It is true that DuckDuckGo bases its results in part on those from Bing, according to an explanation on its support center. DuckDuckGo actually draws its results from more than 50 sources, it says, including also Yahoo, BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Blekko, and its own crawler.
Bing doesn't get your information. Duckduckgo is an intermediary in the process and duckduckgo doesn't store your information.
It's time to take off that tinfoil hat and start wrapping the house instead.
Even when the first iAnything came out, there were other products that did more, had better resolution, had more space, and supported formats other than aac & mp3.
It seems your your iPhone argument hinges on the fact that they had a touchscreen. Other phones were already running user initiated applications going way back to Palm and Windows devices. I just have to ask, exactly what was better about the iPhone? What is better about the iPhone now? The only thing you'll be able to say is that, subjectively, it's "better" for you. For me, not so much.
As for the iPod, again your arguments are purely subjective. From my perspective, there were better alternatives to iPod at every turn. Just about every Creative product at the time was superior. Alas, people really loved that wheel of the iPod. Does that make it better? Not to me.
So I again refute your last statement. It's not ignorance nor flamebait. It's merely a difference in opinion. (And I'm still using my superior Creative Labs Zen Vision M I bought in 2005).
In my house it's exactly the opposite. My Kindle Fire sits on my desk while I use the desktop. I've had a few tablets. They never saw much use and were sold. My wife had free reign of her choice. She wouldn't touch them either.
The Dreamcast didn't fail because of the controller. It failed after Sega rapidly put out Sega CD, the 32X followed quickly by the Saturn. They did all this despite some fierce competition with Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.
Nintendo has had some bad design choices in the past. I don't think this controller is one of those bad design choices. Time will tell.
It sounds like you're wanting the government to pick the winners and the losers. Let's let the free market handle this one. Corporations are people, my friend.
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Read that again. It's opt-in only if it's "sensitive personal information". For everything else, unless you "opt out" you've already given Google your consent and they are free to share your information with other companies. For the types of things that are included in that *everything else* is a hellofawholelot.
Tell me I'm wearing a tinfoil hat, that's fine. I know Google isn't the worst of all companies. The real problem is scale. They're everywhere. If you're comfortable with giving up privacy for free stuff, that's certainly for you to decide. Google is waiting with open arms for you.
As far as the default settings for Win8 being atrocious, I can't comment. You didn't provide any specific concerns about them.
Why buy a closed device, when open devices like Googles Chromebook which is available cheaper and isn't locked. Excusing manufacturers for their abuse behaviour...and giving them money, never persuaded, and manufacturer to be more open.
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet.
The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. The only difference between the grass is that different dogs shit on either side.
I've flashed many different ROMs to my Kindle, I've owned a Playbook, I have a Linux netbook. Pretty much every OS sucks in it's own special way. If the only thing that sucks about WinRT is that it's "closed", then I'll take one.
It's only been about a year since I started seeing support for my X-fi. It finally supports 5.1, but it's still missing bass channel redirection. That's pretty important in my book.
Let's not forget that we can knock out our children's teeth. Once they grow back we can knock them out again. Sure it's double dipping, but every penny counts.
You don't need to keep everything pinned to tiles. If you felt like it, you could just pin a folder with all your shortcuts to each group to the launcher.
What applications, if any, would you want to port to a tablet. It wouldn't support any of the games that I play. I'm lot likely to attempt to encode/re-encode anything. It won't be used as a TV server.
It's already capable of doing as much office type work that you will need right out of the box. It supports MP4, AVI, 3GP, MP3, AAC, WMA. Sure, it doesn't support.ogg or.ogv, but if you've encoded into those formats you're probably already on Android and you're not their target.
I've owned a Playbook and a Kindle Fire. The main problem with both has been integration with my existing devices. Seems to me that either RT or an 8 tablet would work equally well for what I might use it for. I still don't want one though.
I put together my HDHomeRun with a small antenna about a month ago & dropped my DirectTV sub.
MythTV skips a little bit during playback while to MediaPortal works just fine on my old P4 machine. Windows Media Center does an excellent job as well.
