Chrome used to be this before Google bought doubleclick, then everything changed. Well maybe not memory efficient.

Seriously ad's can't get through if you block a few javascript API's. Javascript can't do anything without certain API's and access to the DOM. We know what API's/DOM get abused, lets create ways of letting users easily block those. Website abuses contextmenu functions. Let me block that easily.

Google even had it in their comics about how a popup would be minimized to the corner and required a user to drag it out before it would even render. Blocked a ton of annoying ad's. That is until Doubleclick was purchased.

It's annoyed me so much I even found the point that they refactored the code. I don't have the time or the understanding of the greater codebase to create a patch to add those features back in.

How is airbnb or many of these other startups tech companies?

Sure they use technology, but so does the grocery store down the street. Should we start labeling grocery stores as tech companies that have websites? If your main product isn't technology and instead you use some inhouse custom built website/app to sell some other product or service then your company isn't a tech company but a company that uses tech to enable your business model.

Lyft/uber/airbnb/ aren't tech companies They are something else. I wish they would stop masquerading.

No you can't remove the dots. You can however turn it into a number after doing a little math for each section.

Tesla autopilot is the roomba of self driving cars. It's enough to generate interest in self driving cars and will spur more development till we have something more intelligent.The roomba would blindly go in circles but now we have vacuum cleaners that scan the room and create optimal paths.

It's a step in the correct direction.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but a golf ball hitting a windshield going at highway speeds could cause quite the crash and potential death.

Better safe then sorry.

Then the rest do subpar work or are looking for another job.

Moral in a company is very important more so then just someone's cert lasping.

Older versions do. Apple has switched over to PF.

iMessage was a fix to a price issue, a political issue, and a control issue.

If cell phone companies weren't charging so much for something that should be free Apple would have had less incentive to come up with a solution that worked around them.

We should have extended sms/mms to include encryption and for it to be free worldwide. Instead we get a bunch of solutions that don't work with one another.

What is your deal? I've seen you post this comment almost word for word on various other sites.

You've got some good points. But a lot of your argument doesn't seem to be about those points. Your argument seems to mostly have a emotional basis to it. As if you don't like the company/ies involved for whatever reason that you don't seem to be saying.

T-Mobile just has to maintain the cdma network for a little while. Years perhaps. Customer and hardware turnover will get customers onto hspa/lte compatible hardware. A lot of MetroPCS customers already have lte compatible devices. From the google search I see that it's hardware that's able to handle VoLTE. T-Mobile can make a push to improve the lte coverage and current MetroPCS hardware will be able to work without the cdma network. In the meantime they can continue to roam onto sprints network.

The maintenance of four different networks isn't really even a big deal. With the tower equipment that T-Mobile is using and deploying is capable of running all four with either a software update or very little hardware changes. I feel that you are also being a bit disingenuous with this argument since 2GSM UMTS/HSPA and LTE are in the 3gsm family and were designed to do handoffs with each other, cdma and lte were not so much.

As for the FCC requirements you don't actually know that the fcc is going to do that. The last few years it's been the two big dogs that have been making acquisitions. Those are different stories and I wouldn't use them as examples for a company the size of the new T-Mobile. If the new T-Mobile does indeed have to give up some spectrum we won't and don't know how much.

The technical issues you listed just don't seem to be that big of an issue. This is a business move. This is about combining two companies for the synergies. The real winner here is Deutsche Telekom. Which can sell off stock slowly from the newly formed company.

You're real reasons really show through when you decided to use that last sentence "This is a terrible, terrible, idea, and the people behind it are terrible, terrible, people." So again I ask. What's your deal?
 

The ram maxes out at 4GB per process. Not per system. LPAE allows memory to be addressed up to 40bits

Serial ports may not be fast but they are very useful for low bandwidth tasks. One I use all the time is for console.

39/3.9 Buying t mobile is about ten times more expensive then just upgrading the network. Not 1/4

This should be in Rob Malda's circle.

I have it disabled since it's buggy and it's a huge security risk.