That's the intent: cool URIs don't change. But in the real world, URIs disappear for political reasons. One is the change in organizational affiliation of an author. This happens fairly often to documents hosted "for free" on something like Tripod/Geocities, a home ISP's included web space, or a university's web space. Another is the sale of exclusive rights in a work, invention, or name to a third party. A third is the discovery of a third party's exclusive rights in a work, invention, or name that make it no longer possible to continue to offer a work at a given URI.

Renting those things takes a budget that indies (other than long-time industry veterans) tend not to have.

The entire "freemium" video game revenue model is predicated on the fact that so-called "whales" would pay $5 to download a car.

In baseball you're not trying to get the "grenade" into a target almost as high as a second-story window.

So how should I go about trying your apps before buying the iPod touch or iPad mini on which to run them, in addition to whatever Android kit I already have?

I think it's to get people to buy an iPod touch or iPad mini in addition to whatever Android phone they were planning on buying.

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Probably because a lot of Slashdot users doubt that "It's likely that their phone is going to be their primary handheld gaming console" will apply to a substantial number of paying customers. A lot of people have a Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita because directional controls and discrete buttons are better for the game genres that they prefer. Or is there a way to make the controls in a platformer like Mega Man acceptable without having to pay $40 extra for a clip-on Bluetooth gamepad?

But if it's inherently multiplayer, or if it uses always-connected DRM (such as LVL StrictPolicy), you're likely to need to upgrade your existing smartphone's plan to a plan that includes tethering.

In that case, that's sort of what I already do. One of my bosses has a Windows machine and a Linux machine in his home office, and the only forwarded port is SSH on the Linux machine. To connect to the Windows PC, I tunnel RDP through SSH.

The problem comes when the school administrators micromanage said specifications in a political way that interferes with education.

I was under the impression that fork() was still broken outside Cygwin.

It's like Twitter, only backward, in the same sense that BASIC string variables are like shell, Perl, or PHP variables, only backward.

So which hosting company do you recommend that offers SSH over VPN? Shared hosts that I've seen offer only a web-based administration panel and a shell account. With VPS or dedicated, you'd have to rent two servers: one to act as the "hardened node in a heavily firewalled DMZ" and one to actually be the server administered through SSH. And even then, how would you administer the "hardened node in a heavily firewalled DMZ"?

Say I need to administer a server from home, from the home of a relative that I visit every other weekend, occasionally from public Wi-Fi in a restaurant or library, and rarely from public Wi-Fi in a hotel in another state. Other than opening the server's SSH or HTTPS administration port to the Internet, what other method would you recommend for me to log in and do work from all of those places?

Windows without Cygwin still lacked unistd.h last time I checked.