Amazon's website review system is quite irritating in general. One of the most annoying things they do is group multiple reviews for items with the same brand and category but different implementation or outright functionality together. It leaves you sorting through piles of completely irrelevant reviews if you even want to read them.
If it makes you feel any better, they'll probably change it all around again tomorrow. It won't actually be improved but you can rest assured it will take more clicks to get their than the last version.
The real question is, will it finally be safe to use windows update after the one year deadline has passed on the free herpes infection? My guess is it will be extended indefinitely, "due to its great success and reception!"
I didn't complain until they announced they were ending the old extension model in favor of chrome's. I hate many changes made in firefox but I dealt with them with a combination of changing settings and extensions. The powerful extension system let me run the browser how I wanted. Once that's gone it will just be "that bloated chrome clone with extra features that I hate".
...comes the sequel, a browser that removes the "legacy cruft" that is the only reason anyone was even still using the first one. There's no longer a need to sneakily remove often used features that you're to incompetent to fix the bugs in, those features will never exist in the first place!
A new chrome clone turd, sleek and efficient. Free of any imperfections such as "functionality" or "existing user base" that that might slow these brave new developers down.
Which is the real reason Microsoft has started this now. Playstation is kind of in critical mass territory. There doesn't seem to be much difference between the consoles so in my mind if you want to play online games you'll just go with the most popular one. And that one ain't Microsoft this time around.
Anyway, Microsoft isn't really doing anything here. They say all kind of things, following through with them? Well, not so much. Sony is going to have to do likewise I'd imagine for this to even happen, and that have nothing to gain by doing so. So they won't. Microsoft will certainly tie the PC side to the windows store boat anchor, because they are arrogant enough to think tying two of their losers together will create something desirable instead of increasing their suck factor exponentially.
And since it sounds like its up to developers to do all the work anyway I doubt many will take the bait regardless. For every customer that wouldn't buy a game because of the lack of cross platform play on the Xbox I bet there's at least 3 that would just buy it on playstation instead or maybe end up buying it on both effectively increasing sales.
I'd stay far away from anything on the app store, since you'll most likely be left holding the bag in the end. Microsoft announces new platforms all the time, and abandons them just as fast when they don't immediately become dominant. The xbox being somewhat of an exception. The expedient time to adopt their new platforms is when forced too and not a moment earlier.
You had me excited about Opera until you mentioned the tabs across the top. Its probably the same ugly hack that the Chrome tree style tabs add on uses, which just isn't workable. How the hell are there no browsers with tree style side tabs available?
This chip (Intel G4400) is interesting for one reason. It has VT-D enabled. This makes it the cheapest Intel chip selling that has that feature. Its still not as cheap as buying an AMD A4 which also has it but you're no longer looking at $200 pay to play on the Intel side if that is what you're after.
Well, when most users can't tell the difference between any of your products (because there barely is any) and they aren't even worth the hassle of a motherboard upgrade from previous products (much less the cost of the hardware) creating new large confusing model numbers is one way to give the illusion of a purpose I suppose.
I always just installed flash control or flash block. Then if I wanted to see the element I could just click on it. Since 98% of the stuff was auto load ads, auto play videos or other garbage it made way more sense to allow the tiny amount as it requires almost no user effort. Conversely, allowing all flash often required a large amount of effort to work around and typically loaded the page slower.
I used flashblock for awhile, but it stopped working on youtube. FlashControl add-on works and also has a whitelist system.
I actually think I couldn't get that firefox option to work as expected for some reason.
I don't really have a problem with flash myself since I've also had it set to click to activate with flash block. It seems like 99% of flash elements are just garbage and its much easier to an extra click to the 1%.
There's a wrapper "fresh player" that allows chrome's pepper flash to be used in firefox but I'm not sure how reliable it is. I haven't used it much yet but it did seem to work.
I think that is his point though. In the past Microsoft certainly did show up late, and then through sometimes nefarious (bundle it with the OS so everyone has it, offer a free version to snuff out the competitions revenue source) means they got their copycat product to the front even if they had to fight a long time to get there. But they don't seem to want to fight anymore. Which is perplexing since they clearly have the warchest to fight this kind of war on multiple fronts.
Now they just release a product that is at best "just as good" as the competition's and when that isn't enough to immediately draw the whole market to them they abandon the product wholesale. Not only does that half ass strategy not win them anything, it taints the whole brand and makes savvy consumers unwilling to even try your untested product since they know you'll likely leave them twisting in the wind.
I don't really have a problem with F2P games, or I didn't anyway. I just didn't play them because I believe all F2P games will eventually transform into pay to win even if they are not in their original incarnation. Its just to easy to go down that path. But when I started having games retroactively turned into F2P that is when things looked bad. Its not just MMOs, think of TF2. Luckily I was never into that game to start with and I only owned it because it came with another game I did buy, but I did not like the precedent it set.
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Amazon's website review system is quite irritating in general. One of the most annoying things they do is group multiple reviews for items with the same brand and category but different implementation or outright functionality together. It leaves you sorting through piles of completely irrelevant reviews if you even want to read them.
If it makes you feel any better, they'll probably change it all around again tomorrow. It won't actually be improved but you can rest assured it will take more clicks to get their than the last version.
