"I mean, give us a reason to use FF. For me, even though it was slower and buggier, the many unique and really useful extensions were enough value for me to use Firefox as my main browser."
The reason why you should use firefox is in TFA. If there ever was a reason to use firefox (again), it is now! The earlier populairity of firefox was caused by the dominance of IE and the abuse it caused on the web. The same problem we are about to have now. So again it is important that firefox gets more usage, only because it is the one free (no hidden agenda) browser still available.
MS is still playing the same tricks as it ever did before. A lot of MS web based applications only work properly when using IE or Edge; you get bogged up pages or slow response when using other browsers, some things don't even work. Think sharepoint, but also o365.
No, there were other computers that were able to do the things the Amiga did when it came out. But there was no HOME computer that could do what the Amiga did, and all in all, it was expensive, but not out of reach.
Commodore should be studied in bussiness schools, they still hold the record to this day of the best sold computer ever (c64) and they had a product like the Amiga afterward (which was very popular in EU, not so much elsewhere) that was so powerful and capable compared to anything else. And still they manage to go broke. My young mind couldn't understand it at the time, today, i'm just disgusted to read and learn all the things that went on behind the scenes leading to its demise.
what the hell is this summary all about. Elop was an ex-MS guy who simply destroyed Nokia (so MS could buy it). Nokia could have been big in the smartphone market, as they were one of the biggest mobile brands and they were not late to the smartphone party yet. Just the fact that Jolla is still alive today, is evidence enough it was a good platform, just image what they could have accomplished if Nokia really pulled through on it.
This is just another story where management destroyed the company, very much like the Amiga (see the other recent article on/.)
I'm not aware on the whole jailbreaking thing works on iphone, but from the summary it appears you even have to pay for it? weird bunch doesn't even begin to describe the iphone users.
forget about doom, all my amiga friends were already converted to pc by the time doom came out. you had stuff like wing commander, which ran like a dog and looked terrible on amiga, but on pc it was awesome (if you had at least a 386 with vga). there were others too, like ultima underworld, alone in the dark, not to mention that you almost had a (small) hard disk on pc, which made certain games better to play, lucasarts and sierra online adventure in particular. also don't forget Doom's daddy - wolfenstein!
all these came before doom and were slowly but steadily moving people away from amiga to pc.
there was nothing wrong with the 500, it fit the market it servered perfectly. besides some extra ram and an extra floppy drive almost nobody needed to expand their 500 for what they were doing with it. the price difference between the 500 and the 2000 was huge, the amiga wouldn't have been as popular as it had been if it wasn't for the 500.
people just don't care. we are the minority of people who care about all these privacy violations.
i hardly have any apps on my phone, just because i can't trust 99.99999% of them, but the rest of the world is happy to install whatever stupid app they find in the store (or even outside the store, found on shady websites). complain about privacy? never! but they do complain about battery life (go figure), well guess why your battery life suck.
it's true that my tv watching is divided between youtube and netflix, but they are complementary and not competition, both serve different things to watch. and why would netflix care if i watch youtube anyway, i paid them already, no amount of youtube watching is going to change that.
so you have a tech company (samsung) that is basically ripping of the looks of another tech company (apple) joining forces with a fashion brand that rips of another fashion brand.
i think google is already doing similar things. i get notifications about things (like traffic mostly) where i might be going. yes, most of the time it because they are in my calendar, but not always, it appears to be 'learning' my daily/weekly routines.
sms works just fine, and is almost always unlimited & free. otherwise, let google fail and perhaps a cool alternative can pick up where they leave a hole. maybe even an open protocol or app could rise to the occasion, that would be awesome.
how much there is still to be discovered on our little planet earth. and this was an area that was actively studies and monitored and they still managed to miss it. makes you wonder what other things we haven't found yet.
"Well maybe to some people that would be the point of an EV conversion? What good is a car that just sits in a garage most of the time? Might as well be in a museum then. Converting it to EV might allow you to actually drive it regularly."
it's an investment, like i said, they are not supposed to be driven, but rather just looked at, like a piece of art. and just like art, not all art should be in a museum, nothing wrong with enjoying it privatly in your home collection. these cars are also not very much fun to drive, even with a conversion to EV they will still basically suck. and let's not talk about the fact that they are insecure, borderline dangerous to drive.
i'm sure there is a market for classic looking cars with modern interiours, just look at what singer is doing with old porsche's and i think jaguar rereleased their e-type, but with EV drivetrain and modern suspension, brakes, crash/safety features.
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"I mean, give us a reason to use FF. For me, even though it was slower and buggier, the many unique and really useful extensions were enough value for me to use Firefox as my main browser."
The reason why you should use firefox is in TFA.
If there ever was a reason to use firefox (again), it is now! The earlier populairity of firefox was caused by the dominance of IE and the abuse it caused on the web. The same problem we are about to have now. So again it is important that firefox gets more usage, only because it is the one free (no hidden agenda) browser still available.
