The things people are constantly bitching about are bad decisions from two years ago that have already been corrected: such as the ability to easily disable telemetry now, or the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities.
Including the ability to mark Ethernet as metered without using the registry editor (which isn't even present on Windows 10 Lean), or to mark a connection as metered from 05:00 to 01:00 local time? Satellite Internet subscribers depend on those features in order not to exceed the monthly data transfer quota that satellite ISPs impose.
You can play video games without Windows. Switch your PC from Windows to GNU/Linux and add a PlayStation 4 console. Quite a few PC games on Steam and emulators of retro consoles are ported to Linux, and Wine runs numerous others. Many unported games that do not work in Wine are ported to a PlayStation platform, and some PlayStation 2 through 4 games can use a mouse and keyboard. One thing you do lose on PlayStation 4, however, is mods.
In the past, many bands have made their musical recordings available in the United States only through iTunes Store, not through Amazon Music or Google Play Music. I don't know whether this is still common.
The other part is actually backing up the roommate's iPhone SE. Does Banshee back up all data on the device, not just music? And how soon is it updated to work with new iOS versions?
It's hard to print Arabic, Chinese, or Hindi on retro video game consoles. Their graphics are based on "text mode", with usually space for about 256 different 8x8-pixel glyphs defined by the program. Most glyphs loaded into a console's video memory represent bits and pieces of a level's map, but 32 to 64 tend to get reserved for the text in score bars and dialogue. Arabic needs a lot more than that for the connecting forms of its letters. Hindi is written with Nagari script, which uses many ligatures. Chinese not only needs thousands of glyphs, of which a single game's dialogue may use hundreds, but the glyphs are also bigger (16x16).
Writing is a form of speech compression and the context conveys meaning as well
Converting a color image to grayscale is also compression, but good luck "decompressing" a black-and-white photo of a flower garden.
so it is not necessary to represent every little tone
Tone contours in Chinese languages reflect consonant distinctions that have been lost over centuries, in a process called cheshirization. Several words with completely different meanings, such as "mother", "horse", and "preceding sentence is a question", may be pronounced identically apart from tone contour. Use the wrong tone, and a question becomes an insult against the listener's mother. Or would you prefer that the written language preserve the consonants that have disappeared, leaving only traces in the spoken language, letting readers distinctions by replaying the last millennium of sound changes, as French and Tibetan (and to a lesser extent English) do?
My own cursive uses manuscript capitals. But as was taught in elementary school, capital Z is a 3 (as in Cyrillic), Q is a 2, and G is the logo of General Mills cereal.
During this shift away from agricultural labor after World War I, who funded mass retraining of the workforce? That might help us figure out who will retrain the current workforce for the age of automation.
I think the point is that "crack" got specialized to mean circumventing digital restrictions management, such as cracking a game. I've used "intrude" to refer to the sort of malicious network activity that people associate with a website or someone's email getting "hacked". An intrusion authorized by a resource's owner is called a "pen test".
My bank has a service that can send anyone a payment by email.
Many banks offer that, and it works wherever you have Internet access. But when you're at a garage sale, you're often in range of neither your home LAN nor a public hotspot. How much do you pay per 12 months for a cellular Internet connection in order to be able to email money while out of Wi-Fi range?
Though, with the advent of Square and PayPal, a business which truly accepts only cash has become rare indeed.
Do you visit a lot of yard sales or garage sales? I do, and most homeowners running them haven't upgraded to Square or PayPal. Yard sale transactions are typically so small (very often below $5) that the 30 cent transaction fee is a far larger fraction of the total than the 3% rake.
In all seriousness, your line of questioning is roughly akin to "What kind of wood sealer should I use on the deck chairs of this sinking ship?"
Better analogy: "This ship has been recalled. I want something to move people and cargo across water, but I cannot trust a ship to do so safely if it has been recalled. With what craft should I instead move a similar load without using several times more fuel?"
why does this not make "forward porting" a lot of flash content not just a matter of loading it in a newer version of Adobe's software and exporting it to HTML5?
1. The author or his estate has to be contactable. 2. The author has to currently be renting "a newer version of Adobe's software". 3. The author has to still have the source FLA file.
Is the resulting HTML5 also covered by some rental-only license?
Not to my knowledge, but the Adobe software to produce it is.
If at least one of the (non-Signal) services that libpurple can use isn't blocked, you can enable OTR over that service to communicate between Pidgin on a desktop or laptop computer and Pidgin on another desktop or laptop computer.
