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> Huberty said that Apple's online services are underappreciated by investors because they accounted for less than 6 percent of the company's revenue over the last 12 months.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/28/apples-app-store-r...

Most users would prefer if there would be no ads at all. I don't think putting ads in Firefox will reduce ads on websites.

From your first link:

> This is still one of our early steps towards our goal of improving the state of digital advertising for the Web – delivering greater transparency for advertisers, better, more relevant content experiences and, above all, greater control for Firefox users.

At least one would hope they could be honest in their goal, I don't think anybody care about the state of digital advertising except marketers.

In 2012 they had a surplus of more than $100,000,000 though...

And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I have no idea what they spent so much money on)

> But that's not good either?

Indeed, it's not a binary decision, there are other ways than just sell you user's data.

For starter, Google (and now Yahoo) were giving hundreds of millions every year. What did Mozilla do with that?

Who in their right mind would push such a thing? How can they think it'll will win them any user? I have no words.

Speaking about pizza, does anybody has the perfect recipe for the pie/whole pizza? I saw once here from a obsessed chef but can't remember the link. Thanks!

You forget that mandatory voting also mean that minorities and other "difficult" groups also don't have to make excuses as to why they are voting and also that everything is done to make them votes (since it's mandatory). An employer can't refuse a employee to go voting for example.

In Vimperator you can do this:

  :set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs

(it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)

APNG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apng) is the answer, but Chrome doesn't support natively.

Except an Incredible Journey is not a normal shut down, it's the shutdown of a company, because the buyer took the thing it was interested in and then ran away.

So in your case, it should rather read:

"After 43 years in business, Joe's Pizza will be shutting down after July 10th because of its acquisition by Pizza Hut, which will tore down the place and puts its own pizzeria here. Be happy we got rich!"

People gets emotional with place they go to or things they use, you can think it's irrational, but it's just a fact of life.

From Predictive Edge website:

  Many thanks to you all for your feedback & support, and here's to a
  new chapter!

From Our Incredible Journey (http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/):

  An incredible journey is:
  
      One company buying another and closing its services down. This is a
  purchase of the second company’s staff, rather than their product. An
  acquihire.
  
  If you look through the archives this is what all the incredible
  journeys have in common. A company gets bought, its staff are excited
  (publicly, anyway) about their new home, but sorry that the service
  which brought them to the attention of their new bosses will have to be
  closed. “But thanks for joining us on our incredible journey!”
  
  This is what is galling. A company that can afford to pay millions for
  some new staff but not for what those staff built. The people who used
  the service, and invested their belief and time in uploading photos, or
  forming friendships, or logging data, are left to find new virtual homes
  while their former hosts enjoy a nice (if possibly delayed) payday.
  
  This repeated pattern only encourages more people to create flashy
  services that have no hope of being sustainable businesses in their own
  right, but may survive long enough, with VC funding, to attract the
  attention of a large company eager for new ideas and staff.
  
  It’s one thing for companies to go bust, or to close their service
  after failing to make it work. This is business. It’s capitalism. But
  starting services only to close them a couple of years later when payday
  arrives is a vicious way to treat people.

Because for all the tech progression in the last 20 years, a javascript heavy page is still really slow to load and use if you have more than a few tabs open.

> Of course, when a 9-figure exit happens to someone who can't code as good as you and didn't go to as good a school as you–then it was most definitely luck.

Or maybe s/he had a better idea than you had? Doesn't look like luck to me.

I have to say, this[1] looks downright impressive. Congrats everyone!

Edit: To add a bit more to the conversation, does the change from Canonical to Blue Systems[2] changed much to the development of Kubuntu/KDE?

[1] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-asFPvnoidnw/U4cXbGCcv2I/AAAAAAAAM...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems

> If you check out these hyperrealists (they don't say photo 'cause that's a bad word) you can sometimes catch them with a laptop, image on it squared off, sometimes even zoomed in.

How is that different from a painter looking at a live model or doing a self portrait with a mirror?

> Paying to other European countries isn't great via the banks

How so? With SEPA[1] it's both easy (European wide bank account number) and free (might not be the case if both accounts use different currencies though, but in euros it's free).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

> Is Hurd useful as anything other than a research project?

Bear in mind that a research project can be interesting in its own right, not everything has to be about large scale use.

Now if HURD is an interesting research, that's an entirely different subject...

> (Most prominent: not to limit the future chances of the children).

Did they specify a reason? There is quite a lot of good schools there IIRC.

Because we tried to look for them? I bought a gift card for my ipad and I have no idea how to spend it. Most games on it are bad (I'm tempted to say all of them, but I liked The Room). Same thing for PC indie games (which is why Jeff's point is absurd, more games doesn't mean more sale, and if Humble Bundles are of any indication, indie's quality are declining).

But I'd love to be proven wrong.

Notes taking, GPS, music, to-do lists, calls(!), etc.

To me it's especially the "don't make sense without the cloud" bit that I find egregious.

  > I'm as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing
  > as anyone you'll meet. Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and
  > retrieving data, don't make sense without the cloud, and any business
  > that isn't racing to push its data and software into someone else's data
  > center is, in my view, setting itself up for disruption by a competitor
  > who is.

- A smartphone is useful even without internet.

- My local restaurant wont get disrupted because it's not using Cloudfront.

At first I though it was a parody (Seriously, "the fog"?), well apparently I wasn't wrong...

> humans recognise winning and losing positions rather than playing a much longer (perhaps infinite) prove-out game.

If true, does it mean a computer (or an Human) could win by just not conceding?

Cro-magnon specifically refer to early human living in Europe, seems fair to make the comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon

> We still haven't reached the average height we were 40000 years ago[1]

Yes we do, there are a number of countries where the average height is close to 183 cm (average in your article, though there are no citations given for that fact): The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Serbia, ... In the Dinaric Alps, it even reach 186 cm, so in fact we ARE taller today[1].

But another article[2] with actual sources point to an 176.2 cm average, much smaller than today.

> but it came at a terrible price on human health

[Citation needed]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_ar...

[2] http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlymansites/a/cro_magnon.h...

Considering most of the world use a left to right latin script, I don't see how arabic would spread more effectively than English.

Well, at least recycling is still widely practiced by journalists.

Every time there is an article about planned obsolescence, we hear about how old appliances lasted forever and how it was better before, yet there is never any actual statistics about the problem, nor any kind of proof that manufacturers are doing it maliciously.

More onto the point, old appliances could also have been of higher quality than today on average, probably because some of them were luxuries back then.