A lot of employees spend their whole day dealing with emails, and do so from within a web based interface. If they're not replying to emails, they're looking up information in browser-delivered applications.
Wouldn't they need the information that they are "looking up [...] in browser-delivered applications" in order to compose the emails that they write "within a web based interface"? If so, how does it help the employee's workflow to hide the "looking up" browser window when the email composition browser window is visible or vice versa, rather than letting the employee open the two browser windows side-by-side?
Leaving iOS and Android with people who play games and watch videos on their devices? Is that a bad thing?
It's not a bad thing for point-and-click games. It's a bad thing for games that aren't point-and-click.
Games need to work on the device's stock input device in order to sell well. But the vast majority of iOS and Android devices have the touch screen and accelerometer as the only inputs usable by the application, and many genres aren't amenable to touch-only control. The devices themselves have buttons, but all are reserved for system features, such as application switching, sleep, and speaker volume control. So developers of games for iOS and Android have to adapt their games' control schemes to the touch screen in ways that often feel impractical. In my testing of two Android applications with on-screen gamepads (the Nesoid emulator and the free version of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure), I kept making errors because without tactile edges to help me line up my thumb over the buttons, I ended up accidentally pressing the wrong one or pressing outside the active area of any button.
What ends up happening is that developers severely cut down the gameplay complexity in order to fit the limits of a touch screen. A platformer might get turned into a continuous runner, such as Rayman Jungle Run or Super Mario Run, losing exploration elements that had previously been keystones of other games in the series. I don't see how, say, an Igavania such as Super Metroid or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night could be ported without severe compromise to the essential character of the franchise.
I thought the home "desktop" was becoming a tablet running a smartphone operating system with a Bluetooth keyboard. Or at least that's how it appears in a couple Discord servers I'm in, where a few regular users rely on help from others and cannot experience PC games because they rarely if ever have access to a PC.
Those users shouldn't use Windows in the first place.
Other than Windows, which operating system is included with laptop PCs from multiple manufacturers shown in major U.S. electronics showroom chains? Because System76 laptops aren't in showrooms, I can't try the keyboard and display before buying. And unlike with desktop PCs, negligibly few individuals build their own laptop from parts.
Say you have downloaded an application to stream a particular movie from a particular provider. This movie is an adaptation of a novel whose copyright has expired in country A but not yet in country B, whose copyright term is longer than that of country A. This means the provider holds the rights to stream the movie to viewers in country A, not to viewers in country B. Without tracking the user's true location, how should the provider determine whether it has the rights to stream the movie to a particular viewer?
Or has a viable business model emerged for developing video games for distribution as free software from day one? If the model involves developing the engine as free software but everything but the engine as non-free and paywalled, F-Droid currently considers that an anti-feature called NonFreeAssets.
This is the traditional (and effective) way of working with multiple documents within Windows 10: Snap View. Sets would slim this down to just one window.
I'm not sure how cutting this down to one window would help. If I'm reading a document and taking notes on what I read, I want to have the document and my notes and side by side, each in a 960-pixel-wide window on my 1920-pixel-wide PC monitor. So unless Sets offers a similar option for a side-by-side view, I don't see how I could adjust myself to its workflow.
Essentially, Microsoft is reworking the Desktop Windows Manager within Windows 10 to enable app switching via tabs, versus more traditional windows.
I thought Windows already had that since Windows 95 and Windows NT 4, and it was called the Taskbar. Keeping a particular task's windows together is part of multiple virtual desktops, which GNU/Linux has had for well over a decade and Windows recently gained.
If you need 100% compatibility you have to be running the exact same version
Different versions of Microsoft Excel are maybe 90 percent compatible. LibreOffice Calc, on the other hand, is maybe 50 percent because the macro APIs are completely different. An inventory feed validator application supplied by Amazon as an Excel workbook with macros is likely to run across supported versions of Excel but not on LO Calc.
Ubuntu 14.04 still has VLC 2.1.6 for download in the software store
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a fairly old long-term supported version of the operating system and includes fairly old long-term supported versions of applications. An application's publisher is free to set up a PPA for a previous LTS.
I can think of a reason for using "watt hours per year" other than that it's what people are used to from their electric bill. I hear "watts" and think instantaneous power, or at least an average over a period no longer than one second. But the familiar renewable power sources (wind and solar) are anything but constant over the course of a day or year, making use of an instantaneous power measurement misleading. The "watt hours per year" unit emphasizes that a power measurement is a long-term average.
