Their limitations are asinine. In particular, not being able to use an encrypted FS is ridiculous.
Doubly so, because it has worked on Linux encrypted filesystems since day 1, and continued to work until they enforced their requirement. They simply chose to not support it anymore, with no good explanation.
That aside, how much did this battery cost? Less than $385M, I assume since it's part of a plan that cost $385M. If it, and its infrastructure (the building it's in, the wiring, etc) actually cost the $90.2M that another article says it did, then it'll pay for itself in three years or so. And then they'll have the hassle of recycling it. Won't that be fun?
It's stated right in the summary that the battery project cost $66M.
I see what they added (nothing of interest to me), but with each release I'm more concerned about which functionality I use daily that they decided to take out.
Most importantly, it's really a feature that makes more sense as an extension than as a built-in part of the browser. As an add-on it can evolve separately from the browser, and multiple extensions can compete with each other (and fill in different niches) without having to go through the trouble of developing a full web-browser.
If they would allow addons to alter the UI beyond adding single little button, you'd be right. Unfortunately, they don't. There is no way to duplicate the Live Bookmark feature because, as of FF 57, support for altering the UI like that has been removed.
Seriously, I would like a month to go by without Firefox removing some feature I use daily. I'm already stuck on FF 56 indefinitely due to continuing lack of multi-row tabs on later versions. Live bookmarks are the way I keep up with news... pull down the feed, see at a glance anything I might want to read, like this story for example. I use it to keep up with Craigslist ads too, based off search queries. I've never found anything nearly as convenient.
Why would I want to use a separate program to see browser links?
But the fingerprint sensor is on the back -- I wouldn't call that properly set up. Maybe I'm an anomaly, but the majority of the time I unlock my phone, it's sitting flat on a surface.
This company has ways to get at the data stored on the phone, not to remove the iCloud lock and reactivate. Activating an iPhone goes through Apple, so there's really no way around this.
As I type this, I currently have 70 tabs open in my Firefox window, which is pretty typical for me. Until there is an extension available to show these in multiple rows, I'll have to stick with 56 out of necessity.
Sprint is far from the best phone company, especially in term of customer support, but their prices are amazing. I'm not sure how you ended up paying 2-3x more for your wife's plan. Our family has 5 people on unlimited accounts with Sprint and we pay $109 per month. The best I could do anywhere else was like $160-180.
Maybe they got the rate of annihilation wrong. Maybe the mutual destruction process is ongoing.
If that were the case, there would be a very easily recognizable signature from the annihilation. We do not see large-scale annihilation like this anywhere.
Very interesting results -- thanks for pointing them out.
It's notable that the 200M cell group performed at best the same, but usually worse than placebo on almost every test at every time frame. I'd have to disagree with you about dose response, though. Every medicine is going to have a bell curve of efficacy, and it looks like they just guessed too high on higher dose.
Also, you imply that the 100M cell group only improved on the 6 minute walk test. In fact, that group had statistically significant improvement on 3 out of 4 tests.
The only other path to browser extensions is profit, but theres no money in it because the market share is so low that it is essentially unmonetizable. Its the same basic problem that Microsoft had in mobile. The products are just fine, it's the company people don't trust. The only people who still like/trust Microsoft are those that are still ignorant of the real alternatives.
It's actually a money-losing proposition. You have to pay Microsoft to be an official developer and publish your free Edge browser extension, not unlike Apple and Safari. To me, that's offensive -- so I only publish my browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, even though they would run fine on Safari and Edge.
I know some people can run mysql under MacOSX but is it easy to install? With Windows I have visual studio community edition for free. Is the XCode free?
Here's where you went off the rails. Using MAMP, Mysql is trivially easy to install on MacOS -- easier than on any other platform, I'd say. And yes, XCode is free and always has been.
The fact that those 2 things were your main supporting arguments against using Macs tells us a lot about your MacOS "expertise".
