FF has this built in natively
Also, given privacy concerns today and EVERYONE trying to monetise personal info, I'd rather save them to a USB stick or not bother.
Also you can email links, though email might not be private.
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"There are two groups of people using Linux"
Increasingly a third group who are fed up with Windows GUI going backwards. MS data slurping. The way updates work.
I've used Linux on machines OTHER than main Windows Laptop seriously since 1999. Last year it became my main everyday use on my new laptop,
I've used Mac OS9 and Mac OS X on other people's Apples and far better than Win 9x. But couldn't see the point of extra cost compared to PROPERLY configured Windows XP, besides by 2007 my main reason to run Windows was to keep running windows SW I'd bought, not on Mac or Linux.
I bought an Apple II, real waste of money compared to a more expensive S100 box by time it was upgraded.
Also it will be less reliable. Extra complexity,
Stupid design of display.
Crazy expensive (only partly due to extra costs).
Though the best thing for Electronics would be to allow lead in solder. Just don't dump in landfill and it's fine. Look at lead recycling of car batteries. Lead would dramatically reduce failure rates and scrappage which has reached epidemic proportions.
I found this too. It was a nightmare finding the 3 or 4 Android Apps I have on phone and Tablet.
Very many downloads and tests required to find
1) Note taking
2) Word processor
3) Signal Generator
4) MP3 player able to automatically store last position in every file (needed for audio books).
They do not clearly identify if crippled or having adverts. I'm not averse to paying money, but won't pay it for random advert or malware invested garbage. I actually BOUGHT a keyboard map editor for my Android tablet so I could use the USB keyboard the same way as on Linux for text editing etc. Needed to have áéíóú ÁÉÍÚÓ and € !
What is it with small USB and BT keyboards having no AltGr/Special/Extended entry key? We don't all want to be locked to the basic characters on USA standard.
Qualcomm should not be allowed to buy NXP, for various reasons. One is their ambitions as Patent Troll. If Broadcom ended Qualcomm's royalty approach (which ought to be illegal), it would be good.
TI bought National. ADI bought Linear Tech. Intel bought Altera. Microchip bought AVR. I don't see a huge competition issue on Broadcom buying Qualcomm as long Qualcomm does not get NXP (not approved yet in EU last time I looked).
My excellent digital camera uses a 4 M byte flash (for stills, the video is on 8mm tape!).
I have some 32 M Byte SD cards
I have a few 4G SD cards and CF cards.
I put an adaptor in the EE PC to replace its 4G Flash PCB with a CF socket. It has a 32G card in it, allowing in place updates to the Linux Mint + Mate desktop on it.
No mistype on the Ms above.
I remember PDAs with 64K static RAM based CF cards using coin cell for backup before Flash was available. Mid 1980s.
Is the smallest the IBM PC type Clock/RAM chip on some portable gadgets in late 1980s with 64 bytes RAM kept alive by a coin cell (5 years)? I recovered some of those on old 486 & Pentium I wanted to keep that had the battery epoxied in. Easy with a Dremel type cutter and possible with knife to cut case and solder a CR2032 holder instead of the now flat battery. Some old PCs will not do ANYTHING at power on if the battery is dead and/or CMOS corrupt. There ARE things that need an old PC.
So like Windows for Workgroups, but in the Cloud and trust Microsoft, the company that has had inappropriate services defaults and other settings on EVERY Server OS, SBS, NT Workstation, Win 3.x /Win9x, web browser. email client etc they ever released.
MS themselves don't understand most of what they are doing, or the Win 8 and Win 10 for desktop would have /would be radically different.
This will end in tears. For the SOHO and SME.
Printed recycled toilet paper and a pencil is actually a better solution than any electronic voting machine. The track record on computer security is such that if these are really secure, the designer should get a Nobel prize and design a phone, tablet, laptop, server etc OS.
HMS Sheffield, Falklands
Sinking of the fleeing Argentinian ship.
Earlier: Deliberate targeting of German civilians in WWII so Hitler would switch from attacking aerodromes. Continued use so Hitler would waste resources on V weapons. Dresden.
Selling of Harriers, pointless naval procurements. F35.
Rent nukes from USA and cancel UK nukes and UK space program.
Mistreatment of recruits, esp. women and then cover-ups.
Mistreatment of Cadets.
Not indulgences because you didn't HAVE to buy them, but avoiding being burnt as a heretic by either side, or getting the Inquisition to go away needed money. It was safer to be accused of witchcraft, most got off and if not, hanging rather than the torture and bonfire.
a) The GLASS may go to the edge. Even at the sides the IMAGE does NOT.
b) The NOTCH is a gimmick. The extra screen either side of the camera notch is useless for web or documents, only good for a couple of touch buttons or status indicators.