Do you pay more for filing a patent and having it accepted than you do for filing and having it rejected?
In the linked page, the "Patent Post-Allowance Fees" section mentions "issue fee". The "Patent Maintenance Fees" mentions periodic renewal. The "Patent Petition Fees" mentions "Extension of term of patent", which applies to undue delays by the USPTO or FDA. None of these apply to denied applications.
So to avoid QR, you must [...] 3. be connected to the Internet
simply email the link to yourself and click the link in your preferred mobile device.
Which requires being connected to your mail server, and that is usually on the other side of the Internet. While your uplink is down, you can no longer mail URLs to a mobile device on the same LAN.
I anticipate a reply to the effect: "So run a mail server at home." I don't see how that's practical in the present anti-spam climate. Many ISPs forbid and/or block home subscribers from running their own mail servers, and many major mail providers use DNSBLs to refuse SMTP connections from an MTA on a home Internet connection. Even those ISPs that allow running an HTTP server from home may consider a home SMTP MTA more dangerous to the ISP's other customers than a home HTTP server.
I'd rather... 1. Use regular text/talk. Texting is even free outside the US for many carriers.
Then would you be willing to foot the airtime bill when you communicate with someone in the US, for whom neither making PSTN calls nor receiving PSTN calls nor sending SMS texts nor receiving SMS texts is free? T-Mobile USA's basic pay-as-you-go plan, for example, comes with 30 monthly incoming or outgoing minutes or texts, and each additional costs 10 cents. T-Mobile supports Wi-Fi calling and texting, but only calls or texts through an app such as Discord or Skype are unmetered. Wi-Fi calls through the PSTN and texts through SMS are metered the same as those through the cellular network.
2. Crypto currencies? If I want to be anonymous, I'd pay cash.
That works until you wish to purchase a product that is sold only outside bicycle range of your home or to sell a product to someone outside bicycle range of your home. It's not advisable to mail cash.
If so, this disparity in education requirements between technology on the one hand and science, engineering, and mathematics on the other hand casts doubt on the validity of STEM as a category of employment.
And even if the Supreme Court hears the case and decides in favor of the patent holder, it could decide that a refund of fees paid to the USPTO for granting an invalid patent constitutes "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
How well does "Send Tab to Device" work in these three scenarios?
Mobile web browsers other than Firefox
Someone might prefer Chrome for Android over Firefox for Android or Safari for iOS over Firefox for iOS. The combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobileapplication routes the URL to the default browser of the mobile device, which is Safari on iOS and (usually) Chrome on Android. I don't own an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad on which to test this myself, but an article published 9 months ago states that Firefox for iOS didn't support receiving tabs through Send Tab to Device.
Offline LAN
Firefox and a mobile browser can be used to view documents served from an HTTP server on a local area network that is disconnected from the Internet. Because the combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobile application does not need to connect to the Internet, it can work even when Mozlila's server cannot be reached.
Privacy-paranoid user
As I understand it, Send Tab to Device in Firefox requires the user to create and log in to a Firefox Sync account. Doing so requires sending the user's email address to Mozilla. In addition, each URL is sent to Mozilla. The combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobile application sends no PII to Mozilla.
So to avoid QR, you must 1. have an Android device, 2. install and use Firefox for Android, 3. be connected to the Internet, and 4. use Firefox Sync.
What are the names of the extensions that theweatherelectric uses, and what are the extensions that DNS-and-BIND uses, so that a reader of these comments may provide benchmarks under Firefox 52 and Firefox 57 for each of these sets of extensions?
The necessary 10-15 extensions are the ones they're using.
I imagine theweatherelectric wanted the names of the necessary 10-15 extensions that DNS-and-BIND is using in order to analyze a sample.
maybe say "hey, if Greasemonkey and Noscript made the jump in the past couple months, write your plugin developers or hang in there... equivlents will likely appear"
Or how about "the author of the extension I need is waiting on a resolution of Bug #XXXXXXX"? In my case, it's Keybinder, and it's Bug 1325692.
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A lot of employees spend their whole day dealing with emails, and do so from within a web based interface. If they're not replying to emails, they're looking up information in browser-delivered applications.
Wouldn't they need the information that they are "looking up [...] in browser-delivered applications" in order to compose the emails that they write "within a web based interface"? If so, how does it help the employee's workflow to hide the "looking up" browser window when the email composition browser window is visible or vice versa, rather than letting the employee open the two browser windows side-by-side?
