To quote a Chrome developer from long ago: "This is not a democracy."
And, lol, it wouldn't shock me if they used a simple string replacement instead of a regex to eliminate the "www". That's not incompetence. It really is just not giving a shit.
It's worth noting that BASIC itself is the system shell, so when you type the "LOAD" and "RUN" commands, you're actually writing a BASIC program that loads new code and overwrites itself. When you load the main index table from a floppy disk, you're actually loading a BASIC program disguised as a directory listing, hence, you use the "LIST" command to show it. Things were interesting in the days of no caches and no memory protection.
Personally, though, this weirdness is why I hated my C64, and didn't really get into computing and programming until I got an Amiga 1000.
Tesla knows very well they will die if they leave the luxury market. What separates them from all the other EV vendors is the endless hype, controversy, publicity stunts, and (dare I say it) whining. If they made normal cars, then good ol' economic reality rears its ugly head.
Personally, I think this is the real reason the Model 3 is selling for almost double the price they promised, and they're only working on pricier, more luxurious versions before they get cheaper. It was never meant to be a mainstream car.
Only on the outside. Getting rid of every control and replacing it with a touchscreen is as far from "normal looking" as it gets. Personally, I consider the interior of the Model 3 to be a disaster of modern UX brought into the automobile. If I want to adjust my seat, I'll push a button on the seat, not swipe and swoop through a ton of menus that will all change on the next forced software update.
But then, Teslas are very much still luxury vehicles, so like all the luxury vendors they have to do stupid trendy crap to stand out. If they were truly normal, they wouldn't get any attention.
Devil's advocate: killing someone else's product does not imply making your own better or competitive. HTML5, in general, has had this problem for a LONG time, especially when compared to Flash.
I know it's popular to hate on Flash, but I'm not thrilled when huge conglomerates insist on making choices for me, most notably what technologies I can't use for my own good. I personally think it'll be a sad day when Flash is completely dead, if only for what it means symbolically.
And look, I get it, people don't like Windows 10 because they've bought into the hype that it's a "spying operating system". Yes, it sends a list of your installed apps to Microsoft, but they do that so you won't receive Windows Updates with known compatibility issues. And yes, it's measuring how long certain operations take, like opening the Settings app, but they do that so that Microsoft can prioritize performance improvements.
Isn't Microsoft still refusing to release details on exactly what data they collect? How do you know what the system is actually doing?
My first experience with Win10, based on what I know from first-hand experience, was as follows. Compatibility appraiser told me my Win7 system was compatible. Run Win10 installer. Windows cheerfully told me it deleted 11 applications from the machine due to incompatibility problems without ever warning me or asking permission. Files outright deleted with no way to get them back. I immediately ditched Win10 and have only continued to hear more and more bad things about it.
This is what I do, but interestingly, my data center (or some service down the line) has decided to blacklist hosts like AOL, Hotmail, etc. I can't send messages to these addresses and I can't receive from them, and no bouncing occurs, either. It's very frustrating, as many people simply cannot send me e-mails at all, and they end up thinking that I'm just ignoring them.
Having your own mailserver is good for your identity, but it's not always reliable. With Net Neutrality breaking down, I suspect this problem will only continue to get worse.
What quantity are we talking? Volume of scale doesn't just affect a single item, but can also affect the differential between items due to tooling costs and setup.
It's not their technology, so they can't control it. Banning plugins has never been about safety -- it's about power.
Even W3C recommendations are just recommendations, and Google doesn't have to follow the rules if they choose, and can implement proprietary extensions if they want. But, Flash and Java are beyond their power. They hate that.
I agree, and I find it interesting that a huge majority of people who support "Free as in Freedom" have been begging major vendors to ban Flash.
I don't love Flash, but I do want the choice to keep using it. I get creeped out when people tell me I shouldn't be able to use a particular technology for my own good.
Search YouTube for videos on Apple device repair, and failed charging circuits (and power management) are among the #1 reason for repair. I'm not sure these circuits can be trusted to do their job correctly if they themselves blow up all the time.
I remember when retailers were bitching their heads off about credit card companies taking 3% of every transaction. Today, every transaction service wants a 30% cut... and unlike credit card companies, the new kids refuse to offer arbitration in case the transaction goes awry.
