... looks like Avast is now doing similar things to ccleaner. Time for a new cleaning app. Avast software products are supposed to add to security, not detract from it.
Yes, I have. I've chalked it up to web developers who are more concerned about a site looking fancy than they are concerned about a site providing a good user experience. It's like the flaming logos all over again, except this time around the pages have moving things, and sliding things, and widgets, oh so many widgets.
. I'm looking for a company's phone number and I have to wade through slow loading times and tons of scrolling in order to get to the phone number. When I finally do get there, the phone number is in some super low contrast grey-on-grey text.
...They didn't have 20th Century Fox's back catalog of movies. It would have been a niche streaming site without the deal with Fox....
I asked about a strategy, not a tactic. If Disney had a streaming strategy, they would not have given away rights in 2016 that they need in 2018. But it appears that they did not have a strategy, or even a plan that looked more than two years down the road. Disney management certainly appeared to be asleep at the wheel and streaming caught them unaware and unprepared.
... Wilcox outlines that Microsoft's guiding principles to its monthly Windows service updates are built around being "simple and predictable", "agile", and "transparent."...
"simple and predictable", "agile", and "transparent." --- I notice that "high quality" is not mentioned in the goals for the patches. It shows in the low-quality patches that Microsoft has been thrusting upon its customers ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H data harvesting sources. It seems that Microsoft no longer cares about quality.
From the CNBC article ( https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/0... )... "The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said. "
... Instead of snark, how about you actually communicate what it is you have a problem with?...
That approach was tried. Mozilla's Firefox devs went and did what they wanted anyway, ignoring what the users had asked for. Any snark heading towards Firefox devs has been earned, many times over, due to the condescending user-arrogant attitude the devs have displayed.
..."You have something that's an outlier here," said James Cox, professor at Duke University School of Law. "It happened to be a very bad quarter that they had -- it doesn't wear well."...
Mr. Zuckerberg had always seemed to be such an upstanding, honorable person.
... there were too many spam-like messages coming in, messages that were not wanted. From the looks of it, the messages originated when someone outside my network uploaded their email address book to linkedin so that linkedin could try to sucker in more people by sending out emails to those in the address books. That just annoyed a lot of people who did not want anything to do with linkedin.
When you cater to the group of people who view devices more as a fashion statement than portable functionality, you can obtain a much higher mark-up in the pricing. Fashion rarely comes inexpensively. As a result, the manufactures are moving toward the higher margin markets, the fashionable device market, while all but ignoring the part of the market that needs additional capability and function.
Simple: wow, I am surprised how low the once great Popular Science has sunk.
Oh, you mean about the USB stuff... well...
...The magazine's take on it -- which is, as soon any ongoing transfer of files is complete, it is safe to yank out the flash drive...
The problem is that you do not know when the transfer is complete. The UI's representation of it shows when the UI is done with the transfer, but that does not necessarily mean that the OS is finished with the transfer. So Popular Science is correct in that you have to wait until the transfer is complete, they are just incorrect about what tell-tale to use to determine that status.
...So, I think there is plenty of growth opportunity here......
Why do you think that much more than 1/3 of the US population should be on Netflix? The number of alternatives for streaming is increasing nearly monthly, and content providers are raising the cost of content to Netflix. Will Netflix's original content be able to carry the load of retaining more than 1/3 the US population?
... Netflix's growth was not sustainable. The last price increase, the availability of content elsewhere and the diminishing breadth of their content have tapped the brakes on growth. The question now becomes, when will Netflix's subscriber sign-up rate go negative, i.e., loss more than they gain each month?
... like property when they sell it to third parties, but did not treat you data like property for inheritance purposes. That just makes Facebook's business model look all the more egregious.
Because they are cheaper. Period. Every other reason is an after-the-fact attempt at rationalizing the open office concept. The open office concept had its root in cubicles. Cubicles were sold to companies because, as the cubicle salesreps put it, they are cheaper. To get around the ambient noise from co-workers, more ambient noise was introduced, i.e., white-noise from speakers in the ceiling to mask the noise of your co-workers.
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With open offices, you don't even have the sound-absorbing walls of a cubicle to help reduce the noise of co-workers, so everyone tends to wear [noise-cancelling] headphones, isolating themselves from their co-workers.
Slashdot Mirror
Is there an alternate source?
... looks like Avast is now doing similar things to ccleaner. Time for a new cleaning app. Avast software products are supposed to add to security, not detract from it.
