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Comment Re:Fallout from MS/B&N settlement? (Score 1) 68

Until recently, Edge was a Microsoft-developed web browser, which apparently had epub support. That Edge browser is being retired. It's being replaced with a Microsoft-flavored release of Chromium rebranded as Edge. Chromium apparently does not have epub support, so the new Edge will not have epub support.

Comment Re:It says how to delete an item on the page (Score 1) 140

It really is as simple as this. The purchases view is essentially a condensed e-mail listing view showing only specific information from specific information. Remove the e-mail, and once the purchase view updates, it's removed from there.

For anyone who says you shouldn't have to delete the e-mail: if Google has the e-mail, they have the information, so what's the issue with whether you have two views or one for that same information?

For anyone who says Google will just retain the information internally after you delete the e-mail, you probably shouldn't be using a Gmail account.

Comment Re:Yes Stand at a busy corner and watch (Score 4, Informative) 170

I won't even cross when there are cars in the right-hand lane at a corner unless the driver has fully stopped at the corner and looked right at me (so I know they know I am there). This even applies to when I have the signal light to cross (as opposed to no traffic lights), because I could be stepping out into the street and still have someone speed up to the corner, slow a little, then turn and pass right in front of me.

Plenty of people slow down as they reach the corner, while looking at the phone by their lap, glance up to the left to ensure there's no oncoming traffic, then look back down and make their right-turn without looking for pedestrians. Since I don't drive, I get in a lot of walking, and see this all the time.

Comment Re:So in other words.. (Score 1) 71

Not quite. You still have your save data on your Switch, completely accessible offline. Once you play your games after your online subscription expires, the online copies will be outdated anyways.

And if you don't pay for online long enough, then they aren't holding onto a copy of your save data any longer, so it's not held hostage for money for very long.

I do wonder how long it takes before they delete saves. Are we talking two weeks, or six months?

Would be nice to have an offline backup to SD card option.

Comment Re:This is very very welcome...but... (Score 1) 171

The main one for me is tables. In LibreOffice Calc, I can give a range a name, and I can add an AutoFilter, and I can create my own total row, and I'm sure I can put together some kind of nice style for the table of data, with alternating row colors. In Excel, it's a one-click action. From there, I can also easily add a formula to a cell, and have to copy down to all rows. Each row has its own name, making formulas referring to cells within the table easier to read.

There have been other Excel niceties missing from OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc that have slowly appeared over time, so I hesitate to point out anything else as it may have been resolved already. Tables are simply the one that stick out the most.

I don't use spreadsheets very often at home, but when I do, I typically find pain points in things that are quick and effortless do to in Excel. (I think I'm on Excel...2016? at work.) For my limited home use, I wouldn't call the lack of tables a showstopper, but it would be if I tried using something other than Excel at work.

Comment Re:First rule when you find yourself in a hole - (Score 1) 344

Still, this doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as some human drivers. I can be near fully across a crosswalk, and will have a line of cars making their right-turn-on-red in front of me while I'm standing five feet away in the middle of the road on the crosswalk, waiting for my crosswalk light to turn into a solid hand.

While that exact situation is rare for me (line of cars ignoring me standing in the crosswalk), I'd say any time I'm out walking for more than an hour, I get at least one person in the right-hand lane doing a right-hand turn when I'm approaching and 3/4 of the way across the street, in a marked crosswalk.

I've learned to look at the driver of every car I pass when walking across the street, and I slow to a stop if the driver in an approaching vehicle isn't paying attention. (Occasionally people take that right-hand turn while looking down the whole time. In other lanes, plenty of people look down while coasting to a stop at a red light.)

If I ever see a car without a driver while I'm crossing, I'll treat it like I would a texting driver, and will wait for it to stop completely before I I pass in front of it, just in case. And then I'll pass by as quickly as possible, hoping if it starts moving again, I'm fast enough to get out of its way.

Comment More than half a million people without a computer (Score 1) 108

A 2015 study conducted by New York City found that more than a quarter of city households had no internet connectivity at home, and more than half a million people didn't own their own computer...

In the past few years, I've found more and more people who no longer touch their desktop computer at home. With their smartphone, they have no need for a desktop computer anymore. I'm curious how many of the half a million people mentioned here have smartphones, and how many are old people who are not interested in computers and the Internet.

Comment Re:'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump (Score 2) 734

If I recall correctly, the IT response was along the lines of "that's legitimate; go here to reset your password" providing an appropriate link. But Podesta (or whoever managed his e-mail) followed the link in the phish e-mail rather than the one IT said to use.

Comment Re:Rebrand and relaunch in 3, 2, 1 ... (Score 1) 140

From the trailer video, it looks like they're using sprites taken directly from some of Nintendo's games, alongside their own invented monsters. They could definitely remove The Pokemon Company's properties and leave just their own, and rename the game and terms in the game to create something non-infringing. It likely would take substantial editing/rebranding.

Of course, without the name and familiar characters the begin with, this game likely wouldn't have gotten much attention in the first place.

Comment Re:Slashcode, *sigh* (Score 1) 96

Problem is, the preview probably showed the text as it was input, with proper encoding. At least, that's what I saw testing the story submit right now in Firefox version 47 on Linux. So it must only be after the submission goes through that the encoding is broke. I know that “this” shows the expected quote marks in the comment preview, but don't know how it will look when submitted.

This is an area where EditorDavid should have corrected the submission, though.

Comment Re:What this actually means..? (Score 4, Informative) 189

As I understand it, the Facebook app had a feature to synchronize photos you've taken to Facebook. This feature has been removed from the Facebook app, and put into a separate app (which probably has extra features related specifically to managing synced photos, I'm guessing). If you used the synchronization feature in the Facebook app, you need to install the Moments app to continue to use that feature. Anything synced from the Facebook app will be deleted, unless "transferred" to synchronizing from the Moments app. A feature from one app is being branched off to another app. If you want to use that feature, there's a more specific place for it now.

I've never used any of these apps, so I don't know how accurate this is. It's just what I gather from reading some articles on this.

Comment Enable Button (Score 1) 129

Often times at work, one co-worker e-mails an Office document to another. The recipient opens the document from their e-mail, clicks the Enable button on that yellow notification bar to switch from read-only mode to editing mode, and then views the document without making any changes. Whenever I see this, I point out to the person that they should not click that button unless they're read what the notification says (click to enable editing), and they should only click it if they need (and know they need) what it enables.

Supposedly things are set up at work where macros can't run from the C: drive, which is where Outlook stores files opened from an e-mail, so many it won't be an issue if a document with a malicious macro comes in from the outside. Nonetheless, I'll continue my quest to try to get everyone to be just a little more careful about what they're enabling.

Comment Re: Love KDE (Score 5, Informative) 44

"KDE 5" likely won't see the same issue that KDE 4.0 did. KDE is looking to disband the concept of the "Software Compilation" (all KDE programs released on the same day as part of a big upgrade, ready or not) which caused the KDE 4.0 issue (4.0 libraries were ready, 4.0 applications were not). With "KDE 5", you get the Frameworks 5 libraries, and each KDE program will release updates when they are good and ready, sticking with version 4 libraries in the meantime.

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