I see that Vivaldi will get an embedded email client. Why bloat a browser with an email client? The Opera email client never really fit my needs, it was too weird how it handled emails.
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Since the early days of Netscape, I never saw the logic behind bundling email clients with browsers.
...In 1978, after several years of refining the technology, X10 products began to appear in Radio Shack stores. Shortly thereafter, X10 products appeared in Sears stores. A partnership with BSR was formed, known as X10 Ltd, and the BSR System X10 was born. The system at that time consisted of a 16 channel Command Console, A lamp module, and an Appliance module. Soon afterwards came the Wall Switch module and the first X10 Timer....
... and it still is working fine. There are no external dependencies required for my home automation system to continue working as it has done over those 35+ years.
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The problem with home automation nowadays is that you have to rely on "the cloud" or some company to continue to support the product.
As we are seeing with Revolv, such a reliance is a significant disadvantage.
Of course I know that streaming has superseded DVDs for the great majority of people.
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But Netflix appears to be slowly, drip by drip, screwing its customers of the DVD service.
The "next day" mail service has now been turned into two-day deliveries.
It also seems as if the turnaround at the distribution center once a disc is received is now next day, instead of same day.
I subscribe to the two discs at home level of service. I appear to be receiving about half the number of discs per month as I used to.
It looks as if Netflix is actively trying to chase customers away by reducing the amount of streaming content and putting large latencies into the distribution of their DVD service.
It looks like Netflix's US business has become too expensive, and Netflix is now looking to international markets for the profits as it withdraws from the US markets.
...If that means getting my users to upgrade to the latest and greatest for free, then so be it....
Therein lies the flaw in your logic.
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Windows 10 is not free. The cost is the data harvesting that Microsoft is doing to Windows 10 users.
No longer is the person using Windows a Windows user. With the advent of Windows 10, the person using Windows 10 is a product, information to be gathered and sold.
While I agree with your comments about the need to consolidate the various versions of Windows, that multiplicity of versions is Microsoft's own fault. It was Microsoft who wanted "product differentiation" for little more than marketing reasons.
The need to consolidate all those versions does not justify the mass harvesting of data from the users of Windows 10 and their families. The need to consolidate all those versions does not justify the extremely aggressive push to trick people into installing Windows 10 on their PCs.
Why was gender, home address, etc, stored on the servers? It appears that the apps was harvesting far more data than was needed to perform its core function.
Are curved phone displays really needed or useful? I don't see any benefit....
The sales of iPhones have plateaued, some even saying they are starting a decline. Apple has a market saturation problem and a product maturity problem.
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Apple needs to do a flash in the pan type of thing in order to regenerate significant interest in the iPhone.
...there are over a hundred other open-source projects which Chromium incorporates by reference, totaling more than 48,000 C/C++ files and 40,000 header files....
That's a lot of files for a single, relatively trivial application..
I agree, there is little wrong with "bullshit" (unless you are using it on Jeopardy, "Bullshit!, Alex" would not make it past the censors.). But Watson was also using other words skimmed from the Urban Dictionary that were a lot less acceptable in mixed company.
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I found it quite funny, some of the things it was saying, knowing it was coming from an AI bot. However, I suspect some of the targets of what it was saying might be less than pleased.;)
A funny thing happened on the way to creating an IBM supercomputer capable of understanding human language: A research scientist accidentally filled its vocabulary with foul language.
And the computer, known as Watson, didn't know the difference between salty phrases and polite ones. It started peppering its conversations with words like "bullshit."...
Plex doesn't sync into Apple's Walled Garden. For example, I cannot sync my iPod to Plex. According to Plex support, Plex only syncs to devices that run the Plex app. My iPods do not and cannot run it.
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Apple has built the walls of its garden quite well. Little gets over the walls, from either direction.
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Since the early days of Netscape, I never saw the logic behind bundling email clients with browsers.
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At this point I am more concerned about the amount of data harvesting being done by Windows 10 than I am about the thinness of a laptop.
...X-10 didn't exist until 1999 - that's 27 years for you....
Google is your friend. X10 has been around since the 1970's.
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From The History of X-10
...In 1978, after several years of refining the technology, X10 products began to appear in Radio Shack stores. Shortly thereafter, X10 products appeared in Sears stores. A partnership with BSR was formed, known as X10 Ltd, and the BSR System X10 was born. The system at that time consisted of a 16 channel Command Console, A lamp module, and an Appliance module. Soon afterwards came the Wall Switch module and the first X10 Timer. ...