That is not the point of using Linux at all, but running it (well, userland anyway) on windows certainly defies the point of using Linux.
MS is still playing the same tricks as it ever did before.
A lot of MS web based applications only work properly when using IE or Edge; you get bogged up pages or slow response when using other browsers, some things don't even work.
Think sharepoint, but also o365.
TIL!
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No, there were other computers that were able to do the things the Amiga did when it came out.
But there was no HOME computer that could do what the Amiga did, and all in all, it was expensive, but not out of reach.
Commodore should be studied in bussiness schools, they still hold the record to this day of the best sold computer ever (c64) and they had a product like the Amiga afterward (which was very popular in EU, not so much elsewhere) that was so powerful and capable compared to anything else. And still they manage to go broke. My young mind couldn't understand it at the time, today, i'm just disgusted to read and learn all the things that went on behind the scenes leading to its demise.
python is the new basic, basic was invented by microsoft.
in the spirit of basic, it only makes sense to embrace it.
why not, but NOT if it includes all the build-in spyware these things come with today.
what the hell is this summary all about.
Elop was an ex-MS guy who simply destroyed Nokia (so MS could buy it). Nokia could have been big in the smartphone market, as they were one of the biggest mobile brands and they were not late to the smartphone party yet.
Just the fact that Jolla is still alive today, is evidence enough it was a good platform, just image what they could have accomplished if Nokia really pulled through on it.
This is just another story where management destroyed the company, very much like the Amiga (see the other recent article on /.)
did you, for yourself, enjoy the rewind video or not?
yes, good for you. if not, well, too bad.
who cares about how many downvotes a video gets?
indeed, it's perhaps even a good strategy.
have phones with and without headphone jacks, people can decide for themselves if they want it or not.
I'm not aware on the whole jailbreaking thing works on iphone, but from the summary it appears you even have to pay for it?
weird bunch doesn't even begin to describe the iphone users.
it may be that that is what they want; the NT kernel with a GNU userland.
forget about doom, all my amiga friends were already converted to pc by the time doom came out.
you had stuff like wing commander, which ran like a dog and looked terrible on amiga, but on pc it was awesome (if you had at least a 386 with vga).
there were others too, like ultima underworld, alone in the dark, not to mention that you almost had a (small) hard disk on pc, which made certain games better to play, lucasarts and sierra online adventure in particular. also don't forget Doom's daddy - wolfenstein!
all these came before doom and were slowly but steadily moving people away from amiga to pc.
there was nothing wrong with the 500, it fit the market it servered perfectly.
besides some extra ram and an extra floppy drive almost nobody needed to expand their 500 for what they were doing with it.
the price difference between the 500 and the 2000 was huge, the amiga wouldn't have been as popular as it had been if it wasn't for the 500.
that's 1.4kg for the rest of us.
at least he's honest about it, sure we knew all along but that doesn't mean they will admit to it.
what's also dumb is no backups and a weak security configuration.
people just don't care.
we are the minority of people who care about all these privacy violations.
i hardly have any apps on my phone, just because i can't trust 99.99999% of them, but the rest of the world is happy to install whatever stupid app they find in the store (or even outside the store, found on shady websites).
complain about privacy? never!
but they do complain about battery life (go figure), well guess why your battery life suck.
it's true that my tv watching is divided between youtube and netflix, but they are complementary and not competition, both serve different things to watch.
and why would netflix care if i watch youtube anyway, i paid them already, no amount of youtube watching is going to change that.
Also don't forget about tools like AIDE.
so you have a tech company (samsung) that is basically ripping of the looks of another tech company (apple)
joining forces with a fashion brand that rips of another fashion brand.
looks like a perfect fit to me!
i think google is already doing similar things.
i get notifications about things (like traffic mostly) where i might be going.
yes, most of the time it because they are in my calendar, but not always, it appears to be 'learning' my daily/weekly routines.
sms works just fine, and is almost always unlimited & free.
otherwise, let google fail and perhaps a cool alternative can pick up where they leave a hole.
maybe even an open protocol or app could rise to the occasion, that would be awesome.
how much there is still to be discovered on our little planet earth.
and this was an area that was actively studies and monitored and they still managed to miss it.
makes you wonder what other things we haven't found yet.
"Well maybe to some people that would be the point of an EV conversion? What good is a car that just sits in a garage most of the time? Might as well be in a museum then. Converting it to EV might allow you to actually drive it regularly."
it's an investment, like i said, they are not supposed to be driven, but rather just looked at, like a piece of art.
and just like art, not all art should be in a museum, nothing wrong with enjoying it privatly in your home collection.
these cars are also not very much fun to drive, even with a conversion to EV they will still basically suck.
and let's not talk about the fact that they are insecure, borderline dangerous to drive.
i'm sure there is a market for classic looking cars with modern interiours, just look at what singer is doing with old porsche's and i think jaguar rereleased their e-type, but with EV drivetrain and modern suspension, brakes, crash/safety features.