No Apple phone has an Edge to Edge image screen. Putting the glass to the edge is stupidity as it makes connections less reliable and the glass more prone to damage.
Though people put stupid "rubber bumper" and other covers on their iPhones. I regard a phone that needs a bumper as a design fail. My Nokias, Sagem and now Sony phone have all survived dropping, except the E65 didn't like immersion in water. Pity. Actually I had an iPhone 4s, S/H, it survived dropping too. Gave it to a friend recently.
You forgot
6) Different SIM (or none so Apple can be in control and make swapping phones or operators harder
7) No SD card
8) Have to use iTunes instead of Mass Storage to transfer music or photos
9) No FM radio, even though you can buy a WiFi Chip with it "free". Cheaper phones have great FM radios
10) Bad aerial designs, because they care more about their concept of appearance
11) Bad design of Touch controller IC mounting
12) Blocking 3rd party repairs
13) Difficult to replace batteries
14) Charghing for 2nd year warrenty in EU, where SOGA gives two years
15) two to five times profit margin on phones compared to similar feature/quality others.
16) 3.5mm phone jack, compatible cheaply with EVERYTHING and can easily be higher quality than Bluetooth (which needs another pair of codecs). The transducer to eardrum is an analogue signal.
17) No SD card slot.
My Sony Xperia has standard SIM, replacable cell, SD slot and is thinner, better signal than similar era iPhone.
My Wristwatch phone works on Roaming, has micro SIM, Micro SD card, camera, voice recording, bluetooth control of phone media and camera, earphone option, media playback (internal or phone), works as handsfree for phone and makes two way calls ON ITS OWN, without a phone mothership (only GSM, but it is a five year old design and under $30).
Apple stuff is fairly decent, up to iPhone 6. Now they are taking the piss. Interesting how well iPhone 6 sells. Same on newer model Mac Pro (aka waste bin). They have lost the fact that it must not just look nice and review good, but actually WORK!
every android device has the option to opt out of all Google stuff. Its clearly presented during device setup.
Not true.
a) it becomes a feature phone at best if a phone
b) Android TV: Accept all these T&C or don't tune the TV set, or set it up at all! At least true on the 4K Sony. Fortunately I only want to play PC/phone/Tablet/VHS/DVD/BD and watch off air Telly on it, so the network is never being connected.
c) Google and WiFi slurp while street view, or reading 3rd party emails: Can anyone actually believe what they claim anyway?
So it tells Google where you are and what you are pairing with?
No thanks and they should be fined and managers face criminal prosecution every time they steal a bit more of your privacy. Google are ALREADY illegal, but just not prosecuted yet in EU and many other countries with similar laws.
Sometimes "solutions" to "first world" problems are like a contract with the Fay Folk, the humans always lose.
My 2008 Ford Fusion Diesel Style insisted a door was open. I discovered that instead of cheap easily replaced "buttons" on the door frame that it has horribly expensive locks with the switch built in.
Except the hatch! It had a barely microswitch in a flimsy housing beside the lever/catch of the lock. A suitable size self tapping screw secured the cheap nasty switch in the correct place. You can hardly even see the recessed screw head in the cavity between hatch and lock mechanism. Seems a bizarre cost saving. I was relieved it wasn't a door lock.
Periodically it won't UNLOCK, except with the key in the lock. I ALWAYS check the door handle on locking in case someone is planning theft by running a jammer. My hearing is not great, so I don't always hear it lock.
While I'm at it, why is there a Bluetooth module behind passenger "glove compartment", BT menu on the radio but it can't hear a BT phone nor voice commands. Removing radio reveals that the mic pins have no wires. I tried electret and dynamic microphones. It behaves as if there is no microphone on internal voice command mode or BT paired (you can hear incoming call on radio, but can't talk back as BT pairing disables phone's internal microphone). Puzzling. Internet searches are not enlightening.
I'm not going back to Subscription TV or Video, EVER. I MIGHT consider it if there was per film/series rental at a sensible price. Unless you are junkie for all the latest lowest common denominator / "Popular" US output, then "subscription" is a rip off.
I have no interest in supporting Amazon Fire, misnamed Apple TV or Google Chromecast as they are part subsidised by subscription and also spying on you. I had to remove Amazon Reader Apps from everything and only transfer to the dedicated Amazon and Kobi eink ereaders via USB. I use non-spying media and eReader apps on my phone and tablet now.
Nor do I want adverts not in Live TV.
