I enable every kind of telemetry, crash report on Firefox since they politely ask me to opt in and they are pretty clear about what they do with the data.
Chrome, p0Edge and Opera (after becoming Chrome)? Never.
It is because the idiots in JPEG 2000 committee did everything to keep people, especially web browser development teams away from that excellent format.
Now 4K monitors and ultra resolution phones around, watching web developers struggle with 5-6 different files of same photo, I really feel pity. That was a solved problem, both multiple bandwidth& resolution and the compression rate.
There is a reason we deal with JPEG files today, ask JP2 committee. Even MS stayed away from it fearing the patents.
Every single software licence agreement you/kid's parent accept while installing software has a section freeing developer from such charges.
Here is the part from Apache 2.0 licence
"8. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this License or out of the use or inability to use the Work (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages."
Yea, in 2 years Dimitri will notice everyone using 64bit ARM in his local Starbucks and propose to drop support of 500.000.000 32bit ARM machines.
These are the only guys who propose something against Google Android BTW. One of my Android shareware just had an update that brings back Android 2.0 support since Google make it possible. Give up Android OS for something these guys ship. No thanks.
One can't demand support for Macbook unless he/she donates several machines and money for this purpose to the distribution and if distribution agrees to support them.
I am seriously pissed off by these Starbucks Latte drinking, trendy types poisoning the Linux scene too but let's not forget Apple are the guys who shipped 32bit only machine with some weird EFI back in 2006. They always pick 2 generation old CPU and add some non standard weird firmware. You can't expect support from Linux or BSD guys, they need access to real hardware.
"Look, you have thousands of 32 bit only machines with 2 GB of memory. We support them with Windows 10 32 bit while Linux will drop their support"
This is how Linux could never be a credible player on corporate desktop. Some guy who has zero experience in the real World, real business scene propose something with corporate wannabe talk, everyone claps and says "Yea drop those old stinky CPU support".
Once you pay for corporate Gmail, all privacy issues are gone
Spoken like someone who has never tried to use Google's commercial offerings. They claim that they anonymise the data that they collect, but they still collect a lot and their sales people have no power to negotiate on this (Microsoft's do and, unlike Google, were able to provide an SLA that allowed us to meet our legal requirements for confidentiality).
Sorry it seems that I was misinformed by their fans, I personally don't use any of their corporate solutions and for my personal mail, I keep paying to fastmail.fm guys.
If there is one way to make every kind of developer mad at you, it is watching their development machine and play cheap spyware tactics as "you had opt out option". I think some people may even get fired because of this.
I think they watched Google do all the "spying" and getting away with it but they miss a very critical point. I have never seen Google mess with corporate services , or developer facing software. Once you pay for corporate Gmail, all privacy issues are gone. Their Android SDK for Windows doesn't add a single binary to startup or run a single resident application by default, even crash reporters are opt in.
It is like the new CEO tries to change things in Microsoft and Steve Ballmer hacks into the code with his leftover admin account in last minute to add things like telemetry.
For a system like Facebook, we are all unique hex numbers, name rarely matters and trust me they know you as a number way more than your best friend or girlfriend. Your name hardly matters to them.
There was a story about how large companies predicted if one is pregnant with the behavioural, mathematical analysis back in 2012, just imagine the stuff Facebook can do.
They purchased WhatsApp and Instagram for a reason and will probably add Snapchat to their collection.
Facebook is like an umbrella corporation, they are just into interaction and relations of people. Don't let the "Young people doesn't use it anymore" fool you, they gather the data in one way or another. Ex spies say they had to work for months and spend millions of dollars , risk their lives to gather all that data which you give to Facebook in one day.
Your personal number could be uploaded to them like 200 times along with all your correspondence (calls, messages) because your friends and relatives uses their application and messenger. Yes, they ask before uploading all the information and yes, people allow it.
It is just like getting lung cancer from second hand smoking as I bet people not having Facebook accounts are more precious to them, they must be digging deeper.
The post you took serious to reply is really a troll I think, even my 14.4K modern did excellent compression for trivial things like white spaces and HTML. I was using IBM Global Network while it was SLIP based which didn't have protocol compression, modem handled it damn fine on hardware level.
