If you compare only releases within a six-year window (greater than the life cycle of an LTS release) and allow for wraparound modulo 26, the alphabetical rule holds. Only once you leave the six-year window do "you have to carry too much information to be able to interpret it".
I have no idea if a Sierra is better than a El Capitan or if a Yakkity Yak beats a Gusty Gibbon or whatever other nonsense code names they use.
On Ubuntu, the general rule is that later in the alphabet is a later release. Yakkety comes after Gutsy in the alphabet and is therefore later. There are a couple exceptions to this rule. First, "hog" releases (Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog) were the first two. Second, this has to reset roughly every 13 years or 26 semiannual releases, as the Latin alphabet has only that many letters, putting Artful, Bionic, and Cosmic after Zesty. (Source)
Have they actually SEEN Mojave? I wouldn't want to name an OS for it.
Yet Microsoft did just that. To get the word out that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 had fixed most of the technical issues of Windows Vista, Microsoft rebranded SP1 as "Windows Mojave" and showed it to people.
Now Apple wants to put out macOS Vista Service Pack 1.
Some people recommend Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to replace proprietary chat (Skype, Slack, and Discord). But as far as I'm aware, major IRC networks don't operate a bouncer to store and retrieve older messages nor a file drop to host images and other attachments.
Well, think about it for a minute. Almost everyone is running their own instance of communication programs.
These programs can make outgoing connections but not listen for and accept incoming connections. This is because most non-technical users aren't in a position to forward ports. Either they don't know how to operate a home gateway's port forwarding interface or they're behind an IPv4 address shared with other subscribers.
Things like Diaspora can in theory be made as easy as (legit) BitTorrent. The tricky parts of any distributed communication app are 1. Integration with domain registrars to give your home computer a globally unique name. 2. Integration with UPnP or other home gateway configuration protocols to make your home computer reachable from the Internet. 3. Convincing ISPs to turn on IPv6 so that your home computer isn't stuck behind carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) with dozens of subscribers on one IP address.
This is git. Its entire point is that it does not need a server.
What does Git (not GitHub) use for issue tracking, including attaching a diff for code review as a "pull request"? What does Git (not GitHub) use for web-based access to a repository, to its documentation, or to a live demonstration (if the project is written in DHTML)?
it's not like you can't host it on your home server on dynamic DNS, or have a static IP
ISPs in some countries don't have a "dynamic IP leased as long as your modem is on" tier that allows dynamic DNS. Instead, the plans they offer skip straight from carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), which puts many subscribers behind the same IPv4 address thereby blocking incoming connections, to paying an inflated monthly rate for "business class" service including a static IP.
or get a vServer for <$5. (As long als you do not use "the cloud".)
Assuming "vServer" means a virtual private server, what's the key difference between a VPS and "the cloud"? Case in point: Amazon uses the term "Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" for its VPS service.
The Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications use Electron. This means each is literally a copy of Chromium hardcoded to view one website. Installing both Chromium and the Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications would just waste disk space, and running both Chromium and the Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications at the same time would just waste RAM.
Neither bug is documented in MDN. [...] References: [Bugzilla links]
MDN is a wiki using GitHub authentication. If you have a GitHub account, and you know how to phrase something in a tone that's more descriptive than complaining, and you have time, you can correct this.
I am unfamiliar with Twitch, other than that it is a video game live streaming service owned by Amazon. Does Twitch allow a game reviewer to edit together excerpts of gameplay to form a review? The answer to this question is important if Twitch is the only way to get video out of the device.
There are enough videos on Youtube of every Atari 2600 game
I was under the impression that not all games exclusive to the VCS (2019) would be from the 2600, 5200, and 7800.
The Playstation 3 enabled HDCP for every game (until a patch near the end of its life) IIRC.
The PlayStation 3 console also had component out, which streamers and reviewers used.
I use the Chromium browser for Discordapp.com chat and Firefox for pretty much everything else. When you try to change your avatar or upload emoji in Firefox, Discord does not respond to a click on the upload button. (Nothing appears in the error console either.) This has been the case for roughly a year, since late May of 2017. Uploading avatars and emoji works in Chromium the same way as it works in the (Chromium-based) native app.
Or are the compelling features of Firefox themselves a reason to leave Discord behind?
Android phones and tablets run games on Linux (without GNU). PlayStation 4 consoles run games on a customized distribution of FreeBSD. iOS devices also run games and use pieces of FreeBSD at the base of userspace. But I imagine that Android devices have outsold PlayStation 4, iPhone, and iPad put together.
