Microsoft really should be listening to the device makers, not commanding them. Why is Microsoft still so friggin' arrogant towards its customers (a.k.a., product) and users? Hasn't the Windows 10 fiasco taught them any humility?
Just because they would -privately- be 'happy' to expand to suit Amazon, doesn't mean they wouldn't try to extract horrible terms from Amazon to be 'encouraged' to do it....Building a competing air cargo service may be a last resort....
Nearly all business deals involve negotiations as each side tries to get the best deal for itself. Amazon is/was a large enough customer of Fedex and UPS to get a better deal than most.
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I don't think it was a last resort for Amazon. I think Amazon looked at the money it spent on shipping, the plans it has to optimize shipping and warehousing, and said, "we can do that better and with less cost." Amazon will probably have significant warehouse savings once they have more control over their shipping. Along those lines, Fedex and UPS may not have wanted to become so entangled in Amazon's shipping process.
...straining the capacities and capabilities of its shipping partners, which include FedEx and UPS...
I'm fairly sure that both FedEx and UPS would be more than happy to build out their respective fleet if they knew that Amazon would not leave them hanging, as Amazon apparently is doing.
...One of the headline features is called MUFFIN interface, a new toolbar design similar to the Microsoft Office Ribbon UI....
From TFA:
...We’ve told you about the MUFFIN interface project — MUFFIN stands for My User Friendly & Flexible Interface — a fair bit over the past few months, but if you haven’t heard of it it’s a new UI initiative that introduces 4 different layouts for LibreOffice applications, including a Microsoft Ribbon-esque tabbed UI and a slim, simplified, single panel toolbar....
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It appears that the new interface will allow the user to use the ribbon-esque interface, a feature for the one or two people who actually like that UI. Muffin also provides other interfaces besides the weird ribbon-esque one, if you prefer a more intuitive UI.
... the "forced to view" unskippable advertisements were not present at the beginning of a lot of the DVD's I had purchased in the past. It is amazing how a content provider can intentionally piss off its potential customers, then wonder why sales are down.
... if I ever needed ultimate MS Office compatibility, I'd probably re-install an older copy of MS Office I have, However, at this point, LibreOffice opens and works well with the MS Office file that friends and colleagues send to me. So why should I pay $7 per month for the cloud version of MS Office when the free-as-in-beer LibreOffice works for me.
I'd rather use that $7 per month for Netflix streaming....
...“There is a lot of audience that’s spread out on places that are not [Facebook and Google], especially younger audiences,” he said. “As audiences get younger, it’s becoming increasingly harder to reach them where everybody else is able to get reached.”...
That's it. That is all the mention of the recipients (aptly a.k.a, "targets") of the advertising. The advertising industry hasn't a clue what the targets of the advertising want with advertising, nor do they seem to care.
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The advertising industry seems to think that so long as advertising is presented, it is welcomed. That is wrong, just wrong, on so many levels.
Until the advertising industry fixes that major and fundamental problem with their industry, advertising will be unwelcome.
...it's a major platform that web developers target...
I dunno about that. I am finding more and more websites where Firefox does not render the page properly. I retry Firefox in safe mode, and there still are problems rendering the page. So I switch to (gasp!) IE, and the page renders fine.
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In my experience, it appears that web developers are beginning to abandon Firefox compatibility, probably because of its very low marketshare.
How do you back up data that was never stored? Or logs for transactions that never completed?...
There's an input-logging capability that can be replayed in times like this. Since it is separate from the part that caused this problem, the data would be retrievable. Simple.
... It just makes room for the next asshat to take over the operation....
So then, put him in jail also. As an added bonus, also put into jail those who are paying these asshats to do the robocalling. Go to the source of the asshatness.
A slap on the wrist and fines that probably are less than a week's profit for the callers are not going to stop the robo-calls. A few years to ponder one's fate while sitting in a prison cell might be the deterrent the robo-callers require.
Does this/. editor not understand the use of paragraphs in English? Has/. stooped so low that its editors no longer care about basic readability concepts?
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had. An answer without a question. The typical marketing-oriented wet dream to increase sales by addressing a problem that does not exist.
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Microsoft really should be listening to the device makers, not commanding them. Why is Microsoft still so friggin' arrogant towards its customers (a.k.a., product) and users? Hasn't the Windows 10 fiasco taught them any humility?
...Surely it would be cheaper for Amazon to just mail the item themselves....
Easy to say, harder to substantiate.
Just because they would -privately- be 'happy' to expand to suit Amazon, doesn't mean they wouldn't try to extract horrible terms from Amazon to be 'encouraged' to do it....Building a competing air cargo service may be a last resort. ...
Nearly all business deals involve negotiations as each side tries to get the best deal for itself. Amazon is/was a large enough customer of Fedex and UPS to get a better deal than most.
