The big issue: Technology companies are usually badly managed. Mozilla Foundation is just one example.
Most companies of any kind are usually badly managed.
Yes, but Mozilla is exceptionally bad. Over the past few years they have seemed to make a very serious and concerted effort to destroy everything that made Firefox popular in the first place. Very few companies have said Fuck You to their customers as openly and deliberately as Mozilla.
The company was of course responsible but so is also Amazon, they could have made it so that buckets that contain classified data can't be accessed without authorization.
Someone mis-configured their bucket. Amazon has no way of knowing this or that the information is classified. Do you really think someone is going to tell them "Hey, we're putting a bunch of classified information on your servers, could you keep an eye on it for us?"
The universe is just too big to hear anyone else. Standing on the shore in Spain you couldn't hear anyone shouting from Hispaniola, yet when Columbus landed there he found loads of people. Space is a hell of a lot bigger than the Atlantic Ocean and relatively any radio signal we can send is quieter than the man screaming on the beach in our example.
This.
People just really don't understand the enormity of the universe. There could be lots of life out there but all of it is simply too far away. Even if they have invented some sort of Star Trek-style faster-than-light technology, it would take them hundreds or thousands of years to reach us. Which is unlikely since they don't even know that we exist. Any radio signals that we have sent won't reach them for a few thousand more years.
Rechargeable alkaline batteries have been around for years. Problem is, they don't have anywhere near the energy density needed.
Yes. Rechargeable alkaline batteries were first developed in the 1970s. The design was improved in the 80s and 90s but they were never able to create a battery that could withstand more than a couple hundred discharge-recharge cycles. And that's only if you don't discharge the battery more than about 25%. In an application where the battery is often discharged 50% or more, the number of recharge cycles is much lower.
As a result, rechargeable alkaline batteries have never become widely used, and many people probably don't even know they exist (or think they are the same as NiCad or NiMH batteries).
This leads to someone announcing, every couple of years, that they have "invented" a rechargeable alkaline battery. Maybe its ignorance on the part of the inventor, or, maybe they are hoping to make money from ignorant consumers.
Firefox already lost all the non-technical users, for the reasons you mentioned.
Once Firefox destroys the ability to use your favorite existing extensions, the more technical users (i.e., the people who care about extensions) will switch to something else.
I have occasionally seen a product advertised in print media that I was interested in buying, and maybe once or twice on television. On the Internet, not so much. Internet advertising tends to be 99.99% worthless scam bullshit.
There is a way to make it profitable, just not doing what they're currently doing. Perhaps making corporations and verified people pay a small fee to stay verified? I don't know, but as much as it is a media darling, there is a value there, it just needs to be unlocked.
On average, Twitter loses $100 million every quarter, which is completely insane. Part of the problem is having 3,000+ employees when they could easily run the business with less than 300. But still, there just simply is no "value to be unlocked".
If there was a way for Twiiter to be profitable, they would have found it by now. This idea of "there's a magic answer out there somewhere, we just have to find it" is complete bullshit.
Sure, it's popular among the brain-dead, but as an ongoing business, it's just a stupid, unworkable idea, and 10 years of massive losses that proven that.
Windows 10 basically looks and operates like Windows 7.
Not even close. I've tried several times to switch to Windows 10 and after a few days I get so fed up I go back to Windows 7.
Windows 10 is horrendously ugly.
Unless you use a third party add-on, like Classic Shell, the Windows 10 Start Menu is completely broken and useless
There are many bugs which have existed since day one and still haven't been fixed.
Major design flaws that are too numerous to list (and if you've used Windows 10 you already know what they are).
I've got a fast computer with an 8 core CPU, 32 GB of RAM and booting from an SSD. The performance of Windows 10 is noticeably worse than Windows 7 on the same hardware, probably due due the massive amount of useless bloatware, much of which is difficult or impossible to remove without breaking something.
Except these companies don't have high-paid lobbyists so he's unlikely to care.
Net Neutrality hurts the big corporate overlords such as Comcast and Mr. Pai's former employer, Verizon, and that is the only thing that matters.
He, and his Republican Commrades, had already made up their minds about this before he was appointed chairman of the FCC. Anyone who thinks this will have any impact on his decision is completely delusional.
300 units is like throwing a single drop of water into a lake. And, according to one story I've read, the price Google is paying for this works out to $100,000 per unit. For a bunch of pre-fabricated shit boxes that will look like a slum hotel within a year.
Problem 1 - User stupidity. You get an e-mail with a "finance-related" subject, such as 'Invoice' or 'Order #'. But there's a Powerpoint file attached. Since when are legitimate invoices sent as Powerpoint files?
Problem 2 - Microsoft stupidity. The ability of Powerpoint to run an external executable file (in this case powershell) is a HUGE design flaw that has become a major source of malware distribution.
The number one problem is that programming involves typing on a keyboard. And so, to politicians and all the other clueless, computer-illiterate masses, programming is nothing more than a simple, routine function that can be handled by any low-level clerk or secretary.
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The big issue: Technology companies are usually badly managed. Mozilla Foundation is just one example.
Most companies of any kind are usually badly managed.
Yes, but Mozilla is exceptionally bad. Over the past few years they have seemed to make a very serious and concerted effort to destroy everything that made Firefox popular in the first place. Very few companies have said Fuck You to their customers as openly and deliberately as Mozilla.
The company was of course responsible but so is also Amazon, they could have made it so that buckets that contain classified data can't be accessed without authorization.
Someone mis-configured their bucket. Amazon has no way of knowing this or that the information is classified. Do you really think someone is going to tell them "Hey, we're putting a bunch of classified information on your servers, could you keep an eye on it for us?"
I'll listen to it when the audio book comes out.
