Nothing great about it. Mein Kampf is a book that should simply be forgotten and never ever be published by anyone. It is no loss to literature and other than being abused by right-wing nutballs it has no purpose.
While I'd like that it will not matter to those who work flexible hours because they are typically salaried employees anyway. They are always on the clock.
What will reduce stress is better management, reasonable expectations, release dates that are not detached from reality, and much better upfront planning and design (which means end the madness called "Agile").
Be careful what you wish for. Many of these handouts make life as we know it possible. Streets, police force, judicial system, and administrations are often operated by handouts aka tax money. Sure, we can propel out society back to the stone age, but I doubt that is the right way to go. I do agree with reducing waste, the first proposal is to cut down the seats in all senates and houses by half. Most of these bodies are dysfunctional due to right-wing nay sayers, so might as well only waste half of the budget on paying them to sit on ass doing nothing other than shut down every proposal without having a single one of their own.
So where are all the Flash bashers who claim that every software is perfect except for Flash with its 234242424242342424324 vulnerabilities? OK, 314 vulnerabilities is nothing to party about, but it is apparently industry average...as far as we know. Who knows how many vulnerabilities are known, undisclosed, and still unfixed because cramming in yet another buggy feature is always more important than fixing bugs.
I find that contributing to WikiPedia is needlessly complicated and cumbersome. Starts with the incredibly tedious to use wiki markup and ends not only with the entire submission process. It might keep the casual writer out who might not source articles well, but making contributing tricky and complaining that folks do not contribute is the pot calling the kettle black.
That would mean that those people have extensive management and project leading skills, hardly those who are unemployed or who stay unemployed when they pick up these skills.
It is much better to promote and reward engagements with organisations that already have project management in place. That can be anything, including technical tasks such as UX testing for open source projects, writing docs, etc. In some way it gives back to the community that goes beyond the municipality.
But sweeping streets is also welcome as is tending to public spaces, be a walking info booth or anything that the creative minds can come up with. Have folks do what they like or are good at. Even if it is sitting on ass and watch TV, they can be QA for TV stations pointing out on air errors such as commercials that were cut off.
Not only that, having web standards is one thing, but the key piece here is consistent implementation by browser vendors and we are still far away from that. I understand that executing and rendering all the same in a browser would remove the need for various browsers (as if there is such a need!), but given the ways Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple turn, we are heading into the opposite direction.
The code pieces could be downloaded once and stored locally. That is already done by browser caching and whatever is in cache is not downloaded again. Any modern platform has a browser, so the suggestion that this is the way to go is not wrong....if browsers would be standards compliant.
Why does Valve (as well as other vendors) hold on to CC info? After completing a transaction the vendor ought to throw that info away. Yes, it is annoying to type the numbers in again each time, but that is much better compared to having CC info stolen. Where are the legislators when we need them? Storing CC info beyond transaction completion should not be permitted for a vendor. Likewise, using the SSN for anything else other than dealing with federal and state departments ought to be disallowed as well. Why do insurance companies and banks need to know my SSN? Do they plan to pay into my retirement account? If they need an ID then (ab)use the driver's license, which also should be only about indicating the ability to operate a vehicle. If there is a need to have an ID then let's have a resident registry and give out ID cards. Why do other countries get this straight and the US doesn't?
Bernie Sanders would be THE candidate if it wasn't for his idiotic point of view in regards to guns. That disqualifies him right there. None of the other candidates have a proposal on how to counter one of the biggest issues in the US these days. More people get shot than die in car accidents or are victims of terrorist attacks. Making everyone take their shoes off to board a plane is welcomed with hooray, but taking guns away from people is a big no no. Seriously??
Musk is on the right track, but he misses one big point: even a fixed up Diesel is cheaper to buy and goes much farther with a full tank. Until EVs are on par with gasoline cars in purchase price, cost of operation, and can be refueled within a matter of minutes and then drive several hundred miles on one charge not much will change. EVs are too expensive for the regular folks.
And again...Yes. The seat warmers at terra's HQ have no clue what you be going on in a Martian colony. Help is also not readily available, so the folks on Mars have to figure it out on their own. My guess is that a month in being stuffed in a spaceship they decide to forget the whole idea and hit the "return to Earth" button on the dashboard.
I'm not the OP, but I use TB because I get a lot of email and do not want to be bound by the limits of web based email services that may come an go. Web services are also not that great for archiving messages (storage space restrictions) and yes, I do need at times get back to threads from years ago. I also find that the filtering in TB is better than that of what the web services I could use offer. Plus, emails are not dispersed across numerous services, but everything is in one place and on my systems.
