Until you reach the monthly quota that your cellular ISP imposes. After that point, enjoy paying $10 per gigabyte (on some plans) or getting throttled back to 0.1 Mbps on 2G (on other plans).
Wouldn't it be better to be able to buy what we want once and then watch them when ever and where ever we want?
For things you repeatedly rewatch, such as a single-digit-year-old child's favorite animated movie, that would be better. Otherwise, you're paying $10+ to watch a movie or a TV season once, and it's cheaper to binge, switch, binge, switch. And once you switch back, you end up seeing a different selection with new stuff to binge watch.
I don't see how sub-1080p resolution necessarily makes a subnotebook "unusable". The first two generations of iPad were 1024x768, and the first generation netbooks were 1024x600. The diagonal measure of a 1366x768 square pixel display is 1567 pixels. At 11.6 inches on the Stream 11, that's 135 DPI, or almost double the 72 DPI that of classic Mac computers.
The display of the OLPC XO-1 has a 1200x900 pixel resolution, but the way its color backlight works makes it perceptually comparable to somewhere between 800x600 and 1024x768. So if a Stream 11 is "unusable", so is an XO-1.
Subscribe to one streaming service for one month, binge watch all interesting works exclusive thereto, cancel, and switch to the next streaming service.
Enjoy paying $30 per PC for Internet data transfer quota overages at $10 per GB when your PCs all decide to automatically download a 3 GB semiannual operating system feature upgrade.
Lack of self-hosting. While the idea of allowing people to write programs on the OLPC was there, that was never really all that practical. The software wasn't up to snuff and the documentation was lacking. Thus the OLPC ended up feeling much more like a consumer-only device, like a modern Android tablet, than a machine you could build stuff with yourself.
Yet the inability to self-host* hasn't stopped the sales of iPad tablets and Chromebooks. Access to the GNU or LLVM development toolchain with the possibility for output through a GUI toolkit is the one thing I miss after the end of netbooks. Or are people desiring a subnotebook-sized device for writing programs expected to hoard used netbooks and learn to, say, replace individual lithium ion cells in their battery packs?
Yes netbooks were crappy but they still put a constant pressure on OEMs to make cheaper notebooks and lowered all prices for consumer mobile computers.
And for a few glorious years, one could buy subnotebook-sized PCs at entry-level prices. They had an Atom CPU that could run full desktop operating systems at roughly Pentium 4 speeds, not the fastest but still usable. Thus one could use them to work on hobby programming projects while riding transit to and from a day job. Then Apple released the iPad and MacBook Air, and laptop makers dropped the entry-level subnotebook segment in favor of tablets and Ultrabook laptops with a higher profit margin.
IRC has that, it’s called hyperlinks to whatever you want( its up to the client to implement tho)
To what server would the client upload said media in order to produce a hyperlink? IRC server software distributions tend not to bundle a file drop for use by the server's members. This means each user has to lease web hosting for the file drop.
I will admit that IRC lacks ( at last most networks) a server side chat history but thst is a limitation that will dissapeer if enugh users wantit I think.
ZNC is one popular example of an IRC proxy program called a "bouncer" that remains connected to an IRC server and saves chat history on behalf of a user so that the user can view it once he reconnects to the bouncer. But IRC server software distributions tend not to bundle a bouncer for use by the server's members. This means each user has to lease a shell account for the bouncer.
To use a federated open protocol, so that I can communicate with users who do not use the same provider. Again, with email I can communicate with people who host their own service, people who use an employer-provided service, people who use a free service such as GMail or Hotmail, without any problems.
In a federated protocol, other providers can refuse to communicate with a provider that they deem abusive. SMTP servers, for example, often use RBLs to refuse messages from dynamic IP addresses on grounds that the vast majority of home MTAs are spam zombies, not especially technical home users who host their own service on a home ISP. Instead, they accept messages only A. from data centers (on port 25) or B. from their own subscribers (on port 587 with authentication). So how does a provider convince other providers that the provider is not abusive?
Oh, and in an ideal world it wouldn't involve PHP. Anywhere.
I'm told PHP running on Zend Engine 3 is faster than the equivalent Python running on CPython 3. What makes PHP any worse than, say, ECMAScript? Many of Eevee's complaints against mirror Douglas Crockford's against JavaScript, as I've described elsewhere.
Websites using http to send/set/read session (...) cookies deserve to be hacked.
