Same thing happened to Opera, when it switched to Blink, and they released a browser that couldn't even create or manage bookmarks - until 18 months later. [Usage Share Data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers Opera Desktop/ TOTAL 2011/07 3.32% 4.22% 2012/07 3.00% 4.50% 2013/07 2.06% 3.24% - 4 months after Blink 2014/01 1.51% 2.83% - 9 months after Blink 2015/03 0.65% 2.06% - 24 months after Blink
Sure, there is somewhat of cultural difference. Sarcasm/Humour without-a-stupid-ass-picture doesn't go over very well on Ars. Both places are overflowing with Arm-chair experts. At least some of the/. experts are actual experts though. Granted it's much harder to get a visible comment on Slashdot. And if you sway from the popular opinion, you are much more likely to get voted down into oblivion on Ars.
Whereas Slashdot is much more likely to suppress what you said entirely. If an article gets a post count near 100, not all comments will load. Logged-out AC's appear to be the most suppressed, but even regular posters can't be seen at all. You need to "Load More Comments" over and over again. Fucking Idiotic.
Current Lithium Polymer cells retain 80% of their capacity after 1000 charge cycles. As opposed to standard Lithium Ion cells (18650's) which retain ~70% of their capacity after 500 charge cycles. The batteries in a newer smart-phone are likely Lithium Polymer.
I like my $20 Bamboo Watch. Looks good and can actually keep time. I don't need to take it off every day to charge, and forget to put it back on. I don't need to think about it at all. It's so light I don't even remember I'm wearing it usually.
Most of that functionality is available in Chrome except for Tree Style Tabs. The similar offerings on the Chrome side are fraught with gotchyas and clunky UI's to the point where you can't even use them to manage current tabs, but instead they degrade into a poor mans bookmark of recent activity.
I know but Firefox 57 will apparently lock the UI down like chrome. Already Quicksaver has thrown in the towel (FindBar Tweak, OmniSideBar, Tab Groups, Puzzle Bars, Beyond Australis)... as well I've heard dire rumblings in the Tree Style Tabs camp among others.
Good thing we didn't live in this environment at the "dawn of networked computing" in the 80's. Most of the muds ran at the behest of unix sys-admins at Universities... under the radar of the University Dept Heads in most cases.
While that should be true. The rust code is not interfacing properly with the non-rust code - or timing issues or something... I've never had tabs crash like they have over the last 6+ weeks -- and I've been running FF Aurora (or Nightly) with hundreds of tabs since 2012 when Opera fucked off.
Don't use the stable release, have FF Developer (Aurora) and FF Nightly. After the rust code was implemented (its gotten better) many larger sized images on pages would just plain fail to render at all.
The Nexus 6 (64GB) is the only half-way reasonably priced Nexus/Pixel device still somewhat available, $150 - $200 @ EBay, and ~$300 @ Amazon.
Best use an alternate charger though, Motorola's stock charger SPN5504/a has less than an Amp (~0.8a) of power output @ 5V. The Pixel phones will charge nearly 4 times as fast.
Sure, but if your phone wasn't 5 years old, you could get a 50-75% charge in under 30 minutes -- even without Qualcomm QuickCharge most phones in the last 2+ years charge at 2 Amps or higher. USB-C phones charge at 3 Amps or higher.
Which obviates the need for carrying around a spare battery.
Which "safe" American smart-phones do you refer to? Motorola? No... Blackberry? No... Pixel? Hmm no, just like the iPhone only distributed and semi-designed by an American company. There are no American smart-phones.
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Google hasn't paid Mozilla since 2014. Firefox's default search was switched to Yahoo. In 2015, default search was switched to Bing.
Same thing happened to Opera, when it switched to Blink, and they released a browser that couldn't even create or manage bookmarks - until 18 months later.
[Usage Share Data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Opera
Desktop/ TOTAL
2011/07 3.32% 4.22%
2012/07 3.00% 4.50%
2013/07 2.06% 3.24% - 4 months after Blink
2014/01 1.51% 2.83% - 9 months after Blink
2015/03 0.65% 2.06% - 24 months after Blink
The Ars "Blocklist" is pretty pathetic compared to Slashdot's Frenemies, which is really well implemented.