The company wearing Atari's skin thinks it can make the Ouya work.
The following clause from the summary also made me think of OUYA: "and the games will be protected with HDCP." High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) blocks the use of (legal) HDMI capture devices. This means that in order for fans and reviewers to give exposure on YouTube to games worth buying, they'll have to invest in a combination of TV and camcorder suitable for making a video through the analog hole. The lack of YouTube exposure stemming from the requirement for all games on OUYA to use HDCP is one of the many factors that led to lack of user demand for OUYA games.
Dell.com doesn't offer Ubuntu laptops in all sizes in which it offers Windows laptops. I think its smallest Ubuntu laptop is the XPS 13, not the Inspiron 11.
Probably at the bus stop nearest the office of the electric power company.
Applications that save state in the way you describe are extremely rare.
Notepad++ saves automatically across Windows restarts, and in my experience, installation of Notepad++ is extremely common on Windows PCs used for programming.
Not to mention that it goes against the entire paradigm of allowing the user to explicitly save state.
To preserve this paradigm, save upon inactivity to a path within %LOCALAPPDATA% and manually to the path of the file itself.
If loss of power causes an application to lose its state
I can't even believe you are trying to excuse Microsoft for this
I'm not excusing Microsoft any more than I'm excusing Indiana Michigan Power for five second outages during the thunderstorm the night before last. Automatic save protects data on a desktop PC from loss of electric power. It also happens to protects data from Microsoft's inconsideracy.
So can you tell me what it's like being on the spectrum?
A lot less color detail than being on the MSX, the Commodore 64, or the Apple II. Plus you deal with the Z80 processor, which has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to a contemporary 6502.
Also this is how Super Mario Bros. 3 works: there is an ASIC instead of the PPU ROM, which is why it is not only quite large
The Memory Management Controller (MMC3) helps make Super Mario Bros. 3 large, but it doesn't quite replace the CHR ROM. It just controls the high address lines (A16-A10) of CHR ROM and the high address lines (A17-A12) of PRG ROM. It's not conceptually different from the MMU used by a modern CPU to translate virtual memory addresses into physical memory addresses. MMC3 also contains a programmable interval timer that generates an IRQ by counting how often the PPU switches between reading sprite tile memory and reading background memory (which happens once per scanline). This timer is mostly used to switch between a game's playfield and its status bar.
but supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling at the same time
And a bunch of games that don't use MMC3 can do 8-way scrolling, such as Solar Jetman and Blaster Master. That's mostly a matter of the design of the game engine and, in some cases, of whether the cartridge has 8 KiB of supplemental work RAM on the CPU side (in addition to the 2 KiB in the NES) to cache a decompressed level map.
with more palettes than normal.
MMC3 does not extend the four background palettes and four sprite palettes, which are internal to the CPU. The closest a mapper can do is shrink the area affected by each palette from the normal 16x16 pixels. MMC5 has an "ExGrafix" mode that shrinks color areas to 8x8, and it was largely used for Koei's war sims but also saw use in Castlevania III and a handful of other games. But by the time developers started to figure out the MMC5's true capability, the TurboGrafx-16, Genesis, and Super NES were out, and game studios had mostly lost interest in the NES.
For the same reason people can't buy netbooks that ship with X11/Linux in stores.
Because nobody wants them?
I guess that makes me a nobody, as I used a 10" Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop for about 7 years in order to work on programming projects while riding the bus in a city whose buses do not provide free Wi-Fi to riders.
As for your other point: If there were "not enough people to make it worthwhile to produce, ship and stock" compact X11/Linux laptops, what makes you think there are "enough people to make it worthwhile to produce, ship and stock" pocket computers capable of running a user-provided operating system?
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I imagine the exact name for such works depends on the exact chain of facts that led to a work's no longer having an owner.
If you compare only releases within a six-year window (greater than the life cycle of an LTS release) and allow for wraparound modulo 26, the alphabetical rule holds. Only once you leave the six-year window do "you have to carry too much information to be able to interpret it".
I have no idea if a Sierra is better than a El Capitan or if a Yakkity Yak beats a Gusty Gibbon or whatever other nonsense code names they use.