Does this include of your home router, printer, or NAS box? The login page of home network devices like these probably uses cleartext HTTP because several usability problems with running a private HTTPS server still have not been solved for less-technical users.
In mainstream web browsers, the warning for a cleartext HTTP connection is still not as scary as the warning for an HTTPS certificate from an unknown issuer. And when displaying this warning, mainstream web browsers make no distinction among the same subnet on a home LAN, the same subnet on a coffee shop LAN, and the public Internet. This makes the "trust on first use" model of SSH, where the user is expected to compare the key fingerprint presented to the client with the fingerprint presented out of band, less practical.
Most home users aren't technical enough to operate a private certificate authority, install its root certificate into the trusted certificate repository of each browser on each device that they use, and issue a certificate to each of these home network appliances. Nor are most home users technical enough to find one of the few gratis DDNS providers that is on the Public Suffix List and set up an automated integration with both the DDNS provider and Let's Encrypt.
The Atlantic's troubleshooting guide deliberately treats users of tracking blockers the same as users of ad blockers, insistently referring to "ad or tracking blockers" in the same breath each time. The wording appears intentionally constructed to dodge "I want the ads, just not the tracking." My first guess is that ads that are not based on tracking users, such as those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs, have a CPM much lower than ads that are based on tracking users, and this lower CPM is lower than the lowest CPM that will fully fund both the writing and the hosting of The Atlantic.
Dude, you literally said, "the missiles are coming". WTF?
I wasn't aware of any substantive limits that the English phrase "are coming" places on time frame. The one time limit I can think of is based on when the President would lose authority to act on this threat, namely January 2021. Thus the President was technically correct (the best kind of correct). One might liken the missiles of the US Armed Forces to the unpredictable "thief in the night" that Paul of Tarsus mentioned in his first letter to the congregation at Thessaloniki.
It's an urban myth that you need a Mac desktop for macOS/iOS development. There are online services out there now that build for macOS and iOS
Correct. You can use a laptop (MacBook) instead of a desktop (Mac Pro, iMac, or Mac mini). But if you have neither, I imagine the latency added by having to VNC to a Mac VPS in order to test the Mac port of an application is likely to give you a false impression of the responsiveness of its user interface.
they even upload the resultant binaries to iTunes Connect. e.g.: Bitrise.io
How do these build services send a test build to your iPhone or iPad if you haven't connected them to a Mac through a USB to Lightning cable?
I can't find any good excuse to Microsoft for releasing Windows 10 in 32bit in 64bit in 2015.
Dell is still selling new PCs with 2 GB of RAM. What benefit does x86-64 have over x86 on a machine with 2 GB of RAM? Does the increased register count outweigh the additional data cache misses from larger pointers, particularly on a system without the so-called "x32" ABI?
Is hardware repair, including replacing surface-mounted capacitors and remanufacturing lithium ion battery packs, something that every individual user is expected to learn?
Netflix already does that with a theater in Los Angeles in order to qualify for Academy Awards. But French law differs from that of the USA. By French media chronology law, doing what you suggest would require Netflix to make the movies in question unavailable on its own service for 36 months after release.
Why do I get the feeling that the big Hollywood studios are behind this?
It's not the studios as much as the theater owners. The studios want to shorten the release windows, to the point of offering BD, DVD, or a la carte VOD at the tail end of a movie's 4-month theatrical run instead of waiting for its conclusion. The studios want to earn some money from people who would otherwise settle for infringing cam/telesync/screener rips, while theater owners don't want to have to compete with legitimate home theater.
ts not just Cannes, the Oscars also has rules requiring a theatrical release.
Unlike the Cannes festival, which requires a release in France, the Academy Awards require a release in Los Angeles in the USA. Unlike France, the USA lacks national regulation of motion picture release windows. This means after a movie completes its 7-day run in LA, it can go straight to Netflix with no mandatory 36-month waiting period.
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my cell phone data plan works great
Until you reach the monthly quota that your cellular ISP imposes. After that point, enjoy paying $10 per gigabyte (on some plans) or getting throttled back to 0.1 Mbps on 2G (on other plans).
Wouldn't it be better to be able to buy what we want once and then watch them when ever and where ever we want?
For things you repeatedly rewatch, such as a single-digit-year-old child's favorite animated movie, that would be better. Otherwise, you're paying $10+ to watch a movie or a TV season once, and it's cheaper to binge, switch, binge, switch. And once you switch back, you end up seeing a different selection with new stuff to binge watch.
