Who the fuck would ever use a fucking emulator if you have the original game?
Plug an authentic game cartridge that you own into a Retrode or INL Retro cartridge reader and dump the data on the cartridge to a file (which is not infringement pursuant to 17 USC 117(a)(1)), and you can play it in an emulator. This lets you play on your phone or tablet with a USB or Bluetooth game controller, your laptop, or a PC connected to a television that isn't compatible with composite video at all or with the slightly nonstandard signal timing that third- and fourth-generation consoles produce. (NES and Super NES hsync is slightly too fast; Master System and Genesis hsync is slightly too slow. Neither one is interlaced, except for one Genesis game and one Super NES game.) It also lets you use cheats or other mods, or emulator features that allegedly improve the appearance of the game (such as high-definition texture packs in HiSMS, HDNes or automatic conversion of tile pixel patterns to 3D meshes in 3DNes VR).
The difference between video games and ball sports is that ball sports aren't owned by anyone. The National Football League has never had a legal monopoly that gives grounds to prohibit USFL or XFL teams from playing and broadcasting their own matches. (Donald Trump did a good job of destroying the USFL all by himself, but that's beside the point.) Nor could the National League of Professional Baseball Players stop the rival American League from playing from 1901 to 2000 when it merged with the NL to form Major League Baseball. Even today, independent professional baseball leagues outside MLB and its Minor League farm system continue to operate.
The use of a particular ball sport league's player performances in "rotisserie" or "fantasy sports" pools, on the other hand, has been the subject of lawsuits: STATS Inc. v. NBA and CDM v. MLB Advanced Media. In the latter, a federal appellate judge upheld that the players' association, not the league, owns the right to license player names and likenesses to rotisseries, and that sport statistics are uncopyrightable facts.
Does it take a company as big as WeightWatchers to convince curators/censors to make an exception to the Scunthorpe problem? Like Scunthorpe, WeightWatchers has embedded sexual slang in the middle.
Keep your server on if you want it to always be on.
Someone might be using Dropbox precisely because A. he doesn't already have a server, or B. he has a server at home but his ISP doesn't allow incoming connections. Should people in that situation instead lease a server on which to run file sync? That would cost substantially more per year than Dropbox's 2 GB plan.
File with attributes or alternative data streams was deleted, new file without either is created, new file no longer works in a program relying on those.
Do you mean inotify? And if so, does inotify work with all local file systems (not counting NFS)?
You may also be able to store the inode and checksum somewhere as a hint.
Provided the file system supports inodes, which usually means one that supports hard links to files. FAT doesn't, unless you count a file's first cluster as its "inode". So Dropbox drops extended attributes upon rename on a FAT volume. This is documented.
It is impossible for them to sell it to you, unless you decide to buy.
It's hard to avoid buying. Some restaurants play cable TV news on large monitors, others sports. Even grocery stores play RIAA-controlled music over the PA system when an announcement isn't being made. And a fraction of your bill goes toward paying for the licenses to put those up.
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in [...] How can I prevent its $200 replacement from having, say, a keyboard problem two weeks later?
there is an implicit incorrect assumption in your calculation that any replacement would also break in the same way and in the same amount of time which is unlikely to be true.
In this scenario, the replacement broke in the same amount of time but in a different way.
Hell you would probably get fed up and buy something else
Bingo. I'm trying to skip to that step by finding something other than a Chromebook that's warranted as fit for purpose the first time.
so buy an Epson XP-440 all in one for $50 and only if you really need to print.
If you want to use 2-factor authentication without using a cell phone, you will "really need to print." Google won't let you use TOTP until you have two of the preferred 2FA methods (SMS, prompts through the Google Search app, FIDO U2F security key, and printed codes) set up, and only U2F and printed codes work without a phone.
Other than as a last-ditch backup, I have no need for cloud-based anything.
Unless you're collaborating with a co-worker or client or whatever in another city. In that case, would you instead pay to lease a VPS to host your source code repositories, file drops, chat servers, etc.? Is that still "cloud"?
And if you are doing everything browser-based, then why not get a tablet and add a keyboard
True, you could buy a tablet, a keyboard, and a case to hold the tablet and keyboard in place while you are using both on your lap. People suggested this sort of workaround back in fourth quarter 2012 when manufacturers discontinued 10" netbooks. But the combination of these can prove more expensive than a laptop form factor.
