which is probably not representative, paper jams persist because my employer buys the cheapest paper they can find. The kind that clumps and sticks to itself, that sheds paper dust like it's snowing, that has uneven edges, etc.
Visual Studio is for making your own software. Why on earth should you be allowed to do that? Everything you need is available (for a monthly charge) from those who know what you want better than you ever possibly could.
I make my living running a Windows network. Microsoft has, historically, done a number of things not only very well, but better than anybody else. It's why they dominate the market.
In recent years, however, they have shifted their focus on ways to extract more money from their customers, and do so under circumstances where their customers cannot switch. Software as a service, and if you stop paying, you lose access to your business records. They're not to that point yet, but it's blindingly obvious that's what they're aiming at.
Your "ire" is a bit misplaced. Actually, PWAs are endorsed and will be supported by every major browser vendor other than Apple. They've been covered here on Slashdot multiple times over the last few years. One of those articles mentioned that Google has deprecated the Chrome App Store because they also believe PWAs are the right way to deliver Web apps to the desktop.
Google is an advertising company ("If you're not paying for the service, you're not the customer, you're the product."). Of course they believe that technology that allows them to shove more advertising down your throat is the only possible future.
Push notifications
And spam.
Apologies in advance, I'm going to try to say this nicely, but have you been living under a rock (or not upgraded your browser) for the last 3 years? The W3C Push API and WHATWG Notifications API have been around for at least that long. And I would be really surprised if you haven't seen a website ask permission to send notifications.
Indeed. In order to get the one notification a week you want, you have to allow dozens of ads a day as well. If not today, then tomorrow.
Any bets of whether or not the push notifications will work whether the app is running or not?
A quick search shows that Chrome implemented the ability for a website to send notifications even after the tab is closed almost 3 years ago in Chrome 42.
See above about Google being an advertising company. That is, in fact, one of the bigger reasons why I don't use Chrome much.
I'd be really surprised if Edge didn't implement this capability for PWAs and already support the ability for the user to disable them on a site-by-site basis.
I'm looking forward to PWAs, personally. At the moment, there are pretty much no Google apps (Gmail, etc.) in the Microsoft App Store. This will change that. Besides Google, I'd expect most top-tier web applications will also release as a PWA.
Sure, there will be plenty of junk apps, but how is that different than any app store (iOS, Android, etc.) today? You have to wade through a lot of junk on any platform, but that doesn't mean the concept isn't useful. Having these in the Windows Store at least allows user ratings to help filter out the bad ones.
And the clever companies will put it in the app store, pay grunt labor in India to put in a pile of good reviews, then alter their PWA - without having to go through any review process - to blast spam or malware out constantly. Or some well intentioned hacker will put together something truly useful, and it will get so popular they can't handle it any more, and they'll sell it to some unscrupulous con artist who will do that. You know, like happens now for browser plug-ins and app store apps.
And while Microsoft is not, currently, primarily an ad company, the harder they push into "software as a service" territory, they more of an ad company they will become. They may or may not realize it yet, but it will inevitably happen. There's too many billions of dollars to be had that way. It'd be irresponsible towards their shareholders not to.
PWA is a plan to make it easier and more convenient for ad companies like Google to shove more and more and more advertising into people's faces. Things that like have made the web nearly unusable already.
The industry seems to be trying to kill laptops. Anything a laptop can do that your cell phone can't cannot possibly be that important, now can it? Uncle Microsoft knows best. Now shut up and pay your monthly subscription fee.
as so often happens, I pick something up, walk around for a while, then put it down somewhere else, picking something up from there? If their system can't handle that - with 100% reliability - it's not ready for the real world. Because that happens all the time in real retail stores.
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Federal labor law doesn't make political speech a protected class in employment.
California law, however, does.
His lawsuit is going to be a lot more complicated than the news media (and most people who read it) can comprehend.
I'm still waiting for you to finish the bag of dicks you promised to eat. I need to return the bag for the deposit.
5%? You're an optimist, aren't you?
$35 is already more than I pay for actual cable. With more channels. Which are also full of crap.
Yeah, we use what's cheapest, and it generally says laser on the label somewhere.
The problem isn't using the wrong paper for the printer, it's using the cheapest paper available from the office supply store by the pallet.
which is probably not representative, paper jams persist because my employer buys the cheapest paper they can find. The kind that clumps and sticks to itself, that sheds paper dust like it's snowing, that has uneven edges, etc.
Like a user interface that doesn't require LSD to understand, and features that users actually want.
Visual Studio is for making your own software. Why on earth should you be allowed to do that? Everything you need is available (for a monthly charge) from those who know what you want better than you ever possibly could.
Now shut up and drink your Kool-Aid.
I make my living running a Windows network. Microsoft has, historically, done a number of things not only very well, but better than anybody else. It's why they dominate the market.
In recent years, however, they have shifted their focus on ways to extract more money from their customers, and do so under circumstances where their customers cannot switch. Software as a service, and if you stop paying, you lose access to your business records. They're not to that point yet, but it's blindingly obvious that's what they're aiming at.
