It’s almost like Electron apps aren’t actually native apps, they’re just a web browser with less UI. Which is even worse than running it in an actual browser, because then you have the memory overhead of two browser runtimes and less sandboxing.
That’s actually not true. It switches active windows, regardless of what application it belongs to. This is an important distinction, because MacOS does it differently, where there’s one hotkey to switch apps and another to switch windows within that app. If MS were to mess up alt-tab, it would probably be by making it like Apple. The obsession with “apps” over windows has already done a lot of damage to the Windows UI, we don’t need more.
Not just that - even if adblockers and scriptblockers were quite a bit less performant, it would still provide a faster browsing experience than letting some advertising network’s 500kb of JavaScript run rampant.
if you rent a car, and you get a ticket, it is most certainly your responsibility rather than the rental agencey’s. Bird could still be found to be negligent for it taking any precautions, but that doesn’t give riders carte blanch to leave them wherever they please. They can both be at fault.
Does bird drop them there, or are riders leaving them there? If it’s the latter, wouldn’t whoever negligently left it somewhere be the one on the hook?
The usual “human eye can’t see above X hz” is hogwash from people that don’t understand the problem. There is still a visually perceptible difference between 500hz and 1000hz if there is an object in motion on the screen, even more so if you have a backlight that strobes in sync with the frames.
Consider a camera pointed at the screen. You set the shutter time to 1/100 of a second. Under 500hz, even though the camera is sort of emulating 100hz (not completely, but close enough for an example’s sake), it would capture a blend of 5 frames. Under 1000hz, it would capture a blend of 10 frames. So even though the monitor in both cases is outputting frames far faster than the camera can capture, a higher frame rate still results in smoother motion.
It’s not okay. The message is intended to inform parents of filtering software they might use to keep content away from their children, but under this system, if the child happens to be browsing the web when the notice hits, they could just dismiss the notice and the parents would never know.
Reminds me of another annoying CenturyLink practice. I live in an apartment building in college where they used one CL connection for the entire building (~40 tenants). One person would torrent something, get caught, and then everyone’s internet would be cut until the notice was acknowledged. The problem is, there’s a very small chance the person dismissing the notice was the person for whom it was intended in the first place.
Because Chrome, while having a great engine, isn’t actually very good at anything else. For example, it’s history support is downright terrible - history searching via the url bar is awful at actually finding things compared to Firefox, you can’t configure the duration to keep history, and even the history page itself is worse. And that’s just one area. If someone were to implement Chrome’s engine in a browser that didn’t suck, it would easily be the best browser.
I’m not saying MS will pull any of that off, since their browsers have been universal laughing stocks for almost a couple decades, but it would be great if they did.
One of the problems is compression. A 1080p video doesn’t look that much better than 720p if both are using the same bitrate (which they probably are on cable). I used to have Comcast TV - it looked awful at any resolution, because all they cared about was jamming in as many channels as possible. But for something like YouTube that gives you higher bitrates to go along with the increased resolution, the difference is night and day. Sure, that makes it an unfair comparison, but if you were to select a single, sufficient bitrate for both, you’d probably be able to tell the difference.
Couldn’t they circumvent it by splitting their service into multiple smaller services? Each one would have the same local content, but would have different foreign content.
Regardless of whether or not they find viable loopholes, I can’t see this law benefitting consumers in any way.
They managed to develop a cheat without playing the game? That's a feat. If they did, in fact, play the game to develop the cheat, then they're also pirating it (or so the lawsuit argues). And making a profit through their "piracy", which makes it look even worse.
Another company fired off a similar lawsuit (don’t know if its finished yet), where the logic they used is that if you violate the EULA, your license is terminated, therefore you are a pirate. Whether that will actually stand in court is another issue.
I haven't used FB in years, but when I used it, I found it extremely annoying with how it would try to be smart about how to order my timeline, rather than just putting things in chronological order.
