Also I've had a bunch of people give me a skype address as a text-based IM contact. Seriously what the hell?
The one advantage of Skype over IRC in this respect is that Skype stores logs of your conversations that you can retrieve later for reference, including messages sent to you while you were offline.
How long ago did you purchase your phone running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" new? When did its warranty expire? How long is its lithium ion battery lasting on a charge, and how well is its screen holding up to scratches? You've had years to save up for a replacement entry-level Android phone such as the Coolpad Catalyst, which I currently carry.
Windows RT users can presumably use Skype for Web in Internet Explorer.
Like Discord for Linux, Skype for Linux Beta is essentially Skype for Web wrapped in Electron, which is a special-purpose web browser using Blink (the engine of Chrome) specialized for one site at a time. In my tests, it has the same RAM footprint as running a second web browser. Having the equivalent of several 100+ MB web browsers running at once, one for Skype, one for Discord, etc., adds up quickly for people stuck on a machine with 2 GB of RAM, such as my laptop with one RAM slot that cannot use modules larger than 2 GB.
In addition, Skype for Linux Beta requires more vertical scrolling than Skype for Linux 4.3 because the "bubble" around each message in Skype for Linux Beta takes a lot more vertical space than the more IRC-style message list in Skype for Linux 4.3.
So what's the alternative? Setting up a VPS and running your own IRC or XMPP server and requiring all your contacts install an IRC or XMPP client with which to continue to communicate with you?
True, there's a Platform Security Processor in the 64-bit AMD Jaguar processor in Sony's PlayStation 4 console. But PaintShop Pro is Corel, and Program Segment Prefix is Microsoft, cribbing from Digital Research.
I'm talking about features that let the web page run javascript on your machine even when you're not connected to said web page
Without Service Workers, how do you expect to continue using a web application between when your device disconnects from the Internet and when it reconnects to the Internet? For example, if your city bus service doesn't provide Wi-Fi to its riders, do you expect to instead sit on the bus and stare at the downasaur for an hour on the commute to work or back?
Big online companies want your cellphone number so that when you forget your password, or when your account is taken by someone else, the big online company has a fighting chance of restoring the account to the correct person.
Then why does entering my landline number give messages to the effect "There was an error sending a code to that number" more often than it results in a voice call to confirm my landline number? Twitter, for example, doesn't seem to support voice recovery or voice 2FA.
Until Xcode runs on iPad, or until Swift Playgrounds expands into domains other than those that Logo used to occupy (graphics and robotics), apps can't app apps on iOS. Sorry, app guy.
Thank you. I'll be sure to cite you when I write a guide about this.
Now are "Run whether user is logged on or not" and "Run with highest privileges", as mentioned in this answer on Super User, enough to give the task permission to write to HKLM without a UAC prompt?
"No, we're not driving you to the meetings of the religion you choose. Instead, we're driving you against your will to the meetings of the religion we choose."
Realize that the cult he's at is actually kinda shady and agree that maybe he should develop some ties outside of the cult?
"You're becoming too worldly. We'll have to take privileges away as long as you're living under our roof."
But how many end users are likely to? And what solution is recommended for people who want to run proprietary software, especially games with professional production values?
Though Chrome for Android does not, Chrome for desktop can still view HTML files. I just updated Chrome on my work PC to version 59, relaunched, and opened an HTML file. The one drawback is that each pathname (directory plus filename) is considered a separate origin for the purpose of the same origin policy, and there is no way for a file to issue the equivalent of an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. The workaround is to install Python on the same PC and do python3 -m http.server.
does not support playback of website/embed/ *.mid
It supports Web Audio API with which a JavaScript programmer could build a parser and soft synthesizer for Standard MIDI File, NSF, MOD, or what have you. (A JavaScript implementation of a missing browser feature is called a "polyfill".)
Old SVG font support (where the wrapper was actually SVG) was found to have security issues that browser developers couldn't figure out how to fix. New SVG font support is SVG glyphs in OpenType, which is a different wrapper format that somehow changes things.
Then purchase the 64-bit version of Sylenth 18 months from now once Lennar Digital finishes it. I thought Mac users were used to re-buying software periodically after architecture transitions, that is, those from 68K-24 to 68K-32 to PowerPC to PowerPC (OS X) to x86 to x86-64.
I can still run 32 bit binaries on my 64 bit Ubuntu system.
