The reason it's still getting updates is because someone in mozilla still has enough sanity to understand that 4+ are failures that will never be adopted by corporate world, and that users want to have same browser at work and at home.
I would expect that 3.6 will continue to get upgrades for a very long time, or at least until they stop the insane release schedule they have now and default back to old one. Which will probably happen once they have enough head start on chrome to last them a year or so.
Because nokia's "tablets" were worker's machines. Modern tablets are toys. These have very different needs and were one of the major reasons why n-series of tablets was a very small niche product while modern tablets sell millions.
A far easier solution is that instead of having to buy new hardware every time a problem long solved in PC world comes up, you buy a PC.
You'll save on device itself, then you'll save on both money needed to buy new hardware that is at least somewhat compatible, as well as time needed to fuck around with this new hardware until it starts to actually work as intended.
Indeed. I would suggest getting a latest EEE PC instead. You get a working windows/linux machine with 7-8 hours of battery life for half the price of the transformer.
False. The only thing you need to do is COMPARE your private sector option with a public one. There is no absolute, only relative comparison between the two.
From what I heard, seems like your private sector has proven, time and time again to be far more cruel, far more (self)destructive and far more egoistical then public one.
It's worth noting that CIA's story is looking more and more shoddy. Now they're claiming that drone is programmed to "circle around until it runs out of fuel if it loses signal". That's... insane. It's a long range recon drone full of top secret tech. If it's not programmed to go back where it came from on inertial guidance until it picks the signal up, someone fucked up. Badly.
Doesn't really make sense, considering that most young people in the country who are politically active vote UR. Communists are for old people, Zhirinovski is for people who are as stupid as US far right or just plain entertained by him, and everyone else is deeply unpopular.
So all they'd have to do is ask their own youths to troll those opposing. Wouldn't even have to pay.
Israel is in somewhat special position, because about 1/5 of its total population is USSR expats. As a result, it never really was "hostile" to Russia after USSR collapse, or at least it tried to avoid conflict.
And these people, unlike those in the West get their information about Russia from russian-language sources. These have been quite a bit more detailed and quite a bit less enthusiastic of claiming fraud even when they were ones that are fully independent of government. I'm still somewhat surprised at sheer force of anti-russian propaganda that was unleashed in the last couple of days in the Western media after seeing several videos on euronews where commentary was "arrest of protesters in the middle of a large demonstration" and video was of some young guy screaming his lungs out at group of people on the street looking at him like he is nuts, then police arresting him and carrying him into a police car.
Mismatch between commentary and what was on video was rather striking.
Well, Russia is at least not (yet) pissed enough to supply Iran with S-300 (or even worse, S-400) SAM systems. S-300 was almost sold there, but US piled a boatload of pressure and Russians backed down. So you could argue that Russia isn't interested ENOUGH in Iran to cause a major conflict with NATO.
That said, after recent election and Clinton basically pissing everyone there, in addition to severe disagreement over ballistic missile defence the tone may change.
It most likely did, considering that it doesn't have landing gear deployed. Also, US claims that drone was "shot down", which would imply crash landing.
You would be wrong. Iran has every right, according to international law to manage it's own airspace, including allowing or disallowing presence of foreign aircraft. Aircraft without permission can be legally shot down and is considered a normal act of self-defence and self-determination. Else, you're arguing that, for example, Russia has a right to fly its military aircraft in US space over sensitive objects, and not be shot down.
While everything is possible, modern military drones have a pattern where loss of signal causes drone to default to preprogrammed return to base scenario.
It would appear that pentagon has confirmed that Iran in fact does have a "downed US drone". There are also reasons for using bright white, though afaik these are mainly for reflective protection from nuclear blast. For example, high speed strategic bombers like TU-160 are white.
No, but he will give him a few hundred to a couple of thousands for good idea and a first chapter, after a face to face meeting. Another couple of grand after he gets book done well over halfway and sends it in. Another grand after the book is fully in and waits for marketing + press.
I'm getting the idea that "Joe who has this interesting book idea, and sent a decent manuscript of first chapter" can get a couple of thousands, and as he sends in more, he'll get another couple. Which is how the system indeed does work.
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The reason it's still getting updates is because someone in mozilla still has enough sanity to understand that 4+ are failures that will never be adopted by corporate world, and that users want to have same browser at work and at home.
I would expect that 3.6 will continue to get upgrades for a very long time, or at least until they stop the insane release schedule they have now and default back to old one. Which will probably happen once they have enough head start on chrome to last them a year or so.
Because nokia's "tablets" were worker's machines. Modern tablets are toys. These have very different needs and were one of the major reasons why n-series of tablets was a very small niche product while modern tablets sell millions.
