Also Mozilla needs to keep supporting Windows XP as it still has 6 percent market share over twice that of Linux.
What's the point of providing security updates for an application on an operating system that itself doesn't get security updates? Someone could compromise Firefox for Windows XP by first compromising Windows XP.
today, there is NO platform that needs to have FireFox. If one has Windows 10, there is Edge, if one has Windows 7, there is IE, if one has Android, there is Chrome, and if one has iOS, there is Safari.
But what on GNU/Linux? And what on Windows 7 or macOS when a web application displays a notice that what you're doing requires a web platform feature that Microsoft never got around to implementing in IE 11 or Apple in Safari (desktop version)?
These days Chrome is coasting on a bit of momentum and heavily pushing itself by bundling itself with adobe
Adobe what? Flash Player? Adobe and Google have jointly announced plans to remove Flash Player at the end of 2020, leaving digital restrictions management for streaming video as the only significant non-free component of Google Chrome.
Content providers would become members of these content payment services and you could buy subscriptions to tens, hundreds or thousands of pages to read from participating content providers.
Sort of like Adult Check, I guess. So what makes you think such services will survive lawsuits alleging vicarious copyright infringement, the way the publisher of Perfect 10 magazine successfully sued Adult Check out of existence in the early 2000s?
We're not even 2% in to the capability of 4G/LTE - why is thought even given to 5G?
I assume carriers are looking at LTE Advanced and the like because it can support a greater total speed per tower than LTE. With the same number of active users per tower, a greater total speed also means a higher speed per active user without having to acquire land for more towers.
It's tricky. If you allow just any UI gesture to activate a video, then the moment the perform the UI gesture on a scroll bar, a high-definition video advertisement begins to stream from the website, covering the article, playing sound, and consuming the user's monthly data transfer quota. How can a web browser tell "I want to play this" from "I just wanted to scroll"?
In theory, Microsoft could have had the Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro flip a bit in the UEFI configuration allowing the user to configure . But it appears Microsoft
You keep imagining reasons why you can't disable secure boot on Surface devices yet can point to nothing supporting that claim.
The Surface devices running Windows RT (Surface RT and Surface 2) had Restricted Boot. From "Windows RT" on Wikipedia:
In contrast to Windows 8 (where the feature had to be enabled by default on OEM devices, but remain user-configurable), Microsoft requires all Windows RT devices to have UEFI Secure Boot permanently enabled, preventing the ability to run alternative operating systems on them.
If the site detects that a phone, or a small form factor device is requesting it, send m.foobar.com to that, which will have a totally different appearance based on that needs.
"m." sites have two practical problems. One is that they often lag behind in functionality and updates. The other is that public forums often look down on sharing links to "m." sites.
I thought that with ATSC virtual channel numbers, stations could just move to an available frequency in the UHF band and keep their channel number branding.
I only use the Tivo OTA Roamio to DVR my over the air stations
A lot of people don't have $750 in a single month to pay for a $200 TiVo DVR and a $550 All-In Plan. The All-In Plan alone could pay for several years of the difference between home Internet-only service and home Internet with bundled TV.
Closer to ubiquitous, yes, but not quite. Wi-Fi isn't available on city buses in my home town, for instance, and I imagine that many aren't willing to pay for subscriptions to a both high-volume wired broadband ISP for use at home and a cellular ISP for use on the bus. Some choose to give up cellular Internet and are offline while riding the bus; others choose to give up home Internet and constantly worry about hitting their cap.
Pro, Book, and Studio come with normal Windows 10. Laptop comes with Windows 10 S. I'm surprised that Microsoft allows turning off Secure Boot on the Surface Laptop without first unlocking Windows 10 Pro on that device.
I would probably not pay it for a page that is only once the top result for something I just wanted to know out of curiosity and don't really need the info
But once pay sites to which you do not already subscribe begin to dominate search results, you'll end up disappointed more often when searching "out of curiosity". This means you will search less often "out of curiosity", causing search engines to receive less money from advertisers for impressions and clicks on ads in search results. Therefore, it's in Google's best interest to tread carefully with this change lest it encourage even more publishers to put everything past the keyword-rich abstract of an article behind a paywall.
The difference breaking this analogy is that people generally don't illegally download an artist's entire discography just for one song. Under presently used payment methods, a user would have to buy a subscription to a whole website to view one article. Pay-per-page is impractical because of credit card processors' fee per transaction in addition to their 3% cut.
Some of my co-workers don't have a computer at home. To use a non-company computer, they'd have to go to a public library during regular library hours, which often means not at all on weekends.
Facebook is useless without an internet connection anyway
Whatever happened to the use case of downloading updates while connected to the Internet, reading and composing replies while offline, and submitting the replies the next time you connect? That's how AOL used to work in the dial-up era.
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For those uncommon features, how often do they prop up that they require you to download yet another browser?
I lack a quantitative answer to that question, but the article "Apple's Refusal To Support Progressive Web Apps is a Detriment To Future of the Web" has a qualitative one.
Also Mozilla needs to keep supporting Windows XP as it still has 6 percent market share over twice that of Linux.
What's the point of providing security updates for an application on an operating system that itself doesn't get security updates? Someone could compromise Firefox for Windows XP by first compromising Windows XP.
today, there is NO platform that needs to have FireFox. If one has Windows 10, there is Edge, if one has Windows 7, there is IE, if one has Android, there is Chrome, and if one has iOS, there is Safari.
