LG makes Sears Kenmore appliances. So you may as well just buy LG.
Sears (especially in Canada) and other retailers in their range (c.f Canadian Tire) used to carry decent quality goods (even Lifetime warranted Tools) at a competitive price - I don't know if that's been true for the last 10-20 years. I imagine the downhill started when Walmart bought out Woolco, Zellers shut down etc.
Shopping has never been particularly fun, but at least products being sold used to be vetted, Amazon, AliExpress and their ilk are like wading through a garbage dump trying to find a shiny nickel.
Except we are moving towards a situation where the "site" is just a front for CDN's (Content Delivery Networks): CloudFlare, AWS, Google AMP, etc, etc.
TFA's premise is the exact opposite of "too big to fail."
First paragraph of TFA:
This article might not exist in two years.
It could be razed by a future owner of Newsweek. It could be sued out of existence by a billionaire. It could vanish from the internet overnight, a tiny casualty in a larger acquisition or corporate shutdown. The internet is permanent: That is what parents tell teens to warn them against posting nudes. But it's not, really. Not when journalism is involved.
You mean the whole 8 months that Joe Ricketts owned the Gothamist LLC? That has been around for 14 years? Yeah he carried them real far. From TFA:
It was always a strange fit: When Ricketts purchased the 14-year-old Gothamist LLC in March, its flagship website Gothamist quickly decided to delete articles that were critical of its new owner. In recent weeks, the staff took steps to join a union, despite the owner's resistance to the idea. "As long as it’s my money that’s paying for everything," Ricketts wrote in an email to staff in spring, "I intend to be the one making the decisions about the direction of the business.”
This is because these new addons will not be allowed to modify the UI or underlying operation of the browser.
Not so much. Firefox's UI can be modified with CSS. Just like when Australis was first introduced.
Tree Style Tab is running in a customizable sidebar; normal tabs at the top can be hidden - with CSS. Try that in Chrome... The least useless SideTabs for Chrome is Sidewise, and it has to run in a completely separate window.
There's also Tab Center Redux - a continuation of Mozilla's Tab Center (Test Pilot experiment), which completely replaces top tabs with side tabs.
And for all the curmudgeons that reject change, there's the Basilisk browser which is "created and maintained by the team behind Pale Moon, and is a fully independent fork of the Mozilla/Firefox code".
Most of the major Extensions have a version compatible with FF 57, there are a few holdouts still, but everything should settle down shortly. The biggest surprise for me is that Session Manager appears to of done nothing towards the WebApi compatibility due to a handful of missing/incomplete API's that would impact a small portion of it's features. "Tab Session Manager," is a bit buggy atm and pretty barebones but functional enough for now.
It would seem perhaps you know not of what you speak, Firebug has been nothing but a template skin to Firefox Developer Tools since "Monday, February 8th, 2016."
Except that kind of phone only costs $200 to $400. See Xiaomi, Motorola, and Nokia, among others. The replaceable battery is a little more rare as glue tends to be involved, or you need to remove the frame to get at the battery connector.
To get at reliability, the Consumer Reports National Research Center surveys our subscribers regularly. There are millions of these folks, and many of them supply us with information on hundreds of thousands of individual products, including everything from pickup trucks to washing machines.
A number of survey respondents said they experienced problems with their devices during startup. A few commented that their machines froze or shut down unexpectedly, and several others told CR that the touch screens weren’t responsive enough.
Bullshit. Almost every carrier-sold device has a locked bootloader, and some are even SIM-locked.
A locked bootloader prevents you from: 1) Rooting the device. 2) Installing Lineage|Cyanogen|Any-other-OS.
Whereas a non-carrier branded device can usually be unlocked and the OEM has infrastructure in place to enable it - see Xiaomi, Motorola (Lenovo), etc.
Aye, there are strange forces at work. Potentially IP Address among other data being utilized.
For instance: I use Gmail from Chrome. In Firefox (main browser) I never login for YouTube nor Google searches.
Last week, I used YouTube from Chrome (which I almost never have), not logged in. The recommended list of videos was your standard fare of celebrity crap, late night news and politics.
I logged into YouTube from Chrome - the recommended list of videos now included dozens of things and sections matching (unlogged in) Firefox Google searches, and previously watched videos on YouTube from Firefox.
Which shouldn't really be happening, cookies are generally disabled and uMatrix blocks most third-party domain activity that hasn't been whitelisted.
(Interesting that Slashdot's HTML edit box doesn't require manual line <br/>eaks anymore).
Uber waited until the last day to produce the documents they were told to by Alsup. Then they waited until another court ruled against them to force them to produce the "due diligence" report that Alsup demanded they hand over. And again, they released that to the opposing side a few days before trial was set to begin.
So while it's definitely standard practice to swamp the other side with paperwork, it's also standard practice to produce the required documents in a timely manner, and not drag your heels until it's even past the deadline that Alsup set for discovery.
I'm looking forward to Android 8, so I can set every app to "never show notifications" and my lockscreen can be a lockscreen with a picture and the time.
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LG makes Sears Kenmore appliances. So you may as well just buy LG.
Sears (especially in Canada) and other retailers in their range (c.f Canadian Tire) used to carry decent quality goods (even Lifetime warranted Tools) at a competitive price - I don't know if that's been true for the last 10-20 years. I imagine the downhill started when Walmart bought out Woolco, Zellers shut down etc.
