Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.
I'd be surprised if Microsoft cared enough to spy on you. But, by signing in with an online account your settings sync between different computers/reinstalls. Tech people like talking about "the first thing I do when I reinstall my machine is...", and a lot of that now goes away if you log in with an existing account, and all of your settings are laid down for you.
The first thing a lot of people do when they reinstall their machine is install their favorite third-party apps. That's not something Microsoft's PC settings sync is going to do. Do people generally want the exact same settings between their desktop and other devices -- likely not. You don't want your home PC's wallpaper on your work computer. You don't want large typeface and other touch-screen friendly features you use on your tablet on your desktop's monitor. Except synchronizing bookmarks and email programs (and that's only for the dolts using IE and Windows 8 Mail), what are people really going to carry over?
But, with a Microsoft controlled PC login, LEO's getting into your computer with little fuss is just a phone-call away.
except that the justice system is a sham and they're the unlucky victim today.
They're adults. If anything, they realize how incredibly expensive it is to defend themselves in court and be found completely innocent. It's actually better to work out a plea bargin, thereby confessing to a another crime they didn't commit, and get the D.A. off their case from a financial standpoint.
Now imagine appliances, such as your refrigerator and hot water heater, getting radio messages from the power grid telling them when they should turn on and off to get the best electricity prices.
No, I think I'd rather maintain control over my own appliances and climate control. Even people in crappy motels get to choose when their own heating and cooling runs in their room.
"Google says that AdSense content is “reviewed by real people and clever machines” before appearing on websites. But the system doesn’t appear to be foolproof."
Maybe their reviewers are in need to something to give them a mental boost so they can be more diligent. Or, possibly time to bring in some young blood on staff.
he's referring to the SSC. it was kind of a big deal.
I apologize, asshole.
Some of us aren't as obsessed with basement structures as you, and I don't make a point of remembering every failed government project. Especially ones that are a almost a decade gone.
As for the rest of what you say, sure, if you're happy with Mozilla giving up entirely on trying to steer the web, and just letting Google, Apple and Microsoft dictate the way the web evolves, then you won't see a need for Mozilla to make money and compete.
Mozilla had already given up trying to "steer the web" the moment they stopped trying to do things their own way and started copying Chrome. At that point they are simply helping Google control things better than Microsoft or Apple.
Frankly speaking, you're asking the wrong questions. The real one is: why does Mozilla need to exist? Shouldn't there already be an OSS community creating and maintaining a web browser, and keeping Google, Apple and Microsoft on their toes? Until that happens, I'd say we need Mozilla to do the job for us. And that's assuming it's feasible to begin with.
And all of this still ignores that everyone is getting upset about a few features that Mozilla are using to try to make some money.
Mozilla's attempts to "make some money" are increasingly making the product a more commercial affair and less user-focused one. Treating the users like a product to deliver to advertisers is exactly the reason many people don't use Chrome, even if at this point it is the faster browser. If Firefox is going to turn into a Chrome-imitator in interface and features, I might as well just use Chrome and get a faster browsing experience.
"Hey, assholes! Stop trying to make some money! You should just be happy that a few people donate to you at all, rather than trying to pay your employees, compete with the three biggest tech firms on earth, and do all those other initiatives that should obviously cost nothing!
Why is it necessary for Mozilla to have paid employees, let alone an actual corporate structure? Why does Mozilla need to "compete" with Google. Mozilla is a non-profit. What's the endgame here? Why can't they just write their software for people who want it and let people use Chrome who want to use Chrome.
There's lots of open-source software projects out there that continue to run based solely on the contributions of their developers. Given the choice between "Commercial Mozilla" trying to compete with Chrome, and a slower changing, community run affair, I'll take the latter.
Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.
No, but you tend to have more complex tax status... and to the GP's point, you really should be using a CPA.
When I was a newspaper carrier (age 12-18) I was classified as an independent contractor by the newspaper. So I wasn't their carrier -- I was self employed. And I had to do my takes on long-form 1040.
The idea is that energy-efficient sensors can be powered by energy harvesting, i.e. drawing energy from their surroundings, including such low-level sources as light, temperature changes, and pressure, which can be the pressure of your finger on a switch or even changes in barometric pressure.
I live in my parents' cold, dark basement you insensitive clods!