Kaspersky Labs tries to crowdfund a USB charger "antivirus/firewall" which will ship for $25 https://blog.kaspersky.com/pur... Google has taken some precautions with the mighty powerful ADB interface such as warning users and disabling even the option to display the screen where you enable it but there are several ordinary end users who wonder around with it enabled. I recently had to help a hotel bar's laptop computer, it had like 10-20 complete strangers private iPhone data backed up! Right, it didn't have passwords I bet but all the personal photos, browsing history etc are there. Just imagine what a person who does it on purpose can do with SSDs and SD cards reaching TB range .
People actually like Microsoft Edge as they got sick of Google Chrome losing its simplicity and lightness and becoming a very large security issue itself thanks to the amazing amount of functionality given to its extensions. Chrome has become a very successful platform for malware, you will notice it once you try to help ordinary end users.
There is a legitimate, non troll thread on MS Insider forums which explains why Microsoft needs to port Edge to the Android if it wants it to succeed. You may need a MS account to view it though.
Please note that the code comes from very experienced, legend like developer who clearly knows the consequences. Just like MS hires the best compiler developers on the planet who clearly knows the difference between debug and final builds.
That bug shows the true strength of the OS, its object oriented desktop, it didn't work well for OS/2 since nobody was ready for anything like that.
Windows 3.1's GUI won, the most tragic thing in PC OS history. If you ask me, GNUStep/WindowMaker idling there while everyone loves Finder/OSX is another irony.
Its community including the IBM guys was great, helpful and polite.
IBM did great support like commissioning Mozilla Inc to ship a decent, working Netscape and paying to SciTech to develop a universal graphics driver ending the graphics driver issues. Compare it to Apple 's treatment to PowerPC users.
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I enable every kind of telemetry, crash report on Firefox since they politely ask me to opt in and they are pretty clear about what they do with the data.
Chrome, p0Edge and Opera (after becoming Chrome)? Never.
10M downloads on Android Google Play store. Of course, one star reviews started coming in.
It is because the idiots in JPEG 2000 committee did everything to keep people, especially web browser development teams away from that excellent format.
Now 4K monitors and ultra resolution phones around, watching web developers struggle with 5-6 different files of same photo, I really feel pity. That was a solved problem, both multiple bandwidth& resolution and the compression rate.
There is a reason we deal with JPEG files today, ask JP2 committee. Even MS stayed away from it fearing the patents.
Every single software licence agreement you/kid's parent accept while installing software has a section freeing developer from such charges.
Here is the part from Apache 2.0 licence
"8. Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall any Contributor be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this License or out of the use or inability to use the Work (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages."
So, the mighty CIA, NSA can't compromise nodes outside USA or set them up?
Do you have a clue about their budget or manpower?
Yea, in 2 years Dimitri will notice everyone using 64bit ARM in his local Starbucks and propose to drop support of 500.000.000 32bit ARM machines.
These are the only guys who propose something against Google Android BTW. One of my Android shareware just had an update that brings back Android 2.0 support since Google make it possible. Give up Android OS for something these guys ship. No thanks.
One can't demand support for Macbook unless he/she donates several machines and money for this purpose to the distribution and if distribution agrees to support them.
I am seriously pissed off by these Starbucks Latte drinking, trendy types poisoning the Linux scene too but let's not forget Apple are the guys who shipped 32bit only machine with some weird EFI back in 2006. They always pick 2 generation old CPU and add some non standard weird firmware. You can't expect support from Linux or BSD guys, they need access to real hardware.
"Look, you have thousands of 32 bit only machines with 2 GB of memory. We support them with Windows 10 32 bit while Linux will drop their support"
This is how Linux could never be a credible player on corporate desktop. Some guy who has zero experience in the real World, real business scene propose something with corporate wannabe talk, everyone claps and says "Yea drop those old stinky CPU support".
Once you pay for corporate Gmail, all privacy issues are gone
Spoken like someone who has never tried to use Google's commercial offerings. They claim that they anonymise the data that they collect, but they still collect a lot and their sales people have no power to negotiate on this (Microsoft's do and, unlike Google, were able to provide an SLA that allowed us to meet our legal requirements for confidentiality).
Sorry it seems that I was misinformed by their fans, I personally don't use any of their corporate solutions and for my personal mail, I keep paying to fastmail.fm guys.
If there is one way to make every kind of developer mad at you, it is watching their development machine and play cheap spyware tactics as "you had opt out option". I think some people may even get fired because of this.