I think such a system would be especially bad with email, because there's a lot of emails I get that are important, but all the necessary details are in the subject. Thus, I never actually open them, which would lead such a system to incorrectly believe that such emails are not important to me.
I sear every bank has some characters you can't use in a password and/or an unreasonably short maximum length, leading me to believe that there are far too many sites that either store in plaintext or have other glaring security flaws like not escaping user input.
PS Now or whatever it’s called also doesn’t seem to be too popular either. What I would love is a multi platform game streaming service. I’d rent or buy a console game if I could play it in the cloud, but there aren’t enough exclusives I’m interested in on any one console to justify buying the console itself. Onlive IIRC only did PC games, and PS Now only has a very limited selection of games. If there was a service that had all the games - hell, even a service where I could purchase the game and send it to them - I’d sign up for it.
Not necessarily - it depends on the distribution of the population as well as the goals of the districting are. If the Rs and ads were evenly distributed geographically (unlikely, but worth mentioning) and the population was 70% D, then the expected outcome would be that every district would be blue because there isn’t a single R majority district. However, if one party is packed into one region (like how dense cities tend to lean left) then it becomes more of a tossup, possibly with more districts going red than blue depending on the exact numbers. Outcomes alone aren’t enough to prove gerrymandering, because the system isn’t set up in such a way where you’d expect proportional seats. That doesn’t mean the system isn’t bad, but rather that even if you fix gerrymandering, you won’t necessarily get “fair” nor “proportional” outcomes.
But on the other hand, Windows seems to be making more than its fair share of blunders. If Windows goes downhill at a faster rate than Linux, then a Linux desktop could easily become better in time.
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It’s almost like Electron apps aren’t actually native apps, they’re just a web browser with less UI. Which is even worse than running it in an actual browser, because then you have the memory overhead of two browser runtimes and less sandboxing.
That’s actually not true. It switches active windows, regardless of what application it belongs to. This is an important distinction, because MacOS does it differently, where there’s one hotkey to switch apps and another to switch windows within that app. If MS were to mess up alt-tab, it would probably be by making it like Apple. The obsession with “apps” over windows has already done a lot of damage to the Windows UI, we don’t need more.
Not just that - even if adblockers and scriptblockers were quite a bit less performant, it would still provide a faster browsing experience than letting some advertising network’s 500kb of JavaScript run rampant.
If the crapware is mostly OEM-supplied, it’s generally faster to just install the OS clean and then install drivers.
if you rent a car, and you get a ticket, it is most certainly your responsibility rather than the rental agencey’s. Bird could still be found to be negligent for it taking any precautions, but that doesn’t give riders carte blanch to leave them wherever they please. They can both be at fault.
Does bird drop them there, or are riders leaving them there? If it’s the latter, wouldn’t whoever negligently left it somewhere be the one on the hook?
The usual “human eye can’t see above X hz” is hogwash from people that don’t understand the problem. There is still a visually perceptible difference between 500hz and 1000hz if there is an object in motion on the screen, even more so if you have a backlight that strobes in sync with the frames.
Consider a camera pointed at the screen. You set the shutter time to 1/100 of a second. Under 500hz, even though the camera is sort of emulating 100hz (not completely, but close enough for an example’s sake), it would capture a blend of 5 frames. Under 1000hz, it would capture a blend of 10 frames. So even though the monitor in both cases is outputting frames far faster than the camera can capture, a higher frame rate still results in smoother motion.
It’s not okay. The message is intended to inform parents of filtering software they might use to keep content away from their children, but under this system, if the child happens to be browsing the web when the notice hits, they could just dismiss the notice and the parents would never know.
Reminds me of another annoying CenturyLink practice. I live in an apartment building in college where they used one CL connection for the entire building (~40 tenants). One person would torrent something, get caught, and then everyone’s internet would be cut until the notice was acknowledged. The problem is, there’s a very small chance the person dismissing the notice was the person for whom it was intended in the first place.
