Wikipedia is much more informative nowadays than it used to be back then. The need for obscure websites on obscure topics is gone.
Until a Wikipedia editor proposes deletion of the articles about said topics for lack of "notability", or coverage in sources that meet Wikipedia's vague definition of reliability.
If the choice is between developing a web application and a Windows application, good luck running the Windows application on anything but Windows.
If the choice is between developing a web application and a Mac application, good luck running the Mac application on anything but a Mac.
If the choice is between developing a web application and an X11/Linux application, good luck running the X11/Linux application on anything but X11/Linux or FreeBSD.
I've read reports that some TVs capable of IPTV have an interstitial requiring the owner to agree to the software license agreement and activate the TV online before using it even for things other than IPTV. Until the owner connects the TV to the Internet, all it can do is display the nag screen.
"Then just buy a TV that isn't 'smart'." Good luck with that now that the cost of including IPTV has become negligible in a large TV compared to the cost of engineering and stocking a separate SKU without IPTV. Because of this, not all such TVs even have a corresponding model with a similar panel but without IPTV.
I feel they're a way for Microsoft to tax users of removable storage. Once the VFAT patent (covering the method used to store long file names in FAT since Windows 95) was due to expire, Microsoft evergreened its patent by introducing exFAT and convincing the SD Card Association to make exFAT mandatory for SDXC hosts instead of UDF.
Do Samsung 4K TVs have an SD slot or USB receptacle whose use for storage would incur a FAT tax?
What does taking a screenshot have to do with rendering Web pages?
Among other things, screenshots of HTML documents are a means of helping a website operator or web browser developer troubleshoot HTML documents that your machine misrenders. Right now, Mozilla's document about creating screenshots of rendering problems has to explain it five times, once for each operating system supported by either Firefox (X11/Linux, macOS, Windows, Android) or Safari-reskinned-as-Firefox (iOS).
Even outside the Apple product line, compact laptops and tablets with a detachable keyboard tend to come with crap keyboards. Is it desirable that the screenshot instructions include "Purchase and connect an external keyboard"?
Let me guess: You don't do tech support for a living or for relatives. A lot of users don't know what works on their own computer because they've never sat down to learn the operating system's screenshot feature.
I don't need to know how to take a screenshot on OSX to be able to take a screenshot on my OS of choice (hint, it's exactly the same way as you do it for everything else!)
Someone else taking a screenshot of a web application to send to you may not be running your "OS of choice". This means you need to learn how to take a screenshot on someone else's OS of choice in order to explain to someone else over the phone or over text how to take a screenshot of a web application.
I have had a "print screen" key on my keyboard for decades.
Many laptops don't. Nor do desktop Macs. Macs instead use Command+Shift+3, which doesn't work on non-Mac computers.
It has worked fine for decades.
When was the last time the key actually did what it said, namely send a copy of the image on the display to paper?
Out of the box, Print Screen on Xubuntu opens a screenshot tool, but Print Screen on Debian Xfce does nothing. Instead, the user must manually associate xfce4-screenshooter with the Print key in Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts.
Screenshots... I mean, really really? Because snipping tools and the old print screen button weren't enough?
What set of instructions to start a snipping tool works on all supported Windows versions (including versions after the deprecation of MSPaint), all supported OS X/macOS versions, and all major X11/Linux distributions? Unlike the snipping tool that may or may not have been included with your operating system, one in Firefox would work on all major desktop operating systems.
Choice of install media
The user chooses a desktop environment during the "download install media" step of installation.
Install base system then desktop environment
The user downloads and installs Ubuntu Server, a base system that doesn't include a desktop environment. After booting the freshly installed base system and logging in at the terminal, the user runs sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop to download the packages for an Xfce desktop environment. See the answer by Gilles.
Historically copyright tends to get extended retroactively when it is about to expire for work of value.
That's a coincidence. The 1978 extension was to align U.S. copyright term with the Berne Convention that had been the law in other countries for several decades, and the 1998 extension was to reconcile the copyright term with the advances in health care of the twentieth century. The underlying rationale behind the term remained unchanged, namely the life of the author's grandchildren. But when uphelding the 1998 extension, the Supreme Court warned Congress against a third extension: unless Congress gives a damn good reason, the Court may find "legislative misbehavior."
Jehovah's Witnesses carefully refer to the gratis literature of their publisher Watch Tower as "without charge" because Watch Tower publications certainly aren't free as in libre. In fact, in 2012, Watch Tower became infamous for asserting its copyright against parodies of a skit from its animated series Become Jehovah's Friend. (This was the "Sparlock" incident, if you follow that.)
Nor does "free" mean zero copyright. A work in the public domain is free, but a copyrighted work is also free if its copyright owner offers it under a license meeting this criteria.