Shopping has never been particularly fun, but at least products being sold used to be vetted, Amazon, AliExpress and their ilk are like wading through a garbage dump trying to find a shiny nickel.
And the Chinese have had a 4,000 - 5,000 year head start ... so what?
The "site" can also be sitting behind a proxy server - which can delivery "content" from anywhere for the domain in question.
Claiming there is any real trust in this house of cards is almost laughable.
Except we are moving towards a situation where the "site" is just a front for CDN's (Content Delivery Networks): CloudFlare, AWS, Google AMP, etc, etc.
TFA's premise is the exact opposite of "too big to fail."
First paragraph of TFA:
You mean the whole 8 months that Joe Ricketts owned the Gothamist LLC? That has been around for 14 years? Yeah he carried them real far.
From TFA:
This is because these new addons will not be allowed to modify the UI or underlying operation of the browser.
Not so much. Firefox's UI can be modified with CSS. Just like when Australis was first introduced.
Tree Style Tab is running in a customizable sidebar; normal tabs at the top can be hidden - with CSS. Try that in Chrome... The least useless SideTabs for Chrome is Sidewise, and it has to run in a completely separate window.
There's also Tab Center Redux - a continuation of Mozilla's Tab Center (Test Pilot experiment), which completely replaces top tabs with side tabs.
And for all the curmudgeons that reject change, there's the Basilisk browser which is "created and maintained by the team behind Pale Moon, and is a fully independent fork of the Mozilla/Firefox code".
There's also a hard-fork of Mozilla's XUL platform UXP - Unified XUL Platform.
More info over at ghacks (in the comments): https://www.ghacks.net/2017/08...
Re Waterfox, etc.
Whether or not it has parity yet isn't particularly relevant. Firebug was discontinued over a year ago.
Most of the major Extensions have a version compatible with FF 57, there are a few holdouts still, but everything should settle down shortly. The biggest surprise for me is that Session Manager appears to of done nothing towards the WebApi compatibility due to a handful of missing/incomplete API's that would impact a small portion of it's features. "Tab Session Manager," is a bit buggy atm and pretty barebones but functional enough for now.
It would seem perhaps you know not of what you speak, Firebug has been nothing but a template skin to Firefox Developer Tools since "Monday, February 8th, 2016."
"that needle had barely moved" in the last year, it only increased by an order of magnitude and we will be deprecating in 6 months.
Feel free to comment, but as usual when we decide to drop features, nothing you say can nor will make a difference. Have a Nice Day.
The Moto X ($399) is filling the Nexus void. Also available on Project Fi with a potential trade-in.
Except that kind of phone only costs $200 to $400. See Xiaomi, Motorola, and Nokia, among others. The replaceable battery is a little more rare as glue tends to be involved, or you need to remove the frame to get at the battery connector.
Microcrosoft Surface Laptops and Tablets not recommended by CR ::
Science!
All of my required addons (or new replacement) are working in Firefox 57.
Only thing missing now is, Vertical Toolbar, and Piro's Multiple Tab Handler.
The Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch is an unofficial branch of the Democratic Party?
Riiiight. The drugs are good over here.
For Android? All you need is your charge cable and a USB-A to USB-C adapter. Which you can conveniently get as a keychain dongle for 0.99c
Since the Essential phone implements, "Wireless USB."
Bullshit. Almost every carrier-sold device has a locked bootloader, and some are even SIM-locked.
A locked bootloader prevents you from:
1) Rooting the device.
2) Installing Lineage|Cyanogen|Any-other-OS.
Whereas a non-carrier branded device can usually be unlocked and the OEM has infrastructure in place to enable it - see Xiaomi, Motorola (Lenovo), etc.
Aye, there are strange forces at work. Potentially IP Address among other data being utilized.
For instance:
I use Gmail from Chrome. In Firefox (main browser) I never login for YouTube nor Google searches.
Last week, I used YouTube from Chrome (which I almost never have), not logged in. The recommended list of videos was your standard fare of celebrity crap, late night news and politics.
I logged into YouTube from Chrome - the recommended list of videos now included dozens of things and sections matching (unlogged in) Firefox Google searches, and previously watched videos on YouTube from Firefox.
Which shouldn't really be happening, cookies are generally disabled and uMatrix blocks most third-party domain activity that hasn't been whitelisted.
(Interesting that Slashdot's HTML edit box doesn't require manual line <br/>eaks anymore).
To each their own, but I always preferred awk|gawk for "practical extraction and reports."
Uber waited until the last day to produce the documents they were told to by Alsup. Then they waited until another court ruled against them to force them to produce the "due diligence" report that Alsup demanded they hand over. And again, they released that to the opposing side a few days before trial was set to begin.
So while it's definitely standard practice to swamp the other side with paperwork, it's also standard practice to produce the required documents in a timely manner, and not drag your heels until it's even past the deadline that Alsup set for discovery.
The moto x ^4 is headlining Android One for Project Fi in the US is a mid-range device ~$399 with a Headphone jack, SD-Card slot, and Micro-USB.
See: Motorola Moto X4 - Full phone specifications
I'm looking forward to Android 8, so I can set every app to "never show notifications" and my lockscreen can be a lockscreen with a picture and the time.
Yes it is. You can't trap or trigger on Ctrl-Alt-Del - whereas every other keyboard or mouse input can be trapped with a hook.