I've had flash crashes make it so that any time I changed pages I got Aw Snap until restarting the entire browser.
But I'm using Chromium 5 on Linux 64-bit, so it's not exactly a high priority platform. And flash crashes always crash firefox, in Chromium it is only about 1/3 the time.
The problem is (and I am not saying this is at all likely, I don't really know anything about how these work) that if the army disperses a crowd of people and kills a few and injures a few dozen, it is arguably better than doing the same with a weapon that leaves hundreds or thousands blind and/or impotent.
the long term devestation to a village of not being anble to see and/or reproduce would be immense.
Firefox makes Mozilla millions, and I imagine Opera does well enough with their share too (I am thinking their paid mobile browser base has shrunk a lot with Android and iPhone). Google is *VERY* good at placing adds people want in front of them, and therefore the millions of users various users have is worth a lot to them. The kick-backs for using google.com as a default front page are huge in that scale. And can support a quite large (well large medium sized anyway) organization ($61.5 million, just from search).
This places the market itself (web browsers) at about $250 Million, the fact that a few players fight over a few percent is not shocking at all.
Opera presumably gets about 6 million a year, not a ton, but I can totally see that supporting a single application shop (thirty developers and overhead).
35% of users are up for grabs (non IE, non Safari, already having jumped to non-default), meaning the market for third party browsers is about 87 Million, this a plenty for three to compete in (Chrome, Firefox, Opera), and everyone to be winning.
If half of Chromes users came from Firefox, i imagine they consider the project a win, saving them 6 million/year, aside from making the web a better place (in their mind), and presumable bringing in revenue if they grabbed people from IE.
Also worth noting, every browser default searches with google.com (aside from IE), google wins for every defection from IE, and presumable pays about $80 million/year to non-IE browsers. It's probably safe to assume they are making some money too, or they wouldn't be paying as much. Even Opera Mini likely generates close to 1 million/year.
None of those companies have the risk of their brand becoming a generic term.
As popular as they are people don't say I'm at cosi when at Starbucks.
This is a real risk for LEGO with many compatible blocks coming out.
Xerox is a company that had a similar problem, and they too are pedantic about Xerox brand copy machines.
Driving a Toyota is still used to differentiate "Toyota" vs others, "Doritos" is still used as a differentiator, and even "Starbucks" is used to refer to Starbucks, not coffee shops in general.
Lego is actually used this way too, but part of it is the companies own vigilance in the issue.
Though you may not like it, I rather like having a readily assessable self-maintaining address book (phone and e-mail anyway) of my friends and family, including nieces, nephews, and cousins when they age and move out from home.
Having a readily assessable place to store photo albums and send links to family is nice too. My Grandmother had to spend 6 months in Europe and I was able to send links to albums with captions of my trip to Alaska. Both she and I enjoyed this.
I don't know how one can use e-mail and slashdot, but think facebook is a scourge to the internet.
The fact that they say "we hope in the first week", and not "all old content is completely playable" implies to me they are trying to give a head start to the mod community, not have people just use this feature and call it done.
That mechanic was too broken in Alpha Centauri I felt.
I was able to make very high attack copters, and very cheap 111 paratroopers, and expand way too fast.
Other minor abuses throughout too, but that strategy allowed me to dominate. Though my biggest complaint was how over-powerful the efficiency cultural benefit was late game on a large map.
I don't think these are in opposition. If someone wants to stand up to the state and say "we need this rule" I commend them, but they so so publicly (I hope).
If enough people stand up and say it (signing the petition), the voting should be anonymous.
Most people that believe in liberal democracy don't agree that it is OK for Pakistan to do it.
Most people that are strongly nationalistic probably believe it is OK for Pakistan to do it, but also think that blocking al-jazeera is appropriate too.
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What extra freedoms are granted users by bsd style licences?
I know developers and distributers have more rights, but I can't think of any extra ones for users. Only the loss of right to request code.
all that, and we still probably wouldn't have a balanced budget.
Just saying, we need to be willing to value others too.
I bet that's why a blackberry can last with heavy usage much better than the others.
Isn't that red hat's job?
Yes, and the Geek Squad is provably safe with customer files.
There's never been reports of them keeping and trading customer images.
Sounds like you live somewhere on Earth. I'm being serious. I'm Earthling myself, I've noticed this more than once, unfortunately.
Because they can't afford the rent to get close enough (in the basement of) the exchange?
At least it's not a case where "Full Speed" is slower than "High Speed"
I'm looking at you USB
A non-dick would simply say, i can't do it, sorry.
even if 10 times a day.
Just because the person asking is annoying and inconsiderate, does not make the response non-dickish.
