This is not some nobody's Twitter feed, it's the widely-read Bloomberg providing a platform for the cable companies' (false) narrative.
You're saying that as if it's supposed to be some kind of difference? This is new news not old news. Bloomberg have not proven themselves immune to completely missing how things work. Very few modern news companies have. By the way it pays to read the by-line. In this case By: "Someone with no technical credentials to her name" By: "A jack of all trades master of none".
When you write about everything, expect to be wrong some of the time.
First, I look forward to seeing you flagged as flamebait.
Enjoy your cheap thrills. You read my message that's what counted.
Second, way to miss the point. The question is one of privacy.
The question is one of continuous survival of a company, and how hypocritical people are about privacy for something they contribute absolutely zero towards. The concept doesn't need to be "sorted out" because it is intertwined from the onset.
We should expand the meme: "If you're not paying, you're the product, or you're using something from a company that's about to go out of business." It may add some much needed perspective for you. But hey there's something you can DIRECTLY DO to help the situation: https://donate.mozilla.org/
I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that
You mean directly comparing features you have to your competitors is cheap tricks? Did you just discover advertising? I'm sure everyone's better, like Apple totally not featuring "PCs" in their adverts, and Microsoft would never feature Google.
Seriously man, have you never seen an advert before?
What they fail to understand is that the people who use chrome like it.
Err no, a quite many people use Chrome because they needed to, because FF dropped the ball, was a pain to use, crashed often, and many people are happy to switch back.
And then put zero effort into understanding it and therefore you're at a loss as to why it works the way you see it working and therefore blame it on some evil conspiracy.
So I was home yesterday. Here we have 1 day delivery on online purchases and I think I may have been the only person in my apartment building home. Long story short, my entire entry way is full of my neighbour's parcels and I've had a steady stream of people coming to pick them up.
1990s: YOUR OWN! 2010s: The teacher's! The institution's! The government's! Mommy, mommy, mommy they hurt my feelings by giving me a B+! It's not fair! I was totally worth an A!
and your defensive behavior maketh you seem suspicious
This behaviour isn't defensive. It is "normal".
By contrast your behaviour is religiously distrustful and aggressive. Maybe you should get a science degree so you can understand why your distrust is so incredibly misplaced.
Wow, defensive much? I'm not even talking about the ribbon. I'm talking about various GUI changes between Windows 7 and Windows 10, with some pathetic stops along the way at 8 and 8.1.
Offensive much? I'm talking about Microsoft GUI philosophy in general. Frankly I don't give a shit about MS. I'm not defending them, just going on an offence against the "change for change sake" meme in the name of common sense.
Until the next update, sure. You can only trust Microsoft to be bastards.
Actually enterprises trust Microsoft to be enterprise partners. This is why the most recent Windows 10 enterprise edition is almost 2 years old and won't change for another 3 years. These are companies that have assessed Windows 10 and found them suitable for use with confidential and secret documents. Of course they could make you a special Windows 10 Tinfoilhat edition.
They run on the same machines, and on most of them, wake from sleep works fine these days — so long as you configure Linux to lie and tell the PC that it is Windows, because the PCs are often configured to work improperly if you tell them anything else — because Microsoft wrote the tools used to create the power saving information. This is in fact more evidence of Microsoft malfeasance.
So... I see words like "most" and "if you configure it it lie" and "configured improperly"... I was going to make some point about why the common person doesn't use Linux, but thanks you did it for me. People in general don't give a shit why it doesn't work. This is why I don't run Ubuntu on my 9 month old laptop. I tried it, it didn't work, I spent 15min Googling the problem, and then did a factory reset. Linux can stay on my servers, it should work out of the box before it gets used on a desktop.
Pulseaudio was shit for years. Total abject shit. Network manager was also shit for years, and it totally bypasses the functionality built into the OS, which meant that it compromised your ability to use command-line tools, which means it's still shit. Wayland was resisted until the devs knuckled under and agreed to implement some kind of networking, which is to say that it was accepted when it was not shit. And systemd is still shit, written by the same guy who failed at pulseaudio for years.
So what you're saying is "was" "was" "was" and yet forums and message boards are full of worthless comments against these tools which provided core functionality. Your post right now demonstrates the problem.
Let me paraphrase what you just wrote:
Windows bad because MS bad! Linux good. It has bugs. You just need to hack the gibson with great skills to get it working, and when you can't, jump online where you'll be greeted with a cesspool of hateful shit because you want your system to be functional but some grumpy neckbeard thinks that you're not being Unix enough to use Unix.
