Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well. There is no free, everyone is paying for it
Wouldn't it make more sense to promote industries that produce actual productive work? Having an industry that takes money from people on top of the taxes just because they can doesn't really make sense. Especially, as noted here, the actual functionality still needs to exist in IRS. Having a pre-filled suggested form which you correct as needed would save everybody's time.
In Finland there's an app for emergency services. "The 112 Suomi application enables the automatic delivery of the caller's location information to the emergency service dispatcher (in Finland)."
And the app shows your coordinates, so you can tell them to the emergency services if there's no data connection available. Not quite as good as automatic location information sending built into the phone, but better than nothing.
This may sound like the usual iHate, but having a single iPhone in an otherwise non-Apple household is a chore. Just having it sync media with the various other devices requires many extra steps not to mention installing iTunes, etc.
Yeah, there's now an iPhone in our house. So long sharing images via NFC or bluetooth to SO. A minor dissappointment. Nothing that can't be worked around, but since the capability exists on the phone, the walled garden is somewhat tangible.
The Daily Mail is the exactly opposite of what you describe. A typical story starts with several paragraphs of reaction and outrage, before right at the end on page 7 mentioning the facts.
I came here to post this. This is exactly my experience with Daily Mail. The articles (and I am using the word loosely) start with pure distilled lying shit, and IF you happen to read the end, there is (if they lied enough) their 'get out of jail' card where they briefly state what actually happened (quite contrary to what they wrote above), so they can't be sued.
The same goes for memory usage. I wouldn't say that Chrome is as much of a winner here, but it isn't unusual for me to look at top or some other process manager and seeing Firefox with many gigabytes of resident memory. Yeah, RAM is "cheap" these days, but that doesn't mean I want it to be wasted. Browsing Slashdot and a few other web sites shouldn't lead to gigabyte after gigabyte of memory being consumed!
At least on Windows, the memory and CPU usage is somewhat difficult to compare due to the Chrome being in lots of smallish chunks, but based on my own anecdotal experience, Chrome keeps chugging quite a bit of memory and plenty of CPU per process after a while, so when you count all the processes together, Firefox is often using less CPU and about the same amount of memory than Chrome. I do use the Chrome dev tools more (better source view), but closing them does not seem to help at all.
Even reloading 100+ tabs from the source sites on starting a browser with saved state is STUPID. All the tabs except the active one should just contain a pointer to the source site on startup. Then they can be updated one by one as they are revisited.
Not sure if this is caused by Tree Style Tab extension, but my Firefox loads the content after restarting the browser for only the tabs switched into. Or maybe the actual content is loaded (as memory usage seems to go up with tabs), but at least it is not activated and will not use cpu cycles before visited.
I use the Tree Style Tab extension in Firefox. Not only I get the tabs on the left side of the screen with easily readable titles, the child tabs are found in the tree creating simple organization automatically. Not sure if I would give up adblock or the tree style tabs if I had to choose
Everyone I know who does business on the mainland (including Hong Kongers) uses a VPN.
People I've discussed with have had problems at home, such as VPN connections getting blocked, at workplaces things usually did work. When I visited, a couple of years ago admittedly, the VPN to my workplace I was using at a local residence worked for one day, then stopped working, and the same happened to my secondary VPN as well, in half a day.
It depends where in China and what you are doing. For foreigners the censorship is almost non-existent because it mostly only applies to phrases in Chinese, not other languages.
The firewall is somewhere between annoying (on a good day) to downright nasty for foreigners as well.
You forgot to include dates to those tweets. Let me help:
No. I did not forget. I was answering to message that stated that he had never done such a thing. I included the links to the actual sources.
It looks like you ended up forgetting to include the actual dates you were going to help me with. 6 Nov 2012 and 28 Dec 2013. There was over year between them. So, say, not something quick and stupid repeated within a month or so.
"I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much"
Pity you forgot to source the quote.
Apparently he was asked about the human effect. So. Some, something, depends on how much. And we know how much he thinks that is.
