When did we decide to replace straightforward English with "randomize the words, people will figure it out"?
Probably an accident during construction of the ziggurat at Eridu (Old Babel), when the builders decided to replace Proto-Semitic with every other language family.
Less flippantly: Some people speak English as a second language (L2). Because of generalization from their native language (L1), "Google will tomorrow launch" comes as naturally to them as "Google will soon launch".
I've found that DDR Freak's list is years out of date, as it lists arcades that no longer exist (e.g. Wayne Recreation in Fort Wayne, IN) or no longer have DDR or ITG (e.g. Putt-Putt and Lazer-X in Fort Wayne, IN).
places with the ticket games like Gameworks and Dave n Busters have a mix of games for both audiences.
But are places like these worth planning a trip in excess of 100 miles (160 km)? I checked Google Maps, and there isn't a Gameworks in all of Indiana, and even Dave & Buster's is 90 miles away from where I live.
Arcades and more specifically Barcades are popping up all over the place now.
Except as far as I can tell, barcades require age 21 to enter, and other arcades are dominated by redemption games (those that spit tickets) for small children. Where does this leave people who have outgrown the shallow, often random-number-driven gameplay of redemption games but haven't reached the senior year of college yet?
Video rental stores (I am surprised the ones that still exist have been able to hang on for so long given the rise of both rental kiosks and digital content purchase/rental/streaming/etc)
Kiosks don't have older titles, and $4 to rent a movie from Amazon is more expensive than (say) $1 per night from a brick-and-mortar store like Family Video. It's even worse if you live outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, or DSL, as you have to add on $5 to $10 per GB on top of that for the Internet data transfer quota overages that satellite and cellular ISPs charge. (Examples include rural areas and Seattle.)
Landline phones (more and more people will replace home phones completly with mobile like I have or they will get some sort of VoIP service running over cable or fibre or whatever other tech rather than actual proper old-school copper wire phones)
Unless they live in an area where the local fiber, cable, or DSL provider bundles a landline at no additional charge with Internet access.
Printed TV guides and listings (with digital TV even free-to-air channels give you up-to-date on-screen program guides so you can see what's on and when plus if you do need to look it up without looking on your TV, the Internet has you covered for that)
Unlike the on-screen guide in OTA or cable TV, a printed guide doesn't cover up the program that someone else in the household is watching.
with the recent bankruptcy of Toys R Us and consumers increasingly buying toys from online
Online has no showroom, and though it's not quite as important for toys as for (say) clothes or laptop computers, it's still nice to get a feel for a toy's scale before buying it. (That's another reason I don't like blind boxes, apart from the duplicates.)
or from big box department stores that have lower prices than the toy retailers
Toys "R" Us has toys on shelves that Walmart and Target didn't have.
System 7 was just an attempt to catch up to the rest of the computing world, which would let you put multiple applications side by side on a single display.
Process Manager in System 7 was a refactor of MultiFinder, which was in System 6.
The only other really cool MacOS feature wasn't even an OS feature, though it was made possible by MacOS 7's virtual memory support: Ram Doubler, aka compressed swap. This has only recently become a Linux kernel feature.
I guess zram was waiting for the patent to run out.
I do use a rather huge hosts file to redirect ad company domain names to localhost
Ad companies appear to have already started to defeat hosts by using pseudorandom subdomains. APK's solution can't block these, but Firefox tracking protection can:
For each HTTP load, Firefox looks up multiple URL fragments based on Safe Browsing regex lookup. This allows us to blocklist all subdomains of a tracking domain without enumerating each one.
Some website operators and Internet VOD providers insist on both a subscription to see anything and an additional subscription to view documents without ads.
Among sites that appear in Google Search results displayed to me, I have perceived the noarchive value as noticeably correlated with conditional access methods, such as paywall or anti-adblock. If there were no desire for conditional access, a rational site operator would allow archiving even if only to shift the hosting burden for old documents to archive operators. For an example of such shifting, see here:
Your experience appears to differ from mine. Which sites using noarchive that lack conditional access do you commonly see in results from Google Search?
I guess the algorithm used to be that if the document presented to Googlebot is much longer than the document presented to a Chrome user who opts into telemetry, cloaking is happening. Now it's still an algorithm: Google Search will ignore CSS classes marked as paywalled through JSON-LD when making that determination.
I don't object to reasonable advertising. I will not tolerate the tracking, though, and until it stop then I am keeping my adblocker in place and not disabling it for anybody. If that means I'm locked out of some sites, then so be it.
