Web pages are also horrible in Edge. There really is nothing that it can do right.
I've never used Edge myself. But early on when Microsoft was developing Edge as the replacement for IE, all I kept hearing was how Edge beat all the other browsers on HTML5/CSS conformance tests, how it had the fastest JavaScript engine, etc. And yet everyone who's used it seems to say it's full of bugs, is incompatible with important sites, and it generally sucks. Where's the disconnect here? I'm genuinely curious.
Coincidentally, when my sister moved to Texas she was horrified to discover she had a huge colony of rats living under her back porch, and needed to call "the Rat Man" to have them removed. Her neighbors assured her this was all par for the course in that area. The Rat Man concurred... adding, however, that if the infestation had been squirrels he would have advised her to sell the house. Too damaging, too hard to get rid of for good.
I don't doubt that people are having their electronic devices searched. The assertion was that warrantless searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border has been a given ever since electronic devices were invented, and that's ridiculous. The precedent for this kind of government overreach is quite new. Plenty of people have been detained at the U.S. border for one reason or another without turning over all their passwords. This is a new thing, and to claim it isn't is basically to be complicit with totalitarianism in America.
The government isn't immune to suits regarding infringement of freedoms, failure to disclose information that it's obligated to disclose, etc. Think of how many ACLU lawsuits there have been, for example.
But in many cases the ACLU fights those cases on defense. If the government charges me with "unlawful speech," for example, there's nothing stopping me from retaining ACLU lawyers as part of my legal team. Or if I'm convicted, the ACLU can step in and offer to help with my appeal, in the interest of bringing the judgment to a court with sufficient standing to create precedent. But neither of those things is exactly the same as "suing the government."
In the case where information is not disclosed, I think far more often the procedure is not to try to sue, but first to demand that the agency that possesses that information disclose it; then demand that whichever agency has regulatory authority over the first agency step in and do something about it; and then make sure the New York Times knows all about it; and then call a couple Senators and Representatives about it; etc.
And then in some cases the government just agrees to be sued because a judgment in the government's favor would establish precedent and get the ACLU out of its face. And sometimes the government loses those.
As soon as people started carrying electronic devices across the border, they started having them searched.
Nobody has ever demanded the password to any computer, mobile phone, PDA, or other device that I have carried across the U.S. border, in either direction, ever. So your statement is patently false.
I'm in the middle of John Le Carré's latest. It's his first George Smiley novel in something like 25 years, and supposedly it is the final farewell to the character. I'm quite enjoying it so far.
I'm sorry, but you just come off as kinda silly, uptight and naive. The reason your moral high ground feels so hard to cling to is because you don't actually have any.
Your first scenario is not going to happen. What will happen is once every year or so, someone will make them fire up the VR stuff during a meeting, and half the meeting will involve waiting for tech ops to set it back up.
Real talk. Let's just think about the amount of meeting-time that is wasted getting the person who's causing the echo or feedback to mute their microphone.
It was the first usable x86 based GUI (Sunview) or X Window system way back in 1988 that ran DOS and later Windows 3.x in virtual windows. Back then there was no usable MS Windows or SPARC yet.
Oh, I'm not so sure. I seem to remember running DESQview on ordinary PC-XT hardware earlier than that. Not exactly GUI like we're used to today, but pretty close. It could run text-based and graphical MS-DOS applications side by side.
Most new development of *NIX environment has been under Linux and different BSD variants.
And yet a lot of that "new development" seemed to be aimed at doing things Solaris already did. Meanwhile, I doubt many Solaris admins are interested in things like systemd or open source 3D graphics drivers.
Except the funny thing is, T-Pain can actually sing. He just had the misfortune to latch onto an easy-to-reproduce gimmick, and in the end it killed his career.
I've long wondered if there is any similar law in the U.S. I have a "smart TV" that came with logos for Facebook and YouTube on the box. Both apps have since been retired. I imagine there will be a day when my so-called smart TV is nothing more than a CRT screen. It seems like consumers should be protected against this sort of thing.
