The DiMAGE X shipped 17 years ago. How likely is it that Huawei was sitting on this one for a couple years, waiting for Sony's patents to run out? (Sony bought Konica Minolta's camera unit in 2006.)
It means nobody will take your money to let you host a website in the first place because any company that hosts your website risks getting in trouble should you upload someone else's work without permission.
If an HTML document on a given domain is using CSS to set a cursor, but the user hasn't opted in to showing site-supplied cursors on that domain, it would start in state B.
Have a perfectly good chat system that runs locally and beats the shit out of whatever your "web chat" is doing. It works with every OS I've ever heard of.
How does a small team go about making "a perfectly good chat system that runs locally" on all desktop and mobile operating systems? And how do prospective users go about obtaining permission to install "a perfectly good chat system that runs locally" on the computers that they use?
Provided that 1. the game is ported to your platform (it often isn't, particularly for minority platforms like X11/Linux and macOS) and 2. you have permission from the device's owner or in some cases the device's manufacturer to install the game (a user often doesn't).
Comcast owns universal. That's one of the biggest labels in the MPAA.
True, but not entirely relevant to the present article. Both Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group were spun off from their respective movie studios in 2004. Comcast has owned NBCUniversal since 2011, but Vivendi still owns Universal Music Group. Among major labels, only Sony has managed to hang on to its movie studio.
It's time to start teaching them the opposite lesson. Turn it off. If a site is broken that way when all it had to do was show you some text and pictures, or link to a video or two, that site was not your friend.
Without script, how would an HTML document representing a chat channel pull in new messages? As far as I can tell, it'd need to rely on an iframe that sends <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://example.com/"/> which would cause an annoying flash every 10 seconds as the entire message pane reloads from scratch.
Or would you instead prefer that the website offer a companion native app? Some sites do, but rarely for all relevant platforms (Windows, macOS, X11/Linux AMD64, X11/Linux ARM, iOS, and Android). And even on platforms where the companion native app is available, it's rarely RAM-efficient; I measured the Electron-based Skype for Linux app as using over 500 MB of RAM.
Or would you instead prefer that the website offer service using a standard protocol, such as IRC, to which the user can connect using an existing native application that the user can easily obtain for all major platforms? Limits of the IRC protocol include no avatar images, no chat history (even if a channel wants to use it), no sending files from a device behind NAT, and no reactions to a message.
How do you know when you're at a resizable corner of an object? Your cursor changes
Ideally, one of the following would be the case:
A. The user hasn't yet whitelisted JavaScript on the domain and therefore the site neither knows nor cares where the user is "at". B. The user has whitelisted JavaScript on the domain but not site-supplied cursor images. The site changes the cursor to a system-defined resize cursor, not an image supplied by the site. C. The user has whitelisted cursor theming for this site. This would rarely happen except for games.
Indeed, in a desktop Linux system, the X Window System is a more salient and less replaceable part than GNU. The Alpine Linux distribution has shown this by replacing GNU with musl and BusyBox, though it appears to still use GCC instead of Clang. So I've taken to referring to the desktop stack as "X11/Linux".
I'm trying to say the fraction of households with "access to inexpensive high-speed internet" is greater in Finland than in the less-dense half of the USA, whose density resembles that of Finland.
Indeed, the lead section of FSF's directory of free software for Windows takes a pragmatic approach by replacing pieces of the Windows user space with free software one at a time in order to make the transition to X11/Linux less abrupt.
Here is a list of popular free software applications that run on Microsoft Windows — along with the proprietary applications they replace. If you are still a Windows user, you can take a first step towards free software by installing these applications.
[Spiel about freedom, not price, the opportunity to others to fix free software that you use, and Windows being an example of user subjugation]
Using free software on Microsoft Windows (or any nonfree operating system) is the first step towards freedom, but it does not get you all the way there. You're still under Microsoft's power as long as you use Windows.
However, on this page we're concerned with the first step.
There are plenty of ways to run GNU grep on Windows. Among these are MSYS, Cygwin, and Windows 10's WSL. I think I first experienced MSYS around 2003 or so, when the installer for devkitARM included it.
"Linear" means different things in different contexts. In high school, a "linear equation" in fact means affine equation. "Linear" doesn't gain the specialized meaning related to the superposition principle until college.
Go with wireless - not as high quality, but at a price that means people will actually be able to afford it.
I fail to understand how $10 per GB (source: Verizon's website) is "a price that means people will actually be able to afford it", particularly when uploading a large data set to a crop consultant.
If you live out in BFE, you already know how to live with satellite or at best a cell data plan.
And they currently make do with sneakernet over motor vehicles. whose exhaust pollutes the air. From an interview:
Dominic Girard: Rural America, likely lots of agriculture and that is very much the case here. Farmers like any other business need the internet to do their work, but here’s the thing. Farmers in this region can’t even do the most of basic stuff with their existing internet speeds. Mark Erickson, he gives this example.
Mark Erickson: They create these files that they need to then upload to their crop advisor and they would start the download at 6 o’clock at night and at 6 o’clock in the morning, it wasn’t finished yet because it was so slow or it had timed out and they had to restart it. They would take hours and hours as it was actually cheaper and quicker for them to drive it 50 or 60 miles and drive back.
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The DiMAGE X shipped 17 years ago. How likely is it that Huawei was sitting on this one for a couple years, waiting for Sony's patents to run out? (Sony bought Konica Minolta's camera unit in 2006.)
It means nobody will take your money to let you host a website in the first place because any company that hosts your website risks getting in trouble should you upload someone else's work without permission.
