It's not your "right" to stay in a country if you immigrate there and start engaging in terrorist activity or associating with known terrorists. A country should have every "right" to deport you for it, though. And it sounds like that's all May is asking for here.
What if you were born there and start engaging in terrorist activity?
Like you'd stop pirating content if that happened... lol
Statistically, people steal for one of two reasons: For the thrill or because they feel the price is more than they can afford to spend on the product.
The latter of those two groups would pirate a lot less if the quality were better, because they wouldn't have to go through so much crap to find something worth watching.
But like, AC said, if the content is so bad, why are they pirating it in the first place? If the content is good, but too expensive, why does that entitle them to the content on their own terms (free)?
It's an issue if you believe that the primary beneficiaries of such a rule are heterosexual males that will use this as an excuse to enter female bathrooms and use the law as an excuse.
Why would anyone want to do that? The lines are much shorter for the men's room!
A browser that supports the top-100 Alexa pages by definition supports pretty much any and all pages out there with a mass appeal, for the same reason that until about 5-10 years ago creating your webpage for IE meant that everyone could use it, because everyone has to follow the market leader to stay compatible. If your webpage is using the same technologies that YouTube uses, you can rest assured that every browser will support it, even if it is not a W3C standard, simply because if BrowserA doesn't support a feature that YouTube demands (or it doesn't work), people will instantly switch to BrowserB because the average person out there doesn't give a shit whether their browser says IE, Firefox, Chrome or Huhlahje somewhere in its "about" box that nobody cares about.
This is why supporting the top100 Alexa is enough. Because everyone will follow whatever they put forth as the de facto standard. And those pages are in the Alexa top100 because that's what most people use when it comes to the internet. The whole shit is a huge circle-jerk that is self perpetuating.
OK you're aware of standards vs de facto standards, fine.
And no, to answer that other question, there is no reason to use Firefox over Chrome (or the other way around). And there is exactly nothing you can do to create one. Most people have rather low requirements when it comes to what they expect from their browser, so what you could do, technically, is to go for the niche users that require certain features, and this is where you hit the 80/20 problem, which is more a 99/1 problem here: To get 1% more user, you have to shift 99% of your manpower to attract that user. All the while risking that you fall behind in the far easier to maintain 99%, of which you can only hope to attract (100/$number_browsers) percent of the users, because these users don't give a shit which browser to use - as long as every browser does what they want from it. And all the browsers do that.
I'm just tired of all these smug know-it-all posts every time there is an article about Firefox/Mozilla. I'm illustrating that creating/maintaining a browser and creating/maintaining its popularity, is not so simple. Sorry if you feel I'm picking on you specifically, I'd love to hear comments from all the other armchair professional CTO/CEOs out there too.
Ok aside from letting a constantly changing list of web pages determine a standard be a bad idea...
Let's say Firefox does that, and only that. If every other browser does it too, then why should someoneâ use Firefox over Chrome et Al?
Another round of armchair developers with the knowledge that if only Firefox did what they said, then everything would be perfect.
Firefox is Open Source, where is the "Slashdot Browser", the one every comment in here knows would be the besterest ever because it does what it should* do?
*value of should different per user, but the average Asperger sufferer doesn't recognize that concept.
Simple. A browser that does what [the users] want.
What if what some users want is the exact opposite of what other users want?
And they don't give a fuck if it renders the webpage 0.2 seconds faster or whether it uses more or less ram.
What people want from a browser is rather little. "Render the webpage" sums it up for a sizable portion of the user base already. Some more consider certain ad-blocking plugins crucial.
The handful of people that actually have any kind of requirement above and beyond that simply don't count.
Oh, so it's not what "users" want, it's what you want.
Within a few months, impeachment will likely be irrelevant, as he'll be left with little real power, and he'll be like Ronald Reagan and Woodrow Wilson were in the final years in the presidency; figureheads while subordinates take on the role of the functional presidency.
How would it reduce his power? He'd still have it and use it to make uninformed decisions due to the three letter agencies withholding information from him.
To begin with, there are over 25 subtitle formats in use, each with unique features and capabilities. Media players often need to parse together multiple subtitle formats to ensure coverage and provide a better user experience, with each media player using a different method.