Yes, because you still need an objective measure of some sort, so that prospective buyers can judge the quality of each one before they subscribe.
Because Chrome, while having a great engine, isn’t actually very good at anything else. For example, it’s history support is downright terrible - history searching via the url bar is awful at actually finding things compared to Firefox, you can’t configure the duration to keep history, and even the history page itself is worse. And that’s just one area. If someone were to implement Chrome’s engine in a browser that didn’t suck, it would easily be the best browser.
I’m not saying MS will pull any of that off, since their browsers have been universal laughing stocks for almost a couple decades, but it would be great if they did.
One of the problems is compression. A 1080p video doesn’t look that much better than 720p if both are using the same bitrate (which they probably are on cable). I used to have Comcast TV - it looked awful at any resolution, because all they cared about was jamming in as many channels as possible. But for something like YouTube that gives you higher bitrates to go along with the increased resolution, the difference is night and day. Sure, that makes it an unfair comparison, but if you were to select a single, sufficient bitrate for both, you’d probably be able to tell the difference.
Couldn’t they circumvent it by splitting their service into multiple smaller services? Each one would have the same local content, but would have different foreign content.
Regardless of whether or not they find viable loopholes, I can’t see this law benefitting consumers in any way.
AdBlock? and NoScript?
It does. A major selling point of Palemoon is that it doesn't break existing extensions by forcing everything to use the Webextensions API.
They managed to develop a cheat without playing the game? That's a feat. If they did, in fact, play the game to develop the cheat, then they're also pirating it (or so the lawsuit argues). And making a profit through their "piracy", which makes it look even worse.
Another company fired off a similar lawsuit (don’t know if its finished yet), where the logic they used is that if you violate the EULA, your license is terminated, therefore you are a pirate. Whether that will actually stand in court is another issue.
I haven't used FB in years, but when I used it, I found it extremely annoying with how it would try to be smart about how to order my timeline, rather than just putting things in chronological order.
I think such a system would be especially bad with email, because there's a lot of emails I get that are important, but all the necessary details are in the subject. Thus, I never actually open them, which would lead such a system to incorrectly believe that such emails are not important to me.
I sear every bank has some characters you can't use in a password and/or an unreasonably short maximum length, leading me to believe that there are far too many sites that either store in plaintext or have other glaring security flaws like not escaping user input.
PS Now or whatever it’s called also doesn’t seem to be too popular either. What I would love is a multi platform game streaming service. I’d rent or buy a console game if I could play it in the cloud, but there aren’t enough exclusives I’m interested in on any one console to justify buying the console itself. Onlive IIRC only did PC games, and PS Now only has a very limited selection of games. If there was a service that had all the games - hell, even a service where I could purchase the game and send it to them - I’d sign up for it.
Wouldn’t that possibly disable texts from other services too? I’ve noticed multiple unrelated services seem to use the same numbers.
And Bose is any better?
Basically, someone decided there were too many Linux packaging formats, so they decided to make yet another.
Not necessarily - it depends on the distribution of the population as well as the goals of the districting are. If the Rs and ads were evenly distributed geographically (unlikely, but worth mentioning) and the population was 70% D, then the expected outcome would be that every district would be blue because there isn’t a single R majority district. However, if one party is packed into one region (like how dense cities tend to lean left) then it becomes more of a tossup, possibly with more districts going red than blue depending on the exact numbers. Outcomes alone aren’t enough to prove gerrymandering, because the system isn’t set up in such a way where you’d expect proportional seats. That doesn’t mean the system isn’t bad, but rather that even if you fix gerrymandering, you won’t necessarily get “fair” nor “proportional” outcomes.
But that’s circular logic - whether or not it is worth it to hire someone for 40 hours a week depends entirely on what you’re paying them.
But on the other hand, Windows seems to be making more than its fair share of blunders. If Windows goes downhill at a faster rate than Linux, then a Linux desktop could easily become better in time.
I know reading TFH is hard but it's a free game.