It's ironic that "If you've never considered the potential downsides of codes of conduct, here's a good place to start." brought about the downsides of codes of conduct.
Librarian: I texted my son, "...a bunch of FBI agents just came in and busted a guy." My son knew exactly what Silk Road was! (nervous laugh) I don't know why he knew that.
I've checked about 20+ retailers, and they're all sold out. Anyone have a source on where a pair of glasses can still be ordered in time for the eclipse?
I agree with pretty much everybody else on here that if Mozilla wants Firefox to succeed, they should stop trying to give us more doodads in the browser. Hello! We want LESS. That was the whole reason for the existence of Firefox, if you remember. Strip out all that stuff that nobody uses and concentrate on making it lean and extensible.
I honestly don't see much performance difference between Firefox and Chrome these days. Firefox's lone remaining advantage is that Chrome is butt ugly. As a UI guy, I find the Chrome UI to be jagged, clumsy, and just atrocious. I want a menu bar. I want an app that looks like it was designed and not just thrown together by coders with zero design sensibility.
In my personal experience, WSL is about an order or magnitude faster than Cygwin. If it weren't for 2 important things, we'd use WSL for everything that we used to use Cygwin for. Those 2 things are: 1. Pathing. Cygwin still handles pathing better (e.g. WSL can't handle translating Windows path in commands like "cd c:\" and also can't handle native Windows apps using the WSL filesystem mounted at/mnt). This is pretty much a dealbreaker for us, since we need bash to script native Windows apps. 2 GUI. WSL has no GUI support. This is no a big deal for us, but might be for some.
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Their limitations are asinine. In particular, not being able to use an encrypted FS is ridiculous.
Doubly so, because it has worked on Linux encrypted filesystems since day 1, and continued to work until they enforced their requirement. They simply chose to not support it anymore, with no good explanation.
They could less about content creators now, so no worries there.
That aside, how much did this battery cost? Less than $385M, I assume since it's part of a plan that cost $385M. If it, and its infrastructure (the building it's in, the wiring, etc) actually cost the $90.2M that another article says it did, then it'll pay for itself in three years or so. And then they'll have the hassle of recycling it. Won't that be fun?
It's stated right in the summary that the battery project cost $66M.
I see what they added (nothing of interest to me), but with each release I'm more concerned about which functionality I use daily that they decided to take out.
Oh, believe me, I would LOVE to give Mozilla some feedback about how they're doing with Firefox! Somebody might get injured though.
Most importantly, it's really a feature that makes more sense as an extension than as a built-in part of the browser. As an add-on it can evolve separately from the browser, and multiple extensions can compete with each other (and fill in different niches) without having to go through the trouble of developing a full web-browser.
If they would allow addons to alter the UI beyond adding single little button, you'd be right. Unfortunately, they don't. There is no way to duplicate the Live Bookmark feature because, as of FF 57, support for altering the UI like that has been removed.
Seriously, I would like a month to go by without Firefox removing some feature I use daily. I'm already stuck on FF 56 indefinitely due to continuing lack of multi-row tabs on later versions. Live bookmarks are the way I keep up with news... pull down the feed, see at a glance anything I might want to read, like this story for example. I use it to keep up with Craigslist ads too, based off search queries. I've never found anything nearly as convenient.
Why would I want to use a separate program to see browser links?
People enjoyed working 4 days, and getting paid for 5. Who would have thought?
Tab me plus is critical for me, utterly critical, took 3 Chrome plugins to replicate it, but it's behaving as intended now.
Were you able to get multiple rows of tabs on Chrome? That's the feature I miss most after Tab Mix Plus got axed by the new Firefox "improvements".
But the fingerprint sensor is on the back -- I wouldn't call that properly set up. Maybe I'm an anomaly, but the majority of the time I unlock my phone, it's sitting flat on a surface.
This company has ways to get at the data stored on the phone, not to remove the iCloud lock and reactivate. Activating an iPhone goes through Apple, so there's really no way around this.