A far easier solution is that instead of having to buy new hardware every time a problem long solved in PC world comes up, you buy a PC.
You'll save on device itself, then you'll save on both money needed to buy new hardware that is at least somewhat compatible, as well as time needed to fuck around with this new hardware until it starts to actually work as intended.
Indeed. I would suggest getting a latest EEE PC instead. You get a working windows/linux machine with 7-8 hours of battery life for half the price of the transformer.
And stating the fact is apparently "flamebait". Oh slashdot...
Last I checked, money can't buy you ability to sink continents.
And with trolling done, crisis has done nothing to challenged feasibility of EU - if anything it increased it. It's the EMU that's in question.
False. The only thing you need to do is COMPARE your private sector option with a public one. There is no absolute, only relative comparison between the two.
From what I heard, seems like your private sector has proven, time and time again to be far more cruel, far more (self)destructive and far more egoistical then public one.
It's like comparing a truck and a mosquito sitting on the road in front if it.
It's worth noting that CIA's story is looking more and more shoddy. Now they're claiming that drone is programmed to "circle around until it runs out of fuel if it loses signal". That's... insane. It's a long range recon drone full of top secret tech. If it's not programmed to go back where it came from on inertial guidance until it picks the signal up, someone fucked up. Badly.
That sounded like Bill and Hillary talking, only Bill telling Hillary that since she's the president today, he's going to boink his assistant.
Doesn't really make sense, considering that most young people in the country who are politically active vote UR. Communists are for old people, Zhirinovski is for people who are as stupid as US far right or just plain entertained by him, and everyone else is deeply unpopular.
So all they'd have to do is ask their own youths to troll those opposing. Wouldn't even have to pay.
Israel is in somewhat special position, because about 1/5 of its total population is USSR expats. As a result, it never really was "hostile" to Russia after USSR collapse, or at least it tried to avoid conflict.
And these people, unlike those in the West get their information about Russia from russian-language sources. These have been quite a bit more detailed and quite a bit less enthusiastic of claiming fraud even when they were ones that are fully independent of government. I'm still somewhat surprised at sheer force of anti-russian propaganda that was unleashed in the last couple of days in the Western media after seeing several videos on euronews where commentary was "arrest of protesters in the middle of a large demonstration" and video was of some young guy screaming his lungs out at group of people on the street looking at him like he is nuts, then police arresting him and carrying him into a police car.
Mismatch between commentary and what was on video was rather striking.
Well, Russia is at least not (yet) pissed enough to supply Iran with S-300 (or even worse, S-400) SAM systems. S-300 was almost sold there, but US piled a boatload of pressure and Russians backed down. So you could argue that Russia isn't interested ENOUGH in Iran to cause a major conflict with NATO.
That said, after recent election and Clinton basically pissing everyone there, in addition to severe disagreement over ballistic missile defence the tone may change.
The grey color matches all known photographs of the craft (look on wikipedia article's links for some of them).
Russians will probably be first in line, with Chinese second, but that remains to be seen.
Arguably, no. If IFF is compromised, that calls for retrofitting every IFF anew, like Russians had to do after their MiG-25 was flown to Japan.
That said, modern IFF is probably somewhat easier to update then ones they had back then.
It most likely did, considering that it doesn't have landing gear deployed. Also, US claims that drone was "shot down", which would imply crash landing.
You would be wrong. Iran has every right, according to international law to manage it's own airspace, including allowing or disallowing presence of foreign aircraft. Aircraft without permission can be legally shot down and is considered a normal act of self-defence and self-determination. Else, you're arguing that, for example, Russia has a right to fly its military aircraft in US space over sensitive objects, and not be shot down.
No, you would expect it to fly home.
While everything is possible, modern military drones have a pattern where loss of signal causes drone to default to preprogrammed return to base scenario.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16043626
It would appear that pentagon has confirmed that Iran in fact does have a "downed US drone". There are also reasons for using bright white, though afaik these are mainly for reflective protection from nuclear blast. For example, high speed strategic bombers like TU-160 are white.
Thank you for providing an excellent example of libel.
No, but he will give him a few hundred to a couple of thousands for good idea and a first chapter, after a face to face meeting. Another couple of grand after he gets book done well over halfway and sends it in. Another grand after the book is fully in and waits for marketing + press.
I'm getting the idea that "Joe who has this interesting book idea, and sent a decent manuscript of first chapter" can get a couple of thousands, and as he sends in more, he'll get another couple. Which is how the system indeed does work.
A whole server full of hard drives in a different building!
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