A lot of the larger corporates are moving away from physical desktops towards having virtual desktops and thin clients.
How much are these corporates spending on Terminal Server client access licenses (CALs) to allow virtual Windows desktops to work? Or are they instead using virtual FreeBSD or GNU/Linux desktops?
Because the alternative is native applications, which are specific to one operating system. If you have a Mac, you see an application that looks interesting to you, only to have to turn away because it's Windows-only. Or if you have anything but a Mac, you see an application that looks interesting to you, only to have to turn away because it's Mac-only. Do you want to have to return to that environment, where you have to buy multiple computers and operating system licenses just to run all the applications in your work flow?
Why would you drive to a store when Amazon will deliver for free?
Latency, especially when a weekend is involved. It takes two business days for a Prime order to arrive or even longer for a nonsubscriber's Super Saver Shipping order to arrive. It also takes years for a movie to show up on flat-fee streaming services.
Even the most expensive iTunes rentals today are simply on par with what Blockbuster was charging decades ago.
That may be true of urban wired Internet, not so much of satellite or cellular Internet where many plans still have data transfer overage fees on the order of 5 to 10 USD per gigabyte.
The most recent economic recovery hasn't resulted in a lot of wage growth. Thus economic circumstances have forced a lot of late Xers and millennials to move back in with parents, exposing them to a baby boomer's TV tray habits.
Once the majority of featured articles on the front page of Slashdot at any given time use adblock detection, it'll become less practical to just "Try a different website."
Call up your local ISP and ask for the "I'm a cheap bastard"(*) internet plan. The speed will suck, but it'll be unlimited for like $10 or $20/mo.
(They're all required by law to offer it, but only cheap bastards use it.)
Are even satellite and cellular ISPs required to offer unmetered service? Because many less populated areas are outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, and DSL, particularly areas where farmers have to upload big files to a crop consultant.
And that's because the official branding started to shift from Macintosh to Mac around the 10.0 era, right? 10.0 is when the line ending changed from the 0x0D inherited from ProDOS to the 0x0A used by UNIX.
There are some general classes of software that the free software community has historically failed to provide. Three big ones among these are original high-production-value video games, players for rented motion pictures, and income tax return preparation. (I've described why these tend to be non-free in another article.) In order to provide these to end users, a repository needs to support packages that are not released under a free software license but instead paywalled. This in turn requires the repository's operator to make some friction-free provision for payment processing.
GNU/Linux and *BSD repositories contain mostly free software. It's slightly less dishonest to claim that Apple popularized the repository of proprietary software, though it's still not completely honest because of Xbox Live Arcade that preceded it.
Since when does a home IP address uniquely identify a person? In cases like North American wired Internet, an IP address uniquely identifies a household. In cases with carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), an IP address uniquely identifies no less than an entire neighborhood. Mobile ISPs also tend to use CGNAT. Another suggestion is to post from a public place instead of home while building your initial comment karma, such as a coffee shop.
If a vendor is selling to market that needs an on-prem requirement, it's a non-starter to not offer such a feature.
Many vendors, after doing their market research, have concluded that on-premises requirements such as yours are a rounding error. The benefit of satisfying them does not exceed the opportunity cost of monopoly rents that can be extracted by not satisfying them.
Indeed, fortunately you can make that distinction when a warning is presented to you about that device you're trying to access, as is the case already.
You, I, and the other more-technical users who regularly read Slashdot can make that decision, but we are edge cases. Less-technical users would be helped if browsers used slightly less threatening language on the interstitial for the less-dangerous case of a self-signed certificate presented by a device on the same subnet of the user's home network. The browser may distinguish the (less dangerous) home network from the (more dangerous) coffee shop network by the local IP subnet prefix (in RFC 1918 space), public IP address (a home ISP often gives the/16 when renewing DHCP), SSID, open/WPA status, gateway MAC, etc. Such a message would prompt the user to check that the certificate fingerprint matches rather than knee-jerk "back to safety".
you need a cooling system for times when you can't immediately use that energy. Like say some big load suddenly goes offline and it takes time for the reactor to reduce its heat output
Could a reactor faced with a sudden significant reduction in load dump excess electric power into a football field-sized battery comparable to Tesla's Hornsdale Energy Reserve?
Scenario 2 is exactly the kind of thing HTTPS and modern browsers protect against. When you attempt to visit an HTTPS site, your browser will not just begin fetching unencrypted components.
That used to be the case. It has since changed with the introduction of captive portal detection in the major web browsers. If a web browser gets a certificate error, it will try fetching something over cleartext HTTP like example.com. If that turns out to be MITM'd, the web browser will assume that you're on a network that requires all users to sign in, such as a coffee-shop LAN, and open the sign-in page in a new window.
Infuriating, considering 20 years ago the word ran maps oblivious to javascript settings
It was equally infuriating to click "Scroll", wait for a full page reload moved by half a screen, click "Scroll", wait for a full page reload moved by half a screen, click "Zoom", wait for a full page reload zoomed in or out by a factor of 2, etc.
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A lot of the larger corporates are moving away from physical desktops towards having virtual desktops and thin clients.
How much are these corporates spending on Terminal Server client access licenses (CALs) to allow virtual Windows desktops to work? Or are they instead using virtual FreeBSD or GNU/Linux desktops?
Because the alternative is native applications, which are specific to one operating system. If you have a Mac, you see an application that looks interesting to you, only to have to turn away because it's Windows-only. Or if you have anything but a Mac, you see an application that looks interesting to you, only to have to turn away because it's Mac-only. Do you want to have to return to that environment, where you have to buy multiple computers and operating system licenses just to run all the applications in your work flow?