I understand the former, but I don't see how that translated to the latter. Congratulate them on playing catch-up, give them a participation award, and then that's about the end of it. It's stopped being a turd and is now just another browser, hurrah. That maybe qualifies for one or two news stories, not continuous coverage in the tech media for 2 weeks straight.
There's been no less than 7 stories on Slashdot about Firefox Quantum since it was released 10 days ago, not to mention all the stories about the beta. Of those 7 stories, 5 of them have "speed" in the headline, and 4 of them ask the Slashdot readership if they have made the switch.
It's like there's nothing else happening in the world right now than a browser no longer sucking.
Windows 10 64-bit takes up 20GB as a base install. If you install a Pro/Enterprise with a localization pack and don't uninstall the "standard bloatware" you're looking at ~60GB.
You're looking at nothing of the sort. I have Windows 10 pro with all the standard bloatware, plus a bit extra, and Ubuntu running on it in the LSW, and it's sitting at a cool 18GB. Plus 4GB for Office.
I don't know why you count hybernation files, they aren't needed for a system, even for a laptop. Paging files, who even uses those. RAM is cheap, load it up. But more importantly you're talking about Windows 7 growing in bloat as if this is an on-going problem. That has well and truly changed since Windows 10 came out with updates now effectively putting the system to a standard clean state every 6 months with the new release (for 30days however it will keep a backup and if you check your system right at that period you may find some 15GB of temporary files which can be removed with the disk cleanup wizard).
I have made zero attempts at keeping my disk clean. My Windows 10 pro install is over 2 years old and has been through what is effectively now 4 service releases with many hundreds of updates. Windows 10 is still only taking up 18GB.
Nobody wants a 128GB SSD anymore though, I don't think you could even fit Windows 10 on 128GB anymore, last I tried you need at least 40G for a blank Windows 7 install. You need at least 256 if not 512GB SSD in a low-end laptop or people will have problems. A 1TB HDD costs $30 in bulk, a 128GB SSD still costs ~$10-20 more than that.
I personally have no problem with a 128GB SSD running Windows 7 (desktop) or Windows 10 (laptop). It all depends on what you do with it. On my desktop I don't have any games on the SSD, and it's sitting at around 50GB free with all other apps installed and photos videos etc on spinning glass and off in the clouds. On my laptop, I don't have a shitload of stuff installed. Yeah Windows 10 eats up a chunk of the drive, but for the most part most of my stuff is accessed over networks, USB drives, or (when I'm travelling) movies sitting on a microSD card in the back of the machine. They don't need to be played quickly.
It's not nice for a power user, but really it's not all that limiting for many workloads. I certainly wouldn't buy a 128GB anymore, but I also am not feeling space envy.
Not a clickbait headline... and there are no comments
Holidays season. People are with their families. The few people who don't seem to have any friends are posting both critiques and distrust of science in general on Slashdot, and a few odd jobs are posting political shit.
Second of all, people have to realize that critic reviews have, almost since the time of Shakespeare, been overly critical of media that is primarily audience targeted and for lack of a better term fun to experience.
Irrelevant in this case. One thing the general audiences and critics can both agree on is that DC have been crapping out and endless stream of turds. The reviews between the audience and the critics are split up and they show some interesting trends in the comic book industry: the audience has favourable bias as well as centre bias. In truly awesome movies they don't rate as high as critics, in truly unwatchable turds they rarely go below the 50% mark while the critics seem to bottom out around the 25% mark.
No. Crazy idiots like this are around in every country. What makes America a laughing stock is that with the head of the current administration I'm not certain the government will actually ignore it.
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This is not some nobody's Twitter feed, it's the widely-read Bloomberg providing a platform for the cable companies' (false) narrative.
You're saying that as if it's supposed to be some kind of difference? This is new news not old news. Bloomberg have not proven themselves immune to completely missing how things work. Very few modern news companies have. By the way it pays to read the by-line. In this case By: "Someone with no technical credentials to her name" By: "A jack of all trades master of none".
When you write about everything, expect to be wrong some of the time.
Ok, I'm sure it's not. Happy? Never attribute to malice... blah blah blah
First, I look forward to seeing you flagged as flamebait.
Enjoy your cheap thrills. You read my message that's what counted.
Second, way to miss the point. The question is one of privacy.