Then again, the U.S. government forced broadcasters to switch from analog to digital transmissions, making all old TVs nonfunctional without additional hardware. So I guess we should just expect this sort of thing?
Call it 4.4 KitKat, and I'm fine, call it "KitKat" and I don't know WTF version you are talking about, or if it's newer or order than Marshmallow or Lollipop.
Android releases are named in alphabetical order, so you ought to be able to answer some of your questions yourself.
New Black Panther Party (NBPP), whose leaders are known for anti-Semitic and anti-white tirades. Its late chairman, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, famously remarked: “There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.”
What on Earth makes you think the same people who "cheer" this action wouldn't support the same thing for a site that espouses the hateful things mentioned above? Why are you alt-right weirdos such... weirdos? You draw the most bizarre conclusions, ones I can't even imagine a kindergartener making.
It is not up to Staples to decide whether or not they like what you're going to say before they sell you paper.
Sure it is. They can ask you whatever they want. The difference is, if they did, you just wouldn't shop there.
And the bakery argument is a different issue. That was a case specific to the State of Oregon, which has a law explicitly forbidding businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. If Staples refused to sell you paper because you were gay, Staples would get slapped with a fine. If Staples refused to sell you paper because you were a white supremacist, nothing would happen and you'd just go to Office Depot instead. It's as simple as that.
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Web pages are also horrible in Edge. There really is nothing that it can do right.
I've never used Edge myself. But early on when Microsoft was developing Edge as the replacement for IE, all I kept hearing was how Edge beat all the other browsers on HTML5/CSS conformance tests, how it had the fastest JavaScript engine, etc. And yet everyone who's used it seems to say it's full of bugs, is incompatible with important sites, and it generally sucks. Where's the disconnect here? I'm genuinely curious.
Coincidentally, when my sister moved to Texas she was horrified to discover she had a huge colony of rats living under her back porch, and needed to call "the Rat Man" to have them removed. Her neighbors assured her this was all par for the course in that area. The Rat Man concurred ... adding, however, that if the infestation had been squirrels he would have advised her to sell the house. Too damaging, too hard to get rid of for good.
I don't doubt that people are having their electronic devices searched. The assertion was that warrantless searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border has been a given ever since electronic devices were invented, and that's ridiculous. The precedent for this kind of government overreach is quite new. Plenty of people have been detained at the U.S. border for one reason or another without turning over all their passwords. This is a new thing, and to claim it isn't is basically to be complicit with totalitarianism in America.
The government isn't immune to suits regarding infringement of freedoms, failure to disclose information that it's obligated to disclose, etc. Think of how many ACLU lawsuits there have been, for example.
But in many cases the ACLU fights those cases on defense. If the government charges me with "unlawful speech," for example, there's nothing stopping me from retaining ACLU lawyers as part of my legal team. Or if I'm convicted, the ACLU can step in and offer to help with my appeal, in the interest of bringing the judgment to a court with sufficient standing to create precedent. But neither of those things is exactly the same as "suing the government."
In the case where information is not disclosed, I think far more often the procedure is not to try to sue, but first to demand that the agency that possesses that information disclose it; then demand that whichever agency has regulatory authority over the first agency step in and do something about it; and then make sure the New York Times knows all about it; and then call a couple Senators and Representatives about it; etc.
And then in some cases the government just agrees to be sued because a judgment in the government's favor would establish precedent and get the ACLU out of its face. And sometimes the government loses those.
As soon as people started carrying electronic devices across the border, they started having them searched.
Nobody has ever demanded the password to any computer, mobile phone, PDA, or other device that I have carried across the U.S. border, in either direction, ever. So your statement is patently false.
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I'm certain IBM was one of the main ones jockeying for this, and IBM seems to prefer the Eclipse Foundation for whatever reason.
