Numbers below are rounded off, does not include beta versions (including pre-1.0). Also, my math is probably off.
Internet Explorer - Averages new version every 21 months First Version: IE1 - August 1995 Current Version: IE9 - March 2011
Firefox - Averages new version every 9 months (every 1.7 months since version 4.0) First Version: Fx1 - November 2004 Latest Version: Fx11 - March 2012
Chrome - Averages new version every 2.2 months First Version: Chrome 1 - December 2008 Latest Version - Chrome 18 - March 2012
Opera - Averages new version every 17.5 months First Version: Opera 2 - April 1996 Latest Version - Opera 11 - December 2010
Safari - Averages new version every 18 months First Version: Safari 1 - January 2003 Latest Version: Safari 5 - June 2010
Lynx - Averages new version every year or so First Version: Lynx 1 - sometime in 1992 Current Version: Lynx 2 - sometime in 1993
I threw Lynx (actually currently on 2.8, June 2010) on there because it's proof version numbers mean nothing anymore.
The Nook Color sells refurbed for $135 and sites like Overstock frequently have even deeper discounts on them. I own a NC, as does my father and girlfriend. From what I've used of the Fire, the NC is much more user-friendly with the stock interface and is very easy to dual-boot off a microSD card (rooting not required). The only reason I can think to get a Fire over a Kindle is if A) you don't want to dual boot or root it AND B) Amazon has books you want that B&N doesn't.
Personally, I just boot to Cyanogenmod off microSD and read both Nook and Kindle books off their regular Android Market apps.
Ah, but then there will be the few that don't and you'll need to decide if they planned for the future or if they're just anti-social luddites who can't find the any key.
It's also much easier to ignore on Twitter. You can close the webpage much more quickly and easily than you can get away from someone in a crowded hallway.
Although 15 out of 17 successes is pretty hopeful, it's a pretty small sample size to be giving statistics (88% survival rate). If the next one they do results in a death, then it drops to 83%... a fairly big change for adding a single case.
Here's why it was voted down. Nobody disagreed with banning the practice, just the implementation:
"I think it’s awful that employers think they can demand our passwords and can go snooping around. There is no disagreement with that. Here is the flaw: Your amendment doesn’t protect them. It doesn’t do that. Actually, what this amendment does is say that all of the reforms that we are trying to put in place at the Federal Communications Commission, in order to have them have an open and transparent process where they are required to publish their rules in advance so that you can see what they’re proposing, would basically be shoved aside. They could do whatever they wanted on privacy if they wanted to, and you wouldn’t know it until they published their text afterward. There is no protection here." - Greg Walden (Oregon GOP rep)
It's a good thing US money is still mostly green (unlike other countries that use a variety of colors for different bills) or else it might be confused with gay hat pride.
Most laws like this require you to look at it from the view of a reasonable person. It's reasonable to assume that an iPhone left on a bar for 20 minutes isn't abandoned. However, if it was left on the bar for forty years (and you knew the owner knew roughly where it was but never bothered to come look for it), then its reasonable to assume its abandoned. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd contacted NASA to at least give them a heads up or to get more information on exactly how they're constructed - that would go a long way towards helping raise them.
I would hope they would take this into account and do at least a quick analysis of it before making the final decision to raise them. It's possible they're in an oceanic dead zone, in which case the impact would be negligible. On the other hand, it's just as likely that creatures big and small are using them for a home in which case it may not be feasible to raise a heavy rocket with twenty tons of biomass attached to it.
As someone upstate, we would gladly vote to get rid of NYC and Long Island even if it meant losing all of your tax revenue. You hippies ruin life for the rest of us.
It depends on the application. If I just want to whip up a simple app with a decent interface, it's hard to beat Visual Studio. However, for more complex projects, I'm just as likely to use Notepad++ as VS depending on what I need. VS is a tool like any other - it's the best tool for some jobs, a decent tool for other jobs and the completely wrong tool for many jobs.
At work: Videos without audio (double points if it has closed captioning) At home: Videos in the background so I only hear the audio... usually pulling up a song I haven't heard in a while on YouTube.