But what next? Politicians? Churches? The GIRL SCOUTS?
Yes. Yes. And yes.
The universe is just too big to hear anyone else.
Standing on the shore in Spain you couldn't hear anyone shouting from Hispaniola, yet when Columbus landed there he found loads of people. Space is a hell of a lot bigger than the Atlantic Ocean and relatively any radio signal we can send is quieter than the man screaming on the beach in our example.
This.
People just really don't understand the enormity of the universe. There could be lots of life out there but all of it is simply too far away. Even if they have invented some sort of Star Trek-style faster-than-light technology, it would take them hundreds or thousands of years to reach us. Which is unlikely since they don't even know that we exist. Any radio signals that we have sent won't reach them for a few thousand more years.
Rechargeable alkaline batteries have been around for years. Problem is, they don't have anywhere near the energy density needed.
Yes. Rechargeable alkaline batteries were first developed in the 1970s. The design was improved in the 80s and 90s but they were never able to create a battery that could withstand more than a couple hundred discharge-recharge cycles. And that's only if you don't discharge the battery more than about 25%. In an application where the battery is often discharged 50% or more, the number of recharge cycles is much lower.
As a result, rechargeable alkaline batteries have never become widely used, and many people probably don't even know they exist (or think they are the same as NiCad or NiMH batteries).
This leads to someone announcing, every couple of years, that they have "invented" a rechargeable alkaline battery. Maybe its ignorance on the part of the inventor, or, maybe they are hoping to make money from ignorant consumers.
The patent situation on h.265 is a total mess. Why even bother with it?
I encode video with h.265 every day. What's the problem?
Firefox already lost all the non-technical users, for the reasons you mentioned.
Once Firefox destroys the ability to use your favorite existing extensions, the more technical users (i.e., the people who care about extensions) will switch to something else.
Best post of the day.
I don't see how this is a "new feature". You've been able to change the colors to anything you want for as long as I can remember.
Properties --> Colors
I guess they've given up on fixing the billion other things that are wrong with Windows 10.
I have occasionally seen a product advertised in print media that I was interested in buying, and maybe once or twice on television. On the Internet, not so much. Internet advertising tends to be 99.99% worthless scam bullshit.
There is a way to make it profitable, just not doing what they're currently doing. Perhaps making corporations and verified people pay a small fee to stay verified? I don't know, but as much as it is a media darling, there is a value there, it just needs to be unlocked.
On average, Twitter loses $100 million every quarter, which is completely insane. Part of the problem is having 3,000+ employees when they could easily run the business with less than 300. But still, there just simply is no "value to be unlocked".
If there was a way for Twiiter to be profitable, they would have found it by now. This idea of "there's a magic answer out there somewhere, we just have to find it" is complete bullshit.
Sure, it's popular among the brain-dead, but as an ongoing business, it's just a stupid, unworkable idea, and 10 years of massive losses that proven that.
A flaming airship crashing into 10,000 people who have paid to play Pokemon Go.
I would pay to see that.
attended by between 15-20,000 people
Niantic gave a rare Pokemon Go character to everyone who attended
Doesn't sound very rare to me.
Windows 10 basically looks and operates like Windows 7.
Not even close. I've tried several times to switch to Windows 10 and after a few days I get so fed up I go back to Windows 7.
Windows 10 is horrendously ugly.
Unless you use a third party add-on, like Classic Shell, the Windows 10 Start Menu is completely broken and useless
There are many bugs which have existed since day one and still haven't been fixed.
Major design flaws that are too numerous to list (and if you've used Windows 10 you already know what they are).
I've got a fast computer with an 8 core CPU, 32 GB of RAM and booting from an SSD. The performance of Windows 10 is noticeably worse than Windows 7 on the same hardware, probably due due the massive amount of useless bloatware, much of which is difficult or impossible to remove without breaking something.
Followed by AV0 - the prequel.
Except these companies don't have high-paid lobbyists so he's unlikely to care.
Net Neutrality hurts the big corporate overlords such as Comcast and Mr. Pai's former employer, Verizon, and that is the only thing that matters.
He, and his Republican Commrades, had already made up their minds about this before he was appointed chairman of the FCC. Anyone who thinks this will have any impact on his decision is completely delusional.
from the age of 40 until death, we spend an ever-increasing amount of time alone
Because you finally figured out that most people are assholes and you're better off alone.
All you losers with your over-priced Intel crap.
I've used nothing but AMD for 20 years and I have absolutely no probl%#^$^%J NJasllodofufm DUDFUF&&()()FDJJDNDMS .......
What value to they bring to the computer user?
Mozilla quite caring about users long ago. Google never cared about users in the first place.
Now, it's just a big circle jerk. Adding more and more useless, pointless features because . . . . . because fuck you, that's why.
Or move somewhere else, where you make $75,000 a year and own a nice home and live a much better life.
Would 300 units even make a dent in the problem?
No,
300 units is like throwing a single drop of water into a lake. And, according to one story I've read, the price Google is paying for this works out to $100,000 per unit. For a bunch of pre-fabricated shit boxes that will look like a slum hotel within a year.
Meanwhile, the two biggest problems are ignored.
Problem 1 - User stupidity. You get an e-mail with a "finance-related" subject, such as 'Invoice' or 'Order #'. But there's a Powerpoint file attached. Since when are legitimate invoices sent as Powerpoint files?
Problem 2 - Microsoft stupidity. The ability of Powerpoint to run an external executable file (in this case powershell) is a HUGE design flaw that has become a major source of malware distribution.
The number one problem is that programming involves typing on a keyboard. And so, to politicians and all the other clueless, computer-illiterate masses, programming is nothing more than a simple, routine function that can be handled by any low-level clerk or secretary.
It's almost as if the "editors" here don't even read their own website.