The discussion in this sub-thread is "don't read political spin, it makes you stupid".
Indeed. And Newsweek ('some obscure paper' as you said.), had an interesting article that goes against the political spin you quoted. It is not only reporters who spin. One might even spin in the comments, inventing opponents for other commenters. I sincerely wish that Trump does well. And I really really wish he will have reliable information sources.
Besides, I don't see how anyone can credit Trump with being smart enough to pull off some grand conspiracy to coordinate with the Russians. From what I can tell he's too dumb to make toast.
I guess I don't read enough tinfoil stuff as this is the first time I've seen even a mention about some grand conspiracy. His intelligence I have seen questioned.
Of course Newsweek isn't what it used to be, but the article is interesting.
Markov also said it would mean less American backing for “the terroristic junta in Ukraine”. He denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”
I meant modular as in built-in but still a replaceable module. You know, the way the DVD drive is on your desktop, or the harddrive
Not just desktops. I took out the expansion slot DVD drive from my Lenovo and replaced it with additional battery. No idea if the newer models have this, but I very much approved this possibility.
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Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well. There is no free, everyone is paying for it
Wouldn't it make more sense to promote industries that produce actual productive work? Having an industry that takes money from people on top of the taxes just because they can doesn't really make sense. Especially, as noted here, the actual functionality still needs to exist in IRS. Having a pre-filled suggested form which you correct as needed would save everybody's time.
In Finland there's an app for emergency services. "The 112 Suomi application enables the automatic delivery of the caller's location information to the emergency service dispatcher (in Finland)."
And the app shows your coordinates, so you can tell them to the emergency services if there's no data connection available. Not quite as good as automatic location information sending built into the phone, but better than nothing.
They will be getting the cell tower location anyway.
Sure, but if the specs I found were accurate, Nokia 1020 had 2/3" sensor and iPhone 7 has 1/3" sensor. Of course both are a long way from DSLRs.
This may sound like the usual iHate, but having a single iPhone in an otherwise non-Apple household is a chore. Just having it sync media with the various other devices requires many extra steps not to mention installing iTunes, etc.
Yeah, there's now an iPhone in our house. So long sharing images via NFC or bluetooth to SO. A minor dissappointment. Nothing that can't be worked around, but since the capability exists on the phone, the walled garden is somewhat tangible.
it's not consensus, its *expert* consensus
Experts according to consensus. I rest my case.
Definition of expert : having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience
Consensus not exactly mentioned in the definition
The Daily Mail is the exactly opposite of what you describe. A typical story starts with several paragraphs of reaction and outrage, before right at the end on page 7 mentioning the facts.
I came here to post this. This is exactly my experience with Daily Mail. The articles (and I am using the word loosely) start with pure distilled lying shit, and IF you happen to read the end, there is (if they lied enough) their 'get out of jail' card where they briefly state what actually happened (quite contrary to what they wrote above), so they can't be sued.
Extensions are the reason Firefox is popular with me. I'm happy to have any suggestions for improvements of the list.
My favorite: Tree Style Tab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... ).
Just out of curiousity, what if I told you that 1 time in 10,000 the brand name will make the difference over the generic?
"Source please"
The same goes for memory usage. I wouldn't say that Chrome is as much of a winner here, but it isn't unusual for me to look at top or some other process manager and seeing Firefox with many gigabytes of resident memory. Yeah, RAM is "cheap" these days, but that doesn't mean I want it to be wasted. Browsing Slashdot and a few other web sites shouldn't lead to gigabyte after gigabyte of memory being consumed!
At least on Windows, the memory and CPU usage is somewhat difficult to compare due to the Chrome being in lots of smallish chunks, but based on my own anecdotal experience, Chrome keeps chugging quite a bit of memory and plenty of CPU per process after a while, so when you count all the processes together, Firefox is often using less CPU and about the same amount of memory than Chrome. I do use the Chrome dev tools more (better source view), but closing them does not seem to help at all.