Perhaps if you consistently refer to gratis distribution as "without charge" in a work, it may be easier for readers to understand your explanation of the difference between that and free.
write software for a living, and am paid for it. About half the software I write is released as free/libre
Is the free software that you write for a living entertainment software? I ask because music is entertainment, and mainstream entertainment has been less quick to adopt libre licensing than software used in production by businesses.
This is easy to extrapolate to musicians: pay for the performance and recording, and pay for the copyright to be brought under a free license.
This is similar to how the community bought Blender from bankrupt publisher NaN for a fire-sale price of $100,000 back in 2002, an early proof of concept of crowdfunding. But unlike NaN at the time, most record labels and music publishers aren't in bankruptcy and therefore won't accept such a lowball price for the copyright.
Commie RMS wants to destroy the livelihood of musicians
Which musicians? Bach is dead. Ishizaka is happy to release her work free (libre) to the public.
Other living composers and the estates of composers dead for less than 70 years, if and when Ishizaka's work is eventually discovered to be unintentionally similar to their work. For background, read up on the "Blurred Lines" case (Gaye v. Thicke) and the "My Sweet Lord" case (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
I know a server running Linux accepted comment #55002349, but did you key it into a phone or tablet? In addition, the phones and tablets you're referring to run a proprietary userland (GMS) atop the free AOSP and Linux layers.
The other problem is reading comprehension. They still don't click on the activation link that contains the UUID
That could be due to following security guidance in articles like this one:
"Never follow links in e-mails because that confirms to spammers that you read their message." "Never follow links in e-mails because they could lead to phishing sites on typosquatted domains instead of the real thing."
That's fine for passwords that don't affect the path to e-mail. In fact, some sites embrace passwordless login through one-time tokens sent through e-mail. But it wouldn't work for the password to the user's Internet connection (PPPoE, RADIUS, subscription hotspot with a captive portal, etc.) or to the user's e-mail itself.
Nor does it work if your site has a lot of users such as jondeanmack, who expects to be able to register without providing a means of password recovery.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, as the motor vehicle law in many American and Australian states still requires a parent learning to drive for the first time to have another licensed driver of supervisory age (which I think is 25) supervise 50+ hours of his or her driving.
Slashdot Mirror
Stack Exchange makes data dumps of Stack Overflow and its other Q&A sites available through the Internet Archive.
ftp.cdrom.com was one ftp server that should not have been killed.
It has a direct successor in the Walnut Creek CD-ROM archive.
Wikipedia is much more informative nowadays than it used to be back then. The need for obscure websites on obscure topics is gone.
Until a Wikipedia editor proposes deletion of the articles about said topics for lack of "notability", or coverage in sources that meet Wikipedia's vague definition of reliability.
When I download an App from iOS App Store, I don't have to worry about this kind of shit.
Instead, you have to worry about there not being any apps at all for a particular task when the App Store Review Guidelines block iOS apps from performing certain tasks.
fuck 'web applications'
If the choice is between developing a web application and a Windows application, good luck running the Windows application on anything but Windows.
If the choice is between developing a web application and a Mac application, good luck running the Mac application on anything but a Mac.
If the choice is between developing a web application and an X11/Linux application, good luck running the X11/Linux application on anything but X11/Linux or FreeBSD.
I've read reports that some TVs capable of IPTV have an interstitial requiring the owner to agree to the software license agreement and activate the TV online before using it even for things other than IPTV. Until the owner connects the TV to the Internet, all it can do is display the nag screen.
"Then just buy a TV that isn't 'smart'." Good luck with that now that the cost of including IPTV has become negligible in a large TV compared to the cost of engineering and stocking a separate SKU without IPTV. Because of this, not all such TVs even have a corresponding model with a similar panel but without IPTV.
How do you feel about File Allocation Tables?
I feel they're a way for Microsoft to tax users of removable storage. Once the VFAT patent (covering the method used to store long file names in FAT since Windows 95) was due to expire, Microsoft evergreened its patent by introducing exFAT and convincing the SD Card Association to make exFAT mandatory for SDXC hosts instead of UDF.
Do Samsung 4K TVs have an SD slot or USB receptacle whose use for storage would incur a FAT tax?
What does taking a screenshot have to do with rendering Web pages?
Among other things, screenshots of HTML documents are a means of helping a website operator or web browser developer troubleshoot HTML documents that your machine misrenders. Right now, Mozilla's document about creating screenshots of rendering problems has to explain it five times, once for each operating system supported by either Firefox (X11/Linux, macOS, Windows, Android) or Safari-reskinned-as-Firefox (iOS).
Even outside the Apple product line, compact laptops and tablets with a detachable keyboard tend to come with crap keyboards. Is it desirable that the screenshot instructions include "Purchase and connect an external keyboard"?
Do whatever works on your own computer then.
Let me guess: You don't do tech support for a living or for relatives. A lot of users don't know what works on their own computer because they've never sat down to learn the operating system's screenshot feature.
I don't need to know how to take a screenshot on OSX to be able to take a screenshot on my OS of choice (hint, it's exactly the same way as you do it for everything else!)