Leave it to Microsoft
Your "ire" is a bit misplaced. Actually, PWAs are endorsed and will be supported by every major browser vendor other than Apple. They've been covered here on Slashdot multiple times over the last few years. One of those articles mentioned that Google has deprecated the Chrome App Store because they also believe PWAs are the right way to deliver Web apps to the desktop.
Google is an advertising company ("If you're not paying for the service, you're not the customer, you're the product."). Of course they believe that technology that allows them to shove more advertising down your throat is the only possible future.
Push notifications
And spam.
Apologies in advance, I'm going to try to say this nicely, but have you been living under a rock (or not upgraded your browser) for the last 3 years? The W3C Push API and WHATWG Notifications API have been around for at least that long. And I would be really surprised if you haven't seen a website ask permission to send notifications.
Indeed. In order to get the one notification a week you want, you have to allow dozens of ads a day as well. If not today, then tomorrow.
Any bets of whether or not the push notifications will work whether the app is running or not?
A quick search shows that Chrome implemented the ability for a website to send notifications even after the tab is closed almost 3 years ago in Chrome 42.
See above about Google being an advertising company. That is, in fact, one of the bigger reasons why I don't use Chrome much.
I'd be really surprised if Edge didn't implement this capability for PWAs and already support the ability for the user to disable them on a site-by-site basis.
I'm looking forward to PWAs, personally. At the moment, there are pretty much no Google apps (Gmail, etc.) in the Microsoft App Store. This will change that. Besides Google, I'd expect most top-tier web applications will also release as a PWA.
Sure, there will be plenty of junk apps, but how is that different than any app store (iOS, Android, etc.) today? You have to wade through a lot of junk on any platform, but that doesn't mean the concept isn't useful. Having these in the Windows Store at least allows user ratings to help filter out the bad ones.
And the clever companies will put it in the app store, pay grunt labor in India to put in a pile of good reviews, then alter their PWA - without having to go through any review process - to blast spam or malware out constantly. Or some well intentioned hacker will put together something truly useful, and it will get so popular they can't handle it any more, and they'll sell it to some unscrupulous con artist who will do that. You know, like happens now for browser plug-ins and app store apps.
And while Microsoft is not, currently, primarily an ad company, the harder they push into "software as a service" territory, they more of an ad company they will become. They may or may not realize it yet, but it will inevitably happen. There's too many billions of dollars to be had that way. It'd be irresponsible towards their shareholders not to.
PWA is a plan to make it easier and more convenient for ad companies like Google to shove more and more and more advertising into people's faces. Things that like have made the web nearly unusable already.
The industry seems to be trying to kill laptops. Anything a laptop can do that your cell phone can't cannot possibly be that important, now can it? Uncle Microsoft knows best. Now shut up and pay your monthly subscription fee.
I like having a computer that I can use when not connected to the internet, 'forever'. Not one that can't deal with that.
Then Windows is not for you. I'll be very surprised if it continues to even boot without an internet connection for much longer.
to invent yet another innovative way to distribute malware.
Push notifications
And spam.
Any bets of whether or not the push notifications will work whether the app is running or not?
I disagree. Some people make far more sense when they're incoherent.
There have, in fact, been lawsuits over such things being done without permission, and copyright holders have won pretty consistently.
People sue, and win against, the federal government in the US on a regular basis. Sovereign immunity isn't absolute.
Good way to get chargebacks in sufficient number to cause higher transaction fees. At least.
as so often happens, I pick something up, walk around for a while, then put it down somewhere else, picking something up from there? If their system can't handle that - with 100% reliability - it's not ready for the real world. Because that happens all the time in real retail stores.
My /. password hardly constitutes a kingdom. Honestly, I don't give a crap if Google has it. And neither does Google.
Though I suspect most people don't pay for pizza with cash anyway.
I can't help but wonder, though, which is cheaper:
Workman's comp for drivers who get robbed, or repair bills for self driving cars that get vandalized.
With Windows 7, this update didn't slow things down any more than any other update. The longer an OS is around, the slower it gets from updates.
Were I conspiracy theory minded, I'd conclude that Microsoft does that on purpose to force upgrades to new versions.
"Windows 10 isn't as good as 7!"
"Well, it's too much work to make 10 better, so let's make 7 worse!"
Can you provide me with a detailed HowTo for paying Google in cash for my Drive account?
I just dealt with this on a computer with an AMD processor, including the 0x800f0845 error.
Safe mode would not boot.
After enough failed attempts, it offered me the "repair your computer" option.
Two system restores - the most recent and the oldest, failed with the 0x800f0845 errror.
After that, however, a "startup repair" fixed it.
I am writing this on the computer in question.
I have no idea if this will work on all AMD equipped computers, but it certainly worked on this one.
Everything is funnier if there's a goat involved. Except porn. Porn is not funnier if there's a goat involved. But everything else is.
Actually, some people can't. They're equally common on both ends of the political spectrum.
Where I come from, we call them "stupid."
Maybe he'll open source it, and it can be tuned to any hate speech. Left, right, misogynist, misandrist, racist, even people who hate goats.
Or maybe it won't work worth a shit, like all the rest of the algorithms that are supposed to flag stuff on social media.