I actually think the moderation system is fantastic on /.
browsing at 1 is usually decent, 0 bearable, and 2+ quite good.
considering what I see at -1 it appears to quickly filter out the real bad, and you're left with schmucks talking.
I don't like the new meta-mod where you can't simply agree or disagree though.
If you refer to the Nazi party as National Socialist party the comparison is more obvious.
I've had flash crashes make it so that any time I changed pages I got Aw Snap until restarting the entire browser.
But I'm using Chromium 5 on Linux 64-bit, so it's not exactly a high priority platform. And flash crashes always crash firefox, in Chromium it is only about 1/3 the time.
It could have taken the profitability for the town though.
The problem is (and I am not saying this is at all likely, I don't really know anything about how these work) that if the army disperses a crowd of people and kills a few and injures a few dozen, it is arguably better than doing the same with a weapon that leaves hundreds or thousands blind and/or impotent.
the long term devestation to a village of not being anble to see and/or reproduce would be immense.
Hopefully there will continue to be full price ADP phones, that I can continue to subsidize with a $20/month discount on T-Mobile.
A free and very profitable product.
Firefox makes Mozilla millions, and I imagine Opera does well enough with their share too (I am thinking their paid mobile browser base has shrunk a lot with Android and iPhone). Google is *VERY* good at placing adds people want in front of them, and therefore the millions of users various users have is worth a lot to them. The kick-backs for using google.com as a default front page are huge in that scale. And can support a quite large (well large medium sized anyway) organization ($61.5 million, just from search).
This places the market itself (web browsers) at about $250 Million, the fact that a few players fight over a few percent is not shocking at all.
Opera presumably gets about 6 million a year, not a ton, but I can totally see that supporting a single application shop (thirty developers and overhead).
35% of users are up for grabs (non IE, non Safari, already having jumped to non-default), meaning the market for third party browsers is about 87 Million, this a plenty for three to compete in (Chrome, Firefox, Opera), and everyone to be winning.
If half of Chromes users came from Firefox, i imagine they consider the project a win, saving them 6 million/year, aside from making the web a better place (in their mind), and presumable bringing in revenue if they grabbed people from IE.
sources, poorly researched:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation -- firefox revenue
Also worth noting, every browser default searches with google.com (aside from IE), google wins for every defection from IE, and presumable pays about $80 million/year to non-IE browsers. It's probably safe to assume they are making some money too, or they wouldn't be paying as much. Even Opera Mini likely generates close to 1 million/year.
None of those companies have the risk of their brand becoming a generic term.
As popular as they are people don't say I'm at cosi when at Starbucks.
This is a real risk for LEGO with many compatible blocks coming out.
Xerox is a company that had a similar problem, and they too are pedantic about Xerox brand copy machines.
Driving a Toyota is still used to differentiate "Toyota" vs others, "Doritos" is still used as a differentiator, and even "Starbucks" is used to refer to Starbucks, not coffee shops in general.
Lego is actually used this way too, but part of it is the companies own vigilance in the issue.
Ford would want you to do that if there was a risk that all cars were referred to as Fords. This is a risk that Lego runs.
Because it is an adjective, not a noun?
Though you may not like it, I rather like having a readily assessable self-maintaining address book (phone and e-mail anyway) of my friends and family, including nieces, nephews, and cousins when they age and move out from home.
Having a readily assessable place to store photo albums and send links to family is nice too. My Grandmother had to spend 6 months in Europe and I was able to send links to albums with captions of my trip to Alaska. Both she and I enjoyed this.
I don't know how one can use e-mail and slashdot, but think facebook is a scourge to the internet.
The fact that they say "we hope in the first week", and not "all old content is completely playable" implies to me they are trying to give a head start to the mod community, not have people just use this feature and call it done.
That mechanic was too broken in Alpha Centauri I felt.
I was able to make very high attack copters, and very cheap 111 paratroopers, and expand way too fast.
Other minor abuses throughout too, but that strategy allowed me to dominate. Though my biggest complaint was how over-powerful the efficiency cultural benefit was late game on a large map.
I am pro anonymous voting.
I am anti anonymous rule making.
I don't think these are in opposition. If someone wants to stand up to the state and say "we need this rule" I commend them, but they so so publicly (I hope).
If enough people stand up and say it (signing the petition), the voting should be anonymous.
Most people that believe in liberal democracy don't agree that it is OK for Pakistan to do it.
Most people that are strongly nationalistic probably believe it is OK for Pakistan to do it, but also think that blocking al-jazeera is appropriate too.
Most cell phones I've used don't duplex, this could be a problem?
I don't really know, as i don't know if modems duplexed.