As far as I'm concerned "that enormously valuable data on user selections for a vague sense of improved customer experience" is immoral and may even be illegal in EU. This is why my Sony "Smart" TV with Android TV and malicious T&C when you tune aerial input has no network connection at all. Otherwise it could do practically all any media box can do.
Or dedicate a suitable laptop running a suitable OS and a long HDMI cable (or HDMI Wireless link). Total flexibility, easy to update codes, can store all your own media, no walled garden.
Assuming it does 50Hz AND 60Hz refresh. I'm still using an old PC as its graphics card does 50fps and 60fps and decent de-interlacing. Also takes 2 x PCI DVB-S2 satellite tuners and a USB DVB-T stick so that FTA TV can be recorded without the pesky encryption on Sony TV or Humax satellite set box.
Maybe though the UK scaleups (what's a scaleup?) find it easier to learn American than German/French/Italian/Dutch/Polish?
American is superficially similar, though UK only has sport, and USA Sports. Also USA have less kinds of sums, math rather than maths.
Likely these scaleups can learn the alternate USA words and phrases in a day or two.
IN the battery!
Which is why some cheap toys warn you NOT to fit rechargeable batteries. A short on Zinc Carbon runs it flat. A short on alkaline might melt covering on the wiring. A short on AA NiCd or NiMH sets the plastic case on fire due to the wires going like a toaster element.
Shorting a larger lithium cell or stack of cells can be explosive. Say twenty CR2032 tightly stacked.
I'm not sure how good an idea the single use lithium based cells and batteries are designed to replace Alkaline or Zinc Carbon in consumer electronics.
Seems to be an issue with EVERY rechargeable cell except Lead Acid? Not sure about Nickel Iron (obsolete) or Silver Zinc (used 1950s Military in USSR, too expensive.)
With NiCd, a quick pulse from a car battery (very dangerous!) could destroy whiskers.
AF117 transistors suffered from tin dendrites/whiskers growing in the gel and shorting the transistor. They will even grow in air if there is the right conditions and too much tin plating.
So no surprise that Lithium cells recharging suffer from this.
Found it XKCD Constructive Approx 2013
So regarded as inevitable 4 years ago?
Less relevant, but related XKCD Suspicion
Note test is called VK
A) This is old news
B) "Training" (Really adding a to a database) with loads of examples isn't real AI. Real humans don't need loads of examples. Three year old human vs computer "learning" what a hot dog is.
C) OCR once needed special letters, then by 1976 Ray Kurzweil had got OCR to work with almost any font (omnifont). Then he proceeded to build a machine that with synthetic voice could read books to the blind.
As computers have got better at captchas (a stupid name), they made them harder to the point where humans find them difficult. The ones on eBay are horrid.
It was absolutely inevitable that further development of OCR would make the captcha useless. It's not AI. Just incremental development of specialist algorithm with a larger database. Google has been using the captcha system* to improve their OCR on their Google Books scanning program (which initially was very very poor compared to human proof read OCR teams of Project Gutenberg).
So nothing surprising about this.
[* Google only offers something if they get benefit, in this case improvements in OCR of real books]
Apologies, pasted from Wikipedia:
Hudson was continuing development and that Jenkins was a fork; the Jenkins developers considered Hudson to be the fork.
Interest in Hudson collapsed thereafter. Eventually Oracle donated the remaining Hudson project assets to the Eclipse Foundation at the end of 2012
OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999, for internal use. Later they released it as Open Source. In 2011 Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the suite and soon after donated the project to the Apache Foundation. It was forked as LibreOffice in 2010.
What else has had a Forking that Oracle Borged?
Ah, but this is the closest to pre-September Usenet. I try not to be tasteless, but if I was put off by some being tasteless, I'd have left years ago.
Probably 23 Nov 2007 was when I changed my user name from Madge, joined 7 Sep 2007, but only 20 posts (user 9464), so I probably had an earlier name.
I heard Solaris development is a little slow these days? Rumours of it even ending.
It was a must have when you couldn't get a decent spec PC and Linux was in infancy and you wanted a Telco / ISP back end or a real Sun workstation.
Maybe if Oracle hadn't bought Sun, but OTOH, with the collapse of the non-PC workstation market and inability of Sun to re-invent themselves like IBM (services) or Apple (iPod and then iPhone saved them) perhaps Solaris would have bit the dust ages ago. Where are Silicon Graphics, Apollo Computer, DEC (Digital) today? Or even Wang, Nixdorf, AST, ACT and Compaq?
Still, a pity someone else didn't buy Java and/or Solaris. Mind you I struggle to think of anyone "nice" left from the old days (before 1993).