Now that you've wished the atrocities of the Holocaust on another person, I can NOT SEE myself promoting your Hosts File Engine anymore.
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Why would you drive to a store when Amazon will deliver for free?
Latency, especially when a weekend is involved. It takes two business days for a Prime order to arrive or even longer for a nonsubscriber's Super Saver Shipping order to arrive. It also takes years for a movie to show up on flat-fee streaming services.
Even the most expensive iTunes rentals today are simply on par with what Blockbuster was charging decades ago.
That may be true of urban wired Internet, not so much of satellite or cellular Internet where many plans still have data transfer overage fees on the order of 5 to 10 USD per gigabyte.
The most recent economic recovery hasn't resulted in a lot of wage growth. Thus economic circumstances have forced a lot of late Xers and millennials to move back in with parents, exposing them to a baby boomer's TV tray habits.
Once the majority of featured articles on the front page of Slashdot at any given time use adblock detection, it'll become less practical to just "Try a different website."
Anonymous Coward wrote:
Call up your local ISP and ask for the "I'm a cheap bastard"(*) internet plan. /mo.
The speed will suck, but it'll be unlimited for like $10 or $20
(They're all required by law to offer it, but only cheap bastards use it.)
Are even satellite and cellular ISPs required to offer unmetered service? Because many less populated areas are outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, and DSL, particularly areas where farmers have to upload big files to a crop consultant.
And that's because the official branding started to shift from Macintosh to Mac around the 10.0 era, right? 10.0 is when the line ending changed from the 0x0D inherited from ProDOS to the 0x0A used by UNIX.
Plenty of books, especially tech books, add chapters in new editions.
The application said "PC/Mac" on the box.
Who funded the manufacture of the box and the delivery to users, particularly before an application reached the first stable version?
The Trojan said "condoms" on the box.
Not all of them did. See "Trojan horse (computing)" on Wikipedia.
There are some general classes of software that the free software community has historically failed to provide. Three big ones among these are original high-production-value video games, players for rented motion pictures, and income tax return preparation. (I've described why these tend to be non-free in another article.) In order to provide these to end users, a repository needs to support packages that are not released under a free software license but instead paywalled. This in turn requires the repository's operator to make some friction-free provision for payment processing.
When grand-pappy was new to computers, how did he distinguish an application from a trojan?
How much does PayPal take out of a 99 cent purchase? My research says 33 cents, which is a slightly greater share (1/3) than Apple's.
GNU/Linux and *BSD repositories contain mostly free software. It's slightly less dishonest to claim that Apple popularized the repository of proprietary software, though it's still not completely honest because of Xbox Live Arcade that preceded it.
When you use a VPN, you're judged for using the same IP address that several other people have used to post abusive messages in the past.
Does Walmart still sell only edited CDs?
uniquely identifying home IP address
Since when does a home IP address uniquely identify a person? In cases like North American wired Internet, an IP address uniquely identifies a household. In cases with carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), an IP address uniquely identifies no less than an entire neighborhood. Mobile ISPs also tend to use CGNAT. Another suggestion is to post from a public place instead of home while building your initial comment karma, such as a coffee shop.
If a vendor is selling to market that needs an on-prem requirement, it's a non-starter to not offer such a feature.
Many vendors, after doing their market research, have concluded that on-premises requirements such as yours are a rounding error. The benefit of satisfying them does not exceed the opportunity cost of monopoly rents that can be extracted by not satisfying them.
Indeed, fortunately you can make that distinction when a warning is presented to you about that device you're trying to access, as is the case already.
You, I, and the other more-technical users who regularly read Slashdot can make that decision, but we are edge cases. Less-technical users would be helped if browsers used slightly less threatening language on the interstitial for the less-dangerous case of a self-signed certificate presented by a device on the same subnet of the user's home network. The browser may distinguish the (less dangerous) home network from the (more dangerous) coffee shop network by the local IP subnet prefix (in RFC 1918 space), public IP address (a home ISP often gives the /16 when renewing DHCP), SSID, open/WPA status, gateway MAC, etc. Such a message would prompt the user to check that the certificate fingerprint matches rather than knee-jerk "back to safety".
you need a cooling system for times when you can't immediately use that energy. Like say some big load suddenly goes offline and it takes time for the reactor to reduce its heat output
Could a reactor faced with a sudden significant reduction in load dump excess electric power into a football field-sized battery comparable to Tesla's Hornsdale Energy Reserve?
"Like what you see? Drop some coins in my hat at Hatreon." Got a nice ring to it.
Scenario 2 is exactly the kind of thing HTTPS and modern browsers protect against. When you attempt to visit an HTTPS site, your browser will not just begin fetching unencrypted components.
That used to be the case. It has since changed with the introduction of captive portal detection in the major web browsers. If a web browser gets a certificate error, it will try fetching something over cleartext HTTP like example.com. If that turns out to be MITM'd, the web browser will assume that you're on a network that requires all users to sign in, such as a coffee-shop LAN, and open the sign-in page in a new window.
[The price of a FQDN] is irrelevant since the GP was postulating being demoted in search results
The summary mentions not only Search but also Chrome.
Infuriating, considering 20 years ago the word ran maps oblivious to javascript settings
It was equally infuriating to click "Scroll", wait for a full page reload moved by half a screen, click "Scroll", wait for a full page reload moved by half a screen, click "Zoom", wait for a full page reload zoomed in or out by a factor of 2, etc.