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(I stated Chrome. But never have much luck in Firefox either. Anyhow, nevermind.)

I thought it was Mactard.

Apart from their Adobe suites... (In my experience).

Note that I don't have any pirated software on my machine. Running Debian here.

Can someone explain what 'Position: sticky' is please?

As I'm having difficulty accessing the video:

(I still seem to have lots of issues trying to watch videos in the browser. Even embedded Vimeo never works for me (Chrome/Debian/Linux), seems flash video is the only thing that consistantly works).

Good point. Remember the old browser modal dialogues about sites using cookies? I bet you could ask 10 people and perhaps 1 of those might actually be able to describe what a cookie is. This is a failure from on-line educators and browser manufacturers.

If you could easily identify that a site you were on had cookies stored, and that one was about you being logged in, and it was plain simple to wipe that cookie then I'm sure you'd be happier about that situation. Couple that with a default to have them disabled - until you explicitly lend your browser a little more trust - to prevent ticking those boxes in a public place. And we might all feel a little better about them.

I guess cookies though are a solution to the leave me logged in checkbox. Another technology could be used. I personally hate them as they currently are.

Even key chain programs are difficult to understand. Safari uses user key-chain, Firefox uses it's own profile to store passwords. No consistency and headaches for users.

For those worried about Google coming to blows with Nestle (How we still lament the demise of Rowntrees)...

From Wikipedia 'kit kat':

Use of the name "Kit Kat" or "Kit Cat" for a type of food goes back to the 18th century, when mutton pies known as a Kit-Kat were served at meetings of the political Kit-Cat Club in London.

Now a mutton pie doesn't quite sound as sweet a desert.

I think this is a great topic.

I imagine from the email that they want to install Foo OS and the latest and greatest apps, but they want their desktop and apps to behave like they did under a previous OS.

If they had a great workflow with a previous product and OS then good for them, why break it? Sometimes modern doesn't always mean better. A stupid phone might actually be easier to make calls on.

I see this again and again. Foobar2000 being an example of an app that had many useful features for me. I found it difficult to replace under Linux, even apps that came out years after didn't satisfy my needs. I was even thinking about using it today for adding replay gain to a folder of music. And as such I have it installed under wine.

The other classic example is users forced to transition form WordPerfect to Word. My Dad reckoned he could do everything in WordPerfect (and told me time and time again), and loathed Word with a passion. He'd mastered his tool. And once you have done that, you are reluctant to change. And in that case there wasn't that much of advantage for him in using something else (there may well have been for his sysadmins).

In an ideal world apps would be built with a software interface that you could programmically explore to build your own UIs around, so you could build a UI in a certain style. Then under your distro you could flip a behaviour switch - to emulate an Amstrad desktop say, and Firefox there would just blend in. My gut says that the toolkits used to build apps are too tightly coupled with the code to do so, but that's just a guess.

To get the feel of an OS of old, you'd want to replace your file manager and launchers too. But why not!

I don't know about monetising the idea. There might be a solution for them in using an emulator. Sadly though there are some constraints with older programs, perhaps they don't support newer protocols or lack security patches.

I think the easy opt out here then is to say that governments shouldn't be secret, but the military can. But then you get to the strange point, as to whether the government can trust the military.

They'd probably be better off trying to jettison the keyboard to simplify the computer interface.

I like the middle mouse paste, or rather the highlight to copy more. But it can catch me out.

What I find catches me out more though, is the tap to click on a touch pad. I do like it, but I often get tripped up by it. I therefore declare It's flawed - rip it out ;)

Good to question these things.

I do think the chorded keyboard shortcuts that may be ingrained in many, are actually a difficult combo for the novice. I'd suggest that a mouse selection is easier, but alas that's a really difficult thing to do for mouse newbs too. I can still struggle with mouse text selection.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6281881

You really think that average users use the keyboard shortcuts? I'd wager they use the menus or icons. Chorded keyboard shortcuts are not that easy, especially for novices.

I wonder how you copy and paste with a touch device? And how easy it is.

Yes, worrying.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/allegations-openbsd-back...

Not sure what was confirmed on that story, but I remember reading it and thinking there wasn't much chance that I'd ever be able to audit my own system.