How much does it cost a U.S. citizen to learn the local language (especially post-Brexit), qualify for a work visa, obtain it, and move? A ballpark figure for a couple common scenarios is fine.
Do you really care on a cheap Chromebook? If it's a several thousand dollar piece of kit and/or you are on a tight budget I get it
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in, then I've paid $200 for a computer that lasted two weeks. How can I prevent its $200 replacement from having, say, a keyboard problem two weeks later? In the limiting case, that is an annualized price of $5,200 per year to own a computer. Does that qualify as "several thousand dollar piece of kit"?
Does anyone actually offer a 2 year warranty on a Chromebook?
I don't know whether that's offered for Chromebooks in third quarter 2018. I was referring to the 2-year Dell extended warranty that I bought in March 2010 along with a non-Chromebook netbook. I ended up getting its power jack fixed under warranty.
How would the Dropbox client application maintain the association between the parent file and "some other files" even if the user renames the parent file?
Hobbyists/enthusiasts realize their linux already has scp (all the distributions at this point), and so does any machine they may use. So they have DIY dropbox.
How does this work if both machines aren't turned on at the same time? Or if both are behind a NAT operated by the ISP?
To me, a file sync means to replace Dropbox would have to offer all of these features or something extra that is compelling enough to offset the lack of these features.
1. Safe from fire, flood, or other natural disaster (which backup media stored at home isn't) 2. Can be accessed through the Internet, even if both sides are not turned on at once or are behind a NAT that you do not control (which rules out some P2P solutions, as well as home hosting in countries where carrier-grade NAT is common) 3. Offers at least 1 GB of space without charge (leasing a VPS on which to run your own cloud sync requires recurring charges to a credit card) 4. Can share files between your GNU/Linux PC and your collaborator's Windows PC
Which "good self-installed alternatives" check these boxes?
Read file, write file, check timestamp. That's all Dropbox needs.
That and making sure no other application is writing at the same time Dropbox is reading or vice versa.
All filesystems provide this through uniform OS calls.
Until the OS returns the error code meaning "The file system on which this path is stored does not support this operation." Some file systems might return an error code like this for locking, symlinks, alternate data streams, extended attributes, or whatever other "uniform OS calls" Dropbox tries. Restricting file systems to those that fully support the required "uniform OS calls" reduces maintenance costs.
Or how would you recommend to sync a file containing alternate data streams to a file system that returns an error code when an application attempts to write one?
Visual Studio Code works with primarily text files and perhaps executables. Dropbox has to be able to sync any file, including files that contain alternate data streams and extended attributes. That's a bit more of an involved job.
One difference is that a free software developer can often get an application packaged in the major GNU/Linux distributions' repositories, where fans of each distribution will do much of the integration work to keep an application running under that distribution. Proprietary software doesn't have that luxury.
There is no case where photoshop cares about the filesystem it runs from.
This is because the Adobe Photoshop file format doesn't use alternate data streams or extended attributes. Dropbox, by contrast, has to sync arbitrary files created by programs that may use these optional file system features.
Occasionally I need to tweak a graphic or Word document which I can do via tVNC on my old desktop.
For work I use Citrix to get into my desktop.
But can you work through these remote access methods on your bus/train commute, where you don't have Wi-Fi? If not, then you'd have to include a mobile broadband subscription in the total cost of owning a Chromebook. Furthermore, if all home ISPs in your area use carrier-grade NAT, as Bert64 mentioned is the case in Myanmar, you'll also have to subscribe to a VPN tunnel so your desktop can receive VNC connections while you're away from home.
we can all afford multiple devices and cloud services.
To which "we [...] all" do you refer, especially prior to tax-funded basic income? I still see people in various chat rooms complaining that they can't do this or that in an application's mobile version and have no way to afford "a computer" to work around it. Granted, many of them are still in high school or college.
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Get a decent ISP that gives you routable addresses
Which can mean "get a decent country". Or have things changed since March of this year?
Who the fuck would ever use a fucking emulator if you have the original game?
