The overlay feature is borrowed from mobile. When you are on one screen you might want the main browser to be full size, but also have the video playing overlaid in the corner. It's not something I would use, but it's something that people seem to like on phones.
I hate it on my phone. Glad I don't use Chrome on the desktop.
America has gone crazy. I saw a documentary about crime in America. It followed three guys. Michael, Franklin and some psycho named Trevor. Jacking cars, machine guns blazing, speeding all over the place. Started out robbing jewelry stores, running guns, and cooking drugs. Gang violence. Wiped out a biker gang. Highjacked stuff from a shipping port. Shot down a plane. Even stole aircraft from a military base. Hit some banks, and a gold reserve. These dudes were crazy mofos!
I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
So, better to have it astronomically correct than to be more convenient for most people? That's dumb. Especially since as you move across the time zone, noon isn't going to be when the sun is directly overhead anyway. (Half an hour either side of center in theory. Not exactly in practice.)
No, it isn't - it clearly states that "X speed" is the maximum possible, it makes no claim about average or minimum speed.
Legend has it that P.T. Barnum had a sign in his "oddities museum" in NYC that promoted the "Egress" with numerous arrows directing museum-goers to see the "Egress", only to have the customer arrive at a door marked "Egress" that was actually the exit. Who's fault was it when the patrons walked out the exit - Barnum clearly indicated what it was, is it his fault his customers didn't know what an "Egress" was?
It's not his fault they don't know, but it seems pretty clear that he did know that many would not. So he was telling the truth, just like my two examples, but also being intentionally deceptive.
The government should see this as an investment in their future - they want kids to grow up healthy and well-adjusted so that they're not a burden on the health care and correctional systems.
Except they don't. Private health care and private prisons are big money.
When I was a kid, I had a Viewmaster, and several picture discs.
Last week, I saw the modern equivalent on a shelf at Walmart. Runs on a smartphone. As far as I can tell, the picture discs don't have pictures on them. Just codes for downloading them. The fine print said "We reserve the right to terminate the app after 10/31/17." So while you can still buy it, but it might not even work now. Even if it is still up, you have no idea how long anything you buy will work.
I want access to all content, at a reasonable price.
Sadly that is unlikely to ever happen. With everyone wanting to start their own streaming system, like Disney intends, and regional deals, it is going to be worse than cable.
While I don't like the idea of any one company being in control of everything, I don't want subscriptions to a half dozen (or more) services.
I'd be willing to bet that illegal downloading has been reduced by offerings like Netflix. I'd also bet as things become fractured, and the cost goes up due to the increased number of subscriptions required, that piracy will increase quite a bit.
You shouldn't have to. The damned disc should be included.
Also it's absurd that you can get the OS on one disc, but making them yourself results in five or six discs. Also leaves a partition behind that may or may not be of any use, that the average Joe won't know how to get rid of anyway.
I had one crash when making the discs. Since it crashed before finishing, the existing discs were useless. After a reboot, it refused to make any more. What a piece of crap.
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Is there any way to force all the leading flat-earth movement leaders into this? Sure would be nice to shut them up.
Along with the telephone sanitizers?
That could have been the case if it used NiFe batteries. Ironically, that is...
I see what you did there.
The TPP would have prevented this. It doesn't allow laws that interfere with profits. Captcha: greedily
The overlay feature is borrowed from mobile. When you are on one screen you might want the main browser to be full size, but also have the video playing overlaid in the corner. It's not something I would use, but it's something that people seem to like on phones.
I hate it on my phone. Glad I don't use Chrome on the desktop.
America has gone crazy. I saw a documentary about crime in America. It followed three guys. Michael, Franklin and some psycho named Trevor. Jacking cars, machine guns blazing, speeding all over the place. Started out robbing jewelry stores, running guns, and cooking drugs. Gang violence. Wiped out a biker gang. Highjacked stuff from a shipping port. Shot down a plane. Even stole aircraft from a military base. Hit some banks, and a gold reserve. These dudes were crazy mofos!
Gobots will never beat Transformers. Not even after what Michael Bay did to them.
The new plates will be able to inform emergency services if a driver has an accident.
How does that work if you're rear ended and the plate is mashed between two cars?
