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by scholia 10y ago
If you check Politifact http://www.politifact.com/ you'll find that most of what Clinton says is mostly true, whereas practically everything Trump says is mostly false. Fox, like Trump, doesn't feel the need to te
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by scholia 10y ago
Facebook says: "The list of Trending Topics is then personalized for each user via an algorithm that relies on a number of factors, including the importance of the topic, Pages a person has liked, location (e.g.. home state sports new
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by scholia 10y ago
The "conservative media ecosystem" in the USA is detached from reality. That was vividly illustrated by the shock at Fox News when Obama won in 2012. They evidently believed enough of their own lies that they couldn't handle
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by scholia 10y ago
Facebook dropped algorithmic news curation "after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users’ feeds". Its current "agenda" is based on reputable news sources, plus Fox Ne
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by scholia 10y ago
They don't need to build a desktop program for Windows 7 when they can show video in a browser. The advantage of building a Universal app using Windows Runtime is that it will run on Windows 8/8.1/10, Xbox One and Windows Pho
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by scholia 10y ago
Windows 7 doesn't provide the Windows Runtime infrastructure to support sandboxed, remotely-maintained, universal apps. They'd have to write a new desktop program, and that's pretty unlikely.
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by scholia 10y ago
Really? Why not?
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by scholia 10y ago
Vivaldi is (a) new; (b) based on Chromium; and (c) not actually open source. (I use both Vivaldi and Firefox, but not Chrome.) Historically, Firefox has been the main user-entered browser, but not the only one. Especially if you include for
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by scholia 10y ago
First, the app only works on Windows 8/8.1/10 and a lot of people are still running earlier versions of Windows. Second, many of the people running Windows 8/8.1/10 know so little about apps that they're "again
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by scholia 10y ago
There are extensions like Session Manager that list all the tabs after a crash, so you can uncheck the ones you don't want to reload. I don't know if there is one for Chrome on mobile, but it might be worth a look....
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes. What I do now is save the page as an mhtml file so I can read it later without having to find it again. (Chrome should really offer better mhtml support.)
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by scholia 10y ago
Agreed. It would also be nice to limit the number of separate processes that Chrome uses. It's interesting to compare RAM/resource usage of a blank page in Google Docs in Chrome with a lightweight program such as Microsoft Word ;-
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by scholia 10y ago
They accumulate. Every day there are two or three pages you intend to read later, so you leave them open. A month later, you have an extra 100 tabs loaded. After six months, you have 600. There are also clusters of tabs associated with some
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by scholia 10y ago
Maybe the pages got bigger? On my Windows 7 PC, FF still handles a lot more tabs than Chrome, typically 2x or 3x as many. Where Firefox falls over is with really heavy pages, such as infinite-scrolling image/gif sites. It's much b
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by scholia 10y ago
I'm amazed you can load that many tabs in Chrome. I got to 608 in Firefox (in 4GB) but that's with most of them suspended. And Firefox makes it much easier to find the tabs you want..... Incidentally, recent builds of the Chromium
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by scholia 10y ago
Have you tried a chorded keyboard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
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by scholia 10y ago
There's a longer and more informative story at UW Today: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-t...
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by scholia 10y ago
Have you tried hiding the Hillary/Trump posts and interacting with the friends whose updates you want to see? Or you could just install Social Fixer, and control your feed that way. However, in my experience, it's quite hard to pr
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by scholia 10y ago
True, but it became tired and tiresome more than a decade ago. It may well be costing them a lot of readers....
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by scholia 10y ago
True. Lotus Notes on a Mac in particular ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Well, Microsoft is basically a licensing business so the profit margin should correctly be 100%. Unfortunately, it also has to create stuff to license (ie pay for R&D) and incur some marketing, support and other costs, so that reduces t
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by scholia 10y ago
Lists are pretty much hidden in the desktop version, along with Advanced Search. I assume these are too geeky for the target audience....
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by scholia 10y ago
The market expanded much more dramatically in the 1990s, after Sculley left. Of course, that massive expansion was kicked off by Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95. Microsoft's annual turnover went from $3.75bn in 1993 -- less than half A
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by scholia 10y ago
Sculley was a success at Apple: he took annual revenues from $0.98bn in 1983 to $8.00bn in 1993. After Steve Jobs's Macintosh flopped, Sculley saved it with the Mac II. Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997 when turnover was $7.078bn, after whic
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by scholia 11y ago
This is a Travel section article about Dublin. Just 2km to the southeast, the Grand Canal dock area is a good alternative to the often busy and touristy centre. "I love this area as it is modern, peaceful and near all the big tech com
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by scholia 11y ago
Wintel provided the mass market that enabled the economies of scale that drove down prices. Linux has piggybacked on that. Linux was written for the 386....
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by scholia 11y ago
We had already had an "AI is The Future" boom in the 1970s-1980s, rapidly followed by the "AI Winter". (1) Also, we already had government-backed standard networking with OSI. The US, UK and EU governments were big OSI b
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by scholia 11y ago
You can still build your own PC today ;-) Compaq's pricing was clever. If you bought one, everyone knew you bought it because it was better, not because it was cheaper than the IBM model. (And it was better because Compaq was shipping
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by scholia 11y ago
In theory, yes, but Apple sells premium products at premium prices and many people actually like paying more. There's inevitably a show-off element to it, but I think there's psychological research to show that people appreciate
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by scholia 11y ago
More competitive pricing would reduce margins. Apple has chosen to pursue high margins and high profits rather than market share. That's how it accumulated roughly $200 billion in cash.

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