Plug an authentic game cartridge that you own into a Retrode or INL Retro cartridge reader and dump the data on the cartridge to a file (which is not infringement pursuant to 17 USC 117(a)(1)), and you can play it in an emulator. This lets you play on your phone or tablet with a USB or Bluetooth game controller, your laptop, or a PC connected to a television that isn't compatible with composite video at all or with the slightly nonstandard signal timing that third- and fourth-generation consoles produce. (NES and Super NES hsync is slightly too fast; Master System and Genesis hsync is slightly too slow. Neither one is interlaced, except for one Genesis game and one Super NES game.) It also lets you use cheats or other mods, or emulator features that allegedly improve the appearance of the game (such as high-definition texture packs in HiSMS, HDNes or automatic conversion of tile pixel patterns to 3D meshes in 3DNes VR).
The difference between video games and ball sports is that ball sports aren't owned by anyone. The National Football League has never had a legal monopoly that gives grounds to prohibit USFL or XFL teams from playing and broadcasting their own matches. (Donald Trump did a good job of destroying the USFL all by himself, but that's beside the point.) Nor could the National League of Professional Baseball Players stop the rival American League from playing from 1901 to 2000 when it merged with the NL to form Major League Baseball. Even today, independent professional baseball leagues outside MLB and its Minor League farm system continue to operate.
The use of a particular ball sport league's player performances in "rotisserie" or "fantasy sports" pools, on the other hand, has been the subject of lawsuits: STATS Inc. v. NBA and CDM v. MLB Advanced Media. In the latter, a federal appellate judge upheld that the players' association, not the league, owns the right to license player names and likenesses to rotisseries, and that sport statistics are uncopyrightable facts.
Does it take a company as big as WeightWatchers to convince curators/censors to make an exception to the Scunthorpe problem? Like Scunthorpe, WeightWatchers has embedded sexual slang in the middle.
Keep your server on if you want it to always be on.
Someone might be using Dropbox precisely because A. he doesn't already have a server, or B. he has a server at home but his ISP doesn't allow incoming connections. Should people in that situation instead lease a server on which to run file sync? That would cost substantially more per year than Dropbox's 2 GB plan.
File with attributes or alternative data streams was deleted, new file without either is created, new file no longer works in a program relying on those.
If it is, you use inofity
Do you mean inotify? And if so, does inotify work with all local file systems (not counting NFS)?
You may also be able to store the inode and checksum somewhere as a hint.
Provided the file system supports inodes, which usually means one that supports hard links to files. FAT doesn't, unless you count a file's first cluster as its "inode". So Dropbox drops extended attributes upon rename on a FAT volume. This is documented.
So your 'alternate data streams' file will have its primary data stream in the file on disk
Unless the file on disk gets renamed. Then how will the client continue to keep track?
It is impossible for them to sell it to you, unless you decide to buy.
It's hard to avoid buying. Some restaurants play cable TV news on large monitors, others sports. Even grocery stores play RIAA-controlled music over the PA system when an announcement isn't being made. And a fraction of your bill goes toward paying for the licenses to put those up.
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in [...] How can I prevent its $200 replacement from having, say, a keyboard problem two weeks later?
there is an implicit incorrect assumption in your calculation that any replacement would also break in the same way and in the same amount of time which is unlikely to be true.
In this scenario, the replacement broke in the same amount of time but in a different way.
Hell you would probably get fed up and buy something else
Bingo. I'm trying to skip to that step by finding something other than a Chromebook that's warranted as fit for purpose the first time.
so buy an Epson XP-440 all in one for $50 and only if you really need to print.
If you want to use 2-factor authentication without using a cell phone, you will "really need to print." Google won't let you use TOTP until you have two of the preferred 2FA methods (SMS, prompts through the Google Search app, FIDO U2F security key, and printed codes) set up, and only U2F and printed codes work without a phone.
if somebody asks to look at my PC
And then "somebody" presses Space as prompted and then Enter as prompted. Now what happened to your Crouton?
Other than as a last-ditch backup, I have no need for cloud-based anything.
Unless you're collaborating with a co-worker or client or whatever in another city. In that case, would you instead pay to lease a VPS to host your source code repositories, file drops, chat servers, etc.? Is that still "cloud"?