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The problem with home automation nowadays is that you have to rely on "the cloud" or some company to continue to support the product.
As we are seeing with Revolv, such a reliance is a significant disadvantage.
... I no longer trust Microsoft enough to give them any more money.
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For example, TFA seems to be concentrated upon how typos affect a person and not what the person does as a result of the typos.
So people who point out typos are not really the subject of TFA.
So am I now a jerk for wanting a discussion on this?
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But Netflix appears to be slowly, drip by drip, screwing its customers of the DVD service.
The "next day" mail service has now been turned into two-day deliveries.
It also seems as if the turnaround at the distribution center once a disc is received is now next day, instead of same day.
I subscribe to the two discs at home level of service. I appear to be receiving about half the number of discs per month as I used to.
It looks as if Netflix is actively trying to chase customers away by reducing the amount of streaming content and putting large latencies into the distribution of their DVD service.
It looks like Netflix's US business has become too expensive, and Netflix is now looking to international markets for the profits as it withdraws from the US markets.
...If that means getting my users to upgrade to the latest and greatest for free, then so be it. ...
Therein lies the flaw in your logic.
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Windows 10 is not free. The cost is the data harvesting that Microsoft is doing to Windows 10 users.
No longer is the person using Windows a Windows user. With the advent of Windows 10, the person using Windows 10 is a product, information to be gathered and sold.
While I agree with your comments about the need to consolidate the various versions of Windows, that multiplicity of versions is Microsoft's own fault. It was Microsoft who wanted "product differentiation" for little more than marketing reasons.
The need to consolidate all those versions does not justify the mass harvesting of data from the users of Windows 10 and their families. The need to consolidate all those versions does not justify the extremely aggressive push to trick people into installing Windows 10 on their PCs.
Why was gender, home address, etc, stored on the servers? It appears that the apps was harvesting far more data than was needed to perform its core function.
... Makes me wonder why I would want one which has a "glass edge" to fall on, which seems a natural failure point....
You want one because Apple sez it's The Next Big Thing.
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(even though others have had it for a while)
Which orientation does it optimize, portrait or landscape? One or the other will suffer with a curved display.
Are curved phone displays really needed or useful? I don't see any benefit....
The sales of iPhones have plateaued, some even saying they are starting a decline. Apple has a market saturation problem and a product maturity problem.
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Apple needs to do a flash in the pan type of thing in order to regenerate significant interest in the iPhone.
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This should not be a surprise to anyone who reads the nutrition label of what they are eating and drinking.
Chrome is not an application.
https://www.chromium.org/Home
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"...Chromium is an open-source browser project
...there are over a hundred other open-source projects which Chromium incorporates by reference, totaling more than 48,000 C/C++ files and 40,000 header files....
That's a lot of files for a single, relatively trivial application..
if you have some mod points, mod parent up, please
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I found it quite funny, some of the things it was saying, knowing it was coming from an AI bot. However, I suspect some of the targets of what it was saying might be less than pleased.
A funny thing happened on the way to creating an IBM supercomputer capable of understanding human language: A research scientist accidentally filled its vocabulary with foul language. And the computer, known as Watson, didn't know the difference between salty phrases and polite ones. It started peppering its conversations with words like "bullshit."...
... calling out those users who are on computers more than five years old....
Not everyone can afford to get on the Apple hardware upgrade treadmill with the prices that Apple charges for its hardware.
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$500 for the underpowered low-end Macmini, and all you get are the Macmini and a power cord.
...but this is still really worth doing...
Agreed.
...But it's significantly more interesting than the traditional remotes most TVs ship with. ...
I currently get a couple of months from the batteries in my remote.
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Will I need to keep the remote for my new Vizio TV tethered to a charger?
The emails are still in plain text inside the email servers en route, unless the email sender and recipient use end-to-end encryption.
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Apple has built the walls of its garden quite well. Little gets over the walls, from either direction.
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But, for example, try to get an AppleTV to work with a media server besides iTunes, and you're out of luck.
If you enjoy staying locked up inside Apple's Walled Garden, then you may have an interest in the new devices.
I have no interest in them.
... It's expensive to provide security and bug fix updates for an OS, let alone three of them....
Then why does Microsoft release so many of 'em if it is so expensive?
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Why should I have to suffer for Microsoft's bad planning?