I'm trying to figure out how opening a new tab in Chrome takes a long time and seems to be some kinda of 'scourge we must deal with'.
It's instant for me, always has been.
Same for me in Firefox. I do have blank page selected as the new tab option though.
Even reloading 100+ tabs from the source sites on starting a browser with saved state is STUPID. All the tabs except the active one should just contain a pointer to the source site on startup. Then they can be updated one by one as they are revisited.
Not sure if this is caused by Tree Style Tab extension, but my Firefox loads the content after restarting the browser for only the tabs switched into. Or maybe the actual content is loaded (as memory usage seems to go up with tabs), but at least it is not activated and will not use cpu cycles before visited.
I use the Tree Style Tab extension in Firefox. Not only I get the tabs on the left side of the screen with easily readable titles, the child tabs are found in the tree creating simple organization automatically. Not sure if I would give up adblock or the tree style tabs if I had to choose
Pretty easy with adblock too, but yes, Ghostery is what I now use.
Everyone I know who does business on the mainland (including Hong Kongers) uses a VPN.
People I've discussed with have had problems at home, such as VPN connections getting blocked, at workplaces things usually did work. When I visited, a couple of years ago admittedly, the VPN to my workplace I was using at a local residence worked for one day, then stopped working, and the same happened to my secondary VPN as well, in half a day.
It depends where in China and what you are doing. For foreigners the censorship is almost non-existent because it mostly only applies to phrases in Chinese, not other languages.
The firewall is somewhere between annoying (on a good day) to downright nasty for foreigners as well.
You forgot to include dates to those tweets. Let me help:
No. I did not forget. I was answering to message that stated that he had never done such a thing. I included the links to the actual sources.
It looks like you ended up forgetting to include the actual dates you were going to help me with. 6 Nov 2012 and 28 Dec 2013. There was over year between them. So, say, not something quick and stupid repeated within a month or so.
"I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much"
Pity you forgot to source the quote.
Apparently he was asked about the human effect. So. Some, something, depends on how much. And we know how much he thinks that is.
No. That's a lie. He never said that.
Right...
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
https://twitter.com/realdonald...
and
"We should be focused on clean and beautiful air-not expensive and business closing GLOBAL WARMING-a total hoax!"
https://twitter.com/realdonald...
The discussion in this sub-thread is "don't read political spin, it makes you stupid".
Indeed. And Newsweek ('some obscure paper' as you said.), had an interesting article that goes against the political spin you quoted. It is not only reporters who spin. One might even spin in the comments, inventing opponents for other commenters. I sincerely wish that Trump does well. And I really really wish he will have reliable information sources.
Besides, I don't see how anyone can credit Trump with being smart enough to pull off some grand conspiracy to coordinate with the Russians. From what I can tell he's too dumb to make toast.
I guess I don't read enough tinfoil stuff as this is the first time I've seen even a mention about some grand conspiracy. His intelligence I have seen questioned.
Of course Newsweek isn't what it used to be, but the article is interesting.
If there was something malicious going on, do you think they would really be out advertising it? Idiot.
Of course Russia is going to want to reach out to the likely president-elect of the United States of America in order to start a working relationship.
At least they seem to advertise some of it.
The Guardian:
Markov also said it would mean less American backing for “the terroristic junta in Ukraine”. He denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”
I'm sure you have a way to connect your video into the discussion of infomation trasnsfer between Russia and Trump, but I fail to see the connection.
What about the Russian propaganda he was spreading?
I meant modular as in built-in but still a replaceable module. You know, the way the DVD drive is on your desktop, or the harddrive
Not just desktops. I took out the expansion slot DVD drive from my Lenovo and replaced it with additional battery. No idea if the newer models have this, but I very much approved this possibility.
Nice. Currently actually paying Amazon, but where do I sign up for the excellent and transparent FOSS cloud? Wouldn't want to reinvent the bicycle.
No, the fee Apple gets is part of the percentage that the payment processor charges.
Somehow I feel this will encourage the payment processor to increase the percentage from the original.