I've been reluctant to sign up to the store. As I don't want any syncing to the cloud, it's unclear to me what's stored at MSs end, and what the repurcussions are from doing so.

This seems a tactical way to get us to sign up for a store account.

Sorry, but why would I want gitlab? And what are the alternatives?

Goddess of empathy...

Perhaps there's the idea that we'll just tag along and jump onto other people's google glass, a group of you could join one climber, more HUD broadcasting, rather than the current crop of reality TV. It could be interactive, hangout with your friends with one or two of you in a physical location. A rock climber could sell their live experience.

You'll probably be turned on by an implant. Something more like Tek or the Orgasmatron.

Launching apps is jarring. I'd rather an on screen launcher. I wasn't the biggest fan of the start menu, but I hate flipping between the start screen and the desktop.

Me too, I was pleasantly surprised that I could actually drive this version of windows with the keyboard. Which for me makes it the only version of Windows that I can bare. Energy use is better, and kernel hibernation feels good. Partitions as file system mounts finally. Better keyboard layout switching. And it feels faster.

I hate all the old Windows cruft that is still there, the split control panel between UIs (like user management), crappy add/remove programs, the fact that there don't seem to be many 64bit programs, not being able to find the network preferences easily - and that I can't get windows to play with my netgear router over DHCP (but that could be netgears fault). Huge updates that use up my allowance. And the horrible start screen etc.

How about paying to license the material - an album or film say that includes lifelong access to digital versions. Then when your CDS or DVDS go off. Or your DVDs are superceded by a better format, you could just download a replacement. Loads of my CDs have holes in them from decay. And I'm feeling really ripped off with my DVD collection - some of the quality is atrocious. There's no way I'll pay again for the same film in a different format. Most of my VHS and DVDs have made there way to charity shops. I only hold onto the CDS because of the stupid law in the UK that outlaws you even burning a copy of your own CD - which is just stupid.

A good question in itself, would be where do you draw a line. At what radius would you feel comfortable?

I'm posting from foo to a bar forum. Will bar tolerate someone from foo?

Aught wrong with a guess, but that one could get quite creepy pretty quickly. Say you were at a small conference in a small building in the one room. And Google started to suggest those around you as friends - that could be quite useful - but equally it could blow someones cover.

Also you spot a large car with tinted windows nearby, and suddenly Google is suggesting that you might know a certain someone that maybe in that vehicle.

You might loose your privacy if you were living in a block of flats and this were the case.

Certainly an interesting idea as to whether they do use your geo-data.

Now I'm pretty sure that profile data such as where do you live, or publicly printed location data could be used. I.e. with Facebook, it's probably more likely to hook you up with people that are geographically close - but I'm speculating here too.

I agree about that PSR-0 and using Composer helps. But sadly not all code is written that way.

The thing that irritates me the most with Php, is not being able to quickly jump around the code from class to class without some hack. While magic autoloaders are great my IDE/text editor isn't smart enough to know how to do this. You could probably write some code to help in this respect for your editor or use some other tools. It ultimately ends up that I want to hold too much of the project in my head, which is a brain muck.

I personally recommend Python over Php to newcomers because I think it's an easier language to understand and get going with.

I think it would be a breach of privacy using geolocation data.

The reason I'm dismayed in this instance is that I can't work out how the connections are being drawn.

This shows that Facebook have already have you as an entity in other people's networks before you have even joined Facebook. I guess you can cement yourself within those networks by adding them as friends, or saying that you know them.

I guess they also watch to see who you look up, and from that see if there are any connections between those that you look up, those friends might appear as further recommendations.

It can be quite spooky sometimes. The interesting thing with that account is that I never friended anybody, so it's interesting to see who comes up in their list. Some appear quite random, but others I recognize.

I'd very much like a solution to this without a browser extension.

Even having reddit style comment tree lines would help with eye tracking. I find it difficult to just skip a thread.

I mistakingly signed up to Facebook with a work email in the past. And noticed many work acquaintances appearing in Facebook's: do you know lists. Which I can only attribute to other people sharing their email address contacts with Facebook, and Facebook holding onto that data.