Back in my college days, people did still want floppy disks. Floppies were so disposable you could just give them to people without worrying if they returned them. That wasn't the case with a $30 ZIP disk. Burning CDs was an expensive PITA, Internet was too slow and was usually metered, networking was a nightmare on campus and the PCs and Macs wouldn't connect to each other, and solid state didn't even exist in a practical form.
Floppy disks were among the first of the genuinely useful computer products that were forcibly obsoleted before its time was up. It's one thing to not ship a computer with a floppy drive built-in, it's something else to intentionally remove the connector to make sure you can't have one (unless you were willing to fork over a ridiculous $150 for the USB model, which didn't always work properly).
Things should be left to die on their own. When companies go out of their way to kill things, it's always bad.
Worst is that every site out there combines lazy loading with infinite scrolling. These two things alone have basically destroyed surfing the Internet and should die in a fire immediately.
Also, I hate how lazy loading screws up my scrollbars and makes me constantly lose my reading position. I have a tendency to hold down the mouse button to scroll, and lazy loading makes that scrolling method impossible. If anything else, could web browser developers try to (optionally) implement dynamic scroll bars that don't jump around when new page content is loaded?
In my household, it never took that long for a monopoly to happen.
Sadly, the important lesson I learned in that game is how important luck is in business. Sure, there's strategy that helps your odds, but you're still at the mercy of the dice and who gets to go first.
Hardly surprising, since it appears that bookmarks and direct URLs are a thing of the past, and with things like Awesome Bar being rammed down our throats. Type in almost any noun and the first thing that shows up is a link to the Wikipedia article, which is probably where most people wanted to go in the first place.
Does this apply to college dorm rooms? I was under the impression that the school could order a search any time they like. Are the rules different because dorms tend to be shared by multiple people, or because they don't technically qualify as a public business?
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I don't care about the latest fashion trends. Javascript isn't able to meet basic requirements that have been standards for decades.
To quote a Chrome developer from long ago: "This is not a democracy."
And, lol, it wouldn't shock me if they used a simple string replacement instead of a regex to eliminate the "www". That's not incompetence. It really is just not giving a shit.
It's worth noting that BASIC itself is the system shell, so when you type the "LOAD" and "RUN" commands, you're actually writing a BASIC program that loads new code and overwrites itself. When you load the main index table from a floppy disk, you're actually loading a BASIC program disguised as a directory listing, hence, you use the "LIST" command to show it. Things were interesting in the days of no caches and no memory protection.
Personally, though, this weirdness is why I hated my C64, and didn't really get into computing and programming until I got an Amiga 1000.
So it basically makes the font downloads larger?
Seriously, I'm getting sick of these web apps with 2MB of fonts that aren't even used.
Tesla knows very well they will die if they leave the luxury market. What separates them from all the other EV vendors is the endless hype, controversy, publicity stunts, and (dare I say it) whining. If they made normal cars, then good ol' economic reality rears its ugly head.
Personally, I think this is the real reason the Model 3 is selling for almost double the price they promised, and they're only working on pricier, more luxurious versions before they get cheaper. It was never meant to be a mainstream car.
Only on the outside. Getting rid of every control and replacing it with a touchscreen is as far from "normal looking" as it gets. Personally, I consider the interior of the Model 3 to be a disaster of modern UX brought into the automobile. If I want to adjust my seat, I'll push a button on the seat, not swipe and swoop through a ton of menus that will all change on the next forced software update.
But then, Teslas are very much still luxury vehicles, so like all the luxury vendors they have to do stupid trendy crap to stand out. If they were truly normal, they wouldn't get any attention.
I wouldn't say that what they're doing is worse, but I can't stand their ad campaigns championing their respect for privacy.
Google doesn't try to hide the fact they collect data. Mozilla has been caught borderline lying (and semi-backtracking) on too many occasions.
Google also did a lot to kill flash.
Devil's advocate: killing someone else's product does not imply making your own better or competitive. HTML5, in general, has had this problem for a LONG time, especially when compared to Flash.
I know it's popular to hate on Flash, but I'm not thrilled when huge conglomerates insist on making choices for me, most notably what technologies I can't use for my own good. I personally think it'll be a sad day when Flash is completely dead, if only for what it means symbolically.
And I thought graceful degradation was dead!
And look, I get it, people don't like Windows 10 because they've bought into the hype that it's a "spying operating system". Yes, it sends a list of your installed apps to Microsoft, but they do that so you won't receive Windows Updates with known compatibility issues. And yes, it's measuring how long certain operations take, like opening the Settings app, but they do that so that Microsoft can prioritize performance improvements.