On Ubuntu, the general rule is that later in the alphabet is a later release. Yakkety comes after Gutsy in the alphabet and is therefore later. There are a couple exceptions to this rule. First, "hog" releases (Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog) were the first two. Second, this has to reset roughly every 13 years or 26 semiannual releases, as the Latin alphabet has only that many letters, putting Artful, Bionic, and Cosmic after Zesty. (Source)
Have they actually SEEN Mojave? I wouldn't want to name an OS for it.
Yet Microsoft did just that. To get the word out that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 had fixed most of the technical issues of Windows Vista, Microsoft rebranded SP1 as "Windows Mojave" and showed it to people.
Now Apple wants to put out macOS Vista Service Pack 1.
People need a place to live, a place to work, and a way to get there and back. Should each of those be in or out of the city?
Some people recommend Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to replace proprietary chat (Skype, Slack, and Discord). But as far as I'm aware, major IRC networks don't operate a bouncer to store and retrieve older messages nor a file drop to host images and other attachments.
Well, think about it for a minute. Almost everyone is running their own instance of communication programs.
These programs can make outgoing connections but not listen for and accept incoming connections. This is because most non-technical users aren't in a position to forward ports. Either they don't know how to operate a home gateway's port forwarding interface or they're behind an IPv4 address shared with other subscribers.
Things like Diaspora can in theory be made as easy as (legit) BitTorrent. The tricky parts of any distributed communication app are
1. Integration with domain registrars to give your home computer a globally unique name.
2. Integration with UPnP or other home gateway configuration protocols to make your home computer reachable from the Internet.
3. Convincing ISPs to turn on IPv6 so that your home computer isn't stuck behind carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) with dozens of subscribers on one IP address.
This is git. Its entire point is that it does not need a server.
What does Git (not GitHub) use for issue tracking, including attaching a diff for code review as a "pull request"? What does Git (not GitHub) use for web-based access to a repository, to its documentation, or to a live demonstration (if the project is written in DHTML)?
it's not like you can't host it on your home server on dynamic DNS, or have a static IP
ISPs in some countries don't have a "dynamic IP leased as long as your modem is on" tier that allows dynamic DNS. Instead, the plans they offer skip straight from carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), which puts many subscribers behind the same IPv4 address thereby blocking incoming connections, to paying an inflated monthly rate for "business class" service including a static IP.
or get a vServer for <$5.
(As long als you do not use "the cloud".)
Assuming "vServer" means a virtual private server, what's the key difference between a VPS and "the cloud"? Case in point: Amazon uses the term "Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" for its VPS service.
Besides, there's so much land not in the city they can take their money to and start a new life outside a lot of poverty.
Not a lot of jobs out of the city, nor practical transit to and from where there is jobs.
Why not just use the Discord app?
The Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications use Electron. This means each is literally a copy of Chromium hardcoded to view one website. Installing both Chromium and the Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications would just waste disk space, and running both Chromium and the Discord, Skype, and Slack desktop applications at the same time would just waste RAM.
Neither bug is documented in MDN.
[...]
References: [Bugzilla links]
MDN is a wiki using GitHub authentication. If you have a GitHub account, and you know how to phrase something in a tone that's more descriptive than complaining, and you have time, you can correct this.
This Atari VCS device supports Twitch streaming.
I am unfamiliar with Twitch, other than that it is a video game live streaming service owned by Amazon. Does Twitch allow a game reviewer to edit together excerpts of gameplay to form a review? The answer to this question is important if Twitch is the only way to get video out of the device.
There are enough videos on Youtube of every Atari 2600 game
I was under the impression that not all games exclusive to the VCS (2019) would be from the 2600, 5200, and 7800.
The Playstation 3 enabled HDCP for every game (until a patch near the end of its life) IIRC.
The PlayStation 3 console also had component out, which streamers and reviewers used.
Until countries' customs departments start cracking down on imports of HDMI splitter cables that don't suspend operation when HDCP is in effect.
References: Twitter, Twitter, Trello, Reddit, Discord Feedback
My report: "This feature is broken in Firefox."
Reply: "Does it work in the latest version of Chrome?"
My reply: "Yes, it works in Chrome."
Reply: "Then use Chrome. RESOLVED WONTFIX"
I use the Chromium browser for Discordapp.com chat and Firefox for pretty much everything else. When you try to change your avatar or upload emoji in Firefox, Discord does not respond to a click on the upload button. (Nothing appears in the error console either.) This has been the case for roughly a year, since late May of 2017. Uploading avatars and emoji works in Chromium the same way as it works in the (Chromium-based) native app.
