Why would the Xubuntu team not provide support for XFCE? Using XFCE is the whole point of their distro. Maybe you are confusing the main Ubuntu distro with Xubuntu?
How is a website going to play the music stored on my phone when I have no Internet connection? Much less how I'm going to be able to stream music in such a case.
You really haven't seen what the web platform is capable of these days, have you?
No, we have. People like you just highly exaggerate what it can do. If web apps were really that amazing, no one would be writing native apps anymore. Yet this isn't even remotely the case.
I have gigabit Internet service at home and for mobile service I have 40+ mbit/sec LTE. Austin has some of the best Internet service in the US.:)
The problem is that the town that I go to on the weekends is out in the boonies and has less than 3000 people so the high-speed data coverage is quite lacking.
That's because most people just half-assedly slap together an "app" version of their web page that is usually dumbed-down and poorly optimized (if even at all). I've written about a dozens apps for myself to make certain websites I use better on my phone and even with the overhead of the having to parse the HTML for the bits of data I want, my apps are still faster and far more responsive and better to use than rendering the webpage in my browser. That also is probably due to the fact that I'm not having to run the gobs of javascript required for rendering the ads, web trackers, etc. as the browser does.
Most things don't need native speed and work fine as websites.
Yes, most things may not. Many things do. For example, I go and visit a small town only about an hour away from where I live. For much of the trip there and while in town I have either no data connection or one that measures at best in the 10s of KBs. How exactly am I going to play my music/audio books, in those areas if not with a native app? Pretty sure a website is going to be very much help.
How on Earth can Apple tie your account activity to a credit card without ever having that credit card number to generate that token?
They get it just long enough to transmit it to your bank which verifies the info.
And, if at ANY point in this chain Apple has your credit card number... why would I trust they (or any other corporation) aren't retaining that.
Because they'd have no reason to lie about it. Also, if you have an iPhone and an Apple ID and you've used either iTunes or the App store to make any purchases they already have your credit card. There's no reason they'd need to build some secret DB of credit card info.
he portability of the Windows and OSX UI frameworks could properly be called "utter rubbish", because they're not intended to be portable at all.
What exactly do either of those have to do with a discussion of Qt vs GTK+?
In contrast, GTK+ apps can and do run on both Windows and OSX, and many applications work quite well on both platforms.
I've use GTK+ apps on both Windows and OS X and they do not work "quite well". Many OS X GTK+ apps still require pulling in X11 which adds extra hassle and more dependencies whereas Qt does not have that issue (even if Qt apps still don't look completely native on OS X).
What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Windows (a bit better on Mac OS X, but still falls short), if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download.
I'm pretty sure it's due to all the lawsuits and regulatory pressure they've already faced when trying to bundle too much of their own software.
What you are saying has no relationship to the article. The article is talking about the supposed "anonymized" data given to marketers about your purchases. It's about thinking you were hiding yourself from the business you were buying from.
I agree. The public statements made by those very companies saying that are hyperbolic. It was almost as if my post was lampooning the absurdity. Naaah, that couldn't possibly have been it.
But doesn't Canada know that Net Neutrality is going to equal government censorship and all the telcos will immediately stop any infrastructure investments? Verizon, AT&T and Comcast said so and they would never lie about anything like that.
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Why would the Xubuntu team not provide support for XFCE? Using XFCE is the whole point of their distro. Maybe you are confusing the main Ubuntu distro with Xubuntu?
The ignorance is strong with this one.
How is a website going to play the music stored on my phone when I have no Internet connection? Much less how I'm going to be able to stream music in such a case.
You really haven't seen what the web platform is capable of these days, have you?
No, we have. People like you just highly exaggerate what it can do. If web apps were really that amazing, no one would be writing native apps anymore. Yet this isn't even remotely the case.
I have gigabit Internet service at home and for mobile service I have 40+ mbit/sec LTE. Austin has some of the best Internet service in the US. :)
The problem is that the town that I go to on the weekends is out in the boonies and has less than 3000 people so the high-speed data coverage is quite lacking.
That's because most people just half-assedly slap together an "app" version of their web page that is usually dumbed-down and poorly optimized (if even at all). I've written about a dozens apps for myself to make certain websites I use better on my phone and even with the overhead of the having to parse the HTML for the bits of data I want, my apps are still faster and far more responsive and better to use than rendering the webpage in my browser. That also is probably due to the fact that I'm not having to run the gobs of javascript required for rendering the ads, web trackers, etc. as the browser does.
It won't. But they have to make some sort of excuse for having a platform that will be less popular than Blackberry and Windows Phone.
Pretty sure a website *isn't* going to be very much help, that is.
Most things don't need native speed and work fine as websites.
Yes, most things may not. Many things do. For example, I go and visit a small town only about an hour away from where I live. For much of the trip there and while in town I have either no data connection or one that measures at best in the 10s of KBs. How exactly am I going to play my music/audio books, in those areas if not with a native app? Pretty sure a website is going to be very much help.
You're mad that someone's action saved the documents from being destroyed? Did you forget to read the last sentence of the summary?
All the findings are unique as all documentary evidence from the codebreaking process was supposed to be destroyed under wartime security rules.
How on Earth can Apple tie your account activity to a credit card without ever having that credit card number to generate that token?
They get it just long enough to transmit it to your bank which verifies the info.
And, if at ANY point in this chain Apple has your credit card number ... why would I trust they (or any other corporation) aren't retaining that.
Because they'd have no reason to lie about it. Also, if you have an iPhone and an Apple ID and you've used either iTunes or the App store to make any purchases they already have your credit card. There's no reason they'd need to build some secret DB of credit card info.
No, the phone doesn't store the card info either.
Or they can just use the camera in one of the smartphones that someone in the restaurant already owns?
he portability of the Windows and OSX UI frameworks could properly be called "utter rubbish", because they're not intended to be portable at all.
What exactly do either of those have to do with a discussion of Qt vs GTK+?
In contrast, GTK+ apps can and do run on both Windows and OSX, and many applications work quite well on both platforms.
I've use GTK+ apps on both Windows and OS X and they do not work "quite well". Many OS X GTK+ apps still require pulling in X11 which adds extra hassle and more dependencies whereas Qt does not have that issue (even if Qt apps still don't look completely native on OS X).
What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Windows (a bit better on Mac OS X, but still falls short), if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download.
I'm pretty sure it's due to all the lawsuits and regulatory pressure they've already faced when trying to bundle too much of their own software.
It's *not* about, that is.
What you are saying has no relationship to the article. The article is talking about the supposed "anonymized" data given to marketers about your purchases. It's about thinking you were hiding yourself from the business you were buying from.
Even if I were to spend $10000 on a credit card in a year that 3% doesn't even represent a full day's pay. I think I'll live somehow.
I agree. The public statements made by those very companies saying that are hyperbolic. It was almost as if my post was lampooning the absurdity. Naaah, that couldn't possibly have been it.
Aspergers man says what?
I would hope I'm misunderstanding it, because that seems like a lot of spares to purchase ahead of time.
The more money you have here in the States, the larger your voice is with our government.
There's a country that has a government where this isn't the case?
No, they are constantly being read and written to from a NAS.
Sorry, the 3 TB drives are around 3 years old. The 2 TB have passed their 5 year warranties with no issues.
But doesn't Canada know that Net Neutrality is going to equal government censorship and all the telcos will immediately stop any infrastructure investments? Verizon, AT&T and Comcast said so and they would never lie about anything like that.
But I have yet to see a high-density disk last more than 8,000 hours, with the median being maybe half that.
Good for you. I have a number of 2 and 3 TB drives that are more than 5 years old. Anecdotes != evidence.