It might even be less, as infringing copies of the PC version would have substituted among some people for lawfully made copies of one of the console versions.
Somebody who wants to legally watch live political talk shows on MSNBC and/or sporting events involving specific teams. These tend to be exclusive to "Sign in with your participating pay TV provider".
For a lot of especially smaller publishers, the hardest part of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to comply with is article 27, which states that if you provide goods or services to the EU and you don't have a physical presence in the EU, you have to hire a firm with a physical presence in the EU to act as your representative. This representative service can run thousands of dollars per year for even the smallest sites (source) and smacks of protectionism. The only surefire way to avoid obligation under article 27 is not to provide goods or services to the EU.
as I already pointed out, long term usage is not affected on the new Mac mini either
That depends on how long Apple will continue to make new versions of Xcode compatible with this Mac mini model. Someone who doesn't need an Xcode license could probably just buy an Intel NUC and install GNU/Linux.
It's not clear that the Mac Mini is aimed at the consumer
How I'm supposed to feel about that depends on what you meant by "consumer", which isn't quite clear. Which of these did you mean?
One who buys "consumer products"
US product safety law, 15 USC 2052, defines "consumer product" such that a consumer means roughly someone who buys products "for use in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise".
One who views works created by others
The entry for "consumer" in a GNU style guide discourages its use while defining it as someone who is limited to viewing works created by others, as opposed to exercising control by participating in creation of works.
Other
Feel free to reply with your definition.
I just can't see any reason why I would pay close to $1000 for the Apple device.
Let me guess the most probable reason: Someone is paying you to port an Android application to iOS to take advantage of the App Store's far greater revenue per user for paid applications and in-app purchases compared to Google Play. For this, you need to buy a Mac on which to run Xcode and an iOS device on which to test.
About 90% of my customers could probably do all their business functions on them and that number would be 100% if more small dev shops would quit using MSVB6something front ends that haven't been updated since Windows NT was a thing for MSSQL Express databases and move their client logic to some kind of web application instead.
Let's say the developer rewrites the server side in Python, C#, or some other "modern" language. How would the user run the server on the Chromebook as well so that the user can continue to use the application while away from an Internet connection? As far as I'm aware, that would require one of two things: A. developer mode, which runs the risk of losing everything every time you turn it on; or B. selling your Chromebook and putting the money toward buying one of the newer Chromebooks that supports Crostini.
No cure for games but Steam and nVidia both have remote display systems that work pretty well for that if you really need it.
Cellular Internet service providers in Slashdot's home country charge $10 per GB for tethering. How much data transfer per hour can a user expect when running these "remote display systems" in standard definition (circa 800x480 pixels, 30 fps)? And how much latency does it add?
I know the experience differs for journals and submissions, which require a preview even with JS off. It may also differ between anonymous visitors and logged-in users, and that might be what you're seeing.
Who needs cable when I can walk into yard or fish by the lake and get high speed data, then when I walk back into the house and connect it to the desktop I'm still getting high speed data all while I live in a rural area now, it's called "wifi".
Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) is a local area network technology and thus cannot provide Internet access unless the access point is connected to the Internet. How is your access point connected to the Internet?
In what ways? If for the cross-platform stuff, I'd be interested to see an LLVM backend for MOS 6502 or Intel 8080 whose generated code is noticeably more efficient than that generated by cc65 or SDCC. The attempts I've seen to make an LLVM backend for LR35902, an 8080 variant used in the Game Boy, have run into problems where the thing runs out of registers fairly quickly, with too many things competing for access to register A (the accumulator) or HL (the primary pointer register).
Someone in India brings the culture of India to a job. If a job's requirements are written according to the customs of the culture of America, someone raised in the culture of India will probably get it wrong.
The device shown in the featured article clips onto the sides of a phone or tablet. The left grip has the Control Pad and left stick, and the right grip has the action buttons and right stick. Each side has a rechargeable battery. I'd bet once lawyers for Wikipad maker Gamevice see Microsoft's answer to Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers, they'll be champing at the bit for their share of the $ in M$.
Last time I can remember Microsoft mentioning handheld gaming, it was 2004 when Microsoft announced that it wouldn't be entering that market with an "Xboy" because handheld gaming was too solitary, and Microsoft was into social experiences. One thing that's changed since then is an expectation of a cellular Internet subscription.
The key difference is that the user is informed about the control they are choosing to relinquish.