As I type this, I currently have 70 tabs open in my Firefox window, which is pretty typical for me. Until there is an extension available to show these in multiple rows, I'll have to stick with 56 out of necessity.
"publish or parish"
So if you crash and burn as a grad student, you should explore the priesthood?
Sprint is far from the best phone company, especially in term of customer support, but their prices are amazing. I'm not sure how you ended up paying 2-3x more for your wife's plan. Our family has 5 people on unlimited accounts with Sprint and we pay $109 per month. The best I could do anywhere else was like $160-180.
Maybe they got the rate of annihilation wrong. Maybe the mutual destruction process is ongoing.
If that were the case, there would be a very easily recognizable signature from the annihilation. We do not see large-scale annihilation like this anywhere.
Very interesting results -- thanks for pointing them out.
It's notable that the 200M cell group performed at best the same, but usually worse than placebo on almost every test at every time frame. I'd have to disagree with you about dose response, though. Every medicine is going to have a bell curve of efficacy, and it looks like they just guessed too high on higher dose.
Also, you imply that the 100M cell group only improved on the 6 minute walk test. In fact, that group had statistically significant improvement on 3 out of 4 tests.
I too have a decades-old policy: I don't use pay-walled sites.
The only other path to browser extensions is profit, but theres no money in it because the market share is so low that it is essentially unmonetizable. Its the same basic problem that Microsoft had in mobile. The products are just fine, it's the company people don't trust. The only people who still like/trust Microsoft are those that are still ignorant of the real alternatives.
It's actually a money-losing proposition. You have to pay Microsoft to be an official developer and publish your free Edge browser extension, not unlike Apple and Safari. To me, that's offensive -- so I only publish my browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, even though they would run fine on Safari and Edge.
I know some people can run mysql under MacOSX but is it easy to install? With Windows I have visual studio community edition for free. Is the XCode free?
Here's where you went off the rails. Using MAMP, Mysql is trivially easy to install on MacOS -- easier than on any other platform, I'd say. And yes, XCode is free and always has been.
The fact that those 2 things were your main supporting arguments against using Macs tells us a lot about your MacOS "expertise".
Why would anyone want a phone unlock on the back of the phone? The most common place for me to unlock my phone is when it sitting flat on my desk.
It's ironic that "If you've never considered the potential downsides of codes of conduct, here's a good place to start." brought about the downsides of codes of conduct.
Librarian: I texted my son, "...a bunch of FBI agents just came in and busted a guy." My son knew exactly what Silk Road was! (nervous laugh) I don't know why he knew that.
Comedy gold.
I've checked about 20+ retailers, and they're all sold out. Anyone have a source on where a pair of glasses can still be ordered in time for the eclipse?
I agree with pretty much everybody else on here that if Mozilla wants Firefox to succeed, they should stop trying to give us more doodads in the browser. Hello! We want LESS. That was the whole reason for the existence of Firefox, if you remember. Strip out all that stuff that nobody uses and concentrate on making it lean and extensible.
I honestly don't see much performance difference between Firefox and Chrome these days. Firefox's lone remaining advantage is that Chrome is butt ugly. As a UI guy, I find the Chrome UI to be jagged, clumsy, and just atrocious. I want a menu bar. I want an app that looks like it was designed and not just thrown together by coders with zero design sensibility.
In my personal experience, WSL is about an order or magnitude faster than Cygwin. If it weren't for 2 important things, we'd use WSL for everything that we used to use Cygwin for. Those 2 things are: /mnt). This is pretty much a dealbreaker for us, since we need bash to script native Windows apps.
1. Pathing. Cygwin still handles pathing better (e.g. WSL can't handle translating Windows path in commands like "cd c:\" and also can't handle native Windows apps using the WSL filesystem mounted at
2 GUI. WSL has no GUI support. This is no a big deal for us, but might be for some.