Lots of windows apps were possible because of quicktime for windows. Adobe was built on top of it for a long time.

Long ago when Quicktime was dying because Apple abandoned it in the 2000s; the developer list had an email asking opinions about open sourcing quicktime. Apple should have open sourced most of it. MKV didn't need to happen. I certainly liked the ability to have reference movies that just worked and took no space.

The API wasn't easy. It was also a massive codebase. I don't think anything has matched it. They did more than codecs; conversion. It handled timecode and editing - the backbone to every video editor for decades was made of Quicktime. It wasn't just for playback and compression. It handled audio and images too. Maybe it didn't need to be so huge...and try to be everything A/V for everybody. They should have handed off most of it to open source and we'd all be better for it if they had.

Lying is a virtue in the USA. Hypocrisy and lack of shame are powerful leadership. Everything a supervillain monologue says about the hero wasting their gifts on others and self-limiting being weak -- that is the mantra of the USA.

The old superman shit is a farce; today's USA is Lex Luthor. Disagree? look at who represents them. Actually representative of the nation's character.

I didn't vote for this but the majority defines the country. us good people are a minority.

This. It is BAD but the Ellisons was just James Bond super villain scale.

Don't be silly. Trump hasn't experienced any ethical decline.

The ONLY free market is the black market. That ends up with plenty of organically formed limitations even for the top crime lord - who still might suffer a while before Trump pardons them.

Government defines the rules of the market, the corporations are an extension of government, defines the currency needed to function, defines and enforces property rights...

American cars are subsidized and heavily protected; if not, they'd be gone years ago.

Free healthcare isn't subsidizing a company. A better power grid isn't. A pro-business power grid is somewhat a subsidy but nothing outside norms. Infrastructure like roads, communication, water, etc. isn't subsidizing. Indirectly, everything can be spun as subsided.

I know an old school Republican. They would pray for rain to suppress bad turn out. Since Nixon days (his time period) they always wanted lower turnout over all. They won't have a voting holiday, they didn't like laws forcing employers to let you out of work, they only liked mail in voting (before Trump) because more of their (old and poor lazy rural) people would use it; he heavily resented black churches being political by promoting voting (while his church did the same with color handouts of anti-abortion material.)

The suppression is almost entirely one sided. If you knew anything you'd realize. Furthermore, rank voting is superior and more republican states have it simply because it stopped vote splitting from harming them. Where vote splitting now harms the other side they fight like hell against rank voting; also rank voting increases turn out - which they don't like unless it turns out their voters. There is no fair fight; they lie about the other side then do the same feeling justified. Shocked when they finally realize they were the only one playing dirty. At least for the moment they realize this before going back to conspiracies that then justify their old hate pattern. Seen it play out multiple times.

Don't be sucker.

Our population was so fucking stupid Trump squeaked out a victory; the media and billionaires shouldn't have been able to put a gold polish on that turd.

Let me correct that for you:
"Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashingâ¦Simpletons can't grasp Nuance."

boils down to security and being able to punch through firewalls and NAT... Really there should be a protocol to solve this problem that is industry wide.

There is. It's called IP forwarding. Your router almost certainly supports it because without it and its auto-configuration friends UPnP and NAT-PMP you wouldn't be able to play lots of online games.

That's not the problem. The problem is, how do you tell your phone what your home IP address is? That also has standard solutions but ISPs don't like giving out static IPs and dynamic DNS requires that you have a domain name. Used to be you could get a free one, but those services seem to have died off so now it's $15 a year.

Like it or not the cloud is a necessity for anything that extends beyond a few meters from your home.

It's not a necessity, but it certainly makes it a lot easier.

There is a problem with things that are not a few meters from your home requiring cloud access though. Like a garage door opener. Optional cloud integration so you can control it remotely, fine, but the base functionality should be local. The problem with cloud stuff is that it's an ongoing expense. If you're not paying a subscription eventually the provider is not going to be able to keep it going.

I thought the garage was where people put their guest bedroom. :-)

Assuming you live in a society with property rights, you do in fact have the right to both buy and sell that property. Like all rights, it's not absolute and can be limited in special circumstances. Corporations are just legal mechanisms for multiple people to share certain of their individual rights, most prominently property rights.

Warner Brothers is heavily in debt and has been posting big losses since the beginning of 2022. Their financials certainly look like they're in dire straits.

The deal hasn't closed yet. US regulators will be looking at it pretty carefully.

There are five. DNA and RNA each have four but not the same four. RNA uses uracil instead of thymine. The basic five can be modified after the nucleic acid is formed, methylctosine being the most common.

There are also a bunch of other nucleotide bases that aren't normally incorporated in DNA or RNA, some of which have been found in space, and artificial ones we've engineered to fluoresce or kill cancer.

Not entirely correct. It is the only *active* pad with that infrastructure. There are decommissioned pads that have been used for manned missions in the past. What state they are currently in is an unknown, but it has been speculated that equipment could be salvaged from them to repair the damaged pad.

Doctors are not memorization machines.

That's exactly what they are, and most of them are very good at it. Medical school is heavy on memorization.

The good ones know they can't memorize everything and look stuff up when it's not something they see regularly. Medical school tends to discourage this for historical and placebo effect reasons.