And I agree that Apple failed to do so, keeping the App Store Review Guidelines behind its paywall, until June 2014.
When such control is wrested from the user on false pretenses (asking for permission to do one thing, and then doing something other than stated) is what we call a "Trojan horse."
In the case of application censorship, is the "one thing" protecting users from applications that might damage the hardware and the "other thing" protecting users from e.g. hate speech, video game emulation, or use of 3D Touch as a drug scale?
One difference is that end users' expectations of software functionality have increased.
Internationalization
How many languages can geoWrite display within one document? Can it display, for example, all the characters of a newspaper in Chinese, as well as right-to-left cursive text in Arabic or top-to-bottom text in Mongolian? In how many languages can its user interface be presented?
Accessibility
How easily can users who are blind or hard of sight navigate GEOS? Can it read a document out loud to the user while describing all controls?
Pixel density and depth
The Commodore 64 computer's display has only 320x200 pixels, and the selection of colors that may appear in a single 8x8-pixel area is strictly limited. This limits the usefulness of geoPaint or geoDraw for editing detailed photographs or illustrations with fidelity comparable to print.
Common platform
Back in the day, software had to be written in assembly language. In order to ship the same application for computers using 6502, 6809, Z80, 68000, and 8086 family CPUs, the program had to be rewritten by hand, and all bug fixes in one version had to be propagated to other versions by hand. Though the versions for one CPU family could share their "model" code, such as Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Apple II, or Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga, or ZX Spectrum and MSX, there was no efficient way for ports to different ISAs to share any code. In addition, versions for different computer platforms took up multiples of space on store shelves. A developer could produce highly optimized software for one platform, but then the application would have to be so compelling that users of one brand of computer would be willing to buy a second computer just to run one application. Nowadays, all major web application players (commonly called "browsers") have decent support for JavaScript and the HTML DOM.
On the flip side, I'm convinced that our society is moving towards a society of content creators and consumers. This isn't bad.
Two questions:
1. Why use those words, which FSF considers loaded, instead of "authors" and "viewers"? 2. In the scenario that you imagine "isn't bad", are the authors and viewers the same person? Or are there measurable advantages of an entry barrier for viewers to join a small set of people allowed to be authors?
A kid can buy a Raspberry Pi Zero, with a full Linux stack, including dev tools, for $5.
And send the $5 to the online store how? And use said $5 Raspberry Pi Zero through what display, when the parent allows three hours of screen time per week?
For this purpose, I define "compromise" as wresting control from the user.
Then I imagine all widely commercially available computing systems beyond 8-bit microcontrollers are compromised in some manner. This includes microcode updates, Intel Management Engine, WLAN radio firmware, etc. Would you be willing to define a degree of compromise such that the user can choose the lesser of two evils? Or had you instead intended to apply your definition in an absolute manner, rendering the majority of products unsuitable?
If you uninstall an app, your system should go back to the exact same state it was in before you installed it.
I imagine the user would not consider it "predictable" for the uninstaller to revert all changes to documents that the user made using the app.
Thank you for the correction. I know FSF deliberately refuses to issue guidance for how much GNU software qualifies a distribution for the "GNU/" name. But is there a definition for whether a particular package is part of GNU or not?
By "build their own" do you mean out of individual logic gates, like Kevin Horton's NANDputer? Or did you mean build a desktop computer out of motherboard, case, PSU, CPU, RAM, HDD, GPU, and whatever else is needed? Or somewhere in between?
a) Nearly 100% of the userspace that makes your "Linux" system run is part of the GNU project
Not necessarily. Sure, you're running GNU/Linux if you use Debian, Fedora, or any other system built on GNU Coreutils, Bash, glibc, GCC, GTK+, and the like. But a lot of my Xubuntu laptop's RAM is occupied by things like X.Org X11, Xfce panel, Thunar, Mousepad, Firefox, GIMP, and other things that aren't "GNU software" because FSF doesn't own the copyright. GNU exceeds Linux in distributions like these but is by no means the majority. There also exist Linux systems that use little or no GNU software, such as Alpine Linux, Android, OpenWrt, and Starch Linux.
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It might even be less, as infringing copies of the PC version would have substituted among some people for lawfully made copies of one of the console versions.
How many college-educated immigrants from the United States is Canada willing to absorb over this issue?