My only problem is some FM interference from a local WISP. It works quite well.
I wish I could have installed the antenna in the attic. Unfortunately, whoever ran the cable decided to run it through the wall instead of the attic. I mounted it to the same pole I had a satellite dish on, it works well enough.
That's a pretty in depth write up. I was about to give my recollection, but as a nuke I only got to push the boat (SSN-755 and SSN-719).
I don't know what types of ships we did ops with, but every time we did anti-sub exercises (including with helicopters dipping sonar) we had to make additional noise to provide "help" so we could be found.
If the ships were doing what I remember as "standard practice", they both knew the the corridor they were supposed to be operating in and they both knew what time they were supposed to be in each section. It seems to me that most of the blame would be with the sub crew, but I've never been on a periscope while surfacing. Perhaps if it was overcast, they might have had a difficult time in spotting a shadow, but that doesn't explain why they didn't have a sonar track on the other ship.*
*I should say that it would likely be a passive sonar track(just listening), not active sonar (insert ping sound here from every movie you've ever seen) .
Is it not possible to have a different front end while maintaining binary compatibility with the backend when deploying across multiple device types? Of course it is.
I can see the appeal of having everything unified. I just don't want it to feel like I need a shoehorn to perform actions that I am already accustomed to doing.
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Duckduckgo isn't a browser, it's a search engine. It doesn't just use Bing. It pulls from over 50 different sources for search results
From http://www.pcworld.com/article/245129/are_duckduckgos_bing_ties_a_problem_for_linux_mint_.html
Bing doesn't get your information. Duckduckgo is an intermediary in the process and duckduckgo doesn't store your information.
It's time to take off that tinfoil hat and start wrapping the house instead.
I'm getting a Google Error 500 (Server Error). I guess that's appropriate for an AC attempting to "call out" a security researcher?
If you can accomplish 100% of your task in Windows 7 and 80% in Linux, then why not just stay in Windows? **
**These numbers are from my own use. Debian partition on my own drive.
Even when the first iAnything came out, there were other products that did more, had better resolution, had more space, and supported formats other than aac & mp3.
It seems your your iPhone argument hinges on the fact that they had a touchscreen. Other phones were already running user initiated applications going way back to Palm and Windows devices. I just have to ask, exactly what was better about the iPhone? What is better about the iPhone now? The only thing you'll be able to say is that, subjectively, it's "better" for you. For me, not so much.
As for the iPod, again your arguments are purely subjective. From my perspective, there were better alternatives to iPod at every turn. Just about every Creative product at the time was superior. Alas, people really loved that wheel of the iPod. Does that make it better? Not to me.
So I again refute your last statement. It's not ignorance nor flamebait. It's merely a difference in opinion. (And I'm still using my superior Creative Labs Zen Vision M I bought in 2005).
In my house it's exactly the opposite. My Kindle Fire sits on my desk while I use the desktop. I've had a few tablets. They never saw much use and were sold. My wife had free reign of her choice. She wouldn't touch them either.
The Dreamcast didn't fail because of the controller. It failed after Sega rapidly put out Sega CD, the 32X followed quickly by the Saturn. They did all this despite some fierce competition with Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.
Nintendo has had some bad design choices in the past. I don't think this controller is one of those bad design choices. Time will tell.
Just stick with the Dewey decimal system. It's worked since 1876.
If you put Android on a TV or in a camera, it's not longer a TV or a camera. It's a computer. We already have those.
I'm still waiting to see one that's better.
It sounds like you're wanting the government to pick the winners and the losers. Let's let the free market handle this one. Corporations are people, my friend.
This is straight from the Google privacy page:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/key-terms/#toc-terms-sensitive-info
Read that again. It's opt-in only if it's "sensitive personal information". For everything else, unless you "opt out" you've already given Google your consent and they are free to share your information with other companies. For the types of things that are included in that *everything else* is a hellofawholelot.