What I want is included in Pale Moon. PM is how FF should be right out of the box. What is even better, the folks who put PM together are a poster child for how FOSS teams should engage with users. I asked a few questions on their forum and made a few suggestions and there were some they considered as not desirable. While I disagreed they went above and beyond in explaining their reasoning and offered very excellent alternatives and workarounds for the problem at hand. It was such a friendly and productive encounter that it still puts a smile on my face today.
Good to read that I am not the only one who comes to this conclusion. My encounter with the FF team was short and wild. If they would have just spent half as much effort on fixing bugs than they did on personally insulting me online we all would be in a much better place. I am sure they have plenty of decent devs with all the best intentions, but the few that sit at the top are self-centered lunatics who only do what they do for their own enjoyment prepping up their ego. That is perfectly fine and their prerogative to do as they please...but don't come whining to me asking for funds and complaining about declining user share.
I'd contribute to TB development if there would be a means to make that contribution go straight to TB rather than FF. Mozilla is in a pickle because they insist on ignoring user feedback and rather feed the egos of a few lead devs on their team. This uncontrolled arrogance is their own undoing. How many times did we, the users, point out that we favor bug fixes and performance improvements over yet another UI redesign? This isn't a new development, it started off with FF4 coming out. Since then usability and performance in FF took a nosedive while all the old issues such as massive memory leaks remained in place. I'd love to support TB if that didn't imply giving funds to Mozilla. It is incredible that Mozilla managed to change from the web's darling into one of the most loathed FOSS organizations within just four years.
The best outcome for TB would be to cut ties with Mozilla and move to LibreOffice. I am sure that sounds easier than it is due to the intertwined code base, but the LO suite desperately needs an email client and TB would be the best fit. I do not know if TB would just end up as the same ugly duckling in the LO arena, but as long as it stays under the Mozilla umbrella it is not going anywhere fast.
TB with Lightning is the only email client that works reasonably well. I find the new Twirlip approach interesting, but I barely manage to understand what the goals and accomplishments are (I am not a developer). I don't mind using a browser as client although it adds unnecessary dependencies that are out of control and I see absolutely nothing wrong with desktop apps. That said, a client (browser)/server approach is likely to be the only means to overcome the biggest drawback of TB: inability to access the user profile/mailbox simultaneously across clients.
Why even have cable in LA? You need an unlimited cell data plan because most of your time is spent in traffic jams. LA needs a decent public transit system.
Lack of competition, lack of governments to shoulder the expense of investment, lack of laws that make Internet access a basic right (as in Finland), lack of oversight, lack of regulation....if we leave the market to its own forces they will come into play.
Look at Germany, there the federal postal and phone service put in copper to every single lot in all places. It was a massive expense but put cable TV and associated services into reach of everyone. Many municipalities in the US want to do that on a much smaller scale, but moronic laws and contracts with for profit monopolies prevent municipalities from doing that. Other countries did not hold themselves hostage to big telcos and thus enjoy much more competition with better service at a drastically lower price. They also set out rules for access fees so that anyone who wants to offer services cannot be priced out of the networks. And that is strictly controlled by government entities.
The other huge difference is that the US has only subscription services for TV service. OK, there is over the air digital TV, but that is rather meager and where I live I need to point to three different transmitters to get all channels. Aside from that you pay or you pay. Contrary to that is Europe where satellite TV reception is commonplace. You buy the equipment (and typically better stuff than the junk offered from Dish or DirecTV!!) and then have access to hundreds or even thousands of TV channels via the Astra / Eutelsat systems. The operation of the systems is covered by access fees paid by the broadcasters rather than the consumers.
I'm satisfied with Verizon FiOS although the TV package that I would like to have is ridiculously expensive. It used to be much cheaper but now it rivals a monthly car or mortgage payment for just a handful of channels more. The answer to stemming the shift to cord cutting is drop subscription fees.
Security is a subset of quality. Neither one is of interest to most companies these days because it costs money and customers do not pay for either. Customers want features even if the user experience is bad and the app crashes and breaches are inevitable. Look at TJX, BCBS, Vtech,etc... did any of the breaches harm their business long term? Would anyone pay extra for better quality?
Hacking is not a typical QA skill set, but security is definitely on deck for anyone doing proper QA. Things like injection attacks are easily tested and there are many tools and such tests often also uncover numerous other flaws. Aside from that, QA should also always have a strong user focus and advocate for the users. How well that worked for Yahoo is obvious, they want to spin off their business and turn into a holding company. And of course everything is hunky dory with little complaints because nobody is using Yahoo services anymore.
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Nothing great about it. Mein Kampf is a book that should simply be forgotten and never ever be published by anyone. It is no loss to literature and other than being abused by right-wing nutballs it has no purpose.
While I'd like that it will not matter to those who work flexible hours because they are typically salaried employees anyway. They are always on the clock. What will reduce stress is better management, reasonable expectations, release dates that are not detached from reality, and much better upfront planning and design (which means end the madness called "Agile").
