...that don't exist on Chrome. I like Chrome, but there are some things Firefox does better, and I'm glad Chrome has some competition to keep it honest. IE is still a hopeless mess, and I suppose Safari is multiplatform these days, but I don't see it getting much traction on Windows. thank god for Firefox.
As of last summer, Apple had about 40 percent of the smartphone market. 40% of the market is not a niche, unless you define it as "Anything I personally don't buy".
I'm not saying Thelma & Louise is good, just that it's tough to make a sequel to a movie that ends with the protagonists flying off a cliff in a '65 T-Bird.
Sorry, had to be said. And I do have a bad feeling about this. I mean, if ever a movie cried out to not be sequalized, it's Blade Runner. And Casablanca. And Bonnie and Clyde. And Thelma and Louise....
And they kill thousands of innocent non-combatants every year, and have been banned by most civilized nations--not including the US of A, sadly. So if your point is that land mines demonstrate what a horrible idea autonomous killer robots is, I agree.
I'm not sure they should dump everything else, but limiting Playstation compatibility to only Sony mobile products is ridiculous. Apple doesn't even try to get away with that much these days, Sony's just shooting themselves in the foot.
I haven't been paying close attention, but I believe IE's use has dropped pretty hard. I wouldn't say Chrome has just been sniping Firefox.
Regardless, FF is still the most configurable browser I know of. I like Chrome, but FF has plug-ins that give it superpowers Chrome still can't match. And THAT is Firefox's raison d'etre.
Not completely dead, but a brand new set of batteries would last for about 10 pics. Because they used crap components. Granted, these weren't high-end cameras, but when you drop $150 on a camera it's not unreasonable to expect it to work if you take decent care of it. My phone takes decent pictures and, more importantly, still works, so I'm done with buying cameras until I'm ready for an SLR.
I see. Actually, everyone, including active people, has a 100% risk of death. What the study found was a lower mortality rate among joggers over a 12 year period. Before we mock the OP, note that he quoted that directly from the LA Times. The LA Times Science section. Contemporary science journamalism, gotta love it.
Dude, your sarcasm detector needs some work. I know one shouldn't do sarcasm on the intertubes, but I figured "been in the news for fricking ever" made it kind of obvious.
He was obviously speaking off the cuff. One can't expect a sitting governor to have given any prior thought to controversial public health issues that have been in the news for fricking ever.
It's not Harvard, but has a reputation as tough if slightly unconventional college. I didn't know Jobs went there, but I'm not surprised at all. Aside from that , pretty much agree with your comparison.
...or a great distraction. Not too surprising that handing a kid a tablet and turning him loose doesn't work out too well, but what do I know, I've only work in educational IT for 20 years. A properly supported computer (don't try to make teachers into sys admins) supervised by a properly trained teacher can be very useful in a classroom setting. But training and support are expensive and unsexy, so who the hell wants that?
Cooling hi-perf components in such a small package is a nightmare. There was a review a while back of a Samsung ultra portable, the specs were pretty impressive, but performance was identical to the previous model with less powerful GPU and CPU. Because they made so much heat they had to be throttled down.
Love my 11" MacAir, but the bezel around the display is frickin huge, it's nuts. 3/4" top and bottom, 7/8" on each side. That's a lot of wasted real estate in such a small package.
"a third of 2013's police-reported car accidents were the rear-end crashes and a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) "
It's frickin tailgaters. Even if you're being very attentive, there's a delay between the time you see brake lights on the car in front of you, and the time you hit the brakes. Throw in texting and other distractions, and if you're traveling too close you're eating bumper before you can hit the brake pedal. And half the drivers on the road are following too close. I say bring on the auto-braking systems to protect me from these idiots.
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Every time I fire it up I cringe, it just looks terrible to me. It's mostly how it displays tabs and the url on the same level, just throws me off
...that don't exist on Chrome. I like Chrome, but there are some things Firefox does better, and I'm glad Chrome has some competition to keep it honest. IE is still a hopeless mess, and I suppose Safari is multiplatform these days, but I don't see it getting much traction on Windows. thank god for Firefox.
South Park was so right.