Say I want to make an animutation that plays back using a vector animation technology other than Flash Player. Which software would you recommend for this?
replace flash
Easier said than done. I'd be interested to hear how you'd answer these questions:
How would the operator of Flash portal like Newgrounds go about tracking down the author of each submission in order to get the submission converted to HTML5?
How would someone who has submitted a work to such a portal convert a Flash animation to an HTML5 vector animation,* or a Flash game to an HTML5 game? Does it involve somehow tracking down the original FLA file, which may have been lost to time, and purchasing a year's subscription to Creative Cloud to use Adobe Animate's HTML export?
* A DCT-of-pixels video is not a vector animation. A video's file size will likely be an order of magnitude larger than the vectors from which it was rendered.
Newgrounds, Kongregate, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Animutation Portal, and the like still use Flash to present vector animations and games whose authors either can't be located or lack the time=money to remake them from scratch using HTML5.
A WebM or MPEG-4 video is not a close substitute for a vector animation because a video's file size is roughly an order of magnitude larger, eating into the viewer's cap. (Though most devices with a built-in cellular radio can't play Flash in the first place, home wireless ISPs impose a monthly Internet data transfer quota even on desktop devices.) It's an even worse substitute for a game, unless it's a narrative-driven game that can be fully experienced in a playthrough video.
There has never been anything that I watched that I didn't want to watch again.
I know people whose viewing habits differ greatly from yours. Quoting this post by calima:
I don't find any replay value in Zelda, Mario, or other such highly regarded games, so my opinion is certainly not limited to current AAA devs or walking simulators. It's rather about what I enjoy in a game, and that I have an excellent memory. If I know what happens next in a movie, book, or game, it is no longer fun to me. I acknowledge I'm in a minority in this position.
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The things people are constantly bitching about are bad decisions from two years ago that have already been corrected: such as the ability to easily disable telemetry now, or the ability to set "working hours" in which Windows will not update / restart itself because it may interfere with daily activities.
Including the ability to mark Ethernet as metered without using the registry editor (which isn't even present on Windows 10 Lean), or to mark a connection as metered from 05:00 to 01:00 local time? Satellite Internet subscribers depend on those features in order not to exceed the monthly data transfer quota that satellite ISPs impose.
You can play video games without Windows. Switch your PC from Windows to GNU/Linux and add a PlayStation 4 console. Quite a few PC games on Steam and emulators of retro consoles are ported to Linux, and Wine runs numerous others. Many unported games that do not work in Wine are ported to a PlayStation platform, and some PlayStation 2 through 4 games can use a mouse and keyboard. One thing you do lose on PlayStation 4, however, is mods.
In the past, many bands have made their musical recordings available in the United States only through iTunes Store, not through Amazon Music or Google Play Music. I don't know whether this is still common.
The other part is actually backing up the roommate's iPhone SE. Does Banshee back up all data on the device, not just music? And how soon is it updated to work with new iOS versions?
why would you pay for cable if most of what you want is local network affiliates?
If jcr is anything like one of my co-workers, they tried an antenna but could not receive a steady signal due to distance or obstructions.
You could redbox the movies for less than the cable bill
Redbox (new releases) is not a substitute for, say, TCM (curated older motion pictures).
It's hard to print Arabic, Chinese, or Hindi on retro video game consoles. Their graphics are based on "text mode", with usually space for about 256 different 8x8-pixel glyphs defined by the program. Most glyphs loaded into a console's video memory represent bits and pieces of a level's map, but 32 to 64 tend to get reserved for the text in score bars and dialogue. Arabic needs a lot more than that for the connecting forms of its letters. Hindi is written with Nagari script, which uses many ligatures. Chinese not only needs thousands of glyphs, of which a single game's dialogue may use hundreds, but the glyphs are also bigger (16x16).
Writing is a form of speech compression and the context conveys meaning as well
Converting a color image to grayscale is also compression, but good luck "decompressing" a black-and-white photo of a flower garden.
so it is not necessary to represent every little tone
Tone contours in Chinese languages reflect consonant distinctions that have been lost over centuries, in a process called cheshirization. Several words with completely different meanings, such as "mother", "horse", and "preceding sentence is a question", may be pronounced identically apart from tone contour. Use the wrong tone, and a question becomes an insult against the listener's mother. Or would you prefer that the written language preserve the consonants that have disappeared, leaving only traces in the spoken language, letting readers distinctions by replaying the last millennium of sound changes, as French and Tibetan (and to a lesser extent English) do?