Sure, there is somewhat of cultural difference. Sarcasm/Humour without-a-stupid-ass-picture doesn't go over very well on Ars. Both places are overflowing with Arm-chair experts. At least some of the /. experts are actual experts though. Granted it's much harder to get a visible comment on Slashdot. And if you sway from the popular opinion, you are much more likely to get voted down into oblivion on Ars.
Whereas Slashdot is much more likely to suppress what you said entirely. If an article gets a post count near 100, not all comments will load. Logged-out AC's appear to be the most suppressed, but even regular posters can't be seen at all. You need to "Load More Comments" over and over again. Fucking Idiotic.
Current Lithium Polymer cells retain 80% of their capacity after 1000 charge cycles. As opposed to standard Lithium Ion cells (18650's) which retain ~70% of their capacity after 500 charge cycles. The batteries in a newer smart-phone are likely Lithium Polymer.
Is it better than Office 2000 yet?
I like my $20 Bamboo Watch. Looks good and can actually keep time. I don't need to take it off every day to charge, and forget to put it back on. I don't need to think about it at all. It's so light I don't even remember I'm wearing it usually.
Most of that functionality is available in Chrome except for Tree Style Tabs. The similar offerings on the Chrome side are fraught with gotchyas and clunky UI's to the point where you can't even use them to manage current tabs, but instead they degrade into a poor mans bookmark of recent activity.
See: Sidewise, or Tabs Outliner.
If Tree Style Tabs goes under, there will be very little reason to actually use Firefox anymore.
*Enpass isn't as good as lastpass, and has an ANSI import-bug, which I just reported
But LastPass causes 20%+ persistent CPU usage in Firefox.
I know but Firefox 57 will apparently lock the UI down like chrome. Already Quicksaver has thrown in the towel (FindBar Tweak, OmniSideBar, Tab Groups, Puzzle Bars, Beyond Australis)... as well I've heard dire rumblings in the Tree Style Tabs camp among others.
Good thing we didn't live in this environment at the "dawn of networked computing" in the 80's. Most of the muds ran at the behest of unix sys-admins at Universities... under the radar of the University Dept Heads in most cases.
Fuckin' eh!
Me: Chrome please translate japanese to english: http://www.elecom.co.jp/suppor...?
Chrome: Japanese is hard.
I needed the 64GB since it can't take a SD-card, and half of that will easily get used for music. An extra $100 (for 32GB more flash) is just gouging.
While that should be true. The rust code is not interfacing properly with the non-rust code - or timing issues or something... I've never had tabs crash like they have over the last 6+ weeks -- and I've been running FF Aurora (or Nightly) with hundreds of tabs since 2012 when Opera fucked off.
Don't use the stable release, have FF Developer (Aurora) and FF Nightly. After the rust code was implemented (its gotten better) many larger sized images on pages would just plain fail to render at all.
Microsoft is making better products. Microsoft is making better "Apple-like" hardware than Apple.
Sure, lets switch to a browser whose idea of tab-management is to copy IE.
The Nexus 6 (64GB) is the only half-way reasonably priced Nexus/Pixel device still somewhat available, $150 - $200 @ EBay, and ~$300 @ Amazon.
Best use an alternate charger though, Motorola's stock charger SPN5504/a has less than an Amp (~0.8a) of power output @ 5V. The Pixel phones will charge nearly 4 times as fast.
Haven't spent over $210 on a device|phone. $169 Xiaomi, and the potential replacement, a Nexus 6, 64GB for $209.
Fake news is a deliberate fiction, written with the intent to deceive, frighten, or anger the reader.
I take it you've never heard Megyn Kelly open her mouth on Fox News then.
Sure, but if your phone wasn't 5 years old, you could get a 50-75% charge in under 30 minutes -- even without Qualcomm QuickCharge most phones in the last 2+ years charge at 2 Amps or higher. USB-C phones charge at 3 Amps or higher.
Which obviates the need for carrying around a spare battery.
Or a Personal Hyper Tube, which don't even have brakes. Near the end, the PHT enters a water tunnel to absorb the bulk of the kinetic energy.
Which "safe" American smart-phones do you refer to? Motorola? No... Blackberry? No... Pixel? Hmm no, just like the iPhone only distributed and semi-designed by an American company. There are no American smart-phones.
Sure, but some of us got off our ass and paid for a Windows 10 Pro license. To avoid most of the shit Microsoft pulls on its "free upgrade Home users"