Comment Re:They're not astronauts, they're ballast. (Score 1) 77
OK, I see. Google has different versions of the "define" functionality running. The version with "a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft" doesn't rely on wikipedia.
OK, I see. Google has different versions of the "define" functionality running. The version with "a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft" doesn't rely on wikipedia.
Webdefinitions are one of the things I hate on google: People think it is google, while in fact it is Wikipedia. Instead of proper attribution (naming the author, the license, and so on), they just add a link to the site, and call it "web definition". And people who don't read the link think the information comes from google.
Yeah, don't store the stuff locally because that needs power and then stream the content over the air instead, because that doesn't need power.
Its only to drive people to use cloud services and buy the expensive model for more capacity. Apple would be stupid to satisfy its users.
"BUY" seems to be a generic term to me.
Except that of course. But when you refuse to install the CDM, you will only be stopped from using DRM'ed content. All other stuff nondrm-ed {games, videos, etc} will be accessible without plugins.
Dropbox should open-source its desktop client to prove it does what it is supposed to.
And I guess you can only use it with the intel super-bloat app which ships with your device, and has a trial of 40 days, after which it costs money, and needs an intel.com account.
Will there be free drivers or at least a datasheet?
36 is the "earliest version": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s....
So everything is still broken, and it needs at least till 40 until its reliably usable.
Its also a general issue of browser plugins dying out. Silverlight and Flash had a reason when they were created. The web didn't support the things people wanted to use it for. Browsers were immature, and every browser and every version of a browser rendered different results. In the past decade, the browser vendors and w3c have worked hard to create an unified standardized platform to work on. With this platform, plugins are just obsolete. Even today they are a major cause for browser crashes. With IE11, even microsoft has added a serious contribution.
I fully understand why they did the google layer. Its the only way to make money with android. And the google layer gives google control over fragmentation. And things do work properly even without the google layer.
Its also reasonable to centralize the push message system, as you
In this competition the involved countries will only lose.
Don't forget Webkit and Darwin. Does anybody actually use Darwin?
OK, they published Android, but they didn't fork linux. Linux is a kernel, not an OS. And even if they forked linux, every distro has its own "fork" of the kernel.
They didn't kill the Skype linux version yet: http://www.skype.com/en/downlo...
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