That's why I use the tracking protection built into Firefox. It's enabled by default in Private Browsing windows and can be enabled through about:config for use outside Private Browsing. It and the similar Disconnect extension should cover ad networks and ad exchanges that track users across sites. This gives the user plausible deniability against accusations of freeloading, as it a publisher (operator of a website that carries ads) can still serve self-hosted ads to tracking blocker users.
I will only be truly disappointed if Google does not clearly flag them in search results
Paywalled documents use <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">. Google Search flags results with noarchive on desktop (look for lack of "Cached") but not on mobile.
PBS and NPR exist. They're not government agencies, though they are funded by a mix of contributions from government programs and viewers like you (thank you).
But they do need to come of with some way to notate pay walled articles
Good news: Google Search on desktop browsers fairly reliably notates paywalled articles through the lack of "Cached" in the down arrow menu.
Bad news: The down arrow menu doesn't appear in mobile browsers.
and while they're at it flag the sites that pester you to turn off your ad block to view an article.
Bad news: Now that Google has established its pay-per-article system known as Contributor, Google has actually joined the anti-adblock brigade. It even recommends that users of Firefox Private Browsing click a button labeled "Disable protection" to allow access to a site. (This is because most anti-adblock can't tell the difference between tracking blockers, which block only ad networks and exchanges that track users across sites, and actual ad blockers, which additionally block self-hosted ads.) Now that TV Tropes is using anti-adblock, I'm even more glad that I switched to All The Tropes years ago.
A Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop sold in the first quarter of 2010, less than a decade ago, shipped with a 64-bit-capable Atom N450 processor. But it had 1 GB of RAM, upgradable to 2 GB. What advantage does 64-bit on a 1 or 2 GB machine have over 32-bit on the same machine? Does the larger register count compensate for data cache pressure from larger pointers and for swap pressure when it has to load the 32-bit libraries to run a Wine app?
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Anyone not disabling javascript by default by now (white list it in select cases) is a fool.
Agreed. So how would the operator of a web application prove that it is trustworthy enough to become one of these "select cases"?
When did we decide to replace straightforward English with "randomize the words, people will figure it out"?
Probably an accident during construction of the ziggurat at Eridu (Old Babel), when the builders decided to replace Proto-Semitic with every other language family.
Less flippantly:
Some people speak English as a second language (L2). Because of generalization from their native language (L1), "Google will tomorrow launch" comes as naturally to them as "Google will soon launch".
I've found that DDR Freak's list is years out of date, as it lists arcades that no longer exist (e.g. Wayne Recreation in Fort Wayne, IN) or no longer have DDR or ITG (e.g. Putt-Putt and Lazer-X in Fort Wayne, IN).
places with the ticket games like Gameworks and Dave n Busters have a mix of games for both audiences.
But are places like these worth planning a trip in excess of 100 miles (160 km)? I checked Google Maps, and there isn't a Gameworks in all of Indiana, and even Dave & Buster's is 90 miles away from where I live.
Arcades and more specifically Barcades are popping up all over the place now.
Except as far as I can tell, barcades require age 21 to enter, and other arcades are dominated by redemption games (those that spit tickets) for small children. Where does this leave people who have outgrown the shallow, often random-number-driven gameplay of redemption games but haven't reached the senior year of college yet?
Video rental stores (I am surprised the ones that still exist have been able to hang on for so long given the rise of both rental kiosks and digital content purchase/rental/streaming/etc)
Kiosks don't have older titles, and $4 to rent a movie from Amazon is more expensive than (say) $1 per night from a brick-and-mortar store like Family Video. It's even worse if you live outside the service footprint of fiber, cable, or DSL, as you have to add on $5 to $10 per GB on top of that for the Internet data transfer quota overages that satellite and cellular ISPs charge. (Examples include rural areas and Seattle.)
Landline phones (more and more people will replace home phones completly with mobile like I have or they will get some sort of VoIP service running over cable or fibre or whatever other tech rather than actual proper old-school copper wire phones)
Unless they live in an area where the local fiber, cable, or DSL provider bundles a landline at no additional charge with Internet access.
Printed TV guides and listings (with digital TV even free-to-air channels give you up-to-date on-screen program guides so you can see what's on and when plus if you do need to look it up without looking on your TV, the Internet has you covered for that)
Unlike the on-screen guide in OTA or cable TV, a printed guide doesn't cover up the program that someone else in the household is watching.
with the recent bankruptcy of Toys R Us and consumers increasingly buying toys from online
Online has no showroom, and though it's not quite as important for toys as for (say) clothes or laptop computers, it's still nice to get a feel for a toy's scale before buying it. (That's another reason I don't like blind boxes, apart from the duplicates.)
or from big box department stores that have lower prices than the toy retailers
Toys "R" Us has toys on shelves that Walmart and Target didn't have.