25?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
The link from the AC you replied to is called "Convert Flash Ads to HTML5"
Even Adobe is telling people to convert to HTML5
it requires authors to [...] start renting Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
Why would encouraging them to write [things] in HTML5 require them to use specific software?
Because as far as I am aware, only said "specific software" is capable of converting the author's existing FLA source file to an HTML5 canvas animation. Otherwise, the author would have to remake the vector animation or game from scratch. Or what package other than Adobe Animate can convert FLA to something modern?
Yes, convert but why couldn't they write their news ads (because, again the original link is about ADS) in HTML5 using whatever IDE they choose?
Newgrounds, et al are a different subject. A bloo bloo, my Silverlight/Java Applet/Macromedia Shockwave game doesn't work in 2017;_;
If people are still using Windows XP, then maybe Microsoft could not make a better OS for them? At least until recently, most people installed updates. But then the whole Windows 10 nonsense started - spyware being installed as a critical update, Windows 10 nag screen too.
Windows 10 (and the Windows 7/8 telemetry updates) were released after Windows XP was EOL. These people were never going to upgrade, either due to laziness, budget, or proprietary software that only worked on XP. (note those also apply to switching to Linux)
Given the image, that does seem to be refined sugar. Also, overconsumption is the key word. I don't think having a diet completely free of sugar, in any form, is good either.
Slashdot Mirror
People can't casually make websites now?
Whatever happened to user customization?
For instance, there may be whole sets of options you don't really care about and likely never will...
Slashdot, ladies and gentlemen. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
It's not your "right" to stay in a country if you immigrate there and start engaging in terrorist activity or associating with known terrorists. A country should have every "right" to deport you for it, though. And it sounds like that's all May is asking for here.
What if you were born there and start engaging in terrorist activity?
Statistically, people steal for one of two reasons: For the thrill or because they feel the price is more than they can afford to spend on the product.
The latter of those two groups would pirate a lot less if the quality were better, because they wouldn't have to go through so much crap to find something worth watching.
But like, AC said, if the content is so bad, why are they pirating it in the first place?
If the content is good, but too expensive, why does that entitle them to the content on their own terms (free)?
list five issues that leftists are always for and rightists are always against and vice versa. Do you see a pattern?
The ones MY TEAM is for are true and good, the ones the OTHER TEAM is for is wrong and bad!
Wages were paid, but nothing of economic value was created in the exchange.
Surely it is far better to mandate that polluter to reduce their pollution levels? Like what the CARB did to cars years ago to clean up LA?
We, the citizens, are effectively saying to polluters: clean up or get out. The Invisible Hand will guide the economy to a better place.
Sounds more like we're saying: Pollute all you want because pollution isn't real.
So you want the best, but also for free?
If all of these laws are "please think of the children!!11" you need one specifically for them too.
It's an issue if you believe that the primary beneficiaries of such a rule are heterosexual males that will use this as an excuse to enter female bathrooms and use the law as an excuse.
Why would anyone want to do that?
The lines are much shorter for the men's room!
A browser that supports the top-100 Alexa pages by definition supports pretty much any and all pages out there with a mass appeal, for the same reason that until about 5-10 years ago creating your webpage for IE meant that everyone could use it, because everyone has to follow the market leader to stay compatible. If your webpage is using the same technologies that YouTube uses, you can rest assured that every browser will support it, even if it is not a W3C standard, simply because if BrowserA doesn't support a feature that YouTube demands (or it doesn't work), people will instantly switch to BrowserB because the average person out there doesn't give a shit whether their browser says IE, Firefox, Chrome or Huhlahje somewhere in its "about" box that nobody cares about.
This is why supporting the top100 Alexa is enough. Because everyone will follow whatever they put forth as the de facto standard. And those pages are in the Alexa top100 because that's what most people use when it comes to the internet. The whole shit is a huge circle-jerk that is self perpetuating.
OK you're aware of standards vs de facto standards, fine.