The question is one of continuous survival of a company, and how hypocritical people are about privacy for something they contribute absolutely zero towards. The concept doesn't need to be "sorted out" because it is intertwined from the onset.
We should expand the meme: "If you're not paying, you're the product, or you're using something from a company that's about to go out of business." It may add some much needed perspective for you. But hey there's something you can DIRECTLY DO to help the situation: https://donate.mozilla.org/
I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that
You mean directly comparing features you have to your competitors is cheap tricks? Did you just discover advertising? I'm sure everyone's better, like Apple totally not featuring "PCs" in their adverts, and Microsoft would never feature Google.
Seriously man, have you never seen an advert before?
What they fail to understand is that the people who use chrome like it.
Err no, a quite many people use Chrome because they needed to, because FF dropped the ball, was a pain to use, crashed often, and many people are happy to switch back.
Just what part have you not been hearing?
Tell that to those who are expecting us to get work done *this* month.
Oh you were using something for critical work and not on the ESR branch? That's kind of silly of you.
I looked at the code and behavior,
And then put zero effort into understanding it and therefore you're at a loss as to why it works the way you see it working and therefore blame it on some evil conspiracy.
Speaking of monetising, I'm curious how much money have you donated to Mozilla?
Thought so.
But by all means complain about the free as in beer efforts of others.
Bullshit.
Many extensions cannot be ported over to the new system -- there are certain things that you simply can't so any more.
If by "many" you mean "few that do only a specific subset of things" then sure we can go with that.
So I was home yesterday. Here we have 1 day delivery on online purchases and I think I may have been the only person in my apartment building home. Long story short, my entire entry way is full of my neighbour's parcels and I've had a steady stream of people coming to pick them up.
Quite bizarre.
What time line are you asking:
1990s: YOUR OWN!
2010s: The teacher's! The institution's! The government's! Mommy, mommy, mommy they hurt my feelings by giving me a B+! It's not fair! I was totally worth an A!
and your defensive behavior maketh you seem suspicious
This behaviour isn't defensive. It is "normal".
By contrast your behaviour is religiously distrustful and aggressive. Maybe you should get a science degree so you can understand why your distrust is so incredibly misplaced.
Wow, defensive much? I'm not even talking about the ribbon. I'm talking about various GUI changes between Windows 7 and Windows 10, with some pathetic stops along the way at 8 and 8.1.
Offensive much? I'm talking about Microsoft GUI philosophy in general. Frankly I don't give a shit about MS. I'm not defending them, just going on an offence against the "change for change sake" meme in the name of common sense.
Until the next update, sure. You can only trust Microsoft to be bastards.
Actually enterprises trust Microsoft to be enterprise partners. This is why the most recent Windows 10 enterprise edition is almost 2 years old and won't change for another 3 years. These are companies that have assessed Windows 10 and found them suitable for use with confidential and secret documents.
Of course they could make you a special Windows 10 Tinfoilhat edition.
They run on the same machines, and on most of them, wake from sleep works fine these days — so long as you configure Linux to lie and tell the PC that it is Windows, because the PCs are often configured to work improperly if you tell them anything else — because Microsoft wrote the tools used to create the power saving information. This is in fact more evidence of Microsoft malfeasance.
So... I see words like "most" and "if you configure it it lie" and "configured improperly" ... I was going to make some point about why the common person doesn't use Linux, but thanks you did it for me. People in general don't give a shit why it doesn't work. This is why I don't run Ubuntu on my 9 month old laptop. I tried it, it didn't work, I spent 15min Googling the problem, and then did a factory reset. Linux can stay on my servers, it should work out of the box before it gets used on a desktop.
Pulseaudio was shit for years. Total abject shit. Network manager was also shit for years, and it totally bypasses the functionality built into the OS, which meant that it compromised your ability to use command-line tools, which means it's still shit. Wayland was resisted until the devs knuckled under and agreed to implement some kind of networking, which is to say that it was accepted when it was not shit. And systemd is still shit, written by the same guy who failed at pulseaudio for years.
So what you're saying is "was" "was" "was" and yet forums and message boards are full of worthless comments against these tools which provided core functionality. Your post right now demonstrates the problem.
Let me paraphrase what you just wrote:
Windows bad because MS bad!
Linux good. It has bugs. You just need to hack the gibson with great skills to get it working, and when you can't, jump online where you'll be greeted with a cesspool of hateful shit because you want your system to be functional but some grumpy neckbeard thinks that you're not being Unix enough to use Unix.
Yeah 2017, the year of Linux on the desktop.