Somebody who wants to legally watch live political talk shows on MSNBC and/or sporting events involving specific teams. These tend to be exclusive to "Sign in with your participating pay TV provider".
For a lot of especially smaller publishers, the hardest part of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to comply with is article 27, which states that if you provide goods or services to the EU and you don't have a physical presence in the EU, you have to hire a firm with a physical presence in the EU to act as your representative. This representative service can run thousands of dollars per year for even the smallest sites (source) and smacks of protectionism. The only surefire way to avoid obligation under article 27 is not to provide goods or services to the EU.
as I already pointed out, long term usage is not affected on the new Mac mini either
That depends on how long Apple will continue to make new versions of Xcode compatible with this Mac mini model. Someone who doesn't need an Xcode license could probably just buy an Intel NUC and install GNU/Linux.
It's not clear that the Mac Mini is aimed at the consumer
How I'm supposed to feel about that depends on what you meant by "consumer", which isn't quite clear. Which of these did you mean?
One who buys "consumer products" US product safety law, 15 USC 2052, defines "consumer product" such that a consumer means roughly someone who buys products "for use in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise". One who views works created by others The entry for "consumer" in a GNU style guide discourages its use while defining it as someone who is limited to viewing works created by others, as opposed to exercising control by participating in creation of works. Other Feel free to reply with your definition.I just can't see any reason why I would pay close to $1000 for the Apple device.
Let me guess the most probable reason: Someone is paying you to port an Android application to iOS to take advantage of the App Store's far greater revenue per user for paid applications and in-app purchases compared to Google Play. For this, you need to buy a Mac on which to run Xcode and an iOS device on which to test.
About 90% of my customers could probably do all their business functions on them and that number would be 100% if more small dev shops would quit using MSVB6something front ends that haven't been updated since Windows NT was a thing for MSSQL Express databases and move their client logic to some kind of web application instead.
Let's say the developer rewrites the server side in Python, C#, or some other "modern" language. How would the user run the server on the Chromebook as well so that the user can continue to use the application while away from an Internet connection? As far as I'm aware, that would require one of two things: A. developer mode, which runs the risk of losing everything every time you turn it on; or B. selling your Chromebook and putting the money toward buying one of the newer Chromebooks that supports Crostini.
No cure for games but Steam and nVidia both have remote display systems that work pretty well for that if you really need it.
Cellular Internet service providers in Slashdot's home country charge $10 per GB for tethering. How much data transfer per hour can a user expect when running these "remote display systems" in standard definition (circa 800x480 pixels, 30 fps)? And how much latency does it add?
I know the experience differs for journals and submissions, which require a preview even with JS off. It may also differ between anonymous visitors and logged-in users, and that might be what you're seeing.
Who needs cable when I can walk into yard or fish by the lake and get high speed data, then when I walk back into the house and connect it to the desktop I'm still getting high speed data all while I live in a rural area now, it's called "wifi".
Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) is a local area network technology and thus cannot provide Internet access unless the access point is connected to the Internet. How is your access point connected to the Internet?
"A few years" under Disney's moratorium strategy is usually 7 years. How long has it been since the last home video release of Song of the South?
LLVM can help.
In what ways? If for the cross-platform stuff, I'd be interested to see an LLVM backend for MOS 6502 or Intel 8080 whose generated code is noticeably more efficient than that generated by cc65 or SDCC. The attempts I've seen to make an LLVM backend for LR35902, an 8080 variant used in the Game Boy, have run into problems where the thing runs out of registers fairly quickly, with too many things competing for access to register A (the accumulator) or HL (the primary pointer register).
Someone in India brings the culture of India to a job. If a job's requirements are written according to the customs of the culture of America, someone raised in the culture of India will probably get it wrong.
I suspect Pseudonym was referring specifically to microcode and Intel Management Engine.
The device shown in the featured article clips onto the sides of a phone or tablet. The left grip has the Control Pad and left stick, and the right grip has the action buttons and right stick. Each side has a rechargeable battery. I'd bet once lawyers for Wikipad maker Gamevice see Microsoft's answer to Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers, they'll be champing at the bit for their share of the $ in M$.
Last time I can remember Microsoft mentioning handheld gaming, it was 2004 when Microsoft announced that it wouldn't be entering that market with an "Xboy" because handheld gaming was too solitary, and Microsoft was into social experiences. One thing that's changed since then is an expectation of a cellular Internet subscription.