And no, to answer that other question, there is no reason to use Firefox over Chrome (or the other way around). And there is exactly nothing you can do to create one. Most people have rather low requirements when it comes to what they expect from their browser, so what you could do, technically, is to go for the niche users that require certain features, and this is where you hit the 80/20 problem, which is more a 99/1 problem here: To get 1% more user, you have to shift 99% of your manpower to attract that user. All the while risking that you fall behind in the far easier to maintain 99%, of which you can only hope to attract (100/$number_browsers) percent of the users, because these users don't give a shit which browser to use - as long as every browser does what they want from it. And all the browsers do that.
but I thought it was Simple?
...and yet, if it is separated out between vacation and sick you get this
So, not going to answer the question I asked?
I'm just tired of all these smug know-it-all posts every time there is an article about Firefox/Mozilla. I'm illustrating that creating/maintaining a browser and creating/maintaining its popularity, is not so simple.
Sorry if you feel I'm picking on you specifically, I'd love to hear comments from all the other armchair professional CTO/CEOs out there too.
Ok aside from letting a constantly changing list of web pages determine a standard be a bad idea... Let's say Firefox does that, and only that. If every other browser does it too, then why should someoneâ use Firefox over Chrome et Al?
I know I can't speak for all users, that's the point.
What would "the essentials" be? W3C Standards?
Another round of armchair developers with the knowledge that if only Firefox did what they said, then everything would be perfect.
Firefox is Open Source, where is the "Slashdot Browser", the one every comment in here knows would be the besterest ever because it does what it should* do?
*value of should different per user, but the average Asperger sufferer doesn't recognize that concept.
Simple. A browser that does what [the users] want.
What if what some users want is the exact opposite of what other users want?
And they don't give a fuck if it renders the webpage 0.2 seconds faster or whether it uses more or less ram.
What people want from a browser is rather little. "Render the webpage" sums it up for a sizable portion of the user base already. Some more consider certain ad-blocking plugins crucial.
The handful of people that actually have any kind of requirement above and beyond that simply don't count.
Oh, so it's not what "users" want, it's what you want.
Within a few months, impeachment will likely be irrelevant, as he'll be left with little real power, and he'll be like Ronald Reagan and Woodrow Wilson were in the final years in the presidency; figureheads while subordinates take on the role of the functional presidency.
How would it reduce his power?
He'd still have it and use it to make uninformed decisions due to the three letter agencies withholding information from him.
Yes, that is the comic I literally quoted, good job.
To begin with, there are over 25 subtitle formats in use, each with unique features and capabilities. Media players often need to parse together multiple subtitle formats to ensure coverage and provide a better user experience, with each media player using a different method.
25?! Ridiculous!
We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
their ads
Who said ads?
The link from the AC you replied to is called "Convert Flash Ads to HTML5"
Even Adobe is telling people to convert to HTML5
it requires authors to [...] start renting Adobe Animate in Creative Cloud.
Why would encouraging them to write [things] in HTML5 require them to use specific software?
Because as far as I am aware, only said "specific software" is capable of converting the author's existing FLA source file to an HTML5 canvas animation. Otherwise, the author would have to remake the vector animation or game from scratch. Or what package other than Adobe Animate can convert FLA to something modern?
Yes, convert but why couldn't they write their news ads (because, again the original link is about ADS) in HTML5 using whatever IDE they choose?
;_;
Newgrounds, et al are a different subject. A bloo bloo, my Silverlight/Java Applet/Macromedia Shockwave game doesn't work in 2017
Why would encouraging them to write their ads in HTML5 require them to use specific software?
This, so many times this.
If people are still using Windows XP, then maybe Microsoft could not make a better OS for them? At least until recently, most people installed updates. But then the whole Windows 10 nonsense started - spyware being installed as a critical update, Windows 10 nag screen too.
Windows 10 (and the Windows 7/8 telemetry updates) were released after Windows XP was EOL.
These people were never going to upgrade, either due to laziness, budget, or proprietary software that only worked on XP. (note those also apply to switching to Linux)
Run Windows in a VM, and pass the real GPU directly to the VM.
and then we're right back where we started
Given the image, that does seem to be refined sugar.
Also, overconsumption is the key word. I don't think having a diet completely free of sugar, in any form, is good either.
But then, you can get away without using sugar...
I hope you're only referring to refined sugar...