Leaving iOS and Android with people who play games and watch videos on their devices? Is that a bad thing?
It's not a bad thing for point-and-click games. It's a bad thing for games that aren't point-and-click.
Games need to work on the device's stock input device in order to sell well. But the vast majority of iOS and Android devices have the touch screen and accelerometer as the only inputs usable by the application, and many genres aren't amenable to touch-only control. The devices themselves have buttons, but all are reserved for system features, such as application switching, sleep, and speaker volume control. So developers of games for iOS and Android have to adapt their games' control schemes to the touch screen in ways that often feel impractical. In my testing of two Android applications with on-screen gamepads (the Nesoid emulator and the free version of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure), I kept making errors because without tactile edges to help me line up my thumb over the buttons, I ended up accidentally pressing the wrong one or pressing outside the active area of any button.
What ends up happening is that developers severely cut down the gameplay complexity in order to fit the limits of a touch screen. A platformer might get turned into a continuous runner, such as Rayman Jungle Run or Super Mario Run, losing exploration elements that had previously been keystones of other games in the series. I don't see how, say, an Igavania such as Super Metroid or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night could be ported without severe compromise to the essential character of the franchise.
I thought the home "desktop" was becoming a tablet running a smartphone operating system with a Bluetooth keyboard. Or at least that's how it appears in a couple Discord servers I'm in, where a few regular users rely on help from others and cannot experience PC games because they rarely if ever have access to a PC.
Real users that do real work
Those users shouldn't use Windows in the first place.
Other than Windows, which operating system is included with laptop PCs from multiple manufacturers shown in major U.S. electronics showroom chains? Because System76 laptops aren't in showrooms, I can't try the keyboard and display before buying. And unlike with desktop PCs, negligibly few individuals build their own laptop from parts.
Or did you mean MacBook?
Say you have downloaded an application to stream a particular movie from a particular provider. This movie is an adaptation of a novel whose copyright has expired in country A but not yet in country B, whose copyright term is longer than that of country A. This means the provider holds the rights to stream the movie to viewers in country A, not to viewers in country B. Without tracking the user's true location, how should the provider determine whether it has the rights to stream the movie to a particular viewer?
Install fdroid
That might work for a calculator or a flashlight. But it doesn't help much for things like games, for reasons that have been explained elsewhere.
Or has a viable business model emerged for developing video games for distribution as free software from day one? If the model involves developing the engine as free software but everything but the engine as non-free and paywalled, F-Droid currently considers that an anti-feature called NonFreeAssets .
From a caption in the featured article:
I'm not sure how cutting this down to one window would help. If I'm reading a document and taking notes on what I read, I want to have the document and my notes and side by side, each in a 960-pixel-wide window on my 1920-pixel-wide PC monitor. So unless Sets offers a similar option for a side-by-side view, I don't see how I could adjust myself to its workflow.
I thought Windows already had that since Windows 95 and Windows NT 4, and it was called the Taskbar. Keeping a particular task's windows together is part of multiple virtual desktops, which GNU/Linux has had for well over a decade and Windows recently gained.
If you need 100% compatibility you have to be running the exact same version
Different versions of Microsoft Excel are maybe 90 percent compatible. LibreOffice Calc, on the other hand, is maybe 50 percent because the macro APIs are completely different. An inventory feed validator application supplied by Amazon as an Excel workbook with macros is likely to run across supported versions of Excel but not on LO Calc.
Ubuntu 14.04 still has VLC 2.1.6 for download in the software store
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a fairly old long-term supported version of the operating system and includes fairly old long-term supported versions of applications. An application's publisher is free to set up a PPA for a previous LTS.
I can't think of any compelling reason for personal devices to be allowed in the white house for any reason whatsoever.
That depends on whether the White House provides lockers outside for storage of personal devices while on the premises.
Leave your personal electronics at home.
And use what during the commute to and from work?
But the Simon was probably the first device that both ran applications and could make and receive telephone calls over the cellular network.
I can think of a reason for using "watt hours per year" other than that it's what people are used to from their electric bill. I hear "watts" and think instantaneous power, or at least an average over a period no longer than one second. But the familiar renewable power sources (wind and solar) are anything but constant over the course of a day or year, making use of an instantaneous power measurement misleading. The "watt hours per year" unit emphasizes that a power measurement is a long-term average.
most datacenters don't have large office spaces
Which is why Cloud&Heat brings the water-cooled server rack to the office space.