And if you are doing everything browser-based, then why not get a tablet and add a keyboard
True, you could buy a tablet, a keyboard, and a case to hold the tablet and keyboard in place while you are using both on your lap. People suggested this sort of workaround back in fourth quarter 2012 when manufacturers discontinued 10" netbooks. But the combination of these can prove more expensive than a laptop form factor.
Correct I'm saying I don't know how to. I'd be interested to read the HOWTO document you've written about setting it up.
Go to Europe.
How much does it cost a U.S. citizen to learn the local language (especially post-Brexit), qualify for a work visa, obtain it, and move? A ballpark figure for a couple common scenarios is fine.
Do you really care on a cheap Chromebook? If it's a several thousand dollar piece of kit and/or you are on a tight budget I get it
If, say, the power jack breaks two weeks in, then I've paid $200 for a computer that lasted two weeks. How can I prevent its $200 replacement from having, say, a keyboard problem two weeks later? In the limiting case, that is an annualized price of $5,200 per year to own a computer. Does that qualify as "several thousand dollar piece of kit"?
Does anyone actually offer a 2 year warranty on a Chromebook?
I don't know whether that's offered for Chromebooks in third quarter 2018. I was referring to the 2-year Dell extended warranty that I bought in March 2010 along with a non-Chromebook netbook. I ended up getting its power jack fixed under warranty.
How would the Dropbox client application maintain the association between the parent file and "some other files" even if the user renames the parent file?
Hobbyists/enthusiasts realize their linux already has scp (all the distributions at this point), and so does any machine they may use. So they have DIY dropbox.
How does this work if both machines aren't turned on at the same time? Or if both are behind a NAT operated by the ISP?
To me, a file sync means to replace Dropbox would have to offer all of these features or something extra that is compelling enough to offset the lack of these features.
1. Safe from fire, flood, or other natural disaster (which backup media stored at home isn't)
2. Can be accessed through the Internet, even if both sides are not turned on at once or are behind a NAT that you do not control (which rules out some P2P solutions, as well as home hosting in countries where carrier-grade NAT is common)
3. Offers at least 1 GB of space without charge (leasing a VPS on which to run your own cloud sync requires recurring charges to a credit card)
4. Can share files between your GNU/Linux PC and your collaborator's Windows PC
Which "good self-installed alternatives" check these boxes?
Read file, write file, check timestamp. That's all Dropbox needs.
That and making sure no other application is writing at the same time Dropbox is reading or vice versa.
All filesystems provide this through uniform OS calls.
Until the OS returns the error code meaning "The file system on which this path is stored does not support this operation." Some file systems might return an error code like this for locking, symlinks, alternate data streams, extended attributes, or whatever other "uniform OS calls" Dropbox tries. Restricting file systems to those that fully support the required "uniform OS calls" reduces maintenance costs.
Or how would you recommend to sync a file containing alternate data streams to a file system that returns an error code when an application attempts to write one?
Visual Studio Code works with primarily text files and perhaps executables. Dropbox has to be able to sync any file, including files that contain alternate data streams and extended attributes. That's a bit more of an involved job.
One difference is that a free software developer can often get an application packaged in the major GNU/Linux distributions' repositories, where fans of each distribution will do much of the integration work to keep an application running under that distribution. Proprietary software doesn't have that luxury.
There is no case where photoshop cares about the filesystem it runs from.
This is because the Adobe Photoshop file format doesn't use alternate data streams or extended attributes. Dropbox, by contrast, has to sync arbitrary files created by programs that may use these optional file system features.
Occasionally I need to tweak a graphic or Word document which I can do via tVNC on my old desktop.
For work I use Citrix to get into my desktop.
But can you work through these remote access methods on your bus/train commute, where you don't have Wi-Fi? If not, then you'd have to include a mobile broadband subscription in the total cost of owning a Chromebook. Furthermore, if all home ISPs in your area use carrier-grade NAT, as Bert64 mentioned is the case in Myanmar, you'll also have to subscribe to a VPN tunnel so your desktop can receive VNC connections while you're away from home.
we can all afford multiple devices and cloud services.
To which "we [...] all" do you refer, especially prior to tax-funded basic income? I still see people in various chat rooms complaining that they can't do this or that in an application's mobile version and have no way to afford "a computer" to work around it. Granted, many of them are still in high school or college.