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I'm looking for a company's phone number and I have to wade through slow loading times and tons of scrolling in order to get to the phone number. When I finally do get there, the phone number is in some super low contrast grey-on-grey text.
... we should be looking for a better replacement. JavaScript is one of those languages that became far too popular for the wrong reasons.
...They didn't have 20th Century Fox's back catalog of movies. It would have been a niche streaming site without the deal with Fox. ...
I asked about a strategy, not a tactic. If Disney had a streaming strategy, they would not have given away rights in 2016 that they need in 2018. But it appears that they did not have a strategy, or even a plan that looked more than two years down the road. Disney management certainly appeared to be asleep at the wheel and streaming caught them unaware and unprepared.
"simple and predictable", "agile", and "transparent." --- I notice that "high quality" is not mentioned in the goals for the patches. It shows in the low-quality patches that Microsoft has been thrusting upon its customers ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H data harvesting sources. It seems that Microsoft no longer cares about quality.
... Disney sold certain rights to Turner in 2016, before it completed plans for the streaming service. ...
In 2016, didn't Disney have any sort of streaming strategy? It certainly appears that they were asleep at the wheel.
...the best advice would be to never use it. like a hard drug, it is hard to stop once you've started....
That appears to be sound advice. (emphasis mine)
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That's going to leave a mark...
... "Certain popular products"? Which ones? How many reviews where there? ...
If you care that much, maybe you should read the reports of the outside auditors that published those results.
... Instead of snark, how about you actually communicate what it is you have a problem with?...
That approach was tried. Mozilla's Firefox devs went and did what they wanted anyway, ignoring what the users had asked for. Any snark heading towards Firefox devs has been earned, many times over, due to the condescending user-arrogant attitude the devs have displayed.
...According to outside auditors like Fakespot and ReviewMeta, more than half the reviews for certain popular products are questionable....
And Amazon supposedly disputes that by saying,
...Our approximation is that less than 1 percent of reviews are inauthentic...
Notice that Amazon is not disputing the original statement, but they are disputing a statement that was not made.
Why would Amazon do that? Maybe they cannot dispute the original statement?
..."You have something that's an outlier here," said James Cox, professor at Duke University School of Law. "It happened to be a very bad quarter that they had -- it doesn't wear well." ...
Mr. Zuckerberg had always seemed to be such an upstanding, honorable person.
...Linux can't run our .Net based applications natively....
Why does anyone write applications that are tied to one operating system?
Too many people have caught on to dropping infected USB drives in parking lots? https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
... there were too many spam-like messages coming in, messages that were not wanted. From the looks of it, the messages originated when someone outside my network uploaded their email address book to linkedin so that linkedin could try to sucker in more people by sending out emails to those in the address books. That just annoyed a lot of people who did not want anything to do with linkedin.
When you cater to the group of people who view devices more as a fashion statement than portable functionality, you can obtain a much higher mark-up in the pricing. Fashion rarely comes inexpensively. As a result, the manufactures are moving toward the higher margin markets, the fashionable device market, while all but ignoring the part of the market that needs additional capability and function.
...The magazine's take on it -- which is, as soon any ongoing transfer of files is complete, it is safe to yank out the flash drive ...
The problem is that you do not know when the transfer is complete. The UI's representation of it shows when the UI is done with the transfer, but that does not necessarily mean that the OS is finished with the transfer. So Popular Science is correct in that you have to wait until the transfer is complete, they are just incorrect about what tell-tale to use to determine that status.
ESO Chill 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... imo, worth watching.
...So, I think there is plenty of growth opportunity here......
Why do you think that much more than 1/3 of the US population should be on Netflix? The number of alternatives for streaming is increasing nearly monthly, and content providers are raising the cost of content to Netflix. Will Netflix's original content be able to carry the load of retaining more than 1/3 the US population?
... Netflix's growth was not sustainable. The last price increase, the availability of content elsewhere and the diminishing breadth of their content have tapped the brakes on growth. The question now becomes, when will Netflix's subscriber sign-up rate go negative, i.e., loss more than they gain each month?
Prime members have their packets delivered in 2 nanoseconds or less.
... like property when they sell it to third parties, but did not treat you data like property for inheritance purposes. That just makes Facebook's business model look all the more egregious.
Mr Buffet has a conscience.
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With open offices, you don't even have the sound-absorbing walls of a cubicle to help reduce the noise of co-workers, so everyone tends to wear [noise-cancelling] headphones, isolating themselves from their co-workers.