Maybe they should if it continues to be confounding after 10 years. Maybe they should if it is actually MORE confounding after 10 years of iteration and hindsight.

I'm not saying that producing web advertising is anybody's dream job, but it IS a good job on the grand continuum of things you could be doing for money. It's not the sort crap job that we really wish robots were doing instead of us.

I have had the opposite experience using DDG. I switched maybe...four or five years ago and I pretty much never have to check Google to find what I'm looking for. The most difficulty I had using it was simply adjusting to the format of the search results. I didn't realize how 10+ years of looking at one search engine solidifies your eyeballs' ability to scan and parse a list. That said, I agree that natural language searching probably isn't all that useful for a lot of us; it's geared towards lay people who have a more... shall we say 'grudging' relationship with the internet. It's not great for hunting down specific or technical stuff.

Makes me want to scream:

Nasa can't afford their own anymore, now they gotta rent.

Maybe this is the point at which the cost of FaceID and biometric security on your phone becomes too high. I don't just mean money $$ cost, I mean that the device itself becomes a liability if only Apple can service it. The convenience of unlocking a gizmo with my face would never be worth that to me.

Hey, that's not fair! Lots of us have low-paying jobs in IT!

Can I specify my IMAP special folder names in Outlook again?

How much is this in football fields? Or Hiroshimas?

Chrome is winning because Google aggressively pushes its use on all its web services and sites. It's also auto-installed as bundleware in tons of downloaded software and utilities. It also benefits from so many people not understanding what a browser is and how it's different from a website, i.e.people install it because they think they need it to use Google.com. It may be a faster browser, but the vast majority of clients I work with do not notice a difference, they just use it because it was offered and they didn't know how to say no or didn't realize they had a choice. Rather like Windows 10, actually...

Our leader selection process has nothing to do with actual leadership abilities. It selects for a person's capacity to talk a big game, and that's about it.

This has been my experience as well, and I have had some success appeasing the few uncooperative websites by adjusting the UserAgent. Regardless of the actual technical compatibility of Pale Moon, some sites behave better if it claims it's actually Firefox or Chrome or whatever.

Perhaps he's only just switched to a Win10 system as his primary machine recently. There's a big difference between poking around on a system for review purposes, to learn about its features, its design, its limitations, etc, and relying on it every day to be productive. I can attest, I was upset by the loss of control in Windows Update from day 1, but it wasn't until it ate one of my documents in-progress that I became furiously vocal about it.

Stop trying to make your gadgets so ridiculously thin! Shaving an extra 4 mm off their profiles is not worth failure on this scale! Put some decent cooling in your chassis. Bonus points if you use some of that extra space for a real RAM slot, drive bay, or other modularities you've been quietly removing for the last few years!

I just ran into this today as well. Apparently Firefox is dropping support for Mac OS 10.8 and older in version 49. Just like Chrome did some time ago.

Et tu, Firefox?

Say what you will about The Search for Spock as a whole; that sequence in which Kirk steals the Enterprise and escapes spacedock is one of the most engaging I can think of in all of cinema. Everything from "Don't call me Tiny" to "The doors Mr. Scott!" "Right sir! I'm working on it!", "Oh, I'll have Mr. Adventure eating out of my hand." all the way up to "Kirk, you do this, you'll never sit in the captain's chair again." It's an incredibly emotionally charged scene that is simultaneously tense, funny, and thrilling even though it takes place at 1/4 impulse power, there's no lens flare, and nobody gets choked or murdered or even shot at. That's classy fucking filmmaking. And scoring too! James Horner's finest work in my opinion.