By the end of 2017, and with the release of Firefox 57, we’ll move to WebExtensions exclusively, and will stop loading any other extension types on desktop.
If you don't like a company's products then don't buy them. You can make your own
Until the company that makes them sues you for copyright or patent infringement. Or unless the government requires use of the company's products, such as business tax preparation and filing software in a country that has phased out paper forms. Or unless it's a natural monopoly, such as electric power, water, or heating gas. Or unless all grocery stores near you play the company's product over the speaker system when not making an announcement and put a fraction of your grocery bill toward royalties. Or unless essentially all employers in your (field, area) require you to use a particular product as a condition of becoming or remaining employed. (See Facebook abstainers being called "suspicious" in background checks.)
My point is that for some products (though I concede not this Sonos product), only the Amish have a reasonable chance of avoiding buying them.
Let me rephrase it more rigorously: A 5-inch 1280x720 pixel display has sqrt(1280^2+720^2)/5 = 294 pixels per inch. When reading printed text, a user holds the phone about 15.7 inches away.[1] This is 15.7 * 294 = 4615 pixels per radian, which exceeds the commonly accepted 60 pixels per degree[2] or 3400 pixels per radian resolution of the center 5 percent of the retina.
Are you suggesting the phone companies are in collusion with each other?
The U.S. carriers do collude in some cases. In 2008, all major U.S. carriers raised the price of each sent text message and the price of each received text message from 10 cents to 20 cents within a few months of each other. (Source)
Say a carrier offers two plans. The normal plan guarantees no interference. The cheaper plan includes an optimizing proxy, which requires the subscriber to install a root certificate or VPN application on each device that connects. Then you have it both ways: the carrier does not "interfere with [non-interference subscribers'] data in any way," and those who don't care about interference enjoy a discount.
Can you tell the difference between 480p and 720p on your tiny 4.5" or 5.0" screen smartphone? I doubt it.
When it's docked to an external display through HDMI out or Chromecast, I can tell the difference, especially for text-heavy videos such as screencasts from a desktop or laptop PC. Each&Everything's tech support scam investigations, for instance, are just barely readable at 480p and more comfortable at 720p.
CSPAN and CNN have live streams, too, if you don't want to watch network programming but just network news.
Last I checked, when the House and Senate aren't in session, C-SPAN's live stream was "TV Everywhere". "TV Everywhere" streams are available only to viewers who present valid credentials issued by a participating multichannel subscription television provider.
If you've already got internet at moderate speeds (12kbps is good enough) then this is a no brainer.
12 kbps like a V.32bis dial-up modem from two decades ago? With HTML and JavaScript having become far heavier since then, I'm not sure even Netflix's DVD mailing service can usefully be used under that condition.
it's not hard at all to wait a year to save $900 to $1000.
Unless office politics where you work are such that those who can join discussions about sports and recent episodes of scripted TV series get raises or promotions sooner.
To help build outrage in the general public as a means of encouraging them to make their own movies instead of relying on those produced by the cartel.
Windows doesn't require its users to use a centralized repository the way that iOS does.
Windows 8 did not. Windows RT did. Windows 10 does not. Windows 10 S does.
It would not make any sense at all for Microsoft to be "screening" the software on the Windows store. Users don't care about it, and on a platform with such low standards, nobody is asking for it. There simply isn't any incentive at all.
The incentive for "screening" is to avoid liability for contributory and/or vicarious infringement on the part of developers who publish their apps to the Store.
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"No means no." The would-be rapist sheathes his sword.
I don't have a citation for Pale Moon tracking. But I do have a citation for another claim in comment #55069105:
Firefox, faced with a shrinking user base after the extension extinction event that is Firefox 57
Citation please?
"[T]he extension extinction event" is described in "Add-ons in 2017" by Kev Needham, published on November 23, 2016:
The implication that it will lead to "a shrinking user base" is in a comment by Mozai to "Add-ons in 2017":
If you don't like a company's products then don't buy them. You can make your own
Until the company that makes them sues you for copyright or patent infringement.
Or unless the government requires use of the company's products, such as business tax preparation and filing software in a country that has phased out paper forms.
Or unless it's a natural monopoly, such as electric power, water, or heating gas.
Or unless all grocery stores near you play the company's product over the speaker system when not making an announcement and put a fraction of your grocery bill toward royalties.
Or unless essentially all employers in your (field, area) require you to use a particular product as a condition of becoming or remaining employed. (See Facebook abstainers being called "suspicious" in background checks.)