I'm certain IBM was one of the main ones jockeying for this, and IBM seems to prefer the Eclipse Foundation for whatever reason.
This should have been a no-brainer. Removing the maintenance costs, but retain the benefits.
I'm not sure I see how it removes the maintenance costs.
Unless the answer is no, it seems like this move will save a little personnel overhead but little else.
Whoops, I might want to mention that the book is called A Legacy of Spies.
I'm in the middle of John Le Carré's latest. It's his first George Smiley novel in something like 25 years, and supposedly it is the final farewell to the character. I'm quite enjoying it so far.
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So you subscribe to the 'if you build it, they will come' philosophy? Good luck with that.
You're confusing sales with marketing.
I'm sorry, but you just come off as kinda silly, uptight and naive. The reason your moral high ground feels so hard to cling to is because you don't actually have any.
Your first scenario is not going to happen. What will happen is once every year or so, someone will make them fire up the VR stuff during a meeting, and half the meeting will involve waiting for tech ops to set it back up.
Real talk. Let's just think about the amount of meeting-time that is wasted getting the person who's causing the echo or feedback to mute their microphone.
It was the first usable x86 based GUI (Sunview) or X Window system way back in 1988 that ran DOS and later Windows 3.x in virtual windows. Back then there was no usable MS Windows or SPARC yet.
Oh, I'm not so sure. I seem to remember running DESQview on ordinary PC-XT hardware earlier than that. Not exactly GUI like we're used to today, but pretty close. It could run text-based and graphical MS-DOS applications side by side.
Most new development of *NIX environment has been under Linux and different BSD variants.
And yet a lot of that "new development" seemed to be aimed at doing things Solaris already did. Meanwhile, I doubt many Solaris admins are interested in things like systemd or open source 3D graphics drivers.
It was to let you know that when you're a rich douchebag, nobody cares if you wear sweatpants every day.
What's not to believe?
Except the funny thing is, T-Pain can actually sing. He just had the misfortune to latch onto an easy-to-reproduce gimmick, and in the end it killed his career.
Why are good and bad movies same price ? Let studios decide.
We've been letting studios decide the difference between a good movie and a bad one for decades now, and it's clearly not working out.
I've long wondered if there is any similar law in the U.S. I have a "smart TV" that came with logos for Facebook and YouTube on the box. Both apps have since been retired. I imagine there will be a day when my so-called smart TV is nothing more than a CRT screen. It seems like consumers should be protected against this sort of thing.
Then again, the U.S. government forced broadcasters to switch from analog to digital transmissions, making all old TVs nonfunctional without additional hardware. So I guess we should just expect this sort of thing?
Call it 4.4 KitKat, and I'm fine, call it "KitKat" and I don't know WTF version you are talking about, or if it's newer or order than Marshmallow or Lollipop.
Android releases are named in alphabetical order, so you ought to be able to answer some of your questions yourself.
I can't even find a decent epub reader for Windows.
There's the Nook app in the Windows Store. I think Microsoft maintains it itself.
New Black Panther Party (NBPP), whose leaders are known for anti-Semitic and anti-white tirades. Its late chairman, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, famously remarked: “There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.”
What on Earth makes you think the same people who "cheer" this action wouldn't support the same thing for a site that espouses the hateful things mentioned above? Why are you alt-right weirdos such ... weirdos? You draw the most bizarre conclusions, ones I can't even imagine a kindergartener making.
It is not up to Staples to decide whether or not they like what you're going to say before they sell you paper.
Sure it is. They can ask you whatever they want. The difference is, if they did, you just wouldn't shop there.
And the bakery argument is a different issue. That was a case specific to the State of Oregon, which has a law explicitly forbidding businesses from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. If Staples refused to sell you paper because you were gay, Staples would get slapped with a fine. If Staples refused to sell you paper because you were a white supremacist, nothing would happen and you'd just go to Office Depot instead. It's as simple as that.