The real question is, will it finally be safe to use windows update after the one year deadline has passed on the free herpes infection? My guess is it will be extended indefinitely, "due to its great success and reception!"
Close. But in the full analogy you would bring the baby to the police station only to have it show up on your front porch again tomorrow.
Just change the E to Elementary School Teaching. Boom, no girls in STEM problem solved.
I didn't complain until they announced they were ending the old extension model in favor of chrome's. I hate many changes made in firefox but I dealt with them with a combination of changing settings and extensions. The powerful extension system let me run the browser how I wanted. Once that's gone it will just be "that bloated chrome clone with extra features that I hate".
...comes the sequel, a browser that removes the "legacy cruft" that is the only reason anyone was even still using the first one. There's no longer a need to sneakily remove often used features that you're to incompetent to fix the bugs in, those features will never exist in the first place!
A new chrome clone turd, sleek and efficient. Free of any imperfections such as "functionality" or "existing user base" that that might slow these brave new developers down.
Which is the real reason Microsoft has started this now. Playstation is kind of in critical mass territory. There doesn't seem to be much difference between the consoles so in my mind if you want to play online games you'll just go with the most popular one. And that one ain't Microsoft this time around.
Anyway, Microsoft isn't really doing anything here. They say all kind of things, following through with them? Well, not so much. Sony is going to have to do likewise I'd imagine for this to even happen, and that have nothing to gain by doing so. So they won't. Microsoft will certainly tie the PC side to the windows store boat anchor, because they are arrogant enough to think tying two of their losers together will create something desirable instead of increasing their suck factor exponentially.
And since it sounds like its up to developers to do all the work anyway I doubt many will take the bait regardless. For every customer that wouldn't buy a game because of the lack of cross platform play on the Xbox I bet there's at least 3 that would just buy it on playstation instead or maybe end up buying it on both effectively increasing sales.
I'd stay far away from anything on the app store, since you'll most likely be left holding the bag in the end. Microsoft announces new platforms all the time, and abandons them just as fast when they don't immediately become dominant. The xbox being somewhat of an exception. The expedient time to adopt their new platforms is when forced too and not a moment earlier.
You had me excited about Opera until you mentioned the tabs across the top. Its probably the same ugly hack that the Chrome tree style tabs add on uses, which just isn't workable. How the hell are there no browsers with tree style side tabs available?
Flash Control for Firefox seems to block HTML5 video from load for me...even though its called Flash Control.
This chip (Intel G4400) is interesting for one reason. It has VT-D enabled. This makes it the cheapest Intel chip selling that has that feature. Its still not as cheap as buying an AMD A4 which also has it but you're no longer looking at $200 pay to play on the Intel side if that is what you're after.
Well, when most users can't tell the difference between any of your products (because there barely is any) and they aren't even worth the hassle of a motherboard upgrade from previous products (much less the cost of the hardware) creating new large confusing model numbers is one way to give the illusion of a purpose I suppose.
I always just installed flash control or flash block. Then if I wanted to see the element I could just click on it. Since 98% of the stuff was auto load ads, auto play videos or other garbage it made way more sense to allow the tiny amount as it requires almost no user effort. Conversely, allowing all flash often required a large amount of effort to work around and typically loaded the page slower.
FlashControl works for HTML5 video as well.
At Intel quality is priority number 0.99987845!
I used flashblock for awhile, but it stopped working on youtube. FlashControl add-on works and also has a whitelist system.
I actually think I couldn't get that firefox option to work as expected for some reason.
I don't really have a problem with flash myself since I've also had it set to click to activate with flash block. It seems like 99% of flash elements are just garbage and its much easier to an extra click to the 1%.
You can run pepper flash in firefox on linux
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05...
IE was finished with IE6 and something like 90% market share. Until it wasn't anymore.
Last time I tried to create a throwaway yahoo mail account it demanded a mobile number.
Well, its not even that big of a deal when it happens. You just go down and get a new one at the hand store.
It probably won't solve the issue, but have you tried using the fresh player wrapper to run chrome's pepper flash with firefox?
There's a wrapper "fresh player" that allows chrome's pepper flash to be used in firefox but I'm not sure how reliable it is. I haven't used it much yet but it did seem to work.
I watch Downton Abbey on the pbs website for free.
I think that is his point though. In the past Microsoft certainly did show up late, and then through sometimes nefarious (bundle it with the OS so everyone has it, offer a free version to snuff out the competitions revenue source) means they got their copycat product to the front even if they had to fight a long time to get there. But they don't seem to want to fight anymore. Which is perplexing since they clearly have the warchest to fight this kind of war on multiple fronts.
Now they just release a product that is at best "just as good" as the competition's and when that isn't enough to immediately draw the whole market to them they abandon the product wholesale. Not only does that half ass strategy not win them anything, it taints the whole brand and makes savvy consumers unwilling to even try your untested product since they know you'll likely leave them twisting in the wind.
I don't really have a problem with F2P games, or I didn't anyway. I just didn't play them because I believe all F2P games will eventually transform into pay to win even if they are not in their original incarnation. Its just to easy to go down that path. But when I started having games retroactively turned into F2P that is when things looked bad. Its not just MMOs, think of TF2. Luckily I was never into that game to start with and I only owned it because it came with another game I did buy, but I did not like the precedent it set.