The key difference is that the user is informed about the control they are choosing to relinquish.
And I agree that Apple failed to do so, keeping the App Store Review Guidelines behind its paywall, until June 2014.
When such control is wrested from the user on false pretenses (asking for permission to do one thing, and then doing something other than stated) is what we call a "Trojan horse."
In the case of application censorship, is the "one thing" protecting users from applications that might damage the hardware and the "other thing" protecting users from e.g. hate speech, video game emulation, or use of 3D Touch as a drug scale?
One difference is that end users' expectations of software functionality have increased.
Internationalization How many languages can geoWrite display within one document? Can it display, for example, all the characters of a newspaper in Chinese, as well as right-to-left cursive text in Arabic or top-to-bottom text in Mongolian? In how many languages can its user interface be presented? Accessibility How easily can users who are blind or hard of sight navigate GEOS? Can it read a document out loud to the user while describing all controls? Pixel density and depth The Commodore 64 computer's display has only 320x200 pixels, and the selection of colors that may appear in a single 8x8-pixel area is strictly limited. This limits the usefulness of geoPaint or geoDraw for editing detailed photographs or illustrations with fidelity comparable to print. Common platform Back in the day, software had to be written in assembly language. In order to ship the same application for computers using 6502, 6809, Z80, 68000, and 8086 family CPUs, the program had to be rewritten by hand, and all bug fixes in one version had to be propagated to other versions by hand. Though the versions for one CPU family could share their "model" code, such as Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Apple II, or Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga, or ZX Spectrum and MSX, there was no efficient way for ports to different ISAs to share any code. In addition, versions for different computer platforms took up multiples of space on store shelves. A developer could produce highly optimized software for one platform, but then the application would have to be so compelling that users of one brand of computer would be willing to buy a second computer just to run one application. Nowadays, all major web application players (commonly called "browsers") have decent support for JavaScript and the HTML DOM.On the flip side, I'm convinced that our society is moving towards a society of content creators and consumers. This isn't bad.
Two questions:
1. Why use those words, which FSF considers loaded, instead of "authors" and "viewers"?
2. In the scenario that you imagine "isn't bad", are the authors and viewers the same person? Or are there measurable advantages of an entry barrier for viewers to join a small set of people allowed to be authors?
A kid can buy a Raspberry Pi Zero, with a full Linux stack, including dev tools, for $5.
And send the $5 to the online store how? And use said $5 Raspberry Pi Zero through what display, when the parent allows three hours of screen time per week?
For this purpose, I define "compromise" as wresting control from the user.
Then I imagine all widely commercially available computing systems beyond 8-bit microcontrollers are compromised in some manner. This includes microcode updates, Intel Management Engine, WLAN radio firmware, etc. Would you be willing to define a degree of compromise such that the user can choose the lesser of two evils? Or had you instead intended to apply your definition in an absolute manner, rendering the majority of products unsuitable?
If you uninstall an app, your system should go back to the exact same state it was in before you installed it.
I imagine the user would not consider it "predictable" for the uninstaller to revert all changes to documents that the user made using the app.
Thank you for the correction. I know FSF deliberately refuses to issue guidance for how much GNU software qualifies a distribution for the "GNU/" name. But is there a definition for whether a particular package is part of GNU or not?
Would you ban your children from going into the forrest to collect berries and mushrooms during agricultural age
When a big bad wolf is about, of course you would.
or working in factories during industrial revolution?
Child labor laws have since done a good job of that.
By "build their own" do you mean out of individual logic gates, like Kevin Horton's NANDputer? Or did you mean build a desktop computer out of motherboard, case, PSU, CPU, RAM, HDD, GPU, and whatever else is needed? Or somewhere in between?
a) Nearly 100% of the userspace that makes your "Linux" system run is part of the GNU project
Not necessarily. Sure, you're running GNU/Linux if you use Debian, Fedora, or any other system built on GNU Coreutils, Bash, glibc, GCC, GTK+, and the like. But a lot of my Xubuntu laptop's RAM is occupied by things like X.Org X11, Xfce panel, Thunar, Mousepad, Firefox, GIMP, and other things that aren't "GNU software" because FSF doesn't own the copyright. GNU exceeds Linux in distributions like these but is by no means the majority. There also exist Linux systems that use little or no GNU software, such as Alpine Linux, Android, OpenWrt, and Starch Linux.