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Comment Re:There is an alternative (Score 1) 495

Well the previous password manager allowed to get a list of all your saved passwords, and even sort them alphabetically.
Now it only shows passwords by domain and requires you to type the master password to display each one, every single time.
This was helpful to keep track of duplicated passwords reused on more than one site, either to fix them or update them. Now they have made password management difficult.
Another thing they removed is the ability to set when to expire history. People have different preferences, some would like their history to expire after 1 day, others may like to keep history for 30000 days, now it is internally decided by Mozilla when will your history expires.
Taking away choices is not a good practice.
And like you commented, there is some kind of phobia now to put things in dialog boxes, it has to either be on a bar or a tab.
Seamonkey was a browser/suite used by a small group of people (less than 0.2% of the market share?), that chose to use Seamonkey specifically for how it worked, and how it looked. Making this random changes will make people to continue using older vulnerable versions or finally change to a popular browser.

Comment Nokia is not free of guilt (Score 1) 158

On 2008 they released their online game store called NGAGE 2.0, but a year later they announced they were closing it. They shut down the activation servers earlier this year making it impossible to reinstall anything you legally bought from them. A lot of people usually complain about DRM, well Nokia did the worst use of it by locking out customers from their purchases. If their fate after the Microsoft deal is horrible, they may actually deserve it.

Comment Opinion about Nokia. (Score 1) 179

There are different opinions about Symbian here, some people want it to die, others feel sorry for its future, however my opinion is that Nokia had more issues that their operating system.

After using an N-Gage QD for several years, when it was announced the service was going to be replaced by a new platform, I looked into their new N-Series phones to replace mine.

Originally it was told that the N93 was going to support the N-Gage platform, but in the end, it didn't, I feel sorry for those who chose that model.
1) Nokia for years was unable to make their own software to work on their own phone.

I chose to buy an N95 8GB, I bought the American version because it used the same 3G band that it is used in my country, however the N-Gage software wasn't 100% compatible with the firmware of my phone and some buttons didn't worked well. It took several months for Nokia to release a new firmware yet the European version of the phone had its own version of the firmware with those bugs fixed long before. Something similar happened with the silver N95.
2) Even though all the phones were very similar, Nokia was alienating its customers by providing updates only to a certain group of people.

After that firmware update, Nokia forgot about my phone, all software updates were for the newer N96 and then the N97
3) Nokia was unable to keep old and new customers satisfied by providing them an improved experience every year, regardless of how old was their phone.

Two years later, the new N-Gage platform failed just like the original, and was replaced by the OVI store that included more software than just games. I used it too and once after purchasing one game it failed to install, I tried several times and then I got the message that I exceeded the number of installations and that I had to contact support. They took like 4 months to answer my ticket. I even wrote to The Consumerist, but they didn't care either.
4) Worst support ever.

Eventually they announced that the N-Gage service was gone for good, making it impossible to re-activate purchased games after reformatting the phone (or a firmware reload/upgrade) which I had to, so I have lost forever the 21 games I bought.
5) DRM at its worst, yet nobody anywhere talk about what Nokia did.

I don't know how Nokia can do worse with their services, the Microsoft deal looks like an improvement.

(PD: I was never able to use a N900, because they didn't release the phone with a 3G band I could use.)

Comment It is a good prediction. (Score 1) 104

Why most of the people commenting on this thread lack vision or are so obtuse?

"spending half your fingers holding the thing? Crappy sound or at best stereo headphone speaker sound? 3-5 inch screens?"

"donotwant tag desired! We love to play our games on our consoles, with a huge TV"

"playing a game on a big screen with a decent sound system seems like a much more enjoyable experience than tiny, unhandy controls and shitty sound."

What would limit a 2020s super powered mobile device to be connected through HDMI (or something newer) to a 7680 x 4320 52 inch screen and then use 4 additional wireless controllers to turn this hand-held into a complete 4-player console?

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