I don't see how sub-1080p resolution necessarily makes a subnotebook "unusable". The first two generations of iPad were 1024x768, and the first generation netbooks were 1024x600. The diagonal measure of a 1366x768 square pixel display is 1567 pixels. At 11.6 inches on the Stream 11, that's 135 DPI, or almost double the 72 DPI that of classic Mac computers.
The display of the OLPC XO-1 has a 1200x900 pixel resolution, but the way its color backlight works makes it perceptually comparable to somewhere between 800x600 and 1024x768. So if a Stream 11 is "unusable", so is an XO-1.
Subscribe to one streaming service for one month, binge watch all interesting works exclusive thereto, cancel, and switch to the next streaming service.
Enjoy paying $30 per PC for Internet data transfer quota overages at $10 per GB when your PCs all decide to automatically download a 3 GB semiannual operating system feature upgrade.
It appears;
"no access at all" = "no wired ISP service to home"
It appears there is no other way possible for any of the people living in those homes to EVER be able get on the internet.
Assuming that's sarcasm: Would you be more willing to drop "wired" or to drop "to home"?
$30 Raspberry Pi? Plus a power supply, screen, keyboard and a mouse.
How much would all those and a portable case (for use as if it were a laptop) cost?
Lack of self-hosting. While the idea of allowing people to write programs on the OLPC was there, that was never really all that practical. The software wasn't up to snuff and the documentation was lacking. Thus the OLPC ended up feeling much more like a consumer-only device, like a modern Android tablet, than a machine you could build stuff with yourself.
Yet the inability to self-host* hasn't stopped the sales of iPad tablets and Chromebooks. Access to the GNU or LLVM development toolchain with the possibility for output through a GUI toolkit is the one thing I miss after the end of netbooks. Or are people desiring a subnotebook-sized device for writing programs expected to hoard used netbooks and learn to, say, replace individual lithium ion cells in their battery packs?
* By which I mean self-host without self-destructing like a developer mode Chromebook.
Yes netbooks were crappy but they still put a constant pressure on OEMs to make cheaper notebooks and lowered all prices for consumer mobile computers.
And for a few glorious years, one could buy subnotebook-sized PCs at entry-level prices. They had an Atom CPU that could run full desktop operating systems at roughly Pentium 4 speeds, not the fastest but still usable. Thus one could use them to work on hobby programming projects while riding transit to and from a day job. Then Apple released the iPad and MacBook Air, and laptop makers dropped the entry-level subnotebook segment in favor of tablets and Ultrabook laptops with a higher profit margin.
IRC has that, it’s called hyperlinks to whatever you want( its up to the client to implement tho)
To what server would the client upload said media in order to produce a hyperlink? IRC server software distributions tend not to bundle a file drop for use by the server's members. This means each user has to lease web hosting for the file drop.
I will admit that IRC lacks ( at last most networks) a server side chat history but thst is a limitation that will dissapeer if enugh users wantit I think.
ZNC is one popular example of an IRC proxy program called a "bouncer" that remains connected to an IRC server and saves chat history on behalf of a user so that the user can view it once he reconnects to the bouncer. But IRC server software distributions tend not to bundle a bouncer for use by the server's members. This means each user has to lease a shell account for the bouncer.
And if they value privacy why do they require an email or phone number to sign up?
Through what other means do you expect users to receive a synchronizer token to reset their authentication credentials?
To use a federated open protocol, so that I can communicate with users who do not use the same provider. Again, with email I can communicate with people who host their own service, people who use an employer-provided service, people who use a free service such as GMail or Hotmail, without any problems.
In a federated protocol, other providers can refuse to communicate with a provider that they deem abusive. SMTP servers, for example, often use RBLs to refuse messages from dynamic IP addresses on grounds that the vast majority of home MTAs are spam zombies, not especially technical home users who host their own service on a home ISP. Instead, they accept messages only A. from data centers (on port 25) or B. from their own subscribers (on port 587 with authentication). So how does a provider convince other providers that the provider is not abusive?
Oh, and in an ideal world it wouldn't involve PHP. Anywhere.
I'm told PHP running on Zend Engine 3 is faster than the equivalent Python running on CPython 3. What makes PHP any worse than, say, ECMAScript? Many of Eevee's complaints against mirror Douglas Crockford's against JavaScript, as I've described elsewhere.
Websites using http to send/set/read session (...) cookies deserve to be hacked.
