I did the Snapshot program 10+ years ago as I recall... Ended up with something like a 21% discount, but once I engaged more than 2 brain cells, I realized that my rates *with* the discount were significantly higher than what I had paid the previous year. When I asked questions, they basically refused to explain the billing in meaningful detail - I had a discount but regardless my rates were higher after participating. Needless to say, after all the hassle trying to get a good discount, I dropped Progressive entirely and refuse to even consider them, even nowadays.

The S9 is no longer getting OS security updates. (And I'm on the S9+ so I'm keenly aware of this since I'm also affected.) Security updates are important, and while there are 3rd party ROMs, I don't trust the developers of those to have the resources to keep things up to date for free. And believe me, I wish I could, because my phone is plenty fast for my purposes. So, basically this means buying another Samsung phone with 4 years of OS updates, something from other android manufacturers with only 2 or 3 years of OS updates, or... Switching to iPhone, which sucks due to the walled garden and other Apple-imposed restrictions, but from my understanding gets updates generally more quickly, and for longer than anything else. I like Android, but for me and how I use my phone, I'll likely be switching to iPhone soon.

There is one option still: using the Flash Player projector (https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html) and loading the SWF file directly. I've done this specifically for an AlbinoBlackSheep SWF which, while converted to a vid, lost its randomization features in the process. Tested it today; still works.

From the article: "To lay the foundation for the research, the team first examined the volume of languages in the field, and found, unsurprisingly, that .Net, Java and ASP are the most widely used programming languages at 28.1%, 25% and 16% respectively. Legacy programming languages that have been around for decades, PHP (11%), ColdFusion (6%), and Perl (3%) rounded out the remaining field." How did they determine the languages? This certainly differs from TIOBE's methodology (based on Google searches). The "unsurprisingly" seems suspect as well; I feel some of the selections *are* somewhat surprising.

Just tried. The links work fine for me.

Ting's been fantastic. Haven't had any problems, service has been excellent thus far. My personal pros and cons: Cons: - No freebies. (Calling my wife does count as minutes - actually double since she's also on Ting and we get charged for each phone's usage.) - No data roaming. (We use WiFi anyway; generally a non-issue.) - Having to buy new phones. (We were using T-Mobile non-Android phones; they currently only support Sprint Android phones it seems.) Pros: - Far, far cheaper in general. (We pay less than half what we used to.) - Data plan not required; we both switched to wifi only the moment we got our phones and haven't paid a cent for data. (They forgive a megabyte or two in the first month for phone activation. - Excellent service. Billing and technical questions answered politely and promptly. - Usage alarms (and hard cut-offs) for people who don't want to exceed a certain threshold of minutes/messages/data per month. Seriously, it's the first time I've ever felt good about a cell carrier. They're worth looking into. Only regret I had was the T-Mobile termination fees we got dinged with (and missing Ting's promotion which would have paid them for us).

Here's one: Nadesico

I don't completely recall, but I think there's limitations on commercial use, and also it's Windows only. But this does qualify.

Here's a page from the manual with some code examples:

http://nadesi.com/doc/kouza/01-1-hello.htm

Further, Wine (in theory) could provide a higher level of backwards compatibility than Windows chooses to. For example, what about older games written for Win9x which do not run on Win2K/XP properly? I know there's many other programs which don't run under NT but do run under 9x, as well. It'd be nice to be able to run that code again, even if it is "ancient" or "obsolete".