A similar story here but with the hardware end of the software/computer tale. As you say "plopped" down exactly $3999.99 for a perpetual license and skinned my knuckles for easily ten years coming up to speed with the interface. And what an interface it was/is; more than any user could ever master kind-of-thing PERIOD. Come time for perpetual license idea scrapped by the company, ackompanying the idiomatic $4000.00/year subscription, subscribing to a new-fangled interface also chocked with more features on top of the last more features (this company has always been an industry big name and has been in the game since software and personal computers were born) ... became a non-sequiter but I had my 64-bit version, even though it ran slow on 16GB of memory. Gungho still and undetered from no more updates/upgrades, computer evolution goes on, etc. Come limitless amount of memory on a new computer (~ year 15) and reinstallation of the application and 6 months of dicking around without thee driver selectively excluded by me upon start up in order to get the thing to show me the interface (without the ability to "color" anything ) ... I was ready to toss in the towel. Now for the hardware part: one day ... as I was waltzing down dingly dell way (tromping through my BIOS with size 14 Sorels on snowshoes and only an umbrella in lieu of a 70lb pack, perhaps because I'd danced through here before and knew better, perhaps not) ... I happened upon the CPU Core Count/Hyperthread limiting ticker. For some reason I spun down the core count to 11 from 32 (approximation; because I don't dick with it anymore since I "fixed" it ... and to make this story less long-winded). Waking back up after a repower on ... I was only looking to see if my box had altered any behaviors, right? And I don't remember why I would have dumped that driver which caused the interface to the app to crash upon load back into the active load folder but I did ... and the app didn't crash! And I now had "color" and could use the full $3999.99 perpetual licensed ball-of-wax. Once in a while the interface crashes and even though it's over twenty years old the app still messages me that I can send the crash dump to the developers now. And there's even the comment box that the devs will read; the one where I tell them ... what I really think of this whole subscription idea.

"foot feed" back in the day. >64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.

Lol wut? I wonder if that dates to really old ASCII based UI. It's the only thing off the top of my head that makes it make sense. Hasbro bought a bunch of IP from Atari. Amongst it, I think, was Pac-Man. This led to a short-lived claim and series of suits which were premised on the idea that any game featuring a protagonist in a maze like environment was a derivative work. Bold move, Cotton.

David O'Neil wrote: Better yet, "It is hard to get very, very rich, unless you are taking money or data from many, many people." FTFY M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

"ffmpeg -h full" goes way beyond what is shown in that article! Also, I was looking for the list for character code sets (and the next responder did hit the head on the nail). Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

The author is an idiot. He says we (software engineers) create overly complex systems and then goes on to imply we need to be regulated. Regulation guarantees complexity.

Shoot, we can't even think something and social media is on it (or so it would seem).

obermd wrote: I can understand no scroll bars on a smart phone, but not on a 1920x1200 monitor I know very little about CSS but I do know that designers can tell 1) what your device is 2) what your screen size is And more.Look at how Media Queries are defined (for just this purpose): Media queries - Wikipedia[^] Media queries is a feature of CSS 3 allowing content rendering to adapt to different conditions such as screen resolution (e.g. mobile and desktop screen size). It became a W3C recommended standard in June 2012,[1] and is a cornerstone technology of responsive web design (RWD). And, that is ancient technology. But no, the designers just design everything to a phone and forget about the rest. Annoying.

Chad3F wrote: If you felt like using those worthless (and probably very unreliable) SD cards to mess with people, They're only unreliable if you buy 1TB ones from China for $12. All my MicroSD cards are still functional and reliable. You get what you pay for. And why revive a nearly month-old thread for something nefarious like this?

This keeps coming up. Europe and the US are both horrible at this. As far the "it's for the children" claim, this claim has been used to destroy more personal freedoms than any other single claim in the history of western civilization. Anytime you hear it, be very, very wary of the goal here as it's never for the children, but rather it's to control you.

theory is good, will test it this week. diligent hands rule....

I watch aviation accident reports all the time ... Mentour Pilot is a very good channel for that on YouTube - very professional. My excuse for that is that it gives me a "exterior" view as a sysadmin on how well you need to be prepared for any disasters ...

Richard Deeming wrote: they have previously been caught stealing code from WordPress without complying with the license. They've also deleted websites at the request of the Chinese government, and fired an employee for being critical of Israel. So probably not the most trustworthy of companies then. Holy crap. Never knew any of this. So... might be time to rethink recommending them to smaller website owners. Jeremy Falcon

and today. first time in awhile. I get it on time? hmmmmmm To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer