Chrome has decimated Firefox's market share- and most of it undeserved.
Err no. Firefox has decimated Firefox's market share. Years of ignoring users, not fixing bugs, breaking compatibility all of that has had much larger affect on Firefox than anything Google has done, save for a bit of advertising.
Ask yourselves if there is really any good reason now to "automatically" install Chrome on machines or recommend it to friends and family. If not, consider making it Firefox.
You landed in a happy period. RIGHT NOW, no there's no good reason to default to Chrome over Firefox. That certainly has not at all been the case in the past 5 years. Firefox finally caught up.
Sorry but both you and the GP are wildly off base with the allegations. In every case that has been claimed so far to be unfair the result has actually been either completely standards compliant or a fist full of workarounds to ensure compatibility is retained.
Right here we're talking about Edge crapping it's poorly designed hardware acceleration because of the presence of a perfectly standards compliant div in the code that doesn't affect Firefox in the slightest and just shows that MS again was coding to the artificial benchmark rather than to the standard.
What else do we have? Oh that's right the (couple of randoms) in Mozilla earlier this year who claimed Google was deliberately slowing down Firefox on Maps by presenting them with different code, ignoring the fact that some of the functionality in their browser then failed when they pretended to be Chrome.
This is the exact opposite of what you are saying. But hey if it suits your religion then continue your rant.
911 will already transfer callers to suicide intervention
How well is this advertised? I'm sure when someone sees someone about to or thinks of committing suicide themselves 911 is unlikely the number they are planning on calling. Does 911 handle people who are depressed too?
If I want two OS', I use a hypervisor or a virtual machine.
Why would you spin up an entire OS to use a single tool which then doesn't integrate in the OS you're likely wanting to use it?
If spinning up a VM is faster for what you're trying to do then WSL is not the right software for the task you're trying to do. By the way when was the last time you used cygwin?
Windows is slow, violently unstable, insecure, doesn't provide the necessary low level support, and was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
And yet in benchmarks Windows is just fine and outperforms Linux in many hardware related areas, if you find it unstable then maybe you did something wrong, insecure (comparatively speaking you can have that one), and low-level support for what because most of the time a user needs low level support is for hardware acceleration which thanks to vendors support it does better than Linux.
Do you spend your time spinning up cloud instances on Azure? If not then you're not the target market for this. MS has a battle getting it's own cloud customers to use Windows instead of Linux. Redhat has a battle to continue to provide it's system and software to customers. This is just the combination of both in our brave new cloud enabled world.
Me, personally, I use it because bash scripting in Windows is just as useful as it is in Linux and cygwin is a pile of dogshit in terms of integration.
This is M$ strategy of killing off the Linux kernel.
Please, describe the exact process by which you got to this natural conclusion.
As it is you look like you've written a completely random sentence not backed up by any... I dare not say evidence, instead I'll say; logical thought process.
Like when they tried to force the US to keep the Iran deal because they wanted to keep pumping oil.
Germany is free to import what they want from Iran, the problem is more US parent oil companies restricting what private companies can do.
Germany doesn't want to "keep pumping oil", they don't want to be a victim of the orangegutan's holy war by means of rising petrol prices. Non-US based oil companies are still happily importing Iranian oil.
Accusing them of being a leech is either hypocrisy or an incredible display of ignorance.
It's hypocrisy. If women are attracted to something on men, well that's okay to show (everything but the genitals!), but if men are attracted to something on women, why, that must be hidden! Well, at least we've gotten past hiding things like hair and ankles....
That's when you just say "I'm highly aroused by your face" and see if they apply their logic universally.
Depends on the headphones. Tiny earbuds I can understand, but in general I can happily take an intercontinental flight and get to my destination with 70% battery remaining while listening to music the entire time.
Now there are other reasons I hate bluetooth (skipping, poor sound quality, etc), but battery life isn't one of them.
As much as shitting on Apple is a favourite passtime of mine, I challenge you to do a blind ABX identification of a WAV file and a 250kbps AAC encoded file. I'll bet you a Marsbar you're unable to get through with any statistical significance.
And they are no longer mocking Apple, because they now have a similar product, and that is the only reason.
Which product? The poor selling A series of phones? Their flagship and best selling smartphone still has a headphone jack and the leaks from the S10 show a headphone jack too.
Visiting the Office website, you get strung along through a bunch of pages trying to sell you Office 365 subscriptions.
Visiting the Office Website gives you a big button that says "Get Office" on it. Clicking that button puts you on a page that gives you the option of "Office 365 Home", "Office 365 Pro", and "Office 2019 for Home or Education". There's a separate button for business.
If you can't find Office then maybe this complicated computer thing isn't for you.
