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Wonder why they chose a different layout for the symbols on the physical keyboard than the default keyboard for Android. I'm sure that'll confuse a lot of people considering migrating, or worse, having to switch between them.

> Automatic content recognition (ACR) is an opt-in feature according to LG, which delivers personalized content recommendations, as well as services and advertisements.

And content recommendations, services and advertisements are exactly what most customers don't want.

From the top of my head, the easiest examples are games. Where I live at least, there are still physical stores in most malls with loads of disc-based games for sale. But also, for instance, I can go into my local computer store and pick up a boxed copy of Windows, so yes physical software sales is definitely still a thing. I personally haven't done it for a long time, but I know it exists.

But anyway, the method of software delivery is tangential to the main point. Plenty of software exists that runs locally, regardless of how is paid for - whether subscription or one-off purchases, if it runs on your computer it relies on copyright law to protect the revenue stream for the developers. Without copyright laws, if one physical sale could be freely copied with impunity, sales would be vastly diminished to the point that many developers would just not bother and find a different industry to work in to earn a salary.

I have a couple of 5M DisplayPort cables that I use to put my beefy work PC at one end of the room (and under a desk, between the wall on one side and stuff to the side of it on the other) while I sit at the other end of the room. I've also got a 5M USB3 active repeater with a 4-port hub for keyboard, mouse and the 2 monitors, and a game controller plugged into one of the monitors. I've been using it every working day for over 4 years now.

Very occasionally one of the monitor glitches out for about 5 seconds (maybe happens about once every 2-3 months), and they both seem to take much longer to wake up from the lock screen, again in the order of 5 seconds. Other than that had no problems whatsoever, and definitely the sound is much reduced. I only hear it at all when the GPU is maxxed out, and it's not unbearable like it is when it's right next to you. 4 years ago, the cables were £9 each for 5M DP M-M and £10 for the 5M active USB3 cable, but it's pretty cheap for the quality of life improvement.

Even if they don't sell the code to the customers directly (or even binaries, because that's what most customers actually care about), somebody in the chain is selling that software to the end customer and that money is going up the chain. It's kind of obvious really - if the work you're doing isn't creating saleable value, then your company won't be able to pay you.

But there is far, far more in the world that just SaaS or internal only software. Sure, companies are generally shifting towards SaaS (in part because it allows them another way to combat piracy, but also to extract recurring revenue rather than one off purchases), but there's still plenty of software you can go out to the shop and buy. Most of that wouldn't exist without copyright laws, because those developers would have found some other way of making a living instead.

"your code is a trade secret protected via contracts" isn't enough to replace copyright because the contracts are only enforceable to the signing parties.

Let's say you write some software for your employer and they sell the product to several customers with a contract not to distribute it. However, the product appears on some pirate website anyway, and you can't identify who allowed the product to be leaked. Once it's there, your contracts are worthless as nobody who downloads it from the pirate site will be bound by your contract. You need copyright laws to prevent subsequent distribution.

Without copyright laws, you'd then end up in the situation where people who paid for the software then are bound by the contract and would have to keep paying, and those who just downloaded it from a pirate site would be completely fine legally and could use the software with impunity. That would create a disincentive for anybody agreeing to buy the software and entering into a contract in the first place, essentially killing the industry.

You might not see a problem with that if you believe in Open Source, but most licences require copyright laws to exist to protect the software freedoms so that people don't just take the software and close source it.

A lot depends on what you consider walking distance and also personal preferences about location and walking.

Looking at London, the top rated place is Soho. Sure, a lot of people do choose to live there, but when I moved to London, I'm so glad I had to walk across central London on a couple of occasions before I actually found a flat. I went through Soho once on a Friday night and realised there was absolutely no way I'd ever be able to sleep at night and ruled it out. The next highest place is Seven Dials, which is fine for a night out, but again I wouldn't actually want to live there.

I actually chose to live about a minute walk from Hyde Park and 5 minutes from Paddington. That scores 89, so not much below the 96-ish of those top 2, but it's around 30-45 minutes walk from both of those. I think it only scores so highly because of the food options on Edgware Road, but there's not much else to do in that area, certainly not within 10 minutes walk, and I would frequently walk into more central London to do things. My cut-off before using the tube was 60-90 minutes walk each way depending on my mood, and would only use the tube on about 10% of days and averaged probably 90 minutes total walking on normal days. I guess my idea of walking distance is much higher than the 10 minutes suggested by the article. I'd definitely choose to live there again though if I went back to London.

EDIT: I've just looked at where I live now (a long way outside London). My current place scores 38 with only 1 in nightlife (a pub) and zero in all the other categories. Ironically, it gets the same score of 38 as an adjacent tile which somehow gets 0 in all the categories even though it's closer to the pub. Another adjacent tile scores 18 with basically the same stats, seemingly losing because it has fewer marked parking spots and no park (even though that tile is on a massive area of common land, hence why it doesn't have many facilities). The centre of the town, all the tiles score 96, which is true there are more things to do, but there's very few nice places to live in any of them. The whole thing seems a little odd to me, and I certainly wouldn't use this to decide where to live.

Accepting 5V over the RJ-11 jack seems asking for trouble. Someone is going to plug it into a regular phone socket at some point, so it needs to be capable of surviving at least 60VAC. Even if a secondary pair is used, there are so many different wiring standards in use, it'll end up plugged into something live sooner or later.

I think perhaps there's some middle ground.

Most applications don't really care about their logical address space, and also most applications probably don't actually need significantly large address space - so restricting everything to 32 bit is probably bad, but there should be ample address space in 64 bit for many applications to coexist largely in the same address space. Certain applications like databases that want to memory map files don't fit this model, but many of today's applications do.

Since the introduction of TLB tags, using segment registers as selectors does largely support this model and allowing protection between processes without requiring TLB flushes on each swap, so I don't think it's a bad compromise, except that 12-bits for processes isn't really close to being enough.

> I really don't know what people objecting to this imagine typically happens to old, unwanted books.

In the UK at least, people usually take them to a second hand / charity shop, who sort through them and send the valuable ones to auction (typically early editions, 100+ years old) and then either sell them themselves (for recent books that are easy to get rid of) or sell them to specialised second-hand bookshops.

Most of the specialised second-hand bookshops rarely throw books away, usually if nobody buys them after a couple of years they end up in the extreme discount piles (20p, 50p etc) and probably only trashed if they still don't sell from there.

I've forgotten now when it changed, but I remember older versions of Windows let you exit back to DOS once you'd finished doing GUI stuff. I'm guessing that was probably removed in Win95 as that was the first "proper" Windows that didn't rely on already having DOS (IIRC).

Yeah, I used to have this issue a lot. If I use my personal card for a business expense, I used to like to keep a screenshot of the transaction on the card as well as the invoice. As it's an app-only challenger bank, this is the only way short of exporting transactions as a PDF and that includes other transactions for the day. For a long time I used to use another phone to take a photo of my phone screen. Eventually, I just stopped bothering taking that photo because of the extra hassle, but it never stopped annoying me that I couldn't keep the records I wanted easily.

Are they different ε or the same?

TBH, if using quarter here is just shorthand for "a decade", so it might be easier just to say plainly "I spent over a decade in each of A, B and C".