Every phone that I have seen has had the Mail app settings set to only auto-download small emails/attachments. (Say, under 64 or 256KB) There is a button to download the complete email. My old Android 2.3 HTC phone had that, my LG G4 had that, my Pixel 3 XL has that, every Samsung Galaxy that I have seen has that... 700MB emails wouldn't be a problem for anyone, except maybe iPhone users. (Though Apple would patch that feature in if it became a problem.)

If you're a bit of a tab hoarder, you'll find that with enough RAM, the Chrome base is faster and more stable than Firefox - yes, even Quantum.

Try this: Open all your bookmarks. Then open some links on each tab. Then open 2000 more tabs or windows.

Report back on when Firefox dies horrifically. Chrome will also die on you... possibly taking windows with it... but there is a Chrome based browser that won't. It's called Opera.

They tell me that it's infected with Chinese spyware, so it probably won't catch on, but I see the same traits that made Firefox great way back when. The UI is shockingly customizable for a chromium base. It has full chrome addon compatibility, plus its own unique ones. It allows addons that Chrome doesn't allow in their own web store. The About:flags page is roughly 2 miles long, with many hundreds of customizations. The developers actually bother to implement some suggestions. (Though they've shrunk the add-bookmark panel to being annoyingly small.) There are oodles of customizations in the settings - enough to fix almost any annoyance that I can think of. I even have full keyboard based navigation in case I'm too lazy to use a mouse. And there's all the goodies and new features, like pop-out video playback, and other numerous other things. Why should a video be relegated to a tab? This is 2021! Videos should be their own windows, if you want them to be.

You probably have to accept Ma Huateng or President Xi as your one true master, but you get a lot in exchange. Imagine if it went open source? That's a chromium browser that I could get behind.

I live in a community that has a lot of seniors. Firefox used to be the go-to web browser around here. All the themes and addons were great - you could improve the readability and contrast of everything, lock some stuff down so that misclicks didn't scramble the look of the browser, and keep them safe on the internet. But after Mozilla broke all that stuff... once... twice... three times... how many times will developers rewrite their creations? Over time both devs and users have drifted to Google. Chrome didn't have good vision impaired colour themes until sometime around Chrome 74-80, but after that (and with all the new addons from the past 4+ years), they now offer more than Firefox, and it breaks less often. So once a tool or addon exists, it exists for a while.

I think Firefox is losing share simply because of slow user attrition and not having compatibility with past "software" released on their "platform". I still see tons of Android apps that are Android 4 compatible - works on 2011 phones. I see lots of software from the 1990's that runs natively on Windows 10, 20-25 years later. Slack has an abundance of addons - guess what platform is popular there? Even MacOS usually provides compatibility for 5 years or so. Firefox? Your addon will be broken within 24 months. Maybe half that.

They don't realize they're building a platform, not a browser, so in pursuit of the best browser, they destroy the platform and remake it constantly. This is why they are failing.

That and there aren't enough Blupps. (Blupp fixed a bug that the Firefox devs introduced and ignored for 17 years.)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fs...

Until you reinstall/upgrade your OS! Then you need to contact them to get a reactivation code. Better pray they haven't gone under.

Got a laptop, and want to play on it as well? See above.

Surprise special prices on newegg are neither imaginary nor magical.

But I assure you GTX460's won't show up in the surprise specials for quite a while. They seem to use it to flog off old stock.

Which is exactly my point. Steam has huge sales, often with 75-90% discounts. A lot of these games show up for $2 to $10 on Steam. Mass Effect has been $5 no less than a couple times.

For games with online communities, as soon as they hit rock-bottom prices, hundreds of thousands of people buy them. That leads to quite a lot of active players.

In the past year I've spent perhaps $400 on games, and amassed over a hundred of them. Far more than I'll be able to play over the next couple years.

With a console, you spend half as much as you would on a computer, but you're constantly spending $25 here or $60 there to keep entertained. At the end of a 3 year run, you've probably spent 3x as much, even if you factor in computer upgrades to keep current.

The unique and differing bacteria inside every person?

If you can't fix the environment for everyone, you can't fix every fetus's genes either.

What are you going to do if someone finds out later that they have serial killer genes? Kill them? Put them on watch lists and discriminate?

Just work on fixing the environment. It's safer and easier than altering our own blueprints.

Would this work for exhibits? (often protected behind glass?)

Touchscreens are expensive, and open up the annoying possibility of something getting damaged. A $20 smart camera system detecting motion on the glass would probably be safer and cheaper.

This project doesn't interest me because I'm a gamer. I suspect this lacks the DPI necessary for precise movements. Also, I Claw.

I always jump generations late, when you can get the best deals on new cards. My card choice is primarily based on what I can get for the money I have available.

I got an eVGA 7900GS when they came out at about $150. I lucked out - mine overclocked 70%, making it quite a bit faster than 7900GTX's - roughly the same speed as an 8800GS. (minus some shader power)

But, when I had a chance to get an 8800GS for $35, I jumped on that too. Turned out the memory wasn't stable at stock speeds, so I had to underclock it, making it slightly slower than my old card. Bummer. But at least it solved the crash issues L4D/L4D2 have with GeForce 7's.

When I finally got a chance to flip to a GTS 250 for $99, and sell my old card, I did that. It too was unstable at stock speeds, but some copper RAM sinks fixed that, and it now runs happily with a 20% memory overclock. It currently plays everything I throw at it at 2048x1152 - but newer games do require AA to be turned off.

My next GPU upgrade won't be for a while. I already have too many games to find time to finish. But I'll probably pick up a new CPU to speed up video encoding, shortly.

Are you kidding me? I got a brand new GTS 250 512MB for $99 CAD six months ago. (worked out to about $85 USD shipped)

A friend of mine picked up a brand new Radeon 4870 1GB (slightly faster than a 5770 in DX10) for $104 USD shipped in late June.

These cards are approximately 3-6x as fast as the ones you listed, for the same price. More importantly, GTX 460 is only ~25% faster for +100% price. If DX11 matters that much to you, go ahead. To me it's hardly a bargain.

P.S. 4870 1GB's score closer to 10k in 3Dmark Vantage, so for benchmarking the performance difference may be 50%

Later drivers will probably correct the Metro 2033 anomaly.

It took a year, but nVidia delivered drivers for L4D that provided ~50% FPS gains.

I suspect we'll see the same thing here, in a couple months to a half-year.

What manufacturer? After the last DFI piece of crap I bought, I've sworn off other manufacturers, and am sticking with Asus.

Plus eVGA for my videocards.

But you lose out on game prices if you do that. ;)

For some people they are hard, and actually have to be taught.

I've met people that figured out double-digit multiplication and division when they were 5 - and yet had to be taught that when going to a job interview, it's polite to shake hands, you look in the direction of the person's face, and you comb your hair. :P

Society and education is heavily centred around socializing. If you don't pick it up naturally, you're going to struggle a lot more than you would if Algebra didn't just come to you in a spark of genius when you were 7.

To conceptualize the struggle for an average socially-well-adjusted person, think back to how hard it was for you to pick up some of that highschool math, and then imagine trying to understand it years earlier. For whatever reason, some minds are wired differently; those mountains in math are merely hills or slight inclines to some other people; likewise, what's obvious to you socially, which you've known since you were 5, may take someone else an extra decade to figure out naturally unless they're taught it when they need it

There are very few courses that teach social skills at all age ranges. We generally rely on friends and family to do this. If your parents are social dunces, then currently you need to luck out and end up with a friend that can point out all the nuances of social interaction. It doesn't happen for everyone, so there's a large percentage of people out there struggling with it.