among plans on its sign-up page annoys me, as it makes it more difficult to eyeball the difference among the plans.
whatever the Playstation service is called
It's called PlayStation Vue, and even its most expensive package doesn't have C-SPAN or The Weather Channel.Nor is my PlayStation console new enough to view it.
Last I checked, screen-reading tools support major web browsers, which in turn run JavaScript. There are even versions of elinks and w3m that run JavaScript. Karl Groves created "Mother Effing Tool Confuser", a webpage where a script adds sufficient accessibility markup, to demonstrate this fact.
The article 27 obligation applies only in cases where article 3 (jurisdiction) applies, which is when at least one of the parties is physically on EU soil at the time of the transaction. Banks would still approve a European tourist's card-present transactions with foreign merchants, just not card-not-present transactions.
If the cable company declines to sell you high-speed Internet without a TV subscription (even if you don't watch it), and your job requires high-speed Internet, then a TV subscription is part of your "cost of living".
Does this streaming video from Amazon include sporting events that aren't carried on local over-the-air television? And how do you even connect to Amazon's servers without a cable?
Without cable service, how do you connect to the Internet? Or did you choose your current house based on fiber availability? Or do you deal with cellular and its single digit GB per month of tethering?
Slashdot Mirror
There are already web services to block disposable email domains. How long before analogous services for SMS become commonplace?
In marketing-speak, "chemical" means "synthetic chemical" as opposed to a wax extracted from an existing plant using only physical changes.
Especially because Tetris lost its ability to take my mind off something since the 2008 "FOSS destroys the market" interview and a 2012 copyright lawsuit made Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov appear to me as an open opponent of the free software movement.
Availability of naked DSL doesn't necessarily imply that the phone company charges customers less for naked DSL than for DSL bundled with a POTS line.
I'm pretty sure you can have DSL without POTS for a good number of years now.
Availability of naked DSL depends on the jurisdiction and on the phone company's policy. If a phone company charges $30 for a residential POTS line, $60 for residential naked DSL, or $30 for DSL for residential POTS subscribers, then naked DSL doesn't save any money.
I'm aware of that. But what other vendor were you thinking of? The phone company that wants to bundle DSL with a POTS line? The other half of the phone company that wants to bundle data over fiber to the home with a land line and pay TV over the same fiber? A cellular or satellite Internet provider whose monthly data transfer allowance is barely adequate even to keep the operating systems of all PCs in a household updated during a semiannual release window?
If there's no native app for it to begin with then clearly I never had the "possibility of doing a particular task" both ways in the first place.
In theory, you had the possibility of buying a second computer on which to run the application designed for that make of computer.
In the same way, trying to shove all native applications onto the web basically amounts to reinventing the operating system inside a browser - a dramatically more confining ecosystem.
You are correct that Java, Flash, Silverlight, and JavaScript with the HTML DOM all act as an inner platform. The "dramatically more confining ecosystem" exists for privilege separation reasons: the app player attempts to act as a sandbox. It also exists to isolate the application from operating system and instruction set dependencies, so that the application need not be remade for each underlying operating system and instruction set.
And replace it with what? Cellular Internet access that gives each subscriber a pittance of gigabytes per month for tethering?
I've encountered one such situation, involving applications that happen not to be built on a multi-platform framework. Say a particular application is available as a macOS app or a web app. How is the web app "10,000 times shittier" than not being able to use the app at all because it's not made for your platform?
Or if you're a Mac user:
Say a particular application is available as a Windows app or a web app. How is the web app "10,000 times shittier" than not being able to use the app at all because it's not made for your platform?
Would you download and install an app for participating in Slashdot?
My internet comes from the phone company. Ironically, there is no phone line
So your phone company isn't selling you DSL and giving you a POTS line that you don't use at no extra charge? Because that's what some phone companies do, and it'd be analogous to what some cable companies do with their bundle structures.
Could you back up your phone's camera roll to your PC, then subscribe to Tarsnap to back that up to a server?