Isn't Microsoft still refusing to release details on exactly what data they collect? How do you know what the system is actually doing?
My first experience with Win10, based on what I know from first-hand experience, was as follows. Compatibility appraiser told me my Win7 system was compatible. Run Win10 installer. Windows cheerfully told me it deleted 11 applications from the machine due to incompatibility problems without ever warning me or asking permission. Files outright deleted with no way to get them back. I immediately ditched Win10 and have only continued to hear more and more bad things about it.
Shh... Apple might read this and raise their prices another $500 "just because."
This is what I do, but interestingly, my data center (or some service down the line) has decided to blacklist hosts like AOL, Hotmail, etc. I can't send messages to these addresses and I can't receive from them, and no bouncing occurs, either. It's very frustrating, as many people simply cannot send me e-mails at all, and they end up thinking that I'm just ignoring them.
Having your own mailserver is good for your identity, but it's not always reliable. With Net Neutrality breaking down, I suspect this problem will only continue to get worse.
What quantity are we talking? Volume of scale doesn't just affect a single item, but can also affect the differential between items due to tooling costs and setup.
It's not their technology, so they can't control it. Banning plugins has never been about safety -- it's about power.
Even W3C recommendations are just recommendations, and Google doesn't have to follow the rules if they choose, and can implement proprietary extensions if they want. But, Flash and Java are beyond their power. They hate that.
I agree, and I find it interesting that a huge majority of people who support "Free as in Freedom" have been begging major vendors to ban Flash.
I don't love Flash, but I do want the choice to keep using it. I get creeped out when people tell me I shouldn't be able to use a particular technology for my own good.
I wonder how much of that 11% is tallied as "Gecko compatible" (ie, all the Firefox forks).
Search YouTube for videos on Apple device repair, and failed charging circuits (and power management) are among the #1 reason for repair. I'm not sure these circuits can be trusted to do their job correctly if they themselves blow up all the time.
I remember when retailers were bitching their heads off about credit card companies taking 3% of every transaction. Today, every transaction service wants a 30% cut... and unlike credit card companies, the new kids refuse to offer arbitration in case the transaction goes awry.
Leeches suck.
Uber does not need to be the inventor of the self driving car. They only need to be a user of the self driving car.
But that's not where the money is, because anyone can be a user.
Back in my college days, people did still want floppy disks. Floppies were so disposable you could just give them to people without worrying if they returned them. That wasn't the case with a $30 ZIP disk. Burning CDs was an expensive PITA, Internet was too slow and was usually metered, networking was a nightmare on campus and the PCs and Macs wouldn't connect to each other, and solid state didn't even exist in a practical form.
Floppy disks were among the first of the genuinely useful computer products that were forcibly obsoleted before its time was up. It's one thing to not ship a computer with a floppy drive built-in, it's something else to intentionally remove the connector to make sure you can't have one (unless you were willing to fork over a ridiculous $150 for the USB model, which didn't always work properly).
Things should be left to die on their own. When companies go out of their way to kill things, it's always bad.
People are tired of the same rhetoric which is doing nothing.
It's better than actively and shamelessly making things worse.
Why do you think President Trump was voted into office?
Hillary. Yes, that was the Democrats' own fault, but still... out of millions of people, that was the best they could offer?
Worst is that every site out there combines lazy loading with infinite scrolling. These two things alone have basically destroyed surfing the Internet and should die in a fire immediately.
Also, I hate how lazy loading screws up my scrollbars and makes me constantly lose my reading position. I have a tendency to hold down the mouse button to scroll, and lazy loading makes that scrolling method impossible. If anything else, could web browser developers try to (optionally) implement dynamic scroll bars that don't jump around when new page content is loaded?
In my household, it never took that long for a monopoly to happen.
Sadly, the important lesson I learned in that game is how important luck is in business. Sure, there's strategy that helps your odds, but you're still at the mercy of the dice and who gets to go first.
Hardly surprising, since it appears that bookmarks and direct URLs are a thing of the past, and with things like Awesome Bar being rammed down our throats. Type in almost any noun and the first thing that shows up is a link to the Wikipedia article, which is probably where most people wanted to go in the first place.
Does this apply to college dorm rooms? I was under the impression that the school could order a search any time they like. Are the rules different because dorms tend to be shared by multiple people, or because they don't technically qualify as a public business?