This is true in 18.04 and earlier, but in 18.10 and later, you will have to run 32-bit Linux in a virtual machine on 64-bit Linux. Running two kernels and a VMM requires more RAM than multiarch, which means more thrashing swap on machines with swap or more OOM kills on machines without swap. And many devices running 64-bit GNU/Linux still max out at 2 GB, unable to recognize larger SODIMMs plugged into a machine's sole RAM slot. Or would you recommend putting swap on an external RAM drive?
Does "the whole ecosystem" make up for the increased data cache misses and OOM kills that an existing device with 2 GB of RAM running software with 64-bit pointers would suffer compared to the same device running software with 32-bit pointers?
you can build a parallel-port based 8-bit logic analyzer capable of sampling at around 100,000 samples/second, using only a db25 connector and wires. Doing it with USB requires moving all the sampling logic to the other end of the USB cable, and usually storing the data in a large SRAM buffer for subsequent "chunky" transfer to the host PC.
It's no harder than, say, building a sound card. In fact, a 16 bit 48 kHz stereo audio input device has to buffer and push 48,000 32-bit frames of data per second, which is twice the data rate of the 8 channel 96 kHz logic analyzer you describe. There are USB sound cards on Walmart.com for $6.
Does "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed" in Windows Task Scheduler ensure that the missed tasks run in order, so that the missed "turn metering off" task that had been scheduled for midnight doesn't incorrectly run after the missed "turn metering back on" task that had been scheduled for 8 AM? Microsoft's page about "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed" makes no mention of any ordering guarantee.
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Also I've had a bunch of people give me a skype address as a text-based IM contact. Seriously what the hell?
The one advantage of Skype over IRC in this respect is that Skype stores logs of your conversations that you can retrieve later for reference, including messages sent to you while you were offline.
How long ago did you purchase your phone running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" new? When did its warranty expire? How long is its lithium ion battery lasting on a charge, and how well is its screen holding up to scratches? You've had years to save up for a replacement entry-level Android phone such as the Coolpad Catalyst, which I currently carry.
Windows RT users can presumably use Skype for Web in Internet Explorer.
As RAM capacities increase, software becomes inefficient to compensate rather than allowing use of more applications at once.
Like Discord for Linux, Skype for Linux Beta is essentially Skype for Web wrapped in Electron, which is a special-purpose web browser using Blink (the engine of Chrome) specialized for one site at a time. In my tests, it has the same RAM footprint as running a second web browser. Having the equivalent of several 100+ MB web browsers running at once, one for Skype, one for Discord, etc., adds up quickly for people stuck on a machine with 2 GB of RAM, such as my laptop with one RAM slot that cannot use modules larger than 2 GB.
In addition, Skype for Linux Beta requires more vertical scrolling than Skype for Linux 4.3 because the "bubble" around each message in Skype for Linux Beta takes a lot more vertical space than the more IRC-style message list in Skype for Linux 4.3.
So what's the alternative? Setting up a VPS and running your own IRC or XMPP server and requiring all your contacts install an IRC or XMPP client with which to continue to communicate with you?
True, there's a Platform Security Processor in the 64-bit AMD Jaguar processor in Sony's PlayStation 4 console. But PaintShop Pro is Corel, and Program Segment Prefix is Microsoft, cribbing from Digital Research.
The industry was waiting on two of the least-used browsers to implement WebRTC?
Safari and other browsers using Apple WebKit are the most-used browsers on iOS.
I'm talking about features that let the web page run javascript on your machine even when you're not connected to said web page
Without Service Workers, how do you expect to continue using a web application between when your device disconnects from the Internet and when it reconnects to the Internet? For example, if your city bus service doesn't provide Wi-Fi to its riders, do you expect to instead sit on the bus and stare at the downasaur for an hour on the commute to work or back?
Try playing these videos in Safari. If they fail to play, then please recommend to me a royalty-free video codec that does play in Safari.
Big online companies want your cellphone number so that when you forget your password, or when your account is taken by someone else, the big online company has a fighting chance of restoring the account to the correct person.
Then why does entering my landline number give messages to the effect "There was an error sending a code to that number" more often than it results in a voice call to confirm my landline number? Twitter, for example, doesn't seem to support voice recovery or voice 2FA.
Until Xcode runs on iPad, or until Swift Playgrounds expands into domains other than those that Logo used to occupy (graphics and robotics), apps can't app apps on iOS. Sorry, app guy.
Thank you. I'll be sure to cite you when I write a guide about this.
Now are "Run whether user is logged on or not" and "Run with highest privileges", as mentioned in this answer on Super User, enough to give the task permission to write to HKLM without a UAC prompt?
You use your Mac.
Choose a saner religion?
"No, we're not driving you to the meetings of the religion you choose. Instead, we're driving you against your will to the meetings of the religion we choose."