Correct me if I am misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're saying that both native applications and web applications are uselessly unsafe. What should one use instead?
They MUST pay the content providers for the programming/channels they carry.
A lot of which they recoup by selling ad time on those channels. Typical retransmission agreements allow cable system operators to replace a few commercials per hour.
We don't want it. We want on-demand. We want a back catalog.
A valid criticism of satellite television. But cable offers a fairly large selection of video on demand, but the studios won't let the networks offer all episodes of all seasons because that would unfairly compete with DVD box set sales.
Youtube Live is already a thing.
Not in my ZIP code, according to YouTube TV's signup form.
The ESPN and individual sport broadcast apps are a thing.
And the first thing users see is "Sign in with the username and password issued by your participating multichannel pay TV provider."
But now that Flash is dead and Oracle is doing its best to kill Java with some ridiculous licensing plans, Javascript remains the only sensible vector.
How is it not "sensible" to download, optionally compile, and install a native application and run it in a container?
I know, Booo Javascript sucks! However Javascript is better then Sliverlight, Flash, Active X, Java Applets, in terms of keeping the web platform open, while offering the features most people wanted.
Some Slashdot users would claim that web applications written in JavaScript are still inferior to native applications made with Qt or another multi-platform GUI framework and distributed to the public in the form of source code under a free software license. They see the web not as an application platform but as a platform for publishing documents.
Comcast appears not to allow third parties to offer service over its last mile. Competing ISPs are MVNOs, which insist on limiting my household's Internet data transfer to a handful of gigabytes per month. A startup company seeking access to lay its own fiber over city rights of way would probably end up unable to satisfy an unreasonably rapid citywide buildout schedule. I'm aware that some cities require franchisees to build out the network over the whole city in order to ensure that the service reaches less affluent areas, but I'm under the impression that some cities have required this to happen sooner than a startup's capex budget permits as an anti-competitive means to circumvent the federal ban on exclusive cable franchises.
Research YouTubeTV
A couple days ago, YouTube TV's signup form told me YouTube TV is not available in my ZIP code.
Hulu Live
No C-SPAN, no The Weather Channel. My roommate watches Washington Journal on C-SPAN, and the live stream on C-SPAN's website is available only to authenticated subscribers to participating multichannel pay television providers.
DirectTV Now
The $40 per month plan lacks The Weather Channel, and I doubt the $55 per month plan would save anything compared to the difference between Internet only from Comcast and Internet plus TV from Comcast. In addition, the fade-in effect when switching among plans on its sign-up page annoys me, as it makes it more difficult to eyeball the difference among the plans.
whatever the Playstation service is called
It's called PlayStation Vue, and even its most expensive package doesn't have C-SPAN or The Weather Channel.Nor is my PlayStation console new enough to view it.
This reply (Google Product Forums requires JavaScript) implies that Google locks an account in this manner if someone might have compromised it.
Last I checked, screen-reading tools support major web browsers, which in turn run JavaScript. There are even versions of elinks and w3m that run JavaScript. Karl Groves created "Mother Effing Tool Confuser", a webpage where a script adds sufficient accessibility markup, to demonstrate this fact.
The article 27 obligation applies only in cases where article 3 (jurisdiction) applies, which is when at least one of the parties is physically on EU soil at the time of the transaction. Banks would still approve a European tourist's card-present transactions with foreign merchants, just not card-not-present transactions.
If the cable company declines to sell you high-speed Internet without a TV subscription (even if you don't watch it), and your job requires high-speed Internet, then a TV subscription is part of your "cost of living".
Does this streaming video from Amazon include sporting events that aren't carried on local over-the-air television? And how do you even connect to Amazon's servers without a cable?
Without cable service, how do you connect to the Internet? Or did you choose your current house based on fiber availability? Or do you deal with cellular and its single digit GB per month of tethering?
Is leaving Comcast behind worth moving to a different state?