My point is that for some products (though I concede not this Sonos product), only the Amish have a reasonable chance of avoiding buying them.
How long have DD and DTS been around? DVD came out about 20 years ago and had DD 5.1.
And Donald is wearing a natural covering of feathers that adequately cover his inside-out pOnOs.
Let me rephrase it more rigorously: A 5-inch 1280x720 pixel display has sqrt(1280^2+720^2)/5 = 294 pixels per inch. When reading printed text, a user holds the phone about 15.7 inches away.[1] This is 15.7 * 294 = 4615 pixels per radian, which exceeds the commonly accepted 60 pixels per degree[2] or 3400 pixels per radian resolution of the center 5 percent of the retina.
[1] "How Close Do You Hold Your Smart Phone?"
[2] Understanding Pixel Density and Eye-Limiting Resolution
Are you suggesting the phone companies are in collusion with each other?
The U.S. carriers do collude in some cases. In 2008, all major U.S. carriers raised the price of each sent text message and the price of each received text message from 10 cents to 20 cents within a few months of each other. (Source)
Say a carrier offers two plans. The normal plan guarantees no interference. The cheaper plan includes an optimizing proxy, which requires the subscriber to install a root certificate or VPN application on each device that connects. Then you have it both ways: the carrier does not "interfere with [non-interference subscribers'] data in any way," and those who don't care about interference enjoy a discount.
There's a tethering "bucket?" Why would someone even want Verizon?
Because the other cellular ISPs also have tethering quotas.
Can you tell the difference between 480p and 720p on your tiny 4.5" or 5.0" screen smartphone? I doubt it.
When it's docked to an external display through HDMI out or Chromecast, I can tell the difference, especially for text-heavy videos such as screencasts from a desktop or laptop PC. Each&Everything's tech support scam investigations, for instance, are just barely readable at 480p and more comfortable at 720p.
How many of those pixels is the eye actually seeing, and how many are optically blended together before they hit the retina?
If all lessees of suitable FCC-owned spectrum do this, it's not a free market.
We don't have Coke. Will Pepsi be OK?
You can't snort Pepsi.
But outside the USA, generic brands have to use the term "acetylsalicylic acid" because Bayer owns the name ASPIRIN®.
Orange Sherbet would look too much like 2.2 "FroYo". That's why 4.0 "Ice Cream" was changed to "Ice Cream Sandwich" before release.
Also some places have alternate Internet means like Fios, DSL or can Tether via Smart Phone.
How many shows can you watch on tethering's 10 GB/mo cap?
You can't seriously be suggesting that they let customers decide when they want to watch something? The horror! it would be anarchy!
You can't watch a sporting event or entertainment awards show before it happens, and after it happens, it's stale.
HBO GO requires a cable or satellite TV subscription, and HBO Now requires U.S. residency.
CSPAN and CNN have live streams, too, if you don't want to watch network programming but just network news.
Last I checked, when the House and Senate aren't in session, C-SPAN's live stream was "TV Everywhere". "TV Everywhere" streams are available only to viewers who present valid credentials issued by a participating multichannel subscription television provider.
If all the live TV you really want is a couple of news channels, get a dish.
But then Internet over a dish kind of sucks. You end up with horrible latency and a 10 or 20 GB/mo cap.
If you've already got internet at moderate speeds (12kbps is good enough) then this is a no brainer.
12 kbps like a V.32bis dial-up modem from two decades ago? With HTML and JavaScript having become far heavier since then, I'm not sure even Netflix's DVD mailing service can usefully be used under that condition.
it's not hard at all to wait a year to save $900 to $1000.
Unless office politics where you work are such that those who can join discussions about sports and recent episodes of scripted TV series get raises or promotions sooner.
If Alvin and John doesn't need pants, why does Donald?
I thought CenturyLink had deployed fiber throughout Seattle a couple years ago. What became of that?
Why help the copyright cartel.
To help build outrage in the general public as a means of encouraging them to make their own movies instead of relying on those produced by the cartel.
Windows doesn't require its users to use a centralized repository the way that iOS does.
Windows 8 did not. Windows RT did. Windows 10 does not. Windows 10 S does.
It would not make any sense at all for Microsoft to be "screening" the software on the Windows store. Users don't care about it, and on a platform with such low standards, nobody is asking for it. There simply isn't any incentive at all.
The incentive for "screening" is to avoid liability for contributory and/or vicarious infringement on the part of developers who publish their apps to the Store.