I think they watched Google do all the "spying" and getting away with it but they miss a very critical point. I have never seen Google mess with corporate services , or developer facing software. Once you pay for corporate Gmail, all privacy issues are gone. Their Android SDK for Windows doesn't add a single binary to startup or run a single resident application by default, even crash reporters are opt in.
It is like the new CEO tries to change things in Microsoft and Steve Ballmer hacks into the code with his leftover admin account in last minute to add things like telemetry.
How come Java have anything to do with 4GB memory limit while it runs on monster mainframes? Do they use 32bit Java? It must be on purpose than.
For a system like Facebook, we are all unique hex numbers, name rarely matters and trust me they know you as a number way more than your best friend or girlfriend. Your name hardly matters to them.
There was a story about how large companies predicted if one is pregnant with the behavioural, mathematical analysis back in 2012, just imagine the stuff Facebook can do.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012...
They purchased WhatsApp and Instagram for a reason and will probably add Snapchat to their collection.
Facebook is like an umbrella corporation, they are just into interaction and relations of people. Don't let the "Young people doesn't use it anymore" fool you, they gather the data in one way or another. Ex spies say they had to work for months and spend millions of dollars , risk their lives to gather all that data which you give to Facebook in one day.
Your personal number could be uploaded to them like 200 times along with all your correspondence (calls, messages) because your friends and relatives uses their application and messenger. Yes, they ask before uploading all the information and yes, people allow it.
It is just like getting lung cancer from second hand smoking as I bet people not having Facebook accounts are more precious to them, they must be digging deeper.
The post you took serious to reply is really a troll I think, even my 14.4K modern did excellent compression for trivial things like white spaces and HTML. I was using IBM Global Network while it was SLIP based which didn't have protocol compression, modem handled it damn fine on hardware level.
If it doesn't pollute the soil and water resources. Lithium in form we use in batteries is nothing more than poison for the environment.
Kaspersky Labs tries to crowdfund a USB charger "antivirus/firewall" which will ship for $25
https://blog.kaspersky.com/pur...
Google has taken some precautions with the mighty powerful ADB interface such as warning users and disabling even the option to display the screen where you enable it but there are several ordinary end users who wonder around with it enabled.
I recently had to help a hotel bar's laptop computer, it had like 10-20 complete strangers private iPhone data backed up! Right, it didn't have passwords I bet but all the personal photos, browsing history etc are there. Just imagine what a person who does it on purpose can do with SSDs and SD cards reaching TB range .
Funny thing is you can actually go find Apple kernel developers in not so secret places like IRC, Apple isn't Microsoft.
It needs a secret long forgotten wizardry like journalism of course.
People actually like Microsoft Edge as they got sick of Google Chrome losing its simplicity and lightness and becoming a very large security issue itself thanks to the amazing amount of functionality given to its extensions. Chrome has become a very successful platform for malware, you will notice it once you try to help ordinary end users.
There is a legitimate, non troll thread on MS Insider forums which explains why Microsoft needs to port Edge to the Android if it wants it to succeed. You may need a MS account to view it though.
https://answers.microsoft.com/...
Here is the page in PDF form:
https://dochub.com/ilgazocal/l...
A gang in Microsoft coming from 90s will never allow it to happen though. It is good for open source/free software.
A government or a huge corporation won't tell anyone if they have cracked this technology.
MS is actually documented by USA courts to do very evil things with the code and use "oops it was a mistake" as excuse when someone figures it out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Please note that the code comes from very experienced, legend like developer who clearly knows the consequences. Just like MS hires the best compiler developers on the planet who clearly knows the difference between debug and final builds.
They were testing the waters, period.
OS/2 was designed with IBM PS/2 Machines in mind which the PS/2 connector introduced with.
That bug shows the true strength of the OS, its object oriented desktop, it didn't work well for OS/2 since nobody was ready for anything like that.
Windows 3.1's GUI won, the most tragic thing in PC OS history. If you ask me, GNUStep/WindowMaker idling there while everyone loves Finder/OSX is another irony.
Its community including the IBM guys was great, helpful and polite.
IBM did great support like commissioning Mozilla Inc to ship a decent, working Netscape and paying to SciTech to develop a universal graphics driver ending the graphics driver issues. Compare it to Apple 's treatment to PowerPC users.