Fukushima cleanup costing nearly two hundred billion isn't a matter of "opinion".
Cool story bro, none of that has anything to do with the supposed link to a "debunking".
You first, dipshit.
Mommy, stop him, the bad man who can't follow a logical argument is calling me names.
how's that performance then?
Depending on the extension, probably faster still.
It now competes head to head
Quantum is getting the press they deserve, IMO
I understand the former, but I don't see how that translated to the latter. Congratulate them on playing catch-up, give them a participation award, and then that's about the end of it. It's stopped being a turd and is now just another browser, hurrah. That maybe qualifies for one or two news stories, not continuous coverage in the tech media for 2 weeks straight.
There's been no less than 7 stories on Slashdot about Firefox Quantum since it was released 10 days ago, not to mention all the stories about the beta. Of those 7 stories, 5 of them have "speed" in the headline, and 4 of them ask the Slashdot readership if they have made the switch.
It's like there's nothing else happening in the world right now than a browser no longer sucking.
Windows 10 64-bit takes up 20GB as a base install. If you install a Pro/Enterprise with a localization pack and don't uninstall the "standard bloatware" you're looking at ~60GB.
You're looking at nothing of the sort. I have Windows 10 pro with all the standard bloatware, plus a bit extra, and Ubuntu running on it in the LSW, and it's sitting at a cool 18GB. Plus 4GB for Office.
I don't know why you count hybernation files, they aren't needed for a system, even for a laptop. Paging files, who even uses those. RAM is cheap, load it up. But more importantly you're talking about Windows 7 growing in bloat as if this is an on-going problem. That has well and truly changed since Windows 10 came out with updates now effectively putting the system to a standard clean state every 6 months with the new release (for 30days however it will keep a backup and if you check your system right at that period you may find some 15GB of temporary files which can be removed with the disk cleanup wizard).
I have made zero attempts at keeping my disk clean. My Windows 10 pro install is over 2 years old and has been through what is effectively now 4 service releases with many hundreds of updates. Windows 10 is still only taking up 18GB.
If yours is pushing 60GB then you've done goofed.
Nobody wants a 128GB SSD anymore though, I don't think you could even fit Windows 10 on 128GB anymore, last I tried you need at least 40G for a blank Windows 7 install. You need at least 256 if not 512GB SSD in a low-end laptop or people will have problems. A 1TB HDD costs $30 in bulk, a 128GB SSD still costs ~$10-20 more than that.
I personally have no problem with a 128GB SSD running Windows 7 (desktop) or Windows 10 (laptop). It all depends on what you do with it. On my desktop I don't have any games on the SSD, and it's sitting at around 50GB free with all other apps installed and photos videos etc on spinning glass and off in the clouds. On my laptop, I don't have a shitload of stuff installed. Yeah Windows 10 eats up a chunk of the drive, but for the most part most of my stuff is accessed over networks, USB drives, or (when I'm travelling) movies sitting on a microSD card in the back of the machine. They don't need to be played quickly.
It's not nice for a power user, but really it's not all that limiting for many workloads. I certainly wouldn't buy a 128GB anymore, but I also am not feeling space envy.
Not a clickbait headline... and there are no comments
Holidays season. People are with their families. The few people who don't seem to have any friends are posting both critiques and distrust of science in general on Slashdot, and a few odd jobs are posting political shit.
I spilled a glass of water on the floor earlier today. I was "at once certain" that no one would drown in the resulting puddle.
If by "interesting" you mean "I have a general distrust of everything ever including science" then sure, let's go with that.
The story sucked. The special effects were outstanding, especially in 3D.
This is the DC formula.
Second of all, people have to realize that critic reviews have, almost since the time of Shakespeare, been overly critical of media that is primarily audience targeted and for lack of a better term fun to experience.
Irrelevant in this case. One thing the general audiences and critics can both agree on is that DC have been crapping out and endless stream of turds. The reviews between the audience and the critics are split up and they show some interesting trends in the comic book industry: the audience has favourable bias as well as centre bias. In truly awesome movies they don't rate as high as critics, in truly unwatchable turds they rarely go below the 50% mark while the critics seem to bottom out around the 25% mark.
No. Crazy idiots like this are around in every country. What makes America a laughing stock is that with the head of the current administration I'm not certain the government will actually ignore it.
It has only become an issue for a few studios cranking out expensive turds in more recent years.
FTFY. Hollywood on the whole doesn't seem to have a problem with review aggragators.