Realize that the cult he's at is actually kinda shady and agree that maybe he should develop some ties outside of the cult?
"You're becoming too worldly. We'll have to take privileges away as long as you're living under our roof."
Come on, man, I thought you knew this stuff.
But how many end users are likely to? And what solution is recommended for people who want to run proprietary software, especially games with professional production values?
Calling a browser by the name of a systems programming language sponsored by a competing browser engine developer is confusing.
does NOT support local computer file viewing
Though Chrome for Android does not, Chrome for desktop can still view HTML files. I just updated Chrome on my work PC to version 59, relaunched, and opened an HTML file. The one drawback is that each pathname (directory plus filename) is considered a separate origin for the purpose of the same origin policy, and there is no way for a file to issue the equivalent of an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. The workaround is to install Python on the same PC and do python3 -m http.server.
does not support playback of website /embed/ *.mid
It supports Web Audio API with which a JavaScript programmer could build a parser and soft synthesizer for Standard MIDI File, NSF, MOD, or what have you. (A JavaScript implementation of a missing browser feature is called a "polyfill".)
does not support anonymous UTUBE
I just updated Chrome on my work PC to version 59, relaunched, opened an Incognito window, and accessed Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation. Did you misspell the site name?
If there's no 32-bit libc, how will your compiled program link and run?
artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)
Why not Dutch-auction the seats, setting the price high to start with and then running a clearance later on for those seats that haven't sold?
Old SVG font support (where the wrapper was actually SVG) was found to have security issues that browser developers couldn't figure out how to fix. New SVG font support is SVG glyphs in OpenType, which is a different wrapper format that somehow changes things.
Then purchase the 64-bit version of Sylenth 18 months from now once Lennar Digital finishes it. I thought Mac users were used to re-buying software periodically after architecture transitions, that is, those from 68K-24 to 68K-32 to PowerPC to PowerPC (OS X) to x86 to x86-64.
What apple should do is automatically cross recompile the old apps to work on the new hardware.
Apple used to do that, but maintaining the Rosetta dynarec was too much of a cost.
They could easily put forth the effort to bring the old apps, all the way back to the Lisa, onto the modern operating systems with recompiling.
Can you prove that it would produce a greater return on investment for Apple Inc. shareholders than not doing so?
they must continue to offer legacy support for a minimum of 50 years
Even car companies aren't held to that standard.
The only 32-bit apps in the Mac store are by developers who are going the extra mile to support the older versions of Mac OS X.
That and out-of-Store apps that have been unmaintained since Xcode went 64-bit in 2014.
The dropping of 32-bit for Linux is what actually made me angry.
What? When do you imagine that happened?
A year ago, Canonical announced plans to drop 32-bit Ubuntu. 18.04 will ship no 32-bit kernel, and 18.10 will ship no 32-bit system libraries.
I can still run 32 bit binaries on my 64 bit Ubuntu system.
This is true in 18.04 and earlier, but in 18.10 and later, you will have to run 32-bit Linux in a virtual machine on 64-bit Linux. Running two kernels and a VMM requires more RAM than multiarch, which means more thrashing swap on machines with swap or more OOM kills on machines without swap. And many devices running 64-bit GNU/Linux still max out at 2 GB, unable to recognize larger SODIMMs plugged into a machine's sole RAM slot. Or would you recommend putting swap on an external RAM drive?
Does "the whole ecosystem" make up for the increased data cache misses and OOM kills that an existing device with 2 GB of RAM running software with 64-bit pointers would suffer compared to the same device running software with 32-bit pointers?
you can build a parallel-port based 8-bit logic analyzer capable of sampling at around 100,000 samples/second, using only a db25 connector and wires. Doing it with USB requires moving all the sampling logic to the other end of the USB cable, and usually storing the data in a large SRAM buffer for subsequent "chunky" transfer to the host PC.
It's no harder than, say, building a sound card. In fact, a 16 bit 48 kHz stereo audio input device has to buffer and push 48,000 32-bit frames of data per second, which is twice the data rate of the 8 channel 96 kHz logic analyzer you describe. There are USB sound cards on Walmart.com for $6.
What system works perfectly to run an application that requires the old OS alongside an application that requires the new OS?
Does "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed" in Windows Task Scheduler ensure that the missed tasks run in order, so that the missed "turn metering off" task that had been scheduled for midnight doesn't incorrectly run after the missed "turn metering back on" task that had been scheduled for 8 AM? Microsoft's page about "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed" makes no mention of any ordering guarantee.