Be careful what you wish for. Many of these handouts make life as we know it possible. Streets, police force, judicial system, and administrations are often operated by handouts aka tax money. Sure, we can propel out society back to the stone age, but I doubt that is the right way to go. I do agree with reducing waste, the first proposal is to cut down the seats in all senates and houses by half. Most of these bodies are dysfunctional due to right-wing nay sayers, so might as well only waste half of the budget on paying them to sit on ass doing nothing other than shut down every proposal without having a single one of their own.
In the linked article Steven Colbert looks like Bender from Futurama. It must feel rather odd to run around with a game console strapped to your face.
You forget about the many security flaws Microsoft and Apple do not tell us about. Can't really compare just by those numbers.
So where are all the Flash bashers who claim that every software is perfect except for Flash with its 234242424242342424324 vulnerabilities? OK, 314 vulnerabilities is nothing to party about, but it is apparently industry average...as far as we know. Who knows how many vulnerabilities are known, undisclosed, and still unfixed because cramming in yet another buggy feature is always more important than fixing bugs.
I find that contributing to WikiPedia is needlessly complicated and cumbersome. Starts with the incredibly tedious to use wiki markup and ends not only with the entire submission process. It might keep the casual writer out who might not source articles well, but making contributing tricky and complaining that folks do not contribute is the pot calling the kettle black.
That would mean that those people have extensive management and project leading skills, hardly those who are unemployed or who stay unemployed when they pick up these skills. It is much better to promote and reward engagements with organisations that already have project management in place. That can be anything, including technical tasks such as UX testing for open source projects, writing docs, etc. In some way it gives back to the community that goes beyond the municipality. But sweeping streets is also welcome as is tending to public spaces, be a walking info booth or anything that the creative minds can come up with. Have folks do what they like or are good at. Even if it is sitting on ass and watch TV, they can be QA for TV stations pointing out on air errors such as commercials that were cut off.
A history teacher is definitely good enough to teach how to do computers on the internets to get stuff from the itoons.
Not only that, having web standards is one thing, but the key piece here is consistent implementation by browser vendors and we are still far away from that. I understand that executing and rendering all the same in a browser would remove the need for various browsers (as if there is such a need!), but given the ways Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple turn, we are heading into the opposite direction. The code pieces could be downloaded once and stored locally. That is already done by browser caching and whatever is in cache is not downloaded again. Any modern platform has a browser, so the suggestion that this is the way to go is not wrong....if browsers would be standards compliant.
Why does Valve (as well as other vendors) hold on to CC info? After completing a transaction the vendor ought to throw that info away. Yes, it is annoying to type the numbers in again each time, but that is much better compared to having CC info stolen. Where are the legislators when we need them? Storing CC info beyond transaction completion should not be permitted for a vendor. Likewise, using the SSN for anything else other than dealing with federal and state departments ought to be disallowed as well. Why do insurance companies and banks need to know my SSN? Do they plan to pay into my retirement account? If they need an ID then (ab)use the driver's license, which also should be only about indicating the ability to operate a vehicle. If there is a need to have an ID then let's have a resident registry and give out ID cards. Why do other countries get this straight and the US doesn't?
Bernie Sanders would be THE candidate if it wasn't for his idiotic point of view in regards to guns. That disqualifies him right there. None of the other candidates have a proposal on how to counter one of the biggest issues in the US these days. More people get shot than die in car accidents or are victims of terrorist attacks. Making everyone take their shoes off to board a plane is welcomed with hooray, but taking guns away from people is a big no no. Seriously??
...demand the money back from the ones in charge or let the ones in charge go and cut funding to DHS by that amount.
Musk is on the right track, but he misses one big point: even a fixed up Diesel is cheaper to buy and goes much farther with a full tank. Until EVs are on par with gasoline cars in purchase price, cost of operation, and can be refueled within a matter of minutes and then drive several hundred miles on one charge not much will change. EVs are too expensive for the regular folks.
And again...Yes. The seat warmers at terra's HQ have no clue what you be going on in a Martian colony. Help is also not readily available, so the folks on Mars have to figure it out on their own. My guess is that a month in being stuffed in a spaceship they decide to forget the whole idea and hit the "return to Earth" button on the dashboard.
Following that logic we should push broccoli games on kids.
Ron Wyden should then introduce a bill that repeals CISA...or hope that the Italian lock maker intervenes due to trademark infraction.
I'm not the OP, but I use TB because I get a lot of email and do not want to be bound by the limits of web based email services that may come an go. Web services are also not that great for archiving messages (storage space restrictions) and yes, I do need at times get back to threads from years ago. I also find that the filtering in TB is better than that of what the web services I could use offer. Plus, emails are not dispersed across numerous services, but everything is in one place and on my systems.