My own cursive uses manuscript capitals. But as was taught in elementary school, capital Z is a 3 (as in Cyrillic), Q is a 2, and G is the logo of General Mills cereal.
I don't process "Zontar" as any more fake than "Alistair" or any other variant of "Alexander".
During this shift away from agricultural labor after World War I, who funded mass retraining of the workforce? That might help us figure out who will retrain the current workforce for the age of automation.
I think the point is that "crack" got specialized to mean circumventing digital restrictions management, such as cracking a game. I've used "intrude" to refer to the sort of malicious network activity that people associate with a website or someone's email getting "hacked". An intrusion authorized by a resource's owner is called a "pen test".
My bank has a service that can send anyone a payment by email.
Many banks offer that, and it works wherever you have Internet access. But when you're at a garage sale, you're often in range of neither your home LAN nor a public hotspot. How much do you pay per 12 months for a cellular Internet connection in order to be able to email money while out of Wi-Fi range?
When I shop online other than on Amazon, I prefer to pay with PayPal. PayPal can be set to draw from a checking account instead of a credit card.
Though, with the advent of Square and PayPal, a business which truly accepts only cash has become rare indeed.
Do you visit a lot of yard sales or garage sales? I do, and most homeowners running them haven't upgraded to Square or PayPal. Yard sale transactions are typically so small (very often below $5) that the 30 cent transaction fee is a far larger fraction of the total than the 3% rake.
If there's a need for vector animation tools, someone will invent a better solution.
Hence my question about what solutions if any had been invented in the past few years.
HTML is an open format, but you can't display websites from the 1990s anymore can you?
The website promoting the Warner Bros. film Space Jam is still viewable in Chrome 64. Many others are on Wayback Machine even if their hosts have dropped off the Internet.
What tool converts an SWF file to a format that a WebGL-based animation playback script can read?
In all seriousness, your line of questioning is roughly akin to "What kind of wood sealer should I use on the deck chairs of this sinking ship?"
Better analogy: "This ship has been recalled. I want something to move people and cargo across water, but I cannot trust a ship to do so safely if it has been recalled. With what craft should I instead move a similar load without using several times more fuel?"
why does this not make "forward porting" a lot of flash content not just a matter of loading it in a newer version of Adobe's software and exporting it to HTML5?
1. The author or his estate has to be contactable.
2. The author has to currently be renting "a newer version of Adobe's software".
3. The author has to still have the source FLA file.
Is the resulting HTML5 also covered by some rental-only license?
Not to my knowledge, but the Adobe software to produce it is.
If at least one of the (non-Signal) services that libpurple can use isn't blocked, you can enable OTR over that service to communicate between Pidgin on a desktop or laptop computer and Pidgin on another desktop or laptop computer.
I am disappointed [...] that Adobe didn't adapt their Flash tools to export to JS+HTML5.
When Adobe Flash became Adobe Animate, it gained an HTML5 exporter. But you can't buy a license to keep; you can only rent it.
if you are making a new site, don't use flash
Say I want to make an animutation that plays back using a vector animation technology other than Flash Player. Which software would you recommend for this?
replace flash
Easier said than done. I'd be interested to hear how you'd answer these questions:
How would the operator of Flash portal like Newgrounds go about tracking down the author of each submission in order to get the submission converted to HTML5?
How would someone who has submitted a work to such a portal convert a Flash animation to an HTML5 vector animation,* or a Flash game to an HTML5 game? Does it involve somehow tracking down the original FLA file, which may have been lost to time, and purchasing a year's subscription to Creative Cloud to use Adobe Animate's HTML export?
* A DCT-of-pixels video is not a vector animation. A video's file size will likely be an order of magnitude larger than the vectors from which it was rendered.
Newgrounds, Kongregate, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Animutation Portal, and the like still use Flash to present vector animations and games whose authors either can't be located or lack the time=money to remake them from scratch using HTML5.
A WebM or MPEG-4 video is not a close substitute for a vector animation because a video's file size is roughly an order of magnitude larger, eating into the viewer's cap. (Though most devices with a built-in cellular radio can't play Flash in the first place, home wireless ISPs impose a monthly Internet data transfer quota even on desktop devices.) It's an even worse substitute for a game, unless it's a narrative-driven game that can be fully experienced in a playthrough video.
I thought the Pidgin application supported off-the-record (OTR) messaging. What am I missing?
There has never been anything that I watched that I didn't want to watch again.
I know people whose viewing habits differ greatly from yours. Quoting this post by calima:
Does your combination kill a motion JPEG player written in pure CSS, without using any specific rules for the domain it's on?