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I don't think it was a last resort for Amazon. I think Amazon looked at the money it spent on shipping, the plans it has to optimize shipping and warehousing, and said, "we can do that better and with less cost." Amazon will probably have significant warehouse savings once they have more control over their shipping. Along those lines, Fedex and UPS may not have wanted to become so entangled in Amazon's shipping process.
...straining the capacities and capabilities of its shipping partners, which include FedEx and UPS...
I'm fairly sure that both FedEx and UPS would be more than happy to build out their respective fleet if they knew that Amazon would not leave them hanging, as Amazon apparently is doing.
...One of the headline features is called MUFFIN interface, a new toolbar design similar to the Microsoft Office Ribbon UI....
From TFA:
...We’ve told you about the MUFFIN interface project — MUFFIN stands for My User Friendly & Flexible Interface — a fair bit over the past few months, but if you haven’t heard of it it’s a new UI initiative that introduces 4 different layouts for LibreOffice applications, including a Microsoft Ribbon-esque tabbed UI and a slim, simplified, single panel toolbar....
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It appears that the new interface will allow the user to use the ribbon-esque interface, a feature for the one or two people who actually like that UI. Muffin also provides other interfaces besides the weird ribbon-esque one, if you prefer a more intuitive UI.
...Browser makers don't complain about Microsoft Defender because we have tons of empirical data showing that it's the only well behaved AV....
There is more, a lot more, to an a/v than what is seen via the myopic view of a browser developer.
...Facebook also promises not to share it with third-party websites...
That sounds like a marketing interpretation of a privacy policy that probably is as leaky as a sieve.
Not increase it. There is NO WAY I'd link Facebook in with any security process I have or use. NO WAY .
... the "forced to view" unskippable advertisements were not present at the beginning of a lot of the DVD's I had purchased in the past. It is amazing how a content provider can intentionally piss off its potential customers, then wonder why sales are down.
... if I ever needed ultimate MS Office compatibility, I'd probably re-install an older copy of MS Office I have, However, at this point, LibreOffice opens and works well with the MS Office file that friends and colleagues send to me. So why should I pay $7 per month for the cloud version of MS Office when the free-as-in-beer LibreOffice works for me. I'd rather use that $7 per month for Netflix streaming....
Make it more difficult to check the security cert when I'm browsing. What bright spark at google came up with this idea?
...Windows PCs are starting to chip away at Apple's strong grip of the high-end computer market...
From my viewpoint, it looks as if Apple has abandoned the high-end computer market. The product line has been stagnating.
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Of course, leave it to Microsoft to declare itself winning over a competitor that has all but abandoned the particular marketspace.
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Will the advertisers on the page see the additional hit?
...“There is a lot of audience that’s spread out on places that are not [Facebook and Google], especially younger audiences,” he said. “As audiences get younger, it’s becoming increasingly harder to reach them where everybody else is able to get reached.”...
That's it. That is all the mention of the recipients (aptly a.k.a, "targets") of the advertising. The advertising industry hasn't a clue what the targets of the advertising want with advertising, nor do they seem to care.
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The advertising industry seems to think that so long as advertising is presented, it is welcomed. That is wrong, just wrong, on so many levels.
Until the advertising industry fixes that major and fundamental problem with their industry, advertising will be unwelcome.
...Even if Firefox had retained its market share on desktops, they would have had the same problem....
I disagree, but I'm not going to argue the hypothetical.
...it's a major platform that web developers target...
I dunno about that. I am finding more and more websites where Firefox does not render the page properly. I retry Firefox in safe mode, and there still are problems rendering the page. So I switch to (gasp!) IE, and the page renders fine.
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In my experience, it appears that web developers are beginning to abandon Firefox compatibility, probably because of its very low marketshare.
... why does Microsoft feel it has to resort to such underhanded tactics to get people to use it?
How do you back up data that was never stored? Or logs for transactions that never completed?...
There's an input-logging capability that can be replayed in times like this. Since it is separate from the part that caused this problem, the data would be retrievable. Simple.
At least there was a back-up... Or not... Not even a 24-hour transaction log... Or not... Way to go code.org... set that example...
... It just makes room for the next asshat to take over the operation....
So then, put him in jail also. As an added bonus, also put into jail those who are paying these asshats to do the robocalling. Go to the source of the asshatness.
A slap on the wrist and fines that probably are less than a week's profit for the callers are not going to stop the robo-calls. A few years to ponder one's fate while sitting in a prison cell might be the deterrent the robo-callers require.
Does this /. editor not understand the use of paragraphs in English? Has /. stooped so low that its editors no longer care about basic readability concepts?
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had. An answer without a question. The typical marketing-oriented wet dream to increase sales by addressing a problem that does not exist.
Was it ever really alive?