I love innovation, but if I have to choose, I want STABLE on the production / consumer / whatever system and innovation only on the prototype, in house , the lab TILL it's stable.
A constant "upgrade" cycle of so called innovation that is often tinkering, political or graphic/industrial designer insanity unrelated to user needs and ergonomics isn't innovation. It's change for change's sake!
No, you don't. Where are private paid options? There is no privacy respecting service from Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc.
This is NOTHING to do with innovation. It's everything to do with immoral abuse of information to suit PERCEIVED need not particularly even of Advertisers, but the Advert agency/publishers (Google, Facebook, Amazon etc). Adverts can be served on the Internet without cookies, serialised clear image pixels, javascript etc. Just a link on an image. Count the image loads and the clicks, anything more is an invasion of privacy and exploitation. Also the current model makes it too easy so serve malware as it's so hard to whitelist / blacklist the stupid quantity of domains used on some sites, just for cookies and javascript for so called analytics (advertising information) and adverts.
I think almost all consumer electrical products are now pretty rubbish.
Bad ergonomics
Insecure
Short life due to too poor capacitors
Short life due to post design cost reduction
Unreliable and poor operation due to cost reduction
Inability to perform / short life due to excessive power saving (Lights, Dishwasher, toaster etc).
Perhaps we should call them stupidly designed gadgets bought by people with more money than sense.
Though it's hard to get things WITHOUT internet built in. The solution is DON'T connect them to your WiFi or ethernet.
Why has "Marketing" and "Media" decided that something connected to Internet makes it "smart". It would be nice if I could use the ethernet on my Sony TV to say, browse and play stuff on the server, in practice the Android TV GUI is a joke, the T&C you must agree to Google/Sony Slurp just to tune aerial is an insult (Is it even legal?), the inability to record on a USB HDD unless it's dedicated, wiped and encrypted, the voice control, monitoring of what the HDMI BD/DVD player does etc means that it's just a crippled version of TV that's not "Smart". No way am I connecting ANY setbox or TV today to the Internet/my LAN.
This is why Linkedin, Whatsapp/Facebook Google/Gmail/YouTube, Amazon/Goodreads/IMDB, Twitter etc have to be FORCED to obey the law. With significant fines per user infringed to management. A £1.2M or even £20M fine to the company is merely a cost of doing business.
There needs to be viable 3rd party auditing,
I'm shocked by the amount of MY personal information and photos that OTHER people, whom I thought intelligent and sane have shared on so called "Social Media". They don't seem to realise it can be abusive, it can be illegal and it's certainly immoral. Some are family members that should know better. They don't stop either.
It's worse than them paying to publish it in the local newspaper, or pasting it on the Library/Post Office Community board. Most (all?) have set no privacy settings and use their real names and don't get it that email is acceptable to share something with someone else in the family, but Whats App, Instagram, Facebook etc is not. It's public.
a) They'd hide it / make it pre ticked / wjhatever
b) They, like MS Linkedin, want ALL you contacts. You have no moral or legal right to give other people's contact details to a 3rd party without permission. Especially to a company.
c) Without audited regulator oversight none of these companies can be trusted to comply with any laws or even pay tax.
Yes, some couriers here partner with petrol stations & convenience stores. Amazingly the Irish postal service offers a courier service with UK address and USA address. You can on some services get delivery to local post office. If home delivery fails it's at the local sorting office.
Amazon USA could partner with "7-11" or someone. This scheme is insecure. Watching by phone isn't good enough. Technology for tech's sake when non-technological solutions already exist and are more secure.
At least it's OPTIONAL! Simples DON'T sign up for it!
I wonder what the insurance companies think of it?
The proposals are too vague, ambiguous and confusing to data providers. It's unnecessary.
What do they mean by "raw" or "unorganized"? Such a thing hardly exists.
Mostly illegal in EU if any personal data and immoral anyway.
Data sharing is totally unrelated to Open Source.
Obviously certain kinds of specialist data might be part of piece of software (such ISO character maps, national flags, ISO country names). No new licence should be needed.
This is just giving critics of Linux and Open Source a stick to beat us open source supporters.
IPs do not always indicate your location / country accurately.
In the EU, if the service is in the EU it's probably illegal.
Geoblock also DVD regions and BD regions are just greed. Either it's free and it should work anywhere, or you pay and it should work anywhere. Obviously Broadcast on satellite beams, cable networks and Terrestrial transmitters should be exempt.
HDCP on HDMI is a nasty tax and pirates pirate elsewhere.
TVs and setboxes that encrypt external HDD COMPLETELY even for FTA TV is evil. Hello Sony & Humax?