I'm a little nervous about this affecting it negatively. Back when Buffy and Firefly were on the air, they felt so unique due to the dialogue style. But now that'll just seem like every single generic superhero movie. Hopefully it can buck that feeling somehow.
I never got the impression there was much momentum for any more sequels anyway, Serenity felt like the bone they were willing to throw. This was a time before show revivals (rather than remakes/reboots e.g. BSG) were common, it was very surprising when they did it for Family Guy.
Firefly has a rabid fan base, but it's not very large. The movie did... okay. Enough to pay for itself, but not enough to interest anyone in making more content in that universe.
When the show was first released it was cancelled after half a season because it was expensive to make and couldn't compete in the ratings with slap-dash, almost free to produce "reality TV".
There's a standard Mock Location feature in Android usable for it. We're making a better per-app Location Scopes feature as a replacement. Mock Location is global which has bad usability.
Some people think that if their toddler misses naptime by 5 minutes it will be a disaster. Fairly sure it's just a vocal minority kind of thing. Totally with you though, our kids never seem to notice.
Because without this early resistance, there wouldn't even be vague promises of hobbyist/student exemptions. I think it's important to make community objection to the entire idea known loud and clear, especially when changes like these are absolutely ratcheting.
Starting from their first announcement of this, Google has explicitly asked for comments and feedback from affected developers. They have a Google Form for exactly that linked on all the announcement pages.
The exceptions for students/hobbyist were always promised, but the "advanced flow" came later based on this feedback. AFAICT Google has, so far, only made things better after the initial announcement. I don't see why we shouldn't give them the benefit of doubt, at least until we have some specifics.
Pushing this open letter out just days/weeks before Google promised the next major update just seems off.
I mean, you're up there positing that a company is definitely failing because their app is terrible. Accusing others of constructing a reality based on their own principles is a bit of glass house stone throwing, no? Practically every company with an app that isn't a tech company has a terrible app.
I finally got frustrated enough to go in and manually increase the default scrollbar size in Firefox. Slim scrollbars are awful both to look at and to use. I'm working with an ultrawide monitor here, please give me more than 0-3 pixels of scrollbar!
I didn't know this was possible. This is amazing! I found it under the inconspicuous config item called "widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style". I changed it from 0 to 4. There seems to be no UI for this.
In the US we also use the phrase "type A" to describe someone who is very fastidious or anal-retentive, but I've never known it to be related to blood type. Wonder if it shares roots?
Some cultures believe that blood type has a bearing on personality [1]. I always thought "Type A" personalities were called so because A is the first letter in the alphabet. No idea whether I'm correct though the Wikipedia article says that BTPT is "not to be confused with" this so I'd imagine the overlap is coincidental.
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