Except the point of ChillingEffects notices on search pages was to make the average person aware of these results being omitted. People who don't think this stuff really has any effect on them. The average person isn't going to know about, or bother installing, a Firefox extension to see.
It was a minor annoyance; I certainly understand it even though it annoyed the piss out of me for about two weeks. Probably wouldn't have cared but for my Rube Goldberg setup of different profiles for different sites that I only launch every few days, so I kept running into it again and again.:)
Time to take more control over things. I've set up all my different website searches as Quick Search bookmarks in Firefox, and got rid of the search bar. So Mozilla changing their default provider didn't effect me one iota. Same as I don't pay attention to how much of a mess Yahoo/Google/Microsoft make of their webmail interfaces because I access all three from Thunderbird as IMAP accounts.
I don't begrudge them for the search deal, it was bound to happen with Google pushing Chrome so heavily, but leave the existing people alone, mmm'kay?
While I don't condone changes without the user's permission (my install of Pale Moon recently replaced my Adblock Plus with Adblock Lattitude, which appears to be a fork, without my permission), making people change was probably something Mozilla would have had to do for the referral deal to begin with. Only having the search provider change apply to new installs wouldn't have made a big difference to Yahoo -- because Firefox is in decline and there aren't a lot of new users coming to it.
Right down to his final week at Red Hat before Dave gave all his hardware back, Linus Torvalds managed to reproduce similar symptoms, by scribbling directly to the HPET timer.
Was Linus at Dave's place working on the issue? Is the first part a sentence fragment and Dave did something before he gave his hardware back we aren't being told? Or is the first part really a continuation of the first sentence, and Dave was working on his writeup all the way until the deadline for returning his hardware?
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Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.
I'd be surprised if Microsoft cared enough to spy on you. But, by signing in with an online account your settings sync between different computers/reinstalls. Tech people like talking about "the first thing I do when I reinstall my machine is ...", and a lot of that now goes away if you log in with an existing account, and all of your settings are laid down for you.
The first thing a lot of people do when they reinstall their machine is install their favorite third-party apps. That's not something Microsoft's PC settings sync is going to do. Do people generally want the exact same settings between their desktop and other devices -- likely not. You don't want your home PC's wallpaper on your work computer. You don't want large typeface and other touch-screen friendly features you use on your tablet on your desktop's monitor.
Except synchronizing bookmarks and email programs (and that's only for the dolts using IE and Windows 8 Mail), what are people really going to carry over?
But, with a Microsoft controlled PC login, LEO's getting into your computer with little fuss is just a phone-call away.
Thanks for the Amazon ad!
How is it an ad if they aren't selling anything yet?
Are they not selling Amazon Prime service, with a one-year commitment requirement -- while this article talks about a feature coming sometime in 2015?
And coincidentally, Windows 8's Mail program does not work with POP anymore.
except that the justice system is a sham and they're the unlucky victim today.
They're adults. If anything, they realize how incredibly expensive it is to defend themselves in court and be found completely innocent.
It's actually better to work out a plea bargin, thereby confessing to a another crime they didn't commit, and get the D.A. off their case from a financial standpoint.
Silly consumer.
You thought this was about saving you money?
...I see what you did there!
Are you sure you didn't have to show someone this story on your cell phone and have them explain it?
...while China produces 1 new coal plant every day.
[citation needed]
Now imagine appliances, such as your refrigerator and hot water heater, getting radio messages from the power grid telling them when they should turn on and off to get the best electricity prices.
No, I think I'd rather maintain control over my own appliances and climate control. Even people in crappy motels get to choose when their own heating and cooling runs in their room.
"Google says that AdSense content is “reviewed by real people and clever machines” before appearing on websites. But the system doesn’t appear to be foolproof."
Maybe their reviewers are in need to something to give them a mental boost so they can be more diligent. Or, possibly time to bring in some young blood on staff.
In Sony Entertainment, North Korea's in YOU.
Thanks AC.
the "SeaFox Home For Retarded People".
he's referring to the SSC. it was kind of a big deal.
I apologize, asshole.
Some of us aren't as obsessed with basement structures as you, and I don't make a point of remembering every failed government project.
Especially ones that are a almost a decade gone.
What location are you speaking of?
