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So, Uber is giving you the taxi cab service you always wanted? That's great, and that's why they should be regulated as such.

Personal MS Word anecdote: Word 2016 can successfully open and render my final year University project report, compiled in 1996 using Word 6.0. It contains a bunch of embedded images, tables and moderately complex diagrams drawn using Visio 2.0.

The report is saved across six .doc files, due to the size limitation of the 3.5" floppy disks we were using back then.

If you see any such issues, it's a quick task to report it to the Firefox team.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/websites-look-wrong-or-...

Apart from when the browser is newer than the website in question.

Chrome has the same issues when it was first released.

Either of those would be understandable reasons for Amazon not stocking Nest products. Given that they have not publicly explained their decision it seems fair to assume their behaviour is as claimed in the article.

Children squabbling.

When I had a few old hard drives to dispose of I drilled several holes in each one, through the case and platters, then filled them with water and left them outside for a few days so that anything that might rust would do so.

Recommended reading: https://www.amazon.com/Sweating-Bullets-Notes-Inventing-Powe...

Wait a while...it took about six months for one to happen here in Sydney. Well worth the wait - half an hour of exclusive use of a Hololens. All the while being recorded for market research purposes, but that seemed like a fair trade.

I got a Nest thermostat a few years ago when I was working from home and sat at my desk most of the day. This meant that I seldom walked past the Nest, meaning that after a while it would assume there was no-one home so would turn the heating off.

I wrote a Windows app [1] in C# that would ping the Nest API to keep me at "home", so long as the PCs screensaver had not come on (in which case I would have probably _actually_ gone out).

Worked well, but when I submitted the app to Nest for approval in their store [2] they asked me to remove this specific feature! It still acts as a handy desktop notifier for Nest thermostats though.

[1] http://richev.me/nest

[2] https://workswith.nest.com/company/notifier-for-nest-by-rich...

https://visualping.io/ can do this, although it sends email alerts rather than SMS messages.

I used it to notify me of new Hololens events, listed on this page https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebI...

It's because the law hasn't yet caught up with their spurious marketing claims.

Because developers & designers prefer to have control over their HTML, and HTML really isn't that hard.

Any attempt to create a true multi-purpose UI builder for web applications has resulted in something more complex and hard to use than the problem it was trying to solve.

Case study:

Rewind 10-15 years and Microsoft's ASP.NET WebForms was popular (subjective use of "popular", I know), and was designed to give pretty much what you are asking for. It really did work and was great in many ways.

However, it achieved this was at the cost of a _lot_ of proprietary complexity (search for "ViewState" or "ASP.NET page lifecycle"), which over time became burdensome. Then AJAX came along, and WebForms was updated to achieve this but with even more complexity (search "ASP.NET leaky abstraction").

I was using ASP.NET WebForms extensively around this time and we found ourselves increasingly "fighting" the framework, trying to bend it to suit our specific requirements (which weren't all that radical). Also, our design team started delivering their work in the form of HTML and CSS, which was a nightmare to integrated with WebForms as it dictates the exact HTML that is used at the UI control level.

Then we moved over to an MVC framework, and were enlightened...

Because you're not paying for the content, so the publisher is desperately trying to get you to click on the adverts which are the only way they can make money.

Being born outside the US doesn't preclude you from having a SSN. Quite the opposite - they're given to anyone who has ever worked in the US, even on a temporary work visa.

https://www.ssa.gov/ssnvisa/

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Do you drink alcohol? If so, it may be impairing the quality of your sleep [1].

Are you staring at a screen just before trying to sleep? Again, this may be impacting the quality of your sleep [2].

1: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/health-effects-of...

2: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sleep-smartphones/s...

No need to stay sat down.

On a long flight I take a few walks, loiter in the galley area, get the blood flowing in the legs with a session of raising myself up/down on tiptoes repeatedly... Really seems to help.

I moved from London to Sydney last year, and have flown the route via Dubai (on Emirates) three times now. Takes about 24 hours if you have a short layover in Dubai.

I'd gladly pay extra for a direct flight, because...

- 4 hours quicker

- An aircraft issue at Dubai can add a day to your journey (as happened to a friend who visited at Christmas)

- Changing at Dubai always seems to involve twenty minutes of walking, ten minutes on a train to go between terminals and then ages on a bus to get from the gate to the actual aircraft. Total PITA.

> Interface started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly pixel–fitting font at a specific small size (11px.)

Didn't Tahoma[1] achieve this back in 1995?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoma_(typeface)

Aside: If you're ever in the area, and have a spare day, visit that building! I went for a tour there years ago and it blew my mind. There's something unique about standing on a gantry looking down at an unpainted 747 being assembled...

I can attest to that - you never know what doors you might want to walk through in the future that require a degree to open (or are a lot easier to open if you have a degree).

Examples...

1) I moved from the UK to Australia last year. Having a degree made it a lot easier for me to get the requisite number of 'points' on their visa system.

2) A friend (from University) who just got a government job in Canada, had to dig out his degree certificate for job application process.

We graduated back in 1996 (21 years ago! gulp).

People who are deaf can still enjoy music...just crank the bass up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/deep-bass-sounds-musi...

What alternative do you propose?

Flip the logic in the middle there, and you'll be asking the right question.

Technically, hydropneumatic suspension[1]. Very expensive when it breaks (speaking from personal experience...)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropneumatic_suspension

I've used both, and like Paint.NET for more complex work, but both have too much UI clutter for the simple tasks I mentioned...

Sounds like Musk has been reading the 1997 book written by my old Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg)... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Machines

Hardly an "upgrade" if functionality that people use gets removed...

It's slower to start than Paint (on this laptop at least), and I can't see any way to import an image using a scanner using it (one of my main use cases for Paint).

And why on earth does the menu icon in Paint 3D look like a folder icon?

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