I mean yeah Rammstein put on a lot of pyrotechnics displays at their concerts, but I don't think a single Taylor Swift fan has ever even remotely taking the possibility of death into consideration for any concert they have ever booked.
Seriously who comes up with this? The Ministry for Keeping People Perpetually Afraid (a subsidiary of FoxNews) ?
To get into a concert you have to agree to their ToS, which explicitly allows them to record/capture images and likenesses.
It's not spying if you consent.
It's not spying if it's bloody obvious. The number of concerts recorded or photographed basically mean you're as good as in a public place as far as people's right to take a photo of you.
Umm, pretty much anyone who is a Taylor Swift fan willing to actually pay to see her concert would qualify as a stalker
Or maybe they have different tastes in music than you and you should keep your opinions to yourself. Frankly I'm not into it, but I won't claim that she isn't a very talented singer and from what I've glanced at in the occasional clips she's capable of putting on a good show.
If we get rid of all people who spend more than 10 seconds per year reflecting on religious issues we would have actually solved many of the problems of this world.
Seriously, if lab grown "meat" is able to replace the majority of animal meat in terms of safety, taste and nutritional needs, then what's the fucking issue?
Easy answer, it doesn't. That's why there's an issue. If you can only pick a subset of the the things you list then a debate will ensue as to what to eat.
it would be a ground beef replacement, and as such I would prefer it
Why do you instinctively give up on quality just because something is ground?
Ever had a spaghetti bolognese made from minced wagyu? I'm guessing not or you probably wouldn't have made that comment. Even for burgers I buy high quality beef and then mince it, and people don't understand why my burgers taste fantastic despite being the bare essentials (i.e. no fancy toppings).
So, yeah, the mind boggles when I see people so every so casually spending money on bottled water.
I know right! Last time I went hiking people looked at me like some kind of weirdo when I simply held my backpack under the tap so I could take some with me.
Ok that post was only 50% sarcasm, my backpack had a water bladder inside it.
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Chrome has decimated Firefox's market share- and most of it undeserved.
Err no. Firefox has decimated Firefox's market share. Years of ignoring users, not fixing bugs, breaking compatibility all of that has had much larger affect on Firefox than anything Google has done, save for a bit of advertising.
Ask yourselves if there is really any good reason now to "automatically" install Chrome on machines or recommend it to friends and family. If not, consider making it Firefox.
You landed in a happy period. RIGHT NOW, no there's no good reason to default to Chrome over Firefox. That certainly has not at all been the case in the past 5 years. Firefox finally caught up.
Sorry but both you and the GP are wildly off base with the allegations. In every case that has been claimed so far to be unfair the result has actually been either completely standards compliant or a fist full of workarounds to ensure compatibility is retained.
Right here we're talking about Edge crapping it's poorly designed hardware acceleration because of the presence of a perfectly standards compliant div in the code that doesn't affect Firefox in the slightest and just shows that MS again was coding to the artificial benchmark rather than to the standard.
What else do we have? Oh that's right the (couple of randoms) in Mozilla earlier this year who claimed Google was deliberately slowing down Firefox on Maps by presenting them with different code, ignoring the fact that some of the functionality in their browser then failed when they pretended to be Chrome.
This is the exact opposite of what you are saying. But hey if it suits your religion then continue your rant.
You just described none of what a suicide prevention call does. I think those people's jobs will be completely unaffected.
911 will already transfer callers to suicide intervention
How well is this advertised? I'm sure when someone sees someone about to or thinks of committing suicide themselves 911 is unlikely the number they are planning on calling. Does 911 handle people who are depressed too?
If I want two OS', I use a hypervisor or a virtual machine.
Why would you spin up an entire OS to use a single tool which then doesn't integrate in the OS you're likely wanting to use it?
If spinning up a VM is faster for what you're trying to do then WSL is not the right software for the task you're trying to do. By the way when was the last time you used cygwin?
Windows is slow, violently unstable, insecure, doesn't provide the necessary low level support, and was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
And yet in benchmarks Windows is just fine and outperforms Linux in many hardware related areas, if you find it unstable then maybe you did something wrong, insecure (comparatively speaking you can have that one), and low-level support for what because most of the time a user needs low level support is for hardware acceleration which thanks to vendors support it does better than Linux.
The primary reason I use Linux
Do you spend your time spinning up cloud instances on Azure? If not then you're not the target market for this. MS has a battle getting it's own cloud customers to use Windows instead of Linux. Redhat has a battle to continue to provide it's system and software to customers. This is just the combination of both in our brave new cloud enabled world.
Me, personally, I use it because bash scripting in Windows is just as useful as it is in Linux and cygwin is a pile of dogshit in terms of integration.
