The Pixel's have a bunch of new VR-related sensors, as well as quick charge - supposedly 7hrs of battery life with a 15 min charge.
Still outrageously expensive, and I definitely wont be buying any portable device without a micro-sd slot.
$278 Then vs $126 Now. Previously, Netflix: $20, Amazon Prime: ~$8/mos and $250 for TWC (incl. DVR, cable box, modem, phone and Internet).
Netflix: $10, Hulu: $10, Amazon Prime+Fresh: ~$11, Google Music Family (+YouTube Red): $15, TWC Internet: $50.
Pre-Orders doubly reward the publisher. A price premium on the pre-order. And all those customers buy in before they see what the current DLC scam will be.
Within the last 5 years, Google Shopping changed the requirements to be listed. Number one requirement: Pay to be listed.
Who pays to be listed? Jet.com. Who is Jet? Walmart.
Amazon may be an 800lb Gorilla. Walmart? They're just f'n evil, and the sooner they die in a fire the better.
All we should have is the "Registrar Model":
Register Domain, Get Domain & Certificate from Registrar.
Use Certificate to sign a "fingerprint" of your Server.
Register the signed "fingerprint" with your Domain Registrar.
Domain Lookups would include the signed fingerprint of your server.
Done.
Meh. Twitter developers have made numerous significant contributions to open source - AND their stuff actually gets used. Unlike the schlock-tech that Facebook (for instance) has created.
Microsoft or Alphabet could easily do a talent-acquire, get rid of the useless twitter boards, fix filtering and a few outstanding issues with Twitter itself, and repurpose most of the acquired engineers to a more worthwhile task than "twitter infrastructure".
Yeah, but we don't throw that crap away. I'm sure I'm not the only one that could rummage through the house and come up with 10 cell phones, 7 MP3 players, 10 computers and get all but a couple up and running.
Google Play Music ~320kbps. Amazon ~256kbps. Unfortunately, both are NOT variable bit rate. You can get CD-level quality encoding with VBR 256-320kbps.
At least with Amazon, you can buy CD's, and download MP3's immediately; rip to desired bitrate later. I wont be buying any more music through Google Play Music unless lossless is offered as a download option (wavpack, flac, winzip compressed wav's (which is just wavpack)).
The other part is satiation, and insulin response. Higher levels of fructose do not trigger a normal insulin response, and while food sweetened with sugar vs HFCS will have a similar caloric value --- you wont "feel" satiated due to the unbalance and irregular insulin response. Thus you are more inclined to continue to consume more.
Coca-cola for example, anywhere else in the world, except the U.S. is made with sugar. You will (should) feel satiated after consuming a bottle of a sugary beverage. Whereas with HFCS you will be more inclined to have another.
I imagine the Corn Industry lobby has done their best to suppress this information. The corn industry is heavily subsidized in the US, along with Sugar having import tariffs.
Hell, a few years back know their was a campaign to rename HFCS to Corn Sugar --- as HFCS has gotten too much bad press. I think it didn't get past the FDA
There are numerous studies on this. HFCS is imbalanced, and invariably doesn't trigger the same biological response that sugar does.
Leading to diabetes and other health issues.
You can even do this yourself. When you think you are hungry|thirsty, drink a bottle of Coke that is made anywhere in the world, except USA. e.g. Mexican or Canadian coke. You will feel satiated. The next time you feel hungry|thirsty, drink a bottle of Americanized HFCS Coke. You will probably be able to drink 2 or more.
uMatrix can only Allow|Deny a resource by its domain and type (css, image, xss, etc).
Whereas uBlock can block|allow based on the resource's partial path|name|regex.
Both will be needed in order to have an exception for a given resource - where the exception (with uBlock) can be either a partial|full url path or regex.
For Instance, if you need to:
1) Block All Scripts on a domain (uMatrix), but allow one|some (uBlock).
2) Allow All Scripts on a domain (uMatrix), but block one|some (uBlock).
uMatrix is much more efficient at its job (out of the box, without any subscriptions) than ANY of the other "Ad-Blockers" incl. uBlock.
To use both, effectively, you will want to not subscribe to blocklists on uBlock either. I believe Gorhill says it best:
gorhill commented on Nov 1, 2014
There are significant differences aside the ones you mention.
Matrix-based filtering and its inheritance model (cell/rows/columns/scopes) can't be obtain with uBlock. uBlock follows ABP-filtering semantic, which is very simple:
Allow everything
Unless there is a matching block filter
Unless there is a matching allow filter
Then it stops there. You can't override beyond this.
There is no such restriction with matrix-filtering, it is fully hierarchical with no limit, and since it's written from the ground up this way, it far more efficient than pattern-based filtering. However, a higher granularity can be obtained with pattern-based filtering. So they complement each other in a way.
But a majority of users just want an install and forget blocker, and this is uBlock. Power users however like to be fully informed about what web pages do, and be able to act on that information with a tool that makes it all easy, this is uMatrix.
Just like RequestPolicy can't fully replace Adblock Plus and vice versa, and using one doesn't prevent using the other.
Although, if Gorhill really believes uMatrix is for power users, it doesn't make much sense to me why he's denied the capability (and all similiar requests on GitHub) of uMatrix to Allow/Deny specific resources by url|regex|name... as eventually you will need to do so, and you can't with uMatrix.
I used to have that massive slowdown and lockups. Electrolysis has mitigated that somewhat. If you've enabled Electrolysis try adding this to about:config
dom.ipc.processCount = 10
Works fairly well with 8GB of ram. I haven't tested with a higher value (and more ram) yet.