For example, the mainframe system can allow automated fraud prevention while a purchase is being made on a smartphone.
Because that's so much different than preventing fraud on a purchase being made from a desktop PC.
As for the rest of what you say, sure, if you're happy with Mozilla giving up entirely on trying to steer the web, and just letting Google, Apple and Microsoft dictate the way the web evolves, then you won't see a need for Mozilla to make money and compete.
Mozilla had already given up trying to "steer the web" the moment they stopped trying to do things their own way and started copying Chrome. At that point they are simply helping Google control things better than Microsoft or Apple.
Frankly speaking, you're asking the wrong questions. The real one is: why does Mozilla need to exist? Shouldn't there already be an OSS community creating and maintaining a web browser, and keeping Google, Apple and Microsoft on their toes? Until that happens, I'd say we need Mozilla to do the job for us. And that's assuming it's feasible to begin with.
And all of this still ignores that everyone is getting upset about a few features that Mozilla are using to try to make some money.
Mozilla's attempts to "make some money" are increasingly making the product a more commercial affair and less user-focused one. Treating the users like a product to deliver to advertisers is exactly the reason many people don't use Chrome, even if at this point it is the faster browser. If Firefox is going to turn into a Chrome-imitator in interface and features, I might as well just use Chrome and get a faster browsing experience.
"Hey, assholes! Stop trying to make some money! You should just be happy that a few people donate to you at all, rather than trying to pay your employees, compete with the three biggest tech firms on earth, and do all those other initiatives that should obviously cost nothing!
Why is it necessary for Mozilla to have paid employees, let alone an actual corporate structure?
Why does Mozilla need to "compete" with Google. Mozilla is a non-profit. What's the endgame here?
Why can't they just write their software for people who want it and let people use Chrome who want to use Chrome.
There's lots of open-source software projects out there that continue to run based solely on the contributions of their developers.
Given the choice between "Commercial Mozilla" trying to compete with Chrome, and a slower changing, community run affair, I'll take the latter.
Are we now going to say it's incorrect for a city simulator to present the player with problems that currently occur in actual real cities?
Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.
No, but you tend to have more complex tax status... and to the GP's point, you really should be using a CPA.
When I was a newspaper carrier (age 12-18) I was classified as an independent contractor by the newspaper. So I wasn't their carrier -- I was self employed.
And I had to do my takes on long-form 1040.
I live in my parents' cold, dark basement you insensitive clods!
Except the point of ChillingEffects notices on search pages was to make the average person aware of these results being omitted. People who don't think this stuff really has any effect on them. The average person isn't going to know about, or bother installing, a Firefox extension to see.
Pythagorean theorem was discovered in India
Nobody's going to change the name of it now, and there's no copyright royalties to be had on it.
I hear a CD-R and a balloon were used.
It was a minor annoyance; I certainly understand it even though it annoyed the piss out of me for about two weeks. Probably wouldn't have cared but for my Rube Goldberg setup of different profiles for different sites that I only launch every few days, so I kept running into it again and again. :)
Time to take more control over things. I've set up all my different website searches as Quick Search bookmarks in Firefox, and got rid of the search bar. So Mozilla changing their default provider didn't effect me one iota. Same as I don't pay attention to how much of a mess Yahoo/Google/Microsoft make of their webmail interfaces because I access all three from Thunderbird as IMAP accounts.
I don't begrudge them for the search deal, it was bound to happen with Google pushing Chrome so heavily, but leave the existing people alone, mmm'kay?
While I don't condone changes without the user's permission (my install of Pale Moon recently replaced my Adblock Plus with Adblock Lattitude, which appears to be a fork, without my permission), making people change was probably something Mozilla would have had to do for the referral deal to begin with. Only having the search provider change apply to new installs wouldn't have made a big difference to Yahoo -- because Firefox is in decline and there aren't a lot of new users coming to it.
The second sentence isn't much better:
Right down to his final week at Red Hat before Dave gave all his hardware back, Linus Torvalds managed to reproduce similar symptoms, by scribbling directly to the HPET timer.
Was Linus at Dave's place working on the issue? Is the first part a sentence fragment and Dave did something before he gave his hardware back we aren't being told? Or is the first part really a continuation of the first sentence, and Dave was working on his writeup all the way until the deadline for returning his hardware?