Maybe the loss of telemetry from the plate alerts the authoritarians... I mean authorities.
If they copy Apple stuff that I hate, I might as well get an Apple and cut Google out.
NO.
I was thinking about Betteridge's Law. However, "no" just doesn't cut it in this case.
F**K NO!
HELL NO!
Should we start putting notches on laptop screens where the webcam is taped over next?
Fixed that for you.
The industry, led by Starbucks, said the level of the chemical in coffee isn't harmful and any risks are outweighed by benefits.
The risk is taken by the consumer. The benefits are taken by the industry / Starbucks.
Oh I see, so if one person jumps of a bridge everyone else needs to be a bunch of retards too.
Day one of school for an MBA these days.
"Me too" is all too common, even when the first thing was courageous stupid.
Or he'll deorbit the ISS onto them in retaliation. He's been wanting to get rid of it.
There's a criminal enterprise going on here that's stealing content and making a profit,"
It's called "Hollywood".
a lot of economic activity & creators aren't being compensated for their work
It's called "Hollywood Accounting".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
I'm almost exactly at 45N. It matters quite a bit to me. Switch to DST in the Spring and stay there.
I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
So, better to have it astronomically correct than to be more convenient for most people? That's dumb. Especially since as you move across the time zone, noon isn't going to be when the sun is directly overhead anyway. (Half an hour either side of center in theory. Not exactly in practice.)
Spring ahead, then stay there permanently.
"Up to x speed" is intentionally deceptive.
No, it isn't - it clearly states that "X speed" is the maximum possible, it makes no claim about average or minimum speed.
Legend has it that P.T. Barnum had a sign in his "oddities museum" in NYC that promoted the "Egress" with numerous arrows directing museum-goers to see the "Egress", only to have the customer arrive at a door marked "Egress" that was actually the exit. Who's fault was it when the patrons walked out the exit - Barnum clearly indicated what it was, is it his fault his customers didn't know what an "Egress" was?
It's not his fault they don't know, but it seems pretty clear that he did know that many would not. So he was telling the truth, just like my two examples, but also being intentionally deceptive.
"Up to x speed" is intentionally deceptive.
Kind of like mixing 100% beef and 100% earthworms in a 50:50 ratio and then advertising it as "Made with 100% beef". It's true, but deceptive.
what the hell is the project mission for Firefox now, other than "keep shipping something called Firefox"?
10 IF Users > 0 THEN ruin something and release it
20 GOTO 10
Don't they have strain gauges on the shelves too?
How about people swapping for empty containers? (With dirt or water in it for weight.)
Excuse me, I can't reach that, could you pass it to me?
You forgot to add they are electric
That's Rocket Lab, not SpaceX.
The government should see this as an investment in their future - they want kids to grow up healthy and well-adjusted so that they're not a burden on the health care and correctional systems.
Except they don't. Private health care and private prisons are big money.
When I was a kid, I had a Viewmaster, and several picture discs.
Last week, I saw the modern equivalent on a shelf at Walmart. Runs on a smartphone. As far as I can tell, the picture discs don't have pictures on them. Just codes for downloading them. The fine print said "We reserve the right to terminate the app after 10/31/17." So while you can still buy it, but it might not even work now. Even if it is still up, you have no idea how long anything you buy will work.
It's terrible, but has become the norm.
I want access to all content, at a reasonable price.
Sadly that is unlikely to ever happen. With everyone wanting to start their own streaming system, like Disney intends, and regional deals, it is going to be worse than cable.
While I don't like the idea of any one company being in control of everything, I don't want subscriptions to a half dozen (or more) services.
I'd be willing to bet that illegal downloading has been reduced by offerings like Netflix. I'd also bet as things become fractured, and the cost goes up due to the increased number of subscriptions required, that piracy will increase quite a bit.
You shouldn't have to. The damned disc should be included.
Also it's absurd that you can get the OS on one disc, but making them yourself results in five or six discs. Also leaves a partition behind that may or may not be of any use, that the average Joe won't know how to get rid of anyway.
I had one crash when making the discs. Since it crashed before finishing, the existing discs were useless. After a reboot, it refused to make any more. What a piece of crap.