I wish they'd stop trying to force the "phone experience" on to my damn desktop...not to mention my frickin servers.
As of last summer, Apple had about 40 percent of the smartphone market. 40% of the market is not a niche, unless you define it as "Anything I personally don't buy".
I'm not saying Thelma & Louise is good, just that it's tough to make a sequel to a movie that ends with the protagonists flying off a cliff in a '65 T-Bird.
'Fess up, you cheered at that part, didn't you?
Sorry, had to be said. And I do have a bad feeling about this. I mean, if ever a movie cried out to not be sequalized, it's Blade Runner. And Casablanca. And Bonnie and Clyde. And Thelma and Louise....
And they kill thousands of innocent non-combatants every year, and have been banned by most civilized nations--not including the US of A, sadly. So if your point is that land mines demonstrate what a horrible idea autonomous killer robots is, I agree.
I'm not sure they should dump everything else, but limiting Playstation compatibility to only Sony mobile products is ridiculous. Apple doesn't even try to get away with that much these days, Sony's just shooting themselves in the foot.
Looks like summer around here.
Heh, I clicked your link, then wasted some time there, which led me to this: http://xkcd.com/301/
I haven't been paying close attention, but I believe IE's use has dropped pretty hard. I wouldn't say Chrome has just been sniping Firefox.
Regardless, FF is still the most configurable browser I know of. I like Chrome, but FF has plug-ins that give it superpowers Chrome still can't match. And THAT is Firefox's raison d'etre.
Dammit, where'd my mod points go?
Well played, Mr. Malignant!
Not completely dead, but a brand new set of batteries would last for about 10 pics. Because they used crap components. Granted, these weren't high-end cameras, but when you drop $150 on a camera it's not unreasonable to expect it to work if you take decent care of it. My phone takes decent pictures and, more importantly, still works, so I'm done with buying cameras until I'm ready for an SLR.
I see. Actually, everyone, including active people, has a 100% risk of death. What the study found was a lower mortality rate among joggers over a 12 year period. Before we mock the OP, note that he quoted that directly from the LA Times. The LA Times Science section. Contemporary science journamalism, gotta love it.
Siberian Tiger.
Dude, your sarcasm detector needs some work. I know one shouldn't do sarcasm on the intertubes, but I figured "been in the news for fricking ever" made it kind of obvious.
He was obviously speaking off the cuff. One can't expect a sitting governor to have given any prior thought to controversial public health issues that have been in the news for fricking ever.
It's not Harvard, but has a reputation as tough if slightly unconventional college. I didn't know Jobs went there, but I'm not surprised at all. Aside from that , pretty much agree with your comparison.
...or a great distraction. Not too surprising that handing a kid a tablet and turning him loose doesn't work out too well, but what do I know, I've only work in educational IT for 20 years. A properly supported computer (don't try to make teachers into sys admins) supervised by a properly trained teacher can be very useful in a classroom setting. But training and support are expensive and unsexy, so who the hell wants that?
Cooling hi-perf components in such a small package is a nightmare. There was a review a while back of a Samsung ultra portable, the specs were pretty impressive, but performance was identical to the previous model with less powerful GPU and CPU. Because they made so much heat they had to be throttled down.
Love my 11" MacAir, but the bezel around the display is frickin huge, it's nuts. 3/4" top and bottom, 7/8" on each side. That's a lot of wasted real estate in such a small package.
"a third of 2013's police-reported car accidents were the rear-end crashes and a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) "
It's frickin tailgaters. Even if you're being very attentive, there's a delay between the time you see brake lights on the car in front of you, and the time you hit the brakes. Throw in texting and other distractions, and if you're traveling too close you're eating bumper before you can hit the brake pedal. And half the drivers on the road are following too close. I say bring on the auto-braking systems to protect me from these idiots.
I miss the days of NTSC, a standard that lasted half a lifetime. This upgrade-your-TV-every-6 months crap is getting old. And get off my lawn.
Mine's running the latest version, 8.1.2, and it works great. Sounds like you just had a borked phone, it happens.
I agree re RT, it was obvious MS was abandoning it, anyone who expected to upgrade one to Win 10 was pretty clueless.