Do you pay more for filing a patent and having it accepted than you do for filing and having it rejected?
In the linked page, the "Patent Post-Allowance Fees" section mentions "issue fee". The "Patent Maintenance Fees" mentions periodic renewal. The "Patent Petition Fees" mentions "Extension of term of patent", which applies to undue delays by the USPTO or FDA. None of these apply to denied applications.
But then how is said bookmark moved from the PC to the mobile device without bouncing it off Mozilla's server?
So to avoid QR, you must [...] 3. be connected to the Internet
simply email the link to yourself and click the link in your preferred mobile device.
Which requires being connected to your mail server, and that is usually on the other side of the Internet. While your uplink is down, you can no longer mail URLs to a mobile device on the same LAN.
I anticipate a reply to the effect: "So run a mail server at home."
I don't see how that's practical in the present anti-spam climate. Many ISPs forbid and/or block home subscribers from running their own mail servers, and many major mail providers use DNSBLs to refuse SMTP connections from an MTA on a home Internet connection. Even those ISPs that allow running an HTTP server from home may consider a home SMTP MTA more dangerous to the ISP's other customers than a home HTTP server.
I'd rather...
1. Use regular text/talk. Texting is even free outside the US for many carriers.
Then would you be willing to foot the airtime bill when you communicate with someone in the US, for whom neither making PSTN calls nor receiving PSTN calls nor sending SMS texts nor receiving SMS texts is free? T-Mobile USA's basic pay-as-you-go plan, for example, comes with 30 monthly incoming or outgoing minutes or texts, and each additional costs 10 cents. T-Mobile supports Wi-Fi calling and texting, but only calls or texts through an app such as Discord or Skype are unmetered. Wi-Fi calls through the PSTN and texts through SMS are metered the same as those through the cellular network.
2. Crypto currencies? If I want to be anonymous, I'd pay cash.
That works until you wish to purchase a product that is sold only outside bicycle range of your home or to sell a product to someone outside bicycle range of your home. It's not advisable to mail cash.
If so, this disparity in education requirements between technology on the one hand and science, engineering, and mathematics on the other hand casts doubt on the validity of STEM as a category of employment.
And even if the Supreme Court hears the case and decides in favor of the patent holder, it could decide that a refund of fees paid to the USPTO for granting an invalid patent constitutes "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
Pressing f5 IS hard
It is when on a laptop that has the F keys bound to brightness, volume, and the like unless Fn is held down.
How well does "Send Tab to Device" work in these three scenarios?
Mobile web browsers other than Firefox Someone might prefer Chrome for Android over Firefox for Android or Safari for iOS over Firefox for iOS. The combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobileapplication routes the URL to the default browser of the mobile device, which is Safari on iOS and (usually) Chrome on Android. I don't own an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad on which to test this myself, but an article published 9 months ago states that Firefox for iOS didn't support receiving tabs through Send Tab to Device. Offline LAN Firefox and a mobile browser can be used to view documents served from an HTTP server on a local area network that is disconnected from the Internet. Because the combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobile application does not need to connect to the Internet, it can work even when Mozlila's server cannot be reached. Privacy-paranoid user As I understand it, Send Tab to Device in Firefox requires the user to create and log in to a Firefox Sync account. Doing so requires sending the user's email address to Mozilla. In addition, each URL is sent to Mozilla. The combination of a QR-generating extension and a QR-scanning mobile application sends no PII to Mozilla.So to avoid QR, you must 1. have an Android device, 2. install and use Firefox for Android, 3. be connected to the Internet, and 4. use Firefox Sync.
What are the names of the extensions that theweatherelectric uses, and what are the extensions that DNS-and-BIND uses, so that a reader of these comments may provide benchmarks under Firefox 52 and Firefox 57 for each of these sets of extensions?
The necessary 10-15 extensions are the ones they're using.
I imagine theweatherelectric wanted the names of the necessary 10-15 extensions that DNS-and-BIND is using in order to analyze a sample.
maybe say "hey, if Greasemonkey and Noscript made the jump in the past couple months, write your plugin developers or hang in there... equivlents will likely appear"
Or how about "the author of the extension I need is waiting on a resolution of Bug #XXXXXXX"? In my case, it's Keybinder, and it's Bug 1325692.
The firmware restrictions of a Chromebook rise to the level of "deal-breakingly inconvenient" but not quite a "scam" as AC #55622173 called it.