Or are the compelling features of Firefox themselves a reason to leave Discord behind?
Android phones and tablets run games on Linux (without GNU). PlayStation 4 consoles run games on a customized distribution of FreeBSD. iOS devices also run games and use pieces of FreeBSD at the base of userspace. But I imagine that Android devices have outsold PlayStation 4, iPhone, and iPad put together.
The company wearing Atari's skin thinks it can make the Ouya work.
The following clause from the summary also made me think of OUYA: "and the games will be protected with HDCP." High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) blocks the use of (legal) HDMI capture devices. This means that in order for fans and reviewers to give exposure on YouTube to games worth buying, they'll have to invest in a combination of TV and camcorder suitable for making a video through the analog hole. The lack of YouTube exposure stemming from the requirement for all games on OUYA to use HDCP is one of the many factors that led to lack of user demand for OUYA games.
Dell.com doesn't offer Ubuntu laptops in all sizes in which it offers Windows laptops. I think its smallest Ubuntu laptop is the XPS 13, not the Inspiron 11.
Where the fuck do you get off?
Probably at the bus stop nearest the office of the electric power company.
Applications that save state in the way you describe are extremely rare.
Notepad++ saves automatically across Windows restarts, and in my experience, installation of Notepad++ is extremely common on Windows PCs used for programming.
Not to mention that it goes against the entire paradigm of allowing the user to explicitly save state.
To preserve this paradigm, save upon inactivity to a path within %LOCALAPPDATA% and manually to the path of the file itself.
If loss of power causes an application to lose its state
I can't even believe you are trying to excuse Microsoft for this
I'm not excusing Microsoft any more than I'm excusing Indiana Michigan Power for five second outages during the thunderstorm the night before last. Automatic save protects data on a desktop PC from loss of electric power. It also happens to protects data from Microsoft's inconsideracy.
So can you tell me what it's like being on the spectrum?
A lot less color detail than being on the MSX, the Commodore 64, or the Apple II. Plus you deal with the Z80 processor, which has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to a contemporary 6502.
and stop the PC from rebooting when unattended, resulting in lost work.
If loss of power causes an application to lose its state, the failure to store this state durably is a defect in the application, not in Windows.
Also this is how Super Mario Bros. 3 works: there is an ASIC instead of the PPU ROM, which is why it is not only quite large
The Memory Management Controller (MMC3) helps make Super Mario Bros. 3 large, but it doesn't quite replace the CHR ROM. It just controls the high address lines (A16-A10) of CHR ROM and the high address lines (A17-A12) of PRG ROM. It's not conceptually different from the MMU used by a modern CPU to translate virtual memory addresses into physical memory addresses. MMC3 also contains a programmable interval timer that generates an IRQ by counting how often the PPU switches between reading sprite tile memory and reading background memory (which happens once per scanline). This timer is mostly used to switch between a game's playfield and its status bar.
but supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling at the same time
And a bunch of games that don't use MMC3 can do 8-way scrolling, such as Solar Jetman and Blaster Master. That's mostly a matter of the design of the game engine and, in some cases, of whether the cartridge has 8 KiB of supplemental work RAM on the CPU side (in addition to the 2 KiB in the NES) to cache a decompressed level map.
with more palettes than normal.
MMC3 does not extend the four background palettes and four sprite palettes, which are internal to the CPU. The closest a mapper can do is shrink the area affected by each palette from the normal 16x16 pixels. MMC5 has an "ExGrafix" mode that shrinks color areas to 8x8, and it was largely used for Koei's war sims but also saw use in Castlevania III and a handful of other games. But by the time developers started to figure out the MMC5's true capability, the TurboGrafx-16, Genesis, and Super NES were out, and game studios had mostly lost interest in the NES.
Sources: MMC3 reverse engineered docs; MMC5 reverse engineered docs; NesCartDB entries for SMB3 and other games
For the same reason people can't buy netbooks that ship with X11/Linux in stores.
Because nobody wants them?
I guess that makes me a nobody, as I used a 10" Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop for about 7 years in order to work on programming projects while riding the bus in a city whose buses do not provide free Wi-Fi to riders.
As for your other point: If there were "not enough people to make it worthwhile to produce, ship and stock" compact X11/Linux laptops, what makes you think there are "enough people to make it worthwhile to produce, ship and stock" pocket computers capable of running a user-provided operating system?