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The Pixel's have a bunch of new VR-related sensors, as well as quick charge - supposedly 7hrs of battery life with a 15 min charge.
Still outrageously expensive, and I definitely wont be buying any portable device without a micro-sd slot.
THC.
Not if you are using uMatrix or uBlock (or both) in default "block 3rd party crap" mode.
+$20 for Vonage.
$278 Then vs $126 Now. Previously, Netflix: $20, Amazon Prime: ~$8/mos and $250 for TWC (incl. DVR, cable box, modem, phone and Internet).
Netflix: $10, Hulu: $10, Amazon Prime+Fresh: ~$11, Google Music Family (+YouTube Red): $15, TWC Internet: $50.
And you could almost always fix those beasts with a $5 belt too. Instead of "$450 + $250 labor (for a ~$1000 machine".
Pre-Orders doubly reward the publisher. A price premium on the pre-order. And all those customers buy in before they see what the current DLC scam will be.
+ Major Appliances. You can't even buy the "Washer-half" of a Washer & Dryer at Costco.
Home > Apparel & Accessories > Jewelry > Rings
Not that others aren't a mess as well. I regularly see people caught up in eBay bids for used stuff that exceeds the price I could buy it new.
This. I rarely saved money on eBay, and when you consider the time sink to buy anything on eBay it just doesn't make sense to regularly shop there.
Within the last 5 years, Google Shopping changed the requirements to be listed. Number one requirement: Pay to be listed.
Who pays to be listed? Jet.com. Who is Jet? Walmart.
Amazon may be an 800lb Gorilla. Walmart? They're just f'n evil, and the sooner they die in a fire the better.
All we should have is the "Registrar Model":
Register Domain, Get Domain & Certificate from Registrar.
Use Certificate to sign a "fingerprint" of your Server.
Register the signed "fingerprint" with your Domain Registrar.
Domain Lookups would include the signed fingerprint of your server.
Done.
Easy, if it does more than (2d8+1) 17 damage, then it would be a critical injury.
Raise the dead? We could bring the real Steve back.
Meh. Twitter developers have made numerous significant contributions to open source - AND their stuff actually gets used. Unlike the schlock-tech that Facebook (for instance) has created.
Microsoft or Alphabet could easily do a talent-acquire, get rid of the useless twitter boards, fix filtering and a few outstanding issues with Twitter itself, and repurpose most of the acquired engineers to a more worthwhile task than "twitter infrastructure".
How much for the magic golden Apple bracelet?
Yeah, but we don't throw that crap away. I'm sure I'm not the only one that could rummage through the house and come up with 10 cell phones, 7 MP3 players, 10 computers and get all but a couple up and running.
Google Play Music ~320kbps. Amazon ~256kbps. Unfortunately, both are NOT variable bit rate. You can get CD-level quality encoding with VBR 256-320kbps.
At least with Amazon, you can buy CD's, and download MP3's immediately; rip to desired bitrate later. I wont be buying any more music through Google Play Music unless lossless is offered as a download option (wavpack, flac, winzip compressed wav's (which is just wavpack)).
Amazon and Japan to the rescue. Models by Sangean, Degen, Tecsun or C Crane.
My own post from two years ago
There are numerous studies on this. HFCS is imbalanced, and invariably doesn't trigger the same biological response that sugar does.
Leading to diabetes and other health issues.
You can even do this yourself. When you think you are hungry|thirsty, drink a bottle of Coke that is made anywhere in the world, except USA. e.g. Mexican or Canadian coke. You will feel satiated.
The next time you feel hungry|thirsty, drink a bottle of Americanized HFCS Coke. You will probably be able to drink 2 or more.
Whereas uBlock can block|allow based on the resource's partial path|name|regex.
Both will be needed in order to have an exception for a given resource - where the exception (with uBlock) can be either a partial|full url path or regex.
For Instance, if you need to:
uMatrix is much more efficient at its job (out of the box, without any subscriptions) than ANY of the other "Ad-Blockers" incl. uBlock.
To use both, effectively, you will want to not subscribe to blocklists on uBlock either. I believe Gorhill says it best:
gorhill commented on Nov 1, 2014
There are significant differences aside the ones you mention.
Matrix-based filtering and its inheritance model (cell/rows/columns/scopes) can't be obtain with uBlock. uBlock follows ABP-filtering semantic, which is very simple:
Allow everything
Unless there is a matching block filter
Unless there is a matching allow filter
Then it stops there. You can't override beyond this.
There is no such restriction with matrix-filtering, it is fully hierarchical with no limit, and since it's written from the ground up this way, it far more efficient than pattern-based filtering. However, a higher granularity can be obtained with pattern-based filtering. So they complement each other in a way.
But a majority of users just want an install and forget blocker, and this is uBlock. Power users however like to be fully informed about what web pages do, and be able to act on that information with a tool that makes it all easy, this is uMatrix.
Just like RequestPolicy can't fully replace Adblock Plus and vice versa, and using one doesn't prevent using the other.
Although, if Gorhill really believes uMatrix is for power users, it doesn't make much sense to me why he's denied the capability (and all similiar requests on GitHub) of uMatrix to Allow/Deny specific resources by url|regex|name... as eventually you will need to do so, and you can't with uMatrix.
Almost all Television and movies from the 80s and 90s. Although I'm not sure if "because of stupid-ass-music-licensing" counts as artificial scarcity.
dom.ipc.processCount = 10
Works fairly well with 8GB of ram. I haven't tested with a higher value (and more ram) yet.