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Comment Re: Shocking. (Score 0) 33

Also no it's not the only way people can contribute. How much have you donated? Or let me guess, you only care about using the product for free and thing bug reporting is worth its weight in gold?

Maybe you guys should just add price tags to all bug reports so users know how much they need to pay for you to care. Lots of goalpost moving here. First you give the ol' cliche "if you want it fixed, get coding" to now bringing how much one has contributed financially into it. You're making commercial software sound preferable. At least then we know the relationship is transactional up front.

Comment Re:Are they making a profit yet??? (Score 1) 47

That's not necessarily true in the slightest.
If it is, they won't be able to hide that- they're a publicly traded company. And lying about it is literally a federal crime.

It's not lying about it. There's no requirement a company line-item every single product on earnings. Apple has been doing it for years in their reporting, that's why none of the rumors sites can give hard numbers on how badly the iPhone Mini flopped (or the iPhone Air is flopping now) -- Apple has them reported mixed with the more successful models. Their "services" category in earnings includes AppleCare, iCloud, Apple Music subscriptions, App Store fees, and even the Google Search licensing payment. Here is one of their 10Q filings if you want to see for yourself. There is no breakdown of those individual services listed.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 62

Devices like that normally advertise (or at least mention it) on the product page. It's supposed to be a security feature.

I don't have any personal experience owning a Windows S device, but I feel like I've looked at it before and simply trying to open a command prompt triggers a message about it and steers you to a setting to disable the S mode, with lots of scary language added about how if you do there is no way to put it back.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 62

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I forget what 8 was for.

It was supposed to make Windows universal on personal computers, tablets, and smartphones. One interface for all three. Apps that ran on all three. Normalize an app store that set guardrails up on what you did on your computer, and brought Microsoft revenue just like the iOS App Store does Apple.

Comment How much more "AI" do we need in Firefox? (Score 1) 42

This seems rather redundant with the AI Sidebar feature they already have. I can interact with a chatbot whenever I want with their existing tool. I guess the difference here is the AI will be watching the browsing to assist you further? Funny how we went to fearing third-party cookies and cross-site scripting to asking a third-party to shoulder surf while we use the Internet.

Also curious what Mozilla as a company is going to focus on after this. Doesn't seem like there is much more AI they can distract themselves with beyond making the browser completely chatbot voice-controlled so you have to verbally ask the computer to see sites.

Comment What? (Score 1) 111

Developers of Aldol blamed poor lighting and calibration issues for the collapse, saying the robot's stereo cameras are sensitive to light and the hall was dark.

Wouldn't sensitive cameras be what you want in the case of navigating an environment in low lighting?
Also, have they heard of LiDAR?

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