But what on GNU/Linux? And what on Windows 7 or macOS when a web application displays a notice that what you're doing requires a web platform feature that Microsoft never got around to implementing in IE 11 or Apple in Safari (desktop version)?
These days Chrome is coasting on a bit of momentum and heavily pushing itself by bundling itself with adobe
Adobe what? Flash Player? Adobe and Google have jointly announced plans to remove Flash Player at the end of 2020, leaving digital restrictions management for streaming video as the only significant non-free component of Google Chrome.
Content providers would become members of these content payment services and you could buy subscriptions to tens, hundreds or thousands of pages to read from participating content providers.
Sort of like Adult Check, I guess. So what makes you think such services will survive lawsuits alleging vicarious copyright infringement, the way the publisher of Perfect 10 magazine successfully sued Adult Check out of existence in the early 2000s?
What cost does TiVo incur by adding cable support compared to not doing so that justifies the huge price difference?
4G/LTE can support 1Gbps.
Per tower, right?
We're not even 2% in to the capability of 4G/LTE - why is thought even given to 5G?
I assume carriers are looking at LTE Advanced and the like because it can support a greater total speed per tower than LTE. With the same number of active users per tower, a greater total speed also means a higher speed per active user without having to acquire land for more towers.
It's tricky. If you allow just any UI gesture to activate a video, then the moment the perform the UI gesture on a scroll bar, a high-definition video advertisement begins to stream from the website, covering the article, playing sound, and consuming the user's monthly data transfer quota. How can a web browser tell "I want to play this" from "I just wanted to scroll"?
I'm talking about these tables. Why is it that the All-In Plan is so much more expensive for every model other than the Roamio OTA 1 TB?
I'm told Sweden. "I've never heard of anyone here being blocked for running game servers or private storage servers on their home network."
Secure boot applies before the OS is booted
In theory, Microsoft could have had the Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro flip a bit in the UEFI configuration allowing the user to configure . But it appears Microsoft
You keep imagining reasons why you can't disable secure boot on Surface devices yet can point to nothing supporting that claim.
The Surface devices running Windows RT (Surface RT and Surface 2) had Restricted Boot. From "Windows RT" on Wikipedia:
The required software to be able to run TOECDN is a authority dns server and a http cache server.
With web browsers deprecating cleartext HTTP in favor of HTTPS, how long will this remain relevant?
And ARM ASM ten years ago is the exact same as it is now, with extra features added.
AArch64 assembly language isn't the same as 32-bit ARM assembly language, and even within 32-bit, ARMv7 adds several instructions not in ARMv6.
If the site detects that a phone, or a small form factor device is requesting it, send m.foobar.com to that, which will have a totally different appearance based on that needs.
"m." sites have two practical problems. One is that they often lag behind in functionality and updates. The other is that public forums often look down on sharing links to "m." sites.
I thought that with ATSC virtual channel numbers, stations could just move to an available frequency in the UHF band and keep their channel number branding.
I only use the Tivo OTA Roamio to DVR my over the air stations
A lot of people don't have $750 in a single month to pay for a $200 TiVo DVR and a $550 All-In Plan. The All-In Plan alone could pay for several years of the difference between home Internet-only service and home Internet with bundled TV.
Could you name and shame the ISP that refused business service to you when you told the ISP you want a business connection because you work from home?
internet has become more ubiquitous.
Closer to ubiquitous, yes, but not quite. Wi-Fi isn't available on city buses in my home town, for instance, and I imagine that many aren't willing to pay for subscriptions to a both high-volume wired broadband ISP for use at home and a cellular ISP for use on the bus. Some choose to give up cellular Internet and are offline while riding the bus; others choose to give up home Internet and constantly worry about hitting their cap.
Pro, Book, and Studio come with normal Windows 10. Laptop comes with Windows 10 S. I'm surprised that Microsoft allows turning off Secure Boot on the Surface Laptop without first unlocking Windows 10 Pro on that device.
I would probably not pay it for a page that is only once the top result for something I just wanted to know out of curiosity and don't really need the info
But once pay sites to which you do not already subscribe begin to dominate search results, you'll end up disappointed more often when searching "out of curiosity". This means you will search less often "out of curiosity", causing search engines to receive less money from advertisers for impressions and clicks on ads in search results. Therefore, it's in Google's best interest to tread carefully with this change lest it encourage even more publishers to put everything past the keyword-rich abstract of an article behind a paywall.
The difference breaking this analogy is that people generally don't illegally download an artist's entire discography just for one song. Under presently used payment methods, a user would have to buy a subscription to a whole website to view one article. Pay-per-page is impractical because of credit card processors' fee per transaction in addition to their 3% cut.
How many people actually carry both an iPhone to run apps exclusive to iOS and an Android phone to run apps exclusive to Android?
Some of my co-workers don't have a computer at home. To use a non-company computer, they'd have to go to a public library during regular library hours, which often means not at all on weekends.
Facebook is useless without an internet connection anyway
Whatever happened to the use case of downloading updates while connected to the Internet, reading and composing replies while offline, and submitting the replies the next time you connect? That's how AOL used to work in the dial-up era.
LordWabbit2 may have used a misnomer, but the intended meaning is as follows:
Unlike the system libraries for Xamarin, the system libraries for a Java dialect are included with the Android operating system.