What I want is included in Pale Moon. PM is how FF should be right out of the box. What is even better, the folks who put PM together are a poster child for how FOSS teams should engage with users. I asked a few questions on their forum and made a few suggestions and there were some they considered as not desirable. While I disagreed they went above and beyond in explaining their reasoning and offered very excellent alternatives and workarounds for the problem at hand. It was such a friendly and productive encounter that it still puts a smile on my face today.
Good to read that I am not the only one who comes to this conclusion. My encounter with the FF team was short and wild. If they would have just spent half as much effort on fixing bugs than they did on personally insulting me online we all would be in a much better place. I am sure they have plenty of decent devs with all the best intentions, but the few that sit at the top are self-centered lunatics who only do what they do for their own enjoyment prepping up their ego. That is perfectly fine and their prerogative to do as they please...but don't come whining to me asking for funds and complaining about declining user share.
I'd contribute to TB development if there would be a means to make that contribution go straight to TB rather than FF. Mozilla is in a pickle because they insist on ignoring user feedback and rather feed the egos of a few lead devs on their team. This uncontrolled arrogance is their own undoing. How many times did we, the users, point out that we favor bug fixes and performance improvements over yet another UI redesign? This isn't a new development, it started off with FF4 coming out. Since then usability and performance in FF took a nosedive while all the old issues such as massive memory leaks remained in place. I'd love to support TB if that didn't imply giving funds to Mozilla. It is incredible that Mozilla managed to change from the web's darling into one of the most loathed FOSS organizations within just four years. The best outcome for TB would be to cut ties with Mozilla and move to LibreOffice. I am sure that sounds easier than it is due to the intertwined code base, but the LO suite desperately needs an email client and TB would be the best fit. I do not know if TB would just end up as the same ugly duckling in the LO arena, but as long as it stays under the Mozilla umbrella it is not going anywhere fast. TB with Lightning is the only email client that works reasonably well. I find the new Twirlip approach interesting, but I barely manage to understand what the goals and accomplishments are (I am not a developer). I don't mind using a browser as client although it adds unnecessary dependencies that are out of control and I see absolutely nothing wrong with desktop apps. That said, a client (browser)/server approach is likely to be the only means to overcome the biggest drawback of TB: inability to access the user profile/mailbox simultaneously across clients.
It is simply proper English. Aside from that, are you a native American? If not, you are a "fucking foreigner" yourself.
Why even have cable in LA? You need an unlimited cell data plan because most of your time is spent in traffic jams. LA needs a decent public transit system.
Lack of competition, lack of governments to shoulder the expense of investment, lack of laws that make Internet access a basic right (as in Finland), lack of oversight, lack of regulation....if we leave the market to its own forces they will come into play. Look at Germany, there the federal postal and phone service put in copper to every single lot in all places. It was a massive expense but put cable TV and associated services into reach of everyone. Many municipalities in the US want to do that on a much smaller scale, but moronic laws and contracts with for profit monopolies prevent municipalities from doing that. Other countries did not hold themselves hostage to big telcos and thus enjoy much more competition with better service at a drastically lower price. They also set out rules for access fees so that anyone who wants to offer services cannot be priced out of the networks. And that is strictly controlled by government entities. The other huge difference is that the US has only subscription services for TV service. OK, there is over the air digital TV, but that is rather meager and where I live I need to point to three different transmitters to get all channels. Aside from that you pay or you pay. Contrary to that is Europe where satellite TV reception is commonplace. You buy the equipment (and typically better stuff than the junk offered from Dish or DirecTV!!) and then have access to hundreds or even thousands of TV channels via the Astra / Eutelsat systems. The operation of the systems is covered by access fees paid by the broadcasters rather than the consumers. I'm satisfied with Verizon FiOS although the TV package that I would like to have is ridiculously expensive. It used to be much cheaper but now it rivals a monthly car or mortgage payment for just a handful of channels more. The answer to stemming the shift to cord cutting is drop subscription fees.
Security is a subset of quality. Neither one is of interest to most companies these days because it costs money and customers do not pay for either. Customers want features even if the user experience is bad and the app crashes and breaches are inevitable. Look at TJX, BCBS, Vtech,etc ... did any of the breaches harm their business long term? Would anyone pay extra for better quality?
Hacking is not a typical QA skill set, but security is definitely on deck for anyone doing proper QA. Things like injection attacks are easily tested and there are many tools and such tests often also uncover numerous other flaws. Aside from that, QA should also always have a strong user focus and advocate for the users. How well that worked for Yahoo is obvious, they want to spin off their business and turn into a holding company. And of course everything is hunky dory with little complaints because nobody is using Yahoo services anymore.