If an HTML document on a given domain is using CSS to set a cursor, but the user hasn't opted in to showing site-supplied cursors on that domain, it would start in state B.
Have a perfectly good chat system that runs locally and beats the shit out of whatever your "web chat" is doing. It works with every OS I've ever heard of.
How does a small team go about making "a perfectly good chat system that runs locally" on all desktop and mobile operating systems? And how do prospective users go about obtaining permission to install "a perfectly good chat system that runs locally" on the computers that they use?
Good games run locally, at least in large part
Provided that 1. the game is ported to your platform (it often isn't, particularly for minority platforms like X11/Linux and macOS) and 2. you have permission from the device's owner or in some cases the device's manufacturer to install the game (a user often doesn't).
Comcast owns universal. That's one of the biggest labels in the MPAA.
True, but not entirely relevant to the present article. Both Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group were spun off from their respective movie studios in 2004. Comcast has owned NBCUniversal since 2011, but Vivendi still owns Universal Music Group. Among major labels, only Sony has managed to hang on to its movie studio.
[Expletive] you and your "web games" and "immersive experience" [nonsense].
In what way would a reasonable person consider a "SORRY! This game is not yet available for your platform." screen superior to a web game?
It's time to start teaching them the opposite lesson. Turn it off. If a site is broken that way when all it had to do was show you some text and pictures, or link to a video or two, that site was not your friend.
Without script, how would an HTML document representing a chat channel pull in new messages? As far as I can tell, it'd need to rely on an iframe that sends <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://example.com/" /> which would cause an annoying flash every 10 seconds as the entire message pane reloads from scratch.
Or would you instead prefer that the website offer a companion native app? Some sites do, but rarely for all relevant platforms (Windows, macOS, X11/Linux AMD64, X11/Linux ARM, iOS, and Android). And even on platforms where the companion native app is available, it's rarely RAM-efficient; I measured the Electron-based Skype for Linux app as using over 500 MB of RAM.
Or would you instead prefer that the website offer service using a standard protocol, such as IRC, to which the user can connect using an existing native application that the user can easily obtain for all major platforms? Limits of the IRC protocol include no avatar images, no chat history (even if a channel wants to use it), no sending files from a device behind NAT, and no reactions to a message.
How do you know when you're at a resizable corner of an object? Your cursor changes
Ideally, one of the following would be the case:
A. The user hasn't yet whitelisted JavaScript on the domain and therefore the site neither knows nor cares where the user is "at".
B. The user has whitelisted JavaScript on the domain but not site-supplied cursor images. The site changes the cursor to a system-defined resize cursor, not an image supplied by the site.
C. The user has whitelisted cursor theming for this site. This would rarely happen except for games.
the large publishers have all stopped the "we esports" part of PR for every new title
Which raises another question: How do Comcast and participating players plan to handle cases where a video game publisher withdraws copyright permission to stream matches of the publisher's game from Comcast?
the competitive VISA/Mastercard universe actually save money over the security risk of dealing in cash.
Even for individual merchants at yard/garage sales, whose average transaction is $5 or much less?
USAA
Are services provided by USAA worth joining the military?
Costco membership required
Annual fee: $60 (source)
Prime membership required
Annual fee: $119 (source) or $59 for students at a U.S. university whose email domain is within the .edu TLD (source)
How well does Android Debug Bridge work on apps whose debuggable attribute has been set to false?
All the rest is just window dressing.
Good luck making an application for use by end users that doesn't depend on said "window dressing."
Indeed, in a desktop Linux system, the X Window System is a more salient and less replaceable part than GNU. The Alpine Linux distribution has shown this by replacing GNU with musl and BusyBox, though it appears to still use GCC instead of Clang. So I've taken to referring to the desktop stack as "X11/Linux".
I much prefer {GNU libc, GNU compiler collection, GNU emacs, etc.}/Linux.
Which comes fairly close to the spirit of my "Coreutils plus two" definition.
I'm trying to say the fraction of households with "access to inexpensive high-speed internet" is greater in Finland than in the less-dense half of the USA, whose density resembles that of Finland.
Up until there's a completely free Stallman improved Linux that just works on every hardware configuration out there.
The other option is to wait until you would have normally replaced your laptop anyway and then buy a Respects Your Freedom(tm) certified laptop.
Till then I'll move closer and closer to his ideal so long as it provides working solutions for my work and gaming needs.
AAA-caliber gaming is one part of the software market where FSF has been conspicuous by its absence.
Indeed, the lead section of FSF's directory of free software for Windows takes a pragmatic approach by replacing pieces of the Windows user space with free software one at a time in order to make the transition to X11/Linux less abrupt.
How easy is it to run apps made for "just 'Linux'" on an Android device, which uses Linux as its kernel?
There are plenty of ways to run GNU grep on Windows. Among these are MSYS, Cygwin, and Windows 10's WSL. I think I first experienced MSYS around 2003 or so, when the installer for devkitARM included it.
"Linear" means different things in different contexts. In high school, a "linear equation" in fact means affine equation. "Linear" doesn't gain the specialized meaning related to the superposition principle until college.
Go with wireless - not as high quality, but at a price that means people will actually be able to afford it.
I fail to understand how $10 per GB (source: Verizon's website) is "a price that means people will actually be able to afford it", particularly when uploading a large data set to a crop consultant.
If you live out in BFE, you already know how to live with satellite or at best a cell data plan.
And they currently make do with sneakernet over motor vehicles. whose exhaust pollutes the air. From an interview:
Why do you hate the air? :p
Half the US population
It's interesting that you say "half", as Finland has high-speed Internet with roughly half the population density of the USA.
Finland: 17 people per km^2
USA: 35 people per km^2