Enjoy paying a separate $4/mo subscription to read one article on each of 20 different websites.
Even at the karma cap (about 25 positive moderations past Excellent), there's still a limit of 50 per 24 hours.
System 7 was just an attempt to catch up to the rest of the computing world, which would let you put multiple applications side by side on a single display.
Process Manager in System 7 was a refactor of MultiFinder, which was in System 6.
The only other really cool MacOS feature wasn't even an OS feature, though it was made possible by MacOS 7's virtual memory support: Ram Doubler, aka compressed swap. This has only recently become a Linux kernel feature.
I guess zram was waiting for the patent to run out.
Given the recent article "LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission", LinkedIn probably has some sort of quota on profile views by the general public, like a metered paywall.
If Anonymous Coward #55287393 is unwilling to pay $120 for Edge, then he or she really doesn't want Edge that badly.
I do use a rather huge hosts file to redirect ad company domain names to localhost
Ad companies appear to have already started to defeat hosts by using pseudorandom subdomains. APK's solution can't block these, but Firefox tracking protection can:
(I do this on my phone as well).
What method do you use for this? VPN or root?
Some website operators and Internet VOD providers insist on both a subscription to see anything and an additional subscription to view documents without ads.
With the 30 cent swipe fee that credit card networks charge, how can a user afford to read one article from each of 20 sites?
Among sites that appear in Google Search results displayed to me, I have perceived the noarchive value as noticeably correlated with conditional access methods, such as paywall or anti-adblock. If there were no desire for conditional access, a rational site operator would allow archiving even if only to shift the hosting burden for old documents to archive operators. For an example of such shifting, see here:
Your experience appears to differ from mine. Which sites using noarchive that lack conditional access do you commonly see in results from Google Search?
I guess the algorithm used to be that if the document presented to Googlebot is much longer than the document presented to a Chrome user who opts into telemetry, cloaking is happening. Now it's still an algorithm: Google Search will ignore CSS classes marked as paywalled through JSON-LD when making that determination.
I don't object to reasonable advertising. I will not tolerate the tracking, though, and until it stop then I am keeping my adblocker in place and not disabling it for anybody. If that means I'm locked out of some sites, then so be it.
That's why I use the tracking protection built into Firefox. It's enabled by default in Private Browsing windows and can be enabled through about:config for use outside Private Browsing. It and the similar Disconnect extension should cover ad networks and ad exchanges that track users across sites. This gives the user plausible deniability against accusations of freeloading, as it a publisher (operator of a website that carries ads) can still serve self-hosted ads to tracking blocker users.
I will only be truly disappointed if Google does not clearly flag them in search results
Paywalled documents use <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">. Google Search flags results with noarchive on desktop (look for lack of "Cached") but not on mobile.
PBS and NPR exist. They're not government agencies, though they are funded by a mix of contributions from government programs and viewers like you (thank you).
I have good news and bad news.
But they do need to come of with some way to notate pay walled articles
Good news: Google Search on desktop browsers fairly reliably notates paywalled articles through the lack of "Cached" in the down arrow menu.
Bad news: The down arrow menu doesn't appear in mobile browsers.
and while they're at it flag the sites that pester you to turn off your ad block to view an article.
Bad news: Now that Google has established its pay-per-article system known as Contributor, Google has actually joined the anti-adblock brigade. It even recommends that users of Firefox Private Browsing click a button labeled "Disable protection" to allow access to a site. (This is because most anti-adblock can't tell the difference between tracking blockers, which block only ad networks and exchanges that track users across sites, and actual ad blockers, which additionally block self-hosted ads.) Now that TV Tropes is using anti-adblock, I'm even more glad that I switched to All The Tropes years ago.
Have you tried using Edge in Windows 10 in VirtualBox in GNU/Linux or macOS?
One buying a compact laptop couldn't avoid buying a crippled laptop. Even in 2017, Dell continues to sell laptops with 2 GB RAM.
64 bit stuff was out over a decade ago.
A Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop sold in the first quarter of 2010, less than a decade ago, shipped with a 64-bit-capable Atom N450 processor. But it had 1 GB of RAM, upgradable to 2 GB. What advantage does 64-bit on a 1 or 2 GB machine have over 32-bit on the same machine? Does the larger register count compensate for data cache pressure from larger pointers and for swap pressure when it has to load the 32-bit libraries to run a Wine app?
Any modern disto won't run worth a shit on old systems.
Xubuntu runs OK on a 1 or 2 GB machine. Or if you consider that not "modern", please define "modern".
Since when is next-generation Skype ported to "linux on ARM, MIPS, ESP, etc"?