The only time I pay attention to both the audio and video is when watching Netflix... and even then I usually have Netflix on my right monitor, Minecraft on my center monitor and Opera on my left monitor so it doesn't get my undivided attention. Videos lack the interactivity to keep me fully entertained on their own.
I like the Related Links that Slashdot gives for this.
Linode Exploit Caused Theft of Thousands of Bitcoins European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program Sony's New CEO To Look Beyond Hardware
Which boils down to theft, fraud, downtime, unpaid labor and Sony (always a winner). Nice to know what we can expect.
Speak for yourself. I feel I've gotten my money's worth several times over, even playing without mods. I've spent a hell of a lot more time playing Minecraft than I have some more recent titles that cost considerably more.
BJs had an article in their last ad thing about how they DNA test all of their fish to verify that its the right species, etc, etc. I assume it's similar to this.
They only stream movies. You can pause it and let the buffer build up, but it will only buffer the next few minutes or so - nowhere near enough to leave it buffering, then come back that night and watch the movie from cache.
I just built myself a new PC two weeks ago. $20 for a good quality DVD-RW drive vs $60 for the cheapest Blu-Ray drive (just a Blu-ray player w/ DVD burner, not even a Blu-ray burner). When DVD-R began to overtake CD-R, I made the switch because I needed the extra capacity. However, hard drives have plummeted in price, microSD/SD/flash media has plummeted in price and services like Dropbox means I don't need to use write-once media to backup or transport files anymore. I don't see any different between DVD and Blu-ray movie quality (especially since I can't afford a television to take advantage of that quality), so what does blu-ray have to offer me even if I did have the capability?
Although the heat this past week was exceptional, the entire winter has been unusually warm. We haven't had more than three consecutive days with snow on the ground here (Western NY) in more than 12 months.
It happened before in April, not in March. I don't know about Chicago, but in New York, March usually still yields one or two good blizzards almost every year while April might have a good blizzard once or twice a decade.
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Some pointless comparisons.
Numbers below are rounded off, does not include beta versions (including pre-1.0). Also, my math is probably off.
Internet Explorer - Averages new version every 21 months
First Version: IE1 - August 1995
Current Version: IE9 - March 2011
Firefox - Averages new version every 9 months (every 1.7 months since version 4.0)
First Version: Fx1 - November 2004
Latest Version: Fx11 - March 2012
Chrome - Averages new version every 2.2 months
First Version: Chrome 1 - December 2008
Latest Version - Chrome 18 - March 2012
Opera - Averages new version every 17.5 months
First Version: Opera 2 - April 1996
Latest Version - Opera 11 - December 2010
Safari - Averages new version every 18 months
First Version: Safari 1 - January 2003
Latest Version: Safari 5 - June 2010
Lynx - Averages new version every year or so
First Version: Lynx 1 - sometime in 1992
Current Version: Lynx 2 - sometime in 1993
I threw Lynx (actually currently on 2.8, June 2010) on there because it's proof version numbers mean nothing anymore.
The Nook Color sells refurbed for $135 and sites like Overstock frequently have even deeper discounts on them. I own a NC, as does my father and girlfriend. From what I've used of the Fire, the NC is much more user-friendly with the stock interface and is very easy to dual-boot off a microSD card (rooting not required). The only reason I can think to get a Fire over a Kindle is if A) you don't want to dual boot or root it AND B) Amazon has books you want that B&N doesn't.
Personally, I just boot to Cyanogenmod off microSD and read both Nook and Kindle books off their regular Android Market apps.
He's afraid they'll make a sequel to Twister. This time with flying space cows.
Ah, but then there will be the few that don't and you'll need to decide if they planned for the future or if they're just anti-social luddites who can't find the any key.
It's also much easier to ignore on Twitter. You can close the webpage much more quickly and easily than you can get away from someone in a crowded hallway.
Although 15 out of 17 successes is pretty hopeful, it's a pretty small sample size to be giving statistics (88% survival rate). If the next one they do results in a death, then it drops to 83%... a fairly big change for adding a single case.