Does this include of your home router, printer, or NAS box? The login page of home network devices like these probably uses cleartext HTTP because several usability problems with running a private HTTPS server still have not been solved for less-technical users.
In mainstream web browsers, the warning for a cleartext HTTP connection is still not as scary as the warning for an HTTPS certificate from an unknown issuer. And when displaying this warning, mainstream web browsers make no distinction among the same subnet on a home LAN, the same subnet on a coffee shop LAN, and the public Internet. This makes the "trust on first use" model of SSH, where the user is expected to compare the key fingerprint presented to the client with the fingerprint presented out of band, less practical.
Most home users aren't technical enough to operate a private certificate authority, install its root certificate into the trusted certificate repository of each browser on each device that they use, and issue a certificate to each of these home network appliances. Nor are most home users technical enough to find one of the few gratis DDNS providers that is on the Public Suffix List and set up an automated integration with both the DDNS provider and Let's Encrypt.
The Atlantic's troubleshooting guide deliberately treats users of tracking blockers the same as users of ad blockers, insistently referring to "ad or tracking blockers" in the same breath each time. The wording appears intentionally constructed to dodge "I want the ads, just not the tracking." My first guess is that ads that are not based on tracking users, such as those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs, have a CPM much lower than ads that are based on tracking users, and this lower CPM is lower than the lowest CPM that will fully fund both the writing and the hosting of The Atlantic.
"are" != "will be". The word "are" is used in the present tense here.
So? "Simple Present for Future Events" and "Present Continuous for Future Arrangements" give examples of English present acting as future, such as "We are having a staff meeting next Monday." Thus in this context, the English tense distinction is more one of past as opposed to non-past.
Dude, you literally said, "the missiles are coming". WTF?
I wasn't aware of any substantive limits that the English phrase "are coming" places on time frame. The one time limit I can think of is based on when the President would lose authority to act on this threat, namely January 2021. Thus the President was technically correct (the best kind of correct). One might liken the missiles of the US Armed Forces to the unpredictable "thief in the night" that Paul of Tarsus mentioned in his first letter to the congregation at Thessaloniki.
It's an urban myth that you need a Mac desktop for macOS/iOS development. There are online services out there now that build for macOS and iOS
Correct. You can use a laptop (MacBook) instead of a desktop (Mac Pro, iMac, or Mac mini). But if you have neither, I imagine the latency added by having to VNC to a Mac VPS in order to test the Mac port of an application is likely to give you a false impression of the responsiveness of its user interface.
they even upload the resultant binaries to iTunes Connect. e.g.: Bitrise.io
How do these build services send a test build to your iPhone or iPad if you haven't connected them to a Mac through a USB to Lightning cable?
What's the other market for films in the French language that relate to French culture? Quebec?
I can't find any good excuse to Microsoft for releasing Windows 10 in 32bit in 64bit in 2015.
Dell is still selling new PCs with 2 GB of RAM. What benefit does x86-64 have over x86 on a machine with 2 GB of RAM? Does the increased register count outweigh the additional data cache misses from larger pointers, particularly on a system without the so-called "x32" ABI?
if Apple's going to say "fuck you" to its customers, then I'll do the same to them. PCs only from now on
Until your boss asks you for a macOS or iOS version of the application that you maintain.
Is hardware repair, including replacing surface-mounted capacitors and remanufacturing lithium ion battery packs, something that every individual user is expected to learn?
Netflix already does that with a theater in Los Angeles in order to qualify for Academy Awards. But French law differs from that of the USA. By French media chronology law, doing what you suggest would require Netflix to make the movies in question unavailable on its own service for 36 months after release.
Why do I get the feeling that the big Hollywood studios are behind this?
It's not the studios as much as the theater owners. The studios want to shorten the release windows, to the point of offering BD, DVD, or a la carte VOD at the tail end of a movie's 4-month theatrical run instead of waiting for its conclusion. The studios want to earn some money from people who would otherwise settle for infringing cam/telesync/screener rips, while theater owners don't want to have to compete with legitimate home theater.
ts not just Cannes, the Oscars also has rules requiring a theatrical release.
Unlike the Cannes festival, which requires a release in France, the Academy Awards require a release in Los Angeles in the USA. Unlike France, the USA lacks national regulation of motion picture release windows. This means after a movie completes its 7-day run in LA, it can go straight to Netflix with no mandatory 36-month waiting period.
Which forum should I join if I want to learn more about how to repair an entry-level subnotebook computer?