It may surprise you that the point of using an OS is almost never the OS itself.
This is M$ strategy of killing off the Linux kernel.
Please, describe the exact process by which you got to this natural conclusion.
As it is you look like you've written a completely random sentence not backed up by any ... I dare not say evidence, instead I'll say; logical thought process.
I for one look forward to our GNU/Systemd future.
Like when they tried to force the US to keep the Iran deal because they wanted to keep pumping oil.
Germany is free to import what they want from Iran, the problem is more US parent oil companies restricting what private companies can do.
Germany doesn't want to "keep pumping oil", they don't want to be a victim of the orangegutan's holy war by means of rising petrol prices. Non-US based oil companies are still happily importing Iranian oil.
Accusing them of being a leech is either hypocrisy or an incredible display of ignorance.
Yep, It allowed SJWs to go on an anti-fat-shaming rant every time someone dares post original art not featuring ++sized characters.
The problem with this is that after filling up 79GB from my favourite sites I now have over 200000 photos to sort through.
It's hypocrisy. If women are attracted to something on men, well that's okay to show (everything but the genitals!), but if men are attracted to something on women, why, that must be hidden! Well, at least we've gotten past hiding things like hair and ankles....
That's when you just say "I'm highly aroused by your face" and see if they apply their logic universally.
Depends on the headphones. Tiny earbuds I can understand, but in general I can happily take an intercontinental flight and get to my destination with 70% battery remaining while listening to music the entire time.
Now there are other reasons I hate bluetooth (skipping, poor sound quality, etc), but battery life isn't one of them.
This is clickbait, pure and simple
No! TheFakeTimCook, Apple shill (or maybe just mental institution escapee) posting clickbait of no value? Say it aint so!
Surgeon General's Warning: Reading this post comes with levels of sarcasm high enough that it may cause cancer in the state of California.
Especially AAC, which Apple uses, is max 250 kbps
As much as shitting on Apple is a favourite passtime of mine, I challenge you to do a blind ABX identification of a WAV file and a 250kbps AAC encoded file. I'll bet you a Marsbar you're unable to get through with any statistical significance.
And they are no longer mocking Apple, because they now have a similar product, and that is the only reason.
Which product? The poor selling A series of phones? Their flagship and best selling smartphone still has a headphone jack and the leaks from the S10 show a headphone jack too.
Visiting the Office website, you get strung along through a bunch of pages trying to sell you Office 365 subscriptions.
Visiting the Office Website gives you a big button that says "Get Office" on it. Clicking that button puts you on a page that gives you the option of "Office 365 Home", "Office 365 Pro", and "Office 2019 for Home or Education". There's a separate button for business.
If you can't find Office then maybe this complicated computer thing isn't for you.
I mean yeah Rammstein put on a lot of pyrotechnics displays at their concerts, but I don't think a single Taylor Swift fan has ever even remotely taking the possibility of death into consideration for any concert they have ever booked.
Seriously who comes up with this? The Ministry for Keeping People Perpetually Afraid (a subsidiary of FoxNews) ?
To get into a concert you have to agree to their ToS, which explicitly allows them to record/capture images and likenesses.
It's not spying if you consent.
It's not spying if it's bloody obvious. The number of concerts recorded or photographed basically mean you're as good as in a public place as far as people's right to take a photo of you.
Umm, pretty much anyone who is a Taylor Swift fan willing to actually pay to see her concert would qualify as a stalker
Or maybe they have different tastes in music than you and you should keep your opinions to yourself. Frankly I'm not into it, but I won't claim that she isn't a very talented singer and from what I've glanced at in the occasional clips she's capable of putting on a good show.
If we get rid of all people who spend more than 10 seconds per year reflecting on religious issues we would have actually solved many of the problems of this world.
Seriously, if lab grown "meat" is able to replace the majority of animal meat in terms of safety, taste and nutritional needs, then what's the fucking issue?
Easy answer, it doesn't. That's why there's an issue. If you can only pick a subset of the the things you list then a debate will ensue as to what to eat.
it would be a ground beef replacement, and as such I would prefer it
Why do you instinctively give up on quality just because something is ground?
Ever had a spaghetti bolognese made from minced wagyu? I'm guessing not or you probably wouldn't have made that comment. Even for burgers I buy high quality beef and then mince it, and people don't understand why my burgers taste fantastic despite being the bare essentials (i.e. no fancy toppings).
So, yeah, the mind boggles when I see people so every so casually spending money on bottled water.
I know right! Last time I went hiking people looked at me like some kind of weirdo when I simply held my backpack under the tap so I could take some with me.
Ok that post was only 50% sarcasm, my backpack had a water bladder inside it.