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  1. Missing features... on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I only just installed it, but the new browser seems to be missing all the features that made Edge my default browser. No inking support. No tab groups. No translate button in the address bar. No built-in reading mode.

    Sigh. I hope this gets better.

  2. What are the requirements? on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    You haven't given any useful information that would suggest criteria. What is the employee going to be doing on the laptop? Are they going to be traveling? Will their activities be confined primarily to that machine, or will they be primarily accessing remote resources? And if they are going to be doing on-device work, do you have existing plans, tools or infrastructure to deal with date security and integrity, like off device syncing and backups?

    TL;DR: You're terrible at asking questions, so I won't bother answering. If the individual is familiar with Windows though, I see little good reason to force them to learn a new platform unless something else compels that decision.

  3. Opera uses Chromium as well. So do Brave and Vivaldi. And Edge on platforms other than Windows.

    Firefox and Safari are the only major browsers using their own rendering engines (though the Chromium engine itself is a fork of Apple's WebKit engine.)

  4. Re:What comes after Z? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Android ðY'© is going to be off the charts.

  5. Re: Trucks? on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    At $35k you get the 2.0 turbo touring model, which includes a heads-up display, heated and ventilated seats, wireless phone charging, rain sensing windshield wipers, heated and powered side mirrors, powered leather , leather trim, satellite navigation, premium audio system, auto-domming mirrors, powered moon root, blind spot information system, cross traffic monitor, remote start, etc etc.

    This is not an econobox. You can get one of those for about half as much (base level Insight starts at $18,725).

  6. Re:Regular orders or filling back orders? on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you click on "Order Now" the cheapest option is $49K. Cancelled or not, it is unavailable even to order for the foreseeable future.

  7. Re:ohhhhhhhh on New Microsoft Surface Hardware Is Arriving Tomorrow (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll likely be buying two of these for my twins when they start high school next year. They're currently sharing a Surface 3 we picked up as a refurb a few years back, which has worked out pretty well. (Among other things, they use it for writing music using StaffPad so having a pen actually matters.)

  8. Re:Triumvirate?! on China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. They're producing processors with the Chinese government.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Getting mine Monday! on Tesla Opens Orders To All US and Canadian Model 3 Reservation Holders (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The tax credit is non-refundable. It is unlikely people waiting for the budget model have a large enough tax bill to get the full credit anyway. Even then, with no promise on delivery day they may not get it anyway.

    And the idea that the value of the used vehicle will go up by the full value of the credit is laughably optimistic.

  10. Re:Know what else might help? on Walmart Offers To Foot College Tuition Bills for US Employees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How long does it take to incur "massive debt" at a dollar a day?

  11. Manual file management isn't a core task for modern computers. My kids have been using a Surface 3 for a couple of years and so far as I know none of them has ever opened a file manager. Even then, I think you're overstating the difficulty. Region select is at least as easy on a touch interface as with a mouse; individual selection isn't as easy, but hardly impossible.

    It probably won't have a lot of ports, but that is true of "real" tablets running iOS and Android. But that's okay because you don't have to plug in a Bluetooth mouse (or keyboard or stylus) and there will presumably be a type cover with a touch pad (like every other Surface).

    No idea what you're talking about with regard to file transfer. I don't know of a single Windows tablet that doesn't have a USB host, allowing you to plug whatever accessory you want in it, though there are plenty of Android devices that don't support USB OTG. Of course Microsoft would rather you just use OneDrive so you don't need to bother transferring files manually between devices.

  12. Re:Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electri on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Adapt to the new technology? Kodak engineers invented it back in the 1970's, introduced the first commercial products in the late 1980's, was among the slate of the first consumer products in the mid 1990's, and was the market leader for much of the 2000's.

    They ultimately underestimated the speed of the shift from film to digital (as well as the shift from discrete cameras to camera phones) and their diversification efforts were less successful than Fuji, but that doesn't change the fact they were the primary innovator in the field. For that matter, part of what hastened their demise was the lapse of their patents on digital photography in the late 2000's cutting off yet another revenue stream and increasing their competitors margins.

    Also, unlike GM and Chrysler, Ford did not accept any TARP funds, though it did accept loans under a DOE program (with most of the funds earmarked for improving fuel efficiency).

    But it really doesn't matter if Ford remains a market leader during it's transition. There are far more and far bigger automakers in the world and they are all aggressively pursuing electrification at this point. This is not Tesla v. Ford; it's Tesla v. Toyota v. GM v. Volkswagen v. Nissan-Renault v. Hyundai-Kia v. Ford v. Fiat-Chrystler v. Honda v. Peugot Citrogen v. BMW v. all the other smaller players or new entrants to the market.