Here's why it was voted down. Nobody disagreed with banning the practice, just the implementation:
"I think it’s awful that employers think they can demand our passwords and can go snooping around. There is no disagreement with that. Here is the flaw: Your amendment doesn’t protect them. It doesn’t do that. Actually, what this amendment does is say that all of the reforms that we are trying to put in place at the Federal Communications Commission, in order to have them have an open and transparent process where they are required to publish their rules in advance so that you can see what they’re proposing, would basically be shoved aside. They could do whatever they wanted on privacy if they wanted to, and you wouldn’t know it until they published their text afterward. There is no protection here." - Greg Walden (Oregon GOP rep)
Wasn't always that way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin_of_the_term
It's a good thing US money is still mostly green (unlike other countries that use a variety of colors for different bills) or else it might be confused with gay hat pride.
Most laws like this require you to look at it from the view of a reasonable person. It's reasonable to assume that an iPhone left on a bar for 20 minutes isn't abandoned. However, if it was left on the bar for forty years (and you knew the owner knew roughly where it was but never bothered to come look for it), then its reasonable to assume its abandoned. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd contacted NASA to at least give them a heads up or to get more information on exactly how they're constructed - that would go a long way towards helping raise them.
I would hope they would take this into account and do at least a quick analysis of it before making the final decision to raise them. It's possible they're in an oceanic dead zone, in which case the impact would be negligible. On the other hand, it's just as likely that creatures big and small are using them for a home in which case it may not be feasible to raise a heavy rocket with twenty tons of biomass attached to it.
As someone upstate, we would gladly vote to get rid of NYC and Long Island even if it meant losing all of your tax revenue. You hippies ruin life for the rest of us.
Maybe "shake hands" is a euphemism for "get involved in a land war"?
It depends on the application. If I just want to whip up a simple app with a decent interface, it's hard to beat Visual Studio. However, for more complex projects, I'm just as likely to use Notepad++ as VS depending on what I need. VS is a tool like any other - it's the best tool for some jobs, a decent tool for other jobs and the completely wrong tool for many jobs.
My video usage:
At work: Videos without audio (double points if it has closed captioning)
At home: Videos in the background so I only hear the audio... usually pulling up a song I haven't heard in a while on YouTube.
The only time I pay attention to both the audio and video is when watching Netflix... and even then I usually have Netflix on my right monitor, Minecraft on my center monitor and Opera on my left monitor so it doesn't get my undivided attention. Videos lack the interactivity to keep me fully entertained on their own.
I like the Related Links that Slashdot gives for this.
Linode Exploit Caused Theft of Thousands of Bitcoins
European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout
Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime
Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program
Sony's New CEO To Look Beyond Hardware
Which boils down to theft, fraud, downtime, unpaid labor and Sony (always a winner). Nice to know what we can expect.
Sort of like how US companies used to advertise AOL keywords rather than URLs, I take it?
Not according to Google
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/index.html
Does this mean there will be more parking spaces open close to the stores? Walmart seems to be the only place that ever fills them all up anyway.
Speak for yourself. I feel I've gotten my money's worth several times over, even playing without mods. I've spent a hell of a lot more time playing Minecraft than I have some more recent titles that cost considerably more.
BJs had an article in their last ad thing about how they DNA test all of their fish to verify that its the right species, etc, etc. I assume it's similar to this.
They only stream movies. You can pause it and let the buffer build up, but it will only buffer the next few minutes or so - nowhere near enough to leave it buffering, then come back that night and watch the movie from cache.
I just built myself a new PC two weeks ago. $20 for a good quality DVD-RW drive vs $60 for the cheapest Blu-Ray drive (just a Blu-ray player w/ DVD burner, not even a Blu-ray burner). When DVD-R began to overtake CD-R, I made the switch because I needed the extra capacity. However, hard drives have plummeted in price, microSD/SD/flash media has plummeted in price and services like Dropbox means I don't need to use write-once media to backup or transport files anymore. I don't see any different between DVD and Blu-ray movie quality (especially since I can't afford a television to take advantage of that quality), so what does blu-ray have to offer me even if I did have the capability?
Although the heat this past week was exceptional, the entire winter has been unusually warm. We haven't had more than three consecutive days with snow on the ground here (Western NY) in more than 12 months.
It happened before in April, not in March. I don't know about Chicago, but in New York, March usually still yields one or two good blizzards almost every year while April might have a good blizzard once or twice a decade.
What if it was a non-fatal cancer? Would you take herpes over having your testicles/breasts removed?