Someone else taking a screenshot of a web application to send to you may not be running your "OS of choice". This means you need to learn how to take a screenshot on someone else's OS of choice in order to explain to someone else over the phone or over text how to take a screenshot of a web application.
I have had a "print screen" key on my keyboard for decades.
Many laptops don't. Nor do desktop Macs. Macs instead use Command+Shift+3, which doesn't work on non-Mac computers.
It has worked fine for decades.
When was the last time the key actually did what it said, namely send a copy of the image on the display to paper?
Out of the box, Print Screen on Xubuntu opens a screenshot tool, but Print Screen on Debian Xfce does nothing. Instead, the user must manually associate xfce4-screenshooter with the Print key in Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts.
Versions of Firefox that put tabs in the title bar leave space between the tabs and the minimize, maximize, and close buttons.
Screenshots... I mean, really really? Because snipping tools and the old print screen button weren't enough?
What set of instructions to start a snipping tool works on all supported Windows versions (including versions after the deprecation of MSPaint), all supported OS X/macOS versions, and all major X11/Linux distributions? Unlike the snipping tool that may or may not have been included with your operating system, one in Firefox would work on all major desktop operating systems.
Ubuntu handles that one of two ways:
Choice of install media The user chooses a desktop environment during the "download install media" step of installation. Install base system then desktop environment The user downloads and installs Ubuntu Server, a base system that doesn't include a desktop environment. After booting the freshly installed base system and logging in at the terminal, the user runs sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop to download the packages for an Xfce desktop environment. See the answer by Gilles.State copyright in sound recordings is limited: it expires in 2067.
Historically copyright tends to get extended retroactively when it is about to expire for work of value.
That's a coincidence. The 1978 extension was to align U.S. copyright term with the Berne Convention that had been the law in other countries for several decades, and the 1998 extension was to reconcile the copyright term with the advances in health care of the twentieth century. The underlying rationale behind the term remained unchanged, namely the life of the author's grandchildren. But when uphelding the 1998 extension, the Supreme Court warned Congress against a third extension: unless Congress gives a damn good reason, the Court may find "legislative misbehavior."
Jehovah's Witnesses carefully refer to the gratis literature of their publisher Watch Tower as "without charge" because Watch Tower publications certainly aren't free as in libre. In fact, in 2012, Watch Tower became infamous for asserting its copyright against parodies of a skit from its animated series Become Jehovah's Friend. (This was the "Sparlock" incident, if you follow that.)
Nor does "free" mean zero copyright. A work in the public domain is free, but a copyrighted work is also free if its copyright owner offers it under a license meeting this criteria.
Perhaps if you consistently refer to gratis distribution as "without charge" in a work, it may be easier for readers to understand your explanation of the difference between that and free.
write software for a living, and am paid for it. About half the software I write is released as free/libre
Is the free software that you write for a living entertainment software? I ask because music is entertainment, and mainstream entertainment has been less quick to adopt libre licensing than software used in production by businesses.
This is easy to extrapolate to musicians: pay for the performance and recording, and pay for the copyright to be brought under a free license.
This is similar to how the community bought Blender from bankrupt publisher NaN for a fire-sale price of $100,000 back in 2002, an early proof of concept of crowdfunding. But unlike NaN at the time, most record labels and music publishers aren't in bankruptcy and therefore won't accept such a lowball price for the copyright.
Commie RMS wants to destroy the livelihood of musicians
Which musicians? Bach is dead. Ishizaka is happy to release her work free (libre) to the public.
Other living composers and the estates of composers dead for less than 70 years, if and when Ishizaka's work is eventually discovered to be unintentionally similar to their work. For background, read up on the "Blurred Lines" case (Gaye v. Thicke) and the "My Sweet Lord" case (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
I know a server running Linux accepted comment #55002349, but did you key it into a phone or tablet? In addition, the phones and tablets you're referring to run a proprietary userland (GMS) atop the free AOSP and Linux layers.
The other problem is reading comprehension. They still don't click on the activation link that contains the UUID
That could be due to following security guidance in articles like this one:
"Never follow links in e-mails because that confirms to spammers that you read their message."
"Never follow links in e-mails because they could lead to phishing sites on typosquatted domains instead of the real thing."
That's fine for passwords that don't affect the path to e-mail. In fact, some sites embrace passwordless login through one-time tokens sent through e-mail. But it wouldn't work for the password to the user's Internet connection (PPPoE, RADIUS, subscription hotspot with a captive portal, etc.) or to the user's e-mail itself.
Nor does it work if your site has a lot of users such as jondeanmack, who expects to be able to register without providing a means of password recovery.
So how can the operator of a local area network disconnected from the Internet run a private PushKit server?
I'm not sure what you mean by this, as the motor vehicle law in many American and Australian states still requires a parent learning to drive for the first time to have another licensed driver of supervisory age (which I think is 25) supervise 50+ hours of his or her driving.