    In other words the challenge for Tesla is not whether they can best any particular competitor, but if they can maintain market dominance in face of the inevitable commodification of EVs. A better analogue is probably Tivo, who has become a relatively small player in the product segment they largely created.

  13. Re:Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electri on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they were actually the pioneer in the field, like Tesla. Where are they now?

  14. Re:Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electri on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's my thinking. Ford has announced 16 electrified vehicles by 2021. Volkswagon 80 by 2025. GM 20 by 2021. Daimler 10 by 2022. BMW 25 by 2025. Renault-Nissan 20 by 2025.

    Some will be hybrids or plug-in hybrids, but the coming years will bring dozens of EVs to market.

  15. Re:Once Fords, GMs, Toyotas seriously push electri on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you hear Ford plans to have sixteen electric vehicles (including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full EVs) by 2022?

    http://www.hybridcars.com/ford...

  16. It's so minimal that it takes massive amounts of hardware to even poorly replicate specific aspects of its function.

  17. Re:Surface Book on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Surface Book is too spend, there's the Surface Laptop (which starts at $699).

  18. Re:Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You can also get a Surface.

  19. Re:Microsoft fanboi detector on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't use an Microsoft product by choice for about twenty years. But I just bought my third Windows phone.

    First was a Lumia 635 that I picked up for $40 to use until I could get around to fixing the screen on my Moto G. I never got around to fixing the Moto. Kids still use the Lumia.

    Next was a Lumia 650 that I got for free from Cricket as part of a promotion.

    And then just last week I grabbed an Acer Jade Primo for $100 (including a case, dock, keyboard and mouse)
      Why? Because Windows Phone still handles everything I need.

  20. Re:sex is bad on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We* never said that.

    Love,

    The Christian Right

    * For values of "we" equal to the vast majority of people who are Republican, Christian or both.

  21. Stupid is as stupid does. on Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? · · Score: 1

    File this under "If Apple jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?"

  22. Re:Power supply? on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The standard may support it, but the vast majority of chargers are not going to support 100W. Worse, many offer out of spec power options and many of the existing chargers are broken and possibly dangerous. See, for example:

    https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...

    Further, there's the question of expense. Not only the price of the additional circuitry in the device, but the charger itself. If you look at that link above, for example, the cheapest 60W charger is $39.99. You can pick up a universal charger that has a variety of tips and voltages for half that. Less if you know (or measure) the size of the barrel and buy a specific one.

  23. Re:don't use sudo on production systems on Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you give unrestricted sudo to someone who isn't careful, the problem is your policy, not the tool.

    And if you don't have a recovery plan for catastrophic mistakes or robust off-host logging, the problem is still with your policy, not the tools.

    (Of course a competent admin will still sometimes make horrible unfortunate mistakes. But they are no more likely to with "sudo" than with "su". If anything, they are less because they are only running specific targeted commands with escalated privileges.)

  24. How about Santorum? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to a concerted campaign spear-headed by Dan Savage, putting "santorum" into Google not only returns a deliberately vile suggestion as the first result, it offers it as a "featured suggestion".

    Regardless of what you think of the politician, should Google be held accountable or be compelled to alter search results? Not only is the result incontrovertibly vile (that was the explicit goal) but it was an engineered effort by an individual and his fans against another individual.

    If this is okay, why are search results and search suggestions that denigrate an individual or group problematic, and who gets to make that distinction? The choice of search terms to illustrate "vile" results seems to betray the ideological moorings of the author, who cites the results for "feminists" and "islamists" but makes no mention that Google also suggests, for example, that conservatives are "stupid", "evil" and "racist".

    I know plenty of people who believe that to be true, of course, but my circle also includes people (including many many and some second wave feminists) who believe third wave feminism /is/ sexist.

    In the case of Islamist and Islamism, the term is usually used to differentiate oppressive, theocratic Islam from the broader religion.

  25. I'm running Windows 10 on my personal machine after twenty years of running Linux exclusively as my desktop? Why?

    Because the "amazing" hardware support doesn't include gracefully handling multi-GPU configurations (the only way to get Wayland to start is to blacklist the Radeon driver).

    Because the "amazing" hardware support doesn't include out of the box support for high density displays without manually configuring each toolkit and many applications manually.

    Because the "amazing" hardware support still can't a multi-monitor configuration when being dropped into a dock.

    Because the "amazing" hardware support still requires mucking around with text config files to get a precision touchpad working.

    I still run plenty of Linux, including my media server, the kids machines, and one of my work machines, but it still lags significantly behind Windows as a desktop platform, including in support for consumer hardware.