Tell me I'm wearing a tinfoil hat, that's fine. I know Google isn't the worst of all companies. The real problem is scale. They're everywhere. If you're comfortable with giving up privacy for free stuff, that's certainly for you to decide. Google is waiting with open arms for you.
As far as the default settings for Win8 being atrocious, I can't comment. You didn't provide any specific concerns about them.
Why buy a closed device, when open devices like Googles Chromebook which is available cheaper and isn't locked. Excusing manufacturers for their abuse behaviour...and giving them money, never persuaded, and manufacturer to be more open.
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet. The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. The only difference between the grass is that different dogs shit on either side. I've flashed many different ROMs to my Kindle, I've owned a Playbook, I have a Linux netbook. Pretty much every OS sucks in it's own special way. If the only thing that sucks about WinRT is that it's "closed", then I'll take one.
He should have used the phone buster buster.
It's only been about a year since I started seeing support for my X-fi. It finally supports 5.1, but it's still missing bass channel redirection. That's pretty important in my book.
Let's not forget that we can knock out our children's teeth. Once they grow back we can knock them out again. Sure it's double dipping, but every penny counts.
You don't need to keep everything pinned to tiles. If you felt like it, you could just pin a folder with all your shortcuts to each group to the launcher.
What applications, if any, would you want to port to a tablet. It wouldn't support any of the games that I play. I'm lot likely to attempt to encode/re-encode anything. It won't be used as a TV server.
It's already capable of doing as much office type work that you will need right out of the box. It supports MP4, AVI, 3GP, MP3, AAC, WMA. Sure, it doesn't support .ogg or .ogv, but if you've encoded into those formats you're probably already on Android and you're not their target.
I've owned a Playbook and a Kindle Fire. The main problem with both has been integration with my existing devices. Seems to me that either RT or an 8 tablet would work equally well for what I might use it for. I still don't want one though.
The poor ministrations of the duties of the tech priests leads to decay. It's either that or it's been touched by Nurgle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
There are many variables that you seem to be skipping over.
The confusion is with people that keep stating that it's "Windows 8 RT" It's not "Windows 8 RT", it's "Windows RT".
I don't think too many people thought "Windows CE" or "Windows Mobile" would run legacy applications.
I put together my HDHomeRun with a small antenna about a month ago & dropped my DirectTV sub.
MythTV skips a little bit during playback while to MediaPortal works just fine on my old P4 machine. Windows Media Center does an excellent job as well.
My only problem is some FM interference from a local WISP. It works quite well.
I wish I could have installed the antenna in the attic. Unfortunately, whoever ran the cable decided to run it through the wall instead of the attic. I mounted it to the same pole I had a satellite dish on, it works well enough.
That's a pretty in depth write up. I was about to give my recollection, but as a nuke I only got to push the boat (SSN-755 and SSN-719).
I don't know what types of ships we did ops with, but every time we did anti-sub exercises (including with helicopters dipping sonar) we had to make additional noise to provide "help" so we could be found.
If the ships were doing what I remember as "standard practice", they both knew the the corridor they were supposed to be operating in and they both knew what time they were supposed to be in each section. It seems to me that most of the blame would be with the sub crew, but I've never been on a periscope while surfacing. Perhaps if it was overcast, they might have had a difficult time in spotting a shadow, but that doesn't explain why they didn't have a sonar track on the other ship.*
*I should say that it would likely be a passive sonar track(just listening), not active sonar (insert ping sound here from every movie you've ever seen) .
Is it not possible to have a different front end while maintaining binary compatibility with the backend when deploying across multiple device types? Of course it is.
I can see the appeal of having everything unified. I just don't want it to feel like I need a shoehorn to perform actions that I am already accustomed to doing.
I jumped through a few ROMS before I settled on the Hellfire Kindle Sandwich.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585814
Unless things have changed, you don't get hardware acceleration unless you're using some modified version of the stock ROM (hence the sandwich).
It runs reasonably well for what I do with it, which is next to nothing. If it wouldn't have been free, I wouldn't have it.
While I find Psy doing Gangnam funny, this article was not. It wasn't even interesting. It makes me sad that I even clicked one of the links.